Chapter 315 The Song Dynasty conquered Xia with consecutive victories, all four countries were shocked
In the rear formation of the Song army, Zhao Ji, who was supervising the battle, gave Liu Guangshi a telescope, and then asked the Imperial City Secretary to take the telescope, put it in front of his eyes, and look at the enemy city.
This made Liu Guangshi envious. The Zhao Guan family had so many "clairvoyance" treasures!
Zhao Ji saw that when the thirty cavalry gunners of the Imperial City Division Musketeers he sent, riding fast horses and carrying long spears, rushed to the bank of the moat below the enemy city, the Xixia Pu King Li Renzhong on the enemy city was not too surprised.
Although he didn't care, he still stood at the crenellation of the tower.
At that time, Zhao Ji secretly thought: "This is about to happen!"
In fact, it is not surprising that Li Renzhong did not take precautions in advance to avoid the gunfire.
The key is that in this kind of war in the cold weapon era, if the second batch of thirty cavalrymen coming from the city think with consistent thinking, even if they shoot arrows with crossbows, they will never be able to hit Li Renzhong.
On my body.
Therefore, Pu Wang Li Renzhong thought that these two groups of thirty cavalrymen sent by the Song Army were just like the first group of cavalry, and they were here to persuade him and the Xia army guarding the city to surrender or scold him!
While he stood majestically at the crenellation of the city tower, he directed his Xia army archers to wait for the enemy cavalry to get closer, and then fire several arrows...
Li Renzhong finally saw that the second batch of Song Army cavalry was approaching the moat below the city. He just ordered the archers to try to see if they could shoot the Song Army cavalry under the city from such a distance.
Suddenly, he saw the second group of Song Army cavalry on the other side of the moat below the city. Thirty people were riding on horses. Together they raised unknown weapons that they had just carried with one hand, similar to "fire sticks".
"Bang, bang, bang..."
"Bang, bang, bang..."
Before Li Renzhong lost consciousness, he saw the small round holes at the front ends of thirty "fire sticks" emitting dazzling firelight and terrifying wisps of gunpowder smoke...
"ah?!"
Before Li Renzhong could make any evasive reaction, he felt multiple severe pains coming from his face and upper body...
He wanted to grit his teeth and insist on commanding, but the multiple gunshot wounds to his face and upper body caused him to lose excessive blood in an instant. The severe pain caused his body to convulse, and his mind went blank.
With a "plop", Li Renzhong's vision went dark and he fell onto the tower.
Several generals around him, as well as several party guards behind him, were also hit to varying degrees by the shotguns ejected from the Song Army's gunfire, and fell to the ground.
Suddenly, a thick layer of blood flowed on the ground of the tower.
At this time, there was a huge chaos upstairs in the east city of Xijing...
The archers of the Xia army on the city fired their bows and arrows at the Song army on the other side of the moat below the city. However, the distance was too far. In addition, they had obtained the order of Zhao Guan's family and fired at the man wearing a four-clawed python robe on the city tower.
Withdraw, don't be wary.
Therefore, the Xia army in Dongcheng counterattacked the arrows of Zhao Ji's imperial musket squad, but did not harm them at all...
Zhao Ji, who was in the rear position of the Song army, used binoculars to watch the whole process of this cold shooting.
After he watched the wonderful moment of Xixia Pu King Li Renzhong being shot and falling to the ground, he smiled slightly, put down the monocular and sighed:
"I gave you Li Renzhong the opportunity to abandon the secret and surrender to the light, but you didn't seize it. You also asked the Xia army's archers to shoot cold arrows at my cavalry squad who shouted to persuade me to surrender. Now, Li Renzhong, you have been shot in many places. Even if you don't die, you will be seriously injured.
What a tragedy! The morale of the troops in the enemy city will be shaken even more, and their morale will also be even lower."
Liu Guangshi, who also put down his telescope, was so impressed that he flattered:
"What the official sage said is absolutely true!"
"In response to the official report, Wei Chen Guangshi suggested that when the enemy city's commander was shot and fell to the ground, the defenders on the east city of Xia Xijing were in chaos. At this time, we mobilized several armies from the Song Dynasty to attack the enemy city in one go.
And destroy the city."
Yue Fei on the side had a different opinion and said hurriedly:
"After reporting to the officials, Chen Fei did not agree with General Liu's words. Chen Fei believed that we should still follow the policy decided by the officials when discussing matters in the tent. After our army's ammunition supplies are delivered, we can bombard the enemy's Xijing City. If we can
Comprehensively crushing the Xixia defenders will further reduce the casualties suffered by our army during the siege."
Zhao Ji nodded in agreement and said: "Peng Ju's words are exactly what I want."
Liu Guangshi had a look of shame on his face. He felt that he had not figured out the thoughts of Zhao Guanjia, which was why he was frustrated just now.
This was because he had never really seen the huge power of artillery bombardment mentioned by Zhao Guanjia and Yue Fei so far, so he mistakenly thought that this was a good opportunity to attack the city.
Zhao Ji ordered Yue Fei and Liu Guangshi to lead their troops and continue to escort Brother Richard to the Xia Kingdom's North City Gate for a demonstration in order to undermine the morale of the Xia enemy defenders...
He ordered: "Pengju, Uncle Ping, before our army launches a general attack on the enemy's Xijing City, you two will lead your troops to escort Brother Richard and parade outside the enemy's city every day during the day."
"At night, I will send troops to pretend to attack and harass the enemy defending the city, so as to tire out the enemy. When you show the captured brother Richard to the enemy, you can also whip him, just don't beat him to death, so as to disintegrate him.
Enemy morale."
"I obey the decree!" After Liu Guangshi heard the edict, he was more excited than Yue Fei because he had not whipped Brother Richard like Yue Fei and Han Shizhong.
For Liu Guangshi, if he could be like Generals Yue and Han, whipping Brother Richard, the first god of war in Great Xia and the head coach of the Iron Kites Army, it would be enough for him to brag about for the rest of his life.
Zhao Jiqi drove back to the camp...
Yue Fei and Liu Guangshi also led the troops to escort Brother Richard, who was tied to the carriage, to the outside of the North City of Xiping Prefecture in Xijing, Daxia, preparing to continue the parade in order to undermine the morale of the Xia troops defending the city...
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"Song's enemies have retreated!"
"The enemies of the Song Dynasty have retreated..." Cheers rang out from the east city of Xijing in Daxia.
Just now, they had experienced the pain of seeing their commander, King Pu, being shot and fell by the soldiers, and they were still frightened at this time.
In a panic, they were preparing to fight desperately against the Song army's next attack on the city. However, what they didn't expect was that the Song army outside the east city actually retreated.
Upstairs in the East City, the still-living guards urgently called for the military doctors accompanying the army to quickly come and treat Pu Wang Li Renzhong...
After the four military doctors climbed up the tower panting, they saw a tragic and bloody scene they had never seen before, which was unforgettable for them and would never be forgotten.
Their two military doctors with the best traditional Chinese medicine skills immediately carried medicine boxes and squatted next to the unconscious Li Renzhong, checking the injuries and trying to stop the bleeding...
The other two military doctors hurriedly went to treat more than a dozen people on the tower who were still breathing after being shot...
The enemy of the Song Dynasty launched a cold attack at the bottom of the city, killing four generals standing next to Li Renzhong on the Xijing tower and eight guards behind him.
Li Renzhong was shot in multiple places on his body. His left eye was hit by a large amount of gunshot sand, and his left eyeball was blown out. The frame of his left eye has become a blur of flesh and blood.
There were also many grains of gun sand left on Li Renzhong's face and upper body.
"Prince Pu! Prince Pu, please don't die!" The captain of the guard, who was shot in the right arm, ignored the pain on his body and rushed to the side of Li Renzhong, who was unconscious, and cried and shouted.
The two military doctors sighed one after another:
"We have been practicing medicine for decades, but we have never seen such a serious injury as King Pu suffered today! It was not a knife wound or an arrow wound."
"Alas! I have bandaged King Pu's wound and temporarily stopped the heavy bleeding. However, King Pu's left eye cannot be saved!"
"Alas! Not only that, we can't even remove the iron sand that is too deep in many places on King Pu's face and upper body!"
The captain of the guard regretted that he could not immediately fly to protect King Pu. He vented his anger on the two military doctors who treated King Pu.
His eyes were about to burst, and he roared angrily: "If we can't save King Pu, I will kill you and other quack doctors!"
The four military doctors were so frightened that they trembled all over. They said tremblingly:
"We have tried our best..."
"The injury suffered by King Pu is even strange, and we don't have any better way to treat it at the moment!"
"King Pu is so injured that he will survive a narrow escape!"
"We have bandaged the injuries on King Pu and stopped the bleeding. Whether King Pu survives or not depends entirely on God's will!"
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During this period, the Song Dynasty sent troops to attack Xixia, captured Zhejianghui, blitzed Pule City and Yaode City, and won consecutive victories. The Xixia Iron Harrier Army was almost completely wiped out by the Song Army outside Xijing City. Jin King Richard
Brother was captured by the Song army;
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guanju, actually led his imperial expedition westward to the outside of the Xijing City of Xia Kingdom.
And Xijing of Xia Kingdom was besieged by nearly 200,000 Song troops.
This series of important military information and battle reports were also taken out with the defeated Tie Yaozi and the remnants of the Jingzhou soldiers and horses, and spread to Xingqing Mansion in Tokyo City, Daxia...
The battle report was like a wildfire setting off a prairie fire. In the past ten days, in the temples of Song, Xia, Liao and Jin, everyone knew that the Song army conquered Xia and actually achieved so many incredible heavyweight victories in a short period of time.
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Above the temples of the Four Kingdoms, the situation is changing, and everyone is shocked by it!
When the latest battle report came to the Xia Kingdom's palace, the entire court was shrouded in frost.
Emperor Li Qianshun, who was sitting on the dragon chair, looked as pale as a sheet of paper. When the latest battle report came to his ears, his eyes suddenly widened in disbelief.
The Iron Harriers and the Jingzhou troops were defeated miserably. Chage, the king of Jin who was good at conquering and fighting, was actually captured by the Song army?!
In the court hall of Daxia Kingdom, the faces of the civil servants and generals were as frosty as frost. Some courtiers bowed their heads and remained silent, some were trembling, and some had deep fear in their eyes...
Li Qianshun was worthy of being the king of Xixia's renaissance. At this time, after hearing the military report of the disastrous defeat of Richard's brother and the siege of Xijing, he was burning with anxiety, but on the surface he pretended to be calm, and he even forced out He smiled and said leisurely:
"My dear friends, please do not panic! It has been thirty-six years since I succeeded to the throne at the age of three."
"I ask you all to think about this: How many times have Daxia and Song been at war in the past thirty-six years?"
"Haha... I would like to ask you to think about it again from Aiqing: What will be the final outcome of the war between Xia and Song Dynasty?"
Li Qianshun asked the question so calmly, many panicked ministers in the court thought for a moment, and they immediately became less worried about the risk of the Xia Kingdom being destroyed.
It can be said that over the years, the two countries of Song and Xia have been at constant war, sometimes at war and sometimes at peace.
In many cases, the Song Army fought a few victorious battles first. Later, due to the Song Army's front being too long, the Song Army could not coordinate in a unified manner during the battle. In addition, the Xia Army was brave and good at fighting, and had the home field advantage of being familiar with the terrain. , the result was that the Song army suffered a huge defeat...
The Song army, which came from a long distance, has never been able to destroy Daxia. Even after the Song army suffered a heavy defeat, Song Ting was forced to accept negotiations with us, Daxia, and "gift" a large amount of "grants" to us Xia every year. "Sui coins"...
The courtiers reflected on Li Qianshun's questions, as if they had been given a reassurance.
With some confidence, the courtiers immediately presented their plans to Emperor Xia Li Qianshun to retreat from the Song Dynasty's enemies...
Li Qianshun decided: Due to the defeat of Richard's iron kite army, in order to prevent the Song army from sending surprise troops to take a detour to capture the Xia Kingdom's imperial city, the five thousand soldiers of the "six squadrons in the imperial garden" who are now guarding the imperial city, as well as the capital The Su Wei Army's 25,000 troops will definitely not be sent out to rescue Xijing City again.
This important task of rescuing the siege of Xijing City had to be handed over to the local army of Daxia.
At this time, Li Qianshun was calm as usual on the surface, but extremely panicked inside.
He listened to the suggestions of the ministers, which were roughly the same as the strategies he had come up with to retreat from the enemy, and he nodded from time to time.
"I very much agree with your noble opinions."
"I look at this battle between Song and Xia. As long as King Pu and his troops can hold on to Xijing for two or three months, I will have time to mobilize more than 500,000 troops from the 13 local military supervision departments on the left and right sides. Send out 300,000 elite troops and rush to the outside of Xijing City to scare off the Song enemies."
The courtiers agreed: "Your Majesty is wise..."
The more Li Qianshun talked, the more confident he became.
"In addition, I will send three groups of envoys, carrying letters written by me and the Queen (Yelun Nanxian), to the Liao Kingdom one after another, requesting Emperor Liao Tianzuo to send envoys here to mediate the Xia-Song Dynasty. battle."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The courtiers kept nodding, thinking that this strategy is feasible...
Three years ago, the Song army invaded Xia. After the Song general Liu Fa led his troops and were annihilated by the Daxia Iron Harriers, the Xia State was also worried that the Song Dynasty would sink everything and continue to attack Xia. It also asked Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao State to send envoys to mediate. So that the Song-Xia peace negotiation can succeed.
Li Qianshun looked through the open door of the palace into the distance and said leisurely:
"The above countermeasures will take some time. We hope that King Pu, who is left behind in Tokyo, can lead his troops to defend Xijing City."
The courtiers started talking again and again, saying that King Pu was loyal and patriotic, and had both civil and military skills. He would be able to defend the city of Xijing for at least three months. By then, Daxia's local army of 300,000 would be mobilized to rescue the city of Xijing. The siege will definitely scare away the Song army...
Li Qianshun smiled on the surface and agreed with the confident words of the ministers, but he was defeated by the Song army because of Daxia's strongest cavalry iron kite, and his most trusted and relied-upon brother Richard was captured by the Song army. He no longer had any confidence in his heart.
However, as the emperor of Daxia, when the people in the court are shaken, he must look calm and show his determination and ability to defeat the enemy.
Li Qianshun said again: "I will also use a delaying tactic and send an envoy to the Song Army camp to meet with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty to show that our Daxia Kingdom is absolutely willing to be the enemy of the Song Dynasty. I hope that the two countries will cease the war and discuss peace terms. , in order to delay the Song army's urgent attack on Xiping Fucheng, Xijing."
Above the Great Xia court, the officials once again praised him.
Emperor Xia Li Qianshun looked around at the ministers and asked:
"My dear friends, who would be willing to send me an envoy to the Song army's camp to meet with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, who is personally conducting the expedition, to discuss the matter of peace?"
The ministers were immediately speechless...
Above the Xia Kingdom's court, it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
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A few days later, the first batch of envoys from Xia State went to Liao State...
This group of envoys had been on many missions to the Liao Kingdom a few years ago, and they had seen the prosperity, strength and vast territory of the Liao Kingdom, known as Little China.
But now, in their eyes, only half of the Liao Kingdom is left.
Moreover, along the way, in order to avoid the powerful Jin army, they took many detours and finally arrived at Nanjing City of Liao Kingdom, which had not yet been conquered by the Jin army.
The envoys of the Xia State saw that in the court hall of Nanjing of the Liao State, Yelu Yanxi, Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao State who had met many times and was originally sitting on the dragon throne, had changed hands and became the new emperor Yelu Yanxi who was unfamiliar to them. Chun.
It turns out that as early as last year, Liao had already lost about half of its territory.
In the first year of Baoda in the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Yujian, deputy commander of the army, and others plotted to depose Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi, and wanted to install Emperor Tianzuo's second son, King Yelu Aolu'o of Jin, as emperor.
When the matter was revealed, civil strife broke out within the Liao Dynasty due to the issue of succession to the throne.
This year, the second year of Baoda, Emperor Tianzuo sent troops to kill his second son, King Yelu Aoluo of Jin, who wanted to seize the throne.
This made many Liao soldiers feel uneasy and defected to the Jin Kingdom.
In the first month of this year, the Jin army captured Zhongjing of the Liao Kingdom (i.e. Ningcheng County, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia), and then captured Zezhou...
In April of this year, the Jin army captured Xijing, Liaoning (ie Datong, Shanxi)...
Yelu Yanxi, Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom, was originally fond of hunting. Because the Jin army was strong at that time, as early as a month ago, he took his army of guards, abandoned the ministers in Nanjing, and fled in the name of hunting.
And go...
Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom led his guards to select areas that the Jin Army had not conquered and fled aimlessly...
At that time, the important ministers in the Nanjing temple of the Liao Kingdom did not know where their Emperor Tianzuo was now.
[PS: Nanjing of the Liao Kingdom, that is, Yanjing (southwest of today’s Beijing)]
Tianzuo Emperor Lu Yanxi heard that the Jin soldiers were about to catch up with him, so he was so frightened that he fled into Jiashan (i.e. Hohhot, Inner Mongolia) on a light horse...
Due to the lack of information on the battlefield, all the civil and military officials in Nanjing City of the Liao Kingdom thought that Emperor Tianzuo had died on the front line or was surrounded, so they established Yelu Chun as emperor in Nanjing and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Jianfu.
Now, the new emperor Yelu Chun of the Liao Kingdom has demoted the Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, who did not know life and death, to the title of King of Xiangyin.
At this time, the first batch of envoys sent to Nanjing of the Liao Kingdom by Xia Emperor Li Qianshun were all confused.
They brought with them the credentials of the Xia Emperor and the family letters of Queen Yelu Nanxian of the Xia State, both of which were addressed to Yelu Yanxi, Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom...
However, now Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Kingdom is missing, and a new emperor has been replaced on the throne.
This new emperor Yelu Chun, judging from his old face and old and feeble physical condition, seems to be even older and feeble than the missing Emperor Tian Zuo.
The envoy of the Xia Kingdom still had to bite the bullet and presented the Xia Emperor's credentials and Queen Yelu Nanxian's family letters to the new emperor of the Liao Kingdom.
They repeatedly expressed their apologies, saying that the Xia Kingdom did not know that the Liao Kingdom had a new emperor ascending the throne, and they also asked the Liao Kingdom to mediate the war between Song and Xia. It would be best to send troops to help the Xia Kingdom, and at the end they would also send important officials from the Liao Kingdom to mediate.
Envoy...
"Cough cough cough..." The new emperor Yelu Chun, who was in his twilight years, coughed for a while before he said feebly:
"I...cough cough cough...since I came to the throne, Liao has suffered from internal and external troubles..."
"Today, Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Jin Kingdom marched personally and led a large army to present troops in front of Juyong Pass, the gateway to Nanjing in the Liao Dynasty. If Juyong Pass is lost, my city of Nanjing will be easily broken by the Jin enemy."
"Cough cough cough..." Yelu Chun coughed for a while again. His eyes were dull and he said feebly:
"I know, cough cough cough..."
"I know that Liao and Xia have been friends for decades. Princess Yelu Nanxian of the Liao Kingdom married the current emperor of Da Xia as his queen. Although I came to the throne not long ago, I still miss the family ties between Liao and Xia. However, now, we, the Liao Kingdom
You can’t even protect yourself!”
In the court of Liao Dynasty, a tall minister with extraordinary bearing came out and said:
"My humble minister, Yelu Dashi, wishes to report to Your Majesty that although we, the Liao Dynasty, are too busy to take care of ourselves and cannot send troops to help the Xia Kingdom, we should send envoys to mediate the war between the Xia and Song Dynasties.
If the war between Xia and Song can be successfully mediated, Xia will also be able to send troops to help Liao fight against Jin..."
The Xia envoys all looked at Yelu Dashi with grateful eyes.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! They saw Yelu Dashi standing in front of the ministers, his face still calm and calm.
Yelu Chun saw that Yelu Dashi, the greatest contributor to his appointment as emperor, had come forward to petition the Xia envoy, so he agreed:
"I... cough cough cough... I have no troops to send, so I can only send a few envoys to go to the northwest with the Xia envoys to mediate the war between Song and Xia..."
The envoys of Xia State had no choice but to do this...
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In the Liao territory, in front of Juyong Pass, the gateway to Nanjing, Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Jin Kingdom rode on a war horse and commanded the Jin army with his sword in the Jin army's formation, attacking Juyong Pass, the "most powerful pass in the world" guarded by the Liao army.
Attack in turns...
"Report!"
"Report! Our army's rangers have captured ten Xiang people from the Xia Kingdom alive."
"After our army's rangers tortured the ten Xia Kingdom party members, we learned that the current situation of the Xia Kingdom is actually similar to that of the Liao Kingdom."
"Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty personally marched to the northwest and led nearly 200,000 troops to attack Xia..."
"The Xijing City of Xia Kingdom has been completely surrounded by the Song Army!"
"The most powerful Iron Harrier Army of the Xia Kingdom was defeated by the Song Army, and its commander, King Richard of Jin, was captured by the Song Army..."
Wanyan Agu frowned after hearing the battle report.
He was not happy because of the war between Xia and Liao.
On the contrary, he felt a deep worry.
"Ever since I launched my army to attack the ruthless Liao Kingdom, I have thought that the only people who can compare with my Dajin Iron Cavalry are the Daxia Kingdom's Iron Kites Army!"
"However, now the Song army was able to defeat the tens of thousands of Xixia troops including the Iron Harriers and Jingzhou troops with a mere 10,000 troops!"
"Alas! I really shouldn't underestimate the Song Dynasty in the south of Liao Kingdom!"
He realized that the current power of the four countries could collapse completely due to a small change at any time.
Wanyan Aguda immediately summoned Ma Zhi, the envoy of the Song Dynasty who was on the expedition with the Jin army, and asked him to quickly return to the Song Dynasty and go to the northwest border, urging Emperor Zhao Guan of the Song Dynasty to send troops to join the Jin army to attack Liao Dynasty as soon as possible in order to reach a maritime alliance...
Ma Zhi happily accepted the order...
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In the court hall in Tokyo during the Song Dynasty, the prince Zhao Huan, who was left to supervise the country, heard that the Song army defeated the Iron Harrier Army and captured the King of Jin, Richard, and his father, Yu Jia, led a large army to besiege Xijing of the Xia Kingdom.
After this series of good news, he was pleasantly surprised.
Zhao Huan suddenly stood up from the side chair under the dragon chair, his eyes flashing with excitement.
Minister Li Gang and others also came forward to congratulate them, but they also knew in their hearts that this victory did not mean the end of the war. On the contrary, it might be just the prelude to a bigger storm.
A bigger change is brewing among the four kingdoms. Everyone is guessing, who will fall first, the Liao Kingdom or the Xia Kingdom?
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In the evening of the same day, Zhao Ji, who returned to the Western Expedition Army camp, summoned Liu Guangshi and his 300 party generals who had surrendered to the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Ji gave the three hundred party members a secret mission:
Let them take off their Song army uniforms and pretend to be defeated generals of the Xia army, or pretend to be herdsmen of the Xixia army.
Zhao Ji divided his 300 people into thirteen groups and asked them to secretly send envoys to the Thirteenth Route Local Army in Xia Kingdom.
These emissaries have a similar mission:
Bring the imperial edict of Zhao Guan's family, which is a letter written in both Chinese and Dangxiang script, as well as the signature and jade seal of Zhao Guan's family at the end of the letter as proof.
Zhao Ji promised that as long as the leaders of the local tribes in Xia did not lead their troops to relieve the siege of Xiping Mansion in Xijing,
Then, after the Song army destroyed the Xia Kingdom and ousted the current Xixia Dog Emperor Li Qianshun from power, the Song Dynasty would designate the tribal leaders of the Xia Kingdom who could not send troops as "Xixia Khans"...
If there is anyone who disobeys the imperial edict of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, after the Song army is victorious, their troops and horses will be annihilated, and their entire clan will be wiped out...
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