In the fourth quarter, Liao Liao fought against Song Dynasty, a crucial battle

Fireworks were banned in the Forbidden City back then, and it was so early that we didn't know how to hear them when we met.

A tired guest in the autumn wind, a cup of love words, falling in love with you.

Looking back at Yanshan Mountain, the moon shines brightly on the tree in the courtyard, with two black branches twined around it.

The true love rushes to Wei Que, the empty book tells strange things, the heart is arrogant, and Yin Hao is hurt.

Misfortunes and blessings arise for no reason. If you ask about ancient and modern times, how many people understand this?

The Canglang fisherman returned with a startled smile, but his spirit was withered.

When I met Qinan, I was alone in the cold weather, with old friends in my arms.

I hate the yellow dust that blocks the ruler, I see far away from the Western Mountains, I send birds to the setting sun.

After Li Jiqian occupied Yinzhou, he continued to send troops to attack Huizhou, the northwest fortress of the Song Dynasty. He set fire to the fortress and killed many officials and people of the Song Dynasty. One incident caused an uproar in the Song Dynasty court, and everyone began to attach great importance to Li Jiqian.

Song Taizong hurriedly sent several generals and heavy troops to encircle and suppress them. At this time, Li Jiqian was concentrating all his forces to attack Funing. After learning the news, the general Tian Renlang sent by the Song Dynasty was very happy. He thought that Funing was easy to defend but difficult to defend.

It would take at least a month or two for the Dangxiang people to attack. When they did not take it down, and when they were exhausted, he would lead his army to seize the opportunity to attack. He would definitely defeat the Dangxiang people and capture Li Jiqian alive.

After making this plan, Tian Renlang deliberately pretended to drink and have fun. His subordinates secretly reported this matter to Song Taizong. Song Taizong thought that he was delaying the war. So he recalled him to the court and dismissed him from his post.

Wang Qian defeated the general, and he immediately led his troops to attack Li Jiqian.

The two sides fought a war in what is now Shenmu County, Shaanxi Province. Li Jiqian was defeated and lost more than 5,000 people. He was then forced to abandon Yinzhou and fled with his remaining troops. Wang Qian regained Yinzhou, which shows that Tian Renlang's help was not needed in this war.

The strategy was also successful. Wang Qian continued to lead his troops to march to the north of Yinzhou, and captured dozens of Dangxiang tribes in succession. There were 125 tribes in the area, and many local powerful people abandoned Li Jiqian and surrendered to the Song army again.

After this disastrous defeat, Li Jiqian had to rethink the relationship between Dangxiang and the Song Dynasty. He knew that it was difficult to compete with the Song Dynasty with his own strength. He needed to find a reliable ally and rely on a powerful regime to compete with the Song Dynasty. At that time, there were

The only country with enough power to compete with the Song Dynasty was the Liao State, so Li Jiqian made the decision to attach himself to the Liao State.

In 987 AD, Li Jiqian sent envoys to Khitan with heavy gifts, asking the Khitan monarch to agree to form an alliance with him to fight against the Song Dynasty. Since the Dangxiang people have been following the Central Plains Dynasty for so many years, they naturally had several conflicts with the Liao Kingdom.

War. Because Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom and Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Kingdom were both hesitant, they also knew Li Jiqian's current situation in their hearts.

But at that time, a minister in charge of western defense suggested that if the Li family of Xiazhou surrendered to Daliao, it would undoubtedly strengthen our power against the Song Dynasty, so why not accept them.

Empress Dowager Xiao accepted his suggestion, and Li Jiqian accepted the canonization of the Liao Kingdom and became the governor of the Dingnan Army again, managing Xiazhou.

In this way, Li Jiqian still could not rest assured easily. In order to strengthen their alliance, he proposed a marriage request to the Liao Kingdom. For her own consideration, Empress Dowager Xiao agreed to Li Jiqian's proposal. After Li Jiqian formed an alliance and marriage with the Liao Kingdom, it would be beneficial to both of them.

Benefits. For the Liao State, with Li Jiqian, other foreign countries could also surrender, and they could also use Li Jiqian to contain the Song Dynasty in the northwest. For Li Jiqian, the alliance and marriage with the powerful Liao State not only improved his power in the

The party gained prestige among the tribes and also increased its power in subsequent battles with the Song Dynasty.

At this time, in 986 AD, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi began the second Northern Expedition in his life, known in history as the Yongxi Northern Expedition. Li Jiqian had already formed an alliance with the Liao Kingdom, so the party members would definitely help the Liao Kingdom fight together

Song Dynasty. So when the Song army made a three-pronged expedition against the Liao Dynasty, Li Jiqian continued to lead troops and horses to harass the western states and counties of the Song Dynasty, which ultimately led to the failure of the Song Dynasty's Northern Expedition.

With the powerful Liao State as their backing, Li Jiqian became even more unscrupulous. He often sent small groups of troops to invade the northwest border areas of the Song Dynasty, but they often fled quickly as soon as they came to a conclusion, making it difficult for the Song Dynasty army to meet them. So Song Taizong was tricked by him

It was a headache. In the end, Zhao Kuangyin accepted Prime Minister Zhao Pu's strategy of using barbarians to control barbarians, restored Li Jipeng's status, and then asked him to recruit Li Jiqian. The mention of the word "campaign" reminded me of the work "Water Margin". In my mind,

Among my impressions, the Song Dynasty was the dynasty that used the word Zhao'an the most.

Li Jipeng was restored to his previous status and gave him the power of five states. Before, Li Jipeng was forced to donate land to the court, but that was not his original intention. Now it can return to its old place, so he also

Wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to do something. After arriving in the northwest region, Li Zhipeng secretly sent people to collude with Li Jiqian. In this way, the Song Dynasty unexpectedly strengthened the strength of the party members.

Less than half a year after Li Jipeng took office, in order to claim credit and reward, he wrote to the Song Dynasty court saying that Li Jiqian had surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Song Taizong had no doubts and was very happy. He ordered Li Jiqian to be appointed governor of Yinzhou. Li Jiqian did not understand the reason and did not accept the Song Dynasty.

Li Jipeng also told the Song Dynasty that many other tribes had come to join him. Song Taizong gave Li Jipeng a high-ranking official and a generous salary without even thinking about it. What’s more interesting is that Li Jipeng didn’t have any

He sent troops to attack Li Jiqian. However, he went to the court and said that Li Jiqian had been defeated by him.

Li Jiqian was planning to attack Xiazhou. In order to make the dispatch of troops go more smoothly, he first sent a person to Xiazhou to fake a surrender. This person told Li Jipeng that Li Jiqian was terminally ill and could no longer lead troops in battle. As a man who often deceived the Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian was planning to attack Xiazhou.

Li Jipeng was deceived by Li Jiqian, so he didn't take more precautions. Li Jiqian united with other tribes to suddenly attack the city. In panic, Li Jipeng was defeated and fled back to the city alone. Because Xiazhou City was very small

It was so strong that Li Jiqian besieged it for more than a month but could not defeat it.

Li Jiqian continued to besiege Xiazhou, but after fighting for two months, he still failed to defeat it. One of Li Jiqian's generals secretly surrendered to the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty knew that Li Jiqian was not stable internally, so it took the opportunity to send reinforcements to assist Xiazhou. Li Jiqian knew that he would never win.

possibility, so they pretended to surrender to the Song Dynasty through Li Jipeng. The Song Dynasty accepted Li Jiqian's surrender and made him the observer of Yinzhou. Li Jiqian's surrender to the Song Dynasty was originally a delaying strategy, so he began to feel uneasy after he calmed down.

They were separated. Li Jiqian led his troops to flee back to Dijinze. The Song army took the opportunity to surrender many Xiang tribes nearby.

Li Jiqian sent someone to contact Li Jipeng secretly, and offered high-ranking officials from the Liao Kingdom generous salaries. Finally, Li Jiwei was moved, and he sent an envoy to express his willingness to surrender to the Khitan. With Li Jipeng's secret support, Li Jiqian successfully captured several parts of the Central Plains Dynasty.

states.

Li Jiqian's strength was greatly enhanced after acquiring these prefectures and counties, but he still paid taxes to the Song Dynasty and used this method to stabilize the Song Dynasty. However, the Liao Kingdom saw Li Jiqian's thoughts and could not condone him. So they sent a large army to question, but

Li Jiqian sent someone to tell the visitor that he was on his way to the west. He did this to avoid encountering the Liao army. The Liao army left after plundering here.

After Li Jiqian returned to the Khitan, in order to rectify the Dangxiang people, the Song Dynasty ordered the implementation of an economic blockade policy on the northwest border. Since the Xiazhou area is rich in sheep and horses and other livestock products, as well as green salt with good taste, they used these things to fight against the border with Xixia

Shaanxi soldiers and civilians exchanged materials. In order to put an end to this phenomenon, the Song Dynasty ordered the local area not to trade with Xiazhou people. In order to force the Song Dynasty to abolish this policy, Li Jiqian encouraged 42 leaders of other ethnic minorities and a total of more than 13,000 cavalry to invade the northwest border.

These measures of his were ultimately successful, and the Song Dynasty had to abolish this policy.

The fact that Li Jipeng surrendered to the Khitan was finally known by the Song Dynasty. After Song Taizong recalled him to the capital, he cursed him but did not kill him. Not only did he not kill him, he also rewarded him with a lot of property. Li Jiqian learned that Li Jipeng

After receiving the news that he had been arrested, he had no choice but to abandon Yinzhou and fled to the desert.

After that, Li Jiqian attacked Xiazhou many times, but they were all repelled, so he wanted to make peace with the Song Dynasty again. Li Jiqian sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty, and Song Taizong took him with him in order to show the party the armed strength of the Song army.

This envoy went to the martial arts hall to watch the demonstration of the Song Dynasty warriors. Song Taizong once gave Li Jiqian three crossbows, but no one in the party could draw these three bows. The envoy saw that all the Song Dynasty warriors could draw them.

Fire these bows. Song Taizong detained the envoy in the capital, and the peace talks ended in failure.

Li Jiqian fought against the Song Dynasty for more than ten years in a difficult situation, and finally regained the five Dingnan states step by step. He did not give up and targeted Lingzhou again.

Lingzhu is located in what is now Lingwu, Ningxia, and has the reputation of being a fortress to the south of the Yangtze River. This place was the throat of the northwest of the Song Dynasty and a military center during the Tang and Song Dynasties. And to the west of Lingzhou is Hexi, which leads to the Western Regions in ancient China.

Corridor, this area is mainly populated by Uighur tribes, and the southwest of Lingzhou is the area where Tubo tribes are distributed. Moreover, this place has fertile land and rich water and grass. It has always been the focus of competition between the Han, Uighurs, Tubo and the Party against people of all ethnic groups.

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, all parts of the country have suffered heavy losses. However, the Lingzhou area in the northwest is not only developed in agriculture and animal husbandry, but also in culture. Therefore, this place is of great significance to Li Jiqian and the Song Dynasty. So what happened to Lingzhou?

Will it eventually fall into the hands of Li Jiqian?

For the Song Dynasty, if Lingzhou was lost, it would be difficult to preserve the entire northwest region. For Li Jiqian, occupying Lingzhou was equivalent to occupying the entire northwest region.

If the Song Dynasty wanted to keep Lingzhou, the most important thing was strategic supplies, and the Central Plains was very far away from here, so it was very difficult to supply food and grass. In order to strengthen the garrison in Lingzhou, the Song Dynasty specially sent the famous general Pei Ji to serve as the commander in Lingzhou. He served in Lingzhou

Lingzhou carried out field training and prepared to defend it for a long time. Li Jiqian adopted the method of cutting off the Song army's food and grass supply routes, and then continued to send troops and horses to harass Lingzhou.

In 995 AD, Li Jiqian led tens of thousands of troops to besiege Lingzhou. Li Jiqian had already sent additional troops to cut off the Song Dynasty's grain and grass supply line to Lingzhou. After several months of siege, Lingzhou City had eaten up all the grain and grass. Lingzhou City was in danger.

It was about to lose its hold. In order to aid Lingzhou, Song Taizong sent troops to escort 400,000 loads of grain to Lingzhou, but all the grain was intercepted by Li Jiqian on the way. Song Taizong sent five more armies to encircle and suppress Li Jiqian, and Li Jiqian made full use of it.

Due to the advantage of the terrain, the five armies of the Song Dynasty were rushed back and forth in the desert, dragging down the Song army to exhaustion.

Not long after, Li Jiqian once again requested surrender from the Song Dynasty. In order to alleviate the crisis in Lingzhou, Song Taizong had no choice but to agree to his surrender request. However, Lingzhou was always exposed to Li Jiqian's iron heel, and it was a matter of whether to defend or abandon the Lingzhou area.

, the court was divided into two factions. A small group of people believed that defending Lingzhou would cause a large number of casualties and would be a waste of people and money. However, most people opposed this proposal. The opponents mainly had three main reasons.

First, once Lingzhou, a strategic and military important place, falls into the hands of Li Jiqian, he will rely on this place to continue to grow and strengthen his strength. Second, if we give up Lingzhou, it will be equivalent to canceling the

With the isolation barrier, ethnic minorities in the northwest will gather together, which will pose a huge threat to the Song Dynasty. Third, the Khitan poses a serious threat to the Song Dynasty. Their good horses mainly come from the Hexi region. If Lingzhou is abandoned,

Not only was it impossible to control the Liao Kingdom's large-scale purchase of good horses from here, but even our war horses would fall into panic. Just when the Song Dynasty was wavering, Li Jiqian once again assembled heavy troops and was ready to attack Lingzhou.

In 1001 AD, Li Jiqian once again sent troops to attack the northwest region. The Xizhou Uighurs and Tubo, who had been threatened by Li Jiqian for a long time, took the initiative to request the Song Dynasty to send troops to assist the Song army in attacking Li Jiqian. With the joint efforts of the three armies, they were still defeated by Li Jiqian. Li Jiqian took advantage of the situation and captured it.

Li Jiqian visited several prefectures and counties in the northwest region, and all the barriers near Lingzhou have been removed by Li Jiqian.

Just as Li Jiqian stepped up his attack on the northwest border, a great war broke out between the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty. This war almost destroyed the Song Dynasty. This was the most famous Alliance of Chanyuan in history. This war concentrated the power of the Song Dynasty.

With all the troops, the defensive force in the northwest region was much weaker. Li Jiqian took this opportunity to surround Lingzhou. After holding on for a period of time, the city of Lingzhou was broken.

The battle to win Lingzhou can be said to be the most glorious war among all the battles Li Jiqian experienced in his life. This war will also completely change the situation of the party members. From then on, Xixia changed from weak to strong. The Song Dynasty lost Lingzhou.

After the fortress of Zhou, the defense line in the northwest had to retreat. For the Song Dynasty, the most dangerous thing was that it started a two-hundred-year-old two-front war model. To the north was the powerful Liao Kingdom, and in the northwest was the emerging Xixia.

The next year, Li Jiqian led an army to the west to attack Tubo. Soon Li Jiqian captured Xiliang Mansion, and the Tubo tribes entrenched here fled in panic.

The escaped Tubo tribe leader surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty asked him to pretend to surrender to Li Jiqian. Li Jiqian, who had won several war victories, began to become confident, so he was successfully deceived. When Li Jiqian accepted the surrender ceremony, the Tubo leader took advantage of him.

Li Jiqian was prepared and hit Li Jiqian's left eye with an arrow. The Tubo soldiers took the opportunity to pull out their daggers and swarmed forward. Under the protection of his guards, Li Jiqian fought his way out and fled back to Lingzhou in a hurry. In 1004 AD, Li Jiqian was seriously injured.

And died.

After capturing Lingzhou and Xiliang, it means that Li Jiqian has regained all the territory of Xiazhou that has been occupied since the Tang Dynasty. In other words, up to now, Li Jiqian has completed his dream of the year, and what he fought back then

The slogan is to restore Xia Ye. Although he has a more grand strategic goal in his heart, we say that a person's fate is determined after all. After his generation completes its historical mission, it is destined that he will soon

To be destroyed. As the leader of the first generation of villains, Li Jiqian has established the prototype of Xixia after more than 20 years of hard work. He is also considered the actual founder of the Xixia Empire. After his grandson Li Yuanhao became emperor, he honored him as

Taizu, posthumously named Emperor Shenwu.

Short story: Every corner of this world seems to be full of complaints and anger. Why doesn’t everyone understand me? Why are good intentions unrewarded? Why are others unfriendly to me? Why do I have so few opportunities?

Why can’t you get any reward for your hard work?

Why, why... I asked too many whys, but few people found the real answer!

As a result, behaviors and thoughts such as blaming others and being pessimistic about fate became rampant: It’s not that I didn’t do well, but that people’s hearts are too sinister; it’s not that I paid too little, but that I was destined to be doomed.

It can be said that "blaming others" has become a shortcoming of the Chinese people, and "it's all your fault" has also become a habitual excuse for people to cover up their mistakes. When we encounter difficulties, the first thing we think of is to blame others, rather than to blame others.
To be continued...