Peerless Pirates

The fact that the Daqi army was able to attack Guanzhong from the direction of Yaoguan was something Song Zheng never expected. The road from Yaoguan to the Central Plains basically runs through the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains. The mountain roads are difficult to navigate and the passes are steep, even more so than Tongguan. Strong. This is thanks to the fact that Wuguan has always been in the hands of Daqi, otherwise it would be even more troublesome.

The reason why Aoguan is difficult to defeat is that the mountain road is narrow and there is no strategic depth. In addition to using some small means, the main offensive method is to attack by force. Moreover, Aoguan is the back door of Chang'an and is too close to Chang'an. The Xixia Army can't Don't you send people to guard it to the death?

However, it happened to be entered from here.

Although Song Zheng's ears and eyes were closed in Chengdu, the fact that Da Qi surrounded Chang'an was not a secret. After repeated inquiries, he generally understood the entire war process.

First, the grain and grass garrisoned by the Xixia army under Lantian City were burned by Xin Yu under the protection of many troops. Due to drought and civil strife in Xixia, grain and grass were originally difficult, and this burning immediately hurt the vitality, and the reserve grain and grass could not keep up. , the morale that was originally low suddenly plummeted.

Even so, the combat power of the Xixia army was there, relying on Xiongguan to still hold on. There was not enough food, so they searched all over Lantian City. It is said that the Xixia guard general Lu made an order, as long as it can be eaten Yes, everything should be returned to the military camp first. Now the people in Lantian City have suffered. Regardless of whether you are chickens, ducks, fish, geese, or pigs, dogs, and livestock, they are all collected for military use. As for food, I'm sorry, not even a grain can be kept from the people's homes. They are all confiscated. .As for the life and death of the people, Lu Ding did not care and allowed them to flee.

Lu Ding was also a ruthless man, and even played a trick: he killed his two concubines in public, cooked them and gave them to the Xixia soldiers to eat. In fact, although the Xixia army was short of food, it was far from the point of needing to eat human flesh. But Lu Ding lost his food and grass, and was afraid that Li Yuandan would kill him, so he deliberately devised a cruel trick. Besides, killing his concubine for lack of food was not Lu Ding's original idea. During the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xun, who insisted on defending Suiyang, was killed because of food and grass. Extremely lacking, he slaughtered his concubine and gave it to the soldiers to eat. Xu Yuan, who was guarding the city with Zhang Xun, killed the slave boy to feed the soldiers. (When I read the "Biography of Zhang Xun" in the old days, I felt that this was pretty fucked up, but Literati in the past dynasties have highly praised Zhang Xun, and there are still statues and tombs of Zhang Xun. Maybe he has never experienced the cruelty of war.)

In any case, the war situation of the Xixia soldiers became high again. Originally, under Xin Qiji's strong attack, the Aoguan Pass could no longer be defended. After Lu Ding made such a fuss, the Xixia Army mustered up the courage to defend the Aoguan Pass and not retreat.

Li Yuandan was conquered by Lu Ding. Not only did he continue to let Lu Ding serve as the guard of Yongguan, he also ordered the imperial city to get food from the warehouse to assist Yongguan.

The turning point of the fighter plane was that a Qi army assault team suddenly came out from behind Cailing and went around to the Wei River behind Aoguan. Unprepared, it attacked and killed those who were coming from Baqiao's aid in the direction of Aoguan. Food and grass. Immediately afterwards, this team of several hundred people bravely raided Lantian City.

The leader of this team (Hao Dajian) had a strategy and did not go directly to Baqiao Town. For these people alone, going to Chang'an would be equivalent to death. Hao Dajian was very smart. He collected the people who fled from Lantian City, and most of these people Some of them were Han people, who had long complained about the Xixia army. Hao Dajian distributed the grain and grass he had snatched from the Wei River to the people, selected young and middle-aged people from them, and gathered 1,500 people. Counterattack direction.

The small team bluffed, and the Xixia army could not distinguish many people at night. This caused the Xixia army to become morally confused. They took it for granted that the Qi army had adopted Liu Bang's tactics of "crossing Mount Shan". All the Qi troops fought After coming over, what's the point of guarding? Immediately, the Xixia army fled in all directions, and fell in a battle at Aoguan.

At this time, Xiao Dingguo, the military envoy from Shandong Guanyou Road, and Guan Piao, the military envoy from Tokyo Guanzuo Road, arrived at Yaoguan. Seeing that Yaoguan had been captured, they immediately followed the army through the pass and sent people to inform Pang Hui.

After the army occupied Yaoguan, there was no time to rest and reorganize. The soldiers of the Qi army immediately arrived in Chang'an and occupied Baqiao, which is adjacent to the Xixia army's grain and grass transfer base. After arriving at Baqiao, the Western Expeditionary Army of Tokyo Pass and Shandong Pass were divided into two, with Tokyo Pass The soldiers resisted the Xixia army counterattacking from the direction of Chang'an. The soldiers of Shandong Pass marched eastward along the south bank of the Wei River, passing through Lintong, Weinan, and Huazhou. They did not stop at all. Instead, they attacked Huayin directly and captured the Xixia army in Tongguan with great fanfare. Back Road Chinese Dragon Group 3 full reading.

Xin Qiji and Xiao Dingguo, the military envoy on the right side of Shandong Road, were both very good at using troops. They knew that the key to this battle was to welcome the Qi army outside Tongguan as soon as possible. Otherwise, once the Xixia army reacted, the Xixia reinforcements from all walks of life would attack from Tongguan. The incoming Qi army may be trapped in the pass. Due to the desperate attack on Aoguan, the Tokyo Pass and Shandong Guanxi Expeditionary Army suffered heavy casualties. There are less than 50,000 men and horses capable of fighting. Once trapped, they may be outnumbered. dumpling.

Fortunately, they responded in time, and the Tongguan soldiers in Guan Piao withstood the counterattack of the Xixia army in Chang'an. Xiao Dingguo and Xin Qiji led 17,000 Shandong Guan soldiers to Huayin, and despite the lack of men and horses, they stormed the base camp of the Xixia army in Tongguan--- -Guanxi Town.

After receiving the news from Pang Hui, the navy and army sergeants also launched a fierce attack. The navy was the first to break through. Xin Qiji led a group of troops and burned most of the Xixia warships guarding the Wei River mouth and broke the iron blocking the river. With the chain, the Daqi navy was able to advance straight in. With the navy's warships, Daqi sergeants were continuously transported to the back of Tongguan.

As a result, the Xixia garrison at Tongguan was trapped in a pot. Except for a few who fled to the southern mountains, the rest were wiped out. Being blocked by the Xixia army outside the pass for such a long time, Daqi suffered more than 40,000 casualties. , the Qi army became ruthless and drove all the tens of thousands of captured Xixia troops into the Wei River. "The Wei River stopped flowing." In contrast, the captured Xixia troops at Aoguan were luckier. Except for some generals who were killed. In addition, ordinary sergeants were brought into Lantian City to guard it.

As soon as the Qi army from the direction of Tongguan entered the pass, they marched westward together with the soldiers of Shandong Pass. Huayin, Huazhou, and Weinan went down without attacking and reached Chang'an. After hearing that Tongguan was lost, the Xixia army retreated back to Chang'an City. Da Qi The army then sent people to bypass Chang'an, attack Hu County and Zhongnan Town on the west side, and besiege Chang'an to death.

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Chang'an was besieged and Chengdu was shaken.

Although Lang Zhengchun was obsessed with Taoism, he now had to summon civil and military officials to discuss matters in the main hall. There was only one topic, and that was whether to assist Xixia. Of course, the object of assistance could not be Li Yuandan who was besieged in Chang'an City, but Shou Shou. Li Xi at Dashan Pass.

As for whether the Qi army will attack Dasanguan after capturing Chang'an, the whole country of Shu is very unanimous. Although Daqi sent an envoy Song Zheng to make good relations with Shu, anyone with any brains would think that Daqi will attack Dasanguan. The first step will definitely be to occupy Dashanguan, the "throat of Sichuan and Shaanxi", and march into Hanzhong.

Although Song Xiaolang is very popular and famous in Chengdu, everyone thinks that this is a smoke screen for Da Qi, and the purpose is to paralyze Shu. When he was an envoy, Song Zheng failed enough. In fact, he does not blame Song Zheng, the estrangement between Qi and Shu is too deep. Since the founding of Qi and Shu, they have not even sent an important envoy, and there has been no such thing as negotiation. Instead, they have fought several wars. If it weren’t for Song Xiaolang who was a little bit With his ability, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be a surprise if the Kingdom of Shu was directly defeated.

Song Zheng could only know a little bit about how the Shu Kingdom negotiated, but not the rest. Song Zheng still overestimated his friendship with the royal family. On the sixth day of October, Song Zheng received a gift from the Shu Kingdom. The notice from the house meant that the public security in Chengdu was not good, so Song Zheng was asked to stay in Ziqiyuan and not go out and wander around if nothing happened.

Not only that, the sergeants originally assigned to Song Zheng surrounded Ziqiyuan very loyally and truly "protected" Song Zheng, which made classmate Song Xiaolang burst into tears. Damn it, the Qi army hasn't captured it yet. Does Hanzhong need to be so turbulent?

On the morning of the seventh day of October, Yuan Haowen came again. Fortunately, the sergeant protecting Ziqiyuan did not stop him and allowed Yuan Haowen to come in.

Aotunlu came with Yuan Haowen. Both of them looked serious. After signaling Zhang Chong to close the door, they sat on chairs and stared at Song Zheng with big eyes and small eyes without saying a word.

Song Zheng ignored them and concentrated on writing. After drinking tea, Song Zheng put down his pen and waved to Yuan Haowen, "Brother Yu, come and see how this calligraphy goes?"

Yuan Haowen walked to the table numbly and saw the song "Bodhisattva Man·Mu Hibiscus" written on the paper:

The natural color of ice is bright and jade is moist, and the desolation spells the west wind guest. Reluctant to marry the east wind, diligent in the frost and dew. Green window washes late, smiles at the glass lamp. On the dressing table at slanting sun, wine red and sleepy.

This poem was originally written by Fan Chengda in history. Song Zheng inquired and found out that Da Qi did not have such a talented person as Fan Chengda. Not only him, but also Yang Wanli, Lu You, You Miao and other "four great talents of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty". There was no "poet", which made this guy very unhappy. Without these few, he had many more poems to steal.

Song Zheng was forced to write by the perverted Song Jue since he was a child. After coming to this era, he added his calligraphy skills from his previous life, and his handwriting was excellent, which complemented this poem perfectly.

Unfortunately, Yuan Haowen's thoughts were not on this, "Shan... Xiaolang, aren't you worried?"

Song Zheng curled his lips, "I finally wrote such a song, can't you praise me a few more words? Just the word 'good'?"

"Excellent. Two words, okay?" Yuan Haowen glared at Song Zheng with dissatisfaction and sat back on his chair, "I heard that you are trapped here, so I kindly came over to see if I can help. I'm busy, but you're good, just act like someone with nothing to do. It's true that the emperor is not in a hurry, but the eunuch is."

Song Zheng chuckled, "Brother Yu, don't worry, Emperor Dawei said that no matter what happens to Shu and Qi, he will send someone to take me back to Daqi safely in the future."

"Red mouth and white teeth, upper lip touching lower lip, who can't tell? Has he signed a written statement for you? Are there any witnesses?" Yuan Haowen said angrily, "Now everyone knows what Daqi will do next. You are trying to seize Hanzhong and threaten the Kingdom of Shu. You are an envoy and you are now a liar. He Zheng will be applauded if you beheaded. Fortunately, you are just like a normal person, reciting poems and composing poems here."

Song Zheng laughed loudly and said, "Brother Yu, let alone Da Qi's attack on Chang'an now, even if it takes Hanzhong, Shu will not kill me. Not only that, the more fierce Da Qi attacks, the more Shu will guarantee me." Of course, if Qi really attacks Shu in the future, that is a different matter."

"What's the point?" Yuan Haowen's eyes widened and he was very puzzled.

"I just figured it out." Song Zheng picked up the wine bottle from the table, took a sip from the spout, and smacked his lips, looking very relieved.