Han Jin still didn't believe it: "How can Ali Gu be reversed?" ”

Wang Ju corrected: "Han Gong, does Tubo belong to our Great Song Dynasty? ”

The name is that Tubo is subservient to the Song Dynasty, but don't take it seriously, Western Xia also submitted to the Song Dynasty.

"It doesn't belong to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, how can it be reversed? And who is Ali Gu? ”

"The Uighurs also had enmity with the Tanguts."

"But is there a feud?"

Tubo has a feud with the party talents, and has formed a grudge since the Tang Dynasty, so when Mu Zheng was confused, he did not dare to openly unite with the Western Xia. How much hatred did the Uighurs have with the Tangut? Isn't it that the Western Xia took the Ganzhou Uighurs, that's it, the Ganzhou Uighurs didn't protest, and it was Ali Gu.

Han Zhen finally believed it.

"Taibao, either we stop the battle of Mingsha City."

"Han Gong, it's not proper," Wang Ju shook his head, thought for a while and then said: "The battle of Mingsha City must be carried out, this is a great opportunity, our dynasty has recovered to its peak in terms of economy and morale, no less than when Wang Shaoping destroyed the Xihe." However, the politics of the Western Xia were chaotic, and the economy was the weakest time, if the Western Xia was not destroyed at this time, there would never be a time to destroy the Western Xia in the future. The more Ali turned against him, the more this battle had to be fought to destroy the enemy to the greatest extent. Otherwise, it will be more difficult to destroy the summer in the future. ”

Han Jin was speechless.

Not only is there this reason that Wang Ju said, but there are also other reasons.

For example, Wang Ju is in the court, which is a key reason.

Losing Wang Ju, who can be sure to destroy Western Xia.

In order to extinguish the summer, in the past few years, especially this spring, countless grains and grasses have been transported to Shaanxi Road.

Exactly those tens of thousands of prisoners of war, if this battle is won. A large number of prisoners of war were also obtained, and these prisoners of war alone reduced the burden on the people of Shaanxi Road.

If a normal laborer is allowed to undertake the task of transportation regardless of farm work, the imperial court will have to pay at least thirty yuan a year. The court can afford this money. However, in that case, many farmlands on Shaanxi Road have been barren together, and it will be difficult to transport grain from the Central Plains to feed the people of Shaanxi Road? Think about the cost of transporting a stone of grain to Shaanxi Road. The same stone of grain, purchased locally from Shaanxi Road, may only be equivalent to one-tenth of the cost of shipping from the Central Plains or the South!

But now with these prisoners of war, they can transport grain to various parts of the Shaanxi Road without paying any salary, and after the autumn leisure. If a few more people are mobilized, the grain and grass can be transported to the forts at the forefront.

So it could be a war that wasn't too tiring.

But after this village, there is no more such a shop.

Wang Ju thought about it and immediately wrote a letter, informing Miao Zhu, Wang Wenyu and Zhang Qi of his guesses respectively.

At the same time, another appointment was issued.

Let Wang Guangzu, Wang En, Liu Fa, Guo Jingxiu, and Jia Yan serve as the lords of Ganquan Fort, Dingxi City, Anxi City, Pingxi Village, and Gonggu Fort respectively.

He also ordered Wang Wenyu and Li Xian. If the Western Xia people went south from Quwu Mountain, there would be some small forts built by Li Xian in front of these forts. But they all gave up, let the enemy go straight in, and put them in Dingxi Xia Ping Xizhai to fight.

The deeper they went, the more they divided the forces of Western Xia, and they didn't have time to rescue Mingsha City. If they returned, the battle of Mingsha City over there would probably be over. It will also give Zhang Kai a chance to further annihilate the enemy.

How to do it, Wang Ju also didn't have time to think about it, it was the most correct thing to do to notify the front line as soon as possible, but he also ordered Wang Wenyu and Li Xian to obey Zhang Qi's command. So as not to fight on their own.

"The five generals will take the five generals and soldiers away, and the troops on Jingyuan Road will be sufficient?" Han Jin was worried again.

After all, this battle was deep into Mingsha City, even if Western Xia sent a large number of troops to Nanhuizhou, Lingzhou, Xingqing Mansion and Helan Mountain, there were still a large number of garrisons.

"Han Gong, where is the front line of Jingyuan Road?"

"Xiao Guan?"

"What roads did Zhang Zhifu build last year?"

"You mean the Huanqing Road troops?"

"No matter what the troops are, are they Song soldiers or not?"

So Wang Ju wrote another order to the seed master Dao, and also ordered that before and after the battle of Mingsha City, the troops of Qinglu for the time being must also be controlled by Zhang Qi and obey Zhang Qi's dispatch arrangements.

These orders were all delivered to the front-line generals with fast feet.

Wang Ju called another hall official and said, "You go and invite Zhang Xianggong, Xu Shilang and Xiong Shilang." ”

That is, Zhang Dan, Xu Jiang and Kumamoto.

The top ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, these three people understand military affairs, and if they are involved in military affairs, they must also ask the generals to come over to discuss.

After a while, the three of them arrived, and Wang Ju briefly explained the situation.

Several people frowned, in fact, the current Huangzhou Tubo is not terrible, and the Western Xia is not terrible, if you deal with any of them unilaterally, there is no big problem, but in the face of two at the same time, they all feel a headache.

"Let's go see the official's house." Wang Ju said.

The so-called three-province system, the book decision-making, the door review, the implementation of the six departments of the book, the book has the greatest power, can make decisions on all military affairs in the country, but not to say one, first of all, at least two passes, the first pass, the real military affairs must be notified to the emperor, the emperor can approve, the second pass is the door to deliberate. This is actually a balance of power and a prevention of power, that is, how to reasonably divide power as Wang Ju said.

But the Tang Dynasty kept changing, and as a result, it changed and fell into it.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a strange system of poor officials, and the result was even worse, perhaps the ministers could not control the country anymore, but the layers of overhead formed a serious redundant official and redundant government.

This is why there is the Yuanfeng reform, but compared with the three-province system of the Tang Dynasty, the three-province system after the Yuanfeng reform is more restrictive, such as the review of this pass, the two systems still exist. For example, the power of military deliberation, in addition to the Chinese book and the military department, also has the same knowledge of the Privy Council. At the same time, the military power is still a three-point system, but the decision-making and troop transfer power has changed from the original Xifu to three pieces, the Zhongshu, the Ministry of War and the Tongzhi Privy Council, and the three ya, as well as the division of troops by local officials.

Or someone asked, what about Cai Jing and Qin Hui.

Cai Jing and Qin Hui were extremely powerful for a while, but that was the right given to them by Zhao Ji and Zhao Gou. Therefore, as soon as Song Qinzong came up, he took down Cai Jing, did Cai Jing dare to rebel?

Wang Ju wants power and trust, not to destroy this system, but to ask Zhao Ji not to stuff some of Wang Ju's political enemies into the court to engage in checks and balances like when Wang Anshi was in charge. He also has to believe and support his decision-making, in fact, what he wants is the right like Cai Jing and Qin Huishi, and there is nothing beyond the limit.

There are important military events, and similarly, Wang Ju has to report to Zhao Ji in advance.

Such a situation happened, of course, it was time to report to Zhao Ji.

The five ministers first visited Zhao Ji, and Wang Ju told him about the situation.

"Ali bones?" Zhao Ji didn't believe it anymore.

"Ali Gu is a Uighur and has no feud with Western Xia."

"This is a bit troublesome...... Zhao Ji muttered, you can't fight on both sides.

Wang Ju glanced at everyone. He said, "My lords, what do you think?" ”

Kumamoto said: "Your Majesty, Princesses, in fact, now is a good time to recover Western Xia, and it is also a good time to recover Huangzhou. ”

"Recovering Huangzhou?" Han Jin is about to faint, Huangzhou is not only Huangzhou, it also includes Kuozhou, Qingtang City, and Xige City, with 100,000 soldiers. Guan Jianna is still the base of the Tibetan people, and it has the potential of a plateau. It's so hard to beat them.

"Exactly, Huangzhou has been the land of the Han family since ancient times, why can't it be recovered?" Kumamoto said.

But saying this, first, Zhang Kai has won great victories one after another, and has regained everyone's confidence, and second, Wang Ju is in charge.

And now Wang Ju happens to be in the Song Dynasty. Once he goes to the other side, he may be restored again.

Han Jin couldn't help but shake his head, since ancient times, the Han family has a lot of land, such as the sixteen states of Yanyun and the southeast of Liao. The northern part of Goryeo, strictly speaking, is the territory of the Chinese, as well as the North and South Loops, of course, the North and South Loops are not counted, once Wang Ju destroyed Western Xia, it will naturally be recovered.

But what about those "Han" lands in the north.

In fact, the land of the Han family in the north is not impossible to recover, if Wang Ju succeeds in taking the Western Xia, Zhao Xu's life will be a little longer in the future, and Wang Ju will consciously sharpen some young generals who can fight, such as Liu Fa and others, and even the future master generals are cultivating, that is, the way of the master.

It may be that the Dao of the Cultivator is still inferior to Yelu Dashi, but so what, when the time comes, the other side may be able to provide more powerful weapons......

However, there was a Gao Tao in the middle, and Wang Ju didn't mention it.

Kumamoto continued: "When Tubo was at its peak, it was still the hand of the Dumb Guy, but as soon as he died, Tubo was torn apart, so I got the Xihe River in my court, but Dong Yu was still orthodox in Tubo, so Huangzhou was not profitable. But now although Huangzhou Tubo is strong, Ali Gu is not orthodox, at least the Wen family will not be convinced. At the same time, Dong Yu died for a long time, and Ali Gu dared to report his funeral to the imperial court, but in fact, he was dissatisfied internally, and he rectified for a long time, and now he can barely be called a general to take over Huangzhou. ”

In general, this area is not big, it is not small, and there is a powerful person who rules, so depending on the location and people, the court will have a headache.

But Ali Gu took over, and the internal unity could not be achieved, so it became the best time for the imperial court to recover Huangzhou.

"If you get Huangzhou, if the imperial court spends some more financial resources and uses a large amount of gunpowder to blast open the big bucket valley, then Huangzhou can support Ganzhou Liangzhou, and in turn Ganzhou Liangzhou can also support Huangzhou."

"Support Ganzhou and Liangzhou, is it possible to prevent Liao?" Zhao asked.

Wang Ju replied on his behalf: "Xiong Gong's intention is not to prevent Liao, although Liao can use the obstruction road to go west to the Uighur Ganzhou, but they have too many areas bordering our country, there is no need to use troops from the west, if you want to use troops, you can go directly to Hebei and Hedong, or directly from Yinshan to the south to Helan Mountain." If we make a detour to the Uighurs in Ganzhou, the small number of troops will hinder our DPRK, and if there are many troops, a logistics will make the Liao State embarrassed. However, Xiong Gong's intention is to prevent the Qiang people from making chaos in the future, but if you open the big bucket and pull out the valley, you can use the Han to control the scale, and the Han to control the raze. For example, if someone in Huangzhou is in rebellion, the Uighurs in Ganzhou can be mobilized to quell the rebellion, and if the Uighurs in Ganzhou are in rebellion, the Tubo people in Huangzhou can be mobilized to quell the rebellion. At the same time, it is also conducive to business and trade exchanges. ”

"Big Fight?"

"It's the valley where Emperor Yang of Sui returned from his expedition to the west."

"It is said that most of the soldiers and horses died."

"Not most of it, mainly because of the sudden cold weather, if it is really so dangerous, Tubo will not attack the Liangzhou region of the Tang Dynasty many times since then. However, the mountain road was indeed very difficult, so Xiong Gong said that it did not cost and used a lot of gunpowder. Try to broaden it as much as possible. If you do this, you can improve the condition of the roads a little, at least from late spring to autumn, when you can travel for business. ”

"I also remembered, it's west of Chiling."

"It's west of Chiling, but west of Chiling is now a serious deterioration of water and soil. Although there are some tribes alive, but the population of these tribes is not large, not enough to trouble, as long as the imperial court takes Huangzhou, a handwritten letter, can make these tribes convinced. It's really not good, a little bit of a strong team can also be calmed down, and there is no need to worry about them. Wang Ju said. Rushing to Kumamoto with a look, you better get to the point.

"Guan Jian is just looking at this battle," Kumamoto didn't know at first, but just now Wang Jujun's plan for the battle of Mingsha City was also said by the way: "If this battle can be successful, it will greatly weaken the strength of Western Xia." Then Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road cooperate with the use of troops at the same time, and they can fight on both sides. Otherwise, it will be to wipe out Western Xia, and the Hexi Corridor will not be easy to take. Instead, he will be swallowed by Ali Gu, and he will be a Uighur. Although ruling Huangzhou cannot convince many people, the use of troops in Ganzhou and Suzhou will be more popular than the officers and soldiers of our dynasty. On the contrary, our dynasty will still send troops to resist the Liao State in Yinshan and Hexi, so the troops in the northwest must not be reduced but must be increased. And because the road is longer. The cost is amazing. ”

But speaking of this, Kumamoto hesitated for a moment and said, "But I'm afraid of the Liao ......."

If it is said that the two-sided battle is a seemingly dangerous move, but there are two Zhang Wang. In fact, it is not a dangerous move, but only as soon as the Liao State sends troops, then there are loopholes everywhere.

"Fortunately, if it weren't for the Taibao to destroy Jiaozhi, and with the help of Zhancheng, the Zhenla people were contained, and the south invaded again, it would really be an enemy on all sides." Xu Jiang said.

"Will the Liao State send troops?" Han Jin asked.

Who knows.

Zhao Ji looked at Wang Ju, and Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, the minister's head is messed up, Rong Chen think about it again." In fact, how to do it, as Xiong Gong said, it is best to wait until the battle of Mingsha City is over. ”

Wang Ju slowed down again and said, "Your Majesty, even if you are above the court, you must have an important minister who understands the military. ”

Zhao Ji's forehead.

Just like Wang Ju was in the court, when he received the news from Zhang Ji, he immediately made a judgment and gave some orders in time.

If there is no Wang Ju, wait and quarrel, quarrel and quarrel, the front is over......

Wang Ju said again: "I don't know if Xiong Gong can be wronged for three or two years? ”

"What?"

"After the battle of Mingsha City, I am going to Shaanxi Road, and Zhang Zhifu is also going to be transferred to Hedong, but Jingyuan Road lacks a capable person, and the public is willing to go?"

But it's not that Kumamoto is particularly powerful, of course, Kumamoto is not bad, but there are several heavy generals on the front line who are no less than Kumamoto, mainly to let Kumamoto sharpen it, then transfer back to the court, it's not that there will be nothing to do if you destroy Western Xia, what should you do with this Tubo, Wang Ju hasn't thought it through, even if you destroy Western Xia, will the Liao State make a move in the future, and there will be some rebellion inside, so Kumamoto will be transferred back, and the court will have important ministers for consultation.

Moreover, Ali Gu attacked the Song Dynasty, and Jingyuan Road would become extremely important, with the upper ditch of Western Xia and the lower control of Tubo, and at the same time, with Kumamoto's qualifications and resume, he could also shock the former group of generals.

Of course, for the time being, Kumamoto will indeed be wronged.

"Then the Ministry of Industry ......"

"Your Majesty, replace him with Shen Kuo, but put the Limin Supervisor under the name of the Ministry of Industry, and let Shen Kuo take the time to continue research and development. Not to mention irrigation and textiles, if the subordinates can succeed in this battle, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty will gradually become wider, and whether it can always be controlled depends on the country's financial resources and military strength, and the second depends on the transportation capacity. ”

has seen the real thing, and everyone can understand Wang Ju's words. As for what the transportation capacity is, they all know what Shen Kuo has been doing during this time, and almost all of them have become the laughing stock of some scholars.

Then wait.

In less than ten days, the imperial court received news from the front that the Western Xia army was heading south.

At the same time, Wang Guangyu and Li Xian, in accordance with Wang Ju's orders, abandoned several small forts in front of Nanhuizhou one by one and transferred their troops to Pingxi City.

But Liang Yikui's line of work was very bad, burning and plundering those tribes who surrendered to the Song Dynasty. However, the Song army on both sides received Wang Ju's notice, no matter what Liang Yiqi did, he didn't ask.

The more he kills, the more loyal the local people will be to the Song Dynasty after the Song Dynasty recovers!

However, Wang Ju sent a letter to Yu Zanghua Ma with a fast horse, and there was only one sentence in the letter, and he would go to Shaanxi in a few days.

I didn't say anything else, you can do it yourself. Don't think you're old. But what about your children and grandchildren!

In fact, Wang Ju didn't expect him to cooperate, as long as he didn't put a cold knife behind his back, there would be no big problems on the front line.

…………

"General Zhang, I'm sorry for you again." Zhang Qi said politely.

Not to mention anything else, Zhang Shouyue himself is indeed old.

"Don't dare, don't dare." Zhang Shouyue said humbly, what should I do, the Song Dynasty scholars are very noble, and the imperial court gave Zhang Qi the right to control Huanqing Road. However, what made Zhang Shouyue respect Zhang Qi was Zhang Qi's military ability.

He turned around and pointed to a tiger general and introduced: "This is General Qin Guiqin, as a deputy general, Chong Zhizhou also transferred him. ”

"Look up for a long time," Zhang said.

After the failure of the Xia War, Renduo and Ding soldiers committed the original road of Jing, and it was this Qin Gui. beat Ren Duo Ling Ding to the ground, and almost killed Ren Duo Ling Ding. Later, the Western Xia invaded the fortresses of Hengshan in Gyeongju and asked the imperial court to transfer him to the Dingbian Army as a prefect.

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed." Qin Gui said.

All the generals gathered, and Zhang Qi led them into Pingxia City.

Zhang Shouyue asked: "I heard that Western Xia invaded Lanzhou again?" ”

"It's not an invasion of Lanzhou, it's an invasion of Dingxi City."

"Invasion of Dingxi City?" Zhang Shouyue did not receive Wang Ju's notice, so he felt strange.

"Maybe the Tubo Ali bone fell to Western Xia."

In this way, Zhang Shouyue will also understand, if Tubo sends troops to the Shrine Valley. The Western Xia invaded Dingxi City successfully, and Lanzhou became an isolated city. It doesn't matter if you attack or not.

"So how many troops did Western Xia mobilize to go south?"

"100,000, maybe 100,000 is not enough."

"Can you still mobilize 100,000?"

"There is no reason to talk about a country that is deprived of military force." Zhang Qi said, but in this way, the pressure of the battle of Mingsha City will be much less. He looked at Zhang Shouyue's worried look and said, "General Zhang, don't worry. On the side of Pingxi City in Dingxi City, five additional officers and soldiers have been stationed, and what they want is to strive to be innocent, not meritorious. ”

He gave a rough account of the situation.

Zhang Shouyue was relieved.

First, Wang Ju had already arranged it in advance.

The second is that the Western Xia people are not good at attacking cities, as long as they give up the small fort in front. The latter forts are not forts, but are called cities, and those who can be called cities can imagine how big they are. For such a big fortress, as long as the Song Dynasty had sufficient troops and enough grain, grass and water in the city, most of the Tangut people were helpless.

As for the Tibetans, the same is true.

After everyone finished discussing, the next day, 70,000 troops and 30,000 people went north. The key is that they only brought a small amount of supplies, mainly gunpowder, and the rest of the grain and grass had already been prepared in Xiaoguan.

Therefore, these 100,000 soldiers and civilians are almost lightly armed, how fast is it? What's worse is that now the front line has mentioned Xiao Pass, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians quickly arrived at Xiao Pass and quickly rushed out of Xiao Pass......

…………

However, to everyone's surprise, Tubo did not use troops in Lanzhou, but suddenly sent troops to Taozhou.

This is exactly the strategy of the first general in Tubo, Qingyi, to form a ghost.

Ali Gu made an approximate agreement with Xixia, and when it came time to make a specific agreement, Ghost Zhang returned to Qingtang City, and he immediately refuted Ali Gu's idea. Can't plot Lanzhou and Dingxi City, because these two places are also what Western Xia wants, then this alliance will have to be repented sooner or later.

At that time, Tubo was miserable, the north and the Western Xia turned against each other, and the east became enemies with the Song Dynasty.

And on the edge of Dingxi City is Jingyuan Road, Jingyuan Road, a new Zhizhou, seems to be very good at using soldiers, and there are many elite soldiers and fierce generals under him, even Li Xian and Wang Wenyu of Lanzhou are not easy to mess with.

Therefore, a new agreement was made, and the two countries sent troops at the same time, but the Song army in Dingxi City, Lanzhou was solved by Western Xia, and the troops on Xihe Road were solved by Tubo. After the war, the Song land was obtained, the Xihe Mintao returned to Tubo, and the Dingxi City of Lanzhou returned to Western Xia.

And in this way, Tubo has a certain foundation in Xihe Road, and Western Xia has a certain foundation in Lanzhou and Dingxi City, and if you can get it, you can reoccupy it.

Liang Yikui was helpless in the face of the sudden changes in Tibet.

If this is the case, the chances of victory in the attack on Dingxi City are much smaller.

But as long as the Tibetan troops sent troops, no matter whether the battle was won or lost, the situation in Western Xia would change, so they had to agree, and fearing that the Tibetan would repent, the two countries sent envoys to each other on the bank of the Kaluo River (Zhuanglang River) to kill the ox and swore an oath, testifying to heaven and earth, this alliance was a success, not betrayal, living and dying together, and raising troops at the same time.

So Liang Yikui led his troops south, Zhang Qi led his troops north, and Tubo also dispatched tens of thousands of iron cavalry.

It's not Lanzhou, it's not Hezhou, it's Taozhou, because the Song Dynasty and Dong Yu joined forces to deal with Western Xia many times in the past few years, and the relationship was tacit, and they gradually lost their defense against Tibet, especially in Taozhou, where the troops stationed were pitiful.

In fact, this is also the strategy of the ghost chapter, I sent troops, and I took Taozhou of the Song Dynasty, but after taking Taozhou, the Song Dynasty will be in a bitter battle with Western Xia.

Then he turned back and rode the troops of Xihe Road to place in Dingxi City, Lanzhou, Chen Binghe Prefecture. The rear is lost, and the enemy is facing the attack on both sides, and the Song army will inevitably be defeated by the Deshun army in Qinzhou, so Tubo will take Xizhou back!

And in doing so, it was the Western Xia people who fought a bloody battle with the elite army of the Song Dynasty, and Tubo took the three states of Hexitao at the smallest cost.

Sure enough, the Tibetan army almost encountered little resistance, and entered the territory of Taozhou.

Looking at Taozhou City in the distance, Ali Gu said: "Ghost Zhang, you are my prince An." ”

Wang Zi'an, that is, Wang Ju, when he heard this name, the ghost chapter suddenly had no reason and felt very uneasy.

But Ali Gu didn't think much about it, pointed to Taozhou City in the distance, and shouted: "Sons, kill it!" (To be continued.) )