Chapter 42: A Fruitful Harvest
This is a one-sided massacre, the Converts are killed, the more they kill, the more brave they become, as if they are facing the Liao army on the battlefield, with a pair of red eyes, eager to dismantle the Liao army.
And the Liao army, except begging for mercy, can't do anything, even if they want to escape, they have no chance. They begged for mercy loudly, but in exchange for the rebuke of the converts, they counted their sins.
These sins are real, and when the Liao army did evil, they were very happy, and they couldn't wait to do a few more. Now, with the sword added, death is coming, and I wish I hadn't done it. However, there is no medicine of repentance in the world, and if they do evil, they will be punished, and the retribution will be the sword of the converts.
The massacre lasted not long before it ended, and more than 2,000 Liao troops died, and not a single one survived. Even if he took it, he also chopped Li Mingchu into meat puree, and a pool of blood surged, if it weren't for someone who knew the details, no one would believe that this was the guard of the horse farm.
There are only more than 2,000 Liao troops in this horse farm, which is comparable to the Conversion Army, and if there is a big fight, the Conversion Army can be slaughtered. However, it will not be so convenient, let alone so clean. If it weren't for Wu Ji's clever plan to capture the Liao army, but to fight, the Liao army in the horse farm would have escaped part of it anyway, and the time spent would never have been so short, and it would have taken a lot of effort.
Because this horse farm is close to Laishui, not far away is Laishui, once the Liao army can't defeat it, it will cross the water. If that's the case, no matter how powerful the Converts are, they won't be useful.
No one thought that Wu Ji used such a wonderful method to stabilize the Liao army, and also gathered the Liao army, and was slaughtered by the conversion army, which was so thorough that it made people excited to think about it.
What makes people even happier is still to come, after killing all the Liao army, Wu Ji ordered to start scraping, and take away everything that can be taken away. It seems that these Liao troops have not captured the Han people, otherwise there would not have been so much property.
What made the Returning Army angry was that hundreds of Han women were taken captive by the Liao army for the Liao army's silver humiliation. In a small horse farm, so many Han women have been taken captive, how many people are living in dire straits in the land of Yanyun?
"What a wreck! Shi Jingjiao has done evil! Wu Ji looked at these abused women, couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, cursing Shi Jingjiao for not having peace after his death.
Shi Jingjiao's betrayal of the country, which is infinitely poisonous, can be said to be the most shameful page in Chinese history, and its harm is so great that it is difficult to hope that he can carry it.
The cession of the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Liao State not only made the people of Yanyun land live in dire straits, but also opened a door for the alien race to invade the Central Plains, so that the alien iron cavalry could drive straight into the Central Plains.
If Zhou Shizong hadn't withdrawn the three levels, maybe the Liao State would have entered the Central Plains again, and would not have waited for the Jurchens to do it. Even so, the Song Dynasty did not keep the Central Plains, first under the attack of the Jurchens, lost the Central Plains, how many people died, can not count, the people of the Central Plains live in dire straits.
In the period of the Mongols, they directly used the Central Plains as a springboard to attack Jiangnan, destroying the Southern Song Dynasty and losing the entire country. As a result, the Song Dynasty became the only dynasty in Chinese history to die at the hands of a foreign race.
Tracing back to the source, it is because the sixteen states of Yanyun were lost.
This is the terrible consequence of Shi Jingjiao's betrayal of the country, which has been poisoned for hundreds of years, and tens of millions of people have died under this traitorous action. The Mongols slaughtered more than 20 million people before they entered the Central Plains and destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty. This is only done by the Mongols, and what the Jurchens and Khitans did has not been counted. All of them are counted, without 100 million, it will not be too bad.
"Commander Wu Du, you have seen with your own eyes that the people of Yanyun are living in dire straits, and you should know why our Qiyun Society is still resisting now." Zhang Tong came to Wu Ji's side and said softly: "It's not that we want to resist, but we have to rebel!" ”
"yes!" Wu Ji nodded in agreement, remembering the famous saying "Where there is oppression, there is resistance". The Khitans oppressed the Han people so much, how could the people of Yanyun not resist?
"Don't worry, I have decided, I must stir up the turmoil in the land of Yanyun." Wu Ji had never had such a strong desire at this moment: "It's best to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!" ”
"The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are the fundamental land of Liaogou, if the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are recovered, the strength of the Khitan people will plummet, and they are not far from extinction!" Zhang Tong was very excited and said: "At that time, only one partial division is needed to go deep into the desert and dig up the ancestral graves of the Khitans." ”
After Han Derang's governance, the land of Yanyun has long become the fundamental land of Liao, if there is no land of Yanyun, the strength of Liaoguo will plummet, and there will be no one in ten, and it is really not far from extinction.
Wu Ji gathered the captive women, distributed them silver taels, and told them to go home. He also explained that if there was nowhere to go in Liaodi, he could go to Wu Ji for conversion, and Wu Ji would properly settle them.
These women were grateful to Wu Ji, and they left with a thousand thanks.
After sending these women away, Wu Ji led the Converting Army, drove the war horse, set off with the captured property, and marched towards the Song Realm.
"Commander Wudu, guess how many things we got this time?" Qi Da Baole came to Wu Ji's side, smiled before speaking, and said, "It is far beyond our estimates." If nothing else, there are more than 20,000 war horses alone. The horse farm originally raised more than 18,000 war horses, plus the mounts of Liao dogs, more than 20,000. More than 30,000 taels of gold and silver, countless grains and grass, and more than 3,000 war horses were used to transport them. ”
"That's a lot!" Wu Ji was a little surprised, and hated it very much: "Liaogou's oppression is ruthless enough. ”
The cow's hair is out of the cow, and these things must belong to the Han people, and it is impossible to make people not angry.
"In the past, I only heard how ruthless Liaogou was in oppressing the Han people, but now, when I saw it with my own eyes, I knew how ruthless it was." Huangfu Song's eyes flashed, he was very angry, his right hand was clenched on the hilt of the knife, if there was a Liao army in front of him, he would definitely be killed.
"Now, it's better." Zhang Tong raised his eyebrows: "In the first ten or twenty years, Liaogou used the land of Yanyun as a warehouse, and if he was slightly dissatisfied, he would kill the Han people and get angry." At that time, in the eyes of Liao dogs, the Han people were pigs and dogs, and they were allowed to slaughter them. The people of Yanyun hated it a lot, so when Zhou Shizong recovered the three passes and was about to march into Youzhou, the people of Yanyun responded in groups, just waiting for Zhou Shizong to advance. However, jealous of talent, Zhou Shizong died suddenly and missed a great opportunity. ”
Zhou Shizong collected the three passes, the Liao army retreated, Youzhou became an empty city, and the people in the land of Yanyun responded en masse, Wu Ji had long known about it, and now he heard it again, which still made him feel more deeply.
Zhang Tong sighed, and continued: "Until Empress Dowager Xiao took power, the Han people's life was slightly better. Han Derang Although this person is a Han Jian, he is willing to be an eagle dog of the Liao State, and his person is indeed a great talent, and the Empress Dowager Xiao entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and he also lived up to the expectations of the Empress Dowager Xiao and governed the land of Yanyun in an orderly manner. Since then, the oppression of the Han people by the Khitans has improved, but it has only improved, and it is impossible to achieve the same. Not to mention anything else, that is, above the court of the Liao State, the Khitan ministers are one level higher than the Han Chen. ”
It was precisely because Empress Dowager Xiao reused Han De to let these Han ministers integrate the land of Yanyun into the Liao State, which greatly improved the strength of the Liao State, and the Khitan became completely different from the previous nomads, such as the Xiongnu and the Turks. Although the Xiongnu and Turkic nomads were strong, they could only bend their horses and bows, and they did not have advanced civilization or developed science and technology.
And because the Khitans owned the sixteen states of Yanyun, accepted the Han civilization, and possessed developed technology, their combat power increased dramatically, and finally became a great disaster in the north. Coupled with the weakness of the Song Dynasty, [***] unbearable, it eventually became a climate.
"In the final analysis, there is something wrong with the imperial court." Wu Ji said bluntly: "Although there are a large number of Han people in the sixteen states of Yanyun, there are advanced civilizations and developed skills, which can improve the strength of the Khitan people a lot. However, if you want to compare with the imperial court, it is still very inferior. ”
If the Song Dynasty had a majestic emperor and twisted the strength of the Song Dynasty into a rope, its strength would far exceed that of the Tang Dynasty, and the Liao State and Western Xia would not be able to stop the expansion of the Song Dynasty at all. Wu Ji hit the nail on the head, and in the final analysis, it was the Song Dynasty that had a problem.
"The change must be carried out to the end! If you want to change the status quo, you have to change! At this moment, Wu Ji is extremely strong about the status quo of reform.
If you don't change, you will be beaten, this is a portrayal of the Song Dynasty.
"Where are you going to receive it?" Wu Ji put away his thoughts and looked at Zhang Tong.
"Let's go to the Song Realm first." Zhang Tong replied.
"Okay then." Wu Ji looked at Zhang Tong and asked, "How is the situation on the road?" ”
"So far, the wind is still calm, and Liaogou has not moved. I think it would take a few days for Liaogou to find out that the horse farm had been robbed. Zhang Tong groaned for a moment and answered truthfully.
"Great!" Wu Ji's eyes are particularly bright.
"You're not going to want to do it again, are you?" Zhang Tong thought of something.
"Such a good opportunity, if I miss it, I feel sorry for myself." Wu Ji's voice turned higher and said: "We take the horse farm, it can be said that we don't know it, and it will take some time for Liaogou to find out, which is enough for us to do a lot of things." Li Mingchu, you led a battalion of people, drove the war horse, and returned to the letter. ”
"Commander Wudu, you can't be so favoritous." Li Mingchu's face was stretched so long, and he was very unhappy: "Commander Wudu, you better change someone, the little one still wants to do a few more votes." ”
"You don't talk nonsense." Wu Ji's face sank.
"Commander Wu Du, although the small one has slashed you with a knife, but you have a large number of old people, so you don't care about these. Grandpa Wu, you can let the little one do a few more votes. Li Mingchu's smile on his face, that smile was piled up layer after layer, more affectionate than seeing the ancestor: "Such a beautiful thing, if you don't do a few more votes, you really can't help yourself!" ”
"If you say it again, I'll take care of the house and won't let you come out." Wu Ji's face was blank and he said in a deep voice.
"Commander Wu Du, please rest assured that your old family, I will go back, I will go back." Li Mingchu was very unhappy, and muttered: "They went to eat meat, but I watched dryly, isn't this torture?" ”
If you are not happy, you still have to carry out the military order and take people to drive the war horse back to the Song Realm.
Wu Ji consulted with Huangfu Song and others, dispersed the conversion army, and ran towards their respective goals.
(To be continued)