For Li Yan, who has been on the horse for half a life, and the invincible Chinese army, the Song army is really not the strongest opponent that Li Yan and the Chinese army have ever fought, and they can't even rank in the top three. Vertex Says X 23 U OM

But this period of time was really Li Yan's most worried period.

Why is that?

It's just a time of too much time.

Be.

Li Yan had already ascended the throne as emperor three years earlier, and even more so before he was able to stand on his own.

But before that, Li Yan actually only occupied a small area of the inherent territory of the Han people, and he was not a truly unified emperor at all.

And if Dazhong annexed all the lands of the Southern Song Dynasty, plus the Yanyun, Goryeo, Japan, Taiwan, half of the Indochina Peninsula, Luo Ju and other places that Li Yan had conquered successively over the years, then Li Yan could become the emperor of the real unified empire, and Dazhong could barely compare with the Han and Tang dynasties.

Moreover, before that, Dazhong's territory was divided, and only after the annexation of the Southern Song Dynasty could Dazhong's territory form a unified territory.

In addition, only with the rich southern region, the Shaanxi region with the best quality soldiers, and the grain-rich Shu region as the backing, can the Dazhong Empire established by Li Yan be regarded as truly having an engine and can cope with any wind and rain.

In the autumn of the third year of the Great Unification, the Pingnan Army led by Yue Fei captured most of the southeastern regions owned by the Southern Song Dynasty and incorporated them into the territory of Dazhong.

But

It was not that all the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty in the southeast region was annexed by Dazhong, and the Li Chengyi army and Zhong Xiangyi's army also took this opportunity to annex a lot of territory and complete further growth.

At present, Li Cheng and Zhong Xiang's two groups of rebels occupy the south bank of the Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, spanning Yueyang, Miluo, Xiangyin, Wangcheng, Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Hanshou, Changde, Jinmen, Anxiang and Nantun and other regions, with 11 prefectures and 122 counties (in fact, most of Hunan in later generations, plus a small part of Hubei, plus a part of Jiangxi), Li Cheng's righteous army has grown to nearly 1560,000, Zhong Xiang's righteous army has grown to 2.67 million, and the total number of soldiers and horses of the two groups of rebels has increased to more than 400,000, with Dongting Lake as the center. Two stubborn forces have been formed, and these two stubborn forces are on the verge of merging.

And these two groups of rebels are actually the next strategic goals of Yue Fei and the Pingnan Army.

But

Although Li Cheng and Zhong Xiang established two states within a state in the center of the southeast region.

But Li Yan was not worried about Li Cheng and Zhong Xiang's two groups of rebels at all.

Over the past 2,000 years, there have been countless "peasant uprisings" in Chinese history, but few have succeeded.

For example, the Qin Dynasty had the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings, the Eastern Han Dynasty had the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Tang Dynasty had the Huangchao Uprising, the Song Dynasty had the Fangla Uprising, the Ming Dynasty had the Li Zicheng Uprising, the Qing Dynasty had the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Hong Xiuquan Uprising, and so on.

The ultimate success of a peasant uprising depends first and foremost on the strength of its opponents.

Specifically, is this dynasty disgusted by the vast number of scholars and the people of the whole country?

If a dynasty is disgusted by the vast number of scholars and the people of the whole country, then it is possible for the dynasty to be destroyed or even overthrown by the lowest peasant uprising, otherwise there is absolutely no such possibility.

So why was the success rate of the peasant uprising so low?

Many people, summed it up as the limitations of farmers.

For example, the peasants did not have a systematic education, could not even read a single word, and were not armed with advanced culture;

For example, the leader of the peasant revolt, once he had the slightest success, indulged in pleasures, did not want to make progress, and died himself;

For example, if you don't have enough strategic vision, you can be safe if you are rich;

For example, peasant uprisings are usually forced by officials to rebel against the people, with no long-term goals;

Wait a minute......

According to the popular saying, it's nothing more than some, experience is not good, knowledge is not good, I just want to have food to live, and when I have food to eat, I don't want to make progress, arrogant and extravagant.

In fact, to put it bluntly, most of the peasant uprisings broke out due to the unfair distribution of wealth, so after the victory, they naturally greedy for pleasure, were proud and complacent, and fought for power, and in the end, because they did not succeed in guarding the fruits of victory, the peasant uprising naturally failed.

In addition, in the course of the vast majority of peasant uprisings, the only way to supply the rebel army was to plunder, and the mode of warfare was to wander, and it was easy to be absorbed by other more famous and powerful troops, because they were more likely to have meat to eat, and to eat in the long run, there was no set of perfect development strategies at all.

Throughout history, the successful peasant uprisings were Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Yan.

Liu Bang was able to succeed in the uprising, in fact, he first had to thank Zhang Liang, who stood at the national level to give advice to Liu Bang, which improved Liu Bang's pattern.

Zhu Yuanzhang was able to succeed in the uprising, thanks to Zhu Sheng, who put forward the overall strategic policy of "building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king" for Zhu Yuanzhang.

As for the success of Li Yanneng's uprising, it is thanks to the accumulation of thousands of years by the Chinese.

Whether it is Li Cheng or Zhong Xiang, the rebel army led by them is all typical peasant uprisings, and they cannot be compared with Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Li Yan at all.

Let's talk about Li Cheng first.

Li Cheng was the first archer of the Song Dynasty, and was repeatedly promoted to Huainan to recruit envoys, and later gathered people to rob the south of the Yangtze River, and grew stronger little by little by taking advantage of the Great War in the Song Dynasty.

The reason why Li Cheng's group of rebels was able to stand out from the many rebels and incorporate a large number of other rebels was because Li Cheng was brave and strong, and his orders were very strict.

In other words, the reason why Li Cheng was able to succeed was because of his personal charm.

However, Li Cheng's style of acting, although there is some style of famous generals, but there is no style of emperor, his pattern is too small, since his debut, he has been grabbing land everywhere, and he has not cultivated civilian talents to run his own territory at all, he only knows how to rob, and then wander around.

How could such a group of people be able to fight the increasingly powerful Dazhong Empire?

Let's talk about the bell phase.

At the beginning of the uprising, Zhong Xiang did put forward the idea that "the law divides the rich and the poor, and the law is not good." I practice the law, and I should be equal to the rich and the poor, both rich and poor. "Such a political program.

But after the power grew, Zhong Xiang and his core subordinates Yang Qi and others gradually betrayed the purpose of "waiting for the noble and the low, and the rich and the poor", and they were all extremely luxurious in food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even the beds they slept on had to be inlaid with gold and jade, while their subordinates and the people under their rule were miserable.

How can Zhong Xiang's practice last?

Therefore, when Li Yan learned that Yue Fei had conquered most of the territory in the southeastern part of the Southern Song Dynasty, and only some areas occupied by Li Cheng and Zhong Xiang had not yet belonged to Dazhong, Li Yan, who had already arranged capable officials and officials in the territory he had gained, temporarily withdrew his attention from the southeast region, and then set his sights on the Sichuan-Shaanxi region again.

In fact

Even if the Southern Song Dynasty completely lost the door of Shaanxi and Shu was opened by the Chinese army, the Song army could still have some room for maneuver, after all, Shu was notoriously easy to defend and difficult to attack, and rich in grain and grass, the key is that although the Song army suffered a big defeat, it actually still had more than 100,000 troops.

But at this moment, Zhang Jun made another wrong decision.

Zhang Jun did not consider his own mistakes, and shifted all the responsibility for the defeat to Liu Xi, who was the commander of the capital, and Zhao Zhe, who was the first to flee, and then demoted the former to the Haizhou regimental training envoy, placed him in Hezhou to live idle, and beheaded the latter for questioning.

The most important thing is that Zhang Jun also disbanded the rout legion that they had collected with great difficulty, and let them guard in various places.

This is undoubtedly a stupid trick.

You must know that at this time, although the Beishan system was broken by the Chinese army, the Song army can actually concentrate its forces to hold Liupan Mountain and keep the vast area west of Liupan Mountain.

If the Song army does this, then their strategic depth will not become so narrow, and therefore there will be a chance to turn the tables.

But Zhang Jun didn't choose so.

But then again, Zhang Jun chose this way, and there was also his reason for this defeat, so that the Song army's grain and grass were lost, and without the support of grain and grass, Zhang Jun actually had no other way than to disband the army.

It was at this time that the news of the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty came, and along with this news, there was also a surrender order jointly signed by Zhao Gou and Empress Dowager Pan.

At the same time, Wu also personally led a large army into Shu.

On the one hand, there is the fact that the Southern Song Dynasty perished.

On the other side, the fierce Chinese soldiers all over the mountains and fields slaughtered in a big way.

In addition, there is also the excuse of surrender given by Zhao Gou and Empress Dowager Pan.

The most important thing is that the Dazhong regime established by Li Yan is a Han regime, not brutal, not harsh, on the contrary, it is very popular with the people, in short, there is nothing difficult for Dazhong to accept.

Therefore, where the Chinese army passed, a large number of Song army officers and soldiers chose to go out of the pass and surrender.

As a result, as soon as the Chinese army entered Shu, it was like a bamboo.

In just a few months, the Chinese army reached Xingzhou.

After losing Shaanxi, Zhang Jun fled to Sichuan, and re-hung the sign of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Department in Xingzhou, and then Zhang Jun made the decision to hold Shukou to protect Sichuan, and went deep into the army, mourning the death and wounded everywhere, making self-examination, and selecting outstanding officers to hold important positions, hoping to stabilize the troops and leave a breath for the Southern Song Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, in just a few months, Wu hit Xingzhou.

Zhang Jun wanted to continue to flee west, flee to Langzhou, and then continue to resist.

But just then, something happened.

After the Sichuan and Shaanxi Xuanfu disposed of the envoy retreated to Xingzhou, Zhang Jun remembered the degraded Qu Duan and felt very guilty!

However, Zhang Jun was unwilling to admit that it was wrong to denigrate Qu Duan at the beginning, but adopted the method of indirectly affirming Qu Duan's merits, announcing: "In the Battle of Fuping, the Jingyuan Army contributed the most; After retreating, he first gathers himself; All the former handsome are well-trained. ”

Zhang Jun set this tone in order not to hurt his own face and to re-appoint Quduan.

At first, Zhang Jun planned to appoint Qu Duan as Zuo Wu Doctor and live in Xingzhou so that he could be appointed at any time.

But later, because Qu Duan was too rigid and self-serving before, he offended too many people, which led to many people saying bad things about Qu Duan to Zhang Jun after seeing Zhang Jun's intention to reuse Qu Duan, and some people even said to Zhang Jun: "Qu Duan's resurgence will inevitably be unfavorable to Zhang Gong." Zhang Jun was so frightened that he dispelled the idea of using Quduan.

Seeing that Qu Duan was so unpopular and made many enemies, it was indeed difficult to maintain the internal unity of the Sichuan and Shaanxi Xuanfu Disposal Envoys, Zhang Jun prepared not to revoke the punishment of Qu Duan, and not to use Qu Duan, but also no longer punish Qu Duan.

This was originally the best solution for Zhang Jun, and it was also a better ending for Qu Duan.

On the one hand, the Sichuan scholars desperately shouted for Quduan, saying that if Quduan had been in charge, they would not have lost the battle of Fuping, nor would the situation on the Sichuan-Shaanxi line become so bad; On the other hand, the forces that are afraid of Quduan's resurgence force Zhang Jun to severely punish Quduan; In addition, the pace of the invasion of the Chinese army is getting closer and closer, and its internal unity is needed.

So, Zhang Jun decided to kill Qu Duan!

Zhang Jun convened his staff to discuss the issue.

At the meeting, Wu Yu was silent at first, but later, when he saw that Zhang Jun couldn't make up his mind to convict Qu Duan, he wrote "Qu Duan's rebellion" on the palm of his hand, showed Zhang Jun, and forced Zhang Jun to order Qu Duan to be arrested for rebellion.

And Qu Duan once wrote a poem, which has the sentence "I don't want to go to Guanzhongtu's career, but I come to the river to go boating", which is clearly accusing Zhao Gou of not wanting to forge ahead, which is really a big rebellion.

As a result, Qu Duan was imprisoned in Gongzhou Prison by Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun also specially ordered Kang, a military general who had a grudge against Qu Duan, to be sent to Kuizhou to be sentenced to a special trial of Qu Duan's case, and instructed Kang Sui to kill Qu Duan in prison to eliminate future troubles.

According to the meaning of Zhang Jun and others, Kang Sui first sent prison officials to try to get close to Qu Duan and deceived Qu Duan's trust.

Subsequently, the prison officer deceived Qu Duan and asked Qu Duan to write a medical complaint in his own hand, falsely claiming that he could apply for Qu Duan's release from prison on this ground.

After Kang Sui got the medical complaint, he immediately tortured Qu Duan, trying to kill Qu Duan in prison, and then used the illness as evidence to falsely claim that Qu Duan died of illness in prison.

Kang Sui was extremely cruel to Qu Duan, Kang Sui ordered the prison officials to tie up Qu Duan, gag his mouth, and grill Qu Duan with fire, Qu Duan wanted water, but Kang Sui gave Qu Duan strong wine, if Qu Duan couldn't help but drink the strong wine, he would bleed to death.

But just when Qu Duan couldn't help but prepare to drink the spirits, Zhao Bin, the henchman of the original Qu Duan, took advantage of the chaos everywhere in Xingzhou when the Chinese army hit Xingzhou, led people to attack Gongzhou Prison, and rescued Qu Duan, who had been tortured to the point of being inhuman.

Encountering such a big change, Qu Duan was very disappointed in the Southern Song Dynasty, and hated Zhang Jun and others for murdering him, so he summoned his troops to fight back to Xingzhou, and arrested Zhang Jun and his staff who were fleeing west on the way.

Qu Duan ordered people to cut off the heads of Zhang Jun and others, and then took the heads of Zhang Jun and others to Wu.

By the way, Kang Suihe and the prison officials who roasted Quduan with fire were all killed by Zhao Bin in the same way.

Since then, most of Shu has been occupied by the Chinese army, and only a small part of it is still stubbornly resisting under the leadership of some people who have been brainwashed by the Song dynasty.

But

These resistance forces, one in the east and one in the west, are fighting their own battles, and without a unified command and without a unified spiritual pillar, this is doomed to be impossible and will be completely pacified by the Chinese army sooner or later.

At this time, Li Yan's heart finally relaxed.

Dazhong has become a great empire comparable to the Han and Tang Dynasties, which is basically a certainty.

At this time, the Western Xia Mission, the Dali Mission, the missions of some tribes in the Mongolian steppe, the missions of the countries of the Indochina Peninsula, the missions of the Western Heavenly States, and even the missions of some countries in the Arab region came to Dazhong to congratulate one after another, and a huge empire was born that was feared by all the neighbors......

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PS: This is a big chapter of two in one, so, that's it for today.