amaotonovel Chapter 2567 Lanzhou Bridge!
Chapter 2567 Lanzhou Bridge!
Chapter 2567 Lanzhou Bridge!
Wang Yue built Wucheng in the direction of Wushaoling. Relying on Wushaoling, Wucheng became the pass in the east of Liangzhou City, completely cutting off the possibility of a large army attacking Liangzhou City from the east.
At the same time, Wang Yue built two cities in the north of Liangzhou City and in the north of Wild Boar Marsh.
Shuangcheng relied on the reservoir formed by the Shiyang River and built two small cities on both sides of the river. The two small cities formed a horn and completely blocked the possibility of the enemy's sneak attack from the north.
Of course, this was to prevent the Liao Kingdom and Li Yuanhao from passing through there to attack Liangzhou City.
Building these cities was originally a very difficult task, but Wang Yue's space had a large number of equipment, and he could easily produce a large number of uniform stones. Therefore, when building the cities, it was much faster than expected.
At the same time, Wang Yue also repaired the sections of the Great Wall along the way. This project was much more difficult than the two small cities.
But in just over a year, the repair work on the two passes and the Great Wall was completed.
From then on, the entire Hexi Corridor no longer feared sneak attacks by large armies. If it was just harassment by small-scale soldiers, Wang Yue would not worry at all.
Because Wang Yue was the ruler of the area, the Han people once again became the dominant force, and the Uighurs and other ethnic groups became vassals.
Because there are no nobles anymore in the entire Hexi Corridor, the people still have a strong sense of loyalty to Beiliang.
Especially after a year, they found that the taxes required by Beiliang were very low. Whether they were responsible for nomadic life or farming, they all felt like they were living in heaven, which also allowed Wang Yue to completely win over the hearts of the people.
It is said that whoever wins the hearts of the people wins the world, so now the entire Beiliang is like an iron barrel, which makes Wang Yue Gaochen worry-free!
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So, at this time, Wang Yue suddenly received the news that Li Yuanhao sent his uncle to attack. He just lightly ordered a defense and had no intention of attacking at all.
Because Wang Yue knew very well that given the character of the Song country, if his side became powerful, they would definitely send a large army to guard against this side.
Therefore, what Wang Yue has to do is to defend. As long as Li Yuanhao cannot attack at all and at the same time not be destroyed, this will prevent the Song State from focusing its attention here.
It was because of this tacit understanding that Li Yuanhao's uncle inevitably died in this war, and the entire tribe of Li Yuanhao's uncle was taken over by Li Yuanhao.
Li Yuanhao, who had achieved his goal, had no intention of attacking anymore. He immediately sounded the call to withdraw his troops and actually changed the direction of attack, heading towards Fuzhou.
The reason why Li Yuanhao attacked here was because they received news that Zhe Zong, the young master of the Zhe family, was getting married in the capital and seemed to be staying in the capital.
What Li Yuanhao didn't expect was that this was a complete conspiracy, and the person behind this conspiracy was Zhao Jian.
Zhao Jian applied to join the Secret Council, and the Privy Council agreed without much hesitation, and allowed her to set up the Seventh Chamber herself.
As for this war in Fuzhou, Zhao Jian used the news that Zhe Zong was in the capital as bait to lure Li Yuanhao over, and then I passed this news to the Privy Council.
In fact, Zhao Jian’s target has always been the Liao Kingdom. It’s a pity that the new emperor of the Liao Kingdom had just ascended the throne and had not thought about expanding the territory at this time.
So Li Yuanhao took the initiative to volunteer and launched this war at this time.
As a result, Zhong Shiheng led the elite troops of the Song army to surround the city from multiple sides. Fortunately, Li Yuanhao was quite brave and managed to break out of the encirclement with his personal guards, so he did not die in Fuzhou.
However, after this war, Li Yuanhao was seriously injured and fled back to Yinchuan in a hurry, allowing the Song Dynasty to successively gain control of the two states.
When the Liao Kingdom saw that Li Yuanhao had failed, it was worried that after Li Yuanhao was destroyed, the Song Dynasty would have no worries, so it sent a large army from Xijing and headed straight for Yanmen Pass.
After the extremely urgent request for help from Yanmen Pass reached the Privy Council, Dasong immediately suspended the attack on Xiazhou and instead began to rush to support Yanmen Pass.
Li Yuanhao therefore got a chance to catch his breath, but he also knew that it was now a matter of life and death, so he did not form a team to guard against the Song army. Instead, he took his troops and took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on the Turks and Uighurs active in the western part of Yinshan Mountain, and guarded the fortress in the north!
These tribes had originally submitted to the Liao Kingdom, but were suddenly attacked by Li Yuanhao and were completely unprepared. Except for a few people who escaped, most people submitted to Li Yuanhao.
At this point, Li Yuanhao controlled the entrance to Western Xia through Yinshan Mountain, and also cut off the knife hanging in the northwest of Western Xia.
At this time, Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao and King Beiyuan conspired to depose the emperor and re-establish Chongyuan as emperor. Fortunately, Chongyuan told the Liao emperor about the conspiracy, which resolved the conspiracy.
But at this time, the Liao Kingdom did not have the energy to deal with Li Yuanhao, and only issued an edict to reprimand him.
At this point, Li Yuanhao also got the opportunity to continue expanding his territory westward. At the same time, he officially proclaimed himself emperor and established the country named Western Xia.
Of course, Wang Yue could not sit idle. Although he had no intention of establishing a country, on the one hand he arranged for his subordinates to attack Ruoshui, and on the other hand he began to attack the Uighurs in Xizhou, hoping to completely open up the Silk Road.
...In 1036, the third year of Jingyou,
When Li Yuanhao led his army to the bank of the Ruoshui River, he was shocked to find that there was a Blackwater City standing there.
This city is not very tall, but it is not something that can be broken through by cavalry. If we force our way through it, the losses will probably be very heavy.
In particular, the word "Beiliang" on the flag hanging high on the top of the city made Li Yuanhao realize that his enemies in the south had already extended their tentacles here.
Li Yuanhao knew that this was not the time to fight a decisive battle with Wang Yue, so he wisely chose to retreat.
However, since he had already decided to go to war, Li Yuanhao certainly could not give up, so he did not return to Xingzhou, but instead suddenly attacked Hehuizhou and Xi'anzhou.
Huizhou was used by the Song Dynasty to guard against Northern Liang, and Xi'anzhou was used to guard against the Song Dynasty.
After gathering information from Zhao Jian and other people in the secret cabinet, the Song Dynasty finally found an opportunity. It wanted to take over the 16 states of Yanyun while the Liao Kingdom was in chaos.
As a result, the Liao Kingdom was well prepared, and the two sides fought a fierce battle at the Juma River, and it was difficult to determine the winner for a while, so they were not on guard against the Western Xia for a while.
It’s not that the Song Dynasty would ignore Western Xia, but because of the news brought by the Song Dynasty’s spies, Western Xia had already sent a large army to the west.
Therefore, no one expected that Li Yuanhao would lead the army to launch a sudden attack, so there were not enough soldiers defending the two big cities, and it was easy to lose them.
When the Song Dynasty reacted, it of course sent a large number of soldiers, hoping to seize the Western Xia while it was still unstable. However, they failed to take it after two consecutive attempts.
Li Yuanhao saw that Dasong was determined to take back the city. He was worried that Beiliang would take the opportunity to attack Xixia, so he quickly sent all the people and prisoners in the two cities back, and at the same time wrote a letter of peace to Dasong.
In fact, the Song Dynasty government still had many contradictions at this time, especially the constraints left by Empress Dowager Liu, and there were many people in the court who sought peace.
The emperor saw that the army was fighting with the Liao Kingdom and was powerless to do anything about Li Yuanhao, but Li Yuanhao had already given him a way out, and both sides stopped fighting.
Wang Yue was also speechless. He had heard that Li Yuanhao's army was discovered in Heishui City and had just dispatched troops to reinforce the city. But when he turned around, he heard that Li Yuanhao had attacked Huizhou.
He immediately ordered Wang Shiyilang to lead 2 troops to reinforce. However, before the army crossed the Yellow River, they heard that the Song Dynasty and Li Yuanhao had negotiated peace.
This made Wang Yue speechless, so he simply arranged for Wang Shiyilang to build a new city, Beilan, in the north of Lanzhou.
The reason why Wang Yue wanted to build Beilan City here was to intimidate Li Yuanhao of Huizhou and make him dare not act rashly. At the same time, it was also to stabilize the trade with Dasong.
You know, from Liangzhou City to Lanzhou City, the whole way is through mountain paths, and there are bandits from time to time.
However, this area is where the Western Xia, Northern Liang, Song and Tubo cities meet, and it is a lawless area, so it is very normal to have these bandits.
But ordinary bandits did not dare to attack the Xia and Song countries. However, there were some bandits who could survive with the support of Li Yuanhao and Tubo. Therefore, they received orders from Li Yuanhao and would rob from time to time.
Fortunately, the Xia country's caravan is managed by the Five Rats, and their guarding capabilities are very strong, so there has been no experience of being successfully robbed.
However, the caravans of the Song State were in great trouble. In the past year alone, hundreds of caravans were robbed.
Wang Yue had already informed the governor of Lanzhou about his plan to build the northern Lanzhou city, which was of course also to let the Song court know and to increase the alertness of both sides.
At the same time, in order to speed up the passage of the caravan, Wang Yue planned to build a bridge between Beilan City and Lanzhou City.
The construction of Beilan City was, of course, based on the blueprints set by Wang Yue, and was mobilized by the people of Liangzhou City, but the construction process was carried out under the surveillance of Dasong.
But the construction of the Lanzhou Bridge across the Yellow River has attracted a lot of attention, and many people want to know how to build this city.
After all, up to now, there has been no bridge that can cross the turbulent river. So, when people heard that Beiliang was preparing to build a bridge here, many skilled craftsmen came to Lanzhou City, and of course there were also many people who were very interested in architecture.
Among these people there are not only Chinese and Tibetans, but also some Liao and Dangxiang people. Although they know that it would be dangerous to come here, they still want to see whether Xia can accomplish this feat.
Among these people, of course, there are people Wang Yue is familiar with, including the Five Kind Rats and the Beggars' Sect, and also someone Wang Yue did not expect, Zhao Jian!
(End of this chapter)