Chapter 365: A Gentleman, the King's Son (2)

Yang Wenguang has two wives, one is a Han wife and the other is a party wife.

Legend has it that there is a Gusu Murong who is a descendant of the Xianbei people, in fact, the Xianbei party Xiang Murong has many clansmen in the northwest, and they will not use the way of the Gusu family to return the martial arts of his body.

But Jingyuan Road is using his way to return his body.

The 40,000 troops were trained to Tianshengzhai, but they shrank to the east, except for many who were scouts and patrolled everywhere, and the army also retreated to a small area in the upper reaches of the Ru River, and no longer moved.

If it weren't for Yuan Hao's order, the Western Xia defenders of Tiandu Mountain would have wanted to gather their troops and make a surprise attack to crush this Song army.

Acting too cowardly.

There's another piece of news that makes them want to get on the air again.

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Finally out of the city, Si'er and Huan'er jumped up happily.

Cui Xian wanted to reprimand, but thought that she was afraid that her husband would see them lively, and maybe he would think they were cute, so she didn't make a sound.

The beautiful eyes stared at Zheng Lang, and sure enough, she saw the smile on Zheng Lang's face.

The husband is familiar with Confucian books, but he is ......

However, Cui Xian also found that her husband's informality made her feel happy.

I don't dare to think about it, but I am from a scholarly family, a famous family in Hebei, and the children of official eunuchs.

Zheng Lang is different from Cui Youjie.

Cui Xian didn't know what she liked.

Freely!

Cui Xian was silent, and stood behind her husband in tacit understanding, watching him talk to the old farmer.

Autumn is in the depths, and the northwest has begun to cool down.

The nearby river water is clear and clear, and the distant mountains are covered with pale yellow.

Winter is coming.

Therefore, with Fan Zhongyan to build outside the city, Zheng Lang seized the time and began to Tuntian.

Fortunately, the officials in the three states have some ability, Weizhou is in charge of Zheng Lang himself, ask Kentian, how many officials in the Song Dynasty can match Zheng Lang, unless the one in Huanzhou, who is in charge of the entire Jiangdong polder, has more experience than Zheng Lang, who else can match Zheng Lang?

Zhang Fangping's ability to govern is also one of the few officials in the current Song Dynasty.

Teng Zongliang is a little worse, and he may let Fan Xiaofuzi write the masterpiece that has been circulated for the Yueyang Tower he built, and he still has some ability.

But Zheng Lang gave an order, don't let the adult war horse plow the land.

The Song Dynasty lacked horses, and even if there were horses, they were raised indiscriminately, and even Wang Anshi created the horse protection law.

That horse is used as an ox and a mule, and if it really goes to war, can it still run?

You can use horses, old horses, weak horses, crippled horses, and secondary horses, that is, horses other than war horses, which can be used to plow the land and pull things. There are also mules, some cattle, and it is not enough to have livestock on Jingyuan Road itself, and some livestock are traded from the Tubo people.

Be sure to clear all the fields before the soil freezes in the depths of winter. By the next year, some of the necessary livestock will be left behind, and the rest will be transported to the rear. There is also a serious shortage of livestock in the rear, especially for cultivated land.

However, this rush to cultivate the fields had another effect, and the Western Xia people in the north were even more confused by him.

Sure enough, it was a civil official.

Is it a false image that they see?

A large number of scouts patrolled the north, in the name of preventing the Western Xia army from coming to attack and prevent the construction of the city, but in fact, they were checking the terrain of the north one by one, and even Di Qing quietly infiltrated the scout team in person, and once lurked under Tiandu Mountain, so that Zheng Lang could stop.

Grandma, you don't want to play hard, I still count on you to be the most important trump card in my hand.

But the more Zheng Lang looked at Di Qing, the more Di Qing wanted to repay him with death.

Isn't it Di Qing who later shocked the world, what is Di Qing at this time? There are not too many meritorious soldiers in the northwest who have made meritorious contributions.

Although there are many stands, how much do Zhang Kang and Zhang Qi stand on the horse?

I can't say that.

Constantly using rewards to motivate soldiers to train, and gradually yielded results.

It's still a little early, it has to last for more than a year, and then the 10,000 or more soldiers who can't get ahead of the army will be laid off, and then what will be left of Jingyuan Road in the future will be a strong elite army. At least it can be compared to Liu Ping's subordinates.

With this army, even if Ge Huaimin commanded it, it would not be as miserable as it was in history.

It's impossible to let him command.

Now there are not many cuts, and the training time is not very long, but the combat effectiveness will be higher than the original.

Some of the soldiers were specially training horse chopping knives, horse axes and hook sickles, not for Song Huizong to watch, but Di Qing and others personally led the team in training.

It turned out that most of the archers in the Song army were mainly practicing bows and arrows, putting down bows and crossbows, and the assassination skills were not high, but now Zheng Lang ranked the assassination skills in an important position. Cavalry riding, horse fighting and assassination, archery and horse foot fighting.

This is the capital of the First World War that is coming.

He also let some generals with more military talents, such as Jingtai, Zhao Xun, Cao Ying, Liu Hu, etc., be placed in Tianshengzhai and let them lead the soldiers to train. In fact, it is equivalent to preparing to reuse them, and now by training with the soldiers, they can be familiar with the soldiers, so that the soldiers know the generals, and the soldiers know the soldiers.

There were more generals, in the battle of Haoshuichuan, most of the generals on Jingyuan Road died in battle, and the imperial court added many new generals to Jingyuan Road. Such as Wang Bao, Li Zhihe, Wang Wen and others. Because of his limited ability, he was not valued by Zheng Lang, and he got close to Ge Huaimin.

Zheng Lang seems to have turned a blind eye to the faint split in Jingyuan Road.

Di Qing and the seed master Heng persuaded him several times, but Zheng Lang did not listen.

It may or may not be used. Anyway, as long as this battle is won, it is very easy to kick Ge Huaimin.

After inspecting all the way and seeing the reclamation of many tuntians, Zheng Lang returned to Weizhou City.

received the edict issued by Zhao Zhen and the official edict issued to the world...... Since Yuan Hao's back, he has repeatedly begged to be attached; However, he wants to slow down my teacher, and he is only for blackmail, and he is to accept it by refusal; Besides, Hexi Shimin was turned into a king, and I became his parents, wouldn't it hurt me! From now on, Yang Bian is a minister, but he guards the feudal territory, refines the army, and does not kill the old and the young and burn the clan tent in vain, not because of the battle. The ministers of the generals of the dynasty, known as those who defend the name of the border, asked for their children and grandchildren to be hired by the secretary of the commission. Since then, there is no limit to the number of meritorious heroes, and the private door halberd is given, and the civil and military ministers are allowed to build a family temple, and those who have been given the halberd are still built on the official land, so that there is a detailed system to hear.

finally came to his senses, Yuan Hao would not surrender, that surrender is not called surrender, it is a fraudulent surrender, so that the Song Dynasty is paralyzed and careless, waiting for the opportunity to attack. So let the border ministers not accept any letter of surrender from Yuan Hao.

Many people have died in the northwest, whether they are Han or Tibetan, they are all kings, they are my people, and I am my parents, can you not be sad?

Believe me, he said it from the heart.

Not only him, but the later Song Shenzong was also good, the Northwest Army was defeated, and many soldiers died, Song Shenzong cried when he heard the number, his eyes were dripping blood, and his voice was hoarse.

They are all good emperors, but they put shackles on the four big characters of the ancestral legal system.

The halberd and the family temple are honors enjoyed only by ministers who have made great contributions. No matter now, as long as you have side merit, whether you are a civil servant or a military general, you will be allowed to enjoy this honor. Even the children and grandchildren visited them and hired them one by one.

Li Yuanhao made Zhao Zhen angry, otherwise he would not have issued this edict.

Zheng Lang smiled, I don't know what Fan Zhongyan thought when he saw this edict? It's no wonder, he's just a civil servant, he didn't have a golden finger, he made some mistakes in the military, and he can understand it.

Zheng Lang is still a little precautionary, this attack, he didn't look for Fan Zhongyan's help, and he didn't say anything. Afraid that Fan Zhongyan would disagree with him, he would persuade him or stop him.

In autumn, Jingyuan Road is peaceful, and in the north, bloody battles continue.

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Zhang Qi left Fuzhou City, although he was full of guts, he was not in a good mood at this time.

But the military had to listen to it.

However, he was lucky, although there were only fifty men, all of them were cavalry, with a large range of activities, a small number of people, and did not attract attention. Actually came to Qingmeilang safely, located in the middle of Linzhou and Fuzhou City, about 100 miles away from Fuzhou City.

Then he ran into Wang Kai's army, he came out of Linzhou, and he also wanted to send this batch of materials to Linzhou City safely.

But it wasn't Kang Deyu, who brought out nearly 900 soldiers, and for the poor strength of Linzhou City, only 900 people, it was already the largest force that Linzhou City could draw. And all of them were organized by Gao Jixuan and went through a bloody battle of the Qingbian Army.

The two armies converged and their strength increased. However, the target also became larger, and not long after setting out, he encountered nearly 10,000 enemy rangers.

Fighting in the field, Western Xia likes it the most.

When they heard that there were only 900 people in the Song army, they were all very happy, and they screamed and pounced.

But they thought wrongly, these 900 Song troops were not ordinary Song troops, they were 900 tigers, and there was also a tiger king in the army.

Seeing the black pressure of the enemy rushing in, Zhang Qi shouted, did not retreat, but advanced, and took the lead in attacking.

There were only 900 people, but in the dense Western Xia army, it was like a red flower, brilliantly open, and everywhere it passed, blood lotus flowers rolled up.

In the chaotic battle, an arrow pierced Zhang Qi's head, and even Wang Kai thought he was dead. But he didn't die, and saw Zhang Yu stretch out his hand to break the arrow, use his cheek as a lever point for breaking the arrow, break the arrow, pull it twice with his hand, two blood rays spurted out, and then roared and rushed towards the enemy soldiers.

It turned out that the long arrow did not hit his head, but pierced him through both cheeks.

Let him pull out the arrow, not to mention that the arrow has a whisker, even if it doesn't, it hurts.

Seeing this murderer, the Tanguts once again revealed their true colors, and they were so frightened that they turned their horses and ran away.

10,000 cavalry were defeated by 900 people, and most of these 900 people were still infantry, without the Mo knife of the Tang Dynasty, and there was no chopping knife, chopping axe, and hook sickle of the Yue family's army.

Wang Kai was speechless, he was also a brave general, compared to this Zhang Qi, there was nothing brave.

This battle not only defeated ten times the enemy, but also killed hundreds of Western Xia soldiers, obtained many war horses, and Zhang Qi alone captured twelve war horses.

Keep going.

In front was the Song army escorting grain, and the leader was a small soldier named Wang Ji.

also promoted.

led five or six thousand troops drawn from the state capitals of Hedong to escort supplies and came to Fulin Road.

It's not that the official is promoted quickly, but there are no other Song generals who are willing to come to Fulin Road to die, so they have to let this legendary soldier lead the team.

Because he wanted to bypass Jianning Village in Western Xia, Wang Ji and his party came here after going around in a big circle.

And with that comes the real difficulties.

The grain team came to the Tumao River in the northeast corner of Linzhou City, and the boundless Western Xia cavalry army spread rapidly from the end of heaven and earth.

In order to exterminate this grain protection team, Yuan Hao sent more than 30,000 troops.

6,000 infantry PK more than 30,000 cavalry.

Song Yongcheng, the eunuch of the prison army of the grain team, was frightened and cried on the spot, and was about to commit suicide with a silk belt.

Wang Ji said: "The battle hasn't been fought yet, why did you commit suicide?" It's never too late to die if you lose. ”

He also ordered his own soldiers to protect Song Yongcheng, and if the nobles are lost, all of you should be beheaded.

Wang Ji and Zhang Qi were full of guts, but this was a eunuch released from inside and outside the palace, and Wang Ji also had scruples.

But fortunately, Song Yongcheng knew his own weight and did not participate in the command indiscriminately like Wang Yu, otherwise Wang Ji and Zhang Qi would likely become the second Yang Jiye today.

The situation is very dangerous, Wang Kai's subordinates are the Qing border army with strong combat effectiveness, but Wang Ji's troops are the Hedong army that rarely passes through the battlefield.

The enemy not only had more than 30,000 cavalry, but also the most powerful army in Western Xia, a large number of iron harriers.

Wang Ji ordered the grain cart to be blocked in front, and then used a shield to protect the gap, that is, the shield and splitting array knife and dragon and tiger eight array diagram offered by Yang Kai's former subordinate officials.

The Dragon and Tiger Eight Array Diagram is Yang Kai smearing his face, there is a ready-made grain truck, and the three brave generals are here, can they not use it? The Aegis is very bulky, but it has a mechanism that activates the front pattern and can act as an intimidation.

What really worked was the Split Knife, a long knife that was close to the Mo Knife, which was also bulky, but when used to engage cavalry, if it was strong, it could slash enemies on horseback upwards and slash off horses' legs downwards.

The disadvantage is that it is too heavy for ordinary soldiers to use.

It also depends on, for example, in the current situation, the three main generals are not afraid, and at the moment of life and death, the potential of the soldiers will be stimulated, and maybe the heavier Mo knife will be waved and slashed at the enemy.

Set up the chariot formation, and the enemy arrives.

Ten thousand arrows were fired, and many enemies were shot off their horses.

However, the Iron Harrier was fine, this was a heavy cavalry, from soldiers to war horses, all wrapped in thick armor.

However, the weapon is not invincible, the main thing is the command of the general and the bravery of the soldiers, and the rabbit hair chuan proves that the iron harrier can also be defeated.

Wang Ji saw that no matter how the arrow was shot, no matter how the iron harrier shot, it would not damage half a hair, and only shot one arrow, and then jumped out of the car formation. Charge at the enemy while unloading your armor.

To run fast, the armor is too heavy and gets in the way.

Martial arts in the world, only fast is not broken!

With a big shirt, he plunged headlong into the enemy army, and was the strongest Iron Harrier army.

The enemy slashed him with weapons, but Wang Ji was agile and maneuvering, and he couldn't cut him if he wanted to. So he shot him with an arrow, and before the bow was raised, he was already in a different place. In the blink of an eye, the most powerful iron harrier in Western Xia was hacked to death by him.

Thanks also to the Splitting Array Knife, without this sharp long knife, it would not be able to deal with the heavy armor of the Iron Harrier.

Don't worry, the killing god only came out one, and there are two more behind.

Zhang Qi and Wang Kai also led their men to kill from the car formation.

In the fierce battle, Wang Kai also received an arrow in the face, he didn't have the courage of Zhang Qi, he bit his teeth, broke the arrow alive, and pulled it out from both cheeks. If he didn't dial it, he hung the arrow and continued to kill the enemy.

Hundreds of Song troops were once again like hundreds of tigers, viciously pounced on the more than 30,000 Western Xia troops.

It only took a moment to make the Tangut people feel frightened.

To add insult to injury, the Western Xia lord was in a mess, and he didn't know that he was shot to death by the Hedong Song army. The Western Xia army was immediately in chaos, and Wang Kai shouted: "Come out and kill!" ”

People always have blood surnames, and besides, these Hedong troops were not gathered from the interior, but troops drawn from the surrounding states, most of them were border people, and they were also very fierce in peacetime. Seeing that the three main generals and hundreds of Fuzhou soldiers were so brave, their hearts were shaken, and after hearing Wang Kai's shouts, they jumped out of the car formation together.

More than 5,000 Song troops joined in, and the Western Xia army was immediately defeated.

On that day, there were a lot of rabbits in the Rabbit Hair River.

More than 30,000 cavalry, or the main army of Western Xia, was actually chased by 6,000 infantry behind, and people constantly fell off their horses in a hurry and were slashed and killed by the Song army.

The more screams and begging for mercy, the faster the people in front of them ran.

But these are more than 30,000 people, and they are cavalry, huddled together, trying to turn around and escape, what kind of panic will be generated?

Many people were even driven to the top of the mountain in the north by the Song army, and there was nowhere to escape, so Le Ma jumped under the cliff. It's raining again.

In this battle, the Song army killed thousands of Western Xia soldiers trampled on each other, and Sima Guang's notes recorded that it was 10,000. It is not estimated enough, after all, the cavalry is fast, as long as the space is opened, it is easier to escape the pursuit of the Song army.

But there are not 10,000 people, and there is not much difference.

When Zhang Qi returned to Fuzhou City with supplies and troops, Fuzhou was dumbfounded, and even Zhi Jimin was standing there, and he said excitedly for most of the day: "Very good, very good." ”

Wang Yuan quietly came over and said, "General Zhang, I will definitely report this battle to my family minister for you, and let him recommend you in front of the emperor." ”

Zhang Qi was happy, but he covered his mouth again, and there were two big holes on the left and right of his mouth.

The saga doesn't end, it continues.

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There was a man named Zhang Kang in the south.

Civil official, born as a real jinshi.

It turned out to be a petty official who had been obscure.

After the war in the northwest began, he went to the Zhenrong army to make a general judgment, let him get in touch with the military, and his talent exploded. From the general direction of the campaign, the commander-in-chief, to the quality of the soldiers, everything is said.

There are many suggestions that are still good, but the bigwigs in the capital don't think so, you are a little scholar, just on the battlefield, why do you talk about it.

It just so happened that his mother died, and the court boss seized the opportunity, you go back to keep filial piety, and let us be quiet.

The war in the northwest is tight, and the imperial court doesn't know who to use, and suddenly thinks of Zhang Kang, no matter what, he dares to say that he dares to go to the front line. Come back, the court needs you.

No, I'm keeping filial piety.

It's not okay to keep filial piety, the country is in danger, you have to stand up, this is called taking love.

Zhang Kang was forcibly pulled out of his home, first in Chungju and then in Yeonju.

In Yanzhou, there was a conflict with the general Xu Huaide, Xu Huaide, that is, the general who made meritorious contributions to Chengping in Yanzhou. Moreover, he is the son of an official eunuch, and before coming to the northwest, he served as the commander of the former commander of the Forbidden Army Palace in the capital, Zuo Ban Du Yuhou, is a veritable high-ranking official, and also has a deep connection in the capital.

It is difficult to say whether the black complaint is right or wrong when it comes to the capital, but it is not right for Xu Huaide to sue the black complaint.

So much so that Zhao Zhen once had a misunderstanding, saying that Zhang Kang and Xu Huaide were not in harmony, how to manage side affairs? Tell all the divisions that if they want to move to the interior as officials by this method, they will seize all the officials and settle in the extreme places.

With this sentence, if there is no accident, Zhang Kang's fate is already doomed.

Zhang Kang didn't know it yet, and he wrote another book, saying that when the thief arrived in one place, the reinforcements from all roads could only be reinforced after ten journeys each. I came to the enemy to go, and I went to another road, so I didn't have to fight, and I was tired and my army was tired to death. What kind of battles do even more excessive border soldiers have, they must ask the imperial court for approval before they can be executed, and how can they defeat the enemy if they come and go, delaying many hours?

Not reported.

In August, Fulin was in an emergency, and Zhao Zhen asked Xu Huaide to lead 10,000 horses to gallop to help Fulin Road.

Xu Huaide was afraid in his heart, this was not the original Chengping, he had to walk a long way to Fuzhou, and he was easily ambushed by the enemy, and there were only 10,000 people, and the enemy had as many as 100,000 cavalry. So he didn't move forward in Yanzhou. It happened that tens of thousands of troops from Hengshan Xixia came to Kouyanzhou, so Lai stayed in Yanzhou.

Yang Kai wants to train the army in Taiyuan, Xu Huaide wants to defend the enemy in Hengshan in Yanzhou, and Zhao Zhen is forced in the capital.

At this time, the intelligence of Fuzhou was also fed back, especially the various behaviors of Kang Deyu, which made all the soldiers in Fulin and the two states dissatisfied, so they issued an edict to let Zhang Kang go to Fuzhou to replace Kang Deyu.

I don't know if Zhao Zhen has ever thought about it, now that Fulin Road is full of Western Xia Iron Cavalry, how can Zhang Kang arrive in Fuzhou, he is not Wang Ji, not Zhang Qi, just a weak Wenchen. Maybe I thought about it, anyway, I listened to Xu Huaide's words, and I was dissatisfied with Zhang Kang, so let's be a dead horse doctor.

It's not too much, because Xu Huaide is making trouble, Yanzhou actually didn't allocate an entourage, so Zhang Kang could only go to Fuzhou alone.

In late September, I don't know what method Zhang Kang used, but he really came to Fuzhou City safely, stood under the city gate and called the city: "I am a new military horse, please open the city." ”

There was a burst of laughter in the city, and some people said, you are a new military horse, and I am still a new minister.

There is such a new capital that governs the military and horse princes of the Julin Mansion, don't say that at this time, even in normal times, you have to bring at least a few retinues.

Someone shouted, madman, where are you from, where are you going, Fuzhou is not a place for you to play.

Zhang Kang was depressed and said, "I have an edict here. ”

When the soldiers defending the city heard the edict, they finally faced it, hung it with hanging blue, looked at it, and reported to Zhi Jimin, who hurriedly said: "Please open the city gate to welcome the new army horses." ”

Is it really a new military horse?

The city was filled with cheers.

Since the battle in July, the war has lasted for more than 70 days, except for a group of grain guards brought by Wang Ji and thousands of reinforcements brought by Gao Jixuan, no reinforcements from the imperial court have arrived. Although the court controversy is unknown, some people are already speculating whether the Song Dynasty is preparing to abandon Fuzhou and Linzhou.

The imperial court sent new military horses over, indicating that the imperial court did not forget the Fulin Road.

The gates opened.

Sesame seeds, open the door and open the door, a huge treasury, with the hoarse sound of the city gate, will be magnificently displayed in front of the world's eyes.