Chapter 723: World War I
The First World War began. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
This is not the nature of a traditional world war, but a state of interweaving of various situations. At present, Bianjing, the center of the world, is staging a "wine pond meat forest war" between bureaucrats and bigwigs of several countries.
In that farthest northeast, the Liao State also faced the instability of the weak and brave Jurchen Aguta. And the Jurchen Aguta Department has integrated the power of some tribes and is beating the Goryeo people to Dad.
At the instigation of people like Guan Qi, Tubo is also fighting for their own battles.
And Brother Cha has lost power, and now there are two ministries of Gao Fangping and Xiao Heda, who are facing the competition for the ownership of the Hexi Corridor.
Yes, Gao Fangping did not officially enter the Hexi Corridor, but in the current competition, once the main force of Western Xia is severely damaged by Gao Fangping and Xiping Mansion is in an emergency, Western Xia will not be able to pass through a little distance, so the Seed Division Dao Department can easily eat Xiliang Mansion and Gansu Military Division.
In that case, the Hexi Corridor would officially be out of the control of the Tanguts. And the dumping caravan from Jiangzhou will also rely on the Hexi Corridor to go farther. A-stirring stick like Guan Qi will have a bigger stage.
So the current situation is a world war in Gao Fangping's world......
Xiao Heda, a new upstart marshal minister in Western Xia, was prostrate in Chengtian Temple.
As a Liao, he didn't believe much in Buddhism. However, there is no way to do it, Buddhism is the state religion of the Western Xia, and even after the Sinicization of Cha Ge, the Western Xia system is still a little strange. There was really a national teacher in Western Xia, and the status of the national teacher was theoretically higher than that of the prime minister and the privy envoy. This was the "charter" of Western Xia.
It's okay that Li Qianshun is more obscene, and after listening to Brother Cha's implementation of the Chinese etiquette, it's better. If the Western Xia Emperor is further adrift, in addition to the national division, he will also be the emperor division. The status is much higher than that of the Taishi of the Great Song Dynasty.
In fact, the national teacher didn't dare to be too arrogant to this upstart Xiao Heda, so he politely invited Xiao Heda to sit down and began to sit down and drink tea.
And the national teacher invited the treasure of the temple "Tripitaka Sutra", I don't know if this is a pre-war blessing?
"Ask King Ming." Xiao Heda pretended to be respectful and said, "Recently, I have not been able to sleep peacefully, and I will wake up from my dreams at night, but I can't recall what I am afraid of? ”
The old man of the Great Tibetan Ming Dynasty looked solemn, wrapped the Buddha beads in his hand and put his palms together: "The so-called thinking in the day will have a dream at night." Xiao Xiang: You can't know what you're afraid of in your dreams, and that's obviously the last thing you want to face during the day. I don't know what you're afraid of, but you have to ask yourself when you're awake during the day, what are you afraid of? ”
Xiao Heda stretched his hands and said, "What am I afraid of?" I'm not afraid of anything. ”
"That's good, otherwise, when the army of the Song Kingdom is about to march to Xiping Mansion, Brother Cha can be regarded as stepping down from the altar, if you are brave and good at fighting, you are afraid, then my national fortune in Xixia is worrying." King Ming said.
Xiao Heda was annoyed for a while, damn the old monk was probably wearing a pair of pants with Brother Cha, and it seemed that he was saying that Lao Tzu was afraid of Gao Fangping, and he couldn't beat Gao Fangping?
Thinking like this, Xiao Heda, who is eager to express himself, is becoming more and more inclined to a quick solution.
King Ming carefully collected his expression in his eyes and sighed, without saying more, turned to look at the sky and said, "I haven't seen rain yet, maybe ...... This year's drought has settled. ”
If it was in Liao, Xiao Heda would have lifted the table and cut down King Ming, but here he could only swallow his anger, get up and leave with a flick of his sleeves.
After leaving Chengtian Temple, Xiao Heda felt that monks could not be trusted, they pretended to be mysterious and secretive all day long, and they liked to be terrifying. It's not direct enough at all, God knows what the old monk said?
But despite this, King Ming seems to have some truth in what he said. Now there are many rumors that are still supporting Brother Cha, saying that Xiao Heda is afraid of Gao Fangping and does not dare to fight, saying that Xiao Heda is afraid.
This is the problem that Xiao Heda is most unwilling to face, just like he can't find the reason in a dream, in fact, in reality, Xiao Heda doesn't know whether he is afraid of Gao Fangping, or is he afraid that others will say that he can't beat Gao Fangping?
Then look up at the scorching sun, and look down at the dry and cracked land, it still doesn't rain, so the old monk didn't talk nonsense, this is not a good sign, if it doesn't rain again, then the fatal problem is that the whole Hetao area has a great shortage of forage this year.
When there was a shortage of forage, the herdsmen's cattle, sheep and horses wept blindly. The Western Xia did not have the ability and financial resources to raise horses with agricultural and animal husbandry techniques. Then under the food crisis of the drought, it will face the destruction of the cavalry culture of the Western Xia, because a large number of war horses will also be killed and eaten by the herdsmen, instead of being handed over to the imperial court to fight.
There is nothing wrong with this, the Tangut people also have to make a living, and in the past, as long as they had rations, they could levy their war horses to serve the country. But you can't get a horse in such a year. If they take away their cattle and horses because there is no food, they will most likely help Gao Fangping cut down the Western Xia Mansion, just like that.
The most hateful thing is the damned horse thieves from the Uighurs, they are the real robbers who have no bottom line. They were more obscene than the Tanguts, and they always harassed the Xixia Hexi Corridor for decades, burning, killing and looting. Just because of guarding against them, the Gansu Military Division was firmly fixed in Ganzhou and could not move.
Hesitating, Xiao Heda turned his head and asked his henchmen: "Tell me the truth, what season can the grain and grass in Xingqing Mansion support?" ”
The henchman whispered worriedly: "Back to Xiao Xiang, it's enough...... It's only enough for ......."
"Answer Lao Tzu!" Xiao Heda grabbed his collar violently.
"It's only enough for two months, and looking at the situation, this year's harvest will be extremely limited. Weizhou, an extremely important grain producing area, is now in the hands of Gao Fangping, and the situation in Xiazhou is not optimistic, and it is strategically besieged by Liu Yanqing's department. The henchman's subordinate said in a low voice, "The grain reserves of the previous year were used by Brother Cha's hundreds of thousands of troops to march into the Song State after being requisitioned, but the difference from the past is that Brother Cha failed to bring back more materials from the Song State this time, and only brought back scarred, all because of the Song State's high level." ”
Xiao Heda's mentality is getting worse and worse now, and he hates people mentioning Gao Fangping's name more and more.
originally expected that the kid would be massacrated after entering the Western Xia, which was just enough to unite the hearts of the Western Xia people, and then let the Western Xia court fool everyone into contributing all their strength to the national war and swearing to resist Gao Fangping's invasion, but on the 1st of the dog, he served the people of the Western Xia better than the Western Xia government.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Heda pulled out half of the waist knife. In this way, the surrounding bureaucrats were so frightened that they fell to their knees.
Xiao Heda said with a cruel smile, "You guys can say it well, although Jingxixia didn't talk about a bumper harvest last year, there was no shortage of food. The march of hundreds of thousands of troops and horses from the Chage Department seems to cost a lot, but in fact, there are many supplies from the occupied areas of the Song State. Where did all that money go? ”
The subordinates were terrified and did not dare to speak.
But after Xiao Heda put the knife on his neck, a bureaucrat who almost peed his pants swallowed: "There is a place to go." When the Chage Ministry was unable to win Gao Fangping, the magnates of Xingqing Mansion had a premonition of the crisis and began to store grain and harvest grain. In addition, King Dazang Ming also requested the expansion and repair of Chengtian Temple, asking for a huge amount, but His Majesty also approved ......"
Xiao Heda was so angry that he squirted out a mouthful of old blood.
I wanted to scold a few words about the national thief, but I looked left and right, and then looked at the majestic and mighty Chengtian Temple behind me, and finally left with a blue face and no words.
It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but he can't say it. The current magnates of Xingqing Mansion are not something that he Xiao Heda, an outsider from the Liao State, can move. Those people were the heroes who followed Brother Cha Li Qianshun to quell the internal strife of his relatives. And the Chengtian Temple behind him, the god stick King Dazang Ming who pretends to be a god and a ghost, is a national teacher.
With the climate of Western Xia, King Ming just couldn't bite Brother Cha, but a word could not only make Xiao Heda step down, but even make Xiao Heda's mother Yelu Nanxian find a lot of trouble!
"Those who will disturb the world in the future will be these national thieves!" Xiao Heda's eyes were dark and he thought, before he went to the battlefield, there was a surge of blood.
A henchman warrior was a Khitan warrior who came from the Liao Kingdom, a real henchman, so he leaned in and whispered: "Xiao Xiang, is Brother Cha still remotely controlling and stumbling on you, do you want to ...... him?"
As he spoke, the ruthless man made a gesture to wipe his neck.
Xiao Heda sighed and shook his head, as if he was a few years old in an instant, and said in a low voice: "It's not his brother's fault, if something happens to him, Xingqing Mansion will not be able to suppress those magnates who have brought disaster to the country and the people, and maybe our Princess An Cheng will also be implicated." After all, he is His Majesty's younger brother. Secondly, if the decisive battle between the original appearance and Gao Fangping is lost, Brother Cha has to come out to wipe his buttocks, otherwise Xixia is really in danger of losing the country. ”
After the group walked quickly into the Privy Council, Xiao Heda entered the state, staring at the military area map on the wall, and finally sighed and said: "It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, Brother Cha is right, in fact, we can only hold on, and it is not appropriate to send the last main army to the south for a decisive battle." However, now that civil strife is about to break out, the people of Xingqing Province and Xiping Province are panicking, and the amount of grain and grass is less than two months, we cannot wait any longer. Otherwise, it will collapse without a fight. We must take the initiative to attack and fight a decisive battle with Gao Fangping, after defeating Gao Fangping, obtain his grain and grass equipment, and then the military division of Baimaqiang Town needs to move southeast as quickly as possible to defeat Liu Yanqing of Xiazhou, and the way to survive in Western Xia is: before the autumn harvest, the siege of Xiazhou, the largest grain producing area, was relieved! ”
The others were all fierce clubs, and they were all gearing up, and they heard that they were going to take the initiative, and now they were happy.
They are not Brother Cha and Xiao Heda, and they don't care why they should be careful about grain and grass. In their concept, if there is no food and grass, it is not enough to go out and kill the people who have food, what is so difficult about this, it is much easier to kill the people than to kill Gao Fangping.
Khan, that's what they thought. This is the reason why Gao Fangping does not need to be too good to win the hearts of the people.
After hurriedly ordering the situation with the Privy Council, he issued an order to dispatch the White Horse Military Division and the Right Wing Military Division to the south. Xiao Heda began to think back to that dream again, and recalled the old monk's words that deceived the people.
At that time, when he was talking to Brother Cha, Lao Xiao didn't talk nonsense, as a foreign minister, he could be reused at this time and have the opportunity to duel with Gao Fangping, the famous marshal of the Song Kingdom, which was the glory of Xiao Heda from the perspective of a soldier.
But the mess that Brother Cha and Li Qianshun handed over was a stormy Western Xia, with internal and external troubles, and he couldn't prepare at all, so he could only go to a decisive battle with Gao Fangping in a hurry.
It's tough, but it's also an opportunity to go down in history. If he can defeat Gao Fangping, he will gain more fame and glory than he did back then.
And this opportunity was won by the main mother, Princess Ancheng, Yelu Nanxian.
Xiao Heda knows very well that in fact Li Qianshun is an obscene political figure, very treacherous, and he will not easily trust outsiders. This time, I can be reused by Xiao Heda, it is nothing more than because Princess An Cheng came forward to persuade the Liao State and asked the Liao State to help suppress the Song State.
Moreover, Brother Cha was also defeated too badly in the Song Dynasty, so he had the opportunity for Xiao Heda to come to power and preside over the battle of the Xia and Song Dynasties.
"Me and the Gao Fangping, who is the dragon and who is the tiger, will be handed over by the battlefield after the vigorous war. It's too early to be afraid of everything about him. Brother Cha can't do it, it doesn't mean that I Xiao Heda can't do it either! Lao Xiao slammed his fist on the table and shouted.
The Western Xia generals knelt on the ground and bowed their heads......