This is a good question, first of all we need to pay attention to the background of the battles and celebrations between the Western Xia and the Northern Song Dynasty at that time.
The origin of the Battle of Songxia
On October 11, 1038, in the first year of the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song (1038 CE), the leader of the State of Xia, who was originally subordinate to the Song Dynasty, was Li Yuanhao.
The following year, Yuan Hao sent envoys to Song and submitted a table to Emperor Renzong of Song, which explained several reasons for his claim to the founding of the emperor.
One: his distant ancestor was tuoba, who had established northern Wei during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and he had the bloodline of emperor.
Second: in the late Tang Dynasty, he once made meritorious contributions to the Tang Dynasty's pacification of the Yellow Nest.
Third: Xia created his own script and established his own system, which was favored by the small surrounding countries, which all hoped that Li Yuanhao would be emperor. I said that I was a little forced, and my face was a little thick.
Fourth: Xia Guo hoped that Song would recognize his position so that the two sides could coexist peacefully. This is clearly provocative.
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After Emperor Renzong of Song received this book full of gunpowder flavor, he and the courtiers could not hold back their anger, cut off Yuanhao's knighthood, stopped the mutual market trade on the border, and beheaded Li Yuanhao as a reward for the envoy of the Dingnan Army.
The Song Dynasty's reaction was the same as Li Yuanhao expected, Li Yuanhao once again sent someone to submit a "letter of resignation", this time the two sides tore their faces, and the Western Xia successfully pushed the responsibility for the war to the Song Dynasty.
The Battle of Songxia
After years of confrontation with the Song Dynasty, Li Yuanhao was well aware of the virtual reality of the Song Dynasty's border line, and he chose the weakest breakthrough point - Yanzhou. If you want to take Yanzhou, you must open Jinmingzhai.
In order to take down Jin Mingzhai, Li Yuanhao worked hard. Li Yuanhao first carried out a counter-plan against Li Shibin's non-Han identity, and he sent people to throw brocade robes, letters, and golden belts into Jin Mingzhai, and the content of the letters was roughly about reneging on the Song Dynasty. While the generals were suspicious of Li Shibin, fortunately, Vice Governor Yan deployed Xia Sui to support Li Shibin, and Li Yuanhao's counter-plan ended in failure.
Unable to succeed, Li Yuanhao lured Li Shibin with heavy gold, and with the support of Xia Sui before, Li Shibin killed Li Yuanhao's emissaries.
Both attempts were unsuccessful, and Yuan Hao used his killer skills and sent emissaries to song camps to show weakness. The Zhenwu army envoys and Fan Yong of Yanzhou Zhizhou mistakenly believed the words of the Western Xia emissaries, and the soldiers who would surrender in the future were arranged in Jin Mingzhai, and at first Li Shibin also found it inappropriate, but under Fan Yong's persuasion, he obeyed.
After this deployment, Jin Mingzhai had already mixed in a large number of soldiers of the Xia Kingdom. Li Yuanhao adopted the strategy of attacking the west from the east and announcing that the troops would attack Anyuan and Chengping in the east in two ways and attack the security army to the west, and Fan Yong hurriedly sent Liu Pingchi to help the security army.
In fact, his real purpose was to attack Jin Mingzhai at night. Jin Mingzhai was quickly captured under the cooperation of the Dangxiang people, and when Li Shibin got up in a hurry to meet the battle, the war horse he usually rode was also replaced by a donkey horse, and finally Li Shibin was captured. At the critical moment, Li Shibin sent someone to break through and report to Fan Yong the news of the destruction of Jin Ming Village.
As soon as Jin Mingzhai broke the crisis in Yanzhou, Fan Yong hurriedly transferred Liu Ping to Yanzhou. Exhausted, Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun of the security army gathered 10,000 people to Yanzhou. Twenty miles outside the city of Yanzhou, they encountered a traitor sent by Yuan Hao, who falsely claimed to be the one sent by Fan Yong to deliver the message, and let the army divide into 50 people and enter the city in batches of 50 people. After releasing 2500 people, Liu Ping realized the problem, and when he looked for the person who passed the message, there was no trace of it.
When Liu Pingren rushed to Sanchuankou, Li Yuanhao had been waiting for a long time. The Western Xia army surrounded the point to fight for reinforcements, waiting for work, and finally won a complete victory.
After the Battle of Sanchuankou, Emperor Renzong of Song sent Xia Zhen, Han Qi, and Fan Zhongyan to the Northwest Battlefield.
In the first year of the Qing calendar (1041 AD), Yuan Hao, under the planning of the Han Zhang Yuan, divided his troops into two routes, and Mingli declared that he would attack Yanzhou, where Fan Zhongyan was stationed, but the main force attacked Weizhou, where Han Qi was stationed. Han Qi sent the general Ren Fu to lead 30,000 people along Sanchuan Village, Huaiyuan Village, and Desheng Village to Yangmulong City, and this route was designed to copy Yuanhao's back road first, and second, to supply the Song army's logistics. Unfortunately, Ren Fu was lured by the Western Xia army to deviate from the established route due to his greed.
Ren Fu was led to haoshuichuan, where Yuan Hao laid out many boxes, and Song Jun, out of curiosity, opened the boxes and flew out of them one after another with pigeon whistles.
The tragedy of Mikawaguchi was staged again.
In the second year of the Qing Calendar (1042 AD), Zhang Yuan once again concentrated 100,000 troops to attack the Song in two ways, one way out of Liu Yanbao, all the way out of Pengyang City, together with the Zhenrong army, and then took Weizhou to settle Guanzhong in one fell swoop.
At Dingchuan Village, it was Ge Huaimin who was greedy and adventurous, and the Song army was once again defeated. Fortunately, another way of the Western Xia army encountered the obstruction of Jingtai of Wonju Zhizhou, and Jingtai, who was arrayed on the mountain, saw through the Western Xia army's strategy of luring the enemy and sent people to search the mountain, and more than a thousand ambush soldiers of the Western Xia army were beheaded by the Song army.
Celebratory calendar and peace talks
In the third year of the Qing calendar (1043 AD), the Western Xia sent He from Xunxun to the Song Dynasty and opened the Xia-Song peace talks, and the following year the two sides reached a peace agreement.
Yuan Hao went to the emperor's name, song sealed Yuan Hao as the lord of the Xia kingdom, opened up the Border Trade between Song and Xia, and Song once again exchanged money for peace in the form of old coins.
In the three large-scale wars of the Song and Xia Dynasties, the Western Xia Army won the victory with absolute superiority, but at the same time paid a painful price. Although the Western Xia gained the initiative on the battlefield, compared with the national strength of the Song Dynasty, the Western Xia did not have any comparison.
Xia, as the third pole outside the Song and Liao countries, the essence of waging war is nothing more than profit, and when the loss of war is greater than the gain, peace is the best way out.