Chapter 475: Locust Strategy
However, although there are 20,000 rebels below, they are all old and weak, women and children, and they do not have any siege weapons, so it is extremely difficult to take Zhenhai Mansion! They just shouted loudly and shouted from below!
After less than a quarter of an hour, the Jurchen commander of Zhenhai Mansion finally came here, and countless Jurchen soldiers had also been alarmed, and they also came to the city wall at this moment.
The Jurchen commander looked down, and a look of horror appeared on his face.
"How can there be so many Khitan untouchables?" The Jurchen commander turned pale and muttered.
He came to the area of Zhenhai Mansion five days ago, and at that time, the Jurchens already knew the news of the Song army's invasion of Zhenhai Mansion, and he only came here to find out the news! But after arriving here, he found that the Song army had retreated from Zhenhai Mansion, and it was he who led his thousand-man team to enter Zhenhai Mansion! Who knows, it has only been five days, and Zhenhai Mansion has encountered a crisis again!
"General, it's the Khitans who have rebelled!" A centurion.
"Yes, the Khitans are reversed!" The commander nodded and said.
At this moment, the commander naturally knew this truth.
"General, although there are many Khitans below, they are all weak women and children, not to mention!" Centurion said.
"Oh?" The commander looked down, and there were men below him with rudimentary homemade torches, so that he could see the scene below, and after a moment he burst out laughing, and said, "Sure enough, they are all old and weak, women and children! It's ridiculous that they are all skinny! I was panicking just now! It's just that some old and weak women and children, who are weak and have no weapons, actually want to attack Zhenhai Mansion? ”
"Our Jurchens are invincible in the world, general, as long as a thousand of us rush out, we will definitely be able to kill all the Khitan untouchables!" Centurion said.
"Not bad! Come on, gather everyone, the Khitan untouchables below seem to have 10,000 or 20,000 people, but as long as a thousand of us rush out, they will definitely be defeated! The Khitan people deserve to be a lowly nation, it's really ridiculous, relying on so many old and weak women and children to want to rebel! How can there be such a funny thing in the world? "After the commander knew about the following situation, he no longer had the slightest horror in his heart, but he felt that this matter was ridiculous to the extreme!
There is a huge gap between ordinary rebels and real regular soldiers! Generally speaking, 100,000 rebels may not be able to defeat 10,000 regular troops! What's more, the so-called Liaodong Righteous Army below are all old and weak women and children, and they have no weapons, so their combat effectiveness can be imagined! Of course, the commander looks down on the Liaodong rebels below!
After another quarter of an hour, a thousand Jurchens had assembled, all of them cavalry, and at this moment they all drew their weapons with excited, bloodthirsty expressions on their faces.
"Brothers, our Jurchens are invincible in the world and proud of the Quartet! But I didn't expect the weak Han people to bully us, and these slave-like lowly Khitans actually wanted to rebel! They are starving to death one by one, and they are as thin as firewood, and this is how they are still trying to rebel? Are you saying ridiculous? The commander laughed.
"Ridiculous!"
"Ridiculous to the extreme!"
"General, let's go out and teach them a lesson!"
The Jurchen soldiers burst into laughter! The shouts of the Khitans were still heard outside, but the Jurchen soldiers only felt ridiculous when they heard it!
"Open the city gates, rush out, and kill all the Khitan untouchables! Let the Khitan untouchables know how wrong their choice is! The commander snapped.
Soon, the south gate of Zhenhai Mansion opened, and a thousand Jurchen cavalry rushed out like a rainbow!
The Liaodong rebels outside didn't expect the Jurchens to dare to rush out, and the rebel soldiers in front stayed there one by one, at a loss! They were ordinary poor peasants last night, most of them had never fought with anyone, and they didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of them!
"Kill!" The commander laughed and slashed forward, and suddenly the head of a Khitan was cut off, and the commander showed an even more excited look on his face.
All the Jurchen soldiers moved forward, they met almost no resistance, and the Khitans almost stood there waiting to be killed by them! All the Jurchen soldiers are laughing!
"Run!" At this moment, the soldiers of the Liaodong Righteous Army finally reacted, and they did not hesitate to open their feet and flee to the back.
Countless Khitans were scared, but unfortunately their physical fitness was very poor, and it was impossible for them to outrun the Jurchen cavalry!
A thousand Jurchen cavalry were slaughtered almost one-sidedly!
"Haha, kill all these Khitans, let's go back and drink!" Thousands of people laugh!
The Khitans in front cried and ran, and kept falling to the ground, although they had 20,000 people, but now they were extremely vulnerable! The Jurchens were laughing wildly, excited, excited!
However, at this time, an army behind the rebel army rushed forward without hurry!
They were getting closer and closer to the Jurchen cavalry, and at this moment this army had been divided into three parts, with about two thousand people on the front and fifteen hundred people on the left and right directions!
This army is none other than the 5,000 naval soldiers led by Wang Gui!
The sky was dark, and countless torches had been extinguished in the rout of the Liaodong Righteous Army, and the thousand Jurchens on the opposite side did not notice the arrival of the five thousand Song troops at all!
"Shoot!" The Song army was getting closer and closer to the Jurchens, and Wang Gui gave an order, and in the front direction, the sound of dense bowstring vibrations sounded!
At the same time as the sound of the bowstring vibrating sounded here, the sound of bows and arrows also sounded in the left and right directions!
The sound of bows and arrows was endless, and for a while, those Khitans who fled couldn't help but stop!
The Jurchens were shot dead in an instant! There were only a thousand of them, but now nearly half of them have been shot dead, and the rest of the Jurchens are in chaos!
These Jurchens wanted to escape, but there were Song troops everywhere, and there was no way for them to escape!
The Song army on both wings has faintly blocked their retreat at this moment, and it is impossible for them to retreat to Zhenhai Mansion!
Half a quarter of an hour later, the remaining hundreds of Jurchens also fell in a pool of blood, including the commander of the thousand who was also killed by stray arrows!
"The Jurchens were killed by the Song army!"
"Song Jun is so strong?"
"Great, we defeated the Jurchens! Under the leadership of His Royal Highness the King of Liao, we have defeated the Jurchens! Liao King Chitose! ”
"King Liao's Chitose!"
Those Khitans who fled stopped one after another, and not long after, the battlefield was full of the voice of "Liao King Chitose"!
"Let's take down Zhenhai Mansion! Rush! Enter Zhenhai Mansion, our rebellion has succeeded! A Khitan shouted loudly and rushed forward.
"There are war horses here, you can kill and eat meat! I haven't eaten meat in seven years! ”
"I haven't eaten meat in ten years!"
Countless Khitan people shouted excitedly and excitedly, they were all old and weak, women and children, but at this moment, they were desperate to rush towards Zhenhai Mansion.
"There is still food in Zhenhai Mansion! Let's go inside and grab food! ”
"Rob! Eat and drink inside! It's ours inside! ”
"Rush! The first to rush in has something to eat! ”
20,000 old and weak women and children rushed towards Zhenhai Mansion frantically!
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The sky was already dark, and Wang Gui and Yelu Hong entered the Zhenhai Mansion under the support of the Song army.
There is a big mess in Zhenhai Mansion!
Originally, this place had been ransacked by the Song army, and there were not many things left, but now this place has been sacked by the Liaodong Righteous Army again! There were even screams in the distance, Wang Gui's face remained unchanged, and Yeluhong's face showed a look of surprise.
"What happened?" Yelu Hongdao.
"It's nothing more than the rebels robbing the people of the city! There are still many people in this city, and they still have some food and surplus wealth at home, but now they have been robbed by the rebels! Wang Guidao.
"Isn't that a bit bad? We have risen up to rebel to deliver the people, but now that we are doing this, have not the people of the city suffered? Yeluhong said.
"There's nothing bad about it." Wang Gui said lightly.
"General Wang, I think we should stop the rebels!" Yelu Hongdao.
"Stop them? Why stop them? The reason why they rebelled with the court, with Your Majesty, and with you, the King of Liao, was to have something to eat! However, the granary of Zhenhai Mansion had been burned down by our army that day, and there was not much food in the official mansion of Zhenhai Mansion, and the rebels could only rob the food of the Khitans in the city! If you stop them now, the rebels will not listen to you, but will complain about you, which is very detrimental to our cause! Wang Guidao.
"However, the Khitans in the city are also my people, and I can't bear to see them suffer calamities." Yelu Hongdao
"I didn't expect you to have a bodhisattva heart! In fact, even if the rebel soldiers don't rob the food of the Khitans in the city, I will think of letting them rob it. Wang Gui said coldly.
"It's ......," Jeluhom stayed there.
"You're short-sighted, you don't know how to rebel! The Khitan people in this city have been robbed of all the food by us, and they can't survive anymore, so they can only rebel with us and continue to go to other places to grab food together! After arriving in other places, after countless rebels robbed the food in that place, the people there had no choice but to rebel with us! In this way, the number of our rebels is increasing, like a snowball! It won't take long for us to have hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of rebels! At that time, the Jurchens will have nothing to do with us! Wang Guidao.
"This ......" Yeluhong was shocked in his heart, kept thinking about it, and actually felt that what Wang Gui said was right, so he was stunned at the moment.
Wang Gui had a sneer on his face!
This is exactly the Liaodong strategy formulated by the General Staff Headquarters! These rebellious Khitans are like locusts, they will plague one place when they go, and more and more Khitans will not survive, so they can only rebel with them! In Wang Gui's opinion, this strategy is really clever!
Of course he didn't know that this was what Li Zicheng did in later generations!
The famous King Li Chuang robbed every place he went, so that the people of that place could not survive, and they had to rebel with him, so the number of troops under his command became more and more! The Ming Dynasty army continued to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng was defeated repeatedly, but his soldiers and horses were more and more defeated! Once, Li Zicheng was almost wiped out, but within a few months, the number of soldiers and horses under his command exceeded 500,000! The Ming Dynasty army was invincible, and the more they killed, the more they killed, and in the end, the Ming Dynasty was finally overthrown by Li Zicheng!
The General Staff Headquarters named this strategy "Locust Strategy", and the Liaodong Righteous Army was like locusts, locusts crossed the border, leaving no grass behind, and the local Khitans could only follow and become "locusts", and the number of locusts increased until the Jurchens could not deal with it! Their strategy coincided with the strategy of Li Zicheng in later generations!
In Wang Gui's opinion, such a strategy was much more clever than the White Lotus Sect uprising in Dongting Lake at the beginning! However, such a strategy is beyond imagination for the world! In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the number of civilians killed by Li Zicheng's peasant rebel army was definitely far greater than the number of civilians killed by the Ming army! If it was in the Central Plains, the General Staff Headquarters would never adopt such a strategy, but this is Liaodong, where most of the population is Khitan, so it happens to adopt such a strategy! Of course, there are also Han people in Liaodong, and those Han people will inevitably encounter disasters!
"Rob! From the south to the north, all the places, all the food and drink will be robbed, so that the people everywhere have to rebel with us, so that our team will get bigger and bigger, and our strength will become stronger and stronger, and then we will not even need the regular army of the imperial court to arrive, we will be able to compete with the Jurchens! Wang Gui said slowly.
Yeluhong stood there, but he felt chills all over his body! In this way, I am afraid that the entire Liaodong will become a ruin, and countless Khitans will die in the war!
There was chaos in Zhenhai Mansion, and I don't know how many sins happened this night!
It wasn't until July 7 that the Liaodong Rebels left Zhenhai Mansion, and now their number has exceeded 50,000!
They went all the way north, passing by the villages and towns of the Khitans, and their ranks turned out to be more and more!
"His Royal Highness the King of Liao, where are we going now?" Ye Lu Feng, Xiao Jingye and the others were overjoyed when they saw more and more teams, and they came to Ye Lu Hong in the early morning of July 8 and asked.
"General Wang, let's talk about it." Yelu Hongdao.
"We have two roads now, the first way is to attack Liaoyang to the west, but there are tens of thousands of Jurchen troops in Liaoyang, and we are not their opponents! Therefore, we have to go all the way north and attack Zhengzhou! Let's go to the place where the Jurchens have the least strength, and then continue to increase our own strength, and soon we will be able to confront the Jurchens! Wang Guidao.
"Just listen to General Wang." Yeluhong nodded immediately.
Zhengzhou was located in the area of the North Railway Station of Tonghua City, Liaoning Province in later generations, and tens of thousands of ragged and underfed Liaodong rebels headed there.
Along the way, they robbed every place they went, and every place they went, there were more Khitans who couldn't survive to follow them north!
By the time they arrived at Jeongju on July 15, the number of rebels had reached 130,000!
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