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Geze horse walked in the drizzle, thinking silently about his thoughts.

The rainy season in the grassland this year comes early and rain is sufficient, which indicates that the water plants are plump this autumn, and the livestock will eat fat and strong, and have a good harvest. However, the situation in the northwest is like the turbulent Yellow River, and the summer is like a small boat on the Yellow River, swaying up and down in the waves, and there will be a disaster of overturning at any time.

It has been eighty-five years since Emperor Jingzong Li Yuanhao of Daxia became emperor. If the years when Emperor Wuzong Li Jiqian and Emperor Taizong Li Deming fought fiercely in the northwest and laid the foundation for Daxia, it would have been more than a hundred years. During these hundred years, Daxia and the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty repeatedly fought. The Song Dynasty was defeated, and it had to admit the Xia Kingdom, and the Liao Dynasty was also defeated. However, the Xia Kingdom knew that its biggest enemy was not the Khitans, but the Song Dynasty, so the Xia Kingdom took the initiative to submit to Liao, make an alliance, and unite Liao to resist the Song Dynasty.

This national policy has continued to this day, ensuring the continuation of the Daxia national destiny. However, today, the foundation of this national policy has suddenly overturned, and its speed has caught the people of Daxia off guard.

How could the Great Liao Dynasty suddenly fall? The Great Liao Kingdom, which has nearly one million troops, has a territory of thousands of miles, and has strong strength, a northern giant and a towering tree, suddenly fall? Before the people of Daxia could react from their surprise, the Han people and Jurchens who overthrew the Great Liao Dynasty and killed Daibei. The people of Daxia rushed to fight, but ended up losing streaks and the situation became increasingly dangerous.

The fall of the Great Liao Dynasty was the best opportunity for the development of Daxia. Why did things go as expected and they were in a crisis? Cha Ge and the emperor and the prime minister repeatedly discussed, believing that in addition to insufficient preparation and strategic mistakes, the most important reason was lack of strength.

The Great Xia and the Song Dynasty have fought against the Great Liao for decades, and have repeatedly fought with the Great Liao, but it has always dominated the northwest and looked down on the world. Its strength should be very strong. There should be no problem in replacing the North at the moment of the Great Liao overthrow. Why is it not successful? After all, it is lack of strength. Whether the strategy can succeed depends on its strength. If the strategy loses the basis for implementation, of course it will fail.

Daxia has a unique geographical location, but there are many deserts, mountains, and few arable land and pastures, which seriously restricts its development. Daxia has a difficult wealth, a tight treasury, and a hard life for the people. Of course, it cannot afford the army. Therefore, the military system of Daxia is that the whole people are soldiers. Except for the Proton Army (Imperial Guards) and the Capital Garrison Army, the rest of the troops usually participate in farming and animal husbandry, and are put on battle during wartime. These troops include the main capturing army of the Xia army and the local army of the Twelve Military Supervisory Office.

It is clear at a glance that the Proton Army and the Garrison Army are about 30,000. The number of the Capture Army remains at about 100,000. After winning battles, more prisoners will be captured, and the number of the Capture Army will be larger. Otherwise, it will be reduced. The troops under the 12 Military Supervisory Office are all local troops, including the Han and Fan ethnic groups. To put it bluntly, they are rural soldiers. Except for some young and strong men, the combat effectiveness of the elderly, weak, sick and disabled can be imagined.

The Daxia Army was about 500,000 at its peak, but due to its population size, its number of troops has been decreasing. Daxia is located in the western frontier and has a small population. During peacetime, people can live and work in peace and have children. However, for a hundred years, the peace time has been limited, and the population has been slowly declining. Especially in the past forty years, the war between Daxia and the Song Dynasty has reached a maximum, and the Daxia Kingdom has suffered heavy damage in both national strength and military power.

The emperor of the Daxia dynasty was named Li Ganshun. He ascended the throne at the age of three and was dictatorial to the Empress Dowager Liang. Because of the great power of the foreign relatives, the power struggle in the court was fierce, which led to the government. The Song Dynasty took the opportunity to launch an attack, and the Xia army was defeated repeatedly. In order to ease the conflicts in the court, Daxia followed the previous dynasty and constantly used troops to the Song Dynasty to divert domestic crises.

From the 11th year of Da'an in Xia (1085 AD) to the second year of Yong'an (1099 AD). During the thirteenth year, Da'xia launched more than fifty attacks on the Song Dynasty. In several years, it reached six or seven times. The largest three times were led by Empress Dowager Liang and led the army to the expedition.

The first time was in October of the third year of Tianyou Min'an (1092 AD). The battle of Xia Huanqing in the Song Dynasty. The second time was in October of the seventh year of Tianyou Min'an (1096 AD). Under the order of the Empress Dowager Liang, Li Ganshun served his mother and personally led the imperial army to fight. He gathered 500,000 troops and invaded the Fuyan Road of the Song Dynasty and captured Jin Ming. The third time was in October of the first year of Yong'an (1098 AD). Empress Dowager Liang personally led an army of 400,000 to attack Pingxia City (now Guyuan territory in Ningxia). The strong attack was not defeated on the thirteenth day. Later, the Xia army lacked food and was attacked by a storm and was defeated and fled.

In the second year of Yong'an (1099 AD), the Emperor of the Daxia Emperor could not help it. If Empress Dowager Liang was allowed to continue like this, the Western Xia would be destroyed. This was very unfavorable for maintaining the peace and covenant of Liao and Song dynasties and maintaining a three-legged stadium. So he secretly formed a minister of Daxia. Jiu killed Empress Dowager Liang and Li Ganshun began to take charge. He was sixteen years old this year.

Li Ganshun was intelligent and talented since childhood. After taking charge of the rule, he joined the Eastern Liao, the Southern and the Song dynasties to try his best to restore national strength.

However, just four years later, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty sent Tong Guan to the northwest. The tough commander of the Northwest Army began a new round of attacks. He frequently succeeded and recovered the Jishi Army (Guide, Gansu) and Taozhou (Today's place)

Tao). Reclaimed large territories of Hengshan and Tiandu Mountains, and established their advantages over the West.

Tong Guan presided over the Northwest military for 20 years and fought the Xixia people for more than ten years. There were only two or three short truces in between. Although Li Ganshun and Cha Ge tried their best to fight back, and also achieved a record similar to the Battle of Shuofang that wiped out 100,000 Song troops, this record could not make up for the heavy blows that Daxia suffered in these 20 years.

If the Song Dynasty was a lion, then Xixia would be a wolf. This wolf fought with the lion for twenty years first, and it was covered in scars and blood. Of course, the lion also lost a few pieces of meat, but the lion was big, so it didn't matter how many pieces of meat it fell. It soon grew again. It continued to fight, and it beat for twenty years. Although the lion was bitten off a few pieces of meat by the wolf again, the wolf was already dying.

The lion and the wolf are not at the same level. A few pieces of meat dropped by a lion and a few pieces of meat dropped by a wolf are not the same concept. In order to boost morale, comfort themselves, and cheer themselves up, the people of Daxia said that although the Daxia was greatly damaged, the Song Dynasty suffered greater losses. The Song Dynasty was so powerful that it did not drag down Daxia, but itself. But on the contrary, the Song Dynasty's strategy did drag down Daxia and dragged Daxia to the most dangerous situation since its founding.

The people of Daxia were very coveted by Daibei, but it was not strong enough and did not realize the predetermined strategy. Although it kept increasing troops to Daibei, first 100,000 and then 200,000, its real elite was only tens of thousands, so it attacked Datong three times and fought with the Jin army twice, but failed. There were many people who could indeed create momentum, but without strong national strength as support, and without sufficient food and grass weapons as support, it was a paper tiger in the end and had to reveal its true colors.

Li Hu was a rebel bandit. He fought from Longhua to western Liaoning, and then from western Liaoning to Daibei. He plundered all the way. Wherever he passed, there was no grass left, so he became more and more powerful, but the people of Daxia were not good, and they did not have this condition. In fact, they wanted to plunder more and more. But to the north was an endless desert, to the west were the Gobi and snow-capped mountains, to the south was the Song Dynasty, and to the east was an ally Daliao. Where did it plunder? It couldn't find a place to plunder.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier. The entourages caught up and asked Brother Cha to stop and rest for a while, avoid the heavy rain before leaving.

Brother Cha shook his head, waved his hand, and signaled to continue moving forward.

Li Hu was waiting in front of him, unable to stop, just like Daxia, unable to stop moving forward, otherwise he might be swept away by a storm.

Today, Daxia has reached the critical moment of life and death. What methods can we use to turn the tide?

In the past forty years, the people of Daxia spent twenty years to consume themselves. The powerful foreign relatives of the Liang family controlled their power, eliminated the strangers from the inside and imposed violent taxes, and used troops to crazily push the Daxia into the abyss of defeat. Later, even the Khitans could not bear it anymore. The Emperor of Daliao Daozong had to take great risks to personally rescue Xixia.

Then, the people of Daxia were consumed by the Song Dynasty for another twenty years. During these twenty years, the people of Daxia fought hard and frequently sought peace. However, Tong Guan, a eunuch, was very perverted. He was different from the Northwest Commander of the Song Dynasty. He did not consider the consequences at all. He almost used a cruel way to fight for his life to consume Daxia.

In the past twenty years, the people of Daxia have struggled, the national strength of Daxia has been exhausted, the army of Daxia has become fewer and fewer, the people of Daxia are getting poorer, Daxia is walking on thin ice as if facing the abyss, exhausting all ways to protect the country and protect its homeland. However, at this critical moment, the Liao Dynasty overturned, which was a bolt from the blue for the precarious Daxia.

The Great Liao Dynasty was overthrown, and the three-legged world pattern was broken. The northern battles were fought and the foreigners competed for the deer, but Li Hu emerged from nowhere, seized Daibei and smashed the last life-saving straw in Daxia.

Where does Daxia go? Where is the survival path of Daxia?

Through the thin rain and fog, Brother Cha saw the battle flag flying in the distance. It was Li Hu's battle flag, majestic and exuding a domineering aura.

Brother Cha slowly stopped his horse, wiped the rain on his face, and couldn't help but think of the argument between himself and Xingqing Mansion in his mind.

The emperor and the prime minister planned to take peace talks to win the time of rest. In Daibei and Li Hu negotiated peace talks, formed a brotherly alliance with Li Hu, and then surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and at the same time provoked conflicts between Bian Jing and Hu Lie Mansion to prevent Bian Jing and Datong from attacking Daxia. This was a very conservative defensive strategy, and Chage and some military commanders opposed it.

It is certain that the Daxia must form an alliance with the Jurchens and use the Jurchens to restrain Bianjing and Hulie Mansion. Then what? Either form an alliance with Li Hu to fight the Song Dynasty or surrender to the Song Dynasty to fight Li Hu. In other words, in terms of defense strategies, active defense methods must be adopted, attack instead of defense, and not passive defense. For the current national strength of the Daxia, passive defense is actually equivalent to self-defeating.

Brother Cha met with Li Hu this time because he wanted to offer advice to Li Hu, and the two sides formed an alliance and joined forces to fight the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!