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Fang La in the south is so powerful, and the grass bandits in the north are so rampant, Song Huizong is very troubled.
Taiwei Gao Qiu had to shirk responsibility for the defeat for Hu Yanzhuo, and told Emperor Song Huizong that victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs. As long as Hu Yanzhuo is given more troops, I believe he will surely turn defeat into victory next time.
Now Tong Guan also served as the envoy of Lianghuai Road Xuanfu, and Song Jiang's army defeated Hu Yanzhuo's army in Huaiyang Army, threatening Lianghuai Road again, Tong Guan could not ignore it.Emperor Daojun asked Tong Guan to come up with a strategy for conquering Song Jiang's bandit army.
After thinking about it for a while, Tong Guan said to Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty that he agreed to increase troops to the Huyanzhuo Army who was sticking to Suqian County, and he would let the officials from several states on Huainan East Road assist Huyanzhuo Army to guard the north gate of Lianghuai Road , Blocking the way for Song Jiang's army to go south.
At the same time, let the prefectures of Hebei and Jingdong Road step up the mobilization of troops, horses, food and grass to Dongping Mansion. Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongping Mansion, will lead the counter-insurgency. After eliminating the bandits hiding in Liangshanbo's lair, they will send troops south to Xuzhou to attack Hu Yanzhuo's army from north to south. The Huaiyang Army's rogue Song Jiang Army.
Taiwei Tong Guan's strategy to quell the bandits in Liangshanpo invisibly lowered the status of Huyanzhuo's army and turned them into watchdogs on the Lianghuai Road, but transferred the command of the quelling chaos to Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongping Prefecture.
Prime Minister Cai Jing's return to prime minister this time is due to the power of Taiwei Tong Guan, and now he is a close ally with Tong Guan, so he naturally agrees with Tong Guan's strategy.
Although Taiwei Gao Qiu understood that Tong Guan had cleverly deprived Huyanzhuo of the initiative to counter the rebellion, but at this time Huyanzhuo's army was newly defeated, he had nothing to say.What's more, Tong Guan agreed to add troops to Hu Yanzhuo, which already gave him some face.Therefore, Gao Qiu also agreed with Taiwei Tong Guan's handling of Liangshanbo.
Gao Qiu secretly said in his heart: "This Taiwei is in charge of the Forbidden Army in Beijing. As long as the imperial court agrees to increase Hu Yanzhuo's troops, we can make a fuss out of it and help Hu Yanzhuo turn things around!"
Chapter 566 The Great Master of the Daming Mansion
In Bianliang City, Tokyo, Taiwei Tong Guan won the command for his protégé Cheng Wanli to conquer Liangshan Po bandits, and then led the army to attack Jiangnan where the rebels are more powerful.
For the rebel Fang La army who dared to seize the wealth and wealth in the southeast, Song Ting really made a move.Under Tong Guan's command, they are all the elite Western Army mobilized from the northwest.These troops were originally transferred from the northwest border to the capital for the purpose of attacking the Liao Kingdom from the east of the river after the alliance with the Jin Kingdom in the future.
Fang Lana is also unlucky. He has been planning a rebellion for many years, but because he didn't know the change of the imperial court's national policy, he chose the wrong time to launch it.
When Fang La Qiyuan took the oath, he guessed that if the Song court wanted to conquer them, it would take a year to assemble the army. He had enough time to attack the prefectures and counties, and then go north to block the banks of the river, relying on the natural danger of the river to resist the army. Go south and rule Jiangnan.
It is precisely because of the lack of intelligence and the wrong estimate of the army's marching speed that after occupying Shezhou, Fang La did not take advantage of the victory and directly went north to seize important places along the river such as Jiangning Jiankang Mansion and Runzhou Dantu, but returned to the south to capture the two Zhejiang provinces. Wu and Qu Zhuzhou of the road.
Fang La's strategic mistake led to Jiangning, Dantu and other important places being seized and guarded by the well-prepared Wang Zhijun, so Wang Zhi's reinforcements were able to smoothly advance eastward to rescue Hangzhou.
After Wang Tengjun suppressed the rebels in Huzhou and Xiuzhou and entered Hangzhou, Fang La still failed to adjust his strategy in time. He only let his general Fang Qifo lead the army to attack Wang Tengjun in Hangzhou, but his main force remained in the south. Attack Chuzhou, Taizhou and Wenzhou.Obviously, although Fang La has the ability to confuse people's hearts, he does not have the qualifications to fight for world hegemony, and lacks strategic vision.
Taking advantage of Fang La's thieves' mistakes, the official army took control of Dajiang, and Tong Guan's army also crossed the river smoothly to the south of the Yangtze River.
Tong Guan asked the magistrate of Jiankang Prefecture in Jiangning, and learned that Zhu Xi and his son expropriated the Jiangnan Construction Bureau in Hangzhou, which aroused public indignation. In just a short period of time, hundreds of thousands of people gathered, so it is difficult for the local government to match.
After Tong Guan learned about the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, he secretly scolded Zhu Zhi and his son for their insatiable greed and poor conduct, and they missed important court affairs.While writing a secret letter, he reported the facts he had mastered to Song Huizong, the Taoist emperor in Bianliang, Tokyo. At the same time, he immediately asked his subordinate Dong Yun to write a "hand edict", also known as a "royal pen", in order to appease the hearts of the people in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River.
This replaces the power of the Emperor Daojun to make the "Shouzhao", but the power granted by the emperor before the departure of Taiwei Tongguan's Bianliang army in Tokyo is to allow Tong Guan to make impromptu decisions, quell the riots as soon as possible, and appease the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.
The edict made by Taiwei Tong Guanrang's subordinates stated: The flowers, carnations, bamboos and other dry items that were previously stipulated to be purchased were all allocated funds by the imperial court, and they were purchased fairly according to the price.Moreover, the emperor has repeatedly decreed that it is strictly forbidden to blackmail the people and oppress good people. How could these corrupt officials below take the emperor's words as a deaf ear, and still go their own way and make a fortune out of their ulterior motives.The emperor resolutely did not allow this to happen, and specially ordered Tong Guan, the Taiwei, Jiang, Huai, Jing, and Zhe road Xuanfu envoys to come to Jiangnan to investigate the matter.For corrupt officials who broke the law, Tong Taiwei will definitely punish them severely.
Immediately afterwards, Taiwei Tongguan announced that all the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the people of Jiangnan such as Hua Shigang would be abolished, and all the responsibilities of the imperial court's extortionate expropriation for the repair of Genyue were all shifted to the group of officials in the Jiangnan area. The emperor excused himself from responsibility.
Tong Taiwei frequently launched policies to appease the people in the Jiangnan area, and the Taoist Emperor Song Huizong of Bianliang City in Tokyo also cooperated very well. After receiving Tong Guan's letter, he immediately dismissed Zhu Xi, his father, his son, and his nephew from official positions.The two monarchs and ministers sang and sang together intimately, as if the expropriation of Huashigang was really done by officials in the Jiangnan area without telling the good emperor Song Huizong who was diligent and caring for the people.
I don't know whether it was Tong Taiwei's bitter plan that worked, or the deterrence generated by his 15 troops suppressing the border. The mobs in Runzhou, Suzhou, Changzhou, Xiuzhou and Huzhou in the north of Liangzhe Road all disappeared. The riots in the North subsided completely.
The official army of the imperial court and Fang La's rebel army confronted each other from north to south, and a battle of tens of thousands of people was launched around the battle for attack and defense in Hangzhou.
Because Ximenqing detonated Fang La, the bomb hidden in the Jiangnan area of the Great Song Dynasty, a few months in advance, and Wang Zhi, Huang Wenbing and others responded in advance, so the disaster caused by Fang La's rebellious army in the Jiangnan area was less than in history. Quite a lot.
Historically, Fangla's uprising army invaded Hangzhou, but killed a large number of officials including Liangzhe Road System Envoy Chen Jian and Lianfang Envoy Zhao Yue, and ransacked all the rich merchants and landlords in Hangzhou.The rebels and thugs even excavated the tomb of Prime Minister Cai Jing's father and grandfather, exposing his bones, in order to insult Cai Jing and vent their anger.
The magistrate Cai Jiu fully supported Wang Bao and Huang Wenbing's troops to go to Hangzhou to quell the chaos, which can be regarded as unintentionally protecting the tomb of his ancestors.
After using Fang La, the old magic stick, to successfully lure Taiwei Tongguan's western army to go south to the south of the Yangtze River, Ximen Qing also did his best to help his future father-in-law Cheng Wanli launch an attack on the Liangshanbo bandits.
Prime Minister Cai Jing reciprocated Tong Guan and ordered Liang Zhongshu of Daming Mansion to send troops to support Dongping Mansion in the battle.After Liang Zhongshu received Cai Jing's letter, he did not dare to be negligent, and immediately sent Li Cheng, the "Heavenly King" Li Cheng, the military commander of the Daming Mansion, and Suo Chao, the second general of Suo Chao, the left-behind division of the Daming Mansion, to lead [-] elite troops to Dongping in the starry night. The government supports Cheng Wanli.
When Li Cheng and Suo Chao led the army to Dongping Mansion, Ximen Qing also brought his brothers from Yanggu County to Dongping Mansion to advise Cheng Wanli, the magistrate.
Cheng Wanli, the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture, took Ximen Qing, Wang Jun, Zhang Qing and other city generals to welcome Li Cheng and Suo Chao. Pioneer" Suo Chao.
Ximen Qing took a closer look at the "Pioneer" Suo Chaoshi, with a dignified figure, more than seven feet in length, round face and big ears, wide lips and square mouth, and a beard on his cheeks. A brute figure.
Look at the "king of heaven" Li Cheng, who is more than eight feet tall, strong and strong, with a big mouth, lacquered eyebrows and eyes, thick beard and hair on his face, piercing eyes, not angry and majestic, he is a brave and brave general .
Ximenqing knew that Li Cheng was a rare general under Liang Zhongshu. In history, after the Daming Mansion was breached by Liangshanbo bandits, he and the "big knife" Wenda once protected Liang Zhongshu, who was not skilled in martial arts, from the heavy siege of Liangshanbo bandits.
You know, in the Liangshan bandit army that attacked Daming Mansion at that time, there were "Big Sword" Guan Sheng, "Leopard Head" Lin Chong, "Double Whip" Hu Yanzhuo, "Thunderbolt" Qin Ming, "Blue-faced Beast" Yang Zhi, Little Li Guang" Hua Rong, "Sick Yuchi" Sun Li, "Black Whirlwind" Li Kui and other fierce players in Liang Shanbo's all-star lineup, were still protected by Li Cheng and Wen Da and Liang Zhongshu broke out from the siege. It is conceivable that Li Cheng's combat power is strong And know.
Such a fierce general, how can it be difficult to make friends?
Chapter 567 A Thousand Troops and Thousands of Horses Come to Meet
The officials of Ximen Qing defeated the Liangshanpo bandits several times, and they had already shaken Shandong and Hebei.How could Li Cheng and Suo Chao, who were in the Daming Mansion in Beijing, not know about it?In addition, Ximenqing's current close relationship with Cheng Wanli, the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture, and his appearance at the banquet as Cheng Wanli's military adviser and official ally, made Li Cheng and Suo Chao have to admire him.
Ximen Qing has extensive knowledge, both civil and military skills, and his conversation is extraordinary. In addition, he has already known the personalities of Li Cheng and Suo Chao. It was too late for officials Qing to meet each other.
Li Cheng, who is the Military Superintendent of Daming Mansion, and Zhang Qing, the Military Superintendent of Dongchang Mansion, are old acquaintances. This time they met in Dongping Mansion, it was also a good time to chat and laugh.
Under Ximen Qing's dispatch, the new reinforcement generals and the generals of Dongping Mansion laughed and laughed endlessly, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.
The magistrate Cheng Wanli watched Ximenqing befriend Li Cheng and Suo Chao with a smile, and appreciated this future son-in-law even more.
Today's Dongping Mansion anti-insurgency camp has a good son-in-law Ximenqing in the middle to coordinate and dispatch, and the troops and horses from all states who come to aid can live in harmony and advance and retreat together.
Huang Xin, the general of the Qingzhou Army stationed in Jeju City, and Zhang Qing, the military commander of Dongchang Prefecture stationed in Dongping Mansion, and his son-in-law Ximenqing are called brothers. Jun also obeyed him.
Looking at it today, I'm afraid that in a few days, the two generals Li Cheng and Suo Chao of the Daming Mansion will become brothers with my virtuous son-in-law!
It is heard that the generals who will soon arrive in Cangzhou, Lingzhou, Qizhou and other armies also have a close relationship with the son-in-law Ximenqing.In this way, under the coordination of the virtuous son-in-law Ximen Qing, the hastily formed coalition forces of various states, the government should be able to do whatever it takes.
For this kind of coalition army composed of officials and troops from various states, the most fearful thing is that the generals of each army are different in courage and cowardice. .
Now that Ximenqing is here, the coalition forces of all states have miraculously achieved coordination. This makes the magistrate Cheng Wanli overjoyed, and even a trace of worry in his heart is forgotten.
The magistrate Cheng Wanli knows his own skills, but he doesn't know soldiers, and he has no strategy for facing the enemy.Therefore, he sat in Dongping Mansion, bearing the title of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and handed over the command of the coalition forces to Ximen Qing, who appeared in the coalition forces in the name of a military division.
At this time, Ximenqing had recalled the "Big Sword" Xu Wen and the "Living Flash" Wang Dingliu from Dengzhou, and asked them to assist the officers and soldiers in building warships and training the navy at the edge of Liangshan in Dongping Prefecture. The army crossed Liangshan Po to attack the Liangshan bandit lair.
Since the warships were still being built, and the officials and troops from all states had not yet assembled, the reinforcements from the Daming Mansion were temporarily stationed outside the city of Dongping Mansion to recharge their batteries.
Ximenqing took the opportunity to invite Li Cheng and Suo Chao to a banquet in his own restaurant in Dongping Mansion every day, and tried his best to win them over.Within a few days, Li Cheng and Suo Chao got close to Ximen Qing, and they called each other brothers.
A few days later, smoke and dust billowed on several official roads outside Dongping Mansion, and officers and soldiers from Cangzhou, Lingzhou, Qizhou, Qingzhou, Laizhou and other states came to camp outside Dongping Mansion in an endless stream.
Thousands of tents are densely lined up in the south of the city, which looks spectacular.After hearing the news, the people in Dongping Mansion rushed out of the city gate to see this rare scene.
Seeing the murderous army camp from a distance, the common people all said that the bandits in Liangshanbo have plagued our Dongping Mansion for many years, and this time they finally cannot escape the conquest of the court.
In the government office of Dongping Mansion, Cheng Wanli, the magistrate and commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces Against Thieves, met with the reinforcement generals from various states.
The general sent by Cangzhou, Hebei is the "beautiful man" Zhu Dian, the confidant of the prefect Du Chong.Zhu Ting was almost framed by Liangshanbo robbers, and had no choice but to take his family to Cangzhou, Hebei to avoid disaster.
The son of Du Chong, the magistrate of Cangzhou, Hebei, was almost killed by Wu Yong and Lei Heng, and he hated the Liangshanbo bandits.So after receiving Ximenqing's letter and the imperial court's order, he immediately mobilized elite soldiers to exterminate the Liangshanpo bandits.If it weren't for the fact that he himself was unable to leave the Cangzhou government office because he was the magistrate of a state, Du Chong wanted to personally lead the army to suppress the thieves.