Section 38 Northern Expedition

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After a deep glance at the other party, Lei Juetian said slowly with a complicated expression: "I only hope that the Great Khan will remember the promise he made to his subordinates, when the Five Lakes region is captured, he must treat the people of the Tang nationality well, and he must not use ethnic differences as a ditch, otherwise Lei Juetian will really become a historical sinner whose death is not enough to atone for his sins." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Bi Xili stopped and said awe-inspiringly: "Juetian can rest assured, not to mention that I have promised you, I will keep my promise, I have the same Tang blood, if you want to gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains, you must win the hearts of the Tang people, there is no doubt about this, I don't think Juetian will think that I don't even know this, right?" What's more, our Maqi Khan people have been advocated by several generations of Great Khans in the past hundred years, many customs and habits have gradually been the same as the Tang people, to put it mildly, now only the Maqi Khan people are afraid that there is not much difference between the Tang people, I never think that the Maqi Khan people are superior to the Tang people, not to mention that the culture and art accumulated by the Tang people for thousands of years are more worthy of our Maqi Khan people to learn and learn from, but I also think that excessive national pride also makes the vast majority of Tang people lie in the shadow of their ancestors too lazy and do not want to forge ahead, and the unenterprising nation is to be eliminated by history, this is the inevitable law of history, this is what you told me, I am like the Tang River Empire today may be such a portrayal, if the Tang people want to get a new life, I am afraid that they really need to be the first to drink, so let me be this stick. ”

With a long breath, Lei Juetian lowered his head and strolled forward, he knew that the other party's words were very reasonable, as a Tang people, he helped the foreign power to conquer his country, although this empire has decayed to the extreme, but for the orthodox Tang people, it is still an unacceptable fact. He has been in charge of the Maqi Khanate for more than ten years, and the Great Khan has a lot of trust in himself, which can be said to be above 10,000 people under one person, and the status of ordinary Tang people in the Maqi Khanate has also improved a lot, but this can be used as a reason for himself to serve the Maqi Khanate? Lei Juetian was a little at a loss.

"Juetian, you seem to have something on your mind?" Bi Xili was keenly aware of the melancholy in the humerus look of his henchman.

"Nothing, Great Khan, just a little emotional. I am about to enter the Five Lakes, my mood is a little complicated, many past events are slowly floating, and I may have to face my colleagues in the past one day, but this position is completely different, this feeling, you are afraid that it is difficult for you to experience. In front of his own lord, Lei Juetian didn't want to hide anything, the ups and downs of more than ten years could not erase the ups and downs in his memory, on the contrary, with the passage of time, some scenes became clearer and clearer in his mind, as if something happened yesterday.

Bi Xili can understand the feelings of the other party, he believes that a successful monarch, the first thing must have is a broad mind, without a tolerant mind, this monarch is not a qualified monarch, he himself has always been required by this standard, Lei Juetian can get his reuse is a clear proof. As a Tang person, seeing that his painstaking efforts have made the Maqi Khan people stronger, but now he is pointing his troops at his motherland, this complex mood is indeed not something that ordinary people can experience.

"Juetian, otherwise, you won't participate in this Northern Expedition, you should be trustworthy about Yaning's character, I have already given them a death order, it is strictly forbidden to disturb the people, and those who violate the order will be beheaded, even if it is the army of the Tang River Empire, as long as they are willing to surrender, we will not kill them all, and accept the surrender of the counter as much as possible." Of course, you also know that this is a war, and it is impossible to do without sacrifice and bloodshed, we can only try to avoid bloodshed. Bichly's words were simple and simple.

"Xie Dahan is kind, but I think it would be better for me to go with General Yaning, after all, I know more about the situation in my hometown, and I don't want to add more people to die because of needless resistance. Khan, I also need to prepare, so I'll go down and rest first. Lei Juetian shook his head with a heavy expression and rejected Bi Xili's suggestion, bowed, and walked forward gloomily.

"Leaning on the dangerous building, the wind is fine, looking at the extreme spring sorrow, and the sky is gloomy. In the afterglow of the grass-colored smoke, there is no one who will rely on his will. The half-depressed butterfly love flower wrapped around Lei Juetian's gradually distant figure, and under the reflection of the afterglow, the thin figure looked even more lonely and lonely.

In the early morning of March 23, 697 in the Gregorian calendar on the mainland, the army of 210,000 Maqi Khan, which had long been ready to go, divided into east and west, crossed the border line between the two countries, and went straight to Wenning and Baling.

By noon on March 24, the army of Ma Qi Khan of the four corps of the Eastern Front under the personal leadership of the general of Dingguo, Ya Ning, advanced rapidly and rapidly for more than 100 miles, all the way to several important checkpoints and towns, like a bamboo, half of Wenning Province was already under the control of the army of Ma Qi Khan, and on the evening of March 25, the army of Ma Qi Khan on the East Road finally encountered the first battle since the beginning of the war. The two infantry wings of the 3rd Division of the Sixth Army of the Imperial Dynasty stubbornly sniped the 5th Corps of Maqi Khan advancing north near the Luomadu in the middle of Wenning Province 50 miles away from the city of Wenning Province, and the imperial infantry took advantage of the favorable terrain to effectively limit the role of the cavalry of the Maqi Khan, and the two brigades of infantry guarding the flank of the Luomadu took advantage of the ships near the ferry to make a roundabout approach and raided the 5th Corps of Maqi Khan, which had just been encampedExcept for the deputy corps commander who escaped by chance, the rest of the command members, including the corps commander, were all annihilated, and the Fifth Corps was defeated.

Fortunately, the 4th Corps of Macedhan Khan, which was advancing at the same time, discovered the anomaly of the 5th Corps on its flank, quickly adjusted its deployment, crossed the Xiangshui River with forcibly collected boats, and then launched an attack from east to west. Due to the disparity between the enemy and us, the two wings of the Emperor [***] team guarding the mule and horse crossing were forced to retreat after a day and a night of heroic resistance, and at this point, the important ferry crossing to Wenning Province has been controlled by the Maqi Khans, and the gate to Wenning Province has been opened.

In the early morning of March 30, the army of Ma Qihan's Northern Expedition to the East Road, in addition to the Fifth Corps, which was also reassembled and reorganized near Luomadu, the other three corps had successfully crossed the Xiangshui River and approached the city of Wenningfu. On the night of March 29, the 3rd Division of the 6th Army Corps of the Empire began to withdraw from Wenning Mansion City and make a strategic transfer to the north, accompanied by the evacuation of the 3rd Division, there were also a large number of gentry and landlords and wealthy merchants of Wenning Mansion with their children and daughters, and the Wenning Garrison Division received an order to hold Wenning Mansion City, when the 3rd Division withdrew from Wenning Mansion City, the rich Wenning Mansion City immediately fell into chaos, and the landless peasants from the countryside and the displaced people in the Mansion City quickly became entangled, burning and looting everywhere, and the garrison troops who were ordered to hold the Wenning Mansion City were not only unable to control the situation in the city, but even quite a number of garrison soldiers and mobs were in the same stream to take advantage of this vacuum timeThe chaos lasted until March 31, when the army of Maqi Khan entered the city, and the situation was brought under control.

On March 15, Bi Xiao personally led the 11th Corps across the undefended Lianshui River to the shore of Dongting Lake, the famous land of fish and rice. On March 26, Bi Xiao led a large army to capture the dock base of the Dongting Lake naval fleet - Botou Town, the entire wharf was empty, and the ships had been ordered to withdraw north a few days before the arrival of the Maqi Khan, and retreated north along the southern section of the Jianghu waterway (Hanshui - Dongting Lake) to Hanshui.

On March 28, after Bi Xiao received the information that the Fourth Division of the Sixth Army of the Imperial Army stationed in Baling Mansion had withdrawn, his troops were divided into two routes, and he led the 11th and 12th Corps to advance along the west bank of Dongting Lake, while the 10th Corps went north along the east bank of Dongting Lake.

This Five Lakes area was originally the birthplace of the empire's aristocratic landlords, when the founding emperor of the empire fought the world, there were many meritorious veterans, and later after the establishment of the empire, with the royal power in the concentration of power, it was also correspondingly given to those meritorious ministers with a large amount of compensation, many of these people returned to their hometowns to buy land, became rich, and with the changes of the times, these families who enjoyed many privileges in political rights tried their best to continue to annex the fields, so that the peasants in this area continued to become tenants, and the entire Wuhu region became a highly concentrated area of imperial land。 The peasants, who had become tenants and hired peasants, lived in poverty, and the only way for them to survive after losing their land was to join the doors of these big nobles and big landlords, and in fact lost their personal rights and became serfs of the landlords who were semi-dependent on the caste.

Now that I got this opportunity, I saw that these usually majestic masters were panicked at this time, and they didn't even have time to take many things with them to join the ranks of the fleeing, and as for the land and houses, no one cared about them, and even those slaves who used to help in the landlord's house took advantage of the fire to rob and rob the master's property, where could the tenants still hold on, and flocked to the final attack towards the dream goal of becoming the owner of the land.

On March 31, 697 in the mainland Gregorian calendar, the army of Maqi Khan on the western front led by Bi Xiao achieved the victory of the historical surname at the Chongyuzui at the north end of Dongting Lake, where the Dongting Lake and the main artery leading to the five lakes - the key point of the Han River, is only more than 30 miles away from Balingfu City, and the water and land transportation is extremely convenient, and it can be said that it has stood at the gate of victory.

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