Chapter 486: Who Can Have the Last Laugh
Huaixi Wang Qing's relatives are all straw bale rice buckets, and they control half of the army of more than 200,000. But he was always beaten and threw away his armor and fled in embarrassment. What Duan Wu, Fang Han and his ilk were killed in battle one after another or captured and beheaded to show the public.
Li Zhu, Teng Ji brothers and other generals rushed around like fire captains. In this case, although many imperial troops were annihilated, their own forces shrank sharply, and more than ten county towns in Sanzhou were lost.
One general is incompetent, and the words "exhausting the three armies" are most suitable here. In the eyes of outsiders, after the scenery of Huaixi Wang Qing, it also began to decline.
Only the battle on the Jiangnan battlefield became more and more intense.
Nanguo Fangla is worthy of being a sectarian and has a good mass base. The people of Jiangnan suffered a lot from Huashigang and hated the imperial court. Not to mention that Manichaeism has been in business for many years, and the people have spontaneously raised donations to help.
Many young and strong people joined the army, so that the Fangla army did not decrease but increased, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became. On the other hand, the imperial army, although Wang Yu and Zhao Tan are capable people, they can lead troops and train soldiers, and they have been fighting for several months, and more than 100,000 troops have grown from recruits, but they can't win, but they have many defeats.
The two sides did not give in to each other, and there were many battles, and the fighting was fierce.
After there is no suspense in the two battlefields of Hedong and Huaixi, a large army will be sent south. The court of Bianliang City always pays attention to the battle situation, and this is the idea of fighting.
The Great Song Dynasty has experienced more than 100 years, and there have been many large and small peasant uprisings. But they were all local wars, and they didn't have much impact.
Although this time, the three thieves attacked at the same time, which brought a lot of trouble to the imperial court. But it's just a trouble, and it doesn't pose much of a threat!
This is also the reason why Zhao Ji of Song Huizong in Bianliang City has been sitting on the dragon chair for many years.
Although the imperial court was corrupt, it did not fall after all.
It can only be said that the imperial court has a deep heritage, and the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.
The three major rebel armies sprung up, and at first they caught the imperial court off guard and fell into passivity. But after all, it was short-lived and failed to shake the foundation of the imperial court!
Several battlefields were in full swing, but Jeju Chaojiazhuang was forgotten. If it weren't for the layers of checkpoints set up by the Jeju Foreign Government and the soldiers stationed in the city, everyone would be a little nervous in addition to being relaxed.
The fierce gods are vicious, and the famous Jeju Chaogai seems to have completely failed, and the food shortage is becoming more and more serious. It can already be seen that the displaced people are fleeing from Jeju, all of them in ragged clothes, with yellow faces and thin muscles, as if they are fleeing.
Although the number of people is not very large, it is enough to show that the food is tight and the people cannot bear it. Occasionally, there are many grievances against Chao Gai's incompetence.
Song Huizong of Bianliang City and the traitorous ministers were overjoyed when they learned the news, thinking that the plan was perfectly implemented, and Chao Gai was eaten by tens of millions of mouths. It is estimated that around the winter, the number of people fleeing will increase, and the collapse is not far away.
Luka in Puzhou, Enzhou and other places strengthened their vigilance, and the imperial army was on standby, ready for a big battle at any time. This is also the reason why the soldiers of the imperial court are nervous, afraid that the Jeju officials and soldiers will be trapped and fighting, and they will fight to the death desperately.
But how do outsiders know? The capital of Goryeo had already fallen more than half a month ago. The repatriation of troops stationed at the border could not be avoided.
In order to fight for the dominance of the country, the local forces of Goryeo fought to the death and lost both. In order to pick peaches, the army on Jeju Island set foot in the territory of Goryeo overnight. With the cooperation of the Flying Tigers, a Goryeo nobleman, they attacked the city and plundered the land.
A complete purge followed. What the traitors of the Goryeo Kingdom, the remnants of the previous dynasty, and the demon monk Miaoqing and the like, were all eradicated in one net.
Just a few days ago, the entire territory of Goryeo fell into the hands of Chaogai.
In fact, just like when they were in Wado, a large number of people came to Jeju Island in advance. Quickly poured into the area controlled by the Chao army, forming market towns and villages, cultivating farmland, planting mulberry hemp, or becoming fishermen, etc.
Stabilize the situation as quickly as possible, adapt to the new environment, and integrate with the local population. The elimination of those who can toss the ambitious masters, the reorganization of the surrendered Goryeo soldiers, and the pacification of the war-torn and frightened people, the progress is very smooth.
Goryeo established the Northeast Metropolitan Protectorate, with the sick pharmacist Xiao Jiasui as the deputy protector, the Changshi Zhang Shuye, and Sima Xiaotianbao Suding, and the rest of the official positions were appointed. Zhang Fei Du Bao was the envoy of the festival, and the commander-in-chief of the troops and horses guarded the peninsula.
The cavalry Tiger Army, the Infantry Blood Army, 100,000 Goryeo auxiliaries, and a total of more than 200,000 troops were stationed on the Great Wall of Goryeo to guard against the invasion of the Jurchens.
Chaojiazhuang sent some civil officials into the official career, and hired many local officials from Goryeo and added officials to the knighthood, completely abolishing the slave and maid system. The people's will has been rapidly stabilized, and they have entered the stage of post-war reconstruction, bereavement, and planning!
The food and all kinds of materials purchased from the Great Song Dynasty poured in, and they were distributed or called for collection from door to door, which made the eyes of the war-torn and hungry Goryeo people moisten, and they thought that the Heavenly Empire was the savior of heaven.
Compared with the Yamato nation, the Goryeo people have low self-esteem in their bones but are willing to submit to the strong. Becoming a part of the Celestial Empire is an unattainable dream for many Koreans. Now that the king of the northeast of the Great Song Dynasty has admitted it, how can he not be willing?
Therefore, there were basically no riots in Goryeo.
The takeover of the territory went smoothly and the wounds of the war quickly subsided. With the influx of Han Chinese who are skilled in farming and handicrafts, a dazzling array of shops and restaurants with delicious food has opened, and schools have been erected to teach children and adults alike, popularize Han culture, and bring a new life.
The total land of 600,000 square kilometers of Goryeo and the Japanese state, as well as the Han people who migrated to settle on the island, were the confidence of the Chao family army to dominate the world.
At the beginning of August, a Korean delegation brought Korean ginseng and other valuable gifts. Jin Fushi, a native of Goryeo, led a team to Bianliang City by boat to meet the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, crying that the Goryeo Kingdom had been invaded and asking for food and other assistance.
In a word, you are here to cry poor!
Since the beginning of autumn, Chaojiazhuang has faced more and more tests. It takes more than half a month for the rice and wheat to ripen, and more and more people are fleeing Jeju with wild vegetables and fruits. Shouting all day long that they don't want to leave their homeland, but they come here to suffer, expressing their willingness to become the people of the Great Song Dynasty, just to live.
Song Huizong Zhao Ji was very happy about the interest of these people, after all, there were many sinister intentions of the imperial court in various places to treat the people as weapons, and I don't know how many people starved to death and died of heat and other remarks spread, which caused undercurrents to surge in various places.
There were even peasant uprisings in some places.
In order to win back the hearts of the people, the court behaved very generously.
Preferential treatment was given to the people who fled Jeju, not only by food rations, but also by meat supplies. He was even allowed to go to various places to settle down and settle properly.
Who saw that most of the people in the fleeing crowd had dishes on their faces, and their eyes flashed?
Jeju Chaogai can't hold it anymore!
Hedong Tianhu is similar, under the encirclement and suppression of the imperial army, he lost his troops and retreated. The territory shrank one after another, and only the land of the four states remained.
It's not that Tian Hujun is not strong, but that the foundation is insufficient, and logistics are difficult to maintain.
On the other hand, most of the areas controlled by the Song Dynasty were not affected by the war. The hundreds of thousands of troops recruited by the treasury were almost emptied of the treasury, and the tax revenue of several months was transported to the treasury of Bianliang City to fill up again, and the troops were quietly recruited and trained again. At the end of July, 100,000 soldiers from the training department were reinforced to the front line for three months.
Under the advantages of one another, Tian Hu commanded more than 300,000 soldiers and horses, and the imperial army was only a lot more. But in terms of food and supplies, Tian Hu can't compare with the horse. Defeated on the battlefield one after another, switching roles, and defending the city.
The Song Dynasty came with a combination of punches, and risked to draw 20,000 elite Western troops from the Western Xia border, put them into the battlefield from the west, and raided the cities where grain was stored in the middle of the night. A fire turned the food hoarded by Tian Hu to ashes.
This elite force, like the last straw that crushed the camel, crushed Tian Hu.
There was no food, the morale of the army was unstable, and the morale of Tianhu's army was low. The morale of the imperial army was like a rainbow, and they launched a large-scale counterattack, and the situation on the battlefield in Hedong was clear.
On the Huaixi battlefield, Chu Emperor Wang Qing was much stronger. In other words, the intelligence behind Chaojiazhuang is very powerful. The 100,000 recruits secretly trained by the imperial court quietly went into the battlefield, and they wanted to repeat the old tricks but did not have any effect.
At the suggestion of Mr. Jin Jian, Li Zhu, the army took the initiative to abandon the cities that had not been occupied for a long time. Shrink the force and occupy only the three states around the rich Jingnan region. Defend the pass and fight to the end with the imperial court.
Of course, the abandoned cities were also garrisoned by heavy troops, and materials such as rolling wood and cannon stones, ash bottles and grease were well prepared, and the people in the cities were mobilized to help transport stones, cook, etc., and would be rewarded with money and other materials.
No matter how the imperial army provokes, the city will not be closed.
The imperial court was urging urgently, and the army could only storm it, but in front of the city where the army and the people helped each other and had abundant supplies. Every time they charged, a large group of soldiers were stoned to death by rolling wooden cannon stones, shot into hedgehogs by the rain of arrows on the city wall, scalded by the hot oil splashed like a scoop and rolled down the ladder, and fell to death......
This is war, brutal war.
From the moment he set foot on this road to eat military salaries, he was destined to have the consciousness of death.
Wang Qingjun and the imperial court staged offensive and defensive battles, like meat grinders.
Whenever the city is dilapidated and crumbling, or after the materials for defending the city are exhausted. The defenders of the city will not love to fight, and will abandon the city and retreat overnight. And the people who helped the defenders of the city were scattered, and every man returned to his house.
Their purpose is that the enemy will pay the price of blood for every city they regain.
Therefore, every time the imperial army captured the next city, the troops would suffer heavy losses. If you were lucky, you broke through a small county town and killed three or two thousand people. The most often lost more than 10,000 people when they captured the capital.
In August, more than 300,000 troops of the imperial court divided into multiple routes and captured dozens of abandoned cities. Together, the army lost nearly half of its numbers. It made the famous general Wu Jue heartbroken, and there was a deep worry. This group of strongmen is a little unusual, and I can't figure out their routine.
However, the casualties, although very large, seemed to the imperial court. Huaixi Wang Qingjie was defeated and retreated, and in just a few months, most of the territory was lost, and he was as anxious as a lost dog, and he was as vast as a fish that slipped through the net, so he didn't have to worry about it!
Only Fang La on the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River was fierce and abnormal, not only standing under the blockade, but becoming more and more courageous, and the imperial army that fought was defeated and retreated, and it actually occupied the land of Kyushu, and the soldiers pointed directly at Jiankang Mansion.
This was also what Song Huizong and the traitors were worried about, so they took the risk of transferring the Western Army again. Eliminate the Hedong Tianhu as quickly as possible, and then reinforce the Jiangnan battlefield. The two roads of men and horses are strong in numbers, and they will definitely be able to exterminate them.
Despite the ongoing fighting in various places, it is largely clear.
Song Huizong still breathed a sigh of relief, no longer roared like thunder, and returned to his gentleness and elegance. And as August 15 approached, there was good news.
The Goryeo envoys are here!