The Tangut was the first country in history to have a female soldier system, and unlike the kind of military prostitutes who provided "services" to the soldiers, the Tangut women were born warriors.

Even the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang will wear armor and hold a spear to defeat hundreds of thousands of Song troops, and other Western Xia women dare not follow suit?

Zhou Cheng nodded and said: "The Ma Kui of Western Xia used to be very strong, and now it is even more incredible, because now they have a very amazing leader. ”

Bai Sheng asked, "Is this leader a woman?"

Zhou Cheng nodded and said: "Yes, the leader of this Ma Kui is called Li Ruolan, this woman is the widow of Huizong of Western Xia, she was born as beautiful as a flower, and her martial arts are superb! ”

Bai Sheng couldn't help but be curious, so he interjected and asked, "How old is this woman, can she be ranked among the top three in Western Xia?"

Zhou Chengdao: "It is said that this woman is twenty-seven or eighteen years old. ”

After Bai Sheng heard this, he was a little unimpressed, how high can a twenty-seven or eight-year-old woman be in martial arts? No matter how high she is, she can't catch up with Baihua, right? If Fang Baihua's martial arts can rank among the top three in Western Xia, then there will be no masters in Western Xia at all.

Thinking of this, he looked at Pang Qiuxia, Shui Ningzhu and Fang Jinzhi, the martial arts of these three women are not weak, but they are basically not ranked within the top 30 in the Great Song Dynasty martial arts.

When the three of them reach the age of twenty-seven or eighteen, will they be able to move up the ranking? Surely not. Because the people ahead of them are also improving.

Hearing Bai Sheng ask about Li Ruolan's age, Fang Jinzhi was already unhappy, and when he saw Bai Sheng glancing at Pang Qiuxia and Shui Ningzhu, he couldn't help but snort coldly.

The heart said that people discuss the god arm bow, iron harrier and step bar, you are not silent, as soon as you talk about female soldiers, you are interested, true color!

If it weren't for being suppressed by Bai Sheng's momentum in the palace just now, he would definitely have to question at this moment.

It is said that all people who are skillful must be sensitive and delicate, Zhou Cheng is such a character, and the mind can be skillful. He only heard Fang Jinzhi snort coldly, and he knew that this woman was jealous.

He didn't know what kind of relationship Bai Sheng and his wife had, for fear that because he mentioned Ma Kui and Li Ruolan, he would cause other husbands and wives to turn against each other, and in the end he would not be able to escape the blame, so he turned the topic to Xixia Yipintang.

Yipintang is a subordinate institution of the Western Xia military aircraft department, specializing in recruiting martial arts masters in the world, capable people, and its function is to spy on the deployment of troops in neighboring countries, the promotion and demotion of military commanders, and the assassination of hawkish politicians in neighboring countries or martial arts celebrities hostile to Western Xia, etc.

Yipintang was established earlier.

As early as the Song Zhenzong period, Li Deming, the king of Xia, joined forces with Liao and Song, Taoguang Yanghui developed national strength, and prepared for the founding of the country and the emperor.

Li Deming knew that once the founding of the country became the emperor, he would be attacked by the Liao and Song dynasties, so he arranged for his son Li Yuanhao to walk along the border cities and interact with merchants of various nationalities in various countries, so as to explore the national conditions, government affairs, economy and people's livelihood of the Song and Liao countries.

Li Yuanhao has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he is well versed in the truth of knowing himself and knowing that he will win a hundred battles, considering that he alone cannot get too much information, he secretly set up a fine work (spy) team, which is the predecessor of Yipintang in Western Xia.

The Great Song Dynasty's "Wujing General Essentials" was brought back by this spy team, and I don't know if the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were too stupid, or these spies were so skilled that they not only stole the "Wujing General Essentials", but also stole the movable type printing technology back.

Bi Sheng's invention of movable type printing is also defective, because he uses clay movable type, and the disadvantage of clay movable type is that the clay blocks will be deformed when they are burned after engraving.

Therefore, although the Great Song Dynasty invented movable type printing during the Renzong period, it was not widely used until Zhao Ji became the emperor, and the printing of "Wanshou Daozang" also needed to use the engraving printing process. Huang Shang is the person who presided over the engraving work.

However, the Western Xia skillfully overcame the defects of clay movable type, and after stealing the movable type printing technique, it entered the era of movable type printing earlier than the Great Song Dynasty, and the supreme leader who presided over all this work was Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of the Western Xia.

When Li Yuanhao ascended the throne, he named this spy agency Yipintang, and at this time, Yipintang had already had a thorough understanding of the situation between Song and Liao.

So when the war broke out, not only did Xia Zhu, Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan, who were appointed by Song Renzong, be defeated again and again, but Liao Xingzong of the Great Liao State took advantage of the fact that the Xia and Song dynasties had just fought a defeat and personally led 100,000 Khitan iron cavalry to conquer Western Xia, and was also wiped out by Li Yuanhao.

The reason why Li Yuanhao was able to win a big victory in the two decisive battles against Liao and Song was due to Yipintang's intribution, and it can be said that without Yipintang's infiltration and espionage, Li Yuanhao would not have won so much.

Li Yuanhao's true strength was exposed in the conflict between Western Xia and the Tubo Qing Tang Dynasty entrenched in the Hehuang Valley.

During the reign of Li Yuanhao, Xixia Yipintang was very low-key and unknown to the world.

Later, the Empress Dowager Liang lowered the curtain to listen to the government, and Yipintang was a little more high-profile, because at this time, Yipintang had already recruited some martial arts masters, and also planned an assassination of the Yang family general, but it was destroyed by Wu Changfeng, a disciple of the Beggar Gang, in Yingchou Gorge.

At the end of the reign of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, Yipintang recruited the Uighur master Helian Tieshu and the four villains in the world, and since then he has started the mode of pretending to be coerced. It's a pity that their strength still can't reach the point of sweeping the world's martial arts, and they were beaten by several masters at the time, and finally annihilated the whole army in the martial arts vendetta.

In the past ten years, Yipintang has been in a slump for a while, and has returned to its original low profile, no longer intervening in martial arts disputes, and only mixing in the people of the enemy country to spy on news.

When Bai Sheng heard this, he interjected with a smile: "Since it is a team that has been completely annihilated, what qualifications do you have to be called the two mysterious forces of Western Xia along with Ma Kui?"

Zhou Chengdao: "If Yipintang really collapsed, I wouldn't mention them." Just three years ago, Yipintang was joined by a high-ranking person, a Tibetan tantric monk named Sumpa. ”

The Western Xia has always worshiped Buddhism, both before and after the founding of the country. As early as more than ten years ago, when the four evil people in the world presided over Yipintang, Sumba had already been hired by the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang as the national teacher of Western Xia.

The reason why he became the head of Yipintang three years ago is said to be because he has been practicing a dragon elephant in retreat before, and he has no time to be distracted, so he ignores state affairs, that is, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was killed by the Liao Daozong Yelu Hongji faction, and he did not leave the customs.

However, three years ago, Sumba actually broke through the Dragon Elephant Prajna Gong to the ninth layer, and he knew that it was impossible to enter the tenth layer realm in this life, so he broke through the barrier and was born, intending to help the Western Xia Kingdom make a career to repay the kindness of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang back then.

In the end, Zhou Cheng said: "After Somba left the customs and entered the main Yipintang, he used three years to recruit many martial arts masters to join Yipintang, and his strength is known as the strongest in history. It is said that the matter of asking the Great Song Dynasty to increase the number of years of coins was proposed by him to the current Western Xia Emperor Li Qianshun. ”

Bai Sheng suddenly realized when he heard this, and said: "It turns out that this war that is about to break out is caused by this Songba Tibetan monk. ”

As early as when he took the jade horse to give Cai Jing a gift, Cai Jing once told Xiao Feng that whether it was Liao or Western Xia, it was impossible to increase the amount of the New Year's coin, and it was precisely because of this incident that the official family decided to launch the Fifth War of Raiding Xia.