The official document sent by Xu Ping to the imperial court did say that the primary target of the next attack was Huizhou, so that the Huluchuan Valley Road would be opened together with Jingyuan Road to the east. Including Zhao Zhen, Chaozhong always thought that Qin Fenglu's next battle was in Huizhou, but he didn't expect to run in another direction this time, and suddenly ran to Zhuoluo and Nan.

Lu Yijian said: "Your Majesty, Xu Jingluo said in the good news sent back to the court, this time it was because the Hao thief suddenly took 20,000 guards to Zhuoluo and Nan, and snare the surrounding Tibetan tribes, wanting to imitate the old plan on the Yanyan Road and plot to build a new Yuzhong City. Xu Jingluo made a decision immediately, commanded the troops to the west, personally mentioned 50,000 soldiers and horses on Qinfeng Road, crossed the big river, ran for hundreds of miles day and night, and broke the elite of the thieves under the city of Zhuoluo. After a night of fierce fighting, the thieves escaped to Lingzhou! ”

After listening to this, Zhao Zhen felt like he was in a dream.

No matter how big Yuan Hao won at Sanchuankou, he did not break through a serious state city in the Great Song Dynasty, and the current war is actually in the Tibetan region at the junction of the two countries. Including the city of Dingxi captured by Xu Ping, it was also the territory of the leader of the Tibetan tribe, Yu Zang Huama, and did not enter the area directly ruled by the party. Originally, I thought that Huizhou, as the official state city of the party, would have an explanation inside and outside the city, which could boost morale, but I didn't expect Xu Ping to hit Yuan Hao's head directly with a stick.

No matter how small Zhuo Luo and Nancheng are, they are also a city, and Xu Ping attacked 30,000 with 50,000, which is not an absolute advantage in terms of troops. This time, it is still facing the elite of the party of Yuan Hao's own generals, and defeating it head-on, which is of great significance. The biggest deterrent to the Song Dynasty from the defeat of Sanchuankou was not the loss of the two generals in charge of the army, nor the huge losses, but the defeat of the elite of the forbidden army dominated by the "Upper Fourth Army", which showed that the Song army no longer had any advantage over the party army. The victory of Zhuo Luo and Nan was to tell the government and the opposition that the forbidden army was still stronger than the party army, and the head-to-head confrontation had the strength to defeat it.

Zhao Zhen's biggest pressure was the wrestling of political forces in the government and opposition after the defeat of Sanchuankou. The generals of the three yas attributed the defeat to the clamping of the civil officials, Liu Ping was born as a soldier and could not be a general in commanding the army. The civilian officials attributed the defeat to the military generals, who did not obey military orders, were simple-minded, and fell into the party's treacherous ambush at every turn. In the middle, there is a Huang Dehe and the internal servant forces provoked to participate in it, and the government and the opposition are treacherous, fighting for power and profit, which makes Zhao Zhen annoyed.

As soon as Zhuo Luo and Nan win, all the dark clouds will disperse, and all forces can shut up. Even Yuan Hao can be defeated head-on, and the other thieves are naturally not worth mentioning, which shows that there is no problem with the arrangement of the imperial court some time ago.

Lu Yijian naturally understood Zhao Zhen's mood, in fact, his situation was very similar to Zhao Zhen. Whether it is a civil official, a military general, or an internal servant, the intersection of contradictions is in the Privy Council, the pressure is Zhao Zhen inside, and Lu Yijian is outside.

With a sigh of relief, Lu Yijian said again: "In this battle, Xu Ping's army killed 16,000 people under the name of Wulinu and Ximuwei, and captured more than 6,000 people under the right wing of the thief Tiandu, Ye Li Yuqi, Zhuo Luo, and Duo Baoqing, the main supervisor of the Southern Supervision Army. It was Pontus' biggest win for the outside world in decades. Zhuo Luo and Nan are victorious, then west of Qinfeng Road, the power of the thieves has been wiped out, and the roads of several counties in the west of the river are connected to the party, which can be described as a broken thief's arm! ”

In fact, the real significance of this battle is not as great as Lu Yijian said, if it can really be done like this, Xu Ping would have already sent troops to attack. It is not possible to occupy Lanzhou and its vicinity with tens of thousands of troops, and it will be restored to the same state in a year or two. And if Xu Ping used Qin Fenglu's troops in Lanzhou, he would not be able to advance eastward and be unable to fight jointly with Jingyuan Road, which would be a disease of ringworm for the party. To build Lanzhou into an offensive base, three or two years will not be enough.

Based on the geographical situation faced by Xu Ping in Qinfeng Road, he has already controlled Lanzhou by occupying Mabit Mountain, and it is the same whether he occupies it or not. And to be integrated with Jingyuan Road, it is necessary to occupy Tiandu Mountain again in order to fully occupy the geographical advantage. The occupation of these two mountain ranges is equivalent to the occupation of the Great Wall of Qin, which can be regarded as completely pushing the battle line out of the traditional agricultural and pastoral areas. Whether Zhuo Luo and Nan fight or not, the focus of the competition with the party in the next year is the first line of Tiandu Mountain.

Lu Yijian was generally aware of this, and Xu Ping's recitals to the Privy Council emphasized this countless times. Not only at this time, Lu Yijian needed a big victory to stabilize the hearts of the people of the government and the opposition and boost the morale of the army and the people, but when he played to Zhao Zhen, he couldn't help but exaggerate it as much as possible.

Zhao Zhen watched the Zai Zhi present back and forth a few times before he breathed a sigh of relief: "Such a big victory, listening to my ears, I feel like in a dream." Hao thief is domineering, he has done countless evils in the past year, and the court has nothing to do with him, but he didn't expect Xu Ping to be able to give him a blow in the face and let him escape thousands of miles away! Since the betrayal of the imperial court, the thief put Xu Ping on Qin Fenglu is the most correct thing to do. After this battle, it can be seen that the thief is just a clown after all, although occasionally there are some small victories, as long as the court deals with it carefully, it can't make any big waves after all. In three or two years, the northwest can be pacified! ”

Li Di took all the rulers to get up and congratulated them together, and there was no big worry in the northwest from then on.

Now the fast horse sent all the way is only a preliminary good news, very rough, the detailed battle report will be counted clearly in the future before it is sent to the capital, maybe it will be a month or two later. Normally, you can't be promoted to a knighthood according to this good news. However, the significance of this victory is too significant, Zhao Zhen still made an exception to add Xu Ping's official first, and moved the Shangshu of the Criminal Department by Shangshu Youcheng, the Duke of Runan County, and at the same time gave three generations of ancestors, and sealed his wife and son, and all the treatment has been on par with the government.

Coming out of Da Nei, Lu Yi ordered to report Qinfeng Road to Lu Buchi to the states and counties of Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road to calm people's hearts. Zhao Zhen gave a banquet and invited all the ministers, and the haze of the defeat of Sanchuankou was swept away in a cheerful atmosphere.

Five days later, the edict of reward arrived in Qinzhou. Except for Xu Ping's promotion due to merit, it will take time for the other generals who participated in the war to lead the military merit statistics. The tone has been set in the will of the imperial court, and this promotion is better than before, and there may be a super promotion above the seventh or eighth order. In addition, another million yuan will be given for reward, which will be temporarily advanced by the bank in Qinzhou, and then the third division will discuss with the marshal of Qinzhou what method to solve. This is because Xu Ping has always asked the third division not to send money directly to Qinfeng Road, and try to convert it into materials and transport it over, even if it is a last resort, it can only be matched with a certain percentage of cash.

With the size of Qin Fenglu, excessive currency will seriously impact the local economy and exceed the adjustment capacity of banks and other institutions. In addition, Qinzhou sold a large amount of furs and salted meat to the interior in winter, which also brought an inflow of currency, and then directly put currency here, and the economy around Qinzhou had to collapse.

In addition to the imperial court gifts, many officials sent congratulatory documents to Xu Ping, not only the high-ranking officials of the court and the central government arrived with the stagecoach, but also the congratulatory documents of the prefectures, counties and garrisons on the Shaanxi Road. Xu Ping keenly found that the documents that came this time, from Li Di and Lu Yijian, down to ordinary officials, no one called his name directly, and a public character must be added after the official position.

Unconsciously, Xu Ping's prestige reached a point that had never been reached before, standing at the top of this era. Even Zhao Yuanyan, the eighth king of high official position and status, did not have the banter of the elders to the younger generations in his congratulatory letter to Xu Ping, and respectfully called him the Duke of Runan County.