Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 381 This is a magical era
Changze City, here will later become the garrison of the Xixia Youzhou Jianing Army Division, which is the new Youzhou established by Li Yuanhao after he abolished the old Youzhou north of the Mu Us Desert.

Changze City is not big, and Li Yiyin, who ran here, left more than a thousand people to guard the city, hoping to delay Zhang Zhao's pursuers, and Zhang Zhao released two thousand mirror iron mountain miners.

After these miners have experienced what real hell is in Jingtieshan, they cherish the days when they are not mining.

Losing one's life is just a moment, and going to the mine is an eternal torture.

Therefore, these miners attacked the city desperately with ants, and two thousand united archers wore light armor to keep up, followed by heavy infantry troops from various towns to supervise the battle.

Under heavy urging, within two quarters of an hour, Changze City was captured, and hundreds of soldiers from the Pingxia tribe and hundreds of officers above Huochang in the more than [-] Dingnan Army were all executed.

Zhang Zhao stationed troops in Changze City, and sent out cavalry to loot everywhere, and wiped out all the tribes that refused to submit to Changze City in person.

At this time, on the territory of the Dingnan Army, the people who lived were basically the Dangxiang tribe who moved east from the Shanzhou area in the past. Even the Qiangs in Hengshan actually migrated slowly after that.

Compared with the Central Plains, the order here is more dependent on force.

Although there were soldiers in the Central Plains of the Five Dynasties, that is, the Caotou King, there was still some order.

But in Dingnanjunyin Xia Yousui, people's definition of strength is more straightforward.

If it is in the Central Plains, Zhang Zhao must show righteousness at this time, restrain the soldiers, spread benevolence and righteousness, so that heroes from all over the world will come to vote, Li Shu will feel at ease, and if the whole family does not cause turmoil to flee, then this place will be settled and belong to you.

But if Zhang Zhao did this in Yinxia Yousui, uh, these party members and Qiang people would definitely think it was a fool.

They will take this gentle method for granted, thinking that you are asking for them, just like the Later Tang Dynasty who came to attack Xiazhou five years ago, they are regarded as outsiders destined to be consumed.

At the beginning, An Congjin and Yao Yanchou didn't understand this truth. As a result, Li Yichao summoned Dangxiang and the Qiang cavalry to cut off the retreat. The food and grass were not enough, so they had to retreat to Yanzhou in embarrassment.

And Zhang Zhao is not them, the Guiyi army has been trapped in Tubo for hundreds of years, it can be said that among the current Han people, they know how to deal with Dangxiang, Zhuqiang, Uighur and other tribes best.

If you want to show kindness, you have to kneel down and beg you, and then you will give alms.

At the beginning, if you rush up to win over, people will only think you are a fool who doesn't understand the market.

So Zhang Zhao didn't spread benevolence and righteousness as much as when he entered Guanzhong. He even collected the corpses of the refugees and gave medicines and food in the rest.

Instead, all the light and heavy cavalry were released directly, along the line from Changze City to Xiazhou, from Hongliu River to Mu Us Sandy Land and then to Helan Mountain, and directly adopted a carpet-style encirclement and suppression.

For the tribe that is willing to surrender, let Hao Chief himself or his son bring the knights from the tribe to Changze City to wait for his service.

For those who refused to surrender, all adult men were executed, women and children were escorted to Yanzhou, cattle, sheep, horses and mules were looted, and the crops in the field were taken away, and all the crops that could not be taken away were burned.

The effect was remarkable. Within a few days, the tribes in Qingyanchi, Wuyan City, Helan Mountain and other places couldn't sit still, and came to Changze City to kneel down one after another, begging for mercy from King Zhang.

At this time, Zhang Zhao reluctantly accepted their loyalty, bestowed Jinbo sugar tea to appease, and let the brave knights in the tribe come to listen to them, and these tribes obediently became Zhang Zhao's subordinates.

The party members who were deeply involved with the Dingnan Army and still missed the kindness of the brothers Tuoba Sizhong and Tuoba Sigong chose to lead their troops northward to unite around Li Yiyin in Xiazhou.

So far, Li Yiyin did not need to fortify the walls and clear the fields. Zhang Zhao helped him to fortify the walls and clear the fields. From Changze City to Xiazhou City, the road for tens of miles was almost uninhabited.

Moreover, Li Yiyin soon understood that fortifying the wall and clearing the field would not work for Zhang Zhao.

Five years ago, the Tang court crusaded against them, and the reason why they were able to succeed was by strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness.

That's because Yao Yanchou's [-]-strong army has only [-] cavalry, and the entire army has no more than [-] mules and horses.

All the food, grass and military equipment had to go from Ningzhou against the horses to the river, and from the Qizhou against the Luohe River, and the price was extremely high.

A stone of rice transported from Guanzhong to the front line of Xiazhou does not count as the risk of being attacked.

But Zhang Zhao came from Lanzhou, the nearest Huizhou to Yanzhou was only [-] miles away, and he could still walk more than [-] miles by water to Feng'an County, which was Zhongning County in later Ningxia.

Even the heavy infantry in Zhang Zhao's army are mounted infantry, with [-] to [-] mules and horses, and more than [-] camels.

Not only can it prevent the Dingnan army from attacking and disturbing the logistics supplies, but it can also greatly facilitate transportation. It is completely overthinking to deal with the Guiyi army by strengthening the walls and clearing the fields.

Therefore, there is no need for Zhang Zhao to rush to Xiazhou city at all. He is waiting here for his 70,000 people, [-] Yi Cong Xiaoqi, and [-] shi of food, and then surrounds Xiazhou with [-] people and horses. Play slowly.

If before this, Li Yiyin abandoned Xiazhou City because she couldn't bear the pressure, that would be the best ending.

And during the waiting period, Zhang Zhao was not idle, and there were still three things that needed to be settled before the Dingnan army could be settled.

The first is the Yanzhou Zhangwu Army Jiedushi and the Yanzhou Baoda Army Jiedushi who are next to Xiazhou, and the rest are the Hedong Jiedushi, and Liu Zhiyuan stayed behind in Beijing.

Because if the court of the later Jin Dynasty wanted to intervene, its troops must be drawn from these three places.

Among them, Yanzhou Zhangwu Army and Yanzhou Baoda Army are the closest to the south of Xiazhou, but their strength is relatively weaker.

The location of Taiyuan and Xiazhou, where the Hedong Jiedushi is located, is only more than [-] miles away, and it is also a powerful vassal of the imperial court.

If Shi Jingtang is determined not to let Zhang Zhao swallow the Dingnan army, he will definitely let Liu Zhiyuan send troops, so these three issues must be resolved first.

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Yanzhou, that is, Yan'an, the revolutionary holy land of the Republic, the ecological environment of northern Shaanxi at this time is completely different from that of later generations.

In later generations, northern Shaanxi was often a piece of yellow, the wind was blowing sand, and it was poor and barren.

But at this time, Yanzhou, Yanzhou, Xiazhou, etc. are located in the northern Shaanxi area, and the environment is actually quite good, with lush green trees and convenient irrigation.

The fields in the valley are criss-crossed, and the hillsides are full of cattle and sheep. It can't be called a land of fish and rice, but it can be said to be relatively rich, at least the output is good.

The Zhangwu Army in Yanzhou was formerly the Baosai Army of the Weibei Jiedushi in the Tang Dynasty.

Later, the Weibei Jiedushi was split at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and gradually formed the current Yanzhou Zhangwu Army Jiedushi and Fuzhou Baoda Army Jiedushi.

The situation in Yanzhou at this time is very delicate. At the beginning, it was Yang Hanzhang, the Jiedu envoy, who responded to the call of the last emperor Li Congke and prepared to send troops to serve the king.

However, just after the team left Yanzhou City, the governor of Fangzhou, Liu Jingyan, a local tycoon, took the opportunity to incite the soldiers to make trouble, and killed Yang Hanzhang to stand on his own.

Liu Jingyan originally thought that killing Yang Hanzhang, the king of Qin, would be meritorious to Shi Jingtang, and he must be the envoy of Yanzhou Zhangwu Army Jiedu.

As a result, Shi Jingtang transferred Kang Chengxun, a Sogdian general from the three Daibei tribes, to serve as Jiedu envoy.

Naturally, Liu Jingyan was not reconciled, so he once again provoked the soldiers of the Zhangwu Army to make trouble. Kang Chengxun couldn't suppress the bullet and fled to Fuzhou.

Shi Jingtang had no choice but to let Liu Jingyan serve as the envoy of Yanzhou Zhangwu Army.

But the matter was not over yet, Liu Jingyan got the coveted Jiedushi, and immediately sent his confidant Xiong Hao to the court to thank him.

Who knew that this Xiong Hao turned out to be a loyal minister who never forgets the emperor and is concerned about the country. This person is not only good at poetry, but also very knowledgeable.

After he met Shi Jingtang, he immediately told Shi Jingtang the truth about Yanzhou, only then did Shi Jingtang know that the two mutinies in Yanzhou were caused by Liu Jingyan.

Xiong Hao thought that after Shi Jingtang found out, the imperial court would definitely send troops to attack Liu Jingyan, but as a result, Shi Jingtang, a scumbag, just wanted to be safe and secure the emperor's throne under his ass, and did not want to attack Liu Jingyan.

This made Xiong Hao miserable. In order not to be harmed by Liu Jingyan, this old man named Jiuhuashan had no choice but to hide his name and run away.

This was actually related to Zhang Zhao. At that time, Zhang Zhao had just defeated Li Congyu. Shi Jingtang was afraid that Zhang Zhaolai would not leave in Guanzhong, so he quickly appointed Liu Jingyan as the governor of Binning.

He also promised that as long as Liu Jingyan obeyed the arrangement, he would forget the past. Liu Jingyan was afraid of the imperial court's crusade, so he agreed by borrowing the donkey from the slope.

However, although Liu Jingyan obeyed the order to leave, he was still not very comfortable, so before leaving, he deliberately married his granddaughter to Gao Yunquan of the Gao family, the largest wealthy family in the area.

This Gao family has been a military general for generations. Since the end of Tang Dynasty, the family has been the tooth general of Yanzhou.

Gao Yunquan's uncle, Gao Wanxing, was an official in the Houliang and Later Tang dynasties, from being an official to the school's Taishi, Zhongshuling, and concurrently serving as the governor of Yanzhou Zhangwu Army and Yanzhou Baoda Army. He was named King of Beiping and belonged to the local tyrants.

It's just that after Gao Wanxing's death, the descendants are not very strong and temporarily declined.

Once Liu Jingyan married them, one had power and the other had soldiers, and they kept Yanzhou's operations tightly closed.

At this time, Ding Shenqi, the new Yanzhou Zhangwu Army Jiedu envoy, arrived, and he became numb at first sight.

Good guy, the Zhangwu Army only recognizes Liu Jingyan who has left, the officials of the government office, and the local tyrants only recognize the Gao family, and their interests in both military and political aspects have been wiped out by them.

However, the people of Yanzhou were unlucky. If they met an ordinary Jiedu envoy, they would accept their fate and get transferred in a few years.

But this Ding Shenqi is not a good person, known for being cruel and arrogant, how can he bear this.

The Zhangwu army didn't care about him, right? Ding Shenqi decided to pay for it and recruit more than a thousand ex-department and outlaws, all of whom were in armor, and went straight to the f---ing job.

It is also a characteristic of this time that Jiedu envoys bring their private soldiers and mingle with the soldiers of the imperial court under their command.

When Cao Yanjing rushed to Yanzhou with dozens of armored soldiers, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

Ding Shenqi's private soldiers occupied the west city, and the Zhangwu army's tooth soldiers occupied the east city. Between the two cities, a moat was dug through the whole city, more than two meters deep, and a wooden wall was built around the moat.

On weekdays in Yanzhou, only one small gate was opened on the east and west sides, and most of the residents in the city fled.

Outside the city of Yanzhou, there are township regiments in the four fields, and the regiments practice self-defense, because both sides of the confrontation in the city still have their own supporters, and they will often go out of the city to fight the grass valleys of the opponent's supporters.

Cao Yanjing's eyeballs are protruding, this is really Nima's magic!It is not uncommon for Zhangwu Army and Ding Jieshuai to fight each other, but it is the only one in the world to directly fight each other in Yanzhou City.

(End of this chapter)