Chapter Twenty-Three: The Storm of Horse Thieves in the Hetao
To the north of the Great Wall in the northern Song Dynasty is a large plain washed out by the Yellow River, which winds into the bosom, and the large plains on both sides of the Yellow River are called the Hetao Plain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½\\qĪ5ć //
The Hetao Plain is vast and boundless, east of Helan Mountain, south of Wolf Mountain and Daqing Mountain, and north of the Great Wall along the Yellow River, all of which are the boundaries of the Hetao Plain.
The Western Xia occupied the front set of the Hetao Plain and the Liao State occupied the back set, and now the Hetao Plain is full of gunsmoke, and Xia Liao fought in Helan Mountain, in order to take ownership of the Hetao Plain.
The land of Hetao is fertile, the history is long, the Qin and Han dynasties began to open canals to divert water, to develop agriculture, the Northern and Southern Dynasties were occupied by the northern ethnic minorities, became the horse grazing grassland, in the Tang Dynasty there is "the south of the Yangtze River" said.
Today's Hetao Qiantao Plain has become the lifeblood of Western Xia, among the tens of millions of people in Western Xia, about 3 million party members and more than 1 million Han and other ethnic minorities settled here, relying on the fertile grasslands washed out by the Yellow River to graze the future of Western Xia.
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In the northernmost part of Helan Mountain, the battle of Xia Liao was in full swing, and in the southernmost part of Helan Mountain, the ethnic minorities who were oppressed by the party members fell into horse thieves one after another, raging in the south of the Hetao Plain.
Outside the felt shed at the gathering point along the Yellow River, a hundred miles southwest of Xiping Province, thousands of grazing party members were riding horses, driving cattle and sheep towards their homes.
Five miles east of the felt shed, Ou Xifan, dressed in leather armor, rode on a war horse, holding a telescope, quietly observing the actions of the party members in the distance, and behind him. Xiao Rong, who is about fifty years old, sits on a war horse in iron armor, with a phoenix mouth knife in his hand, reflecting the occasional thunder light, making a chilling ghostly light, and behind the two, nearly 5,000 cavalrymen with complete armor, holding sharp blades, quietly waiting in the woods.
"Mr. Au! How's it going? Xiao Rong looked at Ou Xifan with admiration and asked respectfully.
Xiao Rong's admiration is not because Ou Xifan is Zhao Lei's staff, but because Ou Xifan came to Western Xia. came up with a lot of ideas for Xiao Rong, so that Xiao Rong could achieve the greatest success at the minimum cost, and what touched Xiao Rong the most was that that time, Ou Xifan had a strategy to transfer most of the cavalry of a 10,000-person tribe, and finally Xiao Rong looted the 10,000-person tribe that all horse thieves were greedy for and did not dare to move
"Similar to the information obtained, the population of the tribe is about 3,000 people, and the number of young and strong people who can fight is less than 1,000, and the sky is gloomy. The storm is coming, it's a good opportunity! Ou Xifan put away the binoculars. Turning his head to look at Xiao Rong, he said with a smile.
"It can't be a trap!" Xiao Rong asked Ou Xifan with some concern.
Xiao Rong was once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope, from the beginning of the Xia Liao war to the present, Xiao Rong led nearly 6,000 cavalry to start a sweep, although the same Xia Liao clashed with a lot of horse thieves, but who made Xiao Rong led the soldiers and horses the most powerful! Therefore, Xiao Rong was targeted by the soldiers and horses left behind in Xiping Mansion, and five thousand cavalry patrolled the grassland day and night, looking for Xiao Rongdi's traces, but under Ou Xifan's planning, Xiao Rong escaped the pursuit of Xiping Mansion soldiers and horses three times and twice. However, a few days ago, it was planted on the strategy of the soldiers and horses of Xiping Mansion to invite the king into the urn, and the ransacked tribe suddenly became a trap, and if it wasn't for Ou Xifan's telescope to see far, he would have almost been surrounded. Although he escaped safely, he lost more than 600 brothers, and the result is now. When Xiao Rong saw the tribe, he thought it was a trap set by Xiping's soldiers and horses.
"Definitely not, last time it was a tribe of 8,000 people, so it can accommodate 5,000 ambush soldiers, this tribe in front of me is too small, a total of only 3,000 people, and there are many old and weak, plus the herdsmen who are rushing back, they can't accommodate the ambush soldiers at all, so I'm sure it's not a trap, but now the wind is very tight on the Hetao grassland, and it's impossible to sneak attack as easily as usual, Xiao Ye, you see, watchtowers have been built near the felt shed, it must be to prevent horse thieves from sneaking up on the ground, it seems to be a tough battle!" Ou Xifan said after handing the telescope in his hand to Xiao Rong.
"Tough fight! Lao Tzu likes it! Lao Tzu now has 5,000 brothers, and it is not easy to deal with a tribe of 3,000 people, when will we do it. Xiao Rong took the telescope in Ou Xifan's hand and looked at the felt shed, and said boldly.
"When it rains, the sound of the rain can cover the sound of horses' hooves, and the heavy rain can also cover the figure of the cavalry, the closer to the felt shed, the better it is for us, the slower those party members will react, and the faster they will die!" Ou Xifan replied to Xiao Rong with a grim smile.
As soon as Ou Xifan's voice landed, a lightning bolt pierced the sky, and then the rain fell from the Tianhe.
The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the more than 5,000 soldiers and horses hidden in the woods still have no movement, and Xiao Rong's ability to lead troops is not much more than that of the Great Song Dynasty.
"Do it!" Looking up at the sky, Ou Xifan saw that the rain curtain had already dropped to about twenty meters, and Ou Xifan, who knew that the best opportunity had come, shouted.
"Brothers! Rush with Lao Tzu! Money and women are ahead, and money is tonight. Xiao Rong shouted words that made the blood of five thousand people boil, and with a lift of the reins, he rushed into the heavy rain first.
"Rush!" Behind Xiao Rong, five thousand cavalrymen brandished their weapons and rushed towards the felt shed of the party members with Xiao Rong's shouting.
Then under the cover of the rain curtain, Xiao Rong led five thousand soldiers and horses to rush to the front of the Dangxiang camp, only to be sent to the sentry of the Dang Xiang people, the terrible alarm was useless, many Dang Xiang people did not even have a chance to get on the horse and were killed by the horse thieves, rushed into the Dangxiang camp of the five thousand horse thieves, cut down all the people who resisted, and looted all the valuable things such as war horses, cattle and sheep, and women in the tribe, and quickly retreated back to the cottage in Helan Mountain.
Within a few days, horse thieves with a scale of 1,000 people, escorting the first batch of booty, headed towards the southern Song Realm.
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The battle of Xia Liao did not affect the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty in the slightest, and the moat of Bianjing was transported because of the river
The official and commercial ships walking the moat are endless, but the ships passing by Bianjing these days will always stop near the south gate for a while to see the interesting scene of the Great Song Dynasty in the past few days, "Biannan Road Repair".
Outside the Nanxun Gate of Bianjing South City, the onlookers are three layers inside and three layers outside, and many people who are talking in low voices are boasting to outsiders about the pride of belonging to Bianjing people.
Among the crowd of onlookers. The construction of Guobian Cement Avenue has reached the end stage, and the project site in full swing can no longer be seen, only hundreds of people will pave the last cement on the last section of the road, and dozens of workers squat on the cement pavement, trying to smooth the cement pavement.
On both sides of the cement road outside the Nanxun Gate, which had not yet dried, dozens of new soldiers under Han Qi were standing on both sides of the cement road, staring at the pedestrians coming and going, shouting from time to time, scaring those naughty children running around.
On the more than ten miles of road surface that has been dried for pedestrians, tens of thousands of idle people in Bianjing are curiously walking on the cement road. From time to time, some people squatted down and pulled their beards to think about the composition of the cement road, and the children who occasionally fell down, after the cement road hurt more than the dirt road, they immediately cried so much that their parents felt distressed.
"Ding!" The crisp sound of metal resonating spread throughout the Nanxun Gate, and the people who heard the sound all looked towards the place where the sound came from, only to see a hunter with a hunting knife, looking blankly at his hunting knife that had been curled with a bloody mouth, and a shallow knife mark was drawn on the cement road beside him.
"What are you doing, looking for death!" A new sergeant rushed to Orion's side with a long ge. He asked sharply at Orion.
"Master Jun! I've heard them say it's three points harder than iron, just try. Who knows that it is really the same as iron, my hunting knife is curled, and the tiger's mouth is broken, this road is really as hard as iron! Orion replied with a bitter face and a frightened face in the face of the soldier's Changge.
"What a normal person are you doing with the road! Now that the knife is curled and the hand is broken, it can be regarded as a peace of mind! What an idiot, even if you cut through this road, the money to build the road is cheaper than your knife! It's okay to play while playing. Cut the uncle again and let you eat in prison. The soldier put away Changge and said angrily to Orion.
Orion honestly put away his sword, thanked the soldier, and then turned to leave. No one saw it, and the eyes of the departing hunters showed a gleam, and the worry and fear in their eyes were even more clearly expressed. If someone with a heart sees Orion's eyes at this time, they will definitely be able to determine at a glance that this Orion is not an ordinary Orion, but must be a foreign spy.
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Just when the spies of that country were testing the cement road, Zhao Lei was in the imperial palace of the imperial city of Bianjing, being interrogated by hundreds of officials.
Since the start of the construction of Guobian Avenue, the first appearance of the cement road and road repair work attracted a large number of leisure Bianjing people, a few days, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute is building a new, function comparable to the perfect road of the Royal Street, the news spread all over Bianjing, and the court officials naturally also got the news, after many people saw the ability of the cement road, the officials who originally attacked the new policy actually turned their attention to the cement road, so today when the Guobian Road is about to be completed, Zhao Lei was summoned into the palace by the official family, and began to face the interrogation of hundreds of officials.
The interrogation of hundreds of officials is nothing more than the cost of building roads, such as whether they need to be labored, the cost of road repair, etc., to see if it will affect the lives of the people and the interests of hundreds of officials, and these problems Zhao Lei and the official Zhao Zhen have already discussed, so Zhao Lei, who is familiar with the road, quickly coped with the hundred officials, and although the cement road built by Zhao Lei is powerful, it does not cost much, and the labor is not much, so he let Zhao Lei go and began to attack the new deal again.
After Zhao Lei finished dealing with the hundred officials, he watched the court meeting come to an end boredly, but he was about to leave but was left by the officials.
"I really envy Aiqing! The great cause of horse thieves is in full swing, and Yan'an Mansion has received the first batch of thieves from Xixia, and Aiqing is considered wealthy! The official Zhao Zhen saw the confused eyes of Zhao Lei who was left, and said with a smile.
I didn't expect the official Zhao Zhen to give Zhao Lei a big surprise, and when he heard the words of the official Zhao Zhen, Zhao Lei asked in surprise: "Is there any news from Xixia?" ā
"Good news! Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, hundreds of thousands of furs, gold, silver and jade, and thousands of war horses! An income of one million taels! It turns out that horse thieves are the most profitable business! The official Zhao Zhen sighed and took out an official document and handed it to Zhao Lei and said.
Millions of taels of income! Zhao Lei, who was very excited by the official Zhao Zhen's words, hurriedly took the official document and read it carefully.
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