…

After crossing the Lugou River, the left and right Liao armies of Liangshan quickly captured Wanping County, and then the right Liao army captured Daxing County.

Wanping County and Daxing County are the attached Guo counties of Yanjing, which were specially built to defend Yanjing.

During Jiang Hongfei's previous life, these two counties were eventually annexed by Beijing, and their scope included all or most of Beijing's Xicheng District, Fengtai District, Shijingshan District, Haidian District, Mentougou District, and the whole of Daxing.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Hongfei led the Liao army in the middle of the road to cross the Lugou River, and in the Zhai Palace, which is only fifteen miles away from Yanjing City, in the middle of Wanping and Daxing, the army and horses were stationed and camped.

This palace is the place where the Great Liao Empire held a suburban sacrifice, and it is also the place where the Great Liao Emperor held a four-hour bowl in Yanjing.

The Liao Emperor practiced the Four Seasons Bowl, that is, the emperor and his tooth tent endlessly paraded back and forth between the five capitals throughout the year.

"Bowl" means "palace". At four o'clock, the emperor traveled around the country to hunt in four seasons.

The four o'clock bowls are held in different places, and the things they do are different, such as the spring bowls, they will go fishing and swans, and hold a head fish feast and a head goose feast.

Jiang Hongfei said: "This time I have come to the city, how should this Yanjing City be captured?" ”

If this is really the reason, then you are too underestimating Zhu Di, the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it must be said that Xiao Puxian is indeed a resolute and skillful ruler, she immediately ordered Yelu Dashi to lead his troops out of the city, kill all those robbers on the spot, and then cut off the heads of people and hang them on the head of Yanjing City to maintain law and order.

Jiang Hongfei ignored Li Kui.

However, making a bowl is not a simple tour. The most important thing is the bowl twice a year, summer and winter, when the emperor and courtiers of the Liao Dynasty would discuss and decide on military affairs.

This also reflects the nomadic nature of the Khitan people.

Li Kui shouted: "What is new in the siege of the city, as usual, our army is killed under Yanjing City, build a fly-off bridge, and directly enter the city. ”

Many people take it for granted that Zhu Di took away his eldest nephew's country, and he stayed in Nanjing, and felt that it was better to go back to his own fiefdom Beijing, after all, it was his own territory, and he was down-to-earth.

The seizure of this palace was obviously suggested and guided by Pharmacist Guo.

Guo Yaoshi said to Jiang Hongfei that there is a piece of aquatic grass here, and if it occupies this place, there is no need to provide forage for the war horse.

At the same time, Jiang Hongfei raised his account and gathered the generals and hundreds of civil and military officials to discuss military affairs.

This must be what Jiang Hongfei meant.

Therefore, the occupation of this place by the Liao army in the middle of Liangshan can be said to kill two birds with one stone, one is geographically advantageous, and the other is military supplies, which has laid a good material foundation for the upcoming battle of Liao.

A few years ago, that is, when the national strength of the Liao State had not yet declined, Guo Yaoshi had participated in the Four Seasons Bowl here, so he was more familiar with the situation here.

Later, Xiao Puxian accepted Li Chuwen's suggestion to open two city gates every day to stabilize the people's hearts.

It is said to be the core place, but in fact, the heroes of Liangshan are preparing to make Yanjing the national capital.

After the iron-blooded suppression of Xiao Puxian, no one dared to take advantage of the chaos to make trouble.

On this day, all the city gates in Yanjing City were closed, martial law was implemented in the whole city, and the officers and soldiers defending the city were waiting for them in their respective positions. Outside the city, within a radius of hundreds of miles, people fled from their homes one after another. Some lawbreakers took advantage of the chaos to gang up as thieves, intercepted and robbed on the road, and some even pretended to be heroes in Liangshan to burn, kill and loot near Yanjing City.

Why did Zhu Di move the capital of the Ming Dynasty from Nanjing to Beijing?

Yanjing here Zhai Palace, the living environment is very good, the key here is steep terrain, surrounded by water on three sides, like a sandbar, backed by a large earth can be used as a barrier. Occupy this place, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Li Ying stood up and objected: "This method is absolutely impossible, I want this Yanjing to be the core place, if I make a lot of killings in Yanjing City and form hatred, can An Neng focus on this place?" ”

I've taken it down, am I still afraid that you guys will stubbornly make trouble for me?

So this argument is untenable.

As an emperor immediately, Zhu Di knew best in his heart that the biggest hidden danger of the Ming Dynasty at that time was the Mengyuan regime north of the Great Wall, that is, those grassland nomads.

Zhu Di set the capital of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, and the main purpose was to resist the invasion of those steppe nomads.

You must know that since ancient times, due to objective factors, any ancient feudal dynasty would concentrate all its resources, political, economic, military, population, etc., in its capital area, because it was convenient for the emperor to manage.

Well...... Let's put it this way, if Yanjing is regarded as the capital, from Yanjing to the forefront of resisting the steppe nomads, that is, the Badaling Great Wall, the whole journey is only one hundred and forty miles.

This is a good prerequisite in this era when transportation is not convenient, and it is very conducive to the dispatch and logistics supply of the defenders.

- This distance, whether it is transporting troops or transporting grain, it will arrive two days slower, and you will arrive in Changping on the first day, and you can get out of the customs on the second day. If it is a cavalry unit, hurry up and whip up, and it will be there in more than half a day.

Not only is this very responsive, but it is also extremely costly.

Also, once the grassland nomads invaded, places like Badaling and Juyongguan, the beacon tower was wolf-smoked, and when the weather was good, you could see the news of the front line when you stood in Yanjing City.

The news from the front is almost always updated in real time, and then it is possible to mobilize the most resources, organize the army, organize logistics, and counterattack in the shortest possible time.

The most important thing is that the emperor is sitting in Yanjing City, so close to the front line, it is equivalent to the imperial conquest, how dare the soldiers on the front line not work hard?

And if Kaifeng, Luoyang, Chang'an, Nanjing and other places are used as capitals, it will be almost meaningless.

It's not that these places are bad, it's that these places are not a short distance from the front line.

After receiving the news, we will react, mobilize the army again, raise grain and grass again, mobilize in various ways, send troops again, and then bring the soldiers, horses, grain, and grass to the front line.

The grassland peoples are fast horses, and once they enter the hinterland of the Central Plains, they come and go without a trace.

At that time, let alone fighting them, where they went, they had to find out slowly.

By the time you find them, maybe they've had enough food, money, and women to go back.

Therefore, Zhu Di mobilized the people, spared no expense, and built a larger Beijing city on the basis of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, in fact, the city was used as an outpost, making maximum use of the advantages of Beijing City as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, concentrating on confronting the grassland nomads, and ensuring that the Ming Dynasty was eternal for ten thousand years.

To paraphrase a sentence that later Shi'an said to Zhu Di, it is: The Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies.

Although the world is different, the principle is the same.

Whether Jiang Hongfei wants to admit it or not, the Jin Army is the most powerful army in this era.

And as long as Jiang Hongfei wins the sixteen states of Yanyun, Jiang Hongfei is bound to be neighbors with the Jin people.

However, the Jin people are still cunning, greedy, and fierce.

If Jiang Hongfei wants to defeat the Jin people, he must learn from Zhu Di, the Son of Heaven guards the country, the king dies in Sheji, and he personally fights the Jin people.

Moreover, judging from Jiang Hongfei's current territory, there is indeed no more suitable place to be the capital than Yanjing.

Therefore, long before going north, Jiang Hongfei had discussed with his courtiers that he would be in Yanjing.

Moreover, as Han Fang said before, the composition of people living in this area of Yanyun is very complex, and there are many Khitan, Xi, Bohai and other people, not all of whom are Han Chinese.

The key is that the Han people in the Yanyun area are different from the Han people in the mainland.

The Han people here in the Yanyun area have a special name - Han'er.

Han'er was originally the name of the Han people by the ancient ethnic minorities, such as the poem in the Han Le Mansion that says: "I am a captive child, and I don't understand Han children's songs." , there are also verses in Tang poems that "the Han is full of Hu'er language, but scolds the Han to the city".

Originally, the word "Han'er" was synonymous with "Han people" and did not have a positive or negative connotation.

However, after the Liao State acquired the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, especially during the confrontation between the Great Liao Empire and the Zhao and Song dynasties, the names of the Han people belonging to the two countries began to change.

Specifically, the Liao people called the Han people in the Song Dynasty Nanren, and the Han people in their own territory (mainly the Yanyun region) as Han'er.

The Song people also called the Han people in the Liao State Han'er, and sometimes called them Fanren.

The Liao, Song and later Jin kingdoms all unanimously called the Han people in the Yanyun region - Han'er.

This shows that the Han has evolved into a special name with a contemptuous tone, which also reflects the distrust of the Liao, Song, and Jin people in the Yanyun region.

This is no small matter.

Historically, the Song people insulted the Han'er in the Yanyun area with "Fanren" in person, and because of the inaction of Zhao Jijunchen, there was a serious lack of identity between the Song people and the Han'er in the Yanyun area, and the Song people regarded the Han'er as "not my race" The sentiment is very strong. In this way, it will inevitably make it impossible for the Han'er in the Yanyun region to find a home among the Song people. As a result, Han'er's heart was good, and he provoked and provoked, which finally led to their rebellion against Song and Jin.

As a result, the Jin people did not have the strength to destroy the Song Dynasty, but with the help of Han'er, the shame of Jingkang happened.

Even, the later Song-Jin War was to a large extent a civil war between the Han Chinese.

In the Mengyuan and Yuan dynasties, there was a four-class system, which completely divided the Han people.

If it weren't for a Zhu Yuanzhang, then the Han nation would have been completely divided into two.

However, Jiang Hongfei built the capital in Yanjing and implemented a suitable ethnic policy to completely recover the sixteen states of Yanyun and avoid the division of the Han people.

In short, Yanjing is the capital that Jiang Hongfei chose for himself, so it is definitely not okay for Li Kui to put it forward, fight hard, and then go on a killing spree.

- Killing is inevitable, the question is, who to kill, it has to be carefully chosen and planned.

After Li Ying helped Jiang Hongfei answer Li Kui, Li Kui muttered: "If you don't fight, can that girl surnamed Xiao still give us Yanjing City for nothing?" ”

Li Kui's words are rough, but they are not rough.

So, for a moment, everyone fell silent.

Seeing that no one spoke, Guo Yaoshi offered advice and said: "If Weichen's expectations are good, in a few days, Empress Dowager Xiao will send Wu Yanguang to lead the Liao State Eleventh Yao General and the Twenty-eighth Su General to lead the Liao soldiers to pour the country and fight a decisive battle with our Liangshan army." At that time, Yanjing City will inevitably be empty, and we can take this opportunity to make a detour to enter the void. I suggested that a light cavalry be sent to quietly go east, cross the river from Gu'an to Anci, and then go straight to Yanjing. The Han people in Yanjing City, if they learn that Wang Shi is coming, they will respond internally, so that Yanjing can be won without blood. ”

Li Kui knew that Jiang Hongfei didn't want to see Guo Yaoshi, so he scolded: "Let your mother's fart, the Khitans are so stupid, let the fortified city not defend it, and come out to fight my Liangshan army to find death?!" ”

Jiang Hongfei's face sank, and he said, "Tie Niu, how can you talk to Chief of Staff Guo, why don't you make amends with me soon!" ”

Jiang Hongfei spoke, and Li Kui reluctantly hugged his fist at Pharmacist Guo: "I ate in the morning, and my speech stinks, you haven't heard of it." ”

Guo Yaoshi hurriedly smiled and said: "General Li doesn't know, the Khitans are not good at defending the city, they are at war with the enemy, most of them are on the battlefield with bows and horses and the enemy to decide the victory, only the Han army among the Liao people likes to defend the city, but it is difficult for the Han army to occupy the dominant position of the Liao army, moreover, the eleventh Yao general of the Liao State, the twenty-eight Su generals can arrange the Taiyi mixed sky elephant array, this array is the most dangerous and complex, it is the killer weapon of the Liao State, but this array requires a lot, only the elite soldiers, it needs 200,000, The key is that this array needs to be placed in an open place, if he is defending the city, how can he use his last and strongest means? ”

After explaining Li Kui's doubts clearly, Pharmacist Guo said with a smile: "General Li doesn't know the original situation, so he blames Pharmacist by mistake, and those who don't know are not blamed." ”

Li Kui opened his mouth, and in the face of the good-tempered Pharmacist Guo, he was speechless, and finally could only use his nose to say "um".

It's really no wonder that Li Kui, who has always been very capable of messing around, stopped talking.

First of all, Pharmacist Guo's attitude is really good, he doesn't stretch out his hand and don't hit the smiling person, even if it is to the extent of Li Kui, seeing that Pharmacist Guo is talking so close to his face, it is not good to scold Pharmacist Guo in public again.

The key is that if this is the case, then Pharmacist Guo's idea is feasible, although Li Kui is muddy, he is not stupid, how can he not know, if he continues to make trouble, he will delay Jiang Hongfei's business, and Jiang Hongfei may clean him up.

Jiang Hongfei asked Pharmacist Guo: "Are you familiar with this route?" ”

Guo Yaoshi hurriedly said: "Weichen is very familiar with it, and he is willing to be a guide, please rest assured." ”

Jiang Hongfei asked again: "In the area of Gu'an and Anci, can Xiao Puxian's daughter not be defended?" ”

Guo Yaoshi replied: "Empress Dowager Xiao has limited troops in her hands, it would be good to be able to gather the 200,000 elite soldiers who arranged the Taiyi Mixed Sky Elephant Array, how could she arrange the defense line so long?" From here to the east to Gu'an eighty miles, from Gu'an to the northeast more than one hundred and thirty miles, to reach Anci. At such a distance, it should be able to jump out of the defense line of the Liao army. ”

Jiang Hongfei also asked all the military divisions, generals, and civil and military officials, and everyone thought that this was a clever plan to win by surprise.

So, Jiang Hongfei approved this plan to attack Yanjing.

Then, Jiang Hongfei began to scan the generals one by one and select the generals to carry out this task.

Seeing that the generals under Jiang Hongfei's tent were all holding their heads high at this moment, they almost said to Jiang Hongfei: "Brother, let me carry out this glorious mission!! ”

……

(End of chapter)