Zhang Gao looked at the Xiangyang military newspaper and fell into silence.
Zhe Ke Shi, Zhong Shi Dao, Song Jiang also fell silent, feeling that the atmosphere was becoming more and more depressing.
As the last support of the Song Dynasty, this Zhang Xianggong should actually be in charge of the capital.
After all, Jing Guan's recent behavior has become more and more strange. He is no longer light-hearted, but a bit crazy...
Zhang Gao had no doubt that if he had not taken the military power into his hands early, he would have been imprisoned and killed.
Fortunately, the palace was sealed off, and a group of Forbidden Army generals who were still loyal to the court were replaced, and things settled down over there. After discovering that Zhe Keshi and Zhong Shidao's leaders could not attack for a long time,
After weighing the pros and cons in panic, he finally left Beijing and came to the front line.
At the age of seventy, it was naturally impossible for him to go into battle and kill the enemy in person in order to stabilize the morale of the army.
As expected, Guo Kang and a group of other soldiers who had been recruited became restless.
Even if the imperial court promised from the rear to confer the title of Ten Jiedushi to the ten thieves who had been recruited, they still could not suppress it.
These people clamor to see Zhang Xiang, so they will recognize Zhang Xiang, and do not believe what others say.
Zhang Gao's appearance did calm down the bandits and generals, but even Song Jiang knew that this method would not last long.
This group of thieves has become a huge factor of instability. It is impossible for Zhang You to stay on the front line forever. Even as time goes by, once Zhang Pan cannot suppress them, Jing will
It is bound to give Song Jun a fatal blow from behind.
It happened that at this time, Liu Fajun stationed in Nangyang surrendered, just because it was a bolt from the blue...
Oh, everyone was quite surprised.
When Zhe Keshi saw the military situation, he was silent;
When Zhong Shidao saw the military situation, he was silent;
Song Jiang was inevitably shocked and angry when he thought that this man with a majestic body and a voice as loud as a bell, who was called a "natural god general" by the Xixia people, actually surrendered to Yan. But then he looked around at Xixia.
It seems that there is something incredible about the situation...
Even Yue Fei was angry when he heard that Liu Fazai's 20,000 Western troops had surrendered, but with a simple look on his eyebrows.
The surrender of the 80,000 Western Army in Bianliang, the 20,000 Western Army in Niaoyang, and the surrender of 70,000 Western Army to the enemy shows that the Western Army no longer has any psychological obstacles to joining the King of Yan in the north.
The generals may defect at any time, which is bad news.
But at the same time, I feel that it may be a bad thing that those young men who guarded the northwest, who once conquered Xixia under their own command and died serving the country, did not end up like that.
Before expressing his simple emotions, Yue Fei took a deep breath, returned to his prime minister state, and said, "They said that Jie Qun retreated to Nang Yang at that moment. What was the purpose?"
The unhappy atmosphere relaxed, and the eight people tacitly ignored the matter of Liu Fa's surrender.
However, in response to the question raised by Yue Fei, Zhe Keshi and Zhong Shidao frowned slightly and did not answer for a while.
When Song Jiang saw what the two old generals were talking about, he said, "Song is a talented person. He is trying to attract others. Zhang Mou retreated to Xiangyang. He obviously has no intention of going south. He is taking advantage of your army and Fang's thieves."
The war has been going on for a long time, are you ready to reap the benefits?"
Zhe Keshi shook his head: "It's early."
Master Zhong said: "Ezhou is still occupied by Fang thieves. Your army's offensive has been frustrated. The internal situation is stable and the strength has not been reduced. At this time, Jie Qun's march south will delay the battle at Jinghu.
At the end of the day, there are no losses for both sides. It is said that the fisherman will gain in the next chapter."
I don’t want to make it clear. In fact, we can still achieve certain results in the current battle. On the one hand, it proves that the foundation of the Song Army has been established, and it is by no means comparable to ordinary rebels. On the other hand,
This shows that the Western Army is suitable for fighting in the south after all. It is brave to return to the northwest, which means that it still doesn't feel like it is stuck in the quagmire.
Zhang Mou came here and actually helped us get out of trouble.
Song Jiang really threw the bricks, but he actually brought out the jade and looked at Yue Fei with a look of expectation.
Yue Fei said: "When the North was still a rural army, there was no secret camp, and seven scouts were sent to spy on intelligence. Now Zhang Pan is using family letters to instigate Liu Fabu, and he is even more capable of committing such a high-level crime.
It's accurate, we are not suppressing the Fang thief this time, we are helping you Xu Ning!"
"What's the purpose?"
"It's quite complicated. Without King Jian and the imperial edict, and seeing the soldiers capture Bianliang with bloody swords, the King of Yan has become arrogant, and is willing to bear the infamy of rebellious ministers and traitors.
By spreading the hearts of the people and treating the soldiers kindly, you can use peace to instigate rebellion. This is the way to conquer the enemy in war and capture all the troops in the south!"
When they heard about King Jian and the edict on clothes and belts, the expressions of the eight people were a little bit normal, but when they heard the previous words, they were suddenly enlightened and their spirits were lifted.
The change of dynasty is not bloody. The other party is so naive, it is an opportunity!
Yue Fei actually felt that nothing was quite right, but the Song court's intelligence was blocked and news from the Central Plains could still be transmitted. Things further north in Yanyun and even the Liao Kingdom still remained in the version of the Liao-Wuzhou Alliance.
I am basically aware of all the disputes that occurred here, such as the King of Yan expelling the envoys of Nanzhen, Nanzhen destroying Gaoli, and the navy of Yan State going north to support Gaoli's restoration. If that is the case, if
After thinking about it, Zhao Song was being strengthened to fight against the weak. One group of rebels was afraid that we would be destroyed by another group of rebels.
The South denounces the North, and the North repays evil with kindness. I really want to cry to death...
Now the gray-haired old husband felt refreshed and felt like he had seen a glimmer of dawn. He waved his skinny palm: "The territory of Niaoyang is broken. If Zhang Mou wants to stay,
It must be repaired, and the Song army must allow it. The confrontation between our two sides is a good opportunity for your army!"
"Some people have asked, is the land of Jinghu Lake capable of being occupied by thieves? First destroy Fang Xie, then stabilize the situation, and negotiate for a breathing space. You, Xiao Song, will be able to continue the reign of Zuo, or will you be able to achieve peace and prosperity!"
"It's such a good place with such a favorable location, but it's a pity that it's so dilapidated due to the war disaster..."
Liu Fa led the Western Army out of the territory and surrendered. The Guangxin Army and the Zhenrong Army handed over and settled in smoothly. Everything was like the story of Bianliang.
Jie Qun and Zhang Qing stood side by side on the low wall in the north of the domain, looking at Fanyu across the way and sighing from the ground.
Xiangyang is surrounded by water on all sides and backed by mountains on one side, so that's fine. The key is that its terrain is still low, and it is dangerous to defend from Fanyu, which is separated by a river. In other words, the terrain is high, and an army will be flooded by the water.
Get it next.
The two ponds so close to each other are not so sharply contrasted, so they are called "Fan Yu is made of paper and Xiangyang is made of iron"m
It was before Zhang Gao settled in that he discovered that there was something wrong with the paper-thin Fancheng, but today's Xiangyang is definitely a fortress, and its territorial defense is very poor.
From the humiliation of Jingkang to the resistance against Mongolia in the late Southern Song Dynasty, Xiangyang actually experienced two small-scale repairs and weakenings.
The first weakening is degrouping.
This is very unknown. In the battle to regain Xiangyang and other eight counties from the puppet Qi, Jie Qun only had 80,000 sergeants and was short of food and grass. In an extremely disadvantageous situation, he gathered troops to attack the puppet Qi.
Focus on a fortified place and attack one point, shaking the whole situation and causing the generals guarding Xiangyang to collapse upon hearing the news. Xu Ning's soldiers fought with bloody swords to recapture Nangyang.
Then the Jin people came to reinforce the army, and together with the Puppet Qi, they totaled a small army of 800,000. However, relying on the heavy enemy, they made a mistake in their formation, and were defeated by the Yue Family Army. Then they counterattacked and were defeated again.
Eight small battles in which more and less were defeated were all achieved brilliant small victories. From then on, the Yue Family Army regained a small piece of lost territory in the Nanghan area. Without that condition, the counterattack on the original source could not be discussed.
At that time, the news reached the Song court and shocked the emperor and ministers. The conversation between Zhao Gou and the prime minister was quite boring: "Fu Su heard that the flying army is extremely undisciplined. I don't know that it can defeat the enemy like this."
"But it doesn't have the 4 laws, so it can defeat thieves."
Before seizing the eight counties, Fang La asked the imperial court for orders. The imperial court separated that area from the original two roads in the south, south and north of Beijing, and set up a separate Nagyangfu Road, under Fang La's command.
Plan defense, complete the repair of regional defense, weaken the defense, and manage Xianghan.
Later, it moved to Ezhou, which became the small base camp of the Yue Family Army. Xianghan was a strategic location in the Southern Song Dynasty connecting Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the Central Plains of the North Map.
The seventh weakening is Meng Gong.
That person's great-grandfather Meng An and grandfather Meng Lin were both Fang La's generals, and he himself had a foresight in the county. As early as eighty years after the Mongolian attack on Xiangyang broke out, he proposed "Niao,
Fan was the foundation of the imperial court and should be managed, such as "protecting the vitality", and "one hundred thousand armored soldiers" were needed to deal with the retreat of the Mongolian army in advance.
In terms of my business, Xiangyang had not yet been captured by the Mongols. The ruined Xiangyang finally recovered its strength and became a military stronghold again. The river that protected it was narrowed and rations were stored for ten years.
Unfortunately, the supply provided by the imperial court at that time was only 10,000 people. When the Mongols besieged Nangyang for eight years, the number of soldiers and civilians outside was obviously far less than 10,000, and they were eventually forced to the end of their rope.
The tragedy is that after Meng Gong's death, he was also suspected by the court. The strategy had to be implemented, and he finally issued a similar sigh: "After eighty years of cleaning up the people of the Central Plains, today's ambition is to overcome it."m
The Song Dynasty made the right mistake over and over again. The fact that it could survive the Mongolian army for so long or was destroyed was really all due to the middle and upper class soldiers and civilians who fought hard and fought bravely. Countless touching stories emerged.
Now that Zhang Yao has entered Nangyang, no small groups of soldiers and civilians have arrived either. Jie Qun and Zhang Qing stood under the head of the domain and saw a long line of militiamen filing into the domain. At the same time, the Han River
There are no ships coming continuously.
Each of the ten small commanders of the army has 10,000 elites under his command, but the number of militiamen and craftsmen accompanying the army is smaller, and they are often deployed by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.
According to the requirements of the same battle situation, the minimum ratio can be as low as 1:7, with 10,000 elite troops and 20,000 auxiliary troops going to the back line.
It is now close to the lower limit. The Guangxin Army and the Zhenrong Army have 70,000 auxiliary troops, including a small number of craftsmen, because Luoyang was later destroyed by the Zhang Xian thief and was being repaired, so they came directly here.
At the same time, the local people in Nanghan, when they heard that Zhang Pan from the Central Plains was coming, were so excited that they rushed to the territory. A small number of the boats under the river were from the local people in Xianghan.
Lu Fang came to his side. It turned out that I was in favor of defending the city. Seeing such a scene of people coming from all sides, they all said sincerely: "Your Majesty, you are kind and graceful. In such a grand occasion, I wonder if you can help the group."
Yan Jun and Zhang Qing looked at each other and smiled, thinking of this Zeng Yan, benevolence is not in name only, but must be implemented in practice.
After that, the Song Dynasty raised millions of soldiers, and it didn't take long for people to join the army, and the army had to go out to catch strong men.
Now the Yan court has 100,000 elite soldiers, carefully selected, and the people actively participate. Even if there is no way to join the regular Tenth Army, the militiamen will do it.
Fundamentally, it has to do with King Yan's virtue, which is purely a change in treatment under the system and an improvement in social atmosphere.
From now on, Xu Ning owed wages every year and had tattoos on his face. He was regarded as a scapegoat by others. He was just like running errands in the Bianjing area and being asked for help. Only a fool became a thief and joined the army.
Nowadays, the status of Zhang Mou is low, the salary is good, they are tattooed, the merits of the inspection department are transparent, they are very popular when they go out, and it is easy to find a wife. As long as they can meet the conditions, only fools join the army.
When the people of Xiaozhang retreated into Xiangyang one after another, Tao Zongwang, the maintenance director of the Ministry of Works, also came to him: "We have calculated that the damage to the city wall in Xiangyang is minor, and the protection of the territory is limited."
It needs to be widened, and it should be as narrow as eighty feet. Those two items are minor projects, and the rest of the repair work can be completed within a few days."
Yan Jun took a deep breath after hearing this: "Eighty feet? In the past, the dragon-protecting river in Bianjing was only more than ten feet..."
Tao Zongwang smiled and said: "It is a protective river formed by diverting water from the Han River. It is the same. Eighty feet is just an average value. The narrowest point may be as high as forty feet. If the thieves want to attack again, they can only wait.
sigh."
"Records of Xiangyang City Guards" did not say, "We arrived early, and the prisoners climbed down. We were shocked to see a sudden moat." Imagine a moat of more than 200 meters narrow stretching in front of you.
What does it feel like? How can it be sighing?
Zhang Qing thought about the end of get out of class at the academy. When describing the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, he compared Yubi City to "a realm of low joy and slow music" and suddenly laughed:
"When the Song Army sees the Xiangyang Domain before Zhang Dao's control, I will definitely be very 'slowly happy'!