Xihe all the way in the Song and Xixia border, the Turen, the Qiang people, the Fan people are quite many, most of the tribes were controlled by the Western Xia, the famous general Wang Shao (Wang Hou's father) during the Shenzong period led the troops in the rolling mountains and the Qiang, the continuous march for dozens of days, trekking two thousand miles, recovering the five states of He, Tang, Min, Stack, Tao, into the encirclement of the Western Xia, so far the Great Song Dynasty set up the Xihe Road, and later the Song Dynasty gradually weakened its control, especially during the Zhezong period, the road was recalled, the old system before Xining was restored, and Wang Shao died, and the states of Hehuang gradually fell.

A few years ago, the leader of the Hehuang Qiang people was fighting for power with Longqing, and at this time, the Song court took the opportunity to send Wang Shao's son Wang Hou to regain the eastern part of Qinghai. Zhezong gave the leader of the Qiang people the name of Zhao Huaide, and issued an edict to change the Qingtang Dynasty to Shanzhou and Miaochuan to Huangzhou, with Wang Zhen as the governor of Shanzhou and Wang Hou as the governor of Huangzhou. I didn't want Wang to plunder and torture the Qiang people, and finally provoked a rebellion.

Under the leadership of the leader Doroba, the rebels of Fan and Qiang besieged Huangzhou, and the court had to hand over the two states to Zhao Huaide, and the Song army withdrew. Soon, the leader of the Qiang rebels, Doroba, was led by Zhao Huaide's younger brother Xi Chongluosa, seeking to establish an independent state. Zhao Huaide was afraid of being forced and fled to the south of the Yellow River, where he was held hostage by the local tribes to order the tribes. For a while, the Great Song Dynasty was furious, and the Manchu Dynasty all went to the west to conquer the people.

In June of the second year of Chongning, Xihe Lanhui passed through the road to make Wang Hou as the commander, and the noble king Wuzhi was the supervising army, leading 80,000 forbidden troops from Xizhou to march, adopting the strategy of the master and Wang Hou, and appointing the Minzhou general Gao Yongnian as the commander (main general), and Lanzhou Yao Shimin as the deputy general, leading Lan and Min Erzhou, and 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Han and Fan soldiers and horses of the Tongyuan Army out of Jingyu Pass to cut off the back road of the rebels. Wang Hou and Wu Zhi personally led the army out of Anxiang Pass, crossed the river, went to Ba Jinling, and stormed Ba Jin City, and the third Hehuang Battle kicked off.

Bajin City is based on Gangfu, surrounded by moats, unfathomable, and the roads are dangerous and narrow. Doropa sent his three sons, Alinge, Ryaliming, and Amun, to lead the crowd to resist. Alingjie, born brave, infinitely powerful, once tore a fierce tiger with his bare hands, was called "the true god of Hehuang" by the local Qiang people, and most of the tribes attached to Doropa were afraid of Alingjie's prestige.

The Song army camp under Bajin City waved its flags, tents one after another, stretching for several miles, the black pressure heavy infantry in the camp formed a phalanx, and there were heralds and generals riding fast horses outside the commander's camp from time to time, and they were extremely busy.

At the head of Bajin City, Ah Ling Jie and Ah Meng silently watched the dynamics of the Song camp, on the city wall, the Qiang rebels were busy, and all kinds of defensive tools were piled up on the city, although the Qiang people were a little uneasy when they saw the neat and solemn Song Dynasty army, but when their eyes turned to Ah Lingjie, they all turned to the heat, with our true god here, why fear the Song people!

"Ah Lingjie, do you think we can defeat the Song people?" Amon stared at Song Ying for a while, then turned his head and asked. Although he is Ah Lingjie's younger brother, the Qiang people do not have so much etiquette, and the brothers call each other by name.

"Hmph, one of our Hehuang warriors can kill ten Song people, as long as my father's army arrives, I'll be the first to cut off Wang Hou's head!" Alingjie said proudly.

Amon sighed in his heart, he knew that it would be in vain to ask, why bother, speaking of the second brother, everything is good, but the arrogance is a bit excessive, if it weren't for the strict order of the eldest brother, I am afraid that Ah Lingjie would have led someone to kill him earlier. There are only more than 10,000 rebels in Ba Jin City, and the city can still hold on to it, if you go out and put the Song army right, I am afraid that in less than a moment or three, this city will be broken.

Alingjie slapped the battlements of the city wall fiercely, and said hatefully: "When will the reinforcements from my father arrive?" When the time comes, I will take the Wolf Tooth Army to kill seven in and seven out of the Song army, so that the Song people know the power of my Hehuang warriors, and I will be angry when I see them showing off their might under the city! ”

Amon looked at Song Ying silently and stopped talking. A few days ago, I heard that a Song army made a detour through Jingyu Pass, and I don't know if my father will be restrained. If the father's reinforcements are not available, it will be difficult for Ba Jincheng to hold it.

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In a tall tent, Wu Zhi was talking to the seed master about whether Gao Yongnian's 20,000 horses could contain the main force of Doropa, the battle of Ba Jin City was not trivial, if Ba Jin City was conquered, the Song army could go straight to Shanhuang Erzhou, if it could not take Ba Jin in a short time, I was afraid that Western Xia would be ready to move, and then the war would not be as simple as counterinsurgency.

"Little master!" Ruda strode in from the outside, and said with a smile as he walked: "It's a great day to live!" Brother Wang's ability is very good! ”

Wang Jin followed behind Luda, he didn't dare to be as unruly as Luda, and came in and hurriedly saluted Wu Zhi.

Wu Zhi looked at the two of them, smiled slightly, and his thoughts couldn't help but drift to two months ago.

That day, in the vegetable garden for Luda to solve his doubts, the Qing elder next to him heard that the meaning of the king was to encourage Luda to kill people and set fires, and he was stunned for a while, not knowing what to do. Luda listened with joy, your king not only understands Zen skills, but also can be flexible, much better than the old monk's daily nagging.

Wu Zhi chatted with Luda for a while, Wu Zhi relied on the half-incomprehensible Buddhism in the TV novel and Luda for a while, and every sentence talked about Luda's heart, which made Luda's heart itch and scratched, and the old monk really couldn't stand these two hooligans talking about Buddhism there, so he ran away as if he was leaving.

In the end, Luda shouted that he wanted to apprentice, followed Wu Zhi's left and right, and talked about Buddhism with Wu Zhi from time to time, but Wu Zhi of course couldn't ask for it. However, Luda doesn't talk about any rules, seeing that Wu Zhi is younger than himself, he won't kowtow to his teacher or anything like that, but just call him "little master". Wu Zhi also let it go. As for the Great Xiangguo Temple, Wu Zhi naturally explained it, thinking that the old monk knew that Luda did not have to come by himself and left automatically, and he entered the palace of the king, and the old friend Elder Zhizhen was also easy to explain, and he must be happy, and there was no objection.

After Wu Zhi returned home, he urgently arranged for Long Wu and two henchmen to leave Tokyo and go to Shandong to develop underground forces, that is, to transform the splash skin into an ancient boy, Wu Zhi gave Long Wu three thousand yuan as the initial capital, which Wu Zhi took out painfully. Wu Zhi was really happy when he heard that his prince's annual income plus various benefits was nearly 30,000 yuan, but a few days later he learned that if this year's income was squandered arbitrarily, it was really not enough to spend. Now although he says that he has a big family, but the cost of a huge palace is also very large, not to mention anything else, thousands of lanterns, how much does it cost to burn lamp oil for one night? Although the things given by Zhao Ji are precious, they can only be placed there to watch and enjoy themselves, and they can't be sold for money, right? Moreover, the new prince ushered in the send-off, and it was inevitable to invite guests and friends, and the first year of your king's career was probably thinking about living.

Having said that, 3,000 guan is also enough for Long Wu to use, according to Wu Zhi's plan, Long Wu's first thing is to radiate the surrounding area through Yanggu, expand its power to a state capital, first get acquainted with local officials, and then subdue the local splashing skin, or use force, or use inducement, specifically operated by Long Wu. After subduing the splash, he naturally staged the trick of the old boy to make trouble in Yanggu again, charging the protection fee of the merchant, but Wu Zhi set the protection fee very low, as long as it was enough for the daily expenses of the splash skin and the filial piety of the local government. Although Long Wu didn't understand, Wu Zhi didn't explain either, he just told him to do it.

Wu Zhi set the rules in the future, each state capital has elected a steward, two deputies, responsible for managing the pimple of the state capital, only these three stewards will know that the boss behind the scenes is Long Wu, as for the name of the king, it will not be mentioned, even the specific identity of Long Wu will not be revealed, these stewards only need to know that the mysterious boss behind the scenes is Long Wu.

For the filial piety of the government, the governors of the state government should keep accounts, and do not force the officials who do not eat filial piety, and those little brothers, in addition to collecting protection money, also have to inquire about all kinds of news of the state government, whether it is an anecdote of the official family or a rumor in the folk market, the steward must record them one by one, and report them to Long Wu together with the account books every month, and send them to the palace by the henchmen.

The more Long Wu listened, the more surprised he became, he faintly felt that the king seemed to be going to do something, but he couldn't think of what the king was going to do, so he didn't think about it at all, as long as he did his best to do the things that the king had explained.

In the end, Wu Zhi said that Long Wu's marriage was going to be pressed for a while, and he was a little embarrassed, and asked Long Wu if he wanted to take Jiang Zhu with him? Long Wu was relieved, and said again and again that he didn't need it, Long Wu was really helpless about this marriage, and it would be a day if it could be delayed.

That night, Long Wu left with two guards, as for the splash skin in the capital, Lu Cheng would rush from Yanggu to take over, Long Wu had already said hello to Niu Er and other splash skin leaders before leaving.

Originally, on the second day, Wu Zhi was going to visit Gao Yu in the palace marshal's mansion, thinking of revealing the matter, and he didn't want the holy decree to arrive early in the morning, so he summoned Wu Zhi to face the saint and prepare for the westward expedition. Wu Zhi had no choice but to repair a letter to Gao Yu, saying that Long Wu had been beaten by himself and driven out of the palace, but he couldn't bear to do it again after many years of master and servant love, and repeatedly apologized, and said that he would come to apologize in person after returning to Beijing.

Although it is definitely better to go to Gao Yu by himself, and the letter is also written in a hurry, I am afraid that it will not be able to quench Gao Yu's anger. But Wu Zhi has no choice, the northwest is tight, and there is no delay.