546, Murder by a knife (1)
In addition to Zheng Fei's personal handling of oil, firearms and papermaking, what worries him the most is the development of the situation in the northwest and the safety of 30,000 brothers!
Relying on carrier pigeons, although Tokyo Bianliang is much closer to the northwest than Jingdong Road, Zheng Fei's speed of getting the latest battle situation is not much slower than Tokyo, sometimes even a little faster, one by one The latest battle situation shows that with Pang Wanchun and Liu Fa's 30,000 horses entering the northwest battlefield, it really played a vital role in the situation in the northwest, they first entered Fengzhou City on Qinfeng Road, helped the Song army in Fengzhou to resist the onslaught of more than 100,000 Western Xia troops, and finally stopped the decline of the Great Song Dynasty losing the city one after another. Then, the Western Xia army could not attack Fengzhou for a long time, and gradually appeared at the end of the strong crossbow, Pang Wanchun and Liu Fa seized the opportunity, in one night, Liu Fa personally led the Tiandao army 5,000 elite cavalry to attack the Chago camp at night, killing the Chage camp chaos, Pang Wanchun then led 25,000 Tiandao army and 10,000 Fengzhou Song army together to kill the Xixia army, the Xixia army was in chaos, was killed by the Tiandao army countless enemies, and they also trampled each other to death in the chaos, the Tiandao army and the Song coalition army killed hundreds of thousands of Xixia troops in one fell swoop. Achieved the first victory on the part of the Great Song Dynasty since the outbreak of the Northwest War!
Next, Pang Wanchun and Liu Fa's army became a strange soldier in the entire northwest battlefield, they refused to obey the command of the Song army on either side, and rushed to attack the entire northwest battlefield according to the latest battle situation. Sucking a mouthful of blood, the Western Xia army was annoyed by being disturbed,
Especially in the battle of Weizhou, Liu Fa re-encountered 70,000 horses under the old subordinates, at the critical moment, 70,000 Song troops made the choice to obey the orders of the old marshal Liu Fa, Liu Fa commanded 70,000 horses, and Pang Wanchun led 30,000 people to the Chage army that had been defeated and retreated here for a decisive battle, defeated the Chage army in one fell swoop, Chage fled in a hurry, if it were not for the 70,000 Song army worried about the punishment of the Song court and did not obey Liu Fa's order to continue the pursuit, maybe they could capture Chage in one fell swoop.
The Song army finally got a rare respite, and the Western Army of Zhulu took the opportunity to reassemble and re-form a solid defense against the Western Xia, and the offensive momentum of the Western Xia came to a sudden halt.
By the time Zheng Fei received the last piece of news about the battle situation, the 350,000 Western Xia army and the 300,000 Song army had formed a scorching confrontation in the northwest, and the Song army was brewing a big counterattack!
At the same time, as Zheng Fei expected, the Western Army really took the initiative to contact Liu Fa, but Liu Fa either refused to see him, or insisted that he would only see Pang Wanchun in his presence anyway, and he announced several times that the Western Army had written secret letters to him, which made the Western Army lose face.
As for the Western Xia army, they gradually understood why there was an army on the battlefield that was completely different from the Song army, and also knew why Liu Fa would return to the northwest.
When Li Qianshun and Brother Cha understood that all this was actually caused by the Jingdong thieves who had sworn to "divide the Great Song Dynasty" with them, their angry lungs were about to explode, and they understood that they were trapped, not only did they become the guns of Jingdong thieves in vain, but they were also bitten by Jingdong thieves and made it like this.
Li Qianshun and Brother Cha immediately sent people to publicize the secret negotiation between the Jingdong thieves and them in front of the battle, but the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty and the Heavenly Dao Army did not believe it at all, and they both thought that this was a counterplot by the Western Xia people, intending to divide the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty and the Heavenly Dao Army.
The Heavenly Dao Army was even more angry, and decided that the Western Xia people were really shameless, our commander was thousands of miles away, how could he do such a thing?! Stimulated by this "rumor", the Heavenly Dao Army was even more resentful, and vented all its anger on the Western Xia Army.
Zheng Fei was very satisfied, Pang Wanchun and Liu Fa really did not disappoint themselves, and their performance also proved that the Heavenly Dao Army could not only defeat the corrupt Great Song Forbidden Army, but also fight against the powerful Western Xia Army without falling behind. At the same time, the situation in Western Xia also alleviated the unknown guilt in Zheng Fei's heart a lot.
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The changes in the situation in the northwest also quickly spread to Bianliang, Tokyo, but surprisingly, the emperor and his ministers did not show too much joy because of the reversal of the war situation, on the contrary, they all frowned, looking worried, which was more depressing and ugly than the reaction of the Song army when they were defeated and retreated some time ago.
Because the combat effectiveness and strength of the 30,000 Heavenly Dao Army in the northwest was simply amazing, it had completely exceeded their imagination, and it had even shattered their plan to use Western Xia to consume the strength of the Heavenly Dao Army.
Although these 30,000 Heavenly Dao troops are fighting for them and for the Great Song Dynasty at this moment, this does not change the fact that these 30,000 Heavenly Dao troops are not the army in their own hands, that is to say, if they can fight for the Great Song Dynasty today, they may be able to start a war against the Great Song Dynasty tomorrow!
What's even more terrifying is that there are still 150,000 Heavenly Dao troops on Jingdong Road, if those 150,000 Heavenly Dao troops also have the same combat effectiveness as these 30,000 Heavenly Dao Army...... who can stop them in the Great Song Dynasty?!
The emperor felt an unprecedented fear, he had not gone to Li Shishi for ten consecutive days, and he had not set foot in the Huashi Garden for ten days, he even woke up in a dream once, he dreamed that he was sitting on the dragon chair and went to the court, after the eunuch shouted "There is a book to play, no book to retreat from the court", there was a person from outside the hall to go inside, approaching him step by step, he scolded repeatedly, but the person just didn't stop, and although both sides of the hall were full of ministers, but no one came out to stop the person, finally, the person came to the dragon chair, Stretched out a hand towards him......!
The emperor woke up suddenly, only to find that he was already drenched in cold sweat, although he couldn't see that person's face clearly in the dream, but he knew that that person was Zheng Linfeng!
The emperor summoned a group of ministers overnight, as if they were crazy, and asked them to give him advice immediately, you look at me, I look at you, but no one made a sound, everything was like a dream, the emperor's face changed color, he was about to get angry, but at this moment, a man came out and said, "The minister has a plan!" ”
The emperor was overjoyed, and when he looked at it, it turned out to be the old minister Cai Jing!
"Cai Aiqing, what do you do? Let's hear about it. ”
Cai Jing said coldly word by word, "The minister wants to ...... Kill with a knife! ”
The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then exclaimed, "Borrow a knife...... Homicide?! ”
Cai Jing said slowly, "Holy Lord, in fact, you don't have to worry about it, I have received a letter from Cai You's family, in which he said that the army sent by Zheng Linfeng to the northwest this time is composed of two parts, one is Zheng Linfeng's personal guard army with a total of 20,000 people, called the independent army, and the other is a total of 10,000 people from my rebel general Liu Fa. The independent army is indeed the absolute elite in the hands of Zheng Linfeng, and the strength of combat effectiveness is unsurpassed in the Jingdong Domain, and Liu Fa is also a veteran of the Western Army, who has been fighting in the northwest for a long time, and is extremely familiar with the Northwest and the Xia people, with the cooperation of these two armies, and the Xia Army has been winning battles before, it is inevitable that they will be complacent and underestimate the enemy, so it is reasonable that they can win, as for the 150,000 feudal army left in Jingdong Road, it is much weaker than these 30,000 horses, so there is no need to worry. ”
Hearing this, the emperor nodded lightly, and his heart was indeed much more stable.
Cai Jing continued, "The minister guesses that the reason why Zheng Linfeng dared to send his absolute elite this time is that he wants to use a victory to prove to us that he is strong, to put it bluntly, he just wants to make us have scruples about him, the more scruples we have, the more we dare not attack him, and the safer he will be." ”
The Emperor nodded again, with a slight smile on his face,
Cai Jing's tone changed when he said this, "Holy Lord, can you remember that from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the establishment of our dynasty, why did the world be in turmoil for a hundred years and rebellions broke out? ”
The emperor replied, "Of course I know, isn't it because there are many feudal towns and the feudal generals who hold military power have repeatedly committed rebellion, so the chaos continues?" That's why Taizu Taizong of this dynasty will be determined not to establish a feudal town. ”
Cai Jing nodded and said, "Holy Sage, although we are forced to set up Zheng Linfeng as a vassal now, how can Zheng Linfeng's generals not be powerful vassal generals to him?" Now he just gave us a chance, when the war in the northwest is over, the emperor can reward the three armies in the name of Pang Wanchun and Liu Fa to come to Tokyo to receive the reward, then the saint can personally meet them, gold and silver treasures, high-ranking official titles are all rewarded, the two of them are grateful for the grace of the saint, and they will be grateful, if they can have a heart of belonging, it would be better, even if they can't, they can plant a seed in the hearts of the two of them. At the same time, the saint didn't say a word about Zheng Linfeng, or just a small reward. In this way, Zheng Linfeng will be jealous, and will be suspicious of Pang and Liu, let's deliberately send someone to Jingdong Road to spread rumors in the future...... either Zheng Linfeng will attack the two of them, or the two of them will rebel in order to protect themselves, and then Jingdong will be in chaos! Even if Zheng Linfeng can stabilize his position, he will be greatly injured! ”
The emperor's heart suddenly became overjoyed, and Long Yan Dayue said straightly, "Okay, good, what a borrowed knife to kill!" ”