Due to Li Liangfu's defeat, Li Qianshun dispatched 3,000 men from the Jingsai Army Division to Zhuoluo and Nanjun Division.

But the situation has obviously exceeded Li Qianshun's expectations.

While Liu Qi on the Eastern Front achieved a key strategic victory.

Li Yanxian on the Western Front has chased the Xixia people into the desert.

The Xixia people once again experienced the nightmare of being chased into the desert by Liu Fa.

On March 15, after Li Yanxian defeated Xixia Yingli City, he killed eight thousand Xixia people, replenished his luggage, and then headed north.

This is already the location of the ancient Great Wall. The weathered earth walls have witnessed the desolation and simplicity of thousands of years.

Today, they once again witnessed the Han people heading north.

Until March 19, Li Yanxian traveled more than 200 miles into the desert.

In the endless stretch of yellow sand, the Song army galloped all the way and killed eight thousand Xixia people, almost emptying the Xixia military defense west of the Hanhai.

And the situation continues to move in a direction that Li Qianshun completely unexpected.

He had just issued an order to mobilize another 100,000 troops in Xingqing Prefecture and Xiping Prefecture. The army was still mobilizing, but the Song troops on Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road had already gathered in large numbers.

While Liu Qi was dispatching soldiers and civilians to Suide to garrison Yinzhou, Liu Lin, the commander-in-chief of Huanzhou's troops and horses, led his troops northward and stopped at Guidebao.

This place is only more than a hundred miles away from Yanzhou in Xixia, and you can reach Yanzhou within a few days.

The Dingbian Army was only more than a hundred miles away from Hongzhou in Xixia, and Li Yongqi, the general manager of the Dingbian Army, also began to prepare troops intensively.

The two armies returned to Jingyuan Road and were put under the control of Wang Shu, the military envoy. They claimed to be an army of 300,000, but in fact it was only 100,000.

The news came so quickly that the Song Army openly stated that they would go north to attack Yanzhou!

With such a sudden high-profile movement, the agents assigned by Xixia in Shaanxi could no longer sit still.

On March 20, urgent information from the agents fell on Li Qianshun's desk like snowflakes.

One piece of intelligence after another told Li Qianshun that the Song Army was mobilizing all the forces of Shaanxi to fight a life-and-death battle with his Baigao Daxia Kingdom.

Li Qianshun almost jumped up: "The Song army moved so fast! This is impossible!"

The Xixia side has speculated on the strategic response to Tokyo. From the beginning of the war to the time it spread to Jingzhao Prefecture, and then to Jingzhao Prefecture and then to Tokyo, the two places had to digest the war situation in the middle.

It is impossible for them to make a clear-cut decision with very little knowledge of the battle situation. No one would fight like this.

The most they can do is to tell everyone to hurry up and defend, and Shaanxi's defense will definitely loosen up a lot after the rotation.

Li Qianshun even speculated that if the Song Dynasty really wanted to take the initiative to attack, it would have to wait at least after May.

March and April are the best times for him to move south on a large scale.

But in fact, Shaanxi has now begun a large-scale mobilization, and even a large army has been deployed on the border.

It wouldn't matter if it were just one or two secret reports, it might be a bias in intelligence, but now there are more than a dozen secret reports on the table.

Moreover, these dozen secret reports, including those sent from the Yongxing Army Road, all have one thing in common: the Song Army is mobilizing unprecedented forces to move northward.

Brother Richard said: "To be honest with Your Majesty, Zhang Jun just wrote a letter of apology to me."

"Oh, where?"

Brother Richard took it out and gave it to Li Qianshun.

After reading it, Li Qianshun felt even more incredible: "It is impossible for Zhang Jun to make his own decisions and mobilize the army to go north. He does not have this power. Even if he is the Privy Councilor, he does not have this power!"

The power to declare war and send troops lies with the emperor.

The Song Dynasty had strict systems, especially the military and political systems, which were extremely strict and had long been unlike those of the Tang Dynasty.

The feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty had independent financial, judicial, and personnel rights.

In the Song Dynasty, in order to prevent warlords from becoming bigger, military and political control was extremely strict, and Li Qianshun knew this.

Brother Richard suddenly said: "We will send troops on the 18th of the first lunar month. In two months, it will spread from the northwest to Tokyo and Tokyo will respond. Theoretically, it is possible."

Li Qianshun frowned and said, "You mean, as soon as Zhang Jun's report arrived in Tokyo, the Zhao family did not discuss anything with the ministers and directly asked Zhang Jun to mobilize all the troops in Shaanxi?"

"This is the only way the Shaanxi Song Army can make such a fast move!"

Li Qianshun's face became even more gloomy, and he shouted in a low voice: "The man named Zhao is crazy! He is crazy! Does he know that he is forcing Song Xia to go to full-scale war?"

Ren Dejing was also on the side. He said: "Your Majesty, this may be a strategy of the Song Dynasty. It was deliberately shown to us. In fact, so many troops were not mobilized!"

"More than a dozen secret reports! Even the Song Dynasty's "Shaanxi Wartime Daily" officially published it! Now there is a large army only a hundred miles away from Yanzhou!" Li Qianshun almost roared.

"Doesn't this person named Zhao know that when the two countries of Song and Xia fight like this, both sides will lose, and in the end it will be the Jin who will gain the advantage!"

"Also! Liu Yu of Hebei is using troops against Song Dynasty! How dare he mobilize all the troops of Shaanxi without hesitation!"

This is not fucking normal thinking.

Who plays cards like this!

Fighting on two fronts and throwing nuclear bombs at the first sign?

Li Qianshun felt that the situation was unprecedentedly out of control and did not develop as he expected.

According to this posture, he will mobilize all the remaining 100,000 troops from Xingqing Prefecture and Xiping Prefecture.

Doesn't this force him to stud?

Ren Dejing said: "Your Majesty, please don't fall into the Song Dynasty's scheme."

"What if it's true?"

Ren Dejing was speechless.

Li Qianshun glanced at Ren Dejing coldly.

Brother Richard said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to panic. Even if the Song Dynasty mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to fight with us, as long as we stand still, it will be difficult for them to break in."

"Yes! You are right!" Li Qianshun seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, "As long as we stand still, the Song Dynasty will not be able to attack!"

This is true.

There were two key battles between Xixia and the Song Dynasty. One was Hengshan. Hengshan was to the east of the junction of Song and Xia and was equivalent to the left arm of Xixia.

The second is Hehuang. Hehuang was formerly the residence of various Tubo tribes. They had a friendly relationship with the Xixia people and had been harassing and attacking the Huanqing Road in the northwest. This made the Song Dynasty vulnerable to enemies on both sides and unable to concentrate its forces on the Hengshan Mountains on the eastern front to attack Xixia.

Hehuang was cut off during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, which was equivalent to having his right arm broken in Xixia.

The most critical place left now is Hengshan.

As for Li Yanxian going north from Lanzhou and going deep into the desert, it actually cannot shake the foundation of Xixia.

Why?

Li Yanxian went all the way north to Yingli in Xixia, and then went to the desert. To the northeast of Yingli was Lingzhou, and a hundred miles directly north of Lingzhou was Xingqing Mansion.

However, to the east of Yingli is the vast sea that stretches hundreds of miles.

If you want to go from Yingli to Lingzhou, you must cross the vast sea.

The Hanhai of Xixia is a large area of ​​undulating sandy land, nearly three hundred miles from north to south. Once the Song army enters there, the Xixia army can set up border defenses in Lingzhou. When the Song army arrives in Lingzhou, Xixia can wait for work and completely abuse the Song army. .
Chapter completed!