Chapter 932: The Snake Swallows the Whale's Ambition

Under normal circumstances, Goryeo needed to directly confront the Daejin Dynasty, which was expanding momentum, but because of the appearance of Chu Yi, it directly led to the fall of the Daejin Dynasty.

The direct consequence of the fall of the Dajin Dynasty was that the pressure on Goryeo was greatly reduced, and after Chu Yi overthrew the Dajin Dynasty, his attention shifted to the Western Xia and Tubo in the northwest, and he didn't pay attention to a small country like Goryeo.

At this time, the Great Song Dynasty finally slowly digested Dajin's territory, and a large number of officials were stationed in the local area, completing the initial rule of the former Dajin territory.

It is conceivable that when the Great Song Dynasty began to complete its rule over the Dajin territory, Goryeo's small actions naturally could not be hidden from the eyes of the imperial court.

Not long ago, the county commander of the small town of Anyi, which is adjacent to the Yalu River, finally couldn't stand the attack from the Goryeo, and after a few months, a piece of music arrived in Bianliang, Jingshi, and appeared on Zhao Go's desk.

When Zhao Gou saw the report, he felt a little angry in his heart, if the Great Song Dynasty is now said to be the most powerful country in the world, I am afraid that no one can deny it, but there are still people who dare to harass the border of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the small border country like Goryeo that harasses the border of the Great Song Dynasty.

In Zhao Gou's view, if the Great Song Dynasty didn't go to trouble Goryeo, the whole of Goryeo should be very happy, and now Goryeo still dares to attack the border of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the court and even in the capital, I don't know how many people are speculating about which country Chu Yi will attack next, and Zhao Gou is also secretly guessing in his heart, and he has no intention of interfering with Chu Yi's decision.

However, when he received the official's recital, Zhao Gou sent someone to invite Chu Yi, and then handed the recital to Chu Yi, and asked Chu Yi if he could choose Goryeo as the next target of the expedition.

So it didn't take long for news to spread among the Jingshi that the chief administrator Chu Yi was about to use troops in the northeast, aiming to destroy Goryeo, which harassed the border of the Great Song Dynasty.

For Chu Yi, as long as he can get luck, he will have to go through any of the surrounding small countries, it is nothing more than a sequence, and now that Goryeo himself has sent the excuse of sending troops to the door, it is only natural to choose Goryeo as the first target of the troops.

In the spring of this year, the Son of Heaven Zhao Gou personally led hundreds of officials and sent the chief manager Chu Yi to send troops.

This time, Chu Yi only brought 50,000 soldiers and horses, of which 30,000 were new troops and cavalry.

If this is in the past, let alone 50,000 horses, it is twice as much, and I am afraid that few people dare to believe that with so many men and horses, a country can be destroyed.

No matter how small Goryeo is, it is still a country that has been inherited for hundreds of years, and it makes sense that it can exist for so many years.

But who let Chu Yi have the precedent of destroying Dajin, Western Xia, and Tubo, which can be called a strong attack country, and even the powerful countries of Western Xia, Tubo, and Dajin were destroyed by Chu Yi, so it seems that just Goryeo is not a problem.

As for the question of how many soldiers and horses Chu Yi brings, everyone subconsciously ignored it, anyway, as long as Chu Yi is willing, there will be millions of soldiers in the world, isn't it a matter of Chu Yi's words?

Besides, in the eyes of everyone, Goryeo is a small country, and Chu Yi himself will already look up to Goryeo, and if he mobilizes the army and sends hundreds of thousands of troops, it will really look up to Goryeo.

Tens of thousands of cavalry troops set out to fight, and the momentum can be said to be extremely amazing, especially the well-trained officers and men of the new army give people a high-spirited and enthusiastic attitude, and many people who saw the new army for the first time were stunned when they saw the tens of thousands of new troops.

Mo said that he saw the people of the new army and the civil and military officials, even Zhao Gou also saw it straight, although Zhao Gou did not know how to fight soldiers and horses, and he did not have any talent for generals, but he could see one thing.

Elite soldiers and strong generals are the same as the old, weak, sick and disabled, as long as they are not blind, who can not see it.

And these new troops are the kind of soldiers and horses that can be seen at a glance, but they did not waste Lin Chong and Luda's training.

With the method of training soldiers given by Chu Yi, coupled with the execution ability of Lin Chong and Luda, and those soldiers are all strong men who are one out of ten, it is really not difficult to train such a strong army.

Just when Chu Yi led tens of thousands of cavalry towards Goryeo with a mighty momentum, Zhao Gou, who had returned to the dynasty, had already begun to instruct Zhang Shuye, Zong Ze and others to recruit officials, and be ready to go to Goryeo to accept Goryeo's land at any time. However, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty took it for granted, which shows everyone's confidence in Chu Yi.

Since the death of the previous generation of Goryeo King Ruizong, the son of Ruizong, that is, Injong, succeeded to the throne, but Renzong was young, and his maternal grandfather Li Ziqian assisted him.

The main young minister is strong, the consequence is that the power is sidelined, Renzong became Li Ziqian's puppet, and even Li Ziqian married his two daughters to Renzong in order to further control the power, realizing a deeper marriage between the Qingyuan Li family and the royal family, and he himself was named the prince of the country, with great power, and he reached the peak of his life.

Li Ziqian controlled the power of Goryeo, and controlled the military power of Goryeo through his in-law Tuo Junjing, completing the control of the military and political power, and the power was so strong that even Renzong was so frightened that he took the initiative to propose that the king be located in Li Ziqian.

It's just that forced by domestic public opinion, Li Ziqian did not accept it, but put Renzong under house arrest.

On this day, Li Ziqian feasted his in-law Tuo Junjing in his extravagant palace, which was comparable to the palace.

At this moment, Li Ziqian and Tuo Junjing have just joined forces to completely control the military and political power of Goryeo, and they are in the honeymoon period, so the relationship between the two families is extremely close.

Seeing Li Ziqian with a smile on his face, he raised his glass to Tuo Junjing and said: "Come, today is a special celebration for my in-laws, as soon as Anyi City is broken, I Goryeo can get a foothold on the other side of the river, as long as we continue to go south, it will inevitably make my Goryeo territory bigger and bigger, this is all the work of my family, he will definitely leave his name in history, and ...... glorious history books."

As a famous general in Goryeo, Tuo Junjing is quite reserved, and in the face of Li Ziqian's praise, Tuo Junjing smiled slightly: "The in-laws are joking, just an Anyi city, but it was broken in one day, and there is no difficulty at all." At least it's much easier than when Daikin was still around. ”

Li Ziqian nodded slightly, although it is said that most of the military power in Goryeo is in the hands of Tuo Junjing, but this does not mean that Li Ziqian really believes in Tuo Junjing completely, at least the soldiers and horses in the royal city are in the hands of their Qingyuan Li family, and what Tuo Junjing controls is just local soldiers and horses.

Looking at Tuo Junjing, Li Ziqian said: "Our spies came with news that not long after the Great Song Dynasty destroyed Dajin, they used troops against Western Xia and Tubo. ”

Tuo Junjing stroked his beard and said with a confident look on his face: "It's not that I look down on that Chu Yi, if he waits until the Great Song Dynasty has thoroughly digested Dajin before using troops in the northwest, there may still be a few chances of winning, but such a hasty use of troops is a taboo for soldiers, I dare to say that this time the Great Song Dynasty will definitely lose the troops against Western Xia and Tubo." ”

Seeing Tuo Junjing's confident appearance, Li Ziqian breathed a sigh of relief and said: "If this is the case, then it would be great, as long as the Great Song Dynasty is defeated, it will definitely take a few years to recover, and during this period, we can seize the opportunity to slowly expand and occupy a large area of territory......

Saying that, Li Ziqian said with a little excitement: "It is best to let the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia and Tubo wars continue, and there is no time to take care of the northeast, and when the Great Song Dynasty, Western Xia and Tubo are both defeated, my Goryeo has risen in the northwest, and at that time the army will go south, and it will not be impossible to enter the prosperous land of the Central Plains......"

Tuo Junjing couldn't help coughing lightly to make Li Ziqian wake up from that daydream, and noticed that Tuo Junjing's gaze at him was a little weird, Li Ziqian smiled quite awkwardly: "This is a certain goal, although it seems ridiculous, but I firmly believe that as long as we persevere, there will always be a day when it will be achieved." ”

Tuo Junjing looked at Li Ziqian noncommittally and said: "My in-laws have such grand ambitions, and I fully support them, but such grand ambitions of my in-laws require a large number of soldiers and horses to realize......

When Li Ziqian heard this, he looked at Tuo Junjing with a look of embarrassment on his face and said: "My in-laws also know that our Goryeo itself is weak and the people are lacking, and the Ordnance Department has only barely equipped the troops and horses of the garrison in Beijing with all these years......"

Tuo Junjing was not surprised at all by Li Ziqian's resignation, this is not the first time Li Ziqian has made such a resignation, no one knows who, some of what Li Ziqian said is indeed true, but although Goryeo is weaker, it is not as exaggerated as Li Ziqian said.

At least as far as he knew, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses could still be raised as long as Li Ziqian was willing, and the reason why Li Ziqian said that was nothing more than to limit the military power in his hands.

Thinking that in order to set aside King Renzong and deal with the ministers loyal to the royal family in the court, the two of them joined forces and completely united in military and political aspects, completing the erosion of the royal family and the suppression of the ministers in the court.

At that time, the two were intimate and flawless in cooperation, and it was also at that time that Tuo Junjing mastered the local soldiers and horses step by step in addition to the soldiers and horses of the Beijing garrison.

It is precisely because of the completion of the overhead of Renzong that the relationship between the two is obviously no longer as harmonious as before, at least Li Ziqian began to jam him in terms of food, ammunition and other materials, and even the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses recruited by Tuo Junjing are now not able to complete the weapons.

It seemed that he felt that he was a little unauthentic to Tuo Junjing so stuck, Li Ziqian coughed lightly and said: "In this way, I want to think of a way to try to allocate three thousand ordnance materials for you, if there are more, it will really take time." ”

Tuo Junjing sighed slightly: "Since the imperial court is so difficult, then it will be bothering the in-laws." ”

Li Ziqian waved his hand and said: "It's okay, it's okay, the border situation still needs to be personally controlled by the in-laws, I don't know how long the in-laws are going to stay when they return to Beijing this time, and when they will return to the army." ”

Tuo Junjing knew very well that Li Ziqian was worried that he had been in the capital for too long, so he almost didn't drive him away, but now that Li Ziqian was in power, Tuo Junjing had no intention of competing with Li Ziqian, and said with a little mutter: "This time I returned to Beijing, mainly to raise ordnance materials for the soldiers, as long as my in-laws can pick up some materials, I can return to the military camp at any time." ”

Li Ziqian stroked his beard, looked at Tuo Junjing with admiration on his face and said: "The border land is inseparable from the in-laws, so I hereby order, first transfer a part of the ordnance materials from the Wangcheng garrison to the in-laws, the border military is the most important." ”

Just when the two of them were playing tricks, a rush of footsteps came, and they saw a figure walking quickly, when they saw Li Ziqian and Tuo Junjing, they saluted Li Ziqian and Tuo Junjing: "I've seen my father and father-in-law." ”

Li Fang, as the eldest son of Li Ziqian, married the daughter of Tuo Junjing, which can be said to be the bridge between the two marriages.

Glancing at Li Fang, Li Ziqian bowed slightly and said, "My son is in a hurry, but is there something wrong?" ”

Li Fang first glanced at Tuo Junjing, but after a little hesitation, he said to the two: "Father, father-in-law, just now, the news from our spies in the Central Plains that Chu Yi conquered Western Xia and Tubo, and destroyed the two kingdoms of Western Xia and Tubo in one sentence, and has already returned to the dynasty. ”

Because of the distance, the news obviously has a strong lag, and there are only two celestials on the face of Goryeo, Tuo Junjing and the ancestor of the Li family, and then considering the possible existence of a celestial powerhouse in the royal family, Goryeo is only two or three celestials.

In this case, in Goryeo, even the existence of the grandmaster and the great grandmaster level is also a strong party, high up, and it is obviously impossible to want such a strong person to be used as a messenger to convey news.

Therefore, if the spies planted by Goryeo in the Central Plains want to transmit the news back to Goryeo, it will obviously take a long time to rush on the road, so it may be that the Great Song Dynasty has already sent troops here, and the news received by the Goryeo side is still a few months ago.

Li Ziqian got up suddenly, and even knocked over the table in front of him at once, and the tea was spilled on the ground, only to see Li Ziqian's eyes widen, staring at Li Fang in disbelief and saying, "You...... What did you say? ”

Obviously, Li Ziqian was stunned by this sudden news, Mo said that Li Ziqian, even Tuojun Kyoto on the side was dumbfounded, you must know that just now, he also swore to Li Ziqian that the Great Song Dynasty's conquest of Western Xia and Tubo would inevitably be defeated.

As a result, it was only a long time coming, Li Fang actually brought the news that the Western Xia and Tubo were destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty, how could this not make Tuotuo Junjing deeply shocked.

Tuo Junjing's hand that was holding his beard shook suddenly, several beards were torn off, and he couldn't care about the pain, Tuo Junjing stared at Li Fang and said, "Virtuous son-in-law, is the news true?" ”

Li Fang nodded with a wry smile and said, "The news is true." ”

Tuo Junjing sat on the stone pier with a look of disbelief on his face, and muttered, "How is this possible, how is this possible...... That's the two great powers of Tubo and Western Xia, how can they say that they are defeated? ”