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"Master General, Zhenwu Army is the key to the Shuofang battlefield."

Yao Pingzhong moved his finger to Qiulongling on the map and drew a circle on it.

"Master, look, Zhuo? and the Southern Army Office rely on two rivers and one mountain on the western defense line. The two rivers are Haoshui River (also known as the Datong River) and Karochuan, and one mountain is Qiuliuling."

"In the five-year attack of Zhenghe, we occupied the ancient bone dragon city of Haoshui River, which is Zhenwu City, which caused the Dangxiang people to lose the first line of defense on the west side of the Shuofang battlefield. If we take down Gaizhu City and Tong'an City, we will occupy the second line of defense on the west side of the Zhuo Nanhe Army. "

"The front line of Zhuo Nanhe Military Office is the Yellow River. The Yellow River turns a bend to the Fuchuan River in Huizhou (Jingyuan, Gansu today) and goes north. So the east line of Zhuo Nanhe Military Office is still the Yellow River, but the river is Hanhai Road. Hanhai Road has Xishoubaotai Army and Jingsai Army. So in fact, we just need to restrain the Hanhai Road army in Huanqing Road and Jingyuan Road, and restrain the main force of Zhuo Nanhe Military Office on the Lanzhou line. Then as long as we break through Karochuan, Zhuo and Nanjun Office will be finished, and Shuofang will be ours."

"So, in the following years, Zhenwu City made the people of Xixia feel like they were thorns on their backs and were restless in sleeping and eating."

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In the winter of the seventh year of Zhenghe (1117 AD), the Dangxiang people launched an attack on the Zhenwu Army. The Zhenwu Army guard Li Ming and Meng Qing were killed in fierce battles. In a critical moment, Liu Fa led his army to support, defeated the Dangxiang people's army, lifted the Zhenwu Army's siege, and then took advantage of the victory to chase the Dangxiang people back to Karochuan.

Liu Fa then built Detong Fort and Shimenzi Fort north of Haoshui River, consolidated and improved the Haoshui River defense line, and took the opportunity to approach Renduoquan City, an important town in Xixia.

Renduoquan City is located in the middle and upper middle of Haoshui River, located at the end of the southeastern foot of the Qilian Mountains, less than 200 miles away from Xiliang Prefecture. If this city is lost, Liangzhou will be in a hurry, and the gate of the Hexi Corridor will be opened. Shuofang is surrounded by enemies from both sides and is surrounded by the Song army.

In the eighth year of Zhenghe (1118 AD), Tong Guan launched the second Western Expedition, and this time it was attacked by east and west.

Western Front,

Liu Fa led his army to attack Renduoquan City on Xihe Road. The eastern front was Zhong Shidao and attacked Zangdihe City on Jingyuan Road. Liu Fa and Zhong Shidao attacked Zangdihe City on west and east, and jointly attacked.

Liu Fa attacked Renduoquan City fiercely. The people of Xixia resisted stubbornly. The Song army general He Guan still fought fiercely while injured, boosting morale and finally conquered Renduoquan City. Liu Fa ordered the city to be massacre and beheaded more than 3,000 levels. He Guan did not defend the Yellow River defense line during the Song and Jin battle, but later died heroically in the defense of Bianjing.

At the same time, Zhong Shidao led his troops to besiege Zangdihe City, conquered for eight days, and beheaded 7,000 levels. Then he led his army to fight with the main force of the Dangxiang people to fight Xi Weiping (now south of Tongxin County, Ningxia), beheaded 5,000 levels, and built Jingxia City (new city) in Xi Weiping.

The victory of the Song army's east-west fronts brought the Xixia people to a desperate situation, and Brother Richard immediately launched a fierce **.

On the Western Front, the Dangxiang people built Tong'an City about 100 miles away from the Zhenwu Army, and competed with the Song army for control of Karochuan.

On the eastern front, when the Song army was still immersed in the joyful victory in Jingxia City, the Western Xia cavalry sneaked into Jingxia. The guards of Jingxia City were negligent.

He was careless and was dug up by the Dangxiang people and the city was broken. Before Zhong Shidao could rush to help, the defenders of Jingxia City had been massacred. Zhong Shidao was punished and demoted to the defensive envoy, but still stayed on Jingyuan Road to preside over the military.

During the second Western Expedition, due to the tenacity of the Dangxiang people, the Song army still failed to seize control of Karochuan.

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In the first year of Xuanhe (1119 AD), the Jin envoy followed Ma Zheng to Bianjing. The Song and Jin dynasties began to agree on the alliance, and the Northern Expedition was officially put on the agenda. In order to restrain the people in the northwest, Tong Guan launched the Western Expedition again, and the goal was still to control Karochuan. However, Tong Guan made two preparations. If this battle still failed to achieve the predetermined goal, at least it would have to severely damage the Dangxiang people. For this reason, he placed the main force on the East Front. Of course, this could also support the attack on the Western Front well.

In order to confuse the people of Xixia, Tong Guan rushed to Jingyuan Road to take charge and made a move to pacify the Western Xia.

This time, Tong Guan made up his mind. In order to ensure the victory, he persuaded the emperor and the court to replace all the five frontiers of Shaanxi's frontiers with all military generals. They were Liu Fa, the appeasement envoy of Xihe Road, and Qin

The Fenglu Road Advisor Liu Zhongwu, the Yanlu Road Advisor Liu Yanqing, the Jingyuan Road Advisor Zong Shidao, and the Huanqing Road Advisor Yao Gu, the famous generals were all out.

The attack strategy of this battle is to attack east and west. The east route is Liu Yanqing, Zhong Shidao and Yao Gu's three armies, and Liu Fa and Liu Zhongwu join forces in the west route. The east route is attacking Lingzhou and Karochuan.

In March, Liu Fa on the Western Front took the lead in launching an attack. He used his main force to attack the Wu army and directly killed Tong'ancheng. He Guan led a side army to cross the Hebei River and attack Gai Zhucheng, attracting Zhuo and the main army of the Southern Army.

The famous general of Xixia, Richard, led an army of 30,000 to station in Tong'an City, and was ready to fight for the survival of Xixia. The Battle of Tong'an was a battle that determined the survival of the country for Xixia. Richard fought desperately. As long as he won, he could survive, but he really won.

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"What shouldn't be lost in this battle, but what shouldn't be lost." Yao Pingzhong sighed to the sky.

Li Hu knew something about the battle of Tong'an. He heard Zhe Keqiu and Liu Yanqing's words.

I heard from Tong Guan that several people have their own opinions on the reasons for the failure of this battle.

Tong Guan's statement was that Liu Fa relied on his attacks, disobeyed orders, and attacked without authorization. When Liu Zhongwu's main force had not yet arrived in Lanzhou, he rushed to attack Tong'an, but ended up being ambushed by Richard Brother and annihilated the entire army.

This statement makes sense. The scale of this battle is very large, and more than 200,000 troops were dispatched. Then Tong Guan obviously wanted to take down Karochuan. As long as Karochuan is taken down, the situation in the northwest will be completely reversed. On the contrary, the eastern front attack on Lingzhou and threaten Helan Mountain, and there is little hope. Tong Guan will not be stupid enough to fight with the Dangxiang people.

From this, the Qinfeng Road Strategy Envoy Liu Zhongwu must have participated in the attack on the Western Front. However, when Liu Fa attacked, Liu Zhongwu's army had not yet arrived in Lanzhou. Liu Fa only attacked with Xihe Road. Afterwards, even his opponent Richard said that Liu Fa "holds victory and goes lightly" in this battle, which shows that the defeat is reasonable.

After the Battle of Tong'an, Liu Fa's most important crime was violating temperance. Even those in the court who sympathized with Liu Fa did not deny it. Liu Fa was not finally chased by the court, which is a pity.

Liu

As the commander of the whole line, the marching route was not problem, the attack plan was not problem, and the enemy had no absolute advantage, but ultimately failed to break through smoothly, resulting in the annihilation of the 100,000 troops. The problem was naturally that Liu Zhongwu failed to participate in the war in time, and the biggest reason was that Liu Fa sent troops in advance. During the Yuanfeng expedition in the west, Zhong Yan, the commander of the Zhong family army, also launched an attack in advance in order to avoid the Xixia people's solid walls and clear the fields. As a result, he was punished by the court. However, Zhong Yan won the battle (the Battle of Suide), but Liu Fa paid a heavy price this time.

Liu Yanqing's statements were different. He said that the reason for Tong'an's defeat was not Liu Fa's responsibility, but Tong Guan and the court. Liu Fa sent troops at the scheduled time, but Liu Zhongwu failed to arrive at the battlefield in time because of the wrong planning of the command. Liu Fa originally planned to postpone the attack time, but Tong Guan forced him to attack, but in the end, the entire army was wiped out because he did not receive support.

Like most people in the northwest, Zhe Keqiu directly blamed Tong Guan. If this eunuch had not commanded blindly, Liu Fa and the 100,000 soldiers would not have been defeated.

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Yao Pingzhong participated in this battle and eventually escaped. He had an absolute say in this battle.

"Can you tell me the specific process of this battle?"'

Li Hu was very anxious. He knew that Yao Pingzhong talked about the strategy of the northwest to the control of Karochuan, from Tong Guan’s three Western Expeditions to the Battle of Tong'an, the purpose was to tell himself how to attack Hexi. Perhaps the experience and lessons of the Battle of Tong'an can give a way to win.

Yao Pingzhong was silent for a long time and said slowly: "Shuai Liu received the order from Tong Guan and assembled 20,000 elite soldiers from Xihe, 30,000 Xihe Township soldiers and Fan troops, 50,000 xiang troops, and a total of 100,000 troops killed Tong'ancheng."

"The two armies met at the city of Tong'an. Compared with the forces of the two armies, the Song army was slightly weaker. The Song army crossed mountains and ridges and unexpectedly encountered a mountain torrent attack, which consumed a lot of materials and physical strength. Brother Richard had gathered more than 100,000 troops at this moment. They were waiting for their efforts and immediately launched an attack without waiting for the Song army to line up."

The two armies of Song and Xia fought fiercely. Richard personally led the elite cavalry to attack the front of the Song army. Yang Weizhong, the front army of the Song army, commanded the fierce soldiers to fight bravely. In the middle of the fierce battle, the ambush of the Dangxiang people unexpectedly broke out from behind the Song army. The Song army was attacked from both sides and gradually fell into chaos. Yang Weizhong's front army took the lead in fighting.

The defeat and the Central Army were defeated, and Jiao Anjie's troops could not resist and collapsed into the Left Army. (This Jiao Anjie was delayed on the battlefield in Hebei and was killed by Li Gang.)

Liu Fa was unwilling to fail and commanded the vanguard, the reserve and the central army to launch a fierce counterattack.

The Dangxiang people were afraid of Liu Fa and avoided him. Brother Richard immediately ordered the powerful general Xiao Heda to fight. Xiao Heda was a Khitan, and he led elite cavalry to attack Liu Fa's central army. The battle between the two armies was extremely fierce.

The battle lasted for seven hours from early morning until nightfall. The Song army traveled a long distance and was exhausted, and finally collapsed. Liu Fa led the remaining soldiers to fight all the way to Gai Zhucheng.

According to the planned plan, He Guan set out from Lanzhou to attack the three cities of Gaizhu, Park Long and Shuibo. Liu Fa planned to meet He Guan and reorganize the army and fight again.

Liu Fa ran 70 miles a night to reach Gaizhu City. He was trapped in the crowd and was unfortunately surrounded by the Xia army stationed in Gaizhu City. Liu Fa was not careful in the chaos and fell from the mountain. At this time, the Song army, who were still fighting, found that the commander was missing and immediately went crazy. Yang Weizhong, Jiao Anjie, Yao Pingzhong, Qu Jin and others led their troops to continuously attack the Xia army, searching for Liu Fa everywhere. Finally,

He got nothing, so he had to lead his troops to break through.

Liu Fa broke his leg after falling down the mountain. At this time, a soldier from the Bian Zhanjun (responsible for the logistics force) of the Dangxiang people passed by and killed Liu Fa. This generation of god general who once won every battle and was powerful in the Western Frontier died like this, staining Hehuang with blood and sacrificing his life on the battlefield.

After Tong'an was defeated, the people of Xixia besieged the Zhenwu Army again. Seeing that the situation was not good, Tong Guan hurriedly launched an attack on the eastern front. Zhong Shidao led his army out of Xiaoguan to conquer the three cities of Yongli in Xixia, and beheaded more than 5,000. The people of Xixia had no choice but to give up besieging the Zhenwu Army and retreat.
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