Zheng Juzhong's hand is also ingenious enough, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Hedong emergency to transfer Tong Guan from the original three marshals in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, plus Gao Yu has died in battle before, so that the three marshals in the northwest are only one Zhang Yuan, which should be difficult to sing.

Then the imperial court used the method of rising and descending secretly, and promoted Zhang Yuan to Northwest Xuanfu and transferred him from Liangzhou to Lingzhou. In this way, there will be a vacancy in Hexi, and the imperial court will be able to send an important minister out of Hexi to grasp the semi-independent Hexi Road a little firmly, lest Hexi become a second Youzhou!

"Who can leave the town of Hexi?" Zhao Ji's tone was still a little hesitant.

Tong Guan had given Zhao Ji a secret recital earlier, detailing the special situation of Hexi Road. Hexi Road was jointly ruled by the five major lords of the government, the academy, the temple, the Taoist temple, and the city lord, as well as the small feudal lords of the knight household and the government and soldier household.

Of the 800,000 hectares of land on the road, less than 100,000 hectares of official land are used to maintain the road, prefecture, and county levels of government offices and a small Hexi Army (standing army), and less than 50,000 households are under the direct control of the government at all levels. And the major academies owned by the Northwest Great Education and Culture Group on Hexi Road (the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in Hexi have now been separated from the Great Education Group, and only Tianli Academy is left under the command of the Great Education Group) controls at least twice as many people and land as the Hexi government! Moreover, most of the knights and soldiers on Hexi Road are vassals of academies and city lords in various places, and they are not subordinate to the Hexi government.

In addition, the Northwest Great Education Corps also has dozens of Tianli Academies in Anxi and Beiting, controls tens of thousands of military and civilian households and countless lands, and has thousands of knights and tens of thousands of soldiers.

Therefore, the real ruler of Hexi Road was the great envoy of the Great Sect, not the envoy appointed by the imperial court. However, these two positions are combined in Zhang Yuan, he is not only the great teacher, but also the pacification envoy of Jingluo, and he is also the city lord of Qin Wangchuan City.

At first, the city lord was used to fool the tribal leaders and indigenous heroes who did not follow Zhao Qianshun's brothers to move westward. Later, the high-ranking figures of the Hexi Army and the Great Education Regiment moved their families and clansmen into the city, gathered clans to live, built castles, and seized land, and became the new city lords.

And Zhang Yuan also moved a group of relatively poor distant Zhang clan relatives from his hometown in Fujian, and used his power to occupy Qin Wangchuan as his private city.

In such a complex situation, apart from Zhang Yuan, is there anyone else who can control and manipulate it?

Cai Jing came out of the class at this time and said: "Your Majesty, the guards and the pro-army Ma Jun are all Yu Marquis Liu Fashi is the general of the Western Army, and he has been fighting in the border fortress for a long time, and he has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, which should be able to deter the heroes of Hexi."

In addition, in the name of the possible invasion of Hexi by the Khitan, Liu Fa can be ordered to bring a general of the Western Army into Hexi Road. ”

Now there is already a general of the Western Army on Hexi Road, and there are two generals of the Western Army stationed on the territory of Hexi. In addition, the Western Army, which had three generals earlier, had been transferred to the Hebei battlefield to serve their duties.

In other words, only one of the six generals of the Shaanxi New Army is still stationed in Shaanxi.

However, the Shaanxi New Army also has a "reserve" system, which can mobilize two or three times as many troops if necessary.

However, it takes time to carry out such mobilization, and the mobilized reserve soldiers are relatively old, and they are not as good as the standing six-general new army. Moreover, the knights of the Western Army did not have as many reserve soldiers, and it was impossible to match each reserve general with enough cavalry.

Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty did not immediately issue an order to mobilize the Western Army, but only issued an edict to ask Tong Guan whether he wanted to mobilize the reserve Western Army soldiers to aid Hedong Road?

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Lingzhou, Northwest Xuanfu Division Yamen.

In Tong Guan's White Tiger Festival Hall, the two looked at each other silently. One of them was Tong Guan, who had just received an edict to be transferred to Hedong, and the other was Zhang Yuan, who had rushed from Liangzhou to take over as Xuanfu in the northwest.

The two of them were not busy handling the handover matters, but just stayed in the festival hall, holding the edict, looking at it carefully over and over, and after reading it, they all sighed.

"Michio, you can't go!" Zhang Yuan put the book issued by the imperial court to Tong Guan on the table, shook his head and said, "The new army in Hedong has its own appearance, and there is only one new army left in Shaanxi, and it is impossible to transfer it out again, and the mobilization of reserve troops is not achieved overnight." Although Shuofang has four generals and horses, the border that needs to be guarded is too long, there is no danger, and there is also a Shuofang horse farm that needs to be protected. Xue Wenhuang (replacing Tong Guan out of Zhenshuo) will definitely not agree to transfer troops, if you go to Hedong, you will be a bare-pole Xuanfu, better than Zhong Weaker Weng and Gao Shiyan! ”

Hearing Zhang Yuan mention Zhong Fu and Gao Yu, Tong Guan was shaking, as if he had seen himself follow in the footsteps of Zhong Fu and Gao Yu and die on the battlefield!

"If you don't go, you can't do it!" Tong Guan sighed and looked at Zhang Yuandao, "Zhiping, our family is an internal servant, and it is different from you, Wu Chongdao, and Gao Shiyan." Our family must not disobey the holy order in the slightest, otherwise there will be no place to bury it. ”

Tong Guan has no power! The Song Dynasty was no better than the Tang Dynasty, and the discrimination against eunuchs was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Don't look at the fact that he has been in the main army in the northwest for many years, and he has led hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, but none of them are the so-called Tong Army.

The knife that cut his lower body not only cut off the roots of his descendants, but also eliminated the possibility of him dominating one side. Even himself, when he was in charge of the army, he didn't dare to make the slightest unyielding move, and he carefully abided by the red lines.

Zhang Yuan is in Hexi, and what Wu Haogu did in Yandi is simply lawless in Tong Guan's opinion. He didn't dare, and couldn't have done so.

So until now, although Tong Guan also has a lot of staff, he has also raised some personal guards. But these people are just temporary workers in the Tong family class, and they have not used land or faith as a bond to establish a close and united relationship, let alone use some "world for the public" and "senate election" to turn everyone into comrades and citizens with a common cause.

Of course, Tong Guan could not have been born in a wealthy family, nor could he have established an officer corps with clan blood as a link like the general Western Army.

Therefore, he, one of the four famous marshals, had to go to Hedong empty-handed!

Even if you can bring a few staff, what use can you use in the face of the rotten Hedong Army? The Jiangmen forces in the Hedong Army are also intertwined, and they affect the whole body.

"Or," Zhang Yuan thought for a moment, "or you can ask the official family for money, and there are a few million...... I'll help you mercenary soldiers in Hexi! I dare not guarantee that 5,000 Xiliang cavalry will definitely be able to have it! ”

There are more than 80 million acres of cultivated land and pasture land registered in Hexi Road! Although it is not very fertile, the transportation is not convenient, it is a bit of bitter territory, and it is not enough to spend a few dollars all year round, but the place is very large, and many knights and soldiers can be housed.

Moreover, the two brothers Zhao Qianshun and Zhao Baozhong went to Tianzhu with the thorns of Hexi to make a fortune, leaving Zhang Yuan with a pure land, and he arranged it as he could. Therefore, there are many knights and soldiers. There are not only authentic Hexi Han people, but also Dangxiang, Uighurs, Caotou Tatars, Tibetans, and even diviners! Most of them are under the Tianli Academy, divide the land, and fight for Tianli!

Armored cavalry can't be equipped, but only the equipment of the "Western Liang Cavalry" with front cover and helmet can still be put together.

As long as there are a few million, there are a lot of mercenaries, and it may not be possible to fight hard, burning, killing and looting or something, they are all very good!

"Millions of officials should be able to give it," Tong Guan thought for a while, "But Zhiping, aren't you pacified in Hexi now, can you still command Hexi?" ”

"Why not?" Zhang Yuan sneered, "I'm Xuanfu, Xuanfu is bigger than appeasement!" I am a civil official from a Jinshi, and he is a martial artist! My father is the prime minister of several dynasties, and he Liu Fa is just a general! How dare he disobey me?

Moreover, the pacification of Hexi can be handed over, but it is impossible for the Northwest Great Education Corps to be handed over! He Liu Fa didn't say that he didn't know what Tianli was, right? ”

It turns out that Zhang Yuan is also a new breed of prince, with a little bit of the meaning of the leader of the order, and he can be regarded as a religious prince.

Now in Hexi, Anxi, and Beiting, all the Tianli Academies own land, knights, government soldiers, and private households, and the Great Education Corps is the superior of these Tianli Academies.

In the face of a religious prince, Liu Fa could only choose to cooperate, and did not dare to confront him at all.

……

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

The deafening roar sounded in the ears of Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin! They and the group of girls who followed them were really scared, and they all turned sideways, their eyes widened, and they looked at the artillery positions on the side, 12 3,000-pound "truths" roaring.

It was the first time in their lives that they had seen the bombardment! Because the previous battle was relatively smooth, no artillery was used, and a group of warlords who owed usury drove the Khitans and Xi people all the way and conquered most of the territory of Nanfeng Shengzhou. It was not until today that the army led by Mi Youren and Yang Jian encountered relatively stubborn resistance in Wende City, Guihua Prefecture.

Defending the city is the defeated and almost stunned Yelu control Rigu, from the beginning of the Khan State, he has been beaten all the way to escape, it is no longer "repeated battles in the north", but "repeated north and repeated flight", and he is about to become a lost dog.

When he fled to Wende City, the last important stronghold of Daliao at the northern foot of Yanshan, he finally looked forward to reinforcements, and he was still from Wenzhong Mansion, with more than 5,000 people, and he also brought a lot of grain, grass and arrows. It was enough to fight a protracted battle to defend the city, so it was the turn of the artillery led by Rogan.

Now the number of "truths" is much higher than last year, and the army alone has 12 3,000-pound guns, all of which have been pulled under Wende City.

In addition, Zhang Zhifeng also selected a group of elite armor "cannons", and more than 100 Jurchen "Gunda", all of whom were selected, wearing three layers of heavy armor to protect the cannon, oh, it should be to get close to the truth!

"Wan Sheng!"

"Hit the ......"

The cheers rang out immediately, and a group of raw girls really dared to quickly turn their heads to look, only to see a collapsed gap on the low and thin earthen wall of Wende City!

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