In the snowy weather, Xia Bolong was not willing to come out to get cold, but he had no choice but to do so. If Xiweiping City could not be well built, I am afraid that the people of Xixia would really take advantage of the snow to invade. Once the Song Dynasty invades the Weizhou where he is, he would have to fight.

Xia Bolong still had a certain understanding of Western Xia. Influenced by Liu Wenyu, he also developed a certain interest in this disappearing empire.

Xixia is a feudal dynasty that was in the northwest of China more than 800 years ago, with the Song and Liao (Jin) in the northwest of my country. Its prosperity and decay may leave us more "mysteries".

Xixia was a feudal dynasty established with the Dangxiang tribe as the main body.

Dangxiang clan - the earliest living in the border areas of today's **, Qinghai, Sichuan and other provinces. At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Dangxiang clan among the Qiang clan began to flourish. They lived a primitive nomadic life with their surnames as their tribes. Among many tribes of the Dangxiang clan, the Tuoba clan was the most powerful.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang (the eighth year of Zhenguan, 634 AD), the chief of the Dangxiang tribe, Tuoba Chici, led his troops to the Tang Dynasty. Later, the chiefs of other tribes also led their troops to the Tang Dynasty one after another. The Tang divided them into 32 states and appointed the governor of Tuoba Chici, and gave them the surname "Li" to the emperor.

After the Huang Chao Uprising broke out, Emperor Xizong of Tang fled to Sichuan. The leader of the Dangxiang clan Tuoba Sigong gathered tens of thousands of troops of the Dangxiang clan and other ethnic minorities to participate in the war to suppress the peasant uprising in Huang Chao. Emperor Xizong of Tang made Tuoba Sigong's contribution to suppressing the uprising, and in 883 AD he was awarded the title of Duke of Xia and once again gave the imperial surname "Li".

From then on, Tuoba Sigong gradually formed a powerful local separatist force. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, they took advantage of the chaos to expand their sphere of influence and continuously strengthened their own strength.

In the early years of the Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian, a descendant of Tuoba Sigong, attached Liao to resist the Song Dynasty, and Liao appointed Li as King of Xiping. Due to the influence of feudal politics and culture of the Han people, after the continued development of Li Jiqian and his son Li Deming, by the time of Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao, the Dangxiang clan had basically completed the transformation from a clan chief to a feudal landlord, and urgently demanded to establish its own unified regime to protect its own interests.

In 1038 AD (October 11, the second year of Daqing, Xia), Li Yuanhao built a platform in the south of Xingqing Prefecture, and ascended the throne, and the country was named Daxia. Because it is located in the northwest and west of the Yellow River, historians call it "Western Xia".

After the establishment of the local separatist regime of the "Xixia", it was in the same time as the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty. Xixia adopted reconciliation policies against Song and Liao, and widely introduced the production experience and technology of the Han people, laying a solid foundation for the political, economic and cultural development of the dynasty. At that time, although Xixia had to pay tribute to Song and Liao in form, it had actually become a major military power in the northwest. At that time, the territory of Xixia reached "the Yellow River in the east, the Yumen in the west, the Xiaoguan in the south, the desert in the north, and the area was more than 10,000 miles", forming a situation where the three kingdoms of Song, Liao and Xia were in harmony.

It is such a country that occupies an important position in Chinese history. After a hundred years of storms, it was destroyed by the Mongols. From then on, the Dangxiang tribe faded out of history. Even the former site where the Xixia Kingdom was located disappeared out of thin air, and the two countries, Loulan and Gaochang, became the most mysterious country in Chinese history.

Xia Bolong was inevitably a little fascinated by the Western Xia. He traveled through time and had the opportunity to go to the Western Xia territory in person to find out, but the Song Dynasty and Xixia were at this time. Dangxiang was originally a nomadic people, so he often sent cavalry to harass the borders of the Song Dynasty.

Regarding the harassment of the Western Xia cavalry, the Song Dynasty generally adopted a strategy of avoiding war, so some cities were often built on the northwest border as fortifications. Once the Western Xia cavalry came to harass him, they hid behind the city wall.

Xia Bolong led an army of 20,000 from Pingliang and drove north along the road. Stepping on the white snow and the cold wind, all the soldiers felt the chill that they had never felt before. Like Xia Bolong, they walked forward in the wind and snow, and their bodies were trembling with coldness. The soldiers were a little better, but after walking for a while, they would have heat on their bodies.

Xia Bolong rode on the horse without consuming physical strength or exercising, but his teeth were so cold that he fought up and down.

"Ah Yeh!"

"Damn it, this kind of ghost weather is almost over to the North Pole." Xia Bolong sneezes, then cursed and said exaggeratedly.

"Master, Master, Master's wife started to ask you to wear thicker clothes. If you don't listen, it's fine, it's frozen now, right? Then who are you blamed? Who made you not listen to Master's wife?" Zhao Gou sneered in a blue cotton robe.

"You are so embarrassed to say? Master isn't it all for you? I just have a cotton robe, which was sewn by your master's wife. If I weren't afraid that you would be frozen, I wouldn't have done such a stupid thing." Xia Bolong pointed to the blue cotton robe that looked slightly wide on Zhao Gou and said loudly.

Zhao Gou said: "Master, I am still young and I am just when I grow up, so I can't catch a cold. Master felt aggrieved for a while. When I arrived in Xiweiping City, I asked my husband to raise a stove for you to roast the fire, so that it would be warm and warm."

"If you talk while standing, you won't feel pain. Master is in vain for you." Xia Bolong said.

Zhao Gou blinked his eyes and said tentatively: "Why should I take off the cotton robe and put it on for the master?"

Xia Bolong held the reins of the horse, turned over and dismounted, and then led the horse away, and said coldly: "No need, I walk, it is warmer to exercise than you wear a cotton jacket. You are Your Highness, how can you starve and get cold? What if the emperor blames you, can I take responsibility?"

Zhao Gou laughed and knew that Xia Bolong was joking with him, so he rode his horse to the side of the road, turned over and dismounted, and led the reins of the horse, walking side by side with Xia Bolong.

"Master, I will go with you when I go into battle, I will go with you." Zhao Gou said with a smile.

Xia Bolong felt awkward when he heard it, and said, "You have read the book in vain? You should be the father and son who are in battle, right?"

Zhao Gou said: "I can't say that. There are many people here. If it is spread, it will cause a murder to the master."

Xia Bolong felt very relieved when he heard Zhao Gou say this. He himself understood the truth. He grabbed Zhao Gou's hand and said, "Master will take you away and go to Xiweiping City."

Xia Bolong set the stage, and the commanders riding horses all dismounted and followed the large army just to warm up.

Xiweiping City is located on the flat ground between two high mountains. Although it is not big, it can play a key role in blocking the key. The two high mountains are not connected, so a huge flat ground is empty. Standing on the high hill and looking down, Xiweiping City is like a fortress. Xiweiping is originally a small place, and even if the city is built, it will not be too big. It would be great to accommodate 10,000 garrisons.

Zhong Shidao rushed to Xiweiping City at night last night. He woke up early in the morning and supervised the soldiers to build the city. In fact, the logistics work of building the city and transporting food and grass was not the turn of the ten thousand imperial guards under Zhong Shidao. It should have been carried out by the three wing troops of Deshun, Zhenrong and Huaide. However, they did not listen to Zhong Shidao's orders. In desperation, Zhong Shidao had to use his own troops.

In the wind and snow, thousands of soldiers shuttled back and forth on construction sites. They followed Zhong Shidao for two years, so they naturally developed a little affection. The soldiers were more concerned about the old general. The years of guarding the law will be questioned due to the local area. The imperial guards near the capital may be replaced every year or every two years, but they will definitely not exceed three years. However, the troops garrisons on the frontier are different. These are soldiers who want to fight, often fighting with the enemy, and stay in one place for ten years.

"Sir, come and report to the whistle cavalry. The 20,000 troops of the Jiedushi are less than ten miles away." A soldier came to Zhong Shidao and said loudly.
Chapter completed!