The black Khitan, the remnants and dead species of the former Khitan Great Eight Alliance.

At that time, Li Guangbi, the official worship servant and the envoy of the Hezhong Festival, personally led the imperial army from Hedong and Hebei to break the battle of the Khitan coalition army's Tuhu Zhenhe, except for the upper three Dahe Division, Yaoyuan Division, and Diethorn Division, which were almost wiped out on the spot

The defeated Yuling and Rilian tribes surrendered to Li Guangbi's army, and gradually became naturalized along with the local Xi tribe and became part of the princes of the Songmo Prefecture.

The rest of the Pi Ji Division, Li Division, and Tuliu Yu Division, which suffered heavy casualties, fled to the territory of the Bohai Sea, which became one of the factors for the turmoil and collapse of the Bohai State later;

Some of them, along with the remnants of the previous three divisions, fled north and disappeared into the edge of the permafrost forest, and have not been heard from since.

Others were scattered between the white mountains and black waters on the way to escape. After intermarrying with the local ignorant Tu people, they became barbaric and degenerated into large and small clans, which made a living from fishing and hunting and plundered the surrounding areas, and the forest people and mountain people were called the black Khitan.

It was also after the establishment of Andong Province that the princes of the various feudal domains were required to regularly kill the targets of the reduction and conquest according to the obligations of their vassals.

Of course, since the collapse of the central authority of the Tang Dynasty and the chaos in the world, the princes of Anton have not worked so this routine obligation, and some people even secretly began to use the daily necessities that were scarce in the mountains to hire some black Khitan clans to sell their lives, or encourage them to fight each other.

The fact that they are here on a large scale is obviously something out of the ordinary.

Then I finally found an interpreter who could communicate skillfully from the rear, and I learned more inside stories about these black Khitans. They had been in close contact with the local vassals a long time ago and were driven by the battle array.

This time, as a vassal power that had long been employed by the alliance of the Northland princes; On the pretext of allocating fertile land for resettlement, they were persuaded to make up a dozen or so departments together, and a large number of young men who could fight, together through neighboring Suizhou and other places, migrated over as pioneers.

And the large and small river valleys and hills in Yaozhou are their promised land.

Hearing this result, I couldn't help but frown.

It's really a hell of a meow, those guys in the Northland Alliance don't dare to fight the old forces led by Luo Fan head-on, but they quietly run to this kind of corner to play the trick of prying the wall and snatching up the Xue family's hometown.

In the ensuing march, the endless harassment and small-scale attacks from the mountains remained uninterrupted, although most of them were easily blocked back or solved on the spot; But it also invisibly aggravated the fatigue and tension of the soldiers to some extent. As a result, the intervals and batches of rotation between battalions had to be shortened.

Fortunately, the depth between most of the mountain gorges can barely accommodate the expansion of a battalion-sized front; Therefore, as long as the formation is set up, the firepower alternates, and the head-on push is good.

In most cases, even if there are cats and dogs of all sizes jumping out and playing robbery and ambushing or something, in front of a strict and orderly military formation, they can only turn into a wave of brainless pigs in the end.

didn't even have the opportunity to fight in close quarters, so they were fired in a neat and tight array, quickly crushing or crushing the fighting spirit, and completely letting the ducks be scattered as birds and beasts.

However, after coming to the junction of Pingzhou and Yaozhou, what happened next was beyond my expectations. Those cities and large settlements in Pingzhou are almost all in one go.

As long as my pioneer battalion forced into the past to demonstratively release a row of guns, the other side could not wait to open the door and surrender.

It was as simple as drinking water and eating, but it made our army vigilant and prepared for battle, and there may be a series of tense and fierce offensive and defensive battles, so it came to naught.

And the reason for the other party's actions is also very simple,

Because of the previous incident of the exodus of various families, the defense in these cities was extremely empty, and the remnants of the newly feudal princes who were left behind, and they were worried about the counterattack and liquidation of the old subjects of the Xue clan in the local area, so they couldn't wait to target our friendly army, which was still an alliance, and all kinds of surrendered and sacrificed the city.

Of course, I am free to judge and dispose of this, and those who are willing to continue to follow my army in local battles will be given appropriate rewards and appeasements, and will be simply reorganized and rearmed, and will be used as auxiliary forces for temporary maintenance;

For those who are unwilling to stay in the place for a long time, they are also provided with a path and convenience to return their own territory safely.

P> accepted and compiled all the way, and steadily advanced all the way, and finally arrived at Pingcheng, the capital of Pingzhou. It is also as the name suggests, facing the border town and the first barrier of the grassland outside the mountains

At the same time,

Shannan East Road, Dengzhou, Jingzi Pass.

With the firelight blooming at the head of the wall and the figures that continue to fall and fall, as well as the higher and higher dirt slopes and the armored soldiers attached to the ants under the wall.

The perseverance and perseverance of the defenders who were struggling to support and the Tutuan villagers who helped the battle, soaked in blood, were like the mud and dust washed by the torrential rain in June, and they quickly dissipated invisibly, turning into countless figures who turned around and left.

After breaking through the Fushui Pass, Tiesuo Pass, and Baiyang Pass east of Wuguan in Shangzhou, the last barrier of Dujian Road under Funiu Mountain, the key point of the intersection of Shannan East Road, Hedong Road, and Henan Road also fell into the hands of the Jingxiang army in the middle of the Southern Dynasty.

Guarded by a group of soldiers with flags and flags, Wang Duanchen, who was in charge of the enemy in front of the enemy, crossed the dilapidated fences and trenches, and passed through a passage that was temporarily cleared out among the corpses that could not be settled.

"Finally it's back."

He looked at the magnificent Guancheng in front of him with some emotion, and the scene of being planted with the Great Liang military flag again.

And in this thousands of miles of journey to go and return, I don't know how much Liang Jian'er's blood has been shed, and how many people will continue to go to a foreign land to bury their bones.

And this time, both the base camp and the front-line commanders have finally been much more cautious, emphasizing and strictly ordering them over and over again from top to bottom, prohibiting all kinds of rash and rash behaviors and actions, but urging all armies to take turns to camp step by step and advance in parallel on several routes;

It wasn't until they were gradually cleaned up and expelled, and the large streams of Fanhu in the local area, or the self-reliant Haoqiang Tutuan and Wubao Walled City, were able to concentrate the strength of several soldiers and horses, go all out to attack the city and seize the land, knock on the pass, and seize the important points.

Therefore, although the progress is somewhat slow and unsatisfactory, the control over the seizure of places is also incomparable.

In other words, it is like a huge machine that is tightly sealed, swallowing up all the land and goods along the way, and then turning into the power and inertia of rolling forward.

Therefore, among the various teams of people who are constantly increasing and being consumed, there are actually all kinds of unkempt and fishy Humazi and Beisai people.

It's just that if we are more cautious in our overall strategy, we will inevitably lose our twilight and conservatism, or we will lose the momentum and sharpness of our original high-spirited progress.

Moreover, with the addition of a large number of overseas guest troops, the formation and the addition of the second northward battle, accompanied by signs of military discipline and the habit of privately plundering the land as a reward, among the armies in the north, all kinds of floods spread, and some of them were repeatedly banned.

Only those Chinese military systems from the Gongwei Army and the Jiangning Imperial Battalion Army will look slightly better in this regard.

Of course, in this series of battles, there are also a few highlights and novelties, mainly about the use of firearms.

Completely different from the Shenji Army, which was regarded as the heavy weapon of the national dynasty in the past, those bloated and complicated combat means and equipment, this time it was reflected in the artillery that was collectively handed over by the naval division and used in a centralized manner; and from the Imperial Camp on the dense phalanx of gunners.

Although the former is quite cumbersome and sluggish, it is more accurate and powerful than the bed ballista cannon in siege and suppression projection, and it is almost invincible;

The Gunner Cluster is more conducive to defending the camp and defending the enemy than the bow and arrow array, and can be used as a support point for the battlefield with the cooperation of other departments.

And everything related to this, he has also heard of it, and it is obviously one of the chain changes and influences brought about by Huaidong's new army's outstanding achievements that are different from the tradition.

It's just a little regrettable that this strong force that managed to survive in the Northern Expedition was temporarily abandoned from the Second Northern Expedition by the big figures in the dynasty on the grounds that it was not appropriate to act rashly because of its limited strength.

But in any case, he has come to this point again, and his strategic depth and leeway have become much broader.

From the Guancheng defense line here, you can bypass the Funiu Mountains to the southeast, and threaten the Dujian Road, which is the center of the Northern Dynasty, or directly enter the central plain heart states of Henan Province;

To the north, you can follow the edge of the mountain to kill the Shaanxi County of Hedong Road, cut off and block the support of Hedong Road, which is the rear of the Northern Dynasty, and even capture or destroy it.

It can even change the direction of the Wuguan Pass, and take the pass of Lantianyu to the old site of Chang'an, and contain and threaten the Western troops at both ends of the first rat, so that they will not easily leave the current territory, and continue to provide assistance and echo for the Northern Dynasty that is still breathing. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net