Seeing soldiers and horses coming from the direction of Hezhou, Zhang Yue and Li Kui tried their best to recognize the flag of the Song army.
After a while, I saw a big banner with the word "Miao".
Li Kui said happily: "These are the soldiers and horses taught by Miao!"
Miao Shuo did not have many soldiers and horses, but he did not attack immediately after seeing the Fan army, and he seemed to be watching from the sidelines.
Li Kui suggested: "Now that the morale of the Fan army is depleted, it is time to attack from both inside and outside. General Miao does not know the details, so he does not dare to step forward."
Zhang Sai said: "Our army attacks first, what if General Miao doesn't save him?"
"This..." Li Kui.
Zhang Yue said: "The generals of the three armies are here, how dare Miao Shuo not save him?"
Zhang Yue immediately ordered to open the city gate and rush out.
After opening the city gate, Zhang Sai and Xi Qi led their troops to kill him, except Li Kui who stayed by Zhang Yue's side.
Seeing the soldiers and horses coming out of Xiangzi City, Xiang Qi and Xi Qi fought desperately, but Miao Shuojun on the side seemed to still hesitate and wait and see. Fortunately, the morale of the soldiers under the city was low at the moment, and they were unable to stop the soldiers who were charging out of the city. Song Army.
Li Kui's face turned pale when he saw this scene.
He hurriedly said to Zhang Yue: "This Miao Tuo is so brave, he actually dares not to save him!"
Zhang Yue's face darkened when he heard this. At this time, the drums sounded, and Professor Miao finally led his army to attack the Tibetan tribe.
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The Fan soldiers were defeated and were rushed by two and one. They immediately suffered a lot of losses and retreated towards the north.
Miao Shu led his army into the city quickly. When he saw Zhang Yue, he knelt down and said, "General, the rescue has been late. I hope you will forgive me!"
Zhang Yue still had a gloomy face, and Miao Zhiguo explained with sweat on his forehead: "Just now, the last general saw that the enemy army was about to retreat, but now our new army has arrived, and we are not strong enough to fight urgently. We are afraid that we will not be able to relieve the siege, but will be attacked by a huge force." defeat."
"But if the enemy is victorious and the Fan army is defeated, they will not be able to catch up. Therefore, the general will deliberately stay for a while and wait until the Fan army does not know how to advance or retreat before attacking."
Zhang Yue said with a straight face: "Come here, take down Professor Miao!"
Everyone on the left and right changed their faces. Xi Qi was still hesitating, but he saw Zhang Sai and another general from the Guangrui Army directly grabbing Miao Shuo.
However, even if Zhang Yue was a military commander, he could not kill generals like Miao Tuo at will. This was against the rules. The generals on the left and right, such as Ru Qi, Zhang Sai and others, were still hesitant.
Zhang Yue said to Miao Shu: "I will kill you on the spot, will you accept it?"
Professor Miao said loudly: "I don't accept it!"
At this moment, Miao Shuo was struggling fiercely. This man was also a powerful general. When he suddenly rose up, almost all of the general's tall and powerful Zhang Sai was overturned.
Miao Shuo was about to get up, but Tang Jiuyi hit him on the knee with a stick, and was pressed to the ground again.
Zhang Yue glanced at Tang Jiu approvingly, but saw that Miao Shuo was still struggling. The guards on his left and right also wanted to draw their swords, and Zhang Yue's guards on his left and right also drew their swords.
Li Kui stepped forward and shouted: "Master Jinglue is here, how dare you draw your sword?"
After hearing Li Kui's scolding, Professor Miao's soldiers were stunned for a moment before putting down their weapons.
Zhang Yue looked at the struggling Professor Miao and asked, "Do you know your guilt?"
Professor Miao's neck turned red and he said loudly: "The general will not accept it!"
Zhang Yue pulled out his saber, and Tang Jiu immediately knocked Miao Shuo's helmet off, causing his hair to spread out.
"Are you convinced?" Zhang Yue asked again.
Miao Shuo gasped but did not speak. Zhang Yue took a knife and cut off a clump of Miao Shuo's hair and said: "I will die on your behalf to punish you for not saving the Chinese army!"
"But I will report your military exploits to the court in full! Let him go!"
After tensing up, Tang Jiu let Miao Shu go.
Miao Shuo, who had gone through life and death, was breathing heavily and knelt on the ground with his head lowered. Finally, he clasped his fists and raised his head and said, "The general will finally be convicted!"
Zhang Yue smiled, helped Miao Shu and said: "Although the enemy army is defeated, please continue the pursuit, general!"
"I will obey your orders!"
Upon hearing this, Professor Miao clasped his fists and led his troops to pursue him.
That night Wang Shao led his army to Xiangzi City and was surprised to hear that Miao Shuo was almost killed by Zhang Yue.
Wang Shao immediately told Zhang Yue about the battle.
It turned out that this battle was not all smooth sailing. After Wang Shao captured Hezhou, he learned that Xiangzi City was besieged and immediately ordered Tian Qiong, the commander of the Imperial Army, to lead 700 people back to relieve the siege.
As a result, Tian Qiong, his son Tian Yongji and 700 soldiers and horses were all annihilated.
Wang Shao was shocked and sent Miao Shuo and his cavalry back to relieve the siege. Miao taught him a bloody battle to break through the obstruction and fight all the way to Xiangzi City. Only then did he break the siege of Xiangzi City.
When Zhang Yue heard this, he knew that he had wrongly blamed Professor Miao.
The other party came to help desperately.
Wang Shao and Zhang Yue discussed it all night, and Miao Shuo came to report that the Fan army had retreated to Jiqing Temple.
Wang Shao immediately asked Jing Sili to lead 4,000 troops to the rescue overnight.
The next day, Zhang Yue and Wang Shao waited for the news and reviewed the gains and losses of the battle. They both felt that they had underestimated Mu Zheng's strength.
At this time, good news came from the front. Jing Sili and Miao Shu defeated the Fan army, and Zhang Shouyue also led the Qinzhou soldiers to rush for reinforcements. They attacked the Fan army twice and were defeated. After that, Zhang Yue took control of Xiangzi City, while Wang Shao led the army. Take advantage of the victory to sweep Hezhou...
Half a month later, Wang Shao led the Song army to a decisive battle with the Fan army in Niu Jing Valley. After the first battle, the Fan army was defeated. The Song army obtained cattle, sheep, soldiers, and countless money and food.
Thousands of Tibetan troops and hundreds of leaders were captured.
When Zhang Yue heard the news and arrived, Wang Shao, Miao Shuo, Jing Sili, Wang Junwan, Zhang Shouyue, Zhang Sai and other generals had already finished cleaning the battlefield.
Wang Shao led his generals to greet him at the roadside, and there were thousands of cavalry standing beside him holding steel swords and leading their horses.
"Meet the manager!"
Thousands of Kansai men roared.
Zhang Yue jumped off his horse and said with a smile: "Why go to all this trouble!"
Wang Shao said: "I report to Jinglue that after this battle, Mu Zheng is no longer able to fight. Our army has conquered the entire territory of Hezhou! I would like to express my congratulations to Jinglue!"
Wang Shao spoke very restrainedly, as if it was an ordinary trivial matter, but Zhang Yue was stunned for a moment, then took a step back and bowed to the generals with a smile and said, "I rely on you, generals!"
The generals said: "I hope you will be able to share your experience with us!"
Zhang Yue nodded and walked to the side of the hillside with Wang Shao. He saw that although the battlefield had been cleaned, there were still scenes of fierce fighting. Everywhere he looked, there were corpses lying everywhere.
Fan Jun's corpses had thousands of heads cut off.
Zhang Yue sighed to Wang Shao: "Zichun, you and I have killed too much."
Wang Shao said: "Just invite some monks to hold a Dharma meeting for salvation."
In Wang Shao's eyes, killing so many people and pacifying Hezhou was beyond hope. This was the result of Zhang Yue's repeated instructions to restrain his subordinates not to kill indiscriminately.
Zhang Yue said: "Our Xinping Xizhou and Hezhou are governed by Tibetan people. If we kill all the Tibetan people, who can we rule? Therefore, we must convert the barbarians into Han Dynasties and let the Diyi people enter China. , This is the foundation of long-term peace and stability.”
"Don't forget the three combinations when you presented the peace plan: joining forces, legality, and customs. Now that the soldiers have joined together, the laws have joined, but the most important thing is the word "conformity", and this "conformity" is not theirs Come to join us, but we to join them.”
Wang Shao said: "Jing Lue said that Wang will definitely comply with it."
Zhang Yue said: "Governing the people depends on the word benevolence. I treat all the people equally, regardless of whether they are Han or Han. I will do my best to treat the injured of the Tibetan people."
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Later, Zhang Yue met his old acquaintance Dong Yu among the captured Tibetan leaders and met Wu Chila.
When they saw Zhang Yue, they were both ashamed.
Jie Wu Chila surrendered but then rebelled. Later, when Mu Zheng attacked Weiyuan Fort, the two men faked a surrender, but Zhang Yue saw through it. Zhang Yue didn't care at that time and instead asked the two men's tribesmen to lobby them. , promising to forget the blame as long as they surrender.
As a result, the two men did not agree.
Later, during the siege of Xiangzi City, these two men also participated and were very active.
Now in the Battle of Niu Jing Valley, the Fan army was defeated, and these two men were also captured by the Song army.
Zhang Yue saw the two of them and said to his left and right, "They are my old friends. Let them loose their bonds."
Wang Shao on the side advised: "Jingsuo, these two people have attached and rebelled, rebelled and attached again, why bother talking nonsense with them, just kill them directly."
Dong Yu and Wu Chila lowered their heads when they heard this.
Zhang Yueze said: "It doesn't matter, killing someone will not waste this time."
Zhang Yue asked the two of them, "Where is Mu Zheng now?"
Dong Yu lowered his head and said, "Mu Zheng has escaped to Anjiang City."
Zhang Yue sighed: "What is Mu Zheng doing? The emperor of this dynasty has repeatedly asked me where Mu Zheng is now? This shows how much your Majesty cares about Mu Zheng."
"I had previously written a letter promising to make him the governor of Hezhou, and to wipe out his past affairs, but he did not respond. He did not even know what to do and raised troops to fight against the heavenly soldiers again and again."
"This kind of behavior really hurts people's hearts!"
Dong Yu, Jie Wu Chila looked resentful when he saw Zhang Yue, his tone seemed to be blaming a man who had repeatedly betrayed his heart.
Dong Yu said: "Mu Zheng is also temporarily confused. He doesn't know how powerful the heavenly soldiers are."
Zhang Yue said: "You two have repeatedly raised troops to fight against this dynasty, but God is kind to you. I will not kill you. I will let you go back to Anjiang Stronghold to persuade Mu Zheng."
Dong Yu and Wu Chila were overjoyed when they heard this, but they didn't expect Zhang Yue not to kill them.
Zhang Yue said: "You are sending a message to Mu Zheng. He is currently in Anjiang Village and seems to have made up his mind to surrender to Dong Xiang. But what kind of master Dong Xiang is, how can he be compared with the emperor of this dynasty? Even if Mu Zheng is Those who surrender to the Party should not be driven by Dong Fei."
"Now that the two armies are fighting, too many people have already died. There should be no more killings. His wife and children are well taken care of by me. Whenever he wants to visit them in Laitao, I, Zhang Yue, will welcome him." !”
Wang Shao was about to speak but stopped thinking, these two people are so capricious, how can they be trusted and used. Of course Wang Shao knew what Zhang Yue meant. Zhang Yue wanted to give Mu Zheng an impression. You see, I can forgive even Dong Yu and Wu Chila for being such repeaters, but what about you, Mu Zheng? This demonstrates the tolerance and generosity of our Song people.
However, Wang Shao opposed it from the bottom of his heart, but he couldn't object.
Dong Yu and Wu Yanzheng both made various promises to Zhang Yue before leaving.
Zhang Yue not only asked the two to leave, but also asked all the tribesmen who originally followed them to leave with them, and also gave them full weapons, armor, and horses.
Dong Yu and Wu Yanzheng were not only overjoyed, Zhang Yue not only let them go, but also gave them so many things.
After the two left, Wang Shao kept a gloomy face. Zhang Yue said to him: "Send troops immediately to follow the two of them and attack Anjiang Fort!"
"This is?"
Zhang Yue said: "Mu Zheng must have become suspicious when he saw the two men returning suddenly. If our army attacks Anjiang Fort again at this time, he must think that these two people are insiders and want to defraud his city. I don't need to do anything then. Mu Zheng will kill them for us."
Wang Shao suddenly understood that this was killing someone with a borrowed knife!
