Chapter Seventy-Eight: Chang Bancheng Hires a Murderer to Make Waves (4)

The Great Liao Empire has had a phobia of "underpopulation" since ancient times, as early as the troubled times of the Central Plains Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Liao Empire went south several times with the main purpose of plundering the population, and this tradition continued until the Shaosheng War (Song Zhezong Shaosheng period, Liao Ruizong period), the Liao army was still plundering the population of Hebei.

After the Shaosheng War, Liao's southward strategy was thwarted and forced to collect population from the so-called barbaric areas in the north. According to statistics, the population of the Liao State headquarters (i.e., the Han, Khitan, Xi and Kaihua Jurchens) was about 10 million, the population of the grassland tribes was about 6 million, the population of the Binfu tribe (that is, the fishing and hunting primitive tribes in the Heilongjiang River basin and the vast area of the Great and Small Xing'an Mountains, such as the savage Jurchens, tiger eaters, pig drivers, Haixi Jurchens, etc.) was about 1 million, and the population of the Huangfu tribe (the large and small tribes distributed in the vast area north of Heilongjiang and south of the tundra tundra zone) was about 500,000 to 1 million. The population of the vast Liao Empire was only 20 million—the same as the Central Plains of the Great Song Empire. If we can't increase the population quickly, then it is obvious that we will not be able to share a hot soup in the frenzy of dividing up the world and fighting for the world's colonies.

To this end, the Liao State established a set of integrated military system, first of all, the establishment of a tributary system with poor clothes and guest clothes, etc., under this tributary system, each tribe selected young and strong men according to the population to study and study in the military academies of the Liao State, and served as grass-roots officers in the field army. The General Staff of the Liao State noted an unavoidable fact - the army from the tributary system was composed of several tribes that did not speak the same language and had different customs. Before Liao Ruizong, soldiers of the same tribe would be grouped into the same barracks according to the old customs, but in the modern road reform (马路, 字公略. After the military reformer of the Liao Wenzong to Gaozong era, the second chief of the general staff of the Liao State General Staff, the general, the title of the Kipchak Guogong, and the first-class loyal and dedicated prince), in order to implement the overall "Zhouhua" policy, the Chinese language was first forcibly promoted in the army, and every grassroots officer was required to be able to proficiently use the Chinese language to give instructions and communicate with superiors and subordinates. In this way, soldiers and officers from different clans can be grouped into the same team, and it also fundamentally prevents the country's army from becoming the private army of a certain clan.

After successfully forming a strong and cohesive team and knowing that they are fighting for the "land of the Great Liao, the sacred Xuanwu Banner and the Great Liao Emperor of the Ten Thousand Generations", it is time to give these young men from "all over the world" some sweetness.

Since the time of Liao Wenzong, the new Liao army has continued to march westward, the first westward expedition to the north shore of the Caspian Sea, plundered a large number of people, cattle and horses, and also found quite rich water and grassland, the second westward expedition for these horse grazing land and the Xia Dynasty fought a seven-year war, so that the Song people made war fortune - the famous Krupp cannon arms group of the Song State rose through the seven-year war - the Xia and Liao countries that participated in the war did not reap any benefits in the end, and finally hastily signed a "Luoyang Contract" to demarcate the line, Each went to focus on its own strategic goals - the Xia people were obsessed with the aura of the "Buddhist Protector Empire", and were bent on drinking the Indus River and unifying Tianzhu to eliminate the infidels, while the Liao people only wanted more land and population.

The third western expedition took place in the middle of the Liao Gaozong, after 20 years of recuperation, by the Liao State General Staff Chief of the General Staff Marshal Chen Luo personally commanded the army, the Liao State of the famous Empress Chengtian supervised the army, the mighty 300,000 troops climbed the Ural Mountains into the eastern part of Europe - that was the European year of the year 1212, nearly 30 years earlier than the Mongolian Western Expedition in another time and space. These early conquerors were even more well-armed—they were armed with flintlock muskets, sleeveless cuirasses, and were usually two- or three-horseed. Each knight of the regular army had three or four auxiliaries, single or double-horseed, and lightly armoured, and they were armed with spears, lassoles, and shields, and in addition to cavalry, craftsmen who were skilled in crafting weapons also made marching cannons, rockets, siege chariots, and other equipment, which was a nightmare for the Slavs of the Eastern European Plain.

The first to be destroyed was the Rus' Principality, a state founded by the Eastern Slavs, whose population was forcibly migrated east of the Urals by the Liao servants, and dispersed into dozens of Baidi tribes, each of which was forced to attach itself to a Liao military nobleman - in short, the entire tribe was reduced to slavery and became an item of reward for the feudal lords of the Great Liao Empire.

Subsequently, Marshal Chenlo's right-wing army successively crushed a series of Viking cities on the Baltic coast, and plundered a considerable number of Nordic women to return home to enrich their population.

The deafening artillery of the Left Wing Army encircled Kiev and shattered the determination of the Ursians to resist, and their leaders finally gave up their resistance after discussion, and were willing to "drive the king" and turn their blades against their Orthodox people.

The Urross were familiar with the topography of Eastern Europe and the origins and entanglements between the principalities, and under their leadership, the Liao army successfully occupied the Don River valley. The empress of the supervising army ordered the city of Kiev to be renamed Sanhe and set up the Dingxi Changshi Mansion to take charge of civil affairs. From then on, the Dingxi Governorate was officially established, symbolizing the formal establishment of the land hegemony of an unprecedented empire spanning thousands of miles.

After that, the right army of the Liao army defeated the combined forces of the Teutonic Knights and the Polish lords and Germanic knights in the Polish plain, and after relieving the pressure in the north, the sword of the middle army pointed directly at Magyar (Hungary), and the left army marched along the Black Sea coast to the ancient Eastern Roman Empire, but because of the lack of food and grass, it stopped on the north bank of the Danube and did not continue to attack Constantinople, but the military commander who commanded this road had already learned from the mouth of the captives about the existence of the thousand-year-old city in the south, Determined to conquer it as the culmination of his military career. This ambitious general was the great general from the Mughal Chamber, the Duke of Weiguo, and the Duke of Wuyi of the First Class Temujin.

After a series of fierce battles, the army finally reached the city of Budapest, but the cunning Holy Roman Empire reinforcements still had the intention of preserving their strength and fishing in troubled waters—they wanted to plunder both sides while the Magyars and the Liao expeditionary force fought to the death. But in the end, under the superb command art of Marshal Chen Luo, the city of Budapest was broken, and the HRE coalition army was also wiped out.

Although the third expedition was forced to suspend the return to the division due to the turmoil in the Liao headquarters, General Temujin, who remained in the Dingxi Governorate, still couldn't wait to launch the Southern Expedition after the autumn harvest of the following year, and chose the strategy of plundering and attrition. The Slavic cavalry under his command and a small number of Liao Guards infantry faithfully implemented the general's policy of "burning, robbing and killing", turning the originally rich and peaceful Danube River valley into a thousand miles of no man's land, and thousands of women of various ethnic groups in Eastern Europe were continuously sent back to Daliao by the transit of the Dingxi Changshi Mansion, and became the trophies of the imperial military department to reward the soldiers of the expeditionary force - and as a result, the empire bought the hearts of the people of the guest clothes and even the deserted tribes, and let the elders of those tribes know that when the imperial military department's requisition order was issued, It meant that women, wealth, and slaves came to their tribes.

As a result, the grand national integration began, and white-haired, red-haired, and golden-haired beauties of all ethnic groups entered the deep palace of the Liao Emperor, the mansions of the military nobles, and even the tents of the knights...... Although there were a little tears in this grand national integration, considering the course of history, it was still praised by later generations of historians.