Ranking Pass History: Inventory of the Top Ten Great Players in History

When Zhang Xianzhong was shot to death by Su Butai with an arrow, and the ranking ended suddenly, Wang Xiaobo said loudly, "I want to make the ranking",
eyes blurred,
He has become Song Lizong wearing a dragon robe and sitting in the Lin'an Palace.

Above the court, officials advocating entering Luo are arguing with officials who oppose entering Luo.

Wang Xiaobo, who was sitting on the dragon chair, and Li Shun, Wang Cormorant, who was standing in the queue of generals, exchanged glances and smiled knowingly.

Although they are all rebellious anti-kings, Wang Xiaobo is not a murderer like Huang Chao and Zhang Xianzhong.

Facing the civil official group whose mouth is tougher than a dead duck, Wang Xiaobo did not learn from Zhang Xianzhong, and there was a massacre at court.

He just demoted all the civil servants who opposed entering Luo to the remote military prefecture, ransacked the homes of hundreds of civil servants, raised a large amount of military pay for the ensuing war, and promoted a group of more vigorous civil servants to enter the court.

Looking at Wang Xiaobo's actions alone, it seems that there is no innovation.

In the first few months, he was completely copying the homework of Chen Sheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

Li Shun rushed to Xiangyang with Wang Xiaobo's secret decree, served as Meng Gong's deputy, and led [-] elite soldiers to Longmen Town, Luoyang.

Wang Cormorant led the [-] rebels who rushed to the list, joined Quan Zicai, set off from Yangzhou, and went straight to Bianliang.

The next step is to recover Guide, Bianliang, Luoyang and Tongguan.Ambushes Liu Heng'an and Tacha'er, beheaded [-] Mongolian cavalry and [-] Tanma Red Army, and finally took all three capitals and one pass in early August of the first year of Duanping, completing the first step of Duanping's entry into Luo.

Then Wang Xiaobo issued another imperial decree, ordering Meng Gong and Quan Zicai to lead the army to retreat and gather heavy troops in Nanyang Mansion.

The audience in the heavens saw these operations of Wang Xiaobo, and they all praised,
"Although this Wang Xiaobo is not well-known, he is very experienced in fighting, and he is very good at copying homework."

However, Wang Xiaobo's formation was completely different from that of Zhang Xianzhong.

In September of the first year of Duanping, Wang Xiaobo recruited soldiers and civilians to strengthen the city fortifications in Jingxiang, Jianghuai, and prepared to deal with the large-scale invasion of the Mongol East Route Army.

On the one hand, he ordered Li Shun Wang Cormorant and others to lead [-] well-trained elite soldiers to secretly rush to the front line of Sichuan and Shaanxi in batches.

When the Mongolian army launched the southern expedition as scheduled, the number of elite Song soldiers on the Sichuan-Shanxi front line reached 10.

The emperors and generals who watched the copy immediately understood Wang Xiaobo's strategic innovation.

"Wang Xiaobo's move is very high."

Li Shimin praised, "The Song Army's Sichuan-Shanxi front line is only a few hundred miles away from Chang'an. Once they capture Chang'an and then take advantage of the victory to attack Luoyang, they will be able to form a situation of flanking the Mongolian Eastern Route Army with the Song Army in Jingxiang."

Li Jing does not agree with Li Shimin's opinion.

"Your Majesty, although Wang Xiaobo's plan is good, it depends on whether the Song Army in Sichuan and Shaanxi has the ability to defeat the Mongolian West Route Army. The most important thing is that if the land in Guanzhong is as dilapidated as the Central Plains, it will not help the Song Army to take Guanzhong. what's up."

Li Shimin said with a smile, "We'll wait and see. I feel that Wang Xiaobo's ranking might be ahead of Chen Sheng."

Li Shimin's guess was correct, Wang Xiaobo decided to change to a brand new style of play.

Chen Sheng and Zhang Xianzhong adopted the tactics of defending from the west and attacking from the east, allowing the Song army in Sichuan and Shaanxi to withstand the West Route Army, and letting the Song army in Jinghu, Jingxiang, and the Mongols fight to the death.

Wang Xiaobo did the opposite.

He decided to defend from the west and attack from the east!
He watched the previous battles between Chen Sheng and Zhang Xianzhong and the Mongols, and found that the importance of the famous Sichuan-Shaanxi general Cao Youwen was obviously underestimated.

In the later period of Chen Shengchong's ranking, Meng Gong and Yu Jie could only defend the thousands of miles of Song-Mongolian border, but Cao Youwen had already started to counterattack.

Although Meng Gong, Yu Jie and others are powerful, they are only good at defense and counterattack.

Among Song generals, only Cao Youwen was the best at taking the initiative to fight in the field.

With less than [-] elite troops, Cao Youwen could withstand the [-] West Route Army.

If I add another [-] elite soldiers to him, can he defeat the Mongolian West Route Army?
Or going one step further, can he take down the whole of Shaanxi?
After all, Wang Xiaobo is very clear about the early movements of the Mongolian West Route Army.

He informed Cao Youwen of all the early movements of the West Route Army.

The next step is to see Cao Youwen's performance.

Let's see if this famous general who can fight the Mongols bloody with inferior troops, can he disable the [-] soldiers and horses in one fell swoop?

Cao Youwen, the twelfth grandson of Cao Bin, the famous founding general of the Song Dynasty.

Cao Youwen, who was born in a family of generals, is a genuine Jinshi of the Song Dynasty.

Before Song Meng went to war, no one regarded him as a general.

In 1226 AD, Cao Youwen, who had won the Jinshi, was appointed as the professor of Tianshui Army.

This is a purely civil service position.

When he rushed to Tianshui, Genghis Khan was leading an army to besiege the capital of Xixia.

At that time, the demise of Xixia was a foregone conclusion, Genghis Khan decided to hug the grass and bring the rabbits, and lay down several Song Dynasty capitals.

He sent an army into the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, conquered Jiezhou in one fell swoop, and surrounded the Tianshui army.

At this time, Cao Youwen had not yet taken office, so whether the Tianshui army was lost had nothing to do with him, not to mention that he was still a civil servant, so he could turn around and return to Beijing.

Cao Youwen, however, did not retreat but advanced, and rode into Tianshui Military City alone, and set up defenses together with the soldiers and civilians in the city.

More than ten days later, Genghis Khan was assassinated on the bed by the concubine of Xixia, the Mongols withdrew their troops, and the Tianshui Army was preserved.

Cao Youwen's meticulous courage in the face of difficulties overwhelmed many generals.The Sichuan Manufacturing Department specially embroidered a "full of courage" banner and awarded it to him.

Since then, Cao Youwen has embarked on the same road as his ancestor Cao Bin, and served as the commander of the Tianshui Army.

In 1230, the Mongolian army entered Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Gui Ruyuan, the governor of Sichuan, was as fearful of the enemy as a tiger, and very hastily made the decision to abandon the five prefectures and protect the three passes.As a result, Wuzhou did not keep it, and three passes were lost.All the generals of the Song army retreated without a fight.

Only Cao Youwen spent all his wealth and recruited [-] soldiers to keep the Tianshui army intact.

Although Cao Youwen performed outstandingly in the war against Mongolia, his promotion was not smooth in the bureaucratic system of the Song Dynasty, where defense against military generals was like defense against fierce tigers.

When Duanping entered Luo, he was just a commander of the Tianshui Army, with no more than [-] soldiers under his command.

This is also the biggest reason why Cao Youwen died on the battlefield of Song and Meng.

A general who likes to fight in the field, faced with an absurd decision by an ignorant commander, abandons dangerous ground and does not defend, but asks Cao Youwen to lead thousands of soldiers to attack tens of thousands of Mongolian troops.

Because the number was too small, Cao Youwen attacked the Mongolian army at night, and was still firmly guarded by the Mongolian army occupying the right time and place until dawn. Cao Youwen, Cao Youwan brothers died of exhaustion, and the whole army was wiped out.

However, in this dungeon, Cao Youwen's promotion speed is faster than the rocket.

Chen Sheng directly appointed him as the Sichuan system envoy, responsible for the offense and defense of the entire Sichuan-Shanxi defense line.Zhang Xianzhong appointed him as the envoy of the Sichuan-Shaanxi two-way system.

Wang Xiaobo also appointed Cao Youwen as the envoy of the Sichuan-Shanxi Road System, who could control all civil and military officials on the Sichuan-Shanxi Road.

When the news of the Mongolian army's large-scale southern expedition reached the middle of Sichuan, Cao Youwen led [-] elite soldiers to the front line of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and joined the [-] elite soldiers brought by Li Shun Wang Cormorant.