The war breaks out again on Xihe Road.
Zhang Kai, the deputy economic envoy of Xihe Road, was ordered to take over the command of the entire Xihe Road army from Gao Zunyu.
Zhang Kai was born in a court and knew the military as a civil servant. It was inevitable that the generals in the northwest would not be convinced by him. Moreover, with the 20,000 cavalry transferred from Xihe Road, facing the attack of the Qing Tang Dynasty, Mu Zheng, Ba Zhanjiao and others were all unconvinced. Display a war-weary attitude.
There were less than 30,000 soldiers and horses on Xihe Road guarding the various states. Although Li Xian promised that reinforcements from Qinfeng Road and Shaanxi Fourth Road were on the way, the fire far away could not be solved.
Li Xian could only count on this young general and put all his hopes on him. Could it be that he also counted on Gao Zunyu?
Before the negotiations in Xihe, Li Xian made a mistake. The officials asked him to cede the land of Huangzhou and make peace with Qingtang, but he hesitated. Finally, when the envoys he sent to negotiate were still on the way, Ali Gu launched an army.
This made Li Xian almost break his thigh. He did not listen to the officials and immediately made peace with Qingtang, which caused the other party to raise troops and start an uprising.
But the good news is that after seeing the envoys of the Song Dynasty, Aligu seemed to have some intentions. This time the Qingtang raised troops with great momentum, but in the end they lingered in Taozhou and did not attack, as if they wanted to wait and see the outcome of the battle between the Song Dynasty and Xixia. .
Li Xian also confirmed Ali Gu's idea and proposed that regardless of the victory or defeat of the Song-Xia war, he promised to cede Huangzhou, while ensuring that the interests of the Qing and Tang Dynasties in the two states of Xihe remained unchanged.
Under this situation, the situation in Qingtang eased slightly.
However, Xixia's offensive was like a raging fire. Liang Yimi first lured an ambush under Dingxi City, defeated the Song army and beheaded Wu Meng, the military commander of Huizhou.
After that, Xixia surrounded Dingxicheng and led its troops southward in large numbers. Prime Minister Liang Yimi personally led 70,000 cavalry to attack Nanchuan Village.
Nanchuan Village is located between Hezhou and Xizhou. Once Nanchuan Village falls, the entire Xihe Road will be cut off by the Song Army.
Many generals in the Song Dynasty were very panicked when they found out. They advocated to Li Xian and Zhang Kai to abandon the land of Huangzhou, Hezhou and Taozhou and quickly return aid to compete with Xixia for Nanchuan Village, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
But Zhang Kai did not agree, and only asked the defenders to guard Nanchuan Village. At the same time, he ordered the Song troops in each village to shrink their defense lines and let the Xixia army plunder.
Xixia originally came for plunder, although they knew that once they conquered strong cities such as Nanchuan Village, they could cut off the Song army from Xizhou and Hezhou.
But after all, the Xixia army was a bandit in nature. They looted on one side of Xizhou and Hezhou, and on the other side burned more than 25,000 houses and thousands of hectares of farmland, leaving the soldiers and civilians of Xihe Road with no harvest that year.
The strategy of the Xixia people was to snatch everything they could, and burn everything they could not. They would not leave a grain of food to the Song army.
Zhang Kai implemented the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness. He had no intention of sending troops to rescue Nanchuan Village, and just let the defenders hold on.
At the same time, reinforcements from all walks of life in the Song Dynasty gradually arrived, such as brothers Wang Hou and Wang Gan, as well as Yao Si, Yao Lin, Zhong E, Liu Shunqing and other famous Western Army generals led their troops to arrive at night.
The Song army's troops on Xihe Road increased to more than 50,000.
After Zhang Kai's troops gathered together, he still did not save Nanchuan Village. Instead, he sent a messenger to negotiate with Ali Gu and issued an ultimatum.
After Liang Yi buried and plundered for nearly a month, he finally came back to attack Nanchuan Village. However, the attack could not be defeated for a long time, and countless soldiers and horses were killed and injured under the stronghold.
Under the Ali Bone Tent in Taozhou, the elder Wen Xixin, who was pro-Song Dynasty, was quarreling with the young faction of the clan.
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Wen Xixin believed that the Song Dynasty's cession of Huangzhou was the greatest sincerity. We, the Qingtang Dynasty, had to appreciate it because we would have to rely on the Song people for business in the future.
The Young Zhuang faction is different. They believe that in addition to Huangzhou, Xizhou, Hezhou, Taozhou, Minzhou, and even the Tongyuan Army are the hometowns of the Qing and Tang Dynasties, the goal must be to drive the Song Dynasty out of Xihe.
One group thinks that the other party is ignorant of the world, and the other group thinks that the other party has no blood.
The Qingtang Tribe is a tribal collegial system, and no one can claim absolute leadership, not even Ali Gu. Moreover, the current leader of the Qingtang is Dong Xiang himself.
However, when he learned that Liang Yimi had been unable to attack Nanchuan Village for a long time, he finally made a judgment and reached an agreement with the Song Dynasty to seize Huangzhou and withdraw his troops from Taozhou.
Ali Gu's separate withdrawal of troops was tantamount to destroying the original agreement between Qingtang and Xixia to join forces, and the east-west attack was ruined.
Liang Yimi's 70,000 infantry and cavalry were suddenly left alone. By the time he got the news of Aligu's retreat, it was too late. Zhang Kai led the main force of the Song army out of Xizhou to fight Liang Yimi at the Tao River.
On one side was the Song army who was determined to take revenge, and on the other was the Xixia army that had looted their pockets full of plunder. In the decisive battle between the two armies, Zhang Kai defeated the Xixia army with a small number and a large one.
The defeated Xixia soldiers and horses crossed the Taoshui River in a panic, and were killed by the Song army from all sides. The Xixia soldiers and horses were unable to cross the river in time, and countless people drowned.
Liang Yi was chased and overtaken by the Song army three times. Fortunately, he was not captured because of the life guards on his left and right. Like a frightened bird, he traveled for three days and three nights sleeplessly before escaping.
But the rest of the Xixia soldiers and horses were not so lucky. In this battle, the Song army killed tens of thousands of Xixia infantry and horsemen and captured countless baggage. The Tao River was blocked by corpses and stopped flowing for a time.
This was the Song Army's greatest victory over Xixia after the Battle of Dashun City. After the great victory at Taoshui, the Song army attacked Xixia from all directions in Shaanxi.
As soon as the news came out, the ruling and opposition parties in Xixia were shocked. Bingchang, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom who had always opposed the use of troops against the Song Dynasty, went to the Ancestral Temple and cried all night after learning about the incident.
And the Xixia courtiers in the Xingqing Mansion exclaimed that the Song army was no longer comparable to that of the past, and it should not be taken lightly!
This time, Xixia sent envoys to discuss peace with Song Dynasty. They spoke cowardly and at the same time quickly reported to Yelu Hongji, the father of Liao Kingdom, asking him to come forward to mediate between Song and Xia.
Needless to say, the officials were overjoyed when they learned of the incident. He greatly rewarded Zhang Kai, edited and edited it for Jixian Palace, and served as the military envoy of Xihe Road.
In the dusk.
Aligu led the army back to Qingtang City, and countless Qingtang people cheered him on and off the city.
In this Taoshui War, both Song and Xixia paid a heavy price.
Only the Qingtang tribe led by Ali Gu regained the entire territory of Huangzhou without losing a single soldier, which made him famous. But for some reason Ali Gu felt a little disappointed in his heart at this moment.
This time his rebellion must have deeply offended the Song Dynasty. Although Huangzhou was lost and regained, from then on the Song Dynasty had an excuse to use troops against the Qing and Tang Dynasties.
At the same time, he also saw the strength of the Song Army's Western Army from this battle. It was even able to defeat the powerful Xixia elite soldiers.
In the future, if he wants to be able to compete with Song and Xixia in the Qingtang Dynasty, he can only exclude dissidents in the clan and strengthen his power.
Fortunately, the victory in this battle earned him enough fame to enable him to eradicate these people.
Thinking of this, Ali Gu had a decision on his face.
Qingtang City at dusk was now shrouded in the afterglow of the setting sun. Ali Gu whipped his horse into the city.
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In the negotiations between the Liao State and the Song Dynasty in Zhending Mansion, the two sides were still involved in the dispute over land and land demarcating the border, and were in endless details. The victory of the Battle of Taoshui was not announced until two months later. here.
This battle refers to the second year of Yuanyou, when Liang Yimi of Xixia and Ali Gu of Qingtang jointly attacked Xihe Road. However, the Song army defeated Qingtang instead of Xixia at that time. Gui Zhang was captured alive in this battle, and the tactics refer to Zhang Kai's great defeat. The Battle of Hongde City in Xixia.
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