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They looked as if they were afraid of a sneak attack from the Liang army.
Zhao Yuan had no choice but to abandon the idea.
After passing Binzhou, and then Jingzhou,
We arrived at Weizhou territory.
Jingzhou, however, was the traditional sphere of influence of the Zhong family generals.
They have already submitted to the Great Liang.
When the army arrived in Jingzhou,
The prefect of Jingzhou came out to greet them early on.
The prefect of Jingzhou handed Zhao Yuan a personal letter from the late General Zhong.
Zhao Yuan did not rest in Jingzhou either.
He led his army towards Weizhou.
Ten miles outside Weizhou City,
The elderly General Zhong, with his white hair and beard, stood at the very front.
On the left are Lu Zhishen and other Liang generals.
The people on the right are all foreigners.
They were all dark-skinned and had arrogant expressions.
Finally, Zhao Yuan, clad in golden armor, appeared in the distance.
Under the sunlight,
It's even more unbearable to look at.
Zhong Shidao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the heroic and extraordinary Zhao Yuan appear.
In January, Xihe Road and Qinfeng Road were completely lost.
To expand this thousand-mile territory
It took decades.
Countless athletes from Northwest China lost their lives for this cause.
It was all gone in a month.
The culprit is Daliang.
However, Zhong Shidao did not hate Daliang.
Because he knew there was no main beam,
All of this will happen.
It's just a matter of time.
Chapter 1831 Entering the City
Tong Guan waged war against the Western Xia for more than a decade.
Significant results have been achieved.
They took the entire Yokoyama region.
This prevented the Western Xia from invading from the east.
They also captured Qingtang Prefecture in the west.
It is only 200 miles from Qinghai Lake.
The Stone Fortress City, once captured by the famous Tang Dynasty general Geshu Han.
It's right there.
It can be said that the western territory of the Song Dynasty was comparable to that of the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that the northern part wasn't as large as the Tang Dynasty's territory.
"The Big Dipper shines high, and Geshu carries his sword at night."
"Even now, those who dare to graze their horses dare not cross the border."
The Western Army can also proudly say,
The barbarians dared not cross Lintao.
However, the cost of these victories was the loss of most of the Western Army's main force.
Especially the battle in the first year of Xuanhe,
Liu Fa's 100,000 elite troops were completely annihilated.
Furthermore, it decimated most of the remaining elite troops of the Western Army.
General Zhong knew about the situation of the Western Army.
Therefore, he firmly opposed the alliance with the Jin to attack Liao.
When he submitted his memorial, he said, "Inviting thieves to divide the neighborhood."
A thief broke into the neighbor's house.
We allied ourselves with thieves and divided up our neighbors.
That's not the reason.
Military generals all have the desire to expand their territory.
Provided conditions permit
Every military general dreams of expanding territory.
Then he was granted a title and appointed prime minister.
This was the day they took up arms.
It was a wish buried deep in one's bones.
However, the Western Army lost most of its elite troops.
Allied with the Jin to attack the Liao.
Needless to say, this will lead to trouble later.
It's hard to say whether they can even defeat the Liao Kingdom.
The Western Xia dynasty has grown stronger in recent years.
If the few remaining veteran soldiers of the Western Army are lost in the Liao Kingdom,
The gains made in the Northwest over the years will likely be taken back by the Western Xia soon.
Therefore, General Zhong firmly opposed the alliance with the Jin to attack Liao.
In fact, this is also the historical fact.
Tong Guan waged war in the Northwest for more than ten years.
The Western Army suffered heavy casualties.
Then they went to annihilate Fang La.
Another batch of elite troops were lost.
That's why when attacking the Liao Kingdom,
They were defeated by the remnants of the Liao army.
This was especially true during the war between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The legendary Western Army encountered the Jin Dynasty.
It was an almost one-sided situation.
Could it be that the Western Army is just a paper tiger, all show and no substance?
No, it was the Jin Dynasty facing off against the Western Xia army.
They achieved almost no victories.
Instead, they had to cede part of the Liao and Northern Song territories to the Western Xia.
Let the Western Xia hold back the remaining Western Army.
The Western Army, however, seized Hengshan from the Western Xia.
It is evident that the Western Army's fighting strength was still quite formidable.
Only when the Western Army was at its weakest,
The Jin army marched south.
Therefore, the Western Army also failed to save the Northern Song Dynasty.
Another piece of evidence is the outstanding generals of the Southern Song Dynasty who resisted the Jin army.
They were mostly from the Western Army.
Is it because they surpassed their teachers?
That's not quite right.
Of the four generals of the Zhongxing era, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Liu Guangshi had all served in the army for many years.
They also participated in the wars against the Western Xia.
But they didn't show any outstanding talent.
It is evident that the Western Army at that time was full of fierce generals and heroes vying for supremacy.
The Western Army was originally a very strong fighting force.
As long as the Western Army recovers...
The Western Army will then demonstrate their formidable fighting power.
In the eyes of the old strategist Zhong...
The loss of the Western Army's gains was only a matter of time.
He did not hate Daliang.
But watching helplessly as the cities fought and lost by our ancestors' bloodshed were lost.
I am still deeply saddened.
His once upright posture has become hunched.
These days he has been racking his brains to come up with a solution.
Finally, he came up with a plan.
One that could repel the Western Xia
The plan to intimidate the barbarians
The main figure in the plan was Zhao Yuan, the King of Liang.
His plan has a high success rate.
If successful, it could completely solve the problem of foreigners.
It could even extend its territory further west.
Although Zhong Shidao is over seventy years old,
However, when Zhao Yuan first met Zhong Shidao...
Zhong Shidao was still in good spirits and had a straight back.
I didn't expect that after more than a month apart,
Master Zhong then began to show signs of old age.