After a day of partying, go your separate ways.

There is also a task, Chongyi and Yanda will send troops to the Shrine Valley and Mabitshan Mountain, and march along the Dongchuan Valley to Xizhou.

In fact, to get Lanzhou, the defense is not as difficult as imagined, the west of Lanzhou is the big river, this section of the river is turbulent, there are not many crossings of the army, as long as these few cross the river to hold, the Xixia people will be out of reach, or from Huizhou to the south, the defense is also this section, as for the north end of Huining Pass is the vast mountains, there are some small roads, but not suitable for the army to advance. And Lanzhou has been known for its iron walls since ancient times.

This time, let Chongyi steal the opportunity, otherwise it would be an army of 100,000 to come, and it would take several days to take Lanzhou. Yuan Hao took Lanzhou is also a stealing opportunity, with Li Jiqian's eloquence to roughly conquer the six valleys, and was killed, if it were not for the same origin of the party Xiang clan of the fan like order and the Japanese Ji Luo Dan rebellion, and the mystery of the order to win over the thirteen tribes of the dragon six divisions, so that the six valleys of the internal strife, coupled with the Song Dynasty ostrich policy, so that Li Deming got the Liangzhou six valleys, so that Lanzhou lost its wings, plus the Tubo civil strife, otherwise Yuan Hao may not be able to get Lanzhou.

Here, the friendship is negligent a little, the national base!

Whether it is the Liugu Department or the Lanzhou Zhufan, even if it is the fifth generation, it has maintained friendly exchanges with the Central Plains. After Zheng Lang came to Weizhou, the convenience and wealth brought by Shiyi, as well as Zheng Lang's alliance and respect for Zhufan, promoted this friendly foundation, and Chongyi was Zheng Lang's son-in-law, so not many ordinary people resisted.

No matter what the reason, the first batch of tasks was finally overfulfilled, Chongyi returned to Lanzhou City, and Zhang Qi also came to Lanzhou City.

Chongyi reported the situation in detail and prepared to send troops to the Shrine Valley, but he was disappointed.

Zhang Qi smiled and said, "Who gave the order to let you attack Lanzhou?" All of them are like you and Guo Cheng. Who else can command this army? ”

"Zhang Zhizhou. The subordinates also saw a good opportunity. If you want to give it a try, as long as the price is not high, take Lanzhou and Hehuanggou as a line. In the future, the burden of the defense of the Niche Valley was also reduced, otherwise the Tanguts would have been able to attack the Niche Valley from both Huizhou and Lanzhou. ”

"You have a bit of a point, but have you ever thought about getting Lanzhou. It means that there is no room for manoeuvre anymore. At least in the past few years, your Weng Weng (father-in-law) has not planned to plan Western Xia. ”

Xixia arrogantly said that Guweizhou is ours, and your Song Dynasty left, this statement is unreasonable, but Guweizhou is not from the Song Dynasty, and whoever has the biggest fist is whoever's. The same is true of the Niche Valley, which the Western Xia must have considered theirs, but the Song Dynasty never recognized the Niche Valley as the Western Xia. If you use the name of Mu Zheng, give Mu Zheng's two sons casually or Mu Zheng himself a vacant official position, the Song Dynasty forcibly occupies the Shrine Valley. There is also a saying.

But Lanzhou is different.

The Song Dynasty shouted that whoever held the empty official position could not hold a foothold.

Coupled with the occupation of Suizhou by the Song Dynasty in the north, the Western Xia could only continue to die.

I don't know how to answer.

Zhang Ji smiled again and said, "That's it." I take the responsibility off, but you give me a good stay in the valley of the niche. ”

There's nothing to do with you over there.

After speaking, Zhang Ji made a send-off action. After Chongyi left, Zhang Ji laughed. He fooled Chongyi, it has nothing to do with what he said, the Western Xia had a three-way army of 150,000 this time, and he wanted the life of the Song Dynasty, what else did he say!

The reason why he left Chongyi was because he took a fancy to his special identity, and when he came to the Niche Valley, Zhang Ji thought that Chongyi was Zheng Lang's son-in-law, the war was important, and it was also important for the people to be pacified. There is still such a long front, and it also needs the help of a powerful general.

So he changed his plan and let Zhou Shiqing and Zhang Yu kill Xiang Niche Valley.

……

Kuozhou is the best place in Henan, the south is the Tang Dynasty's famous Jiuqu land, as well as the convenience of the big river, when the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo people were deadlocked, both sides were in this Tuntian, so the black tooth Changzhi often ran to the Tubo field at night to steal the wheat of the Tubo people, sometimes in a good mood by the way to kill people and set fire, even the Tubo god of war on Qinling took this old splash goods. Now the west of Chiling is a dog's head worship, but the water and soil in Kuozhou have not been destroyed much.

At this time, it was a densely populated place in Henan (the long chronicle is recorded in the Weiqing Tang Dynasty, and Kuozhou recruited the great leader Luo Shi to order more than 1,000 people to join the Russian Asa, and manage 200,000 households. Let me be confused again, the area of Gukuo Prefecture is only a quarter of that of Hangzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Hangzhou is so densely populated that there were less than 200,000 households in the Northern Song Dynasty, and 200,000 households from the tiny Gukuo Prefecture. There's no way to verify it, anyway, you should think that there are a lot of people in Kuozhou).

The largest tribe was the Bao Russian tribe, which was almost outstanding, but the Song army was menacing, and although it organized nearly 30,000 soldiers, it did not dare to resist. The leader of the Bao Russian tribe guarded the city of Kuozhou on the one hand, and asked for help from Ghost Zhang and Dong Yu.

Oni Zhang did not respond.

Gu Miaochuan killed him in a battle, not to kill many subordinates, but to make him lose cohesion, without cohesion, he could not call on all ethnic groups, and Xibawen has been eyeing Zaqu, and personally went to Kuozhou to contact the Song army, let alone divide the troops.

But Dong Yu responded.

However, it is too far away, this is the special terrain of Qinghai, if straightened, from Kuozhou to Qingtang City or Huangzhou City is less than 80 kilometers, the fact is that Huangzhou to Kuozhou is a little better, two hundred miles of road, but Kuozhou to Qingtang must walk one hundred and twenty miles to Chengfeng Ridge, and then from Chengfeng Ridge to walk dozens of miles to Baitu Ridge, from Baitu Ridge there are still 60 miles to reach Qingtang City. Dong Yu would not stupidly transfer the army from Qingtang, but let Ali Gu's younger brother Sunan Dangzheng hold his order arrow and go to Chengfeng Ridge to gather the troops of all ethnic groups east of Chengfeng Ridge.

The Southern Jiangsu Party recruited 20,000 people and marched towards Kuozhou.

Wang Shao stopped again after arriving in Kuozhou, which also gave him the illusion that Song Jun was a persimmon eater, and he could only eat soft ones. Moreover, the number of Tibetan troops has far exceeded the number of the Song army, and it has occupied the right time and place. Therefore, the party march in southern Jiangsu arrived at Kuozhou City with confidence.

As he expected, upon hearing of the arrival of his army, the Song army began to slowly retreat eastward.

Although he was a Uighur race, he was a famous warrior in Tibet, and he was still a young man, and he would be competitive when he was young, and the Song army went all the way west. Beat the river almost like a broken sieve. Come as you want. If you want to go, you can go, then there is this good thing!

So he consulted with the leader of the Russian tribe, and the two armies met and fought out of the city of Kuozhou. It happened that the road from Kuozhou to Michuan City was by the Yellow River, and it was mostly an open river valley, which was conducive to the battle of the Tibetan cavalry. More than 40,000 Tibetan iron horsemen rushed towards the southeast.

Hit the plan.

There are many troops, less than twice the number of troops. Embarrassed to say that the army has an advantage in front of Wang Shao? To hell with the right time and place.

Up to now, Zheng Lang has gradually grasped some of Wang Shao's military connections.

Wang Shao used soldiers, that is, to cut off the wings first, and then deal with the backbone. Because if you move the trunk, the wings will come together to support, which is more difficult to gnaw, but if you move the branches and leaves, the trunk may not be vigorously supported, that is, the trunk supports. Other foliage will not be supported. The branches and leaves are cut off, and the trunk is left with nothing.

Therefore, march into Hezhou to deal with Xizhou first. Then deal with Tao Min, and finally deal with Hezhou and Mu Zheng.

The march into Huangzhou is still the same, it was originally a high profile, don't take it seriously, Wang Shao didn't want to attack Zongge City at all, but it was true to conquer Henan this time, leaving Miao Zhu to stay in Huangzhou, Guo Cheng swept the tribes in the north of Huangshui, it was also true, and then marched from Huangshui to Shengduo Valley, Maoniu City, and finally Dong Yu became a bare-bones commander, what else to use to resist the Song Dynasty?

The same is true of Wang Shao's strategic thinking.

If you want to move Western Xia, you must recover Hehuang, and with the success of the Kind Yi to take Lanzhou, if you consolidate this achievement, you will see the benefits.

It doesn't count, it becomes a thing of the past. Originally, the Western Xia spread its power to the city of Guwei, directly threatening the security of Qinzhou. If Western Xia attacked, as in this case, the local army was dispatched to collect troops from the local area, which would immediately pose a danger. However, who did the Song Dynasty send troops against? Fan people? Qiang? They were just a ghost for the dead, and they didn't have much grudge with the Song Dynasty, and as soon as the Song Dynasty made a move, they gave the Tangut people an excuse to instigate. Fortunately, the Song Dynasty defended Guwei City in the past, otherwise it would be very embarrassing.

Now it's different, the defense line is relatively shortened, retreat can be defended, whether it is Quwu Mountain in the north and Tiandu Mountain, or go west out of Liangzhou to cut off the Hexi Corridor in Western Xia, the move is fatal.

And there are also the movements of Tibet.

Mu Zheng personally declared himself a vassal to the Western Xia, which may not be taken seriously, but Mu Zheng was originally very polite to the envoys of the Western Xia, but he was very arrogant to the envoys of the Song Dynasty, at least an anti-Song boy. Dong Yu is a little better, but he has an adopted son, Ali Gu, if he does not run the river Huang, the army will be full of countless changes.

The same principle, if you want to run the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, you must pacify the Western Xia, and the Western Xia has repeatedly roared and roared to join forces with the Khitan to deal with the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty operates the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, can the Western Xia people not do it?

But nothing is perfect, for example, Wang Shao's strategy, if it is not for Zheng Lang's support, there is no continuity, it may become a mess, this is the case in history, although the merit is not big, there is a good side, there is also a bad side, leading to the eternal controversy Fuxi River.

But Zheng Lang participated in it, so that Wang Shao's strategy could continue, and Wang Shao himself would not hide immediately, so this strategy played a huge role.

The same is true for tactics, it can't be said that this tactic is not good, but if you meet a master, you may lose, but Zheng Lang attaches great importance to intelligence work, and the dense intelligence network immediately makes up for the shortcomings of this tactic.

The same is true for Zhang Qi.

He attaches great importance to intelligence, is good at calculation and strategy, and his favorite thing is the meat grinder tactic, setting a fat bait, rolling the enemy's main force in, and slowly strangling. The biggest requirement of this tactic is to know how to make good use of people, there must be a Dinghai God Needle in the center of the storm to withstand the enemy's tornado, and the generals on the periphery must learn to be flexible and mobile, and they must also have a fierce spirit that is not afraid of death.

This was the case in the Battle of Jingyuan Road, and the tactics of the current East Road Army are still the same. The same is true of the Battle of Pingxia City in history.

As for how to use people, not to mention.

In other words, both of them have certain flaws in their tactics, but because of Zheng Lang, the probability of failure has decreased infinitely if they make up for their flaws.

Of course, being able to think of this shows that Zheng Lang's own military cultivation is improving.

In fact, although this battle is huge and brilliant, it is still a drill in Zheng Lang's heart, an actual combat exercise done in advance for the summer season. The conquest of Western Xia can also be regarded as an exercise to pacify and destroy the sixteen states of Youyun. But at that time, Zheng Lang will most likely fade out of politics.

Can you stay any longer?

If you stay any longer, if you don't have a high degree of merit, you don't know how to shock Zhao Ji to that point.

Seeing that the party march in southern Jiangsu was about to catch up, the Song army stopped unhurriedly and lined up the baggage carts in front, not Liu Yu's moon formation, but let the Tubo cavalry slow down.

The two armies approached, and the Song army fired a salvo of bows and ballistas.

One by one, the Tibetan soldiers fell from their horses, but it didn't matter, as long as they rushed into the Song army and were in close combat, these weapons were useless. Under the shouts of the party in southern Jiangsu, Tubo continued to rush towards the Song army.

But he was wrong.

These weapons only played the role of further forcing the Tubo people to slow down, and by the way, they played a certain role in killing and reducing the morale of the Tubo people.

It is the frontal battlefield that really determines life and death.

The Tibetan people are fierce, the western army is also fierce, although there is the advantage of the plateau, but the Song army is mostly from the local soldiers of Shaanxi, although the sea here is high, but it is not fatally high, and the impact is not great. Of course, there are more Tibetans. But do they have the military discipline of the Song Army? Is there a mutual cooperation of the Song army? Is there still the Song Army's sharp weapons and armor? And also...... Generals! And the talent of the commander!

Guo Cheng was sweeping, Miao Zhu stayed in Huangzhou Ceying, Chonggu was in Miaochuan City, Zhang Cheng was in Ba Jinbao, and Li Hao was in Suiyuan Village. But there are also brave generals such as Wang Junwan, Yao Lin, and Liu Yu in the army. All of them are no less than the party campaign in southern Jiangsu, especially Wang Junwan, even if he is single-handed, the party campaign in southern Jiangsu may not be its opponent.

The reason why he stopped in Kuozhou City was to deliberately create an illusion again, attracting reinforcements from the Ghost Zhang or Qingtang Dynasty to come, and the battle would be decided. At least settle the situation in Henan.

Approaching September, even during the day, it was a little cool in Kuozhou, and even more cold at night, but it was a good time to fight.

The sky is full of white clouds and the sky is blue.

A group of wild geese flew south, probably startled by the murderous aura of countless people on the ground, and let out bursts of mournful roars.

The Tubo people were getting closer and closer, and Wang Shao waved the big flag in his hand.

In the middle, the Song army was still shooting, but the cavalry on both sides took the initiative to meet it.

An army of seventy or eighty thousand, melee in a radius of nearly ten miles, raising dust, it is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye for a while.

The party in southern Jiangsu is a stupid hat at this time.

In a large-scale melee like this, even if the strength of the two divisions is combined, it cannot be said that they have much advantage, and often the command ability of the commander can be regarded as double the strength. In terms of command ability, is he really the opponent of Wang Shao, who has been on the battlefield for a long time?

Yes, the previous Tibetan achievements were very brilliant, that was when the people were alive, and the river was united. How does Tibet at this time compare with Tibet at that time?

Looking at the figures and horses in the gray fog, although the party in southern Jiangsu was in command, cold sweat gradually broke out on his forehead. (To be continued.) )