Time let's go back to a month ago, Song Liao joined forces to attack Xia was not a whim, but a long-term planned conspiracy, because all the attention of the Great Xia Empire was focused on the battlefield in the Western Regions, so the Song and Liao naturally relaxed their vigilance, until a few days before the Song and Liao attack, Wuzang Feixue received a secret report that a large number of Chen soldiers and border areas between Song and Liao and the two countries, and Wuzang Feixue immediately realized that the big thing was not good, and asked the ministers to come to discuss.
The final plan was to negotiate peace with the two countries on the one hand, and actively prepare for war on the other; But the envoys sent to the peace talks have not yet set off, the war began, the Song army from the west from the northwest of Longxi to the Jinning army sent a fierce attack to the Great Xia State in five ways, while the Liao army was divided into two routes, the East Route Army stationed troops outside Jinzhou City, the Anton Army of the Great Xia Empire was blocked outside the pass, and the West Route Army set out from Xijin Mansion to march westward, and for a time the Song-Xia and Song-Liao border areas were full of smoke and war. 1086 A.D., early autumn; Originally, Zhao Ji, the Song Shenzong who died of grief and anger because of the failure of the Xia Dynasty, not only did not die now due to Li Liangzuo's butterfly effect, but also ambitiously prepared to destroy the Great Xia Empire; Song Shenzong is not blindly confident, for this battle the entire Great Song Empire has been secretly preparing for decades, from the time when Taizu founded the Great Song Empire, the destruction of Western Xia has been the top priority; After Song Shenzong ascended the throne, he reused Wang Anshi and a large number of other virtuous ministers to implement the reform, and today's Great Song Dynasty is no longer the Great Song Dynasty for more than ten years.
After Wang Anshi's reforms, the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty has been very full, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty have lived a more prosperous and healthy life; In order to prepare for this great war in the military aspect, the Great Song Dynasty also secretly and actively prepared for war, and trained 500,000 new troops in the depths of the Dabie Mountain, and at the same time stored tens of millions of stones, grains and grass, weapons, arrows, and armor in the Guanzhong area.
A total of 600,000 troops were dispatched in the early stage of the Great Song Dynasty, including 500,000 new troops and 100,000 elite Western troops, and the Song army was mainly infantry, but in order to restrain the cavalry combat mode of the Xia army, the Song army was equipped with a lot of bows and crossbows, which was definitely a big killer for the cavalry in the field.
The 600,000-strong army of the Song army was divided into five routes: The first route was Zhang Dunli's 100,000-strong army from Longxi to attack Lanzhou, Liangzhou, Huangzhou, Xining and other places, and its combat purpose was to occupy Hehuang and Liangzhou, Hehuang was an important grain producing area of the Great Xia Empire in the south, and Liangzhou was the way for the main force of the Xia army to return to China.
The second road army was led by the seed master road, the strength of the army was 150,000, this road army set out from the Zhenrong army to attack Weizhou, Xiping Mansion, its combat purpose was to cut off the grain route of the Xia army's frontline soldiers and horses from the back road, and after attacking Xiping Mansion, you can directly threaten Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Great Xia Empire.
The Third Route Army was led by Xu Xi with a strength of 150,000, and the Army set out from Yan'an to attack Hongzhou, Youzhou and other places, with the aim of annihilating the Xia Army stationed in the border area, and building cities and camps in this area to provide material transfer for the army on the front line.
The Fourth Route Army was led by Liu Changzuo, with a strength of 100,000, and the army here set out from the Ningjin Army all the way west to attack Yinzhou, Shizhou, Xiazhou and other places, and the Third Route Army joined forces in this area.
The Fifth Route Army, led by Li Xian, with a total of 100,000 troops, set out from the Baode Army and attacked Ningbian Prefecture, Dongshengzhou, Heqing Army, Jinsu Army, Shuozhou, Wuzhou and other places in the north, assisting the Liao Army to cut off the connection between the Datong Army and the rear of the Great Xia Kingdom, and its strategic purpose was to seize the western region of Youyun Sixteen Prefectures for the Great Song Dynasty.
The Xia Army's five-way army has a clear division of labor and strong troops, as long as it is properly coordinated, there is no problem in sweeping the Great Xia Kingdom, and in addition to the 600,000 troops, the Great Song Empire in order to ensure the logistics supply of the 600,000 army, also requisitioned nearly two million people to transport strategic materials such as grain, grass, weapons, and clothing for the front-line army, and the living standard of the Great Song Army during this period is just like the American army during World War II, even the front-line army lives quite nourishingly, It is no exaggeration to say that the logistical supply of the Song army is definitely the most abundant in this era, all of which stems from the strong national strength of the Great Song Empire.
Although the Song army was mainly infantry, the advance speed was not slow in a month, of course, a very important reason for this was because of the lack of strength of the Xia army, coupled with the sudden improper command of the incident, which caused the Song army to win successive battles; In the course of a month, the Great Xia Empire suffered heavy losses, the border towns were lost one after another, the defense line was defeated one after another, and the road from the southeast border to Xiping Province was full of refugees fleeing.
In the palace of Xingqing Mansion, the Empress did not hide Feixue and summoned several important ministers of the empire, including the King of Chu Wei Ge Ning Ling, the Executive Yuan envoy Zhou Wentai, the Military Affairs Yuan envoy Ji La Siyi, the deputy military envoy Yang Shousu, the judicial envoy Gao Huaizheng, the director of the Finance Department Zhou Shengcai, the director of the Supervision Department Mao Huaichang, and the director of the Farmland and Water Conservancy Department Nuo Yixiandu; These eight people are important pillars of the Great Xia Empire, and half of them are old guys who are about to be cut into the ground.
Wuzang Feixue sat on the phoenix chair on the left side of Li Liangzuo's dragon chair and said to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, you are all the pillars of the empire, and now the empire has been attacked by the Liao and Song dynasties, although the palace has asked Your Majesty for help, but Your Majesty's reinforcements are impossible to arrive in a short time, so we need to rely on ourselves to resist the attack of the Song and Liao countries; The palace has just received a military report that the Song army is approaching Xiping Mansion; In the past month, the Song army has frequently succeeded, the frontier towns of the empire, such as Yinzhou, Shizhou, Xiazhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou, Weizhou and other places have been lost one after another, our army has suffered heavy losses, the southeast region of the empire has all fallen, hundreds of thousands of people have been driven out of their homes and miserable, and now Xiping Mansion has become the last line of defense to defend the Beijing Division, and the palace decided to personally lead the troops to Xiping Mansion to sit in town. ” "The queen is a daughter, how can she be in danger, there are still micro-ministers to go," Zhou Wentai got up and said to Wuzang Feixue.
"The palace has made up its mind, Lord Zhou does not have to have the right anymore, and the palace is not going alone, in this month's time, the 50,000 female soldiers recruited by the palace have been trained and resigned from the army called Ma Kui, and the palace will personally lead the 50,000 Ma Kui army to Xiping Mansion; In addition, there is a reluctant invitation from the palace, I want to invite the old general Jila to go to Datong to defend the attack of the Liao State, and the old general Nuo moved to Zhenzhou to guard the grassland, and asked the imperial uncle to sit in Beijing to supervise the country on behalf of the palace. ” As soon as Feixue's words fell, Brother Ning Ling objected: "Xiping Mansion was the residence of this king back then, and this king is familiar with where he is, no matter what, this king has to go." ” "Since the imperial uncle insists, then please ask the imperial uncle to go with me to unify it, after the palace leaves, all the affairs of the capital division will be handled by Lord Zhou, and please work together to tide over the difficulties, this palace is here to thank you."
After speaking, he didn't hide Feixue and bowed deeply to everyone, and the ministers didn't dare to do it.
The Makui army existed in the period of Li Yuanhao, due to the sparse population of the Western Xia, so there was often a shortage of soldiers, the use of female soldiers can effectively alleviate the phenomenon of insufficient soldiers, the Makui army of the Great Xia Empire is not a vase wearing military uniforms, these strong women of the Great Xia Empire are brave and martial, good at riding and shooting, this is the first time in Chinese history that women are allowed to legally enlist in the army.
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