The next day, Chao Yong left Lin Chong's 10,000 troops to garrison Jingzhao Prefecture and led 40,000 troops to Binzhou.
After entering Binzhou, there were more sentry probes running back and forth in the army, after all, they entered an unknown territory of our enemy.
Binzhou did not surrender to Daliang, but under the coordination of Lao Zonglixiang Gong, he agreed to use the route to allow Daliang's grain and grass to be transported to Weizhou through the Jingshui River flowing through Binzhou.
When passing by Binzhou, Chao Yong originally wanted to visit the governor of Binzhou, but Binzhou was closed with the city gate, looking like he was afraid of Daliang's soldiers and horses sneak attacking, so Chao Yong had no choice but to have the idea.
After passing Binzhou, then passing Jingzhou, you will reach Weizhou.
Jingzhou was the traditional sphere of influence of the Zhong family generals. He had already surrendered to Daliang. When the army arrived in Jingzhou, the magistrate of Jingzhou had left early to greet him.
However, the magistrate of Jingzhou gave Chao Yong a handwritten letter from his old master.
Chao Yong did not rest in Jingzhou, so he brought his army to Weizhou.
Ten miles outside Weizhou City, the old master of the Zhengliuan, who was white-bearded and had white hair, stood in the front, with Lu Zhishen and other Daliang generals on the left, and the right were all foreigners, each with dark skin and unrestrained faces.
Finally, Chao Yong, wearing golden armor, appeared in the distance, and under the sunlight, it was even more impossible to look directly at him.
Zhong Shidao was relieved when he saw the heroic Chao Yong appear.
In January, all Xihe Road and Qinfeng Road were lost. It took decades to open this thousand-mile territory. Countless northwest athletes lost their lives for this, and in one month they lost all their lives.
The culprit is Daliang, but Master Zhong does not hate Daliang. Because he knew that without Daliang, all this would happen, it was just a matter of time.
Tong Guan used troops against the Western Xia for more than ten years and achieved considerable results. He took all the Hengshan area, making it impossible for Xixia to invade from the east. Qingtangzhou was also captured to the west, only two hundred miles from Qinghai Lake.
The Shibao City, captured by Geshuhan, a famous Tang general in the past, is there. It can be said that the territory in the western part of the Song Dynasty is completely comparable to that in the Tang Dynasty, but the territory in the north is not as large as that in the Tang Dynasty.
"The Big Dipper is high, Ge Shuye has a knife. He still peeks at the horses and dares not pass."
The Western Army can also say proudly that the foreigners dare not pass Lintao.
However, the price of this series of results was that most of the main forces of the Western Army were destroyed, especially in the battle of Xuanhe in the first year of Xuanhe, Liu Fa led a total of 100,000 elite troops were destroyed, which even lost most of the few elite troops left in the Western Army.
The old generals knew about the situation of the Western Army, so he firmly opposed the attack on Liao. When he wrote a letter, he said, "invite the thieves to divide the neighbors." Thieves came to the neighbor's house, and we formed an alliance with the thieves to divide the neighbors.
The reason is not this. Military generals have expanded their territory, as long as conditions allow. Every general will think about expanding their territory, and then be granted a title of marquis and ministers. This is the wish that they buried in their bones the day they picked up their swords and guns. However, most of the elite troops of the Western Army lost, and they joined the Jin Dynasty to attack Liao. Needless to say, they would lead wolves into the house in the future, even if they could defeat the Liao Kingdom, it was hard to say.
The national strength of Xixia has become stronger over the years. If the few remaining veterans of the Western Army are destroyed in the Liao Kingdom, the results achieved in the northwest over the years will probably be taken back by Xixia soon.
Therefore, the old generals and his wife firmly opposed the coalition of Jin and attacked Liao.
In fact, the historical facts are the same. Tong Guan used troops in the northwest for more than ten years, and the Western Army suffered heavy casualties. Then he wiped out Fang La, and lost a group of elite troops. That is why he was defeated by the remnants of the Liao Kingdom when he attacked the Liao Kingdom. This was even more so when the war against the Jin Kingdom at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. The legendary Western Army encountered the Jin Kingdom almost one-sided situation. Could it be that the Western Army was a paper tiger and had its name? No. The Jin Kingdom had almost no victory against the Western Xia army. Instead, he wanted to give up part of the territory of the Liao Kingdom and Northern Song Dynasty to the Western Xia, so that the Western Xia could restrain the remaining Western army. However, the Western Army seized Hengshan from the Western Xia, which shows the battle of the Western Army.
The strength is still very strong, but when the Western Army was at its weakest, the Jin army went south, so the Western Army did not save the Northern Song Dynasty. Another evidence is that the outstanding generals of the Southern Song Dynasty resisted the Jin army, all of which came from the Western Army. Could it be that they were better than the Blue? It cannot be said that Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi, among the four generals of Zhongxing, have been in the army for many years, and they have participated in the war against the Western Xia, but they did not show a dazzling light. It can be seen that the Western Army still had many powerful generals at that time, and the heroes competed for the first time. The Western Army was originally very powerful. As long as the Western Army recovered, the Western Army would show their strong combat power.
In the eyes of the old master, the loss of the Western Army's results was a matter of time sooner or later. He did not hate Daliang, but he was still very sad as his ancestors bleed and beat the city to lose.
The old tall waist was also bent, and he was racking his brains to think about countermeasures these days. Finally, he came up with a plan, a plan that could defeat Xixia and shock the foreigners. The protagonist of the plan was the prince Chao Yong. His plan had a high success rate. Once successful, it could completely solve the problems of the foreigners, and even enclose the territory to the west.
Although Zhong Shidao was over 70 years old, when Chao Yong first saw Zhong Shidao, Zhong Shidao was still energetic and strong. Unexpectedly, if he hadn't seen him for more than a month, Zhong Shidao looked old.
When Chao Yong saw that Mr. Zhong looked like this, he couldn't help but want to dismount and say hello.
When Zhong Shidao saw Chao Yong's actions, he shook his head slightly and bowed first, "Greetings to the prince."
Lu Zhishen and others behind also greeted each other, and the people next to them were all talking and strangely speaking.
Chao Yong was abnormal, sat on the horse and said majesticly: "Don't give me a gift, go to the city."
Upon hearing this, Master Zhong hurriedly stepped aside and gave way to the prince.
The people retreated to the side of the road, but curiously looked at the prince who was the old master of Zhengliu, who said "the god descended to earth".
Sitting on the Zhaoye Jade Lion, whose hooves are more than eight feet tall, Chao Yong is even more tall and mighty. The sunlight reflected on the golden armor makes people nearby unable to look directly at it.
Therefore, wherever Chao Yong went, all the people on the roadside bowed their heads.
When Chao Yong passed, Zhong Shidao led a group of Daliang generals and the leaders of the foreign tribes to return to the city.
Five miles away from the city, an arrow suddenly appeared in the sky in the distance, and a sharp roar suddenly cut through the sky.
Everyone was alert when they saw this arrow coming strangely.
Zhong Shidao also said to Chao Yong: "Be careful, Prince."
"Bang"
"Bang"
As soon as Zhong Shidao finished speaking, a land suddenly rose five or six meters away from the roadside, five people jumped out of it, aimed the crossbow in his hand at Chao Yong, who was leading the way, and five sharp arrows shot at Chao Yong. Then the five people rushed towards Chao Yong with sharp blades.
It was exactly what the Dead Warriors did. No matter what, they could not escape, so they didn't want to escape and rushed over directly. If the crossbow did not shoot the target, they could also culminate the target before the guards reacted.
When everyone saw this, they couldn't help but feel anxious.
No one can dodge the five powerful crossbows at close range. Moreover, the powerful crossbows of Xixia are very powerful at close range, and a distance of five or six feet is enough to shoot through any hard armor.
"ah"
Zhong Shidao screamed in despair, but he didn't expect that his plan would fail before it was implemented. The damn Xixia dead soldiers and the damn soldiers, he clearly asked them to carefully check the road along the way to prevent the Xixia dead soldiers from assassinating the prince.
It will take a while for the people of Xixia to dig a hole there and hide in it. The digging soil must be thrown into a place. These damn soldiers. If the prince dies, you should not think about it.
Just when everyone felt that the prince was not spared, Chao Yong sneered, inserted his right hand into the deerskin gloves on the saddle, and grabbed all five crossbow arrows in his hand.
After hearing Ren Liang talk about the death warriors in Xixia, he kept guarding. Although he was safe all the way, Chao Yong was even more careful.
The place closest to the end point is the lowest, and it is also the place where many killers attack. Therefore, Chao Yong specially prepared this pair of gloves to wait for the stupid Xixia people to come to him to establish his authority.
Chao Yong looked at the five people who had already rushed in front of him, raised his arm and five arrows flew out, hitting three of them.
The three people who were caught in the arrow immediately turned over and fell to the ground, their faces turned blue, and it was obvious that there was a very poisonous appearance on the crossbow arrow.