After several battles, including in early October, the commander of Huanqing Gao Jilong sent troops to conquer the Jingna, Wangmu and other villages of Xixia, which made Han Qi see a problem. Although the Song army has not experienced war for a long time, its combat effectiveness seems to be stronger than that of the Xixia army.

Several fierce battles have occurred this year, but the Song army still made a profit. So they wrote a letter to take the initiative to attack Xixia, otherwise the border was too long, and the enemy led 100,000 people to attack only one. For example, this time, Sanchuan Village came another 100,000 people. Although the court was cowardly and angry at the Zhenrong Army General Du An and killed him in Zhenrong Village, facing dozens of times his own enemy, how many generals dared to muster up the courage to go out of the city to fight?

It is better to take the initiative to attack, use superior forces to find fighter opportunities, and annihilate the Xixia people.

Xia Shu had not practiced the military campaign yet, so he should be cautious and protect himself. If he had a good time, he would not use the army to go out easily. He also made two strategies for offense and defense. However, he was frustrated by Han Qi. He knew that he was irrational to fight in a hurry, but Han Qi always insisted on fighting. He said once and twice, and could not let him continue, otherwise the court would think he was cowardly. Finally, he said, "That's it, you and Yin Zhu went directly to the capital and had something to say to the emperor."

If you want to hit yourself, it has nothing to do with me if something goes wrong.

Han Qi arrived in the capital and after a arduous battle, he finally convinced the prime ministers of Zhao Zhen and the two prefectures. However, the five armies severely reduced Zhao Zhen and turned into two routes, Fuyan and Jingyuan.

Things have not ended yet.

The imperial edict asked Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan to go to war. Fan Zhongyan wrote to the letter that in the first month of the year, the army, horses, food and grass were raised, and more than 10,000 troops were moved, and they entered a dangerous place. The rain, snow and heavy snow outside the frontier exposed the dead servants. If the thief took advantage of it, the wounded people would be. Please wait until the spring warms up, the thief horses were thin and hungry, and the power was easy to control, and they could worry about their cultivation. Even if there was no big gain, there would be no such thing.

You can't fight in the first month of the year. You have to fight in the spring of March.

It is also said that it can surrender the foreign and Han families in the Hengshan area of ​​Chashan, which is equivalent to a move to the Western thief. Build a city wall to restrain Yuanhao's eastern army and horses, so that the troops in the western Yuhuan Qingjingyuan were not able to work together, and they would also go out to three routes.

Can't fight, take your time.

Zhao Zhen then issued an edict to allow Fuyan to test the recruitment of surrendered foreign households.

Fan Zhongyan insisted on not sending troops, leaving only Jingyuan all the troops. How to fight? Han Qi sent his friend Yin Zhu to Yanzhou to persuade Fan Zhongyan. Fan Zhongyan insisted on his own opinion. Yin Zhu was angry and said, "Han Qi said that the army must be defeated and defeated. Fan Gong was so cautious today, and it seems that he is really inferior to Han Qi."

Fan Zhongyan said: "A large army will be launched, and all lives will be suspended. The fate of soldiers and the friendship between the country can be compared. I don't know where this statement is high?"

It ended in a bad mood.

Yin Zhu braved the wind and snow to return to Jingyuan. Han Qi sighed to the sky and finally focused on Pang Ji. They had power in their hands. As a transport envoy, Pang Ji had military supplies and money and grain in his hands. He asked Pang Ji to cooperate with him with all his strength.

Pang Ji said, I will give you money and grain, but the four northwest routes require money and grain. I have no choice but to give you only one person.

Han Qi was stunned in Jingyuan for a long time. Xia Shu was a villain, but Pang Ji and Fan Zhongyan were gentlemen. What's wrong with this?

And what disappointed him the most was that Yuan Hao sent someone to seek peace in Jingyuan, but was rejected by Han Qi. I was not bad at all and would not believe you anymore. He sent surrendered generals, Saimen Village, to Yanzhou to join Fan Zhongyan for a partnership. He looked at the other Song generals. Although Liu Ping and others were captured, they would rather die than surrender. Or they were desperate to die, Gao Yande surrendered immediately. Fan Zhongyan was not surprised. He was kind and invited, and wrote a letter of persuasion to surrender, persuading Yuanhao to surrender again.

When Han Qi heard the news, he was furious. You are all greedy for life and fear of death. I will fight alone!

Xia Feng was anxious and reported that Han Yin went to the palace and discussed border plans with the ministers of the two prefectures. From Jingyuan and Fuyan to attack, he surrendered to the day of the army. Now that Fan Zhongyan has not agreed, I have sought Yin Zhu to Yanzhou to discuss with Zhongyan again, but he insisted on the preface and was unwilling to go out. I heard that the bandits gathered troops to fight against the king's army. If the two sides work together to divide the key points, I still worry that the generals will advance late and the soldiers will be timid and unable to defeat their edge. If I stop ordering Jingyuan to advance, Fuyan will circumvent the territory in the name of restraint, and he circulates the territory and entrust the troops of Jingyuan to gather enemies and fall into the plan of the bandits. In addition, the bandits sent foreign officials Gupi and others to make an appointment to vow to submit to the court on the 28th. If they were not afraid of advancing, they would like to temporarily send Han troops to temporarily make a plan to escape. I would like to send their ministers to the ministers to supervise Fuyan to advance together and enter the thief world together to avoid falling into the thief.

Han Qi must fight, Fan Zhongyan held his troops and had to do something big.

It's hard to say who is right and who is wrong among the three.

Some people have repeatedly ridiculed Xia Su for one incident. He issued an order in Shaanxi, and who could raise Yuan Hao's head and rewarded him with a reward of 5 million guan. After hearing this, Yuan Hao said that who could raise Xia Su's head and rewarded him with a reward of 2 million guan, and he mocked Xia Su. But this matter cannot be said to be wrong. Yuan Hao has not declined. If he really suffered several defeats, or if the Khitans did not encounter that wind, he would lose some control over Xixia, and this five million guan would work.

At other times, Xia Shu did a very calm job.

But at this time, who could he convince in Shaanxi? Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan, Pang Ji?

Han Qi cannot say that he did something completely wrong, radical, underestimating the enemy, and advancing rashly, but like Fan Zhongyan, the final direction is that the Song Dynasty presented annual monies to the Western Xia to make peace. Han Qi didn't want it, and he had to start a war.

Fan Zhongyan cannot say that he did something wrong. The battle in the first month of the year will definitely not benefit the Song army. He even made a peace with Yuan Hao, which forced Han Qi to be consistent with his own thoughts. But Fan Zhongyan underestimated Han Qi's determination and was too determined to be stable.

Not only seeking stability, Fan Zhongyan's mentality is still the mainstream mentality of the Song Dynasty, which is passive defense and peace.

Fan Han finally parted ways.

At present, no one can see Han Qi's hatred for Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan also fell into Yuan Hao's plan, used the agreement to drag Fan Zhongyan to concentrate the main force on Jingyuan Road, otherwise he would be attacked on both sides, and Yuan Hao would have no confidence.

While Fan Zhongyan was waiting for Yuan Hao to reply with confidence, Yuan Hao gathered a large army and personally led his troops out of Tiandu Mountain to attack Weizhou City. Han Qi personally visited Zhenrong Army. This was the front line. If Yuan Hao wanted to attack Weizhou, he had to conquer Zhenrong Village.

He summoned Ren Fu and handed over all the elite soldiers of the Zhenrong Army to him, and recruited another 18,000 brave men. For fear of insufficient combat power, he handed over the brave generals of Jingyuan Road Wang Gui, Wu Ying, Zhu Guan, Sang Yi, who was good at solving cases, and Geng Fu to Ren Fu together.

But not to meet the enemy, the task of meeting the enemy was Han Qi himself. He was preparing to fight the Western Xia army in Zhenrong Village. Ren Fu's mission was to go to Yangmulong City. Every forty miles along the way, there was a fortress of the Song Dynasty, with strongholds to rely on and invincible. There was supply to provide, and there was no need to worry about logistics. When he arrived in Yangmulong City, he waited until Yuanhao was unable to conquer the city and was exhausted. Finally, he launched a blow and defeated the enemy.

The plan looked perfect, but when Ren Fu arrived at Huaiyuan Village, he heard Chang Ding, the Song army of Zhangjiabao in front of him, Liu Su and the Xixia people fought. Ren Fu was so excited that he led his army to rush over. This rush became the key point of this battle.

Han Qi's order to Ren Fu during this trip was to hide, wander around the outside line, and stab him in the back when he was in a critical condition. Han Qi's order was also a violation of the military order, even if he had made merits, he would be killed. Even if he had made merits, he would be killed according to the law if he did not listen to my orders.

This group of elite Song troops rushed over and chopped and killed hundreds of enemies in one go, like chopping melons and vegetables. The Xixia army was defeated. Ren Fu followed him and chased him, and he didn't have enough food for three days and three nights. It was not that Ren Fu was short-sighted. Since there was a village forty miles to provide them with supplies. It was still easy to eat. The reason why he didn't eat was that he didn't have enough food to chase the enemy. Moreover, the direction of chasing the enemy on this trip was Yangmulong City, who could chase the enemy and enter Yangmulong City according to Han Qi's strategy. Why not do it?

After chasing Haochuan River, Wang Gui had already entered Muyanglong City. Friends Zhu Guan and Wu Ying were stationed in Longluochuan, and they were only one mountain away from Haoshuichuan. The scout came back to report that the enemy could no longer run and was resting in front. Ren Fu ordered the entire army to rest, and sent someone to contact Zhu Guan to meet tomorrow, chase the enemy together, eat the Western Xia army, and then go to Muyanglong City to rest. Zhu Guan agreed, the next day, the two armies rose up at the same time and chased forward along a parallel line, while the vanguard Sang Yi had already passed the Changgang City, only five miles away from Muyanglong City.

At this time, the Song army saw a box on the road and opened it curiously. Hundreds of carrier pigeons suddenly flew out of the box. As the 100,000 Xixia troops rushed over from the horizon, there was another bloody battle. Ren Fu's subordinates saw that the situation was unfavorable, and said to Ren Fu, "You run away quickly, it's still time." Ren Fu said that I was a general, defeated, and served the country with death. The entire army was wiped out.

Wang Gui came to rescue him when he heard the news. Seeing that the enemy was in great power, his subordinates did not dare to move forward. Wang Gui killed several people, but could not boost his morale. He could only rush into the enemy alone, kill hundreds of enemy enemies, and die of arrows.

Zhu Guan and Wu Ying were also attacked in Yao Jiachuan, but they were lucky. The Xixia army was working hard to deal with Ren Fu. It happened that Zhao Bing, the chief supervisor of Weizhou, led 2,200 cavalry to pass by here under the urgent order of Han Qi, and increased their strength. However, after more than two hours of fierce fighting, he was outnumbered and the Song army was about to collapse. Wu Ying advised Tongzong Geng Fu to escape. I am a military man, and I will die if I am defeated. Jun is a civil servant. I have no military responsibility. Why should I die with Ying? Geng Fu did not answer and continued to command his subordinates and the Xixia army to continue to kill, and finally died heroically.

On that day, Haoshuichuan had no survivors, but Yao Jiachuan escaped more than a thousand soldiers. Fortunately, he found a broken wall of the houses of local residents, leaned against the wall and fired arrows. He persisted until the arrival of the Song Dynasty reinforcements Wang Zhongbao, and survived. In this battle, Ren Fu, Wang Gui, Wuying, Sang Yi, Zhao Lu, Geng Fu, Li Jian, Wang Qing and other more than 200 generals and schools had not survived. More than 10,000 soldiers died heroically, even more tragic than Sanchuankou. After the battle, Zhang Yuan left a poem in a temple. Xia Shu was not so surprised, and Han Qi was still talking about his own military equipment. The Grand Secretary of the State of Daxia and the Secretary of the Central Secretary Zhang Yuan came to this question with Dajiao.

After the war, Han Qi took responsibility on himself, but Xia Xu sent someone to clean up the battlefield, searched Han Qi's warrant from Ren Fu, and learned the truth of the battle from the soldiers who survived Yao Family Chuan and spoke fairly for Han Qi. It had nothing to do with Han Qi. It was Ren Fu's actions without authorization, which led to a great defeat.

Then Sun Quanbin came to Hangzhou to announce the imperial edict.

"It's so miserable." Jiang Xing'er said.

Cui Xian said angrily: "No wonder the court asked officials to be the deputy prime minister, it turned out that it wanted officials to replace Han Qi."

"Xian'er, don't talk nonsense." Zheng Lang waved his hand.

Zheng Lang said that in three years, it was not about the good consideration of Mizukawa or Sanchuankou. Although he was defeated in the two battles, he was still honored. Without this failure, the ministers in the court would not be able to wake up.

But the next failure cannot happen again.

Dingchuanzhai.

Although I lost the first two battles, it was remarkable. This battle was too shameful.

So there was a three-year agreement. But the war needed money and money to support it, and there was no huge wealth, and the court lacked the courage to start a war.

He may not have done better than Han Qi when he went to the northwest, but he had some advanced ideas that at least he would stop the defeat of Dingchuanzhai.

Since the court wanted to go to the northwest, it was time to leave Hangzhou.

The news spread quickly.

The next day, dozens of merchants in the city joined forces and said to Zheng Lang: "The prefect comes in July and leaves in July. If it is not enough, it is necessary to leave Hangzhou before the three-year period is over."

Some people are reluctant to let it go.

It is also related to their personal interests.

Hangzhou is now in great beauty. It is so good that they can't imagine.

However, the same is true for the emperor and the ministers of the local officials. What changes will be brought about by a change of a prefect? ​​They do not believe that other officials will do better than Zheng Lang.

"Are you still not satisfied?"

"We are very satisfied, but we are reluctant to let the prefect leave."

"Northwest is full of crises. The emperor summoned me back to Beijing. How could I not go back to Beijing? I have already arranged the matters in Hangzhou. The court also intends to choose a capable prime minister to come to govern Hangzhou. What else do you have to worry about?" Zheng Lang said halfway. See if his memorial will work. Let Chen Zhizhong come to Hangzhou, there will be no problem. If Zhang Guan comes to Hangzhou, he may not be able to take over Hangzhou successfully.

Dozens of merchants were relatively speechless.

Even if you learn from Taipingzhou and initiate the people's retention of Zheng Lang, it will work once, but will it still work twice?

Compared with Hangzhou, the northwest is now more important to the country.

From a personal perspective, Zheng Lang is the deputy envoy of the Privy Council this time. He cannot let others be prime ministers for the sake of his own people.

But they didn't know that the prime minister was actually a bit hot.

The news spread and many people asked Zheng Lang to stay. However, they were not given much time, and the second imperial edict from the court quickly came to Hangzhou.

First, Yin Zhu heard that Ren Fu's army was defeated, and the Xixia people invaded Liu Fanbao before retreating, so he sent Liu Zheng, the chief supervisor of Huanqing Road, to lead thousands of soldiers to aid. Before he arrived, the Xixia people retreated. Xia Shu impeached Yin Zhu and used troops without authorization and surrendered to the Tongzhou magistrate.

It should be said that Xia Shu was not that black-hearted at this time.

Unclear, Yin Zhu transferred his troops to do something without any problem, so he asked Xixia to take advantage of the method of surrounding and attacking aid. After defeat, Xia Feng would not be able to explain to the court.

The court also ordered all the troops to clearly recommend the recruitment. The bandits were arrogant and lax, and secretly dispatched troops to attack in depth. Fan Zhongyan saw whether morale was brave or timid. If he was not afraid of cowardice, he could drive forward and take advantage of the main army of Xixia in Tiandu Mountain, but had not returned to the country, and sent troops to Hengshan to make a fortune.

Fan Zhongyan said that Ren Fu was brave enough to fight, and the bandits retreated and chased after them, and did not follow Han Qi's instructions, which resulted in defeat. These are all famous generals on the side, but they cannot predict the bandits. What they choose now is often not enough, and the disaster is not enough to be measured. As the ministers see, I beg for the preface of Yanzhou Road and build three liang of abandoned villages in Nan'an and other places, and store familiar households and archers to strengthen fences and cover the nests. On the other hand, the thief is at a high level, and the thief is at a high level, and the thief is at a low level, and the attack is at a low level, so that you can get nearby to disturb them and attack them in surprise.

It seemed to be reasonable, so the soldiers did not return.

But the court was in a dilemma, and the war could not be fought or mixed. What should I do?

When Zheng Lang was appointed, Zhao Zhen was overjoyed and immediately asked Chen Zhizhong to replace Zheng Lang in charge of Hangzhou Prefecture. As for whether Chen Zhizhong or Zhang Guan was used, it didn't matter.

Then Zheng Lang was ordered to lead the hundreds of foreign soldiers to come to the capital to take office without waiting for Chen Zhizhong to hand over.

This time, Sier finally realized that the Privy Councilor was not so easy to be a deputy envoy, and complained: "Why should it be so fast?"

"Si'er, the official should be quicker. It is the edict of Your Majesty. As a minister, you must act according to the edict," Cui Xian said.

"Madam..."

"When you let the officials leave, the people will send them off together in the empty city?"

"Why can't it?"

"Officials have little qualifications and have political achievements, but the higher their reputation and achievements, the more people they are in charge of the East Prefecture, the more people they fear. Why do you have to let the people see you off?"

"Oh, you're getting more and more..." Zheng Lang looked at his wife, speechless.

"Official, I don't object to your going to the northwest, but this time I listened to my words and immediately took those hundreds of soldiers to leave Hangzhou, the faster the better, so as not to let the people hear the wind."

"What should we do?" Huan'er asked.
To be continued...