Chapter 544: The Wind of Grass and Trees in Front of the Soldiers of All Nations

For Guan Sheng, Lu Qian always had a trace of dislike. Because the color of Second Brother Guan on his body is too strong, it gives people a feeling that he is filled with the shadow of Lai's ancestors, otherwise how could he be able to overpower Lin Chong, who is an old qualification, and rank fifth in Shuibo Cottage?

Needless to say, this person refused Lu Qian's solicitation many times. Lu Qian was curious before-this guy is so stubborn, he 'holds' himself so tall, how embarrassed is he when he meets in the future?

However, Guan Sheng is a character after all, and it is just a matter of dying on the battlefield, but it is amazing that he died in such a way.

In the end, such a show came, and he was completely labeled as a loyal minister of Zhao Song.

then cheated Liu Yu very much, and labeled him as Erwuzai. Lu Qian himself also intended to let him temporarily take care of the affairs of Kaifeng Mansion, but now he doesn't mention it. Recall people back to Yidu.

Silence for a while is better for Liu Yu.

This incident caused Liu Yu not only to die of a capable brother, but also to suffer many setbacks in his career reputation, and it became difficult to come. Liu Yu can be said to hate Guan Sheng!

However, Guan Sheng's death was not praised by the Zhao and Song dynasties to which he was loyal.

That Jiangling didn't have the slightest reaction, it didn't seem to know that Tokyo City was breached, Liu Yu and Li Yi all surrendered, some people in the high-level fled in the wilderness, some people surrendered on their knees, and only Pudong Guan Sheng was really martyred.

There is no posthumous seal, and there is no narrative.

The reason for this is obvious, it is because of Guan Dadao's words before he died, which made Jiangling City choose to sink.

How can you evaluate it? What can they do, they are desperate.

If you praise him, you indirectly agree with what he said. Agree that today's officials are faint kings, and the important ministers of the current dynasty are rotten wood traitors who have no virtue and no talent, do you still want to live?

The bigwigs in the court won't smoke their mouths for a martial artist, Guan Yu is just a signboard used by the ruler, not a real ghost.

Think about the monument of the Yuanyou party, their "own people" are unforgettable, how many veterans and important ministers have landed miserably, how can they take care of a few martial artists?

Zhao Ji heard about Guan Sheng's deeds, and he didn't grieve at all. On the contrary, he only hated that he had not been killed by a will earlier. hated Guan Yu even more, hated himself for being generous, and even took him all the way from a prince to a prince, and from a prince to a king. But it was Guan Sheng who thought of Guan Yu!

After the Liangshan army heard the movement of Jiangling, they were all chilled. Qin Ming, Xu Ning, Suo Chao, Hua Rong, Xuanzan, Huang Xin and other old Song generals who were in the army were all very unworthy of Guan Sheng.

Zhao Song, this court is not a thing.

Wu Yong of the Xuanzheng Division heard about Guan Sheng's deeds, but if he saw a gem in the deep mountains, his eyes were shining!

What else can make the Song army depressed and the Song family disheartened more than the events before and after Guan Sheng's body?

I don't know the Western Army outside Jinling City, after hearing about Guan Sheng's deeds, they can still have a bit of desperate loyalty......

Lu Qian soon received Wu Yong's Shangshu, and it is undeniable that the ghost is smart enough to use Wu Yong in the right place, which is really not bad. This propaganda accompanied the spread of the Espionage Division, which was like a heavy blow to Zhao Song.

At this time, Lu Qian no longer felt sorry for Guan Sheng's death. This Guan Sheng is dead, but it can bring more benefits to Lu Qian than surrendering the Liangshan army alive.

Unexpected!

In Luoyang City, the banner of Zhao Song was thrown under the city, and a large number of Liangshan troops were rushing in.

The same unexpected, Zhai Xing, the Zhenfu Si of Xijing, surrendered without a fight and surrendered to the Liangshan army, so that the gate of Luoyang was wide open. The deputy left-behind guard Zhang Wei was so frightened that he couldn't leave, so he had to lead his soldiers to the palace to close the door, and resisted accordingly, but he hit the stone with an egg. In a desperate situation, his own soldiers rebelled, captured him, and tied him up to the Liangshan army.

However, Zhao Shu, the king of Su, fled into Guanzhong early, because the army of Liangshan Army killed Gyeonggi, and Zhang Wei moved Zhao Shu from the Luoyang Imperial City to the Shangyang Palace outside the Yihui Gate in the west of the city. Once there was a change in Luoyang City, Zhao Shu was immediately taken on a horse by the attendants and went straight to Yuzhou.

Yuzhou is the spiritual treasure of later generations, and there is a Sanmenxia between it and Heluo. From Yuzhou to the west to Huazhou, Shi Jin's hometown will pass through Tongguan, and the Yellow River, which is not far away, is Fenglingdu.

Shi Dalang was leading Yang Chun and Chen soldiers here at this time, confronting the Song army on the south bank of the Yellow River across the river. In addition, Hao Siwen also led troops to Chen in Puzhou City, which is five miles west of the city and north of the Pujin Bridge.

As early as the Warring States Period, in the 50th year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (257 BC), the first "river bridge" was made in Pujin; Later, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, etc., all connected the boat here as floating beams, and it was still called the "River Bridge". Tang Dynasty began to call Pujin Bridge, "Tang Liudian" Tianxia River Bridge has three, one of them.

During the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xuanzong reigned. Pujin Bridge is a transportation hub from the capital Chang'an to the east of the Yellow River, and the salt, iron, etc. in the east of the river are indispensable materials for Chang'an, and the role of Pujin Bridge is becoming more and more important, and even Puzhou City has been stained with light, becoming one of the six major cities in the country. If so, Tang Xuanzong ordered the bamboo cable pontoon bridge to be converted into an iron cable pontoon bridge.

According to records, the total amount of iron used in the bridge accounted for nearly four-fifths of the country's annual production at that time. The famous Yellow River Iron Bull is here.

It's just "30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi", the world changes, and the ups and downs are impermanent. After the Tang Dynasty, as China's political and cultural center moved eastward, the political center was always in the east, and the city of Chang'an gradually declined. The Pujin Bridge, which has lost its status as a traffic artery, is also becoming colder, but at this moment, this Pujin Bridge is the main road that hooks Hedong and Guanzhong after all. Location is important!

Lu Qian was reluctant to have the Tiancheng Bridge destroyed, so how could he be willing to have the Pujin Bridge destroyed? Repairing a pontoon bridge can be laborious.

After the Song army on the opposite side learned what Liang Shanjun meant, they did not dare to destroy the bridge easily, so as not to anger the other side.

The battle of Gyeonggi was simply smoother than the battle of Hebei. In short, the Liangshan army was almost marching, sweeping Kaifeng, Yingtian, Heluo, Zhengzhou, Huazhou, Yingchang, Ruzhou, Chenzhou, Yingzhou and other places.

Li Gang's father, Li Kui, who was appeased by Jingnan Road, retreated to Nanyang.

Among the series of demotions and prisoners of the Liangshan Army, except for Zhao Ding and Lu Qian, who were deeply impressed, the others were all just ordinary.

And the latter, if he had not been careless, would have fled from the city.

This person didn't cause much trouble and loss to Liang Shanjun, but he asked Zhou Chunlai to lose an adult. The latter has been appointed as the envoy of Shouzhou. The war in Huainan caused the soldiers and horses from many places to gather in one place, and the vacant positions could only be filled by second- and third-rate figures.

There is no doubt that Zhou Chunlai is such a person. Martial arts are ordinary, but they can win in experience.

But in the hands of Zhao Ding, the experienced Zhou Chunlai planted. If it weren't for Zhao Anlai, the deputy envoy of soldiers and horses, he would have been captured.

When Zhao Ding heard about the rise of war, he knew that Yingzhou would inevitably not be protected. If so, first send soldiers and horses to resist at the border, naturally when the soldiers and horses of Shouzhou are not enough, so they pretend to be depressed and close the city to defend it.

After Zhou Chunlai learned the news, he was in a good mood, and he thought that he would have no worries about this battle. Moving forward again, the road met the army of the local big families in Yingzhou, and was carelessly attacked by Zhao Ding's way. Because these people were sent by Zhao Ding, they came to reward the army under the pretense of being a local family.

After a hearty meal and drink, more than half of the 2,000 people in the front army turned into soft-footed shrimp. Zhao Ding took the opportunity to wave his troops to kill him, if it weren't for Zhao An, the deputy envoy of Shouzhou's soldiers and horses, to lead the follow-up soldiers and horses quickly, Zhou Chunlai would probably not be good.

But even that is humiliating enough. Zhou Chunlai is Zhou Daming's younger brother, not a relative, just because he has the same surname, he fell in love, and they were all people from Lu Qian's personal guards, so he recognized his brother. The latter is also very ordinary in martial arts, but he is one of Lu Qian's henchmen. The latter and Tang Wu were old men who had been with Lu Qian as early as the time of Shuibo.

If the plan failed, Zhao Ding fled. He is not a pedantic person, seeing that the momentum is not good, no matter how hard he defends the state city, won't he sit back and wait for death? But what Zhao Ding didn't expect was that the courage of the local heroes in Yingzhou would be so great. Before the Liangshan army arrived, they rebelled first, so that the people were trapped in the state ya, and the Shouzhou soldiers who arrived later caught turtles in the urn.

The fact is that in just half a month, the Liangshan army not only seized Tokyo and Xijing one after another, but also seized most of the land of the Central Plains Province north of Zhoukou in later generations, but also made the Zhao Guanjia in Jiangling City tremble, lest the Liangshan army break Nanyang and seize Xiangyang, and Jiangling will be miserable.

If so, Liang Fangping was quickly summoned to help, and Jinghu South Road was taught to Liu Zhongwu.

It's a risky move. Liu Zhongwu's army has just been built up, how can he resist the bandits who live in Dongting Lake? But compared to Zhong Xiang and Wang Qing, the Liangshan army in the north is undoubtedly more important.

Chenzhou, Yingzhou, and Yingchang were all lost, so the Liangshan army could capture Xiangyang from two directions.

One is a straight line south, almost a straight line from Yuncheng, straight to Xinyang, but along the way is not smooth, there are mountains and streams to block each other, and then need to break through Xinyang, enter Wuyang Pass [Wusheng Pass], etc., break three passes, can kill into Anlu Xiaogan, and then threaten Jiangling to the west. It's just that there are still many mountains and rivers between it and Gangneung. It's not the best place to get ahead.

Now is not the afterlife. There is a difference of 900 years, and the geographical situation is also very different.

The second is to go to Nanyang. This is also the main channel. Since ancient times, the Nanxiang Basin has been the main road between Jingxiang and the hinterland of the Central Plains. But Nanyang is not easy to fight, and Xiangyang is even more difficult to break later. The iron-beaten Xiangyang is not a joke!

The latter is located at the southernmost end of Jingnan Road, at the northern foot of the Da Xian Mountain Range and on the south bank of the Han River.

The Qinling-Huai River dividing line is not only the dividing line between the north and south of China, but also forms a natural barrier against the aggression of the northern regime. The Yellow River freezes in winter, allowing the army to cross the Yellow River and attack southward, but the Huai River is the highest non-frozen river in China, which naturally stops the northern army that is not good at sailing.

In the Song-Jin War in the official history, although the Jin army was overwhelmed at the beginning, it also stopped when it advanced to the Qinling-Huaihe line.

However, as can be seen from the map, the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River are not connected together, there is a gap in the middle, and Xiangyang is located on this gap, so in ancient China, it was always a strategic center.

Only from a military point of view, it is just at the crossroads of the southern end of the Nanxiang Basin, which runs from north to south and has to pass through here; The east and west run through, and it also has to pass through here. All the roads around it converge here, and it is impossible to get around. As soon as this opening is blocked, the entire line of communication is under your control. Xiangyang choked on his opponent's throat like a mouthful of thick phlegm, making him so depressed that he vomited blood.

Therefore, it has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times. Its importance is well known.

Of course, the current moat of Xiangyang City is not as wide as that of later generations. It must be known that the width of the Xiangyang moat in later generations was 180 meters wide, and the widest part was half a mile long, which is really amazing. That's a big river.

Now the city of Xiangyang is surrounded by nine miles and three hundred steps, which is only ordinary in the city of Yuzhou, and the moat is only ten zhang, more because it is adjacent to Hanshui in the north. It varies. However, just because a city is like this doesn't mean it's easy to take.