Wang Shao looked at the sky, there was a special thing to pay attention to in the Northwest War, that is, wind and sand. The impact of the wind and sand in Kuozhou is not as good as that of Western Xia, but when the wind blows, a large number of wind and sand will also blow from the west side of Chiling, and the battlefield is full of dust and fog at this time, which is different from the wind and sand, which is just the dust brought up by the war horse, even if the Song army is downwind, there is not much harm. However, once a strong wind blows and blows a large cloud of sand, the Song army will be defeated.

The weather is not something that Wang Shao can decide, and he can't choose it.

Fortunately, the sky was high and the clouds were light, the breeze was clear, and it was a good weather, and Wang Shao continued to focus on the battlefield.

Since Zheng Lang first came to the northwest, a cavalry was established, and now the scale of the cavalry has expanded. There are not only the Tibetan and Qiang people, but also the forbidden soldiers of the Han people, and the forbidden soldiers occupy more than sixty percent. The forbidden soldiers had to take turns to rest, but after returning to the capital, there were still some pastoral supervisors on the outskirts of the capital, and these cavalry were still training.

Of course, the real combat effectiveness, the Fan cavalry is stronger than the forbidden army in the capital, and the reason why the forbidden army occupies more than sixty percent of the amount is to defend the strength of Gyeonggi, otherwise after a long time, the country's center of gravity will inevitably tilt westward. It may endanger national security, and it may be safe, but at least it can stop the minister's mouth.

After so many years, this cavalry has gradually grown up, and it is unknown whether it can adapt to the cold steppe operations in the north, but in the northwest, there is absolutely no problem.

There are not only 100,000 Han forbidden soldiers to ride, Fan cavalry, and Qiang cavalry, but also infantry cavalry, which are essentially infantry, but they have also trained in horsemanship, and fighting under the horse is their strength, but when they are in a hurry, they can also get on the horse and gallop wildly, or get some fancy racks.

Now both sides have retained a reserve, and the Song army has retained more than 10,000 soldiers on this side, most of them are crossbowmen, spearmen, sword soldiers and shield bearers, but they all have another identity, infantry cavalry.

The rest were cavalry, already on the battlefield.

Wang Shao squinted his eyes and looked at the battlefield. I don't see it, the battlefield is very chaotic, and the soldiers on both sides are entangled, advancing or retreating. If you look at it, these soldiers and flags can draw moving lines in front of you. After several battles, Wang Shao's vision is also improving, his eyes are looking at the battlefield, but his mind is moving lines, and soon a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the battlefield situation began to be favorable to the Song army.

Wang Shao could see the situation on the battlefield. The party campaign in southern Jiangsu is very difficult.

After a long time, it was not until the Chinese army retreated step by step that he saw that it was not good for the Tibetans, so he put a reserve to support the Chinese army. However, at this time, the morale of the Tibetan people began to weaken, and this reserve force was put forward, but it still did not withstand Wang Junwan's attack, and began to retreat slowly.

In fact, this means that a huge crisis for the Tibetan army is coming. Cao Di's polemics, one drum of vigor, two drums of decline. After three drums, the Tibetans had the advantage of their own forces and rushed to the scene, but found that it was not what they thought. Morale will be low, and stalemate to a certain point will mean collapse, which is the same as Cao Di's polemic.

The party in southern Jiangsu can't be seen. I don't know the story of Cao Di's polemic, and seeing a reserve team put on it, it still doesn't work. Fiercely attacked, personally with a reserve, pounced.

Driven by him, it only took a while for the Chinese army to gradually stabilize, and there was a faint counterattack. Li Xian said to Wang Shao: "This party campaign in southern Jiangsu is still good. ”

"Just a reckless man."

After Wang Shao finished speaking, he also began to give orders, and called the veteran Liu Yan over, and said: "General Liu, you take 3,000 soldiers to attack the enemy's right flank, be sure to quickly defeat the enemy, and then kill to the middle." ”

"Whoa."

Liu Yu led 3,000 reserves to kill him.

This seems to be a very unreasonable arrangement, the Tubo people still use the primitive command of the handsome banner, if they want to defeat the Tubo army, they must defeat the Chinese army, cut down the handsome banner, and there will be a great victory. However, Wang Shao did not do this, the reason is very simple, one is that this is Kuozhou, Dong Yu's cohesion is not strong, and some tribes are loyal to Dong Yu, but most of the tribes are only forced by Dong Yu's prestige to send their children to participate in the war. The second is that although the Southern Jiangsu Party Campaign is the younger brother of Dong Yu's adopted son Aligu, he is ultimately a Uighur race, and many people in Aligu are not convinced, and it is not considered a Southern Jiangsu Party Campaign of Dong Yu's adopted son. Although the party campaign in southern Jiangsu is brave and fierce, its appeal is not strong.

It can also be seen from the battlefield that many tribes are fighting separately and are not grouped. The single battle is not weak, but it can be defeated and retreated, which is precisely the reason. If Wang Shao was alive, Wang Shao could only attack the Chinese army, it would be a tragic battle, but now there is no need for this. Of course, if he was alive, there was no need for the Song Dynasty to make enemies with the Tubo people.

Liu Yan rushed over.

At this time, the Song army was victorious, and the morale was at its highest, and the national situation was also very good, even if the imperial court encountered an unprecedented drought, under the strict rescue measures, the people did not appear to starve for thousands of miles, so from the front line to the rear, most of them showed a vigorous and good situation.

And from top to bottom, I began to know that the Song Army's Eastern Route Army had begun a counteroffensive, and there was no need to keep it secret, and morale was undoubtedly at its peak at this time.

Liu Ru slanted into it, originally the Tubo Right Army under the attack of Yao Lin, gradually lost support, Liu Ru's insertion was fatal, the southern Jiangsu Party Zheng personally led his subordinates into the middle of the battlefield, it was to boost morale, but there was no one to command the rear, plus the fog and dust shrouded the battlefield, the left side of Tubo could not see the battlefield situation clearly, the two armies of the Song army flanked, the left army fought fiercely for a while, and fled in a big rout. Liu Yao and the others pursued down, but this was only the beginning, the pursuit was fake, and the two armies took the opportunity to attack the rear army of Tubo.

Some of the Tibetan people were shaken when they saw that the back road was gradually cut off by the Song army. Wang Shao stood on the top of the slope and saw that the time had come, and decisively ordered all the troops to be put on the battlefield. The defeat of the Tibetans began. The southern Jiangsu party could not stop it, so it had to flee to Kuozhou City with the defeated army.

The Song army did not give up and continued to pursue.

The two armies were so wrapped together that the southern Jiangsu party fled to the city of Kuzhou, and the city gate could not be closed, so he could only continue to flee to the north city gate, and the Song army was still chasing after him. By the evening of the next day, the search was over.

Nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses in Tibet were sacrificed after the first battle of Kuozhou, and the remaining more than 20,000 were captured as prisoners of war, and only more than 19,000 escaped.

This was the biggest battle after Wang Shao entered Hehuang. After this war, almost no tribe in Kuozhou had the strength to resist. This time, Wang Shao did not rub any further, and the army then took the city of Fugong, and then passed through the Great and Small Elm Valleys. Launch a fierce attack on the Oni Chapter Department.

Zheng Lang was afraid that Wang Shao would not pay attention to the ghost chapter, so he deliberately talked about a phenomenon, that is, the Goryeo phenomenon. The small ones are ghosts, and the big ones are Goryeo and Western Xia. For example, Western Xia, it is said how powerful it is, but if you analyze it carefully, it is really not powerful. But it has survived one difficulty after another, defeated again and again, and in the midst of continuous defeat, its territory has strangely expanded. The same goes for Goryeo. The Tang Dynasty was not weak, but Goryeo snatched food from the tiger's mouth, and even when the Tang army was still strong, it strangely expanded from the land of Silla, that is, the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, to the city of Pyongyang in one defeat after another.

But not very strong?

It really can't be said that they are not strong, this phenomenon is like weeds, it seems weak, but no matter how the wildfire burns, the spring breeze will be born. The same is true of the ghost chapter. If you want him not to be evil, there is only one way, cut the grass and eradicate the roots!

Wang Shao marched in the early stage, although the means were strong. The national policy was well done, killing pokes on the battlefield and pacifying immediately after the war. This time, however, it was different, and the tactics were not only tough. It's also very bloody. After the army marched south from the city of Fugong, they hung up two big flags, one was the one who offended China. Although it is far away, it will be punished, on the one hand, it is a shame for Jing Sili!

Two big flags and one tree, and the other tribes are forbidden to be silent.

After the ghost chapter killed Jing Sili, he played Jing Sili's head as a leather ball, and once held it in front of the envoys of the Western Regions, as a prop to promote martial arts, this matter was known even to the Song Dynasty, not to mention these neighboring tribes.

Ghost Chapter was defeated twice and also lost its cohesion. From Kuozhou to Jishi Army, there are large and small elm valleys, Jiuqu and other places with abundant water and grass, not only the Xi tribe, the Guozhuang tribe and the Baoru tribe, but also other large and small tribes. Ghost Zhang Gu Miaochuan was defeated in a battle, Kuozhou City was defeated in the second defeat of the southern Jiangsu party, no one dared to break the Song army's sharp edge, after seeing the Song army play two banners, one by one knew very well in their hearts that the ghost Zhang's approach angered the Song Dynasty, so they all did a wall watch.

When the Song army arrived, the east road of Guizhang was cut off by the Xi tribe, unless they fled to the west of the river, and only the Gobi Desert was left in the west of the river, and there was no escape, forcing him to lead his subordinates to meet the Song army in the river meander. This battle was different from the Battle of Kuozhou, the Song army had already occupied the advantage of troops, and Guizhang was defeated in successive battles, so he had to flee again and again and retreat to Xige City.

The Song army kept chasing all the way and came to Xige City, and the rest of the Xi tribe in the city saw the arrival of the Song army, and suddenly turned against the water, and cooperated inside and outside, the Song army took Xige City, and the Ghost Zhang family was all killed. So far, except for the south of Hezhou, the east of the Jishi Army and the west side of Taozhou, Xibawen, Dong, and Mubo have not been taken, and the rest of the regions have been recovered.

At the same time, there is also a significance, although the Tang Dynasty once sent troops to the Central Asian River, but the area directly under the direct management of Qinghai, at its peak, only reached part of Jiuqu, for a period of time, although the Jishi Army Dangxiang tribe and the Tuyuhun tribe west of Chiling were subject to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty did not really occupy this area. The Song army took Xige City, but it was a real occupation and operation, at least in this area, which was a little larger than the territory of the Tang Dynasty. For the weak Song Dynasty, this alone will inspire the morale of many soldiers and ordinary people.

But Hehuang has not yet decided the situation, the more places it occupies, the less mobile troops in Wang Shao's hands, the real main force of Tubo has not been defeated, they are still in the hands of Dong Yu, if Dong Yu will use troops, Wang Shao's situation is not only not better, but on the contrary, the danger is higher.

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In Lanzhou, Zhang Kai received more than 20 guests, representatives of the Liugu Department.

Liugu does not refer to the six tribes, but refers to the valley oasis area formed by the six rivers of Gulang River, Huangyang River, Zamu River, Jinta River, Xiying River and Dongda River in Liangzhou, many tribes in these six river valleys since the fall of Liangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, the tribes spontaneously formed a loose alliance, there are Han people, there are Fan people, the Tibetan people include the Qiang people, Tiele people, Uighurs, Tuyuhun, Tubo people and other races.

Although the Central Plains Dynasty had no way to manage this, Rokutani maintained friendly relations with the Central Plains Dynasty, and even invited Han Chinese to serve as the commander for a long time. The first leader, Sun Chao, was a Han Chinese, followed by Li Wenqian, Wu Jixing, Chen Yanhui, Zhe Jiafang, Shen Shihou, Zhe Xiao Zhi, Zhi Ayu Dan, Zhi Yu Longbo, Pan Luozhi, and Gu Duodu. In fact, in the early Song Dynasty, because of the yearning for Han civilization in the Liugu Department, there were many opportunities at their fingertips, but because of the Khitan's compulsion, the Song Dynasty was not interested in the south, nor was it interested in the west. Eventually, the Six Valleys fell and became the territory of Western Xia.

Even now, the tribes are still not very evil to the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty suddenly sent troops to Lanzhou, and Liang Yi buried more than 100,000 troops in his pocket, including many children of the Liugu Division.

It was originally under the suppression of Western Xia. The Rokutani tribe is gradually declining, and if these children die together, the Rokutani tribe will be even more in danger. So some tribes sent elders to Lanzhou to intercede.

After listening to their words, Zhang Qi took a sip of tea and asked rhetorically: "Elders, if I don't make arrangements and let the Western Xia break through Guwei City, what will be the consequences?" What is the role of your children in the middle? ”

The old men were speechless together.

If the Song Dynasty had not arranged in advance, hundreds of thousands of troops would have arrived. It may be that the three roads will be breached, Wang Shao will become an overseas army, there is no supply, no reinforcements, the whole army will be annihilated, and the Western Xia people will also succeed in obtaining the two states of Xihe, and develop their forces to the south to win over the Qiang of Taozhou. The key thing is that once Guwei City is lost, Zheng Lang will definitely die!

The children of the Six Valleys may not work for Western Xia. But in the middle, it plays an accomplice role.

An elder frowned and said, "Zhang Zhizhou, we sent people under the fence, and we were also forced. ”

Zhang Qi asked again unhurriedly: "After the battle of Huluchuan a few years ago, I tried to show benevolence and righteousness. Release all the prisoners of war in the Xia Kingdom, but what is the result in the end? ”

In the end, it was Liang's more ferocious revenge.

This incident caused widespread controversy in the Song Dynasty, which believed that Zheng Lang's approach was wrong, after all, there were not many people in Western Xia. More than 700,000 households, only more than 1 million strong men, and more than 30,000 prisoners of war for Western Xia. This is not a small number, and it affects not only its military strength, but also its productivity.

In fact, Zheng Lang was forced to do this under the pressure of conservatives in China, and we won a big victory, returned the prisoners of war free of charge, and agreed to reopen the mutual market, ready to give them the New Year's gifts. It can't be said to be unkind, but if Xixia still wants to invade, it's not my fault, but that Xixia can't get better.

The reason why the conservatives want to make peace is very simple, the conservatives are powerful, with the Shuo Party as the center, and most of their families and industries are in the north, once a war starts, it may trigger a Khitan invasion, and their families and industries will be harmed. This is very similar to the Ming Dynasty's Japanese Invaders, who were not so powerful, but the southeastern forces were harmed by the sea ban, so they colluded with the Japanese Invaders to expand their own benefits. As for how many people the real and false Japanese have killed, don't care about their.

The release of prisoners of war was politically compelled and militarily wrong.

Zhang Qi brought up the old thing again, not to say that it was right or wrong, but to release a message, this time Xixia Xiu wanted to have this good thing again. Whether there is a good thing in Western Xia, it may not have anything to do with the Liugu Department, Guan Jian is this expedition, in order to save costs and improve the speed, more than half of the troops come from the Shrine Valley, the West Envoy City, and the Liangzhou area, including the Liugu Department, there are nearly 10,000 children to participate, if it is not for so many children entering the big cage, it is impossible for these elders to come to intercede.

Originally, the power of the Rokuya tribe was getting weaker and weaker, and these 10,000 children could not come back, and the Rokutani tribe would completely decline. These old men are not stupid, they became even more anxious when they heard this, and one of the old men said: "Zhang Zhizhou, our Liugu Department is willing to cooperate with the imperial court to send troops to Liangzhou. ”

Zhang Ji sneered and said: "It's that the imperial court sent troops to Liangzhou, do you think you are wronged." ”

"Don't dare, hundreds of our tribes in Liangzhou are looking forward to China running Liangzhou day and night, but the Chinese army has not come for a long time, and the summer thieves are cruel," one of the old men said with a handful of snot and tears.

Zhang Qi made him a little dumbfounded.

In fact, the life of the Liugu Department has not been easy these years, and the Xixia people did not dare to exterminate the clan, but in order to rule, all kinds of suppression must be carried out, which virtually weakens the power of the Liugu Department step by step, which is convenient for ruling Liangzhou, and the same is true for the Ganzhou region. It was the Song Dynasty that promised to release 10,000 children safely, and the alliances of the Six Valleys were not as beautiful as before.

Zhang Qi quickly figured out all the festivals, smiled slightly, and said: "You should have heard a story that my Chao Taizu once used a jade axe to wave the Dadu River on the map, saying that the imperial court in the west will no longer operate from now on. Maybe you have your own specialties in the six grains, and it can be regarded as a good place in the northwest, but in the eyes of my court, it is not uncommon. ”

However, doubts appeared in the eyes of these elders.

The Song Dynasty did not say that it did not operate west of the Dadu River, but it did not pay much attention to it, and there were many territories west of the Dadu River that belonged to the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty, but most of them were fetters and areas.

The question of these old men was why the Song Dynasty did not want to expand and why did it run Hehuang. Zhang Qi quickly gave them an answer: "Yes, the imperial court is running Hehuang this time, but Dong Yu and Mu Zheng are forced to defect to Western Xia. But don't be mistaken, in order to run Hehuang, the imperial court not only has to sacrifice countless soldiers, but also is ready to spend 30 or 40 million yuan to build Hehuang, and in the future, it will successively use the profits of one or two million yuan of each prison deed share to reward the leaders of each candidate. You say, what benefits did the imperial court get in exchange for Hehuang? ”

These dozens of old men don't know how to answer, the Song Dynasty has no benefit in getting Hehuang, and what is the benefit of getting Liangzhou?

At least the performance of the Song Dynasty in the past, as Wang Shao said, was indeed an extremely introverted country.

But is that really the case?

More than two dozen old men couldn't help but look at Wang Shao, Wang Shao didn't speak anymore, just turned the teacup playfully.

An old man asked, "Wang Zhizhou, how can China trust us?" ”

Zhang Qi replied: "Since the invasion of Western Xia, many soldiers of our dynasty have been killed by Xia thieves, and among these murderers must be your children. Why do you say you want to let it go? Could it be that the Great Song Dynasty owes you the various ministries of Liangzhou? ”

"No ......," but after the old man finished speaking, sweat broke down his forehead.

He understood what Zhang Qi wanted, the Song Dynasty could let their children go, and they must let their children cooperate with the Song army to attack the Western Xia people inside and outside, as a vote! It doesn't matter, but what about the future? If the Song army let their children go, would the Tangut people let their tribes go?

"You can think slowly, but I want to say that you don't have much time." After Zhang Qi finished speaking, in front of them, he asked the guards to bring a large map, which marked the marching routes of all the armies of the Eastern Route Army, and there was no need to keep it secret, so in front of these old men, Zhang Qi looked at the map. These old men did look at it curiously, but after reading it, the sweat on their foreheads became more and more...... (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please read it on m.qidian.com. )