Starting from Li Yuanfang Chapter 849: Instead, the Liao Kingdom signed an alliance under the city, donated annual coins, and negotiated peace with the township army?
Chapter 849: Instead, the Liao Kingdom signed an alliance under the city, donated annual coins, and negotiated peace with the township army?
"The construction of the Great Wall is a long and long project!"
Li Yan rode on the back of Lion Cong and led a team of people to inspect the construction.
The rural army was conquering the most elite areas of the Central Plains, but he did not go south at all.
Because it's not needed.
If the commander-in-chief of the Western Army was still Zhe Keshi, and his achievements were actually very brilliant, but he did not have the support of a family of military generals, and the support of Liu Fa, Liu Zhongwu and others with slightly inferior military status, if the Central Committee of the Song Dynasty did not delay this army
The army's hind legs gave it full support. Even if the Western Army is a long-standing army, it is still a strong old army and will still have a fierce battle with the newly rising rural army.
Of course, it is basically a fantasy to achieve all these "ifs", but now, let alone all of them, none of them can be achieved.
Zhe Keshi and Zhong Shidao were escorted to the capital. Song Ting frantically held back the Western Army, without giving any support, and even temporarily trained the navy. Enemies like this were left to Lu Junyi, Zhu Wu and Wu Yong.
Kill a chicken with a knife.
Naturally, Li Yan would not go with him. He chose to go north from Yanyun and came to the border between Yanyun and the Liao Kingdom's Zhongjing Road to inspect the reconstruction of the Great Wall and to confront the Liao army who might take advantage of the situation to move south.
After the liberation of Yanyun, the Central Plains took back the barrier against the grassland nomads. However, this barrier was not created out of thin air. In fact, it still relied on the mountains and rivers and the construction of the Great Wall. Therefore, Lu Junyi attacked the Zhongjing Road* and continued to expand the border. In fact,
It is closer to the "400 mm constant precipitation line" studied by later generations.
This line sounds strange, but it is actually the dividing line between semi-humid and semi-arid areas, the dividing line between forest vegetation and grassland vegetation, and it is also the line where the Great Wall was built.
Just like during the Tang Dynasty, the dividing line between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo was about three thousand meters above sea level, and altitude sickness would appear above that line. As long as ancient times were still in the stage of farming civilization, the Great Wall would inevitably be built on this "400 mm" line.
"on the equal precipitation line".
Because further north, precipitation and temperature cannot meet the requirements for crop production, and the survival method of agricultural civilization no longer works.
This is an inevitable watershed that cannot be changed by human will. The ancestors of the Chinese nation built the Great Wall on this line. It was not a coincidence, but a natural law adapted to it through constant exploration.
During the 170 years that the Khitans occupied Yanyun, it was of course impossible for them to build a Great Wall to block them in their own territory. Instead, they destroyed it whenever they could. Therefore, after Li Yan took over, he chose to rebuild the Great Wall.
He considered the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, but based on the current financial situation, he first chose rammed earth walls at key locations, and then built walls with blue bricks.
Some people may think that without the tall and towering blue brick Great Wall, how can we resist the invasion of foreigners? Wouldn’t it be possible to get in as soon as you turn over it?
There is no need to worry about this. The stability and civilization of the farming people are completely inferior to the nomadic people. On the contrary, the nomadic people's weapons are horses and cavalry, and the Great Wall mainly protects against foreigners, not foreigners, but horses under the crotches of foreigners.
The rammed earth wall is indeed difficult to stop people from climbing, but a large number of horses cannot get through. Only spiritual beasts such as thousand-mile horses or even lions can do that kind of running at top speed and flying over obstacles with four hooves...
From this function, the Great Wall can be regarded as a permanent anti-horse pile, or a reverse trench. In terms of sturdiness, because rammed earth is used, the earth is greatly compressed, and it is often harder than stone.
, it really is not broken randomly.
Of course, if you really want to break through from a certain point, you can certainly do it, but in this way, the Great Wall can play a second-level role, which is to delay the enemy's invasion, give one's own warning, and block the retreat.
If the nomads break through a point in the Great Wall and come in, then after they burn, kill and plunder, the route they take back with the loot is also fixed. They must return through the original gap. In this way, the Central Plains army can wait for work, block the gap, and cover up.
Dumplings, the nomads’ greatest advantage, their army’s mobility, is gone.
On the other hand, the Great Wall allowed the Central Plains regime to quickly transport troops. It was equivalent to building a highway between the mountains and mountains, and then using beacon towers as warnings to allow limited troops to support various places. There was no need to be like the Song Dynasty, which could only mobilize a million soldiers.
Defending the border puts heavy pressure on the country, and at the same time, the quality of the army continues to deteriorate.
For the nomads, the most deadly thing is the economic blockade.
Today, there are still a large number of merchants from the Liao Kingdom secretly going south, bypassing the mutual market and trading with merchants within Yanyun. This is because there is no loophole in the Great Wall. Once the Great Wall is built, those small traders will not be able to enter and exit at will. If they want to trade with the Central Plains dynasty,
Then you can only take the official route.
The black market and smuggling are unavoidable after all*, so in history, the border guards of the Great Wall, in addition to guarding against foreign invasions, also arrested inland businessmen for smuggling to foreigners, and sold salt and iron to them to earn huge profits.
"Two thousand years up and down, one hundred thousand miles vertically and horizontally", why is the Great Wall the treasure of Chinese civilization? It contains too much wisdom and symbols of agricultural civilization.
Therefore, Li Yan definitely wanted to build the Great Wall. This is a matter that concerns future generations and has nothing to do with whether the current generation is strong or not.
However, in terms of the amount of work, we must also consider the current political power's endurance. We cannot imitate Yang Guang's example, disregarding the life and death of migrant workers and overdrafting national power.
"These Khitan surrendered soldiers and captured Xi tribesmen must be well supervised and not deliberately abused."
In the past, the Liao army was defeated in Hebei and Shandong. The hands of the surrendered soldiers were cut off and put back. However, since the end of the Battle of Yanjing, the hands of the surrendered soldiers were no longer cut off. They were taken to build fortifications. Although Li Yan had already given the order
This kind of order was emphasized again after the inspection.
Chen Da, who was in charge of supervising the fortifications of the Great Wall and preventing the soldiers from rebelling, accepted the order: "Yes!"
At this moment, a horse came from afar, and Yang Xiong arrived in front of him, with a solemn look on his face and said: "Chief instructor, the scouts have reported military information, the Liao army is approaching!"
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Li Yanshi turned the horse's head calmly: "Let's go to the front line!"
When a large banner appeared in front of the formation, the township army suddenly burst into cheers, and the Liao army advancing slowly from the distance immediately stopped.
The invincible Lin Yiyong is on the front line again!
Yelu Yanxi, who was in the center of the Liao army, said coldly: "I have been tricked by the Taifu again. It is really Lin Chong who personally came to guard Yanyun's northern defense line!"...
Xiao Wuna coughed slightly and sighed: "This just shows how powerful the rural army is. They have been able to divide their forces into two groups. Lin Chong is not immersed in his current achievements. He is still invincible in charging into battle.
General!"
Yelu Yanxi rolled her eyes, full of displeasure.
But in just one year, King Lanling has aged incredibly fast. A man in his fifties is as old as a seventy-year-old. This is why Yelu Yanxi has endured so far. If this
If you can die of old age on your own, you don't have to bear the infamy of killing the master.
So at this time, Emperor Tianzuo looked to the other side: "What do you think, my dear brother?"
Yelu took a deep breath. He knew very well that his "royal brother king" had become a thorn in the side of Emperor Liao since he took up residence in Zhongjing Road. However, the Jurchen tribe continued to grow in Tokyo Road. After all, he still did not want to be beaten by a group of people.
The domestic slave turned over and at this opportune moment chose to ease the relationship with Yelu Yanxi.
At this moment, he led his army to the south, aiming for the rural army to conquer the Central Plains and take the opportunity to recapture Yanyun. Unexpectedly, he encountered the enemy he least wanted to face. But he saw hope again: "Lin Chong came to the front line in person.
This is our great opportunity. This man has no successor yet. As long as we kill him, the forces under his command will immediately fall apart, Yan Yun will return, and the vast land of the Southern Dynasty will be free for our Daliao cavalry to gallop!"
Yelu Yanxi said with a smile: "That's very good. I have many soldiers and talents under my command. I will wait and see how you will accept Lin Chong's head and avenge your previous shame!"
This was almost unabashed, just to use the enemy's hands to weaken the domestic enemy, but he added a sentence to avenge his shame, and Yelu Dezhong had to be framed.
He was already mentally prepared and started to point out his generals: "Qiong Yao Nayan, as the vanguard general, Arich, you...eh!"
However, before he could finish the arrangement, a general rushed out from the opposing side's rural army camp, causing the Liao army to explode:
"How could it be him?"
…
"Brother, you don't have to take action personally*, just let's see how we defeat these Liao dogs who are at odds with each other!"
Just as the senior officials of the Liao Army looked here with fear, Hua Rong came to Li Yan in the township army formation and said nervously.
There is no doubt that although he is convinced of his brother's martial arts skills, the pressure on his superiors and subordinates to have a leader who has no heir come to the front line is too great.
If something goes wrong, who has the ability and prestige to lead the next rural army? Neither Hua Rong nor Lu Junyi can do it, let alone the rule of Yanyun, Hebei and Shandong. The current good situation will really be gone.
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Li Yan understood this concern and would not say that he would be fine. He nodded and said: "Don't worry, if we are fighting the current Liao Kingdom, I won't play if I can't. Otherwise, if I defeat the opponent, I won't benefit."
We are the Jurchens who are constantly growing."
"What I'm thinking about now is actually to make the Liao Kingdom's defeat less ugly. Continue to suppress the Jurchens in the northeast and not be able to advance westward for the time being..."
All the generals looked at each other as if they were being pardoned, feeling a little strange.
Every commander-in-chief thinks about how to defeat the enemy. The more serious the casualties, the more brilliant the victory will be.
Their chief coach was worried about how to make the enemy lose without losing so miserably...
This sounds a bit ridiculous, but considering the overall strategic situation, it must be done, so after weighing the three methods, Li Yan chose the safest one: "Bring Wu Yanguang up."
The order was conveyed, and soon a fast horse came forward. Sitting on it was Wu Yanguang, who was once known as the first warrior in the Liao army and was captured alive by Li Yan in the Battle of Yanyun.
Li Yan looked at this Qi Shu research product: "Do you still remember our agreement?"
Wu Yanguang's figure was still tall and majestic, and he held his neck high in front of the other generals of the rural army. Only when facing this terrifying chief coach, there was a look of fear in his eyes that could not be concealed: "Remember!"
Li Yan ordered: "Then go, I keep my promise!"
Wu Yanguang was silent for a moment, then he clenched the Fang Tian painted halberd in his hand, rode out, came to the formation of the two armies and yelled: "Wu Yanguang is here, the Liao dog will die! Starting from the detective Li Yuanfang