Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 502 Do your best and listen to the destiny (please subscribe!)

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At the end of August, Liu Yanqing led the problematic army to the Hejian Mansion with great difficulty.

Here, Liu Yanqing met Tong Guan and Cai You.

Tong Guan is Liu Yanqing's old superior, so he didn't show politeness to Liu Yanqing, and directly introduced the enemy's situation to Liu Yanqing straight to the point, saying: "At present, the main force of Khitan still exists, and the fighting power is still very strong. To fight against them, we must preserve our strength and fight steadily."

In fact, Tong Guan also wanted to attack Yanjing together with the Jurchen, so as to ensure that Yanjing would be defeated in one battle.

After all, Tong Guan has led soldiers for more than 50 years, and he knows better than anyone else that even though they have an army of [-] to [-], in fact, only the Western Army, which is less than [-], can fight, and the other troops are completely for display. , No, it should be said to be a burden.

But Tong Guan couldn't say it clearly, because he didn't want to take this responsibility.

Liu Yanqing was also very uncertain about fighting the Liao army, especially after he brought this problematic army all the way, he said: "The Khitan is not Fang La, the Khitan is a gold and iron horse, and it is not easy to deal with."

Cai You briefly explained the situation of the army stationed to Liu Yanqing: "Now the army has basically assembled, and the troops are divided into two groups. One is stationed in the ancient city, and the other is stationed in the Guangxin Army. Uncle Ping (Liu Guangshi) has gone to the Guangxin Army. Now, General Liu will go to the ancient city."

At this time, Liu Fan, the staff officer, said worriedly: "Yanjing is not easy to take, and it is not easy to keep if it is taken. We should plan earlier."

Ever since Liu Fan complained about being a teacher, Tong Guan looked down on Liu Fan more and more, especially after Liu Fan didn't recruit Liu Ziyu back. Therefore, Tong Guan felt that Liu Fan's words were very harsh, so he immediately made up his mind to send Liu Ziyu back. Liu Fan was transferred from the Xuanfu Division.

Tong Guan wrote to Wang Wei, requesting that Liu Kai be transferred away, and Yu Wenxuzhong be transferred to the Xuanfu Division as a staff officer.

Wang Wei believes that Liu Wei is also a rare military talent. When Xixia invaded, Liu Fa, a general of the Western Army, was unfortunately killed. Liu Wei once acted as a commander, carefully organized a counterattack, and defeated the enemy of Xixia invasion in one fell swoop. Megatron border, now the war to regain Yanjing The start is about to start, it is better for Liu Fan to stay in Hebei.

Therefore, Wang Wei transferred Liu Kai to be the appeasement envoy of Zhendingfu Road and also know Zhendingfu-this position is actually more powerful than being a staff officer in the Xuanfu Division.

After Liu Fan took office in Zhending Mansion, he immediately recruited brave fighters (namely death squads) and formed local armed forces to cooperate with the Northern Expedition of the army. Now it is not Li Yanjie who is the first to take up the post. General Yue Fei, who is only 20 years old, came to apply for the recruitment, and then passed the selection , was appointed by Liu Fan as a small captain, and then began his military career.

Yu Wenxuzhong, who succeeded Liu Fan, set off immediately after receiving the appointment, and inspected the military situation of the counties along the way.

After arriving at Xuanfu Division in Xiongzhou, Yu Wenxuzhong went to Guangsheng Army and Gucheng respectively to inspect the situation of the army.

After returning to the Xuanfu Division, Yu Wenxuzhong said to Tong Guan: "The military situation is not optimistic. There are serious problems in material reserves, siege equipment, and morale in the army."

In fact, Tong Guan knew about these situations and reported them all to Zhao Ji—Hebei has had no wars for nearly a hundred years, the long-term peaceful years, and corruption from top to bottom have made the combat effectiveness of the Hebei army so low that it cannot go offline.

This is also the main reason why Tong Guan hopes to attack Yanjing with Jin Jun.

Tong Guan said to Yu Wenxu: "Do your best and obey the destiny."

Yu Wenxuzhong felt that since he was a marching staff officer, he had to manage his own affairs in his position and fulfill his duties.

Therefore, Yuwen Xuzhong wrote a memorial "On the Benefits of Recovering Yanshan Mountain" overnight:

Now according to Fengrui's calculation, if you want to restore Yanshan Mountain completely or send people to accept the land, you will be surrounded by large soldiers. If you take time, it will be solid, but you are born barbarians, and you can't be completely destroyed. Know the enemy and know yourself, and you should plan the perfect strategy... (Too much content , I won’t go into details one by one), in short, what Yuwen Xuzhong meant was that for the sake of the country, it is necessary to seek permanent comfort, and making friends with Khitan is the best strategy once and for all.

Wang Fu was furious after reading Yu Wenxuzhong's memorial!
He believes that Yu Wenxuzhong is a scholar who doesn't understand politics or military affairs.

Wang Fu intends to impeach Yu Wenxuzhong to Zhao Ji and punish Yu Wenxuzhong severely.

However, Wang Fu then received a letter from Tong Guan, in which Tong Guan interceded for Yu Wenxu.

For Tong Guan's sake, Wang Fu withheld Yuwenxuzhong's memorial and did not report it to Zhao Ji, but demoted Yuwenxuzhong to Jiyingdian Compilation and let him stay in the Xuanfu Division as a marching staff officer .

Yu Wenxuzhong was a native of Chengdu, Sichuan. He had three brothers. The older brother was named Yuwen Cuizhong, and the younger brother was named Yuwen Shizhong. They were all officials in the Song Dynasty.

Yuwen Xuzhong's original name was actually Yuwen Huangzhong, and Zhao Ji changed his name to Yuwen Xuzhong—Zhao Ji seemed to have a penchant for changing people's names. He changed the name of Zhong Shidao and Wang Fu.

In fact, Li Yan also has this problem.

Yu Wenxuzhong didn't back down because of his demotion. He continued to write some memorials analyzing the Northern Expedition, and successively "proposed eleven strategies and presented twelve proposals", but Tong Guan suppressed them all and did not report them.

By doing this, Tong Guan was actually protecting Yu Wenxu.

Tong Guan liked Yu Wenxuzhong very much (for the next few years, Yu Wenxuzhong followed Tong Guan and served as a staff officer until the year Tong Guan fled from Taiyuan to the capital), so he has been protecting Yuwen Xuzhong, otherwise Yu Wenxuzhong followed in Song Zhao's footsteps and was exiled by Zhao Ji and Wang Fu who wanted to regain Yanjing.

A series of doubts, countermeasures and suggestions about the Northern Expedition by Yu Wenxu were all detained by Tong Guan in the Xuanfu Division, so it seemed that they had no impact on the imperial court or the generals of the Northern Expedition.

On this day, Liu Yanqing, the commander of the Northern Expedition Army, left the ancient city and went north to Baigou River to observe the enemy's situation.

I saw that the Liao Kingdom on the other side of the river was very quiet, but occasionally I could see Liao army sentries walking back and forth.

Liu Yanqing preliminarily judged that the main force of the Liao army had retreated, and he planned to send troops across the river to test it out.

At dawn the next day, Liu Yanqing dispatched Zheng Jianxiong, Li Shao and other generals to take advantage of the thick fog on the river as a cover to lead troops across the river and capture dozens of Liao soldiers stationed in the bridgehead in one fell swoop.

After interrogation, Liu Yanqing learned that because there was no police situation at the Baigou River boundary for several months, the main force of the Liao army had indeed retreated, leaving only a small part of the troops stationed in Xincheng.

Liu Yanqing was very happy about this, which proved his judgment was correct.

In fact, Xiao Qian and Yelu Dashi had already returned to Yanjing when Yelu Chun was seriously ill.

Later, when Yelu Chun passed away, Xiao Qian and Yelu Dashi were too busy to "make plans to make Empress Xiao, and had no time to come to Baigou".

At present, Xiao Yelu, the Niulan Supervisor of the Southwest Road Deputy Commander, is responsible for the defensive task on the Song-Liao border, and his troops are very limited.

Xiao Yulu was stationed in Xincheng. He hadn't found the Song army in the ancient city area on the south bank of the Baigou River. Organized to harass the Song Army in the Guangxin Army area.

Liu Guangshi is only 34 years old this year, young and energetic, far from the Liu Paopao who will be smoothed by the years in the future.

Seeing that the enemy was empty, Liu Guangshi decisively ordered the generals Ji Jing, Zhao Ming, Ren Ming, etc. to lead their troops out of the city to face the battle.

Tong Guan was very happy to learn that he immediately went to the court to ask for credit for Liu Guangshi.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed when he heard the news, and issued an edict to promote Liu Guangshi to be the envoy of the mighty army. The envoy is a military officer with the rank of military officer, only one level lower than Jiedushi, and already belongs to the rank of senior military officer.

It can be seen from this that Zhao Ji "loves Xi very much" to Liu Guangshi.

Perhaps Tong Guan was a little uneasy and handed over all the army to the command of Liu Yanqing and Liu Guangshi and his son.

Soon, Tong Guan transferred Yang Keshi, the observation envoy of Huazhou, to the Xuanfu Division to wait for the envoy.

A few days later, Tong Guan arranged for Yang Keshi to garrison the Ansu Army.

At this time, the Han people in Yandi generally believed that the Liao Kingdom was about to perish, and that Li Yan or the Jurchens would come over soon, so they all intended to return to the Song Dynasty in the south.

In the Battle of Baigouhe, although the Song army was defeated, Yang Keshi's bravery was still remembered by the Han people in Yandi.

Therefore, hearing that Yang Keshi had returned, the people of Yandi, who had nowhere to go, defected to the Ansu army one after another.

This aroused Liu Guangshi's jealousy and dissatisfaction.

In fact, this is only one of the reasons, and the main reason is that Yang Keshi came to divide the power between father and son.

But Liu Guangshi also knew that Yang Keshi was Tong Guan's direct descendant, so although he was dissatisfied, there was nothing he could do.

but--

The seeds of dissatisfaction have been planted, and resentment will germinate sooner or later...

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(End of this chapter)