On the evening of the 13th of the third day, Ren Fu ordered the entire army to stop and had to rest. At that time, the location was the source of a small river called Shuichuan in the southeast of Yangmulong City, a small river called Shuichuan in the north of Longgan City, Liupanshan in the north of Luanggan City.

That night, Ren Fu spent the rest of his life in peace and expectation. Zhu Guan and Wuying were stationed in Longluochuan, separated from the Good Shuichuan by Liupan Mountain, 5 miles away. In Yangmulong City, Wang Gui, who bravely rescued Sanchuan Village last year.

The day on February 14 finally came. Ren Fu's army left Liupan Mountain and advanced to Yangmulong City along Haoshui River. On the other side, Zhu Guan and Wu Ying also stepped forward. The two armies were basically parallel and did not meet at the first time, in order to march as quickly as possible and pursue the Xixia people.

As he walked along the way, Sang Yi, the vanguard of Ren Fujun, chased him to a place 5 miles away from Yangmulong City. It was the resting place for the souls of tens of thousands of Song soldiers...

Sang Yi discovered five or six strange wooden boxes placed by the Haoshuichuan River, each of which was not too big, but there were whistles and whistles from inside. This was a battlefield, a place where fraud was allowed, and the more fraud was, the more clever it was. What was this? What was strange about it? Sang Yi immediately ordered the entire army to stop and notified the Lord to watch it in person. When Ren Fu came, he also felt strange, but it was even more inappropriate to throw it aside and continue moving forward. Then open it! In an instant, hundreds of pigeons rose into the air, and the loud whistles sounded throughout the valley. He was trapped! Everyone in the Song army thought that this was a military pigeon, and hundreds of pigeon whistles were enough to convey the message compared to the war drum!

That day, the flying wings flew higher and higher, and the sound of the pigeon whistle gradually rose into the sky and became distant and melodious. A large group of Xixia troops rushed out on the ground, and there was no sight at all. It was more than 100,000 troops led by the Western Xia Emperor Li Yuanhao! It was the pattern of the last Battle of Sanchuankou, and more than 10,000 Song soldiers faced nearly 10 times the enemy in their local territory!

The second battle of the three major battles of Song and Xia - the Battle of Haoshuichuan broke out! What did Ren Fu think of when he realized that he had been trapped? He understood that the enemy he had pursued was bait. He was actually going to die by his courage? Or could he think of a deeper level: more than 100,000 enemy troops had crossed the Zhenrong Army and came to Liupan Mountain at the junction of Zhenrong Army and Weizhou. Why was the Song Dynasty unaware of it?

There is no answer. The forward Sang Yiji led his army to rush forward! That was trying to get time so that he could arrange his army and form a formation to protect himself. How could he have time to think about everything?

The fierce battle began! The Song army was at an absolute disadvantage from the beginning. They were hit by the impact without even time to line up. It was not that Sang Yi was not brave, but because Ren Fu's situation was worse than Liu Ping a year ago! There was no ice river between the Song and Xia armies, they were both in the valley on the north bank of Haoshuichuan! As the main general, Ren Fu charged himself! Even his son Ren Huailiang had no time to take care of his fall in the battle.

The battle ranged from Chen hour in the morning to noon in the afternoon. Two hours later, the Song army began to collapse. Ren Fu thought of the only way to rescue him. He ordered Sang Yi and his son to lead the team to rush to a mountain and defend the danger, hoping to stand for a little longer, because Song troops from all walks of life were also coming!

In a hurry, he forgot something: the Xixia people arrived at the battlefield before him! The Song army rushed to the mountains and suddenly raised the Xixia military flag on the top of the mountain! He lowered his head and pressed down on the Song army...

Ren Fu watched his son and Sang Yi fall off the cliff and die. The defeat was determined, and a confidant Xiaozheng, who called Liu Jin, said to him: General, you should escape quickly, maybe it is still time. "I am a general, defeated, and serve the country with death." This is the last sentence Ren Fu said. Then he stood up for the duel, got several arrows, was injured in the face, and the last shot was pierced through his left cheek, and died of death...

Ren Fu's entire army was wiped out, and the battle became more intense. Yao Jiachuan on the south bank of Haoshuichuan became the new focus. Zhu Guan and Wuying unexpectedly received reinforcements here. Zhao Jin, the governor of Weizhou, led 2,200 cavalrymen to come quickly under Han Qi's urgent order. But they even unexpectedly encountered Li Yuanhao's army of more than 100,000!

Ren Fu was destroyed at noon, and it was another two hours until Shen Shi. Wuying was seriously injured and the infantry formation in the east collapsed...

The last moment is here, let’s see the heroic performance of a civil servant of the Song Dynasty! His name is Geng Fu. In the crisis, Wuying pulled him to his side and persuaded him to escape. But Geng Fu was silent. Wuying was anxious and said, “Ying is a military man, and he will die if he is defeated. Jun and civil servants have no military responsibility, so why should they die with Ying?” After the words were finished, Wuying immediately regretted it. Geng Fu was a civil servant, but he was even more a warrior. He still didn’t say anything and replied with his actions: rush into the Western Xia army and die bravely!

On that day, there were no survivors on both sides of Haoshuichuan. Yao Jiachuan finally escaped Zhu Guan and more than a thousand soldiers. They were lucky enough to find the ruins left by local local people. They took the wall as the foundation and shot arrows from all sides to support the arrival of another reinforcement army. That was the highest figure in the Jingyuan Road military. Wang Zhongbao was deployed to lead the army to the aid, and Zhu Guan and others survived.

In just one day, the soldiers of Jingyuan Road suffered all losses: Ren Fu, Sang Yi, Wu Ying, Zhao Jin, Geng Fu, Zi Bin, Li Jian, Wang Qing, Li Yuheng, Liu Ling and other more than 200 generals and schools survived, and more than 10,000 soldiers were killed, which was even more tragic than Sanchuankou in the previous battle... This did not include Wang Gui and his 4,500 soldiers!

In the Battle of Haoshuichuan, there were countless heroes, but the most loyal and brave man was Wang Gui. He was different from everyone on the main battlefield, because he didn't have to die here in battle!

He was the garrison of Yangmulong City. Fierce battles occurred in Haoshuichuan, five miles away. He immediately led his troops out. When the Western Xia army arrived, they had already formed a formation and surrounded Ren Fu's army like an iron barrel. Wang Gui could only vaguely see that the Song army's flag was not falling. He rushed wildly and wanted to kill in and rescue Ren Fu. But there were crowds of people, and more than 4,000 people faced a crowd of 100,000 people. How could they break into the siege?

Several attacks were ineffective, and Wang Gui's subordinates were some timid and hesitated not to advance. Wang Gui immediately beheaded their army to inspire morale. But not everyone has his courage. After all, it is flesh and blood, and most of the soldiers still have no fighting spirit. Wang Gui jumped off the horse silently. The soldiers might have breathed a sigh of relief, and General Wang finally gave up fighting. But he saw him kneeling down to the east in amidst the earth-shaking shouts of killing. "I am not a country, but I cannot do anything. I have to repay my death." Wang Gui got on the horse and fought again and rushed into the Xixia army! He killed hundreds of people alone, the iron whip in his hand was bent, his palm was broken, and his hands were covered with blood, but he still fought to the death. Three war horses were shot down, but he fought three times and then changed horses and fought again, and he did not retreat anyway! The final outcome was the same as Guo Zun, who died of arrows, and a fatal arrow shot into his eyes...

In the Battle of Haoshuichuan, the Song army was completely defeated. But Li Yuanhao also won a miserable victory. After Wang Zhongbao arrived at the battlefield, he immediately withdrew his troops and fled back to Xixia! On the way, he attacked Liu Panbao, but it was just a military camp, but he could not defeat it, and he dared not siege it again, so he withdrew his country.

The battle ended, but another person's performance began: the traitor Zhang Yuan. The scholar who failed the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty was overjoyed. On his way back to Western Xia, he left such a poem in a temple at the junction of the two countries - "How could Xia Shu have never been, Han Qi is not surprised. The dragon and tiger chariot in the river are still talking about military equipment." The signature is "The Grand Master of the Great Xia Kingdom, the Shangshu Ling and the Central Secretary Zhang Yuan followed the Da Jiao" and the blood of thousands of compatriots finally made him an immortal infamous!

According to public opinion, the Battle of Haoshuichuan was defeated, but it was defeated heroically! At that time, Emperor Renzong had only pensions and memorial services, and absolutely no punishment. On the 18th, Ren Fu, Wang Gui, Wu Ying, Zhao Lu, Sang Yi and others were all chased and given.

When compiling the history of the Song Dynasty, the Mongols who knew and valued heroes commented that "if they like water, they will fight to death. Alas! They seek profits to violate the rules, and they will miss the plan. However, they will not surrender, so many martyrs." They are not greedy for life and fear death, but are loyal to the country. Even if they lose, they will not damage the reputation of martyrs! Just as heroes cannot be judged by victory or defeat.

On the 20th, Song Renzong's second son Zhao Xin, died.

The good waters and smoke were gone, but the debate was not over. Why were the soldiers defeated? How could the entire army be destroyed? There is a statement. Han Qi wrote to the court as soon as possible, taking all the crimes of defeated troops on himself.

But Xia Xu sent someone to clean the battlefield and found the military order written by Han Qi on Ren Fu. The responsibility was clear, and it was Ren Fu's violation of the rules and acted without authorization, and it had nothing to do with Han Qi. However, as the commander of the war zone, he was finally responsible. On April 3, he was demoted to the prefect of Qinzhou.

Han Qi sighed and had to step down and go to the local area to take office. But he didn't know: There was a scene before that embarrassing him for the rest of his life waiting for him, which was even more humiliating than the defeat of Haoshuichuan!

When he was about to reach Weizhou, suddenly thousands of people rushed out. They wore filial piety, held spiritual banners, and threw paper money. They were all the relatives of the soldiers who were killed in Haoshuichuan. They climbed Han Qima and cried bitterly, shouting his name, "Honor Han, my son will go to war with you, now you are back, where is my son?"

Han Qi burst into tears and could no longer speak. Is it really wrong? Should this battle be fought? The answers given by historical books in history are that Han Qi overestimated his abilities and was very happy to achieve success until he faced the tragic situation at this time, and he did not regret it. Especially whenever he wrote this, he would not forget to call out Fan Zhongyan's words, "This situation is hard to stand the victory or defeat in the face of the situation."

They are very prescient! But things need to be seen separately, and it is impossible to distinguish who is right and who is wrong. From the perspective of the entire historical perspective, the two of them have completely different approaches, but they complement each other. Where does it come from who is higher and who is lower, and who is right and who is wrong?

This is a later story. Just in the incident of blocking the road and summoning the soul at this time, Han Qi was not guilty of being insulted like this!

Two days later, on April 5, Fan Zhongyan was demoted to the prefect of Yaozhou. The incident started from the beginning of the year when Li Yuanhao pretended to surrender, and Fan Zhongyan wrote a letter of "Eight Submissions" to ask Han Zhou to meet Li Yuanhao.

Han Zhou went there for more than 40 days in total. The highest standard for being received in Xixia was only met with the senior official Nori Renrong and Li Yuanhao? He was busy raising pigeons in Haoshuichuan!

When Han Zhou came back, he brought a long "National Book" with a total of 26 pages. As for its content, the Song Dynasty did not record it. The adjective with only 4 characters - "the writing is slower" is more embarrassing than the previous insults. After defeating Li Yuanhao was arrogant and did not regard Fan Zhongyan at all.

The ball was kicked back to Fan Zhongyan's hand, which became a problem. The 26-page book, no matter how rude it was, was a national-level document. No matter which minister received it, it must be handed over to the central government. But if you handed over such things, do you believe in the emperor or not, and the prime ministers lined up to chop you with axe? But they had to hand it over. So Fan Zhongyan did some...small moves. He burned the 20 most unsatisfactory pages of the 26-page letter in front of the envoy of the Western Xia, and asked the man to go back and tell Li Yuanhao: The intimacy of the Song Dynasty has a bottom line, and a hot face must be exchanged for a hot butt!

After the Xixia people left, Fan Zhongyan picked up the pen, thought about it and then rewrite the remaining 6 pages of paper one by one, and use Fan Gong's writing skills to change the old look and face the emperor of the Song Dynasty. Is this a crime? Did he be disloyal to the emperor and committed the first serious crime of his subjects? It is not true. Throughout history, no saint has not compromised or made false statements. Especially the saint of Confucius, who said what he said when he was about to starve to death, could completely regret it when he was full! So Fan Zhongyan's behavior was easy to understand at this time.

But after the modified version of the book of incarnation was sent, the effect was still too spicy. The emperor and the ministers were both angry. First of all, "the ministers have no diplomacy." Not to mention the one that was exchanged for incarnation, even if the book of surrender was surrendered, Fan Zhongyan was guilty of deceiving the emperor! Prime Minister Song Xiang proposed: Behead Fan Zhongyan! But some people opposed it. Du Yan, the political affairs officer of the magistrate, emphasized: What is missing now is the person in charge, Fan Zhongyan has been doing it. Although he was a little stupid this time... but if you were not a mistake? As soon as he said that, the crowd was excited, and the censors finally found a point of effort. These great scholars and talents who liked and were good at exaggerating were about to spit on each other...

But it was ruined by one person. The first prime minister of the dynasty, Lu Yijian, said: Shut up, I support Fan Zhongyan! He made a mistake this time, just demotion and punishment. Nothing else can be discussed!

So in April of that year, two senior officials of the Song Dynasty: Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan were demoted to one level on the northwest battlefield, which created a fact: those who were in charge of the war were defeated. Those who were in charge of the peace were kicked in the face. What should I do about this? Fight or reconciliation? This is really a problem...

But it is not a problem. The Song Dynasty did not have to worry about this at all. Li Yuanhao would arrange it for them one by one. When to start a war and where to fight, the Xixia side had the final say...

On the 6th, Chen Zhizhong took over the military and political power of the Northwest, and Xia Shu was demoted to Yongxing Army.

On May 17, he was posthumously named Zhao Fang, the eldest son who died at birth.

Because Xia Shu and Chen Zhizhong were in disagreement, the court mixed up again and divided the power of Shaanxi into two again. Xia Shu was in Fuzhou and Chen Zhizhong was in Jingzhou. On the 24th, he transferred Fan Zhongyan back to Qingzhou.
Chapter completed!