Chapter 145 White Mountain Black Forest II
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The army goes out, some people are happy, some people are worried, and the people of Gaoling may be happy, but a group of ministers in the court and the central government are full of sorrow, and the treasury is really empty, especially some time ago, in order to crack down on the Nanyang pirates and Oriental pirates that have become more and more rampant in recent years, the imperial court has spent a lot of money from the singer to build a giant warship, which has already cost countless silver reserves.
The six departments each have their own ideas, especially the household department Shangshu who is in charge of finance, after hearing the decree of the Tang Emperor's Eastern Expedition, he is almost about to die in the court, if the court now hates the Gaoling people the most, it belongs to the household officials.
At the time of the dispersal of the dynasty, a minister of the household department said to his cronies, "Your Majesty uses the martial arts strategy of the first emperor a hundred years ago to manage the current world, and I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse." ”
In June, the army was fully equipped, all thanks to the Tang Dynasty's strong mobilization capabilities and standing army system, and the Tang emperors stipulated that even when there was no war, they should maintain an army ready to fight and subdue the barbarians.
In the world of the Tang people, everything is like this,
Dongyangyi, the south is barbarian, the northwest is Hu, the north is Tatar,
The Quartet is a barbarian, and the central country belongs to the central government, should govern the Quartet, for China, is mandated by God to rule the world, in the sense of Tianming, the Tang people treat the barbarians cruel and abnormal, those who do not obey, regardless of men, women and children, will be killed, kneeling down to the Son of Heaven, to be gifted, to maintain the power of heaven, it is necessary to establish a strong force.
The Tang Dynasty continued to create massacres against barbarians in the wars of the past dynasties, in order to build fear, and after finally defeating the first real enemy - the Golden Empire, the Tang people first attacked the Gaoling Dynasty on the Jinchuan Peninsula.
Slaughtered three million Gaoling people, escorted all the Gaoling royal women to the grassland, and handed them over to the slaves of the time, the Mughuls, who were the descendants of the Golden Empire, that is, the Oghuz and Tungusic people in the Goliath language, had already known the affairs of the times and submitted to the Son of Heaven, and became one of the most powerful armed forces in the empire.
At that time, the Tang army had the soldiers of the Xiliang Prefecture and the barbarian army of the Baoding Domain, all of which were composed of the Mughal people, and the shaman of the grassland also surrendered to the Son of Heaven, who was the incarnation of the immortal heaven walking in the grassland, and ruled the grassland Khan of the Beihai.
The Tang then waged six wars against the southernmost part of the empire, the rainforest-covered peninsula, where several countries were not subject to the empire and whose sins were unforgivable, which the Tang said was "really disrespectful to the emperor and deserved to be defeated", marching six times, defeating five times, and winning the sixth great victory, slaughtering countless cities.
The Vientiane Dynasty, the Dayue Empire, the Dali Kingdom, and the Yunnan-Burma Occupation surrendered one after another.
The empire was surrounded by no rivals, but soon the Tang people found that some Japanese people were not convinced, independent of the tributary system, so they went to the envoy to ask the Japanese king to come to the ministers, but the sea route, the wind was too strong, and they could not find the place where the Japanese island was.
The Tang Emperor searched several times earlier, but could not find it, suspecting that the Japanese people had the protection of the gods, and lost interest, at that time, the Mughals invaded their sphere of influence Tufan tribes, and the Tang fought with them, and had no energy to take care of the affairs of the Japanese people.
The Japanese escaped with a fluke, but is it really that simple?
No.
The Wa people had long been aware of the Tang people's thoughts, but they did not want to be enslaved, and the Gaoling people, who were appointed by the Tang people as the lords of the East China Sea, sent their pirates to invade the feudal domains of the Wa kings at that time, and the Wa people had always hated and harbored fear and hatred for the Tang people.
They built a long wall called the Ghost Wall in the Kyushu Domain, to prevent the invasion of ghost animals, which were the name of the Tang people, full of resentment and contempt, "The so-called heavenly ones, but the six realms of Shura, the ghost animals are also," said the Japanese poets.
Wa has a strange person, for the world of the onmyoji, the name of the source of the rain, born in the country of Ujishima Qina, suffered difficulties in childhood, but there are adventures, talented, intelligent, with a common heart, earlier for the Tang Tu to live, slaying demons and demons after studying Tang Tu Taoism, combined with their own perceptions, passed down the study of the Wa people, Yin and Yang heart law, is the founding master of the Liuli Liuhe faction, and also has certain attainments in ninjutsu and Buddhism.
He was the head of the number of strange masters of the Wa Island, and later lived in seclusion in the Ghost Mountain of Wa Island.
When he comprehended the way of heaven, he calculated the ambition of the Tang people, because he couldn't bear the misery of the Japanese island, he went out of the mountain, and finally cast a spell with his own life.
The heart of self-improvement has always been in the hearts of the Japanese people, but they have always suffered from the lack of suitable opportunities.
Until the first year of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong proclaimed himself emperor and crowned the empress as the queen of heaven, and he was greater than the emperor than the son of heaven, and announced to the courtiers, "From now on, I will not only be the lord of man, but also the lord of heaven, and I am God." ”
There are four gods in the belief of the Tang people, located in the south, east, and west.
And Gaozong calls himself the central god, and the law name is Chaos Wuji Taishang Tianzun Primordial Great Wilderness to the Heavenly Emperor,
He widely invited the world's grandmasters and immortals, since then ignore the government, dedicated to cultivation, the country is governed by eunuchs, before leaving, he said, "Although I am God, but still the emperor of the people, with my Li Aiqing, for me to conquer the four Yi, conquer the world, my divine skills can be added by the mandate of heaven, will be completed, enjoy eternity, hahahaha・・・・・・"
The military general eunuch Hu Zongrui relied on this to take charge of the government with great dictatorship.
This person disregarded the suffering of the people, and started a war in chaos, since then the empire and the surrounding countries have no peace, the Tang Empire's ferocious murder to the extreme, eunuchs for the cultivation of evil arts, wanton orders and finally directly issued a slaughter order, "Whoever I capture, will be slaughtered five or six." ”
That is, if there are 10,000 people, the lowest slaughter is 5,000, the highest is 6,000, 100,000 people, the lowest is 50,000, the highest is 60,000, and so is the million, and so it is with 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
At this time, Wadao and the surrounding countries were shocked, and the Gaoling people also secretly felt the madness of the suzerain, so they sent envoys to inquire about the meaning of the heavenly kingdom, and the eunuchs said to the Gaoling envoys, "This is the will of my emperor, and the Erbang country will carry it out." ”
When the king of Gaoling heard this, he sent a large army to attack the surrounding countries, and ordered the army to slaughter the city, at this time the Gaoling army was extremely strong, and there was no resistance in the surrounding countries, Gaoling sent a sailor, attacked the Tsushima kingdom at night, occupied the Tsushima city, and its troops pointed directly to the Kyushu domain, the feudal lord was frightened, and asked for help from the king of the Japanese, who knew that the reinforcements of the Gaoling people broke the Kyushu defenders that night, only half a month, the entire Kyushu was occupied, and then ambushed the reinforcements in the middle, and won a big victory.
The Japanese did not know what artillery was at this time, and the number of artillery of the Gaoling army was not inferior to that of the Tang people in proportion. At this time, the Japanese advocated single-horse killing and charging, and the Gaoling army had already learned to fight neatly and order the large group army in the battles with the mainland countries. The warhorses of the Japanese people will be shocked when they meet the sound of drums, and Gao Ling has long learned from the Tang people that he has prepared war drums made of the foot bones of the Heavenly Thunder Beast.
The drums rumble,
At this time, the Wa Kingdom has been peaceful for a hundred years, the spirit of martial arts in the past has long been exhausted, the soldiers do not know the war, will be greedy for life and afraid of death, the Gaoling people have experienced a hundred battles, fierce and brutal, to kill people and plunder the city for pleasure, in order to learn to pile up human heads like the grassland people.
After the army, the task of the Gaoling monks is to set fire to everything, the corpse is the source of the plague, but some demon monks took the opportunity to harvest the soul of the battlefield, even if the Tang people in order to maintain the image of the righteous royal teacher of the heavenly kingdom, the order is strictly forbidden to do so, but there is no shortage of daring people, after the Goryeo military justice department killed a few people, they no longer asked.
Just when the Gaoling army was like a broken bamboo, the Tang side was in a hurry, it turned out that several chieftains of the Mengwu were secretly worried, and they were also afraid of the empire that had shown madness, and they were unwilling to serve it.
Just when the Tang army was at war with the Delhi Dynasty established by the descendants of the Dayue clan, the Mengwu cavalry in the Liangbian Prefecture to the west was suddenly hit by the rebel chieftain, and finally the battle collapsed.
The sudden rebellion made the Tang army quickly defeated under the attack on two roads, and then on the land that returned to China on the way, because of the rebellion, a large number of war horses were lost, and the grain on the mainland that relied on this hauling had to be pushed and pulled by manpower.
The days of returning were delayed, but the food could not be supported, and when the three armies were walking in the desert of the Western Regions, they finally ran out of water and food, and the 400,000 troops died tragically in the desert.
Or cannibalism and death, eating each other's flesh, and then still not being able to get out, or dying of thirst, the 540,000 army, the elite drawn from the states and armies can be said to be lost.
The defeat, the real defeat, killed tens of thousands, missing 400,000 in the Western Regions, the court was shocked, and then furious, and dispatched the world's military horses, intending to fight a decisive battle with it.
The Gaoling army was ordered to return to help, and the news reached Wajima, and the Gaoling army was in an uproar.
"At this time, you want us to come back to help, Lordship, the army is about to occupy Wajima! Can you inform the court of the grace period? Several generals of the Gaoling Army said unwillingly in the face of the Tang envoys, and then the interpreter conveyed the words to the angels.
"How can it be that now is the kingdom of heaven! How can the small island compare to Shenzhou, do you still dare to rebel against Your Majesty's will! The envoy shouted loudly in Gaoling.
Several Gaoling generals were a little angry, but at this time Marshal Gaoling said, "My lord, I don't dare, but this is really Your Majesty's will, since Lord Hu was in power, Your Majesty has never received envoys from various countries, I don't know how to explain this, I think Your Excellency must have something to say." He immediately returned in the Tang language, and almost every Gaoling civil official knew the language of the Tang people, but the military generals were quite strange.
"This, this ・・・・・・ you, you don't care so much, now rush to help, this is the handwriting of King Gaoling." The emperor went to cultivate immortals regardless of state affairs, about this kind of thing, the Tang people were hidden, and only a few close vassals like Gao Ling knew a thing or two, but only King Gao Ling knew the truth.
After weighing one or two, the envoy finally took out a piece of paper with a letter written by Gao Lingwen and Tang Wen together.
The marshal, a military general who stood in front of the envoy and was not restrained at all, took a look, then immediately knelt, and all the troops knelt on the ground, and said in the Gaoling language, "Long live His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the lord of the East China Sea of Gaoling, a thousand years old!" ”
Then he stood expressionless,
Carrying out the will of the Tang people, that is, the orders of the suzerain, was the only choice for this Gaoling marshal, and just when he was in high spirits, he suffered this blow, and after that, he did not have a second chance to set foot on Wadao for the rest of his life.
The Gaoling army, together with the Tang army, defeated the Warat coalition rebels who had attacked its capital, and the various countries sued for peace.
At this time, the lord of the East China Sea, the king of Gaoling, went to the capital to meet the Son of Heaven, but at this time Gaozong still retreated, but in the end, due to the final success of the exercises, although there is no eternity, but also the mana to the sky, it is already a year later, the king of Gaoling has been in the Tang capital for nearly a year, if it is not an extraordinary period, just the Tang law stipulates that "the vassal king shall not stay in the capital", it is enough to kill the king of Gaoling.
As soon as the Tang Emperor was born, he learned everything・・・・・・
First repelled the masters of various countries to attack the capital, and then killed Hu Zongrui, who was plotting to rebel, Hu Zongrui practiced the Heavenly Demon Great Wandering Void Technique, and his mana was strong, but the Tang Emperor easily killed him in the palace garden.
"I wish Your Majesty to kill the rebellious thief, long live the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty, long live the Son of Heaven, long live, long live!" The king of Gaoling knelt on the ground and shouted from his mouth.
"Your Majesty, it doesn't have to be like this, please get up." Gojong said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." King Gaoling then got up.
The king of Gaoling immediately told Gaozong about his intentions, and persuaded him to accept the demands of various countries for the time being, and when the time comes, the national strength of the Kingdom of Heaven will be restored to the matter of Tutian, and then Gaoling will definitely serve the Kingdom of Heaven.
"That's fine, but those ・・・・・・ nations now know that they can have an advantage by uniting, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not unite to plot against our dynasty in the future・・・・・・" Gaozong obviously still had some concerns.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, those small states that disobey the power of heaven and don't know the general situation are just a group of jackals in the mountains, each with a ghost heart, and there will never really be any trust between them, and now the union is just caused by panic in front of the military might of the kingdom of heaven, once we forgive their sins, they will lose the pressure of unity, and they will inevitably fall apart, and when the time comes, I will be in the ・・・・・・ hehehe, don't worry that they will hug together and form a national henchman." King Gaoling analyzed.
After thinking about it again and again, Gao Zong knew that things were indeed impossible to do now, the power of the empire was no longer enough to subdue the countries, and it was just useless to fight, so he had to agree, he turned around, walked a few more steps, and finally made a decision, looking back at the king of Gaoling and said, "Then do it according to the king's will, I will strike the army." ”
"Your Majesty's wisdom and martial arts are even more benevolent, for the sake of the common people in the world, for the sake of all the people in the world, it can be said that the Holy Emperor has come to the world, and he will definitely unify the world in the future, and the ancestor emperor who lives in the highest temple will definitely be inferior!" King Gaoling began to chant again.
"Well, I sound funny." Gaozong waved his hand to signal that he was tired, and King Gaoling immediately bent down and withdrew.
In the outer hall, when the ministers of Gaoling and Tang Chen saw King Gaoling, they inquired about the situation, and after learning the results, they were relieved.
Under the mediation of the Gaoling King, the continental countries signed a contract with the Tang Dynasty, and when the Tang Empire was at its peak, the countries were arrogant, pointing fingers, and wantonly bullying, and the era of the countries having to submit was over, and a new tributary relationship was formed, and the countries were still subordinate to the Tang, but only in name, the Tang Dynasty no longer had the power to order the countries, and the countries were at war and married and formed alliances, and there was no need to ask the Tang Emperor, but only on the annual alliance day, the countries sent envoys to the Tang Emperor to pay ceremonial tribute and bow down.
Later, with the further decline of the Tang Empire, after the death of Gaozong, the situation of the empire became more and more exhausted, and the countries no longer respected the Tang Empire.
Gaoling, the "assassin of the imperial side" who supervised the hundred countries of the empire, was also not majestic in the past
In the past, every year, all countries had to send envoys to the empire to pay a large amount of tribute, and once they did not meet the requirements of the Tang Emperor, they would be ordered by the Tang Emperor to crusade against a hundred countries, and Gaoling was the country that all countries had to go to.
According to the custom of the empire, it was also a privilege given to Gaoling, and the envoys who went to the empire to pay tribute had to go to Gaoling first, and then transfer it to the emperor through the Gaoling people, and then the envoys of various countries entered the capital.
Generally speaking, the king of Gaoling said to the emperor that he could, even if he could, and the hostages of various countries were escorted to the Gaoling Academy, where they learned and accepted the "Loyal Monarch Thought", and then the Tang Emperor designated him as the ruler of his country.
All countries respect and fear Gaoling.
And the era of once taking advantage of the might of the Tang Emperor has come to an end.
The Gaoling Dynasty of the Wei family, which once wantonly insulted the envoys of various countries, and at the same time felt that it was also a superior country, as if it was an agent of the empire, did not wait for the day when the empire re-emerged, and was not able to become the original "first country in the world"
At that time, the Tang people were the kingdom of heaven, and Gaoling regarded himself as the strongest kingdom on earth.
Now it is also a relaxation of force, and finally abandoned, and now even a few Japanese can not resist it, let alone the visit of other countries, and now it is just a small and dilapidated country.
During the years of the decline of the empire, Gaoling began to become the target of conquest by the Japanese people, and the seventh ruler of the empire, Tianqizong, changed the title of emperor to emperor, abolished the legal title, gave up the land outside the Guan, retreated to the Great Wall, and promised other countries that as long as they did not violate the Heavenly Dynasty and would never conquer it, it seemed that it had changed from an aggressive and warlike military empire to a peaceful and self-respecting empire.
However, at the same time, the Japanese invaded Gaoling on a large scale, and the successive Gaoling kings were all private vassals of the Tang Emperor, not to submit to the empire, but to directly submit to the emperor, and the Tang Emperor was its suzerain.
The Tang Emperor had almost just declared the Wa Kingdom a country that would never be conquered,
The Tang Dynasty sent two large armies to the route, consisting of 30,000 soldiers from Tianfu, 100,000 soldiers from various state capitals, and 50,000 guards from various states, a total of 180,000 as the first road, and the Western Route Army was the vanguard, and the leading commander was Li Zongshou.
Subsequently, he dispatched 70,000 troops from Fanbang in the Western Regions, 50,000 defenders at the border of the Great Wall, and 40,000 defenders from Yanjing, a total of 160,000.
In addition, there is also the Jingwei Zhendong Army composed of Warat and Chahar Divisions, led by the Muguls and Ling Ke.
As a result, the 20,000 infantry corps (including cavalry) led by Li Zongshou broke the 100,000 Japanese army in the first battle on the Jinchuan River, and then Ling Ke's cavalry also successfully raided the Japanese army's defense line, and pursued the defeated Japanese army all the way to the Acropolis.
The war finally ended temporarily with the Tang Empire and the Japanese people signing an alliance under the city, and then the second wave of the war broke out with the Gaoling people taking the initiative to attack, and the Japanese also occupied half of the Gaoling land, and then under the leadership of Wang Chenzhi, it was collectively known as the Dingyuan Army of Xiliang Prefecture, and the Tang army, which was mainly composed of the Mongols, recovered the lost territory of Gaoling in the subsequent battle, but the imperial sailors were defeated by the Wa people, but the Gaoling sailors finally defeated the Wa sailors.
This incident made the Tang Emperor not very happy.
An Shi Yizhong, who occupied the southern islands, originally planned to vigorously imitate artillery, buy war horses from the grasslands to breed, and create a spear phalanx according to the teachings of the Nanban merchants.
However, Gaoling did not give up, and the invasion of the Japanese woke up Gaoling, and he deeply felt that the dignity of "the largest country in the world" had been humiliated, and he wanted to take revenge on the Japanese people.
They persuaded the Tang people to support them, and the Tang people provided four million taels of silver, which would be paid off by Gaoling in one hundred and forty years, and began to plan to attack the Japanese island, vigorously rushed to make warships, recruited volunteers for strict training, and purchased grain and grass from the Tang people.
After three years of preparation, King Gaoling gathered an army of 300,000 and confidently marched towards Wajima with a strong naval division.
The Koreo army landed in the Satsuma domain in Kyushu, and then fought with the Japanese army, and defeated the 7,000 troops of the Shimazu Imperial Guard for a whole day, but then they were resisted to the death in front of the high wall built by the Japanese people, and attacked for several days, and tens of thousands of casualties were not captured.
And once the masters in the army make a move, the masters of the fear of the Japanese will also make a move, and then they will be uncontrollable, except for the Tang Dynasty and Western singers who can ignore the unspoken rules of the mainland, even if a small country like him has the Tang people as a backer, he will not dare.
For a while, the situation was stalemate, and he couldn't advance or retreat, and King Gaoling didn't know what to do.
Fortunately, at this time, a captain in Gaoling suggested using artillery like King Gaoling, and some can be made now.
The king of Gaoling immediately realized that there was no shortage of sulfur here and that there were a large number of craftsmen in the army, and he also had saltpeter that the Japanese did not have, so he could make artillery and immediately make ammunition.
The saltpeter of the Japanese people are dependent on imports, from the Nanban merchants, but it is rumored that the Song people wiped out all the countries where the entire Nanban is located, and now the saltpeter is banned from exporting by it, and the Tang, since the war with the Japanese people, has banned the export of saltpeter from the mainland countries like the Japanese people, although in other things, the mainland countries may not really be from the current empire, but the empire is more or less dominant in business things.
Under the rush of craftsmen, the artillery was made,
In the black smoke, the sound of rain and thunder muffled the sound of killing and scolding each other,
Eventually, the Gaoling people broke through the walls built according to the mountain.
But then it was hit again, and the second wave of reinforcements from Gaoling lost their way and somehow returned to their homeland.
At this time, the Koryo army fighting on Wajima was often harassed by the Japanese ninjas, and the main generals were constantly discovered on the second day, and their heads were cut off by the enemy.
The counterattacks of the Japanese army in various places were also very fierce, although they were all repulsed by the Gaoling army, and the Gaoling army triumphed all the way, but at present they did not even occupy all of Kyushu, but only three-quarters.
The king of Gaoling was also killed, the city was destroyed, the rice in the fields was trampled, and the basic resentment in his heart disappeared a lot, and finally under the mediation of a widow, he negotiated and retreated.
This Japanese man is the descendant of the onmyoji of the world at the beginning, and his name is unknown, and he is at the beginning of the world.
This person set up Xiao Li and the Eight Palaces Sanming King Divine Array, and did not hurt the lives of the second wave of Gaoling reinforcements and "expelled" them back to their homeland, which is why the Gaoling reinforcements were lost at sea in the fog.
He also sent ninjas to continuously attack the upper generals of Gaoling, so that King Gaoling had to be affected by low morale and gradually lost confidence in conquering Wadao, and then went directly to Tang to meet the Son of Heaven and tell about peace, and then the Son of Heaven also called King Gaoling to retire.
These three stratagems were exerted together, and King Gaoling succumbed.
And Yuan Shichu was also appreciated by the Son of Heaven, and he was allowed to be the Taishou and manage one side.
The Tang Kingdom, Gaoling, and the Wa Kingdom fell into a period of peace, while the wars in other places continued, Manchuria quietly rose, and the Kulens were about to establish a golden empire that would live forever, and the long-dormant Sakhan was still alive.
In the blink of an eye, about twenty years have passed, and with the rise of the republic's expansion ambitions, the continent has once again fallen into a chain of unknown situations, and now the Western Continent has been conquered as a whole, and the republic has looked to the east.
The Goliaths dominated Europa, invaded the scorpion India, swallowed Oghuz, and wanted to unite with Tuspaan (Wa Island), looking down on the east, pointing at the sword, killing countless people.
Today, there is also the Manchurian invasion of Gaoling, and the Kulun Tungusic people gallop through the border of the Great Wall.
The Tang Dynasty continued to decline, and the countries on the mainland annexed each other.
The old political balance has been upset, and a new order has not yet been established.
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