Qian Song

Chapter 298 Li Cun's Revenge on Zhao Gou (Ask for a monthly ticket!)
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Li Cun didn't want to care about Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang.

Because in Li Cun's mind, the border guards Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and Su Dong would definitely be able to guard the border.

Moreover, Li Gang, the guardian of the Yanyun area, is a rare civil servant of Dong Junjun. He has an overview of the military affairs of the Yanyun area, and there must be no problem.

The key point is that the Yanshan Mountains and the Great Wall above it act as a barrier against the nomadic peoples in northern Serbia going south. The Juyongguan, Shanhaiguan, Songtingguan, Gubeikou, Lengkou, Xifengkou and other passes that were completely recovered by Li Cun before were guarded. It is not so easy for the Jin people to go south with the several traffic tunnels passing through the Yanshan Mountains.

The key point is that Yuwen Huangzhong sent back the news that the Jin people went south this time mainly to support the Zhao Song Dynasty and prevent Li Cun from destroying the Zhao Song Dynasty, and then concentrate their firepower on them. The Dagan Dynasty launched an offensive that was too big.

Therefore, after weighing the matter, Li Cun still decided that to fight against the outside world, the inside must be settled first.

Of course, the reason Li Cun decided to pacify the Central Plains first was also because the Central Plains was too important.

At the beginning of the chaos in the world, because the Central Plains can be attacked from all sides, the centrifugal force of the four sides is enough to tear the situation in the Central Plains, making the Central Plains a turbulent intersection.

At that stage, the torrent of turmoil was enough to destroy any efforts to defend the Central Plains.

In the alternation of chaos, separation and integration in history, in the stage from governance to chaos, from integration to division, it is very difficult to occupy the places of the four wars in the Central Plains, and it is easy to occupy the dangerous places in the four corners of mountains and rivers; In the stage of governance and convergence from division to convergence, only those who have stepped out of the four corners to fight for the Central Plains will have the opportunity to fight for the world.

At this stage, if you still stick to one corner, it will be difficult to get rid of the domineering situation after all.

Therefore, in any overall competition, the Central Plains is a must.

To advance the world, the Central Plains must be taken; to stabilize the world, the Central Plains is the center of control.

Only the Central Plains is the arena for the real competition.

Only the geographical conditions of the Central Plains extending in all directions can obtain the situation of controlling all directions.

Li Cun has now reached the stage where he must obtain the Central Plains—if Li Cun does not obtain the Central Plains and separates his territory from the Central Plains for a long time, then sooner or later, Li Cun will lose one of his territories, or even lose his territory. It is possible to lose all the territory at both ends. You must know that conquering the world is like sailing against the current. If you do not advance, you will retreat.

As far as its own geographical situation is concerned, the Central Plains region can be roughly divided into four regions, each of which has different strategic significance based on different geographical conditions.

These four regions are: the Sanchuan Valley in the northwest, the Nanyang Basin in the southwest, the upper reaches of the Huaihe River in the southeast, and the Hanoi region in the northeast.

Today, the Nanyang Basin in the southwest, the upper reaches of the Huaihe River in the southeast, and Hanoi in the northeast are almost all owned by Li Cun, but the Sanchuan River Valley in the northwest is not completely under Li Cun's control.

This is almost tantamount to saying that Li Cun has worked hard for a long time, and he is short of this last shake.

Let me ask, in this case, how could Li Cun give up?

did not say.

On the one hand, Li Cun gave Li Gang an order to do a good job in frontier defense without any slack; on the other hand, he gave orders to Zhao Ding, Chen Kangbo and other local officials to suppress the defeated soldiers, bandits, and rebels in the territory as soon as possible, and at the same time do a good job in disaster relief and spring plowing Waiting for things; while urging Wu Lin, Zhai Xing, Zhai Jin and others to wipe out the Song Army in their theater as soon as possible.

After Wu Lin, Zhai Xing, and Zhai Jin took orders, they fought one after another and defeated the Song Army of Fan Ne's Department, the Song Army of Zhao Ye's Department, and the Song Army of Wang Xiang's Department.

Seeing this, Zhao Gou and others were even more anxious, for fear that the next one to be defeated by the Qian army would be the Generalissimo's Mansion.

Therefore, Zhao Gou and others have been trying every means to break through the blockade of the Gan army and enter the border of Shaanxi.

In order to be able to escape to Shaanxi, Zhao Gou and others even wanted to turn to Hedong, and then cross the Yellow River from Hedong to enter Shaanxi.

But all the passes in Hedong were firmly guarded by the Gan army, Zhao Gou and the others couldn't get through at all.

No way, Zhao Gou and the others could only go west from the Sanchuan Valley.

However, the Sanchuan River Valley is blocked by mountains on three sides, and the Yellow River runs across the north, which is almost regarded as four mountains and rivers.

Luoyang City is located in the Sanchuan Valley.Surrounded by mountains, forming dangerous obstacles; rivers flow up and down, which can be connected with the outside world.

Most of the passes around Luoyang are also built according to the dangers of mountains and rivers in the three river valleys: Tongguan blocks the west, and the danger of Xiaohan; Between Songshan Mountain and Xiong'er Mountain, the channel of Yihe River Valley is blocked; Mengjin blocks its north and chokes the ferry of the Yellow River; Guangcheng Pass controls the passage through the Ru River Valley, and Zhiyuan Pass controls the passage from the direction of Yinghe River.

Therefore, the Sanchuan River Valley is an important passage between the east and the west, and its status is particularly important in the relationship between the east and the west. If Zhao Gou and the others want to go west, they must open up this important passage.

In fact, Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, and Wang Xiang were defeated by Wu Lin, Zhai Xing, and Zhai Jin when they were fighting this important channel.

Now, Fan Ne and the others have completely failed, and it is Zhao Gou's turn to go up.

In Zhao Gou's view, this is no longer a question of strategy, but a question of life and death.

Under the threat of death, Zhao Gou changed his previous cowardly and weak image. He restrained the remnants of Fan Ne, Zhao Ye, and Wang Xiang, and personally led the Generalissimo's Mansion to advance to the Luoyang Military Region.

It is worth mentioning that Zongze, who had experienced the last big defeat, rode alone to the hilltop of Wang Shan, who was originally active in Puzhou and had a crowd of 10 horses, and then persuaded Wang Shan to join the Zhao Song Dynasty .

In addition, after withdrawing to the west, Zongze used his three-inch tongue to surrender Yang Jinbu, a hornless bull with a crowd of 30 horses who was originally active near Luoyang.

Since then, Zongze has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and he claims to have a million soldiers, and the army's voice is loud.

Zhao Gou and Zong Ze joined forces to charge the Qian army in the Luoyang area.

Due to the huge difference in the strength of the two sides, Wu Lin, Zhai Xing, and Zhai Jin were exhausted and had to ask Li Cun for help.

Li Cun knew that this was the dying struggle of the Zhao Song Dynasty, or even a dying counterattack, which must be taken seriously.

Therefore, Li Cun was extremely daring and only left [-] pro-armies to guard the Gyeonggi area, and sent all the rest to Zhao Li, and asked him to take him to the Luoyang area, preparing for the final decisive battle with the Zhao Song Dynasty.

But at this moment, Du Chong suggested to Zhao Gou: Dig the Yellow River to prevent reinforcements from the Gan army.

Du Chong is a man who likes fame and fame. He is cruel by nature and loves to kill, but he lacks strategy.

During the reign of Shaosheng, Du Chong passed the Jinshi examination and was promoted to Kao Gonglang and Guanglu Shaoqing several times, and later became the magistrate of Cangzhou.

In the early years of Jingkang, Zhao Huanjia appointed Du Chong as the editor of Jiyingdian, and was reinstated as the magistrate of Cangzhou.

At that time, when Li Cun attacked the Song Dynasty, many people came from Yandi to live in Cangzhou. Du Chong worried that they were the internal support of the Daqian Dynasty, so he killed them all, regardless of men, women, or children.

Not long ago, Du Chong served as the stay-at-home of the Daming Mansion, and he boasted that "a handsome minister should not sit on a plan, but should take it as a matter of risk."

But as soon as Zhao Ding and Wang Yan arrived at Daming Mansion, Du Chong was beaten away by Wang Yan.

Later, Du Chong moved to Zhao Gou's Mansion of the Generalissimo of the Tianxia Bingma.

Now, Du Chong jumped out and gave Zhao Gou the poisonous trick of digging up the Yellow River.

Who would have thought that Zhao Gou, who was so red-eyed at the thought of running for his life, not only didn't think Du Chong's plan was sinister, but also thought it was a life-saving plan, and immediately sent someone to break the Yellow River embankment, pour the Yellow River water into Sishui, and Entering the Huai River from the Sishui blocked the necessary passage for the reinforcements of the Gan army.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Gou appointed Zong Ze as the commander-in-chief to storm the various passes and fortresses in Luoyang.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wu Lin, Zhai Xing, and Zhai Jin came to the front line to command in person and fought a decisive battle with the Song army.

Yang Jin, who had just joined the Zhao Song Dynasty, wanted to show himself well in the Zhao Song Dynasty, so he took the lead in storming the defense area that Zhai Jin was in charge of.

How can Zhai Jin be afraid of a bandit? !

It happened that Yang Jin sent hundreds of cavalry across the water to attack Zhai Jin's camp. Zhai Jin took him to attack halfway, chased Yang Jin for dozens of miles, and destroyed four of Yang Jin's camps. , Zhai Jin fell into the trench and was killed by Yang Jin.

Zhai Jin was the number one general of the Dagan Dynasty in the Luoyang Theater (Although Zhai Xing was his elder brother, his ability was not inferior to that of Di Jin, but because it was Zhai Jin who voted for the Dagan Dynasty first, Zhai Jin had always been the capital commander of the Luoyang Theater. Although Wu Lin served as the commander-in-chief of the Hedong theater, but because Wu Lin later reinforced the Luoyang theater, Zhai Jin was actually the main event in the Luoyang theater. The key point is that everyone in the Luoyang theater has identified young Xianggong Zhai as The main general of the Luoyang theater), therefore, the death of Zhai Jin dealt a huge blow to the Luoyang theater.

Song Jun took this opportunity to rush past Zhai Jin's defense area, and then passed through the pass and killed all the way to Tongguan.

After Fan Zhixu, who was guarding Tongguan, learned of this, he personally led an army of [-] troops out of the pass, and escorted Zhao Gou and the others into Shaanxi.

By the time Zhao Li led the reinforcements to the Luoyang battlefield around the flooded river, it was too late—by this time, even the Zongze tribe in the rear had retreated to the west of Tongguan.

After receiving the report from the front line, Li Cun, who hadn't lost his temper for many years, kicked the dragon case two feet away.

But none of this made Li Cun vent his endless anger!
Li Cun immediately turned around and returned to the harem, and then went to Ruimo hall.

After harming Wei Shi, Xing Bingyi, Tian Chunluo, Jiang Zuimei and all the other women in Zhao Gou Palace, Li Cun finally let go of his endless anger.

but--

Afterwards, Li Cun regretted it very much!

It was Zhao Gou who provoked him, not these innocent women, but it was too wrong for him to take his anger out on these innocent women.

Moreover, Xing Bingyi...

After thinking about it, Li Cunfeng, Wei Shi and Xing Bingyi were Jieyu, even Tian Chunluo and Jiang Zuimei were rewarded as beauties, which made them rise a little faster than other women.

This is Li Cun's compensation to them.

But then again, although Li Cun reflected on it, Li Cun still couldn't hold back and slept in Ruimo Hall for three nights.

It can be seen from this that Li Cun has indeed figured out the truth, but he can't control his desire to take revenge on Zhao Gou.

Li Cun made a decree to posthumously present Zhai Jin as Taiwei and Jiedu envoy of the Guanghua Army, and appointed Zhai Xing as the acting capital of the Luoyang Military Region, and rewarded [-] Zhai family children in succession.

In addition, Li Cun took Wu Lin and Zhao Li's failure to rescue them as an excuse, and demoted each of them to one level, allowing them to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds, break through Tongguan, march westward, and regain Shaanxi Sixth Road.

Who would have thought that as soon as Li Cun issued this order, Li Gang would go up to play, saying that Yan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang had officially started knocking at the pass. Among them, Wanyan Zongwang's troops who attacked Songting Pass, to be precise, the Koryo army under them were quite aggressive. Vicious, rushed to the pass several times.

The good news is that so far, both Songting Pass and Yehu Ridge have been defended very firmly, and it is not so easy for the Jin people to break into the pass.

The bad news is that the Jinren didn't seem to be feinting, but they might really want to get to the pass.

Li Gang and Li Cun requested to send a support army as a reserve team, just in case.

As a last resort, Li Cun could only transfer Yang Zaixing and Yao Xing's troops out to go north.

But the house leak happened to rain all night, and the boat was late and caught the headwind.

At this time, places in southeastern Henan, southwestern Shandong, Anhui, and northern Jiangsu all reported to the imperial court that their lands were hit by severe floods.

The Ministry of Household Statistics hastily calculated that in these areas, more than 20 people were drowned, and the number of deaths caused by displacement and plague was several times that. Returnable, become a refugee.

After Tang Ke learned about this, he also wrote a memorial to Li Cun, reminding Li Cun: "The river broke through the Yellow River, and then diverted to the north. Otherwise, if things go on like this, the terrain on both sides of the strait will be higher in the north and lower in the south. Once the south embankment breaks, the water will be violent and invade the state and force the city. When the flood season arrives, the disaster will be more severe and the losses will be greater. Moreover, the North River of the Yellow River and the north flooding, If it merges with the Haihe River, the disasters of the two rivers will superimpose; if the Yellow River flows southward, and the Yellow River and Huaihe River merge, the two river basins will probably be destroyed."

Li Cun didn't quite understand what Tang Ke said, but he understood clearly that the Yellow River had to be harnessed as soon as possible, otherwise he would be in big trouble when the flood season came.

To be honest, Li Cunzhen was unwilling to manage the broken Yellow River.

Song Renzong, Song Shenzong, and Song Zhezong, the three emperors of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, all diverted the course of the Yellow River according to Li Chui's "Guiding River Xingsheng Book", which caused large areas such as Shandong, Jiangsu, and Henan to become flooded areas. displaced.

In order to clean up this mess, the Zhao Song Dynasty had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources every year to manage the Yellow River and provide disaster relief.

This directly increased the already heavy financial burden of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

It can be said that the fury of the Yellow River triggered by the "Three Changes Back to the River" in history directly destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Kingdom of Jin took over the Yellow River Basin.

In the face of the depression of Hebei and the flood-ravaged Yellow River, the Jin people are also extremely big-headed.

Let's put it this way, this hot potato caused the Jin Dynasty government to invest a lot of manpower and material resources every year. In the decades from Jin Shizong to Jin Zhangzong, the Jin Dynasty encountered countless Yellow River floods, and every time the Yellow River flooded caused the Jin Dynasty government to be devastated.

It was not until the end of the Jin Dynasty that the problem of the Yellow River was resolved to some extent.

According to historical records, the Kingdom of Jin sent 870 million civilians to solve the Yellow River problem.

You know, the total population of the Kingdom of Jin at that time was only 600 million.

This is almost equivalent to all the middle-aged manpower of the Kingdom of Jin fighting against the Yellow River.

Later, Mongolia rose in the grasslands.

Soon, Mongolia went south, and the Jin Dynasty perished.

There are many factors that led to the demise of the Jin Dynasty, but the Yellow River issue is undoubtedly one of the important factors.

From this, it can also be said that Li Chui's Yellow River diversion plan avenged the Northern Song Dynasty for destroying the country.

After the Yuan Dynasty replaced the Jin Dynasty to rule the Yellow River, this problem remained unresolved.

From the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty to its demise, the problem of the Yellow River has always been the number one problem that plagued the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River flooded, and Emperor Yuan Shun forcibly recruited millions of peasants to control the Yellow River.

This directly led to the peasant uprising.

That is the so-called "Mo Daoshi has one eye, stirring up rebellion in the Yellow River".

Yuan Dynasty died.

It has been more than 300 years since Li Chui published "Guohe Xingsheng Book" to the end of Yuan Dynasty.

During these 300 years, the Yellow River destroyed the Northern Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties.

This is absolutely a veritable "artifact of destroying the country"!
Faced with such a fierce "artifact of destroying the country", he is stronger than Li Cun, and he is unwilling to provoke, or even dare to provoke - Li Cun is really afraid that the Yellow River will destroy his own great dynasty.

However, in the 33 years since the Yellow River was diverted, there have been 55 years of overflow, a total of [-] times, and an average flood every [-] years.

And this is the data after governance.

Otherwise, the Yellow River will definitely occur every year, and several times a year.

This is really intolerable for Li Cun not to govern.

What's more, that idiot Zhao Gou broke the embankment of the Yellow River, making the problem of the Yellow River even more serious.

There was no other way, Li Cun could only squeeze out one word from between his teeth: cure!

Afterwards, Li Cun issued an imperial decree, appointing Tang Ke as the general manager of river governance, fully responsible for recruiting refugees with work relief, mobilizing half of the financial and manpower of the Daqian Dynasty, and rationally governing the Yellow River...

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