Chapter 672: The Danger of Jingxi
It was already the spring and March of the first year of Kaicheng, Tubo Koubian, Jing Yuan was anxious, Pei Renjing was not secretly military, and repeated defeats led to the siege of Jingzhou, which shook Guanzhong for a while. Since the Yuan Dynasty, the defense line in western Beijing has been relatively stable, and there are feudal towns within the Tang Dynasty, eunuch dictatorship, and partisan disputes. The internal affairs of the Tubo Empire are not peaceful, the kings have been fighting bloody battles for many years, and the mountains and rivers have been exhausted, and the situation is also like Wang Xiaoer's New Year's Eve is not as good as a year.
If it is said that before the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo were competing for power, but now it is worse than whom, to see who is worse than whom, and the Tang Dynasty was worse than Tubo for a period of time after the Anshi Rebellion, so it was defeated again and again, and the land was humiliated. Since the Yuan and Zhongxing, Tubo has been catching up, slowly rotting over the Tang Dynasty, and finally gaining the upper hand on the list.
In these years, the Tubo people followed the tradition of Koubian every year, but they lost more and won less, and also contributed several wonderful examples of the annihilation of the whole army. Why did he suddenly attack Jingzhou like crazy at this time, many people couldn't understand it, thinking that Tubo was tired of the loneliness of being at the top of the list, and deliberately let Xian go, wanting to take advantage of the internal strife in the Tang Dynasty to retreat.
In fact, the reason for it is not complicated, the beginning of the Tubo Yan King was out of the cruel infighting, was demoted to Longxi, and took the title of prime minister as the governor of Longxi, at the beginning of the brutal and ambitious, he wanted to make Longxi a base for his comeback, he expanded the military horses, attacked everywhere, in order to solve the huge military expenditure, he expropriated the residents of Longxi and expropriated violently, aroused dissatisfaction from all parties, and was afraid of the bloody suppression of the Tubo people, no one dared to provoke trouble, so he secretly funded the remnants of Shatuo hidden in the Qilian Mountain to rebel.
Shatuo people live in Longxi, once followed the Tubo people to fight the Tang people to fight the Uighurs, but after being used by the Tubo people, they were kicked away, the miserable and miserable eastward migration of the Tang Dynasty, the hatred of the Tubo people is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea, and now they are funded by all parties, so they naturally rise up to resist, they attack the tribes of the Tubo people, rob and kill the Tubo caravans, storm the government, and kill the officials.
Chu Du understood that he must make every effort to suppress the resistance of the Shatuo people, otherwise the rule of Longxi would be shaken, and he drew troops from various towns to suppress the Shatuo people, but it fell deeper and deeper, and the war could not be over. In order to relieve his worries, he ordered the envoy of Tubo Qingshui Xijiedu and Yuanzhou Thorn Shi Aduya to attack Jingyuan with a partial division, the purpose of which was to create a false impression, disrupt the deployment of the Tang army, contain the main force of the Tang army, and ensure the smooth progress of the war on the Western Front.
It's just that he didn't expect that Pei Renjing, the new Jingyuan Jiedu envoy, was a big straw bag, and he was defeated with one blow, allowing Aduya to miraculously surround Jingzhou City.
Qiu Shiliang, who was far away in Chang'an, saw this matter very clearly, and he felt that there was an opportunity, so he one-sidedly exaggerated the military situation in Jingzhou, intimidated the emperor, and asked to send Wen Yanzhao, the general of the Shence Army, to lead troops to aid Jingzhou. Wen Yanzhao is a famous general of the Shence Army, successively served as the envoy of Jingyuan, Lingwu, and Xia Suijie, and has been fighting with Tubo for many years and has made many achievements.
Pei Renyong was deeply afraid that Wen Yanzhao would not leave after entering Jingyuan, and he would become a big trouble in the future, so he went to the court to personally lead the Fengxiang army of 10,000 people to aid Jingzhou, and the table entered Chang'an and had not yet received a reply, Pei Renjing's emergency document flew like snowflakes, Pei Renyong understood that his brother did not know the soldiers, and once Jingzhou was broken, not only could he not save his life, but also affected himself and Pei Renqu, he was lucky to escape this catastrophe, and Jingyuan would also fall into the hands of Qiu Shiliang's cronies, which was like wedge a nail between Fengxiang and Lingwu, so that he could not take care of each other. Sooner or later, it was broken by Qiu Shiliang.
Therefore, he put aside the imperial court, on the grounds of the urgency of the military situation, immediately led 10,000 troops north to rescue Jingzhou, and appointed his henchman Lin Miaosen as the queen before leaving, and the general Zhang Chun as the soldier and horse envoy, leading more than 10,000 troops to garrison the city.
Zhang Chun was originally a Qiang native of Liangzhou, and had been a tribal chief for generations, with a close relationship with the local government. Longxi for the invasion of Tibet, with the ancestors moved to Yuanzhou, Yuanzhou fell, the family moved into Fengxiang Mansion, and then joined the army, because of the courage of the battle, the accumulation of merit was promoted to the capture general.
Li Xianyi was the envoy of Fengxiang Jiedu, seeing that Zhang Chun was exaggerated, arbitrary and arbitrary, and claimed that this person was embarrassed to be useful, so he made a method of ascending and descending secretly, summoned him into the city, and stayed in front of the tent to listen to it. Although Zhang Chun was dissatisfied, he couldn't jump out of Li Xianyi's palm, so he could only swallow his anger.
After Pei Renyong took over Fengxiang, Zhang Chun prepared twelve singers to dedicate, Pei Renyong liked women, and he liked Zhang Chun's initiative to serve, so he promoted him to be the city's soldiers and horses, and led the army to garrison outside the city, which was the first barrier of Fengxiang Mansion.
After Zhang Chun regained military power, he behaved very positively, obeyed Pei Renyong's words, and quickly won Pei Renyong's trust. Therefore, this time he led the army north to rescue Jingzhou, and handed over the responsibility of defending the city to Zhang Chun.
Those who are capable will not obey him, and those who can obey him will not be able to do it. Previously, he was able to defeat the siege of the Shence Army, not because he had real ability, but because the Shence Army besieging him really had no ability, and the Shence Army stationed around Chang'an was actually rotten to the bones, although there were many people, but they were a group of rabble, and they were unwilling to sincerely work for Qiu Shiliang. Asking for money and food to disturb the people and eat empty wages is a good hand, and it is not possible to fight a war, but it is very fast to run away.
The Suining Army is a feudal army, and they have repeatedly wanted to serve the Shence Army, but they have been rejected, and the treatment of doing the same work is thousands of miles apart, and their hearts have long been unbalanced, so they fought with the Shence Army and worked hard, so Pei Renyong picked up a cheap price for nothing.
But the Tubo people are not as good as the Shence army, they fight all year round, the soldiers are strong and strong, and they are full of vitality, fighting against such a strong enemy, Pei Renyong looks around and around, and only Zhang Chun can be used.
Lin Senmiao, who he appointed, is known as a soldier, but he is actually a layman in the war, but he has a very good set of winning people's hearts, Pei Renyong believes that he can help him entrap Zhang Chun, a bearded general, and stabilize his own backyard.
As soon as Pei Renyong left the city, Qiu Shiliang realized that the opportunity to make a move had come.
So a lucrative profit was placed in front of Zhang Chun, as long as he accepted it, the fate of his life would take a major turn from now on.
Zhang Chun understands that at present, if he is not moved, others will also be moved, and he is no longer qualified to refuse.
Pei Renyong is still seventy miles away from Jingzhou City, and suddenly heard that there was a military rebellion in Fengxiang City, and the rebels will stay behind Lin Senmiao to be buried alive, and after the general Zhang Chun was retained, Zhang Chun was forced to be helpless, so he had to reluctantly obey his fate, but on the other hand, he sent Yizi to Jingzhou to report the news, claiming that he was still loyal to Pei Renyong, and temporarily maintained the crisis, and waited for the siege of Jingzhou to be resolved, and then invited Pei Renyong back to the city.
How can Pei Renyong believe such nonsense? Qiu Shiliang had already intended to use Wen Yanzhao, the general of the Divine Strategy Army, to take over Jingyuan, but now that Feng Xiang had such a mess, how could he let it go?
When Fengxiang falls into the hands of Qiu Shiliang, how can his three brothers still survive?
Thinking of this, Pei Renyong immediately ordered Zhang Chun's righteous son to be beheaded, accused Zhang Chun of rebellion, and immediately returned to Fengxiang to quell the rebellion. The Fengxiang garrison was reluctant to come to Jingzhou to die, but when they heard the news, they rushed back in the starry night.
Pei Renyong's expectation was good, Wen Yanzhao was also on the way to Fengxiang City in the starry night at this moment, and the forward Wen Wan led a thousand light horsemen to be only one hundred and thirty miles away from Fengxiang. It's just that because the news is not clear, Zhang Chun doesn't know this, he is looking forward to it, he didn't expect Wen Yanzhao to come, but he looked forward to Pei Renyong coming back, hearing that Pei Renyong led the army back, Zhang Chun was at a loss, if he abandoned the city and fled at this moment, Qiu Shiliang would definitely not admit it, and he was convicted of this rebellion.
Zhang Chun was at the end of his rope, and in a fit of rage, he sent an envoy to surrender to Tibet.
Tubo Qingshui West Jiedu envoy, Yuanzhou Thorn Shi Aduya was ordered to contain the Tang army in Guanzhong, to ensure that the commander of the early capital into the suppression of the remnants of Shatuo without worries, he saw the famous generals Li Xianyi, Zhu Si and others were recalled to Beijing, came to Pei Renyong, Pei Renjing brothers, who did not understand military affairs, so they took offense as defense, which not only contained the Tang army and then reaped some benefits, because Fengxiang garrison was very many, and Longzhou Assassin Shi Fangxing was cautious and steady, so he turned to attack Jingzhou, and only set up a suspicious army to bluff outside Longzhou City to contain it.
Suddenly, he heard that Zhang Chun was treason and wanted to sacrifice Fengxiang City, and Wen Wan and Pei Renyong's army were still on the way, so he saw an opportunity to take advantage of it, and urgently ordered the suspicious soldiers outside Longzhou City to immediately march east to seize Fengxiang City.
Although these suspicious soldiers have few troops, they are the elite of Tibet, and they have to turn to the east without stopping. However, they ran and jogged and still fell behind Wen Wan. Wen Wan arrived at the city first, but unfortunately he was only a general, he only knew how to fight, and he was jealous and hateful, and his sense of justice was bursting. Zhang Chun saw Wen Wan arrive at the city first, and regretted it for a while, he wanted to tear off the banner at the head of the city and return to the Tang Dynasty, after all, his ancestors had a blood feud with the Tubo people.
He sent people to contact Wen Wan, hoping that the imperial court would pardon him for his crimes and promise not to investigate his mistakes in the future.
Wen Wan cut off his envoy's ears, chopped off his hands, and swore through gritted teeth to fight the traitor to the end. The matter has come to this point, Zhang Chun can only follow the Tubo people with one heart. He held on to the city and prevented Wen Wan from entering the city.
Fengxiang City is high and deep, and the heavy troops are stationed, how can more than 1,000 light horsemen in Wenwan break the city?
Hold on until the second day and night, the Tubo cavalry arrived, rested for one night, went out of the city on the second day to fight with Wen Wan, beheaded Wen Wan, and attributed this credit to Zhang Chun, and hyped it up, this time Zhang Chun had no way to retreat.
At this moment, Pei Renyong was still more than 60 miles away from Fengxiang City, and when he heard that the city was broken, he camped and did not move forward to watch the movement.