Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

Seeing that Tubo and the Song court began to have exchanges, and the relationship became closer, Khitan and Dangxiang knew that the situation was serious, and they did not want to lag behind in the efficiency of the consultation.

The heavy betrothal gift personally escorted by Li Yuanhao arrived at the Khitan border without any mistakes this time.

After that, only one month later, the fourth princess, Yelu Cuiba, who was dressed up, hurriedly married to Lingzhou with a generous dowry that was not inferior to the dowry, and elite soldiers sent by Yelu Longxu to guard her.

In the dowry of the Khitan princess who worked so hard to marry, what Li Yuanhao valued the most was obviously not the gold, silver and jewelry that he had always regarded as useless dead things.

It was Yelu Longxu who decided to temporarily lend him the military talisman that can be used to dispatch soldiers on the Lin-Song border defense line, seeing that he voluntarily bowed his knees and wished to be a minister and pay tribute in the future.

After bringing her into the palace, Li Yuanhao restrained his urgency and patiently dealt with the timid Khitan princess for nearly a month. While coaxing her into smiles, the secret military affairs were also in full swing.

By the time Li Yuanhao thought everything was ready and the army was ready to go, it was already the end of August, approaching the golden autumn that Lu Ci expected.

Cutting off the "supply" provided by Song Ting on a yearly basis, relying on Li Deming's hard-earned family wealth and the pitiful arable land in Dangxiang's country, to support such an army that is nearly five times larger than before... The anxiety and urgency that Li Yuanhao is facing can be imagined.

It has only been less than a year since he ascended to the throne, and the materials Li Deming has accumulated over the years have already been wasted.

If the Khitan King hadn't used the cover of the marriage to send a large amount of military resources to solve the urgent need, Li Yuanhao might not be able to sit still, so he had no choice but to declare war on the wealthy Song Dynasty first.

Now he is backed up by the Khitan's military aid, and he can mobilize the Khitan's frontier army...

Li Yuanhao thought about it.

Compared with the Great Song Dynasty, which has been preparing for war for several years, and has the immortal God of War Cao Wei in charge, he would rather be with the soldiers who have not been in power for a long time and are still gradually absorbing the original army that belonged to Wen Buqi. Let's have a look Higher.

As for taking advantage of the fire, whether it is detrimental to morality is completely out of Li Yuanhao's consideration: Song people who love to be hypocritical and talk about benevolence and morality have never left orphans and widows in Khitan. At the juncture of being weak and easy to bully, wantonly launching a campaign?

It's just that the Song Dynasty underestimated Khitan back then, and instead was beaten to the ground, and returned with hatred, which was nothing but a laughing stock.

Tubo and Dangxiang have always been more than discordant, but have a solid old grudge.

To be able to add a salary to Zhe Siluo when he is most internally and externally troubled, at least not to let his power grab go so smoothly... It can also be regarded as a warm-up before the Great Song War.

More importantly, he was really envious of Qingtang's fertile land that Wen Buqi once regarded as his base camp and valued extremely.

After all, Lu Ci was not a person who marched and fought, and he really didn't expect that Li Yuanhao actually regarded Zongsiluo as a soft persimmon that was easier to pinch than the Song Dynasty who was waiting for the battle, and decided to try Tubo first.

Li Yuanhao's move to adjust the attack plan was extremely secretive, so naturally he couldn't detect it since he had withdrawn most of his eyeliner.

On the contrary, Tubo Zanpu, who was next to him, was extremely keenly aware of a hint of danger.

Zong Siluo was put under house arrest by Wen Buqi for many years, and even if he pretended to be crazy and fought for him in private, he learned very little.

It's just that he is extremely talented and calm, so that those gentle and strange old men in the court who were shocked by his successive actions can't see his "outside strong but inside".

He didn't understand Li Yuanhao's character at all, but he guessed the possible movements of the Dangxiang army with terrifying accuracy.

Instead of dealing with it alone, he did not hesitate to choose to secretly send envoys to Da Song, an ally, to discuss countermeasures.

On September 30th, Li Yuanhao gathered his troops, with Su Nuer, Cui Yong, and Lin Xi as generals, personally ordered [-] elite soldiers, divided them into four groups, and went straight to Hehuang Tubo in a thunderous manner.

He 'pushed himself and others', and decided that the scorpion at this time was nothing more than a strong outsider, just like he was in a dilemma when he asked Khitan, so he had to bow his knees eagerly to show his favor to Song Dynasty, and he regarded this as a golden opportunity to conquer Tubo.

Even if it can't be called going all out, it still assembled the most elite cavalry and archers in the 50 army.

The first to arrive at Maoniu City, the outermost city of Tubo, was the [-] cavalry led by Su Nuer, who was the vanguard and mainly Qingqi.

He knew very well that the ruler of the country was determined to win Tibet, and he had traveled day and night to this point, and he hardly dared to delay for a moment, so he launched a fierce attack on Maoniu City, which had not yet reacted.

As soon as the offensive was launched, Su Nuer found full confidence from the Maoniu city residents who were so flustered that they drove straight in without even closing the city gate.

The ruler of the country really had the right idea - in the eyes of the world, he has always been showing his teeth and claws at the Song Dynasty, and the party members who are sharpening their knives suddenly turned their backs, let alone ordinary people, and hurriedly sorted out internal affairs and rectified Wenbu Qiliu It is impossible to imagine the new Zanpu in this mess!

Thinking of the victory in the first battle, Su Nuer suddenly felt refreshed, and immediately wiped out the people in the city, and then ordered people to drag the corpses of the Tubo people and defenders who had not had time to escape out of the city, and piled them up to form a simple 'wall of corpses' , to deter and rush to help other Tubo troops.

After finishing all this work, dusk had already fallen, and Su Nuer swaggered into the empty Maoniu City, and the [-] soldiers he led naturally also settled down in this city.

Because they were on the road on light horses, the ruts for transporting food and supplies were still in the central army led by Li Yuanhao himself. Su Nuer's [-] soldiers and horses only brought half a month's share with them, which was barely enough to eat.

After being stationed in Maoniu City and living in a spacious and clean house, Su Nuer certainly didn’t want to wrong her soldiers to eat the emergency food. Instead, she went to the granary in the city with ease and slammed the door open. The newly harvested autumn grain.

Although the quantity is not large, it is enough for them to eat for a few days.

Su Nuer was overjoyed, and immediately ordered people to move all the food, and then searched nearby for a while.

The Deputy General Liu who had been following him all this time felt something was wrong: "General Su, the people in this city...is there a little less?"

He was in charge of counting the results of the battle, and when he got the number of beheadings reported by the people below, he felt weird.

In such a large city, how can the combined defenders and civilians only have more than 3000 people?

No wonder they won so easily—not to mention being caught off guard, even if these 4000 men were waiting in full force, they could never be their opponents of [-] cavalry.

Su Nu'er frowned impatiently, and said to the worrying Deputy General Liu: "Then do you think that the frightened and defenseless appearance just now was all faked by them?"

Still pretending that you don't even want the lives of the whole family?

Even if Zanpu had extraordinary prestige in the minds of the Tubo people, he would never be willing to do such a lifelike death scene.

Seeing that Vice General Liu was still worried and unconvinced, Su Nuer didn't want to be too disappointed, and said in a good voice: "But in a small town on the other side, the flow of people is already strong, and it may be the time when we encounter the least. .”

Even if there was some kind of conspiracy, the city was occupied, and all the newly harvested food and grass were given away... Even if the trick was turned upside down, as long as it was handled carefully, it would never be spit out again. possible to go.

What's more, in two or three days at most, the Chinese army led by the lord will arrive, so what else can Tubo Zanpu do?

Su Nu'er thought so, in fact, she was already exhausted after rushing for days, and when the soldiers who only relied on the smooth and smooth victory to breathe more energy were resting, they did not forget to arrange 1000 people to take turns to be on duty.

As a simple celebration banquet, he knew that the lord of the country has always been generous in rewarding meritorious soldiers, so he made his own proposal and used the new grain that had just been collected from the Tubo granary, so that the soldiers could finally open their bellies with peace of mind. Had a hot and filling meal.

——Su Nuer, who thought he was safe, didn't think until the moment he closed his eyes that this would be the last hot meal he would bring his soldiers to eat in his life.

Two days later, when the dusty Li Yuanhao rushed to Maoniu City with his heavy luggage at the fastest speed, what he faced was not the party vanguards who greeted them as he imagined, but arrows flashing with cold light .

Thanks to his cautious nature, he didn't see the familiar flag raised on the top of the city, and he didn't let the large troops come forward, so he only sent dozens of people to find out.

When those dozens of people approached the silent wall hesitantly, before they had time to raise their voices to ask, they were turned into a hornet's nest by the arrows that were shot down suddenly, Li Yuanhao's pupils constricted, and he immediately yelled for the soldiers to retreat a dozen more Zhang.

"Damn it," was taken aback by Mao Niucheng who suddenly showed a ferocious face, Li Tan, the deputy general, ignored the king's presence, and yelled in distress: "Su Nuer Qingqi Jiancong, the last He likes to brag about his marching speed, shouldn't he have arrived long ago? Why is the city wall safe and sound, but he has disappeared?!"

Just now the lord of the country was sent out, and those who were shot beyond recognition by the arrow were all the people he favored!

Li Tan was really distressed.

Li Yuanhao frowned tightly, his eyes darkened, and he didn't say a word.

Unlike the other people who concluded that Su Nuer, who was nowhere to be seen, must have been kicked by a donkey and lost his way with the army, Li Yuanhao did not think that Su Nuer, whom he valued quite a lot, would make such a stupid mistake .

While thinking about it, his eyes lingered on a dense forest outside the city for a while. Although he couldn't see any clues, the bad premonition became more and more intense.

But the [-] soldiers led by Su Nu'er, although they are mainly Qingqi, are all brave and good at fighting.

Not to mention dealing with Maoniucheng, which is supposed to be defenseless, even if it is facing a Tubo city that is waiting in full swing, it is at most a wound, but it is absolutely impossible to be swallowed up in just two or three days Clean, not even a bone left.

The striker disappeared completely, Maoniucheng stood still, and his soldiers were all weathered and exhausted...

Li Yuanhao immediately changed his original intention of launching a fierce attack, and ordered: "Set up camp on the spot and find out the situation before we talk."