This newly built Pingxia City will become a thorn in the side of the Xixia people, both in terms of its name and the military and strategic implications of its location.

Choosing which general to guard the newly built Pingxia City became a big headache for Weizhou coach Zhang Kai at that time.

Zhang Kai asked his subordinates: "Who can take on the important task of guarding Pingxia City?"

Without thinking, the generals replied in unison: "It must be Guo Cheng."

Weizhou coach Zhang Kai transferred Guo Cheng to lead his troops and stationed in Pingxia City...

Sure enough, not long after, Xixia gathered tens of thousands of elite troops and attacked Pingxia City with all their strength.

Guo Cheng, the chief defender of the city, judged the situation between the enemy and ourselves and chose a strategy to defend the city. When the Xia army came to attack, they used defensive equipment and bows and arrows to fight back on the city...

Facing the Song army in Pingxia City, the Xixia army could not hold on and attacked forcefully. They were still unable to break through the city, so they all returned without success...

The following year, in the first month of the fifth year of Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty (AD 1098), the Xixia court sent famous generals such as Ami, the commander of the army, who was famous for his proficiency in warfare, and Le Dubu, the supervisor of the Xishou army, to lead his troops and capture the city.

Pingxia City, waiting for the opportunity to invade the hinterland of the Song Dynasty...

Weiming Ami, who is the leader of the Xiang Qiang tribe in the Xixia Army, learned from the experience and lessons of the Xixia Army's forcible attack on Pingxia City last year and their defeat.

He believed that Pingxia City was built with high walls and deep trenches, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. Then he prepared for a long war, surrounded Pingxia City without attacking it, and cut off all grain transportation channels outside Pingxia City. In this way,

If Pingxia City is besieged for a year and a half, Pingxia City, which is a thorn in the side of the Xixia people, will collapse without attacking.

In the first month of the first year of Yong'an in Xixia (AD 1098), the Sixth Route Army of the Xixia Kingdom, Weiming Amian, and the supervisor's sister, Le Dubu, led tens of thousands of troops in the name of animal husbandry and camped outside the city of Pingxia, hoping to die first.

After pacifying Xia City, they then launched a massive attack on the interior of the Song Dynasty...

Weiming Amian's strategy was to encircle without fighting. He brought his tribe's family members and more than 100,000 cattle and sheep outside Pingxia City. Their Xia army did not have to worry about food and grass problems, while the Song Dynasty troops in Pingxia City

The army will not be able to survive. After the Song army in Pingxia City has been trapped for several months, the food in the city will be exhausted, and the Song army will collapse.

However, when Guo Cheng, the general guarding Pingxia City, saw Weiming Ami's troops at Pingxia City, he learned through the scout horse that the Xia army was coming this time, followed by Cheng who could not see the end.

A herd of cattle and sheep.

Guo Cheng then guessed that this time the Xia army wanted to fight a protracted war outside Pingxia City. They probably wanted to cut off the external food routes that supplied Pingxia City and adopt the strategy of siege but not attack.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Before the Xixia army encircled Pingxia City, Guo Cheng sent out several groups of scouts to report to Weizhou coach Zhang Kai with his handwritten military report.

In his handwritten emergency military report, Guo Cheng also explained his plan to defeat the enemy...

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Weiming Amian, the commander of the Sixth Route Army of the Xixia Kingdom, led his troops to camp outside Pingxia City. A few days after besieging Pingxia City, he saw that the Song army in Pingxia City was still the same as last year and would only stick to the city. He thought to himself that '

The plan to pacify Xia City will be successful.

As a result, the Xixia army under Weiming Amian gradually relaxed their vigilance, believing that the thousands of Song troops in Pingxia City would never dare to take the initiative to fight.

Guo Cheng is not going to fight for the time being, but he is waiting for a good opportunity to defeat the enemy. That is to wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the Song Dynasty, and to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop against the Weiming Amian headquarters of the Sixth Route Army of the Xixia Kingdom.

After Song general Zhang Kai's reinforcements arrived, Guo Guoguo personally led three thousand elites in the city to attack the camp of Weiming Amian at night, and directly entered the camp of the commander of the Xixia army...

In this battle, the Song army under Guo Cheng and Zhang Kai cooperated with the outside, killing nearly 10,000 enemies, and captured more than 3,000 Xixia soldiers, including the famous Xixia general, the Sixth Route Army Weiming Ami, and his wife and children.

Imprisoned...

Countless soldiers of the Western Xia army under Weiming Ami were defeated and fled in the chaos.

When the Xia army was defeated, there were more than 100,000 cattle and sheep that could not be taken away in time, and they all became spoils of war for the Song army led by Guo Cheng and Zhang Kai...

After Guo Cheng and Zhang Kai led their troops to a surprise attack on Weiming Amian's headquarters and were victorious, they continued to pursue the enemy for hundreds of miles, broke several Xixia camps, and took advantage of the victory to capture the Tiandu Mountain area of ​​Xixia Kingdom...

The news of the disastrous defeat of Weiming Ami's army spread back to the Xia Kingdom, causing panic in both the government and the public...

Before Zhao Ji traveled through time, when he was reading history, he saw the reaction of the "Xia Lord" to the disastrous defeat of Weiming Amian's troops recorded in the history books. It was a short four-character "Xia Lord was shocked"!

In Zhao Ji's view, twenty-three years ago, the "Xia Lord" at that time should have included two people. One was Li Qianshun, who was 12 years old when he ascended the throne when he was three years old and had not yet taken charge of the government;

The other one was Li Qianshun’s biological mother, the Empress Dowager Liang, who was in charge of the government.

The battle in which Guo Cheng and Zhang Kai led their armies to defeat the main Xixia army shocked the Empress Dowager Liang, who relied on her mother party to rule, and Li Qianshun, a young man who had been talented and resourceful since childhood...

This will definitely leave a big shadow in the heart of Li Qianshun, the young hero of the generation...

According to the history of Xixia that Zhao Ji knows, four years after the Xixia army was defeated in Pingxia City, sixteen-year-old Li Qianshun took charge. He eliminated the Queen Mother Liang's group that controlled the government, and vigorously rectified the political situation in Xixia during the reign of the Queen Mother Liang.

Corrupt politics and a weak military…

Li Qianshun, who felt that his Daxia Kingdom was restored, had often sent Xixia troops to invade the borders of the Song Dynasty in the past twenty years...

Zhao Ji secretly analyzed: Li Qianshun probably wanted to avenge the shame of the Xixia Army's defeat in Pingxia City, right?

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At this time, Liang Shicheng, the great eunuch who was standing behind Zhao Guan's family, took the teapot from the young eunuch and poured half a cup of fragrant tea for Zhao Guan's family.

Liang Shicheng, who was very good at reading officials' glances, used his eyes to ask for instructions from Zhao Guan's family:

'Old slave, do I serve tea in order according to the rank of these officials sitting around the Eight Immortals table?'

Zhao Ji smiled slightly and ignored Liang Shicheng's solicitous look.

He directly took the teapot from Liang Shicheng's hand and said to Guo Cheng, a brave veteran who was famous in the west:

"Guo Aiqing fought against Xixia in the northwest, and his hard work has made great achievements. I offer tea instead of wine to pay tribute to Guo Aiqing!"

Veteran general Guo Cheng was treated with great courtesy by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and he was frightened...

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Guo Cheng picked up half a cup of fragrant tea poured by Zhao Guanjia himself. After drinking it, his internal organs felt warm.

Zhao Ji said to Guo Chengdao: "There are often wars between the Song Dynasty and Xixia. Guo Aiqing has been fighting against Xixia in the northwest for more than 40 years, and has repeatedly made extraordinary achievements!

In the battle of Lingwu City and the battle of Pingxia City, Guo Aiqing fought mightily!

Today, I invite Guo Aiqing and all the courtiers into the palace, just to listen to what Old General Guo has to say.

If the Song Dynasty sent troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty, would it be possible for Xixia to stab the Song Dynasty in the back?"

After Guo Cheng heard this, he did not answer immediately. After thinking for a while, he answered from his heart:

"In my humble opinion, I, the Song Dynasty, sent troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty, and the battle went smoothly, but the Xixia Dynasty did not dare to act rashly!

If the Song Dynasty sends troops to aid the Liao Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty, and the war situation does not go smoothly, given the profit-seeking character of the Xixia king and tribal generals,

Definitely unable to resist the temptation of alliance offered by the Jin people,

At that time, Xixia will definitely take the opportunity to invade our northwest border of the Song Dynasty!"

Zhao Ji nodded. Guo Cheng's analysis was somewhat similar to what he was thinking.

Zhao Ji has deduced these two situations countless times in his mind.

Now, he heard that Guo Cheng, a veteran who had served in the northwest army for more than 40 years, thought so too, and he wanted to hear what Guo Cheng had to say about how to deal with it.

Zhao Ji personally brought half a cup of fragrant tea to Guo Cheng, the famous brave general in the west, and asked:

"Guo Aiqing, do you have any strategy to cut off Xixia's intrusion?"

At this time, the privy councilors sitting around the Eight Immortals table with Zhao Guanjia and Guo Cheng, Duke of Yan Zheng Juzhong, imperial censor Cao Fu, Zong Ze, Li Gang, Zhang Jun, all raised their ears;

They want to first listen to the opinions of Guo Cheng, a veteran of the headquarters who has experienced hundreds of battles, and then offer their own strategies to Zhao Guan's family...
Chapter completed!