The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 484 Liangzhou, a strange conspiracy

Zhao Tong laughed loudly and said: "Okay, okay, yes, yes, this competition is evenly matched, it's a tie!"

Yuan Ying jumped for joy, her master was indeed facing her home.

Lin Wanfeng's body trembled. What's so evenly matched?What's the tie?Is she, a little grandmaster, equal to a top-notch martial artist?

What's more, both of them use guns, the big guns she is good at!
She was being ambushed by the opponent. Since she had such a powerful spear move, she didn't need to use it long ago. She only used it when she thought she had figured out the way and could win effortlessly. This was a cover-up attack. , the other party’s thoughts are too weird!

"General, this, this isn't a tie..." Wang Zhongfu said hurriedly as he saw Lin Wanfeng standing there in a daze of frustration.

Zhao Tong glanced at him and frowned. This person is too expressionless. Isn't a tie the best result for you two?
He took a step forward, looked at Lin Wanfeng and said, "A lion fights a rabbit with all his strength. Doesn't Miss Lin even understand this?"

Lin Wanfeng felt ashamed and annoyed when he heard his lecture tone. The temperament that he thought was resourceful and wise immediately broke through. He wanted to argue, but suppressed his anger because there was a more important thing that he needed to ask.

Taking a deep breath, she said: "Also, General, from which famous master did your disciple learn his marksmanship?"

Zhao Tong smiled lightly and said, "This has nothing to do with Miss Lin, right?"

Lin Wanfeng refused to give up and said: "Since the general is the master of 28th sister, do you think it was the general who taught me the marksmanship?"

Zhao Tun narrowed his eyes and didn't speak.

Lin Wanfeng said word by word: "Didn't the general see that my daughter can also use those two methods of marksmanship?"

Zhao Tong smiled and said: "Martial arts in the world all lead to the same goal through different paths. Can Miss Lin use my disciple's last move?"

Lin Wanfeng's face turned ugly when she heard this. That move was too amazing and she couldn't use it. It was not her own style of marksmanship.

Zhao Tong sighed slightly: "See you off!"

Du Bo immediately stepped forward and made a gesture to leave quickly.

Lin Wanfeng opened her mouth. She wanted to reveal her identity. Her teacher was Zhou Tong, but in the end she hesitated and did not say anything.

There were so many doubts that they couldn't figure it out for a while. Later, Du Bo urged him coldly, so the two of them had no choice but to leave Zhuo Luo step by step.

Zhao Tong stood in front of the hall and looked at Yuan Ying. Yuan Ying's eyes flickered, and she felt a little panicked. She whispered: "Master, master, I will make you a pot of tea..."

Seeing that she was about to run away, Zhao Tong said: "Stop, what are you drinking tea for? Where did you learn that trick?"

Yuan Ying had no choice but to stop, lowered her head, and crossed her hands in front of her, just like a Meng boy who had made a mistake in a private school.

"Steal, learn by stealing..."

"Learned it by stealing?" Zhao Tong sneered: "It's good not to learn, but how can you learn to steal?"

Yuan Ying whispered: "Bai, Brother Bai Zhan said that this move is also Master's martial arts. Although I stole it from Brother Bai Zhan, learning Master's martial arts actually doesn't count as stealing..."

Zhao Tong narrowed his eyes, paced back and forth on the ground, and said slowly: "You have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to walk one step at a time. Your own martial arts skills are simply not enough to support the use of such tricks!"

"Not enough to support it?" Yuan Ying raised her head and looked at Zhao Tong doubtfully.

"That's right!" Zhao Tong said: "You only have first-class martial arts skills, and the marksmanship of that move is not what you can use right now!"

"Master, I know that move is powerful, but..." Yuan Ying was a little confused.

"But you've used it, haven't you?" Zhao Tong shook his head and said, "Now feel the muscles on the back of the shoulder, the side of the waist, and the bend of the leg."

Yuan Ying followed the instructions and went to touch it, but suddenly she heard an "ouch" and almost sat on the ground.

Zhao Tong sneered and said: "Fortunately, it was just a stolen move, and it was used a little incorrectly. It was not a complete and good spear fire attack. Otherwise, I'm afraid it would have been completely discarded, and I would never want to practice martial arts again in the future!"

"Ah, Master..." Yuan Ying was still standing before, but after tapping the muscles and veins in those three places, not only did she feel severe pain, but the energy and blood in her body surged. Apparently, when she used the spear to swipe the fire, she was injured. A hidden injury.

"Master, what should Master do?"

"Hmph!" Zhao Tong frowned and glanced at her: "Go back and lie down for seven days. You cannot stretch your arms or legs or use any weapons. I will have someone give you medicine. You are not allowed to go out for seven days!"

"Yes, Master..." Yuan Ying was dejected and wanted to turn around and walk back, but suddenly found that her body was as heavy as lead: "Why can't I walk?"

Zhao Tong said calmly: "Then walk slowly. If you can't walk anymore, crawl back!"

"Yes..." Yuan Ying flattened her mouth, held back her tears, and moved slowly towards her residence at a turtle's speed.

Watching Yuan Ying walk out of the courtyard little by little, Zhao Tong frowned. He was a half-step grandmaster who gathered the leaders of hundreds of schools, and coupled with the marksmanship created by his unique vision of martial arts weapons over the years, how could he be a first-rate martial artist? For casual use?
This means that Yuan Ying is extremely talented. Even if someone else saw it from Bai Zhan's hands, and Bai Zhan deliberately demonstrated it, it would be difficult for him to learn it, let alone use it.

As for the martial arts of the Bai brothers, Bai Ba is the best due to his age, while Bai Zhan is the junior master.

Naturally, Bai Zhan, a young master, had just stepped in, and he could not be compared with the young masters such as Lu Junyi and Du Fu at that time.

Lu and Du immediately gave up their martial arts skills. Over the years, they were just one step away from entering the Grand Master realm. In fact, both of them were promoted to Junior Grand Masters when they were in their 20s. However, Grand Master was too difficult and took many years of accumulation to finally achieve it. .

There are also three, six or nine levels of junior masters, with different levels of gold content.

Bai Zhan is now almost 30 years old. It is difficult to improve his actual martial arts skills, and there is basically no possibility of further promotion. Moreover, he is a little master who is lucky to follow Zhao Tong. Zhao Tong repeatedly reminded him before he went up, which was very reluctant. .

Of the three Bai family brothers, the eldest, Bai Ba, is standing still at the threshold of the first class. The third, Bai Zhan, is reluctant to become a grandmaster. This will probably be the case in the future. Only the second, Bai Ao, has the best talent. There may be a slight possibility that he will become a grandmaster in the future. .

Zhao Tong also wants to improve the martial arts of his men, but everyone has different talents. Bai Zhan's kind is better, while others can't see much effect no matter how much effort they put in. For example, Shi Qian has a third-rate martial arts, and a top-notch one. The lightness of footwork, no matter how Zhao Tong teaches it, is unbeatable and makes no progress at all.Zhao Tong still has a lot of things to do, so how can he spend all his time on this? Except for those who are accompanying him, the rest can only let them study and figure it out on their own.

The stunning spear technique requires at least a small master level to be practiced and used. These are the first few moves. As for the last move, the stunning spear, not even a master can perform it at all, even if it means getting injured.

Maybe... 28 will work?Zhao Tong shook his head. Yuan Ying's talent for spear art was too strong. It was hard to say that he would be able to use a stunning spear after being a young master.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Zhao Tong did not receive any news from Yuan Jing, but received a secret letter from General Lu.

This secret letter was very long, with over a thousand words in it. After reading it, Zhao Tong could not help but fall into deep thought.

General Lu is now stationed in Tiandeng County, with the ancient Great Wall to the north and Liangzhou to the west.

Liangzhou has not sent troops to attack, and it has been quiet and lifeless. General Lu sent scouts to investigate many times, and found that there were very few troops stationed in Liangzhou, and they were only suitable for defense. There was no condition to send troops to regain Tiandeng.

Liangzhou itself is regarded as the inner city of Xixia. If it were in the hands of the Central Plains Dynasty, it would be a fortress to block the Qiang and Hu Xiongnu in the northwest. However, in the hands of Xixia Dangxiang, it became a useless existence.

Because they were originally blocking them, but they not only occupied it, but also expanded its territory thousands of miles eastward, so Liangzhou, which was located in the rear, completely lost its strategic role.

General Lu said in the letter that there would be no more than three thousand troops stationed in Liangzhou City, and there should be no elite soldiers, most of whom were old and weak. He suggested that Zhao Tao order an attack on Liangzhou.

In fact, it is normal for Liangzhou to have a small number of soldiers. At this moment, it is already located in the rear area of ​​​​Xixia. It is enough to have 3000 people. After all, compared with the Song Dynasty, the Forbidden Army garrison in several routes in the south also only has a few thousand people in one place.

Zhao Tong had not thought about heading west. After Yu Zhuoluo established a foothold and observed the situation, he wanted to take the opportunity to go east and fight all the way to Xingqing Mansion. However, General Lu gave a reason for taking Liangzhou in his letter.

This is a very bold reason, and can even be said to be a strategy.

Liangzhou is located southwest of the gap between the two sections of the ancient Great Wall. The ancient Gushui River runs north from the Fu Nei area and goes straight into the middle of the two large deserts.

There are five lakes at the junction of two large deserts, which are the final destination of the valley river.

If we follow the Gushui River from Liangzhou to the edge of the desert, there will be no city guarding us in this area.

If we go further east along the desert and approach the Yingli City of Xishou Baotai Army, instead of taking the official road on the edge of the city, we cross a section of the desert more than a hundred miles north, and then there will be a large area after passing through. grassland.

This grassland is hundreds of miles away, and there is no city in the middle. If you cross it further, you will reach the foot of the southern foot of Helan Mountain.

Walking around Helan Mountain and heading north, there is Shunzhou City, but here there is the ancient Great Wall running north to south. Shunzhou is on the east side of the ancient Great Wall.

Continuing a hundred miles north, you will reach the end of the ancient Great Wall. Then turn a little and go east for a short distance, you will find Xingzhou, the capital of Xixia, Xingqing Prefecture!
Although we went in a big circle in this way, we avoided the boundaries of the three prefectures including Xishou Baotai Military Division, Jingsai Military Division, and Xiangqing Army. There were about a dozen big cities and [-] or [-] counties and towns in the middle, until we reached Xingxing. Celebrate.

General Lu also specially attached a map to the secret report. It was hand-drawn by him. It was slightly different from the one Zhao Tong displayed during the meeting with everyone. He should have obtained the map again in Tiandeng. Compared with Zhuo Luo's map, It was redrawn, and the locations were marked with various colors, very detailed, and the marching route was delineated with big red arrows, which was extremely clear.

After reading the secret letter and the map, Zhao Tong put them on the table and remained silent for a long time.

This is the Ziwu Valley Wonder!General Lu is imagining a strange plot in Ziwu Valley!
During the Three Kingdoms period, when Zhuge Liang first set out for the Northern Expedition from Qishan, the famous Shu Han general Wei Yan proposed a surprise attack in Ziwu Valley.

Wei Yan wanted to lead [-] elite troops from Ziwu Valley to Chang'an City quickly and capture Chang'an in one fell swoop. Zhuge Liang, on his side, would lead a large army from Xie Valley to Chang'an for support.

However, Zhuge Liang believed that this strategy was too dangerous and difficult to succeed, so he did not adopt it. He then used the strategy of taking Longyou flatly, intending to weaken Wei's resistance through gradual encroachment, create a strong military advantage bit by bit, and then steadily invade Chang'an.

Zhao Tong stood up, walked outside the door, looked at the sky in the distance and started thinking with his hands behind his hands.

Judging from the objective judgment and analysis of future generations, Wei Yan's Ziwu Valley conspiracy only has a [-]% chance of winning at most.

The Ziwu Valley Strategy is a strategic assault launched by following the example of Liu Bang and Han Xin, the founders of the Han Dynasty. .

However, the road along the Ziwu Valley is quite difficult. It is more than 800 miles long, including more than 600 mountain roads. It also has to cross the Qinling Mountains. There are many passes, counties, valleys, etc. on the road, such as Shiquan County, Ziwu Pass, Yaoling Pass, Raofeng Pass, Huanghuang Rong, etc. Wait, and the Northern Expedition of the Shu Army is no secret, and Chang'an City is easy to defend and difficult to attack. These are all constraints.

At that time, Wei Yan believed that Xia Houmao, the commander in charge of defending the Chang'an area, lacked war experience. Under the threat of the Shu army approaching Chang'an, Xia Houmao was unable to deal with it, or he could not hold on, or his will collapsed and he abandoned the city and fled. This was Wei Yan's fault. The core of the entire tactical plan.

Wei Yan's plan has obvious taboos for marchers in many aspects such as enemy situation estimation, route selection, military food supply, time assumptions, and preparations for siege. Although these things can be solved only by doing it quickly, if it cannot be done quickly, If the disadvantages cannot be eliminated quickly, then this plan will fail.

Zhuge Liang's strategy of seizing Longyou to capture Chang'an, although the journey is far away and there is the danger of a heavy Wei army blocking it, Longyou is the meeting point of Hexi, Bashu and Guanzhong. The Shu army can march into Longyou and capture Chencang, and then they can control it. The main transportation route for the Shu army to go north, and Zhuge Liang was unwilling to take risks in his life. These were the reasons why he did not adopt Wei Yan's Ziwu Valley plan.

Zhao Tu turned around and went back to the house. He picked up the map drawn by General Lu on the table and looked at it. If he sent troops from Liangzhou according to the above route, there would be no passes like Ziwu Valley. There would not be many rugged places, only two places. It was difficult and dangerous, one was to walk through that small section of desert, and the other was to go around the foot of Helan Mountain.

Even if the desert is only a dozen miles away, it is extremely dangerous, not to mention that this stretch of desert on the map is fifty or sixty miles away.

As for the land at the foot of Helan Mountain, although there is no city, it is within the jurisdiction of Xingqing Mansion. It is not as sparsely populated as the grassland. If we didn't rush there in a hurry, the news would definitely leak out in advance.

But these two points are actually not the most important. The most important thing is to ensure that Brother Richard and Three Thousand Iron Kites are not in Xingqing!

If Brother Richard, the military god of Xixia, had not left and the heavily armored iron kite was also there, even if he successfully reached Xingzhou City in Xingqing Prefecture, he would not be able to break the city.

In the letter, General Lu only proposed the matter as a hypothesis, and planned to capture Liangzhou first. As for whether this strategy would be feasible in the future, with Liangzhou in hand, he would always take the initiative.

Zhao Tong thought for a moment. In fact, if this strategy was adopted, it would not be too difficult to transfer Brother Richard and Three Thousand Iron Harriers away from Xingqing. Since they were fighting in a coordinated manner, he would still have to fight eastward. The war In the fierce battle, Brother Richard is bound to come, and there is a high possibility that the Three Thousand Iron Kites will go out to fight.

After the two left Xingqing, the Liangzhou Army walked through the desert, around Helan, and attacked Xingqing Mansion with a 50.00% chance of success. It was higher than the success rate of the Ziwu Valley Adventure, but it was only half of the chance. After all, the marching route All kinds of accidents can happen, and at least half of the chances must be eliminated.

However, regardless of whether this strategy will work in the future, Liangzhou should be captured by attacking first. If this strategy is used in the future, everything will be easy for Liangzhou. If this strategy is not implemented, multiple Liangzhous are not a bad thing.

Thinking of this, Zhao Tong immediately began to write a letter, and then he summoned Zhang Xian and asked him to immediately lead two thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry to Tiandeng to meet up with General Lu to plot against Liangzhou.

(End of this chapter)