Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 529 This is the leader

There is no need to mention the battle in Hedong.Because the entire battle has been developing in an avalanche since the day the battle started.Emergency documents from various states and counties flew to Zhao Ji's Long Case like a snowflake, but what could Master Zhao do?
He also wants to hold a strong army in the world, sweep the world, and calm the world, but he doesn't have one.

In the eyes of the world, the Western Army was originally on the same level as the Liangshan Army.Tong Guan's defeat did not discredit the Western Army. After all, they have fought bloody battles for decades and are the pillars of Zhao Song.But the battle between the Liangshan Army and the Liao Kingdom broke the balance.

Just because people all over the world regard Xixia as weaker than Liao, it is only natural that Xixia's army is weaker than Liao's army.Rank Zhao Song ahead of Xixia, because Zhao Song's national strength is indeed not comparable to that of Xixia.But the Dangxiang barbarian, with a powerful army, is also understandable, just like the Khitan back then.There are also many people who think that the Western Army is no weaker than the Xixia Army, just because of Hengshan.Xixia, who occupied Hengshan, had all the advantages of geography, so the Song army was not allowed to use it.Thus, in the eyes of many people, the Western Army and the Xixia Army are evenly matched.

The Song-Xia War lasted for 80 to [-] years. The Song army suffered a lot of losses, but relying on its strong national strength, it always made progress in defeat.

This evaluation seems very unimpressive, but for the war between Zhao Song and Xixia, it can only be described in four words.Did the Song army learn lessons from repeated losses and defeats?

The entire Song-Xia War took Hengshan as the benchmark, and during the Zhao Ji Dynasty, it was the last step of picking the fruits.

In the official history, in April of the first year of Xuanhe, Tong Guan, with Zhong Shidao and Liu Zhongwu as generals, led the troops of Fuyan and Huanqing to leave Xiaoguan and attack Hengshan.The Xixia army was defeated, and the field elite Hengshan Qiang was wiped out, and Hengshan was completely captured by the Song army.Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Li Xian and Zhang Wei planted the seeds, and Tong Guan finally plucked the fruits during the Zhao Ji dynasty.

From Fan Han's first discussion, to Shenzong Yuanfeng's large-scale attack on Xia, and then to Li Xian's dangerous advances, and finally in Zhezong's year, it was further improved by Zhang Yi to shallow attack advances.In the decades-long strategic evolution, every improvement was an adjustment and revision made by the Song Army after paying a painful price, and it finally proved the correctness of the Hengshan Raiders after continuous improvement.It really brought a failure to Xixia, and these failures accumulated until the year of Xuanhe, which was a devastating blow.

After the defeat of Xuanhe, Xixia was already on the verge of subjugation. Although the core area Lingxia and other places did not suffer losses, the loss of Hengshan had made Xixia completely lose its geographical advantage and strategic initiative. If you work harder, you can enter Xingqing Mansion. [Xixia without Hengshan is like the Central Plains without Youyun Sixteen States]

Regrettably, with Fang La's rebellion and Jurchen's rebellion, the Song Dynasty's foreign strategic center of gravity was forced to turn to the north, and with Guo Yaoshi's rebellion leading Jurchen to go south, the battered Song Dynasty was no longer able to send troops to destroy Xia.

Xixia got a precious respite from this, and took advantage of the battle between Song and Jin to send troops to regain the lost ground.

After the Battle of Fuping, the Song Army, which lost the decisive battle, withdrew from Guanzhong and retreated to Sichuan and Shaanxi. The Song Army and the Xixia Army had no chance to confront each other.

That is Zhao Song and Xixia in history.However, in the current era, the old Zhao family had not completely harvested the ripe fruit of the Battle of Hengshan, so they had to transfer the elite of the Western Army to the Central Plains, and were forced to negotiate peace with Xixia.

In this way, between Song and Xia, Zhao Song really did not have a big victory that wiped out tens of thousands of enemies.Especially in the field battle!In that comparison, the Xixia Dangxiang Army is even better.

How can this prevent the people of the world from underestimating the Western Army and exalting the Liangshan Army?
No one cared about the battle in Baozhou, Lu Qian was bullying the few with more.Anyway, with a heavy blow to the Liao army, the Liangshan army became the most powerful soldier in the Central Plains in the eyes of the world.What is now being compared with it is the more powerful Jurchen Golden Soldiers, but it is no longer the Western Army.

All of a sudden, Lu Qian gave Zhao Song a hard blow, a heavy blow mentally.When the Western Army's reputation as a strong soldier in the world weakened the Liangshan Army, the entire Zhao and Song Dynasties also weakened the boss.

In these days, emergency documents from Hedong Road flew to Luoyang like snow, but few officials, large and small, in the whole city of Luoyang paid attention to the war on Hedong Road.When it comes to East Road, the most direct imprint is the arch and protection of Heluo flanks.

Here and Gyeonggi, and Hebei Road, the biggest role is to protect the river Luo.Use their vast size as Heluo's meat shield.

Now that the two roads in Hebei have been lost, Song Tingben of Heluo felt the crisis, and now he is clamoring loudly to move the capital, move the capital!On the contrary, the crisis in Hedong has become a strong evidence to promote the relocation of the capital.It's ridiculous!

Luoyang, Xijing, inside the Xuanren Gate.Cai's Mansion, known as Xiangguo's Mansion, has its gates open every day, and there is a lot of traffic.There is an endless stream of flatterers and sycophants.Although the old Xiangguo has frequently been reprimanded by officials recently, this cannot destroy the glory of the Cai family.It must be known that the eldest son of the Cai family, Cai Yu and Cai Shaobao, is the favorite minister of the current emperor who is on par with Wang Fu and the privy secretaries.

Since Cai Yu first proposed to move the capital to Xijing, Nana has entered the stage of history in earnest. He was first a Bachelor of Xuanhe Palace, and then a Bachelor of Xuanhe Palace; , Prince Shaobao.

Because of the different current situation, Cai Jing felt deeply that his position was unstable, so he did not suppress Cai He as he did in history, so that father and son turned against each other.In this life, Cai Jing and Cai Yu are old cows, fathers are kind and sons are filial.The Cai family can be rated as one of the five good families in the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the Cai family is still like a big tree, firmly rooted in the central stage of the Song Dynasty.

One day in early April, it was the time of the first watch, the sky was dark, and the stars and the moon rose in the night sky.But at this moment, there were two rows of guards in armor standing outside the gate of Cai Mansion, their swords and halberds were bright and mighty.And what is different from the past is that there are also a large number of sergeants guarding inside and outside Nalit Square.And the door of Cai's house was closed tightly, with a cold look.

The officials and people in Luoyang City all know that this is nothing but that the Emperor Daojun has come to Cai's house.

Mu Hong and Mu Chun brothers hurried all the way to Luoyang. On the face of it, they were the officers of Cai Jiumen, the deployment envoy of Jiangnan West Road, but in fact they were confidantes.

At the beginning, the two brothers rebelled in Jieyang Town, and between the Manichaeism and the Song Army, they took refuge in the latter without hesitation.There were quite a few fights on the battlefield.

The two brothers are good at martial arts, but also have a ruthless streak, and they have made some contributions on the battlefield.But there is no one above, and no matter how much credit is given, it will be divided up by the above.Mu Chun was so angry that he wanted to use a knife to kill someone, but Mu Hong had his own ideas.After returning home and having a deep talk with the old father, the Mu family immediately sold their property and collected tens of thousands of money.Taking garlic strips of gold as a stepping stone, he 'beat' all the way to Cai Jiu.When a hundred garlic sticks were placed in front of Cai Jiu, Cai Jiu 'succumbed'.

To be honest, one hundred garlic sticks is only 1000 taels of gold, worth ten thousand guan.It's not that Cai Jiu has never been used before, but the visual sense that Huang Chengcheng's gold piles up in a pile is extremely powerful.It is far more impactful than a large area of ​​acres, a manor, and [-] yuan of money!

The Mu family brothers are just local tyrants, how big is their industry?All the way to manage, gold bars are frequently used, and now they only sell a hundred garlic bars.Cai Jiu has been born for decades, but he has never met a person who uses gold like this.

Later, of the two Mu brothers, one became the deputy training envoy of the Jiujiang regiment, and the other became Cai Jiu's follower, Yuhou.Worth the money spent!
Now the two brothers headed straight to Luoyang with their fast horses. They didn't stop all the way, and when they arrived in Luoyang City, they were full of travel and dust.It was getting dark at night, but fortunately there was still no curfew in Luoyang City, and a group of people came straight to Cai's mansion on horseback.

In this way, outside Lidefang, they were stopped by Zhao Guan's guards on duty, and their identities were verified. The group of people did not reach the gate of Cai's house, but went to the corner gate on the right.

As soon as I got off the horse, I saw a person who looked like a manager, who had already led people waiting in front of the door.Mu Hong didn't dare to be negligent, and went forward to report: "The villain was ordered by Jiuya Nei to come to see the old Xiangguo, or the uncle is fine. There are hundreds of thousands of urgent requests. The letter from Jiu Ya Nei is in his arms, and he dare not leave without seeing his real body. hand." It is not nonsense to say that the prime minister is a seventh-rank official.While speaking, Mu Hong handed over a gold ingot to the steward, who laughed heartily.

The person in charge said: "How can the old Xiangguo and the uncle get away? I have been ordered to tell your brother to meet with the three yamen in the courtyard." It was the Lidefang quality inspector who had already notified the Caifu.As the steward said, he asked someone to bring the horse over, and then asked someone to lead the Mu family brothers to go down to rest.

The three of them entered the corner gate, and the person in charge on the road said: "It's really a coincidence that the two of you came tonight. The holy driver is here, and I don't have the chance to meet the old Xiangguo and the uncle. However, Sanya Nei is also a good person." He was the secretary of the provincial school at the beginning. Shulang, who came to Jixian School, was a tired official left to pick up things. He is currently serving as the secretary, supervisor, and junior supervisor. He has a high literary talent.That is, the personal secretary of Great Artist Zhao.

The great artist actually has a special regard for the Cai family.During a banquet in the palace, he asked Cai San [Cai He] to drink, and poured him a large cup over and over again. Cai He didn't drink much, so he reasoned that he couldn't drink any more.However, the nature of a great artist is high, how can he allow it, and those who call wine orders are very irritable to Cai He.To put it bluntly, even if Cai Yu died drunk, Sima Guang also died.Although this sentence shows that the essence of a great artist is that he shouldn't be an emperor, comparing Cai He to Sima Guang also shows the degree of importance.

Brothers Mu Hong and Mu Chun are powerful figures under Cai Jiu's subordinates, how come they don't know the name of Cai He, the eldest son of the Cai family, and he is relieved to hear that he is the third yamen of Cai's mansion.

The two brothers did not dare to find out where the emperor was entertained, but they thought that since Cai Sanya was a powerful person in front of the emperor, they would not dare to stay away if they wanted to see them.Thinking like this, the two of them followed the steward for half a quarter of an hour, passing through side courtyards and corridors, and heard the graceful sound of silk and bamboo reaching their ears.After walking through a long corridor inward, they saw a brightly lit place ahead.Although you can't see the whole picture, you can still see dozens of gauze lanterns, hung high and low, shining like daylight in the colorful bushes.

Looking through the open courtyard door, one can see that the floor is paved with red carpet, surrounded by colorful brocade curtains, and red candles about ten feet long are held in copper plates, lit in rows, and surrounded by a colorful mountain tied with silk.There are twelve screens facing south, each of which is exquisitely embroidered, and seems to be embellished with gold and silver thread and broken beads, shining brightly in the eyes.Under the screen, there is a row of people in red and blue shirts, each holding a flute, a drum, and a cymbal, playing and playing there.Through the screen, you can still see the graceful woman who occasionally flashes inside, and the butterfly wearing flowers seems to sing and dance.

Mu Hong and Mu Chun really opened their eyes, and they both stopped to look at it. Luckily, the steward made a point, and the eyes of those around them also looked away.

When he arrived at the side yard and waited, Cai Yu came in after a while, wearing casual clothes, a gauze hat, and three mustaches covering his mouth.

"Villain Mu Hong/Mu Chun, I have seen San Ya Nei." The Mu family brothers saluted respectfully.

"Where are they from?" Cai Yu asked Mu Hong, who looked at Mu Hong, who had round head, thin eyes and single brows.This kind of person with not very elegant appearance can be snuggled up by Lao Jiu's confidant, there must be something special about him.

"My ancestral home is Jiangzhou, from Jieyang Town under Jieyang Ridge." Mu Hong replied.

"Jieyang Town, Jieyang Ridge, do you know Zhang Shun and Li Jun?" Cai Yu became interested as soon as he heard the word Jieyang, and asked again.

Mu Hong was silent for a while, and replied: "Don't dare to hide from the yamen. In the past, the young one had a lot of contacts with Zhang and Li. Because of his arrogance when he was young, he acted a little tougher, which made the villagers dislike him. The brothers and Zhang Li and the two water bandits became the Three Hegemons."

Cai He was taken aback when he heard that, and then laughed. "It's really a pleasure not to think that Brother Ninth still has heroes like you under his command. You brothers can rest assured that you will have a bright future ahead." Mu Hong and Mu Chun were overjoyed when they heard this.

Having said that, Cai He sat down on a chair beside him and said, "Bring me the letter to read."

It is not so much a letter as a good news.Mu Hong's face was full of smiles. Knowing that the news had not reached Luoyang, the nobleman in front of him must be overjoyed.

Sure enough, Cai He held it with one hand and took a look at it.Immediately, he let out a "huh", and held it with both hands, and then laughed out loud.It can be said that the literati demeanor just now is gone.

"God bless the Song Dynasty! God bless the Song Dynasty! Hahaha!" After reading it, Cai Chen clutched the good news tightly and was very excited.But there was a new breakthrough in the Jiangnan war situation.

The Western Army fought hard for more than a month, and entered Taiping Prefecture from Chizhou.Break Fanchang, for Wuhu and Dangtu.The latter was personally guarded by Fang Hou, the emperor's uncle of the Manichaeism.However, the Western Army is also in danger of being exhausted after a long battle.If so, Fang La took his appearance as his commander and led an army of [-] to rescue.He fought many times with the Western Army, and was completely defeated by the Western Army not long ago. He suffered heavy losses and retreated to Jinling.

The brothers of the Chong family wanted the army to break through Wuhu and Dangtu, and they captured Fanghou, so they came to the king to ask for credit.But when Cai Jiu from Jiangzhou got the news, he immediately sent the Mu family brothers to Luoyang to announce the good news.But he knew that his big backer Cai Jing's life was not very easy recently, so he hurried to show Cai Jing his merits.

Cai Jing was the chancellor of the Song Dynasty, and the Western Army won such a great victory in the south of the Yangtze River, how can it not be due to the chancellor?This is leadership.

It's no wonder that Cai He applauded loudly after seeing the letter.It can be said that it couldn't be more timely; it also helps to move the capital.

Compared with the original move from Tokyo to Xijing, this move from Xijing to Jiangling is too much to provoke the courtiers to criticize.Because in this way, it is almost saying that the imperial court gave up Hedong, Hebei, and Gyeonggi and Gyeongdong.This is too embarrassing for the court.

But now that the Western Army has won a big victory in Jiangnan, it is destined to reduce the pressure on the court.Cai He knew that great artists were willing to move their capital.

(End of this chapter)