Chapter 387

The details of Li Chengye's assassination were transmitted to the capital. The emperor pretended to be angry about everything about this secret order, denied it on the spot, and ordered a thorough investigation. Therefore, it once became a pending case and I don't know whether it really exists.

Listen to what patriarch Zhang said. Wei Ran said angrily, "if the secret is false, why do you take my mother and uncle Zu! The dog emperor must have a guilty conscience. "

Although Zhang's regime was actually divided, he followed the instructions of his ancestors and was at least openly respectful and obedient to the imperial court. He only ignored Wei Ran's words.

Then, it is about Zhao Hun's death.

It turned out that after defeating the Huihe army, Zhao Hui returned to Liangzhou with great victory.

However, when passing through Ganzhou, the warlord alliance composed of local giants in Liangzhou suddenly set an ambush against the unprotected Wuwei army.

Under the leadership of Zhao Hui, the originally subdued Wuwei army still has the possibility of turning defeat into victory.

Unexpectedly, the Ganzhou dragon family, who accompanied them all the way, did not know when to reach an agreement with the Liangzhou Haoqiang, but unexpectedly betrayed and directly attacked the Zhao Hui Chinese army.

Zhao Hui died on the spot and the whole army was defeated. The remnant led by Zhao Xuanqing was defeated all the way and escaped through Liangzhou with many crises. Then, led by Li Guangsi and the infantry left behind in Shanzhou, he successfully returned to Lanzhou and has been fighting with Liangzhou warlords until now.

But because the essence of the war was heavy, it has been on the defensive at the moment.

After listening to Zhang's clan leader's words, Wei Ran glanced at him and said in a deep voice: "how does manager Zhang think of Ganzhou?"

Zhang Yichao was granted the title of Shazhou Jiedu envoy by the former Emperor. In fact, he controlled the two states of SHAGUA, and the position of Jiedu envoy was inherited.

Zhang Jing, the eldest son of Yichao, is always ambitious, and Zhang has always been incompatible with the dragon family in Ganzhou. Zhangjia worshipped Buddhism and the dragon family tended to be Hu Hua. Therefore, it has always been Zhang Jing's private ideal to destroy the dragon family, Take Ganzhou directly and increase ties with China.

Zhang Jing replied meaningfully, "Ganzhou is known as the land of mulberry and hemp, the hometown of fishing and rice, and a rare place with rich water and grass on the silk road."

Wei Ran said: "Liangzhou Haoqiang doesn't respect the law. Zhang Gong thinks whether it should be severely punished?"

Zhang Jing said solemnly, "our officials should share the worries of the imperial court and eliminate the military disaster. However, the Guiyi army is mostly infantry, with more defense and less attack. Otherwise, why would you see manager Zhao hurt? "

"Our Fenglin army is deeply supported by manager Zhao. We have to avenge it! Therefore, we should take our Fenglin army as the precursor, and ask Duke Zhang to guard the back road and provide logistics for me. "

They smiled at each other and reached an agreement.

The next day, Wei Ran returned to Yumen pass and led the army to Ganzhou. The Guiyi army had prepared logistics supplies for him along the way, and sent five thousand infantry and horses to follow him to Ganzhou.

Wei Ran rode on a sweaty horse with a flame of revenge burning in his eyes. Even if he was willing to follow Wei ran for thousands of miles, he didn't know how to help him eliminate this hatred.

This anger first took the Ganzhou dragon family as an appetizer, burned them up, and then it was Liangzhou Haoqiang's turn. After taking Zhao Hui's heritage, the only thing in front was Chang'an!

The long star crosses the sky, and Luo covers the common people!

Wei Huo defeated the troops and horses of the dragon family branch in Jiuquan, Suzhou, and then took the defeated prisoners as the precursor to attack directly under the city of Zhangye, Ganzhou.

Seeing that Wei Yanbing was strong, the dragon family did not dare to fight in the field and could not hold out. After Wei Ran blockaded Zhangye City, he collected the countryside. As long as the people and horses related to the dragon family were caught, they were incorporated into the army to build all kinds of siege equipment.

The weapon of siege, which was the first heavy weapon of Wei Ran, was the counterweight catapult. This kind of catapult appeared when fighting against Tubo, which is very practical.

Interestingly, it was not valued by Liangzhou warlords, but thought it was a strange technique.

However, this kind of catapult played a great role in the western expedition of Mongolia, and many city walls could not resist the attack of this kind of giant catapult at all. Even Xiangyang City, with its dangerous terrain and strong urban defense, was finally destroyed by this kind of catapult.

After the siege equipment was built, Wei Ran ordered these people close to the dragon family around Zhangye City to fill the moats and gullies around the city and destroy the mechanism traps.

The garrison in the city was not close to these people, so they watched them move, but they didn't dare to attack. The guards on the wall were basically relatives of the dragon family. They forced the soldiers to attack these people.

As a result, the soldiers attacked, but they deliberately rowed and fished, unwilling to do their best at all. Finally, the dragon family had to organize cavalry out of the city to expel these people.

But Wei Ran's elite cavalry seized the opportunity and swallowed all the cavalry out of the city. When the defenders in the city saw that the Fenglin army was so powerful, they contracted the city and dared not act again.

When the moat of the moat was filled up and it was flat from outside the city to inside the city, Wei Ran released these people and began to bombard the city wall with a giant counterweight catapult for a day.

Compared with the man-made cable-stayed catapult used for guarding the city, the counterweight catapult has fewer operators, more stable and accurate shooting area and longer range.

Therefore, the equipment for guarding the city in the city basically does not threaten Wei Ran, and the field battle out of the city is not the opponent of Fenglin army. We can only watch the city wall destroyed and collapsed by dozens of stone throwing machines made by Wei Ran's army.

Then the servants who had already been on standby shouted excitedly and rushed into the city on horseback. The main force of 13000 Fenglin army waited in a strict formation for these servants to open the city gate from inside.

When the city was broken, the morale of the dragon family's garrison had collapsed, and the city gate was soon occupied by servants. Then the Fenglin army rushed into the city in four gates to encircle and annihilate the dragon family army.

So that the dragon family army fell, fled, and even rebelled. Wei Ran took advantage of these soldiers who were on the verge of rebellion to find the weakness of the dragon family fortress in the city, broke it in one fell swoop, and killed all the dragon family.

However, the surrender did not leave Zhang Jing, who looked forward to it. Wei burning was willing to give him Suzhou and Ganzhou, and had paid the greatest sincerity. All demobilized troops must be left to their own strength, because he still has many wars to go on later.

After incorporating the dragon family's demobilized troops in the city, Wei Ran only repaired for one day, disrupted the demobilized army establishment, sent veterans to command, and set out immediately after setting up a general organizational structure. What he robbed was a soldier of great speed.

The Guiyi army took on the task of transporting engineering equipment such as counterweight catapults, and marched slowly in the rear, accompanied by caravans of all ethnic groups. Seeing that fenglinjun never takes things by surprise and is really willing to spend money on things, they all found great business opportunities, so they were very willing to serve as a transport team for Wei Ran.

When starting from Zhangye, Wei Ran's army had expanded to 60000, of which 50000 were all cavalry. Only the incorporated Longjia army was used as riding infantry.

Due to Wei Ran's trip to the western regions, he conquered many city states and accepted the obedience of many nomadic tribes. The number of war horses collected along the way was amazing.

The original 50000 cavalry can maintain the situation of one person and two horses. Therefore, even if there are 10000 infantry, it can ensure that every soldier can march on horses, which is very rare in the middle Tang Dynasty in this era.

The equipment rate of most Jiedu chariots is less than a quarter of that of the whole army, and no one is as arrogant as Wei Ran.

After the reorganization, he bought the best supplies from the plundered materials, businessmen along the way and the caravans of the rebel army, and went all the way east along the Qilian Mountains, across Yanzhi mountain and into Liangzhou.