The general is on the queen of Xixia

In the fourth year of Qingli, there was a small-scale conflict after Song Xia negotiated peace. Ino, the younger brother of the Xixia King, died in battle, and Xixia withdrew.

Since then, the two countries have quieted down their flags and drums, and there is no dispute for the time being, and they still communicate according to the negotiated treaty.

In the same year, Yelu Hongji died at the hands of the king of Xixia. More than 20 Liao troops rebelled against Liao and entered Xia.

Liao Kingdom up and down, the whole country was shaken.The old emperor Yelu Zong suffered a stroke and lay unconscious on the bed. There was an undercurrent in the Liao Kingdom, and several clan children fought for military power in the Liao Kingdom under the name of Faxia.

Taking this opportunity to breathe, Wu En began to eliminate the power of the Xixia tribe, and the old line of Haldun headed by the Yike tribe was uprooted.

After successive rectifications, people in Xixia were panicked. In order to appease the ministers, Wu En only killed the leader of the Yike tribe, and the rest of the leaders were returned to the fief, only deprived of their military power.For those who made contributions in the Song-Xia War, Wu En's promise of rewards did not decrease at all for his crimes.

Under the soft policy, all the tribal leaders gradually believed that the current Xixia King was not a bloodthirsty tyrant, and they all swore allegiance to Wu En.

Since then, although the tribal leaders have fiefs and perform management duties, they have no ownership.

The people of Xixia mount their horses to fight, and dismount to herd them. The soldiers and herdsmen are one, and the people are soldiers.Therefore, the arable land, pastures, farmers and herdsmen all belonged to the royal family, and they were organized according to the structure of ten, hundred, and thousand households. The original tribal leaders served as state officials in the capacity of heads of hundreds of households and heads of thousands of households. The tribal system survived in name only.

Slavery was abolished and former slaves became freedmen.Once this decree was implemented, many slaves ran away, and the landlords and nobles in Xixia complained, thinking that in the long run, Xixia would have no one to cultivate the land and herd sheep.

Wu En ignored it, and instead gave a lot of fields and pastures to those who are willing to stay, just pay taxes on time every year. If the harvest fails this year, it can be postponed to next year, no more than three years.

Owning their own land, the farmers became more active than ever, changed their attitude of being passive and sabotaging work, and even bred many new varieties.Half a year later, Xixia's harvest not only did not decrease as the nobles said, but doubled.

In the north where slavery was prevalent, this move caused disturbances among the people. From time to time, slaves from Tubo, Uighur and Liao fled to Xixia, and even tenants in Song Dynasty could not bear the exploitation of landlords and ran to Xixia.

Wu En naturally accepted all of them with a smile, and asked the local officials to collect and record the accounts and distribute them to the fields and pastures.

In order not to completely annoy Tubo and Uighur, Wu En sent people to send some cattle, sheep, camels, gold, silver and jewelry to the two countries.

The Liao nobles had more and more opinions on Xixia, and they wrote letters one after another, hoping to send troops to Xixia.

A year later, when the Liao Emperor was sober, his courtiers said, "The people of Xia have ungrateful and betrayed their alliance. I am willing to lead the army and conquer Xixia in one fell swoop."

Yeluzong really listened to the opinions of his ministers and ordered him to lead his troops to march towards Hequ.

Wu En rode on a maroon horse. After Zhui Feng died, he couldn't find a suitable horse, so he simply found a good horse at random.

"My lord, the fire archers are ready!" Su He said.

The terrain of the Hequ is high in the east and low in the west, which is not conducive to long-distance shooting. Wu En ordered the troops to retreat for nearly a hundred miles and garrison them in the highlands and hills.

Xiao Hui, the leading general of the Liao army, thought that the king of Xixia was about to retire, and led an army of 40 to pursue him.According to reports from the spies, there are only 30 Xixia soldiers. Xiao Hui will not miss this opportunity. He fully supports Yelu Zongzhen's second son Yelu and Luwo to inherit the Datong. Now is the time to make meritorious service.

When there were still a few miles away from the Xixia army, Xiao Hui ordered all the soldiers to dig open the side of the river. Everyone jumped in, soaked their clothes, and poured water on the horses.

Although the weather was dry in winter, the snow had not yet melted. Xixia wanted to use fire to attack with less to win more.

"My lord, the Liao army has appeared in the southeast direction." The scout came to report.

Wu En pulled out the scimitar and held it high.

Su He shouted: "All fire archers get ready!"

Fifty thousand fire archers, with braziers placed in front of them, the soldiers held bows in one hand and arrows in the other, and the arrows were wrapped with flammable moxa and linen and grease.

Wait for the charging Liao army to come into range.

"put!"

Countless flames poured down, looking terrifying, but they were completely harmless to the prepared Liao army.

Xiao Hui laughed, the King of Xixia is still too young.

"Charge!" Xiao Hui pointed his saber at the sky, and didn't care about it.

"Change!"

The archers changed to another kind of arrows, with cylinders tied to the arrows and cotton threads attached to the bottom.

"put!"

Another wave of overwhelming arrow rain hit, and the Liao army raised their shields without fear.

Something exploded in this plain, and the huge sound made Xiao Hui's ears ring, and when he realized something was wrong, it was too late.Countless soldiers were wounded by the arrows inserted into the shields, and those who were unlucky were killed directly. The uninjured horses were also frightened and ran around, and the neat formation began to scatter.

Wu En is still a little disappointed, the effect of the original black fire/powder is really unsatisfactory.

"Let go!" After the second wave of arrows was shot, the commander waved the military flag and shouted:

"Army attack!"

The war drum sounded, and the Xixia cavalry formed a diamond formation and began to charge towards the middle of the Liao army.It quickly penetrated the loose formation of the Liao army. The cavalry on both wings of the Liao army could not touch the Xixia soldiers, but the soldiers in the middle were slaughtered by Xixia.

Xiao Hui ordered the soldiers on the two wings to gather in the middle to form an encirclement.

The Xixia cavalry, however, did not love to fight, and quickly went out of the siege with an order.

The next wave of arrow rain immediately covered the Liao army, and the unprepared Liao army suffered heavy casualties.

What they are about to face is another charge of the Xixia cavalry.

Under the repeated scouring of cavalry and arrows, the defeat of the Liao army was certain.

Xixia's capture army began the final battle, taking prisoners among the fleeing soldiers of the Liao army.

The Liao army was defeated in Hequ. Xixia captured dozens of ministers including Xiao Hui and tens of thousands of soldiers. Liao was hit hard again.

More than 40 soldiers were lost in the First Battle of Xixia Hequ, which can be regarded as big and small.Wu En did not give Liao a chance to breathe, and handed over the captives to the reinforcements. Together with the soldiers added from the rear, he led a total of [-] soldiers and began to approach Liao's Datong Mansion on Xijing Road.

Strange tricks can only work if the opponent doesn't know about it. When the opponent is prepared, the battle will be difficult.

After marching in a hurry for three days, the army was still tens of miles away from Datong Mansion. They were exhausted, so Wu En ordered to rest for a day.

Su He walked to Wu En and saluted.

"Your Majesty, General Amur and his concubine have led 20 soldiers to the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing."

Wu En never thought of swallowing Liao once, but a torn Liao is always easier to eat than a hardened Liao.

The tactic this time is "strike the west and strike the east".

The Liao imperial family lived in Zhongjing Road, east of Xijing Road, and the 40 army led by Wu En would face the main force of the Liao Dynasty, and insisted on dragging it to Toya to succeed.

Wu En led an army of 40 to keep kiting the main force of Liao. When the enemy advances, we retreat, and when the enemy retreats, we advance.Almost all the highly skilled cavalry archers are in this 40 army, shooting arrows when attacking, shooting arrows when a small formation is harassing, and still not forgetting to retreat while shooting arrows when retreating.

The generals of the Liao army were all full of anger. The number of people brought by General Liao was about the same as that of Xixia, and there was no way to form a crushing trend.

Xijing Daoben still has 20 Chinese soldiers available, but the instigation of Xixia last time made the entire Liao army unstable, so many Han people were sent back to work as serfs. If it weren’t for the war, there might be Chinese soldiers in the Liao army proportion will decrease.