"Hmm"

Li Yuanhao pondered for a moment and said, "If I feint an attack on Jingyuan Road to mobilize reinforcements from Huanqing Road, then where do you think my main force should attack?"

Zhang Yuan, Yeli Wangrong and the others exchanged glances and said in unison, "Dingbian Army, Baoan Army!"

The Bao'an Army and the Dingbian Army are located between Fuyan Road and Huanqing Road. If the Song Army judges that the main force of the Western Xia has gone to attack Jingyuan Road, then the troops of Huanqing Road will definitely rush to support it at the first time. As Zhang Yuan said, they will cut off Yuan Hao's retreat and attack him from both sides, closing the door to beat the dog.

At this time, the Huanqing Road must be empty, and the Dingbian Army and the Baoan Army will bear the brunt of the attack. This place can shield Yanzhou to the east, connect to the Huanqing Road to the west, and connect to Yanzhou and Youzhou of Western Xia to the north.

If the Western Xia army could occupy this place, it would not only be able to drive a nail into the Song army's defense line and break through the opponent's defense line step by step, but also threaten the flank of Yanzhou. When the main force attacks Yanzhou in different directions, it can also ensure its own retreat and protect its own Yanzhou and Youzhou.

The most important thing is that Fuyan Road has been turned into a tortoise shell by Fan Zhongyan. It is definitely unwise to rush into the tortoise shell. Once the Bao'an Army and Dingbian Army are attacked, Fuyan Road will definitely come to the rescue.

By then, the entire battlefield will be mobilized. It is possible that Li Yuanhao will take advantage of the time when the main force of Fuyan Road is rushing to support the Bao'an Army to launch a sneak attack on Fuyan Road.

"Yes, it's right here."

Li Yuanhao looked at the map beside him with a deep gaze and said, "Since the Song army is going to advance step by step and build fortresses everywhere, then I will attack everywhere and make sure they can't resist."

The sky gradually darkened, and the howling northwest wind bent the green grass. More than ten days later, in early February, Western Xia launched an attack.

At this moment, the border between Song and Xia is hundreds of kilometers long and is sparsely populated.

In the vast wasteland north of Shunning Village of the Baoan Army, the street buildings left over from the original market have become dilapidated and ruined. It was originally a long street built on the grassland, but now the wooden houses are falling apart and collapsed, with only the shop flags still fluttering in the wind.

Four months ago, the Song people moved away the Han people who were doing trade here. Without the Han people, the Dangxiang and Qiang people who came here to do business naturally could not stay, and this place became an empty street.

Li Yuanhao personally led an army of 30,000, galloping on his warhorses, and appeared on the wilderness grassland north of Shunning Village like a torrent.

He looked around, his eyes fixed on the dilapidated street.

At that time, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi and Song Zhenzong Zhao Huan wanted to use Western Xia to contain the Liao Kingdom, so they not only rewarded Li Deming and Li Yuanhao, father and son, allowing them to establish a country and call themselves kings, but also gave them many preferential treatment, such as trade between Song and Xia.

However, as Li Yuanhao insisted on establishing a country and becoming emperor, the border area between Song and Xia became desolate.

Originally, more than ten markets on the border were forcibly closed by the Song army. They took away the Han people and prohibited Song Dynasty merchants from selling tea, rice, wheat, porcelain, lacquerware, silk, spices, etc.

I don’t know what happened in that era, but tea seemed to be addictive. Not only did the people of the Song Dynasty like to drink it, but the surrounding countries also liked it. It was even exported overseas and became a commodity on par with porcelain in the Song Dynasty’s foreign trade.

The Xixia people often exchanged salt, horses, cattle, sheep, camels, felt carpets, beeswax, as well as bupleurum, musk, and safflower.

Strictly speaking, this was mutually beneficial for both countries. After all, the only sources of horses for the Song Dynasty were Tubo and Xixia. Although there was also trade with the Liao Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom prohibited the sale of horses to the south, and even issued a ban: "Anyone caught selling horses outside the border will be killed and his family will be exiled far away."

Therefore, Li Yuanhao's enthronement and hostility towards the Song Dynasty were not good things for both sides, whether officials or the people. Moreover, the harm to Western Xia was far greater than the harm to the Song Dynasty.

Because the Song Dynasty could continue to trade and exchange horses with Tubo, although the amount was much less than before, it was still a source.

Xixia was in trouble. In addition to having no tea to drink, the products produced in Xixia could not be sold, and the economy collapsed, which was bound to cause a serious burden on the country.

For this reason, many people opposed Li Yuanhao.

However, Li Yuanhao still proclaimed himself emperor because he firmly believed that he could defeat the Song Dynasty and seize Shaanxi Road from the Song Dynasty.

Once he occupied Shaanxi, the entire Qinfeng Road and Shaanxi Road would be in his hands, and his territory would be doubled. With the manpower and material resources of the Song State, he didn't believe that the cancellation of the mutual trade would have any impact on him.

Therefore, Li Yuanhao only took a look at the dilapidated market, then waved his hand and said: "Keep marching, we only have one day, and the Song army will find us in one day!"

"Walk!"

The generals behind him waved their swords and shouted.

Thousands of troops rushed into the territory of the Song Dynasty like a tide.

Li Yuanhao's internal supporters had already figured out the situation of the nearby Song army's beacon towers.

He even sent assassins to sneak under the beacon tower in the middle of the night and kill the people inside.

Because the journey was long, the Song army's rotation schedule was every three days.

However, Fan Zhongyan had already built a large number of fortresses around Bao'an Army and Ding border.

There is the Bao'an Army headquarters, Taoluo Village, Jintang City, Huaiwei Fort, Weibian Fort, Jiuyang Fort, Dingbian Village, Donggu Village, Baibao City, etc. Speaking of it, Baibao City was built by Li Yuanhao in the first year of Jingyou.

At that time, Li Yuanhao suddenly invaded the Song territory, occupied this place, and built a city here. Not long after, the Song army reacted and drove him out, but the city was left here.

In this way, even if they assassinated the soldiers at the front-line beacon tower, they would be discovered by the soldiers at the rear beacon tower within a day.

Even if we continue to send people to assassinate him, it will not only make him easily exposed, but also make the other party alert.

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