Chapter five hundred and fortieth six kinds of teacher's decision
"What?" After hearing the news, everyone was stunned!
They knew before that the Liangshan army entered Xixia territory, but in just a few months, Xixia was actually captured!
"Commander, could it be that the news is wrong?" Qu Duan asked hurriedly.www
"There is no mistake! Our Zhong family army has spies all over Xixia, and the intelligence sent by these spies proves that Xixia has indeed been conquered!" Master Zhong said.
"How could it be so fast?" The generals below were discussing.
"Since mid-July last year, Xixia has been at war! At that time, I paid close attention to the situation in Xixia! First, Liu Yanqing and Zhe Keqiu led an army of more than 100,000 to attack Xixia. Troops from all over Xixia gathered on the southern border!
Later, Liangshan's cavalry crossed the desert and appeared in the Zhongxing Prefecture area of Xixia. In winter, the southern border
The Xixia army began to return! On the way back, they were defeated by the Liangshan cavalry! After that, Liangshan's 200,000 troops marched from Shangjing, Zhongjing and other places in the east. In just one month, they captured half of the Xixia country.
We arrived at Zhongxing Mansion and joined the cavalry! After that, the Emperor of Xixia surrendered and Xixia was destroyed!" Master Zhong said calmly.
"This... Xixia perished like this?" Everyone was in disbelief.
Xixia is an enemy country of the Song Dynasty, and has been contending with the Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years! Over the past hundred years, the Xixia army and the Western army have fought many times, and the Xixia army has taken a huge advantage. The territory of Xixia is larger than that in the founding era.
A whole circle bigger! But that’s how strong it is
Xixia was actually destroyed by Liangshan in such a short period of time! Looking back on the history of the rise of Liangshan, in the past ten years, they have continued to destroy the country and become stronger and stronger. Now, they are almost unstoppable. These generals of the Zhong Family Army
They couldn't help but feel fear.
"Commander, Liangshan originally occupied Yanjing, but we are separated from them by the Yellow River in the northwest! But now, they have occupied Xixia, and our Western Army is stationed to the south! We must strengthen the defense in the north to prevent the Liangshan army from attacking.
" Qu Duan said.
"I'm afraid it's impossible to strengthen the defense of the north." Zhong Shidao shook his head and said.
"No?" Qu Duan was stunned, not understanding what cultivating the way of a master meant.
"Don't you find it strange? Why did Liu Yanqing and Zhe Keqiu attack Xixia before? They didn't get any orders at that time! Even when I severely scolded them, they didn't stop the war! Now, Liangshan has just
After conquering Xixia, their war will stop immediately!" Master Zhong said.
"What do you mean, Marshal?" Qu Duan asked.
"It is very likely that they have been bribed by Liangshan! The large territory in the north now, including Huanqing Road, Qingyang Prefecture, Baoan Prefecture, and Yan'an Prefecture, is nominally our Song Dynasty's territory, but in fact it belongs to Liangshan
Territory! Liu Jiajun, Zhe Jiajun, I’m afraid they are already Liangshan’s army!” Master Zhong said.
"Commander...is there a mistake?" a general below said in horror.
"There's no mistake! Years ago, I wrote to them and asked them to come to Jingyuan City to meet me! It's been more than half a month now, and they haven't come yet! It seems like they don't plan to come at all!"
Teacher Tao Tao.
"They turned to the traitors and deserved death! Commander, we should capture them immediately!" Qu Duan said.
"How to capture them? Send troops to attack them? The Liu Family Army and the Zhe Family Army total more than 100,000 people, and they have deep roots in the north. They have stored countless amounts of food and grass there, and there are also many cities with them.
The descendants of the family are in charge! Once we
If we attack them, I'm afraid there will be chaos in the northwest immediately! Liangshan is to their north and east, and Liangshan will not turn back and sit back and watch! By then, if the main force of our Zhong family army is lost, there will no longer be any hope in the northwest! The Song Dynasty is afraid that
There is not much hope left!" Master Zhong said.
"Then what should we do?" Qu Duan asked.
"I have informed Duan Ru to go to Tongguan area and garrison Tongguan!" Master Zhong said.
Duan Ru is his younger brother Zhong Shizhong, who is now also a general of the Western Army and has nearly a hundred thousand soldiers and horses under his command! Originally, Zhong Shizhong's defense line was in the area south of Fuzhou, but now Zhongshi Dao actually allows Zhong Shizhong to go to more places.
Tongguan in the south.
"We also need to move to the Tongguan area! From now on, we will use Tongguan, Chang'an, and the Yellow River as the line to rely on the terrain to block Liangshan! In addition, we have notified Mr. Tong to ask Mr. Tong's army to also move towards Tongguan.
Mobilize the entire area! There is also the Sichuan-Sichuan area, which borders Xixia. This area will also enter the stage of comprehensive defense! I have notified the Sichuan envoy to abandon the outer five passes bordering Xixia and firmly guard the inner three passes! "
The way of cultivating teachers.
"Sir, doing this is tantamount to giving up the country! Are we giving up a large area of territory in the north?" said an official below.
"If we guard those places, we have no terrain to rely on. When Liangshan attacks, we will have no choice but to die!" Master Zhong said.
"This is not the fundamental solution to the problem! Commander, the current imperial court is mediocre and your Majesty has no interest in state affairs. He only studies Taoism all day long! Almost all of the country's annual income is invested in the construction of the palace! When floods occur in various places,
, the imperial court also
There will be no aid, the soldiers in the army are short of pay, and the court will not distribute money! If this continues, I am afraid that the country will become weaker and weaker. We don’t even need Liangshan to attack us, and the rebellious untouchables everywhere will make us appear in the Song Dynasty.
Big mess!" Qu Duan said.
"Why don't I know this! It's just that I have written to Your Majesty many times, but there is no reply at all! No one knows what Your Majesty thinks. As ministers, we can only do our best to do our own things now!" Master Zhong said.
Sighed.
Zhong Shidao even felt that there was no need for the emperor to work hard. As long as the emperor completely handed over the northwest to his management, he was confident that the combat effectiveness of the Western Army would be improved to another level, and it might even be possible to block Liangshan's army in the future! However,
This is also a delusion! He is now the military envoy, but in addition to him, he also has Tong Guan, the northwest supervisor, and Huang Qianshan, the northwest propaganda envoy! Under layers of restrictions, he can only control his own Zhong family army.
For other armies, his orders are now less and less useful!
At this moment, Zhong Shidao invited these generals in. After Zhong Shidao sat down, he asked Qu Duandao: "Are there any good generals in the Western Army recently?"
Qu Duan thought for a while and said: "Commander, there is a pair of Wu brothers, both of whom are highly skilled in martial arts and know a lot about strategy! There is also Xu Ning, who was originally a member of the Forbidden Army. He joined our Western Army two years ago.
Among them, now under Lord Tong Guan, he is also highly skilled in martial arts, and his family's hook, sickle and spear are unparalleled in the world."
Among the three people Qu Duan mentioned, Xu Ning was just fine. He was just a strong martial artist and was one of the Liangshan heroes in history! Wu Jie and Wu Lin were very famous figures in history. They were famous in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.
In the era of handover, his contribution to the Song Dynasty was almost comparable to that of Yue Fei! It was precisely because of these two people that Jin Bing could not
Invading the Qinlong Bashu area! The two brothers are not inferior to the four generals of Zhongxing in terms of personal martial arts or military ability. If only the record is counted, the record of the two brothers exceeds that of Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi, and Han Shizhong! But now this
The two brothers are still not well-known. They are about the same age as Yue Fei, both in their early twenties!
"Okay, you gather the troops immediately! Let's go to Tongguan area now! When we get to Tongguan, I want to meet these generals." Master Zhong said.
Zhong Shidao led the Zhong family army to leave Jingyuan. When he left here, he was worried and very reluctant to leave! However, he was afraid that there would be changes in the northwest, that Liu Yanqing would be destroyed, or that the Liangshan army would suddenly rush in from the north.
, so he finally gritted his teeth and led his troops to leave.
After Zhongshidao came to Chang'an City and met Tong Guan, he explained the reason why he wanted to leave Jingyuan City. Tongguan had always obeyed Zhongshidao's words and immediately decided to deploy heavy troops in Chang'an and Tongguan area! However, later,
Tongguan took out the award from the imperial court. After seeing it, Zhong Shidao stayed there for a while!
It turned out that Liu Yanqing and Zhe Keqiu actually asked the imperial court for credit, saying that they had captured dozens of military fortresses and fortresses in southern Xixia. This was a great achievement that the Western Army had not achieved in more than ten years! So the imperial court gave Liu Yanqing Zhe Keqiu credit.
Qiu and others were rewarded with a large amount of gold, silver, grain and grass. In addition, the imperial court published the two men's achievements and informed them to all departments of the Western Army.
"Damn it, Your Majesty is really stupid." Master Zhong said secretly.
****
It was already the end of the first month, and Wu Dong was receiving a group of special guests in the imperial palace in Yanjing City.
These guests are all from the Wanggu tribe in Yinshan, and the leader is Haibie, whom Wu Dong met last year. Except for him, the rest are all tribal leaders of the Wanggu tribe. These tribes were invited by Liangshan
, now they have all moved to the Liaodong area, and their leader came to see Wu Dong.
Wu Dong was very happy. These people entered Liangshan and lived dispersedly. They would never pose a threat to Liangshan in the future. However, there were only more than 50,000 Turks who left Yinshan. There are still about 100,000 Turks there. In the future,
Liangshan will also take other suppression and differentiation measures to gradually control the entire Yinshan.
On the first day of February, these tribal leaders left Yanjing and returned to Liaodong, but this time Wu Dong and Li Gang actually accompanied them on their way north.