The situation took a sharp turn
After these preparations, a large net was initially formed, forming a fan to form an encirclement of Hezhou. But Mu Zheng didn't panic at all, and there was really no need to panic, this encirclement was just a virtual situation, Mu Zheng had a vast rear to retreat, and there was still a lot of space for guerrilla warfare... It's just that what he never expected was that in the next moment, Wang Shao's move was suddenly bold, and he led the army directly back to Tabaicheng in the rear of Hezhou, surprisingly, won in a battle, killed more than 3,000 Tubo people, and captured Tabaicheng!
An encirclement has been formed, and the Tibetan reinforcements that may come from Huangzhou are blocked!
By this time, Wang Shao still hadn't moved Mu Zheng. What he wants is not to drive away this person, but to completely defeat Hezhou Tubo! This has to take into account the opponents on every side.
Taozhou also has Mu Zheng's younger brother Ba Jiao. Taozhou is between Hezhou and Sichuan, if the encirclement is not tight, let the two brothers converge, even if they can be defeated, they will definitely flow into the Tibetan nest in Sichuan or Qinghai-Tibet!
In order to completely defeat, Wang Shao chose a very difficult and dangerous marching path that others did not even dare to think of. From stepping on Baicheng to Taozhou, the Song army crossed the Exposed Mountain, there was no way at all, and the whole army dismounted and walked to complete the whole journey!
The reward for hard work was huge, and when the Song army approached Taozhou City, Ba Jiao was not prepared at all! As a local Tubo, he didn't expect that there would be an army to cross the Exposed Mountain! Taozhou City was recovered by Wang Shao! It was only at this time that Mu Zheng woke up in his dream, this person had been lying in the old nest in Hezhou, carefully raising his war horse, just waiting for Wang Shao to kill him, he ran on the horse and went around in circles again. But the nightmare woke up in despair, after which he woke up. Suddenly, I found that I was under siege, and it was blocked in all directions!
If you want to say that Mu Zheng really has two hits, he still didn't panic at this time. After a few encounters, he knew that Wang Shao did not have many troops, and such a large-scale net was simply defensive and weak everywhere. He decided to counter the sneak attack, concentrating his men and horses to rush towards a point of the Song army, causing local advantages to rush out of the city!
But he was wrong again, Wang Shao cast the net, but at the same time he was fishing! Every moment is closely watching the movement of Hezhou City. He had just led his troops out of the city. Wang Shao got the information. The Song army was divided into two groups. One was led by Wang Shao himself, killed head-on, and fought a decisive battle with Mu Zheng! The other side is led by Jing Sili, whose mission is to avoid the main battlefield. Go directly to rob Hezhou City!
Wang Shao and Mu Zheng met near the ancient city of Hezhou. The war suddenly began. It ended quickly, and the war horses of the Tubo people were still very qualified to escape for their lives. After Wang Shao ended the battle, he joined Jing Sili and rushed to Hezhou, and the Tubo people in Hezhou City thought that Mu Zheng had returned. Open the door and let people go. Hezhou City was recovered without a single knife or shot!
Occupying Hezhou, Wang Shao immediately followed up to capture Danzhou. After that, Minzhou Morinqin surrendered. Subsequently, the leaders of the Qiang tribe in the two states of Stack and Tao also rushed to surrender... Wang Shao thus successfully completed the first stage of the opening of the Xihe River. Bitter cold outside. Wang Shao stared northwest in the city of Xizhou, reluctantly, but still wanted to end the battle...
It is said that at this time, the frozen soil was covered and life was extinct, and the wooden expedition that lost the city could not feed the large army. As long as the Song army pursues relentlessly, then Mu Zheng can only surrender except for dying in battle, and there is no third way to go! But Wang Shao could only stop at this time. The generals of the Song Dynasty, the biggest enemy was not the aliens outside the border, but the crooked bigwigs in the city of Kaifeng, the national capital. The main task of this group of big leaders is to suppress the border generals, and openly declare at any time: The border generals are not allowed to hold power, are not allowed to sit on the throne, are not allowed to make meritorious contributions, and especially are not allowed to provoke people of different races!
This is all the selfish attack of the martial artist who wants to be promoted and make a fortune, so he deliberately causes trouble. It's like our Wenchen, who never cares about personal gains and losses, doesn't think about the level of official position, and is dedicated to sharing worries for the country (Wen Yanbo). At this time, Wang Shao made a meritorious service, and he had to report to Lu Lu as soon as he did last time: May I ask the leaders, what should I do next? Is it marching? Is it a garrison? Or change my job? Please instruct the leader as soon as possible...
Over time, grass will grow in the tundra wasteland, and the wood will come back from the dead. And further north, in the city of Huangzhou, there is also Dong Yu, the official heir of the Hehuang Tubo Department. Be careful that he suddenly kills him, at that time, Hezhou City has just been recovered, and anything can happen outside the lonely block!
However: Worry is also in vain, Wang Shao, you better hurry up and run to Kaifeng!
On the 28th, the 13th new law - free of money!
At the same time, there was also a fierce battle on Jinghu North Road. Zhang Dian was very happy that someone jumped out to be a negative example, and he sent troops to sweep away the Tian Yuanmeng tribe, so that the local barbarians could understand the truth - advanced management methods not only have classrooms, but also battlefields!
On October 2, Nam Giang was basically completed, and the situation in Bac Giang was more complicated. Zhang Dian had no choice but to stop and seriously digest this barbarian land.
In just over four years, the new law made the Song Dynasty look new inside and outside, and glowed with a new atmosphere that had never been seen before. If you want to compare, only in the early Song Dynasty Zhao Kuangyin period of the founding of the country did such a fierce deeds appear. After Zhao Guangyi's defeat of Yanyun, the Song Dynasty has been in a state of confusion for nearly a hundred years.
On the 12th, Emperor Shenzong accepted the congratulations of the ministers in the Zichen Palace, untied the jade belt around his waist in public, and tied it to Wang Anshi. This jade belt is called "Jade Hug Belly", which is 14 grains wide and is a rare treasure. The descendants of the Wang family have been treasured until the last years of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Wang Anshi reached the apex of his life at this moment! Who would have thought? Such brilliant results in all directions, in exchange for his first strike!
At this time, it was still in Xining for six years, and the northwest and south were fighting at the same time, and the war had not really come to an end. At the same time, farther west of Jinghu, a new battlefield was also spread.
Beyond Sichuan, that's the beautiful province of Yunnan. In modern China, areas such as Kunming, Lijiang, Shangri-La, and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain are all great places to drool. But in ancient times, that land had a collective name - Southwest Yi. Wild and uncivilized land, since the Han Dynasty, there are Yelang, Yunnan, Qiongdu, Wang, Kunming, Dandu, Ranlu, Baimadi and other small countries. The name has changed a lot, and the temperament is very uniform. It's all the same as Yorokoku! The so-called Yelang is arrogant, never thinking about his own national strength, how powerful the Han dynasty is, and when he is happy, he unites to go out to the mountains to rob.
During the period of Song Shenzong, this piece of people was in 2 Luzhou chieftains (one is called Yanzi. A Axe Hope Forgiveness) under the organization. colluded with the 6 surnames and the 24 surnames of Naxi outside the Yanzhou Mountain, intending to invade and rob the Great Song Dynasty from the place of Shujing.
In May, Wang Anshi sent a man named Kumamoto to quell the rebellion. Unknown? But if you check his resume, you will find that it is very unusual: when he was a young student, he was once ordered by a person - Fan Zhongyan.
An expert can grasp the root of the problem in a very short time, and after Kumamoto took office, he quickly confirmed the main direction of attack. He threw aside the two barbarian chieftains in Luzhou, and ignored the pre-detected invasion point in Shujing.
China has been invaded, and there is a common feature from ancient times to the present, that is, there are internal ghosts! If there is no existence of these national scum and traitors, don't even think about it! That's the point. The people of Southwest Yi dared to take risks this time. It's all because of the Diao people in 12 nearby villages who are his guide and internal response!
So Kumamoto found a reason. Bring these people together. On that day, maybe they thought that what was waiting for them was flowers and wine? But I didn't expect it to be a bright steel knife! More than 100 bloody human heads were cut off on the spot and displayed in Luzhou City! This trick worked better than anything else, and the rest of the people scrambled to swear allegiance. However, there is also a negative example that is not convinced. It's a chieftain named Ke Yin.
Kumamoto then gathered 19 local heroes in Yanzhou. Plus the strong crossbow officer army in southern Qiannan. Led by the general Wang Xuan, crusade against Ke Yin! In a place called Huang Ge, Ke Yin was defeated by the Song army. ran lifelessly into the deep mountains and old forests. In his mind, this is the end of the matter? If you can't beat it, you run, and when you enter the forest, you call it a day? But he didn't know that the market had changed recently, and like Zhang Dun, Kumamoto also liked to go over the mountains and mountains to catch people and play. Grabbed and grabbed, Ke Yin finally collapsed and obediently came out to surrender.
Ke Yin's example was captured and shown to the 2 bandit leaders in Luzhou! This kind of relentless pursuit and killing-style battle made Yan Zi and Axe Wangshu completely desperate. They accepted their fate, and the axe looked at the forgiveness and sent his son to Kumamoto to be a petty official. It's a symbol of surrender.
After that, the Yi people of Shujing, Changning, Wuman, Luo's ghost lord and other tribes all vied with each other, and Fan Bailu, the prison envoy, presided over it, and swore to be a Han official slave forever. This oath was carved into a stone tablet and erected in Wuning...
On January 26, 1074, the 7th year of Xining, Kumamoto reported to the imperial court: Luyi was pacified, and 240 li of land was obtained. After Kumamoto returned to the court, Shenzong was very pleased that "Qing will not hurt the wealth, will not harm the people, once he goes to a hundred years of trouble", Kumamoto was promoted to a third-grade official.
But in the blink of an eye, the entire imperial court was shrouded in gloom and misery - something big happened in the northwest! Everything Wang Shao had worried about before he left became a reality! Mu Zheng made a comeback, and at the same time, Dong Yu, the king of Tubo in Huangzhou, also sent his deputy general Guizhang to lead 20,000 troops to besiege Hezhou. At that time, the defender of Hezhou was Jing Sili. On February 27, in the face of the challenge of the ghost chapter, Jing Sili led 6,000 men and horses in the city to rush out of the city and win the wild war with the Tubo people! 6,000 against 20,000, Jing Sili divided the troops into 4 teams, front and rear, left and right, and it should be noted that the rear team general Li Qi. After several hours of fierce battles and more than a dozen rounds of confrontation, the Song army, which was absolutely inferior in numbers, did not fall behind at all.
At the critical juncture, Ghost Zhang gave full play to his strength advantage and sent a detachment of men and horses to outflank Jing Sili's rear army. Li Kai appeared on the stage, and finally had a chance to perform in the rear army! The performance is to just dodge! Not defeated, but avoided! The Song Army's central army and the front army were suddenly attacked unsuspectingly, and the battle situation took a sharp turn for the worse. Jing Sili ordered a breakout, and after he and his younger brother Jing Siyi broke it, the whole army moved to the nearby mountains. After the battle, Jing Sili beat more than 1,000 enemy troops with 100 horsemen, seeing that the situation was improving, at the critical moment, Li Qi did not hide, he fled directly!
Defeated and returned to the mountain, Jing Sili was full of grief and anger, and shouted angrily to his subordinates, "I am the main general, just now I beat a thousand people with a hundred horses, why didn't anyone come to help me?" Today's army is defeated, and there is only one death, Xie Tingting" said and stretched out his sword and was stopped by his subordinates. In this case, Jing Sili still wanted to defeat the enemy and drive the ghost chapter away from Hezhou City! He once again inspired his subordinates and rushed down the mountain to fight the Tibetans... Jing Sili was killed, and the remnants retreated into Hezhou City and began to wait for help...
At the same time, on March 5, Mu Zheng besieged the city of Minzhou. He was defeated by Empress Dowager Gao's uncle and governor Gao Zunyu (that is, Yu Longke, the leader of the Qiang tribe who Wang Shao had surrendered).
When the news reached Kaifeng, the opposition finally found an opportunity, and they suggested that the emperor directly abandon Hezhou and return all the occupied lands to the original state, wouldn't it be good to leave it as it was? I really don't know if the old bastards are the officials of the Song Dynasty or the officials of Tibet? Are you reading Chinese books or Tibetan scriptures? The territory of Datang, which has been lost for more than 200 years, is it foreign from now on? Have you snatched it back, do you want to give it back?
Fortunately, it is still Emperor Shenzong who is in charge now, not the future 'female Zhongyao Shun' Shenzong Empress Dowager Gao. The emperor ordered Wang Shao and a eunuch named Li Xian to rush back to Xihe in the starry night to preside over the overall situation! Li Xian, a famous eunuch in the history of the Song Dynasty, finally appeared! He himself even decided the success or failure of this Xining change! And the apprentice he accepted is even more famous, and the apprentice will create an unprecedented record in Chinese history - the eunuch was crowned a prince!
At this time, the eternal nightmare of the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty came! After being quiet for 32 years, the Khitans once again jumped out to make trouble at this most critical moment!
On the 19th, the Liaodao sect sent an envoy named Xiao Xi to request the redrawing of the border between the two countries. This is another unreasonable demand made by the Khitans since Fu Bi sent an envoy to Liao to determine the territorial issue 32 years ago. Greedy, like his father Liao Xingzong, Yelu Hongji also wanted to take advantage of the Song Dynasty to show that he was a qualified robber-level emperor. Here, by the way: why do emperors like to do such scoundrel things? Actually, in all fairness, it's not a sin. It is a crime for ordinary people to rob things, but it is a virtue for the emperor to rob things!
Strictly speaking, the emperor who did not grab the land of other countries during his lifetime, or who lost the land of his own country, is not qualified to erect it! Measured by this standard, except for Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi, no one in the Great Song Dynasty is qualified to stand... Of course, Song Huizong Zhao Ji is qualified, if he didn't travel to the north later...
Song Shenzong Zhao Ji's lifelong wish is to have a sacred monument after death, which is engraved with him to recapture the lost territories of Yanyun 16 Prefectures, Dali, Jiaozhi, Hexi, Hetao and other territories that originally belonged to the Tang Dynasty! He even engraved his old revenge for the arrow wound of his great-grandfather Taizong, and eliminated the old enemy Khitan... And so on. If they can be achieved one by one, I believe that His Majesty the Divine Sect will definitely smile at Jiuquan...
When it comes to the Great Liao Kingdom, this is Zhao Ji's biggest heart disease. He is different from the previous 5 emperors of the Song Dynasty: (To be continued......)