Chapter 623: We Must Win
The general trend of the world has always been a whole game of chess. When the victory or defeat of the chess game in the Central Plains became more and more obvious, the three kingdoms in the north, except for the Western Xia, which was not as powerful, the Liao State and the Jin State felt the pressure one after another.
Don't think that the Khitan and Jurchen are not smart people.
Lu Qian's attitude towards everything that is hard and rigid to the outside world is the biggest uneasiness in the hearts of those in power in the two countries.
Otherwise, there would not have been a four-way attack by the Jin State Mission a year ago.
It's just that what makes the Jurchens depressed is that the big cowardice is cowardice, and the words they say are the same as farting, which is useless at all. Pucha Wulie returned to the Jurchen, and the news from the Central Plains was that Da Yi was beaten again. So much so that half of the agreement he reached with Zhao Song was nullified.
To put it bluntly, the Khitan and Jurchen were worried that Lu Qian would reorganize the Central Plains first, and then turn around and attack them.
The Khitans had already experienced the combat power of the Liangshan army, and the Jurchens did not want a man-devouring tiger to appear in their south.
Therefore, in the face of national interests, the so-called economic interests must be fully conceded.
The Liangshan army did a good job in trading with the Khitan and Jurchen, and Lu Qian imported armor, weapons and grain to the Khitan, plus cloth, porcelain, tea, spirits, etc., and obtained livestock from the Khitan, mainly livestock, a large number of livestock. Cows, horses, sheep, flocks of input come in.
The goods supplied to the Jurchens were much smaller, and the bulk commodities were cloth, utensils, tea, and spirits, the latter of which had a very strong market in both the Khitan and Jurchen countries, and Lu Qian was shocked by the high profits.
When the cold weather is freezing, a ten-pound jar of liquor is exchanged for a horse.
It is also through the frequent trade between the two countries, whether it is the Khitan or the Jurchen, that they know more and more about Lu Qi in the Central Plains.
The more they know and the more they know, the more vigilant they will be to Lu Qi. But it was not easy to find a way to deal with the Liang Shan army. Because of the trade between the north and the south, the Khitan and Jurchen had a greater and heavier demand for Lu Qi.
This foreign trade war will never be fought.
What the Liao State could do was to drive away the refugees who could pass, whether they were Han, Bohai, or Khitan, they would all drive south. The Jurchens' approach was to actively win over the border generals of the Liao State on the one hand, and to contact Goryeo on the other.
But the latter didn't work. On the contrary, it was the former who succeeded in turning them against a group of people.
It is Gao Lianshan and Zhao Hui, the guards of the people.
The former are Bohai nobles, and most of the latter are surnamed Gao. Zhao Hui was born in the Han people of the North.
This time, after Gao Lianshan and Zhao Hui were co-opted by the Jurchens, they changed their strategy, not only did not immediately lead the soldiers to defect to the Jurchens, but instead erected a big banner and officially created a rebellion against the Khitans.
Wooing the surrounding Han Chinese, gathering the hungry, and recruiting refugees and displaced people, the army soon swelled to more than 100,000. Gao Zhao and the others are known as 300,000 troops.
Yimin is a very important location, here is the front line of the Liao State against the Jurchen, from Yimin to the east, first to cross the Niu River, and then to the east less than a hundred miles is Chengzhou, the Tribulus Mountain in the east of Chengzhou, is the first battle with the Jurchen after the resentful army became an army.
At the beginning, the soldiers of the resentful army mutinied because they did not have warm clothes, and the relationship with the main general Yeluchun was tense, and the latter was about to move troops to deal with the resentful army and then reorganize the army. At this time, the Jin army was pressing, and the Liao army could only suppress the contradiction and rush to meet the battle. In the battle between the two armies, the resentful army was defeated first, and the Liao army was immediately defeated, and the Jin army took advantage of the victory to occupy Cheng, Yi, Hao, Wei, Xian, Qian, and other prefectures.
It can be said that it bit the Liao army hard. But after this battle, the Jurchens couldn't digest it, so they negotiated peace with the Khitan so that they could concentrate on digesting the spoils.
Fuzhou, where Guo Yaoshi is now based, is in the north of Cheng, Yi, Hao, Wei, Xian, Qian, and other prefectures, and Fuzhou belongs to Shangjing Road. Cheng, Yi, Hao, Wei, Xian, Qian, and other prefectures belong to Zhongjing Province and Tokyo Province.
To put it more bluntly, then Tokyo Road is the northeast of later generations, and Shangjing Road is the eastern end of Inner Mongolia, such as Tongliao; Zhongjing Road is Chifeng, Chengde area, Nanjing is Beijing, Tianjin and Tang.
Now the northeast corner of Nakakyo Road has been bitten, but Kamikyo Road is Kamikyo Road.
Compared with Gao Zhao and the two, the Jurchens prefer to hook up with Guo Yaoshi. But they couldn't have imagined that Guo Yaoshi would have already gotten on the ship of the Liangshan Army.
The Jurchen messenger who went to communicate with Fuzhou was taken by Guo Yaoshi on the spot and sent to Linhuang Mansion to ask for a reward. It is also called the Khitan people, who have added three points of trust to him. Speaking with Pharmacist Guo and others, it can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.
But it also made the Jurchens have evil thoughts about it.
Gao Lianshan and Zhao Hui, since they started their troops, relied on nearly 10,000 Jurchen elite soldiers who changed their military uniforms to serve as generals under the two, and it can be said that they have defeated Yelu Mawu, Han Qinghe and other Liao generals one after another.
The performance of the Jurchen soldier made Liao Guo immediately realize that something was wrong. I just thought it was the Jurchens who were going to launch an offensive again.
At that moment, while sending people to the Jin State as an envoy, he made every effort to mobilize the army, and tried to achieve a clean result for Gao Zhao and the others.
Wu Yanguang and Yelu Yujian, who were renamed Yelu Yanguang, went out in person, attracting 10,000 new troops to help, and then the horse army of King Xi Hui Libao helped, and they defeated Gao Lianshan and Zhao Hui cleanly. But he was also more aware of the movements of the Jurchens, and Wan Yanxie, who was sitting in Weizhou, really moved, and he didn't dare to lead the army to attack Yimin at the moment.
I am afraid that the Jurchens will take advantage of the weakness to enter, cross the Yiwu Lu Mountain, attack Haibei and Yizhou, and open the north gate of Jinzhou.
If so, Yelu Yujian returned to Jinzhou to sit in the town, and Hui Libao also stayed in Yizhou, only Yelu Yanguang, Yelu Yanshou father and son, Yelu Mawu, Han Qinghe and others will lead troops to chase Yimin.
Nayimin is a lonely city, and there is the Ox River in the east, which is too easy to surround. Gao Lianshan and Zhao Hui retreated to Shangjing before Yelu Yanguang led his troops to chase after them.
They didn't want to go to the Jurchens, if so, they didn't need such trouble, what they had to do was to take Fuzhou.
The latter is one of the only three remaining cities at the eastern end of Shangjing Road, and after Hao, Wei, Xian, and Qianzhou prefectures were owned by the Jurchens, only three cities remained in the eastern part of Shangjing Province, Fuzhou, Yuanzhou, and Wuzhou.
Among them, Wuzhou is built near the water, and outside the city is the Huang River, which is the Xiliao River in later generations. However, Fuzhou and Yuanzhou, two cities not far from each other, are between Wuzhou and Hao, Wei, Xian, Qian, and other prefectures.
These are two chicken-ribbed cities called the tasteless and discarded food of Liao, especially after the outbreak of the Yangluo Rebellion, the Liao people took Guo Yaoshi as the history of Fuzhou Thorn, which itself has already shown its attitude.
Now the Jurchens called Gao Zhao and the others to fight Pharmacist Guo with a big banner, but in fact, they wanted to give Pharmacist Guo a good look. If they can take the two states, they will not dare to attack the Liao army in a big way.
At this moment when the relationship between Liaojin and Jin is tense, on the border line of Liaojin, a little bit of movement can give the Jin people a handle.
The Jurchens had already told Gao Lianshan and Zhao Hui that if they could take Fuzhou and Yuanzhou, the Liao people would not dare to attack, so they would use the history of the two states to Xu Xu.
Gao Zhao and the others have already taken refuge in the Jurchens, so naturally the Jurchens will do whatever they are called.
In this way, Gao Zhao and the others led troops directly to Fuzhou, and when the news came, Guo Yaoshi was not afraid, and Yuanzhou was shocked first, and Yuanzhou assassin Shi Xiao Deguang lamented all night, and the state Chinese military officials were helpless.
No, it's not true that there is no way at all. But Xiao Deguang has always looked down on Pharmacist Guo, and after the latter took over the history of Fuzhou Thorn, he brought a heavy gift to visit Xiao Deguang, but Xiao Deguang was so arrogant that Pharmacist Guo got up and said goodbye before noon. Since then, the two sides have been at loggerheads.
So far, Xiao Deguang, who was born in a big family, is a dog who looks down on Guo Yaoshi and curses his family.
Now even if the catastrophe is coming, it is already imminent, Xiao Deguang wants to befriend Pharmacist Guo again, is this a fool to be surnamed Guo?
Therefore, Xiao Deguang thought of the last of the thirty-six plans - to go up.
Xiao Deguang ran away.
The civil and military officials who were left behind in Yuanzhou trembled, and in the face of the Gao Zhao rebels approaching day after day, everyone was going to pee.
And also in Fuzhou City, Guo Yaoshi and his gang faced the Gao Zhao rebels and were also talking about their future way out.
Shi Xiu was dressed as a military general and sat in the middle of a group of people, as if he was one of them.
His martial arts are far superior to Yang Lin, he is careful and bold, and he stresses righteousness, and has a wide range of friends among the resentful army. The reason why I dress up like this is so that I don't attract people's eyes. He didn't believe that there was no Khitan eyeliner in this Fuzhou city.
Therefore, he asked Guo Yaoshi to arrange an identity for him in the army, and now it is really different from when he was in Jinxi.
"The Gao Zhao rebels are approaching soon, and their people are not to be afraid, but they are afraid of the Jurchen elite inside." Guo Yaoshi said above, Shi Xiu's eyes were shining, and he was also very interested in the true combat power of the Jurchens.
"Yes, our army only fights in short quarters outside the city, and no matter whether it wins or loses, it will not be able to hold out later."
Pharmacist Guo said this, there is no problem, and everyone accepts it. Now for them, the only conundrum is Wonju. This Fuzhou is garrisoned by them, not to mention that the Gao Zhao rebels fled after the defeat, even if they come when they are victorious, they may not be able to do anything about Fuzhou.
But if Wonju is lost......
"In my opinion, if this Yuanzhou is captured by the rebels, the Khitans will not dare to raise troops easily." The reason is well known, Shi Xiu then said, "The responsibility of retaking the city is mostly on your shoulders, I am afraid that the Khitan people will use the lack of Yuanzhou Thorn History as bait, so that by the way, it can provoke disputes within the resentful army." ”
Desperately Saburo believes that the Khitan people are not fools, and they must know that Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren have been gathered by Guo Yaoshi. The strength of this resentful army is not outstanding if it is divided into four, but if the four parts are combined, it will hinder the human eye.
When these words came out, the faces of Pharmacist Guo and the others suddenly became serious. People's hearts are unpredictable, **infinite, and you can't help but guard against it.
After all, although the four departments of the resentment army were merged into one, each of them had an absolute henchman.
Then Pharmacist Guo can take the lead with Liang Shanjun, why can't they?
"Don't be fooled. The place where the resentful army is located is only a stone's throw away from the Jurchens. If we don't work together, how can we protect ourselves? ”
Guo Yaoshi's eyes flashed, this Southern Army still supports him, right? Otherwise, how could this Shi Saburo say his words so explicitly? When his mind flipped, he felt that if he didn't have a short-handed encounter with the rebels, he must win.