Chapter 34: Mountains and Clouds (14)
With *, it was indeed a pleasant pleasure for the conqueror.
Especially for a blind Wu Qi who has a certain prestige among the vanquished*, it is even more. Although Blind Wu Qi was supported by Mu Zheng to gain a foothold in the Wusheng Army, his identity was the foundation of his foothold in Wusheng. Now he has come forward to ask the Wusheng Army not to supply grain and grass to the Yu Zang family, and also to recruit them to join the Great Song Dynasty. Although for a while, no one in the Tibetan tribe really attached to the imperial court, at least they all hesitated and stopped the food provided to Yu Zang Huama.
Among the troops of Wusheng's army, many of them had followed Dong Yu to attack the ancient Weizhai in the past and the current Longxi City. But after Dong Yu's soldiers were defeated and died, they had no intention of confronting the Song army again. But because they are afraid of the Song people, they will be liquidated in the future, hoping that someone will come forward first. Now that the blind Wu Qi has stood up, and Mu Zheng and Yu Zang Huama have nearly twice the strength, they still dare not attack the Song army in Lintao City, and it seems that the Song people's control of the Wusheng army has become a foregone conclusion. Then there is nothing to worry about when you take refuge in the Song people. The precedent of the Qingtang Department is definitely much better than under the control of Mu Zheng or the Yu Zang family.
The first batch of folk warriors have already stepped on the ice and snow and arrived in Lintao. They went to the front line with them, as well as a large number of military supplies and grain, plus a large number of pickled horse meat.
- Han Gang recently disposed of the captured wounded and dead horses, and cut and salted the horse meat one by one, and turned all the internal organs and bones into a broth in the bowls of soldiers and civilians.
The greatest output of the Tongyuan Army was not grain, not horses, but salt. The Qingtang Department and the Nazhi Linzhan Department all relied on the salt well to support their families. As soon as Han Gang opened his mouth, he got a large amount of coarse salt from the Qingtang Department without spending a penny. After marinating tens of thousands of catties of horse meat, he kept a small half, and most of it was sent to Lintao.
Later, when the news came back from Lintao, Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu were very happy, a little bit of meat stimulation and attraction, which made the soldiers and people work harder. However, Lintao's side was a little bit more inched, so Han Gang tried to send more wine, especially the soju he prepared for the sanatorium, which was directly named.
After Han Gang saw the order to appease Si Dayin with the edge of the edge, he shook his head and sighed, and then sent the order to Longxi - only Longxi has spirits.
Now presiding over the transfer work in Longxi is Wang Hou. After Cai Xi was summoned to Lintao, he took advantage of the situation to take charge of the transfer in Longxi, and the situation was much better than when Cai Xi intervened. After all, I have worked with Han Gang for a long time, and I have also exchanged and learned from each other in the way of handling official affairs. Moreover, Wang Hou knows his subordinates well, knows who is good at what things, and assigns work without wasting their ability.
Han Gang is not only responsible for the transfer of grain, he is now also in charge of the construction of Qingping Fort. A total of 10,000 people were mobilized, most of whom would be placed on the construction of Lintao City, and then there would be auxiliary forts guarding the two roads north and south of Lintao City.
However, Wang Shao still managed to give Han Gang 2,000 men, and asked him to complete the construction of Qingping Fort first, and then rebuild the Savage Pass. The establishment of military stations has been successful, and both Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu are willing to maintain the military station system, so it is natural to strengthen the guards of Qingping Fort and Savage Pass.
The weather is getting colder day by day, and the buildings of Qingping Fort are rising day by day.
Hangang overlooks the far west. On the other side of Taoshui, Mu Zheng never dared to cross the river, and Yu Zang Huama, who was short of food, simply sent people to raise the Tibetan tribe that no longer provided him with grain and grass, which provoked more Tibetan troops to start throwing themselves into the Great Song Dynasty.
With the gradual completion of Lintao City, at that time, how long can Mu Zheng and Yu Zang Huama support them?
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Looking at Lintao City on the other side, Mu Zheng was stunned, and he hadn't moved for half an hour.
The water in front of him was not wide, but the amount of water was sufficient, and Mu Zheng wanted to cross the river, but he could not find a suitable time.
In another month, when the water was completely frozen, the soldiers and horses in his hands should be able to cross the river safely. But the ice on the water is too weak at the moment, and if you want to cross the river, you have to rely on boats or rafts. At present, when the Song people are strictly guarding Taoshui, they have no chance at all.
But after waiting for another month, the Song people's expansion of Lintao City may have ended, and even if he crosses the river, he will have no way to take Jiancheng.
Mu Zheng sighed dejectedly, he could only say that the timing chosen by the Song people was too good, and the action was too fast, so that he didn't have time to react - 'No! Mu Zheng shook his head, in fact, he had time to react, but he didn't expect that his two younger brothers would be so bold as to run to attack Weiyuan Fort. Otherwise, with the blind Wu Qi and Wu Yanzheng to contain it, with 2,000 troops enough to dispatch hundreds of tribes in Wusheng and Minzhou, and gather 20,000 or 30,000 horses, in that case, it is not difficult for him to cross the river.
'It's so stupid, how could the Song people be so easy to deal with! After hearing the bad news, Mu Zheng didn't know how many times he was distressed. This made his original mind of sitting on the Diaoyutai into a sigh of hope.
ββTen zhang of water is like a thousand miles away.
The sound of hooves came from behind him, and the surrounding guards followed the sound in unison, only to see a cavalry galloping from the camp to the west. The cavalryman rushed forward, jumped off his horse, walked up a few steps and attached himself to Mu Zheng's ear, and whispered a few words.
"You're coming to the door?" Mu Zheng was surprised when he heard this, but he didn't delay, turned around and jumped on his horse, waved his leather whip, and hurried back to the camp.
When he returned to his main tent, he instructed the servants to go out and invite in the guests who had been waiting for a long time. Soon a gust of wind lifted the curtains, and a young man under thirty entered. The eyes are small, but they are extremely powerful.
"Yu Zang Hua Ma?" Mu Zheng'an sat still, raising his eyes to look at the young patriarch of the Yu Zang family.
The young man didn't back down at all, raised his eyebrows, and asked rhetorically, "Mu Zheng?" β
A generation younger than himself, he called his name directly, Mu Zheng was slightly unhappy, but he still motioned for Yu Zang Huama to sit down and speak.
Yu Zang Hua Ma did it in a big way. His Yu Zang family can turn his back on his clan and join the party, of course, he will not care about any Zampu bloodline.
As the rebel of the Yu Zang family in Tibet, Li Yuanhao raised troops to invade Hehuang that year, and they followed the party to kill many evils in this land, and the blood debts were heavy, and they have not paid them off so far. Mu Zheng had experienced the war of the year, and he had no extra words for the current patriarch of the Yu Zang family, so he owed all the tea greetings and asked directly: "Yu Zang Huama, what are you doing?!" β
"I just want to tell you that 'cooperation is beneficial to both, and division is both defeats'."
"Aren't there party members behind you? Why worry about the Song people? β
Mu Zheng is not refusing, but to test Yu Zang Huama's bottom line, and at the same time, he wants to take the initiative in the negotiation, if he really will affect his judgment now because of his old hatred, then he will not invite Yu Zang Huama in at all.
"Could it be that Mu Zheng is planning to fight the Song people to the end, and your uncle will not have the same heart with you, right?" Yu Zang Huama poked at Mu Zheng's sore spot, with his vision, Mu Zheng's disadvantage in strategic geography, he knew at a glance, "The key location of Hezhou is in the middle of the land of Hehuang, and the Song people will not let go of this territory." And Dong Yu's Qingtang Wangcheng doesn't have to worry, how can the Song people not be distracted and go to Qinghai Huangshui when they destroy the party members. β
Mu Zheng's expression was cold, "Wusheng is Lanzhou to the north, do you say that the Song people will attack my Hezhou first, or attack your Lanzhou first...... Especially now when the pair of brothers and sisters of the Dong family are killing in Xingqing Mansion with a river of blood. β
"Yes, you're right. The Song people wanted to attack Great Xia, and of course they would not let Lanzhou go. Yu Zang Huama didn't mind admitting his weakness, "If it weren't for the fact that Lanzhou's position was too important, the Song people would definitely not leave it to my Yu Zang family to control, so what if I voted for the Song people?" β
"So you're begging me?"
"I don't want to bow my head under the command of the Song people, are you very willing? So we are like-minded! Only by joining hands and confronting the Song people. β
Mu Zheng heard a hint of sincerity in Yu Zang Huama's words and asked, "What are you going to do?" β
"You can't beat the front." Yu Zanghua frowned slightly, "It's not that you can't win, but you can kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, and we can't consume the Song people, they have too many people." β
"Like you did before, cut off the Song people's grain path? How many times have you succeeded now? β
Yu Zanghua Ma avoided answering: "How about giving up the Wusheng Army to the Song people?" If the Song people garrisoned 3,000 men and horses in the Wusheng Army, they would consume 30,000 to 50,000 stone grain and grass and 10,000 soldiers and horses a year, that would be 100,000 to 150,000 stones. The more soldiers and horses you keep, the more grain and grass you will have to transport. "Yu Zang's family and the Song people often fight, the Song army's grain and grass transfer, Yu Zang Hua Ma has a very intuitive and clear understanding, "and to transport a stone of grain to Lintao, on the road to lose at least two stones and three stones of grain, even if the Song people are wealthy, how long can they support the Wusheng army?" β
Mu Zheng shook his head without thinking about it at all: "Now I can summon the various tribes of the Wusheng Army, with the help of my unsuccessful brother, the Wusheng tribes will not listen to me now." Without their cover, it would be impossible to intercept the grain road of the Song people! β
"Then kill them all!" Yu Zang Huama's smile was like a spring breeze, and there was no murderous aura at all, Mu Zheng's refusal was so fast, in fact, it proved that he had already considered this method, "Kill one by one, destroy one by one...... Let's see if the Song people will avenge them? Kill all the bold, and the rest are cowardly. β
Mu Zheng narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "Yu Zang, have you been following the party for too long?" Kill my people, kill it hard, right? β
"Whose are the heads outside the camp gate?" Yu Zang Huama smiled even more heartily, and pointed to the outside of the tent, "How many disobedient tribes are there west of Taoshui?" When it comes to the ruthlessness and speed of the start, the kid is not as good as a horse. β
The expression on Mu Zheng's face did not change at all, but he folded his hands together. His clean hands were on the ...... It's actually full of blood!