Chapter 506 The rebellion broke out
Yelu Yixin was silent for a while after hearing this and said, "Since Zhu Aiqing has such confidence, then I will order you to be an envoy to Xixia. If it is done, I will be rewarded with great rewards. If it fails, you will not blame me for the military order you made yourself!" "
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I will definitely live up to Your Majesty's trust and convince Xixia to send troops!" Zhu Ran bowed and said. "Your Majesty, there is a saying among the Han people that far water cannot relieve near thirst. I don't know whether Western Xia will send troops. But even if it sends troops, it will take some time. Today, I am defeated and my morale is low. And the Song army If you win, you will inevitably be careless and you can try to rob the camp." Yelu He suggested.
"Well, you can give it a try." Yelu Yixin nodded.
The cost of robbery was very low. At this time, the Liao Kingdom was at a disadvantage and urgently needed to restore morale.
The robbery camp is a good choice.
Seeing Yelu Yixin's agreement, many generals took the initiative to ask for the battle.
When Yelu Yixin saw this scene, he said happily: "You are so determined to fight. You are not affected by any impact because of today's defeat. I am very relieved that our Daliao will surely achieve the final victory. ! "
But Yelu Yixin was not happy for too long. He had just selected the candidate to rob the camp and monitored the spies from the Song army camp to report, saying that the Song army camp was very lively and was celebrating the achievements.
The defense of the camp was very slackened. "Your Majesty, this is a good opportunity." The general who was selected as the candidate for the robbery camp said happily.
Originally, he was still a little lacking in confidence in whether he could succeed in robbing the camp.
At this time, hearing that the Song army was celebrating the merits, the camp was relaxed and was immediately happy.
Many generals looked at him with envy.
Once the robbery is successful, it will be a great achievement. If you learn this news before you determine the candidate, the competition just now will probably be a little more intense.
"No!"
Yelu Yixin did not have any joy and said, "I understand this British Duke of the Song Dynasty. This man is mature and steadfast and steady. It is impossible to make such a mistake. This must be a trap, and the robbery will be cancelled in advance."
"Your Majesty is wise!"
A Han official stood up and said, "The battle today is enough to see the talent of the British Duke. Do not be arrogant when you win or lose, it is the basic quality of the general. If the army camp of the Song Dynasty is so slack, there will inevitably be deception."
When the Liao Kingdom was discussing countermeasures, Zhao Xing also received good news from the British Duke.
After learning that the first battle was won, Zhao Xing breathed a sigh of relief and ordered people to send some meat to reward the army.
Zhao Xing came to the sand table and started to take a closer look.
If we can take over Xijing, we can be connected with Youzhou City.
Even if it is not enough to completely drive the Liao Kingdom back to the grassland, it can still build a defense line with Xijing and Youzhou City and continue to be in a stalemate with the Liao Kingdom.
Zhao Xing even had the idea of moving the capital to Youzhou City.
There is another name behind Youzhou City, called Beiping.
Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty moved the capital here.
The Liao Kingdom established five capitals, but the main capital was still Shangjing, and Youzhou City was just a sub-capital capital.
After the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Liao Kingdom, it was the capital at the beginning, and then it moved the capital to Youzhou City and established it as Zhongdu.
Later, the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Jin Dynasty and became the capital of the Yuan Dynasty.
The advantage of moving the capital to Youzhou City is that it can better resist the nomadic peoples in the north.
If the capital was established in the south or Central Plains, in order to prevent the generals from gaining their own troops, it would be impossible to stockpile too many soldiers and horses in the north.
The capital is different in the north. Just the troops guarding Kyoto is enough to guard against the north.
But Zhao Xing thought about it carefully and gave up this idea.
Although the capital of Youzhou City has many advantages, it also has two huge disadvantages.
Once the emperor behind him is not good, he will easily be beaten to the capital.
The Ming Dynasty could produce Yu Qian and turn the tide, but the Song Dynasty might not be able to do so.
Another disadvantage is that it is too far from the south and the Central Plains, so the control over the north and the Central Plains is reduced.
Later generations have been arguing about Zhu Di's move to the capital.
Some people think that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, while others think that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.
Every statement has a reasonable and well-founded statement.
But in Zhao Xu's opinion, everything has its pros and cons, which is inevitable.
Moving the capital to the north is extremely costly, although the southern transportation materials are needed to support the north.
But if the capital was not moved to the north, it would be difficult to recover quickly due to the situation in the north at that time, and the north would not be enough to resist the harassment of nomadic peoples.
The Ming Dynasty may not last for so long. The best result is that the north is lost, just like the Southern Song Dynasty, it is a little bit unfamiliar.
Although Zhao Xing agreed with Zhu Di's move to the capital, he felt that he did the right thing.
But the current situation in the Song Dynasty is different from that in the Ming Dynasty.
During the Ming Dynasty, the north was destroyed too seriously by the Yuan Dynasty.
Although the Song Dynasty lost the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the north was not completely lost.
Moreover, the Liao Kingdom was different from the Yuan Dynasty. The Liao Kingdom had actually been slowly assimilated and was also developing farming, and the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were not destroyed.
But the Yuan Dynasty was different. The Yuan Dynasty wanted to assimilate the Han people in turn, and it was not appropriate to say this, and it was more appropriate to use slavery.
The Yuan Dynasty completely turned the north into a pasture, resulting in a large number of worlds being abandoned and sparsely populated.
Zhu Di moved his capital to the north. In addition to resisting the nomadic peoples, another reason was to restore the economy in the north.
The Song Dynasty did not have this problem. It was a bit worthwhile to set the capital in Youzhou City just to resist the nomadic peoples in the north.
Zhao Xing shook his head, intending to follow the original idea and move the capital to Luoyang in the future. "Your Majesty, Bian Jing urgently reported it!" Sanshui hurriedly walked into the house, interrupting Zhao Xing's thoughts.
Zhao Xing took the urgent report and opened it and read it.
When I saw the content, Zhao Xing's face darkened and he said angrily: "All these people should be killed!"
The urgent report was written by the father and emperor, saying that the wizards were in the Central Plains and bewitched the people's rebellion.
The Central Plains is the capital of the country. The Wizards rarely operate here and have very little influence.
But the Wizard Cult suddenly broke through several county towns and then swept the people in large numbers, which made a huge spurt for a moment.
Zhao Xing not only drew a large number of imperial guards in this Northern Expedition, leaving Bianjing empty, but also drew many wing troops from the Central Plains states, resulting in not much troops in the entire Central Plains.
The wizard teaching is like a locust passing through the border, carrying the people all the way and gathering towards Bianjing. The capital was shocked and people were panicked.
For a time, some people in the court even suggested that the father leave Bianjing to take refuge.
The father did not accept it and sent troops to quell the rebellion.
It’s just that the Central Plains lacked military strength, and the Wizard Sect engulfed a large number of people, so it needed to mobilize troops from other places.
The father was worried that the Jiangnan Xiang army was not capable of combating the rebellion and took too long to suppress it, so he asked him to mobilize some of his troops back to Bianjing.
Otherwise, once it is delayed for a long time, not only will other changes occur, but the most important thing will also cause food and grass to not be transported here.
Nearly 600,000 troops made a northern expedition, let alone the north, it was difficult to supply even with the Central Plains.
Every grain and grass need to be transported from the south. Now that this kind of change has occurred in the Central Plains, the grain and grass in the south cannot be transported at all.
Although no other mentions were mentioned in the emergency report, Zhao Xing didn't need to think about it. This time the Wizard Clan launched a rebellion, and there must be someone in the court who supported it behind the scenes.
Otherwise, with the ability of the wizard, it would not be enough to launch such a great rebellion.
Zhao Xing now wants to go back to Bianjing to find out who is involved and kill all those people, but he still tries to calm himself down.
"It is said that Cao An, Duke of Wei, came here!" Zhao Xing said coldly. "Yes!" Sanshui responded and quickly gave the order.
Not long after, Cao An hurried over.
Without waiting for him to salute, Zhao Xing waved his hand, told Bianjing's situation, and said, "You bring 20,000 imperial guards back to Bianjing immediately to quell the rebellion!"
At this time, all the troops were put into the battlefield, and he could not draw any troops at all, so he could only send the imperial guards from the Palace Front Office back.
Although there are only 20,000, they are all cavalrymen.
In the Central Plains, 20,000 cavalry were fine to deal with some rebels that were composed of people.
"Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor ordered me to protect and comfort me, how could I..."
"Enough!"
Zhao Xing interrupted Cao An and said coldly: "Now all troops have been put into the battlefield. It is a critical moment. We cannot withdraw our troops. The capital is in danger, but we cannot ignore it. Moreover, the rebellion cannot be quelled as soon as possible, not only will the army's food and grass not reach the right time. Even the morale of the army will be affected. I will say it again, immediately order 20,000 imperial guards and rush back to Bianjing to quell the rebellion! "
Most of the soldiers in the army are from the Central Plains. If they know the chaos in the Central Plains, they are worried about their families Consolation and military morale will be affected, which is what Zhao Xing is most worried about. "Yes!"
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Cao An didn't dare to say much after hearing this and left in a hurry.
Although Zhao Xing's orders conflict with the Supreme Emperor, the situation is special at this time. If he dares to talk nonsense, Zhao Xing will really kill people.
He is also a general, and it is the best way to know that Zhao Xing's arrangement is so.
The front-line soldiers and horses are not unable to be pulled, but they move the whole body with one move.
Emergency draw of troops will not only affect the original deployment, but will also be plotted by the Liao Kingdom and will be greatly defeated.
If the troops retreated from the entire line, all the previous victory would be gone.
After Cao An left, Zhao Xing ordered someone to draw an edict and give it to the Duke of England to tell him about the rebellion in the Central Plains.
Let him decide whether to continue the decisive battle with the Liao Kingdom or to quit the army first according to the situation.
The news must be hidden, and it will be heard in a few days, and the morale of the army will definitely be affected by that time.
Zhao Xing was worried that the Liao Kingdom would catch the flaw, but he also knew that rash intervention in command would have a greater impact, so he let the Duke of England make a decision based on the situation.
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The Liao army suffered a great defeat and directly hanged the battle card the next day, staying in the camp without leaving.
Seeing this, the British Duke simply sent generals to invite the battle.
Zeng Gongliang was very worried about this. The Song Dynasty had the advantage at this time, and it was obviously not worth it to fight with the other party.
Winning the morale of the Song army increased by little.
But if you lose, your morale will be hit.
But he was eventually moved by the British Duke.
Because the British Duke sent it out was Zuo Qiang.
Zuo Qiang is one of the two top martial arts scholars in the martial arts examination, and Zeng Gongliang is the chief examiner and has witnessed Zuo Qiang's martial arts with his own eyes.
Zuo Qiang not only has a hard time in the martial arts competition, but also can win in just over ten rounds at most, and he won easily.
This Northern Expedition, Zhao Xing filled all the people elected from the military and participated in the Northern Expedition.
Many of the people who were selected by martial arts died in battle, and some of them performed very well.
There is Zuo Qiang.
Zuo Qiang participated in several sieges, and each time he was the first to rush to the top of the city, killing more than a hundred enemies, but he did not suffer any damage at all.
Not only came into the sight of the British Duke, but he had been promoted to commander and in charge of five hundred soldiers.
When the stalemate with the Liao Kingdom, the British Duke also asked someone to compete with Zuo Qiang, and no one was his opponent.
Zeng Gongliang was a literati after all. He only knew the pros and cons of Zuo Qiang, but he didn't know where the excellence was.
But the British Duke himself practiced martial arts and it was obvious that Zuo Qiang was born with divine power.
Born with the magical power, and the great martial arts learned from childhood, it is not to say that no one in the Liao Kingdom can defeat it, but it is still no problem to escape without any problems.
The British Duke also knew that fighting generals had more benefits than disadvantages to the Song Dynasty.
But if he wanted to force the Liao army to rob the camp, he had to greatly damage the morale of the Liao army.
Only in this way can the Liao army choose Yibo without any complete determination.
However, he also saw that Zuo Qiang was brave and lacked strategy, and was only suitable to be a warrior who charged into battle.
Worried that he was ahead, he would win the battle to death, so he called him to give him some advice.
Zuo Qiang was very excited to learn that the British Duke asked him to challenge the Liao generals and promised him repeatedly.
Then excitedly led a small team of cavalry to go outside the Liao army camp to invite the battle.
Because of his great defeat yesterday, Yelu Yixin avoided fighting.
But now that the Song army sent someone to come to the door to fight, if he refuses, his face will be really lost.
Besides, the Liao people are strong and never look down on the Han people.
When someone came to challenge him, not only did the generals in the army want to fight, but even ordinary soldiers asked for the fight.
If this is rejected, it will be a big blow to morale.
However, Yelu Yixin was not careless and chose a few low-level officers to fight first, wanting to try Zuo Qiang's martial arts.
As a result, the person sent out was the first to be careless and was shot by Zuo Qiang and stabbed to death. Even if he was cautious, none of the people behind him were the three enemies of Zuo Qiang. "Haha, it's said that the Liao army is brave. Are they all this kind of guy?" Zuo Qiang ridden his horse hundreds of steps away from the Liao army camp and laughed.
The cavalry who was sweeping behind him shouted excitedly when they saw this.
Yelu Yixin's face turned gloomy and chose a general to fight.
This time, he was not defeated quickly, and the Liao army shouted and cheered for him when they saw this.
After that in less than twenty rounds, Zuo Qiang was defeated again.
"Who is willing to go to fight?" Yelu Yixin said with a gloomy face when he saw his morale was low.
The Liao generals present bowed their heads slightly when they heard this, and no one spoke.
They all knew the general who went to fight just now.
There were many people present who could beat him, but they couldn't beat him so quickly.
Not only can you be embarrassed if you lose your battle, but you may lose your life, so naturally no one is willing to go.
Yelu Yixin said gloomyly: "Didn't you all shouting to go to the battle just now? Why are you mute now?"
Faced with Yelu Yixin's gaze, everyone's heads lowered even more .
Just as Yelu Yixin was preparing to call the general, the Song Dynasty cried out the Jin army to withdraw its troops.
Yelu Yixin breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart was filled with doubts.
Zuo Qiang won consecutive victories, but Da Song suddenly recalled the person, which was strange no matter how you look at it.
Not to mention Yelu Yixin, even Zuo Qiang was very confused.
If his elder brother had not told him before going to war, the army must obey orders, and he might not have been ordered to withdraw his troops.
When he returned to the tent, he wanted to go to the British Duke to ask about the reason, but he was told that the British Duke had important matters to deal with.
Inside the central camp of the Song army.
After reading the decree sent by Zhao Xing, Zeng Gongliang said, "Duke of England should return to the city first, otherwise when the news comes, the soldiers will inevitably worry about their family and their morale will be greatly reduced."
(This chapter ends)