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Chapter 665 Your Majesty, the children have defeated the enemy (two updates in one)
The land of Nvzhegu was originally the territory of Dong Zhan's elder brother, Xia Zhan, who was expelled by Li Yuanhao back then.

Xia Zhan had to retreat to Lintao. After Xia Zhan died, his son Mu Zheng attacked his tribe.

However, when Zhang Yue and Wang Shao broke through the Watang Society, someone reported that the Mu Zheng Department was about to make a move.

It turned out that when Wang Shao built Weiyuan Fort, Mu Zheng felt that the threat was greatly increased, so he led the army to question him. Wang Shao falsely agreed, and made an agreement with Mu Zheng. .

Wang Shao agreed and swore an alliance with Mu Zheng.

The oaths of the Tubo people are all solemn. Firstly, the famous chiefs are invited to witness, and then the warriors are arranged in two lines and crossed with swords to form the gate of the sword.

The person who made the oath passed under the sword gate, then stabbed the oath with the blood of cattle and sheep, and finally dug a pit, let a maidservant enter the pit and stoned to death.

Anyway, Wang Shao and Mu Zheng made such an oath.Zhang Yue knew that Mu Zheng was serious, but Wang Shao didn't take it seriously.

Knowing this, Song Jun, who had just arrived in Ruzhe Valley, had an ominous premonition of encountering enemies one after another.

Wang Shao, Zhang Yue and others explained: "The front of our army is Kanbo, and there are 22 tribes of the Fan family, with a total of more than [-] people. This is nothing to fear."

Zhang Yue understood that the 22 people of these [-] clans were the same as his [-] tribes, and they were all men, women, old and young.

"However, Xixia reinforcements are on the way. Among them, the closest and strongest troops are in the Yuzang Huama Department in Dingxi City, Huizhou."

"This Yuzang Huama is also from the Fan tribe, but he married the Western Xia clan, so he can be called the son-in-law. This person is also the commander of the Xixia Baotai Supervision Army, with [-] to [-] accounts under his command."

Liu Xixi smacked his lips when he heard this.

He understood that the account in Tubo had almost the same meaning as the household in the Song Dynasty.

3 to 22 households are [-] to [-] households, which is not on the same order of magnitude as the [-]-odd Kanbo [-] people.

Wang Shaodao: "So we can't wait for the rabbit. We must defeat the 22 tribes of Kanbo before Yuzang Huama arrives."

After speaking, Yu Longke volunteered to attack the 22 clans in Ruzhe Valley.Yu Longke is the largest Tibetan tribe in Guwei, with a population of 12.

This time, 5 people were dispatched, most of whom were young and strong in the tribe.

Wang Shao immediately agreed.

The matter of military strategy has always been advocated by Wang Shao, while Zhang Yue is the political commissar.

Zhang Yue intends to use Lanzhou as the base camp to attack Xixia, so he must win over the hearts of the people. For the captured Tibetans, Zhang Yue did not follow the advice of the Fan tribe and carve them up, but decided to send them to Guweizhai for resettlement in the future.

After Zhang Yue proposed, everyone agreed, and Yu Longke, the leader of the Fan tribe, did not object. After they plundered enough cattle and sheep, they gave one-third to the Song army, and the rest to the various ministries. Very full.

At this time, Wang Shao suggested that Master Zhiyuan should write letters to Dong Zhi, Mu Zheng and Jie Wu Chiwa respectively.

He and Dong Zhanyan continued to invite him to attack Lanzhou, promising to carve up the land of Lanzhou.

Yu Muzheng said that the covenant remains the same, and he will not take an inch of Weiyuan.

As for Wu Chiwa, we can only say the victory of Wadanghui.

That's right, the Qingtang and Tibetan tribes are now in a state of disunity. Although Dong Zhan is the leader in name, he can't actually command the various tribes of the Tibetan tribe.

Zhang Yue felt relieved when he saw Wang Shao's method of dividing and wooing, that the person he had chosen was not wrong, so he set out to appease the captured Tibetans.

According to Wang Shao's Ping Rong strategy, for the Fan tribe, it is necessary to recruit and conquest, seven points for recruitment and three points for conquest.Now that Wang Shao is the master of killing, he has become a villain, and Zhang Yue has come to appease him and become a good man.

It was the end of December at this time, and Lanzhou was extremely cold.

The captives of the Fan tribe are still sitting on the ground under the sky. If there is a heavy snowfall, they will freeze and starve to death.

Zhang Yue ordered people to distribute tents, as well as burning cow and sheep dung for heating, and gave barley cakes. At the same time, he asked if there were any high-status Qiang chieftains in the Tibetan tribe who could speak.

Soon a middle-aged man came out of the Tibetan tribe.

The other party spoke fluent Chinese and claimed that his surname was Qiao. Zhang Yue knew that Qiao's surname belonged to a rich Tubo family whose base was near Jingli City, with 7 to [-] people.

This city is an important route for all the prefectures, and the Qiao family has done business with the tribes of Hehuang prefectures, and has a good reputation, and Dong Zhan's biological mother is from the Qiao family.

Seeing the cold weather, Zhang Yue took off his fox fur and put it on the other party.

The other party was taken aback, the fox fur at least cost tens of thousands of dollars, and it was convenient for him to put it on him so casually, this person must be a high-ranking official of the Song Army.

"People who are about to die don't dare to accept this kindness."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Brother, don't be suspicious. Master Wang did not intend to kill in the Northern Expedition, but just asked the western thieves to return their homeland."

The other party said: "But you Han people have lost Longxi for a long time, and now it has been occupied by us in Tubo. You say that taking back your homeland is not creating a killing industry."

Zhang Yue said: "Lanzhou is occupied by the Western thieves, why is it owned by you Tubo? As far as I know, the laborers of the Western thieves are very miserable, and the people of Tubo all have the heart to return to the Song Dynasty. Since the king's teacher came here, why don't you return early? On the contrary, you are stubborn and help the evildoers?"

The other party was puzzled and said: "You Han people really want to defend Lanzhou?"

Zhang Yue laughed and said, "Otherwise? Why did we come here thousands of miles away?"

After a pause, Zhang Yue said: "I know that your Qiao family regards Dong Xing as the main one, but now the Qingtang and Tibetan tribes are scattered. Before that, Muzheng occupied Lintao, Mozhijiao occupied Zongge City, and Dong felt occupied Qingtang City. Divide into three, and the rest of the Tibetan tribes voted for Song and Xia respectively. Although Mozhijiao is dead, Dong Zhan is really unable to unify Hehuang, so I advise you to make plans early."

The other side pondered for a while and said: "It's not that I won't surrender, but you are afraid of coming and leaving."

Zhang Yue laughed and said: "My official surname is Zhang Mingyue. I was the number one scholar in Jiayou's six years. I know how to make a patent. You should be able to believe what I say."

Hearing this, the other party hurriedly bowed down and said, "So it's Zhang Gong, and the villain has long admired his name in Qingtang."

Zhang Yue was so proud that even the Tibetans knew his name.

Immediately, the other party revealed that his name was Qiao Zong, and he had gone to Yongning horse market three times to do business with the Song Dynasty. As for Gu Wei, he had also been there once, and the other party admired Wang Shaozhi, a military administrator.

This time he came to Wadanghui to do business with the Xixia people, but when he knew that the Song army was coming, he wanted to go to the city to escape, but the Song army robbed him.

Zhang Yue was overjoyed, and immediately ordered someone to release Qiao Zong and hundreds of his followers.

Qiao Zong also asked to release other tribes who made friends with him, Zhang Yue also agreed, there are nearly a thousand people in total.

Qiao Zong asked Zhang Yue to give him a tent and drinks, and Zhang Yue agreed.

After Wang Hou learned about it, he was a little worried about whether Qiao Zong was cheating, but Zhang Yue said that he was surrounded by a hundred thousand troops, so how could Qiao Zong be cheating?

Qiao Zong was very grateful when he saw that Zhang Yueshi released his tribe. When he learned that the Song army was going to attack the Kanbo 22 tribe, he immediately volunteered, saying that he had an old relationship with the leader of the Kanbo tribe and was willing to go and surrender.

Zhang Yue agreed, and the next day Qiao Zong took a dozen people to Ruzhe Valley.

For Zhang Yue, even if Qiao Zong lied to him, it was nothing more than letting the other party run away, but Zhang Yue firmly believed that the Fan people were between Xixia and Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty must be chosen.

After recruiting Qiao Zong, Zhang Yue went to the wounded and sick camp to visit the wounded soldiers.

There were hundreds of soldiers in the sick and wounded battalion, and they didn't expect that an official like Zhang Yue would come to the wounded and sick battalion in person.

Everyone showed expressions of disbelief, but Zhang Yue had no pretensions. He sat beside the wounded soldier's bed and asked about his injury, speaking gently and without any air of aloofness.

His attitude was even a hundred times better than that of the doctors in the wounded camp beside him.

Zhang Yue also personally rubbed Jinchuang medicine on a wounded soldier, and even gave the soldier soup and medicine.

Zhang Yue did buy people's hearts, but he was better than many officials who were unwilling to buy people's hearts.

In the Song Dynasty, Wen Zunwu was humble, not to mention a soldier, and even a general was injured, and civil officials would not go to visit.

There was also a dying Song soldier who was shot in the eye by a foreigner's arrow. Because the arrow was too deep, the arrow has not been pulled out so far.Before Zhang Yue arrived at the other party's bed, he could already smell a strong smell of blood.

Zhang Yue looked at the doctor beside him, and shook his head towards Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue covered the other party with a sheet and asked, "Brother, what do you want to say?"

Fang Yan said: "Don't dare, I still have three children in Qinzhou, I ask someone to take care of them..."

Zhang Yue said: "For sure, our ancient Wei army will raise them to grow up, the men will find an errand, and the women will back up the dowry, what else?"

The other party raised his head and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I really can't think of any."

"Brother, take care!" Zhang Yue shook his rough hand and stood up, then wiped the corners of his eyes.

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In the early morning of the next day, Yu Longke led his troops to launch an attack on Ruzhe Valley.

The Lanzhou Fan tribe first deployed troops on the river valley. Although Yu Longke had a large number of troops, it was not good for him to lead his army in a feint attack.Just when Yu Longke's troops were retreating, Wang Shao, wearing armor, led the long-recharged Song army to attack the Fan army above the valley.

On the same day, one enemy chieftain was captured, seven were killed, more than [-] people were beheaded, and [-] horses were captured.

The Xixia general who fled here from Wadanghui was also killed, and hundreds of his men fled across the Yellow River.

The next day, Wang Shao stationed his troops in Nv Zhegu, and he was going to send Fan Han soldiers and horses to search the valley up and down and chase the rest.

Under Qiao Zong's persuasion, the 22 Kanbo tribes came to surrender, with a population of more than [-] tribes willing to surrender to the Song Dynasty, and at the same time, there were a large number of cattle and sheep.

At this moment, the Xixia defenders in the ancient city of Lanzhou were originally going east to rescue Ruzhe Valley. When they learned that the Song army had captured Ruzhe Valley, they panicked.

A few soldiers lost their heads and wanted to burn down the floating bridge of the Yellow River to prevent the Song army from crossing the river. At this time, a general slapped several times heavily and cursed: "Burning the floating bridge, do you think we will be trapped here to death?" ?”

"But what if the Song army gets here?"

During the speech, there was a sound between the pontoon bridges, which was the sound of horseshoes stepping on the wooden boards.

When everyone looked, they saw the sturdy cavalry crossing the river on the pontoon bridge.

"Great, those are soldiers and horses of the Renduo Supervisor Army, let's welcome them quickly!"

Five thousand cavalry crossed the Yellow River from the Zhengfu Bridge. The leader of the army was a middle-aged general with a curly beard. This man was Zhuo Luo and the Southern Army Supervisor, Ren Duo Baozhong, a famous Dangxiang clan general.

It turned out that after seeing the beacon fire in Lanzhou City, he led his army to rescue Lanzhou from Zhuoluo City at night.

In the niche valley not far from Nvzhe Valley, it was winter at this time, the river in the valley had already dried up, and now a large army that could not be seen at a glance was marching in the valley.

The leading general is Yuzang Huama, the son-in-law of the Xixia Kingdom.Since Xia Zhan was driven away by Li Yuanhao, Yuzang Huama, who was isolated and helpless, led Huizhou to join Xixia in the eighth year of Jiayou.

He is now the commanding officer of the Xishou Baotai Military Division of Xixia, which is equivalent to the Jiedushi of the Song Dynasty.

Yuzang Huama was not born in the party but was able to serve as the commander of the army, which is why Xixia dared to employ people.Yuzang Huama knew that if he had belonged to the Song Dynasty, he would not have been able to obtain such an important position.

Yuzang Huama is now leading 22 cavalry for reinforcements. He expects that in a day or two, he will be able to join the Kanbo [-] clan to launch an attack on the Song army.

"Report! The 22 tribes of Kanbo have surrendered to the Song army!"

Yuzang Huama was taken aback. He looked at the military newspaper and couldn't help being furious: "What? It didn't even last for two days. Without Dong Zhan, the Song army is so good at fighting?"

"I heard that there are too many soldiers in Song Dynasty, and several Tibetan tribes have surrendered to them."

Yuzang Huama stroked his chin and said, "It seems that I will lead the army to no avail, so withdraw the troops immediately."

"But it's not easy to explain to the middle school like this!"

Yuzang Huama reprimanded: "If there is anything difficult to explain, just find a small tribe and slaughter it, send the head to Xingqing Mansion, and say we have beaten it."

Yuzang Huama seemed a little upset: "Damn it, as long as there is one more day, I can copy the Song army's retreat. Retreat and retreat, immediately retreat."

Yuzang Huama gave an order, and the [-] Fan troops stopped.

Although the Fan army is good at fighting, it is not easy to stop suddenly on the way forward, not to mention that the front team has to change to the back team, and the back team has to change to the front team.

Seeing that the soldiers below were reorganizing in a mess, Yuzang Huama turned on his horse and muttered: "This is broken, Lanzhou is lost, how can I explain to the Queen Mother?"

Yuzang Huama sighed. He was thinking about how to write a letter to the Queen Mother Liang, how to exaggerate the number of the Song army, how to ask Liang Yi to bury him, and ask them to send troops across the Yellow River to help immediately, otherwise the two states of Lanhui and Huizhou would no longer be able to support each other. Xixia all?
Just as Yuzang Huama was thinking about how to confess to him, suddenly a gust of strong wind blew straight in, causing the handsome flag of Yuzang's family to shake violently.

Yuzang Huama stretched out his ears to listen, and suddenly shouted at his subordinates with a look of embarrassment: "No, go back, go back!"

At this moment, the Xixia army was in a dilemma in the valley. Suddenly, they heard the sound of killing on both sides of the valley, the sound of horseshoes sounded like thunder in the valley, and in the distance a banner with the word king was erected high...

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boom! boom! boom!
On the night of Shangyuan, fireworks were lit in Bianjing.

It's the festive season, and every household in Bianjing City is decorated with lanterns and festoons, creating a scene of peace and prosperity.

The fourth year of Xining has come, and this is the fifth year that the government has been in power.

Men and women in Bianjing all go out to watch the lights and visit the lantern festival, enjoying the days of peace and prosperity.

But the official boarded Xuande Gate to see the scenery at night in Shangyuan, the lights of Aoshan Mountain, and the worship of the people below, all of which made him feel uneasy.

In fact, he was anxious in his heart. He almost put all the chips in his hands on such a large troop attack.

The officials glanced at it, Wang Anshi, the minister of state history, and Wen Yanbo, the privy envoy, who were sitting sideways, all brought their families upstairs to enjoy the lanterns with the officials, which was also a joy for the people.

In the night of Shangyuan.

The officials were restless, how could they hide the old man Wen Yanbo.Wen Yanbo toasted the officials frequently and calmly.

And Wang Anshi also saw it, and sat there sullenly, without saying a word.

Deputy privy envoys Feng Jing and Wu Chong sat a little far away from the official position, but their hearts were like a mirror, chatting on their own,

Feng Jing said to Wu Chong: "It's really a dangerous move for your son-in-law to send troops to Weiyuan this time. Now Muzheng is peeping at Weiyuan Fort. To the north of Lanzhou is Zhuoluo and the Southern Army Superintendent, and to the east is Xishoubao in Huizhou. The Thai military supervisory department, as well as the local Tibetan tribe, once our army invades Lanzhou, they will face attack from three sides, and now it seems that there is only one unexpected move, which is a wonderful move."

Wu Chong said: "Old Tang, I may not be as good as you in terms of knowing soldiers, but in terms of seeing people, I am not inferior to others."

Feng Jing smiled and poured wine for Wu Chong himself. Indeed, if Wu Chong asked himself second, no one would dare to be the first.

Wu Chong said: "My son-in-law never does anything he is not sure of."

Feng Jing said: "Okay, even if your son-in-law wins, what's the next step?"

"According to the Xixia military system, the twelve military divisions are arranged along the border. Once there is something to do in the west, they will be gathered from the east point to the west. Once there is something to do in the east, they will be gathered from the west point to the east. As for the middle road, both the east and the west are gathered."

"My son-in-law sent troops to Lanhui, only to contain Zhuoluo and the Southern Army Division. The Xishou Baotai Army Division is not enough to cooperate with Zhong'er's army to attack Hengshan head-on. If this is the case, it is necessary to cross the Yellow River north to attract other military supervisory divisions. At least it must be mobilized. It would be better if the military commander of the central route is transferred to the military commander of the eastern route."

"But once the Yellow River is crossed, Yu hides flowers and hemp, and Ren Duo Baozhong leads the army to cut off the retreat of the son-in-law's army, what should we do?"

Wu Chong didn't answer yet.

At this time, a small official of the Privy Council hurried up the tower, but was stopped by the imperial attendants. Wu Chong took a look, got up and walked straight over.

The little official whispered a few words to Wu Chong and handed over a letter.

Wu Chong nodded, and calmly returned to Feng Jing's side.With Feng Jing's puzzled expression, Wu Chong said: "Let's find the Prime Minister to play together."

"At this moment?" Feng Jing asked.

He looked at Wu Chong but saw that there was no joy or anger on the other side's face.

Feng Jing nodded, and the two came to Wen Yanbo's case together.

Wen Yanbo's position is the highest among civil servants, and it is one step further away from the official throne than Wang Anshi's position. To be honest, even if they are in power, Feng Jing and Wu Chong still admire and respect Wen Yanbo's position. envious.

After hearing Wu Chong's report, Wen Yanbo is worthy of being a prime minister who can pull a boat in his belly, but he smiled slightly and said to Wu Chong: "Chongqing, let's meet you with your servants!"

Wen Yanbo walked up the steps of the city tower calmly, while the servant Zhang Mao saw him and immediately came to help him.

However, Wen Yanbo still walked steadily, and Wu Chong followed closely behind him.

At this moment, the official family is depressed, and countless thoughts are circling in his mind, the long-cherished wish of the five emperors, the accumulation of a hundred years, and his ambition to compete with Hanwu Tangzong.

Is it going to be like the fleeting fireworks, all disappearing into nothingness?

But at the moment when the official saw Wen Yanbo walking in front of him, the official asked in the first sentence: "Is there a military situation in the northwest?"

But Wen Yanbo bowed and said: "Yes, congratulations Your Majesty, the younger generation has defeated the enemy!"

boom!
The biggest fireworks bloomed.

In an instant, the official's eyes were full of tears!

(End of this chapter)