Chapter 1,191 The oriole is behind (two updates and one update together)
Chapter 1199 The oriole is behind (two updates and one update together)
It took only ten days for the frontline gold medal to be delivered, but Cai Bian's city map was already delivered to the officials in the capital.
After reviewing the city map, the emperor and the officials of the two governments were full of surprises.
The Song army unexpectedly entered and built Zhenwu Army City, but Dangxiang didn't react at all. He actually sat back and watched the Song army easily build the city at the key point where the two countries were fighting.
Have the party kings and ministers collectively lost their minds?
This was equivalent to a great victory for the Song Army in vain, and captured nearly a hundred miles of Dangxiang territory. The straight-line distance between the Song Army and Liangzhou was greatly shortened.
This unexpected surprise made everyone from the emperor down overjoyed. It was only one step away from capturing Liangzhou.
Recovering the homeland of the Han and Tang dynasties and reconnecting with the Western Regions seems to be just around the corner.
Just take this last step forward.
Liangzhou Liangzhou, is this where the resurgence of the Song Dynasty lies?
However, it is different from the officials who are overjoyed and complacent.
Zhang Yue looked at the city map, but his face was almost twitching.
Originally, he only wanted Cai Bian to build one fortress, but he actually built three for himself.
The cost was as much as half a million dollars.
Zhang Yue felt dizzy for a while. He turned his sword inward and asked Cai Bian, Sun Lu, and Fan Yu to rectify the corruption problem on Xihe Road, but they only managed to collect less than a million dollars.
Cai Bian actually spent half of it on himself in one go.
How can Prime Minister Zhang Yue continue to spend so much money? Where will he find money to fill your hole?
It's not your money that's spent anyway, right?
Nowadays, with the exception of Hebei and Shaanxi Province, all the armor protection methods have abolished the previous system and changed the armor protection system to the archer system. The local governments call on volunteers to train the archers. This does not save much money.
This Cai Bian has absolutely no financial discipline at all.
Zhang Yue said seriously: "What your Majesty said is absolutely true. Cai Bian did a great job in this matter. Judging from the city map, this is a complete formation and the situation is fully occupied."
"Even if the party's hundreds of thousands of troops come to attack, we can still defend it."
It's just that this style of play is too expensive. Zhang Yueshi couldn't help but cursed in his heart.
The official said: "It was Qing's strategy to attack shallowly and advance into the building. Cai Bian was able to achieve this feat only because of Qing's planning."
Zhang Yue smiled bitterly upon hearing this, forget it, it's here. It's a crucial battle to seize Liangzhou. No matter how big the investment is, it is worth it, and we must not fall short.
Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety.
Zeng Xiaokuan, who had finished Ding You's return to the court and was appointed deputy privy envoy, had a glimpse of the emperor's intentions and said: "Your Majesty, now that the Zhenwu Army City has been built, it is time to take advantage of the situation and capture Liangzhou!"
"Your Majesty, this is not possible at the moment!" Zhang Yue said.
Feng Jing, who was watching the fire with insight, asked: "Advance quickly and quickly. Since Dang Xiang has figured out our army's intention to attack Liangzhou, we cannot hold on for long."
"Your Majesty, the imperial court has repeatedly said that it will attack Liangzhou, but in the end it has been delayed. Don't you know that time has not waited for us!"
Zhang Yue knew that Feng Jing was trying to cash in on him.
The Battle of Liangzhou stalled repeatedly, which made people feel slow. Rather than strategy, decision-making was more important.
Zhang Yue pointed at the map and said: "Your Majesty, I am really surprised that Dang Xiang has not moved yet. Without knowing Dang Xiang's intention, we must not attack Liangzhou with our entire army. We must first understand Dang Xiang's intention before we can attack Liangzhou!"
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The official asked: "What's the plan?"
Zhang Yue swiped his finger upwards from the map and pointed at a place on the map called 'Rendouquan City'.
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Within a few years, Ali's bones crossed the three prefectures of Sha, Gua, and Ganzhou, and he defeated the Ganzhou and Gansu Military Supervision Departments and the Guazhou and Xiping Military Supervision Departments.
Now Ali Gu is in the big tent and receives the Song envoy Tong Guan.
Ali Gu immediately set up a banquet, roasted a big lamb, and asked a dozen orchids to sing and dance under the tent. Tong Guan's entourage also served them with good wine and meat.
Ali Gu looked at Tong Guan and laughed and said: "Tong Zouma has been here for many years, and his face has become red. He looks more like us Qingtang people."
Tong Guan smiled and said: "Tong has followed the local customs, and today I have been ordered by the emperor to pay homage to the Jiedushi! I will give you a generous gift."
After Tong Guan ordered the person to present the gift list, Ali Gu was overjoyed after looking at the gift list, but there was not much expression on his face and he said: "Such a generous gift, I am afraid that if I am not the emperor, what will I, Ali Gu, do?"
"I know that Jiedushi is good at teaching, so I don't mean to cause any trouble. I just heard that Jiedushi seems to want to take Renduoquan City, so I came to ask?"
Ali Gu asked: "What's the matter? My uncle, the Emperor, also had this intention?"
Tong Guandao: "That's right. If Jiedushi doesn't take it, we will take it."
Ali said: "As promised at the beginning, since I swept through Guazhou and Shazhou, you Han people will take Liangzhou on the right road."
Tong Guandao: "Renduoquan City is the place where the Renduo clan started. I'm afraid it's not easy to get there. Our strategic envoys are worried that Jiedushi will not be able to attack it, so we want to take it ourselves."
Ali Gu laughed when he heard this and said, "You don't have to worry about this."
After Tong Guan stood up and left, Ali Gu summoned his subordinates to discuss the situation.
When he heard that Renduoquan City was being taken, a chieftain objected: "Rendouquan City is guarded by the Renduoquan City's trusted veterans. Let's not go against them."
Ali Gu scolded: "The people of the Song Dynasty are now building the ancient bone dragon city, and they clearly have the intention of taking Liangzhou from the north."
"Now that the Song Dynasty is strong and the party is weak, we should take advantage of the situation and take Renduoquan City, and then take Sha, Gua, Gan, and Yishu Prefectures. This way we will have the foundation for independence."
"We, as men, have ambitions to reach the top of the clouds, so how can we stand so low under other people's roofs?"
Ali Gu stood up, and the chiefs on the left and right were in awe of his momentum. In fact, many of the leaders of the Qingtang tribe who followed Ali Gu from Bianjing had lost their foothold.
Enterprising spirit.
Only Ali Gu remained tireless and committed to a great cause from beginning to end.
After saying this, Ali Gu led his army to gather troops and march north.
Aligu was quite ambitious. He had been victorious since he raised his army. Now he divided the Tatar and Uighur troops into five armies and stationed them north of Qinghai.
When he conquered Shazhou, Guazhou, and Ganzhou, he also took in the Xizhou Uighurs. Some of the Ganzhou Uighurs took refuge, and they were divided into three armies and stationed in Guazhou and Shazhou. Now he can be said to have a strong army.
When Aligu led the Eighth Army and arrived at Renduoquan City, he saw the towering peaks in the north. The tops of the mountains were covered with snow all year round. The mountains nearby were undulating, and the snow water melting below the mountains merged into the Haomen River.
Renduoquan City is located in this river valley.
Ali Gu looked at the mountains and ridges, and held a horsewhip to the left and right chieftains: "With such mountains and rivers, we are the only ones who worry that the Han people will compete with us for this land? They usually only farm in the plains under the mountains. If they want to live in peace, they have to please us."
All the canals of the chieftains are called "yes".
Ali Gu has been in Bianjing for many years, and he has worked very hard to study Chinese Sinology. Now he has several Han counselors around him. The Han counselors told him that with the national strength of the Han people, they can only maintain the Liangzhou line from west to north, and then go further.
Going west to north is very difficult.
After resting for a day, the army set off the next day, and there was heavy fog.
Ali Gu was riding on his horse when he suddenly heard the sound of arrows piercing the air in the heavy fog.
Ali Gu, who had many years of experience in the army, immediately turned over and dismounted. A moment later, his horse was hit by several arrows and fell to death.
Immediately, there were shouts of killing, and hundreds of horses jumped out of the fog, running and shooting with bows and arrows in hand. After entering, they changed their swords and guns.
Aligu's more than 20,000 soldiers and horses marched through the mountains and rivers, but they were divided into eight armies. They did not expect that the Renduo people dared to come out of the city to attack, nor did they expect that they would bypass the forwards and did not attack the rear troops, but went straight to
The Chinese army where Ali Gu is located comes.
There are only a few hundred members of the Rendo tribe, but they are unstoppable under a surprise attack.
In the heavy fog, the sound of weapons clashing could be heard endlessly, as well as people talking and cursing each other.
Ali Gu's soldiers and horses were in chaos, and were attacked by elites. They were completely in disarray. Many of Ren Duo's troops who attacked were all wearing armor, but Ali Gu's men were only wearing furs, and even if they had armor, they had no time to put it on.
This is simply a one-sided massacre.
However, Ali Gu was not afraid in the face of danger and put on armor while being served by his left and right people. While he was wearing armor, he also used a heavy ax to smash the head of a Rendo warrior.
Ali Gu put on his armor, changed his horse and came out holding a gold-wrapped Tibetan spear.
In the thick fog, Ali bone spears stabbed several people, overthrowing several Renduo tribe warriors. Finally, under his leadership, he repelled the Renduo tribe's ambush.
But Ali Gu was furious when he saw that he was seriously injured.
The next day, Aligu led his army to the gates of Renduoquan City and surrounded the city.
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Liangzhou City.
Renduoyading, a famous party general and commander of the army on the right wing, looked solemn when he heard that Aligu led the army to surround Renduoquan City.
Although Liang Yibu's appointment as prime minister meant that the Liang family regained control of the military, the leader of the country, Li Bingchang, was extremely wary of guarding against him.
He still reused Renduoyading and his son to balance the military power of the Liang family. He also appointed Renduochuqing, the younger brother of Renduoyading, as the censor Zhongcheng, giving the Renduo family an additional foundation in the court.
When he learned that the ancient bone dragon city (Zhenwu Army City) was built in the Song Dynasty, Ren Duoyading sneered.
He knew the situation here. Ancient Bone Dragon City (Yongdeng County) was far away from Lanzhou and Miaochuan City, and it was very difficult to repair it with the power of Xihe Road in the Song Dynasty.
He abandoned this place on purpose.
Later, when the Song army sent troops from Miaochuan and Nanzongzhai to build the ancient bone dragon city, they were shocked to report Renduoyading. Renduoyading said confidently: "I deliberately left this disease among the Han people."
Ren Duoyading explained to the people around him: "If the Han people station too many soldiers and horses here, they will waste money and food. If they station too few, we will eat them."
When the Song army was building the city for more than ten days, Ren Duoyading led his light cavalry to explore the progress of the Song army's city building. He was shocked when he saw that the Song army actually built three cities in one go under his nose.
After seeing that the Song Army was well prepared and had mobilized tens of thousands of civilians, Renduoyading realized that he was wrong. He was so wrong. He had greatly underestimated the Song Army's current logistical supply capabilities.
He said to his left and right: "The Han people have only occupied Huangzhou for a few years, but they can easily mobilize tens of thousands of local people to fight."
"The Han people do have the means to win over people's hearts. It seems that the Qingtang Dynasty can no longer be owned by Dabai Gaoguo."
After returning from exploring the Ancient Bone Dragon City, Renduoyading wrote a letter to the leader Li Bingchang overnight, saying that the Han people had established a firm foothold in the Qing and Tang Dynasties and were very popular, and the Qing and Tang tribes had completely integrated into the Song people. In this way.
In less than a year, I am afraid that even Liangzhou will not be able to protect itself. Now the party's only way out is to unite with Liao to fight against Song.
After writing the letter, Ren Duoyading looked at the big bow hanging on the wall and said with emotion: "I have been fighting for many years, and I always thought that the one with strong soldiers and horses is the king. Now I know which side the people's hearts are in."
He had been fighting with the Song people all his life. He was never afraid of what the Song people would do on the battlefield, but he was afraid of the methods they used outside the battlefield.
Although Li Bingchang agreed to ask for help from the Liao Kingdom, Ren Duoyading still fell seriously ill.
No one in Liangzhou city knew why, but his son Renduo Baozhong knew why his father was seriously ill, so he couldn't help but worry.
Renduoyading was seriously ill for a month before he recovered a little, but at this time he learned that Ali Gu had surrounded Renduoquan City.
This Renduoquan City is only more than ten miles away from the ancient Bone Dragon City. This is not only the place where the Renduo clan started, but also a very important place for Party Xiang in Liangzhou.
Now that the Ancient Bone Dragon City has been lost, once Renduoquan City is lost again, the situation in Liangzhou will be even more dangerous.
There are eight troops in Aligu, but there are only 3,000 people in Renduoquan City.
Ren Duoyading remained silent.
His sons Ren Duo Baozhong and Ren Duo Xizhong both requested war.
"If Renduoquan City is not saved, all people's hearts will be lost. What's more, there are many people from my Renduo family in the city." Renduo Xizhong said this.
Renduoyading closed his eyes for a while and said, "With Ali's bones here, it doesn't matter whether he is saved or not."
Renduo Baozhong said: "Now the people in Liangzhou City are thinking. The Eastern Dynasty has built a city on the ancient bone dragon. If we continue to sit back and watch Renduoquan City fall, Liangzhou City may not be able to defend it. Please father to take countermeasures as soon as possible."
Ren Duoyading said: "I ordered people to dig deep caves in Liangzhou City as a way to hold on for a long time. At the same time, I carried out a strategy to strengthen the walls and clear the wilderness near Liangzhou. I also wrote to the king of the country asking him to send envoys again to beg the Liao Kingdom to send troops for rescue.
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"Other than that, there is no other way. Now we can only wait for change."
Seeing Ren Duoyading's prediction of the situation being so disappointing, both sons were surprised. After decades of service in the army, they had never seen their father like this.
Although the Song Army now has an advantage over Dangxiang Army, due to the long supply line and poor logistics, Dangxiang still has a geographical advantage.
But Ren Duoyading was so silent and worried, which made the two brothers very worried.
Ren Duo Xi Zhong said: "Father, Ren Duoquan City must be saved. I will lead an army alone to rescue!"
Renduoyading knew that not to save him was indeed unreasonable, so he immediately said to Renduo Xizhong: "Go away!"
After Ren Duo Xi Zhong received the order, he immediately ordered his troops and horses to set off.
Upon hearing this, Ren Duo Baozhong sighed: "Father, why don't you let me go?"
Ren Duoyading said: "Liangzhou can't live without you."
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The horses snorted and looked restless. The cavalrymen of Ali's Bone Army galloped left and right with their guns on heads.
Ren Duo Xi Zhong looked at this scene and was quite annoyed.
He glanced at the hills in the distance. Ali Gu was crossing his arms and looking at him with a ferocious sneer on his face.
He remounted his horse and led five hundred cavalry towards the opponent. Ali Gu also sent out a thousand cavalry to charge.
The cavalry on both sides deployed various weapons such as spears, spears, and broadswords. After charging, the two sides passed each other. The cavalry on horseback fell off their horses one after another, leaving corpses on the ground.
In terms of cavalry combat, Ren Duo Xizhong's men will definitely be better than Shuchi, but the opponent has more people and horses.
The empty war horse on top licked its former owner, and after the soldiers and horses were damaged, Ali Gu's expression on the hill did not change, but he ordered his own soldiers to replenish the troops.
Ren Duo Xizhong gritted his teeth when he saw this scene and knew that Ren Duoquan City could not be saved.
After days of hard fighting, Ren Duo Xizhong had done his best. He immediately turned his horse to the left and right and said: "Let's go!"
Ali Gugu on the hill said: "It's not that easy to leave now!"
Ali Gu stretched out his hand and ignited the firewood from left to right. After hearing the news, his subordinates who were watching from the hills in the distance immediately led their horses to Renduo and intercepted the return route.
On May 10th, Renduo Xizhong, the son of Renduoyading, failed to rescue Renduoquan City. He died in the anti-war formation, and his subordinates tried their best to snatch the body and return.
After that, Ali Gu returned to besiege Renduoquan City.
The army attacked the city wave after wave like a tidal wave, and after ten days of bloody fighting, they finally made a breakthrough today.
Ali's skeleton soldiers poured out like a tide. Renduo tribe on the wall knew that they would be unlucky after the city was broken, so they all shot them with arrows.
The two bravest Qu commanders under Ali Gu, one holding an iron spear and the other holding a sword and shield, led the troops to attack, killing Renduo's army in the gap and retreating steadily. When they saw that they were about to break the city, they suddenly beat the gong behind them and retreated.
For some unknown reason, the two Qu commanders were about to question Ali's bones when they saw a forest of flags in the mountains in the distance, and an unknown number of soldiers and horses heading towards them.
But Ali Gu gritted his teeth and said: "The kindness between me, Ali Gu, and the people of Song Dynasty will be wiped out from today!"
After saying this, Ali Gu got on his horse and retreated.
Their soldiers and horses also evacuated from Renduoquan City in a hurry. The defenders in the city did not know why, and they suddenly realized it when they saw countless Song troops wearing Fan Yangli appearing on the hillsides and canyons.
On Xihe Road, Wang Fan and the supervisor Cai Bian led nearly 10,000 troops out of Nanzong Village and arrived here.
When Wang Fan saw Ali Gu retreating, he smiled and said to his left and right: "Ali Gu was so polite that he was about to capture the city, so he generously gave it to us."
Cai Bian said: "Soldiers are not afraid of deceit. What should I do with this city?"
Wang Fan said: "Just to persuade them to surrender, we can leave them a way to live."
Half an hour later, all the soldiers and horses of Renduoquan City surrendered to the Song Dynasty.
Wang Fan wanted to rebel and kill the prisoners, but Cai Bian stopped him.
Finally, these people were sent to Qinzhou for resettlement.
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After hearing that Renduoquan City and Gugulong City had fallen successively, Li Bingchang was very angry and ordered the royal family Wei Ming Ami to replace Renduoyading as the commander of the right wing.
The chief minister of the Western Xia Dynasty, Renduo Chuqing, and the younger brother of Renduo Yading, saw that Li Bingchang was suspicious of Li Bingchang, and because he had asked the Xixia leader for the post of commander of the army and was not allowed to do so, he felt resentful and took the initiative to contact Shen Kuo, the envoy of Jingyuan Road, to request internal support.
In the end, Renduo Chuqing led nearly a thousand people from his family and tribe to leave Xia and go to Song Dynasty.
At the same time, Renduo Chuqing also presented three hundred taels of gold, as well as crowns, clothes, treasures, saddles, embroidered dragon tents and other items given by the king of Xixia.
The officials were overjoyed and immediately issued an order to appoint Renduo as the training envoy of the Ganzhou regiment of Chuqing Dynasty and the inspection envoy of Zhuoluodu in the right wing.
Party item Liangzhou Qian governed Wu Mingge and his brother Wu Mingshan. When they saw that the Song army had conquered two cities, and the army was approaching Liangzhou, they were afraid that Ren Duo would gather. Under the instigation of Cao Zhongshou, the governor of the Guiyi Army, they led hundreds of troops to surrender to the Song Dynasty.
Introduce it with a sign.
The next month, several party leaders joined the party, bringing hundreds to thousands of subordinates.
At the same time, they also brought many camels, cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
Seeing that there were more and more people joining the army, Wang Hou simply organized all the party members and surrendered troops in Xihe Road into a single squad.
It's called Dang Xiangzhi.
In Dangxiangzhi, there are Dangxiang people, Han people, Qingtang tribes, and a small number of Uighurs and Tatars, all of whom surrendered from Dangxiang.
This is what the Song Dynasty learned from the Dangxiang people. The Dangxiang people attacked the Song capital with Jiang Ren as their vanguard. Now the Song Dynasty also attacks Dangxiang with Jiang Ren as their vanguard.
In May and June, the Tibetan tribes near Liangzhou rushed to defect to the Song Dynasty. Although Renduoyading tried his best to contain them, it was to no avail.
