Chapter 39: Thousands of Miles to Conquer the Han Song
[Zhang Yichao, who obtained the rights to the Jingluhelong area, also completely used his own means.
Engaging in production and opening up the economy was the main theme of Hexi during this period.
Hexi, which had been made miserable by the slave owners of Tibet, was restored in an orderly manner by Zhang Yichao.
For example, following the example of Wuhou Xingshui to build ditches, each canal has a special responsible management personnel.
For example, it is recommended that agriculture, animal husbandry, and businessmen fulfill their responsibilities and show their strengths.
For example, vigorously spread the Tang Dynasty culture, and it was recorded at that time that "training is Chinese style, Xianhui will train good, and customs will change".
For Zhang Yichao's governance, the local Tang people are very proud: a hundred years of left-hand left, reverted to the crown; Ten counties are left behind, and the soup is fired.
In 856 A.D., the king of Tuyuhun north of Shazhou came to plunder, and was afraid of the power of Zhang Yichao, and the king of Tuyuhun wanted to rob the grain and fled.
Zhang Yichao led the army to chase more than 1,000 miles north and killed until the border of Tuyuhun country.
In this battle, Zhang Yichao's army surrounded more with less, Zhang Yichao himself led the elite cavalry to take the lead, and stepped directly into the enemy's formation, and his Tang Dynasty warrior style made the Tugu Hun people frightened.
Although the encircled Tuyuhun was overwhelming, they had no will to fight, and they just wanted to break through the siege and then flee north, and were finally broken by the Tang army with one of the top ten, which was recorded by the contemporaries:
"Fan Rong timidly ran north and south, and the Han generals were heroic everywhere."
After nearly a hundred years, the Tuyuhun people here trembled again and remembered the Tianwei of the Tang Army.
Zhang Yichao won a great victory, and the three prime ministers of Tuyuhun were beheaded in front of the army, beheading thousands, capturing hundreds, and seizing thousands of camels, horses, cattle and sheep.
The Guiyi soldiers who returned triumphantly sang "The Great Array Music" happily on the road.
This military song, which has been circulated since the Han Dynasty, has not been handed down, and only a few words can be found in the records of the literati of the Song Dynasty.
And one of the sentences, "Thousands of miles to recruit people to do their best Han song", has become the best annotation of Zhang Yichao's achievements.
In the same year, the Uighurs and the remnants of Tibet in Shazhou rebelled, and Zhang Yichao also besieged the army and killed them.
The Tibetan people fled in fear, were chased and killed by the tail, the corpses were all over the fifty miles of the road, and the Guiyi army seized 10,000 heads of livestock and triumphantly.
In addition, all unscrupulous party items, Uighurs, and remnants in Hexi will be subjected to Zhang Yichao's iron fist, which not only protects the people's production, but also promotes the prestige of the righteous army.
In the end, Zhang Yichao sat in Shazhou:
Thousands of miles away, the state came to the ministers, and the Hu people from all over the world came here to seek peace.
The Bafang Yidi stepped down to worship and dance, and the remnants of the old enemy offered gold and jade to repair.
Fifty years after the destruction of the white-haired army, the Tang Dynasty finally regained its power in the Western Regions. 】
"It's really like a military advisor." Zhang Fei said in a low voice.
The more he learned about this kind of ancient masterpiece, the more Zhang Fei felt his own smallness.
He has never fought Hu Ren, and he has few achievements in fighting for his eldest brother in his life, and he has died a ridiculous death, which has been laughed at for eternity.
As for this kind of governance, it is even more blind, not to mention that it is still this kind of hundred-hundred-hundred-
This person can not only exalt his prestige, but also be virtuous, let the Quartet be attached, and let all the Yiyi be subdued, for Zhang Fei, he already belongs to the category of mythology, and he is at the same level as a military advisor.
"Envy and power are both good and organized." Pang Tong was impressed, this person is so powerful?
"And ......" Pang Tong looked at Kong Ming with a smile in his eyes:
"Although he was compared to Wolong when he was young, he was especially better than Wolong."
"At least Kong Ming, you won't take the lead in riding the battle."
Kong Ming shook his head, he couldn't do this, he could lead the troops, and he was spared from charging.
"It's still a great general. But the feats of war have come to an end......"
Guan Yu suddenly said:
"In the past, Chen Zigong said that Hu Bing was five and Han soldiers were one."
"However, Sun Bin also said that the soldiers are divided into guest hosts, and the guests are twice as many as the hosts."
"This rebel army was able to attack the crowd with a small number of people and take the initiative to besiege its city, and break the ...... Brave to this point, rarely heard of. ”
"Maybe it's Sheng Tang Jiwei?" Wei Yan guessed.
However, Wei Yan is still quite envious of the achievements of this discussion:
"Sitting in the city, surrendered by the Hu people and dancing for peace, the prestige is prosperous, and he chases after Wei Huo."
"Chasing Wei Huo is still to be discussed." Huang Zhong shook his head:
"However, he is brave and brave, and he can also be called a famous general."
……
Li Shimin of the Ganlu Hall has only one simple word:
"Good!"
Then he got up excitedly:
"Good, good!"
My head didn't hurt at all, and I felt a lot of strength all over my body.
"If the border generals of the Tang Dynasty are like this tide, how can it not be extended for another hundred years?"
Of course, Li Shimin also knows that this is just talking.
The only regret is ......
"Why the Great Array?"
Of course, Li Shimin also knew that even when he first raised the army, he would sing with the soldiers when he won the battle.
But since he is a warrior of the Tang Dynasty, how can he not sing the military music of the Tang Dynasty?
"Could it be that my "Breaking Array Music" has not been circulated?"
"What's so hard about that?"
The eldest grandson Wuji is with him:
"I think the musicians are happy to write the lyrics for everyone's breaking music."
"In this way, the soldiers can sing the music of breaking the formation, whether they are out of the formation, breaking the formation, triumphant, or homesick!"
"Very good!" Li Shimin was satisfied: "It should be thousands of miles to recruit people to do their best." ”
"No!" Li Shimin had another idea: "Wanli Hu people are all Tang songs." ”
Li Shimin laughed, and Fang Du glanced at each other, he had long been accustomed to it.
[Although there were successive victories and the Quartet surrendered, Zhang Yichao of course also understood where the problem of the Guiyi Army was.
The Liangzhou occupied by the Tibetans severed the arteries of the Guiyi army, and only by reopening this place could the population resources be transported from the Central Plains to Hexi.
Only by making the people of Datang in Hexi prosperous again can the Tang Dynasty truly master this place, and the Guiyi Army can have a continuous replenishment of vital forces.
But how easy is it to reopen Liangzhou City? This is the last fortress of the Tibetan Empire in Hexi, and all the defeated troops, remnants, and slaves of Hexi Tubo finally fled here.
But Zhang Yichao couldn't wait any longer, and after ten years of savings, he was determined to fight to the death and let Hexi truly return to the arms of the Tang Dynasty!
Beginning in 858, without the support of Chang'an, Zhang Yichao officially started the war against Liangzhou.
The battle lasted for three years, and countless soldiers of the Guiyi Army gambled their lives one after another, and finally opened a road to Liangzhou City.
In August 861, Zhang Yichao, who had only 7,000 men left under his command, ordered:
Ask for a way to open the way, go straight to Liangzhou, and Tang Er will return to the country, just today!
In the case of attacking the strong with the weak, Zhang Yichao chose to conceal his whereabouts and raid Liangzhou, and the Tibetan front was in chaos, but soon organized a counterattack, because they found that only a thousand people were attacking.
And the Guiyi Army broke out with amazing combat effectiveness under the condition that Zhang Yichao took the lead.
When the head is wounded, he will wipe a handful of soil and continue to kill the enemy, and when the horse dies, he will charge towards the Tibetan horse with a white blade in his hand.
The clothes worn by the soldiers were watered by the blood of the Tibetans and became more and more heavy, and some soldiers simply took off and fought with the Tibetans shirtless.
In the end, the Guiyi army, which "held the blade of the Han family like frost and snow", was even better, completely crushed the fighting spirit of the Tubo people, and began to scatter and flee.
And Zhang Yichao seemed to have expected it, and ordered the reserves to begin to encircle, and the Tubo people fell into the orderly strangulation of the Tang army.
In the end, the corpses of the Tubo people were scattered all over the dozens of miles, and some of the corpses did not have time to be subsided until the weather turned frosty, and most of them even became rations for tigers, wolves and beasts.
It is worth mentioning that Gao Jinda, the first to send a letter to Chang'an, also participated in the battle of Liangzhou, but there is no record of it afterwards, perhaps he died here.
Relying on this beautiful war of annihilation, the Hexi Corridor was finally opened, and this land carried the name of Zhang Yichao and the Guiyi Army.
Longxi was once again connected with the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the people who stayed here were finally able to return to their homeland.
Hexi has fallen for more than a hundred years, and the road is blocked by Xiao Guan Yan Xinxin.
General Ryder opened the old road and became famous all over the world. 】
"General Tang, that's how it should be!"
Although he cherished Zhang Yichao's lonely loyalty, Li Shimin became more and more satisfied.
Now it is still the early Tang Dynasty, the shame of Weishui has not been settled, and the Turks have not been destroyed.
This discussion tide made Li Shimin understand very well what a military general in the Tang Dynasty should look like.
The only drawback is ......
"Can this ignorant Xuanzong be called Little Taizong?"
Li Shimin was very disdainful:
"It's a defiled reputation!"
"It's almost the same as being called Xiao Xuanzong!"
He still remembered the descendant Xuanzong who fled into Shu.
Moreover, if there is such a good general as Zhang Yichao, even if he is personally recruited by Li Shimin, he must be supported.
Not to mention such a big thing as opening up Hexi.
"Is this good son of mine completely ignorant of military affairs?"
Du Ruhui guessed:
"Maybe it was because there was fighting in other places at the time, and it was difficult to take care of it."
"After all, I'm just waiting for the sightseeing scene, but I'm just a leopard in the tube."
This is already trying to make up for it, after all, the general who was ridiculed by the light curtain to watch Xiliang drink and have fun has not been long ago.
Li Shimin snorted and said with some regret:
"It's a pity that this is high."
Then he became bored with Xuanzong:
"Even if he can help 1,200 people, this Gao Jinda may not necessarily die!"
Fang Xuanling comforted:
"If you don't see the record, you don't necessarily die, maybe it's just that you're not in battle?"
Li Shimin was reluctantly persuaded, and finally said:
"This discussion tide is really worthy of the evaluation of the light curtain and can be compared to Zhuge Wuhou."
"Just by doing this, it is enough to be named a loyal warrior!"
"You can't use it, it's a pity! Pity! ”
Li Shimin really feels that it is a pity, now that the early Tang Dynasty has just risen, it is precisely this kind of talent who needs to advance and retreat to govern.
"Record his deeds, make a separate biography, and I must read them from time to time."
In the end, Li Shimin gave the order.
……
"The world knows its fame!"
The meaning is simple and easy to understand, Zhang Fei said that he loved it, and admired:
"This literati of the Tang Dynasty is too good at boasting about people!"
"That's true." Huang Zhong nodded and said seriously:
"It's like General Zhang won the battle, no one boasted, and he still boasted."
"General Han flies, breaks Zhang He, and immediately Leming."
Zhang Fei's face turned red visibly, and he was silent.
The hall burst into laughter.
Pang Tong stared at the light curtain and said slowly:
"The more brave the Guiyi army, the more Tong feels that there is no cure for Tang this night."
"Zhang Yichao is a person who does not accept the Tang Dynasty, but because he wants to chase the Tang Dynasty, he is angry and raises troops to recover the eleven states that have fallen for a hundred years."
"The people's hearts are attached, the Quartet is subdued, and in the end, the people's will wants to open the old road to return to the country, so the righteous army and the Tang Court will neither aid grain and grass, nor soldiers and horses."
"It is all thanks to the loyalty and courage of this group of remnants who have fallen to the enemy for a hundred years, and it took three years to re-dig the west of the river."
Jian Yong said:
"The heart of this discussion is towards the Tang Dynasty, but it is the late Tang Dynasty that penetrates Liangzhou."
"Like Kong Ming, his heart is a strong man, but he has to mend in this troubled world."
Kong Ming was stunned, and then laughed.
The Guiyi Army is still worth talking about.
Also, do you have any good advice on gifts? Grandpas speak freely.
(End of chapter)