"Your Majesty," Zheng Lang laughed in silence: "Your Majesty has thought too much. Whether as a monarch or as a minister, if you want to be a good monarch or a good minister, how can you do not work hard?"

"Mr. Zheng is only over fifty years old, I am very scared..."

"Don't be afraid, I can serve Your Majesty for at least ten years, and it will be possible to do it for ten years."

"Mr. Zheng..."

"Your Majesty, it's so late, what's the point of coming to the Three Sessions?"

"I just want to see Duke Zheng."

"It's all trivial matters, and I can handle them well."

Zhao Xu was speechless. He used to be with Zheng Lang in Yunzhou, so freehand paintings. No matter what matters, Zheng Langxin put in the ink and immediately reviewed them. However, after entering the Secretariat, he said several times that he was tired. He knew how tired he was. For more than two years, including holidays and holidays, he had less than a month. Most of the time he handled government affairs until the second and third updates. No matter how good his health was, he would not have a good health if he had been on the long run. Looking at Zheng Lang's face, Zhao Xu was so sad that he couldn't speak.

Zheng Lang pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty is worried about the northwest."

"I'm a little worried." Zhao Xu said.

Cai Ting said it is quite reasonable. If this victory is the best, it will certainly increase the morale and people's hearts of the Song Dynasty soldiers. Apart from an invisible way to divert attention, it does not seem to be of much help to reform. But if it fails, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The attack and rewards were moved, and the outcome was unknown. The losses of both sides were almost the same, but in the battle of Mao Navel Pass, the Song army failed in a real defeat. More than a thousand soldiers were sacrificed, and the ministers could not see that the sacrifices were the children of the tribes who had defected, and they could not see that they had formed deep hatred from now on. These tribes would not rebel against Xixia again, and they saw a crushing defeat. The most distressing thing was that Zheng Lang could not say it. After all, using this method was too insidious and he lost the so-called "benevolence".

Many people wrote letters to deal with Liu Changzuo, and Zheng Lang suppressed it. The post-war period is to be decided.

Someone is pointing his finger at Fu Bi. Fu Bi, you are old and often seriously ill, but you are dominating the position of Prime Minister of the Western Prefecture. Why do you do?

This is something Zheng Lang absolutely cannot tolerate.

Fu Bi and Zheng Lang have little similar opinions, but he has many years of political experience. Now the court is vaguely divided into three factions. Most of the opinions of one faction are consistent with Zheng Lang, and they need to carry out small-scale reforms. Some people are radical. They think that the so-called thorough reforms are coming. Some people think that it is impossible to carry out the so-called moderate reforms. This is the best change that Zheng Lang brings. But how to change them. The opinions are different. Fu Bi is of high reputation and has a good relationship with Zheng Lang, and can play a link. Also, Fu Bi does not have much agreement with himself, but he will not make any trouble. His qualifications are vaguely similar to Zheng Lang, so it is difficult for some people to attack Zheng Lang with one hand.

Never become the prime minister. Whether it is Wang Anshi or Han Qi, if it is Wang Anshi or Han Qi, there will be many people who hate it.

The Secretariat had Zeng Gongliang and the Western Palace had Fu Bi, which was equivalent to two towering trees that stood in front of Zheng Lang. I don’t know how many ups and downs!

So Zheng Lang strengthened to protect Fu Bi.

But all of this is based on Wang Shao's victory in this battle. If he fails, it will bring about a series of very bad consequences.

Zheng Lang's teaching played a role. At least Zhao Xu is far more mature than Zhao Xu at the same time in history, and there is also a beautiful young woman in the palace who is growing up.

These days, Zhao Xu is also worried.

Zheng Lang comforted, "Your Majesty, don't worry, listen to me. Xixia threatened to gather 500,000 troops, which would probably not be possible, but if the people's lives and deaths are ignored, the 300,000 troops could be gathered."

Even if the 300,000 troops gather, it would be difficult to use the national strength of Xixia. However, when she met the Liang family, everything was hard to say. She had done it. Not only did she gather 300,000 troops, but she also sent 300,000 troops to Pingxia City at one time in history.

He also said: "In fact, the permanent troops of Xixia are only more than 100,000. Now that Xixia is attacking Suizhou, we are also worried that our dynasty will counterattack, so we have successively added some troops. I just went to Xifu and asked. At about this time, Xixia gathered more than 200,000 troops, and some of them were deployed under Suizhou City. Some of them are scattered on various borders. As Xixia extended its power south to Xijun City, the ancient Weizhou line invisibly extended the border of our dynasty for hundreds of miles, making our dynasty more difficult. However, compared with Xixia, defense has also become difficult.

Moreover, since the Western Xia and the Khitan got into evil, they had to send heavy troops to defend against the Helan Mountain and the Hetao line in the north and south, and the troops were even more dispersed. At this time, from Tiandu Mountain to the Zheqianghui line, the total military force of Xixia was only 30,000 to 40,000. Even if we gathered the troops of various races, it would only be 50,000 or 60,000. However, Xixia had disaster this year and the people were famined. Who dared to gather the strong men of various races as soldiers before they could not be defeated? The only ones fighting against it were more than 30,000 Xia soldiers, but our army restrained more than 10,000 troops to the Venerable Movement. How many troops are left in Tiandu Mountain?"

“Is this the possibility of success?”

"Yes, so when I first proposed, Fu Bi and Zeng Gongliang held objections, believing that it was impossible to burn the Tiandu Mountain Palace, and it was impossible to achieve under normal circumstances, but the situation was constantly changing. After our court negotiated peace with Xixia, we did not fight back for a long time. Except for Di Qing's help to suppress the rebellion, it was mostly passive defense, and the people of Xixia would despise it. As for what to do, I am not very clear about it in the court."

"Mr. Zheng, do you think Wang Shao's ability to use troops is far higher than that of you?"

"I don't know," Zheng Lang replied, unable to say that it is high, after all, neither of them has ever met. It is unreasonable to assert that it is high with a strife with a strife. He also said, "He is on the front line, and a wind or a rain can determine the direction of the battle. If I could clearly see through Wang Shao's thoughts in the Secretariat, then in the era of Renzong, Xixia was destroyed. Why did he leave troubles to this day? Or to make a metaphor, I went to the front line. Wang Shao was in the temple, and most of the time he could not guess his specific thoughts. But now it is an opportunity, it depends on how Wang Shao Zhongyan uses it."

Zheng Lang didn't guess what Wang Shao did.

Before the war, he only focused on one thing, whether Wang Zhongzhang and the other two had any conflicts, and wrote three letters in a row.

I don’t know if it was “smelling like a lot” or these three letters played a role, but the three of them cooperated well and had been together for almost half a year, and no serious conflicts had occurred. After learning this news, Zheng Lang stopped caring about it.

The chief general of Tiandu Mountain should not be underestimated. He is a good general, but he is definitely not a famous general. Not to mention that he is not as good as Wang Zhang, even Liu Changzuo is far inferior to him.

Moreover, the construction of Pingxia City supported six outstanding generals who later had supported weapons, equipment, materials, and intelligence. What else would Zheng Lang worry about?

Zhao Xu was still worried. Zheng Lang's nanny-style financial management almost made Zhao Xu a baby. He would have to be weaned sooner or later, but it was not weaned at this time. What Zhao Xu did at this time was still learning to reflect. However, this gave Zhao Xu some time, and he was guessing how Wang Shao did it without any matter.

The news was soon conveyed.

This battle is destined to be a dazzling battle.

First, Miao Shu and Wang Guangzu two powerful generals were beaten by Dongguan at snowy night.

When encountering difficulties, Shengdong Pass was not as unprepared as Caizhou. Miao Jue decisively ordered the use of the range of the divine arm bow to shoot at the Xia soldiers on the top of the city. Several Xia soldiers were killed. Then when the Xia soldiers issued an alarm, Miao Jue began to climb the city.

The Xia soldiers at the barracks below the gate began to rise. It was too cold. It was rumored that the Song Dynasty had many soldiers and horses and horses that froze to death in the canyon that night, so the Xia soldiers were slow to move. Miao Su fought bloody battles one after another, and Miao Su himself killed eleven enemy soldiers and took them down. Then he fought bloody battles from Lu Jing again. When the door was opened, there were only 48 soldiers who followed Miao Su to the top of the city with Miao Su. Forty-eight soldiers, including Miao Su, and many were injured.

After heavy sacrifices, the gates were closed and the Song army entered the pass, and more than 700 Xia soldiers guarding the pass, only a few Xixia soldiers escaped. This pass changed hands almost in one hour.

The next morning, Renduolingding heard the news and led a large army to Shengdong Pass. Wang Shao and Zhong Yan arrived with their main forces.

Rendaolingding ordered the three armies to attack and win the East Pass. Due to the terrain, it was not easy to attack from east to west, but it was not difficult to attack from west to east. However, unexpectedly, after a long attack, the victory of the East Pass was as safe as Mount Tai. In the afternoon, morale was sharply reduced, and Wang Shao decisively ordered the three armies to go out of the pass and take the initiative to attack.

More than 1,200 Xia soldiers were killed in one battle, and Renduoling Ding was defeated in Huitiandu Village.

Wang Shao gathered his army again and advanced westward.

The next day, the Song army took advantage of the victory to attack Tiandu Village. After making heavy sacrifices, they captured Tiandu Village on the third day. Wang Shao led his army to attack Tiandu Mountain Base Camp in Xiwojing again. A series of relentless pursuits made Renduolingding turn head-on, and had to gather all the troops in the rear, and stalemate with the Song army in Xiwojing.

However, Renda Lingding guessed wrong again.

The Song army attacked the reward and rushing the mouth was the first time to attack the east and the west, and the fierce attack on Tianduzhai and Xiwujing was the second time to attack the east and the west. The third attack was the real attempt of the Song army.

After three or four days of stalemate, he saw that no reinforcements had arrived in Xixia. Zhong Yan led Yao Xiao and Yao with the help of the cold winter night and the familiarity with the terrain of Tiandu Mountain. He did not detour from the north where heavy troops were guarding, but from the south. After a night, he almost detoured nearly 300 miles. He sneaked into Quwu Mountain from the path at the southern end of Tiandu Mountain, and there were some strongholds in Xixia when he arrived at Quwu Mountain. However, his defensive power was loose, and he was repeatedly drawn by Renduolingding, and almost no one defended some posts. Suddenly at dawn, he miraculously arrived at the palace behind Tiandu.

The people of Xixia were not prepared at all. In a hurry, they were defeated in less than an hour and fled in scattered areas. Tiandu Palace was lost again. There were many good things in Tiandu Palace. Zhong Yan was not greedy and quickly ignited the palace. Before the people of Xixia could react, they led the team of light cavalry to retreat northeast. Before the troops in Xixia caught up, they sneaked into Suirong Village from the small path.

Feeling something wrong, Li Kaitai also "consciously" that the Song army in front of the Venerable mouth was mostly bluffing, and there were probably miscellaneous troops to attract the troops of Tiandu Mountain, so he took the initiative to attack. Li Changzuo responded calmly, and then burned all the baggage with a fire, and retreated. This miscellaneous army not only retreated, but also fought fiercely for dozens of miles without chaos. In this regard, Liu Changzuo's famous general style showed no doubt. When he retreated to Mobei Pass, Zhang Qi led his troops to provide assistance, and Li Kaitai had to retreat. On the other hand, Wang Shao also calmly organized the three armies to retreat, and even blew up Shengdong Pass.

In dozens of battles, the Song army, including those surrendered men, sacrificed nearly 4,000 soldiers, but in fact only more than 3,000 soldiers, and the real imperial guards were less than 1,000. However, more than 9,000 soldiers in Xixia were killed.

The casualty rate is not mentioned, the key is... Fu Bi felt confused when he received the news and said for most of the day: "Has the Xixia Palace really been burned?"

Everyone was also shocked and confused.
Chapter completed!