Chapter 396 Before the War (2)(1/2)
"Chonggu!" Zhang Dun heard that Tian Shiru and his army had arrived in Yongzhou, and he quickly took Su Ziyuan out to greet him.
As soon as they met, he enthusiastically grabbed Tian Shiru's calloused hand and said, "I have been waiting to worship the ancients for a long time!"
"Since Chonggu is here, the matter of Jiaozhi can be settled!"
As early as when he was in Bianjing, Zhang Dun asked the emperor to mobilize Tian Shiru's loyal and victorious rebel army to strengthen the first general Yulong.
This is because the Zhongsheng Rebel Army has rich combat experience in mountains and hills.
It can even be said that the Song Dynasty was the best army at doing this kind of thing.
Since the third year of Xining, the rebel army in Sizhou sent troops to Nanping under the order of Sun Gou.
The Loyalty and Victory Rebel Army has made great achievements in Nanping, Luzhou, Jiaozhi, Guangyuan and other places, and has also gained a great reputation.
At that time, Zhang Dun conquered Hunan and had a 200-strong crossbow unit of the Loyal Victory Rebel Army under his command.
He had a very good impression of these Sizhou soldiers.
They are loyal and honest, hard-working, able to fight and dare to fight, and most importantly - they are particularly good at climbing mountains.
Now, Tian Shiru personally led 1,500 nominal troops to Yongzhou.
This gave Zhang Dun a surprising force that could penetrate behind the Jiaozhi soldiers.
Crossing mountains and ridges, overcoming thorns and thorns, this is the specialty of Sizhou soldiers.
Tian Shiru was a little flattered.
He looked at Zhang Dun, who was wearing a purple robe and hanging a goldfish bag, bowed and said, "How dare you, the general, greet me as your prime minister?"
The biggest official he has ever seen in his life.
That is Wang Guangzu.
But Wang Guangzu was only a military official, and his military rank was only far away from the county.
The gap between him and the commander-in-chief like Zhang Dun, who is in power and out of town, cannot be calculated.
To Tian Shiru, Zhang Dun was like a figure in heaven.
Naturally, he was very excited. Although he wouldn't bow down in obeisance, he was definitely excited.
"You don't have to be polite to worship the ancients." Zhang Dun's temperament is the kind that he can play with anyone. He squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Now that we have worshiped the ancients, the Jiaozhi thief is not far away!"
Tian Shiru felt his forehead heat up, and immediately said: "My lord, when Xining was marching south this time, we also brought over the five hundred warriors who followed Yan Shuai."
"With them here, there will be no problem with the geography of Jiaozhi, Guangyuan, Silang and other states!"
These people were responsible for paving the way for the main force of the Song Dynasty back then.
They also participated in the Yanda army's siege of Guangyuan Prefecture, and the subsequent battle to siege and kill Prince Hongzhen of Jiaozhi.
They are the people most familiar with the geography of Cochin.
"Good!" Zhang Dun stroked his beard and laughed.
Therefore, the day after Tian Shiru arrived in Yongzhou, Zhang Dun ordered Li Feng, an official in Yongzhou, to go to Jiaozhi and read out the decree of Bianjing - this person volunteered.
reason?
Eleven years ago, Jiaozhi invaded and killed his parents and two brothers.
Only he, who was in Guizhou at the time, survived.
For more than ten years, Li Feng has been thinking about revenge day and night.
After hearing that the imperial court was recruiting officials, sent an envoy to Jiaozhi, and read out the emperor's edict, Li Feng was the first to stand up.
When he stood up, he actually wanted to anger the Cochin people.
He knows this very well! He has already realized it.
At the same time, Zhang Dun issued an order to formally ban the caravan exchanges between Jiaozhi and close the trade between Lianzhou, Qinzhou, and Yongzhou districts and Jiaozhi. In the name of the economic envoy, Zhang Dun ordered Cen Ziting to station troops at Kunlun Pass.
This day is Yiwei (the second day of the third month) of the first year of Yuanyou.
On the next day in March Gengshen, the first general of Yulong led by Di Yong arrived in Yongzhou.
The wheels of war begin to roll.
…
The people of Cochin were almost astonished when they learned the news that the border trade channel was closed.
The border trading cities of the Song Dynasty, such as Juili Pass, Huanglangzhou (today's Lang Son), Menzhou (today's Tongdeng), and so on, were suddenly paralyzed.
Panic spread quickly like a virus.
Countless wealthy families in the north of Jiaozhi recalled the eight-year war in Xining at this moment.
The Northern Dynasty army swept across the entire north of Jiaozhi as if entering an uninhabited land.
The troops pointed directly at the Furiang River and surrounded and annihilated the tens of thousands of troops led by Prince Hongzhen to the north of the Furiang River.
The Jiaozhi Hundred Battles Division led by Prince Hongzhen was either wiped out or driven into the Furiang River.
For a time, there were corpses lying in the Furiang River, and the water did not flow for three days.
And that time, the Song army wiped out countless wealthy families in northern Jiaozhi with thunderous force.
The Liu family, which once showed off its power, suffered a devastating blow.
After the war, they had no choice but to give up Guangyuan and settled in Silang Prefecture. The Yang family took the opportunity to rise.
In other states, the wealthy families loyal to Thang Long Province were also hit hard.
It was not because of the heavy rain that Jiaozhi had been wiped out long ago.
Today, the Northern Dynasties cut off trade routes without warning.
Everyone is beating a drum deep in their hearts.
Then, they got a bolt from the blue.
The emperor of the Northern Dynasties sent envoys to investigate Jiaozhi!
The imperial edict accused Jiaozhi of being rude and disrespectful, insulting the Holy Dynasty, slandering the late emperor, and Yang Jingtong of Guangyuan Prefecture killed and plundered the border people of the Song Dynasty, disturbing the New Year peace and happiness of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and the two empresses of the two palaces.
He ordered Jiaozhi to hand over Yang Jingtong and send him to Bianjing for questioning.
Hand over the Jiaozhi poet who slandered the first emperor of the Song Dynasty, and hand over Li Changjie, the Jiaozhi minister who insulted the Holy Dynasty.
It is only for the Prince of Jiaozhi County that Li Qiande, the envoy of Jing Haijun Festival, will reply in half a month.
Otherwise, Master Wang will plow the courtyard and sweep the holes!
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Silang Prefecture, a stronghold on the border between Song and Vietnam.
Liu Yin, the magistrate of Langzhou in Jiaozhi, looked at the Northern envoy Li Feng standing in front of him.
He sighed and said: "Your Majesty, do you know that if you go to Shenglong Mansion, you will die or not?"
Li Feng smiled proudly and said nothing.
Liu Yin sighed.
He saw that this man was here to die.
He just wished that Shenglong Mansion would kill him so as to create a better excuse for the Northern Dynasty.
Liu Yin thought of the Song Army he had seen in Xining and shrank his neck.
His father was Liu Ji, the observation envoy of Guangyuan Prefecture at that time. He had three thousand elite soldiers under his command. Before the war, Liu Ji boasted: As long as I am here, Guangyuan Prefecture is impregnable.
Then the impregnable Guangyuan Prefecture was not able to hold on for three days before it was swept down by the army commanded by Song general Yanda.
Only one of the so-called three thousand elites came face to face, and either he was shot into a sieve by the divine arm bow, or his skull was cracked open by the iron mace of the Song Army cavalry.
The rest dispersed in a hurry, not even daring to block the road.
Liu Ji took him and the Liu family and knelt at the foot of Guangyuan City to beg for surrender.
That battle made the Liu family fully understand what the gap is!
The elites that the Liu family was proud of were as immature as children in front of the wolf-like and tiger-like Song Army and the Western Army.
so……
Liu Yin thought for a while and then told his left and right: "Send someone to send the envoy from the Kingdom of Great Britain to Guangyuan Prefecture respectfully."
Let Yang Jingtong and Shenglong Mansion have a headache.
It's better for the Liu family to stay out of this kind of thing.
You die quickly if you get ahead.
Last time, his father worked for Sheng Long Mansion and ended up wiping out all his family wealth.
After the war, Shenglong Mansion blamed his father for surrendering. Not only did he deprive the Liu family of the hereditary observership of Guangyuan Prefecture, but they also drove their family out of Guangyuan Prefecture and exiled them to Silang Prefecture on the border between Song and Vietnam.
A place where big slap birds don't poop.
To be continued...