The Liang family did not consider the Song Dynasty at all, because the Song Dynasty was too peaceful and the Song Dynasty was hyping up bank shares, which also confused her. If it were a battle to attack the country, the Song Dynasty would have to prepare a lot of money or small-scale border conflicts, which was irrelevant.

Therefore, after imprisoning his son, he quickly slaughtered the Anti-Liberation Group.

But what she could not have imagined was that the Song Dynasty really interfered and sent envoys to Xia to ask Liang what was going on. She asked Liang to let Li Bingchang take charge of the rule and eliminate Liang Yi's burial. The lord was the three traitors of Xixia, Li Yan, to thank the world. The envoy was Sun Jue.

He was a student of the great scholar Hu Yuan and Chen Xiang, Su Dongpo, Wang Anshi, Su Song, Zeng Gong's friend, Huang Tingjian's father-in-law, Qin Guan, Lu Dian and Wang Ling's teacher. It is logical that such a broad connection should have risen. But no. As a polite minister, he could not stand Shao Kang's various inactions, impeached Shao Kang and demoted Shao Kang to Yuezhou Tongzong. As Wang Anshi's friend, he opposed some radical behaviors in the reform and was dismissed from Guangde Zhijun. In history, Han Zhen and Sima Guang had no reason to cede land for Xixia for no reason, Cai Que created an unjust case, Zhang Dun had a low character and had little talent, and impeached An Tao with shallow knowledge. In his eyes, he was just talking about the matter, but because of his personality, this child was miserable and wandered everywhere in his life... and also beat Zheng Lang.

However, he has made great achievements in politics and is quite brave. Wherever he passes, many people have built temples for him. At this time, he was serving as the junior supervisor of the Secretariat. Zheng Lang found him and asked him to go to Xixia.

Without courage, you cannot serve as a messenger in this industry.

After seeing this, Liang was furious and shouted, "This is my Daxia Kingdom's business, what does it have to do with your Song Dynasty?"

"Your Xia Kingdom, although it is your Xia Kingdom, but your Xia Kingdom is a minister of my Song Dynasty. How can you say you will not do the business of my Song Dynasty?"

Liang was so angry that his whole body was trembling. If he hadn't been worried that the Song Dynasty would send troops in the danger of Xixia, he would have ordered Sun Jue to be pulled out on the spot. Before Sun Jue was executed, someone would have bombed Sun Jue out of Xixia.

This mission is very important. At that time, Sun Jue sent a mission to Xixia, and many people mistakenly thought that Zheng Lang wanted to kill people with a knife. In fact, it was very wrong. Sun Jue's words were not the kind of messing around, but mostly just talking about things. Although he lacked scheming, he might be considered a good minister. Zheng Lang not only recommended Sun Jue's mission in front of Zhao Xu, but also advised Zhao Xu to reuse this minister in the future. The process of mission was a process of first rituals and then military forces. With this ceremony, this military force could be justified.

Since the Liang family did not listen, the court issued an order to the north border of the three routes of Jingyuan, Huanqing and Fuyan. Among the three routes, except for the Jingyuan route, which was Lu Gongzhu and did not understand military affairs, the other two routes were Wang Shao and Guo Kui, who were all famous generals from both China and abroad.

But the actions of the Song Dynasty still seemed ridiculous, which led many soldiers to the border. They only used the garrisons from Shaanxi. The capital and other regions had not mobilized a single person to the northwest, not only in the Western Xia, but also in the first month of the next year. More than a month later, the news spread to the Khitan, and the kings and ministers of the Liao Kingdom also thought that the Song Dynasty was just a threat.

New Year's Day is coming again.

The Song Dynasty was very quiet, and singing and dancing became peaceful. People in the Song Dynasty who were "knowing about conduct" were also analysing it. They all believed that the Song Dynasty was intimidation, but it was not bad. They could take the initiative to intimidate the Western Xia, and they had made progress compared to before. In addition, they were ridiculed by Xixia to see what happened in the Western Xia years. First, Yuan Hao robbed his son's wife at his son's marriage, and then his son Ning Ling Ge killed me and fled to the Khitan. Then the uncle Mozang Epang killed his sister Mozang Epang, and Li Liangzuo killed his uncle Mozang Epang. Now it is Liang's turn to kill his son.

Liang did not want to kill his son. Even if she had the ability of Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian had four sons, two of them had been killed, and two had been used to buffer her. She only had one son. If she killed him, how could she appease the people of Xixia?

But in the face of the aggressive Song Dynasty, soldiers were still stationed just in case. Although it seemed that the Song Dynasty was intimidating, if it was not prepared, the Song Dynasty would not mind venting on Xixia. Then Zhang Qi came to join in the fun and concentrated the army in Lanzhou and pointed at Liangzhou. However, it seemed that there was no intention to send troops. Besides, New Year's Day was coming, was the Song Dynasty the Spring Festival?

Just when the Western Xia was a little careless, the Song Dynasty actually began to launch its army.

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The big fight is the valley.

This is a mountain business road that lasts about 100 miles long, but the road conditions are very bad, with the temperature below zero all year round. The most famous one is that Emperor Yang of Sui led an army of 400,000 to destroy Tuyuhun, and then went to Zhangye to meet with the monarchs of the 27 countries in the Western Regions. Although it was June when he came back, when he passed through the Dadouba Valley, wind and snow suddenly broke out in the valley, which was unstoppable. Most of the soldiers were frozen to death, and even Emperor Yang of Sui's beloved concubine Zhang Lihua and died of freezing in the wind and snow.

This is a very important valley, and it is also a notorious valley.

But at this moment, one army after another suddenly surged from the valley entrance.

The plan to defeat Xia is divided into two steps. The first step is to cut off the Hexi Corridor, and then the second step is to use the army to truly attack Xixia.

The Song Dynasty did not mobilize troops from other regions to the northwest, but it was not without troops, especially Hehuang.

If the flowers bloom in Hehuang at this time, Zheng Lang would not recognize him when he came to Hehuang again. Liang Yi buried his army and the Song Dynasty detained tens of thousands of prisoners of war, but did not abuse him. He had holidays and provided sufficient food and clothing, and even asked all ethnic groups of the Xixia to send people to see the safety. However, they did not raise them in vain. Hehuang built, built roads, water conservancy bridges, planted trees, built forts, and built school yamen camps, and used them as the main laborers.

At the same time, wherever various basic constructions are built, the tribes and people will be invited to cooperate. This is to benefit all tribes. It is not a harsh act of the people, and labor problems will arise. At the same time, it saves a lot of money. Of course, some rewards will be given to those who are diligent, and lazy people will be punished.

At this time, most roads expanded and leveled, and many new roads appeared. Large areas of barren mountains and wilderness turned into mountains or grasslands. The Tubo tribes lost their independent rights, but in six years, the lives of people of all ethnic groups were indeed improved.

When Zheng Lang left, the Tubo ethnic groups could not be called stable, so they left more than 80,000 forts and soldiers from Qin and Wei to station, which shocked Hehuang and built a large number of forts at various important roads. However, a few years later, under the rule of Fan Chunren, the tribes gradually settled down. The military role of these forts decreased and changed to commercial nature. More soldiers than outside the castle farmed outside the castle, reducing the supply of the country. In fact, there were so many troops stationed in Hehuang at this time, and there were more than 30,000 foreign soldiers of each tribe, so the strength was too large. But who could remember?

Not only were the various imprisoned soldiers, as well as the foreign soldiers in the Qinwei area and the local foreign soldiers, the Hehuang army reached more than 115,000, but also the Hehuang races also had 50,000 to 60,000 militiamen and archers. This was the place where Zheng Lang valued the most. Once the attack on Xia began, he could get about 100,000 brave and warlike foreign cavalry from Hehuang.

Zhang Ju began to order the waiters of all the tribes to summon warriors.

Not all the Fanhous are so obedient. The weaker the Fanhous. The more they want to get the support of the Song Dynasty, the more they flatter the Song Dynasty, there are also some tribes that have a great favor to the Song Dynasty, especially the Xigong area, who have the highest favorability towards the Song Dynasty. In addition, the profits of each surveillance contract, these two are very obedient and quickly gather the heroes of all races. Anyway, it is the time of winter, so it doesn't matter.

But there are also some Fan Housing who relied on their strong power, or had a disgust towards the Song Dynasty in the past. They had strong self-esteem. Although the Song Dynasty gave various preferential policies, they still disobeyed Zhang Shi's orders. This doesn't matter, this account can be slowly settled after the destruction of Xia. The key is Dong Wen.

Qinghai is mostly a snowy field in the mountains and the Great Graves. However, there are also a few plain valley areas. Most areas west of Chiling include Niuxindui in the Tang Dynasty, Chihai and Dafeichuan areas became Gobi Deserts, and some areas with abundant water and grass, the Jiuqu land east of the ridge, Miaochuan, Huangchuan, and Haoyachuan northwest of the ridge. The people were suffering, but they died, and the people suffered. In ancient times, because of the backward planting industry, the war was extremely harmful, so the Sui and Tang dynasties changed, and the Sui Dynasty

When the Tang Dynasty was founded, only two million households were left. When the Tianbao period was founded, there were nearly 100 million people, and when the Song Dynasty was founded, there were only three million households. Since the Anshi Rebellion, the people were living in poverty, and the Tubo area was not good. Although it once expanded to the northwest and Yinxia areas, it collapsed and there were wars among all ethnic groups. However, it was less harmful than the war in the Central Plains during that period. In addition, the water and soil in the west of the Lingxi Provinces deteriorated, so the people were mostly concentrated in Hehuang.

In order to end the war quickly, Zheng Lang gave Dong Ji a lot of autonomy, including large areas of Huangchuan, Zongge City, Qingtang City and Lijing City, and allowed Dong Ji to operate it. At the same time, he also recognized that he was the spiritual leader of Tubo and the greatest marquis.

Even if the Song Dynasty was dark, Dong Wen could rise again with the power in his hands. But the Song Dynasty was not without precautions. It sent some troops in Huangchuan and built various forts to guard all major roads.

Because the Huangchuan area is rich in water and grass, the three cities of Zongge are also an important commercial city. Dong Wen also controls nearly 60,000 households and more than 300,000 people.

Therefore, Zhang Qi ordered Dong Wen to allocate 30,000 troops to cooperate with the Song Dynasty's operations. It is unknown how much help the 30,000 soldiers would have. This is to remove 30,000 soldiers and prevent Dong Wen from having any bad ideas and conditions.

But Dong Wen had a different mentality at this time than Dong Wen at that time. After the Song Dynasty obtained Hezhou, it did not have any idea of ​​being involved in Huangzhou. It only killed Guizhang, a crazy counterattack. Xixia took advantage of the situation to the south of Shazhou to surrender to Dong Wen's various forces. Therefore, Dong Wen sent troops to help the Song Dynasty attack Xia. As for whether Dong Wen was sincerely helping each other, or whether he wanted both Song and Xia to suffer losses and let Tubo strengthen itself, it was a matter of opinion.

However, at this time, the Song Dynasty had already taken over the entire Huangzhou area. Although the Song Dynasty gave him special care, he was still living under someone else's roof. As the former lord of Tubo, it was impossible for Dong Wu to have no idea. The Western Xia sent envoys to deceive Dong Wu, but Dong Wu did not dare to agree, but he did not want to offend Xixia directly.

Therefore, after Zhang Jing ordered, Dong Jie pushed three and four.

Under his leadership, many foreign tribes in Huangzhou were also looking for excuses and were unwilling to cooperate with the Song Dynasty to send troops.

As a result, Zhang Zhi troops arrived in Lanzhou at the latest in the four sides.

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Dong Wen suddenly received a report from the front, saying that Guo Cheng, Wang Guangzu, Li Hao, Zhong Pu and Qu Zhen led 60,000 Song troops to the army to reach Zong Gecheng.

Dong Wen was shocked and thought to himself, was it false that the Song Dynasty threatened Xixia and that testing all races was the real thing, and that was to attack me? With his current strength, he did not dare to fight against the Song Dynasty. He hurriedly got up and rushed from Lijing City to Zongge City. When he saw Guo Cheng, he asked, "General Guo, why did the army come to Zongge City?"

After Zheng Lang's ranking of forty generals came out, there was much controversy. Although the edict did not say that it was the ranking, it was undoubtedly the ranking list after the order was given. Especially the top ten generals, many people believed that Wang Guangzu could not rank among the top ten generals, and some people complained for Zhong Yan that his ranking was too low, and there were also Zhong Yi and Guo Cheng. The two of them became famous was a wild run of stealing opportunities. What qualifications were there before Zhong Yan? In fact, this ranking was very fair. Zhong Yan might be above Liu Changzuo, but he was selfish and violent, so his achievements were below Zhong Yi and Guo Cheng. In history, Zhong Yan was very famous, but after analyzing his victory or defeat, he was not as good as Guo Cheng and Zhong Yi.

But in Dong Jiong's heart, Guo Cheng was undoubtedly a god of killing. Besides, there were another ten generals, Wang Guangzu, one of the top ten lieutenant generals, Li Hao, and two Zong Pu and Qu Zhen, who were ranked in the ranks of forty generals. Although Zong Qu's names were not obvious, it was not easy to be able to squeeze into the ranks of forty generals and be in front of the lower generals.

Dong Wen was very careful when he spoke.

Guo Cheng frowned and said, "Dong Wen, why did General Zhang not listen to the order?"

"General Guo, I'll dispatch troops now." Dong Wu said helplessly.

"You must have the army coming in person before you listen to the order? I think you are the Fanhou and have done it."

"General Guo, isn't it almost New Year's Day?" Dong Wen said in a cold sweat on his forehead, "General Guo, don't worry. Within two days, I will mobilize 30,000 soldiers to cooperate with the Song Dynasty to send troops to Lanzhou."

"No need, I'll give you four days. Mobilize 30,000 troops and dispatch 20,000 civilians to meet in Changning Canyon and follow the arrangements."

"Changning Canyon?" Dong Wen was puzzled.

Forced by the power of the Song army, Dong Wen had to hurriedly dispatch 30,000 troops to meet with 20,000 civilians in Changning Valley. Guo Cheng also led the Song army and arrived with a large amount of supplies. Then he sent generals to reorganize Dong Wen's subordinates.

Dong Wen asked in confusion: "General Guo, what do you mean?"

"Get out of a big fight!" Guo Cheng snorted coldly. At this time, all levels had been blocked, and Dong Wu had 50,000 strong men in his hands, so he was not afraid that Dong Wu would reveal the news.

"Great fight to the valley?" Dong Wen finally knew what the Song Dynasty was going to do this time, but he was also stunned.

Guo Cheng did not explain and led 90,000 troops and 20,000 civilians to start a army. The next evening, the troops arrived at Maoniucheng in Haoyachuan and handed over to Dongyin, but the entire Haoyachuan was directly controlled by the Song Dynasty. Here, the Song Dynasty also prepared some materials in advance and gathered the materials, and the Song Dynasty quickly rushed to Dadoubagu.

Dong Wen was extremely surprised at that time because of the harsh terrain and weather here. He could snow heavily in June, and this was the coldest twelfth month. Even if the Song army has prepared a large number of cotton coats and quilts to keep the cold, it is too cold for people to stand it.

Not only is it cold, but many mountain ridges and roads are also covered with thick ice. People can walk on it and fall to the cliffs at any time.

The army stopped at the entrance of the valley, and Guo Cheng came to the front. Before he entered the valley, the howling cold wind blew, shaving on his face like a knife.

A personal guard couldn't help but tremble and said, "It's so cold."

Guo Cheng glared at him fiercely, and then ordered a camp to rest. The next day, braved the wind and snow, he forced the cross to Daduba Valley. At this time, crossing Daduba Valley seemed almost like seeking death. But the Song Dynasty made many preparations in advance. Not only did it prepare a large number of cotton coats, but it also deliberately prepared special cotton suits for war horses, wrapping the horses from top to bottom, and at the same time prepared many non-slip shoes and anti-slip horseshoes. In addition, it brought a large number of original drills. Using the spiral principle, drill bits were used to drill holes on the road to reduce the sliding of ice. At the same time, it also brought some strong wine and spicy seasonings to keep the soldiers from cold and warm their bodies.

But that's it. It took the Song army four days to pass the 120-mile Da Douba Valley. In order to pass through this harsh valley, nearly 5,000 Song soldiers fell down. More than 3,000 soldiers and civilians recruited from Dong Wen also fell down. Some of them froze to death, while others slid under the cliff and fell to death.

But in the end, the Song army miraculously broke out of the Great Doubagu and came to the east of the valley.

It was dusk, and Guo Cheng ordered the three armies to rest and asked the medical soldiers to treat the soldiers. Not only did thousands of soldiers sacrifice, but some soldiers were also frostbite. Many war horses also fell on the mountain road of Dadubagu. But this line of significance was not an imagination. No one would have imagined that the Song army would dare to force the Dadubagu in this cold weather. And the fatal one was next to the New Year. Whether it was the rear or west of Liangzhou, there was no defense at all. Dadubagu was only 320 miles away from Ganzhou and 300 miles away from Liangzhou. Even if it was infantry, three days would be enough to reach the city of Ganzhou or Liangzhou. Moreover, the Song army still had a large number of cavalry and war horses at this time, and the speed would be faster!

While setting up camp, the soldiers sent soldiers to control the people of all ethnic groups around them to prevent the leak of news. The remaining soldiers began to cheer. The four-day journey was like a nightmare, and many soldiers even had an idea, and would rather die on the battlefield than walk through the Great Fight Valley again.

Guo Cheng and Wang Guangzu and other generals smiled.

This journey of soldiers was suffering, and they were suffering. In just four days, they had many frostbite on their bodies. But at this time, more than a dozen generals all smiled proudly, and the soldiers cheered and had ended their nightmare marching journey, but they saw great achievements in their eyes. (To be continued...)
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