Qian Song

Chapter 347 The Great Battle (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)

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Back then, after the peace talks between the Qian and Song Dynasties, the Song Army was mainly divided into three parts, either actively or passively:
The first part is the soldiers and horses in the eastern part of Shaanxi led by Zong Ze.

This group of people used to be the largest. In its heyday, it claimed to have millions, but in fact there were three to four million.

However, after Zongze's death and Du Chong took over Zongze's position, the strength of this part of the people, those who were wiped out, those who voted for the Dagan Dynasty, and those who voted for the Dagan Dynasty, were far inferior to those of Zongze's period. up.

The second part is the Shaanxi Sixth Route Army, which is the Western Army that the Zhao and Song Dynasties have always regarded as the cornerstone.

The six western armies were deployed on Fuyan Road, Huanqing Road, Qinfeng Road, Jingyuan Road, Xihe Road and Yongxing Army Road.

The third part is the soldiers and horses of the Generalissimo's Mansion, that is, the soldiers and horses led by generals such as Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi, including the soldiers and horses of the imperial battalion led by generals such as Wang Yuan, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan.

This part of the troops is mainly deployed in various important places in Xingyuan Mansion and Shu, as well as countering rebellion in Shu.

It was this third group of people who went to rescue Xingyuan Mansion.

At this time, the third group suffered heavy casualties and was almost defeated by generals such as Li Yanxian and Sun Sandai, let alone for the time being.

Let's talk about the second part of the troops first, that is, the Shaanxi Sixth Route West Army.

After so many years of war, the Shaanxi Sixth Route Western Army, which was originally relatively balanced in strength, now has a big gap in strength-some have grown stronger by relying on the opportunities created by the war, and some have almost survived in name only because of the war.

Let’s not talk about the weak Western Army for the time being, but only talk about the strongest Western Army today—Jingyuan Army.

Xi Gong was the appeasement envoy of Jingyuan Road.

But at this time, the Jingyuan Road Economic and Strategic Appeasement Department is actually in charge of the military power, and it is Qu Duan, who is under Xi Gong's command.

The reason why Qu Duan became stronger and bigger was mainly because Qu Duan's older brother, Qu Qi, died in the hands of Li Cun, and he had a great feud with Li Cun. Therefore, Zhao Gou believed that Qu Duan was very reliable, and he attached great importance to Qu Duan.

With the support of Zhao Gou, Qu Duan took advantage of the gap between the wars to recruit refugees and defeat soldiers in Jingyuan, expand the army and train troops, and developed a strong force.

To be fair, in Quduan's jurisdiction, the social order is stable, and all passers-by can get food and grass supplies from the army's rabbit fee. This has allowed Quduan to accumulate a large amount of primitive capital, and gradually emptied the talented Xi Gong.

Later, after the Qian and Song Dynasties negotiated peace and the Qian army withdrew from Shaanxi, Qu Duan seized the opportunity to lead his army into Qinzhou.

Qu Duan was not the only one who seized the opportunity, Liu Xiliang and Wang Zeren also led their troops into Fengxiang and Chang'an, occupying one side each.

Soon, Liu Xiliang expelled Fengxiang's rebels from Fengxiang.

Liu Xiliang had nowhere to go, so he had to seek refuge in Qu Duan.

Unexpectedly, Qu Duan killed Liu Xiliang and annexed his subordinates.

At this time, Wang Zeren was also expelled from Chang'an by Guo Yan, the newly appointed Yongxing Army's economic strategy appeasement envoy of the Western Song Dynasty.

Qu Duan seized the opportunity and annexed Wang Zeren's subordinates.

As a result, Qu Duan has nearly 10 horses and dominates Shaanxi.

In order to unify the military administration in Shaanxi, the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty appointed Wang Shu to control the Sixth Route Army in Shaanxi.

However, Wang Shu's qualifications are too low to convince the public. The veteran economical appeasement envoys Wang Si, Xi Gong and others don't pay attention to Wang Shu, and they don't obey Wang Shu's command.

Wang Shu thought to himself, he might not be able to deal with those old guys, so how about trying to win over the newcomers to the head office?

Therefore, Wang Shu recommended Qu Duan as the training envoy of the Jizhou regiment, as the capital commander of his temperance department.

However, Qu Duan didn't appreciate it, and didn't listen to Wang Shu's order.

In fact, the grievances between Qu Duan and Wang Shu have a long history.

At the beginning, before the Qian army withdrew from Shaanxi, Li Yanxian led several other rebels to accept Wang Shu's command in order to resist Qian.

This made Qu Duan unhappy, because Qu Duan always thought that Li Yanxian and other rebels would join him, but who would have thought that Li Yanxian and other rebels would join Wang Shu.

Therefore, after the peace of the Qian Song Dynasty was negotiated, Qu Duan issued an announcement saying that the peace of the Qian Song Dynasty had been negotiated, all the Qian troops had crossed the river and returned to the country, and the fighting had stopped, so don't delay the farming season. All were dismissed, and the vigorous anti-cadre activities of the people were forcibly suppressed.

As a result, the people along the Yanyan Road were frightened and uneasy, fearing that the Gan army would launch an attack again after autumn, so they migrated one after another, making the huge Yanyan Road exist in name only, and even making people in Shaanxi panic.

After Zong Ze died of hatred, Du Chong took over the defense area in the eastern part of Shaanxi. Because the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty did not support the anti-Qian struggle of the people in Lianghe, the pro-Song armed forces in Hedong and Hebei were wiped out by the Qian army. The surrender of the Dagan Dynasty, the Dagan Dynasty no longer has to worry about the future.

The key point is that Zhao Gou made the Miao Liu Mutiny again.

Li Cun resolutely tore up the peace treaty between the Qian and Song Dynasties, and ordered Chen Kuutong, Li Yanxian and others to rebel against Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and other Song army soldiers who participated in the mutiny, and then occupied Lin'an City.

At the same time, Li Cun ordered Liu Kai to lead the [-] troops hastily mobilized by the Daqian Dynasty to immediately attack the Song Dynasty westward.

Knowing that the Gan army was coming again, Du Chong ordered the soldiers of the Song army on the front line to resist by themselves, and immediately led some troops to flee westward.

I don't want to, the Wu Desi, the pro-military Duweifu and the Military Intelligence Department of the Dagan Dynasty have already taken advantage of Du Chong's tyranny, arrogance, lack of courage and plan, and lack of reward for meritorious deeds, which disgusted many of Du Chong's subordinates. generals, especially those in border areas.

As soon as the two sides fought, these generals of the Song army who had been instigated to rebel collectively rebelled, and the Song army had no leader. As a result, the Song army was defeated without a fight, and Liu Kai entered Tongguan without any effort. The soldiers and horses suddenly increased to 10,000+.

Liu Kai led these two 10,000+ troops to march westward along the Weishui River steadily and attack Chang'an.

Guo Yan, the economic strategy officer of the Yongxing Army, learned of the news, and immediately abandoned Chang'an City and withdrew from Baoyi Valley.

Chang'an City was once again occupied by the Gan army.

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Wang Shu ordered the various economic strategies to appease and send troops to assemble in the Yaozhou area to form a large corps under the direct command of the Temperance Department to fight a decisive battle with the Qian army.

However, the various economic and strategic appeasement departments did not actively obey Wang Shu's order, and they only dispatched some of their troops to Yaozhou.

After the Song army barely assembled, Qu Duan began to threaten Wang Shu again.

The conflict between Qu Duan and Wang Shu at this time is already very deep, even to the point where it cannot be resolved.

In fact, in order to solve the problem between Qu Duan and Wang Shu, the small court of the Western Song Dynasty appointed Wang Shu to act as the envoy of Shaanxi Zhizhi, and Qu Duan as the envoy of Hedong Jingzhi to separate the two.

However, not long after, Zhao Gou gradually embarked on the road of his ancestors not letting military generals take power, so he followed the opinions of his subordinate officials, issued an edict and appointed Wang Shu to control the Sixth Route Army in Shaanxi, and appointed Qu Duan as the capital commander of the Wang Shu Control Division .

In this way, subject to Wang Shu's twists and turns, it is difficult for rabbits to be indignant.

Therefore, Qu Duan wrote to Zhao Gou to express his intention to become an official.

But before Zhao Gou replied to Qu Duan, Zhao Gou was detained by Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and other soldiers of the Song Army who participated in the mutiny.

Now, Qu Duan is ignoring Wang Shu's orders on the pretext that he has submitted his resignation report to the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty, and that it is inconvenient to command the battle.

Wang Shu was so anxious that he had no other choice, so he simply announced that he would be relieved of the post of governor of Qu Duan's Temperance Department.

Qu Duan saw that Wang Shu was not threatened, but came back hard instead, and regretted that he had lost his military power, so he had to swallow his anger and wrote to Wang Shu, saying that he had changed his mind and was now in Yaozhou, serving in front of the army.

Wang Shu had no choice but to revoke Qu Duan's dismissal.

Unexpectedly, after Qu Duan regained control of the army, he stationed the main force of the Temperance Division in Chunhua, and only sent the Temperance Division to control He Shifan, Huanqing general Liu Renzhong, and Jingyuan general Kou Yi to lead some troops to make a tentative attack south.

In Bagongyuan, the Song Army and the Qian Army encountered each other.

Due to the lack of preparation for the enemy, the Song army was caught off guard, and was easily defeated by the Qian army. He Shifan died in battle, and Liu Renzhong and Kou Yi led their troops back to Huanqing and Jingyuan respectively.

When Liu Kai learned from Wu Desi, the pro-army capital Weidu, and the secret agents of the Military Intelligence Department that Qu Duan was at odds with Wang Shu, that the main force of the Temperance Department was stationed in Chunhua, and that the defense of Yanyan Road was empty, he turned his head and turned to North, attack Yan'an Mansion again.

The army Wang Shu personally commanded was not many, and he could not resist the menacing attack of the Gan army at all, and Yanyan Road was his foundation, so he was reluctant to give up.

Therefore, while Wang Shu dispatched troops and generals to stop the Qian army, he sent more than a dozen officers and the eloquent Jinshi Zhao Chunhua to persuade Qu Duan to send troops to rescue Fu Yan.

But Qu Duan was unmoved, and commanded [-] elite soldiers to station in Chunhua, saying that it would be useless to reinforce Yan Yan, and it would be better to sweep up the lairs of gangsters, attacking what they must save, and forcing the gangsters to retreat.

Therefore, Qu Duan sent his generals to attack Huazhou, while he himself led the army to attack Pucheng.

After Qu Duan's men captured Huazhou, Qu Duan did not attack Pucheng as planned.

After that, the two led their troops to join forces in Xiangle.

Xiangle is in the deep mountains, five hundred miles away from the large army of Qianjun.

Now that the main force of the Temperance Division under the command of Qu Duan avoided the front of the soldiers and left the battlefield, Liu Qi had no scruples.

Soon, under Liu Kai's command, Yan'an Mansion was captured by the Gan army.

After the Gan army captured Yan'an, Liu Qi did not rush westward again. Instead, he ordered the army to reorganize, recharge its energy, reorganize and surrender the army, look for opportunities, and prepare for another battle.

Under Liu Kai's instructions, Liu Kai personally led troops to garrison Yan'an, the deputy commander-in-chief of this battle could be asked to lead troops to Suide, and general Wang Yan led troops to Pucheng.

In this way, the Yanyan Road was completely occupied by the Qian army, and the Yongxing Army Road was controlled by both Qian and Song. The remaining Shaanxi Fourth Road was still controlled by the Song army.

After Li Cun learned of this, he appointed Liu Ziyu, who is both civil and military, as the magistrate of Yanyan Road, and Tang Zhong, who is also capable of civil and military affairs, as the magistrate of Yongxing Junlu, so that they can appease the people of the two roads and resume farming on the two roads as soon as possible. And production.

On the other side, just after the flames of war were temporarily extinguished, Qu Duan used force to blast Wang Shu away, and drove away the original Hedong Jingzhi envoy and Zhifengxiang Mansion.

Then, Qu Duan himself led the army to attack the rebel army led by Zhang Zong who was active in Chang'an, and annexed several other large-scale rebel troops.

From Gan Quduan's unscrupulous expansion of his power, the Jingyuan Army, which was already much stronger than the other five armies in Shaanxi, naturally ranked even higher than the Song Army in Shaanxi.

Applying a jingle at this time to praise Qu Duan is: "There is a lot of literature and martial arts."

Zhang Jun, who was defeated by Li Yanxian and returned home, was extremely worried about Zhao Gou's safety, but Zhang Jun knew very well that if the Qian army was allowed to break through Shaanxi and come to Xingyuan Mansion, then the Zhao Song Dynasty would come to an end. , Moreover, Zhang Jun believed that Shaanxi's strategic position was very important. According to the people at the time, it was: "ZTE should shut itself down and govern Shaanxi".

Shaanxi's strategic position is indeed very important.

It is not only an important military source base for the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty, but also can directly threaten the Hedong and Central Plains regions. The key point is that if the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty loses Shaanxi again, then the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty will only have a small piece of Shu land left. Even if it is not destroyed by the Daqian Dynasty, it will be trapped to death in Shu, and it will never be possible to regain the lost land and become the "Great Song" again.

Therefore, Zhang Jun entrusted all the rescue of Zhao Gou to Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi, and he himself went to Fuping, preparing to lead the Shaanxi Sixth Route Army to defeat the Song Dynasty army led by Liu Kai.

Not long after, Zhang Jun came to Fuping with Zhao Gou's clothes and belt edict, and then called all the generals of Shaanxi here in the name of the small court of the Western Song Dynasty, intending to organize a decisive battle and repel Liu Kai's army in one fell swoop. Attack the army of Song Dynasty.

Du Chong, who also fled to Fuping, also participated in this meeting. At the meeting, he contradicted the public opinion and believed that the existing five-way economic strategy and appeasement department in Shaanxi was not unified in command and the relationship between soldiers was not harmonious. Hold the big battle.If the decisive battle is held reluctantly, if there are some disadvantages, all five parties will lose.It's better to temporarily station in Li, Lang, Xing, and Yangzhou to strengthen Sichuan's defense to stabilize the foundation.If the army comes to fight.It is said that soldiers from the Five Routes will come to help.In this way, even if you fail to win, you will not be defeated.

Du Chong has a lot of problems, but to be fair, what Du Chong said this time is pretty good.

But Du Chong abandoned guarding the eastern part of Shaanxi, causing Tongguan and other dangerous places to be destroyed without attacking, and also more than doubled the original [-] Song Dynasty army at once, and his reputation can be said to have plummeted.

How could Zhang Junxin listen to the advice of Du Chong, who is as good as a wine bag and a rice bag, with great ambition and talent?
Du Chong also noticed Zhang Jun's dissatisfaction with him, so Du Chong himself asked to go to Lizhou Road to fight, but was rejected by Zhang Jun, who wanted Du Chong's nearly [-] troops.

Zhang Jun is going to use a decisive battle to defeat the Gan army and turn the tide. Although he is a bit naive, to be honest, it is not unreasonable.

Yes.

Lin'an City, which was controlled by the Daqian Dynasty, was nailed to the heart of the Western Song Dynasty like a nail.

But as long as Liu Kai's army of attacking the Song Dynasty was repelled, Lin'an City, which was isolated and helpless, would be attacked by the Song Army sooner or later.

Therefore, in Zhang Jun's view, as long as he can defeat the Song Dynasty army led by Liu Kai, all problems can be solved, and he will also be a great hero in the reconstruction of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Of course, this is definitely not easy to achieve. After all, the dry army was originally good at fighting, and now there are 10,000+ rebels who have no integrity to help them fight.

But Zhang Jun is not someone who gives up so easily.

In order to achieve the goal of setting the world in one battle, Zhang Jun felt that he had to gather all the soldiers and horses in Shaanxi.

Therefore, Zhang Jun not only detains the soldiers and horses in Du Chong's hands, but also hits Qu Duan, who has the most soldiers in Shaanxi today.

Based on this purpose, soon after Zhang Jun arrived in Qinzhou, he undertook to build an altar and worship generals, and appointed Qu Duan as the mighty general, Xuanzhou observation envoy, and Sichuan-Shanxi Xuanfu disposition envoy to control Sidu and know Weizhou.

Moreover, Zhang Jun once showed great kindness to Qu Duan.

At the beginning, Qu Duan expanded unscrupulously, and even the Song generals on the roster killed and annexed his soldiers and horses. The small court of the Western Song Dynasty was shocked, and even suspected that Qu Duan had rebellious intentions, so he appointed Qu Duan as the The promotion officer of the Imperial Envoy Division wanted to use this as an excuse to transfer Qu Duan to Shu.

Qu Duan was naturally unwilling and did not dare to leave Shaanxi.

As a result, the situation became even worse. All the ministers in the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty talked a lot, saying that Qu Duan would definitely oppose him, clamoring that Qu Duan must be killed.

Zhao Gou did not support Qu Duan as much as before. Zhao Gou, who had followed the line of emphasizing literature and restraining martial arts, also had doubts about Qu Duan's unscrupulous expansion.

Only Zhang Jun was calm in this matter. He even put the lives of his whole family as a guarantee that Qu Duan would not rebel against the small court of the Western Song Dynasty.

For this reason, the small imperial court of the Western Song Dynasty revoked the order of Tiao Tuan to go to Shu to take up his post.

Qu Duan was very grateful to Zhang Jun for this.

After Zhang Jun opened his mansion in Qinzhou, he regarded Qu Duan as the main military pillar, and Qu Duan also changed his problem of being difficult to control based on his talents, actively supported Zhang Jun, and obeyed Zhang Jun's command.

It is precisely because of the support of the powerful Qu Duan that Zhang Jun was able to change the chaotic state of mutual hatred and mutual support between the Song army in Shaanxi in a short period of time, and started a unified command in Shaanxi.

The decisive battle between the Qian and Song Dynasties also had the foundation...

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