Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 887
"Liangzhou is so strong that even one hundred thousand troops cannot be dispatched, let alone [-] people. We only need to hold on for a month, and this king will have a plan to defeat the enemy!" King Pan Luo is the overlord after all, and his will is far from His son, Pan Luo Ajiu, forcibly suppressed the frustration and anxiety in his heart, and said with emotion, to boost the morale of the soldiers under his command.

However, at this moment, a crow ignorant of current affairs flew over the city tower, croaked and flew north.That desperate cry made the superstitious Tubo soldiers even more ominous.

East of Liangzhou City.

Although he came as a victor with high morale, Yang Jiye considered that he had traveled for two days and fought another battle last night, and then came all night without rest.Therefore, instead of letting people attack the city immediately, they ordered to set up camp ten miles outside the city. The army rested for a day first, and waited for the siege equipment such as stone throwers, nest carts, shield carts, ladders, and door-ramming carts to be delivered. After the components are assembled one by one, we will attack the city tomorrow.

However, Pan Luo Ajiu, the son of King Pan Luo, who was held hostage by Zhou Hu that night, led ten masters including Zhou Hu, and Pan Luo Ajiu's own hundred or so confidantes falsely passed on King Pan Luo's order in the middle of the night, killed the gatekeepers unexpectedly, and opened the city gate. Welcome the Xiangfu army to enter the city.The city of Liangzhou was easily destroyed in this way, and the Liangzhou army almost surrendered within less than half an hour of fierce fighting.Under the desperate protection of two thousand confidants, King Panluo escaped from Ximen and disappeared without a trace.

The next day, the army of Xiangfu Kingdom sent out seven routes, and the seven counties under the jurisdiction of Liangzhou City opened their gates and surrendered after a little resistance.The army of Xiangfu Kingdom has strict discipline, and Yang Jiye has already issued a strict order that the army must not do any burning, killing, looting, especially after the squad leader who led the looting and ten soldiers in his squad were all beheaded directly. No one dares to violate this prohibition.

After Yang Jiye met with Kou Minglu and Zhou Hu, he directly appointed Pan Luo Ajiu as the commander of the Liangzhou Brigade of the Dadu School, commanding the [-] surrendered troops in Liangzhou, and asked him to come forward to appease the most peaceful Tubo people in Liangzhou .At the same time, Yang Jiye personally visited the prestigious Living Buddha Ban Ming of Daliang Temple in Liangzhou City. This trip was beyond Yang Jiye's expectations. The living Buddha expressed his strong support for the Xiangfu army to rule Liangzhou, and was willing to help them appease the majority of believers in Liangzhou.

"Is the general surprised by the attitude of this Banming Living Buddha?" Tang Xingwu, who came to see Banming Living Buddha with Yang Jiye, said to Yang Jiye after he left Daliang Temple.

Yang Jiye nodded and said, "I'm afraid this has something to do with Master Yunyue, whom His Majesty sent to the Hexi Corridor more than a month ago."

Tang Xingwu smiled slightly, with an inexplicable meaning in his expression, and said: "Before I was dismissed from office, I heard from Zhou Hu, the person in charge of our security department in Liangzhou, that this...the great master Yunyue was talking about it with the famous Banming Living Buddha. Dharma for seven days and seven nights."

Yang Jiye saw Tang Xingwu's expression in his eyes, his eyes flashed, he felt a little dazed, he faintly guessed the identity of Master Yunyue, and said: "Master Yun... Master Yue! Since His Majesty sent him here, it is naturally because of his great supernatural powers. .”

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Pan Luo Ajiu and Ban Ming Living Buddha successively came forward to appease the Tubo people and Qiang people in Liangzhou City, and the army of Xiangfu Kingdom was completely different from the troops they had known in the past that had to be burned, killed and looted to destroy the city. As a teacher of civilization, the [-] households in Liangzhou City quickly and initially accepted the reality of becoming the people of Xiangfu Kingdom.

While Yang Jiye dispatched a courier eight hundred miles to report the military exploits to Xia Jing in a hurry, he asked Ye Chen, Han Xizai, and Ma Wentao, who had been carefully selected and were waiting in Shunzhou, to hurry up. Come here.

In the evening, in the palace of the original King Pan Luo in Liangzhou City, Yang Jiye summoned senior generals above the brigade commander to hold a battle meeting.

Yelulu, the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, has not only resigned himself to his fate, but also began to think about how to establish himself in Xiangfu Country and get out of his position.

At this time, the personnel had just arrived, and Yelulu said with high spirits: "You are so handsome, you took Liangzhou after losing more than 100 people. If you go west this time, all the states in the Hexi Corridor will look at the scenery like this, one by one. Bow your head, those of us are useless! Hahaha..."

Huang Dongqiu smiled and said: "General Yelu, the reason why Liangzhou City is so easy to win is because King Pan Luo is arrogant and secretly colluded with the Ganzhou Uighurs and Qingtang Tubo in a vain attempt to attack our army at night, but our army saw through it Treacherous tricks, and tricks, smashed the Allied Forces of the Three States, and caused King Pan Luo to suffer heavy losses and lose his courage. Otherwise, if King Pan Luo insisted on defending the city, with the strength of Liangzhou City, we would never have won it so easily, and lost It is now dozens of times more likely. But the next Ganzhou... will not be so easy to get."

Yang Jiye's smile faded, and he said sternly: "What General Huang said is true. So, speaking of it, this time, Liangzhou must be occupied, and the Ministry of Security and the reconnaissance company of the special brigade, who worked together to see through King Panluo's night attack plot, took the lead. This commander has already reported their great achievements to His Majesty and the imperial court with the eight hundred miles of success."

Yang Jiye paused, and then said: "Next, Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou, and Shazhou will not be as easy to acquire as Liangzhou. However, Liangzhou has already been acquired, and we will continue to use it as a base. The Western Expedition is extremely beneficial. It's a pity that King Pan Luo actually sent people to burn the food and grass hoarded in Liangzhou before breaking through."

"As for how to govern Liangzhou and stabilize people's hearts, His Majesty has already made a strategy and arrangement. We just need to act according to His Majesty's will. However, there is one point that I want to emphasize again. Most people in the Hexi Corridor states believe in Buddhism. One of the measures taken by the imperial court to stabilize the hearts of the people is to do what they like and promote Buddhism. Therefore, this commander strictly ordered that no one is allowed to destroy any Buddhist temples along the way, let alone hurt monks and monks at will. Otherwise, this commander will definitely kill .”

Speaking of this, Yang Jiye took a sip of tea, and said: "In addition, I have ordered the food, grass, military supplies, and luggage in the rear to be transported to Liangzhou as soon as possible, so that the supply can greatly reduce consumption and provide timely supply. The next step , we should consider attacking Ganzhou, as the saying goes, if you know yourself and know your enemy, you will win every battle, Master Tang, please tell everyone about the situation in Ganzhou."

Tang Xingwu, who had always looked calm and didn't know what to think in his heart, stood up and saluted Yang Jiye and Huang Dongqiu first, and then said: "It must be that after the ambush the night before yesterday, the generals found many Uighurs among the corpses of the enemy army. , These people are the allies invited by King Panluo from Ganzhou. After the Uyghur Khanate was defeated by Kirgiz 30 years ago, the Uyghur tribes in the pastoral areas centered on the Selenge River and the Orkhon River fled in exile. , or went south, or moved west, from that time on the history of the Uyghurs entered a period of division and separatism. Now the Uyghurs have three major forces, namely the Karahan Dynasty, the Xizhou Uyghurs, and the Hexi Uyghurs. The so-called Hexi Uyghurs are The yellow-headed Uyghur tribe led by Khan Pang Teqin who set up the tooth tent in Ganzhou, the population under his rule...is more than 20 people."

Huang Dongqiu, Yelulu and the brigade commanders couldn't help being awe-inspiring when they heard this. Tang Xingwu said again: "Ganzhou City was built after the capital of the Huihe Khanate. The range of the corridor is so wide that one can walk through the city for a day. However, because they still maintain nomadic habits and do little farming, the buildings in the city are not densely packed. The Uighur tribes in Ganzhou often migrate out of the city as a whole to graze animals by water. The food is mainly meat, and there is very little food in stock, which cannot meet the needs of such a large population. Therefore, the permanent population of Ganzhou City is only about [-]. The remaining tens of thousands of Uyghurs live in Ganzhou within a radius of [-] miles. live here."

Huang Dongqiu couldn't wait to ask: "How is the opponent's strength?"

Tang Xingwu said: "Ganzhou Pang Teqin originally had 3 string-controlling cavalry, but since 1 people were sent to support Liangzhou the day before yesterday, except for being killed by our army, at most [-] people fled back, so now they have [-] soldiers Horses, and because the walls of Ganzhou City are not high and the city corridors are too large, it is actually not conducive to defense. But the trouble is that Pang Teqin has more tribesmen outside Ganzhou City, and for the Uyghurs, staying Any male above the height of a wheel can mount a horse and become a soldier. Once we learn that Ganzhou is besieged and we cannot conquer Ganzhou City quickly, we will receive a steady stream of reinforcements, and all of them are cavalry, coming and going quickly. Harassment tactics can be used against us."

The brigade commander of the first cavalry brigade of the White Wolf Legion is a member of the Tuoba clan of Dangxiang, named Tuoba Shi. At this time, he said: "These tribes of the Uighurs must be far from Ganzhou City, and the time of arrival is also different. You can besiege the city to fight for reinforcements and destroy them one by one."

Tuobashi's words were echoed by many brigade commanders, especially the brigade commanders of the cavalry brigade, whose eyes were shining brightly, because besieging a city and fighting for aid represented a field battle, and this was the time for them to make meritorious deeds.But unexpectedly Tang Xingwu's next words directly poured cold water on them.

Tang Xingwu is very good at speaking and doing things. He should say what he should say to show his ability, and he has the ability to make suggestions, but the words he said are very gentle, without the slightest sense of aggressiveness: "Everyone in the metropolis does not know something. There are grasslands and deserts in all directions outside the city of Ganzhou, there is no necessary road, and it is even more difficult to ambush and cover, so the strategy of besieging the city and fighting for aid is very difficult to succeed."

Everyone fell silent for a while.

Yang Jiye smiled slightly and said, "Now you know how difficult it is to fight in Ganzhou?"

Huang Donglai said in a vibrating voice: "It's hard to fight, but we have to fight! In this western expedition, the strongest force is Ganzhou. As long as Ganzhou is taken, the Long family in Suzhou, the Cao family in Shazhou, and Guazhou have the courage and strength to fight." Shall we fight?"

(End of this chapter)