Section 244 Plundering North 8
The Liao guerrillas also indiscriminately killed foreign slaves they encountered in the territory of the Jin State.
First of all, it is a mistake to kill the hugs indiscriminately.
These miscellaneous hus are just slaves of the Jurchens, they are also unfortunate foreigners, they were forcibly captured by the Jin army and tortured, they are not even as good as cattle and horses, they are not treated by anyone at all, life is not as miserable as life and death, under the cruelty of the Jurchens, whether they are men, women, children, whether they are seductive or not, beautiful women or whatever, they are all humble and their lives hang by a thread, and their souls are hovering at the gates of hell, and every day, even every moment, people may fall forever.
They also hated the Jin army, and they always longed to escape from slavery, and many of them were desperate for the opportunity to take revenge on the Jurchens, but they never had the right opportunity.
This was supposed to be a force that the Liao army could harvest by the way in addition to plundering wealth.
If you free these slaves, if you can't add a piece of combat power, you can at least get the gratitude of these people.
Correspondingly, if the Liao State came to take in these refugees and not trample on them as slaves, and treat them with kindness, they would also be followed loyally by a large extent. You must know that many of these slaves are prisoners of warriors, and they are the backbone warriors of their tribes, and if they flee back to their respective tribes, it is very likely that they will also attract the gratitude and loyalty of these tribes to the Liao State.
Without contrast, there is no harm.
Without comparison, we don't know what happiness is, and our hearts don't know how to be satisfied.
For the Zahu people, the Khitans are not playful, wanton enslavement and exploitation, hateful, but since the rise of the Jurchens, compared with the cruelty and horror of the Jurchens, the Khitans are still good.
It's just that the little Jurchen is fierce and invincible, and the huge and arrogant Liao State is weak, which makes the countless miscellaneous tribes in the vast north and west, especially the big tribes, secretly unite to advance and retreat together, watch left and right, and become the grass on the wall.
The north is facing a reshuffle, the situation is treacherous, and the outlook is confusing.
In this period of great turbulence and extreme danger of the great changes of the times, we must be cautious in it, and one carelessness is the death of the clan, and the betrayal attitude of Zahu who coldly watches and disregards the safety and security of the "motherland" Liao, in addition to the tradition of nomadic barbarians who do not pay attention to faith and righteousness, is mainly to save themselves from being victims of cannon fodder in the struggle between the two powers.
They are not Khitans in the first place, they are just temporarily submitting to Khitan rule and enslavement, how can they be loyal?
When the catastrophe comes, it is understandable to only care about self-preservation. If the Khitan was weak, they would do the same, and the ancestors did this.
As a result, the Liao State could only rely on its own people to "fight alone", and only the Han people who were well driven by the rule could be used as cannon fodder, becoming more and more passive and weak, and the war situation became more and more unfavorable.
The more unfavorable it was, the more Zahu watched and refused to help Liao.
However, the Liao army played the right strategy this time, and suddenly became strong again, fully demonstrating the war potential and advantages of the great powers, so that the Zahu tribe saw again that the Liao State is still so strong and cannot be humiliated, and the Jin State is not so uncontrollable, and the Liao State is afraid again, this is an excellent opportunity for the Liao State to resume controlling the Zahu.
It's a pity that the pig-headed nobles who really hold the power of the Liao State still do not adapt to the rapid changes of the times and can't put down the shelf of the Shang Kingdom when the Jin army defeated the Liao State and then defeated the Liao State.
Because of the humiliation they have held back for nearly three years, they are accustomed to being high-minded, and they hate the rebellious Jurchens, but they hate even more the Zahu who dares to betray Da Liao without the ability of the Jurchens.
Therefore, the pig-headed nobles shouted to the Liao army of their tribe who went out on the expedition: "Kill the Jurchens, destroy the Jin Kingdom, and kill all the other betrayers and rebels." The tribes and people who dare to disobey my Da Liao, whether he is a soldier who joined the Jin army or a slave of the Jin country, all of them should be killed and destroyed. “
"If you don't teach them a hard lesson, these won't know how powerful my Great Khitan is. Let these mongrels be completely extinct...... Kill, give the master, I will kill them all......"
Yelu Yanxi, who was as arrogant and arrogant as Zhao Ji, the king of the Song Dynasty, and extremely cowardly and absurd in his bones, also rose up and shouted to the whole army in person: "Kill." Destroy everything that comes your way. The warriors of the Great Khitan have spread my heavenly power and domineering spirit widely. “
"This wolf lord orders you to destroy all the tribes that dare to receive orders to participate in the war, but wait and see, or even openly rebel with the Jurchens, and kill all those who dare to serve the Jurchens to help the Jurchens become strong, no matter what race he is or whether he is a Jurchen slave or not. I will see who will dare to despise my Da Liao again, and who will dare to contribute to the Jurchens again......"
Compromising with forces that are not honest or even dealing with each other, seeking peace and seeking unity and support is the only thing that the weak can do. A strong country doesn't have to do it by itself.
My Great Liao Kingdom is strong, my Great Khitan warriors have many generals, and there is a large population, so I don't need to understand and forgive those who are waiting and seeing, and the betrayers are influenced to support them, and they will be killed all.
This is the mentality of Yelu Yanxi.
The vast number of ordinary Liao soldiers and Liao people who participated in the war almost did not even know how to read, and only had the traditional instinct of grazing and farming to fight, what did they know? What do you know?
If the master calls killing, then kill them all.
Anyway, when you go here, you will be a robber who kills and robs, and when you enter the territory of the Jin Kingdom, you still care who you don't kill, who robs, who doesn't rob?
Who is impatient to distinguish?
Kill all the way, rob the past, burn the past, and destroy the past. That's so painful, it's more energetic, and it's worry-free.
As for the literate generals and colonels who are also as savage and ferocious as ordinary soldiers, and are used to being robbers who wantonly commit murder when they are overlords, the boss of the headquarters shouts to kill, this is an order, and it has been executed, and the emperor has personally ordered it, this is a will, and it must be carried out.
As a result, after nearly a million Liao army robbers entered the Jin Kingdom, they killed everyone they met equally.
There are too many Liao troops, too few Jin people, the Liao army feels that the small Jin country is not enough for its own scourge, there are so many troops that there is no land, there is no land, there is a lot of money above and greedy Zahu, and they dare not provoke Wanyan and other Jurchen tribes, so it is natural to pounce on all the Zahu tribes near the Jin country, and the sweetness is more and more greedy and ferocious, and naturally spreads to the Zahu tribes farther away.
The march began well.
Jin Guo was taken by surprise. The outer tribes of the Jin Kingdom scattered all over the country suffered one after another and were looted.
And the foreign slaves who were in distress and despair in these tribes suddenly saw the Liao army coming and killing the Jurchens like a devastation, and their eyes suddenly lit up, thinking that the time had come for them to get out of hell...... Desperately fighting with a weak or even disabled body to help the Liao army kill the Jurchens, he can defeat one by one, and he wants to vent his long-accumulated misery and hatred.
The slaves of the Khitan race are naturally more hopeful and excited.
Da Liao is calling. Our people have come to our rescue. The opportunity to jump out of the sea of bitterness and take revenge on the Jurchen beast has come, and for a while, both men, women, and children are excited......
But I never expected that the Liao army would finally take the initiative to enter the Jin country with their eyebrows raised, and they obviously had the upper hand, but they were not the Bodhisattvas who crossed the world, let alone the shameful and brave enough to rescue them.
When a Khitan slave man shouted for joy and greeted but was ruthlessly split into two companions by the oncoming Liao army, a devastated Khitan woman slave cried and laughed half-crazy and half-mad and half-dumb to meet him, and was also slashed down by the Liao army with a steel knife like lightning, and another four or five-year-old thin Khitan child slave panicked and cried and pounced on the familiar army of the same clan, eager to get the warm embrace, love and strong protection of the warriors of the same race, but was also ruthlessly cut down. The dirty and withered little yellow face on the flying head still maintained that look of dependence and longing, when he saw that the Liao army that came, from the leading generals to the ordinary soldiers, all of them were ferociously pushing and killing, and no matter who was on the other side, it was just a chilling and desperate forest cold sword light, the Khitan slaves were blinded, and the slaves of other alien races were first shocked, and then angry, monstrous anger.
The Khitan slaves thought sadly and angrily in the numb hooded and overwhelmed with their heads: You Da Liao soldiers did not have the ability to protect us who provided you with food and drink, so that our tribe was wantonly slaughtered and robbed by the Jurchen beasts, we were lucky to survive but became more miserable slaves, life is better than death, we did not betray the Great Liao, we were taken captive and helpless to struggle to live here, we are not guilty. It is you who are guilty. It's the incompetent emperor of Daliao, the noble lord of straw bags, and the bullshit general who are guilty, and you deserve to die. Now that you have called, not only did you not save us, you did not know the shame and repentance, but you actually regarded us as the shame of Da Liao and wanted to erase it, and as traitorous sinners who served the Jurchens, and slaughtered them all like the beast Jurchens?
Non-Khitan slaves erupted in anger and hatred in numbness: Khitan mongrels are really not human, they can't protect our people, when the ruler enjoys our blood and tears for hundreds of years, not to mention, when we are living here and secretly contrasting with the Jurchens who feel that the Khitan is a good ruling clan and their hearts are towards you Khitan, you actually show devilish behavior and treat us more ferociously than the Jurchens. It turns out that you Khitans and Jurchens are the same beasts, they are not human, they are all demons that should be cursed and punished by the gods......
In the pursuit of the Liao army's indiscriminate slaughter, the Khitan slaves instinctively cried and fled in all directions. And the other alien slaves, especially the warriors, immediately turned their hatred and anger to the Liao army, stones, farm tools, and wooden sticks hit the Liao army more ferociously, anyway, they had no strength to escape, so desperately fight back against the Liao dogs, desperately count their liberation.
Naturally, they could not stop the Liao guerrillas who were fully armed, physically strong, superior in troops, revenge and greed, and fell in a pool of blood one by one with boundless hatred, but they were more numerous, much more than the Jurchens who enslaved them here, and this desperate attack also killed and wounded many Liao troops.
The Khitan slaves were chased and killed by their fellow clans as soon as they saw that they had escaped, and they were very incomprehensible in grief, some of them fell down in a daze, and more of them began to resist and escape by all means for self-preservation, and as a result, they really became a gang with the Jurchens, and were naturally slaughtered more fiercely, and finally all men, women, and children fell in a pool of blood.
The important thing is that being blocked by the people who were supposed to help the Liao army, although the Jurchens were too few people still couldn't stop them, they unexpectedly gained more time and opportunities to escape.
The Zahu tribe, which wantonly attacked and looted and did not openly follow the Jin State, was also met with brave resistance and subsequent joint counterattacks by various departments, which greatly dispersed and consumed the strength of the Liao army, and also indirectly relieved a lot of pressure on the Jin State, and to a greater extent reduced the losses that would endanger the destruction of the country.
This is the most fatal mistake of the Liao army's attack, and it is the mistake of the upper echelons of the Liao ruling who are rampant and stupid to kill themselves, so that these Jurchen tribes who should have been killed almost extinct died mainly because of the old people who could not escape quickly and could not escape, but the backbone population and strength were greatly preserved, and the Jin State was able to keep the main tribe of its own tribe and unexpectedly protect the wider population base of its own tribe.
This gives you the ability to regain your strength and turn over for revenge.
The Liao army attacked with all its might this time, with great momentum, and bravely tossed for dozens of days, and the results were also very impressive, just from the Jin State and the Zahu tribe to grab a lot of cattle, horses, sheep, gold, silver, jewelry, weapons, and iron tools, but the most fundamental and main strategic purpose was not achieved.
This battle was only the last rampant of the Liao State in the apocalyptic time, and it only made the Jurchens hate the Liao State even more, and they would be more fanatical and fearless of death when fighting against the Liao in the future.
Because the Jurchens saw that the Liao army was so vicious and ruthless to the people who were enslaved in Meng, let alone the Jurchens who rebelled.
All the members of the Jin State are more clearly aware of the fact that the rebellious Jurchen and the Liao State are completely incompatible.
It is simply impossible for the two sides to coexist peacefully under the compromise of Liao.
Originally, because the members of the Jin Kingdom came from all over the world, and the many tribes had their own set of beliefs, customs and leadership, the will and determination were not very uniform. Originally, many tribes thought that the bloody war had achieved today's results, the Jin State had soldiers and horses, and weapons, and the brave and invincible were not afraid of the Liao State, and the Jurchens no longer had to worry about being wantonly exploited and killed by the Liao State, and there were cattle and sheep, iron pots, land, grain, wealth, and slaves, and the cattle and horses could be used as good as they could, and the days were already very good, and there was no need to sacrifice the lives of warriors and backbone laborers to continue to fight the Liao State. After all, the Liao State is too big and too strong, and it is not something that the little Jurchen can defeat desperately, and even if it can be defeated, it can't afford to lose the male. The desire to fight declined, and there was no longer the original momentum, and it was only under the suppression and inspiration of the strong Wanyan clan and the bright prospect of victory that they reluctantly unified their will and actions to continue to fight the Liao State. But now he was completely sober and knew the urgency of uniting to kill the Liao State.
The Liao State is immortal. The Jurchens are hard to survive.
The Jurchens are immortal. The Liao State will perish.
The former is the cruel reality that the Jurchens must face squarely, and the latter is the historical law of the transformation of dynasties and the general trend of the times, in which the corrupt die and the hard workers stand.
The Jin State already has a countermeasure to remedy and increase the population, and under Zhao Yue's strong intervention in the balance of power of various countries, coupled with various reasons, the Jin State will eventually survive this disaster, plus the other northern tribes were shocked by the ruthlessness and cruelty of the Liao army's slaughter of everything and realized that the Liao State would never forgive and forgive the spectators in the Jin Liao dispute, and the Liao State would never let go of itself if it had the opportunity to retaliate, and this heart suddenly did not want to and had to favor the Jurchens who were more brutal and terrible, but still weak and needed help, Let the Liao State become the real enemy of the world, and the Jurchen will indirectly become the one who has benefited from all the benefits, then it will be the turn of the Liao State to be unlucky.