This time, no one agreed with him to do it, but he just killed it! Reason Aside from the fact that the barbarians are still in chaos inside, he has a great purpose - the enemy kills the imperial court, regardless of whether the official is an extraordinarily bastard or not, but this is an open provocation to the government! You have always been dissatisfied with the Song Dynasty, and if you don't deal with this situation, the stall will be so messy that you can't clean it up in the future!

The battle unfolded, and the entire Jinghu North Road began to be turbulent. Zhang Dian marched quickly, and the barbarians of Yi, Qia, and Ding fled in the wilderness. The situation is promising, but in fact no one is happy. Everyone has learned the lesson before, and Zhizhangdun is that a violent storm has blown past, and wherever the officers and men went, chickens, dogs, people, and animals disappeared in an instant. The situation in the Song Dynasty is very good, but there will always be a day when the troops will be collected... The barbarians will come back again!

In November, the Su clan, the largest clan in Meishan Dongman, surrendered, which was an unprecedented good signal. Zhang Dian then broke the previous record of all the barbarians in the Song Dynasty who ruled Meishan Mountain, either they ran away and withdrew their troops to restore! Instead, more than 14,800 households of the Meishan barbarians and more than 260,000 acres of mountain fields were all classified into the household registration of the Song Dynasty. In order to appease and give preferential treatment, the tax paid by these mountain people is halved compared with that in the mainland, and they only pay one tax per year. Zhang Dian also built two cities, Wuyang and Kaixia, and set up Anhua County.

If you do this, most people will accept it when they see it. What if the task is completed and the target is exceeded? Zhang Dian is not satisfied! Meishan is done, and there are two rivers in the north and south behind!

On February 17, the 6th year of Xining (1073), the Western Xia army invaded Qinzhou and was defeated by Liu Weiji.

In late February, Wang Shao took the initiative again, targeting Muzheng in Hezhou City. The first battle attacked Xiangzi City, a city that must be passed on the Hezhou Road.

Xiangzi Castle fell in the First World War. Wang Shao did not pause, and killed directly to Hezhou. Hezhou was the base of Mu Zheng, one of the two major leaders of the Hehuang and Tibetan tribes. His grandfather Si Luo dominated the northwest back then, even if his strength was equal after 40 years, with Wang Shao's lone army going deep, could he defeat it?

What is surprising is that Wang Shao actually defeated Mu Zheng in a battle, kidnapped his wife, and recovered Hezhou! How? Mu Zheng, you're too embarrassed for your grandfather, aren't you?

But there are two very important reasons that may be worth noting, which is the fundamental reason for the unprecedented increase in the strength of the Song army! First. The weapons are sophisticated. There is the Song generation. There have always been a few magical weapons, which were unique to the Song people who were at the top of science and technology at that time, and the three generations of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties could not imitate them at all! At this moment, it appeared in Wang Shao's army!

1 Horse Chopping Knife: This kind of knife is made by the courtiers of the imperial court. Make a sample knife and hand it to the Divine Sect. Shenzong was overjoyed. It is 3 feet long. The handle is 1 foot long, the cutter head has a large ring, and the steel is shiny. Invincible. During this time, tens of thousands were made to equip the Song army.

However, although the horse chopping knife is strong, it is not unique to the Song Dynasty. The second is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Song people - the Divine Arm Bow! Because its effect is too powerful and the craftsmanship is super complicated, until the fall of the Great Song Dynasty, the Song army has always adhered to an iron discipline: no matter whether you chase the enemy or retreat, even if the situation is dangerous, you must retreat with a divine arm! Too late? Then smash it! Never let the enemy know what it is! This is where the Divine Arm Bow comes in! Once it's dismantled, even if the original is there, you won't be able to assemble it! This can be confirmed in the notes of Ji Xiaolan, a great genius of the Qing Dynasty. The production drawings of all the parts of the Divine Arm Bow are in the "Yongle Canon", but that's it, Ji Dacai still can't copy it!

So there has been a rumor that the Divine Arm Bow is just a legend, it doesn't exist or is exaggerated... But what we see is the fact that in Sichuan and Xiangyang, the Jin army and Yuan soldiers who will be invincible in the world in the future are embarrassed under the bow of the divine arm. The nomads, who are known as good at shooting, suffered heavy casualties in front of it, and were completely defeated in the confrontation between the two armies!

According to historical records: the Shenjian Bow was developed in 1068 by Li Ding, a Qiang man from Western Xia who surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, and was dedicated to Emperor Shenzong. Then Zhang Ruoshui, the deputy governor of the interior, and Li Ping of the West Pavilion Gate made it better. The bow body of the divine arm is 3 feet 2 inches, the string length is 2 feet 5 inches, and the total length of the arrow wood feather is only a few inches (about 20 cm), and the range is more than 340 steps (about 520 meters) after 520 meters, and the power is "into the elm half-pipe"

This power comes from the structure. It is not a single wooden bow, but a composite one. After the finished product of a variety of materials "with the body of the sword, the sandalwood as the bow, the iron as the head of the Dengzi gun, the copper as the horse's face and teeth, and the hemp rope and silk as the string", the string force is so strong that it is impossible to pull it apart with the arm, so you have to put the bow on the ground and step on it with your feet to get on the arrow... So in fact it is not a bow, but a crossbow!

After the future famous Golden Vulture Technique, Yan Zongbi was shot by it in Sichuan, hiding behind a rock and panting, unable to raise his head... And at this time, Mu Zheng was honored and unfortunate to be the first person to eat crabs...

Well-armed or secondary, more important is the command of the army! At this point, Song Jun has a very strange phenomenon! At this time, before Wang Anshi's reform, the combat effectiveness of the Song armies of the Ren and Ying dynasties was generally low, and every time they fought with Liao and Xia, they lost more and won less. And it was less than 3 years since Wang Anshi's reform to Wang Shao's first shot at the opening of the Xihe River, and in such a short period of time, the combat effectiveness of the Song army was reborn and completely different...

There is also the difficulty of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers regarded the Song army as a mustard, and often defeated the Song army with a ratio of one victory and a thousand. But only a few years have passed, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and the Wu family brothers have all been able to shake their opponents and win a complete victory!

How is this going on? The blood of the Song people is always there! As long as the corrupt civil officials and emperors are not suppressed, they will skyrocket at any time!

Back to the battlefield. The "river" in the river has been taken. But it didn't take long to be happy, and immediately came a piece of news - something happened in Xiangzi City behind!

Mu Zheng was very tenacious, and he knew that the Achilles heel of the Song army was the lack of war horses. As long as you give full play to the traditional advantages of the nomads and go around in circles in the vast desert, the Song army will soon be exhausted by me as before, right?

The battle situation really developed according to his assumptions, Wang Shao ordered Tian Qiong to march at night, and he must arrive before the fall of Xiangzi City! Tian Qiong did it. He led his army to Xiangzi City and immediately engaged the Tibetans. As a result, the whole army was wiped out. This is something that can't be helped, Mu Zheng is besieging the city to send reinforcements, waiting for work. In such a situation, even if you are an elite soldier in a hundred battles, it is useless...

Mu Zheng was very proud, and it was nothing that Xiangzicheng was not defeated. I can live in a tent! Now I've found a way to deal with Wang Shao - sports warfare! Just like when Yelu Hugo defeated Cao Bin...

But before dawn, he met Song Jun again. It was the second group of rescuers sent by Wang Shao, Ma Miao. Mu Zheng doesn't understand, what's wrong with the people of the Song Dynasty? Why did you just die, and another group of killings? But nothing, come one and kill the other! So Miao Zhu was wiped out again...

But the main army that followed Wang Shao also appeared! Only then can we understand Wang Shao's combat thoughts: exchange life for time! The first batch of Tian Liang and the second batch of Miao Zhu are just chess pieces, and the intention is to drag Mu Zheng's hands and feet and nail him in place! Until the army is in place. At that time, the general attack and the main force of the Tubo army in Guanghe Prefecture were killed!

Mu Zheng is not stupid. Whether he saw Wang Shao's intentions or not. All know that Lu Dao can't fight hard with Song Jun. Going around in circles and starting again, but this time he reacted a little slower, and two days later, he was in the frame of Maping. He was blocked by the Song army. The pitch of battle begins. The arrows of the Tibetans rained down. And then run away - huh? It is estimated that the rain of arrows on the Song army's side is greater?

The arrow could not shoot the other party, and what was even more frustrating was that the Tubo people found that it seemed useless to run away, and they still couldn't get rid of the Song army after escaping for dozens of miles. After the end, he threw more than 4,000 corpses before he barely escaped...

More than 4,000 were killed. A brilliant field record! But the old thing repeated, and before Wang Shao was happy, the news came again - Mu Zheng ran to attack Hezhou, took advantage of the emptiness of the Song army to recover the old nest, and went into the city to sleep...

At such a heavy price, the method of exchanging human lives for time was used, but the battle was fought back to the original point. Hezhou is still Tibetan!

If you think about the war records of the Song Dynasty's various active attacks before, you will find that Wang Shaoji has fallen into the pit! Every time the Song army was like a bamboo at the beginning, he was broken down in the middle of the standoff, and he was defeated at the end. Is there any exception for Wang Shao to face the stalking of the Tubo people at this time?

Yes! Wang Shao is a miracle in the military history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and his method of victory is completely different from that of the famous Han generals of the Han and Tang dynasties before him. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing are to a large extent hard-fought and victorious. Li Jing, Li Shiji, Hou Junji and other Tang generals are cunning and alert, and they often start suddenly, making aliens unguardable... When Wang Shao of the Song Dynasty arrived, he did not have the large corps of the Han army and the cavalry troops of Hu Feng in the Tang Dynasty, so he was destined to have limited strength and speed. But he told the Tubo people with his actions - you have fast horses, and Han people have brains!

When the Song army fights, it must win strategically first!

On March 7, the reformers introduced the 11th new law, the Righteous Bureau. It was personally promoted by Wang Anshi. His son Wang Yan and his first assistant Lu Huiqing were revised. He presided over the writing of the annotations of the righteousness of the "Book of Songs", "Shangshu" and "Zhou Li", saying that the "Three Classics and New Righteousness" was promulgated in the world as soon as the compilation was completed, as the basic textbook of Taixue and the standard book for the imperial examination!

On the 27th, Li Chaorenzong Li Qiande was named the king of Jiaozhi County.

Yongzhou Zhizhou Xiao Note, a happy soldier, restless Wenchen, envied Wang Shao's opening of the border, so Shangshu suggested crusading against Jiaozhi and recovering the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties! Shenzong was overjoyed, so he ordered Xiao Zhu to be the governor of Guizhou. Xiao injected into the court, and Shenzong asked for a strategy to get a toe. But I didn't expect Xiao Zhu to go against the previous words, but instead emphasized the difficulty of destroying Jiaozhi. The emperor was disappointed, so he ordered Wang Anshi's confidant and Duzhi judge Shen Qi to be the governor of Guizhou on behalf of Xiao Zhu, responsible for opening the border. On April 5, Shen Qi played: I can handle the military affairs on this road in the future. The imperial court from it. Another battlefield of the Shenzong Dynasty is about to open up!

On the 26th, Wen Yanbo dismissed the privy envoy.

This month, in the face of the Yellow River, which is overflowing and raging, this is a major issue that both the old and new parties must tackle. So a person named Li Gongyi offered the method of raising the mud cart with the claws of the iron dragon. aroused Wang Anshi's great interest. The dredging of the Yellow River Division was specially placed, with Fan Ziyuan as the capital and Li Gongyi under him. Prepare to use the "Iron Dragon Claw Mud Truck Method" to dredge a section of the Yellow River from Weizhou to Haikou first...

The camera cuts to Jinghu North Road in the south to see what Zhang Dian is doing? Meishan is done, but Zhang Dian is not satisfied, because there are two rivers in the north and south behind him...

However, before sending further troops, Zhang Dian thought of a very important thing. After subduing the barbarians, they not only have to collect taxes every year, but also establish a school in the local area to promote the poetry and book etiquette respected by the Han people to the barbarians! This matter is of great significance, in order to prevent the barbarians from rebelling again and again, only by changing their minds can it be truly done once and for all!

In this situation, on May 1, the two tribes of Nanjiang Manxiang Yongyu and Shu Guangyin could not hold on, and they surrendered to Zhangdian. The gap between the North and South Rivers has finally opened, and the barbarians are no longer monolithic! Of course: there are also those who are always unconvinced, such as Tian Yuanmeng. This brother has a firm belief, no matter what the social situation is, no matter what the robbery and murder are now very immoral crimes, and the only correct and beautiful way of life is to recognize the way of life of his ancestors! Well, there is some truth in saying that he thinks this way, don't Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Han Qi and other benevolent gentlemen also think so?

On June 27, the twelfth new law of military reform was introduced, the placement of weapons superintendents. Presided over by Lu Huiqing. Originally, the third division was responsible for the manufacture of weapons. Although the number of weapons manufactured was large, the quality was poor, and it was difficult to meet the needs of internal and external wars at this time. At Wang Yan's suggestion, an ordnance supervisor was set up to be responsible for the manufacture of ordnance, and he had the right to reward and punish relevant officials according to the quality of the weapons made. The results of this reform have been significant. A few years later, the Great Song Dynasty had a sufficient number of weapons of high quality to ensure the needs of internal and external wars.

On September 11, Emperor Shenzong personally presided over the martial arts examination in the Chongzheng Palace. Originally, the Privy Council examination for martial arts, if the candidate could not write a strategy, he had to write the military examination book silently. One of the two must be examined! Wang Anshi resolutely objected: This is a martial arts test, should you be taking the Jinshi exam? Can you become a general if you can write "The Art of War" or something like that? Be careful to test out Zhao Kuolai, who is on paper!

On the 18th, Mo Linqin, the leader of Minzhou Tubo, surrendered to Wang Shao. At this point, the first stage of the battle of Xihe Kaibian ended, Wang Shao transferred to the battle of 54 days, 1800 li, recovered the five prefectures of He, Tao, Min, Die, and Tang, and recruited more than 30 million people, tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses. It was the largest border opening operation of the Song Dynasty against foreign tribes, and at the same time completed the flank encirclement of the Western Xia Kingdom! Of course, it's a pity: in the battle under the ancient city of Hezhou, Mu Zheng still slipped through the net...

Let's start from the beginning: When Wang Shao ran thousands of miles away, but was attacked by Mu Zheng again after winning Hezhou City, Wang Shao first stabilized his position this time, stationed in Xiangzi City, and began to expand, completely turning this place into a fortress of the Song army. Then he sent Wang Junwan to attack Mozong City with light and fast horses. The re-dispatch will cross the Taoshui and sweep the south of the mountain. He personally led the army to build military villages such as Kangle City, Liujiachuan, and Jiehe, and placed military rations everywhere along the way, first unblocking his own grain route. (To be continued......)