The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

In order to deal with the Song Army's Western Expedition, Xixia formulated a strategy of "grabbing both hands with both hands": on the one hand, they stepped up preparations for war in an attempt to regain the lost territory; on the other hand, they launched a diplomatic offensive and invited backers to lobby the Liao State and request Liao State to intervene.

On the other hand, he actively requested peace talks with the Song Dynasty.

However, after the war lasted for half a year, the situation changed drastically. In the eighth year of Liao Tianqing's reign, when Wanyan Agu forced the Liao to be crowned emperor, he wanted the Liao to crown him as the Great Sage and Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. After several envoys exchanged between the two sides, the Liao failed to achieve unification.

North Korea believes that the 'Great Sage'

The word '' is the same as the title of his ancestors. Jin asked Jin to reconsider the title. In the tenth year of Tianqing's reign, the Liao sent envoys to convey this opinion to Jin. Aguda was furious, thinking that this was a delaying tactic used by the Liao to delay the attack because the Liao did not want to confer the title but was afraid of Jin's attack. He immediately decided

Send troops to attack Liao...

In April, Aguda personally went on an expedition, divided his troops into three groups, traveled hundreds of miles day and night, and went straight to Shangjing, the capital of Liao. At that time, Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Liao Dynasty was hunting in other places. In May, the Jin army arrived at the city of Shangjing, and Aguda personally supervised the battle.

The attack was launched in the morning, but before noon, the Liao soldiers who stayed behind in Shangjing surrendered with their troops, and the city of Shangjing was captured by the Jin.

At this point, the Liao Dynasty had lost nearly half of its prefectures and counties. Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Liao Dynasty was worried day and night. He packed more than 500 bags of pearls and jade treasures and prepared 2,000 horses to flee. He threatened: "The Song Dynasty and I are brothers, and the Song Dynasty and I are brothers."

Xixia is an uncle and nephew, and he doesn’t go anywhere

I will lose my life's wealth!" Then he fled to Datong Prefecture in Xijing at the junction of the Liao, Xia, Song, and Three Kingdoms. However, soon the Song and Jin Dynasties had jointly formed a "maritime alliance" to destroy the Liao. However, the two sides had not yet formally declared war, but the Liao was completely destroyed.

has begun.

Just as Xixia was actively mediating, the Song army on the western expedition became more and more courageous. They attacked several states, and the King of Jin was defeated and disappeared. King Xian Weiming Anhui committed suicide and died for his country after the defeat. General Xiao He was beheaded before reaching the battle line. Fifteen troops were lost.

There are as many as ten thousand, and Lingzhou has also

It became someone else's bag. But the Song army didn't seem to give up. Their scouts had frequently appeared in Jing, Ding, Huai, and the three prefectures. The furthest reaches camel lane, a hundred miles away. There were soldiers crossing the river.

It means entering Xingqing Mansion.

Now that the situation has developed to this extent, the Liao Kingdom has no time to take care of itself, catching Xixia off guard. It is no longer possible to ask the Liao Kingdom to intervene in the war between the two countries. All they can do is to be a peacemaker, make peace, and be a witness, just like in the past

The days of forcefully sending troops to threaten the border and arrogantly issuing orders to the Song Dynasty are gone forever. However, the Song Dynasty had an ambiguous attitude towards the envoys seeking peace. They first agreed and then went back on their word, and so far no agreement has been reached.

Now that the Song army has reached its doorstep, Xixia has fallen into panic. The ministers in the court have also been divided into two factions. The main combatants insist on gathering all the soldiers and horses in the Hexi provinces and forcibly recruiting men over the age of thirteen to form a large army to cross the river.

A decisive battle with the Song army to regain the lost ground; but the peacemaker recognized

Because all the land in Henan is lost, Lingzhou's grain and grass, Yanzhou's finances and taxes, and Hengshan's military source are gone. No matter what we try to fight for, even with all the strength of Hexi, it may be difficult to win. Otherwise, it will provoke a civil uprising and be defeated.

The Song army destroyed the country. It is better to negotiate peace, and wait until you have calmed down before planning to attack Henan.

The two sides were arguing, and Li Qianshun had no idea at this time. He often stayed up all night and thought about good generals in times of national calamity. The person he thought of most at this time was his brother Cha! When he was around, how could the military officials in the court dare to do anything?

Every time, powerful men and women, big and small, are all trembling with fear

, Tubo did not dare to act rashly. Although he defeated the Song Dynasty, there is no ever-victorious general in the world. At least he could stabilize the country and lead troops to fight against the enemy. Li Qianshun's thoughts seemed to move heaven. At this moment, someone came from Jingzhou

Report, King Jin is back...

When Brother Cha stepped into Xingqing Mansion again, it felt like a lifetime ago. This period of time made it difficult for him to look back. That day at Situ River, he tried his best to persuade the prince of the Song Dynasty, and he was able to escape. Who knew he would get out of the tiger's mouth? He entered the wolf's den again, and was actually captured by a group of horse thieves while he was resting. Only because they had a few treasures on them did the horse thieves think they were a bit rich, and wanted to collect a ransom in the future to save their lives.

Brother Cha originally wanted to reveal his identity and let the horse thieves release him, but he was afraid that the horse thieves would be greedy for the bounty and then give him to the Song army. He could only delay the time on the grounds that the two armies were fighting and information was difficult to communicate. The horse thieves then Send them to their lair in the desert and do hard labor for them every day. Brother Cha also wants to escape, but there is no food or water in the desert, no horses, and no way out. He can't get out even if he lets him go, so he can only suffer!

Cha Ge and the others have been living this kind of life without enough food and warm clothes for more than a month. I don't think he has ever done menial work as a prince. Beatings and scoldings are inevitable. It can be said that the days are like years. As time goes by, the thieves will see that they are honest. , relaxed his vigilance, and finally escaped a few days ago by taking the opportunity to herd horses for the horse thieves. On the way, he drank horse blood, meat, and urine, and suffered all the hardships in his life...

When Brother Cha returned to the Xia Kingdom, he discovered that the Song army had captured Lingzhou City, Yinma Yellow River, and Chen Bing's capital city. Xixia was on the verge of annihilation, and Prince Yan did not abide by the agreement reached with him - The troops stopped in Xiazhou and fought at the door of their home. At this time, Brother Cha felt vaguely that he was being plotted, but he was not sure. If he wanted to kill him, he only had to do it at Situ River. At that time, he He was being chased like a dog, unable to escape from his grasp; if not, he must be coveting the conditions of his promise. He wanted something, but there was no need to cut him off halfway and imprison him for such a long time. time...

Zhao Tong is also very busy these days. This stall is approaching the Tianning Festival - the birthday of his father Zhao Ji. Zhao Tong selected a batch of calligraphy and painting cultural relics from the Lingzhou Forbidden City, along with the forged seal of Wang Wei's name Anhui. , the map account book of the Lingzhou area was packed into fifty boxes, and hundreds of horses produced locally were selected. He was ordered to be the birthday envoy and returned to Beijing with birthday gifts to congratulate the emperor on his birthday.

Birthday greetings are one of them, but there are many worries. After the war and the siege for more than a month, Lingzhou City has seen a depression in all industries, soaring prices, panic among the people in the city, closed doors, few pedestrians on the streets, and a sense of death. Zhao Tong ordered people to go out to calm the people, and sent law enforcement teams to patrol the streets to pick up disciplinary soldiers and prevent soldiers from disturbing the people. Later, he led his generals to the largest Jinguang Temple in the city to worship Buddha, and donated millions of dollars to invite eminent monks to perform nine-day water and land ashram for the deceased. They rescued the souls of the dead, provided compensation and medical treatment to the people who died and were injured when the city was destroyed. At the same time, they opened warehouses to release grain, sold it to the people at fair prices, stabilized prices, set up porridge sheds to provide relief to the elderly, and dispatched civilians to repair houses destroyed by war.

After the implementation of this series of measures, the shops in the city opened their doors and began to operate one after another. Then caravans began to enter Lingzhou City to purchase goods and sell items. The people in the city stabilized and the bustle of the past gradually returned. Zhao Yu did not dare to relax. In one fell swoop, Lingzhou's officials, tribal leaders, and local powerful men either died or fled in the war, and not a single one was left alive. The grassroots political power was almost completely destroyed, the population was dispersed, and large tracts of land became ownerless land.

The long-term war caused serious damage to agricultural production in border areas and the collapse of the social economy. Therefore, the reconstruction of post-war social order must have a certain degree of economic strength as a basis. Therefore, the top priority is to rebuild the economic system; the second is how to consolidate the border areas.

, achieve the effect of long-term peace and stability, and turn the Hetao area into a strategic rear area.

In traditional Chinese society, the main threat to the central dynasty in the past dynasties came from the nomads in the north. This was mainly because in places where the living conditions were relatively easy, people did not need to spend too much energy fighting against nature.

In harsh nomadic areas, the wealth is cattle and sheep rather than land, and plundering is much easier than production. Therefore, nomadic people are often good at conquering and conquering cities.

It is commonplace. The rule of grassland society is not based on land ownership like in China. No single pasture is valuable because no pasture can withstand long-term grazing, so the right to move is more important than the right to live;

When food was scarce, their interest in the Central Plains dynasty was far greater than the Central Plains farming's interest in the grasslands, so their conflicts were impossible to reconcile.

The Lingxia area is located on the northwest border of the Song Dynasty. It is the hub of the Silk Road and the frontier of China's connections with South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and Europe. All central dynasties since the Han Dynasty have attached great importance to its strategic position. At this time

The frontal threat the Song Dynasty faced came from the Liao Kingdom established by the nomadic Khitans on the grasslands.

The flanks are grassland oases and desert oases occupied by the Dangxiang people from the northwest. With the rise of the Jurchens, the nomads will surely penetrate deep into the mainland of China. To prevent the Jurchens from continuing to move south, the Song Dynasty must occupy farther strongholds to attack and defend the flanks of the grassland.

The oases in the Western Region will definitely become Zhao Tong's key strategic area.

In order to deal with the invasion of nomadic peoples on the Central Plains dynasties, the Central Plains dynasties of all dynasties have been very troubled by the security threats to the northwest frontier. The construction of the Great Wall and the development of the northwest frontier are all related to the defense against the invasion of nomadic peoples in the north. The invasion of hostile forces of nomadic peoples has caused great harm to the Central Plains.

posed a major threat, due to the influence of the Politburo

Affected by political power, national strength and other factors, the strategies of the central dynasties in managing the northwest of China have been different. There are active military conquest policies, passive and conservative policies of fraternity and restraint, and the neglect of areas far beyond the Great Wall.

For nomadic peoples near and far, these policies are mostly timely measures.

From the Han Dynasty to the present, military conquest has often been a strategy used by the central dynasties in the early stages of unifying the northwest. Although it was effective for a while, it was difficult to last long. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty launched three large-scale military operations against the Xiongnu and achieved major victories, but in the end

He also withdrew his military power from the Western Regions with the "Edict to Stop Luntai and Tuntian".

"Military conquest has temporary effects!" Zhao Yu understood this truth through this expedition. The main reason why military conquests are difficult to have long-term effects is that the northwest is far away from the inland, has a vast territory and sparsely populated areas, and a large number of troops march to fight, and the logistics supplies are very limited.

Difficulty. Even if the war is won, if a large number of troops are stationed, the cost of national defense will be too high. Otherwise, it will be difficult to consolidate the results.

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