Chapter 269: Being crowned king with a different surname
Yunshuo's recovery was easier than imagined, and it could even be said to be an accident.
In the early summer of Shaolong's twelfth year, Xu Huai suspended large-scale military operations in all directions after making the decision to give priority to restoring people's livelihood in the newly recovered areas in Bianliang.
The Prince of Zhennan Zong withdrew from Taiyuan and burned this ancient city on fire. Dong Cheng led hundreds of officials to Taiyuan to hand over to Tang Pan. Only the walls of Taiyuan City remained intact, and there were ruins and broken walls everywhere in the city.
In addition to urgently preparing for the establishment of provincial, prefecture and county-level institutions and initially restoring local governance, Dong Cheng and others also focused on rebuilding cities such as Taiyuan and planning for the management of Fenshui and downstream river valleys.
The military defense center of Hedong Province is all in the north. Among them, Tang Pan used the Hedong system to set up a deputy pacification envoy. The commander-in-chief of the Heshuo army and horse capital led his troops to Xinzhou, and the army headquarters was also temporarily located in Xinzhou. Fan Zongqi used the Heshuo army and horse deputy capital.
Guan, led his troops to Lanzhou, and served as the magistrate of Lanzhou; Chen Jin led his troops to Daizhou, and Xu Tan led his troops to Yanmen Pass.
In the entire Hedong Province, in the autumn and winter of the twelfth year of Shaolong, everything was focused on restoring local governance, providing relief to people's livelihood, and rebuilding the military defense in the northeastern part of Hedong.
Compared with the 890,000 or 90,000 infantry and cavalry of the Zhennan Zong Palace who retreated to Yunshuo, the Heshuo camp garrisoned Xinzhou and Lanzhou, and the defenders of Daizhou, together with the Shuofang camp garrisoned in Fuzhou and Piantou Village, the total number of troops was only five
If it is slightly more than 10,000, it can be said that it does not have the ability to launch a strategic attack on the Datong Basin for the time being.
However, the Prince of Zhennan Sect knew that the peace in front of him was only temporary.
They knew that after the year passed, it might not take such a long time for the Southern Dynasty to resume its rule over the Hedong area, and use a strict system to organize the remaining two to three million resentful people in Hedong, and local production could be restored to a certain extent.
Hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and horses will be mobilized again at any time to gather at Ningwuguan and Yanmenguan to enter the Datong Basin.
By then, the Zhennan Sect Prince's Palace will have the military strength to compete with it in the Datong Basin?
The Zhennan Zong Palace finally decided that before that moment came, taking advantage of the temporary inability of the Southern soldiers to break out of Ningwuguan and Yanmenguan, they decisively and quickly moved everything that could be taken away from Yunzhou, Shuozhou, and Yingzhou.
Going north of Yinshan Mountain, completely turning the entire Datong Basin into an uninhabited grassland can more effectively prevent the southern soldiers from entering the Monan grassland north of Yinshan Mountain.
That is the foundation of Chihu, and Yunshuo must not be allowed to become a stepping stone for southern troops to invade from the north.
In addition to moving all the people and livestock away, we must also do everything possible to destroy the cities and towns in Datong, Shuozhou and other places, and destroy the farming production here.
Most of the indigenous tribes in the Yunshuo area followed Xiao Linshi southward in the early years.
At this time, some of the people living in Yunshuo were more than 30,000 Chihu herdsmen who went south with the Chihu cavalry and belonged to the 22,000 households of Zhennan Zong Wangfu.
Some of them were Han people who moved into Fanhu from Liaodong and other places, numbering about 100,000 people.
Of course, more of the Han people living on both sides of the Sanggan River were Yunshuo Han people who were under the Khitan rule at that time, with a total of four to five million people. The Han army under Cao Shixiong and Yue Hailou recruited from these Han people in their early years.
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There are still as many as four to five million, which are from Zhennan Zong’s palace all the way from Hehuai. Withdrawing from Hebei Province, the Han soldiers who forcibly moved north with the army and some of them were forced to move northward, numbering about 4 to 50 thousand people.
What the Zhennan Zong Palace wants to do now is to move all of the 12 to 300,000 subjects and millions of livestock to the Monan grassland north of the Yin Mountain.
However, during this process, they encountered strong resistance and resistance.
At this time, the resistance and resistance were not limited to ordinary people, and various pessimistic and desperate moods also pervaded the middle and lower-level military officials and soldiers who surrendered to the Han army.
In the previous retreat all the way north, the Han soldiers and their families had reluctantly cooperated, at least without any particularly stimulating feelings of resistance or resistance.
Because they previously thought that even if they retreated to Yunshuo, they would be allocated houses and cultivated fields to live and reproduce.
However, at this time, they had to further abandon Yunshuo and completely retreat to the north of Yinshan Mountain. How could they wait calmly in the vast grassland where they were completely ignorant?
How will they survive after retreating to the grassland and farming for generations? Do they want to live a nomadic life like the people who drink blood from their hair and live in pursuit of water and grass?
Can they adapt?
At this time, rumors that all Han army households would become slaves of the Red Husbands after retreating north took no time to spread among the surrendered Han armies, further exacerbating the panic and resistance among the middle and lower-level generals.
At that time, the king of Zhennan, Ulullie, under the protection of Molihu and his troops, went to the Khan's court in Mobei on the banks of the Orkhon River to reflect on the defeats he had experienced over the years. The person who stayed in Yunshuo in the Zongwang Mansion was Marshal Tiemayongji.
Cao Shixiong, Meng Ping, Meng Jian, Zhong Changqing and other generals.
Tie Mayun and other Red Guard generals naturally hunted down and bloody suppressed those who dared to flee or resist.
Even though Han generals such as Cao Shixiong and Zhong Changqing had long noticed the instability and resistance within the Han army, their voice in Zhennanzong's palace had always been inferior to that of generals directly from the royal family such as Tie Mayong, and even because of a series of
were questioned for their military defeat; at the same time, they also knew that they had no way to survive if they stayed in Yunshuo, and the Southern Dynasty would never give them a chance to repent. They also tried their best to suppress the voices of the middle and lower-level generals who wanted to stay, and pushed them
Move north.
It is always easy to suppress small-scale resistance at the beginning. People and soldiers flee, but they are also resolutely sent out to pursue them. After being captured, they are often executed and executed. Hundreds of people are exposed in the wilderness as a warning to others.
However, this did not curb the rising resistance or rebellion. More and more people and soldiers fled deep into the nearby mountains to avoid arrest.
The generals of the Zongwang Mansion, who did not have Uluru Lie in charge, did not think of taking measures to alleviate the conflict. On the contrary, the bloody suppression of the fleeing people and soldiers became more and more intensified. Seeing that the situation was getting worse, they asked all the people responsible for chasing the fugitives.
The troops and horses will execute the captured fugitives on the spot, regardless of whether they are women, children, old or weak, and not even an infant in their infancy will be left behind.
At the end of December, more than 2,000 Han troops entered
In a valley deep in Jingong Mountain, more than a thousand fleeing people were surrounded there. Most of the soldiers did not want to carry out massacres of executions regardless of women, children, old and weak, so they launched a mutiny under the instigation of lurking personnel from the Military Intelligence and Staff Department, and captured and killed the generals of Cao's division.
Di Xinghou surrounded and annihilated more than a hundred warlord soldiers dispatched with the army, and then quickly fought out from Jingong Mountain, encouraging the defenders of nearby Jincheng County to participate in the mutiny and capture Jincheng County.
Xu Pang was stationed at Yanmen Pass and had been paying close attention to Yunshuo's movements. After receiving the news of the mutiny of the Han army surrendering in the direction of Jincheng, he resolutely led 5,000 cavalry in person and took advantage of the cover of wind and snow to gallop to Jincheng at night to meet with Shaolong.
On the first day of the lunar year of the 13th year, an ambush was set up in Tianjialing in the east of Jincheng County to ambush 10,000 soldiers who came from the direction of Datong and Yungang to suppress the mutiny.
After winning the great victory in the first battle of Jincheng, Xu Zang did not choose to retreat south. Instead, he led his troops to join the Jincheng uprising troops. Except for leaving a small number of troops and wounded troops to retreat to Jincheng, which had a small wall and strong walls, the main troops retreated to the northern terrain.
In the intricate Jingong Mountain, he insisted on fighting against the main force of the encircled captive soldiers; on the 13th day of the first month of the thirteenth year of Shaolong, Xu Zang led his troops to fight out of Jingong Mountain and fought with Chen Jinsuo who came out of Yanmen Pass for reinforcements.
The army defeated the 20,000 soldiers gathered at the southern foot of Jingong Mountain.
At the same time, influenced and inspired by the uprising of the Jincheng defenders and the two great victories, the surrendered Han troops stationed in Yingzhou, Shuozhou, and Yunzhou cities launched mutinies and riots, seizing the cities and attacking the villages.
By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Uluru Lie led his direct cavalry and some reinforcements to return from Mobei, although there were still 24,500 elite red cavalry occupying Datong, Shuozhou, Yungang and other cities, even though Cao Shixiong
, General Meng Pingping still had nearly 20,000 direct Han troops who did not participate in the uprising, but Hedong Province, in addition to 30,000 elite infantry and cavalry from Ningwuguan and Yanmenguan, also had 30,000 rebel soldiers and horses, almost occupying the territory.
In addition to Datong, Shuozhou, Yungang and other cities, Yanjixingying and Shuofangxingying also sent more troops to Xishan and Yehuling.
Faced with this situation, Uluru Lie could only sadly decide to abandon Yunshuo in advance and lead his remaining troops to retreat north. The Yunshuo area, which had been separated from the Central Plains for more than two hundred years, returned to the rule of the Central Plains ahead of schedule amid a series of mutinies...
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"Your Majesty, it is Emperor Taizong's legacy to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun with different surnames and be crowned king. So many ministers in the court also obeyed Emperor Taizong's legacy. Your Majesty cannot ignore it..." Qiao Jien sat at the imperial desk.
Before, he was talking to Emperor Shao Long, who had a skinny face and red eyes.
"Being crowned king with a different surname?" .???.
Although Emperor Shaolong said that he had been imprisoned in the palace for the past few years, and his unruly and unruly temperament had been worn away a lot, he still couldn't hold back his heart when he thought of the "Book of Request for the Conferment of the King of Yu" handed over by Zhou He, Gu Fan and others.
Anger boiling deep inside, he snorted coldly,
"Become the King of Yu, add nine tins, and grant the title to hundreds of counties in Henan. Why don't you and that man just give me a glass of poisonous wine to make it feel better?"
"Your Majesty, what are you talking about? All these years have passed. How can your Majesty sleep and eat well, and how can you not be getting tired day by day? Can't you really let go of these things?"
"..." Emperor Shaolong stared at Qiao Jien, almost thinking that Qiao Jien, who was delivering the message on behalf of the Sikong Mansion, was lying to him and playing with him, and then fell into deep silence...
