Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 850 Old Hooligan (please subscribe!)

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As graceful as a frightened bird, graceful as a wandering dragon, Rongyao Qiuju, Huamao Chunsong.It seems as if the moon is covered by light clouds, and the snow flutters like the flowing wind.Looking at it from a distance, it is as bright as the sun rising from the morning glow; when observing it by force, it is as bright as a lotus coming out of Lubo.

As soon as Ren Shi entered the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Li Yan's eyes lit up!
Mrs. Ren is definitely a peerless beauty. Among Li Yan's [-] beauties in the harem, there are probably no more than ten fingers who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Mrs. Ren.

This made Li Yan very surprised, but at the same time he thought: "No wonder that old man Ren Dejing dared to ask for my support with a daughter."

Ren Shi came to Li Yan, bowed gracefully, and then said in a voice like a nightingale: "Minister Ren, pay homage to Your Majesty."

"The voice is so perfect!" Li Yan thought.

Li Yan said: "Get up."

After Ren got up, Li Yan said again: "Raise your head."

After listening to Ren's words, she slowly raised her head.

If the shoulders are shaved, the waist is as usual.The neck is extended and the item is beautiful, the quality is exposed, the fragrance is not added, and the lead is beautiful.Yunji E'e, eyebrows repaired and juicy, red lips are bright outside, white teeth are bright inside.Bright eyes are good at gazing, dimpled to support the right, graceful and graceful, with a quiet appearance and a leisurely body.Tender and charming, charming in language.The hands are like catkins, and the skin is like creamy fat.The collar is like a grub, and the teeth are like a gourd rhinoceros.The gnat's head is crescent, and the beautiful eyes look forward to it.

This Ren family, from top to bottom, is beautiful everywhere, it is simply the reincarnation of Luoshen.

This made Li Yan, who was used to seeing beautiful women, couldn't help but be moved!

After staring at Mrs. Ren for a while, Li Yancai said again: "Your father gave you to me, are you willing?"

Ren said without any affectation: "Marriage matters, parents' orders, matchmaker's words, how can we allow a little girl to decide."

Hearing this, Li Yan praised: "What a sensible and good woman!" Then he glanced at Mrs. Ren again, and Li Yan said again: "Another rare beauty in the world, um... so, I won't let you Slowly promoted from concubine, I will accept you as a concubine directly, and I will give you... "Concubine Ren"."

in fact--

These are all excuses, even if Mrs. Ren is not pretty or doesn't respond well, Li Yan will find other excuses to give her the concubine Ren.

Not only did he bestow the position of Concubine Ren, Li Yan also ordered someone to send Ren Dejing a rather generous gift in return.

Ren Dejing received Li Yan's gift in return, and heard the report from the person he sent that Li Yan had made Ren's concubine and kept looking at Ren's signboard before they left, Ren Dejing smiled knowingly.

Soon, Ren Dejing sent someone close to him to have a secret discussion with Xiao Heda.

At the same time, Ren Dejing began to use bloody means to cleanse those generals who did not obey his orders, and placed his cronies in various important positions.

After several secret talks, Ren Dejing and Xiao Heda finally reached an agreement - Xiao Heda helped Ren Dejing seize Xixia, Ren Dejing ceded the west of Helan Mountain to Xiao Heda, and helped Xiao Heda restore Liao Dynasty.

After reaching a consensus, Ren Dejing and Xiao Heda made a blood alliance, and then joined forces to kill Xingqing Mansion.

All the way to fight back under the banner of "suspending the people and punishing crimes", Ren Dejing wanted to recruit the rebels all the way on the grounds of Li's immorality and even the anger of the sky.

After hearing the news, rebels from Weizhou, Jingzhou, Dingzhou, Fu'er and other places came to join Ren Dejing's anti-Xia army.

When Ren Dejing came to Xiazhou, he had more than 30 troops under his command. The momentum was so strong that it frightened the monarchs and ministers of Xixia, and made the Xixia court panic from top to bottom!

Li Renxiao hurriedly invited Brother Li Cha, Li Renzhong, and Li Renli who had been alienated by him before, and asked them to find a way to help the building turn the tide!
Veteran brother Li Cha, without saying a word, organized an army, and then personally led an army of [-] to Xiazhou to meet the enemy.

And Li Renzhong and Li Renli actively assisted Li Renxiao to stabilize people's hearts regardless of previous suspicions.

In the beginning, Li Renxiao supported Ren Dejing just to get rid of the control of brother Li Cha, Li Renzhong, and Li Renli on him. As a result, Ren Dejing became bigger, and now he has become a scourge.

At this time, Li Renxiao realized how young he was, and the assistant minister left by his father Li Qianshun was more reliable.

Brother Li Cha is a veteran of many battles. Although he has fewer soldiers and horses, he defended the city of Xiazhou, temporarily holding back the footsteps of Ren Dejing's rebels.

but--

Everyone knows that Brother Li Cha can only hold back for a while, and it is impossible to hold back the footsteps of Ren Dejing's rebels forever.

First of all, Ren Dejing's military talent is also very outstanding, not even worse than that of Brother Li Cha. At the beginning, because Ren Dejing had suppressed many rebellions and uprisings, Li Renxiao wanted Ren Dejing to replace Brother Li Cha to suppress Xiao Heda was rebellious.

Secondly, Ren Dejing has too many troops in his hands. If he can't defeat the Xiazhou City that Brother Li Cha is defending, Ren Dejing will probably choose to surround Xiazhou City, and then bypass Xiazhou to attack Xingqing government.

Therefore, Li Renxiao, Li Renzhong, Li Renli and others had to take advantage of the opportunity that Brother Li Cha had finally won to find a way to solve Ren Dejing's rebellion.

There are two ways to solve Ren Dejing's rebellion, either talk or fight.

Judging from the current situation, it is impossible to talk about the appointment. Even if Li Renxiao gave all the west of Xiazhou to Ren Dejing, Ren Dejing probably would not do it. The key point is that Li Renxiao cannot give all the west of Xiazhou to Ren Dejing. Ren Dejing - if given, Li Renxiao's Xixia Emperor will be considered as the end.

So, can only fight.

But if you want to fight, you must have soldiers and horses.

Although everyone in Xixia can fight, the current situation is that not everyone is willing to fight for Li Renxiao - Li Renxiao's foundation is too shallow. Natural disasters continued, and the people of Xixia already doubted Li Renxiao's rule. Many people even hoped that the prestigious Ren Dejing would replace Li Renxiao. Therefore, Li Renxiao could not form a militia at all.

Can the Xixia court transfer soldiers and horses?

The answer is... yes.

Xixia has an army of 10,000+ in the Hengshan area-this 10,000+ army is the most elite army of Xixia and the most loyal army of Li.

Moreover, among the 10,000+ army, there are three ace troops of Xixia—Iron Harrier, Bubazi and Poxi Army.

Not much to say about the iron kite, it is the strongest iron cavalry in Xixia, and it is also the first-class armored cavalry in the world.

Step postscript.

As the name suggests, this is an infantry unit.

But this Bubazi is definitely not an ordinary infantry.

Those who walk up and down hillsides, enter and exit streams, are the most able to surpass heights and distances, and walk lightly. When encountering enemies in deep and dangerous valleys, they often use bubazi for stabbing and concealing attacks.

To put it bluntly, this postscript is a special mountain army just like Dazhong's Tabai army.

The Hengshan area at the junction of Xixia and Dazhong is full of mountains, hills and valleys. Even the junction of Xixia, Liao and Tubo is full of mountains, hills and valleys. In the battle with large and medium countries, as Xixia The main iron harrier is a cavalry unit and cannot make good use of its specialties. Therefore, the Xixia people formed special forces such as Bubazi to fight with the iron harrier.

In addition, the source of Xixia Bubazi's soldiers mainly came from the Hengshan area, so it is also called "Hengshan Bubazi".

Po Xijun.

The name is very strange, obviously a problem of language translation, as for what it means, no one knows anymore.

The number of Poxi army is not large, only more than [-] people per horse.

Why does the Poxi Army use "horse" as the unit?

That's because the Poxi Army is a camel army.

You may ask, can a camel fight?

Yes, on the high slopes of the loess, a camel can fight.

Compared with horses, camels have no advantages other than better endurance, so people seldom use them to fight.

So how did the Xixia people use camels?

In fact, this is inseparable from the development of long-range attack weapons.

A long time ago, long-range attack weapons such as trebuchets and bed crossbows have been widely used, especially in siege and charge, these weapons have played a great role, and nomads have suffered greatly.

Later, the clever Xixia people were inspired by it, and they made a perfect combination of trebuchet and camel.

The advantage of the trebuchet is that it has great destructive power, but it is very large and cumbersome.

So, the Xixia people thought of making it smaller and making it into a pocket version to shoot the enemy.

There is also the problem of movement. Xixia's camel happens to be a mobile machine with a good load, and the two natural humps of the camel can just be used to fix the trebuchet.

So the Xixia people thought of using camels and trebuchets to build a mobile long-range attack force.

This is Poxi Army.

The Xixia army usually uses foot and cavalry, and coordinates from far and near. First, they use the whirlwind cannon of the Poxi army to attack from a long distance. After the enemy approaches, they use the iron kite to make a frontal assault. After breaking through the enemy's formation, the infantry is mixed behind the iron kite. Take advantage of the situation and kill the enemy.

This tactic of the Xixia often caught their enemies by surprise.

Of course, the infantry here is not necessarily Bubazi-depending on the terrain, Bubazi are mainly deployed in places with mountains, hills, and river valleys.

Because Dazhong has been pressing hard in the past few years, Xixia has deployed its most elite troops, including the three ace troops, to the Hengshan area.

If all these troops were transferred back, they should be able to suppress Ren Dejing's rebels, and at worst, it would give Li Shi the capital to sit down and talk with Ren Dejing.

But the problem is that if all these troops are transferred back, it is tantamount to giving up the Hengshan area, which is the most important to Xixia, to Dazhong.

The Hengshan area is not only steep and difficult to attack, the Xia army can directly block the traffic route from Tianshui to Datong by relying on the danger of Hengshan. The goal of the breakthrough, to put it simply, the Hengshan area to Xixia is equivalent to the Yanyun area to the Northern Song Dynasty. If Xixia loses the Hengshan area, Dazhong’s attack on Xixia is the same as the Liao Kingdom’s defeat of the Northern Song Dynasty that lost Yanyun. You can go there if you want, and it is Yimapingchuan, and you can reach the capital of Xixia in a few days. The key is that this Hengshan area is also the most important production base of grain, horse, iron and tea in Xixia, and it is also the best and most popular in Xixia. An important source of troops.

If Xixia cedes the Hengshan area to Dazhong, then with Dazhong's strong military power, the demise of Xixia may be a matter of time.

however--

If the soldiers and horses in the Hengshan area are not withdrawn, Xixia may perish faster.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Renxiao finally made a decision to withdraw the [-] troops from the Hengshan area, leaving only some troops to guard the dangerous places.

At the same time, Li Renxiao personally wrote a letter to Li Yan, asking Li Yan to support the Li family in Xixia—as for asking Li Yan to send troops to help him and kill Li Renxiao, Li Renxiao dared not. One piece is gone.

At the beginning, when he sent someone to return the salute to Ren Dejing, Li Yan asked Xu Guanzhong to inform Wu Jie to pay close attention to Xixia's movements, and delegated power to Wu Jie: it is time to strike, to strike decisively.

In order not to transfer all the horses of the Western Army to the Expeditionary Army and delay the Western Army's expedition to Xia, the imperial court transferred most of the cavalry from the First Military Region and even Li Yan's pro-army Tabai Army to the Fifth Military Region and handed it over to Wu Jie. command.

Knowing that the imperial court wanted to recover Xixia, and that Xixia had given Dazhong such a good opportunity, Wu Jie actively prepared, and secretly ordered the Zhejia army at the forefront to pay close attention to Xixia's dynamics.

Soon, the Zhe family found out that Ren Dejing, who had gone to the west of Helan Mountain to suppress the rebellion, had rebelled, and joined forces with Xiao Heda to kill him back.

After that, there were more and more news of Ren Dejing's rebellion.

In less than three months, Zhejia found out that Ren Dejing had recruited rebel troops from Weizhou, Jingzhou, Dingzhou, Fuer and other places, with more than 30 troops, and had attacked Xiazhou.

Next, the Xixia court sent Brother Li Cha to lead 2 horses to Xiazhou City to prevent Ren Dejing's rebels from advancing eastward.

Not long after, the Zhe family discovered that the Xia army in the Hengshan area showed signs of mobilization.

Zhe Keqiu hurriedly sent this important news back to Wu Jie, and conveyed his judgment that it was possible for Xixia to transfer the Xia army in the Hengshan area back to King Qin, and his suggestion, which was to attack decisively to seize the Hengshan area. And send it to Wu Jie.

In fact, at this time, the spies in Dazhong in Xixia had sent back the accurate news that the Xixia court was going to transfer the Xia army in the Hengshan area back to King Qin to the court and Wu Jie respectively.

In other words, Wu Jie now only needs to decide whether to attack the Hengshan area or not.

For Wu Jie, this decision is not difficult to make - first of all, this is definitely the best time for Dazhong to recover Xixia, and it may be the only chance.Secondly, although Wu Jie had the merit of regaining Sichuan and Shaanxi, how could this merit compare with the recovery of Xixia?
Therefore, Wu Jie quickly began to deploy, and secretly dispatched the army to the Hengshan area.

At this moment, the imperial court sent Wu Jie a letter—a "personal letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan.

In this "personal letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan, Li Renxiao cried to Li Yan about the hardships of being an emperor, and said that he no longer wanted to be an emperor, but wanted to be an ordinary person, and then repeatedly begged his uncle Li Yan Yan sent troops to wipe out the "rebels" in the Hengshan area, and went to Xingqing Mansion to rescue him. After that, he was willing to give Xixia to his uncle Li Yan, just for the sake of being rich and honored all his life...

This "personal letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan is of course a forgery. The real personal letter written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan is just to ask Li Yan to support Xixia, condemn and scare Ren Dejing, so that Ren Dejing With some scruples, let the people of Xixia know that Dazhong is still on their Li family's side, so as to stabilize the people of Xixia.

But Li Yan, an old hooligan, really couldn't find an excuse to send troops. In the end, he could only teach Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian to forge a "personal letter" from Li Renxiao based on the personal letter written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan.

This "personal letter" written by Li Renxiao has also become one of the few excuses for later generations to attack Li Yan.

It's a bit far off.

The imperial court even found an excuse for Wu Jie, why would Wu Jie hesitate?

In the autumn of Tietong's fifth year, when Wu Jie received accurate information that the Xia army that had withdrawn from the Hengshan area had already engaged Ren Dejing's rebels, Wu Jie decisively ordered an attack, with the target: the entire Hengshan area.

Although Xixia still has more than 3 troops in the Hengshan area, how can this small force completely defend the huge Hengshan area?

It didn't take long for Wu Song to lead the Tabai Army to break through the Hengshan District and reach the Xixia area, and then Wu Song began to deploy defenses on various main roads to prevent the Xia army from returning to the Hengshan area.

Soon after, Zhe Kecun also led the vanguard of the Zhejia Army through the Hengshan area, and then Zhe Kecun cooperated with Wu Song to guard the main roads.

Slowly, more and more Chinese troops passed through the Hengshan area.

After the Chinese army completely cut off the connection between the Hengshan area and Xixia, Wu Jie ordered: Completely clean up the defenders in the Hengshan area and completely occupy the Hengshan area.

As for the battle between Xia Jun and Ren Dejing's rebels, let them fight for a while...

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PS: This is a two-in-one chapter, so that's it for today.

(End of this chapter)