Qian Song

Chapter 460 Xixia is officially declared destroyed (Additional update 23)

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Brother Li Cha has been defeated repeatedly, it's not that Li Renxiao has never thought about changing generals.

But who can Lee In-hyo replace?

Let's not talk about it. Apart from Brother Richard, there is no other commander in Xixia who has the experience of commanding a large army.

——This is the same as when Zhao Ji was so disappointed in Tong Guan and had to use Tong Guan and even crown Tong Guan as the king. He can only blame his country for not paying attention to the training of commanders before, so that once the only one When the commander-in-chief fails, he immediately becomes unavailable. Unlike Li Cun, he has always been promoted and tempered in a balanced way, so that the Daqian Dynasty can be the supreme commander. If there are not twenty generals, there must be more than a dozen.

Taking a step back, in fact, even if Xixia still has a commander who can replace Brother Li Cha, it is useless.

The combat effectiveness of the armies of the Qian and Xia countries was not at the same level at all. It was similar to the battle between the British and French forces that had completed the industrial revolution and the Qing army that still used bows, arrows, spears, and swords as their main weapons.

Once the two sides fought, the Xia army still mainly used the traditional offensive method, directly letting the cavalry charge forward.

But war horses are very sensitive animals. Once they are hurt, they will panic and become confused, which will inevitably disrupt the cavalry's offensive. They wanted to confuse the enemy, but ended up confusing themselves.

However, before the battle of the dry army, most of them used red-clothed cannons and other firearms to open the way-even if there were no red-clothed cannons, there must be rapid-fire guns such as tiger squat guns, even if there were no such rapid-fire guns as tiger squat guns. Load more and more flintlock guns.

This formed a natural restraint for the Xia army, which was dominated by cavalry.

As a result, most of the time, when the Gan army opened fire, the horses on the Xia army's side were startled by the explosion of the artillery fire, and fled in all directions, disrupting the formation at least, and causing the army to collapse at worst.

Seeing this, the heavy cavalry on the Gan army's side is in front and the light cavalry is behind. A single charge can completely defeat Xia's army, and then the light cavalry will step forward and cover up the kill to win.

On the other hand, most of the soldiers of the Xia Army (including the Tubo tribes, the grassland tribes, and the Western Regions) have no battlefield experience in fighting the Gan army.

This made the Xia army unable to bear the psychological pressure when faced with the shells and bayonets of the dry army, and then disbanded on the spot-many warriors of the Xia army (including the Tubo tribes, grassland tribes, and Western Regions) who were brave and good at fighting in the past, When fighting against the Qianjun, as soon as the cannon fired, they would instinctively leave the battlefield with their superb equestrian skills, and they might still be thinking silently: "Saving your life is the most important thing!"

By the way, Xia Jun actually also had some firearms, and there were quite a few of them.

——Some firearms were developed by the Xixia people themselves, and some firearms were brought over by the Song army who surrendered to Xixia. Ren Dejing and Du Chong paid tribute to Li Qianshun for firearms imitated by the small court of the Western Song Dynasty, and some were imitated from the Western Song Dynasty It was imitated by the golden men who flowed into Xixia after the Jin army broke down.

These firearms have a common problem, that is, they are of poor quality.

Not to mention, whether these firearms can fire or not is a problem.

——The Xixia people don't know how to maintain black powder at all, so that their black powder is often damp, and only about half of them can be fired.

Even if it can be fired, you must first confirm whether the firearm has exploded and killed a large number of your own people, and then you can see how lethal it is to the enemy.

——Because the quality of the firearms in the hands of the Xixia people is too poor, and they don’t know how to use a fixed amount of gunpowder, the amount of gunpowder in their firearms depends on their feeling, and in the environment where it is very easy to be busy on the battlefield, it is definitely very easy to cause explosions .

how to say?

If those imitation unscrupulous cannons can really hit the soldiers, they must have a certain lethality. After all, the unscrupulous cannons mainly use a large caliber. Therefore, even if the gunpowder ratio of Xixia is not good, it is not granular gunpowder. , and definitely has a certain power.

But considering the pitiful range and accuracy of the Heartless Cannon, and given that the Daqian Dynasty has the absolutely suppressive weapon Red Cannon, the Heartless Cannon can really play a role on the battlefield, especially when the two armies are fighting in the field. Its role is really limited.

There are also a lot of problems with those imitation Thunderbolts - the specifications are not uniform, and the materials and charges are also varied. If you hit someone, you won't die.

As for the imitation tiger squatting cannon, the power of it hit the woolen uniform of the soldiers of the Gan army, but only a little spark flashed, scratched a little skin, and didn't even leave a scar, which made the military doctor of the Gan army very happy. Save a lot of materials and workload for their medical work.

However, the imitation swarm rockets, fierce fire oil tanks and so on still have a certain lethality, but they are still not worth mentioning in front of the red cannons with longer range and greater power.

in fact--

The biggest problem why Xixia people's firearms are useless is the people.

The soldiers of the Xia Army (including the tribes of Tubo, the tribes of the grasslands, and the countries of the Western Regions) are used to using cold weapons. They are unwilling to give up their bows and horses to resist the use of firearms. Therefore, the soldiers of the Xia Army who really know how to control firearms It is very few.

Take the battle of Zhenwucheng between Wu Lin and Brother Richard as an example.

As far as the Xia Army's artillery is concerned, the Xia Army's heartless artillery and tiger squat artillery never stopped firing during the battle, but all their shells hit the treetops on the battlefield. None of them missed, but were killed instead. The cavalry of the Xia army found the location of the Xixia army's artillery camp and directly killed the Xia army's artillery camp.

To put it another way, Xia Jun's criterion for judging artillery is whether they can fire unconscionable artillery or tiger squatting artillery, regardless of the shelling situation.

The reason why the Xia army has such low requirements for artillery is that, firstly, there are too few people in Xixia who can fire artillery, and secondly, because there are too few people in Xixia who are willing to serve as artillerymen. After all, Xixia's artillery often fails. As a result, the regiment was destroyed, so no Xixia people were willing to serve as artillery unless they had no choice.

In short, advanced firearms require the support of an industrial base to ensure their quality and quantity. How can Xixia have such national strength?

Before the real battle with the Gan army, Li Renxiao and his ministers still had a bit of a temper, thinking that today your Daqian Dynasty is ignoring my Xixia love, and in the future I will make your Dagan Dynasty unable to climb up.

But with this move, Li Renxiao and his ministers finally knew why it was as strong as the Kingdom of Jin, and it hadn't been able to survive for two years under the cannon of the Daqian Dynasty.

To be honest, that is, the Dagan Dynasty was bluffed by the Zhao Song Dynasty’s failure to destroy Xixia, but was bluffed by Xixia getting stronger and stronger, and felt that the Hengshan strategy of the late Zhao Song Dynasty would definitely be invincible, and did not give Xixia One is desperate, otherwise, Xixia may not be able to survive for three months before being wiped out by the Qianjun.

If you fight, you will definitely not be able to fight.

Li Renxiao and his ministers could only hope for Li Cun's mercy.

However, Li Renxiao sent nine waves of envoys to the Daqian Dynasty successively, but they all disappeared without a word.

How could Li Renxiao fail to see that Li Cun was bound to regain Xixia?

At the same time, on the battlefield, the Qian army not only encircled Xixia from the Hengshan area, but Su Dong and Zhe Keqiu, who had not taken action because they had been defending the grassland tribes from the Mongolian Plateau from the south to attack Yundi, also threatened Wang De and Zhe Yan. As a vanguard, he attacked Xixia from the east and west, and successfully captured Xixia's Yinzhou in one battle. Wang De even defeated Xixia general and deputy marshal Li Haiganbu.

Immediately afterwards, Su Dong and Zhe Keqiu boldly divided their forces, one attacked the Xixia Sandbank, and the other captured Heishui City west of Wulahai City.

Later, Orihiko defeated Li Haiganbu who was located in Helan Mountain.

Su Dong led the main force of his troops all the way to Hunchui Mountain, completely blocking the escape route of Xixia.

On the other hand, Zhe Keqiu led the Zhejia army to successively take down important cities such as Ganzhou, Shazhou and Suzhou.

Seeing the advance of the Gan army, Li Renxiao and his ministers were terrified and helpless.

Someone suggested that Li Renxiao escape to Lingzhou for refuge.

Some people suggested that Li Renxiao would clear the country and then fight with Qianjun until death.

Others suggested that Li Renxiao send envoys to the Dagan Dynasty to seek peace.Although Li Renxiao was a wise king in history, he is only 17 years old after all, and he is just a half-child who has not yet fully grown up.

In such a situation where there is no way out, Li Renxiao really doesn't know what to do, so he can only muddle along.

Not long after, Li Renxiao received another bad news. Xiao Heda, the commander of Xiazhou, surrendered to the Daqian Dynasty. Wu Jie successfully occupied Yingli, Xiazhou and other places, and decided to besiege Lingzhou.

Upon hearing the news, Brother Li Cha personally led reinforcements to help resist the Gan army, but in the end it still failed, and he himself was defeated and captured.

After that, the Gan army successfully captured Jishizhou, Xining and other places.

Until this time, there was only the last piece of territory left in Xixia—the capital Zhongxing Mansion, which had not yet fallen.

Seeing this, Li Renxiao chose to leave the city and surrender. Xixia was officially declared destroyed, and the Silk Road on land, which had been interrupted for 100 years, was restored.

After Li Cun learned of this good news, he changed Xixia to Ningxia and Gansu—Ganzhou is Zhangye, Suzhou is Jiuquan. In fact, Li Cun was too lazy to name it, so he directly copied the names of later generations.

After capturing Zhongxingfu, the capital of Xixia, Li Cun ordered Liu Qi to lead 10 troops to garrison Ganzhou to defend against Tibet, Uighurs, and Tibetans from the Western Regions and the western border areas. He appointed Wu Lin to garrison 10 troops in Helan to assist in the defense of Tibet and Uighurs. Wang Yan stationed 20 troops in Lingzhou for the Uighurs and Tibetans who came from the Western Regions and the western border areas. Xingzhou Xingqing Mansion was guarded by [-] people led by Wu Jie. The ministries quelled the resistance forces on both sides as soon as possible.

At the same time, Li Cun appointed Chen Yun as the prefect of Xingqing and Northwest Propaganda Envoy to take full charge of the governance of Ningxia and Gansu, Zhan Du as the prefect of Zhangye and the envoy of the Northwest System, and Tang Zhong as the prefect of Jiuquan and the Northwest Propaganda Envoy. As the appeasement envoys, the two acted as Chen Yun's deputy to cooperate with Chen Yun in governing Ningxia and Gansu.

The Daqian court also selected capable officials and Han officials from Xixia who were willing to surrender to the Daqian Dynasty, as well as Han talents to manage the newly recovered Ningxia and Gansu.

Xixia is different from the Liao and Jin dynasties, and even different from the Goryeo Dynasty. The territory of Xixia has been Han territory since the Qin and Han Dynasties. road.

Moreover, Xixia has never been an occupied area, and the Hu people have never entered it.

——During the Anshi Rebellion, Shuofang County and the Hexi Corridor were both the rear of the Tang Dynasty, and Tang Suzong was located in Lingzhou. The Hu people outside the Great Wall, and, during the Anshi Rebellion, the contribution of the Shuofang Army to defend the Tang Dynasty was one of the best.

Until the beginning of Song Dynasty, Shuofang Army Jiedushi and Guiyi Army Jiedushi still existed, especially Shuofang County, which was well preserved in the late Tang Dynasty and early Song Dynasty, with no loss of population, and even defeated the invading Tubo.

The Dangxiang people followed Li Jiqian from Xiazhou in northern Shaanxi to Shuofang and the Hexi Corridor. It took more than 30 years since he moved to Li Yuanhao to proclaim himself emperor.

Zhao Kuangyin once ordered the relocation of all party members to the interior, and only 4 people were relocated. Later, Li Jiqian rebelled against the Song Dynasty, and only 3000 people from two tribes were captured by the Song army.

Afterwards, Li Jiqian went to Lingzhou to attack Gansu, and gathered all 44 party tribes, and all the people were soldiers, and only more than 3000 people were assembled.

Calculated based on the 2000 people of a tribe, the party was only about 10 people when Xixia was not established.

The Shuofang Army had 7000 people in the Tang Dynasty. Adding in the family members and civilians accompanying the army, the population of Shuofang County should be between 40 and [-].

The population of Han Chinese under the rule of the Guiyi Army in Gansu was also 100 million at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

In other words, the population of Xixia was already dominated by Han people. Dangxiang only had about 10 people in the early days of Xixia. Even now, it has only grown to a few hundred thousand people.

The key point is that Xixia only separated from the rule of the Central Plains dynasty 100 years ago. Therefore, even the party members among them have a much higher degree of Sinicization than other Hu people.

The key to the key --

Since the founding of Xixia by Li Yuanhao, there has been a dispute between "Tibetan rites" and "Han rites".

The Yizong and Huizong dynasties often went back and forth.

During Li Qianshun's period, the struggle between "Fan Li" and "Han Li" became more intense.

Li Qianshun admired the highly developed Confucian culture and Han civilization, so he decided to vigorously promote Han culture in Xixia to change the backwardness of Xixia.

Therefore, not long after Li Qianshun came to power, he advocated Confucianism through the mouth of Yushi Zhongcheng Xue Yuanli. Qi Jitong respected and practiced Confucianism and respected poetry and books, and the legacy of the Northwest cannot be established." Therefore, only by re-advocating Sinology in Xixia can we change the unhealthy atmosphere of Xixia and save the crisis it is facing.Li Qianshun adopted "Xue Yuanli's suggestion" and ordered that in addition to the original "Fan Xue", "Guo Xue" was specially established to teach Sinology.

Li Qianshun also selected 300 children of the royal family and nobles to establish a "cultivation of talents", in which the government provided granary food, set up professors, and carried out Sinology training.

Li Qianshun even gave special preferential treatment to those scholars who were good at Sinology.

In addition, Li Qianshun himself likes to be arty. He used to grow Ganoderma lucidum in the backyard of the mansion of Minister Gao Shouzhong, thinking it was auspicious.

Even some aristocratic ministers of the party were dissatisfied with Li Qianshun's emphasis on Han culture, and ridiculed Li Qianshun for forgetting his ancestors.

After Li Renxiao succeeded to the throne, Xixia became even more thoroughly Sinicized.

The reason why Li Renxiao appointed Kong as his queen as soon as he succeeded to the throne was because she was intelligent and knowledgeable and loved to practice Han rites. Li Renxiao's achievements in Confucianism received a lot of help from her.

And one of the three fires after Li Renxiao succeeded to the throne was to order the establishment of schools in all states and counties for all people to learn Chinese culture. Then Li Renxiao established a primary school (royal school) in the palace, and all descendants of the clan can go to school when they are seven to 15 years old. , Li Renxiao and Wang also often went to study and teach Han culture.

Later, at the suggestion of Li Renxiao, Xixia imitated the Central Plains system and established Taixue. As the emperor, Li Renxiao personally attended the "Explanation Ceremony" of Taixue (that is, holding a grand sacrifice to the sages and teachers), and paid tribute to teachers, Give rewards to students respectively.

In the second year of the establishment of Taixue, that is, at the beginning of this year, Li Renxiao, despite the pressure of the war, respected Confucius as Emperor Wenxuan and ordered the construction of Confucian temples in all states and counties.

It is worth mentioning that the Confucius Temple in Xixia was built as grand and tall as a royal palace.

Because Li Renxiao advocated civil rule and attached great importance to sinicization, a large number of Xixia talents poured into the temples, including many outstanding scholars, such as the great scholars O Daochong and Wang Renzhong, and Luo Shichang who compiled the "Xia Guogu". Jiao Jingyan, the rebellious minister, and so on.

In other words, under the relentless guidance of the two dynasties Li Qianshun and Li Renxiao, the degree of Sinicization of Xixia was not even lower than the Yanyun area that had been governed by the Dagan Dynasty for fifteen or six years.

Moreover, Xixia has also cultivated a large number of talents who are proficient in Chinese culture, and more than half of them are Han people.

Governing Ningxia and Gansu with such a foundation is really much easier for the Dagan Dynasty than governing the Northeast and Jidi.

And to a certain extent, we must thank Li Qianshun, Li Renxiao and his son.

In view of the fact that Li Renxiao has never done any evil in history or in this era, and he took the initiative to open the city and surrender, the Daqian Dynasty successfully obtained the 100-year accumulation of Xixia.

Li Cun specifically issued an order to ask those escorting Li Renxiao and the Xixia royal family and clan to Beijing to treat Li Renxiao with some courtesy...

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