The snow was falling all the time, and the river water in Wulong River began to thaw, and a large area of ​​Xixia army appeared on the east bank of the river. The soldiers of the Song army in those days should have seen a scene that they were unbelievable: Li Yuanhao's army was so many! There were 150,000 people... It was not an exaggeration at all. There were 70,000 Dangxiang cavalry when he invaded, and the other half were the original Dangxiang, Qiang and other mixed troops in Jinming Village. They were not of our race, and their hearts would be different! They turned around and attacked the Song Dynasty! Historical records: "The snow on the ground was several inches, and the thieves were all confronted by the Yanyue Formation." How plain, but in reality, more than 10,000 people fought against 150,000 people!

The first battle of the three major battles of Song and Xia - the Battle of Sanchuankou broke out! The Xixia army began to cross the river, and the Song army seized this golden opportunity and launched an attack first! Remember this name - Guo Zun! He and his subordinate Wang Xin took the lead and attacked the Xixia army formation. The Song army behind him rushed forward and finally wedged into the Xixia position! A melee, killing nearly 700 enemies before retreating...

The Xixia army continued to cross the ice river, gathering more and more. Finally, they took the initiative to challenge. A warrior was sent to a name to fight Guo Zun alone. Guo Zun accepted the challenge immediately. A few rounds later, the warrior of the Dangxiang was smashed by his iron pestle. It is said in history that "both armies shouted loudly" that his bravery shocked the soldiers who were accustomed to blood and death. At this point in the battle, Li Yuanhao finally stopped having any fantasies and used his winning trick - to give full play to the advantage of the number of people and charge in groups! He ordered the Xixia army, who had crossed the river, to raise a big shield, wait for the entire army to cross the river to fight the Song army to determine the victory and loss with strength!

Li Yuanhao was wrong, and the Song army launched an attack first. According to historical records, "The Song army attacked and seized shields, and killed more than a thousand people who died of drowning." Some of the Western Xia army drowned in the water, which shows that the Song army has advanced the battle to the riverside and has completely defeated the Western Xia army formation!

Of course, the price is also extremely high. The main general Liu Ping's neck and ears were shot by arrows, and he was bleeding. Song Jun was doing his best, and even the main general charged in person!

The sun gradually sets westward. In the twilight, some people in Xixia fled back to the east bank of the river, while some struggled by the water, and the battlefield entered a temporary calm. Liu Ping nervously watched the enemy situation in pain, but did not know that the real danger had arrived...

Suddenly, a large number of subordinates rushed over. It should be said that they were all warriors covered in blood, carrying Xixia heads to ask for me: General, this is a military merit, please give us a reward...

Liu Ping's reaction was to shout to his subordinates, "The battle is urgent, you remember it yourself first, I will reward you after the war." How loyal and brave, but what a pity, he was only thinking about fighting and did not find the subtext of the soldiers...

Soldiers are also humans and need to rest. Six or seven days of rapid marching, coupled with the fierce battle just now, everyone is almost at their limit. General, should we... no one talks about retreating, but as the main general, we should wake up. The enemy on the opposite side is more than ten times that of ours. Do we really have to fight to the end?

History did not give Liu Ping a chance to hesitate, because Li Yuanhao on the other side of the river launched another attack! He was almost crazy! He had previously sneaked into Jinming Village, captured a large number of new forces, and then let Li Shibin's mother and wife escape into Yanzhou City, stimulated Fan Yong, and asked him to recruit reinforcements regardless of everything, and then sent fake spies to ask Liu Ping to disperse the army... There was only one trick: it made the Song army exhausted and exhausted, until he was besieged outside Yanzhou City and attacked the reinforcements and wiped out with one blow! But now this is the result, absolutely not possible!

The Xixia army suddenly sent light cavalry to cross the river quickly and attacked the Song army. The Song army was caught off guard and was forced to retreat more than 20 steps. These mere 20 steps became the nightmare of the Battle of Sanchuankou...

In a panic, Liu Ping suddenly felt something was wrong behind him. He looked back and saw his troops dispersing! Who? He saw Huang Dehe who was running away... He couldn't believe his eyes. It was normal for him to move the position forward and backward in the battle. Why did Huang Dehe escape?

But he didn't know that the coward was not refined for a moment. After the war started, Huang coward kept hiding behind the formation and almost never participated in the battle. He did not rush to the Tumen to fight Li Yuanhao like Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun. He was originally a new force, but he chose to escape when the battle was a little unfavorable!

Escape is like a plague, which quickly affected the Song army, and the battle situation collapsed in an instant! All Liu Ping could do was send his son Liu Yisun to chase the deserter, and he would stop Huang Dehe no matter what. Liu Yisun grabbed Huang Coward's horse bridle and begged to "Stop the troops and fight back, and resist the thieves, but why should I lead them away first?" Huang Coward ignored it, and ran all the way with Liu Yisun and stopped at Ganquan...

Liu Ping always stood at the forefront of the battlefield. He did not escape, and ordered his personal soldiers to pull out their swords: Fight for the country, and those who retreated died!

But Li Yuanhao will not give Liu Ping any more chance. The Western Xia army continued to rush across the glacier. At this moment, there were still people who rushed towards them without considering life and death at all! Let us pay tribute to the hero: Guo Zun!

Guo Zun knew that he would die, but he still rushed into the enemy formation alone! In any case, he would earn precious breathing time for Liu Ping behind him! During the battle, Guo Zun threw away the iron pestle and rushed to the formation with an iron spear. He was invincible. More than 100,000 Xixia troops were dispersed by him! He changed to a heavier iron spear and went deep into the enemy formation again. This time, the Xixia people had a sinister trick and secretly set up a mascot to capture him alive. But Guo Zun was like a god's help, and the trip mascot was cut off by him one by one, but Guo Zun was not a god after all. He was "defeated again and then exhausted three times" and finally fell into the Xixia people's thousands of arrows...

Behind him, Liu Ping finally managed to retain more than 100,000 people and once again stood in front of more than 100,000 Xixia people. The battle was not over!

Li Yuanhao smiled bitterly and shook his head: What is this? Okay! Then let's fight again! But what Li Yuanhao never dreamed of was that the combat power of these more than a thousand Song army warriors who had already been killed and died was so strong that they forced more than 100,000 Xixia troops back to the east bank of the river...

The battle of one day and one night ended like this. Liu Ping led his army to retreat to a small hill in the southwest and set up 7 camps to protect himself. Suddenly someone outside the fence asked: Where is your chief general?

These despicable Xixia people were still trying to make mistakes! In anger, Liu Ping warned his men not to answer. So he was silent... But after a while, someone called the door. The person reported his identity and said that he was the envoy of Yanzhou City, who was sent by Lord Fan Yongfan to pass on the order...

Get out! You just used this trick yesterday. When the Song Dynasty people were all idiots? Liu Ping pulled it out without saying a word and chopped it up!

At this time, it was already four o'clock in the night. Dangxiang people surrounded the Song army's camp and kept shouting, "How many disabled soldiers are there? Why don't you surrender?" What they got was Liu Ping's stern answer, "Dog thief, if you don't surrender, why should I surrender? The reinforcements will arrive tomorrow, which is your death date."

At dawn on January 24, Dangxiang people asked directly, "Will you surrender? If you don't surrender, you will all die." What they got was a dignified rejection! At this point, persuading surrender again would bring shame to yourself! Li Yuanhao transferred a large number of troops from Hedong, surrounded the mountains on all sides, and began to attack. The Song army that could not run was destined to have only one fate - perseverance. Miracle would never happen again. Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun were wiped out and they were not alive!

The first battle of the three major battles of Song and Xia, the Battle of Sanchuankou, ended here. Strangely, Li Yuanhao did not take advantage of the victory to attack Yanzhou City, and opened the western gate of the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop, but suddenly withdrew his troops.

Li Yuanhao's retreat has different opinions in history. Some say that it was his first attack on a super huge empire like the Song Dynasty. He was psychologically immature, so he stopped when he was better. Some attributed to the heavy snow that year, and the nomadic people were also humans. They came to fight and brought insufficient cold-proof equipment. They were afraid that the snowman would be too cold and frostbite, so retreating was the best strategy. Some say that some war reports misled Li Yuanhao, saying that the Song Dynasty sent troops again and rushed into his lair like last time. He was afraid that the backyard would catch fire, so he had to go home...

First, since he entered a hotel, he was afraid of eating too much? Li Yuanhao had destroyed the Uighurs and fought against Tubo. The facts proved that he was a conqueror with the goal of destroying the country. How could the mere capital city of the Song Dynasty make him feel guilty? Just kidding!

The second is even more unreliable. As we all know, nomadic peoples only launched wars in the cold winter. The reason is to use the words of Genghis Khan later to explain the most classic - horses are fat in winter, and soldiers want to fight! Another subtext is that the southerners are afraid of the cold, and everyone is fighting in the same area. How can the Han people freeze to death and the northern barbarians first?

Third, it is really sad and indignant. How could there be any reinforcements? Liu Ping fought desperately in the snow all day long. Yanzhou City was besieged for seven days, but there was no reinforcement force. Where did the Song army come from? You should know that Yanzhou City is not a security guard. If you lose the General's Mansion on Fuyan Road, even if one quarter of the Western Frontier of the Song Dynasty collapsed completely, the people of Xixia could enter the hinterland at any time!

There is only one reason for Li Yuanhao's retreat: that is Liu Ping's pride, and the soldiers of the Song Dynasty made him frightened! The reason why Yanzhou City was able to be preserved was due to the thousands of Song soldiers. The Song history concluded that "the thieves in the square are very strong, and if they are not fighting in peace, they will definitely not be discouraged. If Yanzhou is not relieved, the city will not be defended."

It can be said that even though Liu Ping was defeated, he was still honored, but he was still alive even though he died! However, such loyalty and courage were exchanged for slander and anger.

The battle ended on the 24th. On the 28th, the battle report was transmitted from Yanzhou City to Kaifeng. But he was too late. A day ago, the emperor learned the news. On the morning of the 27th, Zhao Zhen was walking outside the hall. In the cold wind, he suddenly heard the veteran sighing, "Oh, it's a pity, Grand Marshal Liu." Zhao Zhen was terrified and asked immediately, "What are you talking about?"

The veteran replied, "Don't the official family know? Liu Ping's Taiwei was killed in the northwest." Zhao Zhen was shocked and asked him where he got the news. The veteran took out the letter of the family, "I got the letter and said that the soldiers of the first battalion of Xihuyi in Yanzhou were wiped out, and my son-in-law was also killed."

Zhao Zhen was stunned. The war broke out. He was still kept in the dark after such a crushing defeat! Seeing his miserable face, the veteran couldn't help but persuade him, "I hope the emperor will be lenient." As soon as he said, Zhao Zhen was sad and angry, shouting sternly, "What's so true, are you still lenient?" After that, he turned around and entered the hall!

The next day, Fan Yong's battle report arrived. Zhao Zhen's reaction was to immediately send troops to surround Liu Ping's family and kill his whole family! No one was allowed to miss the net! Because Fan Yong said: Liu Ping was defeated and lost his troops and humiliated the country. What was even more hateful was Huang Dehe, who "fighted hard on the battlefield and survived by luck" and said: Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun surrendered to Xixia and rebelled in front of the formation, which led to a great defeat!

At the critical moment, Xia Shouyun, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, stepped forward to defend his defilement! Zhao Zhen also calmed down quickly, which was the reason for his bloodline. From Zhao Guangyi to Zhao Heng and Zhao Zhen, the Emperor of Zhao Song, all had a similarity: they all had a crazy side, but they could always calm down suddenly at the most critical moment! Therefore, they were defeated by Gaoliang River, Yongxi, and the Battle of Chanyuan, and turned danger into safety under unprecedented crises. Zhao Zhen also continued this characteristic. Unlike the evil consequences that occurred after the bloodline was cut off, Zhao Zhen had no son and was forced to pass the throne on his nephew. The person in that bloodline, alas...

At this time, Zhao Zhen suddenly calmed down and sent the palace censor Wen Yanbo to Yanzhou to investigate the situation on the spot. The truth was revealed. Huang Dehe was extremely determined when he escaped, and the news was extremely well-informed. He immediately decided to bite him back. What kind of scum this is! Zhao Zhen issued an order to behead Huang Dehe in half on April 22! At the same time, the soldiers surrounding Liu Ping's family were taken back and rewarded Liu Ping, Shi Yuansun, Guo Zun and others for their merits.

Afterwards, Zhao Zhen threw away the sign promulgated a few days ago that he was not allowed to speak out. Anyone who has something to say can say, and I must listen to the emperor...

On February 2, Xia Shouyun was sent to the northwest front line to govern the military and political affairs of Shaanxi. Song Xiang, the deputy governor, proposed to add heavy troops to defend Tongguan. Fu Bi opposed "The emperor was guarding the four barbarians. Now he was conserving Tongguan, would he give all the land west of Tongguan to Li Yuanhao?" On the 4th, the eunuch Wang Shouzhong was appointed as the governor of Shaanxi Lu Jin. Fu Bi also opposed "The Tang Dynasty used eunuchs to supervise the army, which was the beginning of the chaos. Now he used Wang Shouzhong, so why not repeat the same mistake?" But unfortunately, the emperor did not listen...

On the 5th, an envoy was sent to contact Li Yuanhao, hoping to attack his nest when Li Yuanhao's vitality had not yet recovered. But he could not rest within, so how could he resist outside? The division of Tubo at this critical moment was really Li Yuanhao's luck...

Afterwards, a real big man walked onto the northwest battlefield - Han Qi!

On the 12th, military affairs were the priority! The system of the early founding of the Song Dynasty was restored. For all military and national affairs, the Privy Council must discuss with the Secretariat.

On February 28, the first year of Kangding (1040), Fan Yong was moved from Yanzhou to Anzhou. From then on, he was far away from the battlefield, so don’t cause trouble! With Han Qi’s strong recommendation, another real big man walked onto the northwest battlefield - Fan Zhongyan! The Shaanxi Metropolitan Transportation Envoy Han Qi was in charge of Jingyuan Road, and Shaanxi Pacification Deputy Envoy Fan Zhongyan was in charge of Fuyan Road, and began the legend of "There is a Han army in the army, and the Western thieves were frightened when they heard it. There is a Fan in the army, and the Western thieves were frightened when they heard it."

On March 19, Fan Zhongyan's friend Yin Zhu came to Jingyuan Road to deploy Ge Huaimin as a judge.
Chapter completed!