Volume 8 Jingkang Change Chapter 708 [Eating Soil]
In addition, this Liu Yanqing sent troops from Xiongzhou to Yanjing City, only 30 miles a day, and ordered the soldiers to build a military village in each station, pile up soil for the wall, dig trenches around the wall, set up a military camp in the wall, and each military camp has a silver silk of 1, 200,000 yuan, as a reward. At the time of retreat www.biquge.info because Liu Yanqing did not retreat in an organized manner, but in a panic, and the whole army retreated in a panic, so the large amount of silver silk preserved in these military villages did not have time to be transported, and all fell into the hands of the Jin army.
According to the gossip in the army, since Song Shenzong Xining and Yuanfeng, in order to restore the money, grain and ordnance accumulated in Yanjing, after Liu Yanqing's defeat and retreat, almost all of them were lost, and the treasury was empty, and its losses were very heavy.
And this Liu Yanqing is said to be a famous general in the northwest, who has been following Tong Guan to live from beginning to end, and now that he has suffered such a big defeat, Tong Guan's involvement is naturally difficult to escape. Therefore, when Huang Jie returned, it was not difficult to guess the intention of the play played by Tong Guan in Xiongzhou.
Knowing the ins and outs of the failure of the Northern Expedition, and also knowing the details of the fall of Yanjing City to the hands of the Jin people, Huang Jie also had a general judgment on the current situation.
First of all, in the Liao State, although Yelu Chun lost Yanjing and had to flee to Datong Mansion, but from the perspective of military strength, his losses were not large, at least when he retreated, most of the Xi army led by Xiao Gan and the Khitan army led by Yelu Dashi were complete, and the loss was only the Zahu and Han troops in Yanjing who were responsible for defending the city.
However, with Xiao Gan taking away the Xi army and returning to the Yandong region to start a new business, now only Ye Luchun of the Khitan army should have a big discount in strength.
As for the Jinguo West Route Army, although the Song Army's sentry and night troops have been trying their best to get close to the investigation in the past few months, but because the Song Army's sentry has great investigation defects in military intelligence spying (mainly the language barrier), they have not been able to find out too much valuable information, and the current information is only that most of the West Route Army stationed in Yanjing City is about 80,000 people, and the defenders stationed in the surrounding counties are less than 20,000 in total, and they are all miscellaneous armies and servant armies. And because the Jin army slaughtered the Khitan people after attacking the city along the way, it seems that there is a problem with the supply of food and grass for this army.
In the past two months, the number of Jin army teams sent from Yanjing City to collect grain and grass has begun to increase day by day, and the cruising distance has become farther and farther, and even some southbound teams are almost cruising to the vicinity of the Baigou River.
From this, it is not difficult to judge that Wu Qimai promised to sell Yanjing City to the Great Song Dynasty as long as 500,000 guan, and also specially stipulated that the silk should not exceed 100,000, and the silver money should not exceed 300,000.
Because the Jin army has been attacking the city and plundering the land all the way to implement the three-light policy, I am afraid that there is no grass in the place where it has passed, so now with the slow sitting and eating the empty mountains, I am afraid that it will not be long before the weather enters winter, if the 80,000 Jin troops who have been staying still in Yanjing City to carry out demolition do not want to eat themselves, they are afraid that they will "eat the soil", right?
However, with the predatory nature of the Jin army, when it comes time to choose whether to eat themselves or eat soil, I am afraid that they will have other choices, such as ...... Continue to engage the Liao people in the west, or go south to rob the Great Song Dynasty, if there is such a situation, it will not be fun!
After thinking about it carefully, Huang Jie hurriedly wrote another note for Chen Fei to hand over to Bianliang, and soon got the approval of Zhao Guan's family. In the article, Huang Jie suggested that among the materials promised to the Jin State in advance, try to give them copper coins, silk silk, gold and silver, and a small amount of high-grade military food such as canned meat, dried meat, etc., and it is best not to give leather and rice, wheat, millet, beans and other grains.
The reason is that rice and wheat and other grains can not only be eaten by people but also chewed by horses, and leather can be used to make winter clothes, which will likely become reserve materials for the Jin army to launch a winter offensive. As for saying that although silk silk can also be made into winter clothes, I am afraid that the Jurchens may not be accustomed to wearing them, and although high-end military foods such as canned meat and butcher shops can also satisfy hunger, it is impossible to give more because of the high price.
Seeing that Zhao Guan's family quickly approved the article, Huang Jie also knew about the ransom of Yanyun and Yanjing, and he could be regarded as having done his best. So what he can do next is how to better stab the Jurchens in the back on an unofficial level.
However, no matter what Huang Jie wants to do, it will take time for now. In one day, he sent six groups of people to pass on the secret order of the transfer, and then he could only stay in Huazhou, while accepting the treatment of the imperial doctor with peace of mind, while making fun of it.
Speaking of which, Huang Jie is not very familiar with Zhao Gengzi and Huang Xuanba, although Huang Xuanba has been with Huang Jie and raised in the Horse Mansion since he was born, but he was just born at that time, and he didn't even recognize people. And after Zhao Gengzi was born, Huang Jie immediately went on the road to envoy Jin Guo, and he didn't even have a chance to get close, but he went for almost a year, and when he came back, the two milk dolls would call people, but he didn't recognize his father, do you say this is a little unpleasant.
As for Qingqing and Peiyu, they are all eight or nine-year-old children now, although they have been close to Huang Jie since they were children, but now that they are not small, it is time for them to be enlightened to read and practice martial arts.
Therefore, Huang Jie also took advantage of the opportunity to be a father now, picked up the responsibility of being a father, on the one hand and the two milk dolls were close to each other, and on the other hand, he personally started to build a foundation with Qingqing, and since then the little ladies have been called up to practice martial arts in the morning, read in the morning, and learn the six arts in the afternoon, everything is in order.
It's just that such days have not passed yet, and troubles have followed.
This trouble is not from anyone else, it is the two daughters of Wanyan Wulu and Yelu Guyu, who now live alone from Huang Jie across two courtyards.
This morning, when entering the border of the Great Song Dynasty, Huang Jie told the two of them about the situation and encounters they might face after entering the Great Song Dynasty, although Wanyan Wulu, the wild princess of the Jin Kingdom, has not yet had an accurate understanding of this, but at least Yelu Guyu is the real eldest princess of the Liao Kingdom, and naturally knows that the problem of etiquette is no trivial matter, not to mention the Great Song Dynasty, which values etiquette the most.
So after entering the Song Dynasty, they divided the car and pretended to have nothing to do with it, but the two also cooperated well with Huang Jie, and their acting was also very realistic. After arriving in Huazhou, he naturally used the etiquette of a princess of a country to let Wulu and Gu Desire live in a separate room with Huang Jie, and the two daughters could bear it.
It's just that recently, as the two daughters and the maid who served them slowly became acquainted, the gossip news of the woman's family naturally spread, and when they heard that if there was no "accident", Ulu would still marry the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, and the bone desire may choose another possibility of marriage to the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, Ulu stopped doing it first. (To be continued.) )