Yang Zhi did not ask for Fengxiang Mansion, which made Chong Bin completely relieved, and along the way, Chong Bin was worried that Yang Zhi would see the dilapidated appearance of Qinzhou and would relocate Fu Si to Fengxiang Mansion; Fengxiang Mansion is the most prosperous area of Shaanxi Fourth Road, and if Fengxiang Mansion is lost, Qin Fenglu's finances will definitely be very tight. Unexpectedly, Yang Zhi didn't care at all, Chong Bin smiled and said, "If that's the case, there will be no problem with Xiaguan." ”

"Really?" Yang Zhi laughed: "I have requirements for Qin Fenglu, after you take office, you must quickly reorganize an army of 20,000 to 30,000, and map and map the map that appears in the Western Xia side all the way to the desert, so that we can use it with us." I believe it should be clear to everyone that the Western Xia did not think of stopping the southward movement at all, but they were more cautious and were also working with us step by step. ”

Chong Bin nodded and said, "Don't worry, my lord, Qin Feng Road is the Qin Feng Road of the Great Song Dynasty, including Xi'an Prefecture, which is the target we want to recover." ”

On the third day after Yang Zhi arrived in Qinzhou, Huanzhou was recovered. Yang Yizhong's cavalry raided Malingcheng and successfully controlled the Mu family's pasture in Huanzhou in one fell swoop, and most of the 3,000 Western Xia troops stationed in Malingcheng suffered casualties; Quduan and Wang Yu's armies then attacked Huanzhou, and Mu Wei and Mu Jun were defeated and fled into Western Xia. Qu Duan took this opportunity to attack Jingzhou and capture Shi Jin, the nine-pattern dragon, and with the handover of the left-behind officials in Weizhou and Yuanzhou, Qu Duan gained a firm foothold in Jingyuan Road.

For the rebellion in Huanzhou, Yang Zhi did not simply choose to send troops, but at the same time sent people to send a personal letter to all the tribes near Huanzhou, telling their leader that the Western Xia could not last, and that the Dingbei Army had the ability to restore the prosperity and stability of Shaanxi. Yang Zhi's purpose was to control Huanqing Mansion and the Hehuang area, and then start from Qingtang City to open up the Hehuang channel of that year, but the conditions of the Dingbei Army were not as good as Wang Shao at that time, and without the materials of the Great Song Dynasty, Yang Zhi did not dare to exaggerate too much at once.

What makes people laugh is that the Western Xia withdrew the army, and after the defeat in Huanzhou, the Western Xia army took the initiative to withdraw from the range of Qingyang Mansion, but burned all the eleven walled forts that originally belonged to Qingyang Mansion, leaving a huge open area. In addition to the Xihe Road and the Dingbei Army across the river, the Western Xia Army on the opposite side of the Qinfeng, Jingyuan, and Huanqing roads all shrank on the edge of the mountainous area, obviously strengthening the depth and thickness of the defense.

In the territory of Western Xia, there are plateaus such as the Gobi Desert, such as the Tengger Desert in the southeast of the Alxa Plateau, the Badain Jaran Desert in the southwest, and the Ulan Buhe Desert in the northeast. These deserts are not devoid of grass, and the desert is interlaced with large and small inland lakes, forming independent oases. In addition to the desert Gobi, there are also Helan Mountain, Qilian Mountain, Hengshan Mountain and other mountains in Western Xia.

Qilian Mountain is covered with snow all year round, the snow melts in summer, and it gathers into the three major river systems of Shiyang River, Heihe River and Shule River, nourishing the Hexi Corridor, Zhangye, Jiuquan and the area are more than 200 miles from east to west, 100 miles from north to south, barley and oats are ripe in September, and they are still natural pastures, so when the Xiongnu lost Qilian Mountain during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, they sang in pain: "Death of my Qilian Mountain, so that my six animals do not breed." I have lost my mountains, and my women have no color. ”

However, the high mountains and plateaus were in the hands of the Western Xia people, and if the Great Song Dynasty wanted to reach Jiuquan and other places again, there was only a narrow corridor left, and if Yang Zhi was unwilling to take risks, he could only look north at Hengshan. Hengshan is a part of the Loess Plateau, which is cut into hills and rivers by many small rivers, and has a bit of a sense of ravines and ravines from the geographical location; in the Hengshan River Valley, because of the fertile soil and abundant water and grass, it is also suitable for grazing and farming, and it is the third farming area in Western Xia in addition to the Hetao Plain and the Hexi Corridor.

The Hengshan area is the birthplace of Western Xia, which is not only a famous semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral area in Western Xia, but also rich in salt and iron, which is the economic lifeline of Western Xia. From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the Li clan of Xiazhou ruled this area in the name of a feudal town; after the establishment of the Western Xia, although the political center was moved from the Hengshan area to the Hetao area, and the capital was Xingqingfu, it still retained the prefectures of Yin, Xia, Sui, You, Shi, Hong, Yan, and Long.

Hengshan is connected to Yaozhou in the south, Yanzhou in the north, Yanzhou in the east, stretching for more than 800 miles, the Ning, Huan, Yan, Sui and other prefectures of the Great Song Dynasty are all at the foot of the surrounding mountains of Hengshan, the Song and Xia have been fighting for more than 100 years, mainly for the danger of Hengshan, and the Western Xia can threaten the Shaanxi Fourth Road of the Great Song Dynasty if they occupy Hengshan; the Great Song Dynasty occupies Hengshan, and more than a dozen prefectures and counties such as Yin, Xia, Sui, You, Hong, and Yan in the Western Xia at the northern foot of Hengshan are not guaranteed, so every time the Great Song Dynasty won a decisive victory in Hengshan, the Western Xia was anxious to ask the Liao State to come forward to coordinate.

According to Wang Hou, Hengshan was the right arm of Western Xia, and whoever occupied Hengshan in the Song and Xia countries would gain the strategic initiative. However, the terrain of Hengshan Mountain Boundary is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Western Xia army built a series of fortresses because of the danger of the mountain, and Hengshan Qiang is brave and good at fighting, it took the Great Song Dynasty forty years to fully control Hengshan, but because of the change of Jingkang, all the results of the battle were lost.

After all, out of the plateau and the mountains is a horse and a flat river, and the cavalry of the Western Xia army is famous all over the world, and it is a matter of minutes to rob the Great Song Dynasty, which is why Fan Zhongyan used the fortress to advance step by step at the beginning, in order to create geographical advantages and limit the activity area of the Western Xia army.

Under such circumstances, if Yang Zhi wants to march, he must have cavalry stronger than the Western Xia, or use the fortress to advance step by step as before, otherwise even if the front line is victorious, he will retreat because the grain route is robbed. Fortunately, Yang Zhi didn't want to make a big move, so he ordered Qu Duan, Chong Bin, and Wang Yu to push forward one step further, repair the six walled forts closest to the city, and then report the victory, saying that Huanzhou and the six walled forts were recovered, and the Hehuang channel was opened, and applied for the establishment of tea and horses in Qinzhou and the establishment of a field in Lizhou.

Liu Qi and Li Qiong arrived at Xihe Road, in addition to taking over the city of the Great Song Dynasty, Liu Qi found the descendants of Mosan in Hehuang according to Yang Zhi's instructions, and appointed him as the governor of Huangshan, recruiting the Qingtang Party and the Tubo tribes;

Liu Qi was even more stained with the light of his father Liu Zhongwu, Liu Zhongwu was originally the pioneer of Wang Hou's march into the Qingtang Dynasty, and his son Liu Xi was the hostage to promote the surrender of the Qingtang Dynasty without a fight, so he had an excellent reputation among the Tibetan tribes, and the Great Song Dynasty still represented the king of the Central Plains. In this era, Zhengshuo has a huge appeal, for hundreds of years Helong Feng Central Plains Zhengshuo has become a tradition, even if it is the time of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, it is difficult to obtain the psychological identity of the Western Xia, but it is not the same thing in the Great Song Dynasty.