Chapter 328 Glory

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Zheng Lang was on the road, and the wind was sunny on the Grand Canal. However, it rained lightly in Tokyo. In the early spring, the light rain was cold and cold. Later, some melting snow appeared, which melted as soon as it landed. However, a layer of snowflakes floated in Yanzhou.

Snowflakes fell from the sky and floated in from the windows. Although they were covered with curtains, the cold air was still rushing.

He Zhen almost shivered, and he thought to himself that there were capable people in the Song Dynasty.

He was deliberately selected by Yuan Hao, and he was also a capable man. Looking at Fan Yong with dizzy eyes, he never believed that this old man had such eyesight. He didn't expect that it was Zheng Lang, so how wise he needed. Who could see it?

A judgment was made immediately in his heart. It might be that a soldier had doubts in his heart, but the status of this soldier was not important, so the old man met him and buried the killed Xixia prisoners of war. But after saying that, the old man was somewhat suspicious, so he tried to himself and said aggrievedly: "Why did Mr. Fan say this?"

Fan Yong stared at him again.

He Zhen stood up from the meal, came to Fan Yong to kneel down, and said, "Mr. Fan, if you don't believe it, please bring me back the people of all races who have been involved in Jinming Village."

Fan Yong groaned, it’s so hard to take you back and kill. How long has it been to encounter a family in Shan!

But it eliminated some of Fan Yong's doubts.

I still have doubts, but it is snowing outside. After the snow melts, I will call Li Shibin to discuss it in a few days.

A big problem occurred in a few days.

After He Zhen left Yanzhou, he rushed back to Hengshan without stopping and immediately reported to Li Yuanhao.

On the eve of the war, it was as quiet as the dawn of Yanzhou to Jinming Village, but Li Shibin had to abandon the joy of the Spring Festival and check and patrol everywhere. This was definitely not something Fan Yong, who could not escape the cold in Yanzhou City.

A large number of surrendered people arrived, and many disputes arose. Normal procedures were made, and Li Shibin also had to patrol and check the post. At this moment, Li Shibin received news from his scouts that the Xixia army bypassed the Tumen and the army was advancing towards Jinming Village.

It is more than 300 kilometers from Hengshan to Jinming Village, and there is also a Tumen Pass on the front line. Li Yuanhao attacked Jinming Village, and no matter how he concealed it, it was impossible for Li Shibin to get information. But Li Shibin did not expect that Li Yuanhao would come so quickly this time.

Upon hearing the news, Li Shibin discussed with his generals. His son Li Huaibao had the most vision and reminded him: "The main force of the enemy is deep, and our army should gather forces to fight against him. If the thirty-six camps are divided, they will inevitably be defeated by each one."

Li Shibin did not listen, but implemented Fan Yong's order, and the Thirty-Six Villages were fully protected!

Fan Yong not only gave this confused order, but then gave another even more confused order, ordering Shi Yuansun, who was in Yanzhou, to lead the main army of Yanzhou to go to Tumen to protect Tumen.

Yuanhao's army had already passed through the Tumen. I wonder what Shi Yuansun went to the Tumen to do? Should he take the initiative to divide his troops and let Yuanhao cut?

This order can also be explained by defending Tumen and Fuzhou. After all, once Tumen was lost, Fuzhou, 150 miles north of Yanzhou, was also in danger. But it was even more puzzling that he had not yet made the following order. He ordered Liu Ping to lead his troops from Qingzhou and go to Tumen. Qingzhou is 250 miles away from the Security Army, 400 miles away from Yanzhou, and more than 600 miles away from Tumen.

And it was a heavy snowy weather. When this army arrived at Tumen, it was conceivable that the daylily became cold.

Fan Yong, who was confused and greedy for life and death, was pushing the Song army step by step into the abyss of death.

Li Shibin didn't know all this, not only did he not know, but even Liu Ping didn't know it, so he took the initiative to cooperate with Fan Yong to jump under the cliff.

Li Shibin dispatched troops and generals in Huangduizhai to prepare for the battle.

There was no movement outside the village. Li Yuanhao led his troops to set up camp. Li Shibin was not afraid. Xu Huaide led a thousand or hundreds of people in Chengping Village to drive away the Xixia people. Moreover, there were more people and horses in Huangdui Village, and the village was stronger. His military power was stronger than Xu Huaide, and the soldiers were the strongest foreign soldiers. What was there to be afraid of?

He was preparing to fight quietly, but at dawn, people shouted at horses, saying that the enemy had already entered the village. The gate of the village was opened! Li Shibin hurriedly called to lead the horses left and right, but an old crossbow horse was led by his original mount. He didn't know where his original mount had gone.

Running means running is not running, fighting means command is not effective. Soon Li Huaibao was killed in battle, and Li Shibin was captured alive. Li Yuanhao ordered the soldiers to cut off his ears and vent his anger. But before Li Shibin was defeated, he sent a confidant subordinate to rush back to Jinmingzhai to flee to Yanzhou with his mother and wife, one to protect his family, and the other to report military information to Fan Yong. He actually fled to Yanzhou safely in a miraculous manner.

The next day, most of the 36 villages in Jinming were captured by Yuan Hao.

Soon Yuanhao's troops came to the city. Looking at the dark Xixia army under the city, Fan Yong did something and stood on the top of the city to cry. After crying, he performed his duties and asked Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun to rush back from Tumen to assist Yanzhou.

Not only Liu Ping, but also the troops that could be mobilized around Yanzhou together to protect the safety of Yanzhou City.

But did Fan Yong ever think that Shi Yuansun's army was better. Liu Ping's army took four days from Qingzhou to Tumen. It was a snowy road of more than 600 miles. Even the tiger became a sick tiger. What kind of combat power would it have when rushing back to Yanzhou?

Someone raised questions, and Liu Ping replied: "The righteous man is still considering going through fire and water as if he is walking on flat ground, and now it is a state affairs."

Unswervingly led his troops to return south to Yanzhou again.

No matter how many mistakes Liu Ping made in this battle, his courage was commendable.

It continues to snow.

The Song army rushed to a place thirty miles outside Yanzhou City. Liu Ping saw Fan Yong's messenger for the second time. The messenger said to him: "The Grand Marshal Fan has been waiting at the east gate of Yanzhou. In order to prevent spies from entering, Fan ordered the troops to be placed in the city one by one."

This made Zheng Lang understand and why did Liu Ping believe it? At least for such a military event, there must be a handwritten book at a critical moment. There will be Fan Yong's seal on the handwritten book, which can be inserted into Jinming Village, but this seal cannot be forged.

Liu Ping and Shi Yuansun personally ordered and released the troops, each team of fifty people, and then released them for five miles. After the fifty teams were released, Liu Ping turned around and suddenly issued a message to the officer disappeared. The two were shocked and sent someone to observe, and they reported that the 50 teams were gone, and the direction of Yanzhou was dark, and there was no light to greet them. The two knew that they were deceived and led their troops to retreat.

At dawn, at the order of Fan Yong, Huang Dehe and Guo Zun's army came from all over the surrounding areas, and several troops gathered. Liu Ping reorganized the team and continued to turn back to Yanzhou. Guo Zun advised: "The depth of the enemy's army has not yet been understood, so you should not set out rashly, otherwise there will be a danger of annihilation of the entire army."

Fan Yong killed Li Shibin and Liu Ping, and Liu Ping killed more than 8,000 people. He shouted: "Zhu Zi is known as a brave general, how can he be so cowardly today!"

Guo Zun let him say nothing and had to set off.

Yanchuan, Yichuan, and Zhichuan are originally three unknown small rivers, two small rivers originating from Hengshan to the north and south, and from west to east, and one small river originating from Laoshan to the south of Yanzhou. They gather at the mouth of Sanchuan and then meet with Qingshui River downstream.

Just at the Wulongchuan Beach at Sanchuankou, two armies collided together.

At this time, Yuan Hao did not bring 70,000 to 80,000 troops at the beginning of the first lunar month. After conquering Jinming Village, he reorganized the rebellious army under Li Shibin. The number of troops reached more than 100,000, but not all of them were brought. Some of them remained outside Yanzhou City, but there were at least more than 100,000 troops here. Liu Ping had only a thousand men. The snow had been falling, and the two armies were stalemate across the river. Yuan Hao finally ordered people to launch an attack. However, in order to win the time to cross the river and boost morale, Yuan Hao appointed one of the bravest foreign generals to challenge the Song army. Guo Zun stood up, and with just one round, the iron pestle in his hand smashed the head of the foreign generals.

The Song army seized this opportunity, and Guo Zun and his general Wang Xin led their army to launch an active attack on the enemy crossing the river. The Western Xia army relied on a large number of people and formed shields to stabilize their position. However, the entire Song army pressed forward, and faced an enemy that was more than ten times more than its own, the Song army's courage shocked the strong enemy. The fierce battle continued until the evening, and even Liu Ping himself was seriously injured.

But the Xixia army was forced to retreat to the east bank of the river.

At this time, a fatal thing happened. The soldiers held their heads and asked Liu Ping for merit.

The request for merit is false, and the subtext is General Liu. We are also humans. We have been running away almost in the past ten days and need to rest. At this time, we should retreat when it is dark. Even if we choose a safe place to build a crude camp, we can attack and retreat.

Liu Ping hurriedly shouted: "The fierce battle is in full swing. You can remember the credit first and then reward it after the war."

Yuan Hao saw this on the other side of the river and knew that some of the Song soldiers had shaken their hearts and ordered the entire army to cross the river. The Song army was caught off guard and forced to retreat dozens of steps. The most hated thing happened.

When the rear army saw the front army retreating, Huang Dehe thought the army was defeated and led his own team to escape. Seeing that the situation was unclear, the front army retreated with Huang Dehe. The formation immediately disintegrated.

Liu Ping urgently ordered his son to ride a horse to catch up with Huang Dehe and stopped him, but failed.

Yuan Hao immediately ordered his troops to launch an attack. Seeing that the defeat appeared, Guo Zun rushed towards the Xixia army alone. The iron pestle bent and snatched the iron spear from the Xixia soldiers. The iron spear was broken and another big spear was snatched. Wherever the war horse went, it was invincible.

Almost with one person's strength, Song Jun gave him time to breathe.

Seeing that something was wrong, Yuan Hao sent his subordinates to pull up a tripping rope in front of Guo Zun, and was cut off by Guo Zun's sword. Yuan Hao asked the soldiers to shoot arrows and shot down Guo Zun's war horse. Guo Zun fell to the ground with the horse. Just as he stood up, countless spears pierced into his back and chest.

The sacrifice of the brave general Guo Zun made Liu Ping gather more than a thousand people with several military academies around him. It was these more than a thousand people who attacked the Western Xia army again and forced the Xia army to retreat to the other side of the river. The next shocked Yuan Hao. Liu Ping led the more than a thousand soldiers, fighting with his army of more than 100,000 for three days and three nights.

In fact, if Huang Dehe hadn't escaped suddenly, or if he could have performed a bigger miracle in Mikawaguchi.

Yuan Hao was afraid of being beaten, so he sent someone to shout across the river, "We won't play with you, a group of lunatics, and attack Yanzhou."

Of course, at this time, he knew that Yanzhou had lost something and Liu Ping could not save him. As night came, Liu Ping chose a mountain and set up seven camps.

Suddenly, a man came from outside the camp and said he was an envoy from Yanzhou.

Liu Ping was so happy that Yanzhou City was on the east side of Sanchuankou, and Yuan Hao's army was on the east side. How could an envoy pass through more than 100,000 troops to come here? I want to play this move twice? The future ones will bend them.

Yuan Hao saw that there was no chance, so he had to lead the army to surround the small mountain again and sent someone to shout loudly: "Who is Song General?"

No one on the mountain agreed.

He shouted again: "How many traitors will not surrender?"

Liu Ping said: "Dog thief, if you don't surrender, why do I surrender? The arrival of my Song reinforcements tomorrow will be your death."

It was dawn, and Yuan Hao knew that he had no luck anymore, so he ordered the army to launch a general attack.

...

Adapting to the warm climate of the south and suddenly returning to the north always makes people feel uncomfortable.

But the first month of the year is getting deeper and the temperature in the capital is also beginning to warm up.

When I suddenly turned around, I felt that there was less snow. A group of willow trees beside the Caishui River sprouted tender buds, and the buds and leaves were not blooming, like fragmented flowers, attached to the brown willow branches, which was very cute and pleasant.

The Fourth Empress said, "Langer, you can't do things like Hangzhou again in the future."

"Don't worry, Si Niang," Zheng Lang said timidly.

Xing'er looked at his well-behaved look and hid in the carriage and had fun.

No matter how much complained, the ladies were reluctant to leave. Si Niang fastened his collar and said, "We are very good at home. If you are an official outside, you must be a good official and you don't have to worry about it at home."

"yes."

Several empresses got on the carriage and their eyes were wet.

But Zheng Lang breathed a sigh of relief and finally asked the empresses to go back. Otherwise, in order to distinguish Buddha in Hangzhou these days, he would have called his ears to the point of borrowing the name Cui Xian and the others to go back to their parents' home.

The carriage went further and further away, disappearing in the sky.

Zheng Lang clapped his hands and was going to do a serious matter.

This time I came to Beijing, there were a lot of things to do, and now I still have to participate in the military affairs of the Northwest.

I stayed in Yanji Inn for several days and was thinking about this question.

After thinking about it, I discovered a secret. In fact, it is not difficult for Xixia to deal with it. With the combat effectiveness of the Xixia army, the cohesion of the nation, the wealth of the country, and the base of the population, they are all far inferior to that of the Song Dynasty. Or generals, they usually don’t have many generals in the Song Dynasty. Once the war comes, many people are cowardly, but more famous generals are also pouring out, just like bamboo shoots in spring rain, which come out early.

However, it is difficult to think about it again.

There is nothing else. If you want to defeat Xixia or even recover Xixia, as long as you do it well, it is not a dream. But there is a prerequisite, you must defeat the system of the Song Dynasty.

As long as the Song Dynasty system remains unchanged, it is impossible to defeat the Western Xia.

Looking at the blue tiles and blue sky, Zheng Lang smiled bitterly. To defeat the Song Dynasty system? Can he do it?

I returned to the inn, but not long after, I asked the little yellow gate to call him to the palace.
To be continued...