Chapter 779: The Increasingly Turbid Tide of History
Not to mention that Lehe was in the clouds and fog at this time, even Wang Lun, who knew 500 years before and 1,000 years later, had a little guess about the situation. After all, what is happening now has become more and more different from the original.
Let's just say that Tian Hu, when facing the Liangshan army who was recruited by the imperial court in the original trajectory, he didn't know where he got the confidence, and he was completely in the posture of waiting for the king to deliver food. It wasn't until the successive defeats of his generals that Tian Hu came back to his senses and wanted to go north, but he didn't know that he had not made the trip in the end, and he was wiped out by Liangshan.
At this time, the puppet Jin Kingdom, to be honest, has pulled a lot more shelves than before. Although there is a Wang Lun rising on the green forest road in this world, the attraction of Shuibo Liangshan is unprecedentedly strong, so strong that many real heroes can't refuse.
But it also played a counterproductive role, that is, the tougher Liangshan also indirectly forced the sediment in the green forest to the other three forces. So Tian Hu, who was still in the dream, didn't know that he had actually picked up a big bargain, although he had lost Sun An, Bian Xiang and other pillars, but the small fish and shrimp that he had snare were more than 100,000 more than before.
There are too many minions, and the momentum will naturally increase. In the past, the pseudo-Jin of only a few states almost occupied the entire east of the river at this time. At the beginning, the Northern Han Dynasty, which was established in Hedong and competed for hegemony with the Song State, was not as big as his Tianhu at its peak.
Therefore, even if the Western Army destroyed the withered and decayed and recovered the lost territory faster than Liangshanbo after Zhao'an that year, it still left Tian Hu enough time to react, so a Fanren cavalry that had never appeared in the history of Hedong appeared so mysteriously.
As for the appearance of this fanqi, what changes will be brought to the national policy of the Great Song Dynasty in the future, Wang Lun is also a little uncertain. Therefore, even Lehe's unaware intelligence officer "Sting" was urgently activated, which was enough to reflect Wang Lun's inner vigilance at this time.
It's a pity that all he can do now is wait. Wait for more and more truthful information to back up his judgment. In order to be the future of Liangshanbo, take the pulse.
Almost at the same time, in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which was not far from the Yuxian Tower at the entrance of Quyuan Street, the top leadership of the Great Song Empire was also holding urgent consultations on the war in Hedong.
"I know he can!"
With a "clang", an inkstone of extraordinary quality was smashed to the top of the imperial steps, and the artist emperor Zhao Ji still rarely had such a gaffe. Of course, the root cause of this extreme sentiment is obviously not because of the death of the imperial court general Liu Yanqing.
"So far, you still tell me that Liao Qi is not terrible, and you can gather and annihilate it overnight! Is this a matter of a few thousand cavalry?! Ultimately. This is the question of whether the two countries can maintain the status quo! ”
This was a small-scale secret room meeting, and the only people who participated were Cai Jing, the minister of power, who was the head of the hundred officials, Duan Chang, the former lieutenant of the infantry army, who was ascended to the throne because of Gao Yu's "martyrdom", and Wang Xiang, who also knew the affairs of the Privy Council. He is the secretary Cheng Zhao Lianghei who was given the surname by Zhao Ji.
Such an irrelevant figure is in the same column as the three important ministers present, which really seems a little weird. Although this person is not a big man in the Great Song Dynasty, he is by no means simple. It is said that he once had another identity, that is, Guangluqing of Liao. It shows that his starting point is not low, after all, he has mixed with the three grades of Yulu. However, as a Han Chinese, he didn't seem to have a sense of belonging to the Liao State, and when Tong Guan was envoy to the Liao State, he secretly offered a feasible plan to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun. Then he won the trust of Tong Guan, secretly brought him to the Great Song Dynasty, and changed the name "Ma Zhi" to Li Liangsi, and later Zhao Ji "Jianazhi". gave the surname Zhao, and there is the current Zhao Lianghei.
Judging from the fact that this person tried his best to dig a pit for the Liao State after arriving in the Song Dynasty, he definitely did not belong to the Khitan spy. Therefore, when Zhao Ji was involved in the resetting of the tone of Song-Liao relations today, he specially called him over.
As soon as Zhao Ji got angry just now, the few old foxes present actually didn't fan the flames. Taiwei Duan is often the commander of the forbidden army who replaces Gao Yu, and his natural position is to have some tendency to fight against the Privy Council, otherwise he will be unstable if he sits in this position for two days, and Zhao Ji will definitely not tolerate his subordinates leading troops and Guan Yin's together. Even when the eight-sided and exquisite Gao Yu was alive, he would also show his independent and reserved attitude from time to time for the princess.
Wang Xiang, who also knows the affairs of the Privy Council, is Tong Guan's deputy, although he is on an errand in the military aircraft, but he is a thorough civil servant, he was transferred here before the position is the secretary of the ministry, at first glance is the old eunuch sea with extraordinary skills, Zhao Ji transferred him to the Privy Council, one to squeeze into the ranks of Zaifu, and the other is not without the idea of imitating Tong Guan's dominance. It can be seen that this person is unlikely to be Tong Guan's henchman.
Cai Jing won't talk about it, and Tong Guan have been pulling and fighting hard all these years, and the grievances and hatreds between the two ministers (public minister) and mother (concubine) can no longer be simply attributed to the simple concept of "traitors are all in the same group". To put it mildly, after all, they are all idols in the minds of their respective henchmen, and it is impossible not to collide with each other in order to cultivate power in order to compete for limited court resources. To say that you are in charge of the people, I am in charge of the army, and they have the trust of the officials, and they are all people who are used to being strong, even if they endure small things, it is impossible for them to have no differences in the concept of governance.
Therefore, none of these three people can be Tong Guan's sworn friends.
But when the official family was furious, they didn't come up to beat the water dogs, but looked at the nose and nose and looked at the heart, and after seeing Zhao Ji vent, his tone was a little softened: "Three thousand Liao cavalry is not a problem, and I also believe that he Tong Guan will not deceive me!" But will there be another three thousand after three thousand, and will the Liao State continue to send troops to come? Will our battle in Hedong eventually turn into a national war with Liao? Ladies and gentlemen, tell me what you think! ”
"The Liao State sent troops to Hedong, and this move was deeply evil. The old minister thought that the Khitan people just wanted to reproduce the old thing of the summer thief's self-reliance on the rebel Tian Hu, in order to contain and consume our country. Wang Xiang was the first to say, "Since the Khitan people have such sinister intentions, and they don't care about the century-old diplomatic relations between the two countries, they must not let them detect that there is still a giant Kou in the Jingdong territory who is stronger than Tianhu, otherwise the Beijing division will have no peace!" ”
Wang Xiang's words made Zhao Ji not know what to think of, and his face that had just eased up was distorted again, but fortunately he didn't continue to smash the inkstone, but looked at the map on the imperial case with great disgust, and looked directly at the Jingdong Dabo who had been crossed by the royal pen vermilion many times.
"Your Majesty, please be cautious about the war with the Liao State! In recent years, the imperial court has used troops too frequently, and although the military resources are still abundant, the accumulated losses of the soldiers are very huge, and they are gradually insufficient to use. Duan Chang stubbornly said, he said that he didn't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive, and he used to have Gao Yu in front of him, but he didn't think much of it, but now it's his turn to be in charge, and he knows that this foundation is already full of holes.
"The imperial court has repeatedly used troops against the Xia State, and the army of Seed Master Dao and Liu Fa has led 100,000 troops each, and has suppressed the Xia thieves from the east and west for more than a year, and is currently in a tug-of-war situation. In the previous imperial court's conquest of Tian Hu, tens of thousands of western troops were transferred from the front line to the east, and the two generals had already begun to complain, and they had to transfer troops again, for fear of affecting the war on the western front. If the war in Hedong expands, Your Majesty is bound to make adjustments to the war in the Xia Kingdom, otherwise our Great Song Dynasty will fall into the embarrassing situation of fighting on two or even three fronts! ”
"Although the Western Army is dragged by the Xia thieves, can't Hebei, Jingdong, and Jingxi transfer troops and horses? There are still hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Gyeonggi, can't they all worry about the country!? "Zhao Ji, the shopkeeper, is definitely Wang Lun's idol, and he doesn't even know how much money he has left.
Duan Chang, as a newly promoted palace marshal and lieutenant, felt that it was necessary to make a deal with the official family, otherwise there would be no soldiers available in the future, which would lead to a catastrophe, and this board would not fall on him? Taking the blame for the dead ghost Gao Yu is undoubtedly the stupidest and most unjust thing.
"In the past three years, the imperial court has repeatedly dispatched forbidden troops from Hebei, Hedong, and Gyeonggi to conquer Liangshan. The bandits in Liangshan alone will harm me by no less than 200,000 officers and soldiers. Many state capitals in Jingdong and Hebei have generals but no soldiers, and they have become empty ......"
"Enough!" Zhao Ji shouted loudly, interrupting Duan Chang's complaint, although the other party's numbers were already too conservative to be conservative, but it still stimulated Zhao Ji, who prided himself on being a saint in his life, so that he, who had always been lenient, lost his temper again and again at this time.
The people present were all old foxes, and they knew that Duan Chang had to tell the truth as a last resort, but they didn't have to carry the black cauldron of the dead, because they didn't want to touch the moldy head of the official family who had lost their demeanor at this time, and suddenly the atmosphere at the scene fell into a cold silence.
I really don't know that the situation has reached this point, just a Liangshan, can actually make the court have nowhere to talk about him, even if the anger of the Son of Heaven does not seem to have any practical effect.
In addition, the battlefield on the Western Front is a meat grinder. For a long time in the Song and Xia dynasties, you build a stockade and I will fight, and I will nail a nail and you will pull it out, and it is common for a small-scale battle to suffer thousands of casualties. And the two sides are fighting a war of attrition, not a decisive battle, and in the long run, it is destined that the loss will not be a small amount.
In addition, Tian Hu, a grass coward, also jumped out of his own claim to be the destiny of heaven, coerced the soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people became bandits, no matter how the officials and soldiers of the imperial court played triumphant songs all the way, the losses could not be ignored, so it was said that Liu Yanqing led the 4,000 western troops to ambush in unison, which was a humiliating defeat.
That's the Western Army!
Even Zhao Ji knew that compared to the forbidden armies of all walks of life, this group could be said to be at least an elite existence that could be at least two or one top, and four thousand people were wiped out like this, so how could he not be in pain?
"Conscription! Zhao'an! ”
From Zhao Ji's mouth, four words finally burst out. The first two words do not have any special meaning, and it is just common sense to recruit soldiers if there is a lack of soldiers. But the last two words have changed the fate of many people. Among them, there was a big man named who was stunned on the green forest road, and took the opportunity to wash his name. (To be continued......)