Cai Jing came, the world was in chaos, and everyone hated him to the core. But Cai and Tong are not ambiguous at all to the outside world, and what they do is responsible for the country and Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi, Song Zhezong, and Zhang Dian!

First of all, in December last year, in order to vent his anger to the military, Zhao Ji let Han Zhongyan, Zeng Bu, An Tao, Fan Chunli and others leave at one time for the crime of abandoning Hehuang! Of course, taking this opportunity, he also reshuffled the court.

At the end of January, Cai Jing, who was promoted to the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, decided to launch the second Xihe River opening and recovering the Hehuang! The army is ready-made, and the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty is still brave and good at fighting, and it is the leading force today!

Who will lead the way? The general has withered, and the third generation of the Seed Army, the best wise general, and the son of the Seed Brother, has died in Western Xia, and the Seed Army was in a low mood for a while. Yao Jiajun was born in the Xihe Corps, and he was originally the best candidate, but unfortunately, in all the battle formations, Yao's army charged more than one battle, and the overall command was insufficient. It's really unreassuring to be alone...

With Wang Zhan? Wang Zhanru is alive, of course, he is the best candidate! The last time he won the big victory was the best proof that he only had to do it again. It's a pity that the Song Dynasty destroyed the Great Wall by itself, forcing its own master to commit suicide!

After all, it can only be Wang Hou! Wang Hou is the son of the famous general Wang Shao, Wang Shao is the first time that the Xihe River was opened and the Shouping River was the first to be opened! Led by his son, regardless of experience and fame, everyone expects it!

But everyone knows that it is difficult to let Wang Hou start work!

On February 29, Song Huizong personally asked Wang Hou: Do you have any requirements? Just mention! Wang Hou was not polite, and made a very rare request - I am also in charge of Xihe Lanhui! From the day of inauguration, no matter what minister, as long as it involves the war in Hehuang, it must be discussed by the Xihe Economic Strategy Division! No one but me has the right to decide!

Zhao Ji thought about it and agreed. He understood that Wang Hou was half cold and half resentful. The last time I went abroad to play with my life, I had to beware of the cold knife of my own people behind my back, Wang Zhan died, and I was demoted! It's sad to change anyone!

So good. This time, the soldiers in front of them were completely reassured. But Song Huizong still has a small condition - to send a new generation of armed eunuch Tong Guan as a supervisor!

This is the first time Tong Guan has shined on the battlefield! To be honest, at this time he had nothing but enthusiasm! If the Great Song Xijun still has a little affinity for him, it all comes from his teacher Li Xian! Gonggong Li is never ambiguous in marching and fighting, and he is also very kind to the soldiers, and he is his own family in the army. Tong Guan? We'll have to watch again... In this atmosphere, Tong Guan left the capital Kaifeng, rode lightly, crossed the border, and arrived in Xizhou!

On June 14, Xia Chongzong and Li Qianshun sent an envoy to Liao again to propose marriage.

Same. The army of Wang Hou and Tong Guan set off from Xizhou to officially fight the second Xihe Kaibian Battle! The army was divided into two routes: the South Route Army was led by Gao Yongnian, the general of Minzhou, and Yao Shimin, the main general of the Yao Army, and Wang Duan, the younger brother of Wang Hou, were deputies, leading 20,000 Han and Tibetan coalition troops out of Beijing and Yuguan. The northern route was led by Wang Hou, the main general, and Tong Guan, the eunuch of the supervising army, and went out of Anxiang Pass, crossed the Yellow River, and entered Bajinling. The Northern Route Army was the main force.

After the opening, Tong Guan did two things, both of which were recorded in history. He also deeply won the favor of the Northwest Army. First, the army had just left the country, and suddenly a holy decree came from the rear. The hearts of the whole army were raised, and everyone knew what was going on. At this time of the year, there must be something important, something big, and usually not a good thing!

Tong Guan walked aside alone and unfolded the holy decree to see. During this period, no one robbed him, and no one dared to ask questions. He was the overseer of the army and the emperor's spokesman in the army. He has the right to do so. As the whole army watched, he finished reading the decree and inserted it into his boots. Get back on your horse and continue on your way as if there was no such thing. On the way, someone finally couldn't hold it anymore and came to him and asked him what the holy decree said?

Tong Guan was very relaxed and smiled, "The emperor urges us to fight bravely and succeed"

Oh... The hearts of the whole army were relaxed at once. For so many years, the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty has never been afraid of the enemy in front, but it is really afraid of the holy decree and the chapter in the rear! Every time, they were left to die in a mess. But this time, the new emperor actually wrote a letter to encourage him, he is really a caring person of the army, and he is worth it!

So the whole army was excited and killed Ba Jinling! On the 16th, the army arrived in Hezhou. On the 17th, the army came to Anxiang Pass, and in front of it was Ba Jin City!

But what they didn't know was that the decree was still a nightmare. Just as they were going out of the country, the capital suddenly caught fire. The fire was so great that the palace was shaken. Zhao Ji felt that this was a bad omen, a warning from heaven. He urgently called a halt and let the Northwest Army return home. Can you imagine: if you really return to China, how big a blow to morale will be? The top leader is a waste that can be paralyzed by a fire, so what kind of energy does his subordinates have to do things?

Tong Guan pressed down the decree and stuffed it into his boots like a piece of papyrus. Balls! Keep playing! If he wins, he will resist and disobey the order. If he loses, he can't even think about how he will die...

The war began normally under Tong Guan's cover-up, and then he did the second thing. As a supervisor, he asked the commander Wang Hou to fight, and he led the vanguard to attack Ba Jinling, and he opened the door for the first battle of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty!

The geography of Bajin City is too dreamy, if you want to know what it looks like, you can click on the game page to find that kind of demon castle. It was a high hilltop, surrounded on all sides by a dizzyingly deep ditch, filled with water, and there was no way to cross it. The only passage was narrow and long, winding and winding, and it was impossible for the three knights to charge side by side. As for the thickness of the city gate, you can imagine how many thousands of years of undeveloped primeval forests in Qinghai Province, how thick the board and how high the material is not?

This kind of natural danger is simply desperate in the era of cold weapons, Tong Guan muttered in his heart while beating his horse and galloping. The striker let him get what he wanted, but what should he do if he wants to get off to a good start?

But after quietly approaching Ba Jincheng, Tong Guan was instantly ecstatic. His luck is so good, it is simply the blessing of his mentor Li Xian's spirit in the sky - the gate of Bajin City is actually open!

Outside the city gate, the Tubo army was piled up like cabbage, lazy and listless, is there a more ideal posture than this? Brothers, cut it down - without waiting for Tong Guan to give the order, the super-experienced Xihe Legion rushed over. Surely! You must rush in before the Tubo people react and close the city gate!

The Song generals Xin Shuzhan and An Yongguo ran the fastest, and they succeeded, and they really approached the city gate before the Tubo people could react, and started a melee. According to their thinking, they should go forward to kill the Tibetan people and go all the way into the city gate, so that it will be done. It's a pity that they ran too fast. Not only did the Tibetan people not react, but even their own people behind them didn't follow...

More than 100 individuals hit the natural insurance... An Yongguo was squeezed down the trench by the Tubo people and fell to death, Xin Shuzhan withdrew with people, and when Tong Guan arrived with people, it rained heavily again, and the Tubo people closed the city gate...

Depressed! Tong Guan opened the door and hit the mountain, disgraced. I had to write a battle report to Wang Hou in the back and ask for support. Wang Hou quickly replied, asking the front army to wait a while, and the army will arrive tomorrow. Watch me break the enemy for you!

On the 18th, Wang Hou's main force was in place, and then things made Tong Guan dumbfounded. He has been thinking about it, and he has also tried his best to transfer out the war books he has read and the battle examples he has discussed one by one, and lean on the battle of Bajin City, and he has to find the most suitable tactics!

But after Wang Hou was in place, he understood what kind of organization the Great Song Western Army was. It's just a violent gang! What a tactic! It was the boss who personally faced the enemy, surrounded and beaten fiercely, and the big killing weapons such as the divine arm bow opened fire at full speed, and everyone went into the city to eat half a day later!

The 3 sons of Doropa, the lord of Bajin City and the great chief of Miaochuan in Tibet. Two were shot to death, and the youngest son, Amun, was shot in the eye and went deep into the skull. In this way, you can still run away with arrows and successfully go to see your father alive. The rest of the Tibetans? All those who died ran away and fled into Qingtang City...

The Battle of Bajin City was the first battle of the second Xihe Kaibian. And every battle after that. Almost always this way, like this, this way!

On the 19th, Wang Hou marched into Ningtao Village. Gao Yongnian of the Southern Route Army arrived at the city of Rova and broke through the city. 20th. Wang Hou and Tong Guan led 2,000 light cavalry to raid the remaining Tubo party in Bajin City to relieve their worries. Li Zhong was left to defend Bajin City, and the army still returned to Ningtao Village. On the 21st, Wang Hou marched into Anlongzhai.

On the 22nd, the southern and northern armies jointly besieged Huangzhou City, this battle was the hardest of the hard battles, Wang Hou actually launched a general attack overnight when it was late and the enemy's reinforcements arrived! The reason is: the Xihe army is now lone deep, seeing the arrival of the Tubo reinforcements, if the reinforcements are more than this way, then they will suffer from the enemy, as long as they fail under the city of Huangzhou, thousands of miles away from the border, it is a dream to escape back! Victory, death!

The war unfolded in every corner of Huangzhou City, at the head of the city, at the bridgehead, at the water village on the edge of the ditch, and at the city gate, the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty attacked for 1 day and 1 night at any cost! One day later, on the evening of the 23rd, the Tubo people were in civil strife, and the great leader of the southern Jiangsu Mo Ling had a psychological breakdown, he did not jump out of the city wall to surrender to the Song army, but took the initiative to apply for an internal response, and opened the gate of Huangzhou...

The Battle of Hehuang achieved a partial victory, and Huangzhou was defeated by the Song army! The next step is Zongge City and Qingtang City, as long as you win again, the battle of Hehuang will end! The timing is good, and the whole army advocates taking advantage of the victory to pursue and win to the end in one go! But coach Wang Hou stopped! He said he needed to take a break. Hearing this, the Xihe army was silent, as if they remembered something, they didn't insist anymore, everyone put down their swords and guns, and found a place to rest. Tong Guan, the chief eunuch of the prison army, returned to Kaifeng on behalf of them, and the apparent reason was to report on the work...

Regarding this "reporting work", all the Xihe army knew what was going on, and Kaifeng City and even the whole Song Dynasty also understood it. Wang Hou wants to seek justice for Wang Zhan and the Great Song Dynasty Western Army, and by the way, he also asks for a life talisman for himself! Last time he recovered Hehuang, Wang Zhan did a lot of beautiful work, but how aggrieved he died! Now that we have won again, what awaits us? If he still wins how beautiful he is, and how ugly he dies, then he should stop there! Hope is only half the win, and the punishment is only half ...

This was the current situation of the Song Dynasty at that time. It's the summer of 1103, and a subtle logic has emerged in China. This logic became the dominant truth in the following centuries. For example, the more victorious the generals, the more they are excluded, the more capable and ambitious the people are, the more they are suppressed, and even the wars that are clearly won have to be reparated... There are more and more such things, and they have gradually become something that all Chinese recognize in their hearts! How did this come about? How is it transmitted? There was basically no before the Song Dynasty, and it became popular after the Song Dynasty. We need to think more about this when we look back on history...

Fortunately, Wang Hou's luck was good. First, his war is ongoing. Second, the person who returned to Beijing to report on his work was Tong Guan.

Soon the news was transmitted back to the northwest, and Zhao Ji of Song Huizong was very clear in his attitude, and after confirming that the news of the victory was true, he accepted the congratulations of the civil and military officials, which set the tone for the whole incident - the winner is meritorious!

In July, he first raised the salary of the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty, sent wine and meat, and then restored Wang Zhan's reputation, and sealed Wang Hou and Tong Guan. On August 1, the old matter was brought up again, and Han Zhongyan, Zeng Bu, An Tao, Fan Chunli, Jiang Zhiqi and others were once again severely punished for the crime of abandoning Hehuang. Such as Zeng Bu, the most notorious wall grass died 3 years later from the time of Wang Anshi's reform in the Xining period to the accession of Zhao Ji to the throne in the third year of Yuanfu...

After all this was done, Wang Hou's heart calmed down. Leaving Gao Yongnian, his younger brother Wang Duan, Wang Heng and others in Huangzhou to appease the Tubo people. On the 18th, the army marched again, crossed the Yellow River in Laibin City, and on the same day, the army captured the Dangbiao City and the Yigong City. On the 27th, Wang Hou killed Benmichuan City, and met more than 3,000 Tubo soldiers on the way, but he didn't say it! In the field battle on the spot, the Tubo people were defeated, burned the bridge and fled. On the 28th, when Wang Hou was repairing the bridge, the Tubo people attacked again and were defeated again. On the 29th, the army captured the city of He.

In October, Wang Hou was appointed as a teacher. On the 8th, the army returned to Xizhou. Tong Guan, the eunuch of the prison army, escorted Wen Biao and other Tibetan chieftains back to Kaifeng to report on their work. This is the end of the first phase of the second Xihe opening!

This month, Brother Ying, the leader of the Wanyan tribe, died. Like his fourth brother Po Ra Shu, he is also a transitional figure, but Brother Ying lives on because of another name, that person is called "Ah Shu" Ah Shu is the leader of the Sushi Lie Tribe, because he lives very close to the Wanyan Tribe, so his fate is tragic without exception. The only thing that is a little special is: Ah Shu is very clever, and when he found it badly, he escaped from Lu alone and hid in the territory of the Great Liao Kingdom. The story of Ah Shu is very long, and it looks like the annual rings of the Liao Kingdom... Wanyan was succeeded by Brother Ying's nephew and Jin Shizu's eldest son of Jin Shizu's impeachment of Libo, Jin Kangzong, Wanyan Wu Yashu (Jin Taizu's eldest brother of Wanyan Aguta), this is still a transitional figure, he finally survived all his uncles, and let the leader position return to the impeachment of Libo... (To be continued......)