Qian Song

Chapter 168 Li Chaode (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

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Because Shi Honggu lied to Li Cun and wanted to hide part of the belongings of the Dan family thief, Li Cun severely whipped Shi Honggu.

But Li Cun did not kill Shi Honggu.

Because there is no need for this at all.

Li Cun killed almost all the men in the Dan family thieves, and all the women were rewarded by Li Cun to the soldiers of the Huben army who had made great contributions.

As for Shi Honggu's remaining [-], no, [-] relatives, Li Cun broke them up and assigned them to various naval forces as idlers.

In this way, only Shi Honggu was left.

In this feudal society where men are superior to women, how much trouble can Shi Honggu make?
Besides, Li Cun is not the kind of person who unplugs the heartless.

The key point is that Xu Dadao may not be reliable, leaving Shi Honggu behind will also intimidate Xu Dadao so that Xu Dadao will not dare to play tricks.

Of course, this Shi Honggu had to be trained slowly.

This is actually one of Li Cun's few pleasures.

To make a long story short.

Under the leadership of Xu Dadao, the Huben army took over all the dens of the Danjia thieves, and thoroughly pulled out the Danjia thieves who had been in the southeast sea for many years.

During this process, the property collected by the Huben army was enough to support Li Cun's ten trips to the south.

And the pirates that Li Cun went south to exterminate this time were not the only pirates from the Dan family.

Later, under the leadership of Xu Dadao and other people who were familiar with the nearby pirates, the Huben army was able to wipe out the pirates faster according to the map.

At the same time, the property seized from the pirates is being transported to Hangzhou in an endless stream...

Regardless of whether it is a dead pirate or a living pirate, the Huben army will hang them on the port for public display.

Because the Huben Army's efforts to suppress the pirates were so great, those pirates were either wiped out by the Huben Army, or they were so frightened that they hurriedly left the large sea area in the southeast.

In just over a month, there are very few pirates in this sea area in the southeast...

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When Li Cun received the news of Langoudian's defeat, it was already June 26rd, and seven days had passed since May [-]th when the Langoudian defeat occurred.

Although Liu Baiqin repeatedly assured Li Cun that he would definitely make the Feinu network more efficient.

But Li Cun still asked Hu Tu to arrange for him to meet Zhang Fang.

Zhang Fang is a branch of the Zhang family in Qujiang, that is, a descendant of Zhang Jiuling, a famous official of the Tang Dynasty.

Whether it is true or not, Li Cun doesn't care. The reason why Li Cun wants to see Zhang Fang is because Zhang Fang is a professional pigeon breeder and a first-class pigeon trainer in the contemporary era, especially good at domesticating pigeons.

Hu Tu told Li Cun that many of Liu Baiqin's pigeons were provided by Zhang Fang to Liu Baiqin, not Liu Baiqin's own.

Li Cun understood that Hu Tu wanted to build his own information transmission network, and did not want to use Wu Desi's information transmission network, so that Hu Tu would no longer have to be manipulated by Zhang Chao and Liu Baiqin.

The cost of laying information transfer network is not small.

Li Cun had been reluctant to spend the same amount of money before.

This time he made money from fighting pirates, so Li Cun decided to build two more delivery networks for carrier pigeons—the other one for the Military Intelligence Department.

However, the premise is whether good pigeons can be supplied.

Therefore, Li Cun asked Hu Tu to make arrangements, and asked Zhang Fang to come and see him, so that he knew what he knew first, and then decided whether to lay so many information transmission networks.

After explaining to Hutu, Li Cun picked up the news of Langoudian's defeat, sighed leisurely, then walked to the window and looked to the north...

Yang Keshi lost when he shouldn't have lost.

Yelu Dashi won when he least expected to win.

in fact--

Throughout this period of history, the only opportunity for the Liao Kingdom, and also the only opportunity for the Zhao Song Dynasty, was to unite the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty.

Judging from the current situation where the Liao Kingdom has been crippled and the Zhao Song Dynasty has not yet collapsed, if the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty want to unite, only the Northern Liao Dynasty can call the Zhao Song Dynasty Fan Nabiao.

If Northern Liao is willing to claim Fan Nabiao to the Zhao and Song Dynasties, then the alliance between Song and Jin will break down, and then the two weak will fight against the strong. After all, Jin has just swallowed most of the territory of Liao like a snake, Surely he would not dare to easily start a war with the paper tiger Zhao Song Dynasty, which has not been punctured.

To take a step back, even start a war.

In field battles, the Song army could not defeat the Jin army, but if there were Yanyun sixteen prefectures that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, then the Jin army would definitely not be able to enter the pass in a short time.

In that way, there may be a delicate balance between Song, Liao and Jin.

After that, whether it was the Zhao and Song Dynasty that annexed Beiliao and completed the real recovery of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, or whether Beiliao survived in the cracks and slowly regained its vitality, is another story.

All in all, if the Northern Liao Dynasty claimed Fan Nabiao to the Zhao and Song Dynasties at this time, Song and Liao would have a chance to breathe.

But it happened that Yelu Dashi won a war that should not have been won at this time, which gave many people in Beiliao confidence that they shouldn't have, and also punctured the paper tiger of Zhao Song Dynasty.

Therefore, to a certain extent, Yelu Dashi, who won the battle, is actually one of the gravediggers of the Liao Empire. If he cannot establish Xiliao as in history, then he is one of the sinners of the Liao Empire.

Li Cun went south this time, first of all, of course, because the two small countries of Annan and Champa provoked Li Cun and Li Cun was eager to restore the Maritime Silk Road. In addition, Li Cun did not give way to Song, Liao and Jin. The reason for the trend of their national fortunes.

In fact, Li Cun had already thought about it. If Song Liao could unite, he would be stable and manage his southeast well after he went back.

After that, Li Cun will look for an opportunity to capture the Jingxiang area and the Huaihe area, so that he can completely separate himself from the south.

After that, Li Cun will decide whether to go west to annex Shu or go north to compete in the Central Plains according to the changes in the world situation.

And if the general trend of history does not change, the Zhao Song Dynasty still foolishly insists on destroying the Liao Dynasty, and the Northern Liao Dynasty still insists on going to a dead end, then Li Cun can consider taking advantage of the fire.

Others may not be clear about the truth and reality between the Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties. Can Li Cun, who is familiar with the history of the Song and Song Dynasties, still be unclear?
Let's talk about the Liao Kingdom first, and to be precise, it is the Northern Liao Dynasty.

Beiliao now says that there are only 5 horses.

If you say less, Beiliao may not even have 3 horses.

If Guo Yaoshi and his ever-victorious army are taken out, there may be more than 2 horses in Beiliao.

Just this amount of troops is not enough for Li Cun to send a partial division to fight.

To be honest, Zhao and Song Dynasty were timid, twitchy, wanted to be a whore, and wanted to set up a memorial archway, otherwise hundreds of thousands of troops would directly drive over, and they would be able to squeeze the last breath of Beiliao and seize Yan. The sixteen prefectures of Yun and the three prefectures of Pingluanying.

In this way, the Zhao Song Dynasty can also deter the Kingdom of Jin for a period of time, and then the Zhao Song Dynasty can use the Great Wall and natural dangers in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun to keep the Kingdom of Jin out of the pass, and give the Zhao Song Dynasty some respite. Can the Song Dynasty use this precious time to revitalize itself.

Let's talk about the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Yes.

The Zhao Song Dynasty had several 10 horses on the border of Song and Liao.

But among the tens of 10 horses, those who are really capable of fighting are Tong Guan's Shengjie Army and a small part of the Western Army.

The rest are either the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army who built gardens and built palaces with much more expertise than war, or the Hebei Forbidden Army that has been rotten to the bone, or Dong Pang'er and the Zhao Song Dynasty recruited the mob.

These people and horses, not only could not be the help of the Song Army, but on the contrary, they were actually a drag on the Song Army.

In other words, the real combat power of the Song Army is extremely limited, and it will certainly not be higher than the Northern Song Army that was wiped out by Li Cun.

Finally, let's talk about the Golden Army, which seems to be the strongest.

Is Jin Jun strong?
Definitely strong.

It is no exaggeration to say that the field combat capability of the Golden Army of this period must be the strongest among all armies in the world.

"Jurchen is less than [-] and invincible" is really not an exaggeration.

Even if it is a fair fight in the wild, it may not be known whether the Huben army can beat the Jin army.

But Jin Junqiang is very strong, but Jin Jun also has its fatal weakness, that is, there are too few.

The real Jurchen was born with Wanyan Aguda from Changbai Mountain, and it was actually only twenty to thirty thousand.

Later, Wanyan Aguda and the others annexed Mature Jurchen, a large number of Bohai people, and then a large number of Liao people.

This is how it grows again and again.

But even so, the country of Jin only has a total of more than 20 horses.

And it is these more than 20 horses who have to prevent the endless Liao rebellions in the country, fight the Tatars in the west, and even prevent the Koreans from the east from invading.

In addition, don't forget that Yelu Yanxi is not dead yet. He still has Xixia and a group of grassland tribes in his hands. From the current point of view, it's not like he has no chance of making a comeback.

In this way, the army of the Kingdom of Jin that can really fight will definitely not exceed one hundred thousand.

Too little.

As long as Li Cun finds a way to win one or two games against the Jin army, eliminate 3 or [-] troops of the Jin army, make enemies everywhere, fight everywhere, and the Jin army is still extremely unstable inside, it may give a circle of powerful enemies around it a chance to destroy it .

They are all willing to give Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to Wanyan Aguda of the Zhao and Song Dynasty, and they will definitely not take the risk of destroying the Dajin Kingdom for Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, a place that he wants or not, and Li Cun This formidable enemy will fight to the end.

Therefore, if Li Cun goes to Yanyun Sixteen States, there is a high possibility of capturing Yanyun Sixteen States.

Some people may think that what is the use of Li Cun seizing the enclave of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures?

This is so short-sighted.

Leaving nothing else aside, just recovering the reputation of Yanyun Sixteen States is enough for Li to leave a golden legend in the annals of history.

——Do you know why Lao Zhu is so murderous and ungrateful, so he can be liked by so many people in the end?A big reason for this is because he regained the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and fulfilled the dream that countless generations of Han Chinese had wanted to accomplish for hundreds of years.Based on this merit alone, Lao Zhu is a veritable emperor through the ages. Based on this merit alone, no matter how many shortcomings Lao Zhu has, he is worthy of worship by the Han people.

Of course, Li Cun has always been the most pragmatic person. For Li Cun, it is best if he has a reputation.

Therefore, Li Cun wanted the Yanyun Sixteen States because it must be profitable.

First of all, the so-called enclave may be a problem for others, but what kind of problem is it for Li Cun, who has the most powerful navy in this era?
——Li Cun's navy can sail directly from any of his own ports to Tianjin Port in later generations, and reach the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and the problem of the enclave will not be solved.

Of course, there is also a trouble here, that is, the Jiaodong Peninsula of the Zhao and Song Dynasties is somewhat in the way.

However, this is also easy to solve, won't it be over after the fight.

Of course, it would definitely be more perfect if the entire Central Plains region was brought down, or even the Zhao and Song Dynasties were overthrown, and their territory was directly connected to the Sixteen States of Yanyun.

But this rhythm must be mastered well, otherwise Li Cun is very easy to chew too much.

You know, the Central Plains area is not just a piece of land at present, because the idiots of the Zhao Song Dynasty made Sanyi Huihe, the Central Plains area is still an extremely heavy burden.

If Li Cun is not ready and takes over the heavy burden of the Central Plains, it may turn good things into bad things.

But then again, as long as the Sixteen States of Yanyun are in Li Cun's hands, then Li Cun can decide when to overthrow Zhao Song?

——Think about it, after Li Cun captured the Sixteen States of Yanyun, he formed a few powerful horse armies, and then attacked from top to bottom. How could the Zhao Song Dynasty, which was almost exhausted, not be overthrown by Li Cunqian?

In fact, this is not the most critical.

The most important thing is who is Li Cun's biggest enemy.

The Liao Kingdom, which is about to perish, is definitely not.

The Zhao Song Dynasty, which has been rotten to the bone, barely counts as one, but it is definitely not Li Cun's biggest enemy.

Li Cun's greatest enemy must be the overlord of this period - Jin Guo.

To be honest, the current Jin Kingdom is already very strong, but if it wants to reach its peak, it has to wait until it digests the entire Liao Empire, and then annexes half of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Knowing this deeply, is it possible for Li Cun to give his greatest enemy a chance to evolve to this level?
Therefore, Li Cun's biggest purpose for seizing the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun was to curb the development of the Kingdom of Jin, lest the Kingdom of Jin become an unstoppable trend.

But the premise of all this is that the Zhao Song Dynasty will not unite with the Beiliao, otherwise, not only the Jin Kingdom will have no chance in a short time, but Li Cun will also have no chance in a short time.

in fact--

Li Cun has been waiting for the crucial battle between Yelu Dashi and Yang Keshi.

Now that this battle has finally been waited for by Li Cun, Li Cun estimates that the development trend between the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty should not be much different from the history.

"I can't take it so slowly anymore. I have to destroy Annan and Zhancheng as soon as possible, otherwise I may miss the god-given opportunity to recover the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures."

Li Cun approached Wu Jie and asked straightforwardly: "If you were to command this battle, would you be sure to win it?"

Wu Jie was overjoyed when he heard the words.

Although Wu Jie also guessed that the governor might let him take command of this battle, Wu Jie still couldn't help being a little excited when he really waited for this moment to come.

There is no way, this is a national war, a national war that is destined to be recorded in the annals of history, which aspiring general would not want to command such a battle?
The point is that Wu Jie's previous starting point was too low, so low that Wu Jie himself could not believe that the governor would really entrust such an important battle to him to command.

At this moment, Wu Jie was really moved beyond words.

Wu Jie bowed to the ground and said loudly: "I am willing to give it a try."

Li Cun nodded: "Then you will be in command of this battle, I watched the enemy for you."

Wu Jie understood that Li Cun was not watching the enemy for him, but he was clearly a proud soldier who helped him suppress the Yulin Army.

Wu Jie didn't say anything superfluous, but replied calmly: "No."

June [-]th.

The Huben Army's 20 troops, plus [-] civilians and [-] Li Dynasty troops fought in Lang Son.

When Li Cun saw that Li Chao had set up nearly a thousand war elephants as the vanguard, Li Cun knew that the Huben Army would win the battle.

The huge war elephant was once invincible on the ancient battlefield by virtue of its powerful strength.

But war elephants have an obvious weakness, that is, they are very timid, which makes unscrupulous cannons a sharp weapon against them.

After seeing the situation on the battlefield, Li Cun called Wu Jie, explained to Wu Jie, and then handed over the command of the battlefield to Wu Jie.

As soon as the battle between the two sides started, Wu Jie lured Li Chao's army into a narrow valley to restrain the actions of his elephant soldiers and horse troops.

When Li Dynasty's elephant soldiers, horse troops and infantry rushed over mightily, Wu Jie had already set up an ambush at the entrance of the valley and on both sides of the narrow road. Unconscionable cannons, catapults, catapults, tiger guns and another new weapon of the Huben army swarmed out.

In an instant, arrows and rocks fell over like a rainstorm.

In an instant, Li Chao's army, which was crowded together, was killed by the Huben army, thousands of people.

Forget it, the key point is that the sounds made by the unconscionable cannon, thunderbolt, and Huzun cannon, under the blessing of the narrow valley, shook the sky and shook the earth, scaring Li Chao's nearly thousand war elephants to turn around and run away .

As far as the tonnage of the war elephant is concerned, it is completely a super-heavy tank when it rushes up regardless. Wherever it passes, people and horses fly. It was trampled to blood and blood, not to mention all the formations were broken by the war elephants, and no less than ten thousand people were trampled to death by the war elephants.

Wu Jie saw the right time, and led a large army to rush to the past. He opened the way with Thunderbolt and Huzun Cannon, and killed Li Chao's 20 troops retreating steadily, and finally dispersed in a rush.

Yao Xing led the Beiwei army to cover up and kill them all the way, and did not retreat until the sabers of the Beiwei army were cut off.

On June [-]th, the Huben army arrived at Liangzhou City, an important town in the north of the Li Dynasty.

With the cooperation of unconscionable artillery and captured elephant soldiers, the Huben Army broke through Liangzhou City in one fell swoop.

Li Cun ordered to search the homes of all the dignitaries, nobles and gentry in Liangzhou City, liberate all the slaves, and organize them into an army.

At the same time, select capable people from among the slaves to serve as officials and generals.

In this process, Li Cun first promoted those slaves who were originally Song people.

For example, the 46-year-old Lu Zhi, the magistrate of Qinzhou County, who was captured by the Li Dynasty's army 66 years ago, was appointed by Li Cun as the general judge of Liangzhou to assist Li Cun's newly appointed Liangzhou Zhizhou Tianmao and handle the government affairs of Liangzhou.

For example, Gao Ming, the former commander of the Shangshixi Army, was appointed by Li Cun as the deputy commander of the "Annan Army" formed by himself as a slave of the Li Dynasty. He assisted Yu Daoan, the commander of the Annan Army, and Zhu Yan, a senior supervisor, to manage the Annan Army.

——All the generals and supervisors of the Annan Army were drawn from the Habayashi Army, and the deputy officers were served by slaves who could understand Chinese.

Moreover, Li Cun would usually execute the male masters of the slaves who joined the Huben army, and reward them as wives and concubines with the female masters. Even if they made great achievements, Li Cun would reward them with the young ladies of their master's family as wives and concubines.

In addition, Li Cun will reward the slaves who joined the Huben army with the real estate and fields seized by the Huben army according to their meritorious service.

In short, the slaves of the Li Dynasty are slaves who turned over and sang, and they finally ushered in their savior-Li Cun, the governor of the Huben Army!
In this way, the war of aggression turned into a war of liberation. The Huben army was not fighting against the country of Li Chao by itself, but the Huben army helped the slave class of Li Dynasty to overthrow the rule of the slave owner class of Li Dynasty.

In the subsequent battles, the slaves of the former Li Dynasty broke out with great revolutionary enthusiasm. They fought for freedom, risked their lives, and would rush to the front in every battle.

Later, it gradually became that the Annan Army became the main force in this national war-only when encountering Li Chao's army that the Annan Army could not defeat, the Habayashi Army would take action.

And Li Cun, who knows the importance of propaganda, promotes while fighting.

As a result, the slaves of the Li Dynasty revolted one after another to help the Huben army capture the city.

As a result, in just a dozen days, the Huben Army swept across the entire northern region of the Li Dynasty.

Li Gande was afraid, so he sent someone to negotiate peace with Li Cun, saying that as long as Li Cun was willing to withdraw from the Li Dynasty with his army, Li Dynasty was willing to become a vassal state of the Huben Army, and was willing to return the people he had taken away and make compensation.

But Li Cun flatly refused, and tore up the letter written by Li Gande in front of Li Chaoguang's slaves, and then said impassionedly: "If you don't liberate all the slaves in Li Chao, I, Li Cun, will not return the court!"

In order to let all the slaves understand what he said, Li Cun deliberately said this sentence in Li Chao's language.

Li Cun's oath brought tears to the eyes of Li Chao's slaves, and they all shouted hoarsely in Chinese: "Long live the Great Governor! Long live the Great Governor! Long live the Great Governor..."

Over and over again, enduringly...

In desperation, Li Gande organized all the troops he could stop, and prepared to fight back.

Soon after, more than 30 Huben troops (nearly [-] Annan troops and many Annan civilian husbands were added) came to the capital of the Li Dynasty, Shenglong City.

Soon, the two sides launched an offensive and defensive battle that lasted a day and a night.

Since it is the capital city, the defense facilities of Thang Long City are very complete and strong.

This made it impossible for the unconscionable cannon, which was invincible before, to blow up the gate of Shenglong City.

At the initiative of the generals of the Annan Army, the Annan Army took the initiative to stand up with a thousand death-defying troops. Each of them carried two explosives, and at the cost of killing more than 400 people, they blew up the gate of Thang Long City. .

Next, the two sides fought another day of street fighting.

In the end, with the help of the slaves in Thang Long City, the Huben Army wiped out most of Li Chao's resistance army.

Li Gande couldn't do anything, and wanted to kill his concubines and seven daughters and burn his palace.

But Li Gande's crazy idea was stopped by those courtiers who wanted to survive.

Soon after, Li Renjie, the capital of the Li Dynasty, escorted Li Gande and led the civil and military officials of the Li Dynasty to open the palace gate and surrender.

Li Chao died.

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Sorry, there was only one chapter updated yesterday.

It is really difficult to write this chapter. While writing, I have to check information and maps, so I have to stop and write. I am so busy that I can only write it now.

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