Wang Shao and Li Xian had a disagreement, and it was difficult to convince each other. In the end, they had to compromise: they each led their own way and followed their plans. Wang Shao then led his troops to bypass Hezhou and attacked Dingqiang City. Unexpectedly, he attacked Jiehe Qiang with all his strength, cut off the Xixia passage, and then ordered the general to enter the Nanshan Mountain to rush. Li Xian led his troops to supervise the battle outside Hezhou City. Long before Li Xian inspected the northwest, Zhao Xu gave him a yellow flag, with seven large characters written on the flag: "Those who use their lives to defeat the thief will be rewarded."

Li Xian knew that the soldiers in the northwest were eager to Wang Shao, and the people who fought with him were not strong. So he stood at the gate of the military camp with a yellow flag before going to the expedition, and ordered the soldiers of the three armies to say, "This flag is given by the emperor. All the soldiers are fighting at the flag, just like the emperor is here to supervise the battle, and they dare not die!" The soldiers were indeed excited and swear to move forward to death. Li Xian urged the soldiers to burn all the tents built beside the mountain to show their determination to fight to the death.

He then led his army to the front line of Hezhou and launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the troops of the Dark Zheng at the city of Hezhou. This battle was so dark that the earth was dark, and both sides suffered heavy losses. Li Xian had another plan and ordered his generals to take the back and burn the felt tents of Mu Zheng and others. The Qiang people dispersed and fled to Tabai City to defend the death of them. Li Xian followed the situation and defeated the enemy, attacked Tabai in one fell swoop, and advanced to Yuchuan, breaking more than ten city walls and fortresses. Seeing that the situation was over, Mu Zheng led the remaining troops to surrender to Song Camp.

The victory of the Hezhou battle was like injecting a stimulant into Zhao Xu. The civil and military affairs of the court were also celebrated. Li Xian promoted Zhaoxuan to the envoy and Jiazhou defense envoy. After returning to the capital, he was promoted to the position of the provincial governor of the Imperial City Office, which was all favorable. Li Xian knew that the court officials were quite dissatisfied with him as the commander of the Western Frontier. In order to win Zhao Xu's favor, he did not criticize him for his excuses. He was determined to make achievements in the northwest border.

Zhao Xu then arranged for Li Xian to return to the border of Tai'an, and planned to discuss the affairs of Qin Feng and Xihe, and strictly ordered all the generals of Tai'an to obey Li Xian. The chief censor Deng Runfu, as well as the censor Zhou Yin, Cai Chengxi, Peng Ruli and others submitted memorials, believing that "the disaster of the Western Qiang is small, and the disaster of the appointment of Li Xian is large; Li Xian is small, and Li Xian is small, and Li Xian is large." He strongly opposed Li Xian's presidency of Tai'an military affairs, but because Zhao Xu was very favored and trusted Li Xian still maintained his original order, and ordered Li Xian to take office in Tai'an.

In May of the ninth year of Xining, Qiang chief Long Jibu and others led the troops to disturb the border. Qiang people surrendered to the generals of the blind siege and asked to lead troops to fight to repay the favor of the Song Dynasty's failure to kill. Li Xian's generals thought they could not agree, for fear that the blind siege would be deceitful. But Li Xian supported the blind siege and said, "What's wrong with this? Qiang people are naturally afraid of noble people. Blind siege is a noble person, so they can win." They think there is no need to be so restrained. At this moment, if the court believes in the blind siege, it will deepen his unfaithfulness towards the court. It is better to take advantage of the situation and give him a chance to repay his kindness. So he dispelled the opposition and sent the blind siege to lead troops to fight.

The blind army dressed up and set up troops opposite the Longjibu troops. Longjibu's subordinates were all scattered soldiers and brave men who gathered together temporarily. Seeing that the blind army was so majestic, they lost their fighting spirit first. The blind army swung their swords to cover the killing, and Li Xian's follow-up troops also took the opportunity to win a great victory. The chief of Longjibu also died in the chaos. This battle was Li Xian's first great victory when he returned to the northwest. Soon, another Tubo army led by Dong Jin came to surrender under the power of the Song Dynasty. The news reached the capital, and Zhao Xu naturally favored him and appointed Li Xian as the Xuanzhou Observer.

The government envoy was appointed as the deputy governor of the capital, and later moved to the Xuanqing envoy.

At that time, due to the years of military use in the Western Xia, the national finances were quite tight. The food, feed, military supplies and materials were often scarce, and the court officials were dissatisfied with this. Zhao Xu also ordered Li Xian to manage the Xihe and Qin and Feng finances. Li Xian was ordered to decisively cut 6-tenths of redundant expenses, which immediately alleviated the financial resources of the northwest. It can be said that the economy was well-organized. At the same time, in order to please Zhao Xu, Li Xian transported huge timber from the West Mountain to the capital every year to build a palace for Zhao Xu to this end. For this reason, Zhao Xu gave him a gorgeous garden in Ruipifang, the capital.

After Li Bingchang was imprisoned in the Western Xia Dynasty, the country was in chaos. Yu Zanghuama, the commander of the Western Xia Dynasty, asked the Song Dynasty to send troops to attack the Queen Mother Liang in the name of Li Bingchang's imprisonment. The Song Dynasty believed that this was a rare opportunity to use troops against the Western Xia, so Zhao Xu wrote the order to attack Xia in his pen and prepared to launch a five-way army to attack Xixia. Li Xian not only participated in the matter, but was also appointed as the commander of the five-way line, with the heavy power to control all the lines.

After hearing Zhao Xu's words, Sun Gu said angrily: "The great thing about attacking Xia, but a eunuch was the commander. Are the soldiers really willing to obey orders?" Zhao Xu was furious and very unhappy when he heard this. Sun Gu knew that it was inconvenient to continue to persuade him, so he withdrew. Soon Wang Gui, Cai Que and others agreed on a plan to set out the five-way division.

Sun Gu asked Lu Gongzhu to give advice again, and Sun Gu first made a comment: "Now we are discussing the advance of the five ranks of troops, but there is no commander of the commander. Even if we can succeed, it will lead to chaos." Zhao Xu said: "Since there is no commander inside and outside, we have to not set up a commander." Lu Gongzhu also advised: "Since there is no commander, it is better to stop the army." Sun Gu said again: "Your Majesty is saying very much. Please accept it!" Zhao Xu said with a calm face: "I have decided, so you don't have to say much." Sun Gu, Lu Gongzhu, was disappointed and had to leave the court.

Zhao Xu then ordered Li Xian to leave the Xihe River, Zhong Yan to leave the Fuyan, Gao Zunyu to leave Huanqing, Liu Changzuo to leave Jingyuan, and Wang Zhongzheng to leave Hedong, and adopted the method of division and joint attack. Zhao Xu also issued an edict to the Tubo leader Dong Wen to lead his troops to fight, so the drums were loud and the teeth flags covered the sun, and a great war was imminent. When the Queen Mother of Liang of the Western Xia heard the news that the Song Dynasty was preparing to make a big move, he hurriedly dispatched the military supervisors who could control, and was resisted by the Grand Marshal Liang Yongneng.

In order to pacify the Western Xia in one fell swoop, Zhao Xu almost used the old foundation of the Song Dynasty. Li Xian, the governor of Xihe Road, led his troops out of Xihe River, Zhong Yan, the governor of Fuyan Road, led his troops out of Fuyan, Gao Zunyu, the governor of Huanqing Road, led his troops out of Huanqing, Liu Changzuo, the deputy governor of Jingyuan Road, led his troops out of Jingyuan, and Wang Zhongzheng, the governor of Hedong Road, led his troops out of Hedong. The five armies, with a total of more than 500,000 troops, besieged Xixia in a mighty manner.

The Song army's plan was: Jingyuan, Huanqing and the two routes of Jingyuan first took Lingzhou, then Xingzhou directly. Hedong and Fuyan met with Xiazhou, then Huaizhou, and finally headed straight to Xingzhou, trying to pacify the Western Xia in one fell swoop. There was also a clear statement in Zhao Xu's edict to Li Xian, saying: "This military use is not an ordinary war, but an intention to pacify Xiang Qiang. This is not a small matter. If the general and soldiers are not united, how can they win? Therefore, they should not spare the title and reward to encourage the soldiers of the three armies and make a plan in one fell swoop!"

Li Xian led the seven armies of Xiqin and Dong Wen's 30,000 troops and horses to enter the territory of Xixia first. The leader of Xixia, Eboduo, who was stationed in the Xixia Xicheng City, surrendered at the news. Liang Qibang, the younger brother of the Queen Mother of Liang of Xixia, sent tens of thousands of troops to reinforce the Xixia.

The city. Halfway through the way, he heard the news that Eboduo surrendered to the Song Dynasty, so he had to retreat to Kangu City. Kangu City was one of the granaries of the Western Xia. After Li Xian occupied the Xijun City, he took advantage of the victory to advance to Kangu City and won a great victory, so the city was changed into a village.

The large amount of grain stored in it was captured by the Song army, and there were countless weapons such as bows and arrows. Li Xian had won the first merit of attacking Xia. Then, he sent his deputy general to guard the place and then led his troops to capture Lanzhou west. At the time of victory, Li Xian submitted a memorial to Zhao Xu in Lanzhou, requesting the construction of Lanzhou City to establish a general's mansion to shock the Western Xia.

At the same time, Junyan General Manager Zhong Yan led his troops to defeat the 80,000 troops of Liang Yongneng of Western Xia in Mizhizhai. Then, he successively conquered the three major towns of Shizhou, Xiazhou and Yinzhou. Gao Zunyu, the Huanqing General, also forced the surrender of Wei Minge, the commander of the Qingyuan Army of Western Xia. The Hedong General Manager Wang Zhongzheng was slow because he was covered with sand dunes and swamps all the way. However, after he arrived in Youzhou, the Xia soldiers also fled.

After the Song army entered the city, they killed more than 500 households in the city. After Liu Changzha, deputy general manager of Jingyuan, entered Xixia, and fought a decisive battle with the Xia army in Huluhe. However, with his sharpness, he rushed over. The Xia army was defeated and fled back to Lingzhou. As a result, the leader of the Xia people's Congress, Wu Washa, and the army supervisor Liang Gewei was killed. Liang Qibu's nephew Qibu's nephew Qiduomian were captured. Liu Changzuo took advantage of the victory to attack Wushazhou and obtained more than one million stone grains from the Western Xia treasury.

The good news from the five armies was sent to the capital one after another. Zhao Xu was very happy to learn that he immediately issued an edict to lead Li Xiantong to directly destroy the capital of Xixia. However, shortly after the edict was issued, Zhao Xu received the news of defeat. The soldiers from all walks of life were either drowned, frozen to death, and starved to death. The remaining some tired soldiers who were about to die, lucky enough to save their lives and fled back in a panic.

The Xixia army was defeated again and again. Empress Dowager Liang summoned all the generals to discuss defense methods. The young and energetic soldiers were all in charge of fighting. The veteran general Wei Mingling Gong did not agree with it. He only offered his own advice: "The Song army is coming from afar, and the advantage is to fight quickly. Our army does not have to be tough and resist the enemy. We can use a strong wall to clear the field and lure him into the depths. At the same time, we gathered soldiers in Lingxia, ready to wait for work, and then sent light cavalry to copy the enemy's back and cut off his salary. He was trapped without fighting, and he was afraid that he would not have time to retreat." Empress Dowager Liang was overjoyed and decisively adopted this suggestion, mobilizing a 100,000 army of the 12 Military Supervisory Office to focus on defending the key areas of Xingzhou.

Therefore, when the Song army advanced side by side, the Xia army did not fight with them, and most of them retreated. When Liu Changzuo led his army 50,000 to attack the city of Lingzhou first, Gao Zunyu also led his troops to arrive. Just as Liu Changzuo was about to enter the city, Gao Zunyu was afraid that Liu Changzuo would take the lead in this military achievements, so he used the power to control Liu Changzuo to prevent Liu Changzuo from attacking Lingzhou and decided on the so-called plan to encircle Lingzhou.

At that time, Zhao Xu was also very afraid that Liu was the only one who went deep into Xing. The two prefectures of Ling were unexpected. Li Xian was urgently ordered to lead heavy troops and escort food and grass from Lanzhou to Xing and Lingzhou. Dong Jin also led the Tubo army to assist in the journey, thinking that they were backing up. However, at this time, Li Xian was devoted to establishing the Lanzhou General Mansion and was not very interested in leading heavy troops to reinforce. On the way to Xing and Lingzhou, Li Xian mistakenly decided to break through Tiandu Mountain and burned the Nanmu Nei Palace and all the museums of the Xixia, forcing the Xixia commander Xingduliding to retreat to the Hulu River Basin. Then Li Xian returned to Lanzhou.
Chapter completed!