Chapter 97: Seeking Peace and War (1)
A group of men dressed in animal skins gathered together and spoke straight female words. Everyone is a strong man, and there is no living space for the thin in this place in Liaodong. Judging from what is being discussed, it is about the same as hundreds of years ago when the Liao State was still alive, and the female straight people want to launch an attack on the location of the Song State and gain some spoils through victory.
"The Mongolian lord didn't give enough things. We can only snatch some from the Han Chinese. "The one at the head uses a mace, and the one next to him is extra thick than the others.
"Why don't we go by water?" One of the leaders, who ranked second or third in terms of mace, came up with another idea, "Let's go to Goryeo by water, and there should be plenty of places to grab there." ”
A leader with a bow and arrows by his side, who appeared to be majoring in long-range weapons, immediately said, "Song ships patrol back and forth on the water, and kill people when they see them." Already some tribes have almost died on the water. ”
If they could, those female straightened people didn't want to touch the tall artillery tower of the Song army. But all other routes have been exhausted, and the only target that the mace of the female straight man can reach is the artillery tower of the Song army.
"We've taken quite a few things from the Mongolian master. Why bother touching the Song people this year. The man with a more slender mace expressed a more cowardly opinion.
"The women and children in the family finally have something, so why not fight for it at this time." The one at the head expressed his opinion, "The little thing that the Mongolian lord gave is not enough!" ”
These words spoke to the hearts of the participants. Before the collapse of the Kingdom of Jin, their lives were not good. After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, the Mongol lord asked them to contribute. Although Liaodong has a large geographical boundary, life is not easy. The mountains here are dense and the climate is cold. In the past two years, I finally had the opportunity to go outside to grab a handful, and after seeing the things outside, these female straight men found that the greed in their hearts was even stronger. The more you eat, the hungrier you get, and the more you drink, the thirstier you get. The more loot, the more they want to loot.
This was the case with the women who came before their predecessors, a richer world opened up before their eyes, and these people no longer wanted to rest on their laurels in poverty.
Chiefs are chiefs after all. During their meeting, some more amiable female straightened people went to visit the Song army's turret with some ginseng and animal skins in their hands. The so-called turret is not a tower-like structure built on flat ground. The turret is a general term for a defensive system.
For example, the Japanese artillery towers have at least a large circle of temporary fortifications on the outside. The turrets in the core areas were made of solid masonry and concrete, and the turret defenses had generators that used searchlights to strafe the outside at night. Virtually unconstrained by climate and time.
The defense system outside the turret temporarily built by the Great Song Dynasty using straw bags and rammed earth was full of the characteristics of the cold weapon era, and these female direct spies who were sent out to inquire about the news were turned away. They had thought that the Song army would trade the hides and ginseng that they had brought because of greed. Mongolian lords and merchants who can get to the women's side like these things. So they shouted in Hebei Sinicization: "These officials, buy our things." Ginseng and fur, both good things. ”
Song Jun, who was wearing a cotton coat, did not open the door to trade. If the hides are not handled well, they will be very hard and cannot be made into comfortable fur clothing. As for ginseng, there is ginseng stewed with hens in Song Jun's kitchen now. The Song army was a crop grown in patches like vegetables in the cold Liaodong.
"Hurry up. We don't want your stuff. The soldiers scolded.
"It's cheap! Official, cheap! "The female is still trying to achieve her goal.
"Let's go!" The Song guards were also impatient, they clenched their rifles and almost opened fire. The failure to shoot was not because the Song army was extraordinarily merciful, the army was a place of discipline, and shooting was a strictly controlled action. It is a felony for a soldier to shoot without a direct order or authorization from a superior.
At this time, the squad leader in charge had already arrived at the commander of the turret. For these guys who looked at and refused to leave, the squad leader asked the commander if he simply shot the demonstrators. The commander had two companies of troops under his command. After hearing the question, he shook his head, "These people don't have bad intentions when they look at it. And we hang them. It's already September, and it's going to snow. They didn't stay long. ”
The squad leader didn't quite understand this. So the commander didn't talk nonsense, and directly sent people to negotiate with these guys outside the door. After the people left, the commander sighed in his heart that the winter in the north was completely different from that in the south. In September, you can still wear summer clothes on September days in the south of the Yangtze River, and the maple forest on the Gusu side has not begun to turn red.
And in such a cold climate, everyone still has to fight. The commander of the Korean Military District has learned of the unusual gathering of female Naoto across the Yalu River, and the commander has ordered everyone to prepare for battle. This winter, you may have to fight in the cold winter.
Commanded two companies in battle, the rank was at the rank of deputy battalion. The commander already belongs to the ranks of professional soldiers. However, thinking back to his hometown of Gusu, he was a little skeptical that his choice was correct. In the new regulations, the service period of professional soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty is at least ten years. If you have served in such a cold north for ten years, you will be scared to think about it!
The female straight outside was still driven away. To their surprise, although Song Jun did not buy their things, he did not rob them. If there is a Mongolian lord on the other side, these things are destined to be unkept. But no female straight people were moved by the military discipline of the Song army, and when they returned, they were only annoyed by the completeness of the Song army's defense.
If she was able to trade with the Song army, she would have a chance to open those closed doors. The two-meter-high wall is not impossible to climb, but it is still easier to walk through the gate.
All the temptations yielded a common result, and when the spies brought the news back to the female leader, the leader quickly ordered a storm. Staying here every day requires the consumption of food, which is also the reason why the female leader firmly believes that there must be a large amount of supplies in the Song army stronghold. We are all human beings and need to eat every day. The Song army was able to build such a tall turret here, and hold on to it without moving, they must have stored too many things to imagine. The food of the female straight man can't last for a few days.
At night, the female straighteners approached the Song army's turret from their hidden place. They've all been hunters and know the importance of being quiet. If it is noisy, it will only frighten the prey. The target is easy to find, and those strongholds of the Song army will have a light every other section, which is very clear from a distance.
At a certain distance, the lights that are used as targets for the way are very annoying. If you get any closer, you'll be spotted. The hunters were more proficient in long-range attacks, and the leader with the big bow sent his men, who pinched a ball of mud and threw it at the lamp in a shadowy spot. As long as you turn off a light, there will be a gap in the attack.
The mud ball was very accurate, and it went straight to the light. The mud that should have been extinguished was blocked. There are also people with strong eyesight among the female straights, and if you look closely, you can see that there are some fences outside the fire. The mud is blocked by the fence. Now the female straight person was a little confused. The guy who can withstand the burning of the flames must be metal, and no one is allowed to have metal under Mongol rule. The purpose is to fear the rebellion of the oppressed people. Female straights don't use maces because they are retro, they also know that the iron guy is more powerful, but in the current situation, the mace is powerful.
This throw alarmed the Song army on the city wall, and it didn't take long to see more than a dozen fireballs being launched from behind the Song army's city wall. The fireball landed and could not be extinguished, exposing the figure of the female straight. When the female leader saw this situation, he was fierce, and he waved his mace and shouted: "Big guy, rush!" ”
Seeing that the Song army was so well defended at night, it was even more impossible during the day. Since it has taken so much effort to get here, I can't help but make an effort. The leader had already given the order, and the female straighteners shouted one after another, and under the dim light, they were heading towards the Song army's turret.
In the face of the brave female straight, in addition to throwing fireballs for lighting, the Song army could only fire with full firepower, and kept firing at the vast number of female straight people under the city with the maximum rate of fire.
On the third day of the outbreak of the fighting, Zhao Jiaren received a telegram. Zhu Hongwu asked the military department to launch a winter sweep against the women. Two days after this telegram was sent to Hangzhou, the Liaodong Military Region sent a telegram, "The Liaodong Military Region is short of troops. Moreover, the Liaodong Military District is not under the command of the Korean Military District. ”
Whether the matter of doing anything to a female straight man was put aside, and the Liaodong Military Region took the lead in saying that it could not accept the Korean theater's attempt to drag the Liaodong Military Region into the war. Everyone is a military region, and there is no reason why the Korean Military Region can do whatever it wants.
Zhao Jiaren is not against solving the female straight person. Hearing the name Nuzhi made Zhao Jiaren murderous, the Khitan people were already barbarians in Zhao Jiaren's eyes, and Nuzhi was even more so. Zhao Jiaren did not sympathize with Song Qinzong and Song Huizong, these two people were sinners of the Great Song Dynasty and sinners of China. Zhao Jiaren didn't want to avenge these two people, but he wanted to completely wash away the shame of Xue Jingkang.
"Ask the Liaodong Military Region if they are willing to divide the extermination area with the North Korean Military Region." Zhao Jiaren ordered.
Three days later, the Liaodong Military Region called back, "We don't need the North Korean Military Region to deal with the affairs of the Liaodong Military Region." As for the proposal of the DPRK Military District to use the rescued Koreans, our Military District does not need it. ”
Since the Liaodong Military Region is so backbone, Zhao Jiaren gave an order to the Korean Military Region, "The Korean Military Region can strike at barbarians outside the Liaodong Military Region." ”
Zhu Hongwu was a little regretful after receiving the order, he didn't expect the Liaodong Military Region to be so stingy. When he Zhu Hongwu was in the Liaodong Military Region, he did so much preparation work and investigated the gathering places of those female tribes. Now the Korean Military District can only solve the barbarians outside the Liaodong Military District. The problem is, I don't know where the barbarians are and how to solve them!
The struggle in the military region was very normal, and Zhao Jiaren did not want to interfere too much. If all military regions were like a family, Zhao Jiaren felt that this was very dangerous. The biggest problem plaguing Zhao Guan's family now is still the plight of immigrants to the north, and even in places like Fujian, where people can live comfortably, this is indeed beyond Zhao Jiaren's expectations. Although they did not believe that as soon as the imperial court proclamation was issued, the people went to the land without regard to the cost. But Zhao Jiaren didn't expect that the difficulty of migration would be so great.
Just as Zhao Guan's family was about to concentrate on solving this problem, the Ministry of Rites rushed to report, "The Mongolian envoy came on the ship of the Great Song Dynasty. It will not be long before we arrive in the Great Song Dynasty. ”
What are the Mongols here to fill in? Zhao Jiaren felt a little curious.
It is not only Zhao Jiaren who is curious, but also the Ministry of Rites. In the latest news, Mongolia has completely blockaded the Sinai Peninsula, and Egypt is not allowed to have any contact with the Mongolian-controlled Arabian Peninsula. Because the Mongols themselves threw the living and dead of the plague on the cities they were attacking during the war, they themselves had a good understanding of the plague. The blockade of Egypt, where the plague was raging, was to prevent the Mongol-controlled Arabian Peninsula from being infected.
Aside from major events, Da Song collected very few details. At most, they knew that with the efforts of the Mongolian minister Guo Shoujing and others, the new Baghdad was built very quickly. Guo Shoujing's design made extensive use of Eastern Roman water pipes and water conveyance technology, and the city of Baghdad is said to be very attractive.
In anticipation of the Ministry of Rites, the Mongolian envoy arrived in Hangzhou in mid-October. After the meeting, the Mongol envoy questioned why the Great Song Dynasty attacked the Mongol Yungui. After hearing this, Xiong Shang felt a little disappointed, if the purpose of the Mongols to run so far was to blame such a trivial matter, the trip was not worth it at all.
Facing Xiong Shangshu's boring expression, the Mongolian envoy said loudly: "The Song State is desperate for military force, so I haven't heard of the truth that if you are warlike, you will die!" Since the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song State has stopped fighting for a day, and fought with the Khitan Western Xia for hundreds of years, and later the Jin State rose because the Song State was warlike......"
Xiong Sheng couldn't help but yawn, although this move seemed a bit rude in a diplomatic setting, but Xiong Sheng did it without hesitation. He felt that this would enable the Mongolian envoy on the other side to understand that this nonsense was meaningless to the Great Song Dynasty. The Khitan, Western Xia, and Jin kingdoms have already turned into several strokes in history. If it is warlike to survive until now, the Great Song Dynasty will naturally not be stingy with its warlike reputation. And being accused of belligerence by the Mongols is even more nonsense.
The Mongolian envoy yawned as he looked at Xiong Sheng and the personnel of the Great Song Rite Department around Xiong Shang, and knew that his words were actually not very meaningful. He took a sip of tea to moisten his thirsty throat, and then said, "Let's stop fighting between our two countries." ”
"Truce?" Xiong Shang looked at the Mongolian envoy with a scrutinizing gaze, and from the outside, the Mongolian envoy seemed to be very sincere. If Mongolia could have such sincerity twenty years ago, I would have been very happy to come to the Great Song Dynasty. But time has passed, and the Great Song Dynasty has begun a full-scale counteroffensive. Xiong Sheng himself was not a main battle faction, so he knew very well what the meaning of the map of the Great Song Dynasty, which had become an official statement and was printed in elementary school textbooks.
"Kublai Khan didn't want to see the lives ruined, if the Song State was willing to negotiate peace, he was unwilling to pursue the Song State's evil deeds of seizing Dali and Guizhou." The Mongol envoy said.
Xiong Shang felt very speechless, if Kublai Khan's peace price was only this, it would mean that Kublai Khan really had the sincerity to negotiate peace. If the war could be stopped by giving up such a small benefit, Kublai Khan really earned it.
"Is that all?" Xiong Shang asked.
The Mongolian envoy saw the signs of breaking the situation from Xiong Shang's face, and he said very cautiously: "What does Xiong Shangshu mean by this? ”
"I mean, Mongolia is only going to let go so much?"
Kublai Khan sent an envoy to run so far, of course, it would not be a meaningless threat and negotiation to the Song State. But the attitude of the Song State on the other side was the same as that of the Mongols, and they would never negotiate what they could get on the battlefield.
Xiong Sheng was thinking about how to continue, and the concept of the Great Song Zhao official family was already very clear. When that map of China was printed in the textbooks of the Great Song Dynasty, it was impossible for Zhao Jiaren to go back on his word. The textbook makes it clear that the land lost in China will be recaptured by the Great Song Dynasty inch by inch. In fact, Zhao Jiaren is a usurper. After all, the last little emperor was from the imperial family, and Zhao Jiaren was from the clan.
However, in the eyes of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren was the Son of Heaven who returned to the Mandate of Heaven, and it seemed that it was Zhao Jiaren who inherited the throne after the surrender of Lin'an, not the little emperor. Including Xiong Sheng himself, he almost forgot that the little emperor was actually alive a few years ago. can have such an effect, it is entirely because of Zhao Jiaren's martial arts. Now, if Zhao Jiaren goes back on his word, it will be tantamount to announcing that everything he used before was a lie, which will directly shake Zhao Jiaren's legal system.
"Xiong Shangshu. Mongolia wants peace. The Mongolian envoy said.
Xiong Shang was silent. The last time I saw a Mongol envoy was before the Battle of Hebei. At that time, Xiong Sheng just felt that the Hebei Campaign was over, and Mongolia was driven back to the desert, and the war should be over. Now seeing the Mongol envoy again, Xiong Sheng found that the end of the Hebei War did not end the war. On the contrary, it opened the door to an almost infinite war in the future.
When Xiong Sheng found out about this fact, he himself felt very helpless. The Mongols had lost their chance, and if they had chosen peace with a huge advantage, they probably wouldn't have come to this point.
"Xiong Shangshu, is it difficult that the Great Song Dynasty is unwilling to make peace?" The Mongol envoy was already feeling tremendous pressure, and his question was getting closer and closer to the truth.
"Not long ago, the female direct attacked our Da Song and fought a few battles with us." Xiong Sheng recounted the news he knew, "Three thousand women died, and three of us died. So the war between us and the female straight will continue. If three of the women died, and we died three thousand, probably there would be peace. ”
The Mongol envoy was silent for a moment, saying that at this point, the same logical basis of the Great Song and the Mongols had been completely established, and both sides adhered to the idea of bullying the weak, and the so-called peace was just an excuse to prepare for the next war. At the Mongol court in Baghdad, the Mongol Khan sent peace negotiators to the Great Song Dynasty, while also rejecting the peace emissaries sent by Mamluk.
"But I don't know how the Song Kingdom is willing to negotiate peace." The Mongol envoy spoke something that made him feel humiliated.
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