Zheng Lang looked at the decree again.

The text of the decree is not exquisite, only talking about the difficulties of the court, but I don't want him to go to the Khitan, I wrote a sentence in the middle, the Khitan is coming, I am eating for it, and then it is difficult to sleep, but I would rather lose the princess, do not let Qing go to the north to take risks.

I'd rather marry your beloved daughter to the Khitan than risk a little bit when you go to the Khitan.

Zheng Lang suddenly looked at the handwriting and was in a daze.

It is Zhao Zhen's handwriting.

The imperial court's will to the minister is not necessarily written by the emperor, there are edicts, edicts, books, holy decrees and imperial approvals, and so on.

The imperial approval is the local minister to write to the imperial court, major events or hesitant affairs, the two governments will be handed over to the emperor, after the emperor reads, a little simpler, will write a quasi, or not, or annotate a sentence, will be sent to the local implementation of the fold.

Most of the matters are decided between the two governments. Including holy decrees or book making, etc., most of them are written by ministers, and most of them are drafted by the intellectuals. Very few edicts were actually written by the emperor.

Zheng Lang sighed, looked at the east, and put aside the identity of the emperor, only Zhao Zhen had the heart to himself with his fist, what else could he say?

Thinking about what happened in this history.

Later generations are often ashamed, in fact, in terms of the three parties, the Khitan people took the most advantage and suffered the greatest loss, and the real decline of the Khitan began with this blackmail.

The Western Xia organs were exhausted, but the surname of Qingqing was broken, and the Song Dynasty attacked the Western Xia many times, and the Khitan did not ask, so they started from this peace talks.

The Song Dynasty seemed to suffer a loss, but it began to usher in the rarest peaceful time!

The most outstanding performance is Fubi.

I have the knowledge of later generations, and this knowledge even comes from some unearthed cultural relics, so I can see it more clearly. How difficult is it to see through the game?

Fu Bi is very brave and more dignified.

Zheng Lang's affection for Fu Bi is far greater than that of Han Qi, Fu Bi also likes to talk nonsense, and he is not light, but he has very little selfishness, in a sense, he and Cai Xiang and other gentlemen's virtues have been infinitely close to Fan Zhongyan. Especially the performance in this incident.

But why do you have to be yourself?

With the arrogance of the Khitan, it is possible that the war a few months ago did not pay attention to it, where did it go wrong?

Of course, Zheng Lang didn't know what Fu Bi did in order to scare the Khitans.

I didn't think about it, I thought about it for a while, wrote a letter, and said a few things, don't worry about the Khitan, they sent an envoy this time, just to make peace, and if they don't want to fight directly, why waste their tongues. I hope that the monarchs and ministers of the DPRK and China will be stable.

I'm messed up, how can I talk about it?

Then he talked about the matter of Agancheng, once the Western Xia sent troops to the Shrine Valley, how serious it would be, and the possibility of invasion, he made some arrangements. It happened that the planter Heng was sick and did not go to Huanzhou to take up his post, hoping that when he went to the capital, he would leave the planter behind to supervise the war situation. When he returned to Jingyuan Road, let the seed master Heng leave.

There are old species in Jingyuan Road, which is more effective than themselves.

and then transferred Ge Huaimin to Beijing to take up his post. This time it was an overseas operation, it may happen, it may not happen, I made arrangements, but it may not come in handy, so I didn't say it to Ge Huaimin. I am afraid that Ge Huaimin will interfere after hearing about it in Weizhou, but it will ruin the plan.

This is a good saying, Zheng Lang is worried that if he leaves Weizhou, Ge Huaimin will spoil his own big things, and even Li Yuanhao can launch an attack in advance.

I want to go back, everyone goes back together.

Zheng Lang and Ge Huaimin have a slight discord, and they have heard of it in the court, but the discord between the generals is not in Jingyuan Road, such as the contradiction between Xu Huaide and Zhang Kang. Zheng Lang didn't react to the court, and Ge Huaimin didn't say anything, so he didn't make a transfer.

Zheng Lang knew that time could not be delayed.

Although a Khitan without upward spirit, it did not pose much harm to the Song Dynasty. Even if there was no Western Xia force and the two countries were at war, the Khitan might not have the upper hand. Tong Guan is losing, not the Khitan and the Song Dynasty are very different, the Western army that came after a long journey, tired of fighting for a long time, the strongest Yelu Dashi, the Khitan is a mourning army or an angry army.

I know, but there are still some people in Khitan who are the main fighters, such as Xiao Hui.

The longer it drags on, the more advantageous it is.

So he once again used the fastest fast horse to send the song to the capital.

The situation changed again and again, and several participating generals were called over, Zhang Qi and Wang Ji had secretly led their troops to lurk in the past, but there were Lao Chong, Di Qing, Zhao Xun, Jingtai and other generals sitting in Jingyuan. If the old breed doesn't leave, Zheng Lang will feel very happy.

Zhang Fangping and Teng Zongliang shouted again, rearranged it, and finally said: "Ask Zhang Fangping about political affairs, and hand over military affairs to Chong Zhizhou and Di Zhijun." ”

also made an arrangement, once the imperial decree was issued, the people were encouraged to keep themselves, and bewitched Yuan Hao to take the opportunity to send troops to the Shrine Valley, which further made Yuan Hao create the illusion that it was the main force of the blind felt that the battle was the main force.

Then he wrote a letter to Blind Felt and gave him a trick.

It had little to do with the war, and it was a post-war strategy.

Including Shiyi, where is it to go west from Huizhou? The Six Grains of Tibet and the Uighurs of Ganzhou! Did they have a friendly sense of the Song dynasty or a friendly sense of Western Xia? This chess game is very deep, and Zheng Lang will definitely not use it until the critical time.

This trick is related to this far-reaching chess piece.

The edict arrived again.

In only five days, Zheng Lang was stunned, how far is it from Weizhou to Kaifeng? 2,900 miles away, I don't know how many horses died in order to send the edict to Weizhou as soon as possible.

Ge Huaimin is ignorant and ignorant, does not get along with the insider, returns to Beijing to take up his post, and likes it very much, who wants to stay in the northwest? Let himself return to Beijing with Zheng Lang to take up his post, which shows that the imperial court attaches great importance to him. By the way, to see if he could be transferred to other roads, he didn't want to stay on Jingyuan Road anymore, and proudly prepared his luggage. Under the propaganda of some people outside Weizhou, the people were stirred, thinking that Zheng Lang would never return to Jingyuan Road when he returned to Beijing this time.

Zheng Lang ridiculed the blind loyalty of the various units of the Deshun Army to the blind felt.

In fact, the people also have a good impression of him. It's a little worse than Cao Wei's kind of arm-like fingers. But it's not bad.

For the Han people, these Qiang people yearn for it the most. The most interesting thing in the Song Dynasty was that the Japanese slaves and the Qiang people of Qinzhou borrowed seeds from the Han people. The reason why there are many contradictions is also caused by the Han standard thinking of the Song Dynasty, which caused the officials to be blind and arrogant. Then there is the clash between nomadic and agrarian civilizations.

The latter cannot be reconciled, the former Zheng Lang does a good job, he also has the idea of Han standard, but he values assimilation, not disdain. The security that comes with a big win. The benefits brought by the city to the people. A heavy sympathy given by the sacrificed soldiers. There are only two points missing, one tuntian has not really worked, and the other is short. Otherwise, his prestige would be above Cao Wei.

It has made the local people very satisfied, and they are afraid of changing another bad official.

Zheng Lang said goodbye to them and persuaded them: "My wives and concubines and daughters have not left Weizhou, and I will not leave Weizhou." This is going to the capital to report to work, don't listen to rumors. ”

came to Cui Xian again and said, "You should also take care." ”

"Well, you want to go to Zhengzhou to take a look at a few mothers by the way this time."

"I know," Zheng Lang frowned slightly, in order to fight Western Xia, he indirectly killed many great monks. And because of the emptying of the gorge and Shimen river before the smoke, several temples on Mount Meru can be crowded. When it spread to the rear, some rumors arose, and I don't know how a few mothers were going to scold themselves.

"Everyone, go back, I'll go back as soon as I go, at most a month!" After Zheng Lang finished speaking, he turned his horse and galloped towards the east with a team of guards.

Now that the riding skills are superb, and the capital cannot be delayed, Zheng Lang almost let the horse go east, and in the blink of an eye, the group became a line of black lines on the horizon, black spots, and finally disappeared, leaving only the white clouds on the horizon wandering leisurely.

……

Shortly after leaving, the Battle of Agan began.

Zheng Lang carefully divided the war process into three parts, one was the preparation before the war, the other was the wartime, and the other was the aftermath after the war. All three are important. Yuan Hao invaded the Niche Valley and did it more secretively, just building a city, and nothing else. Therefore, after the Song Dynasty heard about it in history, Xuan Blind Felt attacked Agancheng and removed this nail. But the blind felt has the power to dial the city of Agan? Not to mention that as soon as the city of Agan was completed, the Tanguts would attack the valley of the shrine.

With the golden finger, the enemy is expected to be the first, and Yuan Hao will be repeatedly sad this year......

When night falls, the spring of the Central Plains is gradually gone, but it is the strongest time of spring at the foot of the Horse Bit Mountain.

The colorful spring flowers are in full bloom, even in the night, they are like a little crystal clear star, shining with a beautiful figure.

The scented night breeze blows, and the fragrance hits people.

This is a relatively secluded small valley, with the Bamen Temple on the side, and the surrounding area except for a small road, which is the tall and vast Mabit Mountains.

Zhang Qi gathered 2,500 soldiers, stared at them and said: "There are only 10,000 people in Yishijilu, and they have been fighting with the blind felt for three days under the Shrine Valley Fort, and there will be more than 10,000 troops led by General Zhao Xun to copy their back roads, and there is not much credit that can be shared in our hands. How many feats you can make depends on your performance that night. ”

Do pre-war mobilization.

Zhang Qi has won several great victories, not only because of his personal bravery, but also because of his ability to mobilize and mobilize before the battle, and to dispatch and observe during the war, otherwise it would be impossible to win again and again.

Zhao Bao, Zhao Zhong, Zhao Sheng screamed.

The others didn't understand, Zheng Lang told them that he had sent someone to pick up their families, but if they wanted to enjoy the glory and wealth in the capital, they had to exchange it for their military exploits. After several battles, these people have made a lot of contributions, and Zheng Lang has also given them many rewards, and even given them positive surnames.

As for the unwitting fact that there are only about 400 people left, who cares? It's not from a tribe, although it's a Jurchen, it's also from Tiannan and Haibei, and it won't have the sad thought of a rabbit dying and a fox.

There was another opportunity for meritorious service, coupled with Zhang Qi's agitation, all of them shouted, full of desire to fight.

Zhang Qi likes it very much, the more fierce the soldiers under him, the better.

He also had another intention, his 2,500 strongest elite troops, against the 10,000 enemies who were tired of casualties, and more than 10,000 Song troops in the rear, this battle was undoubtedly won, which invisibly gave the soldiers confidence.

After the reinforcements were completed, 2,500 men rushed out on horseback.

Zheng Lang saw that the number of cavalry under his command had increased, and he felt a sense of accomplishment. Zhang Qi prefers that only with cavalry can we pursue the enemy and expand the results of the battle.

I haven't commanded an entire cavalry yet.

More than 2,000 people rushed out of the valley with confidence, and the Bamen Temple in the distance quickly disappeared behind them......

To the northeast, this army was somewhat complicated, with cavalry ready to charge, and some logistics troops, with some simple siege ladders and crossbows, quietly touching the banks of the Qingshui River.

Staring at the river, Seed Master Heng looked at the moon in the sky, waved his hand to stop the army, sat down by the river together, ate dry food, rested for a while, and then Seed Master Heng ordered: "Cross the river." ”

This is the upper reaches of the Qingshui River, when spring comes, the snow melts, and the water of the Qingshui River begins to rise, but the water level is not deep, and they wade to the other side of the river one by one. Seed Master Heng gave the order again to tell the soldiers to stop, this time not to rest, but to bandage the horse's hooves and stuff the horses to chew.

After making this series of arrangements, the team got on the horse again.

From time to time, there is a mountain road, which is not very easy to walk, bumping and bumping, like a group of ghosts, touching the back of the niche valley......

The Tibetans on the Niche Valley Fort were on duty, and the blind felt walked to the head of the city in person.

Zheng Lang's instruction to him was to find a way to drag this army for three days. It's not dragging, it's persistence. The area he controls is actually not large, part of Hezhou, and the rest of the area are all his father's territory, or the area around the Qingshui River Niche Guyu. With few troops in hand and a lack of generals to command, Fort Niche Valley was already crumbling after the three-day attack of Ishjilu.

Leaning on a broken wall that was broken by the Tanguts, looking at the other party's camp, the other party was resting, and the camp was quiet. Looking into the distance again, in the distance is the Xilan Ancient Road, crossing the horse bit mountain to Huangping, to the Bamen Temple, the shrine valley to the Agan River, to Lanzhou. The road to Horsebit Mountain is the most dangerous, but where is there an army.

At the third watch, it was quiet in all directions. The moon was semi-circular, and it was almost mid-April, and the night wind shook the trees with a subtle rustling sound.

Suddenly, there was a roar.

A detachment of men and horses struck like lightning towards the Xixia camp.

The Xixia soldiers patrolling the camp had just blown the alarm horn, and the men and horses had rushed to the front of the camp, and two tall figures took the lead in coming to the gate of the village, with knives in their hands, and a few screams, the simple gate of the camp was taken down, and then thousands of people and horses stepped into the panicked enemy camp like monsters.

After Zhang Yu and Wang Ji entered the enemy camp, they quickly divided the soldiers and horses, one south and one north, like two groups of killing gods, and tossed in the enemy camp.

Alerted, some of the enemy began to prepare.

But they were up against probably one of the toughest armies in the Northwest.

Zhang Qi and Wang Ji are two fierce tigers, and there are more than 2,000 tigers of all sizes behind them, Hugh said that this ragtag army with little preparation, even Yuan Hao's strongest iron harrier is here, and it will also be crushed.

One after another, some generals stubbornly organized their subordinates, but they were soon dispersed.

The screams of the wounded, the rising of the fire, and the entire Xixia camp turned into a hell of Chengren.

Blind felt said, "Prepare to attack." ”

Having been waiting for this moment for a long time, all the soldiers dressed up, mounted their horses, opened the gates of the fort, and came out. In fact, the so-called neatly dressed is nothing more than preparing weapons and putting on animal skins. Including Song Jun, all of them are similarly dressed. But that's enough.

Ishjiro was also awakened, and before he knew what was happening, he saw that his men were beginning to rout.

After a glance, he immediately commanded, even if he fled, he had to flee in an organized manner, otherwise 10,000 people would be left here.

Hurriedly organized, and fled to Agan City with most of them.

However, the blind army kept chasing and killing from behind, and covered the head of Ishjilu, especially the army that attacked the camp was very small, but like the devil, as if there was no enemy, they kept killing the soldiers behind them under their horses.

Continuing to run wildly, past a forest in front of him, on the banks of the Agan River, Ishji breathed a sigh of relief, and when he arrived at the city of Agan, there was a city to defend, and he could escape.

As soon as the thought was finished, more troops suddenly poured out of the woods, densely packed, as far as the eye could see, scattered into a fan shape and pounced fiercely.

At this moment, almost all the soldiers were disappointed in their hearts, and a Tibetan shout came from the opposite side: "Surrender and don't kill." ”

It's over, Ashjilu thought to himself.

With his personal guards, he broke out of a gap and continued to run westward. When he was about to cross the Agan River, he turned his head to look at it, and saw a large number of his men in the dawn of dawn, dismounted and raised their hands in surrender. I wondered, so many troops came from the blind felt?

Could it be Song Jun. It's not like thinking about it, the little prime minister of the Song Dynasty went to the capital, and many people kept him, and the scene was very big. Moreover, there were hardly any Han faces to be seen in this army. Could it be that the army was sent to support the army?

didn't have time to think about it, Blind Felt's men didn't let him go, and they were still chasing behind. ran all the way to Agan City, and ordered only the defenders to open the city gate, and Ishjilu led the remnants to flee in panic and quickly closed the city gate. Just as he dismounted and ascended to the top of the city, there were already many enemies behind him, and even ladders were ready, and the archers were shooting, but the number of soldiers in the city was too small, so they quickly let the blind felt army kill under the city wall, set up ladders, and rushed up one by one.

At the beginning of the day, Yi Shijilu looked at the more and more blind felt on the head of the city, and opened the north gate of the city in disappointment and fled to Lanzhou.

The battle was not over, and the army led by Seed Master Heng rushed to the Wachuan River in the southwest of Mabitshan, where there was another walled fort in Western Xia, Wachuan Huicheng. The castle is not big, but it is backed by Mount Horsebit and faces the Wahui River, which is very dangerous. The two cities are horns of each other, and they are strangled by the lifeline of the shrine valley. If you break the city of Agan, you will break the city of Wachuan.

The army quickly came to Wahuichuan, this fort must be quickly resolved, and there are still some troops in the direction of Lanzhou, and it is not in line with the strategy of this time to drag it down.

After a bloody battle, because the blind felt was weak, the Western Xia soldiers who defended the city were very lax, and they did not expect that the blind felt would turn defeat into victory, and the two coalition forces broke out, and in the evening they captured the city of Wachuan Huicheng.

The two cities were all destroyed, and there was no way to occupy Wahuichuan City, and the terrain was unfavorable. The same is true of Agancheng, which is on the west side of the Agan River and is vulnerable to attacks by the Tanguts. Take some of the building materials and move them to the east bank of the Agan River to build a new city.

Lao Zhong left 5,000 soldiers of various tribes to assist in the defense and fortification of the city, and the rest went back together.

The drama is finally on. If you have mental calculations or no intentions, the majority will fight the minority, and you will win. But the following ones make more sense.

This battle killed more than 3,000 Western Xia soldiers, mainly the Qiang and Tubo people in Lanzhou, and more than 4,000 prisoners of war. But am I thin on you? The Song Dynasty forbidden, for the sake of your life to be better, I took the risk and secretly let you trade. Why are you attacking me? ”

The POWs bowed their heads.

If it makes sense to attack the Song Dynasty, they are also weak-hearted if they attack the blind felt. The victory was a little calmer, and Guan Jian was defeated again.

Blind felt came to a badly wounded captive, cried aloud, and said, "Is there anything more tragic than fratricidal cannibalism?" Why bother, why bother? ”

What heart-warming words!

All the captives wept.

Everyone was crying together, and the blind felt was originally done according to Zheng Lang's clever plan, so as to buy more people's hearts, at first it was fake crying, and finally crying moved and cried silently.

Hugging their heads and crying for a long time, the blind felt ordered to bring medicinal herbs, bandage the wounds of the wounded soldiers, release them back one by one, including the horses, and let them take them away, and instructed the families of the sacrificed soldiers to come to the east bank of the Agan River to claim the corpses.

At that time, after hearing Zheng Lang's proposal, Master Heng was so impressed that he threw himself to the ground.

This is the real and most perfect battle, which will extend countless favorable space for manipulation, the entire remnants of the six valleys of Lanzhou, the Qiang people with their hearts towards Tibet, and even the Uighurs who are far away in Ganzhou and their hearts towards the Song Dynasty, there will be many people who have rebelled against Yuan Hao. Combined with the rampant conquest of Shiyi and Yuan Hao, in one fell swoop, the arrow was shot to the region outside Suzhou!

But this was a local battle, and a bigger battle was in the capital.

After five days of running wildly, Zheng Lang finally arrived in the capital. Before he could get off the horse and rest in peace, he was taken to the palace by Zhao Zhen. is still in the imperial study, Zhao Zhen and more than a dozen bigwigs are all waiting for him.

After saluting, Zhao Zhen said, "Zheng Qing, why is it so fast? ”

"Your Majesty, I have been in the northwest for a long time, and I often ride horses, and my riding skills have increased slightly."

"It's been a hard journey."

"It's a little bitter," Zheng Lang rubbed his thighs, but his buttocks were actually worn out, and he felt a faint pain, but he couldn't lose his etiquette.

Suddenly, the eunuch outside came in and reported: "Concubine Miao asks to see you." ”

The person who worries the most these days is her, who is willing to marry her own daughter to the distant Khitan!