Chapter 340 Killing Xixia (4)
Manme's letter of help was delivered to the barracks at a quick speed. Zhong Yan attached great importance to the cavalry outside the city. Although based on the prisoners' confession, the cavalry had a strength of about 30,000, Zhong Yan was a person who had fought with Xixia for decades and knew the importance of grassland combat cavalry. Zhong Yan was not capable of being a crazy man like Wang Shun and Wang Shao. One brought a few baggage and advanced quickly, while the other simply streamlined the food. It was true that the two of them took the risk and got rich rewards, blocking the enemy tightly in the city, so that the cavalry could not play their due role. Zhong Yan was known as "reckless" in the court, but he was very meticulous, especially in warfare.
Zhong Yan handed over the task of dealing with the 30,000 cavalry escaped to Wuxin, and did not seek to completely eliminate them. As long as their actions were at the latest, they would not hinder their attack. After Wuxin received the order, he ordered his own troops and quickly rushed to the enemy camp marked on the map. However, no one expected that Manme's son was responsible for this camp, and Manme knew that the messengers he sent out could not be captured by the Song army, so he specially instructed these messengers that if they were captured, they would simply tell the location of the reinforcements to save their lives. However, in the letter of help sent to his son, he used a hidden word to direct his son how to deal with the pursuit of the Song army that followed.
Since Wuxin's special forces were established, they have attacked each other in every battle. The most brilliant thing was to force Li Quan to death in front of the mound, and even Li Qing had been through his authenticity. Unexpectedly, this time he fell into the hands of the old fox Manme. Ten thousand elite soldiers were ready to attack the opponent as Wuxin was ready to sneak attack the opponent. After sending scouts to figure out the terrain in front, they chose a relatively favorable terrain to ambush the opponent, and also sent two thousand cavalry to harass and lure the enemy. If the opponent was not prepared, they would simply kill in and make him turn the earth.
These two thousand cavalrymen who were responsible for the task of luring the enemy were just about to approach the enemy camp. They were ambushed by the ambush set up by Manme's son. Only a few hundred people fled back, and most of them were injured. However, they still completed the mission and brought their opponents into the ambush circle. However, there were too many opponents this time, and Wuxin was "sustained" this time, and they fought and fled back to the base camp of the Song army outside Shunzhou City.
This sneak attack could not be considered a loss from Wuxin. Although the more than 2,000 people who began to lure the enemy were almost destroyed, when they surrounded the enemy, they also killed a large number of opponents and caused heavy damage to the pursuers. In terms of the results of the battle, both sides fought a draw. However, this was the first time Wuxin suffered a great loss. Half of the cowards was chased by Li Qing's guards half a year ago. Although he was also fleeing, he had never lost so many people. Half of them were killed by the opponent, and he was naturally very angry.
After learning that Wuxin suffered a loss and fled back to the camp, Zhong Yan did not blame Wuxin. He just said lightly: "Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. I have been guarding the border for decades and have lived on the tip of a knife all day long. There are times when I almost lost my life. A small setback may be a good thing for you!"
Although the sneak attack suffered a great loss, Wu Xin's head gradually lost its direction by a series of victories and cooled down again. After counting, he found that what made him happy was that the energy of the special forces he brought from Biandu was not seriously injured, and there were more than 1,500 people. This time he also learned his lesson and no longer dispersed the members of the special forces into his new troops, but instead concentrated 1,200 of them to reorganize the special forces, and the remaining 300 people acted as instructors and leaders to train and command Zhong Yan's new troops.
Zhong Yan led 150,000 troops, among all the generals attacking Xia. Only Wang Shao's southern army could be equal, and Zhong Yan brought enough food and grass, so he was not afraid of attacking inside and outside the Shunzhou army. In Zhong Yan's eyes, the Dangxiang Army in Shunzhou City was already his belongings. As long as he guarded the city gate and did not let them run out, the Dangxiang cavalry outside the city pose the greatest threat to him, but the number of people was also very different from his total force. As long as he did not divide the troops, there would be no problem.
Although Zhong Yan was known as "reckless", he was the most cautious in his military career. In the past, every time he was willing to send troops to attack Xixia, he only looked at military interests and did not ask about political issues. He repeatedly sent troops at inappropriate times to get such a "reckless" name. In order to safely deal with the Dangxiang Army inside and outside Shunzhou City, he still wrote to Yang Chongyue, hoping that he could quickly rush to Shunzhou and annihilate the enemy in Shunzhou with absolute advantage.
The situation of the battle is changing a lot now, but overall, the Song army has exceeded the task of encircling Xingqing Prefecture. At present, except for Shunzhou, the big cities around Xingqing Prefecture have not yet been conquered, Wang Shun led his troops north to capture Dingzhou, which completely cut off the possibility of the Western Xia high-level officials fleeing north to the Hetao Plain to attract Liao troops. Due to the rapid march of the Song army, occupying Dingzhou can temporarily cut off the connection between Liao and Xixia. In a short period of time, the Liao Kingdom could only know that the Song army had military operations against Xixia, but they needed to guess how strong the strength was.
If the top leaders of the Liao Kingdom were not brave enough, they would wait for the Song army to occupy the Hetao Plain. The reason why Wang Shun did not go to besiege Xingqing Prefecture nearby after capturing Huaizhou, and attacked Dingzhou in a long distance was to exchange information between Liao and Xia at the latest, which could also be regarded as a solution to Wang Jinghui's concerns about the Hetao Plain issue.
There was also a large-scale war between the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia. Li Yuanhao defeated the Song army when the founding of the country and gained a foothold. This also made him very energetic and provoked the Liao Kingdom to expand its territory in the northeast. As a result, he was severely scolded by the Liao Kingdom, which was still in the "revival". The Liao army even took down Xingqing Prefecture, and continued to harass the Hexi Corridor, the hinterland of the Western Xia, and taught Li Yuanhao a lesson. There were such dirty things in Liao and Xia countries, and Wang Jinghui's students would not forget them, although Wang Jinghui
I didn't expect this, but Jicheng, Guan Liang and others calculated that the Liao Kingdom would never take the initiative to occupy the Hetao Plain without the Western Xia being completely unable to hold on, so as not to bluff the opportunity to lure the Liao army to send troops. At that time, the Liao and Xia countries would rub against each other due to the ownership of the Hetao Plain, and neither the Western Xia nor the Liao Kingdom would be willing to take such risks. Especially when the Liao Kingdom's current national power is getting worse and worse, even those with vision and insight are unwilling to take such a big risk.
Although the Song army only had a small group of troops around Xingqing Prefecture, but did not launch any threatening military operations on Xingqing Prefecture, the entire large encirclement has been formed. Five hundred and fifty thousand Song troops were concentrated around this area, and it was the day to eliminate all the outer cities and military forces.
The Song army's military operations in the northwest achieved incredible results in just half a month, which shocked the capital of Bian, which was thousands of miles away. Although only a few people knew that this was a battle to destroy the country against the Western Xia, more Song people only knew that the Northwest Song army was invited to "help" the vassal states to fight a war to suppress the rebellion. According to the past practice, this war would not be very large. As for the result, the strength of the Song Dynasty completely depends on the strength of its own country. With the current strength of the Song Dynasty, it is enough to make the Western Xia surrender. At least it is a genius to see whether it can solve the problem.
At this time, the Song Dynasty completely adopted a governance model that was completely different from that since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The practice of "empty outside and the real inside" was completely broken, but replaced by "tight outside and loose inside", so that the Chinese people did not know that their motherland was carrying out a national war that laid the development space for decades.
During this half month, the ministers of the Central Secretariat and the chief and deputy Privy Council envoys of the Privy Council were all left in the palace and established a "wartime military service office" suggested by the son-in-law Wang Jinghui to coordinate the overall coordination of various military commands during the war in the north. Han Qi, who was in the northern Hebei route, also ordered 300,000 imperial guards to wait day and night, and kept 10,000 imperial guards to conduct military exercises every day in the areas bordering the Liao Kingdom, and adopted a strong attitude towards all disputed areas on the Song and Liao borders. Any non-Han people in this area were all treated as spies from the enemy country. They were sent to temporary concentration camps, and there was only one fate waiting for them - to become a member of the slave army of the Xiaowang Prince Consort, and to the far south of the Great Song Dynasty or the further south of the Nanyang to settle down.
On the fifth day after the Song army started a full-scale attack, the intelligence system of the Song Dynasty was running at high speed, and messengers were shuttled between the stations in various places, all of which were the 600-mile gold medals of the Privy Council. In the sky, hundreds of pigeons were carrying various battle situations and brief introductions or orders to travel to and from Biandu and the northwest battlefield.
All those involved in the War to Destroy Xia were nervous and busy. At this time, Wang Jinghui sent Yansheng to the Intelligence Bureau to coordinate, and stayed alone in Jingyuan outside the suburbs of Biandu to accompany his wife who was about to give birth. Emperor Zhao Xu issued orders repeatedly to let him enter the palace, but he sent his father-in-law back on the pretext of being sick. Of course, these eunuchs were not in vain. In the past, when they met people who refused to respond to the order, they were the most popular. But Jingyuan was their favorite place to go. The prince consort of Xiao Wang was generous and treated them very kindly. Almost few people in the palace had never received his favor, at least dozens of trump cards, and at most hundreds of trump cards were indispensable. Although they ran a few more legs, it was also a pleasant thing to have a generous reward.
Emperor Zhao Xu knew that sending someone to issue an order would only make the eunuchs’ pockets, and then he understood the intentions of his stubborn brother-in-law - he was determined to withdraw from the political circle. At least in the War to Destroy Xia, the prince-in-law would never show up in public again.
In fact, Wang Jinghui was not idle either. You Yansheng was in charge of the intelligence bureau. He saw every move in the northwest. He was even more happy about the achievements his students had made on the battlefield. Unlike the officials of the "Military Affairs Office" in the palace ban, the war is always temporary, and more construction is needed. This is indeed the most brilliant time, but in order to welcome greater glory, he must keep rushing to carry out more construction. He is more concerned about the development of military farms in the barbaric land in the south and the development of the South Ocean. Of course, how to better manage the newly recaptured territory after the regaining of Xixia in the future, which is also extremely important.
The development in the south of the Song Dynasty is now mainly in the preliminary preparations such as road construction and river clearance. In comparison, the development in the South Ocean seems to be very fast. Tens of thousands of acres of farmland have been reclaimed there. From next year, it can not only meet the problem of slaves’ food, but also transport about 300,000 stones of grain to the Song Dynasty. The most important thing is the mining of copper mines. All preparations have been made there, just waiting to open the furnace and smelter to smelter. Lu Xianyun has sent him a letter to report the progress there, and Wang Jinghui needs Lu Xianyun to load the first copper ingot out immediately after the copper ingot is successfully refining, and transport it back to Biandu as a birthday gift to the Empress Dowager.
Wang Anshi walked off the carriage. While walking towards his study, he stretched out his slightly numb body in an unsightly manner. Living in the palace these days in handling government affairs has really made him busy. As the Minister of Shangshu Zuo Pushe and the Minister of the Sect, who was one person below the Song Dynasty, he had a lot of affairs, and the current war to destroy Xia, which was now in charge of the Military Affairs Office, he was even more exhausted.
"My husband, someone from Jingyuan has come to deliver the letter!" Wang Ji, the old butler of Wang Anshi, bowed and walked to his side and said slowly.
"Hmm?!" When Wang Anshi heard all the words related to Wang Jinghui, he couldn't help but frown. He didn't know that he was already a little afraid of this young prince-consort. Although Xiao Wang's prince-consort had no power, he only held the official position of the Song Dynasty Intelligence Bureau and the Statistics Bureau. Such an official position was not in his eyes, but the years of open or secret confrontation and cooperation made Wang Anshi not very comfortable.
"Where are people?"
"The person who came was just a servant, who looked quite smart and spoke very tightly. He only said, 'Young master knew after reading the letter. People from Jingyuan dared not talk too much!'. The old slave could not ask anything, so he let him go."
"Susian?" Wang Anshi's brows frowned even more. The servant beside Wang Jinghui?! He is not a person who doesn't know anything. The "susians" who followed the prince consort in the past are now on the northwest battlefield. The people who can follow the prince consort and care about his age and young. How many people who don't have a deep background?!
Wang Anshi took the letter and walked to the study room quickly. He left Wang Ji alone and stood in his original position. Wang Anshi knew that a compromise had reached between the prince-consort and the emperor. The prince-consort gave up all his futures in order for the "boys" in the past to have a bright future. I am afraid that after this battle to destroy Xia, the prince-consort's only two official positions would be removed. For such a "perverse" prince-consort, even the old lady in Fushou Palace could do nothing. He Wang
An Shi was also happy to close his eyes - Wang Jinghui's advance and retreat had a very deep relationship with the reforms he was promoting. Although Wang Jinghui had helped him a lot, he always felt that if the prince consort withdrew from politics, it would be more conducive to the implementation of the reforms. The young man's position was always hard to figure out. If he was willing to be his helper, Wang Anshi would definitely not care about the identity of the prince consort and would definitely treat him with the guests. Unfortunately, even he himself knew that this was absolutely impossible.
"Can you still be able to give up your property to exchange future for the current 's servant'?!" Wang Anshi walked on the road, thinking with a sneer on his lips. Wang Jinghui sent all the students closest to him, leaving behind a Yansheng. The senior officials of the Song Dynasty all knew about these things. They also knew that the prince consort had adopted several orphans who were wandering on the streets. It seemed that the "new generation" of "boys" were about to appear again, because the prince consort is now
The students made too much noise in the northwest, and even Li Qing fell into their hands, which made all insiders pay close attention to the new "fellow" of the prince-consort, and Wang Anshi was no exception. After all, the prince-consort gave him too deep impression. Wang Anshi was very interested in Wang Jinghui's method of cultivating students. The very smart evaluation of the "boy" by his old housekeeper alone was enough to make him feel that the young man was really incredible.
"Mr. Jiefu, the student bows his head. The war is about to pass. The Song Dynasty must face greater challenges. In the future..." Wang Anshi read the letter in a glance, and every word was deeply remembered in his mind. Of course, he knew that this was not the letter written by the prince-consort, but it was mostly the ghostwriter of the old eunuch, but the content in this letter really made him hesitate to make choices and make decisions.
"Father, Wang Gaizhi's suggestion is absolutely unacceptable! If this is missing, the consequences are really unpredictable. Looking at the appearance of the prince-consort, all the things that have been done after the appearance of the prince-consort is left with a backdrop. The future development of this matter is really unpredictable!" Wang Xun said.
Wang Anshi attached great importance to Wang Jinghui's letter, so he summoned all the backbone of the new party to his home to discuss countermeasures. In fact, what his son Wang Rong said was exactly what he was worried about. Wang Anshi finally hoped that Wang Jinghui would fade out of politics without asking about political affairs. He really didn't want to give the prince-consort a chance to make trouble. However, he admired his son's talent and knowledge very much, but he was increasingly disappointed with Wang Yun's spirit. He was a father who was a father, and he opposed it purely for the sake of opposition. Today, Wang Yun's words would only make him frown even more and have no practical significance.
"My husband, the student thinks this strategy is feasible!" The speaker was wearing a white robe, with a thin and fair face, and a pair of quiet eyes as quiet as the sea flashed with wisdom. He sat first on the left of Wang Anshi, and was opposite Wang Rong. His lower head was Xie Jingwen. This person was the "sage of today" who was quite famous in the sects - Lu Huiqing and Lu Jifu - who was chasing Wang Anshi and Sima Guang!
Chapter completed!