Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

However, Cangzhou has few soldiers and is not an opponent of the Liao army, so it will be of no avail if they come.

In a critical situation, Du Chong had no choice but to send Cangzhou general Zhu Dian to lead the troops northward into the Liao Kingdom, and rescue Xiongzhou with the strategy of encircling Wei and saving Zhao.

Because the road from Cangzhou to Xiongzhou was cut off by the Liao army, Du Chong was unable to ask the Taiwei for instructions, so he had to make a hasty claim and send troops to attack.

I hope the Taiwei can forgive the Cangzhou Army for the unauthorized attack because the Liao Army retreated to the north and the siege of Xiongzhou was relieved.

In the secret letter, although Du Chong expressed the intention of pleading guilty in words, it is clearly a great achievement. Are you sure Du Chong didn't come to plead guilty?

Not long after sending the secret letter, Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou, thoughtfully sent Taiwei Tongguan a bunch of miscellaneous things.

Looking at the plaques and signboards full of cars, everyone in the Xuanfu Department's yamen blushed.

Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou, is here to send evidence!

There is no evidence to say it, these miscellaneous things are enough to prove that Du Chong did indeed send troops into the hinterland of Liao!

The [-] western army was defeated and lost, and the supplies were all cheaper for the Liao army, but they didn't even capture a handful of land from the Liao country.

Take another look at Du Chong, the magistrate of Cangzhou. Others have turned upside down in the Liao Kingdom, and almost demolished several counties!

Comparing this person with others, he is really ashamed to kill the generals of the Western Army, and the brains of the Xuanfu Division!

Taiwei Tongguan checked the broken copper, rotten iron, broken stone and rotten wood sent by Du Chong, looked at the generals of the Western Army coldly, and said in his mouth: "Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou, has devoted himself to his duty and shared the country's worries. There is a reward!"

Chapter 799 I Can't Do Without Ximen Officials

Taiwei Tong Guan took a few glances at the prefect of Xiongzhou He Shen who had fled back to Xiongzhou City after being defeated, and saw that guy standing by the side like a defeated rooster, dejectedly, no longer like when he first came to Xiongzhou City. Excited to see.

Tong Guan secretly thought, this is not worthy of the name, it is far worse than his father's back then.At the beginning, he boasted about Haikou in front of me, swearing that the Liao army is weak and Yanjing is desirable, but now he has lost troops and lost generals, making foreigners laugh.It's really not enough to succeed but more to fail!

Look at Du Chong, the magistrate of Cangzhou, who saved the crisis of Xiongzhou City without making a sound, and saved some face for the court.

That Du Chong is the pillar of the country, this harmony, hum!I regret that I shouldn't reuse this fellow!

Du Chong deliberately brought back these rags from the Liao Kingdom, not only to show his merits to Taiwei Tongguan, but more importantly, to allow Taiwei Tongguan to use these to prevaricate the court after the defeat of Xiongzhou, and to cover up the insurgents of Hedong and Hebei Xuanfu. incompetence.

Du Chong won the battle in the Liao Kingdom, and instead of directly reporting the victory to the court, he wrote a secret letter to Tong Taiwei to report the results of the battle, and handed over all the captured battles to Taiwei Tong Guan.

In this way, there are articles to do in Tong Guan's memorial to the court.

For example, after Xuanfu envoy Tong Guan came to Hebei, he strategized and arranged two armies, one Zheng and one Qi, to attack Liao.

When Zhong Shidao led the main force of the [-] western army to line up at Baigouyi to attract the main force of the Liao army, the Cangzhou army commanded by Tong Taiwei attacked Yanjing by surprise. .

It's a pity that Dutong Zhongshidao and Xiongzhou Zhifu Heshen were defeated by the Liao army in the battle of Baigouyi, and the [-] troops collapsed.

The Cangzhou army could not fight alone, and was in danger of being surrounded by the Liao army. They had to retreat temporarily and missed the golden opportunity to recover Yandi.

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In short, Du Chong's victory gave Taiwei Tong Guan a chance to justify his defeat.

As for the disastrous defeat of the [-] Western Army, there are two teachers, Shi Dao and He Shen, to take the blame.

When a battle is lost, the first task is to find the person responsible.

After Taiwei Tongguan returned to the Xuanfu Department's Yamen, he immediately drafted a memorial, pushing all the blame for the failure to the commander of the Liao army, the commander of the East Route Army Zhong Shidao and the deputy commander He Shen.

Frankly speaking, Taiwei Tong Guan believed that he had not wronged Zhong Shidao and He Shen, and the failure of the Northern Expedition was inseparable from the two of them.

He Shen's fault was that the intelligence of the investigation was not true, which made the Western Army rush forward underestimated the enemy and got into trouble.

The mistake of planting the teacher's way was the wrong command in front of the battle, which caused the entire Western Army to be defeated when it withdrew.

On the contrary, it is a general like Yang Keshi. Although he lost all battles, he was defeated in a real fight with the Liao army.

At least Yang Keshi and others will be able to fight to the end without embarrassing the soldiers of the Western Army.

The famous Zhong Family Army ran the fastest this time!

If Taiwei Tongguan does not impeach Zhong Shidao, who else can he impeach?

After Tong Guan's memorial was reported back to Bianliang City in Tokyo, he learned that the front line was defeated, and the government and the people were shaken. The emperor, prime ministers Cai Jing, Wang Fu and other important officials in the court did not expect such an ending.

Thinking that the Liao army had been beaten and maimed by the Jin army, the Emperor Daojun, who was thinking of picking peaches, saw that the Liao army was still strong, and immediately lost the courage to regain Yandi.

Based on the principle of safety first, the imperial court gave up the plan to attack the Liao Dynasty, and ordered Taiwei Tong Guan to withdraw the troops, and ordered the troops and horses of the Western Army to return to their original territorial jurisdictions.

Immediately afterwards, the imperial decree to investigate the responsibility for the defeat also came down, ordering Zhong Shidao to be taken back to the Privy Council for trial, and then demoted to the right guard general and forced to retire.

Xiongzhou Zhifu He Shen was demoted to Haozhou Tuanlian deputy envoy, but he was placed in Junzhou, Jiangxi, which was equivalent to being assigned.

The rest of the generals, including Yang Keshi, were not severely punished, but Yang Keshi was not allowed to take charge of the army for the time being.

However, Du Chong was promoted to rank because of his military exploits, and he was appointed to know Cangzhou.

Taiwei Tong Guan originally intended to support Du Chong and let him know the prosperous states in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, but Du Chong politely declined.

Du Chong told Tong Guan that the border gates of the imperial court are just at the time of employing people, and he is willing to continue to stick to Cangzhou and do his part for the imperial court to go north in the future.

Du Chong's move made Tong Guan look at him with admiration again, but how did Tong Guan know that Du Chong was reluctant to leave Cangzhou!

In Cangzhou, Du Chong and Ximen Qing have many secret interests and cooperation, and they can happily share accounts every month.It is not easy to find a reliable local tyrant and rich man like the Ximenqing brothers in other states.

When the "little whirlwind" Chai Jin ran rampant in Cangzhou back then, he never benefited Du Chong. On the contrary, he shielded fugitives and caused a lot of trouble for the government.

Brother Ximenqing came to Cangzhou, which brought many benefits to Du Chong.

I won't show the life-saving grace of my own son, this trip to the north to make contributions to the Liao Kingdom is all the conspiracy of Brother Ximenqing!

Thousands of gold are easy to get, but brother Ximen Qing is really rare!

Du Chong made up his mind to stay in Cangzhou, only in this way can he cooperate with Ximenqing for a long time.

Tong Guan didn't know that Du Chong had these thoughts, and only regarded him as a strange man who was interested in side affairs.

Du Chong is still waiting for a good opportunity to attack Liao, how can the Taiwei give up and return to Bianliang City in Tokyo in despair?

Tong Guan could already imagine himself returning to court empty-handed, and the sincere and concerned eyes of Taiwei Gao Qiu and others.

When Taiwei Tongguan thought of the political enemies in the court, he was unwilling to be reconciled to such a complete failure.He gathered all the staff of the Xuanfu Department's Yamen together to continue to study the gains and losses of this campaign against Liao.

After some introspection, everyone came to a conclusion: there was no strong internal response in the Liao Kingdom before the war, and there were too many errors in the intelligence of the Liao Army, which made our army paralyzed by underestimating the enemy and suffered a major defeat.

Among the staff of the Xuanfu Department's yamen, only Ma Kuo went to Liao and entered Yanjing.So Tong Guan asked Ma Kuo which minister was in charge of the small court of Yanjing in Liao Kingdom.

Ma Kuo told Taiwei Tongguan that the heaven-sent emperor Yeluchun was enthroned by Li Chuwen, a political adviser, and now Li Chuwen is the head of all officials in the Liao court.