Zheng Lang is preparing for natural disasters, and the Battle of Hehuang continues.

Wang Shao swept the mountains south of Dingxizhou, beheaded 700 people, and all the troops subdued one by one, and then seized Baicheng. In order to support Mu Zheng, the Qiang people planned to ambush troops in the Nanshan Mountain of Xizhou. They could advance to the Song army's return route, and if they were defeated, they could protect Mozong City. Wang Shao led his troops to drive the Xiong Pass of Mozong, and the Qiang people scattered with a blast. Although they used few troops, they hit the snake but hit seven inches. A series of military actions made Mu Zheng feel anxious all day long. After a long time, they came back to their senses, so they summoned troops in three groups.

The attack on Tabai City all the way cannot really make the Song army siege. Tabai City is on the west side of Hezhou and is an isolated army. It gathers a large army to attack. The Qiang gathers 30,000 people to station in Dunba City, preparing to attack Kangle Village. Once Kangle Village is broken, it is equivalent to cutting off the connection between the Song army in Xiangzi City and Xizhou, which is of great significance. There is also the attack on Linjiang Village.

The strategic plan is good, but his command ability is limited, he has not adjusted it well, and has not taken confidential measures. Wang Shao learned that he personally led a large army to Tabai City, fought with the Tubo people, beheaded more than 3,000 people, and the rest fled. This is the extremely fierce Tubo people. If it were the Xixia people, if they were killed in this position, they would have no courage to fight. Continuing to build Tabai City, Mu Zheng would no longer have the courage to harass him this time. Seeing that Tabai City was taller day by day, gradually gaining the power of self-protection, Wang Shao returned to Xizhou.

At this time, Zhang Shouyue fought in Dunba City again.

Forced by Cai Yanqing, Zhang Shouyou had to draw out three thousand troops and sting his teeth to attack Xizhou. But Zheng Lang thought, it was estimated that Zhang Shouyou had heard the news of Wang Shao's victory, so he had the courage to lead his army westward. Zheng Lang was not surprised.

Wang Shao's series of military operations made Su Che think that Xue Rengui was resurrected. Although it was past, it was not much inferior to Xue Rengui, and at least one-third of Huo Qubing's level. Such a famous general was only one-tenth of the history of the Song Dynasty. It was impossible to expect everyone to have the courage and military talents of Wang Shao. Although Zhang Shouyou was not as good as he could, he could be regarded as a famous general. News of Wang Shao's safety came out, and Cai Yanqing didn't know what to do. Should he ask Zhang Shouyou to withdraw, or let Zhang Shouyou continue to advance westward and support Wang Shao.

Furthermore, something else happened. When Liang Yimian heard that Mu Zheng attacked Hezhou, he thought that there were few people along the border, so he gathered his troops to cross the Yellow River and stationed in Luzichuan on the south side of Tiandu Mountain. He met with Tubo people from Maxian Mountain and Kangu. He claimed to help Mu Zheng. When Wang Shao defeated Mu Zheng and took Hezhou, he had not yet waited for the news of a fierce battle in Xiangzi City to come out, Liang Yimian was scared and retreated.

The news reached Cai Yanqing's ears. He was definitely not as good as Wang Shao in military terms, but he knew that Xixia would not have the courage to attack the second fortress of Tongwei, Gangu. Zhang Shouyue did not have much effect when he came back, so Zhang Shouyue stayed in Xizhou City awkwardly.

The court would not know about him when he had a dispute over him, but he knew that he would definitely leave some bad responses to the tycoons. It happened that Wang Shao had won again in Baicheng. He was a little brave and wanted to make achievements. Not only did he, the court used troops to the northwest, but also prevented the Khitan invasion, so he transferred Yang Wenguang to Hebei. Yang Wenguang saw news of great victory in Hebei from the newspaper, but he couldn't help but offer a plan. I'm old and wanted to keep it a name for history. But what should I do in Hebei? Only when the court used troops to Khitan can he make meritorious contributions. Xiao Zhu was also excited in history and was evil with Jiaozhi, but this time he disappeared. Jiaozhi was always dishonest and used Jianlangshan. However, Zheng Lang repeatedly warned southern officials not to cause trouble. In order to concentrate his strength and aim his fists at a place.

Zhang Shouyou was this mentality. The Qiangs followed the call of Mu Zheng, and 30,000 soldiers gathered in Dunba City. Zhang Shouyou led 3,000 subordinates, regardless of one or ten. He crossed the Tao River by taking a small path, first fought head-on with the most brave soldiers, defeating his spirit, then waved the flag, and the left and right ambushed soldiers flocked out, and the 30,000 Qiang soldiers were defeated again. Many people had no time to surrender. They took the grain of their cellars as military rations, and then took the wood of their tents to support the construction of Kangle Village. At the same time, they formed 1,500 archers.

In less than two months, Muzheng defeated two of them, but only the Linjiang Village team did not solve the problem. Wang Shao ordered his troops to rescue him. Wang Shao replied: "Now, the thief wants to restrain him, so he attacked and surrounded Linjiang. If the troops were stopped, he would be able to do so. It would be better to entrust Linjiang and attack without asking for help. If there is any failure, it is not too late to wait until Kangle City is completed and the troops are returned."

Controversy broke out in the court.

Zheng Lang sneered and said, "Everyone, if Wang Shao goes south, he will kill many people again."

Wang Shao won many times, but the ministers in the court said that the foreigners were ignorant and that Wang Shao killed too many people, which was contrary to the harmony of heaven.

The most cruel war is that you either kill me or I kill you. It is said that it is contrary to heaven and harmony.

Zheng Lang has a lot of things to do. In the year of next year's disaster, he has prepared a lot of food and supplies and should be able to overcome the difficulties smoothly. However, this disaster is a good opportunity to do a lot of things that he had never been able to do before. He is carefully planning for this matter. He is too lazy to talk about this idiot's statement, but this idiot's statement actually echoes many ministers.

Zhao Xu's joy.

Zheng Lang also said: "Although Wang Shao has more than 20,000 soldiers in his hand, he has only thousands of people stationed and repaired the villages. Now he is besieging Hezhou and has to build various forts. Can he have troops to draw towards Linjiang Village?"

This is not Mozong City, but the south of the ancient Weicheng. It is still in the south of Mozong City, the southernmost direction of Minzhou, more than ten miles south of Dangchang in later generations, nearly three hundred miles from Mozong City and seven or eight hundred miles from Xiangzi City.

Moreover, many areas do not have real avenues and are difficult to move around. Wang Shao has only a few troops in his hands, so he has no way to look around.

After Zheng Lang explained, everyone went silent together.

Time flies. By July, the entire Song Dynasty had already smelled an unusual atmosphere in the air. Last year, the locust plague in Hebei was dealt with by various measures by the court, and the danger was eliminated invisibly. However, since last year, there has been little rain in the whole north and there is no snow in some places. However, before July comes, crops can still be produced, and the court provides timely relief so that the people will not even have no seeds. By July, the autumn harvest can be harvested a little.

At the end of April, the Huashan Mountains collapsed, and Wen Yanbo wrote a letter to believe that reforms damaged the national system and accumulating the public's grievances. Gao Taotao and Zheng Lang had a close conversation about this issue. No matter what, Zhao Shu was the father of Zhao Xu, the late emperor, and he used only four important officials, Fu Bi, Han Qi, Zeng Gongliang, Wen Yanbo, and Ouyang Xiu could not be counted as Ouyang Xiu. He had never been the prime minister. Therefore, the court should take moderate care of the late emperor in Yonghouling when dealing with the four important officials, otherwise future generations would think that the emperor was unfilial.

At least the current Zheng Lang reforms caused by the contradictions caused by the current situation are not as sharp as in history. Gao Taotao also wanted to build a harmonious society and a harmonious court. Then he tried to persuade Zheng Lang. Zheng Lang no longer said that he would resign from his position as prime minister. No matter who was assigned, he could only deal with a few scapegoats and could not be investigated. Moreover, the person he was looking for was also very clever. Once Zhang Maoze was dealt with publicly, Zhao Zhen was crazy and called Zhang Maoze and Empress Dowager Cao to rebel, which would implicate Empress Dowager Cao, which would cause many misunderstandings to Empress Dowager Cao. Besides, what could he do? It was not a demotion.

It's true that his brain is very good, and Zheng Lang sighed deeply after he was speechless.

Wen Yanbo was silent for a long time and suddenly wrote a letter. Someone agreed, but Zhao Xu was angry. Although the increase in the income of the court was mostly a move to open up the source, or a way to save money, and various ways to save money. This made the court rich and pay off debts. In fact, military actions and various beneficial policies were not actually not harsh on the people, but on the contrary, it has been benefiting the people in recent years. Therefore, an edict was issued to demote Wen Yanbo to Yangzhou. Yangzhou is a good place. It did not abuse Wen Yanbo, but the main thing was to make Wen Yanbo quiet. It was far away from the capital and would probably not be too long.

But since then, I have expected that the north will not be able to collect this year. However, no one cares about the grain storage that Zheng Lang has prepared in the past two years. In addition to normal grain storage, nearly 70 million stones of grain have been prepared in various warehouses. Can you still be afraid?

However, in July, the rain in the north did not fall. This north does not refer to Hebei, but includes Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Jingdong, and Huainan Road. And at the end of July, locusts on the Khitan flew eastward to Hebei, which is the place that makes people angry. Locusts grew in the Khitan, but ran to the Song Dynasty to "just eat". This has been the case for two years. Isn't it annoying?

But this year the scale of locusts is much larger than last year, and it is so dark that it covers the sky and the sun is covered. The Liao Kingdom was happy. Nanjing in Youzhou reported to Yelu Hongji, Nanjing in Liao, locusts in Guiyi, and locusts in Laishui counties flew into the Song territory, and the rest were eaten by bees. Emperor, don’t worry, the locusts are not a big problem, and they have harmed the Song people. But the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty finally became worried. Since then, a great drought that can be ranked in the top ten in history, which has officially arrived. Due to the threat of drought, the emperor issued an edict to publicly pray for rain in the entire Northern Song Dynasty history was only 113 times, only 0.8 times a year, but Xining has reached four times in six years, ten times in seven years, and five times in eight years.

It does not include secret prayer. The term "secret prayer" is to avoid leaving the people with the symbol of "decorating false names". Public prayer is mostly to let the Grand Historian analyze the rain. It is estimated that rainfall will fall before public prayer is held. In fact, secret prayer is not afraid of "decorating false names", but fear that every time you pray, it will not rain, which will damage the emperor's authority. Not only Zhao Xu, but also important officials such as Han Qi, worshipped the tombs many times, and thought of drought and farming. Therefore, Zheng Lang did not beat many ministers to death with one stick. Even Wen Yanbo had a good reputation when he reached this point. After arriving in Yangzhou, he had many political achievements, especially preparing food and making great contributions for the court. This is the real struggle for the court.

Merchants, go for profit.

As the changes in the north were made, the grain merchants in the southeast immediately noticed the changes. The Khitan locusts in front flew desperately towards the Song Dynasty, and the food prices in the back rose.

Food prices will undoubtedly rise.

How many people are there in the entire north? There are nearly 7 million households and 40 million people. They need nearly 100 million stones of food a year. When drought in two years, the grain harvest may be less than half of the original ones, so there is at least a lack of more than 100 million stones of food.

But no one expected that the drought would be so much.

During the temporary autumn harvest, Zheng Lang raised the price of grain without wanting to increase the price. This not only affected the preparation of the autumn harvest, but also was not very easy to handle. Therefore, he issued an edict, releasing 20 million stones of grain and sending it to various prefectures and counties for sale at a fair price.

When all the profiteers heard this, they were dumbfounded. What a huge number of 20 million stones of grain? They had to prepare four million cars before they could take them away. After the imperial edict was issued, they could not help themselves, so they had to adjust the price of grain again.

However, a few businessmen wanted to gamble and began to hoard goods. This problem was not important. The second edict was issued, except for the 2,000 stone of grain sales. The court allocated another 10 million yuan to purchase grain on the south west road of Liangjingjiang and transported it to Danshui. At the same time, the edict issued the people in Shaanxi to come to Danshui to eat. The cost of transporting grain to Danshui is not high, but the cost of transporting it to Shaanxi is unknown. Not only does it reduce the cost, but a large number of people arrived. The court allocated another 2 million yuan to build the Danshui channel, widening and leveling the road to the Danshui River to Chang'an for more than 300 miles, making it a smooth road to become Yangguan Avenue. Also, a large number of people affected by disasters rushed to Danshui, which relieved the grain pressure in Shaanxi.

Three edicts: When the drought comes, the price of grain rises by less than ten cents per bucket, which is a miracle. Then the fourth edict is issued. The court allocated 3 million yuan. The shipping department was asked to purchase animal and fodder in various places, and sell it at a fair price to the people of all prefectures and counties. Each horse, ox, donkey, mule and lol, the court first funded Yizheng money. Assist the people to continue raising livestock. After the drought, if those who are not slaughtered can be protected, they will be rewarded with Yizheng money. This is an amazing good policy. In recent years, livestock in the north have increased rapidly. There are at least five million large livestock, and with some officials doing their tricks, the court has to pay 15 million yuan to ensure that these large livestock can be safely protected after the drought.

Many ministers opposed it, which was a waste.

They don’t know how difficult it is to save it. After two years of drought, many grounds were dry and cracked, and two jin of money was not enough. This is for the benefit of the people after the drought. Zheng Lang did not explain much, but only said: "Take it from the people and use it for the people. I don’t know how long it will take for the drought. The north is the center of the country. However, because the harvest is not as good as the south, it gradually falls behind. It is the core of the country to maintain the country and do good governance. Otherwise, once the drought continues, the people will continue to have food crisis, and it will be more difficult to raise livestock. It will inevitably slaughter the livestock on a large scale. It will be urgent. At most, eating hundreds or dozens of jin of meat. However, after the disaster, a horse costs more than ten jin of money, and a cow must cost three or four jin of money. The key is that our dynasty has always lacked arable land and cargo. If you want to spend money to buy it, the Khitan and Xixia may not be able to sell it."

Fu Bi sighed: "Working to know, good governance is good governance, and the country's money will be even more tense. How long will it take to repay it?"

"Take it slow, I can probably pay off the debts on Jingdong Road today, and the debts are getting smaller and smaller."

Others who oppose it, although treating the people well, waste is indeed too serious. However, as these measures are implemented, the drought is worsening day by day, but none of them feel panic. This will be the greatest miracle, but no one has thought of it yet...

The drought is coming, and the Battle of Hezhou is also coming.

First, the court received a report from the front line, saying that Wang Shao led his army to pass by Mount Lugu, and dismounted from Mount Lugu, and walked on foot for less than ten hours a day. Because the road was difficult to walk, he had to dismount at Mount Lugu in seven or eight hours and led his horse to climb the mountain and cross the ridge. Zhao Xu had no idea where Mount Lugu was. He was worried and asked Zheng Lang, and Zheng Lang gave a detailed explanation.

Lugu Mountain is in Xizhou, at the junction of Hezhou and Taozhou, the mountains are tall and vast. The highest peak is nearly 4,000 meters, which is higher than Taibai Mountain. In addition, it is located in the northwest. The snow cannot melt all year round, and the peaks are covered with snow. Many places are filled with frozen soil. Therefore, local people say that Lugu Mountain is three feet taller than the sky. It is not to mention the cold and difficulty in breathing. There are still several difficulties. The first is there no decent road here, and the second is to go to Lugu Mountain. Many areas are very cold. However, after going to Taozhou, the weather becomes hot again, which will have a great temperature contrast effect on the soldiers.

Why do this be because of the blind sons.

The three sons of Yeshiluo broke up, and the third son Dong Wen was still alive and stayed in Huangzhou. The second son Mo Wenjiao went to Zunge City, where his father had been running for many years. More than ten years ago, Mo Wenjiao passed away. His son Sasiding was unable to stand on his own, and the tribes were dissatisfied and basically withdrew from the stage of Hehuang.

Dong Wen is still the greatest force now. His son Lin Fu died young. Dong Wen asked Huangzhou to bravely general Aligu as his adopted son. There are two reasons why he chose this person as his adopted son. Dong Wen has three wives, one is the Khitan princess Ling Jiemo, which doesn't matter. There are also his mother's cousin Qiao, who is in the southwest of Hezhou. The other is the Xinmu family. The Xinmu family is quite famous in Tubo and has a friendly relationship with Sina, Henan, and the Qiang tribes, and has mastered Xin.

The Mou clan is equivalent to pulling to Sina, Longbu and the help of the Qiang in Henan. Qiao was loved by Dong Jin, and Xin Mou clan was a formal political marriage. There was also a concubine of Khotan who looked very beautiful and asked Dong Jin to put them under the tent. Before the concubine married Dong Jin, she brought two oil bottles, one named Aligu and the other named Su Nan Dangzheng. When she grew up, not only Aligu was brave and good at fighting, but Su Nan Dangzheng was also brave and good at fighting. Su Nan Dangzheng was also brave and good at fighting. Su Nan Dangzheng was also wise and brave.

Therefore, Dong Wen is preparing to hand over the future Huangzhou foundation to Ali Bone Management.

However, if there is no blood relationship, there may not be many people admit it. This has nothing to do with it for the time being. Zheng Lang talks about blind wu again. Compared with the other two people, the blind wu lineage is very large, with six sons, Mu Zheng, Dong Gu, Jie Wu Yanzheng, blind Wu Chi, Ba Jingjiao, and Ba Jingzi. Most of them followed Mu Zheng, and some brothers were scattered in the Hemintao area, and Ba Jingjiao was operating Taozhou at this time.

Wang Shao's plan was to destroy his followers first, otherwise he would be besieged Hezhou and Bazhenjiao was in Taozhou. He could counterattack Xizhou, ancient Weicheng, Minzhou and Qinzhou of the Song Dynasty, drag the Song army back, or support him at any time. Even if Bazhenjiao did not move, if Mu Zheng failed, he could retreat to Taozhou. Forced him again. The two brothers could retreat to the west to escape from the deep abdomen of Tubo, and could make a comeback in the future. The most feared thing was that the two brothers did not retreat to Qinghai, but went south to Sichuan and form a line with the local Qiang people. Then the whole Sichuan would be in chaos. It might evolve into the second Huang Chao of the Song Dynasty. This was not impossible. Some time ago, when Tubo attacked Linjiangzhai, it was Bazhenjiao's envoy.

Therefore, if you want to destroy the wood sign, you must destroy the felt corners of the ba.

After explaining it clearly, Zheng Lang sighed slightly.

This military operation was no more than two thousand miles long, but the difficulty was much compared to the Red Army climbing snow-capped mountains and past grasslands. Many places have frozen soil climates, vast snow fields, and many places are dense and almost inaccessible, wet and hot forests. Some places are flat grass river valleys and cliffs of the Grand Gorges. The difficulties are very difficult, so it can be imagined.

Zhao Xu also murmured: "Lugushan, Lugushan."

But Wang Shao had many intentions in this military operation, because the ethnic groups in Shannan in the southeast of Xiangzi City were destroyed and the forts were built. The Khitan was not counted. The only ones who were good at siegeing the city were good at siegeing the city. The Tubo and Xixia people were not good at siegeing the city, and Wuyou was in the rear, so they led a large army to sprint towards the Lugu Mountain.

After hearing this, Mu Zheng was very anxious. Not only did his younger brother Ba Zhenjiao, but his fourth brother Wu Chi. Taozhou was also his important arm. In an anxious manner, he left the general Jie Biao to guard Hezhou and led his army to chase him.

After hearing this, Wang Shao was overjoyed. After all, Hezhou City was tall and the losses would be heavy forcibly attacked. He was lured out and immediately divided his troops and continued to climb the Lugu Mountains. He turned around and attacked Jing Sili's army from north to south. Mu Zheng was defeated again. In a hurry, he was defeated very badly and didn't know where to escape. Jie Biao first saw the army coming from north and Mu Zheng's army. Before he could guard against it, he realized that it was not. In addition, the Song army on Jingyuan Road attacked Hezhou from Xiangzi City, and forced each other inside and outside. Jie Biao had to open the city gate and surrender to the Song Dynasty.

Jing Sili was surrendered, and Wang Shao rushed to the south again. Wang Shao was not very satisfied this time because Mu Zheng escaped again. Moreover, when he arrived in Hezhou, the terrain became more and more complicated, and the scouts did not know where Mu Zheng escaped. Helplessly, he crossed the Lugu Mountain in depression.

There are almost no roads in the mountains of Explogu, and Bazhenjiao was not interested in Taozhou. The Song army suddenly appeared, Taozhou City was not prepared at all. Bazhenjiao ordered to prepare to defend the city, but the soldiers could not gather, so they could use it to defend the city. Seeing that the subordinates were in chaos, some of them were so timid that they cried. This battle could not be fought. Bazhenjiao opened the city to surrender. Wang Shao's attack pace did not stop, and then went to Ma Lianchuan. The blind Wu Chi also had to surrender because he was caught off guard. The army commanded Dangzhou again, and then opened Taoshan Road. The leader of Minzhou saw that the Song army was coming in a fierce manner and lost to the enemy. He took the initiative to hand over the Minzhou City to make contributions.

When Wang Shao was building the forts in Hezhou, it was this man who followed the orders of Mu Zheng and Ba Jijiao to attack the Taoshan villages of Minzhou and Song Dynasty. This time, everyone became good grandsons together. Not only did they surrender, but when they reached this point, the Song army had no food. The two of them obediently offered ten thousand stones of barley, five hundred cattle, and two thousand sheep, so that the Song Dynasty soldiers could eat. Wang Shao wrote a letter to Zhao Xu when he saw the drought, he asked for money everywhere, and did not think it was a reward for military supplies, but a spoil of the Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi persuaded: "Attack and take it, take it, and if it is included, it is not advisable to receive it in vain and pay it for the price, so he comforted the new support."

Not necessarily very useful.

In this battle, because of the fast marching speed and the roads were isolated, Wang Shao had very few troops, and he went deep into the desperate territory and had not heard of it for a long time, which led to rumors that Wang Shao's entire army was wiped out. It was not until after taking Minzhou that the news spread to the capital. However, the battle had not stopped, and the Qinglong tribe of Taozhou was still dissatisfied. Wang Shao divided his troops again and asked the brave general Zhang Yu to go to Chuoluochuan (the junction of Qinghai, Gansu), and defeated the Qinglong tribe. On this trip, he beheaded more than 3,000 people and captured tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses. Seeing that the Song army was so fierce, the Qin emperor of Diezhou came to the Song army one after another with the Taozhou leader Guo Siguo, and Xiancheng followed the orders.

A god-like battle.

There were only a few thousand troops alone, facing tens of thousands of enemies, and marched for fifty-four days, and the journey reached nearly two thousand miles. They defeated the powerful enemies, Guangfuhe, Min, Tao, Die and Dang five states. If they went to the former Xizhou again and fought with Tongyuan army, they would recover six states and one army in one year! The Song Dynasty border was directed to the Yellow River in the west, Bashu in the south, Gaolan in the north, and the Qingtang Marba Mountains, increasing by 3,000 miles, and captured tens of thousands of foreign tribes, recruited more than 300,000 tents from all over the world, and also used two Tubo kings, Bashu and Dazhan Wuchi.

Zhao Xu was very happy. Since the defeat of Gaolianghe in the Song Dynasty, he had lost all the time and had not seen such a happy victory. Even though Zheng Lang and Wang Shao had won great victories on Jingyuan Road before, they did not expand their territory. Wang Shao was appointed as the scholar of Duanming Palace and the scholar of Longtu Pavilion, and Zhang Yu was the chief supervisor of Quan Xihe Road of Xuanzhou Observation Envoy, Gao Zunyu was the governor of Minzhou and the governor of Minzhou. Zhang Shouyou was introduced to the deputy envoy Zhang Shouyou, and he served as the imperial medicine institute, and sent full salary to the imperial court, Wang Junwan was the envoy of the imperial city and the governor of Yingzhou, and gave him five hundred pieces of silk; he took the horses and received the six-house envoy Li Yuankai as the concierge envoy, and Dali Temple Chief Ji Feng was transferred to two officials.

Still, he could not express Zhao Xu's inner joy, and he wanted to give Wang Shao a tribute.

When everyone heard this, they were stunned.
Chapter completed!