In the Song Dynasty, people referred to the intermittent Chongshan Mountains under Baiyu Mountain and to the west as Xiheng Mountain, including Douling, Niuling and other mountain ranges. In fact, since the return to Tokugawa, these mountains have begun to become fragmented, and most of them do not belong to the Shirayo mountain range.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the rest is Pyongcheon, or mountains, and mountains are mountain after mountain, but these mountains are not very tall, and there are many mountains like those in Huanju, although they are taller than most of the mountains in Gyeongju, but they are much smaller than the real Hengsan Baiyu Mountain.

Starting from Hongdezhai, to the north is Guide Chuan, Shrimp Toad Ridge, Camel Club, Shuangdui Peak, and then Yanzhou, but this road does not become a real mountain road until Shuangdui Peak, and the rest is Pingchuan Avenue, which is relatively flat. It is not only flat, but also low-lying, especially in the middle of the paddle valley, when the rainy season comes, the water of the Guide River will often overflow, causing the road to be muddy.

This terrain also means that just like the Dafeichuan River back then, it is a good place with abundant water and grass, easy to graze, but the biggest drawback is that it is difficult to defend.

Therefore, this shrimp toad village on the shrimp toad ridge is extremely important.

If it was lost, the Song army could build a few more villages to connect with the Hengshan villages in the east, and then it could threaten Yanzhou from four directions (Jintangcheng Road, Baibaocheng Road, Tongsaichuan Road, and Guide Dechuan Road), and it also seriously threatened Lingwu Avenue.

If possible, send troops from Shrimp Toad Ridge to the west, and Weizhou to send troops to the south, and all the east of Xiaochuan will be lost to the Song people.

And because of this topography, the Western Xia deliberately regarded it as an important trading market with the border areas of the Song Dynasty, which was also very important. Western Xia except for livestock fur. Almost nothing is missing. Cloth, tea, gold, silver, copper and iron, daily necessities, and even grain.

The Song Dynasty was able to survive after leaving Western Xia, so it closed the two major mutual markets at every turn.

However, the Western Xia could not survive without the Song Dynasty, so many large and small mutual markets were set up on the border.

Therefore, Shrimp Toad Village is not only an important military fortress, but also an important commercial town.

In this case, although the Western Xia soldiers were very afraid of the Song army, they were still fighting tenaciously one by one.

However, many people in Western Xia had doubts. This besieging Song army, which seems to be composed of most of the Tibetan people, has some siege equipment in its hands, and even the regular ladder has been moved.

But it always feels like a real ragtag army, not the demonic army led by the legendary night demon. It can also be seen from the armor that this Song army almost does not even have a decent armor, so this siege is as if the Song Dynasty let these people come to die.

However, the Xia army in the village did not dare to slack off, because the Song people were building a tall and strong Fort of Guide forty miles to the south, and the people who built the fort were Western Xia prisoners of war. Therefore, thousands of Song Dynasty officers and soldiers were stationed in front of the fort, not only to supervise these prisoners of war. It is also to supervise his own Western Xia army.

The Song army seemed to be regular officers and soldiers.

Could it be that the trick of the Song people has failed like this? The entire Tangut people were afraid.

The two sides attacked and defended, and in the evening, the thousands of Song troops retreated sleepily.

Murong Qiangzi took a large group of Qiang people who could speak, found Chongyi, and said: "General Chong, the shrimp and toad village is easy to defend and difficult to attack, we have attacked for two days, and countless Ding Zhuang have died, and we really can't attack it." ”

"A small village, you can't attack it, and you still want to rebel?" Chongyi scoffed.

"General, we didn't rebel, I don't believe you can ask your eldest brother."

"Isn't it a rebellion to be unruly and unruly in ordinary times, and not to listen to the transfer of the government?"

"We were wrong, we really knew we were wrong," said another, and Wang Ju ordered them to be taxed according to the Han Chinese, and pay a tax for ten years. Paying taxes, for the Tibetan people, is simply a fantasy, so how much tax do you have to pay in the past ten years.

Then the officials made a rough calculation for them, and they were frightened one by one, not that they didn't know, but they were shocked, it turned out that those Han people had paid so many taxes over the years.

But how can they afford to pay ten years of back taxes?

So he found a kind of ancient intercession, Da Chong is an honest man, but once an honest person gets angry, he will be more stubborn than ordinary people, so he first competed with Pang Ji, and then with Fan Chunren, of course, the end was very miserable.

These many familiar rebellions also angered Chonggu, so he unceremoniously followed Wang Ju's instructions and said, "It's okay to let you go, but you must draw seven out of ten and go to attack the shrimp and toad village, when the capture will be taken and when it will be over." If you can't attack it, you have to keep attacking, otherwise you have to make up the ten years of taxes, and if you don't make up for it, you have to wait for the army to punish it.

These Qiang households had no choice but to go back and transfer Ding Zhuang.

Perhaps they thought that Western Xia had suffered a terrible defeat, and it should not be difficult to attack a stockade.

At least better than facing tens of thousands of upcoming Song Dynasty officials.

This battle scared the Tangut people, and also killed them.

It turns out that the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty are so fierce.

However, these people are not very stupid, and after assembling, they cheekily asked Chonggu for some siege equipment, and Chonggu was not embarrassed. If there is no siege equipment at all, after 10,000 years, this shrimp and toad village will not be captured.

Then thousands of Qiangding rushed to the Shrimp Toad Ridge with siege equipment, and the sooner they were captured, the sooner they would rest and go home.

Not only that, because they had a disgraceful appearance in front, and the government did not let them participate in the ranks of salt transportation, this is not a mess, isn't it a mess? The people of each village and each village are led by the chiefs and elders of each village, or the heads of the soldiers and strongmen, and they can be registered in the register before they can participate in the transportation of salt. Then these lizheng, seniors, and capitalists will assist the officers and soldiers in commanding and dispatching.

This is also a money grab.

So the sooner you conquer it, the sooner you can join this money-grabbing ranks.

However, this attack was not the same thing, and after two days, there were heavy casualties, so one by one they came to seek intercession.

"No one forces you to attack, it doesn't matter if you don't, you still have two paths to choose from."

"Those two paths?"

"One, aren't you close to the Western Xia, the Western Xia people are in front of you, you can surrender to them. No one is stopping you. ”

Surrender to Western Xia now? One by one, they were dumbfounded. Besides, what will happen to the family later?

"One. You can go home, and there will be no one to stop you. ”

"Do you want to pay taxes when you get home?"

"If you are afraid of death, you will have to pay taxes obediently, and if you don't pay taxes or pay labor, what does the country owe you?"

So what else to say, let's go back and discuss how to attack the village.

As a result, the attack lasted for two days, and nearly half of the thousands of people were killed or wounded. Still not captured, some of the clan patriarchs saw that Ding Zhuang in the clan had fallen so much, and they all cried in front of the village. So one by one they found friendship again, and this time their attitude was even more pitiful, some of them lay on the ground, kept kowtowing, and knocked their foreheads to bleed, and some people kept palming their ears and melon seeds.

Only then did the friendship agree to their plea, not out of compassion, but because it had dragged on for a long time. There will be bad situations, at least it will make the Western Xia misjudge.

So the friendship led the three armies. Launched various tiger cannons, and even released balloons, and the friendship personally boarded the hanging blue, observing and directing.

Originally, seeing the real Song Dynasty officers and soldiers coming, the Xia army was depressed, coupled with these novelties, all kinds of big thunderbolts kept flying into the crowd and exploding under the command of Chongyi, and more than 2,000 Xia soldiers in the village were scattered, and they fled one by one after abandoning the village.

Ren Duo Lingding returned from Hexi in a simple manner, and heard that there was a police in the shrimp and toad village, and Liang asked him to lead a group of soldiers and horses to gallop to the aid of the shrimp and toad village, but when he arrived, the shrimp and toad village had already been broken and turned into a cloud of ashes.

As for the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty, under the leadership of Chongyi, they have formed a fence on the banks of the Guide River and are waiting for them.

But Renduo Lingding did not dare to attack, although behind the Song army was only an unbuilt Fort of Guide, and all the forts were Western Xia prisoners of war.

First, he suspected that Wang Ju was using tricks.

The second is that Wei Ming Kerong has already gone to the capital of the Song Dynasty, and once he raises troops, it will cause immeasurable consequences.

The third is that his subordinates fought from Huanzhou to Hexi, and the three armies were tired, and in the face of the Song army on Huanqing Road, it was impossible to mobilize the three armies into a mourning army again.

But he didn't quite understand Wang Ju's intentions by doing this.

Obviously, he has already captured the shrimp and toad village, why did he destroy it and give it up. You must know that the geographical location of the shrimp toad village is far better than the new fort being built.

So the more he thought about it, the more suspicious he became, in fact, it really made him think of the truth, Wang Ju deliberately confused the Tangut people, so as to delay time, so as to build all the forts as much as possible and transport back more green salt.

But when he thought of this, he didn't believe it, because at this time, many forts were almost built, as for transporting salt, even if it dragged on for a month, how much salt could be transported, these salt profits were very precious to the Tangut people, but for the wealthy Song Dynasty, what was it? Besides, so many soldiers are stationed on the front line, do they really not consume grain and grass?

It's not worth the risk for the sake of this bit of salt.

But he didn't think deeply, Wang Ju never planned to destroy Xixia now, but before destroying Xia, he tried to try to maximize the blood value of Xixia, which included the casualties of the three armies, as well as the pitiful economy of Xixia, and Wang Ju was already secretly starting.

Rindo Ledin is okay militarily, but not economically.

Therefore, after thinking about it, he came up with a conclusion, thinking that Wang Ju's intention in doing this was to deliberately provoke Western Xia, and Wang Ju might get an edict from the imperial court not allowing him to send troops again, but if Western Xia counterattacked, Wang Ju found a reason to send troops.

Where did Renduo Lingding think that the treasury of the Song Dynasty had no money, and the remaining little money would have to be used as the capital to lend to Qingmiao.

That's why there is this inexplicable use of troops, and there are only a small number of soldiers and horses, standing on the bank of the Guide River, the fort is not repaired, and behind it are the long-awaited Western Xia prisoners of war, and they have a lot of troops, so will they send troops? As long as he sent troops, he fell into the hands of Wang Ju.

Then he sent people to rebuild the shrimp and toad village, and at the same time wrote his ideas and handed them to Xingqing Mansion.

It's best not to move, wait for Wei Ming Kerong to come back, this time won't be long.

But it's not that Ren Duo and Ding are cowardly, and when it comes to this, the three armies of Western Xia have suffered heavy losses, and the economic losses are even more heavi. Once the war breaks out again, the people will be more bitter, if they are defeated again, it will not be the people suffering, but will cause a series of bad consequences, including the defeat of the peace, the Western Xia will be politically unstable, and even perish.

And although the troops in Wang Ju's hands are small now, they are not without the strength to fight.

Besides, how many soldiers and horses can Western Xia gather now, and can they still gather 300,000 soldiers and horses to fight it out?

When Liang saw the letter, he felt very depressed, but he finally accepted it.

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"Zi'an, it seems that the Western Xia side does not plan to use troops, and some royal families have also repeatedly written to the Liang family to follow Li Yuanhao's dying will and reconcile with our dynasty, and no more troops will be dethroned, otherwise the Western Xia will have the disaster of destroying the country." Han Yun said.

This time, the one who took the lead in the book was the old emperor's uncle.

However, Han Yun's sources are also limited, so it is not very clear.

The Liang clan had hesitated to send a large army to intimidate the Yanzhou border before. I don't want to do it in Weizhou, Cai Ting is not easy to mess with. However, Zhao Di, the new Zhizhou of Yanzhou, seems to be a guy who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

This frightened Zhao Ju forced Wang Ju to return the remaining soldiers and horses in Yanzhou, and Wang Ju's troops became less and less, so he withdrew from Yanzhou by himself. The green salt was so painful that it hurt her.

However, Wei Minglang's encounter with the book, coupled with Ren Duo Lingding's analysis, finally made Liang dispel this idea.

In fact, it may not work for her to do this, although Zhao Tuo is scheming, but he is okay in the military, and he is not as greedy for life and afraid of death as she imagined.

一qiē In order to maintain stability......

Han Yun said again: "And the Western Xia also ordered that if there are any more merchants and magnates trading with the merchants of the Song Dynasty in the future, those who leak the intelligence of the Western Xia will be punished and dealt with." I'm afraid it won't be possible to get information in the future. ”

At least this source of information built with shochu will be snuffed out.

"It's okay," Wang said.

After this battle, the Western Xia probably did not dare to launch a large-scale attack on the Song Dynasty for five years. As for the small-scale conflicts, Wang Ju didn't have to worry about it at all, and even wished that they would clash with the Song Dynasty again and again, so that they could slap those appeasement factions in the face. Moreover, through the mouths of those prisoners of war, Wang Ju has obtained countless useful information from Western Xia.

"There is also information, please Zi'an must be careful, I heard that some assassins may be sent over there to deal with you."

"Oh?" Wang Ju was surprised.

It's really possible, and I've encountered it once.

Not only himself, but it seems that Wang Anshi has hired some good guards at home because of the strong opposition power.

But now Wang Ju doesn't have much of a problem, he has his own soldiers around him all the time, and he is mainly worried that when he returns to Gyeongju City in the future and transfers from military affairs to government affairs, Wang Ju may be careless and let Xixia succeed. After all, now that Wang Ju had become the number one enemy in Western Xia, hiring assassins to deal with Wang Ju was the lowest cost.

It seems that he is also going to learn from Wang Anshi.

There was no urgency, he asked, "How did that happen?" ”

That's the number one thing. (To be continued......)