Two days later, Chen Qing personally led an army of 50,000 to Liangzhou City. This was only the first batch of troops. Another 50,000 troops carrying 50,000 camels loaded with food and supplies had left Lanzhou and were rushing towards Liangzhou City.
Come.
Fifty thousand Song troops set up camp in the south of Liangzhou City. At this time, Chen Qing was listening to Tang Qian's report in the tent.
"Is this Brother Sai trustworthy?" Chen Qing asked.
"Reporting to the prince, Sai Ge's son is in our army and is stationed in Huangzhou. His family has lived in Lanzhou for generations, and he has no means of coercion in Liangzhou City. His humble position can confirm his trustworthiness."
"Where is he now?" Chen Qing asked again.
"His caravan went to Ganzhou with his humble subordinates."
The reason why Chen Qing is not very concerned about the intelligence itself, but more concerned about the people who provide the intelligence, is because there are doubts in it. Did the enemy forces seal the city? If they didn't seal the city, why didn't anyone else leave the city for several days? If the city was sealed.
Okay, why can this Brother Sai leave the city again?
"Reporting to the prince, Liangzhou is currently in a state of lockdown. Entry and exit from the city are not allowed without special reasons. This brother Sai is a senior official who knows the Uighurs in Xizhou. He named him and opened his eyes to Cai Cai. The same is true for low-level positions in Lanzhou.
Taking this into consideration, I chose Sai Ge.”
Chen Qing said lightly: "Your answer is barely qualified, but it can only be qualified, but it is not enough to satisfy me. What I mean is, have you verified what he said? I am not saying that he is an enemy.
For example, he asked the innkeeper how many soldiers there were in the city. The innkeeper told him that there were about five thousand people, so he thought it was five thousand. Maybe the innkeeper was just telling the truth. You
Do you understand me?"
What Chen Qing said is exactly the basic elements of a scout, verify it!
"Bizhi fully understood what the prince meant. He observed the situation of the defenders at the top of the city. There were very few soldiers patrolling the top of the city at night, no more than 300 people. Today, the number of patrols suddenly increased to more than 2,000, and several birds flew out.
Faith Eagle, I judge from experience that the garrison is indeed around five to six thousand people."
"anything else?"
"In addition, I sent people to check the cultivation status of the farmland to make sure it has been cultivated and sown."
Chen Qing nodded. This verification was not bad. It indirectly confirmed that the Han people in the city had not been massacred.
"Okay, you pass!"
Tang Qian breathed a sigh of relief immediately, and his back was soaked.
"Have you sent someone to contact Dadou Bugu?" Chen Qing asked again.
Tang Qian hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "I've sent someone to report back to the prince. I estimate there will be a reply in the next two days."
Chen Qing then slowly said to the generals in the tent: "Military is an extension of politics. Although you are generals, it does not mean that you should not consider politics. Otherwise, you will only be generals and not become generals."
General, the reason why Guan Shigu is better than you is not that he is senior or has high prestige, but that he understands politics, so I will tell you today, what is politics?"
Standing in the big tent were Liu Cui, Gao Ding, Liu Qiong, Tang Qian and several other commanders. Chen Qing was not only teaching them today, but also deploying his own Hexi strategy.
"Everyone knows that Cao Changchun and I are sworn brothers, but he and I have never met each other, and we have never hit it off, and we have no common pursuit of a great cause. But we all believe that we must be sworn brothers, otherwise the Hexi Corridor will not be stable.
, this kind of sworn sworn relationship between foreign leaders is actually a strengthened contract. You can't just rely on a piece of paper to agree on the division and ownership of the Hexi Corridor between the two families. He won't believe it, and neither will I.
At the beginning, Cao Changchun and I made an agreement to destroy Xixia together, but he broke the agreement. The reason was that the Xizhou Uighurs betrayed the agreement and suddenly occupied Shazhou. Is this the truth? In fact, it is not. The truth is that the Xizhou Army entered Shazhou and Cao Cao
Invited by Changchun, or in other words, he reached an agreement with Big Chief Bilugo of Xizhou to introduce the Xizhou Army into the Hexi Corridor."
"Why did Cao Changchun do this?" Gao Ding asked in confusion.
Chen Qing smiled and nodded, "That's a good question. Everyone still remembers that Cao Changchun brought his family to visit Jingzhao! Are you here to visit relatives? No, why did he bring his son Cao An here? He actually told me clearly,
I hope that the brotherly contract between me and him can continue with his son. At that time, he proposed to set up a Uighur class in Taixue, and he would send a group of noble children to study here. Do you know what this means? "
"Hostage!" Liu Qiong blurted out.
Chen Qing gave a thumbs up, "That's right. After the Tang Dynasty established the Anxi Protectorate, many small countries in the Western Regions sent their princes to Chang'an to study. These were actually hostages and a sign of their submission to the Tang Dynasty, so Cao Changchun took the initiative to propose
Sending the children of the Falcon nobles to study in Jingzhao was actually a test of me. I told him clearly that among these noble children, his son Cao An must be included. I just told him that I could agree to the continuation of the current agreement with his son, but
The prerequisite is that the Yellow-headed Uighur must surrender to me and send his son to Jingzhao as a hostage.
After that, he never mentioned the Uighur children coming to study in Taixue, but he gave my son a land deed to Jiuquan City, saying it was a gift for my son. Everyone, he is the chief of the Uighurs.
Everything has a profound meaning. Giving land to my son actually has the same intention, which is for me to continue to recognize that the Hexi partition contract will continue to be valid for future generations.
In order to realize this intention, he even asked his son to give a precious gem to my daughter.
But the next day, he left in a hurry. The reason was that Li Yanwu, the governor of Shazhou in Xixia, was attacking Jiuquan. I really believed it at the time and asked Lu Gui to lead 5,000 tiger and horse cavalry to assist him in the battle. However, Lu Gui’s army had been in Liang for a long time.
Prefecture, Cao Changchun refused Lu Gui's army to go north to help, saying that the Xixia army had been repulsed. Later I found out that this was not the case at all, because I clearly asked his son Cao An to come to Jingzhao to study, which made his plan fail.
He was afraid that I would hold him in Jingzhao, so he found an excuse to escape from Jingzhao."
Everyone looked at each other in shock. When Cao Changchun came to Beijing, so many things happened behind the scenes, and they knew nothing about it.
Chen Qing smiled slightly and continued: "Everyone, this is politics. We attacked Xixia. Seeing that Xixia was about to be destroyed, Cao Changchun was afraid, fearing that my next goal would be to regain the Hexi Corridor.
He then sent envoys to Xizhou to negotiate, asking the Uighur brothers to unite to protect the Hexi Corridor. I believe that the consensus they reached included driving us out of Liangzhou and completely tearing up the Hexi partition agreement reached by Cao Changchun and I. It was just Cao Changchun's dream.
Unexpectedly, his brother Cao Yuan actually betrayed him, so Cao Changchun's generals surrendered to the Xizhou Uighurs one after another. These generals were actually his brother Cao Yuan's people.
Cao Changchun realized this before he died, and then asked his son Cao An to come to Jingzhao as a hostage and beg me to send troops to save the Yellow-headed Uighurs. He agreed that the Yellow-headed Uighurs would surrender to us."
Speaking of this, Chen Qing took out a letter and said to everyone: "This is the letter found on Cao An, the last personal letter written by Cao Changchun to me. Only then did I understand the cause and effect. Everyone, this is politics. Politics is originally a
Unfortunately, Cao Changchun's compromise came too late, his son died, and the Yellow-headed Uighurs also destroyed the country."
"I humbly ask the prince for instructions, what is our strategy for heading west this time?" Liu Cui asked.
Chen Qing glanced at everyone and said slowly: "I have always had a dream, to restore the strength of the Han and Tang Dynasties in my hands. Today is just the first step for us, but we must take this step firmly.
This time we want to occupy the Hexi Corridor and completely conquer the Xizhou Uighurs, making them our vassal state and our western barrier to prevent the Western Liao Army from attacking our Lingxia Road. But one day, our cavalry will return
Embark on the journey to the Western Regions and let the Western Regions Protectorate of the Han and Tang Dynasties be re-established in the hands of our generation."
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[I have something to do at home today, so I asked my book friends for a chapter off. There is no chapter at noon.]