The struggle of the reborn prince

Zhao Tong collected a large number of battle cases during Yuanfeng's conquest of Xia before the war to understand Xia's tactics. This was the only time in the century-old war between the Song Army and Xixia that it entered the Gyeonggi area of ​​Xixia, but it ended in a disastrous defeat. , As a result, the Song Dynasty changed its strategy against Xixia, and changed its large-scale attack to a shallow attack.

At that time, of the five Song armies that attacked Xia, only the Jingyuan and Huanqing troops reached the city of Lingzhou. Xixia defeated them miserably by clearing the fields with strong walls and flooding the camp with river water.However, it was not that the Song army had no chance to capture Lingzhou at that time, but the opportunity was missed in repeated infighting and useless suspicion, so this also prompted him and Tong Guan to make a rule that after joining forces, both armies would obey his command.

In addition, one of the reasons why the Song army did nothing while besieging Lingzhou for [-] days is said to be that "the army had no attack equipment", that is to say, an army preparing to attack the city did not carry siege equipment, and the army did not even know how to make it. A military craftsman with siege equipment skills.Even if he wanted to cut down the local trees reluctantly to make some simple attack tools such as ladders, he encountered the problem that the trees outside Lingzhou City were "all small and simple and unusable".

These led to the tragic situation that the soldiers of the Song Army who besieged Lingzhou had no attack tools and could only use human ladders to go to the city. However, the city wall of Lingzhou City was as high as three feet, and it was indeed a bit difficult for soldiers who had not practiced acrobatics, so they were powerless. Initiating a large-scale siege battle, you can only shout "Why don't you quickly descend" to the Xia army on the city, and the Xia army is not a fool. You open the door and surrender as soon as you scare him. They didn't say anything bad, just Ask Song Jun, "I have never rebelled, nor have I tried to fight."What is drop? All that was left for Song Jun was to look at the complacent Xia Jun in the city and smiled wryly!

So this so-called siege battle.That is to say, there are no plots of generals flying arrows through their arms, bleeding from their backs, and fighting to get ahead, and there are no scenes of soldiers attacking the city under the rain of arrows. It is basically over until Xia Jun releases the Yellow River water and asks them to take a cold bath. up!

Although Gao Zunyu summed up the reasons for the failure of the Song Army after the war, such as lack of soldiers, lack of horses, lack of logistics, and in-depth lone troops, but through the analysis of the battle situation, Zhao Tong felt that the main reason for the failure of the Song Army was the choice of untimely tactics. Reasons, others cannot be ruled out, but they can be avoided.

After careful study, Zhao Tun believes that an important part of this battle is to annihilate the Xixia army stationed at Dongguan Town, [-] miles away from Lingzhou, and its nearby Xingzhou Ferry.In doing so, the whole game of chess is played.After seizing the ferry, Lingzhou became an isolated city. The Song army could cut off the Xia army's reinforcement channel and hit the morale of the Xia army defending the city;Let the Xia army stationed in Xingqing Mansion not dare to act rashly, so that they can get more choices.

And after Zhao Tun captured Dongguan Town, he could attack and defend. He first seized the strategic initiative. Guanzhen controlled the gates of the Yellow River irrigation area.That is to prevent Xia Jun from digging the Qin Canal and flooding Song Jun's tragedy from repeating itself, and it can also save the hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops that are about to be harvested around Lingzhou from flooding, so that he can have food to collect.

Zhao Yu led the Hedong Army to the west and mobilized 36 imperial troops, ten commanded archers and part of the government army. They marched for thousands of miles and conquered countless cities. However, there was also a shortage of major generals at this time. Fortresses and large state cities must be stationed separately.Along the way, they stayed behind like sheep shitting.And Lingzhou has a very wide jurisdiction. Lingzhou City alone has jurisdiction over [-] fortresses, and people have to be sent to do work everywhere, otherwise what should I do if I make trouble secretly for you, but the Shaanxi Army is still blocking the road.He also had to send someone to meet him, but at least they came.I have [-] more available soldiers.So now he is besieging and not attacking, first solve the problem of food, and by the way, tell the surrounding Xixia people to be more honest, otherwise Lord Yan will become Lord Yan at any time...

Since Lingzhou did not expect the iron gate to be broken so quickly, the Song army chased the defeated army to the city of Lingzhou, causing the villages to be unable to secure income in time, and a large number of fertile fields outside the city inevitably fell into the hands of the Song army. Most of the crops have not yet been harvested.In order to prevent the Xia army from rushing over the wall and destroying the crops, Zhao Tun first surrounded the city and took control of all the forts, and then sent people to collect the autumn tax according to the rules set by the Yincheng Dynasty.

Before the founding of the Xixia state, the party society had already entered a feudal society, and the clan feudal system became the ruling basis of Xixia.The land system of Xixia can be roughly divided into state ownership system, aristocratic ownership system, monastery and small land ownership system. The royal family and party aristocrats also used their power to invade and occupy fields, enslaved landless farmers to cultivate, charged high rents, and some even directly plundered the land of the Song Dynasty. The land in the border areas has been turned into private fields.Compared with the neighboring Song Dynasty, under the Dangxiang regime before the founding of the People's Republic of China, taxes and labor were already quite heavy.

At the beginning of the founding of the Western Xia Dynasty, in the imperial power organization established in imitation of the Song Dynasty, there were "three divisions" and "general national planning should pay tribute to the entry", and later set up "receipt division", "farmland division", "group herd division" Manage and collect taxes on agriculture, animal husbandry, commerce, and handicrafts.Xixia is located in the northwest, and the output of arable land is difficult to compare with that of the Central Plains. The tax rate per mu of agricultural land seems to be low, but the mu of Xixia is smaller than that of Song Dynasty. However, in addition to food, there are apportioned pampas grass, wicker, dream radish, wheat straw, wheat chaff and the like, and there are also a lot of exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes. Men and women, coupled with the use of troops year after year, and recruitment is even more common, and the burden on the people of Xixia is even heavier.

The Song army adopted a policy of confiscating all land owned by Xixia officials and nobles, and the rent paid by the tenants was halved; for large and small landlords, the rent was not collected from the tenants, but paid by the owner. Of course, it was higher and doubled. Those who own less than one hectare of land are considered as ordinary farmers, and the tax is halved.At the same time, for the surplus grain in the hands of the big landlords, a policy of paid expropriation is adopted, and the price is of course a little higher than that of Baina.

What Zhao Tun did was only harming the interests of a small number of big landlords in Xixia and those tax-exempt royals and nobles, but it lightened the burden on ordinary people. In this way, grain and grass could be collected smoothly, and the tension between Xixia civilians could be eased, and they could be divided. The relationship with the attached landlords and nobles laid the foundation for the next step of rule.

After capturing Dongguan Town, Zhao Tuo moved his camp there, which is next to the Yellow River, close to the ferry leading to Xingzhou, and the terrain is relatively high.After arriving, Zhao Tuo ordered the tiger general Zhao Yong to lead his troops to attack Yaode City, threaten Pule City, and meet the Shaanxi army going north. Extended to the ferry, rebuilt into a fortress to control the ferry, and stored the collected grain and grass in the village.

As for Lingzhou, Zhao Tun has always hoped to capture it without bloodshed as much as possible, because Lingzhou is not only a military fortress, but also the economic center of the Northwest region. On weekdays, there are also business travelers from all over the world, and the business is booming. Its prosperity is no less than that of Taiyuan, so he wants to retain its status as a commercial center.

Another reason is that the city of Lingzhou is strong, unlike Xiazhou where there are only a small number of garrisons, and the defenses are lax. Once a battle starts, it will be a fierce battle. However, the artillery equipped by our own artillery is light in weight and small in caliber, so it is difficult to cause damage to the city. Desperate to climb the city, but that would require a lot of equipment for climbing the city, this is carefully designed and manufactured, and it will go down with a drum when the fight starts!

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The accompanying capital of Xixia City in Lingzhou is also a barrier for Xingqing Mansion. Although the terrain is flat and there is no danger to defend, but after a hundred years of operation by Xixia people, it is different now. At this time, the walls in the city are wrapped with water-soaked felt blankets, which can prevent arrows from hurting people, and are not afraid of fire attacks, and tens of thousands of police soldiers are stationed in the city. Apart from Tokyo and Taiyuan, an important town in the Song Dynasty, other famous cities in the Central Plains are really not as good as it.  …

After the Wei name, Anhui, fled into Lingzhou City, she hurriedly asked for help from Xingqing Mansion while still in shock, and sent a criminal statement.But while waiting for the reply, the Song army had already approached the city, wantonly 'looting', grabbing food and grass, carrying Xiao Heda's class, frequently sending troops to sweep the surrounding fortresses, and wreaking havoc in Lingzhou.At this time, he also regretted that he had followed Xiao Heda's advice earlier and would not have lost the iron gate, defeated the general, and lost [-] soldiers.

Wei Ming Anhui, as an important minister of the country, of course knows the significance of Lingzhou to Xixia, but the current crisis is also caused by his own impulsiveness.He spent the first five days in the torment of remorse, and he seemed to have aged ten years overnight. At this time, he had made up his mind, no matter what, he would not go out of the city to fight the Song army in the field, and he could only defend Lingzhou Only in this way can he atone for the crime of losing the iron gate, and be worthy of Xiao Heda who desperately rescued himself to break through.Weiming An Hui regained his strength and made up his mind to serve the country with his death. He inspected the city defense every day, built defensive equipment, improved the defense, boosted the morale of the soldiers, and prepared to cooperate with the reinforcements inside and outside to annihilate the Song army.

However, the horn of attack did not sound for a long time. The Song army did not attack the city for a long time. Instead, they set up a camp outside Lingzhou City. Prepare for a protracted war.Although Xia Zhu Li Qianshun understood Song Jun's plan, Xixia lost ground one after another. If he lost Lingzhou again, the consequences could be imagined. He had no choice but to fight...but at this time Song Jun captured Dongguan , took control of the ferry, and deployed defenses along the river layer by layer.Wei Ming Anhui can only stand on the tower of the West City and look across the Yellow River every day, watching the Xixia army gathered on the other side of the river to quench their thirst