Section 237 Sweep North 1
Immortal style, outstanding demeanor and demeanor, like a true immortal, Taoist eloquence can firmly fool Zhao Ji, who is smart and intelligent, and his martial arts are so high that he can kill crazy demons in seconds and the combat effectiveness of the small universe is inhuman, and the emperor has enough confidence and ability not to be afraid of other Taoist challenges or frames, and when he wants to leave the palace, he can disappear mysteriously like a fairy, and the so-called Tao Daxian with this comprehensive quality is naturally the hacker in Zhao Yue's heart - immeasurable.
Zhao Ji has become a eunuch of the facts, moody, angry with the people around him and even killing people at every turn, coupled with the previous royal Taoist Lin Lingsu incident, he no longer dares to believe the Taoist priest who wants to enter the palace to help him cultivate into an immortal Taoist, and he is suspicious all day long for fear that someone will harm him in various forms.
Zhao Yue's master, the Nameless Daoist, is a peerless strange person, but he can't do immeasurable work.
Saying that the nameless Taoist is a fake Taoist is a bit wronged him, the essence of the old Taoist is half a Taoist and half layman, and he is also familiar with and abides by some Taoist scriptures, but he is really good at martial arts and killing, and he only studies this in his life. That's all he had to do. If he wants to enter the palace to fool the emperor, he can't accompany the emperor with that stinky temper. The emperor didn't care about him, and he killed the emperor in anger and made trouble in the palace, which was the most likely thing for the nameless Taoist to do.
The immeasurable Dao Chang ventured into the palace naturally not to help the emperor become an immortal, nor was it to be bored and want to play the emperor's adventure. His only purpose was to fool the emperor and destroy the Buddha. This was not Zhao Yue's request, nor was it the intention of the Pirate Empire, it was purely that the Infinite Dao Master himself wanted to achieve this goal, and he took the initiative to enter the palace at the beginning.
Since ancient times, the Buddha has not stood on the other. Zhao Yue just doesn't like Buddhism. And the immeasurable Taoist is the Buddhist monks who have always despised and hostile to false compassion and true greed, and wants to eradicate opponents for Taoism.
Maybe the Infinite Dao Elder really had some predictive divine ability, and he knew that Zhao Yue would be angry and determined to destroy the Buddha, so he entered the palace early and waited for a push to succeed.
The Song Dynasty tossed hard this year, and when Cangbei stably settled the monks, the country seemed to have returned to normal, and the emperor and rulers seemed to be able to live and be rich again.
However, the country's financial, material, and human resources have been weakened to the extreme, and the national strength is weak.
And this is what Zhao Yue is most worried about.
He would never allow such a completely uncontrollable chaos to arise and not allow things to deviate from the strategic plan. Otherwise, his hopes of accomplishing his political goals as quickly as possible will be dashed.
When Zhao Yue was intent on and strongly promoting the summer harvest plan, he never expected that the Song people would defect so frantically and almost let the Song Dynasty fall directly.
The immigration frenzy at that time also shocked Zhao Yue.
On the one hand, he was excited that Song was so depleted that he could realize the Eastern Strategy more quickly due to such a loss of population and the great separation of good and evil, and on the other hand, he was speechless.
I was careful to play Dafa, and I almost played with it.
Song Guocheng was like this, but he could not let it perish naturally, let alone split it into warlords, and each of them turned to a foreign regime as a backer, participating in interracial wars, and letting the Han people sacrifice for the interests of foreign countries.
At this time, the Jin State had only risen for less than three years, the soldiers were sharp, invincible, and created a war miracle in the era of cold weapons, with a weak force to attack more than 200,000 Liao elite guards and there were Liao military masters who were accustomed to war-the Privy Envoy of the Northern Yuan, that is, the Liao capital Shangjing, which was personally commanded and defended by Xiao Gan, the king of the Northern Courtyard. In less than an hour, he magically captured this city wall, which was extremely tall and strong, and the defense was extremely strong and sufficient, killing more than 200,000 Liao troops in the city, only caring about the head of the rat, making the angry and helpless King Xiao Gan could only look up to the sky and sigh with grief and anger, and fled for his life in embarrassment in the chaotic defeated army. And according to the right reason, such a comparison of the strength of the offensive and defensive sides, such a strong city, it is impossible for the capital city to fall. Even if it is broken, it will take a year or two or even years. But the Jurchen warriors did it. The huge Liao army was inexplicably defeated again in an instant. The small clan of the Jin army once again slapped the face of the arrogant and invincible Liao State, and breaking the Liao capital was equivalent to completely swelling the face of the Liao State, and once again stomped the majesty, ambition, domineering dignity of the Khitan people in the mud under their feet. The Jurchens were greatly encouraged, becoming more and more aggressive, threatening in all directions, and arrogant, but at this time the overall strength was still weak, and they could only loot Shangjing if they were lucky, and they could not immediately occupy the capital of Liao. After all, the population and military strength of the Jin Kingdom are still too small. The Liao State is still the boss of the behemoth, and it is still relatively stable, and it is still far from collapsing. According to Zhao Yue's plan, Liao died, and Song could die.
Then you have to try to balance.
You have to make the Liao State weaker.
The extremely arrogant Jin State also has to be appropriately weakened and taught a lesson, so that Xiao Jinneng and Da Liao have their own advantages. The fight is quite equal, and the consumption of each other is even worse.
As for the little Xixia Xiaoqiang......
It's better to just let it disappear, so that this guy can always stand in a superior position to take advantage of the fire and rob everywhere by virtue of the geographical location.
Without the threat of Xiaoqiang in Western Xia, the weak Song Dynasty was much safer. It is convenient for Zhao Yue to realize a series of strategic plans such as destroying Kou with Kou.
As for the Liao State, as soon as the two threatening neighbors are destroyed, one is weak and the other is not in the wind, and there are no worries, it can free up its hands to fight the Jin Kingdom with all its strength, and the fight will be more exciting.
In fact, that's exactly what the Liao State did.
Back to daylight saving time.
Compared with the Song and Western Xia, the Liao rulers were more frightened by the horror of pirates, and their savage and greedy hearts did not dare to invade the south this time.
They also invaded and robbed the south during the Song and Xia harvests, but they failed as a whole, not only did they not get a big bargain, but they were also robbed by the Cangbei army.
If you want to take advantage of the pirates to ravage the Song Kingdom, only the 100,000 Cangbei Army led by Zhao Gonglian is not easy to deal with.
The most important thing is that the pirates have already retaliated against them for daring to rob the pirates of the summer harvest benefits, and fiercely ransacked the two states of Moba, and killed them all to Zhuozhou in the hinterland, and it is effortless to attack the city with the sound of explosions, where do you still need to consume human lives to climb the wall and attack, the soldiers directly threaten Yanjing, and the combat effectiveness is amazing, more terrifying than the Jin army.
The Liao State, at least the Yan King Yeluchun, who ruled the Yanyun region, had already tasted enough of the pirates' suffering, and he was really afraid of the pirates, so how could he dare to wave his army south to grab food from the pirates' mouths.
At the same time, the Liao State also immediately realized that the Song State suffered from the disaster of piracy and suffered a heavy loss of people and property, and even if it did not fall this time, there was no real threat to the Liao State.
In the future, there is no need to worry about Song and Jin joining forces to engage in a north-south flank attack and jointly deal with Liao. After the disaster, the Song State, which had a weak population, could watch the Battle of Jinliao and protect itself under the serious threat of the Western Xia soldiers. And now means a great opportunity - a good opportunity to teach the little girl a hard lesson.
The Song Kingdom is in trouble, making a mess, and has no intention and no power to look north. The pirates were busy plundering the Song State, countless sea ships were busy rushing to transport people and materials with all their might, and there were no troops and no warships to take care of the north to plunder the Liao State at the same time. In this way, there will be no threat from the south or at sea.
And the hot-tolerant women really shrank in the Jin country to escape the summer, across the Great Liao, they don't know the tragic changes in the Song Kingdom, they don't know that the military pressure in the south of the Liao State is gone, and the situation in the world has changed greatly, and they are busy with the summer harvest and recuperation to accumulate strength.
The arrogant and self-confident Wanyan Aguda must want to attack Zhongjing and strike a heavy blow to the Liao State again, so as to recapture Shangjing and truly occupy the Liao capital, and truly occupy Shangjing and the vast Liao territory around it as the territory of the Jin State. He calculated beautifully, but he didn't know that the world had changed, and he never imagined that the Liao State would be bold enough to take the initiative to provoke and brazenly enter the Jin State at this time.
So under so many favorable conditions, why not take advantage of the opportunity of having no worries and the Jurchens being unprepared, turn passive defense into active attack, and quickly dispatch hundreds of thousands of main border defense forces of Yanyun who defended the Song State to join the Liaobei Army and enter the Jin State?
There is no shortage of wise men in the Liao Kingdom, it's not that I don't know why the huge Liao State can't beat the little Jurchen, and it's not that I don't know why the proud Great Khitan is bullied so badly.
Since the Jurchen rebellion, in the past few years, the Liao State has gathered a large army to fight, and has been defeated repeatedly, and none of them have been victorious, even if they only seek to defend the fortified city with an absolute superiority of troops, it is a little comforting and hopeful to win only once. The more you gather a large army to fight, the faster and more miserable it will be defeated, and you will lose the face and self-confidence of the Great Khitan.
Small groups such as rangers and sentinels of a few people and a dozen people are not good at fighting. Liao's single soldiers were defeated by the Jurchens. If you only dare to fight hard, you are far from being braver than the Jurchens.
However, the encounters between hundreds of people and thousands of Liao troops and the small Jurchen army have been victorious from time to time, at least not at the touch of a button, there is a shameful scene where thousands of Liao army war horses and weapons are not lacking anything, but they can be frightened by a few Jurchen soldiers and wantonly chase and kill, let alone the shame of the Jurchen army running away from the wind.
There are profound questions hidden in this, and there is a great deal of knowledge.
The rulers of the Liao State, including the faint emperor Yelu Yanxi, who only knew how to have fun, knew some of the problems.
The Liao State, a nomadic people with a huge population, also has no shortage of backbone generals who are brave and good at fighting.
But when the army fights, the departments will always suspect that you will wait for the opportunity to escape first, so that I will be killed after being unlucky, and you don't believe that I will fight bravely to support you and advance and retreat with you. On the battlefield and lined up in formation, the eyes of the Liao army were not staring at the enemy opposite, but always paying attention to whether the brother troops would run first and when to escape.
Only a team of several hundred or a thousand people from a tribe or a military camp, who are familiar with each other, have feelings and common interests, and have the bottom of their hearts, can they dare to let go of the bloody battle.
In this attack, the Liao State did not concentrate the nearly one million troops gathered together to seek the main decisive victory of the Jin State as in the past, but divided it into parts, divided into thousand-man teams, and did not use cavalry to raid, but mainly infantry and foot, taking advantage of the Jurchens' small occupation and large land, and the wilderness, mountains and rivers in the territory, and many primeval forests, which were extremely conducive to stealth and hiding.
In this way, there is no need for the noble and big men to go to the front line in person, sit in command, and unify the command of the army.
And the pig-headed nobles who are afraid of death and always flee first are involved in the possession of the powerful and powerful but have benefits, which in itself guarantees the basis for the success of this tactic.
The shortcomings of the pig-headed magnates leading the troops to fight are not only greed for merit and fear of death, but also many stinky problems.
Can't endure hardships, can't be tired, can't take risks, go wherever they go to a decent show, and they are still very poor and exquisite, do what they want, arrogant and domineering, don't know how to pretend to understand, willful and blind command, what they promise doesn't count, they don't say what they count, they don't deceive them as much as they do, they treat the soldiers as if they were grass mustard, and punish and kill the soldiers indiscriminately......
These nobles occupy the upper class of Khitan society and enjoy all the benefits, but they only have their own interests in their hearts, and it is they who do not care about the dignity and interests of the Liao State the most.
With such a pig's head leading the troops, the soldiers have no hope of fighting benefits, not to mention, but also have resentment and fear of war, no confidence, no sense of security, no rusticism, and are not willing to kill the enemy at all.
To put it bluntly, Liao's tactics were to divide troops and play guerrilla warfare.
Relying on the large population and large number of troops, strong generals who can convince the masses will lead small troops to attack the enemy country and fight independently and flexibly. The bully is that the Jurchens are few and outnumbered.
All the ministries gave full play to the tradition and advantages of the nomadic people's flexible and mobile combat, fought their own battles, did not subordinate each other, and played freely, and fought as they wanted to fight the destruction targets roughly assigned to them by the headquarters in advance, fought as they wanted, hid as they wanted, and fled as they wanted, and the spoils of war and money belonged to individuals, and the cattle, sheep and horses were equally divided with the tribe or army to which the soldiers belonged.
In this way, all units, from generals to ordinary soldiers, will advance and retreat together through weal and woe, share risks and benefits, and have a good situation of honor and disgrace and common life and death.
In this way, in the dangerous territory of the Jurchens, they will not be dragged down by friendly forces, and at the same time, they will be isolated, and the Liao generals will have to fight bravely only for their own lives and interests. If you die in battle, there is no way, it is not good to be able to help your life, you don't blame others for being implicated, and if you can go back alive, then there are real benefits.
This move of the Liao State really hit the psychology of the soldiers accurately, greatly stimulated the fighting enthusiasm of the soldiers, and the enthusiasm was unprecedented, and it may also be an unprecedented upsurge.
The Liao army's biggest advantage in guerrilla offensive warfare against the Jurchens is that they understand the distribution of the Jurchen tribes and are more familiar with the terrain of the Jin Kingdom.
After all, before the Jurchen rebellion, the Liao State, from the emperor to the grassroots army and even the herdsmen, would be keen to be robbers to play the murderous game of "fighting the Jurchens" every year, in order to rob wealth and weaken the population and strength of the Jurchen people in disguise, vent the beastliness of the nomadic barbarians and the sense of superiority of the identity of the rulers of a powerful country, and indirectly strengthen the deterrence and dominance of the Liao State over the Jurchens. I have been playing Jurchen games everywhere for too long, and I am too familiar and good at playing them, and today I have the basis for engaging in similar Jurchen games again.