"Mr. Zeng, how is the battle in Qingzhou?" Yang Hui asked.

After receiving the imperial edict, he rode a horse from Kaifeng to Chang'an in just three days.

A thousand miles of road, three days, is enough to work hard.

Some people may question that if riding a horse at this speed is not a desperate effort, it can only be considered a little faster. But if you compare Dasu, the road conditions from Huangzhou to Ruzhou are better than those from Baibao City to Anjiang Fort? And it is only a few hundred miles away. But for comfort, you have to take a boat down the Yangtze River and then turn to the Grand Canal, and the journey is very miserable... For example, Wen Yanbo received the imperial edict from Zhao Shu to Chang'an, and he has not arrived in Tongguan after walking for more than half a month. I am old and have to take a bus and not bumpy. Wouldn't that be slow?

Therefore, as a scholar-official who enjoys life, it is a miracle to arrive in Chang'an at this speed.

Through this, Zeng Gongliang immediately identified Yang Hui's position.

Although Zeng Gongliang is old, he cannot underestimate Zeng Gongliang's wisdom. Just like Zhao Xu and Han Qi fight wits and methods, he hides in the dark and does not publicly offend Han Qi, but secretly puts some condoms on his secretly. Finally, he joins forces with Zhao Xu to force Han Qi away, and finally truly embarks on the path of Prime Minister No. 1.

But intelligence was mistaken for intelligence. Amid the huge opposition from the conservatives, Zeng Gongliang chose to compromise in order to maintain his position and then withdrew from the center of power.

But no matter what, he is much better than Yang Hui.

You can't pretend to be stupid and say I don't know, so why don't you retire?

I can't say I know.

Don’t watch Wang Ju fight extremely brilliantly, there may be more ministers who hate him.

There is nothing else, being at peace is the mainstream understanding of scholars and officials.

Perhaps later generations could not understand this history. In fact, it had its own reasons. First, the Song Dynasty had a policy of defending the internal and external weaknesses from the beginning, which led to the self-brainwashing of the scholars and officials themselves.

Under this purpose, policies such as emphasizing culture over military affairs were introduced, and the military was also deteriorating. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the army became worse and worse. As a result, every battle was defeated, the more the scholars and officials opposed the war.

Therefore, from the beginning of the Alliance of Chanyuan and then to the failure of Emperor Zhenzong of Song to the five ways to defeat Xia, the Gou'an faction gradually gained the upper hand. After the three major defeats in Qingli, the Gou'an faction finally became the mainstream.

Don’t ask the reasons. There are many reasons. What should I do if I fail? It’s a great victory. Xixia is extremely vicious. What should I do if I launch a retaliatory war regardless of the lives and death of the people? Even if I win again and again. How to solve the financial pressure caused by the war, can the people afford it? Or, the Liao Kingdom came to join the side and kicked it again, so what should I do? The more I think this, the less I dared to fight.

Anyway, the two time and space overlapped each other, and the form was almost the same, and even the external pressure was similar. The Xixia, which was more rogue and untrustworthy than Japan, was no less than the Liao Kingdom, which was the United States. However, the territory of the Song Dynasty was smaller, squeezing land, finance, technology, and civilization. It was at the peak of the world and a little tougher.

Of course, a country's strength cannot be separated from finance, but being rich does not mean that the country can be strong. Even if the Song Dynasty is like the Song Dynasty, the economy accounts for 60% of the world!

This kid ran to Shaanxi so desperately for Wang Ju's inexplicable peace agreement. He thinks of his position.

How could Zeng Gongliang say he knew?

If you say you know, then this kid will be furious. How can you express your opinion? Support Yang Hui, don’t make a mistake, that will inevitably offend the emperor. If you don’t support Yang Hui, maybe Wen Yanbo and others will have to give yourself another pot.

And this kid is very brave in order to gain prominence.

Therefore, he understood Yang Hui's purpose, Zeng Gongliang clarified his ideas and said slowly: "I heard that the fight started again in front of him."

"Isn't it a peace talk?"

"What a hard thing? Liang Yimeng almost used the power of Xixia and launched a large army of 300,000. However, he suffered several defeats and suffered heavy losses. How could he be willing to go back?"

"Mr. Zeng, can you tell me in detail?"

"Element, I am the judge of Yongxing Army." Zeng Gongliang said.

In fact, Zeng Gongliang is not clear about the details, and the news is delayed. For example, he has not heard of the battle in Rouyuan Village today in Chang'an City. However, some people still know it, such as Cai Ting's surprise attack on Tiandu Mountain and the Battle of Malingchuan yesterday.

Moreover, Cai Ting and Wang Ju sent the postman who reported the news to him, had left Chang'an and headed for Kaifeng.

However, Zeng Gongliang was unwilling to say it.

Yang Hui was helpless and could not say that Zeng Gongliang was speaking rudely. He sentenced Yongxingjun to be in charge of Yongxingjun. If he extended his hand to Qingzhou, he might be arguing in the end.

Seeing that it was dusk, I had to rest first.

But Zeng Gongliang was also a little confused. Why did the emperor send this person to Qingzhou to preside over the peace talks?

It’s unreasonable, it’s war or harmony. He is standing on a neutral standpoint. The reason he cooperates with Wang Ju is not because he supports war or supports Wang Ju. At least Wang Ju will not let Zeng Gongliang put down his body and fight.

The main reason for this is Zhao Xu, who is a war-oriented faction and was actively invading by the Western Xia. If Zeng Gongliang did not support him and constrained Wang Ju, he would also drink a pot of money whenever he reported to the emperor.

So Zhao Xu asked Yang Hui to come to the northwest, which made Zeng Gongliang unable to understand.

And the other side is shouting.

Gui Nianglang Ben brought all the foreign soldiers, so he shouted in Dangxiang's words.

Of course Liang Yimeng would not enter the city, but this made him disgusted.

This is Wang Ju's intentional arrangement. Putting Liang Yi back will add a lot of variables to Xixia. When a person dies, no matter whether it is right or wrong, they are all martyrs. So what if they catch it? For the sake of "international friendship", the Song Dynasty did not obediently release Liang Yi back. In this way, it would be better to release it now, so no matter what variables arise in the future, it would be beneficial to the Song Dynasty.

So what if you are ashamed? In order to be in power, the Liang family also used the Song Dynasty to establish their authority and repeatedly insulted the Song Dynasty.

What Wang Ju did now is just to use his own way to return him to his body.

Liang Yimeng took his confidants and fled to the side path.

Not only him, but now many Xia soldiers bombed the camp and fled to these mountain paths.

Yan Da entered the city, Yao Lin, Qin Bo entered the city, Gao Yongneng, Gui Nianglang Ben also entered the city, but now there are only two Song troops in the city, Gao Yongneng and Gui Nianglang Ben, and the rest continue to chase.

However, it is not to eat all the troops that fled in front of Xixia. It is impossible. In the end, Wang Ju was very happy that more than 100,000 Xixia soldiers could kill and capture half of them. Just like when Xixia exploded the camp and fled in all directions, how many Song army could capture? This is absolutely not greedy. They had to let the camp explode, and they had to let them escape, otherwise they would be blocked. One is that they did not have this force. The other is that the Xixia mermaids would break the death net, which would cause heavy casualties to the Song army.

Therefore, what Yan Da and the others did was to chase each other and pursue them all the way, and use this momentum to successfully capture the small villages along the Hengshan Mountains along the way.

Unlike the Song Dynasty, the various forts and villages in the Song Dynasty were relatively large, just like Dashun City, reaching 800 acres, which is larger than many county towns in the Song Dynasty. Generally, slightly more important forts are similar to the Liyuan Fort with an area of ​​250 acres. Even small forts such as Donggu Village have reached the size of 60 to 70 acres.

But the forts in Xixia are very small, just like the Hengshan area. There are more than 800 forts in each place. In fact, each village is different from the military camps of the Song Dynasty. Ninety-half% of the villages are not military camps, but villages. Each village built the villages in a dangerous place, and became a place for people's residences in their spare time, and in wartime they became military camps.

From Baibao City through Hengshan, there are more than 40 or 50 villages on the nearly 100-mile mountain road. The villages are small and there are only simple village walls. Moreover, many villages are transferred to the army together. It is not difficult to break through, but it is a village and a defensive fortification. Moreover, there are five or six formal small military camps along the way. Therefore, it can be used to remove them. It can save time and reduce unnecessary sacrifices.

As long as this road is opened up, the army will approach Yanzhou!

Gao Yongneng asked Gui Nianglang to keep the foreign soldiers of the security army to guard Baibao City and prevent the Xia army from fleeing into the city. The remaining tasks were the same as Zhao Yuqing, to take care of the food and supplies in the city. After opening the city gates later, they would observe the prisoners of war and war horses captured by the Song army. There was another task, which was to cook. After cooking, they would immediately send foreign cavalry out of the city and send them to the various pursuing Song troops.

The order was issued, and Gao Yongneng also followed his men and chased after him.

However, his temple was behind, and his mission was not to pursue, but to capture the prisoners of war horses captured in front and take over all the villages along the way.

There were still fighting in front of Baibao City, and there were some people who were desperate in the Xia army. But their resistance did not work at all. Although Zhao Yuqing's troops stayed in Anjiang Fort, Gao Yongneng and other armies entered Baibao City, Wang Ju still had the 6th Brigade of Wang Junwan, who had strong combat power, and the subordinates of Dou Shunqing, Yang Wenguang, Liu Yuan and Liu Shaoneng. Among these armies, only Yang Wenguang's Fuzhou officers and soldiers had not participated in any battles before, and the rest had been tested by several battles. Even in the Fuzhou branch, Yang Wenguang's personal command ability also made up for this shortcoming. Without Wang Ju's order, they each exterminated these Xixia soldiers who were fighting stubbornly.

This is just a few people, and most of the Xia army fled desperately in all directions. However, this was not Dashun City. It failed that year, and eventually many Xia army successfully fled back to Xixia. Now this is White Leopard City, which is truly located below the foothills of Hengshan Mountain.

This means that they want to go home, so they are facing real mountains and no longer the turkeys behind them, but the White Leopard City on the main road is controlled by the Song army.

Then it is conceivable how difficult this journey home will be.

And not only were they going home, but there were still tens of thousands of Song troops behind them chasing each other. Therefore, many Xixia people wisely fled to Jintang City, which was also the direction for Liang Yiming to escape.

However, Liu Yan had already gone to the road ahead of time to block the attack.

He could let Liang Yimeng go, but he would not let other Xia soldiers go. This forced the soldiers of the three Western Xia armies to escape into the mountains and fields on both sides, which became a difficult road home.

As the sky gradually darkened, Wang Ju ordered all the cavalry to escort prisoners into Baibao City to rest.

In this area, cavalry no longer need to capture prisoners of war, but there will be a tragic war tomorrow.

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"Duke Han, Zi'an took down Baibao City." Zhang Qi said.

The main thing is the White Leopard City. It is built on the mountain, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and its sinisterness is no less than Anjiang Fort. Although the Song Dynasty succeeded twice, both Wang Gui and Liu Shaoneng accidentally sent people to touch the city. And because it was located in the enemy territory, although it touched some Xia troops, they all retreated.

If this military camp is strictly guarded and attacks blindly, even if the Xia army is depressed and does not spend thousands of lives on the lives of the officers and soldiers, it will not be possible to take it down.

Now that Baibao City has succeeded, there is no need to worry about some small villages behind.

Han Jiang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This Zi'an has such a big appetite, but it's even successful."

Although he had received information about the victory in Rouyuanzhai, his expression still looked like he was unbelievable.

"Are Mr. Han unhappy?" Zhang Qi said.

However, he was very despised. At the beginning, the situation in Qingzhou seemed to be very bad. Why didn’t you come to Qingzhou? Lianfan won a great victory and rushed to Qingzhou immediately. Zhang Zhi cannot blame him for having such an idea. Han Jiang went to Ningzhou. At that time, Wang Ju had already won the Great Victory of Qingzhou City and the Great Victory of Yele Town, but Han Jiang didn’t know that he only knew that Dashun City had a glorious victory. At least as long as there was no major mistake in Qingzhou, he could be saved.

Keep it unlosing. It is the greatest victory.

So he came to Ningzhou to find Wang Ju, but Wang Ju was not in Ningzhou, so he came to Qingzhou again the next day.

This time is a coincidence.

But what should I do? He was the prime minister of the dynasty, the envoy of the Shaanxi Road Xuanfu, and the real number one boss in the entire Shaanxi. Although it has nothing to do with him to formulate a combat plan, he still has to ask for instructions in name.

"That's good, that's good."

"We're going to do serious things."

"Um."

There are many serious matters, including Han Jiang who will immediately ask Guo Kui to send troops to Jintang City and Baibao City will be taken. A few days later, the Song army will be in Yanzhou. So, will the nail for Jintang City be removed?

After removing the nail in Jintang City, we also need troops to go out to the Great Wall Ridge of the Security Army.

In fact, it is the ancient Great Wall based on the Qin Dynasty Great Wall. However, Qinzhou only built it to Liangzhou area, and then extended it to Yumen Pass one after another in the Western Han Dynasty, and reached Juyanhai in the northwest. Later, the Huns were defeated, and the Han Dynasty was invincible in the world and there was no need to build it. Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty was the Tiankang Khan, the king of all races. He would not build the Great Wall. Therefore, the Great Wall was damaged in many places when the Great Wall was destroyed in the Song Dynasty. There was an ancient Great Wall under the Donggu Fort, which was a fragment. The Great Wall of the Security Army was one of the main bodies of the ancient Great Wall. Most of the ones that extended from Lingzhou were still preserved. Although many were damaged, the main body was there.

When Fan Zhongyan was in Yanzhou, he established Pingrong Village on the Great Chengling Road, which was divided into two cities, east and west. The two cities were not large in area, only a few dozen acres. Later, as Xixia slowly eroded. In addition, the border ministers were weak, Pingrong Village changed hands to the people of Xixia.

Therefore, Wang Ju suggested taking advantage of this great opportunity to seize Jintang City and retake Pingrong Village again and send someone to renovate and expand it. Then the Song Dynasty could control the Great Wall Ridge Road. Not only would the return of the grand clan have no worries, but the Xixia people would not invade the original Wangjia Village like Wang Ju's boy.

Of course, if we can take the Tumen back with the situation, then the entire Yanzhou and the Security Army will be as stable as gold, and we can be assured and bold in confronting Xixia in Suizhou in the future.

"But..." Han Jiang hesitated. Wang Ju's idea was good, but Guo Kui might not buy his face.

At this time, he didn't know that the court issued an edict, replacing Han Jiang with Zhao Cheng. However, even if he knew, Han Jiang's order might not work, because Zhao Cheng had always been very close to Guo Kui. It can only be said that Zhao Cheng had little experience and was somewhat afraid of Han Jiang.

"It's really not possible, Mr. Han, you have some hard work again and go back to Yanzhou to take charge of the overall situation." Zhang Shi said insensation.

What can you do when you stay in Gyeongju? You need credit. We will give you the credit in the future. At worst, you can say a few good words on the memorial, saying that you are also involved in command. But don’t get in the way in Gyeongju!

No matter what, Han Jiang came over to compete for me in a hurry, which made Zhang Feng feel very disgusted.

Wang Ju only considered the war and did not think deeply.

In fact, Han Jiang had trouble saying that he came to the northwest not because of a mistake, but because he had made many wars with Xixia. The Song Dynasty was worried about an accident, so he asked him to take charge of the overall situation.

As a result, Wang Wenliang was asked to send troops to Jintang City, but Wang Wenliang did not dare to attack, and in turn provoked the Xia army to invade the Security Army.

Although it was impossible to say that it was a crushing defeat to let Zhong Yan run Luowucheng, in the cold weather last year, Luowucheng had to give up in the civilians and tens of thousands of troops, both on Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road.

Then another 300,000 Xia troops were recruited to invade Qingzhou.

If you continue to develop like this, if you don’t make any contribution, you may not do it well, just like in history, you will become a magistrate on a marginal road and you will not be able to return to the capital. Think about it, can the five prefectures on Shaanxi Road, no matter which prefecture, be as powerful as the prime minister? (To be continued.) h118
Chapter completed!