Zheng Juzhong's move was also clever enough. He took advantage of the opportunity of Hedong's emergency and transferred Tong Guan, the original three generals in the northwest of the Song Dynasty. In addition, Gao Qiu had already died in battle before, so there was only one Zhang Yuan left in the northwest of the three generals in the northwest, so it should be that he could not speak alone.

Then the court then promoted Zhang Yuan to the northwest Xuanfu from Liangzhou to Lingzhou. In this way, the Hexi Regulations and Pacification Envoy was vacant, and the court could send an important official to the Hexi township and capture the semi-independent Hexi Road a little more so as not to become the second Youzhou!

"Who can go out to Hexi?" Zhao Ji's tone was a little hesitant.

Tong Guan gave Zhao Ji a secret memorial earlier, introducing in detail the special situation of Hexi Road. Hexi Road is ruled by five major lords, including the government, academies, temples, Taoist temples, city lords, and small feudal lords at the cavalry and military households.

Among the 800,000 hectares of land in the entire road, the road, prefecture and county level government offices, and a small Hexi Army (standing army) have less than 100,000 hectares of official fields, and less than 50,000 households directly controlled by government officials at all levels. The population and land controlled by the major academies (the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in Hexi have now separated from the Great Educational Group, and the only Tianli Academy is left under the command of the Great Educational Group) is at least twice as many as that of the Hexi Government! Moreover, most of the knights and government soldiers on Hexi Government are vassals of the academies and city lords in various places, and are not subordinate to the Hexi Government.

In addition, the Northwest University Education and Culture Corps also owns dozens of Tianli Academy in Anxi and Beiting, controlling tens of thousands of military and civilian households and countless lands, and possessing thousands of knights and tens of thousands of palace soldiers.

Therefore, the real ruler of Hexi Road was the great teacher of the Great Educational Corps, not the strategic pacifier appointed by the court. However, these two positions were combined into one by Zhang Yuan. He was both the great teacher and the strategic pacifier, and the city lord of the Qin King Chuan City.

The city lord was initially used to fool the titles of tribal leaders and indigenous tyrants who did not follow the Zhao Qianshun brothers moving westward. Later, senior figures from the Hexi Army and the Great Education Corps moved their families and relatives to gather their families, build castles, and seize land, thus becoming the new city lord.

Zhang Yuan also moved a group of relatively poor distant Zhang clans from his hometown in Fujian, and used his power to occupy Qin Wangchuan as his private city.

In such a complex situation, besides Zhang Yuan, can anyone else control it?

Cai Jing was at this time and reported: "Your Majesty, Liu Fashi, the guards' personal army, was the general of the Western Army, and he has been fighting in the frontier for a long time and has made many extraordinary achievements. He should be able to intimidate the heroes of Hexi.

In addition, it can also be ordered to lead a general to the Western Army to settle in Hexi Road in the name of the Khitan's possible invasion of Hexi."

Now there is a general of the Western Army on Hexi Road. If another general is stationed, two generals of the Western Army are stationed on Hexi territory. In addition, the Western Army, which had three generals earlier, has been transferred to the Hebei battlefield to serve.

In other words, only one of the new commanders of the Shaanxi Army, which has six generals, is still stationed in Shaanxi.

However, the Shaanxi New Army also has a "reserve" system, and if necessary, it can mobilize two or three times the force.

However, it takes time to carry out such mobilization. The mobilized reserve troops are older and are not as useful as the regular six generals. Moreover, the Western Army's knights do not have as many reserve troops as the reserve troops, so it is impossible to equip each reserve troops with cavalry.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty court did not immediately issue an order to mobilize the Western Army, but just issued an edict to ask Tong Guan whether he would mobilize the reserved Western Army troops to join Hedong Road?

...

Lingzhou, northwest Xuanfusi Yamen.

In Tong Guan's White Tiger Festival Hall, the two looked at each other silently. One of them was Tong Guan who had just received the imperial edict to be transferred to Hedong, and the other was Zhang Yuan, who came from Liangzhou to prepare to take over as the Northwest Xuanfu.

The two of them were not busy handling the handover matters, but just stayed in the ritual hall, took the edict, looked over and over again, and after reading it, they sighed.

"Doer, you can't go!" Zhang Yuan put the book that the court sent to Tong Guan in his hand, and shook his head and said, "Hedong's new army has its own example. There is only one new army left in Shaanxi. It is impossible to mobilize the reserve army again. It is not possible to mobilize the reserve army overnight. Although Shuofang has four generals, the border line that needs to be defended is too long. Is there any dangerous thing? There is also a Shuofang horse farm that needs to be protected. Xue Wenfu (replaces Tong Guan and goes out of Shuofang in town) will definitely not agree to the dispatch of troops. If you go to Hedong, you will be a bare-studded Xuanfu, which is worse than Zhong Luweng and Gao Shiyan!"

When Tong Guan heard Zhang Yuan mention Zhong Fu and Gao Qiu, he shook, as if he had seen himself following Zhong Fu. Gao Qiu's footsteps and died in the battle!

"It's okay if you don't go!" Tong Guan exhaled and looked at Zhang Yuandao, "Zhiping, our family is an eunuch. It's different from you, Wu Chongdao, and Gao Shiyan. We can't disobey the slightest of the sacred order, otherwise we will die without a burial place."

Tong Guan had no power! The Song Dynasty was no better than the Tang Dynasty, and the discrimination against eunuchs was deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Although he has been in the northwest for many years and has brought hundreds of thousands of troops, no soldier is the so-called Tong family army.

The knife that cut his lower body not only cut off the roots of his descendants, but also cut off the possibility of his dominance. Even when he was in charge of the army, he did not dare to act unjustly. He carefully followed the red lines.

In Tong Guan's opinion, Zhang Yuan's actions in Hexi and Wu Haogu's land were lawless. He did not dare and could not do so.

So until now, although Tong Guan has many staff members and has raised some personal guards, these people are just temporary workers in the Tong family class. They do not use land or faith as a bond to establish a close and united relationship, let alone use "the world is for the public" and "senate elections" to turn everyone into comrades and citizens with common causes.

Of course, Tong Guan could not have been born into a wealthy family, nor could he have established an officer group like the generals of the Western Army, using clan blood ties as a bond.

Therefore, he, one of the four famous coaches, had to go to Hedong to take office without any help!

Even if you can lead a few staff members, what's the use of facing the ruined Hedong Army? The generals and sects in the Hedong Army are all mixed and can touch the whole body.

"Or," Zhang Yuan thought for a while, "or you ask the official for some money, just have a few million... I'll help you hire soldiers in Hexi! I can't guarantee that there are more than 5,000 Xiliang cavalry!"

The registered arable land and pasture land on Hexi Road are more than 80 million acres! Although it is not very fertile and the transportation is not convenient, it is all hard land and can't spend much money all year round, but the place is very large and can accommodate many knight households and military households.

Moreover, Zhao Ganshun and Zhao Baozhong took the thorns from Hexi to Tianzhu to make a fortune, leaving Zhang Yuan a pure land, which he arranged for as he could. Therefore, he raised many knights and military households. Not only were there authentic Hexi Han people, but there were also Dangxiang, Uighurs, Caotou Tatars, Tubo, and even the Pubu people! Most of them were under the Tianli Academy, and the land was divided, so let's fight for the Tianli!

Armored cavalry is not affordable, but only the equipment of the "Xiliang Cavalry" with the front cover and the helmet can be gathered together.

As long as there are millions, there are many mercenaries. A tough battle may not be possible. Burning, killing, looting and other things are all very good!

"Millions of officials should give it," Tong Guan thought for a while, "But Zhiping, you are not pacifying Hexi now, can you still order Hexi?"

"Why can't it?" Zhang Yuan sneered, "I am Xuanfu, Xuanfu is greater than Anfu! I am a civil servant from Jinshi, and he is a martial artist! My father is the prime minister who assisted several dynasties, and he is Liu Fa is just a general! How dare he not listen to me?

Moreover, the Hexi comfort can be handed over, but it is impossible for the Northwest University Education and Reform Group to hand over! Liu Fa cannot explain clearly what the law of nature is, right?"

It turns out that Zhang Yuan is also a new type of prince. He has a little bit of the meaning of a leader of the church and is considered a religious prince.

Now all the Tianli Academy in Hexi, Anxi and Beiting have land, knights, government soldiers, and civilian households, while the Grand Education Corps is the superiors of these Tianli Academy.

Faced with a religious prince, Liu Fa could only choose to cooperate and dared not confront him at all.

...

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

The deafening roar sounded in Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin's ears! They scared them and the group of young masters following them, and they all turned around, their eyes widened, and they looked at the artillery positions beside them, and the "truth" of 3,000 kilograms was roaring.

This was the first time they had witnessed bombardment in their lives! Because the previous battle was relatively smooth and no cannon was used, a group of warlords who owed usury drove the Khitans and the Xi people all the way and captured most of the territory of Nanfeng Shengzhou. Until today, the army led by Mi Youren and Yang Jian encountered a relatively tenacious resistance in Wende City, Guihua Prefecture.

The defender of the city was Yelu Guanligu, who was almost confused by the defeat. Since Khan Prefecture, he was beaten and fled all the way. It was no longer "fighting repeatedly in the north", but "flying repeatedly in the north", and he was almost a dog of a family.

When he fled to Wende City, the last important stronghold of the Great Liao Dynasty, on the northern foot of the Yanshan Mountains, he finally waited for reinforcements, and there were still people from Wenzhong's mansion, with more than 5,000 people, and a lot of food, grass and arrowheads. It was enough to fight a lasting battle to defend the city, so it was the turn of the artillery led by Luogang to take action.

Now there are a lot more "truth" than last year. The army alone has 12 3,000-jin cannons, all of which have been pulled down to Wende City.

In addition, Zhang Zhifeng also selected a group of elite armored soldiers to "protect cannons", and more than a hundred Jurchen "Gunda" were all selected, wearing three layers of heavy armor to protect the cannons. Oh, it should be coming to get close to the truth!

"Wan Sheng!"

"I hit it..."

The cheers rang out immediately, and a group of Jurchen Gunda turned around and saw a collapsed gap appearing on the low and thin earth walls of Wende City!
Chapter completed!