None of the 10,000 Fusang troops were standing, and the Liao cavalry on the shore had lost only half of them.

The battle loss ratio was 1 to 1, which was rare in infantry versus cavalry battles, and it was still 10,000 infantry against 20,000 cavalry.

Yelujing in the river had no intention of advancing again, and ordered the 10,000 cavalry that had reached the river to turn around and return.

At this time, the more than 20,000 infantry of the Liao army who had already crossed the river were surrounded by the Fusang army that had heard the news.

These more than 20,000 soldiers had just undergone training and had recovered their morale slightly, but they were abandoned by Yelujing again.

These Liao infantry, when they learned that the backup had been withdrawn, could no longer muster up the courage to fight.

So, after only less than a quarter of an hour of fighting, the Liao army, under the leadership of the generals, surrendered first.

According to the custom, the Fusang army, after accepting the surrender of the Liao army, quickly divided the Liao soldiers, and then slaughtered them, and slaughtered them by the river.

It was also this massacre that in the days to come, no Liao army would be willing to surrender to the Fusang army, and every Fusang army captured was beheaded by the Liao army in the same way.

The water of the Yalu River has not receding for months, and tens of thousands of headless corpses floating in the river have drifted down the river.

Yelujing's anger was unstoppable, and he quickly sent an order to go to Beijing to recruit soldiers to help again, and set the number of soldiers at no less than 200,000.

At the same time, he ordered Yelu Wuzhi to hold on to the north of the Luzhou River and wait for reinforcements.

Yelujing has turned what was originally a battle to rescue Goryeo into a decisive battle between the two countries.

By the time Toyotomi arrived in Uiju the next day, everything was a foregone conclusion. Although Toyotomi Shixu sighed in his heart, he did not blame any of the Fuso generals, and he then sent an order to Fuso Kyoto. Toyotomi Morihito issued an edict to forcibly recruit soldiers. All men between the ages of 13 and 40 are included in the draft.

At this time, the armies of the two countries on both sides of the Yalu River were already exhausted, and they were resting and recuperating.

For the time being, it has entered a phase of stalemate.

The Liao State is different from Fusang, and in Fusang, it has now become a hall of words in the Toyotomi family. The people were even more excited about the destruction of Goryeo in the previous two months, and although they were somewhat resistant to large-scale conscription, they were deterred by the strong military power of Toyotomi Morihito. I can't make any big waves.

But the Liao State is different, and the Liao State itself has reached the point of intolerable cruelty to Yelujing.

At this time, the war started because of Goryeo's request for help, and it should not have been a decisive battle between Liao and Fuso, but now it has sent troops twice. The number has reached 190,000. To levy another 200,000 yuan, the difficulty can be imagined, and the Liao State went to Beijing and fell into the debate of whether to fight or not to fight.

God's arrangement always has its considerations, it gives the Liao people a strong physique, but also gives the Liao people valuable war horse resources, but it limits the population of the Liao people, Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji once saw the cavalry combat power of the Jurchen tribe when he unified the north. At that time, he exclaimed: "The Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000, and it is invincible." ”

This speaks volumes about the wisdom of the Creator. Food will always be a sword hanging over the heads of these northern nomads, and as soon as the population rises, their end will be food shortage, or starvation.

Liao has to recruit 200,000 troops, this is indeed very difficult, these 200,000 numbers are not population, but strong, take out this batch of strong, Liao needs more than ten years to ease up again, and it does not take more than ten years, the surrounding ethnic groups will swallow up the Khitans, the most terrible of which is the Jurchen tribe.

Yelujing's personality dictated his behavior, and when he heard that there was a dispute in the court about his orders, he returned to Shangjing with 10,000 cavalry and dealt with a group of dissenting officials in bloody ways.

Thus, in the midst of intense repression, the Liao State temporarily quelled the civil strife, officially entered a state of full-scale war, and began to levy troops from various tribes. Conscription, unlike recruitment, is a forced conscription with no room for compromise.

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The war preparations of the Ming State were carried out in an orderly manner, and at the request of Baili Wuji, the military ration of the soldiers was revised.

In the past, when the army was stationed, the military ration was half a catty of fine grain, one catty of coarse grain, and three taels of meat per day.

When Baili Wuji sent the army out to fight, it was changed to one person every day, half a catty of fried rice, half a catty of dried potatoes, and three taels of dried meat.

In order to achieve transportation and storage, the Ming State began to mobilize all states and counties across the country to make fried rice, dried potatoes, and dried meat, and the government purchased the reserves in a unified manner.

But what makes Baili Wuji nerve-wracking is how to solve the drinking water needed on the Northern Expedition.

In addition to announcing the world and recruiting guides who are familiar with the Northland Oasis, Baili Wuji and the ministers of the Ming Kingdom can't think of any other way.

All the military rations have been made into dry rations, but the water is fluid, and it is not easy to place the containers alone, and the difficulty of transporting them over long distances can be imagined.

The only way out is to rely on manpower and animal power to transport military rations, but the transportation of drinking water is indeed much more difficult than the transportation of military rations.

There is no other good way, it can only be like this, now let Baili Wuji regret a little bit in his heart to give up the four states of Mi, Qing, Di, and Cang, if these four states are in hand, they can directly transport materials to the north, but now they can only be transported by ship.

Regret is regret, Baili Wuji also knows that if he didn't give up at that time, Guo Wei might not be able to agree happily, even if he agreed, it may also make Guo Wei have jealousy in his heart, so it is likely that the harmonious relationship between the two countries will not be formed today. Baili Wuji sighed in his heart.

The 200,000 elite and strong men collected were distributed in Jiangdu Prefecture on the edge of Jinling Mansion and Xifu (Hangzhou) in the south for training respectively, and Baili Wuji convened Tanzhou Erudite University and Jinling Academy, and in the past few years, a total of more than 3,000 military scholars and military science students who have completed their studies have served as middle-level officers such as squadron leaders and captains of the New Army.

Baili Wuji hopes that this group of students will grow up rapidly after this Northern Expedition, and in the future, they will be able to replace the original commanders of all armies and truly become the pillars of the Ming army.

At this time, the thing that caused Baili Wuji a headache was that the ministers of the Ming Kingdom had begun to force themselves to take concubines.

From the beginning of the exhortation, it has developed to now kneel together at the court meeting.

The unanimity of the four factions in the Ming court on this issue can be compared with the issue of the Northern Expedition.

But he was still rejected by Baili Wuji, and a "put it on hold for the time being" broke the hearts of the ministers of the Ming Kingdom.

An emperor who has no heirs, no matter how wise and powerful he is, what can he leave behind after a hundred years? Where do you go as a minister of the Ming Kingdom? Do you have to go through the Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou again?

Baili Wuji did have some worries about his heirs in his heart at this time, he understood that in this era, it was a fool's dream to want to break away from his family and country and establish a democratic republic.

Before the wisdom of the people is opened, China is indispensable to the emperor, and for the people, the absence of the emperor is equivalent to the absence of heaven. (To be continued......)