Pinglu Jiedushi was stationed in Qingzhou, and Jiedushi was stationed in Yazhong. Yang Guangyuan and his eldest son Yang Chengzuo were plotting.
Because the more Yang Guangyuan thought about it, the more angry he became, feeling that he was being manipulated by the later Jin Dynasty.
It was agreed that he would be transferred to Pinglu in exchange with Du Chongwei of Yedu, but after passing Tokyo, he was asked to move to Pinglu.
If Yang Guangyuan had not brought much belongings with him at that time and was accompanied by 300 armored soldiers to protect him, he might not even have been able to save his life.
Qingzhou is a small city with poor people, but it can't compare with Yedu, which has a prosperous population and is the gateway to the north of Tokyo.
He had originally agreed with Du Chongwei that each would leave a thousand brave men for the other party to control.
As a result, Du Chongwei went to Luoyang, Xijing, and took control of the tiger and wolf men he had left behind, who had been raised with money scavenged from all over Luoyang.
But when he came to Qingzhou, all his previous money was wasted.
Yang Guangyuan's eldest son Yang Chengzuo was also very angry. As soon as Shi Jingtang died, his prince-in-law, the Commander-in-Chief, immediately lost popularity.
When he was summoned to pinglu, he wanted the princess to go to the palace to appeal, but Shi Chonggui refused to even let him in, which made Yang Chengzuo lose face.
"Sir, there is news from Tokyo. The farm slave Jing Yanguang scolded the Khitan envoy back and still called him a grandson instead of a minister. It seems that a war with the Khitan people is inevitable."
Yang Guangyuan's second son, Yang Chengxin, ran in from outside happily. For them, Jing Yanguang's provocation of Khitan was their opportunity.
"Let's do it, sir! The soldiers we raised with the money we made in Xijing this time are all at Du Chongwei's advantage.
If Jing Yanguang dares to move us to Pinglu now, then he will dare to move us to Pizhou Jingnan Army or Yanzhou Zhangwu Army, facing the bitter cold of Liang Kingdom."
Yang Guangyuan frowned. He was still a little undecided and looked at the impatient look of his eldest son Yang Chengzuo.
This Commander-in-Chief, who had been in battle for a long time and knew what the Khitan people were like, said hesitantly.
"The Khitan people are cunning and changeable, and Yelu Deguang has always wanted to invade the Central Plains from the south. This Shi Jingtang has betrayed all the sixteen states of Yanyun, what other conditions can we offer?
You can’t sell the two states of Dingzhen, right?
Dingzhou is Dingzhou, Hebei in later generations, and Zhenzhou is Zhengding County, Hebei. The two places are equivalent to Baoding and Shijiazhuang in later generations.
After Shi Jingtang betrayed the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, the Later Jin Dynasty established a fortress-type defense chain composed of cities in Zheng, Ding, Shen, Zhao and other prefectures.
It can barely reach the level of slightly restricting the Khitan cavalry and preventing them from going south unscrupulously.
If the two states of Dingzhen were to be betrayed again, there would be no place north of the Yellow River that could stop the Khitans.
Yang Chengzuo didn't seem to care about Yang Guangyuan's hesitation. He shook his head and said shamelessly.
"Shi Jingtang sold the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, why can't our Yang family sell only two prefectures of Dingzhen?
Your Excellency, can't you see clearly the current situation? Everyone in the imperial court wants my father and son to die quickly. If we sell Dingzhen and Erzhou, we can still become the emperor of Henan.
The worst case scenario is to build fortresses along the Yellow River, cut off pontoon bridges, and cut ice every winter to prevent freezing to defend against the Khitans.
If we don't betray the two states of Dingzhen, then let's wait for the day when the imperial court suddenly sends an angel to our door and chops off our heads.
Yang Guangyuan was speechless by Yang Chengzuo. Ever since their father and son had tasted the sweetness of killing Fan Yanguang in Luoyang, Xijing, in less than a year, they had killed no less than 2,000 people, merchants and officials at all levels in Luoyang, Xijing.
Although this was also the fifth generation of constant war, their father and son did not kill many people in Luoyang, Xijing.
But in terms of the degree of cruelty, I'm afraid it was Qin Zongquan, the man-eating general under Huang Chao in the past.
It will be a few years before Zhao Siwan, the governor of the Jinchang Army who likes to eat human livers, can compare with him.
What Yang Guangyuan can see now is that the imperial court of the later Jin Dynasty, regardless of their civility and martial arts, indeed had the intention of killing them, from the emperor to the military academy.
Thinking of this, he gave his hand a heavy hammer on the foot of the wrench, "My son immediately asked the secretary to write a letter, select a person who can speak, and submit it to His Majesty the Khitan Emperor, inviting him to lead the army south and conspire with the Central Plains.
Then share the gold and silver we got from Luoyang with the soldiers and generals of the Pinglu Army, and let them join us in the uprising."
Yang Guangyuan arranged it well, but Yang Chengzuo was a little hesitant.
"Sir, all the money we collected from Luoyang has been converted into Hexi banknotes, and they are all in one thousand banknotes. How can we distribute them?"
Yang Guangyuan said it would be shared, but in fact he only planned to pay about 50,000 yuan.
There are only 50 banknotes for 50,000 guan each. How many people can be bribed?
When the time comes, the tooth general at the top takes the banknote and refuses to give points to the tooth soldiers below, which will lead to bad things.
Moreover, Yang Guangyuan was also very reluctant to part with the money he had collected from Fan Yanguang. After thinking about it, he simply changed his mind.
"Then call the generals together and tell them personally. When an incident occurs, Zizhou will be looted for military use."
At this time, there were two big cities under the rule of Pinglu Jiedushi, one was Qingzhou where the administrative office was located, and the other was Zizhou to the west of Qingzhou.
With Pinglujie's mere few thousand troops and Yang Guangyuan's hundreds of confidant soldiers, it would be impossible to defend both Qingzhou and Zizhou in the event of an uprising, and would only be able to defend one place.
Therefore, Yang Guangyuan planned to abandon Zizhou, use Zizhou's wealth to win over the hearts of the Pinglu army in Qingzhou, and then stick to Qingzhou and wait for the Khitan army to move south.
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Khitan, oh, it should be called the Liao Kingdom now. In the Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, Yelu Deguang ordered people to buy various treasures and brocades, pretending to celebrate the October birthday of his mother, the Empress Dowager.
On the one hand, he secretly ordered the left and right Pishi troops to practice more diligently, and also recruited a large number of Xi people and Bohai people.
And after obtaining the permission of the Empress Dowager Shulu, they also mobilized Shuluping's private army, the Shushan Army, and made preparations for the southern invasion.
These operations of Yelu Deguang did successfully paralyze the Later Jin Dynasty.
From now on, the Jin court had very few informants in the Khitan territory. Not to mention accurate, they could not detect the movements of the Khitan in general. They were soon deceived by Yelv Deguang's little tricks.
This resulted in Shi Chonggui taking no other defensive measures except hoarding a large amount of military supplies and grain in Beizhou, north of the Yellow River.
On the contrary, it was Zhao Yanshou who, through detailed work in Hebei, had discovered that Beizhou was where the Later Jin Dynasty stockpiled military supplies.
First of all, there is a level of intelligence difference between the two sides.
For Yelu Deguang, Yang Guangyuan's letter only strengthened his determination to go south to punish the later Jin Dynasty.
Because he has clearly seen the virtues of these Central Plains warriors, let alone Yang Guangyuan, who has no friendship with him and is also suffering from dysentery, which makes people dislike him.
Even for the handsome middle-aged Zhao Yanshou, whom he treated as his adopted son and who always ran around beside him, Yelu Deguang never thought about supporting him to become the emperor of the Central Plains.
Yelu Deguang, the emperor of the Central Plains, planned to do it himself.
Of course Zhao Yanshou didn't know this. He was still dreaming that Yelu Deguang could make him emperor of the Central Plains, establish the Yan Dynasty, and become Taizu of Yan.
At this moment, when he heard that Yang Guangyuan's envoy had arrived, Zhao Yanshou immediately asked to see Yelu Deguang with great interest and asked to be a pioneer.
Seeing that everything was ready, Yelu Deguang immediately appointed Zhao Yanshou as the vanguard without hesitation.
He was assigned 20,000 troops from the Xi tribe, more than 20,000 Han soldiers from Gui, Yun, Ying, Tan and other states behind the mountain, plus several thousand from Zhao Yanshou, totaling 50,000. He was ordered to serve as a vanguard to march south.
Yelv Deguang himself led the left and right Pishi Army, Shan Army, Seven Tribe Army and Bohai Army with 80,000 soldiers, claiming to be one hundred thousand as the main force, to hold the formation at the back.
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On Zhang Zhao's side, after fifteen days of long journey, the main force of the Chinese army of 9,000 men led by him finally arrived at Xianquan Town.
And Xianquan Town lives up to its name as a salty spring. It is actually a small puddle of only about 400 to 500 square meters. The water in the lake really has a light salty taste with bitterness.
However, Zhang Zhao raised his head and looked at the desolate sandy land around Shatuo Qi, and suddenly felt that it was rare for such a spring to appear on the edge of the desert.
As soon as the repairs were completed, Bai Congxin rode his horse to report in person.
It turned out that according to the information provided by the merchants, Tingzhou, which was the summer capital of the Gaochang Uighurs, should have only had two to three thousand troops and horses.
But after Bai Congxin arrived, the entire Tingzhou was under martial law. There were no less than tens of thousands of cavalry patrolling outside the city.
The detective horses of Zuo Yu Linwei were unable to get close to investigate. The envoys dressed as merchants in the city entered Tingzhou City and no one came back. It seemed that they were detained.
This was a bit strange. Zhang Zhao scratched his head, saying it shouldn’t be!
The merchants who know the specific time of the army's movement are all carefully selected by the Hexi Chamber of Commerce.
Everyone has great interests and family members in Liangzhou, and they dare not disclose any information to anyone.
And just over half a month ago, Zhang Zhao sent the last group of envoys to meet Jieli Bijia at the king's account in Gaochang, and was still paralyzing the Gaochang Uighurs with his "Ziquwang".
It was impossible for Jielibijia to react immediately, and within a month and a half, he came to Tingzhou from Gaochang Royal City.
Zhang Zhao slowly shook his head. If Jie Lipijia was so easy to deal with and dared to leave the fortified city of Gaochang and come to Tingzhou when a war broke out, he would be an easy target.
However, this situation was indeed beyond everyone's expectation, because before departure, Zhang Zhao presided over a military meeting and had made a detailed analysis of the population and army of the Gaochang Uighurs.
The entire Gaochang Uighur population, even if all the herdsmen were recruited, would only number 60,000 to 70,000 people.
They simply don't have the ability to send so many troops to shield Tingzhou unless they mobilize all their troops here.
Bai Congxin took the map and began to analyze it carefully. Suddenly, he pointed in the northwest direction of Tingzhou and looked at Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao was also a little stunned, how could he forget this guy?
Li Cunhui next to him saw the direction of Zhang Zhao's finger, he touched his chin and asked.
"What do you mean, sir? The large number of cavalry appearing in Tingzhou City may be the Geluolu people from the Land of Seven Rivers?"
Murong Nobunaga also nodded, "The news came from the Chen family in Yizhou that Saktu was going to marry the Gaochang Uighurs, and Jieli Bijia also knew that we were about to launch an attack on him.
Then it is very likely that Saktu will be notified and asked to send troops to rescue, which makes sense.
Then we should have just happened to bump into the Geluolu people under Saktu who came to the rescue."
Hehe! A sneer appeared on Zhang Zhao's face. If that were the case, he would have been spared the trouble of looking for Saktu.
Zhang Tianwang made a decision immediately, "Instead of us making random guesses here, it is better for Cun Hui'er, you and Murong Yanzhao to each bring a hundred fine cavalry to capture a group of tongues.
If these people are really the Geluolu people from the Land of Seven Rivers, we might as well annihilate them just outside Tingzhou City.
Then, under the banner of Ge Luolu, he deceived the high mountain Uighur defenders at Baishui Stream Road and penetrated directly to the gates of Gaochang City.
This chapter has been completed!