In the early winter of the seventh year of Fusheng Chengdao, a rare snowstorm fell in the north of China, this rare snowstorm brought heavy disasters to the Liao and Xia countries located in the north, and the northern region of the Great Song Dynasty was also attacked by the blizzard, but the loss was much smaller for the Great Song Dynasty, which was an agricultural civilization.
The rare snowstorm disrupted Li Liangzuo's calm heart, after the heavy snowfall, the entire Xingqing Mansion and even the entire Xixia Kingdom were dressed in silver, facing the beautiful snow scene, Li Liangzuo did not look happy at all, Li Liangzuo was worried about the people of Xixia, in this era of scarcity of living materials, the snowstorm often means a large number of deaths of the people.
"Newspaper, newspaper, newspaper, newspaper, newspaper" An urgent report broke the peace of the court.
"Spread my will, and convene the ministers of civil and military affairs at all levels to enter the palace immediately to discuss matters."
Li Liangzuo said anxiously.
This matter had to make Li Liangzuo anxious, just got the border pass emergency report, the Liao State Emperor Uncle, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses Yelu Chongyuan, from Xijing Datong Mansion led the Liao State elite iron cavalry 150,000 troops have arrived in Montenegro, at any time may attack the northeast of the Western Xia important town of Era Ha City.
"All of you Aiqing, the army of the Liao State is pressing, let's talk about it, how should we deal with it," Li Liangzuo asked the ministers.
Wu Zang Pang first stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that we should send someone to negotiate peace with the Liao State, the Liao State has many generals, we are afraid that we are not opponents, please think twice." ” "The minister seconded the proposal, please think twice" "The minister also seconded the proposal, please think twice" "The minister also seconded the proposal, please think twice" Li Liangzuo looked around, and in the entire court, most of the people agreed to make peace with the Liao State, and even the emperor's uncle and Ge Ningling did not make any objections; The invasion of foreign enemies did not want to deal with the enemy, but thinking about negotiating peace, Li Liangzuo suddenly felt that the current subjects of Western Xia had lost their blood, and a country with an upper-level ruler without blood, was destined to be impossible to develop in the long run.
Li Liangzuo forced his composure and said to the ministers: "Since all the Aiqing agree to negotiate peace, I don't have too many opinions, but I can't let me go in person to negotiate peace, since the prime minister takes the lead in negotiating peace, then the minister of state will lead all the Aiqing who want to negotiate peace to Liao State to negotiate peace."
I didn't hide the slander Pang didn't expect Li Liangzuo to say this, everyone knows that Xia and Liao have not dealt with each other too much in recent years, and now going to the Liao State to negotiate peace is almost equivalent to sending him to death, and if he doesn't hide it, Pang is naturally impossible to be willing to take risks in person.
So he didn't hide it and said to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, the old minister has recently suffered from a leg disease again, and the doctor said that it is not easy to travel far, and the old minister may not be able to do anything about this peace discussion."
"Oh, since Xiangguo has a leg disease, let's go home to recuperate, and leave the affairs of the court to the imperial uncle," Li Liangzuo got off the donkey and confiscated the right to hide the false Pang back.
Li Liangzuo didn't bother to hide Pang, but said to the ministers: "The rest of the Aiqing who plan to negotiate peace, who of you are willing to go to the Liao State to negotiate peace for me?"
The ministers standing below are not stupid, listening to Li Liangzuo say so much, he knows that the emperor is unwilling to negotiate peace with the Liao State, if he insists on estimating, it will be the same fate as not hiding the false Pang, so the ministers immediately changed their words and all obeyed Li Liangzuo's decision.
Li Liangzuo liked this feeling of the supremacy of imperial power more and more, and understood that the enemy's ministers had already submitted to him, so Li Liangzuo said to the ministers: "Since all the Aiqing do not agree to negotiate peace, then there is only a war with the Liao State. ” As soon as Li Liangzuo's voice fell, Ge Ningling objected: "Your Majesty, you are the Son of Heaven, and this expedition should be handed over to Weichen."
Li Liangzuo insisted: "My mind has been decided, so don't persuade the emperor; It is said that I will transfer 50,000 troops from the camp of Xingqing Mansion, and I will swear to go on the expedition early tomorrow morning. ” "Obey the Order" In the early morning of the next day, the Xia army was in the camp of Xingqing Mansion.
Li Liangzuo was wearing armor and was reviewing the army on this expedition, standing on the school platform and looking at the edge, there was a large area of 50,000 black oppression, including 3,000 heavy armored cavalry iron harriers, 40,000 light cavalry and 7,000 crossbowmen.
The Iron Harrier is the ace army of the Western Xia, and the heavy cavalry of the entire Western Xia is only more than 5,000 people, of which 3,000 are stationed in Xingqing Mansion, and the Jianing Military Division in the southern frontier is stationed with 1,000 to defend the Song Dynasty, and 1,000 are stationed in the northern city of Huluo to defend against the Liao State; The Iron Harrier was equipped with the most advanced cold-forged armor at that time, which could be used to defend against bows and arrows, as well as knives and guns, and it could be said to be an invincible army.
The seven thousand crossbowmen were all armed with divine arm bows, with a range of between two hundred and forty and three hundred paces, far more than other bows and arrows at the same time, and the dense rain of arrows happened to be the nemesis of the cavalry.
After reviewing this elite army, Li Liangzuo embarked on the first journey of two lives, Li Liangzuo led the army along the Yellow River to the north, across the Hetao Plain, because all the cavalry troops took only three days, Li Liangzuo was located in the northeast border of the Western Xia fortress of the city of Huluo.
The city is the station of the Weifu military division of Montenegro, the city is located between the ancient Great Wall of Daqing Mountain between Yinshan Mountain and Wolf Mountain, the city of Luohao is built on a mountain pass, it is the road of the Liao army to attack Western Xia from the northeast direction, at this time the 150,000 troops led by Yelu Chongyuan have been encamped not far from the city of Luo.
The whole city is square, there is a city gate in the middle of the south wall and the east wall of the city, there is an urn city outside the door, the whole city is a military fortress, this city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is a large city in the northeast of Western Xia.
"The last general will gather spicy thoughts to meet Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live."
The general of the city of Yuluo saluted Li Liangzuo.
"Aiqing, excuse me, tell me about the situation on the front line," Li Liangzuo asked Ji Lasiyi.
Ji La Siyi immediately reported: "A heavy snowfall at the beginning of this winter, most of the cattle and sheep of the Liao people froze to death, this time the Liao army attacked us mainly to plunder grain and grass, so their logistics supply is also insufficient, before the arrival of His Majesty, the last general has ordered to shrink the force and gather all the troops in the city; In addition, this time the Liao army attacked, in addition to the 150,000 elite Liao army led by Yelu Chongyuan, there were also 50,000 tribal cavalry of Bai Dadan's department, so the Liao army outside the city was about 200,000, but so far the Liao army has not attacked the city, according to the last general, they plan to ask us to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle. ” "The enemy army has 200,000, and our army only has 80,000, which is more than double the difference, it seems that this battle is not easy to fight, do you generals have any opinions on this battle?"
asked Li Liangzuo to everyone.
"Your Majesty, the last general suggested that we stick to the city, although our army's attack is insufficient, but the defense is more than enough."
A lieutenant general suggested.
Li Liangzuo pondered for a while and said: "Once the Liao army besieges the city, then we will not be trapped in the city, the Liao army only needs to surround us with a small part, and their main army can drive straight into the Hetao area, and the losses will be incalculable at that time, so even if we want to defend, we can't defend passively." ”: