Chapter 604 lead by the nose
"Father, front-line military information!"
In the middle of the night, An Tao fell asleep under the service of the handsome maid in the 2018s, but was woken up by An Rui's call at the door.
"Prepare the light!"
After a while of rumbling in the room, An Tao's somewhat impatient voice came, and then the lights were on. The figure appeared at the door. The moment the door was opened, An Rui drooped his head and made a head sag.
Why do you need this?
If there is a saying, don’t look at the wrongs, don’t listen to the wrongs. Whether it’s the maids or concubines in the father’s room, they are all elders. They need to be respected by their sons but cannot be rude.
As for An Tao's age, why do you still have a young person hidden in the room?
Youdao is that young people are very angry. An Tao and Academicians work hard for the Song Dynasty. If they don’t even have a caring person to warm up the bed at night, wouldn’t this beating Song Dynasty in the face?
"Ruier, what's the matter?"
An Tao coughed twice. Perhaps he was old and could not withstand this toss and got up a little slowly in the middle of the night.
An Rui approached An Tao's ear and said a few words softly. The sleepy old man immediately became energetic. His eyes were like lightning. After dressing up under the servants' service, he hurriedly said to An Rui: "Go to the front hall."
"Sir, front-line military information!"
An Tao narrowed his eyes and glanced at the other person lightly, then said leisurely: "Come on!"
He looked at the military secret report carefully, more than one, several, including Li Kui, Gao Qiu, and Tong Guan. As An Tao looked at it, his eyes almost glared, and he opened his mouth and couldn't believe what was said in the secret report was true. Then he asked anxiously: "Where did you come from? Tell me what you see and hear in a lot."
"The villain came from Jingchuan Pass, and Eunuch Tong and General Gao led a unit of Feilian's army to Jingchuan Pass. In addition, the Deshun Army also arrived at Jingchuan Pass under the leadership of the magistrate. However, the villain heard that there were countless cattle and sheep outside Jingchuan Pass, and the brothers who came out of the pass in the early stage must have won a great victory."
"Leaving the west of Jingchuan Pass? Isn't it the grassland? What is the battle on the grassland?"
The messenger shook his head and said helplessly: "Sir? After the villain came to Jingchuan Pass from Lanzhou with Eunuch Tong, he was reported to Qinzhou. There were brothers who had already rushed to Beijing. The villain also knew that the trouble was serious? But the villain really didn't know, so please forgive me."
"It's not your business? You go down first!"
When the dusty messenger left? An Tao stared at the other party's back in a daze, and finally disappeared into the darkness, and did not come back to his senses for a long time.
He felt something was wrong, why did Li Kui attack again? Has he agreed to take steady steps? Is it a step-by-step approach?
This strategy was also the tactic used by Wang Shao back then. It worked. It used to boil frogs with warm water for the Qingtang people. When the Qingtang people realized that their living space had been limited to a very small area and had to fight to the decisive battle. Which stop? The king of Qingtang was captured and sent to Beijing by blind expedition.
But in fact, the strength of the blind victory is not strong in Qingtang? It only occupied the identity of the heir of the king of the king, Qingtang, and Qingtang's real strength was controlled by his brother Dong Jin. As the Song Dynasty led his hand to enter Qingtang step by step, he chose to marry Xixia? It was finally completely turned against him. As for the current Qingtang King Ali Gu? In fact, it was not Dong Jin's son? It was Dong Jin's adopted son, and he could not even be considered a native of Qingtang, but a native of Khotan. His ability to inherit Dong Jin's position as the king was entirely because of the use of the internal disagreement of Dong Jin.
Qingtang is no longer Qingtang in Dongjin's period. Although Aligu is not from Qingtang, he promoted an alliance with Xixia. After Liang's family controlled Xixia, he married Liang's family.
He used external forces to consolidate his position as the king, cleaned up the inside, and gradually embarked on an iron-fisted road.
However, sometimes, wrists work very well, but in the face of strength, these are just empty.
But it is precisely because of the integration of Aligu that Qingtang looks stronger than before. It is this powerful appearance that gives An Tao an illusion that Aligu is very difficult to deal with.
Why did Aligu, who was not easy to deal with, get beaten up by Li Kui?
He couldn't figure it out, and there was another person who couldn't figure it out either. It was Liu Yannian, deputy envoy of Xuanfu, Qin Fenglu.
Liu Yannian is the number one figure in Qin Fenglu's army, and he has been dealing with Qingtang for a long time. He can't figure out why Aligu, who he thought was difficult to deal with, was so unbearable in Li Kui's hands?
Are you too weak?
Or is Li Kui too strong?
In front of An Tao, he finished reading the military newspaper word by word, his face looked a little ugly. He always felt like someone had slapped his cheek, and it hurt so much.
He was even more worried about An Tao's attitude. Unlike Cai Jing, An Tao was the second-largest powerful boss of the Song Dynasty military. He was dissatisfied with Cai Jing, mainly because Cai Jing's methods were only used among civil servants. If he reached into the military, Cai Jing would be blind.
But An Tao is different. If Liu Yannian dares to fight against Big Boss An, not only him, but also his tribe and son, will be suppressed by Big Boss An. Just say that the transfer of officials will make Liu Yannian lose all his reliance in an instant. He was transferred from Qinfeng Road to Guangnan Road, and was also the deputy envoy of Xuanfu on the road, but are the deputy envoy of Xuanfu and Xuanfu Deputy envoys?
On Qinfeng Road, the Western Army had 30,000 imperial guards, and the total number would exceed 50,000.
But what if I go to Guangnan Road?
In that broken place, there was not even a permanent military town, and he could be instantly beaten into a general with bare pole.
Liu Yannian was even more worried. An Tao asked him to read these military newspapers?
Could it be that he was Li Kui's deputy?
It was not groundless, but Liu Yannian was a thorn in An Tao's eyes. Liu Yannian and Zhang Yu had a good relationship, and the two had cooperated tacitly in the battle against Xixia on Huanqing Road. However, Zhang Yu was the brother of Prime Minister Zhang Dun, and An Tao was Zhang Dun's mortal enemy.
Unlike Cai Jing, Liu Yannian had no intention of resisting An Tao at all.
It’s not that I don’t want to have it, but that I don’t dare to have it.
Although he was studying the battle report at this time, Liu Yannian had an idea in his mind. What did An Tao want him to do?
Support Li Kui?
Or will it bring greater merits to An Tao?
The latter is not very practical, and An Tao does not need such flashy things. He has reached one of the highest levels that civil servants can achieve. Although he is one level worse than the Privy Councilor and is worse than the deputy prime minister, he has to count him besides these people in the court. What else does he desire to pursue merits?
After thinking about it, I just want to assist Li Kui. As for whether Li Kui is a junior who An Tao is optimistic about or an illegitimate son who is wandering outside, these are not the issues that Liu Yannian considers. As long as he makes An Tao happy, he will not be too unlucky.
"The last general will be sent by Lord An."
Liu Yannian expressed his opinion, An Tao was a little surprised. From a trend point of view, Liu Yannian is not the kind of person who is prone to bow his head. He will not be lip service, right? Besides, when he sent Liu Yannian, what did he want him to do?
An Tao remained silent and raised his hand and pointed, "I am very relieved to General Liu to think so. It is still too early to send troops. Why don't you tell me how to deal with the Battle of Qingtang?"
"Deploy troops and spare no effort to mobilize troops. The Prime Minister said that this opportunity for war has arrived. Once hesitated, it will be passive for me. In addition, the Feilian army led by Li Kui may also be dragged into trouble. For the sake of the present, I can only ask Mr. Zhang and Mr. Fan of Huanqing Road to seek help, and based on this battle, I will determine the world."
Liu Yannian actually had doubts about the battle report, but he also understood that attitude is very important.
He could face Cai Jing, mainly because Cai Jing was not good at it, but at the same time, he had no choice but to deal with Cai Jing.
But An Tao, forget it, this is not a fuel-efficient lamp, but a knife that can fall from his head anytime and anywhere.
An Tao nodded comfortably and said, "I think so too. I ask you, what do you think of Li Kui?"
Here comes!
Finally here.
An Tao really wants to support Li Kui.
Liu Yannian felt wronged. He was the deputy envoy of Xuanfu. Should he really listen to this unscrupulous boy's order? Well, Liu Yannian felt that being able to bend and stretch was an advantage. He decisively threw away the disharmonious things in his mind and sincerely assured An Tao: "Li Kui can be literary and martial, and he is also a genius. Whether he leads troops to fight or manages the local area, he is a capable minister of the Song Dynasty. Although the last general has been fighting on the battlefield for twenty years, his martial arts skills are less than one-tenth of Li Kui. He is really ashamed. This battle must be dominated by Li Kui."
An Tao looked at Liu Yannian in surprise. After all, it was really difficult to make a veteran admit that a civil servant was better than him in leading troops in wars.
An Tao never thought of letting Li Kui lead this war. First, Li Kui was difficult to control and easily lost control. Second, Qin Fenglu was not without him. Liu Yannian followed Wang Shao and Zhang Feng, and his abilities were definitely the best choice. But he actually thought that Li Kui was better than him. Since there was a better one, why not?
An Tao didn't even think about being polite, so he nodded and agreed: "General Liu, go to Qingtang, I will discuss the borrowing of troops with other groups, so don't worry about the materials and supplies."
"I'll prepare this."
Liu Yannian walked out of the official residence, touched his beating heart, and said in his heart, "It's so dangerous."
Since An Tao came to Qin Fenglu, he not only destroyed Cai Jing, but also had many of the imperial guards on Qin Fenglu cleaned up by An Tao. These were Liu Yannian's subordinates, so he would not be touched at all.
In particular, An Tao also brought Zhong Jianzhong and Li Kui to Qinfeng Road, which gave Liu Yannian the feeling that he was about to be undermined.
Fortunately, he was in a false alarm and he passed the test safely.
Only after passing the test did he think of Li Kui.
It was not long after Fei Lian's army captured Lanzhou, why did he go to Qingtang City all at once?
Everyone knows that Qingtang City is not easy to fight.
Besides, Li Kui besieged Qingtang City, how did he do it?
After Liu Yannian led an army of 20,000 from Qinzhou, An Tao also sent people to Jingzhao Prefecture.
He needed to prepare more food and weapons for the front-line army. Fortunately, Zhang Yue and Fan Chunren were not private people, and they would meet Qin Fenglu's requests.
Chapter completed!