Chapter 60 The Whereabouts of the Grievance Army
But if the nation of shallow performances is prosperous and vigorous, its demise will also be sudden. After more than 200 years of glory, the Khitan nation finally inevitably went to corruption and was on the verge of falling apart under the successive blows of the Jurchens.
Although Daliao still has a territory of 10,000 miles, the Khitan nation's military resources that can go to the battlefield have gradually been exhausted. In the seventh year of the Great Song Dynasty, the seventh year of Liao Tianqing, and the first year of Jin Tianfu, the Liao court had to requisition the Sinicized people as soldiers on a large scale in order to resist the Jurchen Western invaders. The Khitan nobles may not be without worries about what will happen in the end by putting weapons in the hands of these rulers, but they have no choice.
The previous year's turmoil in Tokyo displaced half of the people of Tokyo Province and left them with no place to go. Some of them were led by Zhe Yanchong to settle in the area of Liaoyang Prefecture, some of them began to develop in southern Liao, and then they flowed into Liaokou, Yongning, Jinmen and other places to become the new labor force of the Han Dynasty, and the other part flocked to Zhongjing Road and Nanjing Road in the Great Liao.
The marshal of the Great Liao Capital, King Yelu Chun of Qin and Jin, was ordered by the Liao lord to fortify on the western line of Zhongjing Road, and recruited more than 20,000 hungry people from Liaodong, headed by Guo Yaoshi, the most brave and powerful Bohai man. He also selected 5,000 Han people from Pingzhou Road in Yanyun to join the army, and persuaded the rich people in the Yanyun area to sacrifice martial arts and horses according to their respective ranks, and obtained a total of 28,000 people, in the name of "revenge for the resentment of the Jurchens", called "resentment army".
Since its establishment, the "Resentment Army" has existed for a long time as an important army in the last years of the Great Liao. However, if these soldiers really have a grudge in their hearts, then this resentment is also very complicated: they do have a grudge in their hearts against the Jurchens who plundered and conquered Chang Tu City when they crossed the border; But for the Liao Ting, the soldiers of these Sinicized nationalities may not have no opinions in their hearts.
This resentful army has a total of eight battalions, stationed on the border of Liaojin and Jinjin. The Han reconnaissance cavalry team became more and more developed, and the vanguard even looked at the Tribulus Mountain, where the resentful army was located, but the Liao people failed to intercept these bold and almost presumptuous Han reconnaissance cavalry. After listening to the report of his subordinates, Cao Guangbi wrote a letter to Yang Yingqi, asking him to handle the government affairs of southern Liaoning with peace of mind: "The so-called resentful people are just a rabble. And the coach will never have the courage to go east, we can wait for the autumn harvest, the grain is enough, and then go west. ”
Liao Shuai's incompetence confirmed Cao Guangbi's assertion. The name of the resentful army is complaining, it seems to be enterprising, but it is actually a defense division, and since its establishment until the winter of the seventh year of Tianqing, no one has broken into the heart of Liaoyang Mansion.
During this time, Cao Guangbi was able to calmly reorganize the Han army. In the years of actual combat training, his comprehension of the art of war has become more and more sophisticated, and what Di Yu said in the past is "old learning" in his eyes, but he has realized a lot from the strict financial management system and performance appraisal system created by Yang Yingqi. Like Yeluchun, he recruited from among the homeless who had fled into the country, but his standards were far harsher than Yeluchun's, and the training of recruits was more rigorous.
Almost at the same time as Cao Guangbi, Xiao Tienu also expanded the number of Hu cavalry under his command to 1,200 people. However, unlike Cao Guangbi, there are few things in his army. This hybrid army composed of more than a dozen races, including Xi, Mongolian, Bohai, Goryeo, and Five Kingdoms, was the most hideous and bloodthirsty of all the troops in the Han Dynasty, and the only criterion for them to charge into battle was to look at Xiao Tienu's saber and advance and retreat - even if the saber was pointing at a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, they would rush over without hesitation! The violence of this army has always been the focus of Cao Guangbi, and Yang Yingqi did not even dare to let them into southern Liaoning easily. Xiao Tienu didn't have any opinions on this kind of "prejudice" between the two of them, maybe he himself knew what kind of group of people he was bringing. Anyway, as long as the money, food, and weapons provided by Yang Yingqi can meet the ** of his army.
While the Hanbu continued to grow, different opinions had actually begun to arise within the country. In terms of government affairs, Yang Yingqi's opinion is in an absolute advantage, but in military affairs, it is not.
Di Yu is the most traditional soldier, and Yang Kaiyuan and Aluman have both academic ability and knowledge