Volume 3 Mending the Crack in the Sky Chapter 119 Killing Throat (9)
At the time of the continuous battle between Hedong and Yandi, the time of the first year of Jingkang of the Great Song Dynasty finally came to the beginning of May and summer.
This war in the time and space without Xiao Yan shook the entire Great Song Empire in a short period of time. In this Jingkang period, because Xiao Yanzhi, who was eager to be defeated early by many people in the world, arranged it early, and went there in person, leading his sons and daughters to sacrifice life and death, and still limited the war to the border of the Great Song Empire.
Even though the east of the river has been beaten to the top of the mountain, the people outside the river have been displaced. Yandi is even more riding, destroying all the qiΔ along the way. But until March and April, the people in the belly of the Great Song Dynasty still did not feel the impact of this war. Bianliang, the most prosperous place in the world, has resumed the leisurely and leisurely rhythm of life with Xiao Yan's departure.
The people of the Great Song Dynasty were unaware of the late winter and spring of the beginning of this Jingkang year. It is this outlier who appeared in the Great Song Dynasty, this Nanlaizi who was hated and cursed by many scholars and doctors, how changed this history. Otherwise, when the Jurchen Iron Cavalry began to move south, the empire would be shattered from the beginning, and hundreds of people would sink into a sea of blood, until this civilization, which had been at the peak of wealth in this era for more than a hundred years, finally fell into darkness!
And Xiao Yan is in a situation where there are many constraints, how many people are watching coldly, and how many people are hiding and moving, waiting for him to show his flaws and rush forward. Even though he led the good sons and daughters who followed him to do their best to protect this empire and civilization, after all, before the turbulence surging from the north, they could not limit this barbaric frenzy that seemed to be ruining for too long.
This Great Song Dynasty, when he finally entered May, began to feel the impact of this war that seemed to be Xiao Yan alone.
Hedong side. The Jurchen West Route Army was 60,000 troops under Zong Han. Troops pressed the Yellow River. Knock on the portal of ιε»Άγ The Western Army's Yan Army and Zhejia Army finally mobilized, preparing to suppress Zong Han's troops to turn around.
In Hebei, the 100,000-strong army of Zongwang of the Jurchen East Road Army has swept the entire Yandi, and now the army is before the army overwhelms Yizhou. At any time, it will cross the boundary river between the original Song and Liao and go deep into Hebei.
The displaced people from Hedong either flocked to Shaanxi, or were intercepted and sheltered by Xiao Yan near Taiyuan, and there was no great impact on the roads of Gyeonggi. Only some people from the Hedong clan fled to Bianliang. Finding a place to make a home. In addition to pushing up the price of Bianliang's rented houses a little, it has brought more talking points to the people in Bianliang City. The fact that Xiao Yan killed Wu Min to set the hearts of the people in Hedong was even more rumored, and it became a proof that Xiao Yan was reckless.
The Yandi refugees, who had never been robbed by the surging south, finally began to bring a huge impact to the Hebei Zhulu.
How many refugees came to help the old and the young, crying and crying. Since Yu Jiang took over the border defense line on the northern edge of the river with the Tianwu army, he opened the passage on the northern edge of the river to let these Yandi refugees go south.
Thousands of refugees are coming, and bonfires are lit up in the fields every day. These refugees stayed up until dawn on some cold nights in the early summer. The border prefectures and counties also began to give porridge and relief, but two or three years ago, the war against Yan. Most of the treasury of the border prefecture and county has been wasted, and the remaining reserves must also support the war that has begun. Even if you sweep out some black rice and distribute it, what will it do?
The almost endless influx of Yandi refugees suddenly deteriorated the law and order in the border prefecture and county. Those who took advantage of the chaos to buy the children of refugees, looted and fought for a bite to eat, and local wealthy families began to gather to protect themselves. I don't know how many incidents will occur every day. And the rumors that the Jurchen military horses brought by the Yandi refugees were extremely cruel and murderous in Yandi reminded many Hebei people of the terrible memories of the Khitan constantly plundering and plundering the grass valley at the beginning of the country. A large number of people in Hebei also began to flee south!
is not as good as Xiao Yan's pro-town in Hedong, and there is a deterrent power of cutting down hundreds of officials who abandoned their posts and fled in Hedong. Xiao Yan can mobilize the forces that command most of the Hedong to stabilize the situation in Hedong and pacify the chaos caused by the war. And Yu Jiang and Ma Kuo were able to barely control the local garrison of the forbidden army in Hebei, take over the defense, and start to rectify the deployment in the Daimyo Mansion, which was already the limit of the ability of the two people. How can you let Hebei Zhulu go up and down like Xiao Yan, and you can only respect their orders awe-inspiringly, and dare not slack off in the slightest?
The bureaucratic system of Hebei Zhulu only began to operate slowly on its own, coping with this chaos. The documents and seals that are anxious to ask for help every day are sent to Bianliang like a flowing water, counting on the center of the imperial court to solve the chaos in Zhulu in Hebei. And the center of the imperial court in Bianliang, in addition to squeezing out a little material to transfer to the north, more often than not, it is to transfer these documents and seals to Taiyuan. Leave all the responsibility to Xiao Yan.
Such a ruling system, such and such officials, scholars, and doctors. Let the chaos in Hebei only continue to develop slowly but irreversibly. Xiao Yan wanted to devote himself to the war in Hedong, and the military horses deployed in Hebei could only make a difference in military affairs. Thousands of people in Hebei are struggling to survive on their own before the catastrophe in the coming day!
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Hebei East Road Xin'an Army edge, in front of the wolf walled city. Hundreds of soldiers were guarding the southbound road in front of the village, facing groups of Yandi refugees who fled south.
The wolf city walled city is the key defense of the north-south passage, and it was also operated in the early Song Dynasty. And divert water into a depression and plant trees to limit the conflict of the Khitan cavalry at that time.
Over the years, the wolf city has been abandoned and depressed like other villages in Hebei. There were always garrison and garrison military horses on the roster, but at the most powerful time, there was actually no real soldier, and all of them were eaten as vacancies.
At the beginning of the Yongning army going north, Wang Yu also had the power to send envoys from the east and west curbs of Hebei. At that time, in order to support the Yongning Army, the central center of the imperial court could control the garrison forbidden troops in Zhendingfu, Dingzhou, Baozhou, Guangxin Army, Ansu Army, Xiongzhou, Baoding Army, Xin'an Army, Qingzhou, Cangzhou and other places.
Although there were many forbidden troops stationed in the military states, Wang Yu was not as good as pacifying the envoys who could also take charge of the local officials. The power is only extended to the rectification of the forbidden army stationed in the above military states and the reorganization of the border defense line of the east and west roads of Hebei.
There is no power over the magistrates. There's a lot less that can be done. However, at that time, Wang Yu still tried his best to Zhending Mansion with Yongning Army. The garrison forbidden army in the border military state began to select the elite. Try your best to recruit some people to repair the original deserted village defense. At that time, the wolf city was also on the list of restorations.
Wang Yuhui had only begun to work on the border line on the northern edge of the river, and he had already been involved in the court dispute in Bianliang. And the Yongning Army has also been adapted and digested as a whole in the current Tianwu Army. After Yu Jiang led the army to the edge of the Hebei, he also sent Wang Yu's original envoy to the two sides of the Hebei to intensify Wang Yu's unfinished affairs.
In fact, the smoke in the east of the river has risen, and the flames of Yandi have also risen. The local cooperation is finally a little stronger. The forbidden army stationed in the border military prefecture on the border of Hebei Province has finally accelerated the speed of operation a little when the Tianwu Army is the backbone of the military force.
These military states on the edge of Hebei have traditionally been where heavy troops are stationed. The garrison of the forbidden army should be checked out of the military register. The local Xiang army, the archery club training club and other native soldiers, the number should have been more than 100,000! But at this time, the selected military force that could barely be used was actually only more than 10,000 people.
At this time, it is no longer possible to sigh at how corrupted the military system of the Great Song Dynasty is. Only by trying to enrich these barely selected military horses into the border and hurry to restore the fortress pass. With such a long line of defense, the Tianwu Army can only disperse a part of the fortress stationed in the most important passes, and also concentrate a part of the military horses as an emergency mobile force. The rest of the village defense can only rely on these selected to be stationed in the forbidden army to stuff it.
And at this moment, the defenders of the Wolf City Walled City are the first part of the forbidden army stationed in the original security army. It belongs to the guard pro-army infantry division Yongjie army number. During the Dazhong Xiangfu period, the Yongjie Army commanded the town security army and the Xin'an army with the 11th infantry army, and then it was on Hebei East Road for more than 100 years. Now the eleventh commander of the Yongjie Army is the infantry army. A barely capable sergeant who can be selected, but it can be formed into a maximum of two commands. One of them is the one who guards the Wolf Walled City, and the owner of the Wolf Walled City is also the commander of this command, Huang Xiaojie.
The commander and the owner of the village was now sitting in a straw hut set up by the side of the road, wearing a naked jacket without armor, and a pair of bast shoes with his arms open, sitting on a bed of hu, with a pot of coarse tea and a stack of black pottery bowls on the tables next to him. Several sergeants were not much dressed like him, and they were holding fans to fan him diligently.
Huang Xiaojie is in his early forties this year, but he is extremely strong. He is also a figure in the Xin'an Military City. When other generals have not heard about military affairs for many years, they can eat their subordinates at all. Huang Xiaojie can still raise two or three hundred soldiers under his command, set up gambling and prostitution in the security military city, collect the passage money of the caravans, and control the city market, which is a tyrant in the city. The hands are broad, and the family can entertain the heroes in the three mountains and five mountains at any time, and people give the nickname Xiao Meng.
When Wang Yu and Yu Jiang took turns sorting out and selecting places to be stationed in the forbidden army, the Xin'an army pulled out a group of people from Huang Xiaoxing. Although it is not so neat and solemn, it looks majestic and daring. The local garrison forbidden army can have this lineup, no matter what his background, the inspection general is already thankful. Huang Xiaojie was entrusted with an important task when he arrived, moved his official twice, and sent in addition to his own commander, he was even more the owner of the wolf city walled wall, and the Xin'an army was patrolled on the edges.
And Huang Xiaojie also took over. In addition to the fact that promotion is naturally a good thing, Huang Xiaojie also confessed to himself that the Anjun Army was his territory, and the Jurchen Tartars were going to fight, and he Huang General had to have the responsibility of defending the land.
Such a military general is already a rare figure selected from the forbidden army stationed in Zhulu in Hebei. The Hebei garrison forbidden army is not as good as Hedong, and the Hedong military horses have participated in the war against Western Xia as a response in the past few decades, which is not particularly bad.
After Xiao Meng tasted Huang Xiaojie and Huang inspected the town of Wolf City, in addition to recruiting people to continue to repair the village defense, fighting lawsuits with the local officials of the Xin'an Army to urge money and food, and the Tianwu Army to supplement military equipment and equipment, in addition to more or less practicing military horses. The rest of the energy is a lot of energy, just put on setting up cards and collecting benefits.
Regardless of whether the surname Zhao is in charge in this world or whether he will be replaced with the surname Xiao in the future, but there is no reason to call people in vain!
This south-to-north passage is a good place for hair growth. Originally, there were caravans, but there were too many people who stretched out their hands, and Huang Xiaojie could only share part of the profit at that time. Now it's patrol again. Wartime again. If the name is right, you can swallow it in one bite. No one can fight for it.
Although the caravans are now extinct because of the war, how can so many refugees not be a source of income?
In the south of the grass shed where the Huang Xiaojie is erected, the Baigou River between Song and Liao is flowing slowly. In the summer, the water has risen a little more, and it is already impossible to wade through it. The only ferry crossing within a few dozen miles is just after the grass shed of Huang Xiaojie. Hundreds of sons and daughters are guarding the town with their knives out of their sheaths and bows on the strings.
And the brigade of refugees who fled from the south, no matter what their status. It turns out that what kind of net worth and status he has in Yandi, he has to go under Huang Mengwei's hands. Needless to say, they have to hand it over, and if they don't have the assets with them, they have to work for Huang Mengwei for a few months for the people, needless to say, repair the village defense and the like. Recently, there are more and more people fleeing in Hebei, and how many landlords are short of manpower for the summer harvest.
From morning to noon, Huang Xiaojie has been sitting here for a long time, and the various goods piled up in the grass shed have been packed into several boxes. Many of them are also treasured utensils in the homes of former Liao nobles. Scattered among the people, they have now fallen into the waist of Huang Xunjian.
The brigade of refugees was almost completely stripped. Mu Ran's fish walked through these Song Dynasty soldiers in naked jackets, waiting for the ferry to cross back and forth. Hundreds of refugees who paid money for entering and leaving the industry were enclosed in one place and watched by the soldiers, who looked at the little ladies among the refugees and made low or high laughing voices from time to time.
After Huang Xiaojie drank another bowl of coarse tea, one of his subordinates strode in with his head wiped his head and sweat all over his face, and Huang Xiaojie didn't see him, he reached out and grabbed the big teapot, and he didn't use the bowl, he took a big mouth with a small mouth, and poured a sigh of anger with his neck straight. Then he took a long breath.
"The cool of the straight lady thief! It's finally getting hot this day, and the boys have to work very this errand............ General, it seems that the Jurchen Tartars are making more and more trouble in the north, and there are more and more Yan refugees who have fled. There is a lot of hair growth, and the general's hands can't treat us badly............ But what should this Jurchen Tartar do if he rushes over? β
Huang Xiaojie snorted, snatched the pu fan and slapped himself twice, and then nodded at the head: "Didn't the Tianwu Army come down?" Yixian victory! Long Weiyong beheaded Yang Zaixing, the Jurchen Tartar Emperor's grandson, Wanyan Ahudie, Wanyan Sweeping, Wanyan Chara, Wanyan...... What a bird's. Cut off as many as five or six thousand Jurchen Tartar heads! The Tartars have died so many characters, and if they don't have red eyes, the Tianwu Army will select the elite to go up and fight with the Tartars in Yizhou! We must guard our respective fortifications and step up border patrols............ These Tartars, where can they take care of our wolf city here? β
Na Dutou only nodded when he heard this, and couldn't help but say: "This Yang Zaixing, I really don't know what kind of character he is." It is like a credit to make such a splash of the sky! There are so many princes and grandsons of the Jurchen Tartars in one battle, and I don't know if it is the appearance of King Kong? If you can see such an extravagant character, this life will not be in vain............"
Before Huang Xiaojie could speak, he heard a wave outside. I got up and checked it out. I saw a small fleet of seven or eight boats slowly going upriver on the Baigou River. The sailors on the ship were trying their best to hold on, and their bare arms and muscles could not help but protrude.
The fleet is carrying the pass recognition flag issued by the Tianwu Army, and the escort soldiers on the ship are also the stationed forbidden troops of the Xin'an Army, all of whom are acquaintances, and the greetings on and off the shore are one after another, and it is very lively.
Huang Xiaojie stepped out of the grass hut, and also said hello to the general who led the escort of the boat, and the general on the boat looked at Huang Xiaojie's scene, and couldn't help but say with envy and jealousy: "Huang Patrol is rich, but we have to eat hard to escort grain and grass to the Tianwu Army and the Dragon Guard Army!" β
Huang Xiaojie scolded with a smile: "If it weren't for the Tianwu Army and the Dragon Guard Army fighting hard in Yizhou, would we have a good life?" Escort some grain and grass to you and lose it? The straight lady thief hurriedly handed over and turned around, and came to my village to eat and drink! Fancy something, though, will go! β
The two smiled and parted, Huang Xiaojie looked at the distant boat shadow and muttered: "The Tianwu Army is really going to come to the north in a big way, it seems that the Tartars are really going to fight to the death in Yizhou?" We're a lot more relaxed here............"
In the distance, more refugees came slowly, intercepted by Huang Xiaojie's sons, these refugees were more young and strong, and their temperament was a little stronger, and they didn't know how to make a disturbing sound, as if they were unwilling to pay the money for entering the industry. Without waiting for the heads around him to rush to suppress it, Huang Xiaojie shouted at the top of his voice.
"What kind of bird is the straight lady thief? We Hebei. When you restore your swallow land, you will hit the river dry and the sea falls. Now the Jurchen Tartars are heading south. Isn't it that we are in Hebei to contain you? How many troops and horses were sent north to fight the Tartars to the death. Did you see the food that this ship was carrying north? If you don't pay some money to enter the industry, will you not be able to eat in vain? Do you really want the birds to turn the sky upside down? β
Huang Xiaojie's roar echoed at the ferry, and all the soldiers showed their blades, and immediately suppressed the scene. Huang Xiaojie snorted coldly, turned around and walked back to the grass shed and continued to sit down on the Hu bed.
The admirer followed behind, snatching the fan in the hands of the military man and fanning it for Huang Xiaojie: "The general is the mainstay of our Xin'an army!" However, there is a saying in the end that the general intercepts so many poor men who can't afford to pay for entering the industry, although they make them work and serve, but the family still has to give some soup to raise............ Those poor men are quite flowery and don't lose their little girls. Master ............ Other local town defenders, such things are not less done, are they? β
Huang Xiaojie waved his hand fiercely: "When I come out to laugh, I can protect and collect some flower donations and save my life." I can't do anything to force a good person to become a prostitute! Someone else wants to do it, that's someone else's business. The military man has done such a thing that hurts yin morality, and he will not end well if he goes into battle! Needless to say, it's just a little soup cake, I can afford it! Don't give birth to so many birds, do things for me honestly, don't let me fart here! β
Huang Xiaojie has always acted in a way. Although it is true that there is a slight bottom line, it is not as completely above board as I say. However, at these times, almost all of the refugees' net worth are required to enter the industry, and the money is collected satisfactorily. Something that goes too far just won't work.
Nadu Tou is also satisfied with his recent days, and the money in the industry is really profitable. Moreover, after the Tianwu Army took charge of the affairs on the border, the magistrates could not intervene in these benefits. The only concern is, how long can such good days last?
Nadu Tou slowly stopped the fan in his hand, and asked the previous question again rather melancholy: "............ If Yizhou hadn't intercepted the Tartars and really let the Tartars call, what should I do? β
Huang Xiaojie rolled his eyes and thought for a while, and suddenly slapped his thigh fiercely: "Straight mother thief, we are so remote here, won't the Tartars come?" If I really come, I don't care about others, I always have to fight. This Xin'an Army, my Huang family has been settled for more than 100 years, and I can't let the Tartars be ruined so lightly! β
Speaking of this, Huang Xiaojie couldn't sit still anymore, stood up and walked towards the riverbank, looking to the northwest. Huang Xunjian, who has never believed in gods and Buddhas, couldn't help but pray silently at this time.
The straight thief, the Tianwu Army and the Dragon Guard Army seem to be quite powerful military horses, but they want to entangle the Tartars in Yizhou. If these military horses brought out by King Yan can really save Hebei Zhulu from this catastrophe, even if the world changes its surname to Xiao, what can it do?
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On the side of Baigou Station, thousands of military horses gathered.
The easy water comes from the south, flows into the Baigou River here, and flows eastward.
Near the Baigou Station Ferry, a fleet of hundreds of boats has gathered. These boats have been reinforced, and the ships are filled with crossbow machine side cards and other battle defense equipment, and Hebei boatmen are selected to operate the boats. Prepare to load the grain and grass of the reinforcements, and from this point up to the water, break through the Jurchen army and horses along the coast, and strengthen the strength of Yi County.
Yu Jiang took his personal guards and inspected the preparations of this fleet over and over again.
Liu Baozhong sent a military report in the past, spreading the news that Yang Zaixing had beheaded many noble children of the Jurchens, saying that it was expected to attract the Jurchen army more firmly in Yizhou. As long as they can continue to give more blows to the Jurchen Tartars under the city of Yizhou, and the defenders of Yizhou can be continuously strengthened, maybe they can make the Jurchen Tartars lose their minds even more and let them fall into a corner of Yizhou for a longer time!
Yang Zaixing's great achievements surprised Yu Jiang very much. It also explains the Jurchen's sudden move to the south from Yanjing to encircle Yizhou with the main force. It seems that this Jurchen East Route Army has made some irrational moves, and it has indeed given Hebei a chance to hold on to the weak army for a longer time!
Yu Jiang decisively dispatched the mobile forces of the Tianwu Army to form a force to aid Yi County, and also transferred heavy grain and straw as much as possible from various military states under his own control.
Although it is a bit risky to concentrate the military forces and go to the corner of Yizhou, how many choices does Yu Jiang have? The combined strength of the Tianwu Army and the Dragon Guard Army was less than 20,000. To fortify the Daimyo's Mansion, it is also necessary to guard the long border defense line on the northern edge of the river. It was a matter of time before it was broken by the Jurchen Tartars. Now that there is such an opportunity to nail the main force of the Jurchen military horse in Yizhou for a longer time, it is definitely not to be missed!
But Yu Jiang is also cautious, the first batch of reinforcements formed this is only about 1,000 people. More military horses are still in Xiongzhou, which can be supported from all sides.
Even though Yu Jiang had already made the worst plan for the war in Hebei, but when this fleet was about to set off. Yu Jiang still couldn't help but pray silently.
I hope that this irrational move of the Jurchen East Route Army can last longer! (To be continued......)
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