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Chapter 396 Before the War (2)

"Chonggu!" Zhang Dun heard that Tian Shiru and his army had arrived in Yongzhou, and he quickly took Su Ziyuan to greet him.

As soon as they met, he enthusiastically grabbed Tian Shiru's calloused hand and said, "I have been waiting to worship the ancients for a long time!"

"Since Chonggu is here, the matter of Jiaozhi can be settled!"

As early as when he was in Bianjing, Zhang Dun asked the emperor to mobilize Tian Shiru's loyal and victorious rebel army to strengthen the first general Yulong.

This is because the Zhongsheng Rebel Army has rich combat experience in mountains and hills.

It can even be said that the Song Dynasty is the best army at doing this kind of thing.

In the third year of Xining, the rebel army in Sizhou sent troops to Nanping under the order of Sun Gou.

The Loyalty and Victory Rebel Army has made great achievements in Nanping, Luzhou, Jiaozhi, Guangyuan and other places, and has also gained a great reputation.

At that time, Zhang Dun opened Hunan and had a 200-strong crossbow unit of the Zhongsheng Rebel Army under his command.

He had a very good impression of these Sizhou soldiers.

They are loyal and honest, hard-working, able to fight and dare to fight, and most importantly - they are particularly good at climbing mountains.

Now, Tian Shiru personally led [-] nominal troops to Yongzhou.

This gave Zhang Dun a surprising force that could penetrate behind the Jiaozhi soldiers.

Crossing mountains and ridges, overcoming thorns and thorns, this is the specialty of Sizhou soldiers.

Tian Shiru was a little flattered.

He looked at Zhang Dun, who was wearing a purple robe and hanging a goldfish bag, bowed and said, "How dare you, the general, greet me personally as your prime minister?"

The biggest official he has ever seen in his life.

That is Wang Guangzu.

But Wang Guangzu was only a military official, and his military rank was only far away from the county.

The gap between him and the commander-in-chief like Zhang Dun, who is in power and goes out of town, cannot be calculated.

To Tian Shiru, Zhang Dun was like a figure in heaven.

Naturally, he was very excited. Although he wouldn't bow down to him, he was definitely excited.

"You don't have to be polite to worship the ancients." Zhang Dun's temperament is the kind that he can play with anyone. He squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Now that you have worshiped the ancients, the Jiaozhi thief is not far away!"

Tian Shiru felt his forehead heat up, and immediately said: "My lord, when Xining was marching south this time, we also brought over the five hundred warriors who followed Yan Shuai."

"With them here, the geography of Jiaozhi, Guangyuan, Silang and other prefectures will no longer have any problems!"

These people were responsible for paving the way for the main force of the Song Dynasty back then.

They also participated in the Yanda army's siege of Guangyuan Prefecture, and the subsequent battle to siege and kill Prince Hongzhen of Jiaozhi.

They are the people most familiar with the geography of Cochin.

"Good!" Zhang Dun stroked his beard and laughed.

Therefore, the day after Tian Shiru arrived in Yongzhou, Zhang Dun ordered Li Feng, an official in Yongzhou, to go to Jiaozhi and read out the decree of Bianjing - this person volunteered.

reason?

11 years ago, Jiaozhi invaded and killed his parents and two brothers.

Only he, who was in Guizhou at the time, survived.

For more than ten years, Li Feng has been thinking about revenge day and night.

After hearing that the imperial court was recruiting officials and sending envoys to Jiaozhi and reading the emperor's edict, Li Feng was the first to stand up.

When he stood up, he actually wanted to anger the Cochin people.

He knows this very well!I have already realized it.

At the same time, Zhang Dun ordered a formal ban on caravan exchanges between Jiaozhi and closed the trade between Lianzhou, Qinzhou, and Yongzhou districts and Jiaozhi. In the name of the economic envoy, Zhang Dun ordered Cen Ziting to station troops at Kunlun Pass.

This day is Yiwei (the second day of the third month) of the first year of Yuanyou.

On the next day of March Gengshen, the first general of Yulong led by Di Yong arrived in Yongzhou.

The wheels of war began to roll.

……

The people of Cochin were almost astonished when they learned the news that the border trade channel was closed.

The border trading cities of the Song Dynasty, such as Juuli'ai, Huanglangzhou (today's Lang Son), and Menzhou (today's Tongdeng), were all paralyzed.

Panic spread like a virus.

Countless wealthy families in the north of Jiaozhi recalled the eight-year war in Xining at this moment.

The Northern Dynasty army swept across the entire north of Jiaozhi as if entering an uninhabited land.

The troops pointed directly at the Furiang River, and in the north of the Furiang River, they surrounded and annihilated the tens of thousands of troops led by Prince Hongzhen.

The Jiaozhi Hundred Battles Division led by Prince Hongzhen was either wiped out or driven into the Furiang River.

For a time, there were corpses lying in the Fuliang River, and the water did not flow for three days.

And that time, the Song army wiped out countless wealthy families in northern Jiaozhi with thunderous force.

The Liu family, which once showed off its power, suffered a devastating blow.

After the war, they had no choice but to give up Guangyuan and settle in Silang Prefecture. The Yang family took the opportunity to rise.

In other states, the wealthy families loyal to Thang Long Province were also hit hard.

It was not because of the heavy rain that Jiaozhi had been wiped out long ago.

Today, the Northern Dynasties cut off trade routes without warning.

Everyone is beating a drum deep in their hearts.

Then, they got a bolt from the blue.

The emperor of the Northern Dynasties sent envoys to investigate Jiaozhi!

The imperial edict accused Jiaozhi of being rude and disrespectful, insulting the Holy Dynasty and slandering the late emperor. Yang Jingtong of Guangyuan Prefecture killed and plundered the border people of the Song Dynasty, disturbing the New Year peace and happiness of the emperor of the Song Dynasty and the two palaces.

He ordered Jiaozhi to hand over Yang Jingtong and send him to Bianjing for questioning.

Hand over the Jiaozhi poet who slandered the first emperor of the Song Dynasty, and hand over Li Changjie, the Jiaozhi minister who insulted the Holy Dynasty.

It is only half a month for Li Qiande, the king of Jiaozhi County and the envoy of Jinghai Navy, to reply.

Otherwise, Master Wang will plow the courtyard and sweep the holes!
……

Silang Prefecture, a stronghold on the border between Song and Vietnam.

Liu Yin, the magistrate of Langzhou in Jiaozhi, looked at the Northern envoy Li Feng standing in front of him.

He sighed and said: "Your Majesty, do you know that if you go to Shenglong Mansion, will you die or not?"

Li Feng smiled proudly and said nothing.

Liu Yin sighed.

He saw that this man was here to die.

He just wished that Shenglong Mansion would kill him so as to create a better excuse for the Northern Dynasty.

Liu Yin thought of the Song Jun he had seen in Xining and shrank his neck.His father was Liu Ji, the observation envoy of Guangyuan Prefecture at that time. He had three thousand elite soldiers under his command. Before the war, Liu Ji boasted: As long as I am here, Guangyuan Prefecture is impregnable.

Then the impregnable Guangyuan Prefecture could not hold on for three days before being defeated by the army commanded by Song General Yanda.

Only one of the so-called three thousand elites came face to face, and either he was shot into a sieve by the divine arm bow, or his head was cracked open by the iron mace of the Song Army cavalry.

The rest dispersed in a hurry, not even daring to block the road.

Liu Ji took him and the Liu family and knelt at the foot of Guangyuan City to beg for surrender.

That battle made the Liu family fully understand what the gap was!

The elites that the Liu family was proud of were as immature as children in front of the wolf-like and tiger-like Song Army and the Western Army.

so……

Liu Yin thought for a while and then told his left and right: "Send someone to send the envoy from the Kingdom of Great Britain to Guangyuan Prefecture respectfully."

Let Yang Jingtong and Shenglong Mansion have the headache.

It's better for the Liu family to stay out of this kind of thing.

Die quickly if you get ahead.

Last time, his father worked for the Shenglong Mansion and ended up wiping out his entire family fortune.

After the war, Shenglong Mansion blamed his father for surrendering. Not only did it deprive the Liu family of the hereditary observership of Guangyuan Prefecture, they also drove their family out of Guangyuan Prefecture and exiled them to Silang Prefecture on the border between Song and Vietnam. A place where big slap birds don't poop.

Once a war breaks out, with the strength of the Liu family, they should abandon the city and flee into the mountains.

If it hadn't been for the example where the Song army captured the northern part of Jiaozhi last time, they were unable to take possession of them and instead returned them.

Liu Yin might even betray him on the spot and lead the way for the Song army.

As long as the Song army agrees to let him continue to be his local emperor after the war, it will be fine.

……

The news of the closure of trade in the Northern Dynasty had already been sent to Thang Long Mansion by Kuai Ma.

Li Qiande was panicked when he heard this.

"What's going on?" he asked the messenger who came to report the news.

"Your Majesty: It is said that the order was issued by the Northern Dynasty's economic envoy under the decree of Bianjing..." The envoy replied: "It is said that the content of the Northern Dynasty emperor's imperial edict has been circulated in Menzhou."

"What does the imperial edict say?" Li Qiande asked in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty..." The envoy lay on the ground, not daring to answer at all.

"Say!"

"I forgive you for your innocence!"

The messenger then trembled and repeated what he had heard.

After listening, Li Qiande clenched his fists.

What insult to the Hajj?Slander the late emperor?

Excuses, they are all excuses!

As for Yang Jingtong's strategy for Guihua Prefecture?

Guihua Prefecture and Shun'an Prefecture are both the hometown of Jiaozhi, but the Nong family just stole these lands.

Yang Jingtong was just following his order to fight the thief.

What's wrong with this?

If you want to add a crime, why do you have no excuse? !
This sentence was the first thing that came to Li Qiande's mind.

But, he had a question.

Wasn't the Guangxi economic envoy named Miao in the Northern Dynasties always very kind?Haven't you always tried to avoid disputes as much as possible?
What's the situation now?
Then, that night, Li Qiande received the exact news - Song Xuanzhao envoy Li Feng had crossed the border, and Liu Yin, the magistrate of Silang Prefecture, sent people to escort him.

Accompanying this news arrived at the same time, there was also some news coming back from the border.

According to some merchants and followers who fled back from the Northern Dynasties.

They were in the Northern Dynasties and heard that the Emperor of the Northern Dynasties had sent an army southward and that the army had arrived in Guangxi.

It is said that the flag covers the sky and the sun, and the military looks neat.

Many people are saying that it is the Western Army that is going south!

And he is probably the elite of the Western Army!

Just like those Western armies under Guo Kui and Zhao Xi more than ten years ago.

Those murderous demons!
Shenglong Mansion suddenly fell into panic.

Because it is only March and the rainy season in Cochin is still several months away.

Although Shenglong Mansion has the natural insurance of Fuliang River, it can rely on it.

However, across the Fuliang River, more than 200 miles to the north is the Yongping Village of the Northern Dynasties.

As long as the Northern Army crosses Yongping, controls Juili Pass, Menzhou, Huanglangzhou and other strategic locations, and eliminates flanking threats such as Guangyuan Prefecture and Silang Prefecture, they can sweep across the entire Fuliang River just like last time. To the north, the troops approached the Fuliang River.

Even if they were bolder.

Regardless of Silang Prefecture, Guangyuan Prefecture, Sumao Prefecture and other places.

The army marched straight into the Furian River and used light cavalry to make a surprise attack. It only took one day to reach the Furian River.

If they can still find the ferry, they can just cross the river and launch a beheading raid on Thang Long Mansion.

Therefore, Li Qiande issued an urgent order to mobilize all ships in the entire Fuliang River and transfer all ships in the north of the river to the south of the river.

On the other side, he immediately issued an edict and sent people to recall Li Changjie, the Taiwei and the general of the auxiliary country who was patrolling in the south.

Now, only this Dai Viet's sea-fighting Zijin Liang can make him feel safe by sitting in Thang Long Palace.

　Note: There was a BUG in the previous chapter. The current Tian Yougong is probably two or three years older than Pig Knuckle.

　　Therefore, it was later changed to his father.

　　PS, Xining’s southern expedition, the Song Army has two opinions.

　　Guo Kui advocated being prudent and taking things slowly, while Zhao Xi advocated quick success, using light cavalry to quickly penetrate into the hinterland of Jiaozhi. By surprise, they crossed the Fuliang River and directly beheaded Shenglong Mansion, quickly destroying Jiaozhi.

　　In the end, Guo Kui insisted on his own opinion.

　　This is also one of the reasons why Guo Kui was wanted to be questioned after the war.

　　The court believed that his insistence on going his own way was the main reason why Jiaozhi was not destroyed.

　　Shenzong even felt that if he had listened to Zhao Xi's opinion, the Song army would have already planted flags in Shenglong Mansion.

　　But I personally feel that Guo Kui’s opinion is reasonable.

　　Because in Jiaozhi, even if the Li Dynasty was destroyed, the local forces would not surrender to Bianjing just because the Li Dynasty was destroyed.

　　This place has been divided since the late Tang Dynasty, and there are countless local kings in the territory.

　　Moreover, the risk of raiding Thang Long Mansion was too high.

　　Once it fails, it will be a fortified city, and the cavalry in the surprise attack will be the same as the cavalry attacking Kiev's armored forces.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)