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Li Hu was very unfamiliar with Xixia. His understanding of this kingdom was originally derived from the story of his father, but it was just the impression of a small and wild country. It was not until the rebel army entered Xijing Road to fight that he knew from the description of the descendants of the mountain. Because Xijing Road was adjacent to Daxia, and the Liao Kingdom was already in danger, it was not difficult to foresee that this mysterious Western dynasty was about to join the Daibei battlefield and get a piece of the pie in the grand banquet of the Khitans. Therefore, Li Hu began to pay attention to it and understand it, but because of military affairs and limited time, his understanding of Daxia was only a little bit.

Now Yuwen Xuzhong proposed a plan to unite Xia and resist Jin to ensure the safety of Datong and the Jiuzhou behind Shanhou. Li Hu suddenly realized that he had neglected the Daxia Kingdom because he was not familiar with the Great Northwest. If the rebel army wanted to gain a foothold in Daibei, the powerful enemy was not only the Jurchens, but also the Dangxiang people hundreds of miles away.

Li Hu humbly asked for advice and asked about the Daxia Kingdom.

Yuwen Xuzhong and Li Gang immediately gave Li Hu a detailed introduction.

The Kingdom of Daxia is located in the northwest and the Song people called it Xixia. It is a kingdom dominated by the Dangxiang, Han and Tubo people. It has a terrain of thousands of miles and has been established for more than 70 years so far.

The Dangxiang clan lived in the southeast of Qinghai for many years. It is said that its ancestors were from Qiang, while the Daxia royal family was from Xianbei, and they were descendants of the Tuoba clan of the Great Wei (Northern Wei). The Dangxiang clan was attached to the Central Plains since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the leader Tuoba Chici was given the surname Li by the Tang Dynasty.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the Dangxiang people were threatened by Tubo and requested to move inward. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty agreed, so they moved northwest from Qinghai. After a hundred years, they gradually stabilized. They formed settlements such as Pingxia tribe centered on Xiazhou (Xijing border), Dongshan tribe east of Longshan Mountain in Qingzhou (Qingyang County, Gansu) and Nanshan tribe in Hengshan area.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Dangxiang people were granted the title of Jiedushi Dingnan Army of Xiazhou for their contributions to suppressing Huang Chao, and they ruled the five prefectures including Xiazhou. They were promoted to Duke Xia, and the leader gave him the surname Li again. For two hundred years, they have been ruled in Gansu.

In the early Song Dynasty, Taizu reduced the vassals and forced him to sacrifice the territory of the five states of Xia, Sui, Yin, You and Jing, which threatened the survival of the Dangxiang people. At this time, Li Jiqian, the founder of the Western Xia Dynasty, appeared. He was the commander of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dingnan Army in Xiazhou. When he learned that the Song Dynasty had reduced the vassals, he immediately raised his flag to rebel against Song, and formed aid to the Liao Kingdom to recover the five states, and plunder the Song Dynasty, and conquered a large area of ​​territory. After his son Li Deming succeeded to the throne, he adopted the strategy of relying on Liao and Song, plundering Tubo's strong horses and taking up Uighur troops in the north. At the same time, he praised the Liao and Song ministers. Liao and Song also benefited each of them and even made the title of King Li Deming.

After Li Deming's death, his son Li Yuanhao succeeded to the throne. Li Yuanhao implemented a series of revitalization strategies, removed the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty's surname and changed the surname to Wei. More than 70 years ago (the first year of Baoyuan in the Song Dynasty, 1038 AD), officially became emperor on October 11, and the country was named Daxia, which was known in history as Xixia.

Li Yuanhao sent envoys to Song and asked the Emperor of Song to formally recognize his title of emperor. The Song-Xia war broke out immediately. Li Yuanhao was very powerful and defeated the Song army in Haoshuichuan and Sanchuankou. Emperor Renzong had no choice but to enthrone Yuanhao as King of Xia and recognize the separatist status of the Dangxiang people. In the same year, the Liao-Xia War broke out, and the Khitans wanted to take advantage of the situation, but they were defeated.

As a result, the world formed a three-legged situation of Song, Liao and Xia.

The territory of Xixia is adjacent to the Yellow River in the east. It borders Yumen Pass (now Xiaofangpancheng, west of Dunhuang, Gansu). It connects to Xiao Pass in the south (now north of Huanxian, Gansu). It reaches the desert in the north. It has 22 prefectures under its jurisdiction (including Ningxia and northern Shaanxi, northwest Gansu, northeast Qinghai and some areas of Inner Mongolia). It has strong strength.

Li Hu listened with relish. Only then did he have a clear understanding of Xixia. But he was not interested in the history of Xixia. What he was most concerned about was how many troops there were in Xixia. If Xixia used troops to Daibei, how many troops it could use.

"Under normal circumstances, the Dangxiang people can use 100,000 to 150,000 troops to attack Daibei."

As soon as Yuwen Xuzhong said this, Li Hu was stunned. In his impression, the Dangxiang people were probably similar to the Shubu people. There was a huge army of tens of thousands. However, Yuwen Xuzhong opened his mouth and was more than 100,000 troops. This made Li Hu realize that he had made serious mistakes in the strategy of Daibei. His main opponent was not only the Jurchens, but also the Dangxiang people who fought intermittently with the Song Dynasty for decades. This opponent was even more terrifying than the Jurchens.

Yuwen Xuzhong immediately talked about the Xixia system.

The Western Xia's laws were deeply influenced by the Song Dynasty, and various systems such as the official system and military system were basically imitated by the Song Dynasty.

The central part of the Western Xia is composed of institutions such as the Secretariat, the Privy Council, the Sansi Department and the Censorate. Among them, the Privy Council is the highest military ruling institution in the Western Xia and has various departments under it.

The Western Xia army consists of three parts: the guards in front of the tent, the capturing army and the local army. The guards in front of the tent are composed of the Propion Army, the Emperor's Guard and the Capital Garrison. The Propion Army is 5,000, known as the "Six Squads in the Imperial Siege". The Emperor's Guard is also called the Iron Cavalry Guard, the heavy armored cavalry, and the 3,000 people. The tent garrison army has 25,000 people and is equipped with 70,000 traits of the army. These traits are actually the reserve troops of the garrison army.

The number of soldiers captured was about 100,000, which was an elite unit of the Western Xia. Its main task was to undertake tough attacks and mobile combat. The soldiers of this army were captured alive in previous battles and were slaves of the Dangxiang people, so they were named.

The local army in Xixia was divided into the left and right wings, led by the Twelve Military Supervisors, with about 500,000 troops. Their arms were mainly cavalry and infantry, and the cavalry was the main force, especially the heavy armored cavalry, which was known as "Tie Yaozi". The infantry name "Bubazi" was mostly used to cooperate with cavalry during combat. The artillery name "Puxi" was equipped with light stone throwing machines, also known as whirlwind cannons, which stood on the camel's saddle in battle and fired stone bullets the size of fists to attack the enemy.

The Western Xia army mainly guarded the capital and defended the Song and Liao dynasties, so there were 150,000 troops stationed near the capital Xingqing Prefecture of the Western Xia capital, 100,000 troops stationed on the Song and Xia border, 70,000 troops stationed on the Liao and Xia border, and 30,000 troops stationed on the Western border to control and block the Western Ban and Uighur tribes.

"Six hundred thousand army?" Li Hu exclaimed in horror, unable to believe it at all. The guards in front of the tent captured 33,000 soldiers and 100,000 soldiers of the living and 500,000 local troops. Xixia actually had more than 600,000 troops, which was incredible.

Li Hu was sweating coldly. His plan for Daibei was not wrong, but was outrageously wrong. He regarded the Jurchens as his main opponent and was completely wrong. The current military strength of the Jurchens was conservatively estimated to be within 500,000. However, the Jurchens had to divide their troops to garrison the capital of the capital, to garrison Shangjing, Zhongjing and Tokyo, and now they had to hold troops at the Gubeikou, Songting Pass and Daling River. In this way, the Jurchens could transfer the troops to Daibei at no more than 200,000.

The rebel army had 150,000 people, and the army of the Emperor of the Liao Dynasty was also on the grassland. The three-point battles were fought, and the rebel army still had the power to fight.

However, he missed the Xixia people, and he never expected that the Xixia people's troops would have reached 600,000. The Liaodong chaos, and the Xixia people must have been paying attention for a long time. I remember that when Yelu Chun launched the third Eastern Expedition, he sent Yelu Dashi to the Western Xia to ask Xixia to restrain the Song army. In this way, the Xixia people must have been watching Liaodong and Daibei, especially Daibei. Because they are adjacent to Xixia, because of their fertile water and grass, the prefectures and counties are rich. The Dangxiang people may have been coveting for a long time. When they see the opportunity comes, how could they turn a blind eye and let the opportunity to expand their territory be lost in vain?

If the Xixia people took the opportunity to launch an Eastern Expedition and called 100,000 to 150,000 troops to the Daibei battlefield, they would be attacked from both sides, and it would be difficult to preserve the Datong land.

The Rebels and the Jurchens had an alliance with the Jurchens, and had a common enemy, the Khitans, and at some point they had a tacit understanding. Even if they turned against each other, they still had the possibility of cooperation between the two sides in the face of the common enemy, so the Jurchens were not the main opponents, and the main opponent of the Rebels were the Xixia people. Xixia was an ally of the Liao Kingdom. It was famous for its troops, it was strong, and it was very close to Datong. If the Xixia people suddenly came from the direction of the Yellow River when the Rebels fought fiercely in the grassland and attacked Datong, the Rebels would be defeated.

Li Hu thought of his father's story again.

There is no self in my father's story, nor does it have the Liaodong Rebel Army. If the Daddy's story is a prediction of the real world, then he and the Rebel Army might suddenly be destroyed. I have been unable to figure out the reason for the destruction, and now I know. I and the Rebel Army were swallowed up by the Dangxiang people. It's so terrible. I still don't know the power of the Western Xia army, and the rebel generals even disdained the Dangxiang people. I don't know the opponent. It's strange that I don't want to die. Fortunately, I have always been favored by God, and this time it's the same. When I was about to go north to the grassland, Yuwen Xuzhong came, and God sent someone who could save me. It's a blessing to heaven, but unfortunately, he came late. Yuwen Xuzhong thought Li Hu didn't believe his words, so he hurriedly explained.

"The Dangxiang people retained the ancient tribal tradition. The whole people were soldiers. All strong men were in normal times, and they participated in battles during wartime. The smallest organization of the Xixia army was a copy, and each copy was composed of three people, one main force, one auxiliary commander, and one person was borne." Yuwen Xuzhong said, "The 600,000 troops in the Xixia were only a regular force. If the whole country mobilized, at least 800,000 troops could be gathered."

"It has been nearly a hundred years since the Song Dynasty and the Dangxiang people fought against each other. However, the Song Dynasty not only did not recover its homeland, but instead lost a lot of territory. Among them, the disadvantage of the northwest troops was also one of the reasons."

"The current Emperor of Western Xia was named Li Qianshun. He ascended the throne at the age of three. At the age of twelve, he followed his mother, Empress Dowager Liang, and led an army of 500,000 to attack Song. At the age of 15, Empress Dowager Liang led an army of 400,000 to attack Song. At the age of 16, he took charge of the rule. After taking charge of the rule, he rectified the administration of officials, reduced taxes, focused on agriculture and sericulture, developed water conservancy, worked hard to govern, and adopted the strategy of joining Liao to attack Song. He repeatedly plundered the Song Dynasty and seized large tracts of land in the Song Dynasty."

"In the past twenty years, wars in the northwest have been frequent, and 400,000 Northwest Army fought bloody battles to guard the border. The Song Dynasty also severely dragged down the huge consumption on the northwest battlefield. The national treasury was exhausted and the debt was heavily in debt. All of this is closely related to the plan of joining forces with Liao and attacking Song by Emperor Xixia Li Qianshun."
Chapter completed!