One night, a strong wind suddenly broke out. The strong wind blew down the battle tower of the Xixia army, blew away the tent, and made the Xixia Baili camp turn into a fire dragon. In addition, the food route of the Xixia army was intercepted, and the entire army was exhausted. Seeing that the entire army was in panic, Empress Dowager Liang cried loudly and had to order a retreat.

Just as the morale of the Western Xia army was declining, Yao Xiong and Yao Gu of the Song army launched a counterattack and sent an ambush to severely damage the enemy. The Western Xia army was defeated. Empress Dowager Liang gathered the defeated troops, but was still unwilling to give up. She thought that Zhang Shi had put all his troops in Pingxia City, and other places would have been empty in defense. So she took a desperate bet and led the army to attack the Zhenrong army to grab food and grass. Unexpectedly, Zhang Shi learned the news, so he set up an ambush. He was ten miles outside the city, ambushing the army waiting.

Zhang Qushi ordered Zhe Keshi to lead the front army and lure the enemy forward. He was only allowed to defeat but not win. The Western Xia general Wei Ming Ali has always been brave and came enthusiastically with some brute force. Zhe Keshi led his army to intercept him. After a few rounds, he hurriedly pulled out his horse and returned. Wei Ming Ali didn't know that it was a plan and led his army to chase him. The Xixia army supervisor Le Du, who heard that the vanguard was victorious, hurriedly led his troops to come with him. Zhang Qushi looked out from the mountain and saw that the Xia soldiers were lured by Zhe Keshi and had already reached the second level of ambush. He immediately ignited the cannon and a loud bang. The ambushers rose up and rushed the Xia soldiers into several sections.

Wei Ming Ali didn't know how to live or die, so he just danced a big sword and slammed the world. The Song army struggled to take it, but he couldn't get close to him for a while. Zhang Qi ordered the crossbowmen to inject the arrows together, and the arrows were like locusts. Although Xia Xianfeng was extremely powerful, he could not stand several feathered arrows. He was immediately caught and captured by the Song army. Mei Le was surrounded by the third ambush, and he sacrificed his life to conflict, so he could not escape. He had to be captured. Xia's army was defeated and more than half died. Mrs. Liang had to withdraw his troops.

Shortly after the Western Xia army retreated, Zhang Qi sent Zhe Keshi to launch a counterattack and infiltrated into Tiandu Mountain. Zhe Keshi sent troops in the middle of the night, and the troops were divided into two groups. Deputy General Yang Weizhong went straight to the enemy camp. The Xia army was still sleeping and became all prisoners. This battle captured more than 3,000 people, occupied Tiandu Mountain, and built Tiandu Fort in Tiandu Mountain. This place is at the junction of Xihe Road and Qinfeng Road. It is a place where the Xia people grazed, and military and geographical advantages are very important.

At the same time, the Song army general Li Zhongjie also organized cavalry to infiltrate the Shanzi Mountain and attacked the base camp of the Zhuoluo Military Supervisor. The commander Ren Baozhong was only exempted from his own life. Zhang Fengfei wrote a book to win, and Zhezong was overjoyed and accepted the celebrations of all officials in Zichen Hall, and rewarded Zeng Bu, Zhang Yue and two generals with great rewards. Guo Cheng was promoted to Xiongzhou Defense Envoy, and Zhe Keshi was the defense envoy of Jizhou. In addition, Zhezong ordered Zhang Yue to put the two Xixia generals on the jail lock and sent them to Kaifeng in prison vans. Zhang Yue begged the emperor for his intelligence value to be amnesty and took them to his subordinates.

Zhang Qi asked to take advantage of the victory and pacify Xia, and Zhezong ordered Zhang Qi to act cheaply. After establishing Xi'an Prefecture, Zhang Qi built Dang, Tiandu, Lindu, Hengling Village, Tonghui, Ningwei, Dingrong Forts, and advanced.

The Xia lord Li Qianshun couldn't help but be afraid. At this time, his mother, Empress Dowager Liang, died, and felt even more lost. So he asked for military intervention in Liao Kingdom three times. The Liao Dynasty envoy arrived in Tokyo and urged a ceasefire. The reason why Liao Kingdom was willing to come forward was because they did not want to see the Song Dynasty really destroy Xixia. In order to promote peace, Liao Kingdom conspired to deal with the Western Xia hardliners. At the beginning, Liao Kingdom rejected the request for military intervention in Xixia and sent envoys to poison Liang, who was regarded as the initiator of the war.

The Liao Kingdom agreed to come forward after the Empress Dowager Li Ganshun resumed his power.

Liao Guo urged the Song Dynasty to give up and return all occupied land, and the fortresses and prefectures were given to Xixia, resigned to troops and horses, and restored territory, thereby highlighting the superior status of Liao Kingdom above the two countries. At the same time, Liao Daozong also threatened with force. He patroled the area near the Daizhou of Song territory, and the Liao camp was only five to seven miles north of Yanmen Pass.

Prime Minister Zhang Dun suggested not paying attention to the mediation of the Liao Kingdom, but Privy Councilor Zeng Bu and Fuyan Road Envoy Lu Huiqing believed that the Song Dynasty should focus on gaining practical benefits from the Western Xia and should not further destroy the Song-Liao relationship. After discussion, Zhao Xu issued an edict saying: "The Xia Kingdom is very guilty, and even if it sends envoys to apologize, it should not be accepted. Because the Northern Dynasties sent envoys to persuade the peace, border ministers were asked to discuss with him. If they sincerely accept the crime and obey orders, they would be able to revive themselves." The Song Dynasty forced the Western Xia to clarify that the relationship between Liao and Xia was different from the relationship between Song and Xia, and insisted that Song was the culprit of Xixia.

As stated in the letter of the country, Liao and Xixia are the relationship between father and son-in-law, while Song and Xixia are the relationship between rulers and people. The Song Dynasty punishes the people does not mean that it is against the Liao Dynasty. Moreover, the letter of the country claims that the land of Xixia was granted to Li Jiqian by Emperor Taizong of Song and Emperor Zhenzong of Song. Therefore, if Xixia did not intend to surrender, the Song court still retains the power to regain the power of rule. It also points out that the Xia people's impermanent attitude was "on the same time, the same time, the border was offended."

Liao Xingzong once clearly used it to deal with the invasion of Xixia. "Yuan Hao insisted on his evil party, disturbing my neighbors, and having deep friendship, and it would be fine if he could be calmed down." The Song Dynasty just imitated the former. Finally, the letter of state promised to negotiate. After staying in Kaifeng for 35 days, the Liao envoy received the letter of state and returned. At the same time, the Song Dynasty urged the Western Xia to submit a letter of apology and return two war criminals Guibumoma and Ling Jieyou as a necessary condition for peace. Before the Western Xia fulfilled these requirements, the Song army accelerated the fortifications of Hengshan and Tiandushan.

The Western Xia was defeated by Pingxia City, and the Song Dynasty occupied Hengshan and Tiandu Mountains in full. The Fuyan Road on the East Road built Nuanquan Village, which was 45 miles northeast of Mizhi Village. At the same time, Hedong Road built four fortresses on the west bank of the Yellow River to strengthen control over Hengshan. In the summer of the second year of Yuanfu, the Song Dynasty mobilized more than 100,000 troops and built another eight fortresses within ten days. As a result, the three routes of Fuyan, Hedong and Linfu formed a new line of defense, stretching along Hengshan for more than 300 miles, driving the Dangxiang people to the desert area.

In order to consolidate the control of the newly occupied land, the Song Dynasty established the Jinning Army in Jialu Village. In addition, the Huanqing Road Jinglu Office built three important forts in Hengshan, and on the edge of the desert, a village was only ten miles away from the Weizhou Military Supervisory Office in the Former Western Xia. It is worth noting that from the first year of Baoyuan, the Song Dynasty occupied the area originally controlled by Baibao City and Jintang City, and these two forts firmly wedged between the two routes of Fuyan and Huanqing. After completing the fortifications of the two forts, the court decided to continue its name to commemorate Fan Zhongyan's preliminary idea of ​​regaining the two forts in the first year of Qingli.

At the same time, Jingyuan Road expanded its borders from north of Pingxia City to Nanmuhui, Xixia Palace, and set up a Tiandushan Command in Xi'an Prefecture. Xi'an Prefecture is only fifty miles away from Xihe Road Tonghui Fort, and the edges are connected. The Dushan Military Supervisory Office in Xixia lost its territory since then. After the Song Dynasty occupied the nearby salt pond, the monthly salt value produced reached 140,000 yuan, which was enough to cope with the expenditure of some areas of Xihe Road. In the autumn of the second year of Yuanfu, Jingyuan and Xihe Road completed the fortifications of Huizhou and the remaining three fortresses, and reconfirmed from Lan

The state passed through the Yellow River to Huizhou, then crossed the northern mountain of Tiandu Mountain through the Wuyan Gorge, and finally arrived at the territory of Pingxia City. At this time, Xixia sent envoys to apologize, and their thanks were humble. At the end of the same year, both sides finally returned to peace.

When Empress Dowager Gao was in power, Sima Guang and others claimed to be calm and benevolent and virtuous, and planned to abandon all the territory and military cities obtained during the Xifeng period, including the Hehuang region, to Xixia. This move was firmly opposed by some knowledgeable people and some generals, but Sima Guang finally abandoned important military camps such as Mizhi, Futu, Jialu, and Anjiang. Xihe was reluctant to give up all the strong oppositions of An Tao, Sun Lu, You Shixiong and others. At that time, Wang Hou, who was accustomed to the Qiang affairs, was also among the oppositions of abandoning the land. He said: "Yuanyou abandoned the river and Huang, Hou submitted a memorial to Chen, and went to the Political Affairs Hall to say it."

Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo and others cede land and the enemy, retreat and tolerate appeasement policy did not work, but instead produced a negative effect of being despised by foreigners. In the eighth year of Yuanyou, only in the Hehuang region, local tug-of-wars between the Northern Song Dynasty and Tubo occurred frequently. After Song Zhezong took power, Yuanyou's politics was denied. Shaosheng's political affairs were fully launched, and the Song court decided to restart the Hehuang battle.

Since Wang Shao launched his resumption of Hehuang and returned to the blind expedition, he was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council for his merits. Soon, he had a rift with Wang Anshi and went out to govern Hongzhou and died of illness soon. At that time, people heard that Shao had died suddenly, so they warned him to open the border. In the second year of Yuanyou, the governor of Minzhou, Zhong Yi, recovered Taozhou, captured Guizhang, and sent him to the capital. Guizhang was originally the leader of Xihe, and Wang Shao settled Xihe, and once asked Guizhang to be the governor, but Guizhang finally surrendered.

Soon, Dong Jin, the governor of the Baoshun Army, died of illness and adopted son Ali Gu succeeded to the throne. Ali Gu lured Gui Zhang and occupied Tao River. When Gui Zhang was captured, Zhezong gave him a pardon and sent him to live in Qinzhou. Ali Gu was also afraid and submitted a letter to his apology, and ordered him to pay tribute as usual and no more troops. After Ali Gu died, he passed the throne to his son Zheng Zheng, and the tyrannical army was tyrannical. The army had a strange intention. The great chief Qin Mouqin and others were indifferent to the plot, but they were afraid of the uncle Su Nan Party, who was the uncle of Zheng Zheng, and the Xiongwu was extraordinary and difficult to control.

So they slandered and mobilized the uncle of Zheng Zheng. Zheng Zheng was extremely unlucky, and actually killed his uncle and destroyed his remaining party. But Luo Jie then defected to Xibawen, who was a Dongjinshu clan and had lived in Longbu and was a native of the country. Luo Jie ran to Xibawen and tried to make a breakthrough for Xibawen, and attacked the territory of Zheng Zheng with his eldest son, Piaoju, and seized Xige City. The army sent troops to cover the attack, attacked and killed Piaoju, and Luo Jie fled to Hezhou.

The Xi'an Pacification Envoy and the governor of Hezhou, Wang Shan, took Luo Jie as his assistant, secretly discussed the attack on Qingtang, and offered advice to the court. Zhang Dun learned that this proposal was feasible. So Wang Shan led his army to Miaochuan. Miaochuan was the important entrance of Qingtang, and was in charge of the conscript to send troops to defend. However, the defenders suddenly heard that Wang Shan's army was coming, and they were not in time for prevention, so they were frightened. Wang Shan supervised the troops to attack the city and shot a letter to surrender. The defenders knew that they could not resist, so they were willing to surrender and opened the city to welcome Wang Shan's army.

The army was reported in Qingtang, and hurriedly dispatched troops to the enemy. But he knew that his order was not effective, and no one obeyed the order. He was in poverty and could not escape alone, and he actually came to Miaochuan to surrender. Wang Shan accepted the army and submitted a report to the victory. Zhezong issued an edict, ordering Hu Zonghui to command Xihe and control the tribes. Wang Shan thought that the merit was based on his own, and he was not rewarded. Instead, Hu Zonghui came, and his power was still above him, so he felt very uneasy, so he stayed in.
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