Chapter 1,155 It’s hard to tell friend from foe

The conductor opened the bag and took a sip: "Burning knife! Good stuff!"

The knight raised his whip and understood the command instantly. He took another sip and handed it to Xiao Jun next to him: "Everyone takes turns to drink. In this weather, the bones are cold."

The knight and the conductor rode together, and the knight asked: "Is this year's harvest okay?"

The conductor said: "That's it. In short, Caogu is getting harder and harder to fight..."

Tiandu Mountain is now a magical area. The Xixia people have repeatedly fought for it, but they have not been able to get a good deal in Li Wenzhao's hands. Instead, it has a tendency to gradually expand.

Today, the Song Dynasty has completely occupied the geographical advantage on the Song-Xia border. After Su You led the army to break through Xiao Pass, the Hetao area where Xixia traditional farming began to decline rapidly.

The defeat of Xiao Pass became a turning point in the military confrontation between Song and Xia. The Song army occupied almost all the geographical advantages from Qingtang to Linzhou, and built densely packed cement fortresses on the watershed and various passways.

These bastions were like nails, firmly nailed to the actual line of control between Song and Xia. The Xia people's offensive line gradually changed from five routes to one route.

Except for the Yongxing Military Road, which faces the Hetao, and the Xia people risked their lives to hold it, the other four roads, the Xia people's advancement channels have been blocked by the Song people.

The pain that the Xia people inflicted on the Song people twenty years ago was now intensified by the Song people. After harvesting their own wheat, the armies and horses took turns to attack the north of the mountain and rob the millet from the Xixia people's fields.

wheat.

This behavior will continue until the arrival of the next spring. The entire winter is when the Xixia tribe is at its weakest, but the stable horses of the Song people are still fat.

Without the advantage of war horses, coupled with the differences in woolen cloth, cotton-padded jackets, sweaters, gloves and other equipment, the originally brave Xia people could only compete with the Song people in terms of combat power in winter.

This move led to the destruction of the Hetao area in the north of Shanshan, and the power of Xixia became more and more pressing due to the turmoil in this area.

As a result, the internal conflicts in the Xia Kingdom became fierce. In order to maintain the military strength that could compete with the Song Dynasty, the ruling class imposed excessive levies and expropriations. The various tribes were unable to conquer, and rebellions occurred one after another, especially in Shengfan, which was close to the Song Dynasty.

The country crossed the border and took refuge with the Song people.

In view of such a severe border situation, after the Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Yongneng swept across the northern border of Xia and Liaoning, she immediately appointed Liang Yongneng to be the commander-in-chief of the four-way march in Shanbei, and to control the Baotai Army Commander Yu Zanghuama and Jishi Army.

Jiedu envoys Jialiang to stabilize the Song-Xia border.

Liang Yongneng and Jialiang had outstanding abilities. They organized an excellent defense battle at the beginning of taking office and preserved the grain in the Hetao Plain in the third year of Yuanfeng.

Li Wenzhao's expansion in Tiandu Mountain also became timid because of the pressure from the two major military strategists. In the end, he simply took the looting tribes, developed a team, grabbed the food, cattle and sheep, and returned to the Tiandu Mountain base area to act as a shrinking army.

Head turtle.

Xixia's military was greatly inspired.

However, the analysis of the Military Aircraft Department of the Song Dynasty is also very reasonable. Although Jialiang and Liang Yong can perform outstandingly this year, it cannot mean anything.

The excellence of the two at the tactical level cannot conceal the cruel fact that Song and Xia changed their offensive and defensive positions.

However, Wang Hou, Li Yong, Tong Guan, and the newcomer Liu Shiheng hated Jia Liang so much that they discussed it and prepared for you to be the first grader and me to be the fifteenth grader.

Today, Li Wenzhao has transformed from an elite in Xixia to a hero.

The feelings of family and country that originally resisted the tyranny of the tyrant and saved the people from fire and water have long been educated by reality into the pragmatism of being duplicitous, preserving strength in the cracks of several forces, and playing both sides.

However, the propaganda still adhered to the previous style, targeting the Liang family who controlled the state affairs, under the banner of the Qing monarch.

This trick deceived many people, and even Li Qing, who was far away in Xingqing Mansion, believed in this "loyal minister" who had "worked so hard".

Tiandu Mountain is sandwiched between the Xixia Baotai Army, the Jingsai Army, the Deshun Army and the Zhenrong Army of the Song Dynasty. Due to the extremely favorable geographical conditions, Li Wenzhao actually started a resale trade.

Li Wenzhao actually became the guarantor of many private contacts between Song and Xia secret spies!

Lord Xia's palace is majestic and magnificent, but it has been occupied by Li Wenzhao for nearly twenty years and has long been in dilapidated condition.

Seeing that the horse was running to death, the commander led the two knights around east and west. Finally, the leading Song knight became impatient and rode directly to the front of the team.

"Eh? Eh..." The conductor quickly rode up to meet us: "What do you want to do?"

The knight from the Song Dynasty sneered: "Isn't the commander afraid of the cold? Then there is no need to go around in circles. Arrive at the Tiandu camp as early as possible so that everyone can rest early."

"That's not the way up the mountain!"

"Really? How about we split up and see who gets there first?"

The conductor was speechless: "It seems that the noble man is quite familiar with my cottage."

The man smiled and said: "When I first came to Tiandu Mountain, I was still a teenager, and I stole your Xia Lord's Zhao Yebai... Oh, I'm sorry, you should call me the late emperor, so you flowers

If you go around, you don’t have to do it in front of me.”

The conductor is really convinced this time. The person in front of me is a regular customer!

No longer detouring, he took the two of them directly up the mountain.

Li Wenzhao's power has now expanded to a population of 300,000 and an army of 40,000.

Tiandu Mountain has a good environment, with abundant water and grass. Song people and Li Wenzhao don't dare to mess with it now, and the roads are blocked. However, there is still room for survival in Xixia due to the gap between the two military divisions.

Li Wenzhao was very kind to the tribes who defected to him, and the Song people did not invade his territory. Therefore, many fugitives from the two countries who were escaping the pursuit of the Song and Xia people, refugees, and Tibetan people fleeing the war came to seek refuge. In the Tiandu Mountain area, unexpectedly,

It has also become a paradise.

Moreover, Li Wenzhao's administrative ability, scheming skills, and military command were all considered to be among the best among the Xia people. At least the son-in-law of Yu Zanghuama, Liang Zuo, the commander of the Baotai Army Division across from him, was made to lose his temper at all by him.

Yuzang Huama was originally the leader of the Qingtang tribe, but after the Battle of Weizhou, the Battle of Xiaoguan, and the Battle of Hehuang in the Song Dynasty, the situation changed dramatically.

The area where Yu Zang Huama is located is separated by Tiandu Mountain and Xihe River and Huangzhou newly occupied by the Song Dynasty. Yu Zang Huama has completely lost contact with the Qing and Tang Dynasties!

To survive, one must have a backer, and the Xixia Dangxiang people were also of Tubo origin, so Yu Zanghuama quickly defected to Xixia.

Liang Zuo was overjoyed and married his ten-year-old daughter to Yu Zanghuama, and appointed him as the commander of the Baotai Army, which faced the most elite troops of the Song Dynasty. He was responsible for guarding Roulang Mountain and Shaniuling.

However, in the face of the aggressiveness of the elites of the Song Dynasty, Yu Zanghuama was not very loyal to Xixia in the first place, and he was not a fool.

In his words, after Li Wenzhao, a famous minister of Western Xia, he could get a lot of benefits from flirting with the Song Dynasty. He could do it, why can't I do it?!

As a result, the two sides started a competition, vying to do business with the Song Dynasty and make a fortune. There were several wars between the two sides and they robbed each other's caravans.

Several times, it was a real fire, and the Song Dynasty needed to secretly adjust it in the name of Tang Silang. Afterwards, Yu Zanghuama wrote to Xia Ting, proudly saying that he was effective in suppressing bandits, smashing Li Wenzhao's plot, and asking the Empress Dowager Liang for rewards and reimbursements.

military spending.

However, with the arrival of Liang Yongneng, both Li Wenzhao and Yu Zanghuama felt the pressure, so they had today's private meeting.

Finally arriving at the palace, the two knights dismounted, and the leader threw the reins to the commander: "Give me a good life and serve you."

The conductor led the horse away, and then the two Song people Shi Shiran walked towards the palace.

The basic facilities of the palace are still there, but now in the eyes of the leading Song people, this place looks more like a cottage than a palace.

On the first tiger-skin chair, sat a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe, rubbing a string of glass beads in his hand. Next to him was a rough old Tubo man, and below him were two rows of leaders.

The two Song people took off their felt hats and said: "Master Lao and the consort have been waiting for a long time. We are late."

The scribe raised his chin at the two of them, and a leader came over after sitting down: "Sorry, it's the same old rules."

The two knights raised their hands and allowed the leader to search them.

After the leader finished searching, he nodded slightly to the scribe, who then smiled and said, "Brother Wang is too late. If you don't come, the Prince Consort will have to leave."

The scribe is Li Wenzhao, the traitor of Xixia, and the old Tubo man next to him is the commander of the Xixia Baotai Army, Yu Zanghuama.
Chapter completed!