During the Song Dynasty, all the officials in the prefectures and counties began to hold banquets one after another to congratulate the Queen Mother on the Holy Day.
The celebrations in Bianjing City have also begun.
Di Yong, wearing a brand-new mountain armor and a gorgeous phoenix-winged helmet, led the victorious southern expedition army and filed in from Xinzheng Gate.
There was a sensation throughout Bianjing, and the streets in front of Xinzheng Gate were deserted.
There is no way, since the Zhen Temple, the Central Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty has never shown its face in foreign wars.
During the Renmiao period, Yuanhao rebelled, and Sanchuankou, Haoshuichuan, and Dingchuanzhai were defeated in three battles. Almost every family in Bianjing wore mourning.
During the reign of the late emperor, although there was some encouragement.
But the battles were won by the Western Army!
But it’s different now!
Although the first general of Yulong in the Southern Expedition was composed of the Tiger Wing Army, Controlling Crane Army and other middle and lower imperial guards who guarded the border from Xihe Road as the backbone.
But among them, the officers and soldiers were mainly descendants of Bianjing.
Moreover, the results of the war were very impressive. The territory was expanded thousands of miles and eight states were conquered. They even defeated Jiaozhi and begged for peace, received food, and sent the king's younger brother to come to court to apologize.
It really makes the elders of Bianjing look good!
Therefore, when the triumphant army entered the city gate, the elders on both sides of the street cheered.
In the welcome of the whole city, the first generals of Yulong were full of morale and felt very proud!
So everyone held their heads high and walked with great energy, desperately trying to show their majesty in front of their elders.
Xixia's envoy Nian Lalu and his deputy Tian Huairong were outside Duting Posthouse, listening to the cheers from the other side of the Bianhe River from a distance.
Both of them looked a little unhappy.
But it was not because of the Nanman's victorious army in the Southern Expedition.
But...
Yan Lulu held his eyes and glanced at the Liao envoy Yeluju and deputy envoy Lu Sili who were separated on the other side by the Song army's imperial guards.
In the past, as long as the Liao and Xia envoys were in the same group, they would blend together and put pressure on the Southern Barbarians together.
Therefore, Nanman takes strict precautions against such things.
However, the Liao and Xia envoys could always find ways to exchange views and synchronize on many things.
However, nowadays, the Liao people turn a blind eye to their olive branch.
Not only that, Yeluju even reported to the people of Dutingyi that they were "intending to bribe the envoy privately".
This made Xianluo extremely passive.
This also made their mission trip extremely bumpy.
They had been in the Nanman capital for twenty or thirty days, and had negotiated with Nanman officials more than a dozen times.
However, the mission made little progress.
The conditions they proposed - please follow the story of the Northern Dynasties, grant friends, restrict the border, repatriate fugitives from each other, please open more markets and increase the sales quota of green salt in Shaanxi, etc. In addition to increasing the border markets, the Southern Dynasty agreed
outside.
Other conditions were either rejected directly or hit a soft wall.
The Southern Barbarians were so confident that both Nian Lalu and Tian Huairong were deeply panicked.
The Liao people's unusual reaction frightened them even more.
Although it is said that the Liao people have now accepted the tribute from Dabai Gao Kingdom again.
But the mission was arranged in Shangjing and was not allowed to go to Nanjing where the Lord of Liao was.
But the approach of Song and Liao was visible to the naked eye.
He even saw many times that the Liao envoy Yeluju and the Southern Dynasty minister Xing Shu called themselves brothers and even traveled together.
This is nothing!
The main accompanying officials of the Liao mission also lived very comfortably in Dutingyi.
They even ordered various drinks delivered from the restaurant under the Bianjingzhou Bridge in Dutingyi.
This is so scary!
For hundreds of years, the southern barbarians and northern barbarians, who had been wary of each other and dug holes for each other, now work side by side, as good as brothers.
This is so magical!
In my mind, I was thinking randomly about the triumphant army of the Southern Barbarians, which had already arrived in front of me.
In order to show off martial arts and show off military power.
The Nanman officials deliberately cleaned up the streets in front of Duting Post Station, freeing up a large field of vision so that the envoys from various countries in Duting Post Station could clearly and intuitively see the Song army's armor, array and morale.
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Therefore, Xie Lalu could clearly see the army passing in front of him.
So, the first thing that caught his eyes was countless iron armors!
All Nanman soldiers wear armor.
The black armor plates collided with each other while walking, making a crisp metallic sound.
Blah blah blah...blah blah blah...
"Nanman is really rich!" Xuan Lalu couldn't help but sigh in Dangxiang dialect.
The diplomatic missions from various countries outside Dutingyi also expressed their feelings one after another.
Like Zhenla, the envoy from Champa seemed to be seeing aliens.
Everyone wears armor, and it is iron armor. For these Southeast Asian city-states, it is really science fiction!
But Xielulu quickly took his attention away from Tie Jia.
The Southern Barbarians are rich, and all their elites are armored, so it is no surprise to the party members.
They also saw a lot.
The founding of the Dabai Gao Kingdom relied on defeating the Southern Barbarian Central Forbidden Army, which had a terrifyingly high armor ratio!
What really moved him was the momentum of this army!
Almost everyone is holding their heads high and proud.
The array is neat, the pace is firm, the body is strong, and the killing aura is blowing in the face. It is not comparable to the imperial guards in Bianjing who are idle every day and have lax discipline.
Once such an elite team is put into the battlefield, Xuanluo Lu understands that it is enough to determine the outcome of a battle involving 100,000 people.
"Where did the Nanman find these many elite warriors who dared to fight?" Xie Lalu couldn't figure it out.
It was not like he had never encountered the Nanman army on the battlefield.
Even if it is an elite Western Army, at most one thousand out of ten thousand can fight.
Others are just filling up the numbers.
Usually, as long as the selected frontmen who dare to fight are defeated, the other southern barbarian armies will lose their will to fight and flee.
But the southern barbarian army in front of him was different from the southern barbarian army that Xuanluo Lu had seen.
Just good equipment.
The key is the momentum and confident arrogance.
It made his scalp numb.
If he were on the battlefield, he would never want to face such an army head-on.
"The great Southern Barbarian country should not be underestimated!" Xuan Lalu sighed.
Opposite him, Yeluju and Lu Lisi also looked at each other after seeing the military appearance and demeanor of Yulong's first general, and said with a smile: "In the Southern Dynasties, there are still elite troops with millions of armored men who dare to fight.
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For the Liao people, it is beneficial to properly praise the Southern Dynasty.
Because this can increase one's own worth - the Southern Dynasty is very powerful, but what about Daliao who forces the Southern Dynasty to give money every year?
At the same time, for these two people, it is actually more beneficial for the Song Dynasty to be stronger.
In Xixia, envoys from other countries outside the Liao Kingdom witnessed with their own eyes the demeanor and military appearance of Yulong's first general.
All that's left is surrender.
The tribute envoy of the five surnames in the southwest, Gao Taiming of Dali, looked at the first general Yulong in front of him with great fear.
As for Li Chongxian of Jiaozhi, he even let out a deep breath: "Lieutenant (Li Changjie), the defeat was not unjust!"
In the eyes of these people, the number one general who controlled the dragon who passed by them could only be described in four words: the master of tiger and wolf!
The full fighting spirit and chilling killing intent, neat military appearance, and sophisticated ordnance.
These are all things they have never seen before.
But Li Chongxian would not know that this tiger and wolf army was actually fed with the flesh and blood of Jiaozhi people.
When we went south in the first month of this year, the first general of Yulong could only be regarded as a "well-organized" combat division.
However, the southern expedition to Jiaozhi fed out their mentality and fighting spirit.
no way!
Traveling thousands of miles south is exhausting and hard work.
But the loss is very little!
During the southern expedition of the First General Yulong, including those who died in battle, illness and other causes, there were only over 400 people.
A complete logistics supply and injury and illness care system has greatly reduced deaths caused by epidemics, climate, injuries and other reasons.
In the war, the first general of Yulong took on the main task.
However, the Jiaozhi people were not well prepared, and Zhang Dun, Gao Zunhui, and Nong Zhihui instigated the rebellion of the entire northern wealthy clan and chieftain.
Therefore, almost all battles are one-sided.
The enemies that the first general Yulong encountered were either insufficiently prepared and were attacked by cavalry and stole their homes (Battle of Jueli Pass), or they were trapped in a fortified city and wanted to hold on for help, but the city wall was blown down by gunpowder (Beijian City).
When it came to the decisive battle, the Jiaozhi army encountered the nightmare of all armies - their logistics were cut off, their return route was cut off, and they were forced to confront the Song army.
As a result, they were attacked at night by cavalry trained on the battlefields of Song and Xia, resulting in heavy losses and a complete collapse of their already low morale.
Li Changjie made a decisive move, and the war elephant he had high hopes for was instantly destroyed by Yu Longzhi's grenade.
Violent explosions and sudden defections of war elephants.
Let the people of Cochin completely collapse, and all organization and order will disappear.
Under the nourishment of such victories one after another, the energy and spirit of the first dragon-controlling general can naturally be fed out.
What's more...
They made too much money from this southern expedition!
From top to bottom, everyone is making money.
Even though he was a big-time soldier, he was rewarded by the court, military salary and various extra income in Jiaozhi, and he brought back hundreds of dollars worth of money.
Those with better luck may even have made the leap from big-headed soldiers to military ministers on the battlefield.
As a result, this army now has the highest proportion of officers in the Song Dynasty!
After a southern expedition, more than a hundred officers were born among the soldiers alone.
They range from low-ranking military ministers of no rank to rank-3 junior envoys.
As for the officer group, three remote counties and more than twenty ambassadors were born.
Under the stimulation of money and official status, it is natural to imagine the transformation of the first general of Yulong.
This is what a feudal army is like.
If you give enough money and realize your achievements in a timely manner, you will have a strong army!
If you can get extra financial incentives on the battlefield, you will also have a clear path to promotion.
Then, no one is afraid of this army, and no one dares to touch it!
The Qin army, the Han army, and the Tang army all rose up in this way.
The reason why the Song Dynasty army has been performing poorly.
In addition to the pressure and constraints imposed by civil servants, there is also an issue of remuneration.
Therefore, even in the Western Army that has reformed the art of war, it is great to have a thousand elites in an army of 10,000.
When the remaining people went to the battlefield, they howled when the wind was blowing and ran away when the wind was against them.
This is normal - the military pay given to them by Zhao Guan's family is not enough.
Xiang troops and archers, three to five hundred coins a month.
Even if it's the Forbidden Army, the lower army and the middle army only have one pass, two passes and at most three passes.
Who would risk their lives for such a small amount of money?
If you place three arrows when facing the enemy, you will be worthy of Zhao Guan's family!
Why do the picks dare to fight?
Because there is a lot of money, more than five guan a month, and the soldiers can get ten guan!
Moreover, they eat well, wear well, get more rewards, and have better equipment.
As for why the Xihe Song Army under Li Xian was able to receive the same military pay as other Song armies, but it often exploded. There were even more than a thousand defending troops, resisting the siege of tens of thousands of party members, killing many people.
(Battle of Dingxi City)?
The answer to this question is actually very simple.
Because there were a large number of Dangxiang, Qiang, and Tubo people in the Song army on the other side of the Xihe River.
One or two regular military pay is not worth fighting for for the Han Song army.
But for these bitter people, it is enough to buy their lives!
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