Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Wasn't Li Qianshun's own important minister, Ren Duo Baozhong, deprived of military power because of Cai Jing's petty actions?

At this time, the Xixia Kingdom was facing a huge crisis. After veteran generals such as Brother Li Cha, Li Liangfu, and Weiming Awu all died in battle, Li Qianshun did not reuse the veteran Ren Duo Bao Zhong, which shows how lethal the suspicion of the monarchs and ministers is.

Li Qianshun believed that no matter whether Ximenqing was innocent or not, as long as Zhang Bangchang, the emperor of Chu in Bianliang City, Tokyo, heard a little bit of news, he would order Ximenqing's troops to return to the court, and no longer dared to let him take charge of the army.

Therefore, this divorce plan cannot but be said to be a poisonous plan to harm the Chu State, and also a clever plan to save the Xixia State.

It's a pity that Li Qianshun and his ministers were arrogant before, and they didn't have a deep understanding of the internal affairs of the state of Chu.

After seeing the Song Dynasty easily destroyed by the Jin army, Li Qianshun completely ignored the Chu State, a puppet regime supported by the Jin State.

Therefore, how could the monarchs and ministers of the Western Xia Kingdom know that earth-shaking changes have already taken place in the Chu Kingdom. Ximen Qing, a powerful minister with a heavy army in his hands, has actually controlled the government, and the puppet emperor Zhang Bangchang has no ability to restrict Ximen Qing's actions at all!

Li Qianshun's alienation strategy used by the monarch and his ministers may be useful to other generals, but it did not hurt Ximen Qing.

Even in a sense, Li Qianshun and his ministers made a covert propaganda for Ximen Qing.

The time for the establishment of the Chu State was too short, and Zhang Bangchang was a puppet emperor pushed out by the Jin State, and he had no prestige to the subjects of the world.

Because of this, there will be a political incident in which 20 restored Song troops besieged Bianliang City in Tokyo.

The current situation of Chu State is entirely supported by Ximenqing's prestige in defeating the Restoration Army.

After Ximenqing defeated the Xixia Army, his prestige was even greater than before, and the opposition forces in Chu State also weakened.

However, these are Ximenqing's personal prestige, but they have not been transformed into the prestige of Emperor Zhang Bangchang.

These rumors fabricated by Li Qianshun and his ministers of the Western Xia Kingdom gave many local officials and generals in the Chu Kingdom a second thought.

Compared with the cowardly and incompetent emperor Zhang Bangchang, the majestic King Ximenqing seems to be more like a king!Although most people understand that the rumors that have suddenly appeared recently are mostly the enemy's plan to sow discord, many people still have the idea of ​​​​political speculation.

Instead of being loyal to Emperor Zhang Bangchang, why not be loyal to King Ximen Qing?I don't know if he is now secretly taking refuge in King Ximen Qing, will he become a Conglong hero in the future?

In other words, Qu Duan and Liu Qi were the first to win the favor of King Ximenqing, Duan is so enviable!

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When the local forces heard rumors and wanted to approach Ximenqing, Cheng Wanli, Murong Yanda, Tong Guan, Qin Hui and other important court officials in Bianliang City in Tokyo scoffed at such nonsense.

What are Cheng Wanli, Murong Yanda and other members of Ximenqing's party controlling the government for?Isn't it just waiting for the day when Ximen Qing will win the world?

Cheng Wanli's daughter and Murong Yanda's younger sister are all looking forward to the rising tide!

The bosses know it well, will they still be confused by the mere rumors of the Xixia Kingdom?

Not to mention the important ministers of Ximen Qing's party, even the originally neutral Minister of War, Zong Ze, has now turned to Ximen Qing.

After Ximen Qing led the army to defeat the Xixia Army and entered the Xixia Kingdom all the way, Zong Ze, who had always had the ambition to help the Han family, saw the hope of the country's prosperity in Ximen Qing, and naturally supported Ximen Qing in replacing the traitor Zhang Bangchang. .

Yes, Zong Ze never regarded Zhang Bangchang, a traitor supported by the Jin Kingdom, as the emperor.If Ximen Qing hadn't been born in the past, the army of Zong Ze and others would have driven Zhang Bangchang from the throne of the emperor long ago.

After Ximenqing went to Xixia and brought unprecedented victories, there were many ministers in the entire Chu state, such as Zongze, who changed from being neutral to supporting Ximenqing.

The ministers were all thinking like this, and there was not a single fool in the palace, so the rumors were completely isolated and did not reach Zhang Bangchang's ears.

Zhang Bangchang couldn't change anything after hearing it. Instead, let his ears be clean and less troubled.

Ximenqing, who was leading the army to attack Lingzhou, also soon learned about the rumors spread by the Xixia Kingdom to drive a wedge between himself and the emperor.

Ximenqing laughed it off, ignored it completely, and continued to dispatch troops to storm Lingzhou City.

The Xixia Kingdom's alienation plan did not work, and the Xixia Army's strategy to harass Ximenqing's grain road also failed.

Ximen Qing's army brought a lot of food from Pingxia City, and seized food in Weizhou City that could supply the army for several months. There was no shortage of food in the army.

In addition, Ximen Qing, Wang Jin and others could imagine that the Xixia Army would send troops to attack and disturb the grain road with their eyes closed, and of course they would send heavy troops to guard it.

The lieutenant generals of Ximen Qing's army were so numerous that they were able to keep many strong generals behind to protect the grain road.

Shi Wengong, who is excellent in martial arts, has been lamenting that under the new weapons and tactics, his bravery is useless. This time, Ximenqing entrusted him with the important task of protecting the grain road and escorting the luggage.

Ximenqing not only asked Su Ding to follow Shi Wengong as the deputy general, but also transferred several state commanders and governors from Quduan's Jingyuan army to serve under Shi Wengong's command.

These generals of the Jingyuan Army have fought with the Xixia Army for many years, no matter how skilled they are, at least they are very familiar with the geography along the way.

With the assistance of these local generals, Shi Wengong's army thwarted several sneak attacks of the Xixia army one after another, which made the Xixia army's strategy of raiding the grain road come to nothing.

In these few battles, Shi Wengong was unstoppable. He personally shot two generals of the Xixia army to death, and immediately captured a general of the Xixia army alive.

Those who can be sent by the Xixia army to attack Liangdao are of course warriors in the army.But none of these Xixia warriors could survive ten strokes under Shi Wengong's gun.In every battle, hundreds of elite Xixia soldiers died under Shi Wengong's gun.

After several encounters, Shi Wengong frightened the Xixia army and won the nickname of "Long Spear Yasha".

Shi Wengong's bravery also made the generals of the Jingyuan Army in the army admire him, and the Xixia people respected Shi Wengong as "General Yecha".

For a time, "General Yesha" Shi Wengong shocked the two armies.

Chapter 31 Lingzhou City Changes Hands

After seeing the power of the Ximen Qing army's guns, the Xixia army adjusted its combat strategy, no longer defending the city, or forming an array to fight the Ximen Qing army, so as to avoid large-scale destruction by the artillery.

On the Lingzhou defense line, the Xixia Army adopted the tactics of dispersing the army into a team of 2000 people, fighting in the field at night, and taking turns to assault the Ximen Qing Army. The army fights for consumption.

For this reason, the Xixia Army even voluntarily gave up the city of Lingzhou City, not giving the Ximen Qing Army a chance to gather and annihilate.

It's a pity that although the Xixia Army adopted more flexible tactics, they still ran into walls everywhere on the battlefield.

In terms of hand-to-hand combat, the combat power of Ximen Qing's army is also top-notch.

Generals Wang Jin, Lu Zhishen, Shi Jin, Shi Wengong, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, etc. in the army are all brave, and all under their command are warriors who can fight well.

These troops, equipped with improved armor and weapons, took advantage of the Xixia army in hand-to-hand combat.

In addition, the generals are capable, such as Lu Zhishen and his like can behead hundreds of heads every time they fight, and the enemy will be terrified when they kill them. Therefore, Ximen Qing's army will not be afraid to fight when encountering the Xixia army's close combat.

What's more, Ximen Qing's army faced the scattered Xixia army. Although the power of the artillery was limited, the flexible and mobile Musketeers could still kill the Quartet.

Even if the "queue to shoot" tactic could not be used, the musketeers, led by Tang Long and Wei Dingguo, were still able to accurately kill and injure the charging soldiers of the Xixia Army.

In several field battles in succession, the Xixia army was defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

After half a month of fighting between the two sides, even though the lord Li Ganshun personally supervised the battle, after more than 3 people died in the battle, the Xixia Army on the line from Lingzhou to Xiakou finally completely collapsed.

The Xixia army took advantage of the cover of night to retreat to the north, and fled back to Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Xixia Kingdom.

After the Ximen Qing army wiped out the remaining enemy troops in the surrounding area, it announced that the entire territory of Lingzhou, which was lost in the Song Dynasty, would be reintroduced into the territory of Chu State.

At this time, the court's commendation order was sent to the army again.