Chapter 33 Variables
Zhao Ta led the army to chase all the way, day and night to Xinde Mansion, during which after more than ten battles, Han Li did not retreat into Qingyuan Mansion before standing on his feet, the two armies confronted each other across the water, and the battle line was temporarily stabilized. However, the situation is still grim, Qingyuan Mansion is adjacent to the Pingding Army, and the Zonghan Department has already reached the Pingding Army. After arriving in Neiqiu, Zhao Ta Xiushu gave Zong Ze of Cizhou and Zhang Suo of Xiangzhou to ask them to quickly lead the army to help, although they won this battle, but the cost was also not small, it can be said that the enemy was destroyed by 1,000 and suffered 800.
The highly favored Modao team lost more than one-third, and the maximum casualties of the volunteers and township soldiers reached more than 8,000 people. The smallest losses were borne by the Guards Brigade, which was responsible for breaking the enemy, thanks to their well-trained and advanced weapons. The results of the Song army were equally brilliant, with more than 6,000 beheaded, 2,000 enemies captured, 3,000 horses captured, one Jin army killed 10,000 households, 5 commanders, more than 40 generals and officers of 100 households, captured a battle, and countless grains and grasses!
"King Yan is really the general of the country!" The Jin army was defeated and retreated, and the Song army turned into pursuit on all fronts, Wang Yun was full of emotion, this was the first major victory in the entire Hebei battlefield since the invasion of the Jin army, and it was achieved under the situation of disparity in strength and fighting alone.
"The mainstay of the country, having King Yan here is the blessing of my Great Song Dynasty!" Nie Shan was also excited, praised heavily, and did not hesitate to praise, but forgot what happened at the beginning
"Two adults, we are here to make peace, but now we have beaten the Jurchens, how to explain to the saints, we have to think about it in the long run!" Geng Yanxi was not optimistic, and said with a bitter face, Jin Jun escaped by retreating, but will the Holy Lord let them go?
"Well, our table needs to be carefully considered! This incident was caused by the Jin army's attack on Yan Wang's car, and the responsibility for provoking the incident should be borne by them. In the negotiations, King Yan argued with reason. The Jin army refused to give in, and Han Li was not annoyed and ashamed to send troops to rob the tribute. Kidnap the prince and attack and kill the envoys. The prince fought back angrily and defeated the Jin army in one fell swoop! Nie Shan pondered how to write a chapter and explain things clearly, but he didn't say a word about the prince's disrespectful remarks during the negotiations, and he didn't say a word about the tricks, but he was mostly praised.
"Well, King Yan is in the battle array, outnumbered, and the matter of strategizing must be made clear!" Wang Yun also said.
"Yes. I was frightened at that time, the prince was in danger several times, and people were terrified! Geng Yanxi also interjected.
"Okay, the most important thing in this battle is to expel the Jin army from the Daimyo's Mansion, so that the Jin army fails to capture the ferry, and it is difficult to cross the river to enter the Beijing Division!" Wang Yun said.
"It's a pity that the Daimyo's Mansion has 100,000 soldiers, but it is watching from the wall behind closed doors. Even the grain and grass refused to be helped, if it weren't for the heroic Jurchens of King Yan, I am afraid that the soldiers would have come to the city! Nie Shan couldn't help but shake his head and said, if there are a few Yan kings in the Great Song Dynasty, where would the Jurchens dare to offend Song Banbu. Let them not be ghosts and ghosts to do this peace envoy.
A few people quickly finished writing the recital, of course, they were extremely exaggerating this big victory, and they also knew that this matter could be said to be a play against the imperial court. If you don't do it well, you will be charged with sabotaging the peace talks and using troops without authorization. Therefore, although they exaggerated the exploits of King Yan, they concealed the matter of his guards. It is only said that the township soldiers are brave and do not want the land to be lost, so they spontaneously fight against the Jin army, shirk the responsibility of using soldiers and horses, and can't help but regard the prince as their own people, because they have now formed a community, and every loss is lost, and all are prosperous...
"Second Master, Xue Hai has arrived!" In the camp, the second baby entered the house and said.
"Let him in!" Zhao Ta sat up from the bed and said, he was tired and tired after days of rushing and killing, and what made him even more anxious was that there had been no news from the north, which made him feel at ease, in case he missed over there, he would lose all the games.
"See the prince!" Xue Hai entered the house and said, seeing the prince anxiously circling around in the house and laughing.
"Is there any news from the Golden Rat?" Zhao Ta waved his hand to face him and asked eagerly.
"Lord Wang, the redemption operation is going smoothly, the Golden Rat reports that everything is unfolding according to the plan, and Wu Qimai has sent two messengers to the Marshal's Mansion in the east and west respectively, and the time is about to come!" Xue Hai said.
"Great, it's really immortal!" Zhao Ta couldn't help but say loudly, and the exhaustion on his body seemed to be swept away.
"I'm afraid that the prince's plan will be difficult for anyone in the world to match, so that my Great Song Dynasty will escape again!" Xue Hai looked at the prince's childlike excitement, and said happily, and secretly glad that he didn't follow the wrong master, with such a 'Ming Master', he will have a day when he will soar in the future.
"Don't take it lightly, immediately send a letter to the golden rat, the next step is more dangerous, everything is to preserve the strength, not to be brave for a while, so that years of hard work are in vain!" Zhao said.
"Don't worry, according to the report of the 'flower cat', the old man is a thief, and he will slip away as soon as there is a stir, but this time he did make a lot of money in order to cooperate with the prince's actions!" Xue Hai said with a smile.
"Well, it's good if he has self-knowledge, this king can help him up, and he can beat him down!" Zhao Tan nodded and said, "Xue Hai, the next step is to focus on the capital and observe the reactions of all parties after this battle, but you must not expose your traces if you don't have to!" ”
"Don't worry, your subordinates will be careful!" Xue Hai replied respectfully.
"Alas, it's been more than a month, and I can finally get a good night's sleep!" Zhao Ta stretched and smiled.
"Hehe, the prince is sleeping well now, but this time Han Li shouldn't be able to sleep!" Xue Hai laughed quietly.
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After Han Li retreated to Qingyuan Mansion, while collecting grain and grass, he sent a letter to Zong Han asking him to quickly come and join forces with him. At the beginning, Zong Han's department was only because Taiyuan had not been captured, and he did not dare to lead the army to go deeper, for fear of repeating the mistakes of the past, so the two agreed to combine the two armies to go south after King Yan was successfully controlled. But now this King Yan not only did not bind him obediently, but instead killed himself and forced him to retreat for a hundred miles.
Just this morning, the reconnaissance cavalry came to report, Xiangzhou and Cizhou have a large number of troops transferred, as if they want to come to help the war, and now the two states have gathered no less than 100,000 soldiers and horses, Han can't take care of it, and invited Zong Han to quickly go south to discuss the plan. But he didn't wait for Zong Han to come, but waited for the messenger from the court, "It's a failure!" When he finished reading, his face turned pale and he vomited blood and fell to the ground...
Everyone hurriedly rescued Han Li, it took a while to wake up, and after careful inquiry, they learned that there was a civil rebellion in Shangjing, thousands of slaves killed their masters, attacked the state and plundered the government, and now the beacon fire is all over the Shangjing area, endangering Shangjing, and there is a great tendency to sweep Zhongjing, and the remaining army is not conducive to suppression, and even the Han army, the Khitan army and the Xi army rebelled, and it was their own mortal enemy who provoked this incident, 'Ah Shu', who has been missing for two years!
Now the emperor ordered Han to not negotiate peace with Song, and the east and west roads quickly returned to the army to suppress it, so as not to suffer enemies inside and outside. Everyone was shocked when they heard it, Ah Shu is a member of the Jurchen tribe, and he has always taken it as his mission to oppose the Wanyan Ministry, and has been dealing with them for more than ten years, and now he has come forward to manipulate this matter, not just as simple as those slaves making trouble, but to overthrow the rule of the Wanyan Ministry! And the fact that things can make such a big fuss is, in the final analysis, is their own reason:
At the beginning of Wanyan Agu's war against Liao, there were obviously three classes in the Shengjurchen society: one was the slave, that is, the slave and the ministry; the second is the commoners, that is, the common people; The third is the slave-owning aristocracy, that is, the "official".
Under slavery, slaves were not only prisoners of war slaves, criminal slaves, debt slaves, etc., and almost everything was available in the early days of the Jin Kingdom. In addition to war and plunder, the Jurchen aristocracy also made usury and "ordered the debtors to be repaid by the population", so that many ordinary people became debt slaves, and sometimes simply "oppressed the poor into slavery". According to the laws of Jurchen society, the family members of criminals could serve as slaves. In the household registration of the Jin Dynasty, "all those who have not entered the official and good people are subordinate to the palace and are prisoners; did not enter the official slave maid, subordinate to the eunuch, for the official household". In addition, there are "slave households" that belong to private individuals. These are the official household names of the Jin Dynasty.
During the war, many civilians were captured by the Jin army as slaves, locked with iron cables, tattooed with the word "official" on their ears, and sold at a high price, and even set up a special market for buying and selling slaves in Yanshan Mansion and other places. When there were too many captives, they were killed in large numbers or sold to Western Xia, Mongolia, Murwei, and Goryeo. He also forcibly conscripted the conquered nationalities as soldiers, which was called "shaving his head and signing the army". The Han people signed the army with the lowest status in the Jin army, serving as coolies and cannon fodder, "rushing to the arrows and stones, and being killed in vain".
Many Jurchen nobles owned hundreds or even thousands of slaves. The Jin court also often rewarded the Jurchen nobles with hundreds or thousands of slaves. Due to the large number of slaves and their considerable proportion of the members of society, slave owners treated slaves and maids on an equal footing with gold, silver, sheep, and horses, and used them as bets in games. At that time, the price of slaves was extremely low, and the Jurchens traded with the Western Xia, and ten Han slaves could only be exchanged for one horse in the Western Xia. After the death of the Jurchen nobles, there was also the cruel and bad habit of "burning the favored slaves and maids" for burial. The Jin army had a large number of slaves, and when there was a shortage of military rations, slaves and maids were actually killed and fed like mules and horses, which was really inhumane to the extreme.
At that time, the Song and Liao had already established a relatively advanced feudal system, and after the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Liao and the Song Dynasty, their backward economic law of slavery did not disappear on its own, but still played a reactionary and retreating role in the vast and highly developed feudal civilization areas. Their enforced slavery in the occupied areas has become a very prominent and particularly acute social problem. It will inevitably cause fierce resistance from the people of all nationalities, mainly the Han nationality, which is a national struggle between the Jurchen slave-owning aristocratic clique and the people of all nationalities with the Han nationality as the main body, a struggle between slavery and anti-slavery, a struggle between barbarism and civilization, and a struggle between division and reunification... (To be continued......)