Chapter five hundred and thirty fourth retreat again
Li Deming waited outside with his army for a long time, and sent experienced scouts to carefully search the surrounding cliffs and found no abnormalities. From this, he became more certain that the Yunzhong County Marquis of the Song Dynasty was just an ordinary civil servant. The Qiang people still have some abilities, but facing the powerful Dangxiang people, their abilities are not enough.
He has seen too many such civil servants of the Song Dynasty. Although the Song Dynasty was also a Han dynasty, it was a pity that it was almost different from the Tang Dynasty. He admitted that the Song people were richer, smarter, and more capable in studying knowledge. They made wonderful things, but how could they compare with the weapons and equipment of the prosperous Tang Dynasty?
The unarmed Song Dynasty was like an undefended warehouse, not to mention that there was a powerful enemy who had been coveting it in the north for a long time, and its own party was also growing stronger.
Dangxiang people have always been accustomed to relying on the strong. If the Tang Dynasty is prosperous, it will depend on the Tang Dynasty. If the Liao Dynasty is prosperous, it will depend on the Liao Dynasty. As for professing tribulation to the Song Dynasty, it is not impossible, but the rewards given by the Zhao and Song Tianjia must be generous...
Li Deming was even a little proud. If the current party was changed to the Tang Dynasty, it would definitely be suppressed by the Tang Dynasty. But now it is growing continuously. After he annexed the two states of Gansu and Liang, and maintained the trade routes of the entire Western Region, the Song people The value of the goods is up to you.
Li Deming originally planned to give Ye An some time. After all, he was the founding prince of the Song Dynasty and the deputy envoy to appease Huanzhou. Using his troops in Qinggang Gorge to prevent the Zhenrong army from assisting him was already a nominal offense to the Song Dynasty. If we lead the army to kill him now, we will definitely anger the Song Dynasty. Then the Song Dynasty will use heavy troops to suppress Dangxiang.
Li Deming did not want to intensify the conflict and completely offend the Song Dynasty. On the contrary, he had no intention of sending troops.
Just using the famous name of Boshan to instigate the Western Qiang people to cause rebellion, the Song people had no time to worry about the two states of Gansu and Liang. They were able to take the land of these two states into their own hands. Who would have expected that Ye An and Cao Yi could pacify Huanzhou so quickly? The rebellion led to the subjugation of the Xiqiang people.
Just when Li Deming was about to order an attack on Qinggang Gorge, Tan Ma came to report that the Zhenrong Army had appeared at Qingping Pass, which disrupted all his plans for a while.
"Who is this Ye An? How come even Cao Yi is so eager to lead his troops to help?"
Li Deming felt that he really didn't understand the political situation of the Song Dynasty. A Yunzhong Junhou, a fifth-rank Sinongsi Shaoqing, although he was sent as a deputy to appease the body, he was just a young man. How much ability did he have? Let Zhou Wenzhi and Cao Yi rush to his aid?
Li Deming believed that the affairs of Huanzhou were closely related to the situation of the Song Dynasty, but unfortunately he did not understand it himself. On the contrary, Wei Mingshan was very familiar with these things: "This son is already well-known in the city of Tokyo, and the world often calls him Yelang." He was called because he acted strangely in Yangcheng County and boasted about going to Haikou for disaster relief. However, in the end, it had a beginning and an end. The king of Henan Prefecture knew about the disaster, and the son then presented fine seeds to the Song Dynasty, so Then he was rewarded by the founding prince, and people often said: This son is as wise as a demon, good at amassing wealth, and his family's Confucianism is different from the world. He was also promoted by the saints of Zhao and Song Dynasty, and became the bachelor's student of the young emperor, which is unusual. civil servants."
After hearing this, Li Deming sneered slightly: "Such people should be promoted in an eclectic way! The Song Dynasty paid too much attention to qualifications, so much so that the young and promising people had their edges smoothed, the middle-aged people were sluggish, and the old people were conservative, what's the use?!"
Wei Mingshanyu understood the political situation of the Song Dynasty, so he only slightly agreed with Li Deming's words. This was feasible in Dangxiang, but not possible in the Song court.
What Gu Lepu is concerned about is not distant matters, but the immediate troubles: "Your Majesty, Cao Yi is coming with his army to suppress the army. How should we respond? Once the tail comes, there is Qinggang Gorge in front of us.
There are a lot of people behind, and there is a suppressing army behind them, so they may be in danger of being surrounded!"
Li Deming laughed loudly: "What's so difficult about this? Just lead the army to the Qingping Pass Valley to ambush the Zhenrong Army, and stay behind to garrison Hulukou. Ye An will not dare to send troops rashly if he doesn't know the situation of the battle!"
It has to be said that Li Deming was extremely skilled in using troops on the battlefield, but he miscalculated a little. It was not that Ye An did not dare to cross the Hulukou, but was waiting for Dang Xiang's army to come in...
Because Hulukou was captured by the Party members, Qinggang Gorge's connection with the outside world had been cut off. Ye An did not understand the situation outside, let alone the arrival of the Zhenrong Army led by Cao Yi.
The retreat of Dangxiang's army made Ye An suspect that this was Li Deming's plan. Naturally, he would not risk retaking Hulukou. Besides, he had set gunpowder on the cliff above Hulukou. How could he let the Song army soldiers stay below?
At this time, Ye An had summoned the leaders of various tribes of the Western Qiang through Zihe Changlin. The winding cave was full of people. Ye An was even worried about lack of oxygen, but fortunately there was a steady flow of wind.
The leaders of each department sat on straw mats and enjoyed the short-term coolness of summer, but their eyes wandered uncertainly on Ye An and Zihe Changlin. Party Xiang's army had arrived and had captured Hulukou, which made them hostile to the Song army.
cast doubt on its combat capabilities.
Ye An threw away the roots of the camellia and looked at the suspicious looks of the leaders and said calmly: "You all have sworn allegiance to me, the Song Dynasty. Now the party members are outside and may come in at any time. Naturally, I will not look at the people of the Song Dynasty.
They were brutally massacred. In order to protect me in Huanzhou and the people of Western Qiang, I decided to lead the troops and civilians of Qinggangxia to evacuate to Xiamao Village!"
"What? Evacuate to Xiamo Village?!"
None of the leaders of the Xiqiang tribes, including Zihe Changlin, expected that Ye An had no intention of stationing at Qinggang Gorge. Instead, he wanted to lead the Xiqiang people to Xiamo Village in the north, which was closer to Dangxiang.
Although Qinggang Gorge is not the hometown of the Western Qiang people, they have settled here since they moved to the Song Dynasty. After operating here for more than ten years, they have become accustomed to the gifts of the mountains. Besides, there are fields they have leveled and suitable pastures.
, there are also a large number of cattle and sheep, it is almost impossible to take these things away!
The ancients valued family property, and after the Western Qiang people changed from nomadic herding to half-grazing and half-farming, it became even more difficult to part with the wealth produced from the land, but this was all within Ye An's expectation.
Tieniu Zhao Hu and other soldiers looked at the Xiqiang people's dissatisfied and dissatisfied appearance and quietly put their hands on the handle of the knife. Just a simple movement made everyone's voices gradually lower.
Ever since they completely surrendered to the Song Dynasty, Ye An immediately confiscated their military power. The simplest way was to organize all the young and strong people into an army and let the veterans in the Anhua Army train and educate them.
Zhou Wenzhi's 5,000 Dingbian Army and Security Army surrounded and protected the Anhua Legion. Although the Xiqiang people were dissatisfied, they were helpless. The Song Army surrounded them both inside and outside. As long as they mutinied, all
All the strong people of Xiqiang will be wiped out, and no one dares to take this risk.
The Xiqiang people have finally tasted the feeling of "being a knife and a fish for others", but they are still suffering from internal and external troubles.