Chapter 109: Yan Yun’s Restoration (2)

The news was too late. It was the news that Li Zongbao and the Xixia generals came when they were excited. It was like slapping them hard, and they were stunned, and their joy just now disappeared.

For Xixia, although Xixia gained the upper hand in decades of war, it was because the Song Dynasty fought against Xixia under extremely unfavorable circumstances. There were two main aspects of this disadvantage. One was that the Song Dynasty was restrained by the Liao Kingdom and could not concentrate its troops to fight to the death with Xixia. The Song Dynasty could not concentrate its full efforts, and Xixia formed an alliance with the Liao Kingdom and jointly resisted the Song Dynasty, and could concentrate its full efforts against the Song Dynasty. In this case, it was really difficult to have the Song Dynasty gain the upper hand.

Second, because the traditional best route of march was not in the hands of the Song Dynasty and was controlled by the Liao Kingdom, the Song Dynasty could only launch an attack on the Xixia direction from Shaanxi, a place that was extremely unfavorable to the Song Dynasty.

Without the restraint of the Liao Kingdom, although the Western Xia army was good at fighting, it was not a rival to the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty would not say anything else, but to fight a war of attrition with the Western Xia, which would be enough to consume all the Western Xia. The place where the Western Xia is located is a famous poor mountain and bad water in Chinese history. It is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is barren and poor. Compared with the huge Song Dynasty, it is incomparable.

It is precisely because of this that Xixia persists until now.

Now that the Song army has defeated the Liao Kingdom, even the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji is chasing Wu Ji. It is conceivable how miserable the Liao Kingdom was defeated. Otherwise, how could the emperor be chased by others?

This consequence will be disastrous for Xixia and cannot be estimated. No matter how great the results they have achieved, they will be gone in the near future.

For the generals, they might not have thought of such serious consequences for a while. However, Li Zongbao and Liang Xi are good generals, so they would not have thought that they felt like they were hitting a hammer on their heads, buzzing, and stars appeared in front of them. The two looked at each other and saw a look of fear on their faces.

The two are good generals, and they don’t know how many times they have been born and died, so they have never been as frightened as they are now. You can imagine how great the impact of the Liao Kingdom’s defeat on them.

"Master, what's wrong with this? The Liao Kingdom is incompetent and defeated by the Song people. What should we do? We should concentrate our troops and go straight to Guanzhong to capture Guanzhong in one fell swoop." A general was still dreaming and shouting loudly.

The defeat of the Liao Kingdom was disastrous for Xixia. However, not many people could really see this level. At least most of the generals present could not see through this level. The general's words immediately attracted a lot of echoes: "Yes! No matter how hard the Song army can fight, it is in the north, thousands of miles away from Shanzhou. How can we do anything to us?"

"You, you, you are such a group of pigs! A group of stupid pigs!" Li Zongbao saw the generals' appearance that had nothing to do with him, pointed at them, and almost fainted from anger. He had to swear and curse the generals.

"Your stupidity is rare in the ages!" Liang Xi was so angry that he squeezed his eyes into the family, and then started to curse.

"Master, we are a little stupid, but what does this have to do with the current situation?" Some generals were very dissatisfied and muttered.

"It doesn't matter?" Li Zongbao wanted to slap him a few big mouths, took a long breath, forced himself to calm down, and explained to them patiently, saying: "The defeat of the Liao Kingdom in the war has a huge relationship with Daxia, and it is even related to Daxia's life and death!"

"Life and Death?" The generals disbelief: "Master, are you exaggerating?"

The Liao Kingdom was the Liao Kingdom, and the Xixia was the Xixia. Although the two countries formed an alliance to resist the Song Dynasty, they were secretly intrigues. How much impact could the defeat of the Liao Kingdom have on Xixia? It is not ordinary or difficult to make a group of generals believe that the defeat of the Liao Kingdom is related to the life and death of the Xixia.

"Strange words?" Liang Xi almost jumped up, forced himself to calm down, and said, "You don't understand the pros and cons, so I will give you detailed explanations."

Speaking of this, Liang Xi stood up, came to a huge map, pointed to the map, and said, "This is Daxia, this is the Liao Kingdom, this is the Song Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, each other's plots, and compete for the Central Plains, is just a repetition of the Three Kingdoms. Among the Three Kingdoms, although the Song people were weak and their martial arts were weak, they were the most powerful. The Song Emperor had the richest place in the world, with more than 100 million people, and countless gold and silver wealth. If the Song Emperor used it well, it would be inevitable to reappear the great martial arts of the previous dynasty. However, for more than a hundred years, the Song Emperor had not done this. Although it did not do it, it was not impossible. Those who planned the country had made great plans. It was precisely to prevent the Song Emperor from revitalizing the former dynasty's glory. Daxia formed an alliance with the Liao Kingdom to resist the Song Emperor together, so that the Song Emperor could not revitalize the former dynasty's glory."

Liang Xi's words were very visionary. Although the Song Dynasty was weak, the Song Dynasty was a sleeping giant dragon that could be awakened at any time. Once it woke up, it would burst out with shocking power, and there would be no problem with the atmosphere of the prosperous Tang Dynasty again.

When it comes to the prosperous Tang Dynasty, both the Khitans and the Dangxiang people were deeply afraid. They only had endless shame in front of the Tang army and had no point of praise. Facing the Tang army, the Dangxiang people and the Khitans had no power to fight back, and they could only give the massacre. Although hundreds of years have passed, they remembered this deeply.

In order to prevent the Song Dynasty from awakening, Xixia and Liao formed an alliance to resist the Song Dynasty and consumed the Song Dynasty. So far, this strategy has been implemented well and very successfully.

"Daxia can gain the upper hand in Shanzhou and make the Emperor Song fight without the power to fight back. It is not that Daxia's national strength surpassed that of Emperor Song, but that Daxia has the advantage of time and place." Li Zongbao walked up again, pointed to the map, and then analyzed, "The terrain of Shanzhou is complex, with dangerous terrain and inconvenient transportation, which is not conducive to the war between the army. The divisions cannot coordinate and fight each other. Therefore, although Emperor Song has a million troops, it is useless. However, Daxia can rely on Hengshan, advance and retreat freely, attack and defend, lure the enemy into depth, cut off the enemy's food route, and defeat them one by one. Therefore, Emperor Song cannot defeat Western Xia for decades. If it were a real war, the national strength of Daxia would have consumed the Emperor Song long ago."

Li Zongbao was a good general, and he knew his interests very well, and he hit the nail on the head with one word. In terms of national strength alone, one hundred Western Xia was not an opponent of the Song Dynasty.

"I know that fighting with Daxia in Shanzhou was very unfavorable, and Emperor Song had to fight with Daxia here, what was the reason? Because Emperor Song had no choice!" Li Zongbao then analyzed and said, "The place where Daxia was located was called the 'Hexi Corridor' during the Han Dynasty. The first ones who were the Xiongnu and Hunxie were the Xiongnu's Xiongnu, with a total of 240,000 troops. At that time, the Xiongnu was powerful and the Han-Xiongnu war was in full swing. Emperor Wu of Han sent Huo Qubing to attack the Hexi Corridor. Huo Qubing went on two expeditions, leading a total of 30,000 elite cavalry, and they traverse the Hexi Corridor, defeating the 240,000 Xiongnu army, and surrendered the Xiongtu King to sacrifice to the heavenly Jin people, forcing these two units to surrender to the Han Dynasty."

Speaking of this, his tone turned high, very sharp and very harsh: "Huo Qubing could defeat the 240,000 Hun army with just 30,000 people, because he did not start from Shanzhou, but from here, from Yanyun! From Yanyun, the road was convenient and the cavalry was able to gallop, coming and going like the wind, and invincible. From then on, the best route to march to where Daxia was, was not from Shanzhou, but from Yanyun. The reason why Emperor Song had to fight Daxia for decades was because Yanyun was in the hands of the Liao Kingdom and was not owned by Emperor Song."

He glanced at the generals and stopped. Needless to say, everyone understood what happened later. Now, the Liao Kingdom was defeated and the Song Dynasty was about to recover the land of Yanyun. If the Song Dynasty recovered the land of Yanyun, the Song Dynasty's army would not only be dispatched from Shanzhou, but instead launched a large-scale operation from the land of Yanyun and headed straight for Xixia.

If that is the case, the old story of Huo Qubing opening up the Hexi Corridor and cutting off the right arm of the Huns would have happened. Of course, Xixia was too small, not the Huns who controlled thousands of miles of desert. The Huns lost the Hexi Corridor and the Desert, and Xixia lost the Hexi Corridor and it was destroyed. This is the origin of life and death!

"This..." The generals all looked frightened and frightened, as if the Song army had already arrived in front of them, and the pride of the moment disappeared.

The Liao army is very capable and more powerful than the combat power of the Xixia army. It is such a powerful Liao Kingdom that defeated the Song army in such a short time. Even the Liao emperor Yelu Hongji was chasing Wu Ji. It is conceivable how powerful the Song army's combat power is. Once the Song army is launched, it will inevitably be earth-shaking. Can the Xixia fight?

The people of Xixia did not take the Song army seriously, but they were deeply afraid of the Tang army. They knew very well how terrible the Tang army was! The Song army could defeat the Liao Kingdom in such a short time, and its combat power was already moving closer to the Tang army, and it could even be said that it was almost the same. Thinking about this, it would be impossible to make the generals not afraid.

"Master, what should we do?" A general finally asked.

These words were exactly what the generals thought, and they all looked at Li Zongbao and Liang Xi with wide eyes, and waited for the answers.

Li Zongbao and Liang Xi looked at each other and nodded slightly, understanding what each other was thinking.

Liang Xi shouted loudly: "We will gather our troops immediately and prepare to withdraw our troops!"

"Retreat?"

A scream of exclamation sounded, and the generals all looked in disbelief.

"Master, we have only waited for such a good opportunity for decades. How could we miss it like this? Even if we want to withdraw, we have to wait until we capture some more cities." After decades of the Song and Xia war, the people of Xixia finally waited for such a good opportunity, who would like to retreat?

"Yes!" The echoed voices: "Even if the Song army is dispatched, it will be too late for us to retreat!"

"If you don't retreat at this time, there will be no chance!" Li Zongbao and Liang Xi said in unison.

"It will take much time to recover the Yanyun Land. If it were me, I would march towards the Daxia border and recover the Yanyun Land. When the army pressed on the Daxia border, the Yanyun Land would be recovered." Li Zongbao said with great affirmation: "I can think of it, I think of it too, Wu Ji can think of it! If the Song Dynasty army appeared on the Daxia border, it would be too late!"
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