Xihe Road is blocked by heavy snow.
The Tao River has been frozen, and the city outside Xizhou City has also been suspended for a few days due to snow.
In Xizhou City, Li Xian and Quan Fa sent Gao Zunyu, the military envoy to Xihe Road and the general manager of military affairs, and Zhang Kai, the deputy economic envoy, to eat roasted mutton around the stove.
Gao Zunyu looked like a warrior and even rough. He pulled out a large piece of freshly roasted lamb leg and chewed it. The juice of the lamb dripped down the corners of his robe.
As for Zhang Kai, he ate so gracefully that he cut the mutton bit by bit with a knife.
Li Xian watched the two men's actions, personally held the candles for them, and then said: "Xianggong Wu said that we should tell the northwest that nothing is going on, so as to report back to the court, what do you think?"
Gao Zunyu chewed the plump and juicy mutton, drank a large glass of wine and said, "I think it's okay."
Gao Zunyu thought to himself that this was a good time to make friends with Wu Chong, and he could also give Zhang Yue a favor, so why not?
Li Xian nodded, looked down at Zhang Kai and asked, "What do you think of the hostage?"
Zhang Kai said: "I think this letter was written incorrectly."
Hearing this, Gao Zunyu glanced at Zhang Kai, smiled and continued to cut a piece of fatty sheep tail oil with a knife and eat it.
Zhang Yue raised his hand and said, "It's a mistake. It's just like the city-wide battle that defeated the Liao Dynasty."
It's not a shallow attack at all, and the supply line is not the Song Army's strong point, so you will fight him on the inside line and adopt the idea of a decisive battle on the inside.
Zhang Kai said: "When Zhang Xianggong was in the northwest, he used a shallow attack to retreat. Your method is exactly the same as Zhang Xianggong. In the past, you were worried about the intruders from the west, but you were worried about the intruders from the west. Now it is the other way around. If there is a thief from the West, then there will be a thief from the West.”
Zhang Yue is not a famous general. He is good at generals, but he is good at generals. The so-called generals are not good at recognizing people.
That question should have been asked by Gao Zunyu, but Zhang Yue is now the lowest person in charge of the Qinfeng Road Jinglue Road and the Xihe Road Jinglue Road, and Gao Zunyu has actually been ignored by Tan Fan.
Therefore, Qin Fan tried his best to admonish the officials outside Zha that he could be tolerant to Liao and should strive for etiquette in that demarcation.
"Besides, Li is also cultivating him. It is said that Li will rely on Zhang Zhifu for his future career."
Zhang Yue immediately said: "Vice-deputy Zhang asked him to immediately sign his name and write down this battle method. You can report it to the officials in a secret letter!"
When the Khitan Yelu Abaoji established the country, he targeted the Nanchens on the Ying Road. Before destroying the Bohai Kingdom, he even sent small armies to attack various Nanchen tribes.
Therefore, the Liao Kingdom ordered the seven kingdoms to pay tribute to Gao Zunyu every year. The tribute route was called the Eagle Road.
That night Gao Zunyu wrote back Zhang Kai's idea of flexible defense in a letter, saying it was his own idea, and sent it to the capital for Mrs. Gao to review and ask me to talk to the officials again.
Zhang Kai said: "Now that the 20,000 cavalrymen on Xihe Road have been transferred to Daizhou, Xixia can take advantage of it at any time, and as far as I know, Liang Yimi, the Prime Minister of Xia State, is obsessed with Xihe Road and always wants to take it back. Once I say that nothing happens to Xihe, what should I do if Liang Yimi sends troops in the future?"
However, although Li Xian has been communicating with the officials at the back line, the officials are also the traditional habits of the old Zhao family.
When the officials received Li Xian's notes, they mainly analyzed the Khitan information they had obtained to me.
Mature men really served in the military and paid taxes, but real men who were born could only be governed by the system of restraints.
Zhang Yue said to Zhang Kai: "Once Liang Yimi comes to invade Xihe, what is he going to do?"
Zhang Kai said: "The Xixia soldiers and horses come and go. If you guard everywhere, you will be in vain. This was the case with defeats in the past. Therefore, you must first collect enemy reports. It will take less than a day to know the direction of Xixia's troops. , it will take one less day to prepare.”
Zhang Kai said in fear: "You are cultivated by such a small official. Zhang really knows what to say. In fact, you are a relative of Zhang Xianggong's clan, and I cultivated you myself. Zhang is very concerned about this matter."
In the past, male real men were divided into raw male real men and mature male real men.
Wanyan Wugunai was also a great man. At that time, the true male tribe was divided into two factions: pro-Liao and anti-Liao factions. Wanyan Wugunai regarded himself as the pro-Liao faction, and was the true tribe of male born to wipe out the anti-Liao faction, and ensured the Eagle Road of the Liao Kingdom. At the same time, Wanyan Department has always regarded itself as a real man, and agreed to join the Liao Kingdom like a mature man. At the same time, it prevented the power of the Liao from intruding into the real man, and maintained a semi-independent posture.
The Liao Kingdom was the Xiao Song Dynasty. There was no unified ideological constraint, and various internal factions fell apart. In such a loose management system, only low-pressure rule internally and externally can be suppressed, which will inevitably trigger rebellions one after another.
Emperor Taizong was resolute in delegating power to the border generals, even though I knew clearly that in order to win the Liao Kingdom, I must give the border generals the power to act expediently.
"Once the thieves in the west invade, fight with me first. The thieves retreat for a while, and you enter the next. Before the thieves enter, wait for an opportunity to strike them back."
The tribes that relied on the Liao State retreated and were granted canonization and rewards, and the tribes that resisted the Liao State retreated and crusaded. It’s not because of this that men’s true facial expressions are appreciated.
Once they have robbed enough things, the robbers will want to run away with the gold and silver treasures and go home. At that time, they have the least fighting spirit. At that time, you will ambush and fight on the way in.
After saying this, Zhang Yue smiled, Li Xian was really awesome, he recommended that kind of talent to him. If the military officials hear about this kind of war, they will definitely be reused. Sooner or later, this person will fall into the sky.
Li Xian asked me to trust Zhang Kai, and I was prepared to give it a try.
Just like Emperor Taizong, who likes to control the generals from the middle, he arranges a formation chart so that the generals above him can fight according to the formation chart. Officials also like to do that.
Zhang Kai first put a cowhide strap under the table and said: "That strap is not the border between you and the Western Bandits. In the past, you and others used to attack the bandits to defend the enemy from the border, but the disadvantage of this method is not that once the Western Bandits break through a little, they can fully penetrate. Moreover, your army is far away from the front to attack the thieves. Since the intelligence is clear, it is difficult to encounter an ambush, as was the case with the bad water rivers and Bachuan Pass in the past."
Gao Zunyu heard that he was secretly jealous in his heart. Even when he met him, he smiled and picked up his wine cup and said, "Deputy Zhang is a low-ranking minister. In the past, I had to rely on him to promote me."
"Once the Western thieves enter the country, they will surely come out full of plunder. The troops will be trapped and horses will be exhausted, and they will rush back. Then the soldiers will have fighting spirit. Your army will use your elite troops to attack them on their way back and cut off their heads and tails. That is called trouble."
In order to maintain the long Eagle Road, which is seven thousand miles away, the Liao Kingdom also racked its brains.
Li Xian always pays attention to initiative in doing things. He seldom waits for the leader to come to him. Instead, he has to take the initiative to find the leader. Once he waits for the leader to come to him, the trouble will be very small.
After the end of the Liao Dynasty, they won few victories. For example, the famous general Yelu Xiezhen was only good at defeating the Song army, and he was also an expert against Nanzhen.
This remark was first made by Yang Su. Throughout the past dynasties, the Liao Kingdom was the only country to break the Hulu's century-old fortune so far.
But even so, the Liao Kingdom has passed its most famous period.
Now Wanyan Wugunai died of illness, and his successor was Wanyan Qiwaibo.
Tan Fan, Zhang Dun, Zhang Kai, Zhang Zhi, and our Zhang family's children are all ordinary people. They have all become generals and prime ministers.
In the past, the monarchs and ministers of the Liao Kingdom would hold goose feasts, where the monarchs and ministers would drink freely.
When I came to Xihe Road, Li Xian wrote to me again and again, saying that Zhang Kai had no extraordinary talent and could not be reused. Once Xihe is fine, I can't let him go. It's up to me to claim all the rights.
Now you change your tactics and open up the small roads for him to plunder. You only need to defend a few strong cities. When he has plundered enough inside, you must take the goods home. In this way, you can concentrate your forces on him. Wait for him on the way home.
In a nutshell, Hulu has a hundred years of luck.
Li Xian analyzed it with the officials in his letters.
Li Xian thought to himself, I heard that Zhang Kai, Zhang Yue and Zhang Dun were both cousins, but they were closer to Zhang Dun. But the position of deputy economic envoy of Xihe Road was obtained by Li Xian's recommendation.
Zhang Yue deeply felt that this strategy was shoddy. In the past, when the Song army fought with Xixia, they did not defend it like an iron barrel, guarding them tightly everywhere, for fear that they would come and steal your things.
Once the Ying Road is stable, Nanzhen and the Seven Kingdoms Department will not be the same as Xixia.
I understood it as soon as I heard whether his words were reliable or whether his method and ideas made no sense. All powerful people have the same knowledge. This is what the saying goes, heroes cherish heroes.
Today's Liao Kingdom is naturally the time when Yelv Xiezhen was in power and swept across the sky. The Liao State's direct control over the Northeast only extended to Huanglong Mansion.
"So you can't let the Western bandits retreat and defend a few key cities, such as Xizhou City, Hezhou City..."
After hearing this, Lian Gao Zunyu nodded and said to himself, "This is a stupid strategy. Why do I think so?"
Zhang Yue said: "He is a minor minister of the imperial court and the deputy envoy of Xihe Road Economics. It is the least reasonable thing to put state affairs behind him."
It's just as bad as a robber. It's the most vicious thing when you have nothing around your waist and you're hungry.
Zhang Kai's tactics can be summed up in two aspects. One is to control the attack when it comes in, and the other is to control the attack when it comes out. The other is that it is not a shallow attack.
The Liao people named Gao Zunyu, who was born in the Seven Kingdoms, and only the emperor of the Liao Kingdom could raise Gao Zunyu. During the Spring Bowl Ceremony, the Liao Emperor sent Gao Zunyu to catch swans.
After reading Li Xian's notes, the official said to you and Zuo: "In the past, the court officials knew the details about Yu Yinglu and Sheng Ming Nanzhen, but after half a year, Li Xian actually inquired about the situation in Liao in such a vague way. It’s really rare.”
This is the Khitan Eagle Road is stable.
When Zhang Kai heard this, he realized that Zhang Yue wanted to cultivate himself.
At that time, the official family in Bianjing also received Li Xian's letter.
Zhang Yue is the same eunuch as me, and I am good at recognizing people. When we were at Xihe Road, I worked well with Li Xian, and we were promoted to Xuanzhou Observation Envoy, Xuanqing Envoy, and deputy capital magistrate.
At the same time, there is no Seven Kingdoms tribe in the Northeast of Shengnanzhen. The Seven Kingdoms Tribe was conquered by Wugu Nai, the leader of the Wanyan Tribe who gave birth to a boy.
Zhang Kai used a wine cup as a symbol of Xizhou. Hezhou stood in front of the cowhide belt and took a lamb bone that had just been trimmed. He put it aside and said: "Gather your troops here, use that bone before bypassing the fortified city." The sheep's stick bones attack the front of the Western bandits."
After saying this, Zhang Kai took a cowhide strap and a few wine cups and placed them under the case for Zhang Yue.
In the past, the silver medal prince of Liao State went in and out of Ying Road, searching for Gao Zunyu and Beizhu. At the same time, he asked the men of various tribes under Ying Road to contribute unmarried men for our entertainment. In the past, we only took away the men we liked.
Gao Zunyu's surrender of tribute was just in name, but the most important thing was to ensure that the Seven Kingdoms and Shengnanzhen under the Ying Road would surrender to the Liao Kingdom. It's worse than the state in which Li Yuanhao's father, Li Deming, surrendered to the Song Dynasty when Xixia was independent.
