Chapter 450: A Good Opportunity
This one is a little dizzy.,When I uploaded it yesterday, I said it was under review.,So the chapter name was changed from a good opportunity to a good opportunity.,Is it a good opportunity and harmony? The order is out of order.,Pay attention when you read.,Although it's not my fault.,And apologize to everyone?
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The Song Dynasty began the Northwest Frontier of the Later Zhou Dynasty, including Lingzhou, Gyeongju, Huanzhou, and the central and eastern regions of Qinzhou. Later, in Huizhou, Weizhou and other places, troops were stationed one after another, but here it was only a bondage, similar to Fuzhou in the upper northwest corner.
As for the four states of Dingyan, it was like a pit in the northwest of the Song Dynasty, and Li Jisheng only offered it. Some people exaggerate the wealth of the four states, and this really can't be taken seriously. But its geographical location is really important, there is this pit, even if the Tuoba Li family does not rebel, the imperial court will never be able to effectively manage the northwest, let alone the north and south Hetao areas above it.
After several large armies of the imperial court put down the rebellion, the Nanhetao was almost under control, but still did not march to the west or north. In the west were the Tibetans, including those west of Qinzhou, Lanzhou, and other places, and even the ability to control Weizhou was still very weak.
The main reason is the containment of the Khitans.
Therefore, the imperial court is not interested in the Tubo people or Jiaozhi for the time being, and cannot be distracted!
Therefore, from Fuzhou and Fengzhou to the north, including the Beihetao area, there was not even a garrison.
Then to the southern part of the Khitan, to be precise, before the Later Tang Dynasty betrayed the sixteen states of Youyun, not only did the sixteen states belong to the Central Plains, but even the various separatist forces, and even the north of Fuzhou, the south of the mountains of Liao, and the west of Fengzhou, all belong to the Central Plains management or bondage. With the growth of the Liao State, outside the ancient Great Wall, that is, the Jiashan tribes surrendered to the Liao State. Including the Toyoshu royal family. However, neither of the two major forces has taken the region seriously.
Although the Wang family fell to the Song Dynasty, it once made the Liao State angry.
The Song people called the Taihang Mountain west of Dingzhou as the West Mountain. The Liao people call the Yin Mountain west of Liaofeng Prefecture the West Mountain, but in general. The area controlled by the Liao State was only east of Montenegro (Daqingshan). But just like the Song Dynasty's treatment of the Beihetao, it is a real bondage.
There is nothing else to do, the terrain is complex, the ethnic groups are numerous, and the people are fierce, take a look at the price of the Song Dynasty to get the four states of difficulty, although Li Jisheng took the initiative to donate the land, if it were not for the Song Jiu Golden Finger, Li Jiqian dispatched an army of more than 100,000 troops to only some remnants that had not yet grown up. At the same time, the Wang family, who are familiar with the Nanhetao, was also invited to cooperate, and the Song Dynasty may not be able to get the four states of difficulty!
Think about how the Song Dynasty got Hehuang in history, it was crippled by the Western Xia, and it took many years and the blood of many soldiers to finally take Hehuang, and soon after it was taken, the Northern Song Dynasty perished.
Bondage can, direct management. The price is too high!
However, during the Yongxi Northern Expedition, Wang Zhe and his family invaded Fengzhou with many Qiangbo troops, so that the Liao State finally realized the importance of this region and began to win over the policy. For example, last year's drought in Jiashan. Some tribes lacked food, so Xiao Yanyan sent people to provide relief. The Song Dynasty wanted to open up the Shangjiashan trade route, but the Liao State forcibly blocked it. It will only make the people disgusted, so they simply set up checkpoints. Learn about the taxation of the Song people. The Zhe family and the Wang family sent supplies for relief, and Xiao Yanyan sent people to put poison in the grain. even poisoned several people, which once made the Jiashan tribes very disgusted and the two families.
Although the soldiers are coming to block and the water is coming to the earth, the Liao State is extremely resentful of these two party giants in the depths of their hearts.
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In order to govern Guangnan and northwest Hunan, the Song Dynasty had to set up a forbidden army to garrison.
Especially the Northwest.
But now the nature has changed, and the northwest is not only used to garrison troops, but also to train troops. In particular, the Nanhetao of the Gobi and the desert is topped by the North Hetao, and the Wang family and the Fengjia are stuck in front of the northeast.
But so many horses have to eat pasture, of course, 20,000 to ride on the Nanhe Loop, which is really nothing.
However, this water and soil problem made the Yellow River miserable, and Song Jiu could not save it, but he would not intentionally let it worsen. Therefore, on the Yellow River, some ditches were introduced, and some water storage weirs were built, the rougher kind is not harmful, this is only used for irrigation and improvement of water and soil, not for navigation, and almost ninety percent of it is pastoral area, and the requirements for water conservancy are not so strict.
Then on these irrigation ditches and weirs, some sand control forests were built, some drought-tolerant pasture grass was planted, and the horses were bred in captivity, only released during training, and scattered on the vast sandy plains.
However, due to the threat of the Liao State, these light cavalry could come in handy slightly, and almost all of them allowed Song Jiu to be transferred to Hebei and Hedong to increase the strength of the two major theaters.
At first, these measures also made the Liao country angry, and then the scouts reported several more news.
Tens of thousands of cavalry are not a burden on the vast border of Hedong and Hebei, and so many areas have become idle fields. But they also have to feed these war horses, not only the choice of horses, but when the cavalry arrived in Hebei, almost all of them rode the captured Khitan war horses, in order to feed them. Although the Hetao horse is good, it is too difficult to raise it well in Hebei.
I had no choice but to plant some more miscellaneous grains in Hebei, as well as plant reeds extensively, some of which are good green fodder, and at the same time can enhance the strength of border defense. They also brought cement and gunpowder, and used gunpowder to blast the rocks, and then used the cement stones to build stronger forts. The cost of building in this way is also very high, so it is not a lot of repairs, that is, the main 20 forts and state military counties.
There are waterways in Hebei, and the freight is cheaper, but there are mostly dry roads in the east of Hedong, so a cement workshop was set up in Bingzhou to make cement. It is not used for profit, it is mainly for the military.
is still mainly defensive, and it doesn't look like attacking Yanyun, otherwise the cost of doing this is too great.
It is possible that in this way, it will be more difficult for the Liao army to move south.
However, the Liao State was also recuperating and recuperating, and with the two major defeats, the Liao State had no bottom in his heart, so he had to watch these forts grow and strengthen rapidly. But strategically speaking, in addition to the headache of the mountainous Hedong, the Song Dynasty strengthened more than 20 cities, but it still could not completely resist the southward movement of the Liao cavalry, and the vast Pingchuan made too many gaps. It can only be said that the troops were strengthened, the forts were strengthened, and many fast cavalry were added.
And it has many flaws, the Song Dynasty trained cavalry, unlike the Liao State. Most of the people grew up on horseback, and the cavalry of the Song Dynasty often had to run on horseback. Shoot, cooperate with each other. Hence the need for more space.
This is at the moment, there are a lot of idle fields in Hedong, Hebei, if it is placed after the alliance of Lanyuan, the population of the border increases, which may be more limited, even so, this also restricts the increase in the number of cavalry in the Song Dynasty.
There is also the cost of raising horses, even if the front line is widely planted with pasture and miscellaneous grains to finance the horses. However, the appetite of horses must be greater than that of people, and even a small number of chickens must be fed to strengthen the horses, and with the increase in the number of cavalry, it is obvious that the grain and grass at the front line have begun to be seriously insufficient, and it must be transferred from the rear to the front line, resulting in a gradual increase in military spending.
There was also a shortage of horses, so the proportion of this group of recruits transferred to the northwest who were deliberately trained into cavalry was reduced, less than two percent. I also train in riding, just to achieve the goal of being able to ride. However, a large amount of pasture land was reclaimed on the banks of the Yellow River in Nanhetao to cultivate land, and they could not be abandoned, so cattle, horses and sheep were retracted. There are also horses, but they are only thought to be for the purpose of obtaining war horses, and they have little to do with cavalry. At the same time, more than 10,000 infantry were stationed. The combat effectiveness is also not very optimistic, while tuntian. While practicing. But if there are no other accidents, it's okay to train here.
Over there in Liao. Yelu Xiuge and other Liao officials are working hard to restore the people of Yanyun to life, and they are doing a good job, otherwise there would not be so many Han soldiers fighting to the death for the Liao State.
At the same time, there was also an army in Fengzhou, which was the location of the Southwest Recruitment Division of Liao.
The Khitan must have seen the weakness of the Song army in the northwest, but the two families of Zhewang were in front, so that the Liao State did not dare to move.
However, the Song Dynasty also had a fatal weakness in the northwest......
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Han Dewei, the envoy of the southwest of Liao, looked at the report at hand.
After Han Derang became Xiao Yanyan's official queen, the Han family was even more favored.
After the death of Geng Yanyi, who asked his daughter to marry Geng of the Geng family, Han De wrote a sentence on her epitaph, Cao Gongfu Han, Yun Bashi Ji Cai, Yi Yin Kuang Yin, Shu Ge Tian Xun Lord, saying that his status in the Liao State was equivalent to Cao Cao and Yi Yin. Therefore, Han Derang's brothers Han Dewei, Han Dehao, Han Dechong and others have stepped onto the stage one after another. Even after the death of Xiao Yanyan and Han Derang, Han Derang's son Yelu Suizheng, Yelu Suizheng's son Yelu Yuanzuo Han Dechong's son Han Zhixin, is still in power.
However, not everyone in the Han family is convinced, including Han Dewei, he also wants to prove that he is not weaker than his eldest brother.
After reading it, Han Dewei said, "Bring him up." ”
The men brought a Hu man over.
Han Dewei asked, "You are the young chief of the Hook clan, Hu Ke Siming?" ”
"The big king, the little one is exactly."
"Are you from Tuyuhun?" Han Dewei asked again. After years of migration and a small number of marriages, it is not easy to distinguish between the various ethnic groups in Jiashan, and even the so-called Tuyuhun people include the Dangxiang people and the Tatars. But if you pay attention, you can also see some differences in their clothing.
"The king, the little one is the Tuyuhun people, when my father was blinded by lard, regardless of the great Liao Tianwei, he moved the entire tribe of two hundred accounts to Quye River. I didn't listen to him, but when I arrived at Qu Yechuan, I realized that he was wrong, where there are many party members and a small number of Tubo people, and where are we Tuyuhun being bullied......"
"That's why you persuaded the tribes to rebel against the Song Dynasty?"
"The king, it's not a traitor, it's a traitor. But the king is interested, we do the internal response, assist the king to break through the prefecture, and then take the opportunity of the Song Dynasty to be unprepared, the small one is willing to be a village guide, and take the king to the Song army camp on the Hetao. Now the Song army everywhere is all new soldiers, the military discipline is loose, and the combat strength is weak......"
"Alright, you go down and rest first." Handwei said.
This was indeed a weakness of the Song Dynasty in the northwest.
In some ways, many tribes migrated and scattered on the Nanhe Loop, which somewhat offset the strength of the Hengshan Zhuhao.
But on the positive side, there must be a negative side.
The Northwest Zhuqiang have many enemies, and the Jiashan Zhuqiang may not be much better, and these tribes have not been dispersed, so there have been many conflicts on the Nanhetao, but fortunately, the Song Dynasty began to train troops in the northwest, with strong troops, coupled with the low tax policy of light and thin, the various ethnic groups reluctantly obeyed the mediation of the court officers and soldiers.
But this kind of tax policy must not last, gradually the northwest settled down, the imperial court tried to collect some taxes, the actual tax is very low, but apportionment, there is some unfairness.
The army that was familiar with the northwest and had good combat effectiveness was transferred away, and a group of new soldiers came, and the policies implemented by the Khitan side in Jiashan also had various preferential treatments, and finally some tribes began to move.
Hu Ke Siming was one of them, and before he came to Fengzhou, he even contacted some tribes near Fuzhou to form an alliance with him, and quietly mapped the terrain of Fuzhou and other places, and brought it to Fengzhou together to ask for merit and reward.
Han Dewei sent scouts to infiltrate Fuzhou to investigate.
Because the trade between the Liao and Song dynasties was blocked, the Jiashan trade route became more and more prosperous, and several scouts successfully sneaked into Fuzhou and Fuzhou to various places behind the prefecture, and soon brought good news, and even broke Yuqing in annoyance and anger, hanged several unscrupulous people of various ethnic groups in front of the gate of Fuzhou as punishment.
And the scouts also verified a trail that Hook had discovered, a road that no one had paid attention to before, a road that was sparsely populated and had no forts. As long as it is done well, tens of thousands of troops can be successfully driven to the city of Fuzhou within a few days.
"What a chance!" Handwei said.
The prime minister of the Song Dynasty made Han Dewei a little jealous, so he stayed in Xifu and didn't leave, and when he mentioned this matter, including Xiao Yanyan and others, they all felt a headache.
Once he realizes it, as long as he returns to 10,000 trained light riders, this opportunity will be lost in the blink of an eye.
So he quickly assembled a large army, and asked Hu Ke Siming to quickly return, contact his allies, and find a way to enter Fuzhou City, not asking for many people, but asking for secrecy measures to be done. On the day when the Liao army attacked the city, the inside and the outside should be united, and Fuzhou was taken down in one fell swoop, and then the troops approached the Song army camp in the rear! As long as it succeeds, it will be a miracle. (To be continued......)