Chapter 439: Under the City of Xiangping
Many Hu cavalry began to dismount and walk, and everyone led their horses on foot, everyone knew that if the horses they rode were tired to death, no one would give them horses, and in the end they might stay in this place forever!
All the way to dawn, it was simply sleepy. At this time, the soldiers of Youguo found a few thatched houses on the side of the road, and were about to send someone to get some supplies, but they saw that some Hu cavalry had already taken the lead, and they drove out some ragged women, children and old people, and were "chirping and wah" to ask where the food was hidden, and even robbed the torn clothes, probably because they remembered the cold last night.
Suddenly, the soldiers stabbed an old man with knives and stabbed them several times, and then raised their knives and aimed them at a child, shouting and cursing.
The soldiers of Youguo watched silently, and they didn't ask, and the rebels passed by, regardless of whether they were their own people. Besides, the Hu cavalry and the farming tribes here are not all the way.
More than 100,000 people of the Liao coalition army of Youguo were defeated by the Tang State in a battle and were completely lost!
The news was quickly transmitted from the Tuhe River, because there were too many people who cared, and this kind of news was transmitted through a fast horse that traveled hundreds of miles a day, which was completely different from the general information diffusion.
The northeastern counties were shaken, and the entire north was affected by it.
The nomadic herding, fishing and hunting tribes outside the Great Wall were very uneasy, and they quickly sent people to Jidu to inquire about the attitude of the Tang Dynasty and whether they would continue the northern expedition. There are all kinds of post houses in the thistle, which was originally a place for trading in the mutual market, and now it is also a stronghold for convenient exchanges between things and things.
At this time, the northern grasslands are still icy and snowy from a distance, with only a handful of green shoots occasionally exposed, symbolizing that spring is coming.
A fast horse wearing a felt hat galloped across the grassland, and the horse's hooves repeated a fast rhythm of "Dada, Dada......", the grassland stretched out, and the court of Briyati Khan appeared on the horizon.
It was not long before the messenger entered the golden tent in the middle of the Khan's court, and he knelt alone on a thick woolen blanket with a wooden cylinder in his hand. An attendant approached and received the urgent report under the watchful eyes of the ministers on both sides. There were people wearing fur hats, robes and heads, some of them were bearded people, and some of them were people from the Central Plains who had fled.
The attendant opened the wooden cylinder, pulled out a roll of paper from it, turned to look at the superior, and nodded silently. The attendant scraped off the vermilion lacquer, unfolded the paper and handed it to Mo Si.
After sobbing silently, he immediately handed it to the national teacher standing beside him, and said, "Duan Zhaotong and Yang Yin of Youguo have been defeated, more than 100,000 people have been pursued, killed and wounded, and there are corpses within a hundred miles."
There was an uproar in the Golden Horde!
Someone immediately shouted, "The general of this hidden country is a stupid pig!"
"Last time, it wasn't a report, the elite of the Tang Army was only forty or fifty thousand, and the army of Youguo was 200,000, and it was actually like this!
"Yes, the envoys and spies sent to Youguo are not all returned, the You*** team is quite combat-powerful, and the infantry cavalry does not lose much to the Tang army......
At this moment, the national teacher opened his mouth and said coldly: "Duan Zhaotong of Youguo is a general, in the past, many of you were defeated under him. Even if he can fight like this, how much better must you be with the troops? The servant of the second floor patted his chest and said how powerful the Youguo is, but what about it now?"
Qi Wusi, the right-hand slaughter king with a heavy army, immediately echoed, "The national teacher is reasonable."
The ministers felt something, and the insult immediately became much quieter.
When the Khan spoke again, the ministers stopped speaking casually, and he muttered, "Now that the Tang Kingdom is strong, how should we deal with it?"
He asked silently, "Then what is Wang Xiao Er going to do after he sits on the throne of the Central Plains? Ben Khan heard that before the battle of Youguo, the Tang State colluded with the rebels of the Western Beast and wanted to take the land north of my Yanran Mountain?"
A nobleman bowed and said, "Wang Rong is just bluffing?"
Not even his own tone.
The national teacher said: "Wang Rong Xiao'er is plotting to seize the throne of Yongguo, it has only been a few years, how much territory has been occupied by force......
The people in the main hall gradually felt great external pressure. Not only because of the news of the defeat in the Battle of Youguo, but also because of the many past events on the battlefield not long ago.
The Tang army followed the western Liaoning corridor and successfully "took over" Yiwu Mountain
To the west is the city of Youguo and the towns along the way. There was almost no resistance, and after Yang Yin was defeated, the lands had no intention of resisting, and there were no more soldiers. After receiving Wuxi, Danger, Wangping, and Fangxian, Wang Bo led the Tang army across Liaoshui and approached the city of Xiangping.
After Song Wenbai's Seventh Army swept away the rebel forces in Beiping County, Guangyang County, and Zhuo County, it marched all the way, and finally caught up with Wang Bo's troops who were rushing forward in Liaoshui. Up to now, a full 250,000 troops have gathered under Xiangping City.
Xiangping has a long history, in the middle reaches of the Daliang River Basin, there are many cultural sites of ancient times; As far back as the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, there were human beings who worked, lived and multiplied here.
During the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, it was the place where the Donghu and Yin Shang immigrants lived, and the Donghu people were brave and fierce, good at riding and shooting, and they entered the slave society after a long period of primitive clan life.
"Yu Gong" is divided into Kyushu in the world, and Xiangping belongs to Youzhou. In the fourth year of King Wu of Zhou (1066 B.C.), King Wu Keshang "released the prisoner of Jizi and went to Korea (that is, the present-day Liaoyang region), so as to seal it". Jizi "taught the people to use etiquette, silkworms, and weaving" to bring the culture and advanced production technology of the Central Plains, promoted the development of production, and promoted national integration.
During the Zhou Dynasty, from the 28th to the 33rd year of King Yan Zhao (about 284 BC to 279 BC), the Yan general Qin Kai attacked Donghu, making "Donghu more than a thousand li", and then attacked Ji Korea, "taking 2,000 li of land", and then set up Liaodong County in the Liaoshui Basin, and at the same time placed Xiangping County, and the county and county offices were all in Xiangping City.
In the twenty-ninth year of Yan Wangxi (226 B.C.), Qin Wangzheng raised troops to attack Yan in order to avenge the assassination of Prince Dan of Yan, and the Qin army captured the capital of Yan State, Ji, "Prince Dan hid in Yanshui".
King Yan listened to the plan of Wang Jia of Zhao Dynasty, killed the crown prince Dan, and offered his head to the king of Qin in order to dismiss the army, but the king of Qin ignored it and continued to march into Liaodong. Five years later (222 BC), the Yan kingdom was finally annexed by Qin. br>
In the twenty-sixth year of Qin Shi Huang (221 BC), the country was divided into 36 counties, and Liaodong County still followed the Yanguo county system, and the county capital was located in Xiangping County.
After the establishment of Youguo, following the Qin system, the county government of Liaodong was still located in Xiangping County, and Xiangping was the capital for nearly a hundred years at the beginning of the founding of the country. Now, as if time is reincarnated, the Emperor of Youguo has returned to the founding capital with a group of royal families and ministers.
Wang Bo stood on a hillside, looking at Xiangping City. Despite their old age, the rammed walls still show the ambition of the rulers who occupied the area. The ancient city, the shadows of the undulating mountains on the horizon are faintly in sight, and the desolate grasslands in the north are endless, as if the unknown complex and sparsely populated Northeast region.
Wang Bo's army did not rashly attack Xiangping City, and the Chinese army camp was also set up in a village fifteen miles away from Xiangping.