Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 526: The Liao Army Enters the Bandits! ! !

At the foot of Feihu Pass, a group of soldiers and horses flying the flags of Lu Qi and Tian Jin were moving forward rapidly. The flag of the Liao army was flying high at the pass not far away.Hundreds of Liao soldiers were waiting in formation, but no one raised their crossbows and fired arrows at the soldiers and horses below.

This is not falsehood.Lu Qian was just using it as an excuse!
Perhaps many people don't know what Feihu Dao is, and they change "Tao" into "Diameter", and compare it with Jingxing, there may be a lot of them.

This is also one of the Eight Paths of Taihang.

During Zhao Er Yongxi's Northern Expedition, he specially ordered General Tian Zhongjin to take down Feihu Pass. The strategic mission with Pan Mei's Department was to cut off the connection between the front of the mountain and the back of the mountain, and form an encirclement of Youzhou.This is a tactic that draws lessons from the failure of the last Northern Expedition.If Tian Zhongjin went north from Daomaguan, Pan Mei and Yang Ye sent troops out of Yanmen.

More than a hundred years have passed, and the vigorous Zhao Song founding imperial army has long been lost in the long years.However, the strategy of Zhao Ersan's Northern Expedition to Youyun provided Lu Qian with an idea.

A brigade of soldiers marched out of the flying fox—the agreement between Lu Qian and Khitan that the land of Yizhou would be based on the flying fox, and its place would be the land of Xijing Road in the Liao Kingdom.A group of soldiers and horses passed through the Liao State Road and directly attacked the Dai Prefecture in Hedong, which must have exceeded the expectations of the officials and people in Hedong.At this time, most of the soldiers and horses of that generation were at Jingxing Pass, in case Lu Qian might launch a battle against Hedong after returning south. That Dai Prefecture and Yanmen Pass were all empty at the moment.

The Lutian Allied Forces took advantage of the void to enter, and after breaking through the Yanmen Pass, the soldiers rushed straight to Taiyuan.Then I don't believe that Zhang Xiaochun can still hold his breath, and still pile up the main force at the west entrance of Jingxing Road.

When Lu Qian's army invaded Liao, the Intelligence Department was not idle. Many civil and military officials in Hedong received surrender letters. The letter did not promise them high-ranking officials or generous salaries, but only promised to protect their lives and property. worry.These conditions may seem distressingly cheap, but in the eyes of some people, they are worth a thousand bucks.

In particular, the Liangshan Army defeated the Liao Kingdom, not only forcing the Liao Emperor to bow his head, but also cut off a piece of Khitan's flesh and blood, and took back Yizhou and Zhuozhou, which had been separated from the Central Plains for a long time.The martial arts are so impressive that many people think that the Liangshan army is invincible.

Like the outer king and inner sage, Lu Qian suppressed the arrogance of Khitan, the great enemy of the Central Plains, and won the hearts of the Central Plains people by himself.

Don't underestimate the Khitan that has been severely injured by the Jurchen. A bloody case in Baosai is enough to remind the people of the Hedong lady in Hebei Province that they were beaten by the Liao army in Caogu more than a hundred years ago.

Under such a general situation, the Hedong Army under Zhang Xiaochun seemed like a candle in the wind, which made people feel bad when they looked at it.

Daizhou is the most important place in Hedong. During its heyday, there were [-] frontier troops stationed here.Wutai Mountain is cut obliquely, oriented northeast-southwest, and connected to Taixi Mountain on the north side, which inherently demarcates the boundaries for Daizhou's defense layout.

Going south along the Wutai Mountain system, starting from Dashi Village, Ruyue Village, Magu Village, Meihui Village, and Pingxing Village in the border area, there are Yixingye Village, Baoxing Army Village, Hugu Village, Xijingzhai, Tubinzhai, Yangwuzhai, Zaolin, Fanzhi, Yanmenguan and so on.

It can be said that there are many army villages and military cities, and the bottle-shaped village is the Pingxingguan of later generations.

When the Liao army was at its most prosperous, they never broke through Yanmen Pass, but now, when Lu Zhishen and Tian Hu led the [-] coalition troops to appear in front of the Pingxing Village suddenly, the old and weak Song soldiers in the army village opened their mouths wide and shouted one after another. He screamed hysterically, and then fled south desperately.

"The Liao army entered the bandits, the Liao army entered the bandits..."

All the old soldiers who looked like their hair were graying, but they were running away at the same time as the young people.The large army that appeared in the north might be tens of thousands of people. Could it be the Liao army or the barbarians of Xixia?
If it started from Pingxingzhai to Yanmen Pass, all the way, the coalition forces were bloodless, just like marching, without encountering the slightest resistance.The local soldiers and civilians fled as soon as they could, but if they couldn't escape, they knelt on the ground one by one, for fear of being bloodbathed again by the Liao army.The influence of the Baosai incident should be extremely powerful.

In this way, the news of the "Liao army entering the bandits" spread all the way to Yanmen Pass, then from Yanmen Pass to Xinzhou, and then from Xinzhou to Taiyuan Mansion.None of them really figured out the identity of the comer.

And controlling the mountains and rivers, standing on the shoulders of the world, is the foundation of Hedong, and it is a place that must be contested in ancient and modern times.This is the East Road Luzhi Taiyuan City.Although it only has a circumference of eleven miles and only four city gates, it is not worth mentioning compared with Jinyang City, which had a circumference of 42 miles and opened a total of 24 gates.The latter has become a mirage in the dreams of future generations that is hard to touch.

In Zhao Erping's later Han Dynasty, Jinyang was burned and flooded, and the three cities of Taiyuan with a history of thousands of years were razed to ruins.

However, only three years after the destruction of the Later Han Dynasty, Zhao Song built Taiyuan City on the east bank of the Fen River, 35 miles northeast of the ruins of Jinyang, out of national defense needs.The new city is small, but its military location is even worse than the three ruined cities of Taiyuan.The small city of Taiyuan is the natural boundary between the Central Plains and the Northern Territory, and Taiyuan therefore has a long-term and colorful culture of frontier fortresses.

The key points of the four frontiers control the capitals of Wuyuan.It is a true portrayal of this small town.

But now, in this city where the most tragic national war song was written in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty in official history, there was an uproar and noise from the soldiers and civilians.It's not that the city is full of tragic and stirring, and the city is united.

Because following the military situation of "Liao army entering the bandits", there was also a real military emergency report-it was not the Liao army, but the Liangshan bandits who invaded the country.

I don't know how many people are dizzy because of this, the Northland is the territory of the Khitan people, why did the Liangshan army come to kill them?Faced with this military report, Zhang Xiaochun was suspicious.

It was only when an urgent report from the Xinzhou government arrived that the invading army was not the Khitans, but the Liangshan Army, did Taiyuan City civil and military officials confirm that it was indeed not the Khitans, but the Liangshan Army.

I don't know why, even Zhang Xiaochun himself felt a sense of lightness in his heart at this moment.

"Father, the matter of dispatching troops..." Liang Shan's army actually came in from the north, and it was obvious that the Khitans must have given them convenience.It can also be seen from this that the Lu thief has been plotting against Hedong for a long time.At this time, it is even more important to leave Jingxing Pass.Because he didn't believe that Lu Qian would really send a large army to pour in from the territory of Liao Kingdom.The enemy on the northern route must be a partial force.

The focus is still on Jingxingguan!
Therefore, Zhang Hao believes that improperly dispatching troops will return to aid.There are at least several thousand soldiers in Taiyuan City, and if they are anxious to defend the city, how can the bandit army take it down in such a hurry?
On the contrary, it is the west entrance of Jingxing, that is the key point, once let go, there will be serious trouble.

Zhang Xiaochun shook his head and smiled wryly, "You think the Liangshan army will attack Taiyuan by force? If they leave one part to guard outside the city, and the other part goes straight to the west entrance of Jingxing, how can Zhe Zhonggu [Zhe Yanzhi] deal with himself?"

In the south, Zhe Kecun and Zhe Kecun brothers served in the army, so Zhe Yanzhi was sent back to his hometown in Fuzhou to reorganize the army.Now Xie Qian, the Deputy Envoy of Hedong pacification, is stationed in the Pingding Army and presides over the deployment of the west mouth of Jingxing.

Zhang Xiaochun already had defeat in his heart.I think that the ability of the Hedong Army is far from the opponent of the Liangshan Army.Just like the Jingji Road, this is not a question of whether the Liangshan Army can take it, but a matter of when people are willing to come and take it.

How can you succeed if you fail early?
Zhang Hao is also not a general, after hearing what his father said, he was immediately speechless.It is naturally possible to recruit young men in Taiyuan City, and it is also possible to defend the city, but it would be great if you can lead them out of the city to fight against Liangshan bandits.

The weather at the east entrance of Jingxing on the opposite side of the Taihang Mountains has been good for the past few days. When the Liangshan Army arrived here, it was sunny for days.

The sky is blue and white clouds, the sun is high, the sun in March is still not hot, the sun is bright, but there is not much heat to spread.

The continuous barracks formed a white sea.The camp was heavily fortified, and the flags fluttered and fluttered with the wind. They were all connected into a piece, and they could be seen clearly from a distance.

Lu Qian's commander-in-chief camp is located in Jingxing County, so there is no need to eat and live with the soldiers for everything, the city is more comfortable than the camp after all.

This time Lu Qian's army was even smaller.

Zhuozhou and Yizhou each left [-] troops on defense, and Dingzhou, Baozhou and other places also had sporadic troops stationed, not to mention Zhending, Zhaozhou, Shenzhou, and Hejianfu.The larger the territory occupied, the more garrison forces there need to be.Because of Lu Qian's penchant, many military prefectures all over Hebei have been integrated one after another, just like Baozhou, which owned the former Ansu Army and Guangxin Army.Xiongzhou, Bazhou, Xin'an Army, Baoding Army, and Mozhou merged into one, and the territory became much larger.Lu Qian must divide his troops to garrison. This is necessary before the local garrison is established.

Moreover, Hu Yanzhuo and Li Ying have already led their troops southward and started their career of suppressing thieves in Hebei.

In addition to Lu Zhishen and Tian Hu's 2 troops, Lu Qian's current strength is less than [-].

But like this, the cost of eating and drinking is still not a small amount every day.That is to say, the water transportation in Hebei is well developed. If it is the same as before, Lu Qian will not be able to afford it.

Opposite Jingxing is Hedong. Lu Qian led a large army to gather here. He didn't send troops at the moment, but the target is needless to say. Everyone's eyes are sharp and they can see clearly.

No one was shocked either.

Hebei is empty, how can Hedong not be empty?If you don't take this opportunity to take this place, don't you wait for the imperial court to transfer the Western Army back, and then attack and kill?
Zhang Xiaochun sent troops out of Jingxing when the Liangshan army rushed to Zhaozhou.After Zhang Hao's defeat, he still hurriedly mobilized troops from all over the country to actively deploy defenses at the west entrance of Jingxing, preparing to resist the invasion of the Liangshan army.

The news reached Tokyo within a few days, and the civil and military personnel here breathed a sigh of relief.The first few days of being on tenterhooks were really difficult.

Although they escaped a catastrophe, the east of the river is going to be a disaster, but at this time, the dead friends are not dead.

Under the city of Zhuozhou.

"...Fathers and elders, calm down, calm down! Listen to me! In today's world, natural disasters and man-made disasters continue. Qi Wang Renyi knows the suffering of the people here, and specially allocates money and food to help the victims."

"Starting from today, the township officials will lead the distribution of food according to the folk register. If no one is registered, please go and register. Three days later, the township offices will distribute according to the household registration. It will not wait until the time expires. If you have not registered your name , hurry up and do it!"

A large notice has been posted in front of a public office in the countryside.The newly appointed township officials with different faces, such as gentle, humble, severe, etc., spoke loudly in Qilu's tone.

Just when Zhuozhou and Yizhou were handed over, a large number of officials had already arrived from Qilu.They were originally going to enter Hebei, but now they are following Yizhou and Zhuozhou first.Many of them are on the roster of the Ministry of Officials, and they have not been changed.

Lu Qian no longer has to worry about being taken care of.

The land of Qilu arranged according to his philosophy, every place, every big and small official position, is like a training tank, and every year or a half, a wave can be harvested calmly.

Most of the land in Huainan has already been arranged, and by next year, there will be even richer people to choose from.

Under the city of Xinzhou, Jing Muyan and Hao Siwen led a troop to the south.There is another Tian Hu army ahead, which is led by Tian Biao.

The huge Hedong has just won a corner, but there is a flame burning in Hao Siwen's heart. He was depressed in Hedong in the early years, and when he was captured by the Liangshan Army, he only wanted to die.How could he have thought that it was just a thought, and his identity changed, but now he is so proud.

This time when the army is sweeping Hedong, a garrison should also be set up. If he can make great contributions, then Tang Bin may not necessarily be the commander of soldiers and horses.

(End of this chapter)