Li Ganli heard that Yu Xuyu's army was attacking in three directions, deploying 170,000 troops north of the Yellow River to defend against the attack of the Chinese Northern Route Army; deploying 150,000 troops on Yanzhou Road to defend against the attack of the Chinese Central Route Army; deploying 100,000 troops on Ganzhou Road to defend against the Chinese Southern Route Army.
The rest of the troops were stationed in military fortresses, preparing to compete with the Chinese army.
At this time, Xixia had several states including Xia, Yin, Sui, You, Ye, Jing, Ling, Yan, Hui, Sheng, Gan, Liang, Gua, Sha and Su. Li Gan's elite troops stationed in Xingzhou, blocking the rivers and supporting the situation in the middle.
Li Ganli is indeed a character. In a short period of time, he cleaned up the alien faction of the capital royal family, and then quickly cleaned up the tribe leader who was pro-Li Feng, not only threw Li Feng's uncle and his clan members into the Yellow River to drown, but also poisoned Li Ganshun's concubines and princess to death.
Because his biological mother accused him of killing his brother and nephew, he even killed his mother with poisoned wine.
Because Xixia was relatively backward, the power of the mother's family was indeed very threatening, but even the mother's queen could not tolerate it. Li Ganli was indeed a very cruel person.
Not only that, in the process of purged the dissident faction of the royal family, he was the Li Feng faction of his concubine Wei Mu's father's family. After purged the family of Wei Mu's father, he also killed the son whom Wei Mu's father and wiped out the roots, so cruel that he did not even let go of his own flesh and blood. Li Ganli is a great sect in the world.
Although Li Ganli quickly eliminated the dissident factions in China, it caused an undercurrent of power in China.
The forces of Yipintang were scattered among the armies. After Li Qiushui was injured, he sent Qingxing and Qingyue to turn Yipintang into darkness, secretly connecting the officers of the Yipintang system of the troops.
Shan Yuweiliang, the general who was in charge of the left and right soldiers of the Western Xia Dynasty, persuaded Li Ganli to say a few words, and Li Ganli was preparing to kill Shan Yu's clan.
After learning the news, this veteran general with more than 20 family members fled and was chased by Li Ganli's cavalry. Li Ganli tied Shan Hui Weiliang and his son to the tree, and ordered all the generals to bend their bows and arrows together, shoot the veteran clan into a hedgehog, and then slay the corpse and vent their anger.
Although Li Ganli's actions quickly made the Western Xia military unite, they made the people's hearts rush. Due to his tyranny, everyone dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out.
Because Li Ganli has been in charge of the army for many years, his confidants are loyal to him, so the Chinese army may suffer serious losses in the war with the Chinese army.
Because Li Ganli had carefully studied the organization of the Western Xia army in the past, he immediately started to rectify and reorganize after he succeeded to the throne.
Because the Yipintang is too powerful, he cannot solve it at one time, and the war is very urgent, so he took the means of winning over and reusing several important generals from the Yipintang system, but weakening the power of the rest of the personnel.
Li Ganli's action weakened the power of Hangu disciples.
Li Ganli used the Yellow River as the boundary and divided the army into two left and right wing troops, and set up twelve military supervisors, respectively, and ordered the military name to be designated as the garrison, which improved the command system of the Western Xia army.
Then, he quickly developed and fixed the new soldiers: Iron Harrier and Poxi Jun.
These two types of troops were created by him based on his years of combat experience. Iron Harrier is the most elite cavalry unit in Xixia. The soldiers of the troops are equipped with the best war horses and the most exquisite armor. Each team has a total of 3,000 people, divided into ten teams.
The Poxi Army is an artillery, which mainly uses stone throwing machines to assist in the attack when siege. The number of people is the smallest, with only 200 people, and is equipped in each army.
In addition, he activated the most unethical Yuanhao military system, plundered the surrounding Chinese border residents everywhere, formed a raiding army, and used these Chinese border residents as the vanguard, allowing them to rush in front of the main army of their tribe as cannon fodder, minimizing the casualties of the soldiers of the Xixia Dangxiang.
After consolidating the solid military foundation, Li Ganli appointed a think tank mainly composed of the Han people.
These eight traitors are Zhang Bu, Zhang Jiang, Yang Guo, Xu Minzong, Zhang Wenxian, Li Cong, Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao.
The backbone of Li Ganli who taught and tempted Li Ganli to use the Yuanhao military system were Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao. These two scholars who failed to get a long time of trial, relying on their Chinese culture and martial arts. They originally wanted to seek advice and achieve fame on the border of the Song Dynasty, but they have never been valued.
In anger, the two defected and entered the Western Xia.
Although Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao were scholars, they were familiar with Chinese history and military strategy. Therefore, Li Ganli appointed Zhang Yuan as the military advisor of the garrison on the north bank of the Yellow River, Wu Hao as the military advisor of the Ganzhou garrison, and Zhang Bu as the military advisor of the Yanzhou Road.
These three Han people are all talented and very strategic, which has caused great trouble for the Chinese army.After hearing the news, Yu Xuyu said: Don’t say that scholars are talking nonsense, and their heads are covered in blood.
They are said to be traitors and are scum among Chinese scholars.
On the north bank of the Yellow River, the Northern Army led by Kang Guangling and his disciples, were fighting with Zhang Yuan. Xiao Jun and others were all in this army, mainly Khitans.
Fan Yong, a disciple of Kang Guangling, was very talented and a capable official with far-reaching plans.
He had a pertinent analysis of the situation. After Yu Xuyu read his letter, he immediately appointed him as the deputy marshal and military advisor of the Northern Route Army, and asked him to preside over the Northern Route Army's operations.
Fan Yong submitted suggestions in response to the battlefield situation: 1. Teach the strong crossbow to be a surprise soldier; 2. Determine the dangerous terrain, the distance is easy to be far away, the number of palace gates, and the soldiers are brave and timid, and the troops are added and reduced; 3. The three troops are ordered to support each other accordingly; 4. Recruit the locals as soldiers and order them to be the front; 5. Add the goujian soldiers to break the Western Xia iron armored horses; 6. Send heavy troops to protect the food road, etc.
Fan Yong’s great talent, these suggestions are so convincing, which are beneficial and reasonable, and they are all adopted after seeing Yu Xuyu.
In the spring of the 20004th year of the Zhongyuan period, Kang Guangling and Fan Yongbei Army took the lead in attacking and their troops went out of Yanzhou, opening the prelude to a large-scale war.
The northern army of 500,000 was ready. Fan Yong, Xiao Jun and Xiao San led 200,000 troops as vanguards to attack the garrison on the north bank of the Yellow River in Xixia, and Kang Guangling led the heavy army to guard the food and grass closely followed.
At that time, Zhang Yuan was quite strategic. When the Northern Route Army was about to arrive, he calculated the winning rate and knew that there was less victory and more losses. He urgently reported to Li Ganli for more troops, but Li Ganli was attacked from three sides at this time, and there were very few troops to support him.
Fan Yong's choice to attack the barracks on the north bank of the Yellow River was a careful arrangement made after careful consideration.
The only place in the north of the Yellow River in Xixia is the main garrison. If the camp here is defeated, the road will be wide, you can attack and retreat. Moreover, if you send a division to the states on the north bank of the Yellow River in Xixia, you can get out of it.
After Fan Yong's former army met with Qi Kang Guangling Central Army, he was discussing the offensive strategy in the military account. Zhang Yuan sent someone to send a letter to express his intention to negotiate peace with China.
Fan Yong kept silent and asked him to report to the emperor, and sent him to comfort him with a gentle word.
After seeing off the envoy, Fan Yong summoned all the generals, set up a secret ambush, and waited for the Western Xia army to come to rob the camp.
After the envoy returned, Zhang Yuan asked about the conversation. He thought the Northern Army had fallen into the trap and ordered the army to set off after nightfall. 170,000 people quietly entered the Northern Army camp.
When Zhang Yuan was proud of the success of this plan, countless torches suddenly lit up around him, and 500,000 Khitan soldiers quickly surrounded him and surrounded the Xixia soldiers in the core.
When Zhang Yuan saw that he was trapped, he hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat, but since Fan Yong had used the plan, he was naturally fully prepared.
The five armies were densely packed, focusing on cutting off the retreat route of the Western Xia army.
After a fierce battle, Zhang Yuan's troops, except for more than 20,000 troops in the rear, escaped from the circle before the Northern Army was encircled. The remaining 150,000 troops died in a bad life, and Zhang Yuan also died in this battle.
The Northern Army also lost more than 80,000 troops and injured more than 30,000 people.
The Northern Army won the battle, and Fan Yong ordered Xiao Lin to lead his troops to attack the states on the north bank of the Yellow River in Xixia. For more than two months, only Jingzhou remained in the states, and the rest of the states were all gone.
The defeated troops in Xixia gathered more than 30,000 people to defend Jingzhou and launched an offensive and defensive battle with Xiao Lin's troops.
The governor of Jingzhou, Li Qingdao, was the nephew of the Li Ganli clan. At this time, he was surrounded by a large army and was both jealous. On the one hand, he ordered people to close the four cities and refuse to defend, while sending people to Xingzhou to ask for help.
Li Ganli Dexin was very anxious and ordered the general Mu Weibahu to lead 30,000 troops to reinforce.
Muweiba Huhu heard from Xin and suddenly raised his troops and headed straight to Jingzhou.
The reinforcements rushed forward and had not yet had a rest. They just got into the ambush circle.
While Muwei Bahu led his army to a hurry, he suddenly heard a large army blocking the road ahead. Murong Bahu saw the Chinese army waiting for it.
Mu Weiba was unable to retreat at this time, so he had to strive forward. Both armies set up the Yanyue Formation, and they were stalemate for a while.
Suddenly, the Chinese army changed to a horizontal formation, and the vassal army in the rear protruded from the left and right rear, and the cavalry of the front army began to storm.
Muwei Bahu ordered the entire army to assemble, form formations to defend, and cover the shield into formations.
The rest of the troops were stationed in military fortresses, preparing to compete with the Chinese army.
At this time, Xixia had several states including Xia, Yin, Sui, You, Ye, Jing, Ling, Yan, Hui, Sheng, Gan, Liang, Gua, Sha and Su. Li Gan's elite troops stationed in Xingzhou, blocking the rivers and supporting the situation in the middle.
Li Ganli is indeed a character. In a short period of time, he cleaned up the alien faction of the capital royal family, and then quickly cleaned up the tribe leader who was pro-Li Feng, not only threw Li Feng's uncle and his clan members into the Yellow River to drown, but also poisoned Li Ganshun's concubines and princess to death.
Because his biological mother accused him of killing his brother and nephew, he even killed his mother with poisoned wine.
Because Xixia was relatively backward, the power of the mother's family was indeed very threatening, but even the mother's queen could not tolerate it. Li Ganli was indeed a very cruel person.
Not only that, in the process of purged the dissident faction of the royal family, he was the Li Feng faction of his concubine Wei Mu's father's family. After purged the family of Wei Mu's father, he also killed the son whom Wei Mu's father and wiped out the roots, so cruel that he did not even let go of his own flesh and blood. Li Ganli is a great sect in the world.
Although Li Ganli quickly eliminated the dissident factions in China, it caused an undercurrent of power in China.
The forces of Yipintang were scattered among the armies. After Li Qiushui was injured, he sent Qingxing and Qingyue to turn Yipintang into darkness, secretly connecting the officers of the Yipintang system of the troops.
Shan Yuweiliang, the general who was in charge of the left and right soldiers of the Western Xia Dynasty, persuaded Li Ganli to say a few words, and Li Ganli was preparing to kill Shan Yu's clan.
After learning the news, this veteran general with more than 20 family members fled and was chased by Li Ganli's cavalry. Li Ganli tied Shan Hui Weiliang and his son to the tree, and ordered all the generals to bend their bows and arrows together, shoot the veteran clan into a hedgehog, and then slay the corpse and vent their anger.
Although Li Ganli's actions quickly made the Western Xia military unite, they made the people's hearts rush. Due to his tyranny, everyone dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out.
Because Li Ganli has been in charge of the army for many years, his confidants are loyal to him, so the Chinese army may suffer serious losses in the war with the Chinese army.
Because Li Ganli had carefully studied the organization of the Western Xia army in the past, he immediately started to rectify and reorganize after he succeeded to the throne.
Because the Yipintang is too powerful, he cannot solve it at one time, and the war is very urgent, so he took the means of winning over and reusing several important generals from the Yipintang system, but weakening the power of the rest of the personnel.
Li Ganli's action weakened the power of Hangu disciples.
Li Ganli used the Yellow River as the boundary and divided the army into two left and right wing troops, and set up twelve military supervisors, respectively, and ordered the military name to be designated as the garrison, which improved the command system of the Western Xia army.
Then, he quickly developed and fixed the new soldiers: Iron Harrier and Poxi Jun.
These two types of troops were created by him based on his years of combat experience. Iron Harrier is the most elite cavalry unit in Xixia. The soldiers of the troops are equipped with the best war horses and the most exquisite armor. Each team has a total of 3,000 people, divided into ten teams.
The Poxi Army is an artillery, which mainly uses stone throwing machines to assist in the attack when siege. The number of people is the smallest, with only 200 people, and is equipped in each army.
In addition, he activated the most unethical Yuanhao military system, plundered the surrounding Chinese border residents everywhere, formed a raiding army, and used these Chinese border residents as the vanguard, allowing them to rush in front of the main army of their tribe as cannon fodder, minimizing the casualties of the soldiers of the Xixia Dangxiang.
After consolidating the solid military foundation, Li Ganli appointed a think tank mainly composed of the Han people.
These eight traitors are Zhang Bu, Zhang Jiang, Yang Guo, Xu Minzong, Zhang Wenxian, Li Cong, Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao.
The backbone of Li Ganli who taught and tempted Li Ganli to use the Yuanhao military system were Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao. These two scholars who failed to get a long time of trial, relying on their Chinese culture and martial arts. They originally wanted to seek advice and achieve fame on the border of the Song Dynasty, but they have never been valued.
In anger, the two defected and entered the Western Xia.
Although Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao were scholars, they were familiar with Chinese history and military strategy. Therefore, Li Ganli appointed Zhang Yuan as the military advisor of the garrison on the north bank of the Yellow River, Wu Hao as the military advisor of the Ganzhou garrison, and Zhang Bu as the military advisor of the Yanzhou Road.
These three Han people are all talented and very strategic, which has caused great trouble for the Chinese army.After hearing the news, Yu Xuyu said: Don’t say that scholars are talking nonsense, and their heads are covered in blood.
They are said to be traitors and are scum among Chinese scholars.
On the north bank of the Yellow River, the Northern Army led by Kang Guangling and his disciples, were fighting with Zhang Yuan. Xiao Jun and others were all in this army, mainly Khitans.
Fan Yong, a disciple of Kang Guangling, was very talented and a capable official with far-reaching plans.
He had a pertinent analysis of the situation. After Yu Xuyu read his letter, he immediately appointed him as the deputy marshal and military advisor of the Northern Route Army, and asked him to preside over the Northern Route Army's operations.
Fan Yong submitted suggestions in response to the battlefield situation: 1. Teach the strong crossbow to be a surprise soldier; 2. Determine the dangerous terrain, the distance is easy to be far away, the number of palace gates, and the soldiers are brave and timid, and the troops are added and reduced; 3. The three troops are ordered to support each other accordingly; 4. Recruit the locals as soldiers and order them to be the front; 5. Add the goujian soldiers to break the Western Xia iron armored horses; 6. Send heavy troops to protect the food road, etc.
Fan Yong’s great talent, these suggestions are so convincing, which are beneficial and reasonable, and they are all adopted after seeing Yu Xuyu.
In the spring of the 20004th year of the Zhongyuan period, Kang Guangling and Fan Yongbei Army took the lead in attacking and their troops went out of Yanzhou, opening the prelude to a large-scale war.
The northern army of 500,000 was ready. Fan Yong, Xiao Jun and Xiao San led 200,000 troops as vanguards to attack the garrison on the north bank of the Yellow River in Xixia, and Kang Guangling led the heavy army to guard the food and grass closely followed.
At that time, Zhang Yuan was quite strategic. When the Northern Route Army was about to arrive, he calculated the winning rate and knew that there was less victory and more losses. He urgently reported to Li Ganli for more troops, but Li Ganli was attacked from three sides at this time, and there were very few troops to support him.
Fan Yong's choice to attack the barracks on the north bank of the Yellow River was a careful arrangement made after careful consideration.
The only place in the north of the Yellow River in Xixia is the main garrison. If the camp here is defeated, the road will be wide, you can attack and retreat. Moreover, if you send a division to the states on the north bank of the Yellow River in Xixia, you can get out of it.
After Fan Yong's former army met with Qi Kang Guangling Central Army, he was discussing the offensive strategy in the military account. Zhang Yuan sent someone to send a letter to express his intention to negotiate peace with China.
Fan Yong kept silent and asked him to report to the emperor, and sent him to comfort him with a gentle word.
After seeing off the envoy, Fan Yong summoned all the generals, set up a secret ambush, and waited for the Western Xia army to come to rob the camp.
After the envoy returned, Zhang Yuan asked about the conversation. He thought the Northern Army had fallen into the trap and ordered the army to set off after nightfall. 170,000 people quietly entered the Northern Army camp.
When Zhang Yuan was proud of the success of this plan, countless torches suddenly lit up around him, and 500,000 Khitan soldiers quickly surrounded him and surrounded the Xixia soldiers in the core.
When Zhang Yuan saw that he was trapped, he hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat, but since Fan Yong had used the plan, he was naturally fully prepared.
The five armies were densely packed, focusing on cutting off the retreat route of the Western Xia army.
After a fierce battle, Zhang Yuan's troops, except for more than 20,000 troops in the rear, escaped from the circle before the Northern Army was encircled. The remaining 150,000 troops died in a bad life, and Zhang Yuan also died in this battle.
The Northern Army also lost more than 80,000 troops and injured more than 30,000 people.
The Northern Army won the battle, and Fan Yong ordered Xiao Lin to lead his troops to attack the states on the north bank of the Yellow River in Xixia. For more than two months, only Jingzhou remained in the states, and the rest of the states were all gone.
The defeated troops in Xixia gathered more than 30,000 people to defend Jingzhou and launched an offensive and defensive battle with Xiao Lin's troops.
The governor of Jingzhou, Li Qingdao, was the nephew of the Li Ganli clan. At this time, he was surrounded by a large army and was both jealous. On the one hand, he ordered people to close the four cities and refuse to defend, while sending people to Xingzhou to ask for help.
Li Ganli Dexin was very anxious and ordered the general Mu Weibahu to lead 30,000 troops to reinforce.
Muweiba Huhu heard from Xin and suddenly raised his troops and headed straight to Jingzhou.
The reinforcements rushed forward and had not yet had a rest. They just got into the ambush circle.
While Muwei Bahu led his army to a hurry, he suddenly heard a large army blocking the road ahead. Murong Bahu saw the Chinese army waiting for it.
Mu Weiba was unable to retreat at this time, so he had to strive forward. Both armies set up the Yanyue Formation, and they were stalemate for a while.
Suddenly, the Chinese army changed to a horizontal formation, and the vassal army in the rear protruded from the left and right rear, and the cavalry of the front army began to storm.
Muwei Bahu ordered the entire army to assemble, form formations to defend, and cover the shield into formations.