The next day, after Mu Zheng captured Niaoshu Mountain, he ordered his brother to join Wu Yanzheng. Xiang Wuchi led his army down the Wei River, hoping to take advantage of the situation to seize Weiyuan Fort.
Zhang Yue asked Tang Jiu and Li Kui to go out of the city to meet the enemy, and Jing Sili led troops to respond. After a battle in the west of the city, the two sides joined forces with Wu Yanzheng. Seeing that they could not win, Blind Wuji took the initiative to lead his troops to retreat.
Seeing that Zhang Yue had stabilized the battle situation, he asked Jing Sili to combine his troops and horses with his own. Jing Sili was not modest and started to train his troops in Weiyuan Fort.
After Muzheng captured Niaoshu Mountain and defeated the Song army, he was very happy and immediately wrote a letter to Dang Xiang Zhuoluo and the Southern Army Supervisor Renduo Baozhong to report the victory, promising to reward them with twenty salt wells after capturing Weiyuan Fort.
At the same time, Mu Zheng also urged the two prefectures of Xihe and the Tibetan tribes to come here quickly and promised to reward them with salt wells.
As for Renduo Baozhong, he was also very surprised when he learned the news of Mu Zheng's victory, and immediately sent 2,000 party troops from Lanzhou to support Mu Zheng.
Mu Zheng couldn't help but feel a little complacent after receiving Ren Duo Baozhong's promise to send troops and the allegiance from various tribes. He set up his tent in Niaoshu Mountain and held wine banquets every day with his generals and tribal leaders.
At the same time, Mu Zheng sent a letter to Zhang Yue, stating that as long as he retreated from Weiyuan Fort, he would immediately stop the army, never kill a single person in the Song army, and surrender to the Song Dynasty again.
Zhang Yue knew that Mu Zheng was waiting for the army to gather together before attacking Weiyuan Fort, so he showed his unwillingness to kill everyone, but he also took advantage of the situation to negotiate with the envoy sent by Mu Zheng. Mu Zheng thought that he had paralyzed the Song people, so he
He proposed to reestablish grammar with Zhang Yue.
Legislation was an oath between Tibetan tribes. Mu Zheng asked for a renewal of the oath with the Song Dynasty. Zhang Yue certainly could not agree, so he just resigned himself to it for the time being. At the same time, he asked Jing Sili to train the Song army quickly, while on the other hand he sent people to
Gu Wei asked Wang Shao for help.
And Mu Zheng was not idle either. His delay in sending troops was because he was waiting for Dong Felt's support.
Although Dong Fei was at odds with Mu Zheng, he still knew the truth about the coldness of lips and teeth.
Dong Zhan established himself as king, and had two yamen: a meeting hall for the prime minister and a meeting hall for the relatives of the king. One was similar to the relatives of relatives, and the other was similar to the council of tribal chiefs below.
Dong Xiang's subordinates also discussed for half a month, and finally decided to send Dong Xiang's adopted son Aligu to send troops to rescue.
Ali Gu was a Khotanese, and after being adopted by Dong Fei, he became famous among the Qing and Tang tribes for being able to fight.
After receiving Dong Felt's promise to send troops, Mu Zheng became more powerful, and the terms of the negotiations with Zhang Yue became higher and higher. In the end, he simply gave up pretending and led his army to press forward and reach the Weiyuan City.
After Zhang Yue learned that the main force of Muzheng had left Niaoshu Mountain, he climbed to the top of Weiyuan Castle and looked at the Qingtang army coming from the west. He saw that it was a dark place with thousands of troops galloping in it, with great momentum.
Extremely horrifying.
Muzheng gathered together for a month and stationed himself on Niaoshu Mountain for another month, finally gathering all the troops and horses he could take into battle.
It was already mid-October, and under the chilling autumn wind, the large number of soldiers and horses gave people a first-class feeling of panic.
Zhiyuan and Zhang Yue on the side said: "The poor monk found out the details of Mu Zheng. Neither Dangxiang nor Dong Xiang really helped Mu Zheng. Their troops and horses are still on the road. There are also tribesmen in Xizhou and Hezhou who have been with me for many years."
Most of the transactions in the dynasty are not restricted by 'grammar', and they are not willing to work hard when fighting. The only thing we really need to worry about is the Mu Zheng headquarters. These are all old tribes that were blindly felt, and now they are attacked by Mu Zheng."
Zhiyuan's words were obviously meant to comfort him, but Zhang Yue also knew that it was impossible for him to pin his hopes for victory entirely on Mu Zheng's internal discord or low-level mistakes.
There were many soldiers and horses, but the Song army was also well-trained, but he had no experience in leading troops, and he was not a talent in this field.
Zhang Yue said to Jing Sili who was standing aside: "Jing Zhijun, how about you take full command of the troops?"
Jing Sili was surprised and said: "Long Tu, what is this?"
Zhang Yue said: "After the defeat at Shuniao Mountain, Zhang reflected on it and realized that he was not a talented general. Instead of doing this, it would be better to delegate power to the military commander."
Having said this, Zhang Yue smiled and said: "The biggest problem with people is that they think they can do anything, so they let more talented people do specialized tasks."
Jing Sili heard that Zhang Yue didn't just say it casually, and he didn't know whether he wanted to agree or not.
He did not expect that Zhang Yue would actually hand over the command to himself. Because the command of the Song Army's frontline is usually given to the General Manager of Economics and Strategy. If there is no General Manager of Economics and Strategy, it will be decided by the rank of the frontline officials, even if
Along the way, the deputy general manager also had to step aside when meeting a civil servant with a higher official position than him.
What's more, the generals who defended the city commanded the guest troops to do many things. I have never heard of the guest troops commanding the main army in turn.
Jing Sili thought for a while and said: "The imperial court has laws and orders, so the general will not dare to control the troops and horses in the fort, otherwise there will be the idea of overstepping his authority."
Jing Sili didn't know that if Wang Hou was here, Zhang Yue would definitely entrust the general power to Wang Hou. But Wang Hou is now commanding troops in Qingyu Fort, and he can't be separated from him there.
Zhang Yue didn't have the talent to be a general, so he simply let others go.
Zhang Yue scolded: "Since Zhang trusted me with the safety of the city, why did Jing Zhijun reject me thousands of miles away?"
Jing Sili saw that he couldn't push it, so he agreed.
Zhang Yue immediately summoned the generals and announced that his troops would be given to Jing Sili for temporary control. He then privately told Li Kui to listen more to him and try to learn from him.
On that day, Mu Zheng set up strongholds on three sides from the north, southwest and half surrounded Weiyuan Fort.
After that, Jing Sili gathered the generals above the command level to discuss how to face the enemy.
Jing Sili presided over the military meeting, and Zhang Yue sat aside to listen since he had delegated power.
Jing Sili said: "There is always a saying in the martial arts scriptures. When the army is marching, the generals will discuss the day's affairs with the generals in the morning, and the night's affairs with the generals in the evening. From today on, you will discuss the matters in the morning and evening every day. If there is no difficult military situation,
Everyone must arrive late, otherwise military law will serve."
After Jing Sili finished speaking, the generals couldn't help but look at Zhang Yue's face, and Zhang Yue nodded.
Jing Si immediately asked the generals to discuss how to fight.
The generals thought that there were many soldiers and horses, but they were mixed and not refined, and they only needed to defend the city and wait for reinforcements.
Jing Sili shook his head and said: "I just looked at the Mu Zheng formation. Although there are many soldiers and horses, they are disorganized and have no way of marching. The only thing to worry about is that the Mu Zheng headquarters has more than 6,000 people, and the other departments have more than 6,000 troops.
It’s a plate of loose sand.”
"Now Mu Zheng is stationed in the west of our city. When the sun sets in two days, half of our army will stay to defend the city, and the other half will go out of the city to fight against Mu Zheng!"
There are now more than 6,000 soldiers and horses in Weiyuan Fort, of which more than 2,000 are the original defenders, more than 1,500 are Jing Sili's guest troops, and more than 2,000 are archers temporarily summoned from the Tibetan tribe.
Jing Sili said: "Soldiers have their own tactics, generals have their generals, and formations have their formations. When we go to battle tomorrow, our army will be divided into five armies, namely the forward, left rib, right rib, rear, and center. Among them, there is another one between the center and the forward.
Arrange a joint response, and then arrange a joint response between the central army and the rear."
"There are situations before and after the troops and horses go out into battle. When they are in battle, they all have their own positions. They are responsible for each other, and they are responsible for each other. Otherwise, military law will be violated!"