The commander-in-chief of the Xixia Kingdom's Shizhou Army was an old friend of the Song Dynasty. The year before last, Li Liangfu, who led a hundred thousand troops south to attack Xihe Road, felt good about himself, and was then hung up and beaten by Li Yanxian.

Regarding the Sixth Song-Xia War, Xixia ended with a complete defeat on the western front and Yinzhou on the eastern front fell to the hands of the Song Dynasty.

This was a painful lesson for Xixia.

Logically speaking, people like Li Liangfu should be hanged by Li Qianshun.

However, in the end, Weiming Anhui took all the responsibility for that war, and was deposed as prime minister.

Originally, Li Qianshun was planning to hang Weiming Anhui, but because of the existence of the Jin Kingdom, he gave up.

Li Liangfu, under the protection of Brother Richard, spent a year behind closed doors at home, and then was released to roam again.

If the defeated are not punished accordingly, they will try to find reasonable reasons for their past failures, and in order to cover up the inferiority caused by that failure, they will act more arrogantly.

As a result, you will find that Li Liangfu not only failed to learn from the Battle of Lanzhou, but even his walking posture gradually became arrogant.

On this day, the Xixia army gathered in Shizhou, with a total strength of 30,000.

If you include Shizhou's 100,000 soldiers and civilians, the total number is 130,000.

However, Li Liangfu claimed to be three hundred thousand.

When Li Liangfu heard the horn sound, he felt like he was back on the battlefield.

He felt deeply pleased in his heart, and the arrogant smile raised at the corner of his mouth was that 45-degree angle: This time the Song Army does not have Li Yanxian, I, Li Liangfu, can finally show off, and I declare that the entire Hengshan Mountain will be contracted by me, Li Liangfu!

After looking at the map, he pointed to Weirong Village in the northwest of Yinzhou City and said: "Send a large army to pretend to attack here, and the main force will go to Zhenyuan Village in the south!"

He added with pride: "Our army is now attacking in full force. The Song army cannot figure out the real situation and will be caught off guard by us. The most important thing is that when attacking Wei Rongzhai, we must bluff to make the panicked Song army think Our main force is in Weirong Village, attracting additional troops from the Song Army to come here."

Li Liangfu's aide Tian Zhu said: "The general is wise! The Song army will definitely be caught off guard by our army this time!"

The generals also quickly followed suit and said: "General, you are wise!"

King Shu Li Renli on one side said: "Everyone, please step aside first. I have important matters to discuss with General Li."

Everyone left.

Li Renli said: "Do you plan to start a war directly?"

Li Liangfu said: "Isn't there going to be a war now?"

King Shu's tone was a little cold and he asked: "Your Majesty and King Jin want you to start a war directly?"

"Your Majesty means to start a war!"

"Nonsense!" King Shu directly refuted Li Liangfu, "Which word in the edict do you understand that His Majesty asked you to start the war directly?"

Li Liangfu's face didn't look good. King Shu's words were rude, but he didn't dare to stand up to him.

He is a member of Brother Richard, but King Shu was sent by Li Qianshun to supervise the battle. As the name suggests, he is here to control the overall situation.

"Why don't we mobilize so many people?" Li Liangfu couldn't help asking, his tone was a bit stiff.

"Do you understand the test?" King Shu said, "Didn't I explain it clearly to you before? Test it first!"

"The opportunity is right in front of us. We suddenly send troops to take back Yinzhou. Why try again!"

"This is your Majesty's order!"

"The military situation is ever-changing. His Highness Prince Shu has been in Xingqing Mansion all year round, so he may not know how to fight on the front line!"

"I would like to emphasize to you once again that the purpose of this operation is to recapture Yinzhou..."

"That's right, the only way to get it back is to fight!"

"But what about the Song army's continued increase in troops?"

"Why don't we just increase our troops?" Li Liangfu said matter-of-factly.

King Shu was so angry that he almost fainted. He had told this guy the strategic plan several times, but he only had one word in his mind: Go!

This thing is quite reasonable at the tactical level. It's worth pretending to attack the north while actually pressing heavy troops into the south.

But it would be really difficult for him to raise his horizons to a higher level.

"How many more troops will the imperial court increase?" King Shu asked, "whole country?"

"Your Highness, I will tell you, this matter is very critical now!" Li Liangfu pretended that you are too young to listen to my analysis with you, and continued, "Yinzhou is the gateway to Hengshan's defense line. Yinzhou is the gateway to the Hengshan defense line.

The state is in the hands of the Song Army, and Your Majesty is like a dog in the throat. If we can take Yinzhou back this time, we will make great achievements. Oh, Your Highness, you have made great achievements, and I will follow you to take advantage of it!"

"I'm asking you, what should I do if the Song army increases its troops?" King Shu was a little impatient. He felt that it was inappropriate to hand over the command of the army to Li Liangfu this time.

Li Liangfu was stunned for a moment. Is there something wrong with King Shu?

They all said to increase the number of troops! To increase the number of troops!

Don’t you understand?

"More troops!"

"By how much?"

"Add another hundred thousand!"

"I have invested everything, can I guarantee that Yinzhou will definitely get it back?"

"this……"

"Even if Yinzhou is taken back, how many will our country die in the battle? Will the Jin Congress take the opportunity to send troops to deal with us?"

Li Liangfu also lost his temper and said rudely: "Then what's the point of sending troops this time?"

"I told you, test! The Song Dynasty is currently on the Eastern Expedition. Our first phase of the task is to test the reality of the Song Dynasty!"

"Oh." Li Liangfu said, "I understand."

"This strategy needs to be reworked."

"How to reformulate?"

"Since it's a test, don't cause casualties first. Focus on attacking one place instead of surrounding it. Negotiate while surrounding, and test the reality during the negotiation."

Li Liangfu said: "If the Song army takes the opportunity to ask for help, and a large number of Song troops gather in Yinzhou, wouldn't it be even more difficult?"

"Can you ensure that your army will march eastward and capture Yinzhou immediately without giving the Song army any time to ask for help?"

"cannot."

"I will tell you a key point. The key is to keep applying pressure, talk to the Song army, and observe the Song army's strength from the negotiations. The Song Dynasty is marching eastward. If there is another war on the western front, the Song Dynasty will only want a quick victory, and we

, just prolong the war and wait for the Song army to become internally chaotic."

"What should we do if the Song army continues to increase its troops and its attitude is not compromised at all?"

"The stalemate continues!"

"How long will the stalemate last?"

"Song Jun will send someone to negotiate!"

Li Liangfu finally understood.

On October 13th, tens of thousands of Xia troops from Shizhou arrived in Weirong Village.

The news quickly spread to Yinzhou, causing shock to the senior officials of Yinzhou Song Army.

No one knows exactly how many troops the Xixia people sent, but they learned from the scouts that there were definitely a lot of troops.

Everyone is saying that a war is coming.

On October 16, the news of Xixia's troops was sent to Jingzhao Mansion with great urgency.

After Zhang Jun read the emergency report from the front, a layer of cold sweat immediately broke out on his palms.

Because he knew that the country was currently using troops against Goryeo.
Chapter completed!