253rd sweep north 17

A little later in the sudden outbreak of pirate robbery in the eastern part of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the western part of the country, which knew nothing, also broke out more violently and ferociously.

The 20,000 cavalry officers and soldiers of the Chinese army under Du Bao's department lurked in various hidden places relatively close to Datong in Liaoxi for a few days, and suddenly appeared and quickly slaughtered the nobles and heads of the original indigenous tribes of Yunzhong Fu, which were the most concentrated, the most statused, and naturally the richest in Xijing, as well as the many nobles of the large tribes who fled from Liaodong to settle down here and just became the uncle, and many high-ranking officials and experts in Liaodong who had no specific official positions and could only wander around all day long to complain and connect together to find troubles in the official palace and court.

Warriors are out on the road; The strong men who are not warriors are in charge of constantly escorting the results of the war back and forth; a tribe of extreme emptiness; only a waste nobleman who can only be lustful and drunk; A beauty who can only be coquettish and please her master; only know the left-behind old and weak women and children who work hard; Few guards and young men......

There is no resistance to such an offensive target, and it is really more vulnerable than paper under the sharp knives of the pirate army......

Wherever the pirates passed, they killed all the pig-headed waste of the Liao State and other diehards who dared to resist, and all the money, cloth and other property, as well as the war horses urgently needed to restore the cavalry war, were naturally all robbed, and only the wealth that the Liao people could not hide such as cattle, sheep and crossbow horses were not robbed together.

The army had to fight everywhere in the vast Yunzhong Mansion, sweeping away all the pig-headed nobles of the tribes left behind, robbing cattle and sheep that were inconvenient to carry, just killing some according to the needs of the army, and sternly ordering the frightened and uncontrolled Liao people to continue to take care of them honestly in exchange for life protection, otherwise they would be killed by ordinary Liao people in retaliation.

Of course, everything that can be used as a weapon in the tribe must also be confiscated.

As soon as Du Bao's troops started, they followed several other routes that infiltrated the west, with a total of 30,000 cavalry soldiers, and there was a radio station to facilitate Du Bao's unified command, and they also launched attacks in various places almost at the same time.

Yunzhong Mansion is different from Yanshan Mansion, there are few fields, mainly grazing, the population is small, the territory is large, and there is wilderness everywhere, and it is even more desolate if there are no farming Han people.

This time, the Liao State launched an all-out effort to encircle and suppress the Jin State and the rebel Zahu tribe, and transferred millions of people north of the Great Wall into the pass to avoid the Jin army's retaliation.

Most of these people outside the pass are nomadic tribes, so they naturally give preference to temporarily live in the open and convenient Yunzhong Province, which is convenient for continued grazing, bringing countless livestock and war horses, plus the robbery, as a result, the clouds naturally gathered the most Liao horses.

The treasures of the nobles of the Liao State, the excellent war horses that the warriors of the tribes went out to fight the Jin Kingdom on foot and arrived in the north and were sent back by the supporters, and the treasures of the many good horses that the Liao warriors desperately robbed the Jurchens and Zahu and quickly sent back to preserve, and now became the most effective war horses of the pirate cavalry.

The 50,000 elite pirate cavalry were quickly armed in place, mounted on war horses, or even two or three horsemen per person, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry came, and they could move around and intercept more quickly......

In the face of the sudden outbreak of looting, Xijing stayed behind Yelu and was suddenly shocked.

This is ...... It's weird. How could there be so many pirates making trouble in Yunzhong Mansion?

He was also terrified.

Because of the deep inland, there is no strong threat from the sea that Yanshan Mansion has, and the troops left in the inland state capitals of Yunzhong, including Xijing, are much smaller than those of Yandi.

Important towns such as Jizhou and Danzhou in Yandi still have at least 45,000 troops left just in case, but the capital city of Xijing Datong is only guarded by 2,000 regular troops. Such a weak defensive force, and the opponent is already strong and difficult to beat, this time in the clouds to make a fuss, that also appeared, a rough analysis and summary, and the number of troops is so large that I don't know how many there will be, once to attack Xijing, the difference in strength is too great, you let Yelu see how you can not worry about your own life.

I don't know when the pirates will push the soldiers to the city of Datong, at this moment it is really a thread hanging, saying that the city is broken and dead, and it is reported that the pirates did evil this time to kill the nobles and officials of the Liao State, and they were killed so badly that they were slaughtered everywhere, Yelu Yu was anxious to touch his neck, and hurriedly transferred the army of the border pass to gather reinforcements.

The total number of border troops stationed at the border pass of Yunzhong Mansion is only more than 50,000 people, and Yelu Yu saw that 40,000 were transferred as soon as he saw this, and only 10,000 people were left to defend the long border to face the 100,000 border troops of the Song Army on the West Hebei Road, and the Zhijia Army with at least 40,000 or 50,000 horses and horses in the regular army alone, this is a joke, but Yelu Yu couldn't care about it at this time.

Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi is such a cruel and ruthless absurd thing, he knows too well, he has long been jealous and despises and hates, but now he can only be in awe and honest.

He must first keep Xijing and the rich wealth accumulated in the Great Liao Kingdom, as well as the noble face of the Great Khitan nation of the Great Liao Kingdom, otherwise the Liao Emperor will blame him, and he will not be able to eat and walk around in Xijing. Of course, the more important thing is to save his own head for now, so that he can have a future.

Besides, Yelu Yujian didn't take the Song army on the Hebei West Road in his eyes at all.

What if this army has 100,000 soldiers?

was controlled by the cowardly scholars of the Song State who only wanted to survive and survive the unfortunate posts in the border area; The upper echelons of the army are all greedy and corrupt and dare not go to war, and they are in collusion with the top civilian officials and commanders, and they only care about guarding the border and 'have nothing to do' so that they can make money and enjoy themselves and the officialdom drill camps......

Such an army, let alone 100,000, even a million, why be afraid?

For the Zhejia army, which also belonged to the strong army of the Song Western Army, Yelu Yujian also looked down on it and did not regard it as a real threat.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Song court, the leader of the Zhe family is still regarded as a powerful character, and the Zhejia army is also regarded as a strong army that can be relied on, but Yelu Yujian, who faces the Zhejia army all day long, knows the opponent Zhi Keqiu too well, and also understands the Zhejia army, and he sneered at Zhe Keqiu, this person is far worse than his ancestors in terms of ability and conduct.

This is only from the Zhou Dynasty before the founding of the Song Dynasty and Yang Linggong Yang Jiajiang at the same time the most veteran powerhouse is the only surviving old local generals in the Song Kingdom, has become a de facto border warlord, other border army leaders and the backbone of the Song Dynasty can be replaced, on the folding of the family army is not good, this is the original Song Taizu personally decreed the world to promise to the Zhejia army Yongzhen Hedong hometown privileges, the Song emperors also abided by the ancestral promise, the Zhejia family has a very advantage, but, now things are no longer the glory of the past.

The lead is not good. The backbone of the family and the army were not Han people, they were Hu people who were Sinicized and loyal to the Han dynasty, and they maintained some of the inferior roots of the Hu people, and learned some of the political disadvantages of the Han people, and only attached importance to the interests of small groups, and were afraid that outsiders would come to seize power and make trouble, highly xenophobic, and self-reproduction in the nest, and there was no one in the army who could really stand up to the duties of a general.

A litter of complex households, selfish bureaucrats who hold power and enjoy themselves.

The life of the middle and lower-class soldiers is hard, and they can't compete for the old relationship generals, they can't hold the real power in the army, and they don't really come out of the day, and they are just the pawns of the generations of thugs who have made contributions to the relationship and won the attention of the imperial court, and there is no big hope for being a general, let alone those who have no ability, there is no hope, and they are blind.

This is also the reason why the Cangbei Army defected before, affecting the west, and on the surface, it seemed to be highly united and loyal, and the invulnerable Zhijia Army also defected a lot.

After Yelu Yu saw that he had defected, he saw it in his eyes, and he knew more about the decay and fragility of the Zhi family.

That is, it is only the Song watchdog who is still relatively combative, and it still dares to take the initiative to wave the army to attack the Liao State?

Bah!

Yelu Yujian's behavior all fell into Du Yan's expectations and calculations.

Du Yan did not wave his army to attack Datong at the first time, not because he was worried that the capital of western Liaoning was too strong and difficult to fight.

No matter how difficult the city is, it will be destroyed in an instant under the bombardment of artillery.

He is not worried that Yelu Yu is a general of the Liao royal family, capable of being loyal to the Liao Congress, resisting to the end and swearing not to surrender, which is not easy to deal with.

He was waiting for Yelu Yujian, who did not know that the pirate army had gunpowder and sharp weapons, and would desperately deploy troops to defend Xijing, and was confident that he could keep it with heavy troops.

After knowing that Datong had already assigned people to urgently transfer the order of the border army, Du Bai smiled and immediately ordered several nearby army armies that had been prepared to rush to Datong together.

Datong was still broken with a single blow.

Moreover, because there were too few defenders, the other nearby Liao people who urgently mobilized the city to help defend the city were not available, and the city fell and surrendered faster.

Yelu Yu, who had already prepared and had never abandoned the city and fled at any time, never expected that the pirates would break the city so easily and so quickly, even if there was a flying BMW that could be used to escape, but it was not a real flying horse, and he could not really escape the siege of the pirate army in time, and he was captured alive as soon as he escaped from the palace like Yelu Dezhong......

Only then did he know that the Yanshan Mansion had been killed before him, and there were more pirates, so it was called clean and thorough when he robbed it.

Hearing the news, his frightened and nervous heart was relieved, and he was no longer worried about losing Xijing's major culpability, and he was even a little glad that Yanshan Mansion was also unlucky.

Because the Liao Emperor himself hid from the Jin army in Yanjing, enjoying the joy of teaching the Jurchens to destroy the Jin Kingdom, relieving hatred, and being complacent, he continued to be absurd there. He and almost all the important ministers and dignitaries who must accompany him, as well as all the top nobles of the Liao State, including the descendants of the imperial family, plus the landlord King Yan, must also be unable to escape the hands of pirates.

The pirates said that they were here to rob, not to kill, not to destroy the Liao State, they also robbed the Jin Kingdom, and if they were honest and obedient, they would have nothing to do.

Then you don't have to die to surrender.

And the emperor and the king of Yan, as well as all the important ministers and nobles of the Liao State, will definitely have to lose Yanjing, which is just as shameful and guilty, and losing Xijing is nothing.

It's all the same, the eldest brother doesn't talk about the second brother.

Emperor Liao and those powerful ministers are afraid that no matter how thick-skinned and shameless they are, this time they will not have the face to hold others accountable for losing their cities and wealth.

Besides, the plague of pirates is extremely miserable, and the mess after the disaster is enough for the central government to clean up. Just how to face the bloody battle, but the results of desperate exchange are all returned to the pirates, and the sky-high anger of the hundreds of thousands of Liao soldiers who killed the red-eyed and ambitious Liao soldiers in extreme anger and disappointment is a terrible problem, and I am afraid that it is a more terrible disaster than pirates.

The emperor and the imperial court have lost their prestige this time, how to win over and appease the ministers and soldiers below to continue to be loyal, I am afraid that it will be too late, the throne of the Liao Emperor is shaken, how can he have the time and mind to take care of other things, and how can he dare to continue to be ridiculous and willful at this time, and ask other important officials to further intensify the contradiction and endanger himself?

After thinking about this verse, Yelu Yu saw that he didn't want to be a tragic figure who died bravely and righteously as an indomitable pirate, so he immediately surrendered obediently, and actively cooperated with the order to stop resisting.......

Poor Yunzhong Mansion border army did not dare to slack off for a moment after receiving the order, and rushed to Datong to reinforce it, so far away, almost exhausted on the way, but after arriving was surrounded by the pirate heavy soldiers in ambush easily, fighting, not beating, rushing can not rush, and was captured by the capital of Xijing The king and the important ministers hurriedly jointly ordered the pirates to disarm the pirates, all helpless, no matter what ideas were unwilling, they could only drop their weapons according to the order, get off the war horse, and were confined in the empty military camp in the city in their underwear.

Du Bao's troops disarmed Datong and its surroundings, killed all the pig-headed officials and nobles in and outside the city, looted the campaign targets, and handed over the results of the battle to the troops who came from elsewhere to receive them.

This is the task that Zhao Yue asked the Northern Army to complete.

Although Zhao Yue said calmly in the telegram and was not a harsh order, the proud Du Yan himself was determined to deter and block the other tribes in Yunzhou from fleeing westward.

This time, there is a major event of transshipment and immigration in the south, and so many troops are dispatched at one time, if you don't do a big one and do it thoroughly, then the harvest is really sorry to pay.

Compared with the southern army, which destroyed countless countries and expanded thousands of miles of land, laying the foundation of overseas and South Asia for the empire, the more elite northern army really has nothing outstanding in these years, that is, it has packed up the Goryeo stick, and by the way, it has taught the sea snake and the Japanese people by the abandoned stick Han, and seized a barren Goryeo Peninsula, covering an area of only 1,000 miles......

This makes the Northern Army, which trains harder and is more confident, stronger and proud, from Du Bao, the commander-in-chief, to the generals, to the generals and soldiers below, how can they be embarrassed?

The whole of the Northern Army is holding their breath, this mission is coming, everything has to be done beautifully, the Liao State has to be cleaned up, and the Western Xia has to be completely destroyed...... To the satisfaction of Prince Pujibao, who personally led and accompanied them in the battle, to the satisfaction of His Royal Highness the Great King, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince......

While continuing to sweep the pig-headed nobles in all parts of Yunzhong Prefecture, the troops that took over completely plundered the wealth that had not been robbed before, such as cattle, horses and sheep, and drove Liao girls, young and capable women, and ordered their families with children or family members who were willing to follow them to pull the fruits of the battle and drive the livestock to the east quickly, and hand them over to the follow-up troops who came to pick them up......

Many of these women's husbands, brothers, fathers, relatives, and so on are still busy fighting or escorting back the results of the war, but the results are gone, and their wives, children, and sisters are ...... No, the lucky ones were able to join the pirates with their family captives, and thus free themselves from the military disaster in the north, unfortunately this time they are relieved, and in the loneliness, a belly of anger and hatred can go crazy against all the enemies they can fight.

Of course, they can also choose to defect to the pirates of their unworthy peoples and countries, and serve the pirate empire loyally in order to be reunited with their families.