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Cai Jingzhong is well aware of the recent open and secret struggles between Tong Guan and Wang Fu, Gao Qiu and others.Right now Taiwei Tong Guan came to him to form an alliance with him and push him to get back together, Cai Jing naturally couldn't ask for it, and immediately hit it off with Tong Guan.
In order to show the sincerity of the alliance, Cai Jing promised Tong Guan that no matter whether Tong Guan succeeds in helping him regain his phase, Cai Jing will first support Tong Guan's protégé Cheng Wanli to make contributions in Liangshanbo.For this reason, he will immediately write a letter to Liang Shijie, the son-in-law of the Daming Mansion in Beijing, asking him to immediately select a strong general, mobilize the army and food to Dongping Mansion, and obey Cheng Wanli, the governor of Dongping Mansion.
After Tong Guan formed an alliance with Cai Jing, he often spoke for Cai Jing in the ears of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, talking about the various benefits of Cai Jing when he was in power.
Tong Guan recalled that when the Western Army was fighting against the barbarians in Western Xia, it was only thanks to Prime Minister Cai Jing to allocate supplies and supplies to the army that he was able to regain Hengshan, forcing Xixia to surrender and seek peace.He told Taoist Emperor Song Huizong that the joint Jin campaign against Liao Dynasty and the northward march of the army will cost a huge amount of money.In terms of managing the economy and raising military expenses for the court, no one in the court can match Cai Jing.
That Cai Jing was also Song Huizong's most trusted minister, and his ability was outstanding among the courtiers around him.Although he was dismissed by Song Huizong this time due to some reasons, but time has passed, and Song Huizong also felt a little regretful in his heart.
Now that the government is short of money, Grand Tutor Yang Jian collects some taxes for me on Jingxi Road and Huainan West Road, but he is used by the gangsters in Liangshanpo, causing wars that stretch across several states.If Cai Xiang is still in power, let's not stop here!
Just when Song Huizong already had the intention of using Cai Jing, but was still hesitating to weigh the trade-offs, Cai Jing received another secret report, providing Taiwei Tongguan with an excellent weapon.
Chapter 559 Disaster in Jiangnan
When "Flower Arm" Lu Xiaoyi witnessed Fang La's rebellion in Qingxi County, he left Muzhou according to Ximen Qing's distribution, went north to Jiangzhou and Wuwei Army, and rebelled Fang La. Time told Wang Ting and Huang Wenbing.
Lu Xiaoyi told Wang Ting and Huang Wenbing what Ximenqing had said, telling them that this time was a rare opportunity to make meritorious deeds, and asked them to make plans in advance, reorganize their troops, and attack Hangzhou at the right time to win the first victory in the battle against Fang La.
Lu Xiaoyi also left two subordinates who were already familiar with Bangyuan Cave in Qingxi County to report to Wang, so that he could send troops directly to Fang La's lair in the future.
At this time, Huang Wenbing was appreciated and trusted by Cai Jing's son Cai Jiuzhifu because of his achievements in defeating Song Jiang and other Liangshanpo robbers in the Wuwei Army. Cai Jiu Zhifu's assistant.
If it is true what Ximen Qing said, Huang Wenbing can make new contributions in quelling the Fangla Rebellion, and I believe that it will not be difficult for him to be promoted to the prefect of a state.
Because of Wang Ting's achievements in defeating the Liangshanpo bandits in the Wuwei Army, he was promoted from the military supervisor of the Wuwei Army to the military commander of Jiangzhou.
Both Huang Wenbing and Wang Ti were able to make great contributions to the Wuwei Army because of Ximen Qing's help, so the two of them have always been grateful for Ximen Qing's friendship.This time, Ximen Qing sent someone from a long distance to bring him such a generous gift, how could he not let the two of them remember it in their hearts?
Before Lu Xiaoyi left, Huang Wenbing and Wang Ting warmly treated Lu Xiaoyi in the Xunyang Tower in Jiangzhou City, and practiced it for him.
At the banquet, Huang Wenbing and Wang Bing gave many gifts to Lu Xiaoyi, and asked him to bring back a generous gift to Ximen Qing, so that he could convey their sincere thanks on their behalf after returning to Yanggu County.
After sending Lu Xiaoyi away, Huang Wenbing and Wang Bao entered the mansion of Cai Jiuzhifu and informed Cai Jiuzhifu of Fang La's rebellion.
Now Huang Wenbing and Wang Ting, both literary and military, have become the confidantes of the prefect of Cai Jiu, and they can be regarded as members of the prime minister Cai Jing's faction.Seeing that they had this opportunity to make meritorious service, how could they not inform Cai Jiu Zhifu and let him share a piece of the pie?
The magistrate Cai Jiu is not very capable, but he is a wealthy magistrate in this affluent Jiangzhou under the signboard of his father Cai Jing. If he encounters such a rebellion by thieves, how can he have any ideas? Huang Wenbing and Wang Ting are cooking.
The three of them discussed in secret for a long time in the prefect's yamen, and decided that Wang Teng would intensify the training of military horses, and Huang Wenbing raised funds from all directions to collect ships, military supplies, and food and grass, and be ready to attack the thieves at any time.
When Fang La's situation was in decline, the three of them stood still in Jiangzhou and waited and watched the changes.If Fang La swept across the south of the Yangtze River and threatened Hangzhou, the capital of the Liangzhe Road, Wang Ting and Huang Wenbing would lead the main force of the army to rescue Hangzhou by boat along the river with lightning speed, and repel the bandits who besieged Hangzhou.
In order to be able to implement this plan smoothly, Huang Wenbing asked the prefect of Cai Jiu to write a secret letter to his father Cai Jing in Beijing, and relayed the plan of the three to Cai Jing, asking Cai Jing to operate in the capital, and when the imperial court was about to send troops, he would do it for him. Wang Zhijun in Jiangzhou won the opportunity to go east to suppress the rebellion.
Although Cai Jing is unemployed at home, he is full of cliques, sitting at home and knowing the world's affairs.After receiving his son's letter, he replied quickly, supporting the plan of the three, and asked his son Cai Jiuzhi to keep an eye on the news of Fang La's rebels, and sent it back to Beijing Zhongbao to let him know.
While Cai Jiuzhifu, Huang Wenbing, and Wang Ti in Jiangzhou were sharpening their swords and waiting, various news came from Liangzhe Road that the rebel Fang La had attacked the city and plundered land.
After Fang La rebelled in Wannian Township, Qingxi County, he quickly gathered tens of thousands of people, defeated a thousand official troops who came to suppress the rebellion in Xikeng, Qingxi County, and killed Cai Zun, a Song general of Muzhou.
The prefect of Muzhou reported the emergency to the imperial court, but was reprimanded by the prime minister Wang Fu. Wang Fu asked the officials of Liangzhe Road and Muzhou why they were helpless in the face of such small thieves, and they still wanted to disturb the Holy One?
The officials of Liangzhe Road did not dare to bear the charge of dereliction of duty, so they hastily dispatched 5000 permanent officers and troops to Muzhou, led by Yan Tan, the supervisor of the military and horse capital, to kill Xikeng to suppress the rebellion.
But at this time, Fang La's army has engulfed farmers in eight towns and miles, and has grown to tens of thousands.After the five thousand officers and soldiers climbed mountains and waded to Xikeng, Qingxi County, they were ambushed in the mountains, and the entire army was wiped out. The soldiers and horses supervised Yan Tan and died in battle.
After defeating the attacking government troops in Xikeng twice, Fang La's bandit army gained momentum and took advantage of the victory to advance into Qingxi County, captured the county seat, killed the county magistrate, and captured the county lieutenant who slipped away with oil on his feet last time. Weng Kai.
Fang La's bandit army was able to rise so quickly and defeated the official army twice in a row, on the one hand because of the superior terrain, and secondly because of the low combat power of the official army.
In Qingxi County, the mountains are high and the valleys are deep, the terrain is rugged and complex, and many mountain roads are too narrow for two people to walk side by side.Such a mountainous area is extremely beneficial to the native Fang La army, but it is extremely difficult and dangerous for the official army who came to conquer.Both Cai Zun and Cha Yantan rushed forward because they underestimated the enemy, and were led into the valley by Fang La's army. After being ambushed, the whole army was wiped out.
In addition to the superiority of the terrain, Fang La's army faced a lower combat effectiveness than the official troops faced by Chao Gai and Song Jiang.
The official army in Hebei and Shandong is mainly composed of forbidden troops. Although they lack training, after all, when recruiting troops, they still recruit strong and strong people with some fighting strength.
The Jiangnan area has been at peace for a long time, unlike Hebei and Shandong, which still faces the Liao Kingdom in the north. Therefore, most of the troops stationed in the Jiangnan states are Xiang troops, and their combat effectiveness is extremely low.When facing the strong mountain people of the Fangla army, these Xiang troops are nothing but ordinary people with swords and guns, so they can't match them.
Precisely because the official army in the Jiangnan area was so weak that they could not withstand a single blow, after occupying Qingxi County, Fang La's army took advantage of the victory to pursue and quickly conquered Muzhou, successively occupying Shouchang, Fenshui, Tonglu, Suian and other counties.Bingfeng went straight to Hangzhou, the procurement center of Huashigang at that time.
Shortly thereafter, Fang La's army suddenly turned around and captured Shezhou to the west, completely annihilating the middle of the Guo division "Bing Guan Suo", the third general in the southeast of the Song Dynasty.
After conquering Shezhou and ensuring the safety of Bangyuandong, the old nest, Fang La's army attacked Fuyang and Xincheng in the east, and went straight to Hangzhou, calling for "kill Zhu".
Hangzhou is the capital of Liangzhe Road, where a large number of officials, wealthy businessmen and landlords gathered.At the same time, Hangzhou was also the location of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau controlled by Emperor Huizong's favorite minister Zhu Shi.
The Jiangnan Zaozao Bureau was a flower and stone procurement center set up for the construction of Genyue by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. Zhu Mian used it to wantonly search for people's fat and anointment in the Jiangnan area, and the people complained deeply.
Under Fang La's army's slogan of "occupying and destroying the Jiangnan Manufacture Bureau and killing the corrupt official Zhu Xi", the people in the Jiangnan area who were exploited by the government rose up one after another. Chuzhou Huo Chengfu, Chen Kuutong and others all joined Fang La's army.At the same time, the Quzhou Manichaeism organization also raised troops to respond to Shenggong Fangla.The flames of war spread across several states, and the Jiangnan area quickly eroded.
When Cai Jing received the urgent report from his son, he knew the time had come to attack Wang Fu.He immediately reported the information about Jiangnan to Taiwei Tongguan.
Taiwei Tongguan sneered a few times when he learned about Fangla's rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River, and went to the palace overnight to meet the Taoist emperor Song Huizong.
After getting into such a catastrophe, let's see how Wang Fu can hide it from the officials?
Chapter 5 Sixty
When Cheng Wanli, the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture on the East-West Road in Beijing, called all parties to besiege Liangshanbo, Hu Yanzhuo's army was also chasing the Liangshanbo bandit army led by Song Jiang, Chai Jin and others in the Huainan area.
After Song Jiang's bandit army entered Huainan West Road, they captured many counties in Suzhou, Shouzhou, and Haozhou one after another, engulfing the rioters in Huaixi, and the army numbered tens of thousands.
After Hu Yanzhuo's army received Gao Qiu's reinforcements, there were also [-] elite soldiers under his command, and they followed Song Jiang's bandit army all the time, making it impossible for Song Jiang, Chai Jin and other bandits to occupy a stable territory.The two armies were going around in circles between several states on Huainan West Road, and Hu Yanzhuo's army had tried several times to seek a decisive battle, but they couldn't get it.
Although the whereabouts of Song Jiang's bandit army is uncertain, with the secret assistance of Sizhou Liu Shiquan, Hu Yanzhuo's army can always find out the whereabouts of Song Jiang's bandit army quickly, and follow Song Jiang's bandit army in time to recover the lost ground.
Just when Hu Yanzhuo was complacent, he reported to the imperial court and Gao Taiwei from time to time, reporting that Si County was recovered after a bloody battle on a certain day, and [-] enemies were wiped out;In short, in Hu Yanzhuo's military report, Song Jiang, the leader of Liangshanpo's bandits, gathered a crowd of [-], but he has already wiped out most of them. Now he is just fleeing with the remnants of the defeated generals, not daring to confront the heavenly soldiers.
In Bianliang City, Tokyo, Taiwei Gao Qiu received Hu Yanzhuo's fabricated and exaggerated battle reports, but he didn't take it seriously at first, allowing the general's disciples to report their military exploits falsely.
Those who are in charge of the soldiers in the capital, who knows that the generals who went out of Bianliang City in Tokyo are best at falsely reporting military exploits?For the sake of their ancestors' contributions to the Great Song Dynasty, as long as these generals can still go to war and avoid causing disasters, no one will really take them seriously.
What's more, the more Hu Yanzhuo brags in the battle report, the more the Taiwei Gao Qiu who recommended him will be more knowledgeable and good at using him!Therefore, no one in Bianliang City, Tokyo, carefully investigated whether Hu Yanzhuo's military report was true, and they all reported good news and not bad news in front of the Taoist Emperor Song Huizong.
However, after Taiwei Tongguan got the news that Fang La, a bandit from Qingxi in the south of the Yangtze River, had rebelled and that the bandit army had marched to several states and forced Hangzhou, he entered the palace overnight and filed a complaint with the officials.
In the early morning of the next day, the situation in the palace changed. After learning that the Jiangnan area, the court's money bag, had been captured by Fang La's bandit army, the Daojun Emperor Song Huizong was furious. Determined to let Cai Jing come back and serve as prime minister again, to clean up the political situation that Wang Fu messed up.After the Shaozai Wang Fu was slapped in the face, he temporarily lost the favor of the Taoist emperor and lost power in the court.
At the same time, in order to pacify the south of the Yangtze River, Emperor Song Huizong of Daojun sent Taiwei Tong Guan to serve as the Xuanfu envoy of Jiang, Huai, Jing, Zhejiang and other roads, and eunuch Tan Zhen as the envoy of the two Zhejiang roads to mobilize the forbidden army in Gyeonggi and the six roads of Shaanxi, Fan, and Zhejiang. 15 Han soldiers went south to suppress the Fangla uprising.
After Wang Fu and Gao Qiu jointly suppressed Taiwei Tong Guan, after he served as the envoy of the Jiang, Huai, Jing, and Zhejiang routes, not only the Western Army obeyed him, but also the Jiangnan East and West Routes, and the Huainan East and West Routes. The officers and soldiers of Jingnan South, Beibei and Liangzhe Roads were all under his control, and this time Na Tongguan had more military power.
Taiwei Gaoqiu has obviously formed an alliance with Prime Minister Cai Jing. After he took office as the Xuanfu envoy of Jiang, Huai, Jing, Zhejiang and other roads, he immediately used his power to appoint the son of Prime Minister Cai Jing. Control the officers and soldiers of the east and west routes in the south of the Yangtze River, and be responsible for hunting down the thieves first.Huang Wenbing, the general judge of Jiangzhou, and Wang Zhi, the commander of Jiangzhou soldiers and horses, were the vanguards in the front of the thief. They led the elite officers and troops of the Jiangnan East and West Routes and immediately went to Liangzhe Road to rescue Hangzhou.
Taiwei Tongguan wants Cai Jiu from Jiangzhou to make contributions!But Cai Jing has regained power, so who can object to the appointment of Taiwei Tongguan?
Without the help of his ally Wang Fu, Taiwei Gao Qiu could only avoid Tong Guan.The military achievements of Jiangnan's pacification of Fangla are irrelevant. We can only hope that Hu Yanzhuo's army still in Huainan can wipe out Song Jiang's bandit army as soon as possible, and then send troops northward to attack Liangshanbo, so as to win a round for himself and save some face in the court.