Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

In order to guard against the attack of the Chu army, Li Ganshun, the lord of the Xixia Kingdom, prepared weapons and horses in the cuta village, and stocked up a lot of food in Weizhou City.

Ximen Qing decided to give Li Qianshun the honorary official position of "Transportation Envoy of the Xia Realm" after the Xixia Kingdom was destroyed.

Chapter 29 Li Qianshun's Counterattack

After the curtain call of the Battle of Weizhou City, the Ximen Qing Army added another prisoner-of-war camp.

Mou Ningke and his party were forced to divert to Weizhou City to discuss with Lu Yihao the delivery of prisoners of war again.

Looking at the bombed city gate and the more than 1 soldiers of the Xixia Army who were captured without a fight, Mou Ning Keren's face was pale, and he was unable to plan the future of Xia Kingdom.

Mou Ning Keren has already heard from the prisoners how Jin Wang Li Cha's army and general Li Liangfu's army were defeated.

However, after all, he did not witness it with his own eyes, and Mou Ning Keren was skeptical of the claims of the prisoners, thinking that they might have exaggerated the strength of Ximen Qing's army in order to find an excuse for himself to surrender in defeat.

However, seeing with his own eyes that the solid walls of Weizhou City were blown to pieces by the Ximen Qing army, Mou Ning Keren understood that there was nothing that could stop the Ximen Qing army from advancing.

Frustrated, Mou Ning Keren had no intention of saving the more than 1 prisoners of war in Weizhou City.

When Lu Yihao came to question, Mou Ning Keren declined Lu Yihao's deal directly on the pretext that Xia Guo was in poverty and had no money left to redeem people.

Lu Yihao failed to make the deal with Mou Ning Keren, and he was not angry. Instead, he released the wounded captives, just like in Pingxia City, and let them go home to spread the horror of the Chu army, and the Chu army allowed Xia The news that the country paid for the ransom.

Mou Ning Keren is unwilling to pay, maybe Li Qianshun is forced to have no choice but to tighten his belt?

Ximen Qing's army made some adjustments, then marched north along the Lingzhou River in the east, and went straight to Lingzhou City downstream.

Under the escort of Fan Qiongjun, Mou Ningkeren and the released prisoners of war continued to follow in the footsteps of Ximen Qingjun like a spectator group.

However, when the 3000 captives set off, there were more than [-] fewer prisoners.

It turned out that more than 3000 prisoners of war were natives of Weizhou.

When they arrived outside the city of Weizhou, relatives and friends from the city and surrounding villages came to look for and visit their relatives and friends.

Just when these people were facing each other from a distance, Lu Yihao announced a piece of good news to them.

Lu Yihao took the list of prisoners of war registered in Pingxia City and said that now the whole territory of Weizhou has been under the rule of Chu State, so the prisoners of war from Weizhou have become the people of Chu State.

Since they are from the state of Chu, these prisoners of war do not have to be repatriated to the state of Xixia.Lu Yihao commanded his men to release all the Weizhou people among the prisoners of war one by one.

When these prisoners of war and their relatives and friends were very grateful, Lu Yihao also warned and encouraged these people, asking them to keep their own place and be good citizens under the rule of Chu State after returning home.

These captives have long been overwhelmed by the strength of Ximen Qing's army, and they were brainwashed by storytellers in Pingxia City. How could they fight against Ximen Qing's army and kill themselves?

After the prisoners of war swore allegiance to the state of Chu, they helped the old and the young, and returned home weeping with joy.

This scene, in the eyes of the remaining prisoners of war, made them feel envious.

Thousands of prisoners in Lingzhou looked at each other in blank dismay, and they all had strange thoughts: If Lingzhou City is captured by the Chu army, can we also become Chu people and be released home?

These prisoners of war of the Xixia Army were looking forward to the victory of the Ximen Qing Army all the way!

Mou Ning Keren could also feel the strange atmosphere in the team, but he didn't say a word, just kept his head on his way, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Ximen Qing's army went down the river, just as these Xixia Army prisoners of war hoped, they conquered Pule City and Yaode City along the way, and advanced to Lingzhou City.

This time, the entire Xixia Kingdom was really shaken.

From Lingzhou to Xingqing Mansion is the core area of ​​Xixia Kingdom. Compared with other areas of Xixia Kingdom, this area has a large population and flat and fertile land. It is the political, economic and cultural center of Xixia Kingdom.

During Song Shenzong's time, the Song army once attacked the city of Lingzhou.However, the Song army was defeated by the Xixia army and lost hundreds of thousands of troops and civilian husbands.

The loss of Lingzhou City meant that the core valley plains of the Xixia Kingdom were open to the Chu army, and the capital, Xingqing Mansion, and even the entire Xixia Kingdom were also in jeopardy.

Originally, the Xixia Kingdom also had an accompanying capital, Xijing Liangzhou, which could allow the Xixia Kingdom's monarchs and ministers to make strategic shifts when the war was unfavorable.

However, the road from Xingqing Mansion to Liangzhou had been cut off by Ximen Qing's army. If Li Qianshun wanted to flee westward to Liangzhou, he could only take the risk of crossing the vast desert.

What's more, Liangzhou City is also facing the onslaught of the Chu Army's West Route Army, whether it can be defended is also unknown.

Li Ganshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, had no choice but to resort to all means to defuse the crisis.

In terms of military affairs, Li Ganshun mobilized troops to defend Lingzhou, and hoarded [-] troops along the line from Lingzhou to the mouth of the Yellow River Gorge (later known as Qingtong Gorge) to prevent Ximen Qing's army from going north.

At the same time, the Xixia Army sent many other troops across the mountains to detour behind the Ximen Qing Army, trying to attack the Ximen Qing Army's grain and grass supplies and disrupt the Ximen Qing Army's offensive.

Politically, Li Qianshun sent envoys to Ximen Qingjun one after another to negotiate, humbly expressing Xia Guo's willingness to serve Chu as the master, and asked the Chu army to hold their hands high and leave Xia's ancestral temple and society, not to kill them all.

In addition, Li Qianshun went to the doctor in a hurry, and Pegasus sent many gifts to the emperor Wanyan Wu of the Kingdom of Jin and Marshal Wanyan Zonghan, asking the Kingdom of Jin to send troops to rescue his loyal vassal state.

In his letter of credence and secret letter to Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai and Marshal Wanyan Zonghan of the Kingdom of Jin, Li Qianshun said that Chu State was ambitious and powerful, and had the ambition to annex Xia State.If the Kingdom of Jin sits and watches the Kingdom of Xia be annexed, it is afraid that the strength of the Kingdom of Chu will increase, and it may not be obediently obeying the orders of the Kingdom of Jin.

All in all, Li Qianshun tried his best to sow discord, hoping that the Jin army could go south again to attack the restless Chu State and restore order among the three kingdoms.

When Li Qianshun filed a complaint with Jin Guo, he didn't mention that it was Xia Guo who wanted to annex Shaanxi Wulu who was restless a few months ago.

In order to save the national destiny, Li Ganshun racked his brains and resorted to all means.

He even adopted the advice of his counselors and sent people to sneak into the territory of Chu State to play a trick of alienation.

The spies of the Xixia Kingdom spread rumors in the territory of the Chu Kingdom, saying that Ximen, the king of Dongping County, celebrated his achievements and overshadowed the Lord, was ambitious and disobedient.

Even Simon's attempt to replace Zhang's family was compiled into nursery rhymes by interested people and sung everywhere.

It has to be said that Li Qianshun's tactic of alienation is indeed very ruthless.

Such rumors can easily cause mutual suspicion between the monarch and his ministers, which in turn will cause discord and political turmoil.

If it is not serious, it is usually the emperor who strikes and truces and takes back the military power of the generals in front.

If it is more serious, perhaps the emperor will kill the ministers who threaten his imperial power.

Or the powerful ministers in charge of the army sensed the emperor's suspicion and rushed to rebel.

In short, after using the alienation plan, the Chu army is bound to retreat and return to the country to solve the domestic political struggle problem!

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This divorce plan by Li Ganshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, is indeed a poisonous plan that has been tried and tested in history.

Power alienates people, which emperor is not wary of ministers with heavy troops?

Aside from talking about it, Song Taizu of the former dynasty of Chu State himself was a powerful minister who seized the throne. After that, didn't he have a "drinking wine to release military power" and took away all the military power from the generals?

Afterwards, the Song Dynasty made a big effort to use literature to suppress military affairs. They would rather use scholars who don't understand military affairs to command troops than hand over military power to generals who can conscript and fight well.

As far as the Xixia Kingdom is concerned, didn't the Yeli clan, the Wuzang clan, and the Liang clan all held military power and were tabooed by the royal family, so they didn't end well?