Chapter 609 Thieves? Your whole family are the thieves!
Chapter 609: Fan thieves? Your whole family is the fan thieves!
The second year of Shaoming, 947 AD, March 13th.
Zhang Zhao sent Dai Bei, the old man from Hedong, and An Shuqian, the general of the Left Divine Guards, to Hedong in person to persuade Liu Zhiyuan to give up the separatist regime and go south from Taiyuan to Tokyo to meet with him.
Liu Zhiyuan was extremely angry and cursed An Shuqian as a traitor, and detained An Shuqian and more than 30 people accompanying him.
On March 20, after receiving the news that Liu Zhiyuan had detained An Shuqian.
Zhang Zhao served as the Duke of Hotan, and Pingzhang Liu, the governor of Shannan Province, was promoted to the Shannan capital for deployment. He was the commander-in-chief and supervised the Shannan armies to guard against any unusual movements in Nanping and other countries in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The Duke of Jiuquan, Pingzhang of Jianghuai Province, and Ma Zhaoyuan (Ma Yaozi), the military governor of Wuning Army in Xuzhou Prefecture, deployed for the two Huai capitals.
The Commander-in-Chief was in charge of the armies of the two Huaihe Rivers, and was on guard against the Southern Tang Dynasty, especially against the Huaibei thief Li Renshu and Liu Renzhan, the military governor of the Qing-Huaihe Army in Shouzhou during the Southern Tang Dynasty.
With Qiao Guogong and Pingzhang as the governor of Guanzhong, Cao Yuanzhong who stayed in Chang'an deployed the capital of Guanzhong, and the governor of Zhijie supervised the troops in Guanzhong to defend Meng Shu.
Yin Zhengqi (Yin Yaozi), who had just arrived in Tokyo, was ordered to serve as the commander of the imperial guards and the military envoy of Tokyo's seven gates. He led three thousand elite Zuo Longxiang guards to guard Luoyang, the sacred capital, and Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo.
Shangshu ordered Zhang Xichong to join Tongzhongshu's subordinate Pingzhang, who was directly under the direct control of Pingzhang, and took charge of the affairs of the state as a left-behind person.
Zhang Zhao then dispatched his own troops to Kangshandu, the Shenji Battalion and other horse and infantry soldiers, camel artillery troops, and 3,000 gold Rui soldiers.
There are 18,000 elite soldiers in the six guards including the left and right Yulin Guards, the left and right Jinwu Guards, the right Longxiang Guards, and the right Qianniu Guards.
The Forbidden Army has 20,000 people in the five towns of Hanhai Town, Yucheng Town, Yingyang Town, Feng'an Town, and Shenwei Town.
The Zhongwu Army of Xuchang Prefecture, the German Army of Guide Prefecture, the Taining Army of Jining Prefecture (Yanzhou), and the Tianping Army of Yunzhou Prefecture each have a thousand soldiers each, for a total of four thousand people.
This pro-army army has six guards and one capital, five towns of the forbidden army, and four towns of the tooth soldiers, with a total of 45,000 infantry and cavalry mobilized.
Among them, the personal guard You Qianniuwei and the imperial guard Shenwei Town were integrated with the original imperial army of the Later Jin Dynasty.
Then he recruited 3,000 Yi Cong cavalry from Hexi, 1,000 Yi Cong cavalry from Guanzhong, 2,000 united archers from Hexi, 2,000 united archers from Guanzhong, and 5,000 united archers from Henan, for a total of 13,000 people.
There are a total of 58,000 people, plus more than 20,000 auxiliary troops including the personal troops and the brothers, nephews and brothers brought by the Imperial Army themselves, for a total of 80,000 troops.
130,000 Henan civilians were also recruited to participate in transportation, totaling more than 200,000 people, known as the 300,000-strong army.
Zhang Zhao then ordered Fu Yanqing, the military envoy of Changde Army in Pingzhang and Changshan Prefecture of Hebei Province, to go north to the Wei, Po, and Bei areas to recruit righteous men from Hebei to block Liu Zhi's possibility of entering Jiaodong from the Far East, and also to prevent the Khitans from going south.
Youyunxing was in Pingzhang, and Gao Xingzhou, the governor of Fanyang Army in Beiping Prefecture, sneaked into the Cangzhou area, recruiting Youyun athletes, and gathering the Cangzhou Hengjun naval officers and generals who had nominally taken refuge with Liu Zhiyuan.
Huangfu Yu's nephew, Zuo Longxiang Weidu Yuhou Huangfuchong and Dutou Du Zhimin and others were ordered to lead an elite team to cooperate with the Jinyi guards to summon righteous men to Changshan Mansion and even Yi, Ying, and Mo, ready to help Liu Zhiyuan and the Khitan people at any time.
Put a knife in the back.
Zhang Shengren's good son-in-law, the Marquis of Beiping, and Zhao Kuangzan, the military governor of the Hezhong Prefecture's National Protectorate Army, were transferred to the military governors of the three towns in Heyang.
He led the National Guard Army and Baoyi Army with 2,000 tooth soldiers, and the capital of Feng'an Town, Yuhou Wu Xingde, with 1,000 forbidden troops to guard Huaizhou (Qinyang).
To prevent Liu Zhiyuan from attacking Luoyang from Luzhou, Zezhou, Changzhi and Jinyang in later generations.
At the same time, he ordered Cao Yuanzhong, the governor of Pingzhang in Guanzhong, to send Wu Guo'er, the Marquis of Yu, the capital of Xiongwu Town, who was staying in Guanzhong, to lead a thousand Xiongwu Town forbidden troops out of Tongguan to Hezhong Prefecture to guard against Liu Zhiyuan's Jinzhou Jianxiong Army Jiedushi, and to go south along the Yellow River to attack Hezhong Prefecture.
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In the northwest, Zhang Zhao ordered Ningxia Province Pingzhang, Datong Marquis Zhe Congyuan, Ningxia Province Defense Envoy, Datong Town Commander-in-Chief Wu Luan, Linzhou Governor and Linzhou Army Supervisor, and Xinqin Bo Yang Hongxin to send troops.
Fifteen thousand.
Threaten Hedong from the flank, contain Liu Zhiyuan's power, and wait for an opportunity to seize the Shengzhou (Yulin) area.
He ordered Pingzhang of Shuofang Province to defeat Deku, and Yao Yuanfu, the defense commander of Shuofang Province, sent 3,000 troops and 30,000 civilians to go down the Yellow River to attack the Khitan tribe occupying Zhenwu Army and Fengzhou, and to recruit and surrender the nearby nomadic tribes to restore the state.
Farming.
For this reason, Zhang Zhao specially sent his adopted son, Zhe Congyuan's second son Zhe Deyuan, back to Ningxia to convey Zhang Zhao's will.
Finally, Zhang Zhao ordered Guo Tiance to mobilize elite civil and military officials to form the commander-in-chief staff officer corps and the logistics support corps-Wang Yi Division. Guo Tiance served as the secretary in charge of Wang Yi Division.
Li Gu was appointed as Wang Yisi's army transport envoy, responsible for the overall transportation of the army's food and grass.
Zhang Lie was appointed as Wang Yisi's army investigator, responsible for comprehensive intelligence analysis and summary.
Yan Jin was appointed as the commander of the northern capital and was fully responsible for the confrontation between the army on the Yedu-Fushui line.
Murong Nobunaga was appointed as the vanguard of the army, and Li Cunhui was the deputy envoy. He commanded the left and right Yulin Guards, the left and right Jinwu Guards, Yingyangzhen, and two thousand Hexi Yicong as the vanguard of the army.
Gao Huaide, Zhao Kuangyin, Hu Guang, Feng Jiye, and Hou Renbao were the vanguard soldiers and horse envoys who went north from the Guantao area of Weizhou to explore and harass.
This can be regarded as the largest troop dispatch by Zhang Gao in the past fifteen years.
Zhang Shengren himself led an army of 90,000 people, plus 15,000 people from Fu Yanqing, Gao Xingzhou and others, 15,000 people from Zhe Congyuan, Wu Luan, Yang Hongxin, and 3,000 people from Zhe Deqi.
An army of 113,000.
Including the more than 200,000 civilians mobilized, it is actually conservative to say that there are 300,000 troops.
Of course, such a large battle is not just to deal with Liu Zhiyuan. There are only 50,000 people in Hedong Town. Zhang Zhao does not need to mobilize all the elites in the country. Zhang Zhao wants to sweep through the Khitan together, first regain Yanyun, and then take down Yanyun.
The Khitans were uprooted.
On the first day of April, Zhang Zhao built a platform by the Bian River in the north of Kaifeng City to reorganize his army. After the generals of all the armies arrived, Zhang Zhao rewarded the army by killing 10,000 cattle and sheep, and swore an oath of loyalty with 90,000 elite troops by the Bian River.
He also ordered Feng Dao, the Minister of Political Affairs, Rites, and Punishment, to draft an appeal against the rebellion and spread it throughout the world.
Zhang Zhao listed Liu Zhiyuan's three major crimes in his appeal.
First, when he was the military envoy of Hedong Yameni, he failed to dissuade Shi Jingtang from treason, so that the land of Yanyun was seized by the Khitan, and Shi's betrayal was made. Liu Zhiyuan was one of the chief culprits.
Secondly, Liu Zhiyuan led the elite troops of the Shi Jin Dynasty to guard the country's gates. When the Khitan troops approached the Yellow River, Liu Zhiyuan was still delaying, watching from left to right, sitting back and watching the Khitan harm the Central Plains, with a disobedient heart.
Thirdly, after Shi Jin destroyed the country, Liu Zhiyuan did not think about avenging his lord. Instead, he colluded with the Khitan and betrayed the people of Hebei. He tried to imitate Shi Jingtang and use the power of the northern barbarians to seize control of the Central Plains and become the emperor again.
Finally, Zhang Zhao said impassionedly that he should first defeat Liu Zhiyuan and recover Hedong, and then defeat the Khitan. He should not only recover Yanyun, but also Liaodong and Liaoxi, so that Jin Ou would be intact.
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Liu Zhiyuan, who had already left Jingxingguan and arrived in Hengzhou, received the message, but he almost didn't get angry to death because he was the one who tried his best to dissuade Shi Jingtang from betraying his country.
Later, when Yelu Deguang entered the Central Plains, it was entirely the result of Du Chongwei's surrender. At that time, Liu Zhiyuan only had 30,000 soldiers and horses, and there were more than 10,000 Khitan people suppressing the Xinkou area, making him unable to move.
It's not that he doesn't want to save, it's that he doesn't dare to save. Although he does want to sit back and watch, it's not as Zhang Zhaoxiu said in his article that he has a heavy army and refuses to save him.
What's more, judging from this statement, it seems that he, Liu Zhiyuan, was the biggest reason for the collapse of the Jin Kingdom.
Liu Zhiyuan immediately became angry and ordered Guo Congyi to lead 10,000 troops to reinforce Guo Wei.
Li Wanchao, the governor of Luzhou Zhaoyi Army, led an army of five thousand to pretend to attack Huaizhou.
He himself mobilized 30,000 horse and infantry troops from Hedong to march south from Hengzhou, intending to first defeat Fu Yanqing who came from Beizhou, and then outflank the Zhou army in a roundabout way.
At the same time, Liu Zhiyuan ordered Bai Wenke to urge the Tuyuhun people in Hedong to send at least 7,000 horsemen to follow the Hedong soldiers and horses southward.
As for the most important foreign aid to the Khitan, Liu Zhiyuan ordered his confidant Wang Jun to go to Youzhou to urge the Khitan leader Yelu Ruan to immediately send troops and go south from Cangzhou to join him in Beizhou.
Gritting his teeth, Liu Zhiyuan also asked Su Fengji to draft a crusade against Zhang Zhao.
However, Su Fengji was not good enough, not as good as a literary giant like Feng Dao.
Feng Daoneng wrote the article extremely sharply, and made Liu Zhiyuan, who was originally opposed to Shi Jingtang's treason, the biggest accomplice and the biggest sinner who brought trouble to the world.
But Su Fengji couldn't do it. In addition to explaining that Zhang Zhao was originally invited by Jin Dynasty leader Shi Chonggui to join the Central Plains to help boxing, but refused to leave, he could only curse people.
In his message, he scolded Zhang Zhao for actually being a Tubo slave, a Tubo slave, and a Tibetan thief. After pretending to be loyal to the dynasty, he said he was reviving the Tang Dynasty, but in fact he was a Tibetan thief who trapped China. He was even more shameless than the Khitans.
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However, when Zhang Zhao received this message when he was crossing the Yellow River, he almost laughed.
The damage done by Su Fengji's message to Zhang Zhao was actually limited, because the Zhang family not only had a genealogy, but also had the envoys of the Guiyi Army and the tokens given by the emperors of the Tang Dynasty as proof.
Moreover, Zhang Zhao's father, Zhang Chengfeng, founded the Jinshan Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty and became the White Emperor. Of course, the birth of a prince like Zhang Zhao must be solemnly recorded in the gold book.
After the Cao family replaced Zhang, they also sent someone to record Zhang Zhao's every move. It can be said that his status was very strong.
But these confidants under Zhang Zhao are either people who don't even know their parents or even their birth date, or people whose identity is questionable because they were born in Liugu Amo.
They did not have such detailed evidence as Zhang Zhao. After Zhang Zhao led them back to the country in righteousness, they became more sensitive to their national identity.
Su Fengji's letter of apology was like stabbing their hearts with a spear and a big knife!
Every word like Tubo slave or Tibetan thief deeply hurt the hearts of these Hexi warriors, stripping off their aura and throwing them into the cesspit.
As soon as the proclamation arrived that day, people on both sides of the Yellow River became excited, and morale and murderous intent exploded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Countless soldiers were howled and kept coming to Commander Zhang Zhao's tent to plead for orders. They were willing to be the slaves and must kill Liu Zhiyuan and Su Fengji.
Well, the text is used to enhance one's own combat power and undermine the opponent's will.
But Su Fengji's scolding was simply a divine assist, more effective than Zhang Zhao's throwing money and passionate speeches.