Chapter 1013 Qingshui River (10)

Time flowed quietly like water. In the month of besieging Qingshui River, Hou Dayong gave the command of the siege to Wang Yanchao with confidence, the big and small matters of building a warning circle to Shi Hu, and the logistics supplies to Bai Shuanghua. He became a bystander in a casual manner. Hou Dayong needed more time to think about the next strategic direction.

Judging from the current situation, Tongxin City is already a cooked duck - it cannot fly away. The coalition forces can launch a general attack on Tongxin City at any time. However, after capturing Tongxin City, how to deal with Tongxin City is a difficult problem. According to the initial idea, Hou Dayong was not planning to occupy Tongxin City, but instead took the method of finding an agent among the people in the house to indirectly control the Qingshui River. This is the most commonly used method by the British. Hou Dayong used it when he dealt with the Hunma tribe of Tubo. The Tubo people Dabu and Dawa had a grudge. Under Hou Dayong's arrangement, the two occupied a piece of land respectively.

The method of restraining each other is very effective in weakening the enemy. The history that Hou Dayong knows has proved this countless times. Based on the above purpose, Hou Dayong and Fang Danghanhai reached an agreement to support Fang Danghanhai to become the leader of Fang Danghan. The tribe where Fang Danghanhai is located is not the largest tribe among Fang Danghan. After he becomes the leader, the tribe where Yingshuai Fang Dangming will definitely not be willing to be. Although Fang Dangduoer's tribe is surrendered to Fang Danghanhai, it may not necessarily surrender to Fang Danghanhai. This arrangement has sowed the seeds of division for Fang Danghan.

However, as Hou Dayong stayed on the banks of the Qingshui River for a longer time, his ideas gradually changed. Qingshui River is really a large piece of fertile land, which can be cultivated and pastoral, and is outside the surrounding area. If this piece of land is completely captured, the Black Eagle Army will have a base that truly belongs to itself.

The Jiedushi was first established since the reign of Emperor Ruizong of Tang. In order to meet the needs of the border defense army, the governor who commanded the local army also served as the Jiedushi. The initial establishment was mainly in important border towns. The Jiedushi was like a prince with great power. With the development of history, especially in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Jiedushi and the Jiedushi in Liang, Tang, Jin and Han dynasties were slightly different. It was mainly reflected in the increase in the number of Jiedushi, a small northwest. There were Fengzhou, Yanzhou, Fuzhou, Baozhou, Jingzhou, Fengxiangfu and other towns. With more Jiedushi, the strength of each Jiedushi would naturally decline. Therefore, each Jiedushi would not have too many troops in his hands. The Jiedushi, who held heavy troops like An Lushan, became history. After Chai Rong became emperor, the situation changed again. Chai Rong liked to transfer Jiedushi. In the second and third years of Xiande, there were a large number of Jiedushi.

According to Hou Dayong's understanding, this has the same significance as the "Eight Military Region Commanders" that year. Frequent defense changes are very effective in preventing the Jiedushi from forming too large forces in the local area, but new problems also arise. First, the Jiedushi will inevitably focus more on the present, and the strategic planning will be reduced accordingly; second, the Jiedushi will be transferred from one place to another, except for taking away a small number of soldiers. The benefits of doing this are obvious, but there are also problems such as unfamiliar soldiers and unfamiliar terrain. A famous general Bai Chongzan of Heyang was ambushed at Heixiong Pass. One of the important reasons is that Bai Chongzan was transferred to Jingzhou as the Jiedushi for less than half a year, and was not very familiar with the terrain outside Jingzhou City, so he broke into the ambush circle of the Dangxiang people.

At the end of the Gaoping War, the number of Black Diao soldiers was only 2,000. Chai Rong left 1,000 to the Palace Front Office, and Hou Dayong only brought 1,000 Black Diao soldiers to Zhengzhou. At this time, the Thousand Black Diao soldiers were actually Zhengzhou as fang soldiers. When Hou Dayong was in charge of the three states, the number of Black Diao soldiers was 3,000. At this time, Fengzhou, Jiezhou and Chengzhou had just been recaptured from the Shu army, and the strong enemy was still looking around. Therefore, the Black Diao army was able to follow Hou Dayong and stay in Fengzhou with the entire army. In short, as the governor, Hou Dayong did not have the right to keep the Black Diao army staying by his side all the time. This was intolerable to Hou Dayong.

There are similar problems with the construction of military bases. When Hou Dayong was in Zhengzhou, he spent a lot of energy on construction. As a result, a royal edict was promoted to Fengzhou. All of these construction achievements were left to the later generations. Now, no matter how well Hou Dayong built Fengzhou, if Chai Rong transferred Hou Dayong to Hou Dayong, everything in Fengzhou would change hands in a blink of an eye.

Hou Dayong would have a headache when he thought of these two problems. If such a thing happened, he would have really become a "cat steamer for the dog". Hou Dayong was at ease to be a duty governor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it didn't matter. However, Hou Dayong knew the general direction of history, and he knew very well that after marrying Fu Ying, he would become a part of the Chai Rong royal family and had natural conflicts with Zhao Kuangyin. If history was not too distorted, Hou Dayong and Zhao Kuangyin would have to meet sooner or later, without a strong army, without a base, and could not cope with the huge changes two years later. There were too many variables in the past two years, and Hou Dayong could be transferred to another place or into the central organization. In this way, years of hard work would be wasted, and competing with Zhao Kuangyin for the world was just empty talk.

Now, Tongxin City by the Qingshui River seems to have allowed Hou Dayong to find a golden road. Tongxin City has been controlled by the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and is surrounded by Dangxiang people. Only by using some tricks can it be completely impossible to not be included in the administrative system of the Great Zhou within a few years. If the Black Eagle Army can firmly control Tongxin City, it can obtain an excellent base area, which can advance and retreat or defend. However, Tongxin City is the ancestral land of Fangdang people, and the occupation of this city will lead to endless troubles. During this period, Hou Dayong has initially tasted the history of Dangxiang Fangdang people's guerrilla warfare. Consolidating this base area is much more difficult than attacking Tongxin City.

After repeated weighing the pros and cons, Hou Dayong made up his mind: no matter how difficult it is, he must occupy Tongxin City.

With the adjustment of Hou Dayong's war strategy, the coalition cavalry began to attack on a large scale. Their mission was to expel Dangxiang Fang and be a person and establish a safe area with Tongxin City as the center and a radius of about a hundred miles. In this safe area, no one can stay in a house and be killed without any rebels.

Hou Dayong mainly established a base with a radius of 100 miles. Qingshui River is a river that runs north and south. Its source is a ridge of mountains and ridges south of Weizhou, and finally it flows north into the Yellow River, which belongs to the Yellow River system. The plain of Qingshui River is actually a long alluvial zone that runs north and south. Guyuan, Tongxin and Xihuizhou are distributed from south to north in the upper reaches of Qingshui River, middle and lower reaches. Qingshui River extends east and west to rolling mountains. Hou Dayong is in modern society. As an officer of the special brigade, he has traveled to several northwest provinces and is very familiar with the terrain of several northwest provinces. When he first arrived on the banks of the Qingshui River, he saw that the Qingshui River was quite large and he was very surprised. In his impression, there were no big rivers in this area, only a few small ditches that flowed from time to time. The riverbeds are all quite shallow, and the Qingshui River in front of him is quite similar to the medium rivers in the southern water towns.

The expulsion of the coalition cavalry was strongly resisted by Dangxiang Fangdang. In the face of the powerful military forces of the coalition cavalry, all this resistance was ineffective. The survival of the jungle was not only the rules of the animal kingdom, but also the unchanging truth of human society. Fangdang people were forced to leave their hometown empty-handed with tears in their eyes. Their biggest goods - cattle, sheep, and horses - were robbed by the coalition.

Hou Dayong expelled Dangxiang people and had no choice but to establish a base for the Black Diao Army in a short time, relying on Fangdeng as a person is absolutely not allowed. After several wars, the Black Diao Army had already formed a deep hatred with Fangdeng as a person. This hatred is difficult to eliminate in a short time, and it is not possible to make up for it by doing a few good things. Only invincible time can the hatred between the Black Diao Army and Fangdeng as a person. However, Hou Dayong did not have time to wait for this slow fusion to resolve. He could only use thunderous means to drive away Fangdeng and find ways to move to the Central Plains people to establish a base area with a decent shape.

During the expulsion room, the cavalry of the Black Eagle Army was stricter in military discipline. Although violence continued to occur during the expulsion operation, these violence was strictly controlled within the scope allowed by the officers. The Lingzhou cavalry had a high prestige, Wang Tengxiang, who was in charge. There was no major problem. Only the soldiers of the Independent Army were ignited by blood and were deeply buried in their hearts. They started killing on the banks of the Qingshui River. Guo Jiong was shocked several times by the violent tendencies shown by the soldiers and had to adopt heavy punishments in the army, which slightly controlled the atrocities of the soldiers.

A small number of Dangxiang people who were driven out of their homes moved towards Jingyuan, and most of them moved towards Xihuizhou. Xihuizhou gathered a large number of local population in a short period of time.

Hou Dayong once promised to hand over Tongxin City to Fang Danghanhai. Fang Danghanhai was a little skeptical about this. During the negotiations, the power of the Dangxiang Army in Xihui Prefecture could not compete with the Zhou army. Fang Danghanhai accepted Hou Dayong's negotiation conditions. During this period, Fang Danghanhai's strength continued to grow. After dealing with a group of Fang Dangming's confidants, Fang Dangming's more than 2,000 troops were completely subdued by Fang Danghanhai; the fleeing defeated soldiers also continued to come to Xihui Prefecture; in addition, there were also cavalry spontaneously organized by Fang Danghanhai under the pressure of the Zhou army; the tribes where Fang Danghanhai were located were between Xihui Prefecture and Jingyuan, and the Zhou army had not yet captured this area. Fang Danghanhai's tribe mobilized urgently and organized more than 6,000 cavalry, and several forces gathered, and the Dangxiang Army in Xihui Prefecture reached 22,000.

In addition, the Xifeng tribe in the north sent 5,000 elite cavalry to assist in the battle, and the Miqin tribe in the west also sent reinforcements to Qingshui River.

After Fang Danghanhai's strength increased greatly, his thoughts also changed, and the agreement with Hou Dayong was naturally left behind. The scope of the Fangdang army in Xihuizhou increased sharply, and it had long broken the twenty-mile limit and had frequent small-scale conflicts with the Zhou cavalry, slowly approaching Xiao Niu Pass. However, Fang Danghanhai did not want to fight the Zhou army too early. On the one hand, let Hou Dayong break through Tongxin City to clean up the Fangdangdang, which would be of benefit but not harm. It could not only weaken the power of the Fangdangming tribe, but also arouse greater anger among all Fangdang people. Anger is also a kind of force. At that time, these forces will be used by Fang Danghanhai; on the other hand, through several battles, Fang Danghanhai felt that the Zhou army's combat effectiveness was strong, not the legendary weak land. Fang Danghanhai's power in his hands was not enough to defeat the Zhou army. He wanted to wait until the reinforcements of the Xifeng and Miqin tribes arrived before fighting with the Zhou army.

When Tongxin City and Xihuizhou were fighting lively, the Zhou army and the Dangxiang army outside Guyuan City remained in a state of confrontation. The Zhou army that confronted Guyuan Dangxiang Army was the army of the northwest camp and the Fengxiang Army governor Wang Jing. Wang Jing sent troops this time to restrain the Dangxiang army in Guyuan City and prevent him from going north to reinforce Tongxin City. The five thousand Zhou army did not attack Guyuan City, but chose a dangerous place in the northeast of Guyuan City, digging trenches, setting up horses, burying fences, building a hard village, and putting on a stance to defend and defend. Fang Dangduoer led his army to attack several times. Wang Jing closed the gates tightly, and no soldiers left the camp, but just used a strong bow to fight back against the Dangxiang army, which left the Dangxiang army helpless.

After hearing the news that Fang Dangming's army was severely injured in Xiaoniu Pass, Fang Dangming was killed in battle, and Tongxin City was surrounded", Shi Gaojin went north to rescue Tongxin City. Shi Gaojin was not a member of Fangdang tribe, but a senior strategist in Fangdang's army. However, he was not a general who directly commanded the army, and he had no authorization from the leader, so it was difficult for him to mobilize Fangdang's army.

There are mainly two armies in Guyuan City. The main force is the three thousand army commanded by Fang Dangduoer, and there are also one thousand men commanded by Fang Dangzhijin. On the issue of whether to reinforce Tongxin City, the two armies had serious differences.

Shi Gaojin and Fang Dangzhijin believed that if Tongxin City was captured, Guyuan could not defend at all. They advocated going north to reinforce Tongxin City, while Fang Dangduoer advocated defending Guyuan City. Fangdang tribes were divided into these three divisions. Fangdangduoer was the smallest tribe, with only more than 10,000 households and about 40,000 to 50,000 people. They were usually nomadic in a mountainous land north of Tongxin City to the south of Guyuan City, and were suppressed by the Uighurs for a long time. Therefore, they developed very slowly. This time they finally fought over the Uighurs and seized Guyuan City, the important Uighur city. In this way, the tribe had a huge space for development. Therefore, Fangdangduoer refused to give up Guyuan City. After several disputes, the Party Xiang Army in Guyuan City reached a tense point.

Shi Gaojin took refuge and came to Fangdang's headquarters. He was always cared for by Fang Dangming and Fang Dangbai Gedi, and was Fang Dangming's extremely important counselor. Yingshu Fang Dangming had high hopes for him. In this Northwest War, Fang Dangming placed Shi Gaojin in the South Road Army, just to assist Fang Dangbai Ge to restrain the Zhou army. However, no one expected that the main force of the South Road Army was almost wiped out by the Black Diao Army in Yizhou, and Fang Dangbai Bai Ge also died in the battlefield. From a tactical perspective, the Dangxiang Army did not make any mistakes in the battle of Yizhou. However, no one expected that the Black Diao Army would have such great combat effectiveness. This was not Shi Gaojin's fault, but Shi Gaojin was still suffering greatly in his heart. He always felt ashamed of Fang Dangming's love and fell into deep self-blame.

Fangdangzhijin was originally a small school under Fangdangbaige. In a series of wars such as Jingzhou, Fangdangzhijin showed extremely high military talents and led the soldiers out of danger repeatedly and won the support of the Dangxiang soldiers. When many generals such as Fangdangbaige died in battle, Fangdangzhijin received the support of Shi Gaojin and obtained the command power of more than 1,200 people.

Shi Gaojin and Fang Dangzhijin both went north firmly. The quarrel with Fang Dangduoer was mainly carried out by Shi Gaojin, while Fang Dangzhijin secretly did the work of the army and was ready to leave Guyuan alone at any time. On a dark and windy night, after full preparation, Shi Gaojin and Fang Dangzhijin quietly seized the north gate, and 1,200 people rushed towards Tongxin City at lightning.

It was too late when Fangdangduoer heard the news. There was no way except to come to the city wall to get furious. In this way, the troops stationed in Guyuan were even thinner, with only 3,000 people. This unit was all the troops stationed in Wuliu Pass. Fangdang Chihu, who was slaughtering the village outside Weizhou City, was also in this unit. Fangdangduoer felt that his troops were insufficient and he was unwilling to give up Guyuan City, so he sent people back to the tribe and mobilized extensively. Nearly 10,000 young and strong men were organized, and 13,000 troops were the entire force that this small tribe could mobilize.

The abnormal changes in Xihuizhou and Guyuan were detected by the military intelligence camp. Although the military intelligence camp personnel could not know the original appearance, collecting these changes was their strengths. Qian Xiangnan, the head of the military intelligence camp, came to the Qingshui River and basically withdrew from the front desk. Although he served as an observer, he only used his identity to act and basically did not perform the duties of an observer. Qian Xiangnan had a natural keenness and preference for intelligence work. He sat in a dimly lit house and sent his military intelligence personnel to each other. Then, like a hunting dog, he kept smelling a strange smell from the return information, and then issued instructions. Under his leadership, the military intelligence camp started to operate at a high speed. The minor changes in Xihuizhou, Guyuan and other places were successively collected into Qian Xiangnan, and after preliminary sorting, he sent them to Hou Dayong.

Among the Black Eagle Army, the military intelligence camp is also an extremely mysterious institution. Only Shi Hu and Guo Jiong know the details of the military intelligence camp.

The former of the Independence Army led by Guo Jiong was Qingzhou. After Hou Dayong forced Han Lun away, he regarded this cavalry as his own force. He was extremely concerned about the construction of the Independence Army. Hou Dayong gave the information compiled by Qian Xiangnan to Shi Hu, and turned to Guo Jiong and said: "The Independence Army is really arrogant now. However, arrogance is not a bad thing. A non-arrogance cannot fight tough battles. You must pay attention to protecting the spirit of the troops. However, arrogance is not ignorance. This time, let the Independence Army stationed at Xiaoniu Pass and hold the house tightly to be Hanhai's troops. You must prepare to fight tough battles at Xiaoniu Pass. An army must develop combat effectiveness. Training alone is not good. You must fight several tough battles and go through several crises to mature."

Guo Jiong is now a general who leads the army alone. He is powerful and has a lot of words in the Independence Army. However, in front of Hou Dayong and Shi Hu, he could only be a younger brother. He laughed and said, "I take full responsibility for military discipline. When I took over the Independence Army, the Independence Army was like a group of sheep, without any blood. I indulged them to rob everywhere. I didn't expect that this time I stabbed the hornet's nest. After seeing the blood, these guys were completely reborn. After fighting this battle, I will slowly train them."

Since Shi Hu and Hou Dayong killed the unlucky general Liu Hai outside Cangzhou City, he always appeared in front of people as Hou Dayong's deputy. After these three years of training, his thoughts have become heavier and deeper. As long as he doesn't speak, it's like a sculpture. After silently reading the information in his hand, he said quietly: "From the intelligence analysis, the strength of the Dangxiang Army in Xihuizhou has been slowly recovering. Without further ado, it's time to attack Tongxin City in full."

Shi Hu and Guo Jiong are now Hou Dayong's most confidant generals, so Hou Dayong gave them a brief explanation: "After a month on the Qingshui River, I really like this place. It has beautiful mountains and rivers and rich resources. Many talented men and beautiful ladies of the Tang Dynasty have left poems here."

Shi Hu and Guo Jiong opened their eyes wide, waiting for Hou Dayong to eaves them a Tang poem praising Qingshuihe. They did not expect that the poems about the people of the Tang Dynasty praising Qingshuihe were all imagined out of thin air. According to common sense, the Tang people like to write poetry so much, so there is always some literati and poets who praise Qingshuihe's picturesque country, so there is absolutely no problem with Hou Dayong saying this.

"Tongxin City has been the land of the Central Plains since ancient times. After the coalition forces occupied Tongxin City, I am not going to give up. I am afraid that there will be many big battles in Tongxin City in the future, so you must be mentally prepared."

After hearing this, Shi Hu's expression did not change much. He worked as a local official in Jiezhou for a year and had been in contact with many local affairs. He thought for a while and said, "It is not difficult to capture Tongxin City, but it is really not easy to defend it. The Northwest Alliance will sooner or later disband. After the army retreats, the Dangxiang people will make a comeback, and Tongxin City will still fall into the hands of the Dangxiang people."

A few days ago, Hou Dayong ordered all the Dangxiang people who were 100 miles away from Tongxin City. Guo Jiong only said that it was to solve the problem of Dangxiang cavalry harassment. At this time, when he heard Hou Dayong talking about occupying Tongxin City, he gradually understood Hou Dayong's thoughts and asked: "Does the Jiedushi want to move the people of the Central Plains to Tongxin City? I am afraid that no one will be willing to go to this place of trouble."

Hou Dayong did not expect Guo Jiong to have such a quick thinking. He looked at him with approval and said, "I have considered this issue. There are two channels. One is to recruit refugees from the mainland. We provide land, seeds and farm tools to those who do not have land for free. We will not impose taxes within five years. I believe that with this condition, those desperate refugees will definitely not be able to stop this temptation. We have done this kind of thing in Zhengzhou before. As long as the immigrants come and plant land for a year, and the harvest will be established, it will be difficult to drive them away in the future.

Second, we migrate some people from the old sweet potatoes and Sha states in Jinshan Kingdom. These people are all people of the Tang Dynasty who fell into the Hu people. As long as we do our jobs, we send people to pick them up. One to ten, ten to hundreds, I believe that someone will come and join us soon. These people have been living with the Hu people for a long time and learned to grazle, which is just suitable for the situation where you can cultivate and grazed by the Qingshui River. In addition, there are many Tubo Hunmo people in Gua and Sha states. Many of them have the bloodline of the Central Plains people, and they can also be allowed to live in Tongxin City."
Chapter completed!