The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Zhao Qi collected a large number of various war examples during the Yuanfeng attack on Xia as early as before the war to understand the tactics of the Xia army. This was also the only time that the Song army entered the Jingji area of ​​the Western Xia in the century-old war between the Song army and the Western Xia, but unfortunately ended in a disastrous defeat.

, which led to the Song Dynasty changing its strategy against the Western Xia, and then changing its large-scale attack to eroding shallow attacks.

At that time, the only five Song army that attacked Xia was Jingyuan and the two troops of Huanqing arrived at the city of Lingzhou. Xixia defeated the enemy by strengthening the walls and clearing the fields and irrigating rivers. However, the Song army did not have the opportunity to capture Lingzhou at that time.

Instead, the opportunity was missed in repeated internal struggles and useless suspicion, so this prompted him and Tong Guan to set the joint army, and both armies followed their orders.

In addition, one of the reasons why the Song army besieged Lingzhou for 18 days but did nothing was said to be that "no attacking tools in the army", which means that an army preparing to attack the city did not carry siege equipment, and the army did not even know how to manufacture it.

The military craftsman of siege equipment skills. Even when he wanted to cut down local trees and make simple attack tools such as ladders, he encountered the problem that the trees outside Lingzhou City were all small and simple.

These caused the Song army soldiers besieging Lingzhou to have no attack tools, and they could only take a ladder to go to the city. However, the walls of Lingzhou City were as high as three meters high, which was indeed a bit difficult for soldiers who had never practiced acrobatics, so they were powerless.

Launching a large-scale siege, they could only shout at the Xia army on the city, "Why don't you descend quickly?" The Xia army is not a fool. When you scare him, you open the door to surrender. They didn't say anything bad, just

Ask the Song army, "I have never rebelled or fought. What does it mean to surrender?" The only thing left of the Song army is to look at the happy Xia army on the city and smile helplessly!

Therefore, this so-called siege battle is not a plot where the generals fly arrows through their arms, bleeding backs, and striving to climb first, nor does it appear that soldiers brave the rain and attack the city. Until the Xia army released the Yellow River water and asked.

They took a cold bath and it was almost over!

Although Gao Zunyu summarized the reasons for the defeat after the war such as lack of soldiers, lack of horses, lack of logistics, and solitary army, Zhao Zhen analyzed the situation of the war and felt that he chose inappropriate tactics as the main reason for the failure of the Song army.

, although others cannot be discharged, they can be avoided.

After careful study, Zhao Qiong believed that an important link in this battle was to annihilate the Xixia army stationed in Dongguan Town, 30 miles away from Lingzhou and its nearby Xingzhou Ferry. This made the whole game of chess. After seizing the ferry, Ling

The state became an isolated city. The Song army could cut off the Xia army's reinforcements and attack the morale of the Xia army defending the city; the second was to act as a stance to cross the river north to capture Xingzhou. The Xia army stationed in Xingqing Prefecture did not dare to act rashly.

This will give you more choices.

After Zhao Qiong seized Dongguan Town, he could attack and defend, and first seized strategic initiative. Another wonderful thing is that although it is the golden autumn season, the weather is also cold. He doesn't want to take a cold bath and control Dong

Guanzhen controlled the various gates of the Yellow River irrigation area. It was to prevent the Xia army from digging the Qin canal and flooding the Song army from repeating the tragedy, and it could also prevent hundreds of thousands of hectares of harvested crops around Lingzhou from being harmed by water, so that it could prevent it from being damaged by water.

There is food to be recharged.

Zhao Jie led the Hedong Army to conquer the west and mobilized 50,000 imperial guards, ten commanding foreign soldiers and archers and some government troops, and went on a thousand miles to attack cities and plunder countless lands. However, at this time, the phenomenon of a lack of soldiers and generals was also shown, and the important along the way

The fortress and the large prefecture city must be divided into troops to garrison. Along the way, there are soldiers and generals like sheep shit. Lingzhou is very wide, and Lingzhou City alone has thirty-six fortresses, and people have to be sent anywhere.

What if you go to work, otherwise you will make trouble secretly? But the Shaanxi army is still blocking the road. He has to send someone to help him. After all, they have come. He has 50,000 more available soldiers. So he is surrounded now

Instead of attacking, solve the problem of food first, and warn the people of Xixia around you to be honest, otherwise the Prince of Yan would become the Prince of Hell at any time...

Since Lingzhou did not expect that the Tiemen Pass would be broken so quickly, the Song army chased the defeated army and arrived at the city of Lingzhou, resulting in the fact that the various hamlets had no time to hurry to get the insurance. A large number of fertile fields outside the city inevitably fell into the hands of the Song army.

Most of the crops had not been harvested yet. In order to prevent the Xia army from rushing to destroy the crops, Zhao Qiong first surrounded the city and controlled the various villages and forts, and then sent people to collect autumn taxes in accordance with the rules set by the Yincheng time.

The Dangxiang society before the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty had entered a feudal society, and the clan feudal system became the basis of the rule of Xixia. The land system of Xixia can be roughly divided into state ownership, aristocratic possession system, temples and small land possession system, and the royal family and Dangxiang aristocrats also used their power.

The land was occupied, landless farmers were employed to farm, collect high land rent, and some even directly plundered the land in the border areas of the Song Dynasty and turned into private land. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, taxes and service were already quite heavy compared to the neighboring Song Dynasty.

At the beginning of the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty, the imperial power institutions established in the Song Dynasty were established in the imperial power institutions, and the "Three Divisions" and "General National Economy and Pay Taxes", and later the "Received Subsidy Department", "Farmland Department", and "Clusters and Pastoral Department" were established.

Manage and collect taxes from agriculture, animal husbandry, commerce and handicraft industries. Xixia is located in the northwest, and the yield of cultivated land is difficult to compare with the Central Plains. The tax rate of agricultural land acres also seems to be low, but the acres in Xixia are smaller than that of Song acres.

The acres are about 2.7 mu, so they are not as good as the Song Dynasty. In addition to grain, there are also scattered reeds, willow branches, dreams, wheat grass, wheat bran and other things. There are also many levy and miscellaneous taxes, and they are even levied.

The cap tax is paid regardless of gender, and only size is different from gender. In addition, it has been used for years to recruit troops, and the burden on the people of Xixia is even heavier.

The Song army adopted a policy of confiscation for land owned by the Xixia officials and nobles, and the land rent paid by the tenants was reduced by half; for large and small landlords, they were not collected from the tenants, but paid by the owner, of course, the higher the price, and doubled the price.

Expropriation; those whose own land is less than one hectare will be considered ordinary farmers and will be halved. At the same time, the surplus grains in the hands of large landlords will be subject to a paid expropriation policy, and the price will of course be a little higher than that of free.

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Zhao Qi did this to harm only the interests of a few major landlords in Xixia and those tax-free royal families and nobles, but it reduced the burden on ordinary people. This would allow the smooth collection of food and grass, and ease the tension between the civilians in Xixia and divide them.

The relationship with the landlords and nobles they depend on lay the foundation for the next step of rule.

After capturing Dongguan Town, Zhao Xiao moved his camp there, which was adjacent to the Yellow River and close to the ferry leading to Xingzhou, and the terrain was relatively high. After arriving, Zhao Xiao ordered the tiger general Zhao Yong to lead his troops to attack Yaode City.

Threatening Pule City, responding to the Shaanxi army heading north, and at the same time mobilized the requisition of more than 10,000 civilians to expand Dongguan Town, thickened and raised the original village wall, extended the northward to the ferry, and converted it into a fortress controlling the ferry, and collected it.

The food and grass are stored in the village.

Zhao Qiong of Lingzhou has always hoped to capture it without bleeding as much as possible, because Lingzhou is not only a military fortress, but also an economic center in the northwest region. It is an important transportation hub to the countries in the Western Regions and a place of trading.

On weekdays, he also gathers business and travelers from all over the world, and his business is prosperous, and his prosperity is no less than that of Taiyuan, so he wants to retain his position as a commercial center.

Another reason is that the city of Lingzhou is solid, unlike Xiazhou, which has only a small number of troops, and its defense is lax. Once a war begins, it will be a fierce battle. The artillery equipped with its own artillery is light in weight and small in diameter, making it difficult to cause damage to the city, so it must be

Rising your life to climb the city, but that requires a lot of climbing equipment. This is carefully designed and manufactured, and it will be slammed in one go when fighting!

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The accompanying capital of Xixia in Lingzhou city is also a barrier to Xingqing Prefecture. Although the terrain is gentle and without any danger, after a century of operation by the people of Xixia, it is no longer the same as before. The city wall is as high as three meters, and the Yellow River is used as the moat, for more than ten miles.

At this time, the walls were wrapped with felt blankets soaked in water, so that arrows could prevent people from being injured and were not afraid of fire attacks. There were tens of thousands of elite soldiers stationed in the city. This defense measure was not as large as that of the Song Dynasty.

Except for Tokyo, the important city of Taiyuan, other famous cities in the Central Plains are really inferior to it...

After Wei Ming Anhui fled into Lingzhou City, she was still in shock and hurriedly asked Xingqing Prefecture for help and sent a statement of guilt. But while waiting for the reply, the Song army was already at the city and plundered the city and plundered the food and grass.

He picked up Xiao Heda's head and sent troops to sweep the surrounding fortresses and rampant in Lingzhou. At this time, he felt regretful. He would not have ended up losing the iron gate if he followed Xiao Heda's advice on his own risk.

The result of losing the general and losing 30,000 troops.

As a state important official, Wei Ming Anhui certainly knew the significance of Lingzhou to Xixia, but the current crisis was also caused by his own momentary impulse. He spent the first five days in regret and felt like he was miserable overnight.

He was ten years older, and at this time he had made up his mind to not go out of the city to fight the Song army in any case. Only by defending Lingzhou could he redeem the crime of losing the Iron Gate Pass and be worthy of Xiao Heda, who was fighting to save him from breaking through.

Wei Ming Anhui cheered up again and made up his mind to serve the country with death. He inspected the city defense every day, built city defense equipment, improved defense, boosted the morale of the soldiers, and prepared to work with reinforcements to annihilate the Song army.

However, the horn of the attack was not sounded. The Song army did not attack the city for a long time, but set up camp outside Lingzhou City, mobilized civilians to strengthen the camp every day, and sent troops to collect food and grass from early to late, and made a fight

Preparation for a protracted war. Although the Xia Lord Li Qianshun understood the Song army's plan, Xixia lost land repeatedly. If Lingzhou is lost again, the consequences can be imagined. He can only try it out... But at this time, the Song army

He captured Dongguan Town, controlled the ferry, and deployed layers of defense along the river. Weiming Anhui could only stand on the Xicheng City Tower every day and look out across the Yellow River, watching the gathering of Xixia troops on the other side of the river quench their thirst.

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