Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 352 Bosshui Pass Ten Thousand Enemies

The scorching sun in September scorched the earth like a big furnace.

Fortunately, this time is still in the Little Ice Age, and the temperature is generally about four or five degrees lower than that of later generations, so it is still barely possible to march.

Going all the way to the north, the cities of Binzhou and Jingzhou, which had been massacred by the rebel army, were actually inhabited again.

Most of them are villagers on the Siye Mountains. When the people occupying the rich land of these two prefectures were killed by the rebel army, they went down the mountains to occupy the fertile land to survive.

Mrs. Han Qi also recognized some surviving original neighbors, and Zhang Zhao took the opportunity to recruit some to Liangzhou.

For those who didn't want to go, Zhang Zhao began to talk to himself and appointed them as village chiefs and square chiefs, etc., temporarily setting up the basic order and administrative team.

In addition to appointing the most grassroots officials, Zhang Zhao also issued land deeds to them, acknowledging their right to occupy the land.

In this way, the way for court officials to bring big households to annex land was cut off.

As for the later court officials and big households who might not recognize the validity of the land deeds issued by Zhang Zhao, or adopt the method of forcibly confiscating the land for annexation, Zhang Zhao is even more indifferent.

Because then he would not lose anything, but instead made the people who took the land deed from him hate the court officials even more.

When he enters Guanzhong next time, these people who have lost their land will become his most powerful supporters.

So, Zhang Zhao walked and stopped all the way, and when he reached Weizhou, Zhang Sikong had already issued land deeds for millions of acres of land, benefiting hundreds of thousands of people, who would become his supporters in the future.

When they arrived in Weizhou, Zhang Zhao's army was greeted by crowds all over the city. They welcomed Zhang Zhao and Gui Yi's army as if they were their own people.

Um!It is indeed his own people, because there are hundreds of Weizhou children in the Guiyi Army.

Some time ago, when Zhang Zhao killed General Wang’s family, he finally left more than [-] mu of the best land for himself.

Zhang Zhao directly arranged for the meritorious ones among these hundreds of people, especially the dozen or so who had received the First Rank of Honor Policy, to the land of more than [-] mu.

But instead of distributing the land to them, he treats them as his own tenants, but Zhang Zhao's land rent is very low.

By the way, Zhang Zhao also appointed a captain named Zhao Jun to accompany the soldiers from the ninth grade to be responsible for the specific management of these people.

In addition, Zhang Zhao also asked Kang Fu to play Wu Guoer's elder brother Wu Yinger as the governor of Weizhou, and at the same time brought Wu Guoer and more than [-] descendants of Weizhou rich families to Liangzhou.

No matter who will be the envoy of the Zhangyi Army in the future, it is estimated that it will be difficult to get rid of Zhang Zhao's shadow.

After three days of recuperation in Weizhou, the army continued westward, passed through Tanzheng Gorge, and arrived at Yuanzhou.

The situation in Yuanzhou was actually much better than Zhang Zhao thought.

Not only did Liu Zaisheng firmly defend Yuanzhou, but he also led a group of old and weak members of the party who stayed behind in Yuanzhou to repair roads, build water conservancy, and reclaim wasteland. When Zhang Zhao came back, Yuanzhou was thriving.

In fact, Li Zhongchao is not the one who can completely control Yuanzhou, because the party of Yuanzhou is actually a tribal aggregation.

Li Zhongchao and his son are just the chieftains of the largest tribe, and they are the elected leaders of the Yuanzhou party.

In view of this, after Zhang Zhao had a long talk with Liu Zaisheng, Liu Zaisheng also agreed to stay in Yuanzhou.

The reason is simple. Liu Zaisheng's family is a large Han family in Khotan Jin Kingdom. Liu Zaisheng's education is very comprehensive, much more comprehensive than that of Guo Tiance, who can only learn knowledge through Nestorian classics and incomplete books.

However, Liu Zaisheng, although he has read a lot, and his body and martial arts are also very good, but he is really not handsome.

Talent is a bit similar to Yin Yaozi, but Yin Yaozi is also a little better than him, because Yin Yaozi can handle logistics and is good at defending the city.

Liu Zaisheng went astray. In military terms, he could at most be a battalion commander with a thousand soldiers, and the rest of his talents were devoted to herdsmen.

It can be said that he is qualified to be the governor of a state, especially the governor of a state or prefecture in an important frontier defense area in the Song and Ming dynasties.

But in this way, his position in Zhang Zhao Group is a bit embarrassing.

In terms of military affairs, he is not as good as Man Xiong and Dunzhu in terms of being a fierce general. His command is not as good as Yan Jin and Ma Shacai.

So it was only in Yuanzhou that Liu Zaisheng felt like a fish in water.

In terms of military affairs, in a place like Yuanzhou, the ability to command thousands of elite troops is enough.

In terms of government affairs, Yuanzhou does not have such a powerful family, which is suitable for him to show his talents.

Therefore, Zhang Zhao wrote a letter overnight, expressing that Liu Zai was promoted to doctor Yinqing Guanglu, the governor of Yuanzhou and the defense envoy of Yuanzhou, and guarded Yuanzhou.

As for Li Zhongchao, father, son and grandson, Li Zhongchao suffered a leg injury on the battlefield, and it seemed that he was going to retreat to the second line.

Li Zhongchao's son is of average ability. Zhang Zhaobiao played him as General Xuanwei, an official from the fourth rank, and Liangzhou's own Xunce Seventh Rank Qingche Captain. He drank, ate meat, and gave birth to children in Yuanzhou. how nice.

Li Zhongchao's grandson has some talents, he is proficient in bow and horse, and he can also read books.

Zhang Zhao decided to let him enter the genealogy of the Li family of Guzang in Liangzhou, named him Li Xiaojie, and joined Zhang Zhao's righteous son army, taught by Zhang Zhao himself, and became a member of the personal guard of Regret Mountain Members, attendants around.

Through these four-pronged measures, Zhang Zhao successfully controlled Yuanzhou in his own hands.

Liu Zaisheng guarded Yuanzhou to facilitate Zhang Zhao's intervention in the Zhangyi Army Jiedu envoy.

At the same time, Wonju used to be Gyeongju, Dongshan Dangxiang in Gyeongju and Pingxiabu Dangxiang in Xiazhou, but they were also called the two major tribes of Dangxiang.

Zhang Zhao can continue to support the Dangxiang in Gyeongju through Wonju, and cause some trouble for the Dangxiang Dingnan Army who has grown stronger and is constantly reaching out to Gyeongju.

At least they can't let them easily annex Gyeongju Dangxiang as they did in history, and finally they can lay down the territory of Lingwu Jiedushi.

With the stability of Wonju, Xiang Li Yanli of Gyeongju also left Zhang Zhao with more than [-] cavalry.

As for Li Yanli, Zhang Zhao did not force him to stay because it was not the time yet.

When leaving, Zhang Zhao rewarded Li Yanli and the Gyeongju Dangxiang cavalry with a large amount of goods.

They also organized a ten-mile send-off, sending the thousand party cavalry to the west of Yuanzhou for more than ten miles. Zhang Zhao returned to Yuanzhou City only after they all disappeared.

Li Yanli and others were moved to tears. They rode the folded-eared horse given by Zhang Zhao, wore the leather armor and part of the iron armor given by Zhang Zhao, and left full of gratitude.

Li Yanli and the others even wore cotton armor, the weapons in their hands, and the sugar, salt and tea on the rest of the horses were all given by Zhang Zhao.

It is conceivable that when they return to Gyeongju, how much shock they will bring to other Dongshan parties!

When the Li family of the Dingnan Army came to recruit them with three melons and two dates, they would definitely be stared at collectively.

After passing Yuanzhou and continuing northward, we arrived at Huizhou on the bank of the Yellow River.

After Zhang Zhao took control of Yuanzhou, Huizhou ordered Ma Shacai to lead his army to surrender the Dangxiang tribe here under the pretext of chasing down the rebels from the Shatuo Li family in Lanzhou.

For Zhang Zhao, Huizhou is more important than Yuanzhou, because Huizhou is on the bank of the Yellow River, and it is a key place from Lanzhou to Lingzhou, Shuofang Jiedushi.

Take a boat from Huizhou and go down the river. If you are fast, you can reach Lingzhou (near Wuzhong in Ningxia) within three days.

Therefore, Zhang Zhao had to take Huizhou, so as soon as the army arrived in Huizhou, Zhang Zhao summoned Ma Shacai to inquire about the situation, and directly forced the [-]th branch of Huizhou Party Committee, which had a total of more than [-] people, to collectively go west. Moved to Liangzhou.

Then he ordered the Jincheng Wang family to send more than 2000 people from [-] households, and the Su Lun family to move to Huizhou from [-] households with more than [-] people. The Han people who followed Zhang Zhao here will also have [-] people to settle here.

In addition, Zhang Zhao also asked Li Cunhui to return to Liangzhou in the early stage, and ordered the left-behind deputy Jiedu envoy Yin Yaozi and Liangzhou governor Song Shantong to recruit more than [-] herdsmen from five or six hundred households from six tribes to completely control Huizhou.

Such a relocation of tens of thousands of people, especially the forced relocation of Huizhou Dangxiang to Lanzhou, is not easy.

Zhang Zhao could only station troops in Huizhou temporarily, and manage it himself, trying to complete the population migration of Huizhou at the least cost.

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Just when Zhang Zhao stayed in Huizhou to relocate the party ministries, and sent people to Liangzhou to summon the herdsmen of the six tribes to go south.

An Shenqi conscripted 3000 people from the Xiongwu Army, 5000 people from the Jinchang Army, 4000 people from the Zhenguo Army, and 600 people from Zhang Zhao's Hexi Xiaoqi, for a total of 600 people.

Counting the auxiliary soldiers and logistics civilians, the so-called [-] army marched from Tongguan east to attack Zhang Congbin who occupied Luoyang.

And Shi Jingtang, who got An Shenqi to send troops from Tongguan, was also overjoyed, and invited Hou Yi, a veteran of Li Keyong's period.

Shi Jingtang appointed Hou Yi as the governor of the west camp, and his brother-in-law Luzhou Jiedu envoy Du Chongwei as his deputy, and asked Zhang Congbin to go west.

At this time, Zhang Congbin killed Shi Jingtang's second son, and the whole army knew that there was no way out for him.

Of course Zhang Congbin knew it too, so he opened the treasury of Luoyang, searched for gold and silk from Heyang and other three cities, and rewarded all the soldiers under his command, which greatly boosted the morale of the rebel soldiers.

In October, Hou Yi led [-] elite soldiers to Sishui Pass, and Zhang Congbin gathered tens of thousands of soldiers to line up outside the pass.

Historically, this battle took place a few months later. At that time, Zhang Congbin was besieged and fought for several months. He was exhausted, and he lined up at Sishuiguan for the last fight.

And Hou Yi's [-] elite soldiers were drawn by Shi Jingtan with all his resources, not to mention the fine soldiers, food and foot armor, so Hou Yi took the initiative to attack with [-] elite soldiers and defeated Zhang Congbin's more than [-] soldiers.

But in today's battle, Shi Jingtang ordered Hou Yi to attack when he heard that An Shenqi had left Tongguan. Historically, An Shenqi hadn't settled in Guanzhong until Zhang Congbin was defeated.

Therefore, Zhang Congbin was not at the end of his strength. On the contrary, he attacked Hou Yi first out of the policy of first difficulty and then easy.

So the two armies fought each other seven or eight battles from morning to dusk, but they couldn't tell the difference.

But in the end, the balance of victory began to tilt towards Zhang Congbin, because he had Sishui Pass, also known as Hulao Pass, as his base.

But Hou Yi didn't have time to set up the village, it was getting late, and he was already thinking of retreating, and was going to find a city to repair.

Once a person has the intention to retreat, he will not be able to use his full strength in the battle. Zhang Congbin also saw Hou Yi's intentions, and went directly to the battle to attack the Jin army.

At this moment, the sound of horseshoes suddenly came from the southwest of Sishuiguan, and a group of more than a thousand cavalry suddenly rushed out from the southwest.

Most of their crotches are tall horses that are good at sprinting, and they are extremely fast. The leader is a white horse and a silver-robed general. If Xue Rengui is alive, his cavalry can also draw a hard bow on the horse.

They shot left and right, and shot Zhang Congbin's right wing over in an instant. Before the rebels could adjust, the thousand cavalry had followed the gap exposed by the shot on the right wing, and went straight into Zhang Congbin's army.

Seeing this, Hou Yi hurriedly ordered people to beat the war drums, and asked the civilian husbands and auxiliary soldiers to shout, "The imperial court has arrived on behalf of Bei Xiaoqi".

Zhang Congbin's army was in a state of confusion, the young general in white robes abandoned his bow and charged at Zhang Congbin's place, Hou Yi and Du Chongwei took advantage of the opportunity to cover up and kill him.

As a result, the rebellious army was defeated, and Zhang Congbin was also beaten off by Bai Pao Xiao in the chaos, and was captured alive immediately.

After the battle, Du Chongwei salivated with envy, his eyes flashed fiercely, and he looked like he wanted to snatch the great achievement of capturing and killing Zhang Congbin.

Everyone knows how much credit it takes to capture this person back to Kaifeng!
However, An Shouzhong, An Shenqi's fake son, persuaded Du Chongwei.

"This is the adopted son of Hexi Jiedu Zhang Sikong. He once took the head of He Chuan, the commander of the Guanzhong Rebellion, among the ten thousand armies. He has the rank of Xue Baipao in the army. He has the courage that is undeserved!"

When Du Chongwei heard that he had a foothold, he was even more courageous, so he stopped thinking about grabbing credit.

At the same time, the military newspapers in Guanzhong and Luoyang flew to Kaifeng like a snowflake.

(End of this chapter)