Chapter 419: I didn't lose the face of the Han people
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Zhuo Qingzhan said that since he was born as a descendant of the Han nation, he would rather die standing than live on his knees.
Liu Ling didn't know that Zhuo Qingzhan had said such a thing, but what he said was a little more relaxed and domineering than Zhuo Qingzhan. He said, with the strength of today's big men, we can bully people everywhere, how can we let
Someone has bullied us? Whoever dares to come, fight back, or even come to the door.
I really don't know where Liu Ling, who led thousands of soldiers all the way to the outside of Cangzhou, got such confidence.
He had soldiers and generals in his hands, but they were not with him. Moreover, the number of troops he could mobilize was only about 200,000, and most of them were given to the king to resist the Dangxiang's offensive from the west. There were still tens of thousands more.
The person is Liu Mao, and Zhao Er is leading the one hundred thousand cavalry who are fighting against the Liao general Li Yao Nayan in Zhaozhou. The army that can be transferred to Cangzhou is at best the tens of thousands of horses under Yang Ye. With these people, even if the Cangzhou city wall is
If Cangzhou is strong and the people are united, can they withstand the attack of 300,000 Khitans? Although Cangzhou is now surrounded by Khitans on three sides and the southern city gate is not blocked, that is what Yeluji did deliberately. 300,000 troops surrounded Cangzhou
Don’t live in Cangzhou? That’s a joke.
Besieging three and missing one is a very common method in siege warfare. It leaves a way for the defenders to survive, so that the defenders will not fight so fiercely when resisting. In fact, when an army of 300,000 people fights against a few thousand county soldiers,
There was absolutely no need for Yeluji to do this. But as Liu Ling analyzed, Yeluji surrounded the city with three missing ones, not to leave a way for the people in the city to survive, but to let people in. In other words, to attract people.
Yeluji knows that those humble and cowardly Han people can often burst out with amazing strength when facing a crisis. Even if two hostile people, when a third party intervenes, especially when the third party is an outsider, those two
Enemies will put down their hatred and fight against the outside world. After the foreign enemies are driven away, the two people will still fight to the death. After the Khitans occupied the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, although they maintained the arrogance of the Khitans, it is undeniable that they have been overrun by the Han people.
Gradually, it was affected. The Khitan nobles all like to live in the city, like to live an aristocratic life with clothes and food, like Han women, like to wear silk and satin, and like to sit in sedan chairs. They have gradually become unaccustomed to the wind and sand in the north of Saibei.
They were not used to living on grass, and they were not used to coarse food and poor wine. This change was unconscious, and even the Khitan people themselves were not aware of it.
Facts have proved that whoever occupies the flowers and mountains of the Central Plains and the splendid world will fall. Without the wolf nature, they will gradually become sheep. They were the sheep that they once despised and looked down upon. For example, the Khitan people in history occupied
The prosperous country north of the Yangtze River gradually lost the determination it once had on the grasslands. The fighting power of the Khitan cavalry that roamed the grasslands gradually declined, and they were succeeded by the Jurchens who later emerged as the overlords of the grasslands.
The Jurchens took away their position in the Central Plains. After the Jurchens occupied the Central Plains, their rate of decline was no slower than that of the Khitans, and then they were beaten to pieces by the rising Mongols. Millions of gold
The soldiers were completely killed by hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalry. The powerful Mongolian cavalry even created the myth that 30,000 people surrounded 200,000 golden soldiers and then wiped them out. The person who created this myth was named Torre.
Temujin's fourth son. However, the Mongols corrupted faster than the previous two nations. They once conquered most of the world, but they fell into a state of drunkenness and dreams. The rule of the Yuan Dynasty only lasted for a few decades before they were overthrown.
Zhu Chongba, who was born as a cowherd boy and the founder of the great Ming Empire, rushed back to Mobei. In the early days of the establishment of the Ming Empire, there was no doubt about the strength of the military force. The Mongolian Golden Family was also completely beaten by the Zhu family and was unable to stand up.
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The grassland people actually admire the Central Plains culture and are very curious about it. In their eyes, the Han people are as weak as sheep, but their economy and culture are extremely developed. What puzzles them the most is why the seemingly weak Han people,
How can they show such strong fighting spirit when facing other places? The Dangxiang people resisted the Mongols and were massacred. The Jurchens were massacred, and they were massacred in many places. The Mongols solved tens of millions of people in the world.
The problem of people's feeding was indeed a bloody massacre. However, they did not massacre all the Han people. Some people say that there were thousands of Han people, could they kill them cleanly? In fact, compared to the bloody methods of the Mongols in other places,
, in the Central Plains region, they killed relatively few people. Perhaps they also wanted to see why this nation had such a strong will to resist?
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a lieutenant named Chen Tang who was killed by the Huns because the Han envoy Gu Ji was killed by the Huns. Lieutenant Chen led troops from several countries in the Western Regions, crossed Wusun, entered the realm of Kangju, and reached Khotan.
Chi, after killing the Xiongnu Chanyu in a battle and almost killing all the upper class of the Xiongnu, he left an eternal saying that has been widely circulated in later generations.
Anyone who openly offends a strong man will be killed no matter how far away he is.
Liu Ling knew how helpless this sentence meant in later generations, but he would not allow this helplessness to reappear in this era. Fuck stability is the most important thing, fuck peace-loving, fuck
Why not fight for hegemony? If someone hits you at the door, then go back!
When the country is weak, it can be more tolerant. But according to Liu Ling's temperament, those humiliations must be paid back a hundred times a thousand times.
Liu Ling said, when the Northern Han Dynasty only had 30,000 to 50,000 soldiers, I dared to defeat the Khitans and Dangxiang people. Now that I have strong soldiers and horses, do I have to pretend to be a grandson?
But Liu Ling now has no soldiers. Even if he enters Cangzhou City, what can he do? Where does his confidence come from?
Dugu Ruizhi left Luzhou, and the 30,000-strong army marched northward. It took fifteen days to reach Taiyuan. At this time, Liu Ling also happened to arrive in Cangzhou. Then, Dugu Ruizhi did not stop in Taiyuan, and the army continued after replenishing supplies.
Departure. Pass Xinzhou and go straight to Daizhou.
Daizhou is the northernmost state among the twelve states of the Northern Han Dynasty. Twenty miles north of Daizhou City is the territory of the Khitan people. Liu Ling designed to solve the threat of Yu Xiaolou and left the ship again.
When he entered Cangzhou City by land with 500 elite soldiers and more than 100 supervisory guards from the Supervisory Council, Dugu Ruizhi also brought his 30,000 troops to Daizhou. Then, Dugu Ruizhi made an astonishing move
Decide.
Dugu Ruizhi left behind 24,000 soldiers and asked his deputy Bi You to guard Daizhou. He himself, with 6,000 fine cavalry, went north in the night, and he did not know where he went.
However, those who stayed behind in Daizhou, including Bi Tong, all knew that General Dugu and the good son of the six thousand men had gone deep into the Khitan Xijing Road alone, and they were afraid they would never come back.
Liu Ling knew where Dugu Ruizhi had gone. Moreover, he did not send those six thousand elite cavalry into the Khitan country to die.
Back then, Liu Ling gave Datong to Ye Luxiongji. With Liu Ling's character, would he be so willing? Since the Khitans dare to attack our Central Plains, I will beat him until it hurts. If it hurts, I will make him hurt so much that he can't bear it. Cangzhou
It seems to be the main battlefield, but Liu Ling has set his sights on Datong, Xijing of the Liao Kingdom. However, now that Datong is heavily defended by Liao troops, what can the six thousand fine cavalry do? Can the cavalry attack the city?
What is certain is that they are definitely not going to attack the city.
Liu Ling entered Cangzhou and walked in so blatantly. The three thousand wolf riders sent by the Khitans were eating shit behind the Han fleet. Xu Sheng was left on the big ship, teasing the three thousand wolf riders. Doing this
It's not a clever idea, but it's just that the big ships can't get close to Cangzhou. Liu Ling can't bear to lose these big ships, so he has to send them back to the rear. He can lead the three thousand wolf cavalry as far as he can, and of course, he can go
Not far away, Yang Ye's tens of thousands of troops came from behind. They ate 3,000 of the enemy's men. Although it was not much, they still took off a layer of skin.
Liu Feijing, the head of the fifth section of the Supervisory Council, respectfully welcomed Liu Ling, the King of Han Dynasty, into the city at the south gate of Cangzhou. The team of more than 600 people did not display any banners or reveal their identities. The Khitan scouts must have discovered
They were killed, but what effect could a mere 600 people have? Moreover, Yelu couldn't believe that any of the big shots from the Han people in the Central Plains would dare to come to Cangzhou to die in Cangzhou with such a small number of people. Together with Liu Feijing, he and Liu Feijing welcomed Liu.
Ling, and Cangzhou County Governor Zhuo Qingzhan. Pang Zhun, who was kidnapped by Liu Feijing, could avoid it and did not appear. Perhaps, he felt that as a minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he should not welcome the big man.
Go ahead. Or maybe he is just a defeated general and has no face to show up?
The first thing Liu Ling did after entering Cangzhou was to let people spread the news, saying that Liu Ling, the king of the Han Dynasty, was coming from Weizhou with an army of 200,000 people and would arrive in Cangzhou soon.
The people from the Control Yuan are very efficient in handling such small matters as spreading news.
Regarding Liu Ling's arrangement, Liu Feijing thought that His Highness the King of Han wanted to hide his whereabouts. But Zhuo Qingzhan thought that Liu Ling was very cunning. With such a rumor, he could slow down the Khitan's offensive.
sky.
Yeluji besieged Cangzhou. The reason why he had not launched a general offensive for so long was because he wanted to see if he would attract some big shots among the Han people.
Now that Liu Ling is here, does he still care about waiting a few more days?
If Liu Ling really came with an army of 200,000 people, would Cangzhou still be important?
It's just a city. From the beginning, Yeluji's vision was not so shallow, and his goal was not so small.
"Zhuo Qingzhan, the governor of Cangzhou County in the Great Zhou Dynasty, met His Highness the King of Han."
Zhuo Qingzhan bowed and saluted, but he was not flattering or humble. Although Liu Ling was not the king of Han Dynasty, he still had to salute according to the rules. Moreover, Liu Ling was a strong man, Zhuo Qingzhan
There is no shame in giving gifts.
Liu Ling did not act like a polite corporal, nor did he help Zhuo Qingzhan up with both hands, nor did he say with emotion: "Gongzhen is a good minister of the country, a true hero, and a hero."
He just glanced at Zhuo Qingzhan lightly, nodded, and said nine words.
"You are very good. You have not disgraced the Han people."
Nine words, simple, but inexplicably heartwarming.
The Han people have not lost face. (To be continued)
