The Dangxiang people are one of the ethnic minorities in the north in ancient times and are a branch of the Western Qiang people, so they are called "Dangxiang people" and "Dangxiang Qiang". During the Han Dynasty, a large number of Qiang people moved inland to the Helong and Guanzhong areas. At this time, the Dangxiang people

They lived the life of a primitive nomadic tribe who did not know how to farm and how to remember their years with vegetation. They divided tribes into units and used surnames as tribal names. They gradually formed the eight famous Dangxiang tribes, among which the Tuoba clan was the most powerful. In addition, there were black Dangxiang tribes,

Xueshan Dangxiang and other tribes. Another theory is that the Tuoba clan is a descendant of the Xianbei people. Li Yuanhao, the founding monarch of the Western Xia Dynasty, claimed to be a descendant of the Xianbei people. They were eventually exterminated with the rise and invasion of the Mongol Empire. This is the history of the Dangxiang people.

Now for the Song Dynasty, the biggest trouble on the border is not the Khitan of the Liao Kingdom in the north but the Dangxiang people in the northwest. Although the Yongxi Northern Expedition finally won the victory of the Liao Kingdom, it also consumed national power. The Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty also needed a rest.

But the Dangxiang tribe was different. Taking advantage of the great war between Song and Liao, the Dangxiang people got the opportunity to develop. Under the leadership of their outstanding leader Li Jiqian, the Dangxiang tribe now had a strong military strength and became a scourge in the northwest of the Song Dynasty.

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In fact, Dangxiang was originally attached to the Song Dynasty. Li Jiqian's brother Li Jipeng was originally the leader of Dangxiang, and he also accepted the title of the Song Dynasty's military commander. Later, Li Jipeng took the initiative to go to Bianjing to meet the Song emperor to express his gratitude.

submission.

But unexpectedly, as soon as Li Jipeng arrived in Tokyo, his younger brother Li Jiqian immediately established himself as the leader of the party and led the party tribe to rebel against the Song Dynasty.

In the blink of an eye, it's March of the fourth year of Yongxi's reign. During this period, the Song Dynasty was basically peaceful. The only commendable thing that happened within the Song Dynasty was that Kou Zhun was promoted to the position of Prime Minister. In this way

This marked the beginning of Kou Zhun's transformation from a local official to a central official.

Zhao Weiji, who controlled everything in the Zhang Mian incident, also lived in peace during this period. Through Feng Hong's relationship, Zhao Weiji contacted the magistrate of Huating County and Panxiuzhou Affairs Bureau. Then he began to invest in Huating County and prepared to

Where is the industry moving?

During this period, there was another good thing for Zhao Weiji, that is, Chai Yu was pregnant. However, Zhao Weiji, who was still immersed in the joy of becoming a father, was about to suffer bad luck.

Because Li Jiqian took action against Xiazhou.

Of course, the shadow of the Liao Kingdom was behind Li Jiqian's actions this time. In the third year of Yongxi's reign, after the Great War between the Liao and Song Dynasties, Li Jiqian saw that the Liao Kingdom was powerful, so he took the initiative to join the Khitan, and was conferred by the Liao Emperor Shengzong as the Envoy of the Dingnan Army and the Commander-in-Chief of Xia.

State military affairs.

And Yelumo, who had made great contributions in the war and became the sixth most powerful person in the Liao Kingdom, began to take charge of the affairs of the party ministries.

When Yelu Mo saw that the Song Dynasty did not send Zhao Weiji to guard Xiazhou, but sent an unknown person called An Shouzhong, he knew it was time to encourage Li Jiqian to attack Xiazhou.

In fact, the Song Dynasty did not fully understand Dangxiang, and to be precise, it did not pay much attention to it. The various parties of Dangxiang were always attached to the Central Plains Dynasty, which made the rulers of the Central Plains Dynasty seriously underestimate Dangxiang's strength.

In addition, Li Jiqian actually had an internal correspondent in the Central Plains, and that was his brother Li Jipeng.

Just when Li Jiqian sent troops to attack Xiazhou, his brother Li Jipeng secretly gave all the information about An Shouzhong to Li Jiqian.

Sun Tzu said: "Know yourself and the enemy, and you will not be in danger in a hundred battles; if you do not know the enemy but know yourself, you will win and lose once; if you do not know the enemy and do not know yourself, you will be in danger in every battle."

When the Song Army was about to fight against Li Jiqian's party troops, such a situation emerged. Li Jiqian knew himself and the enemy, but the Song Army did not know the enemy or himself.

Hearing that Li Jiqian was coming to attack, An Shouzhong did not choose to defend blindly. Instead, he decided to go directly to Li Jiqian for a decisive battle. In An Shouzhong's mind, the party's army was mediocre. Although there was support from the Liao State, in the end

His strength is limited. If he can capture Li Jiqian in one battle, he will definitely avoid future troubles.

But An Shouzhong didn't even know how many troops the party had and what the tactics were. Moreover, he was not even familiar with his own army. The existence of garrison tactics made it difficult for the Song army to recognize generals or soldiers.

An Shouzhong, who basically had a dark look in his eyes, confidently led his troops to fight Li Jiqian.

When he learned that An Shouzhong had rushed out with 30,000 people to fight him, Li Jiqian almost went crazy with joy. Yelu Mo, who had previously encouraged him to send troops, had already told him that the Song generals would definitely come with troops.

During the decisive battle, these words did not enter Li Jiqian's heart at all.

Because the Dangxiang and Khitan armies also had a shortcoming, that is, the lack of means of siege. Li Jiqian never expected that the Song army defender would make such a mistake and use his own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strong points.

In this way, the two armies started a fierce battle in Wangting Town.

As expected, the Song Army was directly beaten by Dang Xiang, and the 30,000 Song Army soldiers never returned.

Fortunately, the generals who stayed behind in Xiazhou at that time chose to defend Xiazhou as soon as they learned of An Shouzhong's defeat. With the help of defensive equipment and a strong city, they could barely block Dangxiang's attack. But the land of Xiazhou

Most of them were swallowed up by party items.

After the news spread back to the capital, the entire court was shocked.

"A small party can be so arrogant. Are all those in the Song Dynasty who can fight dead?" Is it true that if Zhang Butcher dies, he will have to eat pigs with hair? Without Zhao Weiji, there will be no one who can fight.

.At this time, Zhao Guangyi was extremely angry.

It was just that he couldn't defeat the Liao Kingdom Khitan, but now he couldn't even defeat Dangxiang? Last time Cao Guangshi fell into a trap because Li Jiqian pretended to surrender, but this time An Shouzhong actually failed to win a decisive battle.

At this time, all the ministers in the hall were at a loss. It was very simple. The only candidate could not be mentioned.

In fact, it was not that the Song Dynasty had no generals available, it was just that many things changed with the appearance of Zhao Weiji.

Pan Mei, who was supposed to survive, actually died in the battle at this moment. And there was another general who was inadvertently buried by Zhao Weiji. That was Li Jilong, one of the twenty-four heroes who finally entered Zhaoxun Pavilion of Song Lizong in the original history.

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Due to the appearance of Zhao Weiji, Song Taizong focused on recovering Yanyun earlier, so after Li Jiqian captured Yinzhou, he did not send troops to recover it. Therefore, Li Jilong, who was supposed to rise in full strength in the battle to recover Yinzhou, did not fight here

war. This also caused him to lose the opportunity to participate in Yongxi's Northern Expedition. He was completely buried in this way.

At that time, even Zhao Weiji was surprised that Li Jilong could not be found in the troops of Mao Caobin and Mi Xin. He never thought that this outstanding general would be buried because of the butterfly effect he created.

Pan Mei died, and Li Jilong lost the fame he should have had, so no one thought of him. Cao Bin was demoted because of his previous defeat, and no one wanted to mention him. As for Cao Bin's two days later, it will be very difficult.

A good son, now being implicated by his father, will not have any chance for the time being. As for Yang Yanzhao, the civil servants all think that he is not worthy of the important task of leading an army for the time being.

There was originally a Mi Xin, but I didn't expect that at this juncture he would actually become ill.

When all the coincidences and reality came together, Zhao Guangyi realized that he really had no one to use except Zhao Weiji.

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Just when Zhao Guangyi was worried at the court meeting, Zhao Weiji was also worried.

As soon as the news of An Shouzhong's defeat came back to the capital, Zhao Weiji summoned all his confidants for a meeting.

Through Jiang Yu's analysis, Zhao Weiji also came to the same conclusion as Zhao Guangyi: except himself, Zhao Guangyi really has no one available.

In this era of supremacy of imperial power, being irreplaceable is not a good thing for ministers. When the emperor realizes that he cannot live without someone, that person is not far away from death. The emperor will never allow such a person to exist

It is so important, especially for generals.

Tan Daoji, Di Qing, Yue Fei. Are there few such examples in history books?

"Does our Song Dynasty really have no reliable generals?"

Just when Zhao Weiji was worried, Tie Zheng on the side spoke: "I do know someone who is good at riding and shooting, and has many strategies. He should be an outstanding general, but why has no one noticed him yet?"

"Oh, who is it?"

"Li Jilong."

When Tie Zheng said this, Zhao Weiji also thought of this person: "Yes, there is him. Shouldn't he have defeated Li Jiqian and regained Yinzhou in the second year of Yongxi's reign, and then participated in the Northern Expedition? Why did I join the Northern Expedition?

This person has not been seen in the army."

"Wait a minute, Prince. In the second year of Yongxi's reign, our Song Dynasty did not regain Yinzhou." I don't know why Zhao Weiji would say that Li Jilong defeated Li Jiqian and regained Yinzhou, but out of his duty as a retainer, Tie Zheng still

I corrected Zhao Weiji.

When Zhao Weiji heard Tie Zheng's words, he was immediately stunned. In the second year of Yongxi's reign, he had been focusing on the Northern Expedition and had never paid any attention to the northwest. Everything he knew was recorded in history books. Nothing

I thought that the history at this time actually went awry at that time.

"Maybe I made a mistake. I don't know who told me such a thing. Maybe it was a rumor." Knowing that he said something he shouldn't have said, Zhao Weiji immediately tried to cover it up and pretended to be innocent.

Putting the blame on the so-called rumors.

Since the entire county palace was concerned at this time, the people below were not too entangled in what Zhao Weiji said. At this moment, their attention was focused on Li Jilong.

"Where is this person now?" Jiang Yu asked Tie Zheng.

"This person should still be in Dingzhou now." Tie Zheng thought for a while and replied.

"If the official summons the prince to join the court, I think the prince should recommend this person to rescue him." After learning about Li Jilong's whereabouts, Jiang Yu suggested to Zhao Weiji.

After hearing this, Zhao Weiji also felt that what Jiang Yu said was reasonable. If a general could rise now, Zhao Guangyi would definitely pay less attention to him, so as to gain more development time for himself.

At this moment, Cao Cao arrived, and Zhao Guangyi asked the eunuch to deliver the order, announcing that Zhao Weiji had come to the palace to pay an audience.
Chapter completed!