After half a month of marching, we finally arrived in Weizhou.

Wang Hou of Weizhou Jingluo waited outside the city early in the morning, and when he saw Tong Guan, he made a polite introduction.

There will be many people, and Wang Han only remembers Wang Hou and Gao Yongnian.

Wang Hou is about fifty-five or sixteen years old, wearing a purple robe armor, a phoenix-winged helmet, soft leather boots, a red belly around the waist, wide trousers and knee armor, and his own majesty.

The deputy general Gao Yongnian is relatively young, also in his forties, with oblique eyebrows and a purple face.

The two sides have met, but the following generals do not introduce them. Wang Hou invited Tong Guan to rest in Weizhou City, and Tong Guan went, only bringing his personal soldiers, and none of the other generals were brought.

Wang Han felt close to him, knowing that his level was not enough, otherwise he could follow Tong Guan into the city to eat, drink and wash the dust. In this way, it can also be seen from the side that Tong Guan is a measured person who knows what to do and what not to do.

It's all from Tokyo, and it's inevitable that someone else will have a gap in their hearts, and they have concerns about favoritism, so it's better to bring none of them and treat them equally.

It's just that Wang Han suffered, he drove for half a month in a row, and all he ate was military food, but he was wronged, and now he finally arrived in Weizhou to settle down, and the first thing to do is to find a place to treat himself.

The other soldiers were ordered not to go out, but Wang Han's artillery regiment did not care, leaving three people on duty, and the others entered the city in style. The soldiers had no money, Wang Han paid for it, and it was just a meal, and it didn't cost a few dollars.

Weizhou is the Pingliang of later generations, belongs to the border city, and to the west is Xizhou, which is occupied by Tubo. To the north is the Xiping Mansion of Western Xia.

The border city is naturally not more prosperous than the inland city, but it is not bad. Why? Weizhou is located in the Silk Road, and it is also the first stop for merchants from the Western Regions to enter the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

When he was in Tokyo, Wang Han also met a few foreigners, both black and white, but not common. Weizhou is different here, and Fanbang in the Western Regions has appeared in clusters. Europe, Africa, Central Asia, all kinds of skin tones, greatly stimulated Wang Han's eyeballs. Of course, it may also be because Weizhou City is relatively small.

Wang Han entered the city only to eat meat, the goal was very clear, he only looked for a restaurant when he went in, but there were many pasta dishes on the street, and there were few restaurants. I didn't walk a few hundred steps, and I saw a foot shop with a good scale, so I rushed in, and I opened my mouth to urge the boss, "Come to thirty catties of beef, hurry up." ”

The shopkeeper replied, "No beef, only pork." ”

Wang Han was depressed, looked sideways, there was a butcher shop in the distance, and asked the shopkeeper: "Is that not a butcher shop?" ”

The shopkeeper replied: "That's a pork shop, it doesn't sell beef." ”

Wang Han was strange, how could there be no beef in the butcher shop? I went out and looked for it and asked the butcher shopkeeper, "Is there any beef for sale?" ”

The boss is a man in his thirties, fat and bloated, extremely greasy, and his face is shining with fat and oil, which makes people look unappetizing.

When the man saw the captain's uniform worn by Wang Han, he didn't dare to underestimate it, and replied sincerely: "There is no beef, there is no beef to sell in the entire Weizhou, and it is not allowed to be sold in Jinglue Mansion." ”

Wang Han understood this, this is a border city, not to mention wars, there are many sergeants, and the law of the Great Song Dynasty does not allow the slaughter of cultivated cattle at will, so a little beef also ran into the stomachs of those officers, which can spread to the mouths of the common people.

This is a difficulty, Wang Han has not eaten beef for half a month, and he is even more panicked than if he hasn't seen Li Qingzhao for half a month, and his desire for beef has reached the point of no return. But there was no beef, and he had no choice but to sigh sadly, his eyes dripping around, and he asked the shopkeeper: "Is there a way to get some and give you a high price." ”

The shopkeeper looked at Wang Han and asked, "The military master is from Tokyo?" ”

Wang Han said yes.

The shopkeeper asked again: "But you are here to fight Tibet?" ”

Wang Han nodded again.

The shopkeeper looked left and right and asked Wang Han, "How much can you want?" ”

Wang Han said fifty pounds.

The shopkeeper picked up the butcher knife on the table and said to Wang Han: "I'll come to help." ”

Wang Han raised his eyebrows and went to the backyard with him, where a cow was tied to the stone trough in the backyard, and he was napping leisurely.

Wang Han understood, this store was going to kill cattle for him to eat, and praised in his heart: The people of the Northwest are really heroic.

The shopkeeper said: "This is my uncle's family in Gongzhou, his family was plundered by the Qiang people in July, and only one cow was at home, so I pulled it to raise, and waited for three months, but I didn't hear from him, I am afraid that he has suffered." ”

Saying this, to Wang Han's embarrassment, this is the only living life of his uncle's family.

Alas, I'll give more money later.

The shopkeeper covered the bull's eye with a strip of cloth, and asked Wang Han to help hold the cow's head and pull it in front of another stone trough. There was a huge log hanging from the stone trough, weighing about forty or fifty pounds. The shopkeeper pulled the giant tree back and lifted it high in order to use the giant wood to crush the cow to death.

This is the case with the killing of the ox, so that the ox will suffer less, do not stab it with a knife, even if it is stabbed in the heart, the ox will have to struggle for a while before it can die. The best thing to do is to hit the cow's head with a hammer and directly smash the cow to death, and the cow will hang up without reacting to the pain.

Wang Han held the bull's head, the shopkeeper smashed it hard, the bull's head made a muffled sound, and the four hooves staggered, lying down directly, and the four legs stretched straight.

The shopkeeper didn't speak, but cut the cow's artery with a sharp knife to bleed, and asked Wang Han at the same time, "What part do you want?" ”

Wang Han said: "Give me the best part of thirty catties, and I will buy all of them for how much is your cow." ”

The shopkeeper didn't speak, just started to untie the cowhide, first cut a line from the midline of the abdomen, and then picked it up, the technique was very skilled, obviously he did a lot of killing cattle.

The cowhide was peeled off first, and the part of the cow filet was cut for thirty catties, and it was strung with a rope, saying six hundred words.

There are regulations on the price of beef, which cannot exceed 20 Wen, so the price of beef across the country is uniform, 20 Wen a catty. The price of mutton can soar to 30 Wen, pork is 15 Wen, and dog meat is also 30 Wen, so everyone eats more sheep and dogs and less beef.

Wang Han is different, he prefers beef, then mutton, then dog, chicken and fish, and finally pork. Of course, not eating pork is not because of pork, in fact, the technology of inciting pigs was available as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and China was the first country in the world to master the technology of inciting pigs. Not only pigs, but also horses, cattle and sheep can be incredent, such as military horses, and those who have been fanned are more obedient and honest than those who have not been instigated.

I don't eat pork purely because pork has a lot of fat and is easy to make people fat.

The shopkeeper said 600 Wen, but he didn't want to take advantage of Wang Han. And Wang Han is a man of his word, so he took out thirty taels of silver and put it on the table, "Give me the whole cow, I can't finish it today, and I'll come back tomorrow." ”

The shopkeeper didn't accept cashiers, and replied: "The military master only eats, I keep it for you, give as much as you want, I don't ask to earn the military master's silver, I just ask the military master to kill a few more barbarians." ”

is a good people, Wang Han didn't say much, took the meat and money and left.

Tong Guan and Wang Hou converged, and the two made a plan, and only two days later, the army would pull out the camp and march to the east of Xizhou.

The military newspaper said that Liu Zhongwu Gao Yu led 20,000 horses down from the Qinzhou Mansion and attacked Minzhou in the south of Xizhou. Wang Hou and Tong Guan led 20,000 horses to fight Gongzhou in the east of Xizhou, and the two roads became horns.

As for the Qiang, it is said that Rosa and Tobaro have gathered 100,000 people to guard Xizhou.

Wang Hou said that the Qiang people were simple and backward in thinking, although they were numerous, they were not united, and the tribes also hated each other and were hostile, so they did not pose a threat to the Great Song Dynasty. But Wang Hou was worried that there were Tangut people in the back to instigate troublemakers, and the Qiang people themselves could not attack the Great Song Dynasty, but they would often be used as cannon fodder troops by the Western Xia, although the Qiang people's combat power was not high, it would also cause a lot of trouble to the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the opening of the river is the top priority, as long as the Huangzhou is stuck and Xining is occupied, the Western Xia and Tubo will be separated, and at the same time the nails will be planted in the west of the Western Xia. If the Western Xia dares to send troops, the garrison of Xining Huangzhou will be able to go straight to his Xiliang Mansion, and then it will not be the Great Song Dynasty to defend the Western Xia, but the Western Xia must always be on guard against the Great Song Dynasty.

What the military newspaper said, Wang Han just smiled, he was just a captain, with fifteen soldiers under his command, and he couldn't say anything about how to beat him, just as Xuanzan said, this time to fight Tubo, it was an opportunity for the official family to give him a chance to be promoted, and he didn't expect him to do anything at all.

Even so, Wang Han also held back a lot of strength in his heart, as long as the battle started, he would blind everyone's eyes.

But it was said that the army was pulled, Wang Han walked in the rear army with artillery baggage, and was just about to pass the border city of Weizhou, when two people caught up behind, pushing a wheelbarrow, panting all the way, and shouting from afar: Wang Baoyi ~ Wang Baoyi ~

There are many lieutenants and generals in the forbidden army from Tokyo, but there is only one Wang Baoyi, and that is Wang Han, so someone reminded Wang Han to stop and wait.

Wang Han hit the horse and went over, but it was the shopkeeper who sold meat, with a miscellaneous servant, and the two of them pushed the Dulong cart, sweating profusely, panting, catching up, and said to Wang Han: "Baoyi is leaving, there is nothing to send, so I will bring all these subsistence things." ”

Wang Han was puzzled, looked at it, there were bags in the pocket of the car, touched it with his hand, understood, he loaded a cart of cooked beef and sent it.

It turns out that the store looks stupid on the outside, but it is actually shrewd. The beef didn't dare to sell casually, and it couldn't be eaten at home, so it was simply cooked and given to the forbidden army, maybe this little colonel could become a character in the future and help himself.

The army was leaving, Wang Han did not shirk, asked people to load the beef on the gun truck, and took out ten taels of silver to pay the bill, but the store did not accept it, and said sincerely: "When Baoyi returns to Weizhou, I hope to come to my store to sit down." ”

Wang Han was moved, and he couldn't reciprocate, so he asked, "Dare to ask the name of the store?" ”

The shopkeeper replied: "The surname is Zhen, and the name is Guanxi." ”

"Guanxi?" Wang Han smiled, "Fortunately, your surname is Zhen." ”

The shopkeeper waved his hand and explained, "It's not Zhen, it's Zheng, Zheng Guanxi." ”

Although the store explained, after all, it was a northwest accent, Zheng Zhen did not distinguish, and it was still Zhen Guanxi in Wang Han's ears. Wang Han smiled, "Okay, okay, Brother Zhen, I will definitely come back, and there will be a period later." ”

When the team was on the road, Wang Han suddenly slammed a spirit, Zhen Guanxi, Zhen Guanxi? !

Hey? Do you want to be so coincidental?

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On the third day of the army's march, it arrived at the boundary of Gongzhou, there was a hill in front of it, three or four miles from north to south, the height was not high, it was just a round big, the strange rocks on the mountain were craggy, the shrubs were grown, and there was a tent on the hillside that could not be seen, that was the camp of the Qiang people.

The name of this mountain is Falling Rock Mountain.

The spies came to report that on the mountain was the Qiang people of the Duobaro Division, about 40,000 horses, waiting for the king's master here.

The Qiang people were in the high places, and the Song army was in the plains, and it seemed that the terrain was unfavorable to the Song army.

Wang Hou didn't think about it, and ordered the three armies to camp on the spot and bury the pot to cook. On the other hand, he sent his deputy general Gao Yongnian to Qinzhou with 5,000 men and horses, pretending to support Minzhou, and after going around the Minshan Trail to Luoshi Mountain, he launched an attack on time at noon tomorrow.

Wang Hou said that although the Qiang people were fierce and savage, they did not know anything about the art of war, and they were still at the level of fighting between the two tribes, and they did not know any strategy at all.

This time, Luo Sa gathered the crowd for the purpose of recovering the country, not to attack the Great Song Dynasty, so they would not take the initiative to fight, but only wanted to force the Song army back. Therefore, tens of thousands of horses gathered on the mountain, looking at the momentum, are actually vulnerable.

If this battle is fought, the Qiang people must be frightened, and their confidence must be defeated in one fell swoop, so that they will never dare to rebel again, otherwise even if they occupy Hehuang, the defenders of the Central Plains will not be able to live steadily.

The Qiang people are backward, but they have also been glorious.

When Songtsen Gampo established the country, he defeated many Tibetan tribes and became the king of the tribes. After the founding of the country, Songtsen Gampo asked the Tang King for marriage, but was rejected by the Tang, because he was disgusted with the barbarism of the Qiang people and did not understand education, how could the princess of the Han Dynasty marry him.

Songtsen Gampo gathered tens of thousands of troops to approach Songzhou in the Tang Dynasty, threatening not to marry a princess to him, he would raise troops to invade, but was beaten by Niu Jinda with 6,000 vanguard troops, and did not wait for the Tang Dynasty army to assemble, and took the initiative to retreat. Later, he sent an envoy with 5,000 taels of gold and many treasures to apologize for his sins, and asked for marriage again.

The king of Tang had no choice but to find a daughter of a clan to be named Princess Wencheng and marry Songtsen Gampo.

Wang Hou said to everyone that this time Luo Sa raised troops to return to the country, but he was afraid that this was the same idea, and when Tubo was founded, he would also find an official family to ask for a princess.

All the generals laughed, and some people said that Tubo was afraid that he would be disappointed, even if he begged, the official family had no princess to marry at this time.

Wang Hou snorted: Don't even think about this kind of thing, if you fight today, you will have to give in to Tubo permanently.