Destroy Jin and conquer Song, and carry the Northern Expedition through to the end

Chapter 83: Meng'an and Mouke have difficulty forming an army (I)

Facts have proved that Liu Huai's judgments were all correct.

At that time, there was only one Jurchen Mouke stationed in Wangjiazhuang, with more than 200 households, and including the elderly, the weak and the sick, there were only more than 1,000 people in total.

Logically speaking, there should be young and strong warriors among these people who are brave enough to fight and capable of fighting.

But isn't this a southern expedition?
Didn’t Wanyan Liang summon troops from all over the world to Bianliang?
As a nation, the Meng'an Mouke households naturally had an obligation, so this branch of Mouke in Wangjiazhuang produced a total of eighty-three people.

Don't think that eighty-three people are nothing compared to more than a thousand people.

When these eighty-three men go out to war, they will ride the best horses, wear the best armor, and take the best weapons.

These eighty-three people are also the most elite young and strong men in the entire Mouke. They have seen blood, killed people, and served as soldiers. They know what the battlefield is like and know that if the enemy comes to attack them, they must fight back immediately instead of hiding first.

It can be said that these eighty-three people are the bones of the entire Mouke, and now, these bones have been pulled out early.

There were several Jin people with braided hair guarding the gate of Wangjiazhuang. They became a little nervous when they noticed a large group of cavalry approaching.

But firstly, these people had never been to the battlefield and did not know how fierce and dangerous war was; secondly, they did not expect that a large number of Song cavalry would appear; thirdly, when they saw the surrounding Han tenants fleeing in the distance, they thought it was some Jin cavalry passing by.

So although they were on guard and sent people to find the captain to report, they did not draw their bows and arrows, nor did they raise their spears, nor did they push the deer's horns.

This is fatal.

The cavalry ran so fast that they had advanced about ten steps in a blink of an eye. It was not until then that the cavalry raised the big flag with the word "king" in its name.

"Kill the gold thief!"

The dozen or so riders led by Wang Shilong shouted almost at the same time, and rushed forward with their long spears and short bows.

The Jin man at the village gate was shot to the ground before he could even react.

A few people rolled and crawled to avoid it, but fell into the trench beside the village gate and bumped into the deer antler spikes, causing them to howl again.

Wang Shilong ignored these people and rushed into the village while shouting his own name.

"I am Wang Wulang! Does anyone still remember me? Follow me and kill the Jin thieves!"

Someone from the Jin army hiding in the trench finally reacted. They fished out the fallen gong from the slightly muddy bottom of the trench and started beating it vigorously: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy... uh..."

Just as the Jin man struck the gong a few times, a short spear flew towards him, hit him in the chest, and sent him flying.

Liu Huai led most of the armored cavalry and rushed over, following Wang Shilong and suddenly rushed into the village.

Among the subsequent armored cavalry, in addition to the vanguards who were armed with spears and bows and arrows, the armored cavalry teams in the rear, consisting of ten people, were armed with machetes, short spears, iron hooks and even fishing nets, obviously preparing for a melee.

This was also the reason why Liu Huai dared to order the cavalry to attack the manor.

But when advancing along the seven-zhang-wide main road of the manor, Liu Huai suddenly discovered that not only were there few households in Wangjiazhuang who responded to the Song army's call to kill the Jin thieves, but there were also only a few Jurchens who actually came out to fight against the Song army's cavalry.

The lack of farm households could be explained by the fact that the manors' houses and land were taken away, leading to their expulsion. But where were the young and strong Jurchens? They couldn't all have been conscripted by Wanyan Liang, right? Couldn't Wanyan Liang have left some young and strong men among the various Moukes to guard the garrisons?
But it doesn’t matter. As long as we rush into the courtyard in the center of the manor, the Jin people will be unable to use any other tricks.

At this moment, Liu Huai was thinking so.

However, this is where the reality gets a little weird.

There is no logic in reality.

Wanyan Liang really wanted to recruit all the young and strong men of the Jurchen nation to the battlefield!
To put it simply, the Meng'an Mouke households were a tribal system that combined military and political power and was implemented by the Jurchens when the population was sparse.

It was both a social organization and a military organization. So, theoretically speaking, all the Jurchens, Khitans, Bohais, and Han people included in the Meng'an Mouke system were military households.

Since they were military households, they had to respond to conscription when the Jin Kingdom went to war.

But theory is theory, and practice is practice.

In theory, all Meng'an and Mouke households should be treated equally! But in reality, how could the treatment of the Khitan military households on the southern edge of the desert be comparable to that of the Jurchens settled in the fertile land of the Central Plains?

If their lives were really that good, Saba of the Northwest Recruiting Office of the Jin Dynasty would not have led his people in rebellion after Wanyan Liang's large-scale conscription.

Oh, you didn’t think of us when you were enjoying yourself, but you remembered us when you were fighting for your life. Why don’t you let those fat and strong Jurchens die?
Until now, the Khitan uprising in the former Liao territory is still raging, and they are fighting back and forth with the border guards of the Jin Dynasty.

This cannot be blamed on others. It should be noted that it was more than 30 years ago that the Jin Kingdom took over Hebei. Twenty years ago, the main elite forces of the Jin Kingdom were destroyed by Yue Fei, and the remaining Jin Kingdom troops had long been corrupted.

In the second year after the Battle of Yancheng, Wanyan Wushu led his army south, but was defeated by Zhang Jun and Yang Yizhong in the Battle of Zhegao.

Especially Yang Yi's central troops, they are the imperial guards in front of the palace. You must know that no matter in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, the central imperial guards who are not led by the emperor himself are all useless.

Wanyan Wushu fought back and forth with this group of useless people. When he saw the battle report, his heart sank to his buttocks.

Later, after achieving a small victory in Haozhou by relying on an ambush, Wanyan Wushu immediately changed from being in favor of war to being in favor of peace, and began peace talks with the Song Dynasty in Shaoxing.

If this was the case at the time, one can imagine what kind of combat effectiveness the Meng'an Mouke households, the main force of the founding of the country, could have after twenty years of peace.

Does the Jin Kingdom have elite troops now?

Naturally there is.

But it definitely won’t be in Wangjiazhuang!
The Mouke of Wangjiazhuang was first moved from Liaodong to Haizhou. Although the land of Wangjiazhuang was plundered, they were not used to the climate and soil there. Secondly, the land and wealth came too easily. The Jurchens, who were already arrogant and extravagant, became even more presumptuous. They even exchanged the land for money, wine, and beautiful maids.

Just rob after the money is spent. There is no need to go through so much trouble. In order to allow the Meng'an Mouke households to take root in the Han area, the Jin government must ensure their survival. Even if they sell all their land, the government will step in and continue to plunder their land to feed them.

Wanyan Liang felt that he had been good enough to the nation, and now that he was going to conquer the Song Dynasty, the nation would naturally be eager to join the army and fight for their lives.

But the Jurchens felt that life was too good now, so why should they risk their lives?
Being able to produce eighty-seven brave warriors is already in line with the military system, and is enough to do justice to the imperial court and even Wanyan Aguda. Now the imperial court is recruiting all young and strong people to join the army.

Are you kidding me?
The Khitans were worried that the Mongols in the northern desert would come to plunder their tribe after they set out on the expedition. Didn’t the Jurchens worry that the Han people would attack their own territory?

The elderly and weak in the family might just be abducted by the Mongols, but the Han people, whose hatred was higher than the sky and deeper than the sea, would end up with the whole family wiped out.

But the imperial edict had to be obeyed, and the garrison commander Jiagu Sizhong could only summon the young and strong men among the Mouke to discuss the matter together.

The imperial edict ordered all men between the ages of fifteen and sixty to join the army, which was pure nonsense. But if no one went out, then Meng'an from our department would not forgive him first.

But it is a troublesome matter to determine whose family the person is from.

More than 200 Jurchen men gathered in the courtyard in the center of Wangjiazhuang. After hearing the news announced by Jiagu Sizhong, they immediately burst into an uproar, and the situation became boiling in an instant.

Jiagu Sizhong was extremely worried, but he was just a garrison commander, a position established in the military settlement according to the Han system. The more prestigious centurion Mouke had already led his troops to the battlefield, so he was unable to suppress the questioning from so many of his fellow tribesmen.

Coincidentally, Liu Huai launched a surprise attack at this time.

The sound of a gong, indicating an enemy attack, was heard first, followed by a huge clamor and shouts of killing. Jiagu Sizhong was an old soldier after all, and he instantly realized that thieves had broken into the village, and quickly organized his men to prepare for a fight.

Fortunately, the armory in Zhuangzi was nearby, and Jiagu Sizhong asked people to take out armor, weapons, bows and crossbows.

A moment later, the most core armed force of the Mouke was inexplicably armed.

(End of this chapter)