Zheng Lang Shujuan did not arrive in the capital, and Zhao Zhen had already ordered the siege of the Liu family to be loosened.

If you don't understand military affairs, you can't ignore the wisdom of this group of ministers in the capital.

First of all, Jia Changchao said that the Han killed Li Ling's mother and wife, and the tomb could not be returned, and the Han repented, and the first emperor cared for the king and succeeded the loyal family, and the death was useful, and the peace was not known.

The Han Dynasty killed Li Ling, Li Ling could not return to the Han Dynasty, and Pingkong lost a tiger general. Song Zhenzong rewarded Wang Jizhong, Wang Jizhong is still in the Khitan, but plays an important role as a bridge for the two countries to peace.

Then Ren Bu and other courtiers spoke one after another, and what was even more inexplicable was Fu Bi, who had a rich imagination, and said, Ping led troops to help, and did not drown, so that the ministers did not save the reason, and scolded the thief for not eating and dying, and it was appropriate to sympathize with his family.

Dare to love him, he moved the story of Yang Ye over.

Zheng Lang almost went crazy afterwards, the two worked together for a long time, Zheng Lang was not polite, wrote a letter, and criticized Fu Bi fiercely. You are the official of the Wisdom Yuan, and you can give advice, but you must seek truth from facts, and you must not give advice based on imagination.

So Zhao Zhen issued an edict to go to the encirclement of Liu's mansion.

As soon as the siege was lifted in front, Zheng Lang played, Ciping and Yuansun Jiajuan 500 horses, 500 pieces of money, and 500 pieces of cloth. At this time, Zheng Lang had not yet restored the truth of Liu Ping's bloody battle, and first made a small reward as compensation.

Zhao Zhen already vaguely knew more of the truth.

This is the most important leader in China's 5,000-year-old history, not without wisdom, but with a generous and benevolent surname.

Then he issued an edict of guilt.

It is a small note written by Zheng Lang, with only fifteen words on it, Wu Qi sucks pus, and Tang Taizong cries and sacrifices. Your Majesty, you will be guilty of your own crimes.

The two stories I said, there was a soldier with pus on his leg, Wu Qi personally sucked for the soldier, and his mother cried after hearing it, not a good thing, General Wu is like this to my son, once the war starts, my son will fight hard, and he will definitely die.

Li Shimin's expedition to Goryeo was fruitless, and after he came back, he encountered a cold weather, froze to death, and personally cried for the soldiers, and the people did not complain, and the soldiers were even more used by Li Shimin.

In the first battle of Sanchuankou, Fan Yong, Liu Ping, and Li Shibin made a series of command errors, and the court also made mistakes, including Zhao Zhen.

Therefore, Zheng Lang asked Zhao Zhen to take the responsibility, isn't it a crime for himself? If you just admit your mistakes, the people will love them more, the ministers will be more ashamed, and the soldiers will be more moved. An edict will produce many good surnames.

Then Zheng Lang's second and third recitals were presented, and the speed was very fast, far better than the speed in history, and closer to the truth. Zheng Lang's acceleration accelerated a series of events, including Wang Xin.

Huang Dehe's escape, even with many soldiers escaped, and even Liu Ping's son Liu Yisun was also taken out of the battlefield by Huang Dehe's deserters. Huang Dehe fled to Ganquan to plunder the people, there was a defeated army coming, Huang Dehe asked where Liu Shi was, the defeated soldiers said, lost during the war, did not know where, or thought that there were many lost, did not dare to return, has surrendered to the thief.

This is the origin of the original Huang De and Lenovo Pianpian, after listening to Huang De and Daxi, said, Liu Ping's surrender to the thief has been clear, I should report to the court, you and I have made meritorious contributions, I will give you a reward. Surprised, out of the camp threatened Liu Ping to surrender to the thief.

In fact, this soldier escaped from the Chinese army with Huang Dehe when he fled, and then he didn't know anything about the battlefield.

Liu Pingzhai was broken, and escaped from a general named Lu Mi, attached to Huang Dehe, saying that he saw Liu Ping being caught by Li Yuanhao, this is his guess, with Lu Mi's force, he can see that Liu Ping was caught, and he is also near Liu Ping, how can he kill it? But Huang Dehe was more pleased, rewarded Lu Mi heavily, and said that the thief broke through the big array with a fresh army, and the minister and Liu Ping blocked the Xishan as a village, and then engaged in the battle, and defeated the thief, and the ministers were unyielding, and they fought hard.

There is a conflict between the second false accusation and the first false accusation, but Huang Dehe doesn't care, what I said, I only said that Liu Ping surrendered, and I didn't listen to my persuasion, so I led the troops to kill it, and I didn't say anything about being a village in Xishan. At this time, Zheng Lang had already left Kaifeng and did not know.

If Zheng Lang hadn't come to the northwest, something would have happened, not only Lu Mi, but also Liu Ping's subordinates would have killed Wang Xin. He saw Liu Ping being caught with his own eyes, but he was evil Liu Ping was arrested, which is a shame. So the truth has not been told.

After escaping to Yanzhou, Fan Yong sent him to Dunzhou, Huang Dehe and Zhang Zongzhi asked Liu Ping's whereabouts, Wang Xin hated his execution, so he said that Li Yuanhao sent Li Jinming to make peace, Liu Ping asked Li Kang to answer, Yuanhao asked Liu Ping to interview in person, Liu Ping rode a horse into the thief camp, and the servants were not allowed to enter.

He is not malicious, think about it, a dignified No. 2 governor of Yanyan Road was arrested during the war, and the court lost a lot of face. This is alone, helplessly caught.

Huang Dehe said, I have already said that Liu Ping will surrender to the thief, and the imperial court will immediately make a prison, give you a silver hairpin, you can escape.

At this time, Liu Ping's two subordinates had already escaped from Jinmingzhai, and Fan Yong did not react, only knowing that Wang Xin had lied and sent someone to detain Wang Xin. It will be cold, Wang Xin wrote to Liu Yisun and said, I am from the captain, and it is not good to fight with the thief, and the captain will make peace with the thief in order to enter the thief safely, and his life and death are unknown. Today, some people say that the captain surrendered to the thief, and the belief should be made clear by death. Today's clothes have been plundered by thieves, and there is little help, so I should try my best to protect the captain's family.

It is more positive to have a positive image of being captured alive for the sake of the soldiers, otherwise Liu Ping's family is likely to be beheaded by the imperial court.

Wen Yanbo and Pang Ji said that Liu Ping was killed, and the court did not ask Wang Xin again. After all, Wang Xin's fame was not obvious at that time, and Yanzhou had to seriously investigate it, it was very troublesome, and it was better to have more than one thing. Wang Xin saw that the court said that Liu Ping had died, and the Western Xia people did not publicize Liu Ping's arrest, so Wang Xin hid it. A few years later, it was rumored that Liu Ping had also fallen into the hands of thieves, and at that time Wang Xin was dead and had made great achievements, so the court did not ask him if he had lied.

However, because of this incident, Wang Xin himself was angry, and after knowing his shame, he became more courageous, and learned the lesson of Liu Ping and became a famous general of the Song Dynasty.

When Zheng Lang arrived, there were not so many stories, but when Wang Xin arrived in Yanzhou and heard about Huang Dehe, he immediately wrote a book, still saying that Liu Ping made peace, but confirmed that Huang Dehe was false.

It cannot be confirmed whether Wang Xin's words are true or false, but Huang Dehe must have been falsely accused, and Zhao Zhen was angry and ordered Zheng Lang to send someone to immediately escort Huang Dehe and Lu Mi to the capital.

The edict did not reach Mikawaguchi.

Xia Shouyun took the initiative to invite to the northwest, and ordered the Xuanhui Southern Court to make the head of the Shaanxi Mabu Army and the governor of the border to appease the margin, and his son Xia Sui in the northwest was the deputy envoy to the margin.

The edict of the Ming Dynasty allowed Zheng Lang to worship the martyrs on behalf of the Son of Heaven at the burial place of Sanchuankou, compassionate the families of the martyrs, and give Liu Ping, Guo Zunshi, Yuansun and other sacrificial generals and grandchildren.

But I didn't expect another battle to take place at Mikawaguchi.

……

Lu Shouqin said: "Retreat to Yanzhou City." ”

The beachhead of Huanglongchuan is very close to Yanzhou, less than ten miles away.

Zheng Lang ignored him and asked the spy, "How many enemies are there, and how far is it from here?" ”

"There are about three or four thousand of them, and it's only thirty miles from here."

"Fight." Zheng Lang said.

He was unwilling to evacuate, although Wulongchuan was very close to Yanzhou City, but most of the nearly 3,000 men and horses were infantry, and under Cangzhong, they might not be able to enter the city one by one.

He also felt strange in his heart, it seemed that Yuan Hao in history had quickly returned to the country since Jin Mingzhai left, preparing to launch the next attack.

Fan Yong was afraid that something would happen to him, and Su Keqing was also afraid that something would happen to him, while asking Liu Ping the truth, Su Keqing led a few capable pawns to ride out of Tumen, and he didn't have the ability to go deep into Hengshan to investigate, but he heard some news in Tumen.

After Yuan Hao withdrew from Tumen, he settled the captive people, and gradually disbanded the army from Tumen. After all, with so many soldiers together, a lot of grain and grass will be wasted in just one day, as Fan Yong wrote in the fold, resistant to hunger and cold?

It is man who must eat, and horse who must eat grass.

Where did this army come from?

Li Comber said: "Or where to meet the enemy? ”

pointed to Liu Ping's camps, which were in tatters, but they played some roles, and they were condescending.

"Hugh said!" Zheng Lang shouted.

It seems that there are many benefits, there is a condescending trend, the Western Xia people are all cavalry, and they are even better at the plain of Wulongchuan, but this is not the case, under the new defeat, the morale has not recovered, once withdrawn on the low mountain, it may really be defeated.

Li Combo didn't dare to speak.

Zheng Lang said: "Call Di Qing and Yang Wenguang. ”

This is his biggest reliance, the two of them have not fully grown up, otherwise Zheng Lang would like to make dumplings with the three thousand or four enemy troops who came here.

Everyone didn't know Zheng Lang's thoughts, let alone look down on Di Qing and Yang Wenguang, and when they saw Zheng Lang calm, they all thought in their hearts, so bold.

Di Qing and Yang Wenguang brought them over, and Zheng Lang said: "There is an enemy army of about three or four thousand people, coming straight to our side, and now it is only twenty or thirty miles away from here, what do you think?" ”

"Is it really only three or four thousand?" Di Qing asked the spy.

"I don't count the exact number, but it won't exceed four thousand."

Di Qing frowned and thought for a while and said: "Governor Zheng, the last general thought that the enemy must have heard that the prefect came to Wulongchuan, and there were only three hundred people around him, and Jinmingzhai had been chiseled through, so he sent this army to take Governor Zheng away." ”

Let him really guess it.

Yuan Hao is going back, and he can't afford to consume it.

However, the bloody battle of Liu Ping's department made Yuan Hao feel anxious, afraid that the army of the Song Dynasty would arrive and take revenge on the Western Xia, so he left the Western Xia Yong general Yeli Wangrong in Hengshan to monitor the movements of Yanzhou.

At this time, from Jinmingzhai to Tumen is like a huge black hole, Su Keqing can dig out the door to find out the news, and the spies of Western Xia can also go to the vicinity of Yanzhou to inquire about the news. So he heard that Zheng Lang led 300 troops to inquire about the truth of Sanchuankou in Wulongchuan.

Yeli Wangrong was not interested, the battle had already reached its goal, and there was no need to risk it for a Song Dynasty prefect.

But there was another person in the army, whose eyes lit up after hearing about it, and advocated Zheng Lang's ability and status in the Song Dynasty.

After thinking about it again, Yeli Wangrong didn't seem to have many troops in Yanzhou anyway, and besides, the middle road was opened, so he could quickly lead his troops to Wulongchuan, capture the people and then return to the Hengshan base camp. So he personally led 3,500 men and horses, and pounced on them with lightning speed.

The truth Di Qing is not God, he must not think of it.

can only analyze the facts, and said: "Su Dutou (Su Keqing was re-awarded the post of capital head) has already found out the news of the disbandment of the Western Xia army, and at this time, the army near Yanzhou can only protect itself, and Yuan Hao will not send reinforcements like the last time, pretending to be maze." If the last general guessed correctly, it may be stationed in Hengshan I heard that the Zheng Governor's Mansion only led 300 people here, and if he wanted to sneak attack the meritorious service, the number would not be too many. ”

Zheng Lang nodded.

Di Qing said again: "Send someone to notify the security army, urgently close the city gate, and do a good job of defending against the enemy." ”

Most of the security army let Shi Yuansun take it away, and Di Qing himself brought two hundred people to Sanchuankou, at this time the security army had no soldiers, and there were no generals, if the enemy was not only this way, but divided into several roads, one of which rushed to the security army. As soon as the security army is lost, even the gate of Gyeongju will be open to Western Xia, and the northwest may be immediately eroded.

"Okay," Zheng Lang immediately ordered the scout to follow his orders to the security army.

The speed should be fast, thirty miles, if it is a marching army, it will take more than an hour, even if it is trotting, it will take an hour, but the cavalry may not be able to pounce on it in an hour.

"Then use the fast horse to quickly summon General Heng and General Guo Yanzhen to quickly divide troops into Yanzhou, and General Shao Yuanji and General Gao Yande quickly send troops to Baoan City to prevent losses."

Originally, there were few soldiers in Yanzhou, but Fan Yong came to Wulongchuan and brought a few hundred people over, increasing the number of troops in Wulongchuan to almost 3,000 people, but the number of troops in Yanzhou City was even less.

Wulongchuan is about to meet the battle, and the troops cannot be divided, so the troops must be divided from him to prevent Yanzhou and the security army from losing.

The division is in Qingjian City, Qingjian City is forced to do so, it is two hundred miles away from Yanzhou City, and the army will not be able to reach it for a while and a half.

The other three are unbroken heavy villages in the northeast and northwest of Yanzhou.

Yuan Hao broke the Jinming Village, and then attacked Anyuan, Saimen and Yongping Village.

Guo Yanzhen, the owner of Yongping Village, and Wang Jiyuan, the prisoner, wanted to gather troops to hide in the mountains to avoid thieves, and commanded hundreds of people under Shi Jishuai to cover the city gate, and said on the horse: "You want to escape, although you can keep the army, but what about the people and grain stores in the city?" It is said that there is a division to inquire about impeachment, and Ji is the commander and is not exempt from beheading. I will cut down the good fortune before the horse, or I will not let you go with this army. ”

Wang Jiyuan and Wang Yi returned ashamed.

The enemy arrived, besieged the city, Ji led the crowd to refuse to defend and keep Yongping Village. When discussing the meritorious deeds afterwards, Shi Ji said: "Fortunately, if you don't lose the walled city, how dare you talk about meritorious service?" ”

Later, after hearing about Guo Zun's deeds, he was full of admiration and married his daughter to Guo Zun's younger brother Guo Kui.

Of course, Shi Ji didn't know how good Guo Kui was, and he did it unintentionally, but he made his daughter the wife of the deputy prime minister.

The other person took even greater credit.

Yuan Hao's main army rushed to Yanzhou, but attacked Anyuan Yongping Village and other villages, and also divided a lot of troops, among which Anyuan Village was the most extreme, and Yuan Hao also divided the most troops.

broke two doors in a row, Cai Xu, the owner of Anyuan Village, Cao Du, and Wang Yi, who borrowed his post, died in battle. When attacking the third gate, the capital eunuch Shao Yuanjie sent people to refuse to defend the city gate, and then put the soldiers down with ropes from behind, and personally led the soldiers to kill from behind, repelled the Western Xia army, recaptured the two lost gates, and refused to defend for several days. The enemy was again at the mouth of the North Sanchuan, lined up more than ten villages, divided his troops out of the east and west cities and between the two cities, shouted, shot at the defenders on the walled city, and the armies on the city sent arrows and stones to attack the thieves, and the dead were very numerous, so they did not dare to attack.

Gao Yande, the lord of Saimen Village, also defended Saimen Village, but the enemy he faced was small in size and hardly fought.

This is the highlight of Yuan Hao's invasion, so that Fan Yong reported to the court one by one, but the reward has not yet come down.

The strength of Sanzhai is also insufficient, but compared with Sanzhai, the security army is more important, and Yanzhou City is more important than the security army, but Saimen Village (some people regard Saimen Village as Tumen, which is not right, Saimen is a hundred miles north of Fuzheng, and Tumen is more northeast of Saimen) and Anyuan Village are in the northwest of Yanzhou, I don't know if there is a Western Xia army in the rear, and it will be very risky to reach Yanzhou if you want to dig through the central road, just like transferring the Yongpingzhai troops in the northeast to the security army. As for how much risk Sanzhai took to divide the troops, Di Qing was helpless, although it turned out to be a false alarm.

"Okay," Zheng Lang shouted.

In just a moment, Di Qing made proper arrangements, including the deployment of Yanzhou City and the security army. Then he turned his head to look at Yang Wenguang and said, "Commander Yang, what do you think?" ”

"The last general also thinks that he can fight. In the past, the Xia thief Kou security army and Chengping Village, not gramming, there are many reasons, our two army soldiers are brave, although there are many enemies, all ethnic groups are mixed, the army is not even, and the weak army is used as a loss, fold its sharpness, come from a long journey, and the soldiers are tired, so a blow is successful. ”

"Not bad," Zheng Lang bowed.

Su Keqing also said something similar to the disunity of the clans, but Yang Wenguang analyzed it more comprehensively, using the weak brigade as the vanguard, although it doesn't matter if he dies, he is cannon fodder anyway, but it is easy to break his edge, and this style of play is not very clever. Coming from a long distance also seems to be an important factor. He added: "You mean that the enemy wants to sneak attack our army, and in order to avoid our scouts, it may be that yesterday he opened the Tumen Gate and marched in a hurry at night, so when it was near, our scouts heard the news of the enemy's attack?" ”

"Appeasement makes wise, and that's exactly what the last general said, so he can fight. However, but," Yang Wenguang turned his head to look at the soldiers behind him and said, "I'm afraid that their morale will not be raised." ”

The real powerhouse was the two hundred soldiers brought by Di Qing, and although the soldiers in the capital brought by himself were all cavalry, they had never been on the battlefield. Most of them were Liu Ping's subordinates, but all of them were deserters, which was what Yang Wenguang was worried about.

Zheng Lang said: "Don't worry about morale, I'll come, you continue." ”

"If you want to fight, you must first send spies to see if there are any enemies on the left and right and behind them, so as not to fall into an ambush."

"Okay," Zheng Lang sent scouts again.

"To fight, there are two ways of fighting in the end, one is to cross the river, a battle in the east of the river, in case most of the enemy army comes, you can quickly withdraw to Yanzhou City, and you can also respond to Yanzhou City. But the shortcoming, with a way out, the soldier will not fight to the death. Either the decisive battle in the west of the river will become a battle against the water, and if the pacification can improve the morale, the battle will be won. I am afraid that if there is still an enemy coming, if we are full of strength, exhausted by the second drum, and weakened by the third drum, our army will win the first battle, and may lose the second battle. ”

Unlike the New Year, the river is covered with a thick layer of ice, and people and horses are like a flat ground on it, and the river does not become a barrier. At this time, there is still ice on the surface of the river, but it is very thin, not to mention horses, it is very dangerous for people to step on it. This small river will become a small natural moat.

Zheng Langsi took a moment and said: "The national strength of Western Xia is weak, and the army of **10,000 was dispatched in this battle, although a large number of materials were captured, but in order to increase the national strength, many Qiangbo people were taken away, and the captured materials were barely enough to supply the supply of its people at most, and could not last. I guess most of the Western Xia army must have withdrawn. Our army has suffered a heavy blow, and this battle is not allowed to be defeated, so I think how about meeting the enemy here? ”

"Okay."

are all guessing, Western Xia has no rear army, and it is best to meet it here.

But with the rear army, facing the battle here, the army behind the Western Xia is killing again, and it is impossible to draw out a reinforcement around, so there will be serious mistakes. Not only Zheng Lang, but also several important officials in Yanzhou, all of them are in danger.

Thinking of this, Zheng Lang said, "Fan Xianggong, you should go to Yanzhou immediately." ”

"This, this ......"

"Go!" Zheng Lang shouted.

Fan Yong was frightened by him and hurriedly left with several Yanzhou officials.

Zheng Lang didn't count on them, what these people were doing here, but they got in the way.

Then the whole army was ordered to assemble, and the enemy was soon coming, and to encourage morale, and when the encouragement was over, it was necessary to prepare to meet the enemy.

Nearly 3,000 soldiers quickly gathered, and the wind became stronger.