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Chapter 619 Battle Situation (1)

Zhong Jianzhong sent Wang Daxe away, thought for a while, then left his camp and headed for the Song Army's central camp.

When he arrived, he happened to see Wang Hou, the general judge of Hezhou who was supposed to be in Fugong City at the rear.

Wang Hou was surrounded by many Tubo people.

They came out of the Chinese army camp talking and laughing.

By now it was getting dark, and the torches in the camp had been lit.

Zhong Jianzhong looked at the Tubo people around Wang Hou and frowned slightly.

Because he didn't know anyone.

This is very unusual!
Wang Hou soon saw Zhong Jianzhong, and then he led the Tubo people towards Zhong Jianzhong. As he walked, he used his rich Xihe accent to introduce to the Tubo people: "Come on, come on." Come, let me introduce you to the gentlemen..."

"This kind of commander was personally appointed by the Bianjing officials to come to Hezhou to bring the saint's benevolence and righteousness and the Buddha's compassion to the people of Hehuang."

Those Tibetan people looked at Zhong Jianzhong, their eyes lit up, and they lowered their heads and caressed their chests. They used the etiquette of the Tubo people to greet a superior and said, "I have seen Commander Zhong."

Zhong Jianzhong was still confused when he was pulled by Wang Hou and brought to these people.

Under the light of the fire, these people looked directly at Zhong Jianzhong.

Wang Hou pulled Zhong Jianzhong's sleeve, and Zhong Jianzhong quickly handed over his hand: "I have seen you all..."

He still didn't understand who these people were.

But these Tubo people looked flattered and lowered their heads one after another.

Zhong Jianzhong's mind suddenly buzzed.

Although these days, he was used to the attitude of the Tubo nobles towards him.

After these people knew that he was personally appointed by the Bianjing official family.

Almost everyone's look and attitude towards him changed.

Either enthusiasm, flattery, or admiration...

However, this was the first time I encountered people with attitudes similar to those in front of me.

Zhong Jianzhong felt that these people seemed to have a kind of heartfelt awe for him, and at the same time, they might also have a desire.

Why are they like this?
Zhong Jianzhong looked at Wang Hou. Wang Hou smiled, came to his side, and whispered: "Uncle Yi, please cooperate..."

Zhong Jianzhong nodded subconsciously.

The Tubo people immediately knelt down happily and kowtowed to Zhong Jianzhong.

Then he happily walked out of the Song Army camp under Wang Hou's farewell.

In the darkness outside the camp, one could vaguely see the figures of people responding.

Zhong Jianzhong watched all this, his eyes fixed on Wang Hou's face that had been blown gray and rough by the wind and sand.

"Brother Chu Dao..." Zhong Jianzhong softly called the other party's cousin.

Wang Hou grinned, looked at Zhong Jianzhong, and said: "Soldiers are crafty!"

Zhong Jianzhong's heart seemed to be pinched by something.

He seemed to know the origin of those Tubo people.

Wang Hou did not hide it from him and said: "Those people just now are all messengers sent by the opposite party!"

Zhong Jianzhong swallowed his saliva and asked: "The messenger of Guizhang?"

Wang Hou shook his head: "Gui Zhang is still stubbornly resisting."

"But the people below him can no longer hold on."

"A few days ago, these people sent people to Fugong City to negotiate with me through Xibawen's subordinates..."

Zhong Jianzhong looked at Wang Hou, who laughed and said, "Uncle Yi, is it difficult to understand?"

He said: "For the Tubo tribes, this is not difficult to understand."

"The tribes under Guizhang's command used to follow the tribes of Zhishi Yonglong and Biluza, and are relatives of Xibawen."

"There are quarrels between relatives, but they are still relatives, and there is a certain degree of affection between them."

"Last year, Guizhang captured Xige City, but could only expel Xibawen, but could not harm him. This is the reason why."

Zhong Jianzhong listened and let out a sigh of relief. The relationship between the Qingtang Hehuang tribes was indeed a bit complicated even for the Zhong family.

But Wang Hou followed his father Wang Shao to manage Xihe since he was a child, and his family's teaching was to study the relationships among the various Tibetan tribes.

Therefore, his family became the people in the Song Dynasty who had the deepest research on the origins of the Tubo tribes in the Qing and Tang Dynasties.

only……

Zhong Jianzhong asked: "Brother Chu Dao, is this a scam?"

Qingyi Jiegizhang is one of the few famous generals among the Tubo people.

He uses many cunning soldiers and has deep calculations.

Back then, Jing Sili fell into Qing Yi's plan and was surrounded and annihilated in Tabaicheng.

During the battle in Tabaicheng, Xi Ning was asked to step aside and stopped.

Wang Hou smiled: "Don't worry...Uncle Yi..."

"Whether Gui Zhang is deceiving or not, the army and the army will definitely win this battle!"

"Because..." He licked his tongue: "Guizhang came in full force this time, but he immediately stationed his troops at the gate of Xige City and has been in a stalemate with Xiba Wen and the army to this day!"

"If we continue to fight, it will snow in the snowy mountains."

"Once it snows, his troops will have no choice but to withdraw their troops."

"Withdraw the troops and go back. What will the tribes have to eat, with more than 100,000 men and 300,000 to 400,000 livestock?"

This is why Wang Hou was certain that all tribes could only surrender to the Song Dynasty.

This time, Qing Yi and Gui Zhang made the wrong choice without detailed investigation.

They came out in full force and raided Xige City.

Originally, according to general rules, Xige City should fall quickly.

However, in the past year, Xibawen has cooperated deeply with the Song states in Xihe.

Not only did they send a large number of young people to work on Xihe Road, they also participated deeply in the construction of cotton villages.

His men also went out in large numbers to abduct and plunder the population.

He personally led the leaders of various ministries to Mount Mobang three times to pay homage to the Tooth Relic of the Buddha, and also paid a visit to General Xihe of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Xibawen of Xige City is an independent force in name.

But the relationship and interest ties with the Song Dynasty were extremely deep.

Therefore, Xige City can purchase important military weapons such as divine arm bows, armor, eight-oxen crossbows and even trebuchets from Xihe.

In the past, the Song Dynasty absolutely prohibited the export of these things.

The Western thieves repeatedly bribed and bribed officials and people of the Song Dynasty with large sums of money, but they could only smuggle single-digit armor.

However, here in Xige City, Xihe's arsenal is open.

As long as Xibawen has enough money, he can buy whatever he wants.

Therefore, Xibawen directly spent money to turn Xige City into a hedgehog last year.

Qingyi Jieguizhang didn't know this crucial piece of information.

As a result, Xige City, which should have fallen quickly, was not captured.

It even persisted until reinforcements from the Song Army arrived.

When the Hezhou Song Army arrived, Qingyi still had a choice with Gui Zhang.

He can make a decisive decision and quickly withdraw his troops to stop losses.

But he didn't!

Therefore, when the Xizhou soldiers and horses brought by Zhong Jianzhong arrived, it would not be so easy for him to withdraw his troops.

As time goes by, winter on the plateau is getting closer.

Qingyi's time to form a ghost chapter is running out.

If it drags on any longer and the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, it will be the time of its defeat.

Therefore, the changes and defections of the various departments under his command are also reasonable. For the Tibetan people, this is nothing to be ashamed of.

Since the collapse of Zampu's dynasty, the Tubo tribes in the Hehuang area have been like this.

It makes sense to join if you can't beat them.

Coupled with the fact that Song Dynasty has Xibawen as its signature, they have no psychological burden.

Zhong Jianzhong listened, but he still had questions. He said: "Gui Zhang is a famous Tubo general and a hero of his generation. How could he be so insane?"

Wang Hou smiled: "Gui Zhang is indeed an outstanding person, and he can be considered ruthless in his military use."

"He thought very well about this battle."

"Join forces with the Western Bandits to attack Xihe!"

"Uncle Yi may not know it yet, but now in the land thousands of miles from Lanzhou to Hedong, Western bandits are invading in large numbers."

"Especially in the direction of Lanzhou, a report obtained by someone in Fugong City said that the Xithief Kingdom has tens of thousands of elite troops, and they have used all their Xishou Baotai, Shizhou Xiangyou, Zhuoluo Henan and Tiandu Mountain tribes, which is known as half a million , oppressing Dingxi City, its fortress stretches from Huichuan to Dingxi City, and the beacon fire stretches for hundreds of miles! "

"Its scale has exceeded that of Yuanfeng Seven Years, and the leader of the Western Thief Kingdom, Bingchang, personally conquered Lanzhou!"

Zhong Jianzhong was suddenly surprised when he heard this.

Such a large-scale invasion, and an invasion across the board.

The Western thieves are here in full force!
He quickly asked: "How is the war going? Is the Hezhou army going to come back for reinforcements?"

Wang Hou squinted his eyes and said, "This is where Guizhang wants to bet."

"Once our officers and troops return to Lanzhou to aid, Gui Zhang will follow."

"Therefore, in the past month, the main force of the Guizhang headquarters has hardly been deployed."

"Their elite cavalry has been dormant in the Longyang Gorge."

"It's a pity that Guizhang made a wrong bet!"

"It can be said that all the people in Xihe Prefecture are soldiers!"

He looked at Zhong Jianzhong and asked: "Uncle Yi is ordered to go to Xizhou and bring thousands of Baoding to Hezhou!"

"Moreover, the guards are able to provide their own horses, bows and arrows to accompany the army. They also have certain skills and can fight with the army."

"And this is just the army of Didao in Xizhou!"

At this point, Wang Hou laughed ferociously.

"Today's Xihe Road is the place in the world where the armor protection method is the most effective, the most extensive and the best!"

"If Mr. Jiefu from Jiangning could come to Xihe to have a look, he would probably be shocked by the effectiveness of the armor-preserving method in Xihe!"

"The Western thieves are out in force this time, and our Xihe prefectures are also out in force!"

Baojia Law, this Xining Reform was conceived to replace the Xiang Army and assist in the design of the field army.

Now that Xihe Road is facing war, it has played a role far beyond what it was designed to do back then!

The Economic Strategy Department gave an order to mobilize all Xizhou, Lanzhou, Huizhou, Hezhou, and Minzhou.

Regardless of whether they were Han people, Tubo people, Qiang people, or Dangxiang people, they all mounted their horses (those without horses rode mules and led donkeys), carried their bows, picked up their swords, and eagerly joined the army.

Just one Bao family mobilized more than 20,000 young men to join the army in half a month.

Among them, there are more than five thousand cavalry!
Not only that, Wang Hou heard people say that even the women and children of Lanzhou are now actively participating in the war in Dingxicheng.

Even children are working to provide rations for the front line.

Therefore, what the Western thieves faced this time was no longer the 20,000 to 30,000 Western troops of the Song Dynasty stationed on Xihe Road and the thousands of cavalry led by the Tibetan officials.

They were facing the entire Xihe!

Han people, Qiang people, Tubo people, and Dangxiang people.

National unity!
Even the employees in the cotton farms were said to want to join the army and serve the imperial court.

Although the population along the Xihe River is at the bottom of the Song Dynasty.

However, no matter what, there are still more people than the soldiers and horses mobilized by the Western Bandits.

Therefore, when the Western bandits invaded, the manpower crisis did not occur.

On the contrary, the Song Dynasty official army now has the same manpower advantage as the Western bandits.

Therefore, just over ten days ago, Lanzhou even sent thousands of reinforcements to Miaochuan.

Therefore, the battlefield environment envisaged by Qingyi Jiegui Zhang does not exist at all.

Listening to Wang Hou's words, Zhong Jianzhong remembered what he had seen when he was in Xizhou.

He also recalled the battles of Xizhou soldiers and horses that he had witnessed over the past few days.

Although, the Xizhou soldiers and horses he brought could not compare with the elite forbidden troops in Hezhou.

But their fighting will is tenacious and high.

In the battle with the Tubo people, he never flinched, unlike the Baoding he had seen in Bianjing.

The troops led by inspectors like Wang Daxu are even more skilled and have superb tactics.

Even compared with the Hezhou Forbidden Army, it is not inferior.

Where is Baoding?

This is a government soldier! The soldiers of the Sui and Tang Dynasties swept across the world!

……

Qing Yi knotted his ghost chapter and listened quietly to the report of the man kneeling in front of him.

His expression was neither happy nor sad.

Although, he had already known through the messenger from Qingtang City more than ten days ago that Liang Yibu had launched an unprecedented action as agreed.

however……

The pressure on him has not diminished at all.

The Song army was still stationary outside Xige City, controlling the back roads of Xige City and echoing it from afar.

The food and arrows in Xige City show no signs of being exhausted.

On the contrary, for his army, as the weather gets colder and colder, there are fewer and fewer pastures.

The animals no longer produce milk.

Livestock even began to die of illness or freezing.

In the short term, he can persist, but in the long term, it is a doomed situation.

This made him a little irritable!
Fortunately, he still has a way out.

More than ten days ago, his successor, Jie Wachan, had secretly evacuated his women, children, and young adults from Longyang Gorge in batches and returned to the snow-capped mountain plateau.

Now, almost 70% has been withdrawn.

As long as the tribes led by Jie Wachan can safely return to the pastures around Qinghai Lake.

Then, even if his side is defeated, there is still hope.

Just ...

He looked at the man kneeling in front of him and breathed out: "Have all those despicable cowards decided to betray me and the great Zamp?"

The man lowered his head and did not dare to answer.

Qingyi Jie Guizhang untied his clothes a little irritably.

He knows that his situation is actually very dangerous now.

Because he had no idea how many people had betrayed him secretly?
He doesn't even know if there is a traitor around him?
He couldn't guarantee that those around him who were still loyal to him would directly defect and join the rebels after discovering the rebellion?
This is what the eminent monks say.

When you spot one vulture, it means there are hundreds of vultures on their way.

The rules of the Tubo game have always been simple - winner takes all.

Even the sacred and great Zampu will be quickly betrayed once his image is revealed.

Therefore, Qingyi Jie Guizhang knew that he had to do something before those traitors launched their attack.

Better yet, win a big one!
Only victory can stabilize these people and prevent these traitors from daring to act rashly.

(End of this chapter)