Kou Ji led people into Dejing Town. In full view of the Xixia people in Dejing Town, he forcibly took over Dejing Town. At the same time, he took the Xixia people in Dejing Town as prisoners and included them in the prisoner camp.
Kou Ji captured Dejing Town almost without a single blow.
Not only did he send a letter to Li Deming for an explanation, but he also sent a letter to Bianjing City, detailing the crimes of the Xixia people.
He said that the Xixia people were so arrogant that they actually rescued Liao prisoners under his nose, which was really hateful.
He asked the imperial court to send envoys to Xixia to seek an explanation from Li Deming.
Just a few days after Kou Ji settled in Dejing Town.
A group of 4,000 Liao captured soldiers and horses appeared in Xixia's Tieyewu, raided Xixia's Tieyewu, killed all the people inside, and robbed everything inside.
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After the Liao captives robbed Xixia's iron smelting business, their power became stronger and stronger.
They wreaked havoc crazily on the territory of Xixia, which was close to the Song Dynasty.
As time went by, everyone in the northwest knew that two groups of Liao captives had escaped from the military camp of the Song Dynasty, and they were wreaking havoc in Xixia territory.
Kou Jinglue was so angry that the Three Corpse Gods jumped into rage and led the Hengshan Army to Qiliping, Tieyewu and other places in Xixia to pursue the Liao prisoners.
Kou Jinglue's pursuit of the Liao prisoners failed, but Qiliping, Xixia Tieyewu and other places were successively captured by Kou Jinglue.
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"Shameless!"
Inside Xingqing Mansion.
Li Deming, who was usually gentle and gentle, was now furious and cursing.
Li Deming pointed in the direction of Song Dynasty and roared angrily: "Kou Ji is a famous figure after all, how could he be so shameless and do such a despicable thing.
He himself let the Liao people run away, and on the pretext of pursuing the Liao people, he continued to attack cities and territories in Daxia.
You actually have the nerve to send someone to deliver a letter to me asking for an explanation?"
The Xixia civil and military officials in the palace all had their heads lowered, with expressions of resentment and humiliation on their faces.
"Kou Ji is not only shameless, he also goes too far!"
Li Yuanhao gritted his teeth and cursed angrily. He beat his chest and saluted Li Deming, and took the initiative to ask for a tassel: "My father sent a troop of soldiers and horses to my son. I will go to Qiliping and behead Kou Ji."
Give your head to your father."
"You must not..."
Mr. Xia immediately stood up and shouted loudly.
When Li Yuanhao heard this, he stared at Mr. Xia angrily and said, "Why not? Are we going to have to watch that evil thief Kou Ji attack the city in the southern border of Daxia?"
When Li Yuanhao said this, he stared at Mr. Xia and said angrily: "I knew you Song people were unreliable. If it weren't for the bad ideas you Song people came up with, how could I, Daxia, be in this situation today."
Mr. Xia said solemnly: "Your Highness, the situation in Daxia today is not because of my fault in my plan. The fault lies in the incompetence of the Liao people and the fault in the prince's arrogance."
Li Yuanhao stared at Mr. Xia with a frightening light and said with gritted teeth: "What did you say?!"
Li Yuanhao's words were full of anger.
Mr. Xia was not afraid at all. Mr. Xia said in a deep voice: "If His Royal Highness had not gone his own way when he was in Hexi and chose to fight with the Song Dynasty, our tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Daxia would not have been lost to the Song Dynasty.
If we, Daxia, had not lost tens of thousands of elite soldiers, why would we, Daxia, need to rely on the Liao people to deal with Song.
If it weren't for the incompetence of the Liao people, I, Daxia, would have taken advantage of the wars between Song and Liao to securely become powerful.
Therefore, the current situation in Daxia is entirely the fault of His Highness the Crown Prince and the Liao people.
But Fei Chen’s plan went wrong.”
Li Yuanhao was furious, "If you dare to say that you are not wrong, I will kill you."
"Your Highness the Crown Prince!"
Xia Song, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke and shouted loudly.
Li Yuanhao gritted his teeth, suppressed the anger in his heart, glared at Xia Song, and shouted in a low voice: "Sir, what advice do you have?"
It is true that Xia Song is talented and capable, and it is true that Xia Song is Li Yuanhao's husband, but Li Yuanhao has no respect for Xia Song.
Li Yuanhao despised the Song people very much, and he was even more contemptuous of Xia Song, a Song person with a shrill voice.
Xia Song seemed to have gotten used to Li Yuanhao's disrespect towards him. After Li Yuanhao spoke, he said calmly: "Xia An's plan is not wrong..."
When Li Yuanhao heard this, his anger rushed to his forehead in an instant.
Just as he was about to curse, Xia Song continued: "What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did in Hexi was not wrong."
When Li Yuanhao heard this, the anger that rushed to his forehead was suppressed again.
The defeat in Hexi was the shame of Li Yuanhao's life.
The defeat in Hexi not only ruined the Iron Kites that Xixia had accumulated for many years and planned to use to sweep across all directions, but also ruined tens of thousands of Xixia's elite soldiers and horses.
Nowadays, many tribal leaders in Xixia have begun to doubt whether Li Yuanhao has the ability to lead an army, and have begun to doubt whether Li Yuanhao is really qualified to inherit the unification.
Li Deming is not his son, nor is he the only successor to the leader of the party.
When the heads of various tribes in Xixia were full of doubts about him, his brothers could not sit still, and one by one they began to peek at his position as prince.
His unbreakable position as prince has begun to waver.
It is precisely because of this that once someone mentions the war in Hexi in front of him and puts the blame on him, he will be furious.
Now that Xia Song is talking to Xia An, he is also talking to him, so it is natural that he will not have a seizure.
After Xia Song suppressed Li Yuanhao, he continued: "Neither His Royal Highness the Crown Prince nor Xia An was at fault. The fault lies with the Song State and Kou Ji. Without Kou Ji, our Great Xia war in Hexi would not have been defeated.
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Without Kou Ji, Xia An's plan against the Song Dynasty would not have gone wrong.
Kou Ji was born out of nowhere, and his methods were endless.
Everyone knows that Kou Ji is not good at military affairs.
But every time Kou Ji intervenes in a war, he can influence the outcome of the war.
Take the war in Hexi for example, if Kou Ji had not appeared in Hexi with heavy armored cavalry, muskets and artillery.
I, Daxia, have now taken the entire Hexi into my pocket.
In victory over Sichuan, Kou Ji defeated the 150,000 elite troops of Huangtou Huihe with ten thousand men, relying on the strength of his firearms.
At Yangguan, Kou Ji used firearms to defeat nearly a thousand heavily armored cavalry in Daxia, changing the outcome of the war in Hexi.
Qu Yechuan and Kou Ji also used firearms to defeat a hundred thousand elite soldiers of the Liao people with a small number of enemies.
It can be said that where there are soldiers, there are firearms.
The presence of firearms on the battlefield can influence the outcome of the war.
The firearms were made by Kou Ji, so all the problems lie with Kou Ji."
Li Deming frowned, stared at Xia Song, and remained silent. Li Yuanhao shouted: "Sir, don't be too secretive. Just tell me what your plans are."
Xia Song said coldly: "Since the problem lies with Kou Ji, then let's get rid of Kou Ji."
Li Yuanhao heard this and laughed sarcastically: "Kou Ji is hiding among tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Unless we gather all the soldiers and horses to surround Kou Ji and his soldiers and horses, it will be impossible to get rid of Kou Ji."
"That's not right, that's not right..."
Mr. Xia, also known as Xia An, spoke again.
Xia An said solemnly: "We can't get rid of Kou Ji in a big way. Kou Ji can't die in our hands. Once Kou Ji dies in our hands, that old man Kou Zhun will probably go crazy. That little emperor Zhao Zhen
, I guess he won’t let me go easily, Daxia.
It is true that the Song Dynasty was at war with the Liao Kingdom.
However, the Song Dynasty still had enough strength to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Daxia.
If Kou Zhun and Zhao Zhen, the Xiong'an Emperor, become ruthless and summon all available troops in the Song Dynasty to press against Daxia, it will be difficult for Daxia to resist."
How many soldiers and horses did the Song Dynasty have?
Hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops and hundreds of thousands of Xiang troops.
Tuanlian, rural soldiers, and vassal soldiers were not included in the military membership of the Song Dynasty.
Most of them are led by local yamen and belong to the nationality.
However, when necessary, they can also be temporarily transferred to the army.
The Song Dynasty soldiers and horses bordering Xixia alone numbered hundreds of thousands.
There are 50,000 troops in Hexi to suppress the west.
Yongning Army Road, there are 50,000 full Yongning Army.
Qingjian City has a Zhong family army whose number has been controlled at around 30,000.
Behind Qingjian City, there are three Manchu Forbidden Armies, Zhenge, Xingguo, Zhenguo, and the Three Armies.
In addition, there are three troops and horses newly organized by Kou Ji: the Hengshan Army, the Zhenbei Army, and the Yingbian Army.
This does not include the garrison in each city and the garrison on the Great Wall.
It can be said that the Song Dynasty did not have many soldiers and horses to resist the Xixia people in the northwest, but if you dig carefully, you will find that the number is terrifying.
If Kou Zhun and Zhao Zhen become angry, these soldiers and horses from Shangshu will definitely appear on the battlefield to conquer Xixia.
If either Kou Zhun or Zhao Zhen were to visit the battlefield in person, three of the five troops of the Tiger Wing Army, Dragon God Second Guards, and Tianwu Army currently stationed in Bianjing City would be dispatched to the battlefield.
On the battlefield of the conquest of Xixia.
Several Xiang armies on the north and south sides of Bianjing City will not hesitate to mobilize to the battlefield to conquer Xixia.
Don't think that just because the Song Dynasty dispatched 300,000 soldiers and horses to the land of Yanyun, it means that the Song Dynasty has no soldiers to use.
The number of soldiers and horses in the Song Dynasty was frightening.
If Kou Zhun hadn't streamlined a large number of them during his administration, the Song Dynasty court could mobilize more troops.
Whenever there was a war in the Song Dynasty, the Japanese army and the Tianwu army were mobilized. It was not because there were no troops and horses mobilized in various places in the Song Dynasty.
It's because the Chinese army needs a strong elite forbidden army to take charge.
The reason why the Song Dynasty did not often raise heavy troops to conquer the four directions was not because there were no soldiers and horses, but because mobilizing heavy troops required too much food and grass and too much military pay.
The long baggage line would drag down the Song Dynasty's finances.
That's why the Song Dynasty did not often raise heavy troops.
But if Xixia really killed Kou Ji blatantly, God knows whether the crazy Kou Zhun and Zhao Zhen would fight Xixia at all costs.
There were not many famous generals leading the army in the Song Dynasty.
But if we really want to fight to the end, regardless of human, material or financial resources, Xixia will not be able to fight.
If they fight to the end, Xixia will be consumed by the war.
Although Da Song was not feeling well either.
But Xixia will definitely die before the Song Dynasty.
Of course, Xixia may die, but Song Dynasty may not die.
Because the Song Dynasty today is no longer what it used to be.
In today's Song Dynasty, there is a Yizijiaozipu.
In the eyes of common people and businessmen, it is a simple place to save money.
But in the eyes of Xia Song and other politicians, it was another treasury for the imperial court.
The purpose of its existence is to provide a large sum of money to the Song Dynasty court as support when necessary, to help the Song Dynasty do whatever they want to do.
Therefore, killing Kou Ji blatantly is taking death.
Xia An didn't know what Zhao Zhen would do if he went crazy.
But Xia An knew exactly what Kou Zhun would do when he went crazy.
Kou Zhun dared to drag Zhao Heng to the battlefield, so he dared to put a knife on Zhao Zhen's neck and force Zhao Zhen to go to the battlefield together.
Li Yuanhao said with a gloomy face, "If the Song Dynasty dares to invade, we will fight with them. In the past, Zhao Guangyi of the Song Dynasty conquered the Liao Kingdom three times, and each time he used heavy troops, but he was defeated by the Liao people and abandoned his armor.
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Xia Song frowned and said nothing.
Xia An said: "Zhao Guangyi lost troops and generals in the Liao Kingdom three times, not because the Song army was not powerful enough, but because Zhao Guangyi himself was incompetent. Zhao Guangyi was afraid of his generals, fearing that they would rely on their own troops, so he never handed over military power to his generals.
.He chose to order Zhongyu to sit in Bianjing City, supervising the army and personally commanding the battle.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not very old, but he has experienced many wars since childhood.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should understand how stupid it is to sit in Xingqing Mansion and command the Xixia soldiers and horses in the Hexi border to fight."
When Li Yuanhao heard this, he gritted his teeth and said, "That's just asking for death..."
Although he didn't want to boost others' ambitions and destroy his own prestige, he had to tell the truth.
The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly.
Sitting in the Xingqing Mansion and commanding the Xixia soldiers and horses in battle on the border west of Hexi is seeking death.
It's a thousand miles from Xingqing Mansion to the Hexi border.
It would take several days to issue an order and then send feedback back, even if it was urgent.
A few days are enough for the enemy to seize the flaw and catch you off guard.
Xia An continued: "Gao Huaide, Cao Bin, Pan Mei and others are not unparalleled generals. They all have the ability to destroy a country. Each of them, leading a heavy army, can pose a threat to a dynasty. They all
Appeared on the battlefield across the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun.
Does His Highness the Crown Prince think that the civil servants, counselors, and generals they destroyed together are not as good as Brother Yeluxiu and Queen Mother Xiao?
Does His Highness the Crown Prince think that all of them combined are really not as good as Brother Yelvxiu and Queen Mother Xiao?"
Gao Huaide, Cao Bin, Pan Mei and others were all founding generals, and they all contributed to the destruction of the country.
Their talents have been proven.
They have the means to lead troops and the minds to lead troops.
It's not that they couldn't defeat the Liao people, nor were they inferior to Brother Yelvxiu and Empress Dowager Xiao.
The reason why they suffered a defeat was because they could not make the decision on the Yanyun battlefield.
They have extraordinary abilities, but they can't use them. How can they not suffer defeat?