Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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One day, Cai Jing invited Li Yan to a banquet at his residence.When Li Yan saw the fresh apricots brought by the attendants, he became very poetic, pointing to the apricots on the plate and chanted: "The flowers are blooming in the future, so lucky (apricots) now!"

When Cai Jing heard this, he picked up a pear from another plate and said to him: "Although the leaves are falling, you can't leave (the pear) lightly."

Cai Jing used pears to apricots very skillfully, and expressed his intention to retain the guest Li Yan with homonyms, which is even more wonderful.

The wonderful match between the two became a good story in Bianliang City, Tokyo for a while.

Just because his father had old friends like Taishi Cai Jing in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Minxiu fled to Bianliang City in Tokyo without hesitation immediately after the fall of the Liao Kingdom, and joined Cai Jing and others.With the help of Taishi Cai Jing and others, Zhao Minxiu quickly gained a firm foothold in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Minxiu inherited his father's talent for making friends, and soon established a good personal relationship with Prime Minister Wang Fu and Shaobao Cai You, and often walked around Wang and Cai's houses.

Because Zhao Minxiu stayed in Pingzhou for a period of time during his escape, Wang Fu and Cai You asked Zhao Minxiu about the situation in Pingzhou.

Zhao Minxiu believes that Pingzhou is very important and must be recovered.Wang Fu and Cai You relayed his opinion to Song Huizong.

In the end, Song Huizong's desire to regain Pingzhou overcame his fear of Jin, and decided to tear up the alliance with Jin and accept Pingzhou.

Therefore, Song Huizong ordered Wang Anzhong, the appeasement envoy of Yanshan Prefecture, Zhan Du, the appeasement envoy of Zhongshan, who was in the Xuanfu Division of Xiongzhou, and others to cooperate with Zhang Jue in Pingzhou to appease the people of Yandi, and selected available local scholar-officials to manage the place. He paid taxes in Yanshan Prefecture and other places for three years.

At the same time, Song Huizong ordered Wang Anzhong, the pacifier of Yanshan Mansion, to send someone to Pingzhou to inform Zhang Jue that the Song Dynasty was willing to accept him, and hoped that he could pinch Xiao Qian who occupied Jizhou and Jingzhou and make contributions to the Song Dynasty.

Zhang Jue had secret contacts with Da Song and Xiao Qian. After receiving Da Song's reply, he did not obey orders to attack Xiao Qian. Instead, relying on Da Song's backing, he personally led [-] soldiers and horses to cross Yuguan eastward and settle down. Stationed in the outskirts of Runzhou, he wanted to capture the four prefectures of Qian, Lai, Run, and Xi that were newly descended from the Jin Kingdom when the Liao Kingdom fell.

The entire land of Yanyun is on the verge of spreading war.

Chapter 853 Trapping Home Is My Business

Zhang Jue rebelled against the gold and took refuge in the Song Dynasty. After receiving the secret support of the Song Dynasty, he ambitiously invaded the Zhongjing Road, intending to occupy the four prefectures of Qian, Lai, Run, and Xi to expand his own strength.

After learning of Zhang Jue's invasion of Runzhou, Yan Yan's mother, the capital of Xianzhou Road in the Kingdom of Jin, was furious, so she led the troops from Jinzhou to Runzhou to attack Zhang Jujun.

At this time, Guo Yaoshi also rushed back to Yanshan mansion day and night, leading the Changsheng army and Xiao Qian's army to confront each other, stabilizing the Yanjing city.

Zhang Jue in Pingzhou rebelled against the Jin army and unfurled the flag of the Liao State to attack the Jin army. After the news of Xiao Qian’s army attacking the Song army in Yandi reached Jiashan on Xijing Road, Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi thought that both the Jin army and the Song army were being held back. This is a great opportunity for recovery.

Therefore, regardless of Yelu Dashi's dissuasion, Emperor Tianzuo led his army out of Jiashan, hoping to take the opportunity to regain the land of Yanyun.

After the Liao army left Yuyangling, they went straight from Fengzhou and Dezhou to Datong Mansion in Xijing in the southeast.

Unexpectedly, the main force of the Jin army did not leave Xijing Road because of Zhang Jue's rebellion in Pingzhou and the expansion of Xiao Qian's army.

The two armies of the Jin and Liao fought a battle in Yanya, the Liao army was defeated, and Emperor Tianzuo was forced to flee to Shanyin.

When Guo Yaoshi led the troops to confront the main force of Xiao Qian's army, outside the city of Cangzhou on the East Hebei Road of the Great Song Dynasty, an army was assembled, preparing to attack the flank of Xiao Qian's army northward.

In the mansion of Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou, Du Chong is throwing a big banquet to welcome the generals who led the troops from various states to join the war.

Sitting next to Du Chong was Ximen Qing who was acting as a military adviser for Du Chong this time.

In order to defeat Xiao Qian's army and kill Chao Gai, Wu Yong and Dong Ping's three deadly enemies with the help of the officers and soldiers, Ximenqing advised Du Chong and asked him to send emissaries to Hebei and Hedong. The general order to lead the army.

Du Chong has always been an aspiring person to do great things. Although the Song Army was defeated by Xiao Qian twice, and the generals of the Western Army talked about Xiao Qian's discoloration, he, the prefect of Cangzhou, was not afraid.

With the help of Ximenqing, when the Western Army was defeated, wasn't it the Cangzhou Army who played the Liao Army in a circle?

This time, with the full support of Ximenqing officials and people, Du Chong believes that making contributions is only in front of him.

It's just that Du Chong is not afraid of fighting, but many prefects and military supervisors in other states on the East Hebei Road are timid.

When those people heard that Du Chong, the magistrate of Cangzhou, was going to take the initiative to fight against Xiao Qian's army, and dragged his own army horses, they cursed secretly.

Although the barbarian Xiao Qian's army was making a lot of noise, didn't they not enter the territory of Hebei?Yanshan Mansion has Guo Yaoshi's Ever Victorious Army to fight against Xiao Qian's Army.Is it okay to let those barbarians fight to the death?

Du Chong, you are an old birthday star who eats arsenic and thinks you will live a long life. Just take your Cangzhou army to die, why do you want to bring all the banned troops from all states on Hebei East Road?

Du Chong is wicked!

The prefects and military supervisors of many prefectures on Hebei East Road did not want to send troops, and they all found various reasons to prevaricate Du Chong and Xuan Fusi.

Only after receiving the order, "No Feather Arrow" Zhang Qing, the soldier and horse commander of Gaochang Mansion, immediately led a group of troops to Cangzhou, and arrived at the barracks set up outside Cangzhou City first.

In addition, Lingzhou's regiment training envoys "General Shenhuo" Wei Dingguo and "General Shengshui" Shan Tinggui also led troops to help in the battle.It's just that the two of them are special operations troops and have a lot of luggage. Although they are closer to Cangzhou, they fall behind Zhang Qingjun.

Zhang Qing, Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui were able to come, one is because they are self-proclaimed heroes and are not afraid to fight against Xiao Qian's army, and the other is because Ximen Qing is in Cangzhou and has already secretly invited them.

Therefore, while other states were still waiting and procrastinating, Zhang Qing, Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui had already become the guests of Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou.

In fact, in Ximenqing's view, Zhang Qing, Wei Dingguo, and Shan Tinggui were enough to lead the army on the East Hebei Road. Except for the military horses of the Beijing Daming Mansion that Du Chong couldn't move, there were combat-capable troops on the East Hebei Road. There are only Du Chong, Zhu Dian and Zhang Qing's army.

At the banquet held by Du Chong, the prefect, there were only Du Chong, Ximenqing, Zhu Dian, Zhang Qing, Wei Dingguo, Shan Tinggui, Luan Tingyu, Jiang Zhong and others. They were all brothers of their own, and there was no outsider.

Therefore, Ximen Qing confessed his plan and told everyone.

Ximenqing told Du Chong and the generals that he had sent people to secretly inquire about Xiao Qianjun's information in Yanshan Mansion, Jizhou, Jingzhou, Shunzhou and Tanzhou, bought the generals of the Han army in Xiao Qian's army, and learned that Xiao Qianjun reality.

Because Xiao Qianzhi was recovering the land of Yan, he set his main attack target on the city of Yanjing, so he put the main forces of the Xi army and the Bo navy on the front line of Jizhou, and took an aggressive offensive posture against Wang Anzhong and Guo Yaoshi.

At the same time, Xiao Qian left Chao Gai and Dong Pingbu of the Han army behind in Jingzhou, letting them wait for an opportunity to attack Shunzhou and Tanzhou north of Yanjing City to the west.

The most critical information is that because there is not enough food on Lulong Ridge, Xiao Qian almost came out in full force this time, leaving only a very small number of defenders on Lulong Ridge.

That is to say, when Song Dynasty was dazzled and shocked by Xiao Qianjun's strength, and many ministers proposed to give up Yandi, they didn't know that Xiao Qianjun was actually defenseless and not as strong as it seemed.

Xiao Qian led the whole army to attack Yanjing City this time, it seemed like a desperate fight.

If the Song army can send out a partial division, go straight from Tanzhou to Jingzhou, attack Lulongling, copy Xi Guo's lair, and make Xiao Qian's army lose its rear base, the seemingly powerful Xiao Qian's army may lose its morale and fall apart.

Ximenqing's plan was to ask Du Chong to transfer the letter to Wang Anzhong and Guo Yaoshi, the magistrate of Yanshan Prefecture, and let them lead the army to entangle the main force of Xiao Qian's army in Jizhou.

The Changsheng army is responsible for defending the territory, Guo Yaoshi must withstand the main force of Xiao Qian's army.As for Du Chong's proposal, he could only agree to it.

After all, Du Chong was originally a reinforcement to support the Yanshan Mansion, so he was relatively able to choose a more flexible combat method.

Ximenqing suggested that Generals Zhu Dian and Zhang Qing would lead the army to go to Tanzhou with him to attack the back of Xiao Qian's army.

The troops of Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui were not suitable for crossing mountains and ridges, so they stayed in Cangzhou to assist the prefect Du Chong in guarding the northern border of the Yellow River, preventing Xiao Qian's army from jumping over the wall and heading south into Cangzhou after the back road was cut off.

Ximenqing's plan is to let Guo Yaoshi's Changsheng army do hard work, while Du Chongjun and his private army go to copy the lair to earn military merits and take advantage of it.

It must be known that Xiao Qian brought a lot of good things from Yanjing City back to his hometown to establish the Xi State, and robbing him is probably better than robbing a few nests of robbers!

Du Chong, Zhu Dian, Zhang Qing and others had always trusted Ximen Qing. After hearing what he said, they immediately took the case and decided to follow the plan.

After Du Chong contacted Wang Anzhong and Guo Yaoshi, he soon asked for the right to garrison Tanzhou City.

Therefore, Zhu Dian and Zhang Qing ordered [-] troops and horses, and Ximen Qing also brought [-] troops and horses, together with [-] troops, detoured Yanjing, and quietly entered the border of Tanzhou.

Chapter 854 Chao Gai meets an old man in a foreign land