Late Tang

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The land of Mo and Ying was called Hejian in ancient times. It is located in the middle of the Hebei Plain, and to the west is Dingzhou and Zhenzhou, which were called Changshan in ancient times. They are called the center of Hebei.

The military strategists said that Changshan controlled the danger of Taihang and the key point of Hebei. If you look west, Taiyuan will be shaken, and if you go north, Fan Yang will be shocked.Ruofu traveled through the Qinghe River, went down to the plains, crossed the white horse, Daoliang, and Song Dynasty, and went south to the Central Plains.And Hejian is called the North Arch Capital, the south is Qingji, the land and water are important, and the payment road passes by.Since ancient times, there has never been anyone who did not first plan for Hejian when Youyan had something to do.There is no Hejian in the north, the disasters of Qinghai and Hebei are not severe, and there is no Hejian in the south, and the troubles of Youping are not yet deep.

This area occupies a pivotal position between the south and north of Hebei.Whether it is north to south or south to north, the competition here has decisive significance.

And because the central part of Hebei is separated from Taihang by Jingxing, it can go directly to Taiyuan.Jingxing connects Taiyuan with Changshan and Hejian. Therefore, the competition in the hinterland of Hebei is often more important than the two gates of the north and the south.Whether it is from Hebei to Taiyuan via Jingxing, or from Taiyuan to Zhenzhou via Jingxing, this is a strategic area that involves the entire East of Hebei.

It is precisely because of the important surname of Moying Erzhou that in the past, Lulong Town has been firmly controlling the southern protrusion, so that Lulong Town is invincible no matter whether it is facing the imperial court or Chengde Town. .But now, Moying Erzhou is no longer under the control of Lulong Town.

Yingzhou was included in Yiwu Town, which was controlled by Li Quanzhong, and Lulong Town was completely drawn out.

Mozhou is nominally controlled by Liu Rengong, the governor of Mozhou in Lulong Town, but in fact, Liu Rengong, the governor of Mozhou, is almost independent of Liu Yue.Under Li Jing's rule, after the reform, the governor of a prefecture has little power to assassinate the governor, and only cares about civil affairs.However, in other places in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the three old towns in Hebei, the governors had great power, all of them were appointed by warriors, and each governor was a military leader who was slightly inferior to Jieshuai under the same township.The military commander is in charge of the tooth soldiers, and the governor is in charge of the outer town.Moreover, the governor not only controls the soldiers outside the town, but also shares taxes and property rights with the Shuaifu.Therefore, in these feudal towns, the provincial governors and the feudal town commander's mansion often belong to the upper and lower names, which are actually similar to a parallel relationship.To put it bluntly, the relationship between the feudal town and the subordinate state is equivalent to the relationship between the imperial court and the feudal town, but the feudal town's control over the subordinate state is slightly better, but it is not much better. Once the power of the subordinate state is strong, it often ends in a mutiny. , to become the new festival handsome.

Both Zhuozhou and Mozhou were nominally under the territory of Yan Wang Liu Yue, but in fact, Zhuozhou was directly controlled by Liu Yue, but Mozhou was Liu Rengong's territory.

The southern bank of the Juma River, Guiyi County, is the southernmost force that Liu Yue can actually control south of the Juma River, and further south is Liu Rengong's Dingbadu territory, which Liu Yue can't reach.

To the south of Guiyi County in Zhuozhou is Mo County in Mozhou.

Mozhou has five counties, but the land is long and narrow from east to west, and the five counties are almost lined up from east to west.

Liu Rengong has been operating here for several years, with Liu Yue in the north and Li Quanzhong in the south, and his status is not stable.However, Li Quanzhong and Liu Rengong were both Li Maoxun's subordinates, and they belonged to new forces in the towns of Hebei, so they have always been staunch allies.Liu Rengong's vigilance was more about facing Liu Yue in the north. Therefore, between Guiyi County and Mo County, Liu Rengong set up Yijin Pass next to the original Laoguan City Waqiao Pass, and to the northeast of this pass. And Yukou Pass, collectively known as the "Three Passes".

The purpose of Liu Rengong's setting up the three gates is obvious, that is to prevent Liu Yue's encroachment.

Waqiaoguan is located in the southwest of Xiongxian County, Hebei Province in later generations. It is located in the north of Baiyangdian, the great lake in Yizhong, and the south of Juma River.

From this pass to the west, you can reach Qingyuan and Wangdu between Mozhou and Dingzhou. In the east, you can follow the Daqing River in the lower reaches of the Juma River into the sea. It connects to Youzhou, an important military town in Hebei in the north, and connects to Hejian, an important town in central Hebei, in the south. Status is very important.

The terrain around Sanjian is low-lying, full of rivers and lakes with saline-alkali ground, and there are few residents, so the danger is set up here, and the defense is extremely strong.

In the words discussed by Li Jing, Jing Xiang, Gai Yu and others, it is not difficult to win the Yichang Zhencang, De, and Di states, but the difficulty is to maintain after opening the land passage between the northeast and Shandong.

In order to maintain this channel, it is necessary to capture an extremely important military town to protect this channel.

Hejian is the most suitable target.Taking the Hejian will protect the passage around the sea.At the same time, taking Hejian can also cut off the retreat of the main force of the Chengde army that is gathering in Cangzhou. Similarly, taking Hejian can also separate Youzhou in northern Hebei from Chengde in the center of Hebei.The Northeast Army will be able to occupy a more favorable situation against Lu Long's army, and have a semi-encircled state of Youzhou.

In short, no matter how you say it, whether you want to attack Yichang Town first or Youzhou Town in the future, Hejian, the center of Hebei, is the primary target.

On a mound not far from Guiyi County, Guo Wei was holding a binoculars and watching the situation of Guiyi City from a distance.

As the military intelligence department of the Jinjia Shengjie Army, it obviously has more personnel than other military intelligence departments, and there are a lot of elites here.As the leader of the third action team, Guo Wei was under a lot of pressure.As a county king, he is only 28 years old this year.But in terms of seniority, it is not low. Although they were not the first batch to follow the county king in the first year of Qianfu, they were also the first batch of soldiers who joined the army after the county king became the deputy soldier of Daxie Village.Participated in the defense battle of Shamen Town, the counterattack against Duli Town and Daxie Village, the surrender of the Dengzhou Navy, the Qingzhou Rescue Battle, the Zishui War against Wang Jingwu, and the subsequent Battle of Youzhou, Battle of Daibei, and Battle of Central Plains, etc. Wait, so to speak, from a junior soldier, then a third-class soldier, a second-class soldier, and a first-class soldier, to a corporal, a sergeant, a sergeant, and then to a sergeant major, a sergeant major, a sergeant major, a sergeant major, and finally to a corpsman, a corpsman. Deputy, and now the team leader.

Although it seems that his position is not high, he is just a team leader.But there is also a big difference between the head of the team and the head of the team.

The Jinjia Shengjie Army is known as the bodyguard army, and its status is much stronger than other armies.If a leader of the Golden Armored Army is transferred to another cavalry army, he can at least be a deputy commander, and if he is transferred to an infantry army, he can at least be a commander.What's more, he still stayed in the Military Intelligence Department, which is known as the best soldiers among the best soldiers, and they were all selected by the strongest scout battalions in the original armies.

And in the Golden Armored Army, there is a benefit that all other army brothers envy, that is, in the Golden Armored Army, during non-wartimes, you can often get the opportunity to listen to the county king's lectures in person.Listening to the king of the county's lectures means that he has the title of a student of the king of the county.Although this title can only be commensurate with everyone in private, it is far less prosperous than the eleven officially included disciples of the county king.But such an opportunity is quite rare.

Now, if he were to exchange the position of deputy infantry envoy, Guo Wei would refuse without hesitation.

Although the leader of the team is several levels behind the deputy soldier and horse envoy, Guo Wei is now one of the hundreds of warriors who were honored in the city of Liaodong last time. Xuntian also has a Gurkha scimitar known as a seven-hole big dog leg in the army, but behind it represents his generation of civilian children, and has since become a nobleman. It is lower than a knight, and it is the lowest title today, but no matter how you say it, it has jumped from a farmer's son to a nobleman.

Although the Gurkha scimitar is not as precious as the Damascus scimitar made of Uzi steel, it is also a sword of honor.The Golden Armored Army has five thousand soldiers and horses, and there are more than two hundred people in the first and second ranks, but those who wear the honored sword can be counted on one hand.

Before he came out this time, the military leader had personally told him that the Shengjie army had recommended him to enter the training class for lieutenants in the lecture hall.The so-called Jiangwutang lieutenant training class is equivalent to the gold-plated class for outstanding officers at the brigade and capital levels. Those who can enter are selected one in a hundred, and being able to enter for further study means that they will be promoted 100% after the study.Such training classes also include school officer training classes and general officer training classes, which are all training classes for higher-level Xiang, army, and higher-level officers.

Guo Wei led his brothers into the two prefectures of Moying to find out the deployment of troops in the pass of the prefectures and counties.Yesterday, he had mapped all the remitted information and divided them into several sets for Brother Sanba to send back to the rear county king separately.Right now, there are 20 people left around him, and they will stay here to observe the status of Guiyi County at any time.

The north wind blew past, and the desert grassland camouflage of green, yellow, tea, and black was wrapped tightly around his body by the military intelligence department's special equipment training uniform. He licked his lips, and the pain woke him up a lot.

The movement of crawling came from the side, and it was also a colorful sound, which merged with the surrounding scenery, and it was extremely difficult to distinguish lightly. The big head in the special training uniform leaned over, "Team leader, you rest." Then, a sheepskin water bag with the same camouflage color was handed over.

Guo Wei handed him the binoculars that the big head had been staring at all the time, took the water bag and opened it, and took a sip. Immediately, the Red Star Erguotou, which was specially allocated by the Military Intelligence Bureau, burst into flames in his abdomen, instantly making Guo Wei blush, and his whole body I couldn't help but trembled.This kind of baijiu, which is privately called "burning knife" by the people of the Military Intelligence Department, is very popular with everyone.There is nothing more comforting than taking a mouthful of burning knives in the cold and dark night when the cold wind is blowing and the whole body is about to freeze.

No wonder baijiu is so expensive, but it is still so popular in the Northeast, especially the Bohai, Xi, Tatar, Khitan and other ministries, who place a large number of orders to the wineries in the Northeast every year, and there is no market for the price.It's better for the Military Intelligence Department, otherwise, even if the Northeast Army's treatment is good, they can't afford this liquor.

Feeling warmer all over, Guo Wei breathed out a few breaths, "This is already the third batch of troops newly arrived in Guiyi City."

Datou is 25 years old, and his military rank is sergeant and sergeant.Because of the famine when I was a child, I almost starved to death and was severely malnourished. Although I survived in the end, my head was a bit disproportionate.At this time, he was holding the clairvoyance Qianfu five military binoculars that only first-level commanding officers of the Northeast Army could equip, and looked at a group of troops entering the city that he clearly observed in the mirror.

"About 3000 people, no cavalry, all infantry, judged to be all warriors, no heavy soldiers, equipped with about [-] iron armor and [-] leather armor, all equipped with spears and horizontal knives, and about [-]% more than [-] people equipped with bows and arrows , Watching the flag, it is Liu Rengong's department in Mozhou in the south."

There is a young sergeant who looks like a scholar with slightly fair skin and a few lines of gray on his face, and a young sergeant with a sergeant rank on his chest is holding a pencil and quickly recording what the big head observed in a small notebook. result.

"Master, how many people are there in Guiyi City now?" Guo Wei turned his head and asked the sergeant who had recorded it.

The master was originally a scholar in a farming and studying family. His family has a hundred acres of land and his hometown is Mizhou.A few years ago, Huang Chao, Wang Jingwu, Wang Xianzhi and others were sent to the army several times, and the family ran out of money, so they had to flee to Dengzhou in the end.After arriving in Dengzhou, because of his good cultural background, he applied to be a teacher in the school. After teaching for a year, he saw that the world was getting more and more chaotic, but he saw that Dengzhou was very serious about martial arts, so he finally gave up writing and joined the army. Jun, because of his status as a scholar and his experience as a teacher, he is very respected in Guo Wei's team, and the title of master is more like a respectful title.

Master lowered his head and looked at the records in his notebook, "Originally in Guiyi City, there were five troops of Liu Yue's army of 5000 people, but now several soldiers and horses have come from the direction of Mozhou, with a total of [-] cavalry and [-] infantry Thousands. All together, there are now [-] infantry and [-] cavalry in Guiyi City. Among them, [-] infantry from Liu Yue's troops in Guiyi City, [-] cavalry and [-] infantry under Liu Rengong's banner in Mozhou. Li Quanzhong in Yingzhou There are one thousand cavalry and ten thousand infantry under the banner."

"Liu Yue's department, Liu Rengong's department, Li Quanzhong's department, Zhiniang thief, it seems that Liu Rengong from Mozhou has come out in full force, and Li Quanzhong has almost transferred all the soldiers from Yingzhou to Guiyi. Could it be that they have discovered where the county king is at this time? ?” Datou cursed.

But the master didn't think so, he smiled: "The matter is actually very simple, they gathered troops in Guiyi, they must plan to wait for us to attack Cangzhou, cross the Juma River to attack Huichang and Yongnu counties, and cut off our retreat .”

"In this way, the two states of Mo and Ying are really empty." Guo Wei laughed twice, "These bastards would never have imagined that the commander-in-chief is leading the main force within eighty miles to the east of him."

"Let's go back quickly, report the news, and lead the army to take all these straight girls and thieves in one fell swoop." Datou said excitedly.What he admires the most is Guo Wei, who has a similar background, and both of them are from Xuzhou.Guo Wei joined the army a few years earlier than him, but now he has become a knight, with a Gurkha saber stuck in his waist.He was jealous and envious, but he also knew the gap between himself and the team leader.He didn't dare to hope for Damascus and big dog legs, but he hoped that at least he could make a contribution and get a Miao Dao specially given to meritorious soldiers.

"Well, let's go!" Guo Wei nodded, and knew the importance of this information, and he needed to report it to the county king immediately. (To be continued.)