The next day, after Mu Zheng captured Niaoshu Mountain, he ordered his brother to join Wu Yanzheng. Xiang Wuchi led his army down the Wei River, hoping to take advantage of the situation to capture Weiyuan Fort.
Zhang Yue asked Tang Jiu and Li Kui to go out of the city to meet the enemy, and Jing Sili led troops to respond. After a battle in the west of the city, the two sides joined forces with Wu Yanzheng. Seeing that they could not win, Blind Wuji took the initiative to lead his troops to retreat.
Seeing that Zhang Yue had stabilized the battle situation, he asked Jing Sili to combine his soldiers and horses with his own. Jing Sili was not modest and started to train the soldiers and horses of Weiyuan Fort.
After Muzheng captured Niaoshu Mountain and defeated the Song army, he was very happy and immediately wrote a letter to Dang Xiang Zhuoluo and the Southern Army Supervisor Renduo Baozhong to report the victory, promising to reward him with twenty salt wells after he captured Weiyuan Fort.
At the same time, Mu Zheng also urged the two prefectures of Xihe and Tibetan tribes to come here quickly and promised to pay them with salt wells.
As for Renduo Baozhong, he was also very surprised when he learned the news of Mu Zheng's victory, and immediately sent two thousand party troops from Lanzhou to support Mu Zheng.
Mu Zheng couldn't help but feel a little complacent after receiving Ren Duo Baozhong's promise to send troops and the allegiance of various ministries. He set up his tent in Niaoshu Mountain and held wine banquets every day with his generals and tribal leaders.
At the same time, Mu Zheng sent a letter to Zhang Yue, stating that as long as he withdraws from Weiyuan Fort, he will immediately stop the army, never kill a single Song army, and surrender to the Song Dynasty again.
Zhang Yue knew that Mu Zheng was waiting for the army to gather before attacking Weiyuan Fort, so he acted unwilling to kill them all, but he also took advantage of the situation to negotiate with the envoy sent by Mu Zheng. Mu Zheng thought that he had paralyzed the Song people, so he proposed to reestablish grammar with Zhang Yue.
Legislation was an oath between Tibetan tribes. Mu Zheng asked for a renewal of the oath with the Song Dynasty. Zhang Yue certainly could not agree, so he just resigned himself to it for the time being. At the same time, he asked Jing Sili to train the Song army quickly, and on the other hand, he sent people to Gu Wei asked Wang Shao for help.
Mu Zheng was not idle either. His delay in sending troops was because he was waiting for Dong Felt's support.
Although Dong Zhan was at odds with Mu Zheng, he also knew the truth about the death of lips and the coldness of teeth.
Dong Zhan established himself as king, and had two yamen: a meeting hall for the prime minister and a meeting hall for relatives of the king. One was similar to the relatives of relatives, and the other was similar to the council of tribal leaders below.
Dong Xiang's subordinates also discussed for half a month, and finally decided to send Dong Xiang's adopted son Ali Gu to send troops to rescue.
Ali Gu was from Khotan, and after being adopted by Dong Fei, he was also famous among the Qing and Tang tribes for being able to fight.
After Dong Felt's promise to send troops, Mu Zheng became more powerful, and the terms of the negotiations with Zhang Yue became higher and higher. In the end, he simply gave up pretending and led his troops to press forward and reach the Weiyuan City.
After Zhang Yue learned that the main force of Muzheng had left Niaoshu Mountain, he climbed to the top of Weiyuan Fort and looked at the Qingtang army coming from the west. He saw that it was a dark place, with thousands of troops galloping in it, and the momentum was great. Extremely horrifying.
Mu Zheng gathered together for a month, and stationed on the Bird and Rat Mountain for another month, and finally gathered all the troops and horses he could bring into battle.
It was already mid-October, and under the chilling autumn wind, the large number of soldiers and horses gave people a first-class feeling of panic.
Zhiyuan and Zhang Yue on the side said: "The poor monk found out the details of Mu Zheng. Neither Dangxiang nor Dong Xiang sincerely helped Mu Zheng. Their troops and horses are still on the road. There are also tribesmen in Xizhou and Hezhou who have been with me for many years." When doing business in the North, most of them are not bound by 'grammar', and when it comes to fighting, they are not willing to work hard. The only thing we really need to worry about is the Mu Zheng headquarters. These are all old tribes that were blindly felt, and now they are attacked by Mu Zheng."
Zhiyuan's words were obviously comforting, but Zhang Yue also knew that it was impossible for him to pin his hopes of victory entirely on Mu Zheng's internal discord or low-level mistakes.
There are many soldiers and horses, but the Song army is also well-trained, but he really has no experience in leading troops, and he is not a talent in this area.
Zhang Yue said to Jing Sili who was standing aside: "Jing Zhijun, how about you take full command of the troops?"
Jing Sili was surprised and said: "Long Tu, what is this?"
Zhang Yue said: "After the defeat at Shuniao Mountain, Zhang reflected on it and realized that he was not a talented general. Instead of doing this, it would be better to delegate power to the military commander."
Having said this, Zhang Yue smiled and said: "The biggest problem for people is that they think they can do anything, so they let more talented people do specialized tasks."
Jing Sili heard that Zhang Yue didn't just say it casually, and he didn't know whether he wanted to agree or not.
He never expected that Zhang Yue would hand over the command to him. Because the command power of the Song Army's front line is generally given to the General Manager of Economics and Strategy. If there is no General Manager of Economics and Strategy, it is determined by the official position of the frontline officials. Even the deputy general manager along the way will have to retire if he encounters a civilian official with a higher official position than him. to the side.
What's more, the generals who defended the city commanded the guest troops to do many things. I had never heard of the guest troops commanding the main army in turn.
Jing Sili thought for a while and said: "The imperial court has laws and orders, so the general will not dare to control the troops and horses in the fort, otherwise he will be overstepping his authority."
Jing Sili didn't know that if Wang Hou was here, Zhang Yue would definitely entrust the general power to Wang Hou. But Wang Hou is now stationed at Qingyu Fort, and he cannot do without him there.
Zhang Yue didn't have the talent to be a general, so he simply let others go.
Zhang Yue scolded: "Since Zhang trusted me with the safety of the city, why did Jing Zhijun reject me thousands of miles away?"
Jing Sili saw that he couldn't push it away, so he agreed.
Zhang Yue immediately summoned the generals and announced that the troops and horses would be given to Jing Sili for temporary control. He then privately told Li Kui to listen more to him and try to learn from him.
On that day, Mu Zheng set up strongholds on three sides from the north, southwest and half surrounded Weiyuan Fort.
After that, Jing Sili gathered the generals above the command level to discuss how to face the enemy.
Jing Sili presided over the military meeting, and Zhang Yue sat aside to listen since he had delegated power.
Jing Sili said: "There is always a saying in the martial arts scriptures. When the army is marching, the generals will discuss the day's affairs with the generals in the morning, and the night's affairs with the generals in the evening. From today on, you will discuss every day in the morning and evening. If there is no difficult military situation, Everyone must arrive late, otherwise military law will serve."
After Jing Sili finished speaking, the generals couldn't help but look at Zhang Yue's face, and Zhang Yue nodded.
Jing Si immediately asked the generals to discuss how to fight.
The generals thought that there were many soldiers and horses in the army, but most of them were miscellaneous and not refined. They only needed to defend the city and wait for reinforcements.
Jing Sili shook his head and said: "I just looked at the Mu Zheng formation. Although there are many soldiers and horses, they are disorganized and have no way of marching. The only thing to worry about is that the Mu Zheng headquarters has more than 6,000 people, and the other departments have more than 6,000 troops. It’s a pile of loose sand.”
"Now Mu Zheng is stationed in the west of our city. When the sun sets in two days, half of our army will stay to defend the city, and the other half will go out of the city to challenge Mu Zheng!"
There are now more than 6,000 soldiers and horses in Weiyuan Fort, of which more than 2,000 are the original defenders, more than 1,500 are Jing Sili's guest troops, and more than 2,000 are archers temporarily summoned from the Tibetan tribe.
Jing Sili said: "Soldiers have their own tactics, generals have their generals, and formations have their formations. When we go to battle tomorrow, our army is divided into five armies, namely the forward, the left rib, the right rib, the rear, and the middle army. There is another one between the middle army and the forward. Arrange a joint response, and then arrange a joint response between the central army and the rear."
"There are situations before and after the troops and horses go into battle. When entering the battle, they all have their own positions. They are responsible for each other, and they are responsible for each other. Otherwise, military law will be enforced!"
"promise!"
All the generals agreed together.
