The son of Mao Feijiao retreated and bullied the dynasty because he was too lonely and could not defend his territory, so he joined Dong Fei's command. The eldest was called Xiaozheng and the second was called Xiao Wu Chi. The blind Zheng lived in Hezhou, and Wu Chi lived in Yinchuan. The blind Zheng was afraid that Dong Fei would attack him, so he once asked the court to let him entourage him. This was why the Song army entered the country and the same clan asked for help, so he led the crowd to resist Wang Shao.

After being defeated by Wang Shao, he retreated to Gongling City. He sent his blind medicine to help guard Wu Sheng. However, Wang Shao's army had already rushed in and the blind medicine could not resist it, so he had to abandon the city and escape. Wu Sheng was occupied by Wang Shao, so he chose to build a city and build a Zhentao Army, and reported the victory on the same note. The court then set up Xihe Road, promoted Zhentao Army to Xizhou, and appointed Wang Shao's general and pacification envoy, as well as the governor of Xizhou and Tongyuan Army; and also led the three prefectures of He, Tao and Min.

At that time, the three states had not been completely recovered, so Wang Shao sent Monk Zhiyuan to secretly go to Hezhou and used a lot of money to lure surrender. He himself led light cavalry to follow him. At this time, the blind medicine was defeated and returned to Hezhou to meet with Zhiyuan to discuss. After the blind medicine got a lot of gold and silver, he immediately expressed his willingness to surrender. As soon as Wang Shao's army arrived, the blind medicine brought Wang Shao's army into Hezhou, killing thousands of old and weak, and even the wife and children of the blind Zheng were captured. The blind Zheng had not returned from other places at this time, and the nest had been occupied by Wang Shao.

Wang Shao then led his troops to capture Honomuzang City, crossed Lugu Mountain, and entered Taozhou southward. The roads in Taozhou were rugged and narrow, so the troops had to abandon their horses and walk on foot. The blind war took the opportunity to regain Hezhou, and ordered his subordinates to stay in Hezhou and personally led their troops to follow the official army. Wang Shao learned that he rushed back to the army to meet the enemy. After a fierce battle, he defeated the blind war and recovered Hezhou.

Then Wang Shao captured the Qiang leaders of the two prefectures of Dang, Min, Die and Tao, and then opened the city to surrender. On the 54th day of the battle, the Song army traveled more than 1,800 miles, captured five prefectures, killed thousands of enemies, seized tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, and horses. The victory was reported to the court, and Zhao Xu was overjoyed and personally visited Zichen Hall to accept the congratulations from all officials. Jie Pei gave Wang Anshi, promoted Wang Shao to the left counselor and also a scholar in Duanming Hall. Wang Shao then left his generals to guard the states and led his troops back to the court.

On the way back to Beijing, Wang Shao arrived in Xingping. He heard that Jing Si was defeated in Tabai City and the Qiang army surrounded Hezhou. It turned out that although Zhao Zheng had been defeated and fled, he still did not give up. Although he had been defeated by Wang Shao, he was still unwilling to fail and hoped to make a comeback. He knew that relying on his own strength, he was alone and could not compete with the Song army. So Zhao Zheng asked his uncle Dong Jin for help.

Although there have always been conflicts between Dong Jin and his uncle and nephew of Dazhe, the Song army has come to the door now. If they don’t put aside their personal grievances and work together, they will only be defeated by the Song army. Dong Jin weighs the pros and cons and thinks that if the Song Dynasty captured the entire Xihe territory, the eastern gateway of the Huangshui River Basin will be almost completely opened! So Dong Jin sent his capable general Qing Yi Jie Guizhang to send troops to Hezhou to rescue Muzheng.

Before Mu Zheng joined forces with Dong Jin, Wang Shao left Hezhou and went to the capital. Seeing that Wang Shao was not there, he wanted to send troops back Hezhou impatiently. However, Gui Zhang was more sophisticated. He believed that the Tubo soldiers were good at field battles and mountain battles, and were not good at siegeing the city, but the Song army was good at defending the city. He formulated a strategy to lead the Song army out of the city and then set up an ambush and annihilate it. At this time, the garrison of Hezhou was Jing Sili. Jing Sili was Jing Sizhong's younger brother and from Anyue, Puzhou. He had followed Han Jiang and Wang Shao to fight, and had made great achievements.

He was appointed as the Sifangguan Envoy and the Hezhou Tengjian Envoy.

In order to achieve his goal, Gui Zhang chose the location of the battle in Tabai City, a hundred miles away from Hezhou City. Tabai City is an important entrance for Hehuang to enter Hezhou. Attacking Tabai City can achieve the effect of "striving it must be rescued". At the same time, Tabai City is surrounded by mountains, making it easier to hide the ambush, so that the initiative in the war will be held on the side of the Tubo army, not the side of the Song army.

In order to achieve the goal of luring the tiger away from the mountain, Guizhang targeted the weak character of Jing Sili, the governor of Hezhou, who had a strong sense of self-esteem, first he sneaked into the logging soldiers of the Song army in the Hezhou area and killed seven small schoolmen of the Song army to anger the Song army. Then, he sent someone to send a rude insult letter to Jing Sili, which slandered and insulted Jing Sili in the letter, saying that Jing Sili was incompetent. He also said that Wang Shao was a hero and Jing Sili was a bear. Once Wang Shao left, you would not even dare to go out of the city gate, which angered him to lose his mind. Then, he asked the former defeated general of the Song army to lure Jing Sili to Baicheng.

Jing Sili did not see through the provocation method of the ghost chapter, and because the progress of the capture of Hezhou was very smooth, he had the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy. So Jing Sili was angry and no matter how the subordinate generals dissuaded him, he led 6,000 Han people out of the city to compete with the blind conquest.

Although Jing Sili was angry with the aggression, he was not so confused that he wanted to use 6,000 troops to fight against Guizhang's 20,000 people. The reason why he left the city without hesitation was that he did not consider Qing Yi's marching speed. In his mind, Guizhang's army should still be on the way to support. He only needed to solve the courageous and unscheming blind expedition before the enemy reinforcements arrived, and then return to the city to hold on.

But not long after, the blind campaign revealed its destruction and fled to Tabai City, northwest of Hezhou. Jing Sili was unwilling to miss this opportunity to destroy the blind campaign in one fell swoop, and took advantage of the situation to pursue it, and to eliminate the blind campaign in one fell swoop.

However, the blind Zheng was actually a pretend defeat. Gui Zhang had already arranged more than 20,000 ambushes around Tabai City, and waited for the Song army to get into the trap. When Jing Sili pursued Mu Zheng all the way to Tabai City, he was immediately trapped in the encirclement of 20,000 Tubo soldiers who were ambushed by Gui Zhang and Mu Zheng.

Faced with the siege of tens of thousands of Tubo troops, Jing Sili led the central army and ordered his generals Han Cunbao and Wei Qi as the vanguard, Wang Ning supported him, Wang Cun was on the left wing, Jia Yi as the right wing, Li Qi as the rear, Zhao Tan supported him to fight against the Tubo soldiers. After more than ten rounds of fierce fighting, Gui Zhang sent a side army to the rear of the Song army and attacked him unprepared to launch an attack.

Jing Sili had been guarding against Guizhang's sneak attack on the rear, so he ordered Li Shi to defend the palace. Unfortunately, Jing Sili had tactical skills, but he did not have the ability to identify people. Li Shi was a timid man. He did not dare to fight with the Tubo army, but only focused on running away himself. Li Shi was afraid of the enemy and avoided the battle at the critical moment, which made Jing Sili's rear empty and easily captured by Guizhang. In this way, Guizhang successfully surrounded Jing Sili's troops and launched a fierce attack.

The Song army general Wang Ning was the first to die in battle. Jing Sili, who was trapped in the siege of Guizhang, barely broke through the siege after a fierce battle. However, more than half of the troops were injured, and Jing Sili was also hit by three arrows, and Han Cunbao, Wei Qi and other generals were also seriously injured. Jing Sili abandoned his army and advanced first because Wei Qi was too seriously injured.

Jing Sili, who was fighting and retreating, became extremely brave. He showed his might and repeatedly defeated the Tubo attack. During a critical counterattack, Li Feng ran away again. This time, not only did he run secretly, but he also incited other troops.

The soldier followed him and the Song army, who had just recovered their fighting will, instantly became defeated. Qingyi's ghost-killing seal would certainly not miss this opportunity. This was the best time to eliminate Jing Sili. He reorganized his troops and followed the Song army forward.

Jing Sili fought and retreated, and once repelled the pursuers in the middle, but the situation of decline could no longer be restored! Jing Sili sighed to his generals: "I just retreated with hundreds of cavalry and thousands of Tubo soldiers, but no one in our army could take the opportunity to cooperate with me to help. Now our army's defeat cannot be reversed. I should commit suicide to thank the court!" After saying that, he was about to commit suicide, but was stopped by his generals.

However, Jing Sili had decided to die, and turned around and entered the enemy's formation to cover the remaining remaining soldiers to retreat, and finally died in the battle and died in the country. The generals Zhao Yuankai, Han Cunbao, Li Zi, Jing Siyi and others were lucky enough to escape because Jing Sili attracted Gui Zhang's army. Han Cunbao led two personal soldiers to chase Wang Shao and reported to him. When Han Cunbao arrived in Xizhou, he had to stay to recuperate due to arrow injuries. The two personal soldiers chased Xingping and finally caught up with Wang Shao. When he heard that Jing Sili had died in battle, he collected thousands of Tubo soldiers to surround Hezhou City. Then, Mengzhou was also besieged by Tubo soldiers.

The momentum of the blind campaign increased again and attacked Minzhou again. The governor Gao Zunyu ordered Bao Shun to attack, and finally repelled the blind campaign. The blind campaign returned to the army and surrounded Hezhou. Wang Shao received the report and hurriedly joined the officer Li Xian of the Shushi Fuyan, running day and night, heading straight to Xizhou, and selected 20,000 elite troops to attack Dingqiang City.

The generals reported: "Hezhou is surrounded, which is very dangerous. We should go to rescue. Why don't we go to Hezhou directly, but instead go to Dingqiang City?" Wang Shao said with a sigh: "How do you know the intention of marching and fighting? Since the blind battle dares to surround Hezhou, it is nothing more than that we have foreign aid. I will attack the reinforcements he relies on first, and Hezhou will naturally rescue the siege."

Wang Shao then led his troops to Dingqiang City, first breaking the Xifan, and then connecting the various tribes of the rivers and rivers. Then he cut off the access of the Xia Kingdom, led his army to Ninghe, and then divided his life into Nanshan, cutting off the retreat of the blind military. When he learned about it, he had to rescue the siege from Hezhou and retreat to Tabaicheng. At this time, Wang Shao's old army had already gone out of the city, and unexpectedly, he suddenly attacked the Qiang camp, burned more than 80 camp tents, and beheaded more than 7,000 people. Seeing that there was no way to go, he had no choice but to lead more than 80 chiefs to Wang Shao's tents and begged for surrender. Wang Shao immediately sent Li Xian to escort the blind military and returned to the capital.

When Jing Sili was defeated and died, the arrogance of the Qiang people became higher. Some ministers in the court suggested giving up Xihe, and Zhao Xu was also uneasy for him. He repeatedly ordered Wang Shao to stay calm and not to fight easily. At this point, the Qiang people were defeated, and Zhao Xu was extremely happy. In terms of merit, Zhao Xu appointed Wang Shao as a scholar in Guanwen Hall and a minister of the Ministry of Rites, so that those who were not in power were awarded the position of scholars. Zhao Xu also specially granted Wang Shao's brothers and two sons, and gave him a total of eight thousand pieces of silk. Soon after, Zhao Xu summoned him to the capital again and became the deputy envoy of the Privy Council.

When Wang Shao was using troops, he arranged one by one before the war. After the war, he fell asleep. No matter how the shouts of killing outside were shaking, the soldiers in the attendants were so scared that they trembled, and he still snored like thunder.

His demeanor of a general who collapsed in the past, which was unchanged in appearance, greatly stabilized the morale of the army and boosted morale.

Under his leadership, the Song army won every battle and was full of fighting spirit. The victory news spread frequently on the battlefield, which made Zhao Xu unhappy. Zhao Xu built a large mansion in the capital and rewarded him to Wang Shao.
Chapter completed!