Emperor Shenzong and Wang Anshi left no room to support Wang Shao's strategy, which is known in history as the Xihe River Opening Border.

When Xihe opened, Wang Shao was sent to the northwest to command troops. Several strategic bosses from the northwest did not cooperate. Wang Shao didn't even pass the imperial examination, but he actually ran to the territory of my strategic commander's mansion to point fingers.

This is equivalent to a college student from a third-rate pheasant university in later generations who wandered in society for several years and was sent to a large military region to talk about strategy with the military region commander.

Of course, they didn't do it. They even submitted a memorial to Emperor Shenzong, scolding Wang Shao's son so much that he was worthless. By the way, he even scolded Wang Anshi for being a fool, and actually supported such a young boy.

How did Shenzong and Wang Anshi do it?

Of course, it’s a replacement. Whoever doesn’t support Wang Shao will step down!

Get back to be the governor!

In this way, the vigorous Xihe River opened its borders and began under controversy.

Wang Shao did not disappoint Zhao Xu and Wang Anshi's expectations for him. He really regained the Hehuang area!

This was the first time that the Song Dynasty expanded to the outside world after Emperor Taizong!

The Dangxiang formed an encirclement. At this time, after the failure of the Five Routes to attack Xia, the Song Dynasty realized the strategy proposed by Fan Zhongyan decades ago, and began to build cities and villages in the Hengshan area, step by step and slowly erode.

Once this strategy was implemented, Dangxiang was immediately panicked to the extreme. The Song Dynasty simply grabbed the lifeline of Xia State in an instant.

Since then, the Xia Kingdom has been willing to frequently siege hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the built-ups of the Song Dynasty, and even the Xia King has supervised the battle himself.

At this time, the war against Dangxiang in the Song Dynasty officially entered the active stage from passive to active stage.

If Renzong had not been confused by Li Yuanhao and adopted the strategies of Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, perhaps Dangxiang had been defeated decades ago, and there might not have been a large-scale army that would have been bloated and financially exhausted.

In this way, I still have enough energy when facing the Jin Kingdom.

But this strategy was once again hindered, and the Song Dynasty had a tragic fate.

What happened since He Huang was defeated?

In the dispute between the old and new parties, Sima Guang felt that the expenses to maintain the newly developed territory were too high and not cost-effective. He gave up and even planned to return the Hengshan area captured from Xia Kingdom to Xia Kingdom.

The Qingtang tribe liked to cause rebellion again. The court had been a constant debate on the issue of managing Hehuang. Due to the dispute between the old and new parties, foreign wars were also swaying.

But at least, at this time, Dangxiang's front line was lengthened.

As a large resource body, the Song Dynasty was superior to the small resource body countries like Dangxiang in terms of long-term combat.

After the death of Emperor Shenzong, the old party rekindled, Sima Guang took power and contracted in full swing.

When Zhezong came to power, he launched the new party and began to expand the border and attack Xia.

Until Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, he inherited Fan Zhongyan's strategy, and the Hengshan area was already full of the Great Song Dynasty's villages, and Tong Guan finally came to fight this war.

Later generations evaluated Tong Guan and often said that Tong Guan had quite a military talent.

Some brainless people even say that Yue Fei's military talents cannot be compared with Tong Guan.

But he knew nothing about the causes and consequences of the Song Dynasty.

Tong Guan can be said to have picked the fruits of his predecessors. The Xia Kingdom has become very weak under the erosion of several generations. As long as the Jin Kingdom does not rise, the demise of the Xia Kingdom is only a matter of time.

But even after Hengshan was eroded by the Song army, Tong Guan was beaten up just so well.

In this era when Zhao Huan surpassed, Tokyo did not fall.

In the first year of Jingkang, the Xia Kingdom did take advantage of the Jin Kingdom's entry into the Song Dynasty and head south to capture Hengshan, and even reached Jingyuan Road and Huanqing Road for a while. Later, under the counterattack of Yao Pingzhong, Zhe Keqiu, Liu Guangshi and others, they were beaten back.

Moreover, the city of Hengshan has been temporarily preserved.

But this time, Li Cha's army directly penetrated into the Song territory, and Li Ganshun personally led the army south to Hengshan to launch a crazy siege on the Song Dynasty's villages.

If Zhao Huan wants to win this battle, the victory or defeat is in Hengshan, and in the vast desert of 700 miles.

If the Song Dynasty regained control of Hengshan, the Xia Kingdom would completely lose Hengshan's protection and be completely exposed to Zhao Huan's sharp blade.

At the same time, the fertile land and food of Hengshan were also lost.

The overall situation is almost certain.

At this moment, the energetic emperor looked north of the Shentang Fort looking at the distant empty wasteland, and the cold wind blew his cloak in the air.

Going to Hengshan, the intersection of Song and Xia, between these hundred miles, the Song army also had dozens of castles and fortresses, densely distributed, connecting and echoing each other, forming a solid barrier that firmly blocked the Xia army's cavalry to the north.

Back then, Li Yuanhao was in trouble and used the mobility of the cavalry in this area to charge back and forth against the Song army, which made the Song army unable to fight back.

Until the fifth route of Shenzong attacked Xia, the city and fortresses bloomed everywhere in Hengshan.

Dangxiang, who had always been arrogant and arrogant, knew that the Song army had built a siege between the deserted desert and the cliffs of Hengshan Mountain. He was not only shocked but also frightened.

Whether it is Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Wang Shao who was angrily spreading the border for two thousand miles, or Zhang Feng, a famous general who was amazing in the late Northern Song Dynasty, they have all pushed the war against Xia to the end.

It only takes one person to end.

This is Zhao Huan.

In the twelfth month of the third year of Jingkang, the cold wind blew from the distant north of the desert swept across the entire northwest land, and the entire world was boundless white.

Only in the cruel killing, bright red blooms.

Countless lives pass by this winter and are often buried in loess.

This year, Dangxiang was like crazy.

First, the Song general Cao Sheng rebelled and slaughtered the northwest city walls.

Then Richard led his army of 300,000 toward Huanqing Road.

Soon, King Li Ganshun of Xia led another 500,000 troops to personally attack Hengshan, hoping to annihilate the Song army in the Hengshan area in one fell swoop and seize the initiative again from Song and Xia.

The Emperor of the Song Dynasty gave a thunderous response. All the generals from all five routes received the emperor's imperial edict. The emperor personally fought against the Xia Dynasty and achieved his merits in one battle!

Not only that, the Privy Council is constantly mobilizing more troops this winter.

Before the decisive battle came, plus the regular reserve troops on the way north, the total force the emperor wanted to invest had reached 800,000!

In this battle, the emperor invested all the income of the Song Dynasty court over the years.

Whether it was Zhao Gou who earned back from sea transportation, the money he earned from the imperial court selling land, or the money he scraped from Jiaozhi.

While launching a war, in order to curb the surge in prices, Zhao Ding of the Royal Bank of the Song Dynasty quarreled with Li Gang, Xu Churen and others, and he pressed Jiaozi's printing to a close.

No over-issuance of Jiaozi is allowed in a word!

With Zhao Ding who was in the Royal Bank of China in a total of ways, it saved Zhao Huan on the front line a lot of trouble.

Under the stable rear, the entire northwest of the Song Dynasty was like a giant, under the absolute will of the emperor, drawing out a sharp blade.

It seemed as if a shocking cold light had passed through the northwest. When people came to the northwest hundreds of years later, they could feel the emperor's anger towards Dangxiang.

After the Battle of Huanqing Road, an unprecedented war is about to begin.

King Li Ganshun of Xia, who was heading to Hengshan, also showed unprecedented ambitions. In addition to the 400,000 troops in the Hengshan area, Dangxiang is still mobilizing in the country. This is a country where everyone is in war.

Li Ganshun, who was sitting on the king's carriage, turned his head and looked to the south.

His sharp eyes seemed to penetrate the vast snowfield, and arrived at the Temple Fort, and saw Zhao Huan's straight figure as if he was a gun.

Zhao Huan was also frowning with his pair of sword eyebrows, his eyes like the cold stars in the sky, staring at the vast war south of Hengshan in the northeast direction.

No one could stop the emperor's ambition. Dangxiang should have been destroyed long ago, and it has survived to this day. It was the most failed thing that the Song Dynasty court had after Yongxi's Northern Expedition.

Countless spies ran in the empty snowfields. In order to allow the information to arrive smoothly, each group of spies must have more than twenty people.

To prevent someone from freezing to death on the road, resulting in interruption of intelligence.
Chapter completed!