The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Although Gao Chong followed the emperor to fight in the northwest for several years in his early years, he was transferred back to the imperial guards of the capital and left the Xiangyi army system. He did not catch up with the battle to create and consolidate the Datong base, nor did he catch up with the subsequent expansion of the army and the

Series of battles against Jin. Many years later, when the Jin army first went south, 'escorting' the emperor to the Jin camp for massacre, he participated in a battle against the Jurchens. It was considered a return, but the emperor did not have the best time to be a good person.

Leaving the team's "I despise him for many years, and after ascending the throne, I re-activated and gave him heavy responsibilities.

After Gao Chong returned, he was immediately sent to the south of the Yangtze River to clear out bandits and reorganize the imperial guards, but he also missed the several wars against the Jin Dynasty initiated by the Song army during this period, and was only ordered to command the counter-rebellion against the Gao clan of Dali.

The emperor awarded him a high position with this merit, second only to Zhao Ren and Zhao Yong, and became the third largest figure in the Song army. Faced with the emperor's favor, although Gao Chong was a veteran of the founding army, he knew very well that if a soldier could not get it.

The military achievements made by the attack were difficult to convince the public, so when facing the old subordinates who had made great achievements in the past, they felt that they were not confident enough.

Let him preside over the Western Expedition, Gao Chong understood that this was the emperor giving him the opportunity to establish his position in the military and avoiding his embarrassment. But this was the first expedition to the Western Regions since the founding of the Song Dynasty. This battle not only concerns whether he can do so.

The Western Regions were included in the Central Plains regime, and it also involved the security of the Central Plains. The emperor's words were still in his ears. "The Western Regions will not be restored, and the northwest will not be at peace. Therefore, the Western Regions are focused on protecting the northwest, and those who protect the northwest are strengthened to defend the capital.

'In a word, if the Western Regions are unstable, the security of the north will be in no way, and the entire national security will also face the risk of subsequent collapse.

After being ordered to be fully responsible for the Western Expedition, Gao Chong felt a great responsibility and knew the difficulties he faced. Before leaving, Zhao Ren bluntly told that his expedition to the Western Regions was "the most important thing to do the world and the most difficult thing to deal with in the world."

.Not mentioning anything else, the civil officials in the court alone are enough to bear it. A little slower advance will lead to various criticisms, and the hats of "holding troops" and "holding troops to be respectful" will fly in one after another. He has the trust of the emperor, although it will not harm himself.

, but it's also annoying enough.

Gao Chong has been under tremendous invisible pressure since accepting this task, there are also a lot of pressure in reality. He understands that the actual battle is food and pay, and even more so in frontier operations. Adequate military pay is the basic guarantee for the march to Gaochang.

With the help of the emperor and his brothers, five million yuan was allocated for this. Zhao Zhi, the two river transport commander, allocated a large amount of food and grass to him, and the various troops were not vague. In addition, several merchants in the northwest of the hall were in the northwest.

The team's support was able to set up several supply stations on the marching route of the Western Expedition Army, so that he would not worry about these trivial matters of money and food, and could concentrate on fighting the enemy.

As for how to fight, Gao Chong is already confident. With his research on the terrain of Gaochang, plus the intelligence brought back by the Intelligence Department and the caravan and the map drawn by the Gaochang, he thought that Gaochang was divided into two parts by the Tianshan Mountains.'

But the south can not be controlled. Based on this, he formulated a combat strategy of first north and then south and obtained the approval of the emperor and the court. When summoning the troops of the Western Expedition to discuss specific combat issues, they decided to slow down.

The strategy of quick battle. After sending troops, the desert is now fighting fiercely, clearing the periphery and shocking the surrounding tribes and thwarting the enemy's spirit. After these little bullies are settled, they will go south to fight with Gaochang.

After half a year of active preparations, Gao Chong left Datong and advanced westward in the spring of the 12th year of Xingguo. He took the desert brigade familiar with the combat in the northwest region as his vanguard; the hunting brigade, who was good at swimming and movement combat, and the two bows and arrows of Mengwu and Wanggu.

The hands are two wings; two infantry brigades, artillery brigades, baggage detachment and direct team are the central army; two dragon cavalry brigades and Khitan and Dangxiang archers are the rear army, and an army of 70,000 total troops have entered the journey for thousands of years

Uighur Road. After more than two months of arduous trek, the Western Expedition Army crossed Yinshan and rushed through thousands of miles of desert and arrived at Zhenzhou before the wind and sand arrived...

Zhenzhou was called Keduncheng in ancient times. It was originally the former Uighur land. The Hengshe Army was established here in Tianbao, and moved to Anbei Protectorate. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, it was occupied by the Khitan and renamed Zhenzhou. It was stationed here with heavy troops. Jinxiong was destroyed.

In order to continue the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Dashi led hundreds of cavalry here to summon various forces to resist the attack of the Jin Dynasty. At this time, the battle between the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty broke out, and the Jin Dynasty completely focused its attention on the Song Dynasty and Yelu Dashi.

Starting from Kedun City, he defeated the Jin Dynasty troops twice. After Wu Qimai learned about it, he sent the Liao Dynasty to surrender to attack Yelu Dashi. He failed to reach Kedun City for the first time and was defeated for the second time.

Although he defeated the Jin army, Yelu Dashi realized that he could not stay here for a long time and decided to fight against the Great Liao from here to the west, hoping to fight against the Jin Kingdom in the east when the country was strong. After he left, Ke Duncheng was soon occupied by the Jin Kingdom.

The Song and Jin countries continued to fight. After a series of failures, the Jin Kingdom was unable to continue to operate Mobei. The defense line was constantly shrinking and only the Khitan surrendered troops were stationed. The Jin forces gradually withdrew from Mobei. This place has become the target of the various forces in the grassland. After several struggles, it is now

This place was controlled by the Tatars Beishubu tribe.

The news of the Song Dynasty sending troops to the west was brought back to Gaochang as early as the New Year. The guardian Bile was shocked. He wanted to blackmail some benefits but he caused a big disaster. Facing the coming

In the army, Bilege understood that his soldiers were small and weak and could not resist the "invasion" of the Song Dynasty, and of course he would not wait for death. He sent envoys to contact the surrounding tribes to fight against the Song Dynasty, and bribed Mo Shier, the leader of the Beizhubu tribe, to let him

Block the road of the Western Expedition Army of the Great Song Dynasty and defend against the enemy outside the country.

Mo Shier had to do things when he received the money. When he learned that the Song army had crossed the desert and headed towards Zhenzhou, he hurriedly dispatched troops to fight. There were two roads from Zhenzhou in Damo: the road was flat, but it had to pass by a hundred.

The deserted Gobi Desert is a difficult and dangerous road; the other road is along the Tuwula River, with sufficient water resources, but you have to pass through the important city of Fangzhou City. Mo Shier deliberately released the news that Fangzhou City was heavily guarded, hoping to expedition the West

The army walked into the Gobi Desert on the road, and led its troops to hide in the Gobi Desert and waited for an opportunity to attack, annihilated the Western Expedition Army in the vast desert.

Gao Chong obtained news through the scout cavalry and the passing caravan, but he thought there was a fraud. Who would be able to promote his combat plan if he had nothing to do! So he used the trick, sent someone to pretend to walk on the road, and sent the desert army to hide behind him.

Later, the actual army quietly walked to Fangzhou, attacked the city, and cut off the enemy's way back. Mo Shier led his troops to lie in the Gobi Desert and was preparing for a sneak attack, but the Song army launched a counter-sneak attack and suddenly killed him at the city of Fangzhou, taking advantage of his empty troops.

Occupy Fangzhou City and then face the Zubu army.

Under the attack of the Song army's sharp firearms, the Zhubu army was defeated in one battle. The Western Expedition Army took advantage of the situation to pursue, and Mo Shier was defeated to the northwest. The Song army launched an attack on the city of Zhenzhou, bombarded the city with artillery for two days and nights, and exploded the city of the city.

Invaded the city, he wiped out more than 6,000 enemies at a very small price. The next day, Gao Chong rushed forward and led a long journey, and took the two cities of Victoria and Zhaozhou for several days. After Mo Shier was defeated, he gathered troops from various units.

, and contacted the Damili tribe and the Yashiko tribe to jointly send troops to reinforce, but before the assembly was completed, the three cities were lost, so they could only retreat to the Wolduo City where the Bu Dawang Mansion was located, and at the same time sent troops to harass the Song army and attack

The baggage troops wanted to use this to make the Western Expedition Army unable to overcome them and evacuate as soon as possible.

The Western Expedition Army came from afar and was tired from fighting. Gao Chong ordered to rest here and reconcile the military discipline again, and strictly prohibited killing and looting. As long as the troops dependent on the enemy gave up resistance and sincerely surrendered, they would be lenient. Those who were coerced during the battle were forced to attach themselves to each other.

The enemy will all distribute clothes and food to their original homes and will not be investigated. Since this place was once the old Khitan land, the Jurchens occupied it for a short time and still had nostalgia for the former master. Gao Chong also ordered people to recruit the Khitan Shu Kingdom.

The princess wrote a letter to all departments, advising them not to be enemies with the Song Dynasty.

While implementing Huairou's policy, Gao Chong sent a hunting brigade and tribal troops to attack the remaining enemies and attack the haunted enemy. With the use of both soft and hard work of the Song army, some tribes no longer acted as enemies with the Song army. Gao Chong seized the opportunity to rest and recuperate.

Reward the surrendered tribes, appoint local officials, consolidate the newly occupied land, and turn this place into its logistics supply base for the western expedition...

Woluduo City is a must-pass way to advance westward. The gains and losses are related to the overall situation, so it must be captured. After a month of rest and recuperation, the Western Expedition Army sent troops again. In order to prevent the Song army from siegeing the city, Mo Shier ordered the digging of Wugu.

The Lu River destroys the bridge on the river. The river is so fast that the river floods the main road and blocks the road to move westward. Gao Chong can only stop the march and sends people to find the road, but at this time someone takes the initiative to serve as a guide for the Western Expedition Army and find Wugu

At the shallows of the Lu River, the army was able to successfully cross the river and surrounded the city of Woluduo.

It turned out that the local emperor Mo Shier was not popular. He relied on his strong military and horses to oppress ethnic minorities, occupied their pastures, fields, plundered their livestock and population, and monopolized foreign trade to collect heavy taxes, which led to the cruel rule of all ethnic groups.

Deeply hated it, just because they were weak and could not beat him. Now with strong support, these tribes attacked him in groups, trying to use the power of the Song army to overthrow Mo Shier and get rid of the rule of the Bu tribe. Seeing that the Song army was guided by the traitor

After crossing the Uguru River, Mo Shier was so angry that he was still not stupid that he knew he would be defeated by the Song army and ordered the army to strictly guard the city and not to fight.

Woluduo City existed as early as the Qin and Han dynasties. Although the owner had changed a few times, no one gave up on repairing the city. After a thousand years, it became a strong city with a tall and thick skin. Gao Chong and Zhao Li discussed,

In the absence of heavy artillery support, if a strong attack is in danger, there will be heavy casualties, but now it is difficult to replenish the local soldiers. One death is less than one, and the real battle has not yet begun, so the strength cannot be consumed here. So the Song army only used the

The artillery bombarded the city to panic, and they walked around the city and continued westward.

Just as the army was about to withdraw from the surrounding road, someone risked his life to send news from the city, saying that Mo Shier was extremely frightened under the constant artillery bombardment, burned, killed and looted everywhere in the city, preparing to abandon the city and escape. The people in the city hoped that the army would attack quickly

, to save the people from water and fire... (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!