Han Hai Tang Ergui

In the fourth year of Qianyuan in the Great Zhou Dynasty, 963 AD, in February, Zhang Xiantai, who accepted the grassland cavalry, finally rushed to Shule.

The herdsmen were placed in Shule, Qiuci, Yanqi, Khotan and other places respectively, and the local government was responsible for eating and drinking, and allocated pastures for temporary grazing.

At the same time, the Western Expeditionary Forces of the Three Kings were all assembled, and they adapted to the local conditions while conducting joint training.

Although the Three Kings West Expedition Army was completely empty when they set out from the capital of God, there were still some frameworks to support this empty shell, and that was the veterans who had graduated from Longtao Academy and then entered the army over the years.

They served as Lieutenant General Yuhou and a small number of troops in the Western Expeditionary Army. These veterans are familiar with Anxi's local conditions and customs, a small number of them are proficient in Turkic, and most of them can conduct simple daily conversations in Turkic.

At the same time, they can also recognize the direction in the wilderness, and more importantly, they also understand some medical principles.

Uh, it may be exaggerated to say medical theory, because what they know is just common medical knowledge in the eyes of later generations, that is, using Huoxiangzhengqi powder and montmorillonite powder to treat acclimatization.

The former is mainly used to treat dizziness, chest tightness, distending pain and vomiting, etc. It belongs to the precious famous prescription that has been formed long ago in this era and has been included in Qianjinfang.

The latter mainly treats diarrhea caused by unacceptable water and soil, and was invented by the French at the beginning of the [-]th century.

But thanks to Zhang Shengren's "excellent" physique that could cause diarrhea even if he ate a banana when he was young, he was very familiar with montmorillonite powder, so after confirming that it was Xiajun Yimin, he began to send people to search and study it.

Finally, the hard work paid off, and the doctors of Jinyi Personal Guard Yinyang Fengyao Bureau have discovered a large number of medicines in Henan, Hebei and Andong provinces.

In particular, Andong, that is, the montmorillonite bentonite discovered in the Northeast, is easy to mine in large quantities, and has now become one of the sources of income for the people of all ethnic groups in the province of Andong.

Now Zhang Ting can't solve Kinney, so it is very dangerous to go to Southeast Asia.

However, with Huoxiangzhengqi powder and montmorillonite powder, among the athletes who went west to the middle of the river, Persia, the coast of the Caspian Sea, and Tianzhu, the number of deaths due to unacceptable water and soil directly decreased by more than [-]%.

Therefore, Huoxiangzhengqi powder and montmorillonite powder have become the prescriptions that every graduate of Longtao Academy must be familiar with, and even in extreme cases, they must be able to make medicines with their own materials.

In April, the army's joint training was completed, and the soldiers had basically adapted to the climate in Anxi, so Zhang Xianyu divided his troops into three groups.

He led the main force of the South Route Army from Shule to Ningyuan with [-] soldiers on foot.

The Central Route Army was led by Zhang Xianxi, the great king of the Song Dynasty, and rode [-] soldiers on foot from Shule to the north to Suiye.

Because Zhang Xianxi is the adopted son of Guo Wan'er, and his biological mother is Princess Sefiye of Saman Persia. At the same time, he is married to Hu Jie, Hu Guang's daughter.

More importantly, as a heroine like Princess Pingyang Zhao, Hu Jie was in the army and helped Zhang Xianxi control an elite Dadan cavalry.

The Hu family came from a small group of Bai Dadan people who surrendered to the Guiyi Army in the west of Juyanhai.

After Hu Guang collected them, he selected the elite and sent them to the Central Plains as Zhang Xianxi's personal follower.

Now Huguang has been an ambassador of appeasement and dismissal in Anxi for more than ten years. He has firmly controlled more than a dozen cities from Suiye to Talas, with a population of more than [-], and has formed [-] elite soldiers and [-] soldiers. The military system of thousands of conscripts.

Zhang Xianyu couldn't help being a little envious. Zhang Xianxi's task was the easiest among the three brothers. Not only did his father-in-law take care of everything, but he also had Saman Persian blood.

When the news of his arrival in the river spreads, it is unknown how many Saman Persians will come to pay homage to him.

The North Route Army was led by Zhang Xiantai, the great king of the Kingdom of Shu, with [-] soldiers on foot, and entered the land of Qihe through Kucha.

The main task is to recruit about [-] to [-] Geluolu people as servants, and then go to Dinghai City (felt) to join Lu Sanlang.

The Ge Luolu people are a bit miserable now. In history, it didn’t matter if they were two or five sons in the Battle of Talas, but at this time, the Zhang Zhou court had a large number of East Returners who were descendants of the Anxi Army. Ketuhan's dark history against Zhang Tie.

Therefore, although the number of people is nearly 50, and they still occupy the fertile land of Seven Rivers, they don't even have the establishment of [-] households. , Whenever there is a war, they will be recruited as servants to do the dirty work.

It is estimated that when the population is reduced to 10,000+ people, the Land of Seven Rivers will no longer belong to them, and the remaining people will definitely integrate into other tribes.

In May, Zhang Xianyu arrived in Xining City, the capital of Ningyuan, and began to replace Cao Bin, who had been guarding here for almost ten years, and was about to return east when the river was completely pacified.

Unlike Cao Bin's Ningyuan appeasement and removal of the ambassador's official position, Zhang Xianyu's full official position is called Jijie Governor Ningyuan's military, government, money, food and other affairs, referred to as Ningyuan Governor.

In Zhangzhou now, Ningyuan has a very special status. In Hezhong and Anxi today, Ningyuan has the highest proportion of Han people. Zhang Tie also made it clear that he would not entrust the kings in Ningyuan.

At the same time, it is neither a province nor a vassal state, but Zhili Prefecture, which is clearly different from the two.

Zhang Zhou now has three Zhili. The original Henan province in the capital city is called Zhili.

The second is Pengtai Zhili Mansion in Penglai Province. The official is Quanshe Penglai Island Qian Liangjun Political Affairs Officer and Pengtai Mansion Governor.

This position was suggested by Zhang Xianyu after he left Pengtai, not mainly for the purpose of controlling Penglai Island (Kyushu Island).

It is to let the people of Penglai and Asahi who belonged to the Wa country know that there is still a court above their heads, and they are now part of the court of the Central Plains.

The third is the Ningyuan Zhili Mansion. The official supervises Ningyuan's money, grain, military and political affairs in order to hold festivals, and is referred to as the Governor of Ningyuan.

At the same time, unlike the other two Zhili, the governor of Ningyuan was directly appointed by the emperor without going through the Ministry of Officials of Shangshu Province.

To put it bluntly, Ningyuan is a private domain of the royal family, and at the same time it also has the function of providing blood bags for Xia Junyi and the people.

For example, the millions of grains stored in Ningyuan, hundreds of thousands of arrow shafts, and the arsenal started here by the Longtao Institute and the Tiangong Institute are all prepared for the future Western Expedition.

Therefore, every governor of Ningyuan is the most trusted confidant of the royal family, and even a member of the royal family.

Zhang Xianyu stayed in Ningyuan for a month, and he was not idle during this month. Now the situation in Hezhong province is complicated, especially the struggle among the several forces of his own people, so Zhang Xianyu must calmly analyze the results first, and then have another action.

You must know that among these people, even Lu Sanlang, the Grand Duke of Dinghai, who is the most scrappy, is also a member of the Donggui Sect.

The rest of Bai Congxin is not only the Yuan Cong faction, but also the second most meritorious veteran in the Yuan Cong faction.

Not to mention Li Congde, the Li family in Khotan has worked hard and made great achievements, and they are deeply involved with the Zhang family, the Cao family, and even the entire Guiyi army, and even completed Zhang Zhou's first round of angel venture capital.

As for Guo Xun'er, this woman is not simple. She is also deeply involved with the radical faction in Saman Bosin and the radical faction in the river of Liufazong, so she can't move easily.

All this has led to Zhang Xianyu's inability to use force in the face of them. How to solve their respective needs and twist them into a single rope will completely test Zhang Xianyu's personal ability and political wisdom.

There are all kinds of documents, including the records of Jinyi's personal guards and spies over the past ten years, the reports of the pioneers who came from Longtao Academy but have taken root in the river, official documents, documents, folk rumors, and accounts of businessmen. The experience of court officials and so on.

Everyone needs Zhang Xianyu to filter out useful information in a short time.

This is ability. These records are not what you see in later generations. The subordinates have carefully prepared, organized and clear documents, as well as pictures and tables.

Instead, there are a lot of rather concise classical Chinese records written on various kinds of rough paper, sheepskin and even white wood boards.

And there is still a lot of useless information in it, you need to screen and choose.

When most people see this, their brains will crash immediately, and the CPU will smoke, but it only took Zhang Xianyu five days to sort this out.

Let's look at Bai Congxin first, this general Yuan Cong has been making trouble, actually out of anxiety.

Because his Zheng Fan Kingdom, although it occupies the rich land in the river, including Shiguo City and Baishui City, its land area is actually not large.

Only a little more than two-thirds of Ningyuan is about the same size as the Hanzhong Basin. There are 10,000+ people in this area, and [-] to [-] of them are Han people.

In addition, he, Bai Congxin, has more than 1 original Kucha people, that is, the yellow-headed Uighurs in history, and there are thousands of vassals of Zheng Fan Kingdom, large and small.

This led to the small size of Zheng Fan Kingdom. Although the population is 10,000+, there are still too many people who are masters, so that everyone can be rich, but not too rich.

As for further outward expansion, Bai Congxin faces Lu Sanlang's Dinghai Grand Duchy to the west, Song Fan Kingdom controlled by Hu Guangwei's son-in-law to the north, Ningyuan Zhili Mansion which he cannot move to the east, Saman Persia to the southwest, and Saman Persia to the southeast. Occupy the Golden Kingdom of Samarkand.

Damn it, this can be regarded as completely besieging the future of Zheng Fanguo on all sides. The future is already in sight.

In order to win the fourth battle of Shiguocheng, Bai Congxin offered a very high reward.

After the war, in order to resettle the clansmen, and had to fulfill the promise, they could only compress the land controlled by the royal family.

Among the vassal states of Yan, Chu, Song, and Zheng that have been formed in the whole world today, Zheng Fan is the royal family who owns land and other wealth and has the smallest population. Nan Junhou.

How can this make Bai Congxin not in a hurry? He is just like Guo Ziyi now, with seven sons and eight daughters. There are already more than 20 grandsons and granddaughters, and there will be more and more in the future.

The goods, land and population that the royal family of Zheng Fan can control are simply not enough.

If it goes on like this, as long as he dies, within 20 years, Zheng Fan will have civil strife, or a big civil strife, Bai Congxin can't help it!

He was so anxious that his hair was about to fall out, but he had no other choice but to try to nibble away at Li Congde's Jin Fan and Saman Persia, if he could get a little bit.

As for the Jin Fan Kingdom, Zhang Xianyu explained one by one, the status of the Jin Fan is unusual, Khotan is within the imperial court, stable and wealthy, and it is still the ancestral land.

Now once the dynasty moved to Kangju (Samarkand), the people under the rule were unwilling to accept the rule of Jinfan, and kept running to the nearby Anxi (Bukhara), Dong'an, and Jiesu (Dushanbe).

At the same time, they have to face the pressure of Bai Congxin from the northwest, Saman Persia from the west cannot be trusted, and the east has to fight against the traitors who occupy Tocharian and have not surrendered to Anyuan.

It's like a rich second generation who used to have nothing to worry about, but was suddenly kicked out to start some kind of self-employment. The company finally opened, and there were problems in all directions. It's strange to feel comfortable.

As for Guo Yuer, there are two problems. One is that Mansour is 16 years old, so he has grown up.

Although he was raised by Guo Yuer, he was very close to Han culture and converted to the Six Dharma School, but the land in the river was obviously not intended to be given to him by the imperial court.

At the same time, Zhang Tie seems to be reluctant to let Mansur go to the Central Plains, which is very troublesome, and he must find a place for Mansur to settle as soon as possible.

The second is Guo Lun'er, who just turned 30 this year, but she is no longer suitable to be Mansur's adoptive mother.

At the same time, Guo Xun'er also formed an alliance with Shi Liboluo, the master of the fanatic Six Dharma School, that is, Master Cixian, who originally preached in Korea, but quickly sold the king of Korea, Wang Zhao, to form an alliance.

Sribhara has gathered a large number of people, and Guo Kuang'er himself has recruited a group of people. It seems that Sribura is going to support Guo Kuang'er as the leader, and lead a large number of believers to leave the river to go somewhere to be a queen and preach.

This is a bit difficult, even more difficult than the problems of Bai Congxin and Li Congde.

As for Grand Duke Lu Sanlang of Dinghai, his problem is actually the best solution.

The Grand Duchy of Dinghai is located in the Leizhu Sea (Aral Sea), and the west and north are full of nomadic tribes.

Ogus Ye Huguo Ye Hu Danu Shimi who was beaten away at the beginning.

Zhang Shengren's old opponent, Xiaoqiang who was in his fifties and was still running on the front line of the Anti-Zhou Dynasty - the former Saktu Khan of the Kara Khanate, is on this side.

They united a large number of grassland tribes from the Central Asian grassland to the Caspian Sea and the Volga River, and continued to raid the pastures and cultivated land of the Grand Duchy of Dinghai.

Although Lu Sanlang, especially his adopted son Luketu was brave and good at fighting, he defeated these thieves many times, making them cry for their father and mother.

But the Grand Duchy of Dinghai only has 10,000+ people after all, so it is already very difficult to defend such a long border, and it is indeed difficult to deal with all-round harassment.

Therefore, the problem between Lu Sanlang and the Grand Duchy of Dinghai is that they urgently need a thigh.

Originally, Lu Sanlang was in a group with Bai Congxin, but after seeing Bai Congxin's plight, Lu Sanlang was afraid that he would go crazy and provoke the emperor, so he broke off the alliance with Bai Congxin.

Without Zheng Fan's support, the rest of Samanbos, Jin Fan, and Song Fan could not be Lu Sanlang's thighs at all.

Therefore, in these years, Lu Sanlang has been tortured by Danu Ximi and Saktu, and he is a little bit crazy, and he urgently needs the court to help him out.

Once you understand your needs, you can prescribe the right medicine.

At the end of May, Zhang Xiantai, the King of Shu, sent someone to send back news that he had successfully recruited [-] Ge Luolu's servants. With a mighty [-] troops, he marched directly to Dinghai City, the capital of Grand Duke Dinghai, and... Gained the military power of Dinghai Principality.

The reason why it went so smoothly was that Zhang Xiantai's subordinates were not only full of talents, but also brilliant stars.

In terms of civil servants, there is Zhao Kuangyi who has been a governor in the local area, a bachelor of Zhaowu in the center, and a Luantai Sheren.

Brother Zhao is 24 years old this year. He is at the peak of his intelligence. He is proficient in strategy, good at planning and ruthless.

In addition to Brother Zhao, the civil servant also has Lu Duan Lu Zhenghui, who is 28 years old this year and is known in history as not confused about major events.

In terms of generals, there is Cui Han and Cui Zhongwen, the famous founding generals of the Northern Song Dynasty who were brave and resourceful in history, despised wealth and righteousness, and had extraordinary bearing.

There is also Guo Shouwen, who was also a famous founding general of the Northern Song Dynasty, received a posthumous gift from King Qiao, and the posthumous title of Zhongwu, the highest honor of a warrior in the Northern Song Dynasty, who is good at strategy and poetry.

Compared with these two, Liu Tingrang, the hero of the Northern Song Dynasty in history, seemed a bit inferior.

At the same time, there was Zhang Zhou's famous general, Marquis of Weiyuan, and Li Zun from Weizhou, who was once the general of Zuo Shenweiwei of the pro-army.

Li Zun's younger sister is Zhang Xiantai's side concubine, so the relationship between the two is extremely close.

With such a combination of civil and martial arts, and his grandfather Fu Yanqing trained for him, the three hundred Yanzhao elite cavalry mainly composed of children from the Fu family, don't be too easy to pick a Lu Sanlang and Lu Ketu.

And when the news was sent to Zhang Xianyu, Zhang Xiantai had already been generous to the outside world under the advice of the shady Zhao Erge and Guo Shouwen.

He led [-] Ge Luolu people to take advantage of Lu Sanlang's actions, falsely claiming that the Ge Luolu people could not bear the oppression, and wanted to come to Dinghai City to grab one and then go west to find a way out.

Under Zhao's second brother's planning, Ge Luolu's leaders were very 'happy' and agreed to cooperate with Zhang Xiantai in acting.

When the news spread to the grassland, Saktu immediately said that it might be a trap.

This young and old man knows the characteristics of Ge Luolu people too well, and he also understands that there is nothing on his side that Ge Luolu people should take refuge in.

But Danu Ximi, who was in a hurry to fight back to Leizhuhai (Xianhai), had a different opinion. He believed that Lu Sanlang had no ability to mobilize Ge Luolu people to act with him.

This is indeed the case, but unfortunately, it is not Lu Sanlang who makes Ge Luolu people willing to act, but Zhang Shilang and Zhang Xiantai.

Although Sacto claimed that this was a trap, it was only his guess and could not be used as evidence.

As a result, under the impetus of his subjects wanting to rob the Grand Duchy of Dinghai, Saktu gradually stopped insisting on his point of view.

At the beginning of June, Danu Shimi and Saktu bought a group of Kimak and Kipchak people with a lot of money, and let these sturdy grassland people form a coalition army with them.

In mid-August, these people arrived at a place more than 500 miles northwest of Dinghai Town.

This place is around Aralsk in the later Kazakhstan. During the Qing Dynasty, it belonged to Xiaoyuzi, Kazakhstan. It is about [-] miles away from the Ural River and the Caspian Sea. It is an important commercial node between the Ural River and the core area of ​​Central Asia.

Danu Shimi also made preparations for arranging more than [-] coalition forces to stop in Alarsk.

There are still five hundred miles away from Dinghai City. When he arrived in Alarsk, he sent people to Dinghai City to verify the situation. If it was a trap, he would retreat immediately, and he would only go to rob if he was sure it was true.

This arrangement was not careless, but Zhang Xiantai never thought of waiting for them to approach Dinghai City before acting.

Because the closer he is to Dinghai City, the easier it is to reveal his secrets. Therefore, he decided that he only needs to confirm that Danu Ximi has really led someone, and then he will act.

Therefore, before Danu Ximi's spies approached Dinghai City, Zhang Xiantai learned of the specific location of Danu Ximi's coalition forces through the Ge Luolu people and the Oguz people who believed in the Six Dharma School.

Immediately with the assistance of Li Zun, Lu Ketu, Lu Duan and others, Zhang Xiantai selected 10,000 elite riders from the [-]+ Northern Army of the Western Expeditionary Army. Under the leadership of one man and three horses, he rushed straight day and night Alarsk.

Four days later, the Han army, which ran for five hundred miles, arrived more than thirty miles east of Alarsk.

Danu Simi's coalition forces still don't know anything about it. They brutally captured the local Oguz women, robbed the Oguz people's cattle and sheep, and were happily eating and drinking and having silver parties.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiantai ordered the army to rest for four hours, and after they had eaten and drank enough at dawn, they suddenly launched an attack on the coalition forces surrounding Alarsk within a radius of six or seven miles.

These guys, including the well-aged Saktu, never thought that the Han army's fine cavalry would suddenly appear, so most of them, let alone fighting, didn't even have horses and weapons by their side, which made them lost as soon as the battle started. suspense.

Zhang Xiantai first ordered [-] prairie cavalry to outflank the two wings, making the illusion that at least [-] troops were attacking.

The frightened coalition forces couldn't tell the difference under the limited field of vision at dawn. They were so frightened that they abandoned their well-built tents and rushed out towards the gap in the west.

After the two sides chased until dawn, except for a small number of coalition forces who escaped, most of them were surrounded by a Gobi.

Danu Ximi was furious when he found only tens of thousands (actually more than [-]) cavalry attacking from a high place. He ordered the coalition forces to dismount and form a formation, and shot back the attack of the grassland cavalry with infantry bows.

Zhang Xiantai immediately changed his tactics and ordered five thousand Ge Luolu's dead soldiers to attack the main force of the dismounted coalition forces.

But this is a tactic of fooling people. Sure enough, the Ge Luolu people suffered heavy casualties in the rain of arrows, which immediately boosted the morale of the coalition forces.

Zhang Xiantai also deliberately asked Ge Luolu to wear the general's brocade clothes, even brightly colored clothes and gold and silver ornaments before departure, in order to lure the coalition forces.

The coalition forces were really fooled. Seeing that the enemy was vulnerable and the loot was abundant, they, who were accustomed to poverty, rushed out to grab the loot one after another, and even Danu Shimi couldn't stop them.

In order to snatch the spoils more quickly, many Kimaks and Kipchaks who had dismounted went back to look for horses, remounted and rushed forward.

In this way, some people are advancing, some people are looking for horses behind, quarreling, snatching, and people are busy picking up the beautiful clothes of the Ge Luolu people everywhere on the ground. The more than [-] coalition troops are in chaos and completely lost Commanded.

At this moment, the five thousand fine cavalry of the Han army hidden five or six miles away got the signal and rushed to them immediately.

These elite cavalry of the Han army are all warriors selected from thousands of miles, equipped with excellent armor and weapons and strong horses, and their fighting will and skills are extremely superb and tenacious.

After shooting their bows and arrows, the horses drew their horses, and the horses finished shooting their bows and arrows. They rushed repeatedly, and in just one hour, they completely defeated the chaotic coalition forces.

At this time, the prairie cavalry on both sides came to outflank and drive them away, biting the battered buffalo of the coalition army like wild wolves, and the 10,000+ coalition army collapsed and ran wildly on the Gobi, unable to form a formation to resist.

At the second hour of the battle, when the situation of the battle was clear, Zhang Xiantai put on his armor and went into battle, leading three hundred Yanzhao cavalry to rush to Danu Ximi's place.

The three hundred Yanzhao elite cavalry were one against a hundred, and they scattered Danu Shimi's elite guards with only one blow.

Zhang Xiantai jumped on a horse among the ten thousand troops, and directly knocked out half of Danu Ximi's head, and the coalition forces finally collapsed.

In this battle, Zhang Xiantai actually used only 5000 people to wipe out an enemy almost five times his size.

The coalition forces cried for their fathers and mothers, corpses littered the field, and the soldiers of the Han army even killed the third spare horizontal knife before ending the battle.

In this pursuit of more than 4 miles, the coalition forces were killed more than 5 people, captured more than [-] people, and only [-] to [-] people escaped.

Zhang Xiantai then executed [-] of the [-] captives on the edge of this unnamed Gobi, and used [-] to [-] heads of the coalition army to build three giant Beijing temples, to show the glory of Zhang Han's army.

The hundreds of thousands of livestock carried by the coalition forces were even abandoned due to lack of drinking water and could not be taken away.

A few days later, Saktu, who was lucky enough to escape to death, uttered a shrill scream in front of the terrifying Jingguan, and then disappeared into the endless desert with the last hundred or so confidantes.

He knew that in his life, he was doomed to fail.