Chapter 57: The Pace of War
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Martial arts slowly became popular in the White Night's sphere of influence and became commoner. In the outside world, it is still like a flood of beasts, guarded against and cautious.
The reason for this phenomenon is nothing more than the following three points: First, the literate people in the outside world are mostly concentrated in Confucian scholars, who believe that martial artists are one of the factors that cause social instability. They will definitely not promote martial arts, but will try their best to resist and lead people to dislike martial arts. In addition, they cannot, and will not hope that the rise of a martial art, will hinder the position of Confucianism, and even if there is the slightest possibility, they will strangle it in the cradle. In the hearts of these Confucian scholars, Confucianism is the right way in the world, and what the holy master said is the truth of heaven and earth, and the best learning in the world.
Secondly, there is the ruling class of those forces. As a force that wants to be stable forever and have a foundation that lasts less than 10,000 years, they do not want the people to have strong force, which may endanger their rule. Otherwise, why did Qin Shi Huang gather the world's soldiers and cast twelve golden men?
To put it bluntly, the rulers do not trust the people at the bottom and are afraid that the overthrow of them by the people will pose a threat to their rule. In their minds, only the kind of people who are stupid, suitable for control, and do not have the ability to resist are the best good people in their eyes, cattle and sheep to graze.
Finally, there are those martial arts families. They are different from the previous two, they are worried that everyone learning martial arts will make them lose their current status and lose their sense of superiority in the eyes of ordinary people. They all want to obtain the secret book of divine power, but it is not for the benefit of one party, but to maintain their status, to maintain mystery, so that people will be in awe of them and regard them as heavenly immortals. It is precisely because of this selfishness that they will not allow the popularization of martial arts, but will vigorously restrict it. They can study and learn on their own, but they will not let ordinary people get their hands dirty.
With the joint efforts of these three parties, coupled with the poor literacy rate of this era, there was a phenomenon that martial arts within the White Night Force were thriving, causing a sensation, and the outside world was like a stagnant water, without the slightest wave. Even, the Changchun Gong, which was released in the early years of the White Night, was still regarded as a banned book by some forces and was not allowed to circulate.
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One turned around and looked back, staggered with each other, and five years passed in a hurry.
Another five years, and nearly two thousand days and nights. Spring goes to autumn, flowers bloom, and inadvertently, it is already a cycle of five seasons.
It has been ten years since the White Night Forces raised their flags, and now that the ideal step of the White Night can finally embark on the second step - the road of expansion.
Five years of development, ten years of sharpening the sword, once out of the sheath, the world is shocked.
In the past five years, the White Night forces have been too low-key, the anti-Mongolian alliance and Mongolia have been inextricably linked, and the entire East Asian continent seems to be in a state of war and chaos.
Even Dali in the Southern Song Dynasty did not escape the war in the end, and countless people were swept into the tide of the times.
The wheels of the times are rolling forward, no one is immune, and no force will be the real paradise on earth.
In the summer of 1267, Tibet and Mongolia dissolved their affiliation, and the new king of Tibet was ambitious and secretly formed an alliance with the Mongol Empire. In that fiery and splendid season, Tubo waved its war and crushed towards the Southern Song Dynasty and Dali.
Tubo sent 100,000 troops this time, without any warning, without any news, and suddenly the troops were divided into two routes, all the way to 60,000 troops, attacking towards the Chengdu Fu Road in the Southern Song Dynasty, all the way to 40,000 troops, waving the army south, towards Dali.
The Tibetan people grew up in the snow-capped mountains of the plateau, in a harsh environment, tempered a very strong physique and extremely barbaric customs, and they began to compete for the world under the leadership of a new generation of Tubo kings.
The Tibetan army was savage and good at fighting, and there was the command of the Tubo king, and it only took a few days to break through Yazhou and go towards Chengdu Mansion and Jiading Mansion.
The people of Yazhou, in one day, were almost slaughtered by the Tibetan army. Yazhou City is full of blood, and corpses are everywhere. The king of Tubo issued an order, and no matter how dare to fight to the death, it will be like this.
The Tubo army attacking Dali was unexpectedly smooth, the country respected the Buddha throughout the country, the resistance was minimal, the Dali army was crushed for thousands of miles, the Tubo army only a few days, it had captured one-third of Dali's land, and then not far away, and even the generals went to the imperial city of Dali.
Probably for the sake of the Buddha's face, the Tibetan army did not massacre in Dali, but all kinds of looting and humiliation are indispensable. The people of Dali were too docile to dare to be angry but not to speak, and they could only silently endure the torture of the invaders.
The Southern Song Dynasty's response to the war was very slow, from knowing the news to sending troops, it took more than half a month. If it weren't for the destruction of Jiading Mansion and the emergency of Chengdu Mansion, this group of old men sitting in the court would still be arguing.
After gathering the generals and gathering the troops, after a departure ceremony, Jia Rudao wore a handsome robe and led the army to the battle.
In fact, this guy did not plan to really win the battle against Tibet, but left with the goodwill of peace talks. He has secretly prepared a beautiful woman and silver taels, just so that the king of Tubo can sell him a face.
When Bai Ye heard that Jia Rudao was going to war and secretly going to peace talks, he couldn't help but squirt out the tea in his mouth. He also shook his head and sighed, sure enough, at the end of the dynasty, all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods ran out.
Ridicule is ridicule, Bai Ye can't let Jia Nidao really get into danger, he sent a special operations team to lurk in Jia Nidao's army, and if there is an emergency, let the special operations team protect Jia Nidao and evacuate first. Although this man is a traitor and a powerful minister, for Bai Ye, the benefit of living is greater than that of dying.
The south does not stop, let alone the north.
Several restored royal families gathered nearly 300,000 troops to fight in the north, from the west of the Mongolian steppe to the east of the Mongolian steppe, and the traces of war were burning everywhere. Large swaths of grassland were burned, vast swaths of herders were slaughtered, and every inch of land was stained with the blood of cattle, sheep and people.
Several forces joined forces to attack Mongolia, although Mongolia was strong, but it was also exhausted, not to mention that the past was not the past.
At that time, the Mongol army was unparalleled in the world, but now it is seen as flawed and firmly nailed to the steppe.
Yang Yuanhong, located in Shandong, is also unwilling to be lonely. His army occupied all of the former Shandong region, and also took possession of parts of present-day Anhui and Jiangsu occupied by the Mongols. He had now become a neighbor to the east of the White Night, and the two sides were close to each other, and the soldiers guarding the border could see each other.
After Yang Yuanhong took these areas, he did not digest them like Bai Ye, but recruited troops and horses, raised his flag and went north, and headed towards the capital of the Mongol Empire. This time, he's going to grab more land and get more profits.
It's just that although his strategic idea was brilliant, he made an unexpected wrong decision, that is, to occupy all the Anhui and Jiangsu regions near the border of the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was a conflict with the seaport scheduled by Bai Ye.
Therefore, after the completion of five years of development, the first person to move the knife in Bai Ye was not Mongolia, but the Yang Yuanhong Department of the Red Jacket Army in the anti-Mongolian alliance.
Before the war, Bai Ye specially sent someone to Yang Yuanhong's ministry to explain that he hoped that he could give up part of the land in Anhui and Jiangsu, and Bai Ye was willing to make up for it with other rewards.
It's a pity that Bai Ye underestimated the people's dedication to land in this era, especially these forces who have aspirations for the world and want to compete in Kyushu. The messengers sent by the White Night were ridiculed, and their demands were refuted.
The Red Jacket Army has developed rapidly in the past five years, and there are more territories and armies than White Night, so naturally it gradually does not take the White Night forces in its eyes.
With the expansion of power, those Shandong scholars who supported Yang Yuanhong stood on the bright side, and the children of the clan served in Yang Yuanhong's forces, as if they had seen Yang Yuanhong's general trend and would ascend to the position of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme.
It is also these scholars and Confucian scholars who ridicule the most fierce forces in the white night. What's more, the white night force is compared to a dog, fierce as a wolf when he was young, grinning at people, when he grows up, a dog is a dog after all, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, as long as it is stronger than it, it is not that he does not dare to attack, he does not dare to be fierce? Look around now, around the White Night forces, there are all their allies, and they don't believe that White Night really dares to attack them.
The ridicule seemed to cross the space, from Jinan to Luoyang, Bai Ye looked at the diplomatic officials who had returned after being insulted, silently, just patted them on the shoulder, and told them to go back to rest and wait for news.
On the autumn equinox of 1269, the first batch of high school students in White Nights had graduated, and some of them were left behind to become teachers, and the others were assigned to many positions.
The giant ship that sails on the river of the times has begun to take shape, and now is the time to whip up the horse, blow the horn, and set sail for the sea.
"Our target this time is Haizhou, and the enemy this time is the Red Jacket Army. Now that the new guns are in service, it's time to show what we've achieved in five years. ”
In a spacious conference room, Bai Ye sat in the main seat, and there were many people holding meetings, a full hundred people, mainly military personnel and administrative personnel, all concentrated here.
No one spoke, they were all listening.
The eyes of the military commanders shone brightly, it has been another five years, and it is rare to fight, I am afraid that some people have forgotten that the force that once defeated the Mongol army, right?
"When this battle starts, we will face not only the Red Jacket Army, but also the Western Xia, the Southern Song Dynasty, and maybe even the Mongol Tubo. I hope you will be prepared before the battle, and sharpen your guns less on the spot, so as not to make mistakes. ”
Bai Ye knocked on the table, among the administrators, Huang Rong was in the ranks, she looked serious at this time, listening to Bai Ye's speech, she was not snub because she was Bai Ye's mother.
"This war was started by us, and I will not command it either, so I hope everyone will work together. Finally, I wish you all the best of luck! ”
Bai Ye stood up with a smile, and the first one began to applaud, and everyone listening couldn't help but laugh and applaud one by one.
Huang Rong sat there, looked at her son, looked at her daughter, and couldn't help but smile slightly, her son and daughter no longer needed to worry about themselves.