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Liaodong Han'er Zhang Gao and An Sheng coerced more than 200,000 hungry people, crisscrossing more than a dozen prefectures and counties, making the already complicated situation in Liaodong even more chaotic.

Before the rise of the Jurchens, in the land of Liaodong, the Khitan, Jurchen, Bohai people, Murwei people, Han people and even the Goryeo people, all kinds of people, too numerous to mention, their population composition can be described as mixed, relying only on blood relations to form a small nomadic tribe, the largest is only a few thousand, some small tribes even only a hundred and ten people.

These tribes have a grudge against each other, and even in good times, they will attack and kill each other for various reasons. For the fighting between such tribes, the upper echelons of the Liao State did not stop it. On the one hand, the Liao State was based on the tribal nomadic system as the foundation of state administration, and the Khitan people were only the most powerful tribe among them, and it was impossible to form a stable county system like the Han regime. On the other hand, these small tribes attacking each other are also in line with the nomadic custom of the jungle, and can also weaken the population strength of other nomadic peoples, which is also crucial for the consolidation and continuation of the rule of the Khitan clan in the Liao State.

Nowadays, the north bank of the Liao River is occupied by the Jurchens, and many ** tribes that have been out of the white mountains and black waters for a hundred years have also thrown themselves in, making the strength of the new dynasty of the Jin Kingdom, which has just been established for only three years, greatly increased.

The Jurchens are less than 10,000, and they are invincible.

In just three years, there were two battles in Ningjiang Prefecture and Chuhedian, and Wanyan Aguta defeated nearly 100,000 Liao troops with thousands of Jurchens, and then captured Huanglongfu, the land of Khitan Longxing, which shook the Liao government and the opposition. Emperor Yelu Yanxi gathered 700,000 elites in the country, and with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, he wanted to put down the Jurchen rebellion in one fell swoop and recapture Huanglong Mansion. But he didn't want to protect Dagang in a battle, and 700,000 elites were killed by 20,000 Jurchen soldiers, and the corpses were all over the field.

Throughout the history of China, there has not been such a rapid rise as the Jurchens, before and after only two years, with a savage tribal nation between the white mountains and black waters, defeated the old empire that had dominated the north for more than 200 years in one fell swoop, completely reversing the offensive and defensive trend of each other. If it weren't for the vast territory of the Liao State and the fact that the Jurchen population was too small, the whole clan would be full of men, women, and children in one place, and it would not be more than 100,000. After conquering a large territory north of the Liao River, he had to stop his conquest in order to digest the land and population gained from the previous war and consolidate his rule.

There is such a fierce beast on the north bank of the Liao River, Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo can be described as three shocks a day, in order to prevent the old affairs of Huanglong Mansion, it has to concentrate elite soldiers and horses in various important state capitals, as for the outside of the city, in addition to the requisition of war horses, grain and grass as much as possible, others are not to be taken care of.

With the weakening of Liao's control over the tribes in eastern Liaodong, coupled with the frequent snowstorms in recent years, the government's expropriation and expropriation made the lives of these tribes more and more difficult, and finally caused the civil unrest that swept most of Tokyo Province.

In June of the first year of the Great Song Dynasty, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou Naval Division, who had been adrift at sea for nearly half a month, finally landed on the border of Qianzhou in Liao.

On this trip to Liaodong, in addition to Hua Rong, there were also two fierce generals Luan Tingyu and Ma Xun, who had been placed in the command of any battalion in the naval division before, but this time it was Ximen Qing who was worried that Hua Rong would not be able to support it alone, so he made these two come together.

If you want to exchange grain for horses, you must at least find the nomadic tribes here, which is not a simple matter.

Now in Liaodong, wars are frequent, and the Dengzhou Navy Division is not a cavalry army, and only Hua Rong's 100 pro-troops under his jurisdiction can be regarded as horseback foot soldiers, and his mount is still Lu Junyi's side just sent someone to Dengzhou. Now I can't say that I will scatter these people out and search for people all over the world, but as for whether there will be any damage and whether we can find the tribal population here, we can only resign ourselves to fate.

One hundred pro-troops, ten people, divided into ten directions, scattered out, while Hua Rong and the others took the entire fleet to guard the sea, waiting for the results day after day.

Five days later, the first team returned, and only two of the original ten people returned, but they were attacked by a chaotic army on the way, and only two escaped with their lives.

In the past half a month, seven teams returned, and the loss of soldiers amounted to sixty percent, and finally brought back the son of the patriarch of a small tribe.

A tribe of more than 500 people, after this famine war, only 120 people have survived now, at this time, there is not one in the tribe, there is not one in the old, weak, women and children, only more than ten children with the strongest bodies, and the rest are all young and strong.

Fifteen war horses, a hundred stone of grain.

This is the first transaction made by the Dengzhou sailor in Liaodong, the 100 stone grain, if it is in Bianliang, Tokyo, can be worth a horse at most, but now it is exchanged for fifteen good war horses at the right time, if these war horses are sent to Bianliang to be sold, the profit is nearly 100 times.

With the first tribe in exchange for food, the rest of the things are much easier, many tribes heard the wind and came, in just one month, the war horses obtained more than two hundred, Hua Rong ordered the fleet to empty two thousand large ships to return, the remaining three continue to stop in the sea off Qianzhou, do this kind of grain for horses business.

Due to the previous experience, it took only six days for the two big ships to transport the war horses to arrive at the Dengzhou Sailor Wharf, although nearly one percent died at sea for various reasons, but about ninety percent of the war horses arrived safely, or Ximen Qing who heard the news was ecstatic.

This time to open this trade route, no matter how the situation in Liaodong changes in the future, Ximen Qing can be regarded as having a relatively stable source of war horses, plus Lu Junyi's side promised two hundred war horses a year, it will not be long before the gang of thieves in Shixiu in Dengyunzhai can all be dressed as cavalry, and the only regret now is that there is no qualified cavalry general under his command.

was worried spontaneously, and suddenly saw two large ships of thousands of materials loaded with grain, but Ximen Qing slapped his head and secretly said that he was confused. I think that it has only been a few years since the Western Army recovered Qingtang, and the only thing that can really be regarded as a field cavalry army in the entire Great Song Dynasty is the Baiqi Army just formed by the Western Army, and as for the generals who are good at cavalry warfare, I am afraid that it is even more difficult to find.

However, at present, there is a great chaos in Liaodong, and if there is an opportunity, those tribal herdsmen who are good at riding and archery will be willing to move south. These people have grown up on horseback since childhood, riding ** Zhan, making it a lesson, it is not difficult to train a useful cavalry army, as for the battle array, there are brave generals to lead, but there is no need for such northern herdsmen.

Just when Ximen Qing was secretly proud in his heart, Hua Rong and the others, who were far away in Liaodong, were facing an extremely difficult choice.