Guo Cheng ran wildly all the way in front, running extremely coquettishly, and there was a lot of chickens and eggs in the back.

After Wang Shao received the report from Kuaima, he was also crying and laughing, Zheng Lang put forward two requirements with a tactful attitude before leaving, the first is to win and not to lose, and the second is to be fast. But Guo Cheng was too fast, and the whole military operation was advanced by ten days!

In fact, there are three passes in Huangzhou, not Miaochuan City, without him, the Miaochuan area is an area controlled by the Wen family, although it is under the jurisdiction of Dong Yu, Hugh wants to think about how loyal the Wen family will be to Dong Yu, of course, before the reform, don't expect how loyal the Wen family is to the imperial court.

As soon as the Song army arrives, the Wen clan will surrender. As soon as Song Jun left, the Wen family would defect to Dong Yu again. Therefore, the strength of the Wen clan is not the focus of the problem. There are three key crossings, and the sacrifice of the assault will be very heavy, and in this line, there is a shortcoming, the number of troops!

It may be enough to deal with Huangzhou, but there is still it, Xixia!

As long as the number of troops is 15,000 to 20,000 casualties, it will lead to a series of bad consequences.

I thought about it before and after, and looked at my subordinates.

There are three generals he trusts the most, Miao Zhu, Jing Sili and Wang Junwan. Jing Sili has died tragically, and Wang Junwan has other uses. After thinking about it, he called the veteran general and Bin and said, "You quickly take 5,000 soldiers and horses as the first and go to Miaochuan City, and also, General Guo Chengsan will weigh a hundred staffs." ”

"Whoa."

"Besides, after you went to Miaochuan City...... Wang Shao explained in a low voice.

He Bin went down, and Wang Shao reported the matter to Zheng Lang again.

Zheng Lang couldn't cry or laugh, and Li Shunju said: "Gong Zheng, General Guo is meritorious." ”

In any case, the capture of the crossing of the Yellow River and the capture of Bajin City made it almost impossible to lose. Why do you need to be beaten with a cane?

"It's like them. The whole military discipline is out of order. Zheng Lang shook his head and smiled. This is Wang Shao, who likes to open and close, Guo Cheng has Wang Shao's appetite, if it is someone else. It is possible that Guo Cheng will be beheaded for public display to strictly enforce military discipline. But while Zheng Lang couldn't cry or laugh, he was a little relieved in his heart, because he faintly let him see a trace of the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

"Let's go." Zheng Lang put down the military newspaper and didn't care, but went out of Guwei City and continued to train new soldiers, especially the thousands of soldiers transferred from Hedong and Hebei, Wang Shao took away the courage among them, and the remaining 2,000 people stayed in Guwei City together.

After seeing these soldiers, Zheng Lang was faintly more worried in his heart.

After Wang Shao left, the training was very strict. Even deliberately use a wooden knife, or break the spearhead of the arrow. Almost practiced.

Some people think that Zheng Lang's training is too strict, Zheng Lang did not explain much, there are more warriors in Hedong, Hebei, and when the Tang Dynasty military system was established, only Hebei did not have government soldiers, because any strong man could be reused. The reason why An Lushan defeated Geshuhan was that most of the soldiers used were Hebei soldiers. But the times and the situation are different, and the soldiers are also fierce. Whether it was the Tang Dynasty or the beginning of the Song Dynasty, they mostly fought with the Hu people in the north, and the wars were repeated, so the people were fierce. Since the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the Song and Liao countries have been peaceful for a long time, and the Khitan has not crossed the border to fight the grass valley. Born in sorrow, died in peace, the fierce atmosphere of the people is declining, it seems that the imperial court has raised many village soldiers and archers in Hedong, Hebei, and the actual deterrent significance is far greater than the actual combat significance. If they really fight, if other conditions are equal, Guo Cheng's two hundred or dozens of Western troops of the Song Dynasty can easily defeat the two thousand Hebei Hedong Township soldiers in training.

This situation does not change, not to mention the recovery of the sixteen states of Youyun in the future, once the Jurchens rise, they will be invincible when they go south. Unless all the technical officials of the Ordnance Superintendent who have studied the science of physics come together, one by one powerful weapons will be developed in advance.

After looking at it for a while, his subordinates came to report that Bao Shun had come to ask for a meeting.

Zheng Lang returned to the city and met with Yu Longke. Yu Longke also took two young men, who were the sons of blind medicine, Zheng Lang understood, and said: "I can't leave Guwei City for the time being, and when I go west in the future, I am going to go to mourn the blind medicine." ”

"Gong Zheng, don't dare to do this," Yu Longke rubbed his hands and said.

"Bao Shun, don't worry, the court will treat your nephew well, and in two months, the Mid-Autumn Festival will be held in the Fan Hou Alliance, and I plan to support one of them as a Fan Hou."

"Wait?"

"This is what His Majesty told me to do before I came," Zheng Lang said the plan of the Waiter.

Yu Longke thought for a while and said, "Do the princes of the DPRK and China agree?" ”

"Why don't you agree?"

"That's good," Yu Longke's eyes were a little complicated, but after thinking about it, in this way, it would be equivalent to the children and grandchildren having security, gains and losses, and said with a smile: "If that's the case, Hehuang will become the eternal barrier of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"No, the Western Xia will not last long, the Western Xia will be extinguished, the water and soil west of Chiling will be destroyed, the population will be sparse, and the imperial court has no intention of the Western Regions, then all the people of Tubo will live a happy and peaceful life. It is Your Majesty's dream that all the people live a good life, and all the people, including the entire Hehuang 700,000 people, whether you Tubo or Qiang. ”

"Yes," the answer was satisfied, and although he was a little melancholy in his heart, Yu Longke still left respectfully.

The arrival of Yu Longke made Zheng Lang think of one more thing, Xibawen, the big leader of Xige City (Jishi Army).

Thinking of him is because of the ghost chapter, there is no need to exaggerate the military ability of the ghost chapter, among several enemy countries, the future Cha Ge of Western Xia, and Yelu Dashi of Khitan are the fierce rivals comparable to Wang Shaozhang, and the ghost chapter is still not good. However, this person has a strong vitality, and he has humiliated Song Jun many times in history, not only himself, but also his wife Gui Mo, and his two sons, Wa Gong and Asu, are all outstanding among people.

Dong Yu let the ghost zhang soldiers out of Hezhou, there are two intentions, one is that the ghost Zhang is a famous brave general in Tubo, and the other is that the ghost Zhang is the big leader of Henan, he sent troops to Hezhou, so that Dong Yu and the Song Dynasty can have room for maneuver in the future. However, this person was very annoying in history, and he went out of Taozhou many times, which made the Song Dynasty unable to govern Hehuang with peace of mind, and almost shook the rule of the Song Dynasty in Taozhou at its peak.

At this time, Ghost Zhang took advantage of the great victory and had some contradictions with Xibawen. There were two factors, the first Dong Yu's own son died, and he supported his adopted son Ali Gu as his future successor, many people in Tibet were of noble races, and Ali Gu was a Uighur clan, and the great chieftains such as Xibawen were definitely unwilling to have a Uighur above their heads. Although the second ghost chapter is in Henan, he is bent on running Taozhou and recovering the former glory of Tubo, as a national point of view, he can be regarded as a national hero. But he's a hero. Tibet is also strong. What about the Song Dynasty? What about the millions of Han Chinese in the Northwest? If you want to operate Taozhou, you must divide it into two roads from the Minbo Ancient Road, that is, from Minzhou to Taozhou, and from the west of Taozhou. One is to enter Kuozhou from the southwest of Hezhou, because Hezhou is under the control of the Song Dynasty, and it is very dangerous to enter the Jishi Army from Taozhou. Then it must pass through the territory of Xibawen. In order to achieve this goal, Onizhang had to kick Xibawen away from the Jishi Army.

The contradiction between the two has been very deep since the first battle of Baicheng.

So Zheng Lang wrote a letter and sent it to Wang Shao, asking him to send someone to contact Xibawen.

But in the evening, Wang Shao sent another message that the Guge Kingdom in Zongge City had sent a few high-ranking monks and hundreds of guards to hold a large puja.

The Kingdom of Guge was a powerful country on the Tibetan Plateau. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the last Tibetan Emperor Zamprangdama was assassinated, and his two princes and their royal grandchildren fought for half a century. After the defeat of the second concubine's faction, the king of the second concubine's faction, Jid Nyimagun, fled to Ali, and Ali's original local power, Burang Tashi Zan, the king of the Tu, married his daughter to him and made him king. Later, in the later years of Jidnimagon, he divided the domain among his three sons, the eldest son, Begigon, who occupied Mangyu and developed into the kingdom of Ladakh; The second son, Tashi Gon, occupied Bujang, which was later incorporated into Guge; The youngest son, Dezugon, occupies Zhangxiong, the kingdom of Guge, and the youngest prince becomes the founding head of the kingdom of Guge. It was not until the rise of the Yuan Dynasty that the country was destroyed.

At this time, the Guge Kingdom was at its strongest.

Many people have heard of the Song Dynasty, but because it is too far away, it is not very clear.

Luckily, Zheng Lang did a study of this history in his previous life, and later generations often called the Tsongkha kingdom the regime of the Song Dynasty, and it was recorded in the history books of the Song Dynasty that there was no writing in Tibet, but there was actually writing in Tibet. There is no contradiction in this, after the death of the Emperor, the Tibetan gradually declined, so Dong Yu laid out everywhere, including sending envoys to the Guge Dynasty to introduce senior monks to preside over religious ceremonies, as well as writing, but this writing was not popularized, Dong Yu died, after Ali Gu came to power, as a Uighur, he did not pay attention to the Tibetan script, so the Tibetan script was not promoted in Hehuang.

Zheng Lang replied with two words: supply!

Guge is powerful in the Ali region, but Guge is not the only regime on the Tibetan Plateau, there are many others. The second is supply, on the success of Qinling's invasion of Qinghai, it is because the water and soil west of Chiling were not damaged at that time, and there was no worry about supply all the way.

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the beautiful and rich Dafeichuan and other areas in the past have become mostly Gobi deserts because of the excessive nomadism of the Tuyuhun people and the Tubo people. Unless the Guge Kingdom had the tenacity of the Mongol iron cavalry, it would be impossible for the army to reach Qinghai.

Besides, what is the point of shaking his foundation and supporting Dong Yu? On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, they did not have the ability to achieve unification, and they did not even have the ability to expand their sphere of influence to the western Sichuan region.

Don't be afraid of them, that is, Tubo has the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and there is no talk about the Qinling, so what is there to fear? Maybe Zheng Lang still doesn't know about Guge now, but there are a few in the Qinling Tombs through the ages, if you talk about the military ability ranking, the entire Tang Dynasty and the surrounding countries, this person is only ranked after Li Jing, and maybe even Li Ji is not his opponent. If the Guge Kingdom had come out of the Qinling Tomb, it would have dominated the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau long ago.

Dong Yu's hole card is not Guge, but Western Xia.

……

There was a controversy going on in Western Xia at this time.

Wang Shao's Pingrong strategy was not very perfect, although he obtained Hehuang and occupied important military positions, but if there was endless turmoil, it restrained the forces of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, there is Zheng Lang's plan to wait. In this plan, the imperial court will wait until after the disaster, and will take out a lot of money to build the river and calm the people's hearts. Judging from the cards, the imperial court will operate this area and will suffer serious losses. But if it is properly managed, Hehuang alone can get more than 150,000 iron horses.

Coupled with the centrifugal force of the people of Ganlan and Liang Sanzhou and the Western Xia, it directly threatened the rule of the Western Xia in the Hexi Corridor.

Without the Hexi Corridor, what else could Western Xia have? Therefore, Western Xia will send troops to help.

However, at this time, the Western Xia veteran Wei Minglang Yu stood up to stop it, he said: "After many years of war, my country's finances have been depressed, and it is useless to use few troops, and there are many troops, so there are so many finances? ”

In fact, from beginning to end, Wei Minglang did not approve of the Liang family and the Song Dynasty.

Western Xia is only a small country, relying on the hostile relationship of Song and Liao, it is not easy to survive in the cracks, if there is no Song Liao to contain each other, Western Xia would have been wiped out several times.

As long as you don't make evil, what can you do with that Zheng family? In the Song Dynasty, there were many peaceful factions in the court, and they did not deal with evil, even if the Zheng family was eyeing the Western Xia, he would not be able to send troops to the Western Xia. However, the Liang clan repeatedly fought against each other, and the monarchs and people of the Song Dynasty gradually shared the same hatred. The use of troops in Western Xia seemed to be irresistible anymore.

However, his repeated proposals were not adopted.

"Forever. You bring someone to Uncle Wang to see. Liang's beautiful face smiled, but he sneered in his heart, why does this old guy always linger?

Her nephew, Liang Yongneng, brought a Han with him.

"Forever. Introduce it to Uncle Wang. ”

"Well, he is Chen Duo, the bank supervisor of Jingzhao Mansion in the Song Dynasty, because there was an error in the accounts, and the Song Dynasty government wanted to arrest him. Therefore, I voted for my country. Liang Yongneng is a euphemism, but in fact Chen Duo is not an official, just a small official, because of corruption in the bank, he was arrested by the Song Dynasty and fled to Western Xia.

"Bank, it's not proper, that's the initiative to let the Song Dynasty defeat our country," Wei Minglang said in shock.

The bank has been around for a long time, but neither the Khitan nor the Western Xia dare to imitate it. The first is that there is no huge economy, and the second is the issuance of Jiaozi. The technology of the Song Dynasty should be the first, and Liaoxia did not dare to imitate it, otherwise the Song Dynasty would use advanced technology to issue counterfeit banknotes and defeat itself.

"Chen Duo, you can explain."

"Obey the Queen Mother's orders." Chen Duo stepped forward and said respectfully.

Zheng Lang has Zheng Lang's thoughts, and Chen Duo has Chen Duo's thoughts. The Song Dynasty Jiaozi is not easy to forge, precisely because of the use of some expensive specialties, but the Western Xia also has it, Jiaozi does not necessarily have to use paper or silk, the skin can also be, such as the Xixia specialty Tan sheepskin, this kind of sheepskin only has in the Western Xia, the Western Xia will control the Tan sheepskin, use it as Jiaozi, the Song Dynasty can not be forged. Moreover, Zheng Lang's bank is too conservative, and uses as much gold and silver as a currency store for as many jiaozi issued, but how many people actually know how much gold and silver there is in the bank?

If the issuance is less than five times, let some gold and silver be used as an exchange tool, or issue less than part of the Jiaozi first, so that its prestige can be established, and then issue part of the Jiaozi, there will be no crisis.

The state can get a lot of money and silk with empty gloves and white wolves, and the circulation of Jiaozi is also good for the economic development of Western Xia.

If you find that something is wrong, you can take it back in time. At least when the Great War came, the financial problems of Western Xia could be solved in time. Moreover, Chen Duo also brought a set of mature bank operation models, which will not make the bank have loopholes.

I didn't understand this famous wave, and sighed for most of the day: "So let's use soldiers." ”

"Uncle Wang, that's right," Liang said. She also had no choice, she was defeated by the Song army many times, and there were many nobles who opposed sending troops in China, and Wei Minglang Yu was its leader, as long as he agreed, the country's opposition voice would naturally dissipate.

Wei Minglang Yu said again: "But how to use the army, the Queen Mother, and listen to the words of the old minister, go to the army to fight, it is best to send an envoy to the Khitan, let the Khitan cooperate, and put pressure on three sides, the Song Dynasty will withdraw from Huangzhou under pressure." ”

"Uncle Wang, the mourning family has sent a messenger to lobby the Khitans with gifts."

"Secondly, our country must show sincerity, one withdrawal from Shazhou, two on the way of the army to send troops to Yanzhou or Suizhou, this is the way to encircle Wei to save Zhao also, the way of the soldiers from Lanzhou to Huangzhou, and Dong Yu to join forces together, to resist the enemy together, then not much, as long as 50,000 soldiers, Huangzhou's danger will be solved. The way to get off the army is to use the army to defeat the army and the ancient Wei City. ”

"Yansui's many times in our country have been ineffective, and it may not play the role that Uncle Wang said, and Dong Yu will join forces, do you think Dong Yu will believe it? And the Song Dynasty hoarded a large number of materials, ordnance, grain and grass in Guweicheng, as well as the Prime Minister Zheng. Liang Yibury said.

What is it, is it really for Tudong people to marry.

"Great Minister, although it seems that the Song Dynasty has few troops in Hehuang, and the main force has Wang Shao brought to Huangzhou, it is not so easy. And the use of troops to win the army and Guweizhou still makes people see that our country intends to Liang Huang and will not get the support of the local tribes. Maybe it will succeed, or maybe it will fail. ”

"Uncle Wang, the Song Dynasty has only 50,000 troops in Hehuang, even if you transfer troops from them, you can only transfer 20,000 or 30,000 people, Wang Shao brought 40,000 Song troops, do you mean that my country's 100,000 troops are not the opponent of the 30,000 or 40,000 troops of the Song Dynasty? Do you want me to mourn the family and hand over the Xingqing Mansion to the Song Dynasty! Liang shouted.

Wei Minglang didn't dare to make a sound, and said after most of the day: "If this is the case, the general of the coach must be Ren Duo Lingding." ”

"Hahaha," everyone laughed together. How badly did Renduo Lingding let Wang Shao kill, and let him lead the troops?

"Either let Ye Weima be the head coach and bury him as the deputy marshal."

"Uncle Wang, you don't have to worry about this matter," Liang said coldly.

Once the troops are dispatched, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the Liang family is not used as the commander, but others are the commander. Is Liang reassured?

Persuasion is ineffective. Sigh and walk out. The main thing is that he doesn't know much about the news ahead. Moreover, letting the Song Dynasty get Huangzhou was indeed very unfavorable to Western Xia, so I didn't know how to persuade it. Suddenly, he looked up to the northeast.

Now one can only count on the Khitan.

……

Khitan, Yelu Hongji did not have a summer bowl. It's in Youzhou, because this year is the year of the Khitan Imperial Examination.

A monk came up from Yelu Yixin's house and asked to see Yelu Yixin. Although Yelu Hongji reaffirmed the Buddha's interpretation, Yelu Yixin was the first powerful minister of the Khitan. Not all monks can pay homage, and the porter directly wants to bombard this young monk.

The monk smiled and said in a Khitan that was not very fluent: "There is a gift list here, please please hand it to the prime minister." ”

The porter took a look at it and immediately went in to report it.

Yelu Yixin looked at Lidan's eyes and said, "Let him in." ”

The monk brought a gift box into Yelu's mansion, Yelu Yixin asked his subordinates to retreat, looked at the monk and asked, "Are you from Song or Xia?" ”

"Prime Minister, I'm from Song." The monk said and opened the gift box, which was not heavy. But the contents are very expensive, and all kinds of precious stones, high-quality Khotanese jade, are worth at least 50,000 yuan. The monk said: "This is my first intention, Zhang Xianggong also has it, and there will be one later." ”

Zhang Xianggong refers to Zhang Xiaojie, but the value of his gift is only half of that of Yelu Yixin. As he spoke, the monk took out another gift slip and said, "This is for the future court to Yelu Xianggong." ”

The amount of this gift list will be five times the amount of the current gift.

Yelu Yixin looked at the monk playfully and said, "What do you ask for when you send me such an expensive gift?" ”

"The friendship between the two countries is beneficial to the people of your country and to our dynasty, and I hope that the prime minister can give good words in front of His Majesty. My lord also asked his subordinates to bring you a message, your country has divided the border of Hedong, as long as your country's demands are not excessive, I will give your country a decent explanation. ”

is not to give a decent explanation to the Khitan, this matter was initiated by Yelu Yixin, but to give Yelu Yixin a decent explanation.

Yelu Yixin stared at the jewels in the gift box and continued to playfully say, "What's your name, it's not a small amount of courage. ”

"Prime Minister, I am a nobody, I just give gifts to the Prime Minister, and the two countries are friendly, I don't have any courage at all."

"This matter is extraordinary, you go back and wait for my reply."

"Whoa." The young monk respectfully stepped back.

Back at the inn, another monk also returned, and the two met, and the previous monk asked, "Chongpu, how are you over there?" ”

"This man is very greedy, and he asks me to give a gift to the court, and to give us a gift, and to convince Jeruyisin. Brother Chudao, how are you doing over there? ”

"This thief is ambiguous, but when he sees the gift, there is also greed in his eyes."

"Then it's done, the Khitan thieves are in charge, and it seems that they are really coming to an end."

A total of three people came, Wang Shao's son Wang Hou, the way of planting is simple, and the son of Zhe Kexing is adaptable. It doesn't have to be to let these three people come to the future Song Chaohu to take risks, this is profound, the danger is not high, let the three of them sneak into the Khitan to have a look, and have an understanding of the Khitan, in order to lay the foundation for the future recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

The two waited for news in the inn, and Zhi Keshi disguised himself as a monk of Western Xia, bribed Xiao Guanyin's favorite official Zhao Deyi with a lot of money, and met Xiao Guanyin in the name of lobbying Xiao Guanyin to persuade Yelu Hongji to send troops to the Song Dynasty.

In name or preaching.

Entering the inner palace, several eunuchs folded in half to search their bodies.

And nothing else, the eunuch let him go.

As he walked, there was some light in his eyes.

The Khitan also has a number of etiquette, but it is definitely not as strict as the Song Dynasty, he preached Buddhist scriptures in the name of a monk, and he actually searched his body, so that he faintly saw some very unfavorable signs for Xiao Guanyin.

Paid homage to Xiao Guanyin, Xiao Guanyin was only thirty-four years old at this time, and it was the time when she was in her prime, Zhi Keshi suddenly thought of her grievances and grievances with Zheng Lang, and felt funny in her heart. Of course, it has become a thing of the past, at least now the name is Xiao Guanyin is the queen of Khitan, and it is impossible to like Zheng Lang for a person who doesn't know what identity is.

According to what was said in advance, Zhao Deyi found an excuse to send the palace maid away. Xiao Guanyin said: "You already know that you have come to the palace, I am just a woman, and I can't help you Xia people." ”

Zhi Keshi looked around, saw that there was no one, took off the string of glass Buddha beads from his neck, took out one of them, and smashed it with a paperweight, inside was a thin silk, on which a letter was written in small letters. He handed the letter to Xiao Guanyin and said, "Empress, please take a look." ”

Xiao Guanyin's face lost color after seeing it.

Zhe Keshi let her read it, immediately burned it with a tongue of fire, and said: "Queen, only two people know about this letter, one is Zheng Gong, and the other is you, the queen, and no one else will see it." Gong Zheng instructed the queen to pass the queen under the order, it may happen, it may not happen, but the queen must not be on guard. The queen is beautiful and talented, just like this glass bead, although it is beautiful, it is too easy to break. ”

As he spoke, he bowed down and quickly left the Khitan.

At that time, Zheng Lang wrote a letter, sealed in glass beads, and was also very melancholy, and the letter said a lot, but did not point out a strategy to rescue Xiao Guanyin. When Zhe Keshi smashed the glass beads, this beautiful young woman was also doomed to death! (To be continued.) )