Chapter 639: The East Wind Rises

Zhang San has always had a key, this east wind is not waiting for it, nor is it borrowed, if there is no east wind, then make it yourself, so from the beginning of the year, Zhang San instigated the independence of various ethnic groups in Liao State, and on the other hand, instigated the Han rebellion in the sixteen states of Youyun.

At present, Mongolia, Heishuifu and other places have become independent, plus the Jurchen independence place, the current Liao State only has a few lands such as western Liaoning and Yanyun Inner Mongolia.

The reduction of the land and the ruling population has further increased the burden on the Han people in Liaodi, and the population has decreased, but the arrogant and luxurious life of the Khitan nobles has not decreased.

After the Great Song Dynasty knew that he could not defeat the Qi State, he had no idea of cutting the feudal domain, and began to cultivate again, and after going south to Dali, he did not change the state of the Great Song Dynasty's inferior money.

The currency of the Great Song Dynasty has basically collapsed, and the large-scale influx of Han currency in Qi has impacted the market value of Song money, and now a steamed bun in the Great Song Dynasty will cost ten yuan, so the tax revenue of the imperial court has increased, but the money is worthless, and now it is 100 million guan in hand, and it is not as good as the original 50 million guan.

The Great Song Dynasty also tried to learn from the implementation of the silver standard in the Qi State, but the Great Song Dynasty treasury did not deposit silver at all, so the silver standard had no chance to be implemented at all, but the people had quietly implemented the silver standard, because the Qi State now does not recognize Song money and only silver.

The monetary system of the Great Song Dynasty tends to collapse and rebuild stage, if there are no corrupt officials and external troubles, stable development for a few years may be re-stabilized, but these corrupt officials will not give the people this opportunity at all, and still make a large number of inferior copper coins into the market, Cai Jing even has to mint as a hundred dollars.

Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty staggered forward like a centenarian, and Huizong resumed the good habit of painting and writing for three hours a day after Dali was destroyed, and there was no intention of innovation.

After suffering heavy losses in several wars, Yelu Yanxi of the Liao State is now even more independent of various ministries, or does not listen to the propaganda, not to mention recovering strength, or maintaining the rule is overstretched.

After the last defeat in Western Xia, it has not been relieved, and they have not dared to stir up trouble in the past two years, these ethnic minorities are limited by the population, hundreds of thousands to millions of people, 100,000 dead and wounded, then there is an age gap, if you want to recruit a group of soldiers, you have to wait until the small ones grow up, unlike the Great Song Dynasty, which has no million soldiers, and recruits another million from other places to fight.

When the time came to the third year of preparation for Liao, Qi began to mobilize the army, change the training, and replace the Han type rifle, the previous shield battle could be canceled, and the Qi army officially entered the era of full firearms, because the study found that the effect of carrying a heavy shield was only equivalent to an extra layer of thistle, so it was better to carry more thistle terrestris than to carry such a heavy shield.

Since the beginning of the spring, 300,000 troops have been prepared, patiently waiting for the east wind made by Zhang San, the Yanyun area, the people of several states are spreading the summer harvest uprising, uh uh, finally come to the harvest assembly, this time the landlords and officials Cui have reached an unprecedented level of eighty or five or even ninety, and the people can only get a bucket of grain for planting one acre of land.

So under the leadership of a man named Liu Heiqi, the wheat harvest uprising broke out in the Yanyun area, Liu Heiqi led the people to break through the county Yazhou City, but did not defend these places, but transported all the grain to the mountains, and took the people in the mountains to fight against the Liao army's clearance.

In July, the State of Qi issued a note to Liao, asking the State of Liao not to implicate the local Han people when judging, to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the Han people, and to ensure the interests of the merchants of the State of Qi.

Of course, Liao Guo didn't know that Goryeo had also received such a note, so he didn't pay attention to the note with Qi State at all, and Liu Heiqi took the people to mess around in Yanshan for two months.

In September, Qi issued an ultimatum to Liaoxia, demanding that Liao immediately stop its infringement on the Han people in the Yanyun area and compensate for the losses caused by the Qi merchants in the past few months, etc., and reply on September 20.

Zhang San didn't expect the Liao State to reply at all, because he was all ready, and Yanyun would be recovered on September 20, but what he didn't expect was that the Liao State actually replied, and Yelu Yanxi's reply was to send Guo Yaoshi to lead 100,000 cavalry to take it down, and prepare to teach Qi a lesson.

When the time came, the 300,000 troops were divided into three routes, one from Jinnan City to occupy the Youyun area, one from Jinnan to occupy the southwest road of Liaoguo to recruit the territory, and the last from the Qinhuangdao area to land and occupy Shanhaiguan and other original Great Wall passes.

The Mongolian side will also take the opportunity to go south, occupy the Kor New Grassland in the east, and fight in the south until it joins the Western Route Army of Qi State, striving to drive Liao State to Liaodong in one fell swoop and create conditions for the next attack.

As for the 100,000 people of Guo Yaoshi, Zhang San was going to personally take the Praetorian Guard to clean up, and it happened that the Praetorian Guard army in Beiping Province had been relocated, so the three roads were actually six ways to attack Liao together, and Zhang San planned to rely on the 50,000 Praetorian Guards to fight a decisive battle with Guo Yaoshi under Youzhou City.

It's not that Zhang San is big, because when Zhang San attacked, the passes along the Great Wall were closed, and Guo Yaoshi was surrounded by Qi on all sides, and the 100,000 Liao cavalry was not the Liao cavalry in its heyday, but Zhang San's 20,000 cavalry of the Praetorian Guard was the most elite cavalry in Qi State, and it was better than the Jurchen cavalry.

Zhang San sat in the command of Jinnan City, and at the same time served as the general reserve to deal with various emergencies, but everything was smoother than expected, at least the people of Liaodi finally knew that they were Han after Zhang San's efforts for many years, and they knew how to welcome the king.

Therefore, the main job of Qi to build a city is to pick out the Khitans in the city, and then capture them, and as for the siege of the city, this kind of thing is not challenging for Qi at all, and often half of the war is over after a few cannons to open the other party's city gate.

In fact, at this time of the battle, for Zhang San, no matter what strategy or means the enemy had, in his eyes, it was just a flat push all the way, and under the free play of each army, the little Liao soldiers in the Yanyun area were not enough to rob it.

So when Yelu Yanxi knew that Qi was attacking Yanyun, he was ready to organize a large army to crusade, but the troops had not yet been assembled, Yanyun had almost lost it, and then the Mongols went south, and the entire Liao country was full of alarms, Yelu Yanxi didn't know who to crusade first?

In just one month, the Yanyun region has been taken by Qi except for Youzhou City, and Guo Yaoshi of Youzhou is still waiting for the supply of logistics troops with his 100,000 cavalry, at the end of October, Zhang San appeared under Youzhou City with the Praetorian Guard, and now the entire Youzhou is surrounded on all sides, and only one opening is facing the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhang San was looking forward to him escaping to the Great Song Dynasty, and when the time came, the Qi army would drive him around the Great Song Dynasty, at least turn around the Yellow River and these places, and then the Qi State would occupy these behind his back, which would save the next step of time.