0725 [The Idea of Yelu Dashi's Westward Migration]

After the Jin people left, the vast area south of Yanshan was only set up as a Yanshan Prefecture and was placed under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province.

Hebei's Ansu Army, Shun'an Army, Baoding Army, and Xin'an Army were all downgraded to Ansu County, Gaoyang County, Guixin County, and Xin'an County because they were no longer on the front line in the future.

Baozhou and Dingzhou were officially merged into Baoding Prefecture.

Rongcheng County on the Jin side (there is also Rongcheng County on the side of Daming), downgraded to Beirong Town, and placed under the jurisdiction of Ansu County. Ansu County was incorporated into Baoding Prefecture as a whole.

There are many similar administrative division changes, which are basically based on the geographical situation, integrating the former Song-Liao border.

Yizhou was reduced to Yi County, Zhuozhou was reduced to Fanyang County, and Shunzhou was reduced to Huairen County...... All of them are under the jurisdiction of Yanshan Prefecture. Some states don't even keep their county-level divisions, and they just become a small town because the population is so small.

The soldiers and civilians of the Jin State, who fled south to the Ming Dynasty, were moved back to their original villages to obtain land.

Many people indiscriminately identified the cultivated land as their own. The Ming government has recognized that as long as they can plant and pay taxes honestly after the tax holiday, the government actually encourages them.

The immigrants from the three southern provinces have also accelerated their march, and the prefectures and counties they pass through along the way must fully cooperate.

At the same time, all the cavalry under Li Yanxian was scattered and went to Taihang Mountain and Yanshan Mountain to lure the people.

The conditions for the lure were very lenient, and as long as the people in the mountains were willing to come out, they could let them cultivate the nearby land at will.

Even within five years, taxes will be exempted, because the land is so vast and sparsely populated that even small towns cannot be formed, and only natural villages can be formed. In this case, the cost of tax collection is too high, so simply let it go and wait for the formation of a town to organize the households.

The same is true in other areas, where villages are scattered across the wilderness. The nearby state cities and county towns are all ghosts, and the Jin Kingdom is too lazy to collect taxes, and the Ming government naturally does not collect them, and those cities are also temporarily left to be deserted.

The total number of these mountain people and scattered villagers is in the millions.

They are wary of all imperial courts, and can only use time to heal their psychological wounds.

After luring for months, the people who were willing to go down the mountain gathered only two or three thousand people. Moreover, they are scattered in the foothills of seven or eight hundred miles long, and there are basically five or eight households in a group to resist wild beasts, and they do not even dare to have small settlements of more than ten households, for fear that too many people will attract the government to recruit soldiers and levy food.

Gradually, Li Yanxian discovered a situation.

Even in the mountains there were a large number of gentry, and they belonged to the mountain leaders.

When they first fled, the common people, led by the village gentry, hid in the mountains to survive in the countryside.

As long as one gentry is convinced, at least twenty or thirty families can be lured out of the mountain!

When these gentry go down to the mountain to cultivate for a year, the government will indeed not come to collect taxes, and they will probably be able to trust the Ming court. Next year, let them go into the mountains, persuade more gentry to return with the people, and lure hundreds of thousands of people in three or five years.

……

On the side of Daming, the development of people's livelihood is in full swing.

On the Jin side, he was also not idle.

The Jin soldiers guarded the Xiongguan dangerous villages of Yanshan and Taihang Mountains to prevent the Ming Dynasty from tearing up the peace treaty and suddenly sending troops. At the same time, elite soldiers and horses were mobilized to wait for the autumn harvest of grain.

Before autumn arrived, Wanyan Zonghan sent rangers to the grassland to order all departments to send troops.

They're going to hit Jerod Stone!

The backstab of Western Xia, Jin Guo actually endured it, and did not plan to raise troops to retaliate. It is mainly the territory taken away by the Western Xia, which is too poor and too remote to have no oil and water, and most of the area is separated by the desert Gobi.

The Wugu enemy tribes that were migrated to the Songnen Plain, as well as the Tanggu tribes distributed in the upper reaches of the Liao River, were called by Wanyan Zonghan to a meeting to discuss the dispatch of troops.

Two tribal leaders were late and were immediately requisitioned by the Jin cavalry. The two nobles were all executed, the young and the cattle were taken captive by the Jin state, and the pastures were distributed to other tribes.

Immediately afterwards, a meeting was held in Linhuang Province (Bahrain Left Banner), and the leaders of the steppe tribes within a radius of hundreds of miles must come.

Whichever one doesn't come, hit which!

Under a series of violent conquests, all parts of the grassland were in a hurry, so they could only obediently send troops and food, and follow the Jin soldiers to fight Yelu Dashi.

The Jin soldiers could not defeat the Ming army, but they regained their self-confidence in the grassland.

It is often dozens of Jurchen cavalry that rush straight into the tribe of thousands of people, cutting melons and vegetables all the way to be invincible.

Jin Guo made such a big move in the south, how could Yelu Dashi not receive the news in Mobei?

He hurriedly convened an alliance of the Mobei tribes, but the Niren Mongol tribes did not arrive, and the Tatar tribes only had two leaders.

This situation made Yelu Dashi feel heavy.

Half a year ago, they were loyal to his tribe, but in the face of the imminent invasion of the Jin soldiers, most of them chose to wait and see. These tribal leaders, for fear of bloody revenge from the Jin State, have shown an attitude of breaking away from Yelu Dashi.

When he returned from Monan, he reported: "Great Khan, there is definite news from the south that the Ming Kingdom has negotiated peace with the gold thieves. ”

"Mingjin Peace?" Yelu Dashi couldn't believe it.

He said: "The gold thieves have been defeated one after another, and it is estimated that they will not dare to fight the Ming army again." The Ming army had recovered the territory of the Song State last year, and the gold thieves ceded Nanjing Dao, the homeland of our Great Liao, in exchange for peace with the Ming State in the spring of this year. ”

The Nanjing Road of the Liao State is the entire area south of Yanshan and north of the Juma River.

Yelu Dashi frowned: "The soldiers and horses of the Ming Kingdom are so fierce that they actually beat the Jin people to cut the land and sue for peace." If I were Prince Zhu, I would destroy the Jin Kingdom in one go! ”

"Nanjing Road is dilapidated and tired, and the Ming Kingdom is busy taking over the territory, so it is estimated that it will not send troops this year." As long as the Jin soldiers hold the pass, they will be able to kill the whole army in Mobei, and this battle may not be easy to deal with. ”

Yelu Dashi said: "If you persist for another two or three years, Prince Zhu will definitely go on a northern expedition." When the time comes, the gold thief will be too busy to take care of himself, and we will be able to take the opportunity to unify the northern and southern grasslands! ”

……

In autumn, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong.

The Jin State dispatched 8,000 elite cavalry, with more than 10,000 grassland cavalry, for a total of 24,000 troops to conquer Mobei.

The Mongol tribes of Niren watched the play directly, and neither helped Yelu Dashi to fight, nor accepted the dispatch of the Jin State.

The black and white Tatar tribes, however, had a few leaders who were willing to follow the stone of Jerod.

Due to the great distance, they promised to help. But he was unwilling to send troops to the east, but let Yelu Dashi flee west with his troops, claiming that he was willing to meet on the side of the Altai Mountains.

Yelu Dashi chose to avoid his attack, and fled west with his men and livestock, leaving small cavalry along the way to lure the enemy.

After finishing Yan Zonghan's army, he quickly occupied the pasture abandoned by Yelu Dashi, and sent his cavalry out to search for and pursue Yelu Dashi.

Yinshu can lead 1,200 horsemen to find enemy traces at the southwest foot of Wushan (Hangai Mountain). One man and three horses, pursued for two days in a row, and was suddenly surrounded by more than 10,000 cavalry of Yelu Dashi.

These more than 1,000 Jurchen horsemen, instead of running away, rushed straight to the handsome banner of Yelu Dashi.

Yelu Dashi personally led his troops to meet the attack, but before the two sides could engage in battle, Yinshuke suddenly led his army to turn around and kill the Damiri cavalry.

Damiri was one of the hardcore followers of Jerodashi, but they were not very well equipped. Not to mention the extremely low armor rate, not to mention the fact that the supply of iron arrows could not even be guaranteed, many cavalry still used bone arrowheads.

They were originally narrowing the encirclement, but they didn't expect the Jurchen Xiaoqi to suddenly rush in.

With just one assault, the Damiri cavalry scrambled to flee.

In the case of fighting more with less, Yinshu can actually divide the troops. When he was chasing the rout of the Damiri Division, he suddenly divided two hundred Jurchen horsemen and killed the Yajin Scraping Division in the other direction, and the latter was instantly killed beyond the power to resist.

1,200 Jurchen cavalry went on a rampage like this, causing chaos among the tens of thousands of troops on Yelu Dashi.

In the end, it was even divided into three and charged towards the headquarters of the Jelu Dashi from three directions.

The two sides fought fiercely for half an hour, and the Jurchen cavalry suffered more than 200 casualties, but they became more crazy and brave. After the alternate retreat, round after round of continuous impact, and occasionally when retreating, he also seized the opportunity to suddenly countercharge.

Yelu Dashi was mad, and when many troops under his command fled, he personally led three hundred iron horsemen to fight tenaciously with the Jin people.

Silversmith realizes that this is a hard bone, and finally throws the corpse of the fallen to break out.

Yelu Dashi led his troops to pursue, and many cavalry that were about to be defeated gradually gathered together to pursue together.

During the pursuit and escape, Jin Guoxiao suddenly changed horses and killed back.

After another fierce battle, he broke through, and Yelu Dashi didn't dare to chase anymore.

In this battle, more than 400 Jin soldiers were killed, and almost everyone who fled was wounded.

But more than 5,000 of the more than 10,000 soldiers of Jerodashi fled in a rout. Of the three hundred iron horsemen at his core, he also lost more than eighty, which was a huge blow to Yelu Dashi.

A few days later, more than 3,000 Jin Guoxiao rode to kill.

Yelu Dashi once again lured the enemy deep and tried to surround and annihilate the Jin soldiers, but was defeated and fled.

The tribal cavalry that followed him was too weak in combat!

Yelu Dashi retreated all the way west, until it was dragged until the snow fell, and the Jin soldiers withdrew one after another. In addition, he also vented his anger with the surrounding tribes and robbed a large number of livestock and women.

After this battle, Yelu Dashi's prestige in Mobei plummeted, and the Mongol tribes of Niren openly broke away from his rule.

The Tatar tribes also complained, because they were most robbed by the golden soldiers.

Mobei grassland, not the foundation of the business, Yelu Dashi finally gave birth to the idea of moving west.

His foundation here is too thin, and he is not even as good as the Niren Mongol tribes.

Those Mongol tribes have developed for generations, are related to each other by blood, and there are a large number of marriage tribes.

And what about Jerodashi?

He is just an outsider, he has no in-laws and tribes in Mobei, and he relies purely on three hundred iron horses to subdue the tribes. Once in danger, the powerful tribe will not be obedient at all, and will only be willing to follow him to grab land and gain benefits.

This winter, Yelu Dashiwo licked his wounds in Mobei.

Select brave men and make up for the supply of 300 iron horsemen. The iron armor is still there, and hundreds of iron armors were obtained from the dead Jurchen Xiaoqi.

He lost a few of his losses in the defeat, and now he had more than five hundred iron armor in total.

It's pitiful, the dignified Yelu Dashi is only more than 500 pairs of iron armor, and all of them are medium-sized armor, not even a pair of heavy armor.

Looking at the wind and snow, Yelu Dashi planned to ascend the throne next year and move west immediately after rewarding the hundred officials.

In this place of Mobei, whoever loves to treat him, he can't stay anyway.

(End of chapter)