So on March 20, the Privy Councilor Wang Jiao and Chen Zhizhong; the Deputy Envoy Zhang Guan was dismissed. Yan Shu and Song Shou were appointed as Privy Councilor, and Wang Yiyong was appointed as Deputy Envoy of Privy Councilor. On May 9, in the court and the government and the country, there were impeachment and Zhang Shixun himself submitted seven requests, and Prime Minister Zhang Shixun was dismissed. He expected that the enemy was not allowed and was too proud, and called a calm faction like Wu Yu a madman. Under his leadership, the court refused to increase troops to the northwest, forcing the two deputy commanders-in-chiefs of the Song Dynasty to fight, but only took out the pitiful thousands of people! Damn it! It made it as embarrassing as fighting abroad!

So who should I change? The situation requires that all prejudice be abandoned and the person with the strongest ability is chosen. Who? Everyone agrees that - Wang Zeng! But unfortunately, he died...

A year and a half ago, on November 26, 1038, Wang Zeng passed away. He could predict his death like Kou Zhun. One morning, a big star in the sky suddenly fell and fell not far outside his dormitory. His family was frightened and hurriedly reported to him. He was bedridden and smiled indifferently, "I should know the next month." A month later, Wang Zeng passed away. His posthumous title was the top "Wen Zheng" among civil officials.

So I was reluctant to let that person come out. Although that person was very annoying, it could not convince people - Lu Yijian.

Prime Minister Lu Da was appointed as prime minister three times, surpassing Kou Zhun and tying Zhao Pu, how could it be so prominent? But everyone knows the background behind it: you are the only one who can draw a big man from the slut.

Zhao Zhen also knew these, and he also knew that if he chose Lu Yijian, he had to worry about someone causing trouble first - Fan Zhongyan. In order to work together, Zhao Zhen specially found Fan Zhongyan to be a peacemaker for his new prime minister: Fan Aiqing, Yijian still has something to do, do you know? This time you were recommended by Yijian... However, Fan Zhongyan smiled and replied: Your Majesty, I only have a dispute with Yijian for political affairs, and there is no personal grievance. Now the state affairs are the most important, and I know what to do. The emperor was very puzzled, what to do?

What happened next made Lu Yijian unhappy. He suddenly received a letter from Fan Zhongyan. The letter said very sincerely: Anyone who is an official must have personal crimes, and public crimes must be avoided. In the past, offended them were all official business. Unexpectedly, the prime minister was generous and put the country first, and rewarded Zhongyan. He was deeply grateful. He hoped to help the prime minister inside and outside to overcome the difficulties of the country. Lu Yijian looked at the letter and felt very moved. It has been four years since Zhongyan today, and Zhongyan is no longer the Zhongyan yesterday...

No matter how emotional he was, Prime Minister Lu knew it clearly: Fan Zhongyan had only one real purpose. When fighting in front, he was fighting money and food in the rear. Prime Minister, you must do your business seriously and don’t use national affairs as a tool for revenge! But no matter what, Fan Zhongyan’s attitude is hard to buy. Lu Yijian is a sensible person. In the years that followed, he did not do anything out of the ordinary, at least to Fuyan Road, the supervisor of Fan Zhongyan. It is hard for others to say...

Li Yuanhao returned from Yanzhou Prefecture and attacked Yongping, Semen, Anyuan and other camps. Fortunately, the commander Shi Jili of the Yongping Village was criticized by the fallacy that the leader and the army supervisor wanted to abandon the village and fled. He fought hard when Li Yuanhao's army surrounded the village, and Yongping Village was safe. The other two camps were not so lucky. On May 11, Semen Village was lost. The leader Gao Yande was captured, and the army supervisor Wang Jiyuan died in battle. On the 22nd, Anyuan Village was lost.

On the 25th, considering that Xia Shouyun and Wang Shouzhong had been to the northwest border for more than three months, but there was no progress. Two camps were lost and the imperial edict was ordered to be dismissed from office and returned to the court. However, the Song court still had unknown personnel. Another surnamed Xia replaced all the military and political power in Shaanxi, which laid the hidden danger of the Song army's defeat in the future...

Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, hurry up and hurry up! Otherwise, Lord Xia Xun and Xia will ruin the entire Shaanxi land! Like Fan Yong, the only thing Xia Xun can do is to constantly ask for troops and food from the court.

Increase troops and send grain, which is the most fundamental factor in the war, especially in the northwest battlefield, the entire army was wiped out by 10,000 enemies, and the entire army was wiped out. It was not controversial, right? But in the face of the request of the new Shaanxi strategic appeasement envoy, Xia Shu, the ministers in the court were super talented. They flipped the history books and told Xia Shu that they also passed the emperor to read: "There is no troops in the door!" The historical books say that the Han general Huo Qubing had escaped from Wei Qing's main force with 800 light cavalry to expedition hundreds of miles, causing the Huns to expedition

The man cut people over and overturned the horses. Then, 10,000 people passed by Wulu, passed by Supu, Shifu slaves, passed by the Five Kingdoms, killed more than a thousand miles of Yanzhi Mountain, killed King Jielan, King Luhou, captured Prince Kun, captured Xiushu, and sacrificed the golden men of heaven, and sealed the wolf Juxu. Didn’t this series of feats be done? In addition, Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turks with 3,000 cavalry, and then went to Yinshan with 10,000 cavalry, killed more than a thousand enemy soldiers, captured more than 100,000 men and women from other races, and captured Jie Li Khan! Lord Xia, why can’t you do it?

Lord Xia was so angry that his hands and feet were numb. Please! I have also read history books. Huo Qubing, Li Jing... I searched all over China for 5,000 years, and there were only a few abnormal aliens. Do you think that you could capture a lot of them at any time in the Song Dynasty, including me, Xia Shu?

Lord Xia immediately counterattacked: Wang Jian, a famous general of Qin, destroyed Chu, and was determined to ask for 600,000 elite soldiers from the First Emperor; Meng Tian, ​​who fought against the Huns in the north, also asked for 300,000 troops! There were also the Battle of Fu Jian and Feishui and Cao Cao's Battle of Chibi, and all of them lost. Why don't you say these? I will increase my troops! If I don't increase my troops, I will replace them. If you come to the northwest to fight! I will see how you can fight ten thousand!

Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chaise and felt dizzy when he heard it, so he ordered everyone to shut up and increase 200,000 troops to the northwest, and distributed them equally to the four routes of Fuyan, Huanqing, Jingyuan, and Qinfeng. He then collected food and grass from the world to transport them to the northwest. So the money was spent like flowing water: Sinong Temple first took out 1 million guan of Changping money, and the emperor then used his own private pockets to spend a total of 3 million guan in four sessions. These were just advance military expenses before the war.

The center of the Song Dynasty began to tilt to the northwest after May 1040. It can be said that it was full of efforts to avenge the annihilation of the entire army of Sanchuankou. Under such an unprecedentedly huge mobilization of military, politics, and finance, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Yin Zhu, Pang Ji, Zhong Shiheng, Di Qing and others had their own skills. In the next seven months, each of them had their wishes, efforts and experiences, which were reflected in the national power of the Song Dynasty at that time. They were different, and it was hard to say right or wrong...

In May, Pang Ji set out to the northwest battlefield. On June 11, Deputy Minister Fu Yan deployed Ren Fu to Ren Huanqing's Deputy Minister and Governor Qingzhou. Before the second battle of Song Xia was about to start, everyone was slowly in place...

The highest-ranking official in the northwest, Lord Xia, was waiting for Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi and the others to rush to Shaanxi. When he was bored, he came up with a super strong strategy to fight against the enemy - to lure the reward! This is an upgraded version of the official reward of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty officials ordered: No matter who kills Li Yuanhao, they will be replaced by the titles of the Li family for generations such as the Dingnan Army Jiedu, King Xiping, etc. to increase the effect, Xia Su added the reward code to "If anyone has the head of Yuanhao, the reward is 5.

000,000 guan "5 million... In "Water Margin", the birth gift that can make good people take risks as robbers is only 100,000 guan. So after 50 times, what will the barbarians and bandits who are barbaric by nature and have no father or ruler? Put your heart in mind, Lord Xia is full of confidence, just waiting for someone to carry a bloody party head, or many people to compete for rewards with many bloody party heads...

The idea is beautiful and the response is very creative. The Western Xia Emperor Li Yuanhao personally replied, "If anyone has a summer head, he will be rewarded with 2 guan."

2vs 5 million, exactly 1:2.5 million? Xia Feng was silent in an instant. What a serious thing, it became a laughing stock...

There is still someone who does practical things to come out. On July 12, Guo Zhen sent Liao to the Emperor and declared to the Liao emperor again: We want to beat your son-in-law, who told him not to learn well! You must draw a clear line between your uncles... On August 21, Liu Huan went to Tubo.

On the 28th, Fan Zhongyan arrived at Yanzhou Prefecture on the Road of Fuyan. This place was broken by Li Yuanhao and was always facing the crisis of war again. How could he be careful? After taking office, the first strategic policy he set was the word "guard". Let go of it in advance and stabilize himself before he could think of something else. Under this premise, Fan Zhongyan broke the ancestral system of the Song Dynasty as soon as he took office. The ancestral system stipulates: deploy 10,000 troops, 5,000 troops, and 3,000 troops, and 3,000 troops were led by the generals.

The strength was only based on the size of the official position, from low to high, and rushed out of the formation to kill people. The result was that a large number of soldiers and subordinate officers were killed. Fan Zhongyan was determined to reform. He divided the 18,000 defenders in Yanzhou Prefecture into 6 units, with a general in charge of each unit, commanding 3,000 people, and gave each general the opportunity to show his performance. Who is stronger and who is weak is clear at a glance, and then the order of combat in the army was rearranged. The freedom of the generals was greatly increased, and the benefits were immediately revealed, concentrated on Zhong Shiheng.

Zhong Shiheng's Qingjian City was placed under the jurisdiction of the Fuyan Road. He was the most troublesome person in the Western Army of the Song Dynasty in that era. He trained troops in Qingjian City. The method was just one word - money!

Practice archery first. The bright silver ingots are hung on the target, and whoever can shoot it will be whoever can shoot it. Later, this method is promoted to the whole city, regardless of men, women, young and even criminals. As long as you have good archery skills, you will be released from prison immediately! In the long run, Qingjian City will probably shoot a kilogram of pork across the street, and the money will be shot over, and the payment will be cleared, and the air mail will be delivered. But there is a problem, where did Zhong Shiheng get so much money? Even if His Majesty Renzong withdraws money to the northwest, there will be nothing left after him. So how does the money come from?

According to historical records, Zhong Shiheng opened 2,000 hectares of land, recruited merchants, and he paid the capital, and traded locally. In addition to collecting local specialties to Beijing, the main customers were local ethnic minorities. This was a big deal that gained fame and fortune. Zhong Shiheng not only made money, but also gave local Qiang people great benefits through business, allowing them to enjoy the luxury of Han people that they had never dared to dream of or even imagined in their dreams. Zhong Shiheng would also visit a Qiang chief as agreed on a snowy day three feet deep, which made the other party overjoyed and unbelievable. From then on, he obeyed his advice. He would even recommend food and clothes, and even sent out all his beloved women just to win the obedience of the foreign race.

However, in this way, both Fan Zhongyan and Zhong Shiheng were a bit foul. Because they had returned to the era of Zhao Kuangyin, only the border generals at the founding of the Song Dynasty had the independence of military, financial and political power. Doing like Zhong Shiheng was a small vassal state, and since the era of the big bitch, this was the top taboo of the Song Dynasty!

But the advantage is that it is effective. From then until the 4 years of Qingli Gong, although there were constant wars between Song and Xia on other grounds, the most dangerous and weakest Fuyan Road was the calmest. Li Yuanhao basically never made trouble here again. The Xia people warned him, "There are tens of thousands of soldiers in his belly, which is not as good as the big Fan Laozi (Fan Yong)."

At the same time, Fan Zhongyan sent Zhou Mei to recover Jinming Village. A few days later, tens of thousands of Xixia troops indeed attacked Jinming Village. Zhou Mei led 3,000 troops to fight. The battle was dusk and the reinforcements had not arrived. Zhou Mei then set up suspicious troops in the north of the mountain. The Xixia army thought that the Song Dynasty reinforcements arrived, so they hurriedly withdrew.

You can't go to Fuyan Road. Where can I go? Li Yuanhao turned his attention to Jingyuan Road, which was under the supervision of Han Qi.

On September 14, the Xixia army suddenly rushed to the Sanchuan Village of Zhenrong Army on Jingyuan Road! In a bloody battle that day, Yang Baoji, the inspector of the West Road of Zhenrong Army, died in the battle, and Sanchuan Village was lost. But the next day, the reinforcements of the Song army arrived quickly. The level of the leading generals was not high, and Liu Jizong, Li Jiang, and Wang Bing were all in the capital. They divided their troops to fight, but the battle situation was unfavorable, and Liu Jizong himself was shot and injured. There is a question here: Why divide the troops?

Another chief supervisor, Wang Gui, arrived immediately. He brought three thousand cavalry, but before he arrived at Sanchuan Village, he was surrounded by the Western Xia army. Wang Gui led his troops out of the siege and came to the city of Zhenrong, the largest military stronghold on Jingyuan Road. The Western Xia army pursued him closely. Wang Gui did not ask to enter the city, but he asked the city to send troops to fight to help him fight and rescue these blocked people. He also wanted to save Sanchuan Village! But the depressed thing was that the city refused. It got dark, and Wang Gui changed his request: You don’t have to open the city, just throw down the food, and then you opened your eyes and looked carefully!

The food was thrown out, and the dusk was gathering. The Song army ate silently, watching the enemies behind us chasing closer and closer. Wang Gui came to the soldiers, "The art of war says: "There is only a small number of attacks, and it will be in the dusk." Now it's late, we suddenly kill back, which will catch them off guard!

The battlefield boiled in an instant, and the warriors of the Song army who were still breaking through the siege and fleeing suddenly went back! Of course, the Dangxiang people were not caught off guard, they were chasing them all, and now they were fighting! A general of Xixia rushed out, "Who dares to be my enemy?" Wang Gui rushed over, and the Xixia man stabbed him in the right arm with a gun. The next thing was the nightmare of the Xixia people. History has concluded that "there was a Song Dynasty, with the military bow and crossbow, and the spear is second."

How to play with guns and break guns, the officers of the Song Dynasty are more familiar with everyone, and they are wearing belts on their wrists and whips are hung! After getting close to them, Wang Gui whipped his whip and smashed his opponent's head. Then another enemy general rushed over, and it was still a long spear. If the people of Xixia were really persistent, they were still the old routine - stabbing. Wang Gui was also very cooperative and still took over with his right arm, but the reaction was more sharp after being injured. He held the enemy's gun and another whip, killing the second enemy general!

After two generals were killed in a row, the quality of the Xixia army was exposed. The Song army once again stood up after Guo Zun was killed and vowed not to surrender! But this group of Xixia army that had been chasing people actually fled, running and firing cold arrows.

The rain of arrows in the dark was very fatal. Wang Gui himself was shot three times in a row and his war horse was shot to death, so he had to stop. A question surfaced: Do you still need to rescue Sanchuan Village?

This involves a fundamental problem: It is not easy for Han Qi to gather the combat power of Jingyuan Road in just over 100 days, but it is obvious that it is not possible to mobilize the troops scattered everywhere and coordinate the battle. This is obviously not something that can be accomplished overnight. Therefore, when Sanchuan Village was attacked, the first to go to the aid were all the chief supervisors, such as Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun's level, the military district heads of the level did not appear at all. At this time, Wang Guiru was destined to have no reinforcements, and was purely seeking death. Unless Zhao Zhen himself was trapped in Sanchuan Village, it would be no benefit at all!

So Wang Gui withdrew his troops. Three days later, a defense vacuum appeared in the local area, and the people of Xixia did whatever they wanted. Three days later, the Song army gathered enough strength and led by Guo Zhigao, the commander of Jingyuan Road, to Sanchuan Village.
Chapter completed!