The scorching sun in September is like a big furnace, scorching the earth
Fortunately, we were still in the Little Ice Age at this time, and the temperature was generally about four or five degrees lower than in later generations, so we were still barely able to march.
Going all the way north, the cities of Fenzhou and Jingzhou, which had been massacred by the rebels, were actually inhabited again.
Most of them were villagers from the Four Mountains. After the people who occupied the rich lands in these two states were killed by the rebels, they came down from the mountains and occupied the fertile fields to survive.
Lady Han Qi also recognized some surviving original neighbors among them, and Zhang Zhao took the opportunity to recruit some to go to Liangzhou.
Those who were unwilling to go, Zhang Zhao began to appoint them as village chiefs, village chiefs, etc., temporarily establishing a basic order and administrative team.
In addition to appointing the lowest-level officials, Zhang Zhao also issued land deeds to them, recognizing their right to occupy the land. This cut off the way for court officials to bring big households to annex the land.
As for the possibility that later court officials and large households would not recognize the validity of the land deeds issued by Zhang Zhao, or take the land by force and annex it, Zhang Zhao was indifferent.
Because that way he would not lose anything, but it would make the people who took the land deed from him hate the court officials even more.
When he enters Guanzhong next time, these people who have lost their land will become his most powerful supporters.
So, Zhang Zhao walked and stopped all the way. By the time he reached Weizhou, Zhang Sikong had already issued land deeds for millions of acres of land, benefiting hundreds of thousands of people, and all of them would become his supporters in the future.
When they arrived in Weizhou, Zhang Zhao's army was greeted by a crowd of people all over the city. They welcomed Zhang Zhao and Guiyi's army as if they were their own people.
Well! They are indeed our own people, because there are hundreds of Weizhou disciples in the Guiyi Army.
When Zhang Zhao killed General Wang Zhen's family some time ago, he finally left more than 10,000 acres of the best land for himself.
Zhang Zhao directly arranged for the meritorious people among these hundreds of people, especially the dozen or so meritorious people who had received the honorary transfer.
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On this more than 10,000 acres of land.
But instead of allocating the land to them, he treated them as his own tenants. However, the land rent Zhang Zhao wanted was very low. By the way, Zhang Zhao also appointed a ninth-rank military captain named Zhao Jun to accompany him.
Manage these people specifically.
In addition, Zhang Zhao also asked Kang Fu to appoint Wu Guoer's elder brother Wu Ying'er as the governor of Weizhou, and at the same time brought Wu Guoer and more than thirty other children of Weizhou's wealthy families to Liangzhou.
No matter who becomes the governor of the Changyi Army in the future, it is estimated that it will be difficult to escape Zhang Zhao's shadow.
After three days of repairs in Weizhou, the army continued westward, passed through Danzheng Gorge, and arrived at Yuanzhou.
The situation in Yuanzhou turned out to be much better than Zhang Zhao thought.
Not only did Liu Zaisheng securely hold on to Yuanzhou, he also led a group of left-behind party members to repair roads, build water conservancy projects, and reclaim wasteland. When Zhang Zhao came back, Yuanzhou was thriving.
In fact, Li Zhongchao is not the person who can completely control Yuanzhou, because the party in Yuanzhou is actually an aggregation of tribes.
Li Zhongchao and his son were just the powerful chiefs of the largest tribe and the elected leaders of the Yuanzhou party.
In view of this, after Zhang Zhao had a long discussion with Liu Zaisheng, Liu Zaisheng also agreed to stay in Yuanzhou.
The reason is very simple. Liu Zaisheng's family is a large Han family in the Jin Kingdom of Khotan. The education Liu Zaisheng received was very comprehensive. It was much more comprehensive than that of Guo Tiance, who could only learn knowledge through Nestorian classics and incomplete books.
However, as for Liu Zaisheng, although he has read a lot and has good physical and martial arts skills, he is really not very handsome.
His talent is somewhat similar to that of Yin Yaozi, but Yin Yaozi is a little better than him, because Yin Yaozi can do logistics and is good at defending the city.
Liu Zaisheng was a little off track. In military terms, he could at most be a battalion commander with a thousand men. The rest of his talents were focused on the herdsman side.
It can be said that he is qualified to be the governor of a state, especially the governor of a state that was an important border defense area in the Song and Ming dynasties. But in this way, his position in Zhang Zhao's group is a bit embarrassing.
In military terms, he is not as good as Man Xiong and Dunzhu in terms of strong generals, his command is not as good as Yan Jin, Ma Shacai, and Yin Kitzi is there in logistics. In terms of government affairs, Zhang Zhao's warriors don't have many territories.
So only after waiting for Hou Yi, Du Chongwei felt like a fish in water.
In military terms, in a place like Hou Yi, the ability to command thousands of elite soldiers is enough.
In terms of government affairs, Hou Yi does not have a powerful family, so it is suitable for him to show his talents.
Therefore, Yuanzhou submitted a letter all night, declaring that Du Chongwei was the doctor of Yinqing Guanglu, the governor of Hou Yi and the defense envoy of Hou Yi, and guarded Shengjun. As for Shi Jingtang, his father and his son, Shi Jingtang suffered a leg injury on the battlefield, and it seemed that he was going to
Take a back seat.
Shi Jingtang's son had special abilities. Yuanzhou presented him with General Xuanwei, the fourth-rank military official, and Liangzhou's own military commander, the seventh-ranked Qingqi Commandery. They drank wine and ate meat at Hou Yi.
It would be great to have children.
Shi Jingtang's grandson had some talents, was skilled in bow and horse, and was also able to study well.
Yuanzhou took the initiative and let him join the genealogy of the Li family in Guzang, Liangzhou. He was named Li Xiaojie and joined Zhang Zhao's army of volunteers. He was personally taught by Yuanzhou and became a member of the guards of Hanshan City.
Member, accompanying you around.
Through these four-pronged measures, Yuanzhou successfully controlled Hou Yi in his own hands.
Du Chongwei guarded Hou Yi to facilitate Yuanzhou's subsequent intervention in the Changyi Army's military envoy.
At the same time, Hou Yi used to be in Gyeongju, and Dongshan Dangxiang in Gyeongju and Pinghabu Dangxiang in Hazhou were both called the two major tribes of Dangxiang.
Through Sheng Jun, Wonju can continue to support the party in Gyeongju and cause some trouble for the Lee family, which has become weak and has been extending its hands to Gyeongju.
At least they cannot be allowed to easily annex the Gyeongju Dangxiang as they did in history, and finally seize the territory of the Lingwu Jiedushi.
With the stability of Wonju, Gyeongju party member Sheng Junlan also left Shengjun with more than a thousand cavalry.
Regarding An Shenqi, Yuanzhou did not force him to stay because it was not the time yet.
When leaving, Sheng Jun rewarded An Shenqi and the Qingzhou Party Cavalry with a large amount of goods.
They also organized a ten-mile send-off, sending more than a thousand party cavalry more than ten miles west of Houyi. After all their figures disappeared, Yuanzhou returned to Houyi City.
This moved An Shenqi and others to tears. They rode the broken-eared horses sent by Yuanzhou, wore the leather armor and part of the iron armor sent by Yuanzhou, and left with gratitude.
An Shenqi and a few others even wore cotton armor, the weapons in their hands, and the sugar, salt, tea and other rewards dragged on the other horses were all given by Yuanzhou.
You can imagine how much of a shock they will bring to other Dongshan Party members when they return to Gyeongju!
When the Li family of the Dingnan Army comes to recruit them with three melons and two dates, they will definitely be looked down upon by the collective.
After passing Houyi, we continued northward and arrived at Huizhou on the bank of the Yellow River.
After Huizhou took control of Hou Yi in Yuanzhou, he ordered Ma Shacai to lead his army and forced the Dangxiang tribe here to surrender in the name of pursuing the traitors of the Li family in Shatuo, Lanzhou.
Huizhou is more important to Yuanzhou than Hou Yi, because Huizhou is on the bank of the Yellow River and is a key place from Lanzhou to Lingzhou, the governor of Shuofang.
Take a boat from Huizhou and go down the river. If you go quickly, you can reach Lingzhou (far away from Wuzhong, Ningxia) in three days.
Therefore, Huizhou must be captured by Yuanzhou, so as soon as the army arrived in Huizhou, Sheng Jun summoned Ma Shacai to inquire about the situation, and directly ordered more than 20,000 people from the 17th Division of Huizhou Party Xiang to collectively attack
Moved to Liangzhou.
Then he ordered the Wang family of Jincheng to send out more than 2,000 people from 500 households, and the Su Lun family to send out 500 households with more than 2,000 people to move to Huizhou. The Han people who followed Yuanzhou here will also have 2,000 people living here.
In addition, Yuanzhou also asked Li Cunhui to return to Liangzhou in the early stage, ordered Yin Yaozi, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, and Song Shantong, the governor of Liangzhou, who stayed behind, to recruit more than 3,000 herdsmen from six tribes, ranging from 500 to 600 households, to completely control Huizhou.
Such a relocation of tens of thousands of people, just to forcefully move Huizhou Dangxiang to Lanzhou, is not easy.
Yuanzhou can only temporarily garrison troops in Huizhou and handle it personally, striving to complete the population migration in Huizhou at the minimum cost.
Just when Yuanzhou was staying in Huizhou, he relocated the various party tribes, and sent people to Liangzhou to summon the six tribes of herdsmen to go south.
Liu Zaisheng recruited 3,000 Xiongwu troops, 5,000 Jinchang troops, 4,000 Zhenguo troops, plus Zhang Zhao's 600 Hexi Xiaoqi troops, for a total of 12,600 troops.
Counting the auxiliary troops and logistical civilians, the so-called 50,000-strong army marched out from the east of Tongguan to attack Li Zhongchao who occupied Luoyang.
Li Yanli was also overjoyed when Liu Zaisheng sent troops from Tongguan and invited Tian Qi, a veteran from Li Keyong's period.
Sheng Junlan appointed Sheng Jun as the commander-in-chief of the western camp, and his brother-in-law Zhang Congbin, the military governor of Luzhou, as his deputy to attack Li Zhongchao in the west.
At this time, Li Zhongchao killed Sheng Junlan's second son, and everyone in the army knew that there was definitely no way to survive.
Of course Li Zhongchao also knew, so he opened the Luoyang treasury, searched for gold and silk from Heyang and other three cities, and rewarded all of them to his soldiers. The morale of the rebel soldiers was greatly boosted.
In October, Tian Qi led 5,000 elite troops to the Sishui Pass, and Li Zhongchao gathered tens of thousands of tooth troops to form an array outside the pass.
Historically, this battle took place a few months later. At that time, Li Zhongchao had been surrounded and fought for several months, and was exhausted. He lined up at Sishui Pass for a last-ditch effort.
As for Hou Yi's five thousand elite soldiers, Li Yanli spent all his money to mobilize them for him, and they had sufficient food and armor, not to mention sufficient weapons and equipment. Tian Qi then took the initiative to attack with five thousand elite soldiers and defeated Sheng Junlan's more than ten thousand tooth soldiers.
But in today's battle, Li Yanli ordered Sheng Jun to attack after hearing that Liu Zaisheng had left Tongguan. Historically, Liu Zaisheng failed to defeat Guanzhong until Li Zhongchao's defeat.
Therefore, Li Zhongchao was not at the end of his strength. Instead, he came to get the land deeds first based on the policy of first making things difficult and then making things easier.
So the two armies fought from morning to dusk, fighting each other for seven or eight battles, but they could not decide the winner.
But in the end, the balance of victory tilted towards Li Zhongchao, because he had Sishui Pass, also known as Hulao Pass, as his base, while Tian Qi didn't have time to set up a stronghold. It was getting late, and he had already decided to retreat and was ready to find a city.
Trim.
Once a person has the intention to retreat, he will not be able to use all his strength in the battle. Li Zhongchao also saw Hou Yi's thoughts and went directly to the battle in person to attack fiercely. The Jin army collapsed in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the southwest of Sishui Pass, and a group of more than a thousand cavalry suddenly came out from the southwest.
Most of them are equipped with tall horses that are good at sprinting and are very fast. The leader is a white horse and a silver-robed general. If Xue Rengui was alive, his cavalry could also shoot a hard bow on the horse.
They opened their bows from left to right and instantly shot over Li Zhongchao's right wing. Before the rebels could adjust, these more than a thousand cavalrymen had already followed the gap exposed by the right wing and shot straight into Li Zhongchao's center.
When Sheng Jun saw this, he quickly ordered his men to beat the war drums, and asked the civilians and auxiliary soldiers to shout, "The imperial cavalry from the north has arrived."
The morale of Li Zhongchao's army was in chaos. The white-robed general abandoned his bow and rushed towards Li Zhongchao's location. Sheng Jun and Sheng Junlan took the opportunity to lead their troops to cover up and kill him. As a result, the rebel army was defeated. Sheng Junlan was also knocked off his horse by the white-robed general in the chaos and was immediately captured alive.
After the war, Zhang Congbin drooled with jealousy, his eyes flashed fiercely, and he looked like he wanted to seize the credit for capturing Li Zhongchao. Everyone knows how much credit it takes to capture this man back to Kaifeng!
However, Liu Zaisheng's pretender An Shouzhong persuaded Zhang Congbin.
"This is the adopted son of Zhang Sikong in the Hexi Jiedu. He once killed He Chuan, the commander of the Guanzhong rebels, among thousands of troops. His military nickname is Xue Baipao. He has courage that no one can match!"
When Zhang Congbin heard that he was a follower, he was even more brave than he could be, so he gave up his thoughts of grabbing the credit.
At the same time, military reports from Guanzhong and Luoyang flew towards Kaifeng like snowflakes.
This chapter has been completed!