Chapter 33 The second quarter counts to earn Jinmingzhai

Under the instigation of Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, in 1040 AD, Li Yuanhao personally led hundreds of thousands of troops, crossed the border between Xixia and Northern Song Dynasty, and directly attacked Yanzhou City, which is today's Yan'an, Shaanxi.So, why did Li Yuanhao choose Yanzhou as the first target?What is so special about Yanzhou City? Yuan Hao made up his mind to attack Yanzhou.Yanzhou, which is today's Yan'an in Shaanxi Province, has a smooth road here. After attacking, you can go south to control the Guanyou land. In the Song Dynasty, there were two main persons in charge in Shaanxi, one was the aforementioned Xia Song, and the other was Fan Yong, the magistrate of Yanzhou.

General Fan Yong of Yanzhou was an old master. This man was a typical civil servant who was ignorant of military affairs.He has a broad command and has many ideas, but he doesn't make decisions and is indecisive. It's okay to be a leisurely official in peacetime. When the country is in crisis, let him be alone. He is not the material.Of course, this person "knows people quite well, likes to recommend scholars, and most of them later become officials" ("Song History Fan Yong Biography"), he is a good Bole and is good at recommending others.Di Qing, a famous general in the Northern Song Dynasty, broke the law when he was a junior school, and he should be executed in terms of law. Fan Yong saved him, and later became a famous general of a generation.He can do this, recommending talents to the imperial court, giving some ideas, and being a staff member and consultant.Guarding the frontier as the commander of a large military region to defend against foreign enemies, he is not the material, this person is easy to deal with.

Although Xia Song is also a civil official, he is not easy to deal with compared to Fan Yonglai, because Xia Song is extremely talented and a capable official.Yuan Hao's plan is established, attacking ignorance and being weak, the banner points to Fan Yong in Yanzhou.To win Yanzhou, one must first break through a particularly important castle called Jinmingzhai. Without breaking Jinmingzhai, Yanzhou is out of the question.Li Shibin, the guard of Jinmingzhai, a member of Dangxiang, is of the same clan as Yuan Hao, but he has an enmity with Yuan Hao's tribe. I don't know if it is the enmity of his ancestors or Li Shibin's generation.Li Shibin is very good at fighting, and he is nicknamed the Iron Walled Man.I guard the Jinming Village with an impregnable wall, so none of you will come here.It is said that Li Shibin has 100,000 people under his command, including the Dangxiang, Qiang, Tubo, and Uighur militias he recruited.There is an iron wall guard defending Jinming Village, and he can't attack for a while.

How to deal with Li Shibin?Yuan Hao's thirty-six tricks were useless, and the funniest of them was to use countermeasures.How bad is it?You don't need to be familiar with military books, you can see through it at a glance.Yuan Hao's secret agent took the official uniform and letters and deliberately threw them on the road, and let the people of the Song Dynasty pick them up, saying that the official uniform was given to Li Shibin, and the letter was Li Shibin secretly communicating with him. Li Shibin wanted to surrender to him, so he made Li Shibin an official. and so on.Fan Yong doesn't know how to fight, but knows people very well. After reading this letter, he burst out laughing.Yuan Hao is too low, will he play tricks?Li Shibin has a grudge against you, it is impossible to surrender, even if he really wanted to surrender, he would have to do it secretly, how could he throw the letter on the ground in such a big way, lest others would not know?Yuan Hao saw that countermeasures were not enough, so he had no choice but to think, hey, there is one trick that can put him to death, arrogant tactics!Yuan Hao frequently went to Li Shibin's place to provoke. Today he will go to tens of thousands of people, and tomorrow he will go to 20,000 to 30,000 people. As long as Li Shibin goes out to fight, the Xixia army will be defeated, and he will shout everywhere. We are most afraid of the iron wall. We turned our heads and ran away with the flag, we dare not fight against the iron wall.By this time, Li Shibin's eyes were higher than the top of his head.Have you seen that Xixia is afraid of me, I am too powerful, I am too great, no one can compare with me.He treated the soldiers very harshly, sometimes even withholding some food and pay, and the punishment was relatively severe. Such things as whipping twice and giving several sticks happened from time to time, and the soldiers complained a lot.What's more, Li Yuanhao sent a large number of Dangxiang soldiers to defect to Li Shibin, saying that you are too powerful, I will definitely not be able to run away from a war with you, so I have to surrender, surrendering early is worse than surrendering late, we are all Dangxiang clan, you have to take me in Bar.Li Shibin can't decide by himself, my God, there are so many prisoners, almost as many as my Jinmingzhai defenders, I don't even know what I can do to capture so many prisoners, let's see if they can run away , Kneel down on the ground hula la, what does this mean?I'll have to report it to your lord for comfort.

So Li Shibin reported it to Fan Yong.Master Fan, so many party soldiers have surrendered, what do you think should be done?Fan Yong is very good at knowing people, but that is for internal knowledge of his own people, not for the outside world, especially when it comes to the military.Fan Yong said that when so many party members came to surrender, it was time to attack the barbarians with barbarians. The next time there is a war, you let the party members fight the party members. How good it is.Take them all in, and send them to whichever village you see is short of soldiers.Li Shibin didn't dare to disobey, and his eyes were too high at this time, so he obeyed immediately.Wherever the village is short of manpower, the party's soldiers will be assigned to that village, and tens of thousands of time bombs will be buried at once.Seeing that everything was ready, Yuan Hao picked a dark and windy night for a month, and launched a fierce attack on Li Shibin. The Dangxiang "surrenders" in each village immediately killed the Song Dynasty guards. , all were occupied by the Xixia army.Many soldiers around Li Shibin had secretly surrendered to Yuan Hao because they were dissatisfied with him.When Li Yuanhao's army came to attack at night, Li Shibin hurriedly put on his horse, because the lights were out of order, and he didn't check for a while, the entourage bought by Yuan Hao gave him a weak horse with a broken bridle.He got on his horse and fought with Xia's army. Within two or three rounds, both father and son were captured and killed, and the 100,000 Jinming Village army was wiped out.