Chapter 328: Twenty-five years down

Throughout the first year of Jingkang, Li Yifu spent time in fear. However, the Jin Kingdom did not go south.

The 200,000-strong army was defeated by the Liao army, which was less than 30,000, and His Majesty the Emperor and the Emperor Taishang were furious. Several Zaizhi masters learned from the pain and reduced some internal friction. The restarting Great Zhou army fought steadily and steadily towards Youzhou City.

In the Youyun region, Yeluming's rule has existed in name only.

Out of the rule of not letting one person hold too much power, Zong Ze still failed to take command. Liu Chengdong, Liu Guangshi and other generals advanced all the way, and the civil officials of the Great Zhou took the opportunity to recruit the Youyun clan to vote.

After arriving in various parts of Youyun, the Great Zhou civil officials ignored the fact that the local people had been far away from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years, and adopted a series of policies that aroused widespread discontent. However, with the surrender of the three strongest Han armies, the Great Zhou army finally surrounded Youzhou City, and with the cooperation of Neiying, they attacked Youzhou City.

At the same time, the Jin State, which had been recuperating for three years and carrying out a series of reforms, launched a large-scale attack on Datong, the western capital of the Liao State, which had survived, and carried out a terrible massacre after the capture. Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao State, who frequently died, fled to the border of the Western Xia Kingdom, and Wanyan Zonghan was quickly sweeping away the remnants of the Liao State.

Yeluming, who seized the Youyun region, faked his death to show weakness according to Xiao Zhen's plan. The soldiers of the Great Zhou Army who fought in the streets of the city were already underestimating the enemy, and they were even tortured by the civilian clique to relax their military discipline. The remaining more than 100,000 people of all ethnic groups in Youzhou City were unbearable and captive, so they fought back in groups, and even cooperated with the desperate Khitan soldiers to defeat the Youyun Han'er army that entered the city.

The Great Zhou army withdrew from Youzhou City in disgrace, and under the pursuit of the Liao army, a large camp roared and retreated all the way to the Liao-Zhou border. The civil official group of the Great Zhou Dynasty quickly passed a resolution to send envoys to the Jin State for help, and used tens of millions of yuan of money, grain and materials to buy land and cities from the Jin State.

Wanyan Zongwang cleared many fortresses in the northwest of Youzhou City, and soon captured the entire territory of Youyun. Ye Luming, who suddenly deceived the corpse, led tens of thousands of troops and clansmen, scattered to the west and north, and relied on the money and grain accumulated for several years along the way to reach the prairie and began a long journey of thousands of miles west.

The Jurchen army occupying Youyun plundered the wealth of the population and freed up half of the Youyun region for the Great Zhou government. The Great Zhou civil official group concealed the purchase and spread the news of "the great victory of the national dynasty and the return of the clouds" throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty, confusing the people of the world, but could not hide it from Li Yifu, who was observant of the fire.

The weapons industry in the southeastern foothills of the Qinling Mountains, which was under Li Yifu's heavy care, finally bore fruitful results after receiving a sufficient supply of money and grain. Gravity stone throwers, torsion ballistas, and tension crossbows can already be mass-produced, several armors with different protective powers can be officially finalized, and firearms such as earth-shaking thunder can also be produced in small quantities......

The northern wind and snow are exceptionally early. Wanyan Xiyin, together with the Han courtiers who had taken refuge in the Jin State, knelt on the ground of the palace in Dading Mansion and begged His Majesty Aqimai to order the destruction of Zhou.

Although the Great Zhou court and the Great Zhou army behaved too badly, some Jurchen nobles still hesitated. They are no longer frogs at the bottom of the well, knowing that there are too many people, too much land, and too much wealth in the Great Zhou, and wealth means national strength.

Wanyan Zonghan, the most outstanding strategic adventurer of the Jurchen clan, suddenly went south from Datong!

Zhao Scarzi, who was about to be killed by civil officials and big households, switched to the Jin State, and Wanyan Zonghan was able to cleanly defeat more than 100,000 Great Zhou troops, including more than 20,000 Western troops.

The war broke out suddenly, and the false strength of the Great Zhou was like a soap bubble, which was punctured and burst. Wanyan Zongwang, who scolded Yan Zonghan in his heart for his recklessness, led the East Route Army south, and it only took a month to sweep away the sixteen states of Youzhou with the help of Youyun Dahu and Youyun Han'er Army, who rebelled in Zhou, and then raised troops to the south.

Li Yifu's father-in-law, Liu Chengdong, gathered 3,000 men and died on the Liaozhou border.

After Yan Zongwang's Eastern Route Army eliminated Liu Chengdong, it destroyed all the way, marched thousands of miles south, pressed the layers of defense of Zongze Lao Shuai to the vicinity of the Daimyo's Mansion, and then crossed the frozen Yellow River to surround Bianjing.

At the same time that Wanyan Zonghan in the west approached Taiyuan and Wanyan Zongwang in the east set off a monstrous blood wave, Li Yifu, who was in Bianjing, learned the news of the death of Lord Yuezhang in advance. He hurried to evacuate and hide his subordinates, leaving himself as bait, because he knew that there were too many people in Da Zhou who hated him to die.

The Great Zhou Dynasty was facing the danger of losing the country, and the families who had personal enmity with Li Yifu, the families who coveted the wealth of Nanshan Fort, and the families who had conflicts of interest in the shopping mall couldn't wait to get started, not caring about Liu Chengdong's bones at all, and blatantly killed Li Yifu.

Li Yifu finally exposed his hideous side in Da Zhou. He fought bloodily on the streets of Bianjing, personally killed no less than 20 people with handcuffs, and fought his way out of Bianjing with the help of people from all sides.

Li Yifu, who fled back to Qinling, was furious. He ordered 3,000 armor-worn elites and defeated 8,000 troops at the mountain pass.

For the sake of the financial resources of the forces under his command, Li Yifu forced the merchant group of Mingyueji to raise troops and build a base for self-defense, and made up his mind to tie the merchant group on Jingnan Road to the chariot. He was well aware that once merchants and workshop owners had mastered force, it was difficult to let go.

Bianjing was surrounded.

Less than 60,000 Jurchen soldiers, less than 40,000 subordinate soldiers, and more than 100,000 Han surrendered troops wantonly burned, killed, and plundered in Gyeonggi Province, which was rich in the world. They successively defeated more than 200,000 Qinwang troops, and Wanyan Zongwang even defeated tens of thousands of elite Western troops of the two families.

The civil war in Bianjing City and the undetermined civilian-bureaucratic clique have killed too many generals. Only the famous general Zhang Shuye disobeyed the order and successfully entered Bianjing City.

I didn't believe that the Great Zhou would be defeated, so the more than 700,000 citizens left behind initially woke up. They organized young men to defend the city, carry supplies, pull equipment, and harvest the lives of Jurchen soldiers in exchange for a dozen people.

Firearms became a lifesaver for the Great Zhou, and more Western troops rushed to the edge of the Yellow River one after another.

Wanyan Zongwang could not break through Bianjing for a long time, so he adopted the advice of the Han courtiers and opened his mouth to the lion of the Bianjing court. After receiving sufficient compensation for the land cession, Wanyan Zongwang led his troops back to the north, and Wanyan Zonghan, who slaughtered the entire city of Taiyuan, also hated and quit the army, and the two Jurchen armies took away more than 30 million pieces of goods, more than 300,000 young adults, and more than 100,000 women.

The Great Zhou Dynasty, which had gained a chance to breathe, was completely mired in party strife, and the government decree was changed day and night. The dozen or so Great Zhou armies that wanted to follow the pursuit returned in vain, so they could only watch the Jurchen army kill all the way and rape all the way, and withdraw from the border safely.

Li Yifu, who thoroughly saw through the decay of the gentry class and the false prosperity of the Great Zhou, looked up to the sky and laughed wildly. He sent troops to capture Xunyang Mansion, and secretly ordered the manpower in Bianjing City to transfer people who were useful to the Qinling forces, and by the way, he made some preparations just in case.

As Li Yifu expected, Jin Guo, who tasted the sweetness, tore up the contract in less than half a year and surrounded Bianjing again.

The citizens of Bianjing, who are less than 600,000, still have a fighting spirit, and the scholar class, who are worried that the warriors will be in power, are bent on seeking peace, and even wary of the burghers and the industrial and commercial groups. In the vacillation and back-and-forth, the big liar Guo Jing was pushed out by the gentry class to engage in the "Liujia Divine Soldiers", and the soldiers and high-quality citizens who wanted to resist to the end were suppressed by the government......

Bianjing fell.

The Jurchens instigated the Han people to fight among themselves, and asked the Han people to send gold, silver, craftsmen, and women out of the city, and waited for the citizens of Bianjing to starve to death before entering the city to do whatever they wanted.

Seeing that Bianjing had become hell, the secret members of the Qinling forces, who had repeatedly instigated the citizens to revolt but had repeatedly suffered defeats, were overwhelmed with grief and indignation, and set fire to Bianjing everywhere to create chaos. The citizens of Bianjing fled in all directions, and the fire in the giant city of Bianjing did not go out for half a year!

The Jurchens escorted two Great Zhou emperors, hundreds of courtiers, thousands of imperial wives, tens of thousands of people's daughters, and hundreds of thousands of captives to return north. The direct royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty was almost swept away, and the Bianjing court perished.

In the two wars, Chai Gou, who repeatedly represented the Great Zhou Dynasty to negotiate with the Jurchen military camp, first ran to the Daimyo's mansion and gained the allegiance of Zhang Jun, Yue Fei, Liu Guangshi and other generals, and at the same time put Zong Ze, who had worked hard to contain the Jurchen army, into the air. Then he ran to Shangqiu and ascended to the throne after the fall of Bianjing.

The famous Confucian of the Great Zhou, a sect of scholars, and Mr. Qingshi, Wang Qi, rode alone to the city of Xunyang, and persuaded Li Yifu, a student who was full of anger, to serve the Great Zhou.

Xunyang City was garrisoned by the Qinling Army, Mingyueji merchants defended themselves, and the section of the Han River until the mouth of the Danjiang River was not defended. After the three conditions were met, Li Yifu, under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of gentry and merchants, sent Ling Chi, the envoy sent by Wanyan Xiyin to persuade him to surrender.

The Jurchens went south for the third time, and millions of displaced people fled south. The catastrophe that struck the Great Zhou was the beginning of the overall situation.

The Great Zhou Provisional Court counted the soldiers and horses, and found that there were more than 500,000 forbidden troops, box troops, and more than one million township soldiers and archers. Although there were many soldiers, they were crushed in front of the Jin army, which was excellent in horse warfare, tenacious, and fearless of death.

Li Yifu used 6,000 armor-covered inner dings, 2,000 ironclad personal guards, and nearly 10,000 township soldiers and archers to rush directly to Luoyang City, which was occupied by the Youyun Han'er Army, the Xi Army, and the Bohai Navy, which were as many as 9,000 people.

Wanyan Zonghan led the Western Route Army to cross the Yellow River from the east of the river and ravaged the Sixth Route of Shaanxi, which was greatly injured. After Yan Zongwang led the soldiers and horses of the East Road, after breaking through Shangqiu, he began to slaughter and loot the entire north of the Yangtze River except for the Jingnan Road, and the up-and-coming Yue Fei and other cutting-edge generals stepped on the stage of history, and Han Shizhong and other Great Zhou Liang generals trained their soldiers and horses in defeat and retreat.

After 9,000 people who were slightly weaker than the Jurchen native army with all their belongings, Li Yifu easily occupied Luoyang City. This node was recaptured, and the Da Zhou capital and generals in various battlefields were greatly encouraged, and more than 300,000 Jin troops returned north in advance.

The Qinling army was shocked by the world!

In the following two years, the Jurchens went south for the fourth time. At the same time as searching the mountains and inspecting the sea in the south of the Yangtze River to capture Zhao Gou, the Jin State also sent elite troops to suppress the formation, forcing nearly 100,000 surrendered Han troops and hundreds of thousands of young and strong prisoners to attack Qinling.

While dealing with all kinds of difficulties and plots of the Southern Zhou Dynasty that had fled many times, Li Yifu tightened his belt with more than 200,000 Qinling mountain people, and fought a bloody battle with the Jin army and the puppet Qi army in the mountains and mountains under the condition of a great decrease in income.

Not only relying on ballistas, straight bows, crossbows, firearms, steel knives and guns and other ordnance, Li Yifu also brainstormed and developed formations with his rapidly growing protégés, so that he was able to defeat the enemy army in the Qinling Mountains many times. A strong army begins.

The Southern Zhou Dynasty, which re-landed and gained a firm foothold in Lin'an City, promoted Yue Fei and other outstanding generals.

Yue Fei became the only general other than Li Yifu who could bring substantial heavy casualties to the Jin army, and was a banner for resisting the invasion of the Jin State and recovering the rivers and mountains. He set out from Jianghuai, marched along the river, exterminated and subdued all kinds of water bandits, giant thieves, and rebel armies along the way, and went on a northern expedition from Jingzhou to recover the six counties of Xiangyang.

The only person Li Yifu fears is Yue Fei.

Yue Fei arrived at Danjiangkou to meet Li Yifu, and advised Li Yifu to serve the court and not have any dissent. Li Yifu half-joked that unless Yue Fei died young, the Qinling army would always be loyal to the Great Zhou.

In order to stabilize his position and improve the quality of the Jurchen warriors, Wanyan Zongbi led the Jin army to the south for the fifth time. Yue Fei, Liu Qi, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and other generals met on the whole line.

Yue Fei won a great victory in Yuncheng, captured Zhuxian Town, and killed and injured tens of thousands of Jin Guo's living forces. Yue Fei, who was about to drive all the Jin army back to the north of the Yellow River and recover the Central Plains, received twelve gold medals and could only retreat with tears.

Wang Boyan and Huang Qianhuang joined forces with the Jiangnan clan with monstrous financial resources and manpower to kill Yue Fei with the acquiescence of Emperor Chai Gou.

Shaoxing and the agreement were made, and Li Yifu was cold. The results of more than ten years of bloody battles became an exchange item for the gentry class to continue to control the world, and the relieved Jin State and the Great Zhou army surrounded Li Yifu's core occupation area.

Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing. Li Yifu will not be extinguished.

Li Yifu's earth-shattering hand was launched. Fang La, who had been in hiding for more than ten years since fleeing the mainland, sent troops from the Ryukyu Islands, picked up the advantage after the decisive battle between the Jin State and the Southern Zhou naval army, destroyed the main forces of the Jin State and the Southern Zhou Navy in one fell swoop, and then went ashore to attack and harass.

Li Yifu and Fang La, one west and one east, fought for several years, and finally dragged down the national strength of the Jin State and the Southern Zhou Dynasty. Li Yifu has a technological advantage in his hands, Fang La's fleet controls the eastern sea, and the two major smuggling groups are tantamount to lying on the eastern continent to suck blood.

First elm cannons, then flint cannons, and then several bronze cannons of different calibers...... It was precisely by relying on the accumulated weapon superiority that the Qinling Army under Li Yifu was able to defeat the Imperial Front Army, the Garrison Army, the Western Army, the Jurchen Army, and the Issuing Army with heavy casualties and repeatedly saved the situation. As a price, the raw materials for gunpowder that had accumulated in the major caves in the southeast of the Qinling Mountains for more than ten years were exhausted.

Stimulated by Li Yifu's sudden use of artillery and slaughter, firearms technology on the Eastern Continent developed rapidly.

The Great Zhou and the Jin State briefly united, and the introduction of more than 500,000 troops failed to help Li Yifu, but was taken away by Li Yifu on the Sichuan Road to stand on his own.

While suppressing the rebellion of the gentry class, promoting new forces, spreading new knowledge, and building workshops everywhere, Li Yifu insisted on leading most of the elite to the snowy plateau to fight to the death against the Mongol army that had returned from the western expedition and extended its tentacles to the Tibetan tribes.

The Eastern World, the Crescent World, and the Celestial World are tens of millions of square kilometers, and more than 30,000 people live on them, and their fate for hundreds of years depends on the decisive battle of the century that suddenly broke out under the city of Lhasa.

At the moment when he faced the unparalleled Mongolian iron cavalry, with superb combat power and well-equipped horses, Li Yifu had come to the Great Zhou for exactly twenty-five years.