Chapter 741: Soldiers Coming to Xiping Mansion
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So now that Tao Jiefu had an accident, no one is discussing how Gao Fangping will toss next, so he can only defecate with him.
Even if Tao Jiefu Xiangye doesn't have an accident, even if Gao Fangping doesn't have the Sword of the Son of Heaven, the Privy Council can only command Gao Fangping how to fight, but it can't disband Gao Fangping's expeditionary force. This is called the military formation, which is not ordered by the Son of Heaven.
After Zhao Ji's approval, the national war army formation was formed, and the imperial court had no right to disband and disperse, only Zhao Ji had this right. Then now that Gao Fangping holds the Sword of the Son of Heaven, even the military minister of the Great Song Dynasty can't be a director, and Zhao Ji's attention has also moved away, so no one cares what Gao Fangping does anymore. That calf just penetrated Western Xia directly, and no one said anything about him when he entered the Liao Kingdom.
After the victory in the Battle of Baichi Grassland, it can be said that there are no worries, and Western Xia has basically "died".
Since then, it can be announced that the main living forces of Western Xia have been annihilated by Gao Fangping. As the defenders, they will have some defensive leeway if they don't die on their own. But if you want to be an attacker, it's impossible to breathe without twenty years.
At this point, Gao Fangping's order arrived at the Xiazhou camp of the Yongxing Military Department: Liu Yanqing's troops were ordered to officially launch the Xiazhou offensive and eat Xiazhou before the autumn harvest.
Gao Fangping didn't go to Xiazhou to help, there was no need for that, Liu Yanqing's superior infantry was the real main force in Xiazhou.
After the great victory in the Battle of Baichi Grassland, Gao Fangping reorganized a little, and went straight south with the mobility of the cavalry, and took Yanzhou with almost no resistance.
There was also a quick response to the herald of the Seed Master's Dao Department. The old people will come to take over Yanzhou, and by the way, accept this group of Western Xia captives. In terms of policy, it is the same as the previous batch, and it is a bargaining chip for negotiations with the Tangut people in the future.
There is nothing wrong with this, if Li Qianshun dares not to, Gao Fangping himself wants more than 80,000 laborers, and Xixia will not regret it in the end.
So in this gap period, Gao Fangping reassured the people while repairing in Yanzhou, and readjusted grain and grass to supplement military resources. By the way, the tens of thousands of prisoners who guarded the White Horse Military Division.
The most important thing, of course, is to digest the results of the war - war horses.
After the victory in the Battle of Baichi Grassland, the surviving horses of the White Horse Army Division were more than 25,000. More than 5,000 horses Gao Fangping have been added to his troops, first, to strengthen the ability to transport and maneuver, and they can also be replaced. As a result, the war horses of Gao Fangping are now close to 50,000.
Of course, this is the limit number, and the maintenance cost for this is really large.
The remaining 20,000 integers, Zeng Rong, who got the news, has already brought people to Yanzhou to take over this batch of horses, and if they are all transferred and digested into wealth, there must be a process, but what can be prepaid is that there will be more than 2 million yuan of wealth, which will enter the account of the Northwest Transshipment Division.
At the price of the Great Song Dynasty, the value of these war horses is about seven million. But at the moment, there will be a price decline process. Then, according to Gao Fangping's rules for making them five or five open, then there will be at least two and a half million guan.
After Zeng Lang brought the horse back, he took over on behalf of the Great Song Dynasty Ma Zheng. And Ma Zheng took over, which means that the Great Song Dynasty will forcibly absorb and digest this batch of armaments.
Theoretically, this is a reckless military effort, and it will accelerate the consumption of military spending when the Great Song Dynasty does not need so many war horses. But in fact, it is not important to Gao Fangping, it is nothing more than a matter of cake division. In the current shady scenes and interest groups, everyone must spend so much military spending every year by default, and it has always been indispensable.
If you don't spend on the purchase of war horses, those sharks will not stop, and they will definitely change their ways to spend on other projects, in a word: they will also spend the military budget for the assault. If you can't spend it this year, it means that next year's funding will be reduced.
Not to mention the current Great Song Dynasty, this kind of budget problem will not change in a thousand years.
Therefore, Gao Fangping's doing this is not called recklessness, but on the premise of not changing the overall framework, he allocated part of the interests of others to the Northwest Transshipment Division, and this is just the case, and the total energy has not increased or decreased. Gao Fangping ate more, but other people ate less.
Let them be corrupt and waste elsewhere, it is better to add some military horses.
In the past, it was, of course, a big problem to casually take the cake from other military-industrial complexes. It's a pity that with Gao Fangping's prestige and influence today, and now it is a state of national war, so Gao Fangping moved part of the military cake, and no one dared to jump.
In fact, Gao Fangping and those with vested interests have the most confidence to grab the cake, and it is still in the "Northwest Transshipment Division" to grab it, instead of putting it in Gao Fangping's own pocket. This is the commanding heights of justice, and it is the interests of the entire Western Army and the Northwest Government, this group is really not small, and they can become Gao Fangping's confidence at a critical moment......
Gao Fangping made a fortune in Yanzhou, and when his hand was cramping to count the money, the 800 li of the imperial court arrived in an urgent hurry on June 7.
The herald entered the tent and whispered, "Something happened." ā
Gao Fangping said: "Now that the situation is very good, what moths can come out of the capital?" ā
"Tao Jiefu Xiangye...... I can't do it. The soldier whispered.
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The brush in Gao Fangping's hand couldn't help but fall on the table.
After carefully reading the newspaper, it was the consultation and diagnosis of He Shihan, An Daoquan and others: Tao Jiefu had a stroke and did not die, but there was no way to do this in the future generations, so Tao Jiefu is now in a state of drooling and can only sit in a wheelchair specially made for him in the pig farm.
Mrs. Tao was already crying blind. Tao Zhiming, who was attacking the steam engine in Jiangzhou, also had to put down his work and rushed back to Beijing to visit Lao Tao.
In the handsome tent, many generals also looked at the Great Demon King with strange expressions, no one would participate in this kind of thing casually, and they were all waiting for the Great Demon King to speak. Some people also feel that this will lead to a change in the political situation and some inherent balances to be broken.
Gao Fangping sighed for a while, Lao Tao really responded to thirty merits, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons.
After thinking for a long time, Gao Fangping said: "I can't say that I have any feelings for Tao Jiefu, but I have never disliked him." There have been some disagreements and disputes with him, as well as conflicts brought about by interests, but now they are in the past. This man has his faults and stubbornness, and he has also had many mistakes. And his character and dignity. Now this old man who has served the Great Song Dynasty for 30 years can no longer be a director, and we can't do more. But fortunately, he has been worried about Song Xia's enmity all his life, and the Song Xia war is now under the efforts of our Western Expeditionary Force, and he has basically handed over the answer sheet, which can be regarded as a send-off gift for the retirement of the old minister. ā
Many generals have various mentalities, some are directly Tao Jiefu's old subordinates, and some are not interested in Lao Tao. However, under the guidance of the Great Demon King, they saluted in the direction of Bianjing.
For example, Liu Fa and Han Shizhong, they were once refrigerated by Tao Jiefu, and later used by Gao Fangping, so they are not interested in Lao Tao. In short, there will be all kinds of mentalities, and there is nothing wrong with that......
Gao Fangping, a gentleman who has been heartless since his debut, has been tempered over the years, and his personality is relatively stable, and he is still the hooligan who can laugh and scold in his bones, but his anger is really not as heavy as before, and he knows how to be in awe of many things and many people.
Since I came to the Great Song Dynasty, five years have passed in a blink of an eye.
In the four years of Daguan last year, Gao Fangping was ordered to go out from Beijing 1 in the face of danger, and it has been more than 13 months. The eldest wife, Liang Xiwen, wrote to say, "The child looks like you, a little thin, and is seven months old, but he can't cry."
In addition, Liang Xiwen also mentioned in the letter that Xiao Duo, the concubine under Gao Fangping's name, should officially get started, she has grown up at the age of eighteen, she is a big beauty, and she is also the pillar of the family. Then, Master Gao Yu is a little older than before.
These bits and pieces are actually the "precipitation" of Gao Fangping's psychology.
These are the "growing pains" and the meaning of life.
After more than a year of marching and fighting, Gao Fangping's appearance is still very cool, the difference from the past is that his face is more pale, and now not only does he have a son, but he also has some "shhhhhhhhh There is quite a bit of the style of the domestic Lingling paint in later generations.
The most terrible thing is that I don't know what Zhang Shangying means? He made a special pig-killing knife and sent it to Gao Fangping in the honor of the ministry, which was shaped into the bubbling pig-killing knife and depicted the four characters of "national hero".
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However, this is equivalent to the award of the "Organization Department", and Gao Fangping only enshrines the pig-killing knife on the table every time he rises to the account, which is regarded as a knife for killing animals.
However, after two days of novelty, she gave the pig-killing knife to Sister Liang, she has never had any weapons, but she regards this pig-killing knife as a treasure.
The people who planted the master had come to Yanzhou to take over, so Gao Fangping, who had been repaired, left Yanzhou again, raised troops and moved in the northwest direction, and drove to Xipingfu, an important town in Western Xia.
The so-called inch of land is a piece of blood, the road that should be taken must be taken, and the interests that should be taken must be taken, if the Western Xia does not compromise, they will be beaten until they compromise, then it will really fulfill an inch of land and an inch of blood, in fact, in his heart, Gao Fangping really does not want these bloody lands......
At the end of June, Gao Fangping's 30,000-strong army officially arrived at the city of Xipingfu.
How to fight the strong big city Xiping Mansion, everyone has no confidence for the time being.
The vast and majestic city wall reaches three zhang high, the number of watchtowers and battlements on the head of the city is innumerable, many places set up catapults, the terrifying thing is that the right wing of the Xixia elite to defend the city is in the hands of the Shun military division, you can also see the traces of the Xixia god arm crossbow.
The technology of crossbows in Western Xia is skilled, and as a result, the bed crossbows, which are equivalent to the cannons of this era, are at least dozens of them in the strong Xiping Mansion city.
Observing from a distant position, Shi Wengong, who had the strongest eyesight, could clearly see that more and more Western Xia civilians had become slaves, and they were stubbornly carrying stones to the city and strengthening the offensive.
Gao Fangping commanded the army to approach Xiping Mansion tentatively for the first time, and the result was that they encountered all kinds of bed crossbows and divine arm crossbows shot nine hundred steps away, although they were tired of limited equipment and could not form a real cluster, but they should not be underestimated, and the first wave of tentative results caused nearly 100 casualties of the Song army.
Gao Fangping didn't want to break them into pieces, of course, they also had to defend the city and defend their homeland.
So there is still no decision for the time being, with the current manpower and material resources to take down Xiping Mansion strongly, of course, the city can be broken within three days, but a super profiteer like Gao Fangping doesn't want to pay such a price.
Therefore, the only way to do this is to carry out blockade deployment first and completely cut off the external connection of Xiping Province.
Gao Fangping could afford it, and after defeating the White Horse Army Division in the Baichi Grassland, there was no pressure on such a siege. Because there is no longer an elite in the Western Xia that can be maneuvered. The Zhuoluo Military Division, which was not strong in combat, was pinned down by the Seed Master Dao in Lanzhou.
Xiangyou and two other small military divisions were beaten by Liu Yanqing in Xiazhou.
The Gansu Military Division is guarding against the Tibetans, and the Xiping Military Division of Guazhou is facing the Hui partridge horse thieves who are ready to move.
The only 70,000 main forces of the last mobile army division and the right wing Chaoshun army division are the last family base of Western Xia, and they are mainly concentrated in the defense of Xingqing Mansion, Xiping Mansion, Shunzhou, Jingzhou, and Huaizhou.
Western Xia has been embattled, and it is a real state of exile.
The most serious part is that the Song people are used to facing crises. But the Tanguts never imagined that such a situation would occur, they were not good at facing crises, they were not good at defending. It's like it's normal for a bitter person to suffer hardship, but once a gentleman starts to suffer, it will collapse.
In the past, the Western Xia were accustomed to fighting with the cowardly Song army, but now they are very blind, and they will not deal with such a Song army. Including Brother Cha is also very unsuitable for such a Song army......