In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, the Song army attacked Xia in five directions. Zhe Keshi was appointed deputy army of Fuyan and recovered Mizhi. He escorted food and grass from Anding Fort to the front line and defeated Xia ambushing troops at Putao Mountain. The next year, he followed Shen Kuo's general Qu Zhen to attack Jintang City in Xixia, and won a great victory, conquered Jintang, and seized Jialu. Because of his outstanding achievements, he was promoted to the leader of Hongde Village. After the battle of Hongde City, Zhe Keshi was promoted to the commander of Huanqing Military and Horses, Ningzhou, and Minzhou.

In the eighth year of Yuanyou, the Song court re-mobilized the personnel arrangements of the frontiers of Shaanxi. Lu Huiqing became the governor of Fuyan Road, and Sun Lu was appointed as the governor of Hedong Road. The military general Wang Wenyu became the governor of Xihe Road, and Zhang Qi served as the governor of Jingyuan Road. The court also dismissed Han Zhongyan and his supporters and established a wartime government and theater command system.

In the same year, the Song army entered the Xia territory, and the Xixia sent troops to control the Shenliudui. The Song army fought with the Xia army, defeated the Xia army, captured Youzhou, and the Western Xia cavalry went to aid. The Song army stationed in the Great Wall Ridge. The Xia army challenged many times, but the Song army did not respond. When the Xia army was exhausted, the Song army sent troops to fight, and the Xia army was defeated. In the third year of Shaosheng, Lu Huiqing organized fourteen small-scale attacks within fifty days, which even more angered the Xixia.

Li Ganshun of the Western Xia and his mother, Empress Dowager Liang, led 500,000 troops to invade, intending to defeat the Song army on Fuyan Road. They invaded Fuyan, from Shunning Zhao'an Village in the west, from Heishui, Anding, and Saimen, Long'an and Jinming to 200 miles south of Jinming, and there were endless beacons. Li Ganshun and his son personally supervised the war drums and plundered the cavalry everywhere. The front team attacked Jin Ming, and the back team stationed in Long'an.

The Song general mobilized the border troops and attacked the Xia army, but was defeated. Jin Ming was eventually captured, with 2,500 defenders, most of whom died in battle, and only five escaped. The 50,000 stones of grain and 100,000 buns of grass in the city were all taken away by the Xia army, and the general Zhang Yu was killed in battle. At that time, Lu Huiqing was transferred to the position of the General of the Fuyan General, so he asked all the troops to send troops to aid Jin Ming.

Soon, Lu Huiqing received reinforcements. He reorganized the troops into twenty-two troops. He retained half of the troops in Yan'an Prefecture, while the rest were stationed near Yan'an Prefecture. Seeing that the Song army was tightly defended, the Western Xia army knew that it would be difficult to capture Yan'an Prefecture in a short time. They were worried that the way back would be cut off, so they had to retreat. The Song army took the opportunity to attack, defeated the Xia army, and captured Jialu.

At the same time, the Xihe Road Jingliu Office began to build the fortifications of the Nuzhe Valley to protect the only route that runs from faraway troops to Lanzhou. As early as the second year of Shaosheng, Zhao Xu ordered the construction of a fortress at this site where the former Xixia garrison was stationed. When Xixia concentrated its forces to attack Fuyan Road, the Xihe Road Jingliu Office took the opportunity to build a fortress in this valley and stretched to the right wing of the Xihe River border. At the same time, a Jingyuan army raided the Xixia Fortress in Wuyan Gorge and seized the important way to Tiandu Mountain. The Xixia army invaded Fuyan Road and retreated without success. Zhang Ju accelerated the Hulu River strategy and arrived at Tiandu Mountain.

At the beginning of the fourth year of Shaosheng, Zhang Qing prepared the materials for the construction of the city and asked the rest of the troops to feint the attack to distract the attention of the Xixia army. Lu Huiqing ordered a general to send troops to plunder Hongzhou on Hengshan; Sun Lu sent troops to temporarily occupy Yanzhou. At the same time, the Xihe Road Administration sent Zhong Fu to expand the periphery of Lanzhou, build Jincheng Pass on the north bank of the Yellow River, and threaten the right wing soldiers of Xixia. Xixia mobilized six of the twelve military supervisors, led by the famous general Mei Ledu, to deal with the Song army.

The two armies fought at the gate of Tiandu Mountain near Shimenkou. Before the war, Zhang Qing obtained support from Xihe, Huanqing and Qin Feng. Xihe defeated the Xixia army along the route.

Three thousand beheaded and more than 30,000 were captured. However, Zhe Keshi lost 2,000 people when he was chasing the Western Xia army in Wuyanxia. When the Song army built the Shimen City and Haoshui River, they further controlled the nearby favorable areas. After completion, the two cities were named Pingxia City and Lingpingzhai.

Due to the defeat of the Western Xia army, the fifth route of Shaanxi recovered the fortress that had been lost since the eighth year of Yuanfeng and built a series of defensive fortifications in Xixia. Hedong Road retrieved Jialu Village at the beginning of the third year of Shaosheng and built Shenquan Village in the first year of Yuanfu. After the completion of Sanjiao Fort, it formed a triangular defense line with the above two villages. Fuyan Road consolidated the defense of Wuding River and Dali River and occupied the strategic area in the eastern part of Hengshan.

Lu Huiqing strengthened the defense of Wuyankou, which was the key way for the Xia people to invade Yan'an Prefecture. He quickly built Futu Village and two other fortresses in the Dali River, controlled the watershed between Wuding River and Dali River, and built another fortress outside Wuyankou, threatening the farmland of the Xia people. Lu Huiqing ordered his troops to launch a large-scale cross-border attack, and appointed troops to build Mizhi Village, Kaiguang Village, etc. As a result, a total of nine fortresses were completed on Fuyan Road, and the border connecting the Linfu Road was directly connected.

Huanqing Road obtained the stronghold from Baimachuan to Lingzhou, and built Xingping City as a stepping stone to attack the Weizhou Military Supervisory Office of the Western Xia Dynasty. At the same time, Sun Lu ordered the construction of Hengshan City on the mountain highlands. After the fortifications were completed, the Dangxiang tribe gradually surrendered. Therefore, Sun Lu only needed to mobilize the Xiang army and Baojia, without recruiting militias or hiring hard labor.

Jingyuan Road built four cities near Pingxia City, and fully controlled the west bank of Shimen City and Hulu River. Then, Zhang Shi recommended his subordinate Guo Cheng as the commander of the office. Zhang Shi ordered the troops to advance for 60 miles, build two fortresses at the entrance and exit of Wuyan Gorge, blocking the route of Xixia's invasion from Tiandu Mountain.

Faced with the Song army's pressing step by step, the Xia army sent troops to defeat the Song army. The Song army took advantage of the opportunity to break through the Wuyanxia Village and beheaded more than 3,000. The Xia army attacked Suide and 60,000 attacked Linzhou, all of which were defeated by the Song army. Jialu City was completed and the Xia army was besieged for six days. The Song army reinforcements arrived, but the Xia army could not defeat them and retreated to Changbochuan. The Song army entered the boundary and beheaded more than 2,000. Song Zhezong consulted good strategies for the border situation, and Zhang Zhi wrote a letter and proposed to build a castle in the Hulu River, occupying a favorable situation and approached the Western Xia.

Prime Minister Zhang Dun received this book, which was called a strange plan, and asked Emperor Zhezong to implement it according to the proposal. Zhang Ju then ordered the four groups of people, including Xihe, Qin Feng, Huanqing and Fuyan, to show weakness. He personally led the four groups of troops out of the Hulu River. After twenty days, he personally led his troops to build two city walls; one was at the mouth of the Shimenxia River and the other was on the north side of Haoshui River.

When the two cities were just built, the Xia army attacked Lingpingzhai. Zhang Qi used the rampant Xia soldiers to discuss Lingpinghui, guarding Jingyuan. He ordered Zhong Chuan and his general Miao Lu to lead the city, and the Western Xia sent troops to fight. Zhang Qi's general Zhong Chuan led 20,000 infantry and cavalry, accidentally crossed the river to reinforce, conquered Jincheng Pass, and conquered it. The Xia army was defeated. Then more than 100,000 Xia troops attacked Pingxia City. Zhang Qi defeated the Xia army again, beheaded more than 3,000 people, and captured more than 30,000 people.

When the Song army fought fiercely with the Xia army, Zhang Qing commanded the Song army to attack Xixia, surrounded Hongzhou, defeated the Xixia reinforcements Weimingji, and captured Hongzhou. Then the Huanqing, Fuyan, Hedong, Xihe and other cities were built. Xixia was deeply surprised by this, but did not dare to act rashly, and the border defense of the Song Dynasty was consolidated. Later, various Song troops followed suit and built more than 50 cities in key areas. The court was granted the title of Zhang Qing to the Left Court to the Court.

Direct Bachelor of Privy Council.

The commander of the Fuyan General Lu Huiqing sent a memorial to ask the various troops to join forces to attack Xixia. Zhezong immediately approved it and ordered the army in Hedong and around Qing to obey Lu Huiqing's control. Lv Huiqing sent general Wang Min to capture Youzhou, and then asked to build Weirong and Weizhen cities. The Song army then attacked Xixia, defeated Xia's defenders, and surrounded Xiazhou. Zhezong was very happy to receive the revenge and issued an edict to advance to Lu Huiqing's silver and purple light and wealthy official, and the rest of the generals and soldiers who built the city were awarded the titles and rewards.

The Song army attacked Xiazhou and fought with the Xia army. Weiming Qile was defeated and lost tens of thousands of ways. At the same time, Zhang Yue successively captured Huizhou, Yanzhou, Lanzhou and other places, established Xi'anzhou in Nanmuhui and Jinning army in Jialuzhai. Songxia used the desert as the boundary, and Qinzhou became the mainland, with a territory of more than 1,000 miles, connected from beginning to end. From then on, Xixia lost the initiative.

In the first year of Yuanfu, Xixia showed the wish for peace through the Uighur mission, but the Song court did not have high hopes for the role played by the diplomatic office. By the end of the year, Xixia launched an unprecedented fierce offensive towards Pingxia City, which "looks on the largest bases and Guo Cheng knows the most." During this expedition, Empress Dowager Liang took Li Ganshun to command it himself, claiming that he mobilized more than one million troops to advance to Wuyanxia, ​​and carefully concealed the combat targets.

The six-way commander Wei Ming Abang was responsible for surrounding Pingxia City, while the Xishou Supervisor Si Meile Dubu led the intercepting troops to deal with the Song Dynasty reinforcements. Under their command, the Xixia army surrounded six newly built Song army fortresses at the same time, four were near Pingxia City, and the remaining two were in Wuyan Gorge. They attacked Pingxia City day and night.

During the thirteen-day siege, the Xixia army used different tactics, including digging tunnels, rushing and attacking the building car. However, Pingxia City remained unmoved. Empress Dowager Liang was almost crazy. During the day, her soldiers died in groups of Pingxia City, and at night, the Pingxia City defenders kept sending troops to harass them, and the Xixia people could not sleep.

The left and right wings of the frontier defenders of the Song army in Shaanxi responded immediately. Hedong Road went deep into Xixia to counterattack, and the deputy governor of Xihe Road Wang Min attacked Zhuoluo Military Supervisor and Xiang Military Supervisor, killing 1,300 enemies, capturing 24,000 cattle, and burning farmhouses and warehouses within a radius of 700 miles. Before learning about the siege of Pingxia City, the Privy Council had ordered Huanqing Road to send 10,000 troops, including 3,000 cavalry, to head to Jingyuan Road as a strategic reserve team, led by Zhong Yan's son and general Zhongpu. At the same time, Qinfeng Road also sent a considerable number of troops. After determining that the target of Xixia was Pingxia City, the court urged Huanqing and Qinfeng Road to provide more support. A coalition force led by Wang En, the deputy commander, appeared on Jingyuan Road and marched towards Pingxia City.

Although the Song army in Pingxia City had only 20,000 people, they fought stubbornly under the leadership of Guo Cheng and Zhe Keshi. They used the divine arm bow on the city wall and disturbed the enemy at night. When Pingxia City was in critical survival, Guo Zude, an officer from Jingyuan Road, was Guo Cheng's brother-in-law, and suggested that the siege of Pingxia City be lifted regardless of any price. The deputy capital deployed Wang En and general Yao Xiong. Yao Gudu agreed unanimously, but Zhong Pu proposed to delay the counterattack. He asked Guo Zude to reconnaissance the enemy's forces and explained in detail to everyone present: the husband Ying was alone in fighting against the thieves, and the firm hearts of the soldiers were reinforcements. Now that we are outnumbered, we won the battle, and the siege may not be lifted. Unfortunately, the thieves drove away and the soldiers were disintegrated. Who would be the guard? And Mr. Guo is here, why worry about the city?

As Zhong Pu predicted, in Pingxia City, due to the tenacious resistance of Guo Cheng and Zhe Keshi, the Western Xia army not only did not make any progress, but instead suffered heavy casualties and had low morale.
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