Chapter 320 Chapter 319 Shenzong Li Zunxu

Li Zunxu was the son of Yanzong, king of Qi in the Western Xia clan.He was born in the tenth year of Tiansheng (the first year of Song Longxing) and died in the second year of Qianding (the second year of Song Baoqing).64 years old. Li Zunxu was erudite and talented, and won the first prize.Later, he was promoted to the head of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, commanded the army, and became a prestigious figure in the Xixia royal family.Li Zunxu was 49 years old when he succeeded to the throne. After Li Zunxu succeeded to the throne, he simply attached Mongolia and invaded Jin. The wars between Xixia and Jin became more frequent and larger.From June of the third year of Guangding (AD 1213) to October of the fifth year of Guangding, Xia Bing broke through many cities.In the autumn of the sixth year of Guangding, he cooperated with the Mongolian army to attack Yan'an and Tongguan.Zunxu wanted to imitate Chongzong Qianshun's method of taking advantage of the rise of the Jin Kingdom and attacking the Liao Dynasty to expand its territory, attaching to Mongolia, invading Jin and expanding the territory.Little did they know that Mongolia's goal was the entire China of Jin, Xia and Song.

In the seventh year of Guangding, Mongolia attacked Jin. Zunxu responded to Mongolia's conscript and sent 30,000 troops to assist. As a result, he was defeated by Jin soldiers in Ningzhou and returned.Mongolia invaded Khwarazm to the west and conscripted troops from Xixia again.At this time, Xixia refused to send troops due to the excessive expenditure of military expenditures for successive years, and because of the new defeat in Ningzhou.Seeing that Xixia refused to send troops, Mongolia sent troops across the river to attack Xixia, and quickly besieged Zhongxing Mansion, the Xia capital.When Zunxu saw the sudden Mongolian attack, he fled to Xiliang Mansion, leaving only Prince Deren to guard the city.Zunxu didn't return to the capital until the Mongolian soldiers retreated.

Zunxu was deeply aware of the threat from Mongolia, so he changed his policy and decided to unite with Jin to fight against Mongolia and Song to fight against Jin in order to protect himself.In February of the eighth year of Guangding, Zunxu sent an envoy to ask Jin for peace, but Jin Xuanzong hated Xixia's capriciousness and refused to make peace.Zunxu saw that the alliance with Jin failed, so he turned to the Song Dynasty.In the ninth year of Guangding, in order to get rid of the predicament, Emperor Xuanzong of Jin sent troops across the Huai River and split his way to the south to invade the Song Dynasty.Zunxu took the opportunity to send the Privy Council to recruit envoys to Sichuan to contact the general of the Song Dynasty and join forces with the Song Dynasty to invade the Jin Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty agreed to jointly fight against the Jin Dynasty.In August of the 10th year of Guangding, Zunxu dispatched 10,000 troops as promised to break through the city of Jinhuizhou. Jin Shoujiang Wu Gulun Shixian surrendered.The Jin Dynasty was very panicked, and Jin Xuanzong immediately asked Xia Guo for peace. Zunxu was in the excitement of victory, so naturally he was not allowed to make peace.In September, they attacked Gongzhou again, but they were defeated.

Zunxu did not benefit from the Song Dynasty's invasion of gold, but Mongolia stabbed him in the back.In March of the 11th year of Guangding, the Muhuali tribe of Mongolia crossed the Yellow River from Dongshengzhou to attack gold through Xixia, and then conscripted troops to Xiaguo.In June of the twelfth year of Guangding, Mu Huali and Youdu Jian Shi Tianying led troops to attack the states of Jin and Shaanxi, borrowed from Xia Guo, Zunxu immediately agreed, and sent troops to cooperate in December, but Xia soldiers went Zhigubao was defeated by Jin Bing.In the spring of the thirteenth year of Guangding, Muhuali of Mongolia marched into Fengxiang (now Fengxiang County, Shaanxi). Zunxu sent 100,000 troops to attack the city with the Mongolian army.

The Mongolian commander Mu Huali died of illness after hearing the news in Shanxi, and his son Bolu continued to lead the army to attack Jin.In order to punish Xia Bing for leaving without saying goodbye in the Battle of Fengxiang, Mongolia sent troops to surround Jishi Prefecture and looted everywhere, besieging Xia Bing for half a month before retreating.In order to protect himself, Zunxu expressed his willingness to be a vassal of Mongolia, but Mongolia had lost interest in him and sent envoys many times to order him to abdicate.In December, under the coercion of Mongolia and amidst the opposition from the court, Shenzong had to announce his abdication and passed on the throne to his second son Dewang (Xianzong), who became the only "Supreme Emperor" in the history of Xixia.

In the fourth year of Qianding (1226 AD), Zunxu died.Posthumously "Emperor Shenzong English".