Xi'an Prefecture, which is the Haiyuan in later generations, is a rare treasure land on the border of Song and Xia. It has lush water and grasslands and a lot of arable land in the pastures. Although it is located on the west side of the Loess Plateau, the hills and undulating gullies are crisscrossing, and the remnants of Liupan Mountain (Nanhua Mountain, Xihua Mountain, Yueliang Mountain, etc.) run through the north and south, before it was named Anxi Prefecture, Tiandu Mountain was really famous in the Song and Xia countries.

Anyone who knows the situation in Song and Xia will not be unfamiliar with it.

The Song and Xia armies have been in opposition here for decades. At their peak, the Song army set up military camps there, with more than 30 city walls. The Dangxiang people also built palaces and cities there, not wanting to be outdone.

During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, the Song army attacked Xixia several times, and finally defeated the enemy in Tiandu Mountain. Many of the cities that belonged to Dangxiang were captured. The Xixia palace was also burned to pieces.

However, in the thirty years, Hexi in the thirty years. With the Jin army heading south, the Western army was transferred eastward to reinforce again and again. The Dangxiang people took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Li Ganshun sent troops to break Xi'an Prefecture, seized Tiandu Village, and made Xi'an Prefecture an Anzhou.

Even though Zhao Gou drove out the Jin army and the Song army was very powerful, Li Ganshun sent envoys to report the peace several times. However, the Xia army's garrison in Tiandu Mountain did not see them reduce one soldier or one soldier, nor did they see them obediently send Tiandu Mountain and Xi'anzhou back to the hands of the Song Dynasty.

The first goal of the Song army in Weizhou was Tiandu Village in Tiandu Mountain, and then recover Xi'an Prefecture. Then they would go north and kill the Xishoubaotai Army Division of the Western thief. After they succeeded, they would not need to attack Lingxia eastward or attack the Hexi Corridor westward. They just needed to stand firmly and cut off the connection between the Dangxiang people on both sides of the east and west.

Overall, Xixia is a country with irregular rectangular areas, but if you look carefully, you will find that there are too many deserts and Gobi in the territory of the Dangxiang people.

Their real essence is on both sides of the Yellow River east of Helan Mountain, which is the later N Xia, and then there is a narrow thin line along the Hengshan border in the eastern part of Songxia, and the Hexi Corridor to the west.

This is a country with a "┻" shape.

The goal of the Song army in Weizhou was not to capture the vertical stick, but to cut off the connection between the east and west areas of the vertical stick. As long as we could do this, after the Song army on the east route captured the Yinxia prefectures and recovered the essence of Xingqing Prefectures, Li Gan still had to resist to the end and was unwilling to surrender. However, he could only lead the remnants of Dangxiang to throw themselves straight to the desolate desert Gobi in the northwest, and could not go west along the Yellow River and retreat into the Hexi Corridor.

Of course, if Li Ganshun was willing to throw away the remaining Dangxiang people and go west with a light cavalry, the Song army in Weizhou would not be able to stop him.

But in this way, Li Ganshun threw away his basic foundation. The essence of the Dangxiang people was in Helan Mountain, and they took the Hexi Corridor from the Ganzhou Uighurs.

Li Yuanhao once killed his soldiers at Yumen Pass, but in the end he did not take that step towards the Western Regions. After reaching Dunhuang, the troops stopped. Because further forward, they were not only the remnants of the Ganzhou Uighurs, but also the powerful Xizhou Uighurs. The latter can also be called Gaochang Uighurs, occupying most of the Western Regions.

Then the remaining Ganzhou Uighurs completely withdrew from the Hexi Corridor and turned into yellow-headed Uighurs, distributed south of Dunhuang, east of Khotan, north of Qaidam Basin, west to the present-day Qiemo, Ruoqiang, Lop Nur. They have close ties with the Dongjian regimes of Gaochang, Khotan and Tubo, and often maintain tribute relations with the Song and Liao dynasties under the name of "Shazhou Uighurs".

Yue Fei didn't know whether the court had already had contact with the Yellow-Headed Uighurs. With the attack and destruction of the regime of the Yellow-Headed Uighurs, the Yellow-Headed Uighurs had actually offered their knees to Zhao Song. The fault was not that Tong Guan underestimated the enemy and forced Liu Fa to send troops, so that the Song army was defeated, so it was not that the Yellow-Headed Uighurs had already been under the banner of the Song Dynasty.

Yue Fei felt that it was very likely that the court would beat rabbits this time and kill the yellow-headed Uighurs.

Anyway, the Uighurs in Xizhou have declined? His king Bilege didn't dare to provoke Yelu Dashi, who was separated by his mountain, and sat on the throne of Yelu Dashi in Beiting (the capital of the Beiting Prefecture of the former Tang Dynasty) on the northern foot of Bogda Mountain (the eastern section of the Northern Tianshan Mountain) for five years.

In five years, Yelu Dashi developed from a mere 200 guards to the current seven states such as Huiwu, Chongde, Huifan, Xin, Dalin, Zihe, Tuo, and Dahuangshi Wei, Dila, Wang Jila, Chachila, Yexi, Bigude, Nila, Dalagude, Damili, Mierji, Hezhu, Wuguli, Zhubu, Pusu, Tang Gu, Hu, Momo, Xi, and the clan of the eighteen kings.

How could such a monarch support the yellow-headed Uighurs?

When the Song army destroyed the sage, his sister Princess Gaochang and the major leaders rushed to Qingtang City, but they did not see any movement in the Xizhou Uighurs.

Perhaps the great enemy of the Song army in the future will not be the defeated Xizhou Uighurs, but the vigorous Yelu Dashi.

Yue Fei is well-known for this name.

Because he was less than twenty years old, he had joined the army to conquer Liao, and decided to defend Liu Wei's command for Zhen, and was quite appreciated by Liu Wei. However, the timing was unfortunate. Yue Fei's father, Yue He, passed away seriously ill, and Yue Fei had to bid farewell to Liu Wei and return home to mourn.

If this is the case, he would not have appeared in Liu Rui's army. He was probably promoted to a high position by Liu Wei, who had a keen eye for talent.

The battle of Xuanhe, led by Tong Guan, to conquer Liao, really made his reputation for Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan.

It was obvious that they were all elite soldiers who dared to fight from the Western Army, but they were defeated by Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan with a group of defeated generals. It was really disheartening.

For Yue Fei, it was even more of a great shame. Before the Liao people could see him, the army was defeated in a daze.

The names Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan have been firmly engraved in his heart since then.

But today, King Xi, Xiao Gan, who proclaimed himself king after the destruction of the Liao Kingdom, has already broken his bones, but Yelu Dashi, who killed Xiao Yixue, Polikuo, and led two hundred iron cavalry to escape at night, has made considerable efforts in this Western Regions.

When Yue Fei thought about the possibility of meeting Yelu Dashi again in the future, he felt a sudden fire in his heart.

...

Late at night, the lights in Tongyuan Village were bright.

Yue Fei, who led two thousand cavalry to this camp three days ago, had washed away the fatigue of running around for days. At this moment, he was full of energy. His armor exuded a dark luster against the torches. He rode his horse slowly to the two thousand iron cavalry. The loud voice broke the calm of the military camp: "You guys all listen to me. It is said that it is to raise soldiers for a thousand days to use troops for a while. We are grateful to the court. Everyone has no worries about food and drink. Every family has food and clothing. This is all the kindness of Your Majesty. Now the Holy Emperor wants to settle the hatred with the Western thieves for many years. How dare we fight against the power of dogs and horses?"

"Don't say that the enemy is weak and I am strong, and the heavenly soldiers have thunder to help. How can the Western thieves block my soldiers? This is the time when my husband makes achievements."
Chapter completed!