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The large forces of the Cangzhao Northern Army landed from Licheng Port or nearby ports one after another, and gathered in a mighty manner. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhao Yue did not wait for Goryeo to descend to the book, nor did he wait for the Goryeo army to counterattack and seize the port or block the coast. However, he did not immediately launch a further lightning attack, and the army was concentrated in the area of Lichenggang, with a strong mobile cavalry force, but he did not go to the countryside to arrest people and forcibly immigrate to Wadao, let alone burn and loot, which was completely different from the style of the Liao army that invaded Goryeo in the past.

The people of the peninsula, who have been peaceful and prosperous for many years, have become physically and mentally unaccustomed to war, and suddenly they are invaded by a strong enemy, and the war has broken out again, and people are extremely frightened and dazed.

The terrified Goryeo people, landlords, and powerful people in the vicinity of the area through which the northern army passed all wondered why the pirates did not plunder and slaughter them as ferociously as they imagined, and while instinctively running with their families and main belongings to the cities or mountains of their country, they were glad that they were lucky this time and did not lose their wealth and people to death.

But the hearts of the important ministers and dignitaries of the Goryeo court not only did not relax, but they were completely raised, and they no longer had the slightest luck.

They are not ordinary citizens who are ignorant, and they know that the more pirates are like this, the greater the plot, and they do not rob and kill indiscriminately to provoke the hatred of the people of the peninsula, but they are afraid that they will come to replace their rule for the purpose of destroying the country, and they are afraid that they will not stop if the war does not achieve its goal.

As the spies from all walks of life continued to send back reconnaissance news, the Goryeo monarchs learned that the pirate force was not only not weak, but ridiculously strong, the cavalry alone was not less than 50,000, just look at it and feel that the soldiers and horses are definitely the Liao army's elite troops can not compare with the terrible enemy, and there are not many infantry continue to land, all the soldiers and horses are military uniforms, armor and weapons are well-equipped regular army, equipment is only afraid of the most elite forbidden army in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty is not known to be several times stronger, even the logistics troops that transport grain and grass, look at the equipment is not inferior to the Goryeo Jing army, There is no shabby sign of the untouchable pirates, which is completely unexpected.

What made the Goryeo monarchs and ministers even more frightened was that hundreds of thousands of pirates gathered in one place, but everything was in order, and the movements of the various troops were unified and fast. The camps were so bold that they did not set up defensive fences, but they were like giant beasts lying silently waiting for an opportunity to pounce on their prey at any time. The more unconventionally fortified and silent this group of pirates is, the more terrifying it proves to be.

The pressure on the hearts of the three brothers of the Li family skyrocketed, and the panic and anxiety that they had never felt before came to their hearts, and they couldn't suppress it, let alone eliminate it, and they all stared at each other.

Kaegyong, the capital of Goryeo, urgently deployed troops to further strengthen the capital's defenses.

There were originally nearly 100,000 elite troops of the Beijing army in the city, and the army was established to imitate the forbidden army system of the Song Dynasty, and also combined the characteristics and preferences of the peninsula, which was divided into eight divisions, according to the status of the Yingyang Army, the Dragon and Tiger Army, the Left and Right Guards, the Shenhu Guard, the Xingwei Guard, etc., and the troops were divided into Shenbu, jumping, terrier bows, elite crossbows, etc., and there were also thousands of the most elite cavalry of Goryeo, equipped with the best war horses of Goryeo. The general of each guard is a general, and the deputy general is a general, and from the rank of the general, you can see the super high political status of the eight departments of the capital.

The officers and men of the Eighth Army were composed of brave and young men selected from all over the country, and they were undoubtedly the most relied on, trusted, and effective garrison force in the capital, not only defending against foreign enemies, but also deterring and even suppressing the arrogant local armed forces with considerable strength.

Before, due to the threat of the continuous and easy loss of the two major islands, the mainstream magnates of the Goryeo rulers still despised the pirate force in their hearts, but the villain pondered all day long about trapping and calculating others, and always beware of others against pitting and calculating, not lacking in heart, never lacking in defense, and also very vigilant, for fear that the pirates would play some tricks to destroy the defense of the capital, resulting in an unimaginable passive situation, so during the period when the pirates seemed to be satisfied with occupying the two islands and stopped attacking, the elite troops of more than 200,000 reinforcements drawn from all over the country were not repatriated. Cooperate with the Beijing army to continue to jointly defend the capital in case of accidents.

This is the mentality and preparation that should be there, and it turns out that it is absolutely necessary, and it is really the right thing to do.

If there is no strong reinforcement to help defend Kaegyung, and the capital's defense is empty, it will only be afraid that the pirate army will take the opportunity to besiege and attack frantically, striving to quickly break the city before the reinforcements arrive, capture the core ruler of Goryeo in one fell swoop, and then force the landing, easily seize the orthodox legal control of the peninsula, and the rest is to calmly eliminate the disobedient people everywhere. By that time, no matter what, Goryeo was essentially dead. The glory and wealth were all empty, even the head was lost, the Manchus were all destroyed, and the corpses were bleeding all over the ground.

When the three core brothers of the Li family thought of this, they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and secretly rejoiced in their vigilance and caution at the beginning.

There are more than 300,000 troops in the capital.

This time, 200,000 main forces from all over the country were dispatched to urgently deploy defenses, which would be more than 500,000 soldiers and horses. In this way, the Goryeo monarchs and ministers still could not feel at ease, and forcibly organized the city and the fleeing people into paramilitary forces to help defend the city.

Zhao Yue did not take advantage of the situation to immediately attack the capital or other cities of Goryeo, and gathered the army in one place, not to twist the strength into a force to prevent being broken by each one, but to let the Goryeo rulers clearly know the strength and terrible of the pirate army, and to give up time, with invisible but qualitative huge pressure to force the Goryeo people to smoothly gather in the city to engage in the fortified walls and clear the fields that they are good at and rely on, so that it is convenient to concentrate on cleaning up and immigration, and avoid wasting time and strength from falling into the terrible whirlpool of civil guerrilla resistance war.

There were many Goryeo traitors who actively made meritorious contributions to help, and the Northern Army's own intelligence organizations and scouts inquired, and the situation in various places near Kaijing was constantly reported.

Zhao Yue couldn't help but smile when he saw that the local armed forces were also quickly gathering armies in the local city to prevent pirate raids and invasions. But when he saw further information about Kaijing City, his expression was contemplative, thoughtful, his eyes flashed with complicated light, some contempt and mockery, and some cold.

Since Goryeo obtained cement technology more than ten years ago, it is convenient to build a city, and the capital of the capital of the capital of the city has been given priority to be rebuilt and expanded.

At this time, Kaijing City was not the city that could only accommodate a maximum of two or three hundred thousand households, and it was a real big city with a population of one million households, no less than half a point smaller than the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo City.

It's just that Goryeo is not as large as the Great Song Dynasty, and the capital is not as affordable as the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo, and it can't feed millions of households.

In order to accommodate more people, when the foreign enemy comes, there will be sufficient manpower and material resources to provide sufficient manpower and material resources to defend the city, fight a war of attrition, and strive to drag down the enemy. Therefore, the city was built into a city within a city.

The old city wall was not demolished, but was greatly renovated and reinforced, and many shooting holes and other facilities were added. The residents of Kaijing City still live in the old city. Outside the old city, a huge outer city was built to accommodate the fleeing people from all directions when the enemy came, and the people were not allowed to live and stay here in peacetime, only the Beijing army stationed. At this time, reinforcements were stationed from all over the country.

What moved Zhao Yue was that in order to strengthen the manpower helpers, the Goryeo monarchs and ministers accepted a large number of free people and slaves who fled from all around, but in order to reduce the burden of food and management, they revealed the cruel, selfish and ruthless nature, and did not allow women and children to go into the city to hide, let alone the old, weak, sick and disabled to enter the city to add a burden to nothing, forcing these fugitives to take the risk of going to other places farther away.

It's useless for you to defend the capital, whether you go to other cities, hide the mountains, in short, don't stay in Kaijing as a burden.

Of course, the landlords, slave owners, and powerful people in the vicinity are rich and powerful, and in order to prepare for this day, there are refuge properties in the capital.

The free untouchables and the larger slaves, who at this time did not really care about the bureaucratic ruling class, were abandoned, and had to rush to the capital with their families and mouths, only to be forcibly accepted, and the women and children cried and begged helplessly outside the city, and there was a miserable situation.

What made Zhao Yue's heart even colder and colder was that except for a few of these Goryeo freemen and slave men who saw that their families had no hope of entering the city, they angrily abandoned the safest and most reliable refuge in the capital, viciously cursed the selfish and ruthless vampire ruler, and took their families to turn to its place to survive, obviously planning to tide over the difficulties together with the whole family, to live together, to die together, showing affection, humanity and responsibility; The vast majority of the remaining men under the threat of the swords and guns of the capital army, perhaps half passive and semi-voluntary, or completely voluntary, obediently entered the city by themselves, and at the moment of crisis, they resolutely abandoned their parents, the elderly, their wives and children who needed help the most, and only cared that they could escape the war and live, showing the viciousness and selfishness of their nature.

Over the years, the ruling class of Goryeo lived in poverty and luxury, ruled brutally, and exploited wildly, and the freedmen were all scraped into extreme poverty and misery, bankrupt one after another, without the guarantee of power, and without dignity at all, with an extreme shortage of food and clothing, a broken grass house that could not be repaired, living in the wind and rain, suffering from the scorching heat and winter, and extreme toil, both men and women were physically and mentally destroyed in such a miserable life, and very few could survive beyond the age of forty, and the rate of child death was frighteningly high.

The vast status is even more humble, and there is no minimum personal freedom, and there is really nothing to say about the slaves, so there is no need to say more, it is not as good as cattle and horses, and it is rare for adults to live past thirty.

This kind of rule has caused the ruler to see the most desirable side, there is no big problem of the average age of the population, the average age is extremely young, not even 20 years old, the old, weak, sick and disabled people are very rare, according to the proportion of the population is equivalent to none, the social burden is extremely light, and it can provide the ruler with social support for luxury and pleasure.

Such a remnant of the people, not only harmless to the economic interests of the country, but also greatly beneficial, this is the collective understanding of the rulers, and it is natural that there is a righteous excuse within the rulers, and more and more justifiably and tacitly work together to frantically torture and force the old, weak, sick, disabled and useless, and remove all drags.

The funny thing is that the free people and the slave men do not resist this inhuman treatment, but they become insensitive, taking self-preservation as the first priority, and when necessary, everyone else can be abandoned except themselves, annihilating the most basic and normal human nature, and really a group of lone/husband walking corpses.

As the saying goes: In times of crisis, you can show your true colors.

When Du Bao, Xiao Jiasui, and other leaders of the Northern Army learned of these news, they couldn't help but feel the essence of this ethnic man on the peninsula, shameless enough from top to bottom, ruthless and unrighteous enough.

Lu Zhishen and other rough heroes slapped the table and scolded: "What kind of bird ruler is this? What kind of bird man is this? Beasts are inferior. ”

Zhao Yue remembered the terrible and helpless scene in the nightmare before he was born, which was actually an animated portrayal of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty would soon show the same shameless scene. The Han rulers behaved in a horrific manner. Commoners?

Tsk, hundreds of thousands of majestic and powerful men of the Beijing army, equipped with the most sophisticated and superior weapons and equipment in the capital reserves, enjoy the best treatment, can guard the Yellow River, block the Jin army to the south, a blow will be defeated, and even flee from the wind, the competition is who can escape fast, who is the most tricky and has the brains to escape, they have armor and weapons, they are far from the number of small groups of Jin army wanton pursuit and slaughter dare not resist and resist, were killed all over the field, blood flowed like a river, and finally there is not one in ten, scattered into the people and become a scourge of local compatriots. If you can't go on, you can flee to Shuzhong and continue to do evil safely, how can you think about saving your family?

The refugees of the Northern Song Dynasty, many men formed bandits in groups, on the one hand, they gathered their strength to protect themselves against the gold thieves, and on the other hand, they were as ferocious as the Jin army to slaughter and loot their compatriots.

I don't have the face to laugh at the Goryeo stick.

The only consolation is that at the time of the national crisis, countless hot-blooded men emerged among the people, spontaneously organizing resistance forces, and combining with the conscientious Song army that continued to resist in the south, forming a mighty and unyielding steel backbone supporting the Han nation. Among them, the most outstanding and heart-wrenching are the national heroes Yue Fei and Yue Jiajun.

Although the people of Jiangnan have done a lot of things to exclude and harm the northern refugees for their own interests, on the whole, they are considerate, tolerant, accepting and helping the vast number of northern refugees who have fled, and the rebel army, forming a joint force that should not exist in the Southern Song Dynasty and Zhao Dynasty, but also preserving the Han civilization.

Zhao Yue frowned and was silent for a long time, and finally said: "After the war, select those who are willing to live and die with their families and bring them into the empire." Regardless of whether they are loyal to their own nation or not, as long as they are willing to bow their heads and submit to their own nation, they will accept it, treat them kindly, and slowly educate them. In the future, if it is found that there is no grace and misdeeds, then the country will be cleared. ”

The pirate army has been stationed in the port area of Reiseng.

The Goryeo monarchs were more and more worried about what the pirates wanted to do.

Why did this group of powerful men from the sea behave so unreasonably and completely disobey conventional military rules in the war?

The fact that the pirates did not want to have a deep grudge against the ordinary people of Goryeo, and then defeated the peninsula and replaced the rule, making it easier to subdue and manage the people. But you have a strong army, but you don't take advantage of the lack of defensive preparations for Kaijing to mobilize your army to take Kyoto with one drum, nor do you send troops to attack and loot other cities, and you don't want to try to weaken the overall strength of Goryeo. (To be continued.) )