Song Gexing

Chapter 179 The Great Victory
Xia Zhou.

Wuzang Yepang has had a headache for the past two years, and he has been exhausted by successive rebellions. The Tibetans in Qinghai and Gansu, the descendants of Uighurs and Sogdians in the Western Regions.

Each one of them was so excited that they wanted to bite off a piece of his flesh.

Since Tie Yaozi was taken over by the Song Army, Xixia has been unable to form new heavy armored cavalry because it lacks the financial capacity.

But without the heavy armored cavalry, how could they deter those tribes who were equally skilled in riding horses, especially the tribes in the Western Regions? Not to mention the distance, the war horses were much more explosive than theirs.

If the Liao Kingdom hadn't stabilized Tubo in the past two years, I'm afraid he would be even more anxious now.

What makes it even more difficult for him is that Li Liangzuo is getting more and more out of control. Three years ago, Wu Zang Hei Yun was murdered by his henchman and lover Li Shougui. Wu Zang Pang lost the strongest support.

Li Liangzuo was only nine years old at that time, but he had already begun to know how to win people's hearts. He did not hide the fact that Pang married his daughter to him, which made him even more wary of himself.

Now the Xixia general Manme, who has a large number of troops, secretly colludes with Li Liangzuo, and has seriously threatened Wu Zangjia's power.

"We can't do this anymore. If it really doesn't work, we can only kill him and establish a new young master."

There is no need to hide your helplessness. It is actually very difficult to be a powerful minister. There are too many people who covet your power. If you dare not move, you have not found an opportunity.

As Li Liangzuo got older, the voices for pro-government grew louder, and those who wanted a piece of the pie started agitating both the government and the public.

But he miscalculated this time. He didn't expect that his 13-year-old nephew could actually commit adultery with his daughter-in-law.

The father and son conspired to murder Li Liangzuo, but their daughter-in-law Liang heard about it and secretly reported it to Li Liangzuo.

Manmei was summoned to the palace, and soon after secretly recruited troops to Beijing. Just tonight, when Wu Zangjia started an uprising, he found that his plan was leaked and he was surrounded.

"Manbaa, you are so bold! You actually transferred the frontier army to Beijing. You know that Song people have been staring at Hengshan. You are destroying the Great Wall!"

The rebels without a Tibetan family were suppressed. The angry Wu Zangyao Pang pointed at Manmei and yelled at him, but Manmei curled her lips contemptuously and said: "Song people need to be on guard, but what's even more important is that you don't have a Tibetan family. Why don't you smell the fuss?" Anel must be the first to go out!"

Pang was so happy that he didn't want to hide. "You're a damn warrior, but you have the nerve to follow Zhao Pu's words. There will be a day when you regret it. I don't have anyone to admit defeat today. Let's wait and see if the Song army invades Lingzhou tomorrow."

Manmei was a fake gentleman, with a cultured look on his face. He was very dissatisfied with being called a martial artist. He snorted and said, "How can I, the great general, be comparable to a martial artist? I didn't hide Pang Fu's crime." Bar!"

Three days later, Wu Zang's family was uprooted, but before Li Liangzuo could celebrate, he had just deposed his wife Wu Zang, and before he could even take her to the cold palace.

Frightened cries came from outside the palace: "Your Majesty is in trouble! Seventeen tribes in Hengshan rebelled and captured all the fortresses. There were 38 tribes who raised flags in response!"

Li Liangzuo sat down on the ground, screaming in shock: "Nonsense! I have already inquired when I left. The Song Dynasty is preparing for the succession of the throne, so there is no time to talk to us. Those natives can break our Fort?"

But as his questioning ended, a ragged and bloody border army spy came into view, stumbling towards him. The Forbidden Army soldiers looked at each other, and no one dared to stop him.

"General, my subordinates don't dare to lie! I didn't see the Song Army, but judging from the attack on the fortress, it must be the Song Army disguised as..." He really didn't lie, Zhong E was so clever that he wouldn't use Song Army. Attacking Xixia in the name of the army, Xixia has been very honest in recent years.

He pays tribute to the Song Dynasty every year and dresses up in Song Dynasty clothes when receiving Song envoys. Zhao Zhen will never allow him to beat Xixia for nothing.

But he knew that his master Zhao Fang would never let Xixia go.

They knew very well what their master was thinking about, which was to surpass the prosperous Tang Dynasty, even the Western Regions, and reopen the Protectorate.

Therefore, Zhonge ordered the frontier troops of the four families to all change their clothes and mix among the tribal people anyway. In the name of raising troops, these tribes were dissatisfied with Xixia's exorbitant taxes and rebelled.

As for after the attack and occupation of the fortress, the leaders of these tribes will come forward and go to the Song Dynasty in a big way to restore the rules of the ancestors.

There is nothing wrong with this. The Dangxiang people were the subjects of the Central Plains Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, why would Li Yuanhao's ancestors change their surname to Li? It was obviously Weiming or Tuoba.

Moreover, there are many party members with the surname Li, not only Li Yuanhao's branch, but Li Yuanhao's ancestor was Tuoba Sigong, the governor of Youzhou in the Tang Dynasty.

When Huang Chao rebelled, Tuoba Sigong was given the surname Li for his meritorious service in quelling the chaos. When the Northern Song Dynasty was founded, Li Yiyin, who was then the governor of the Dingnan Army, immediately announced that he would join the Song Dynasty and raised troops to help Zhao Kuangyin attack the Northern Han Dynasty.

Even after Zhao Kuangyin released his military power over a cup of wine, Li Yiyin had no intention of rebelling. The incident happened after Li Yiyin's death. His eldest son Li Jipeng stayed in Bianjing according to the order, while his younger brother Li Jiqian plotted a rebellion at home.

After betraying his family, Li Jiqian took some of his people and fled to the Hengshan Mountains. This was the beginning of the embryonic form of Xixia, and then he began to surrender on the surface and expand westward secretly.

It wasn't until his grandson Li Yuanhao became truly self-reliant. In fact, Xixia's self-reliance has the shadow of the Liao Kingdom behind it.

What Li Yiyin and Li Jipeng and their son thought was actually correct. No matter how powerful the Dangxiang people were, they could not defeat the Song Dynasty, because neither the population nor the economy could compete with the Song Dynasty.

Rather than being exterminated after becoming independent, it is better to surrender to the Song Dynasty and still live a good life. At least the Song Dynasty only took away their military power and did not take away their right to govern the local area.

But they didn't expect that the Liao Dynasty would secretly support their independence and actually allow their descendant Li Yuanhao to make a breakthrough.

Of course, the environment in which they grew up was different, which also caused their thoughts to be different. Li Yiyin and his son fought against the Liao Kingdom all the year round, and it was normal for them not to believe in the Liao Kingdom.

As the second son, Li Jiqian did not fight against Liao when he decided to betray the Song Dynasty. When he was an adult, the war between Song and Liao basically took place in the north, but the northwest was peaceful for several years.

In June of the fourth year of Jiayou's reign, just as Zhao Fang was preparing for the enthronement ceremony, the report from the northwest came, and the whole court was in an uproar. Sima Guang even wrote a letter to impeach Zhong E and others for starting the war and damaging the relations between the vassal states.

Zhao Fang looked at the excited ministers and sneered: "Everyone is optimistic. The memorial says that the tribes in the Hengshan area were unable to bear the oppression of Xixia and voluntarily annexed the tribe. When did it say that we, the Song Dynasty, were conquering the vassal country for no reason? Already?"

"That's a lie!"

Sima Guang loudly came out and talked eloquently: "The Xixia army in Hengshan is the most elite. How can those tribes capture the fortress, and also uproot them all and occupy the strategic locations of the entire Hengshan Mountains? Anyone with a discerning eye can see it. Come out, this is where our Song army is hiding, just in this name."

(End of this chapter)