Yun Zheng knew that he was creating a humanitarian disaster and knew what the final fate of these herdsmen would be, but his heart had changed a lot.
A long time ago, I had criticized some warlords who were resorting to militarism and treating human life as nothing, and I had even been filled with righteous indignation about it. Now that it happened to me, I had a different approach.
Now, as the commander-in-chief, he has long gone through the process of personally leading troops in battle, and has become a fake commander-in-chief who sits in the commander's tent and criticizes Fang Qiu.
Just when he became the commander-in-chief, Yun Zheng found that he had become an extremely mean person to the enemy. In the final analysis, the war between Song and Liao was just a struggle for the right to survive. There were no innocents in this war. Now the Song Dynasty has risen.
, it is natural to use the Liao Kingdom to stabilize its borders.
If the Song Dynasty continued to weaken, the invasion of the Liao Kingdom would become a matter of course.
War is actually as essential as eating and sleeping!
The Yun Zheng from a long time ago has died. Now when Yun Zheng sees the cruel and inhumane scene, his heart will no longer be disturbed and he will just laugh it off. This may be the thought of the big shot!
Li Dongchu's White Horse Army had already set off early. Lang Tan's army encountered obstacles in Xijing. Xiao Dahu, who was crazy, began to intercept Lang Tan purposefully.
Lang Tan was running around on the grassland, circling Xijing in circles, but the circle was getting smaller and smaller, and the channels for moving were getting narrower and narrower.
Xiao Dahu did not pursue Lang Tan closely, but deployed heavy troops around Xijing, using the overwhelming force to force Lang Tan to stop his pursuit of the Liao herdsmen.
Yunzheng's military order did not require Lang Tan to fight Xiao Dahu directly. The most important part of the military order was to require him to destroy the foundation of Liao people's survival, that is, to force Liao herdsmen to leave their traditional pastures and migrate to Xijing.
It is absolutely impossible to determine the outcome of the Liao-Song War in a short period of time. As long as the grazing plan of the Liao herdsmen is destroyed this year, the land of Xijing will definitely be in mourning next year.
In this era, no way of survival is once and for all, whether it is agriculture or animal husbandry. In the Song Dynasty, one acre of dry land could only harvest one hundred and twenty kilograms, while in the Liao Kingdom, the herdsmen's cattle and sheep herds almost required a lifetime of struggle to expand.
It's twice as long, and the hard work involved is not comparable to outsiders.
Decades of accumulation can be completely destroyed in just one day. This is the pain of the herdsmen. The pain Lang Tan inflicted on the herdsmen is enough for them to remember for a lifetime.
Newly born lambs have no way of keeping up with the group and have to be abandoned. Newly born ewes have no way of keeping up with the group and have to be abandoned. Cattle and sheep that have not put on their autumn fat in autumn have no way to cope with the enemy's pursuit and have to be abandoned.
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Those shepherds who could not write could only pour their sorrow into sad pastoral songs that echoed in the wilderness.
The greedy Lang Tan finally encountered Xiao Dahu's army in Huoshao Mountain. The fiercest battle broke out between the two armies in a hurry. Lang Tan, who was eager to leave Huoshao Mountain, almost used the power of his firearms to the extreme, and then hurriedly left.
Due to poor riding skills, the horses suffered alarming losses during the encounter. In the end, they had to station troops down Baishan Mountain to wait for the arrival of Yunzheng's reinforcements.
Xiao Dahu's army suffered heavy losses in the face of the overwhelming firearms. An army of ten thousand people was crippled in a very short period of time. The rest of the Liao army did not dare to press Lang Tan too hard. The two armies were in a confrontation at the foot of Baishan Mountain.
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Baishan Mountain is the pride of the foreign tribes. Xiao Dahu thought that Yun Zheng's army would suffer a great defeat in this cursed land, so he used the old Xiongnu tactics to lure Yun Zheng into an expedition.
Lang Tan adopted the strategy of surrounding but not attacking.
After Chen Lin heard that Lang Tan was besieged at Baishan Mountain, she asked Yun Zheng for the first time not to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly, so as not to fall into the Liao people's tricks.
Yun Zheng still ordered Li Dongchu's white horse army to march towards Baishan Mountain, and laughed off Chen Lin's worries.
In the winter of the seventh year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang personally led an army of 320,000 to conquer the Xiongnu, and at the same time suppressed the rebellion of King Xin of Han. The main counselors accompanying him were Chen Ping and Lou Jing, and the generals included Fan Kuai, Xia Houying, Zhou Bo, etc.
After the Han army entered Taiyuan County, they won consecutive victories, especially the Battle of Tongtian, which was a complete victory. Han Wangxin's army suffered heavy casualties. His general Wang Xi was killed by the Han army. Han Wangxin fled to the Huns. Han Wangxin's general Bai Turen
Manqiuchen, Wang Huang and others supported Zhao Li, a descendant of Zhao during the Warring States Period, as king, gathered the remaining defeated soldiers of King Xin of Han, and prepared to conspire with the Xiongnu to attack Han again.
Maodun Chanyu sent troops to the left and King Xian to the right, each with more than 10,000 cavalry, and Wang Huang and others stationed troops south of Guangwu to Jinyang in an attempt to block the Han army's northward advance.
The Han army pursued the victory and defeated the coalition forces of Han Wangxin and the Xiongnu in Jinyang. They took advantage of the victory and pursued to Lishi, where they defeated the coalition forces of Han Wangxin and the Xiongnu again. The Xiongnu again gathered forces in the northwest of Loufan and were defeated by the Han cavalry troops.
Due to the successive victories of the Han army, the idea of being paralyzed and underestimating the enemy came into being. After Liu Bang arrived in Jinyang, he heard that the Huns were stationed in Daigu, so he first sent people to investigate the actual situation of Maodun. Maodun hid its elite soldiers, fat cattle and horses, etc.
When they got up, only old and weak soldiers and thin animals were revealed. More than ten batches of envoys sent came back and said that the Huns could attack.
Liu Bang sent Liu Jing to go on an envoy to the Xiongnu again. He came back and reported: "The two countries are at war. It is time to show off one's strengths. Now when I go there, I only see thin livestock and old and weak soldiers. This must be
He deliberately exposed his own shortcomings and ambushed his troops to win the battle. I thought the Xiongnu could not attack." By this time, the Han army had already crossed Juzhu Mountain, and an army of 200,000 soldiers had already set out to fight.
Liu Bang was very angry after hearing Liu Jing's words, and scolded Liu Jing: "Qi State is a coward! You got an official position with two words, and now you dare to talk nonsense to hinder my army." Liu Jing was imprisoned in shackles and imprisoned in the prison.
Guangwu County, prepared to punish after the triumph.
Liu Bang led his cavalry to reach Pingcheng first, but the Han infantry had not yet arrived. Maodun Chanyu saw the Han soldiers coming in large numbers and set up an ambush on Baishan Mountain.
As soon as Liu Bang led his soldiers and horses into the encirclement, Maodun Shanyu immediately commanded an army of 400,000 Huns, intercepted the Han army infantry, and surrounded Liu Bang's soldiers and horses on Baishan Mountain. The Han army had no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, and could not rescue them.
After Liu Bang found out that he was surrounded, he organized a breakout. After several fierce battles, he failed to break out. After that, Mao Dun led the cavalry to besiege from all sides: the Xiongnu cavalry were all white horses to the west, green horses to the east, and one color to the north.
The black horse and the red horse to the south tried to disperse the Han army. As a result, both sides suffered heavy losses and remained in a stalemate.
It was the middle of winter, and the weather was extremely cold. The Han soldiers were not used to life in the north, and many of them suffered from frostbite, including two or three out of ten who lost their fingers. The Huns besieged Baideng for seven days and nights, but they did not capture Baideng.
After being besieged for seven days, the Han army was almost out of food, hungry and cold, and in danger. Chen Ping saw that Maodun Shanyu loved the newly acquired Yan family very much and would not leave day and night.
This time we camped at the foot of the mountain, and often rode horses in and out with the Yan family, smiling and whispering, with deep affection. So Chen Ping proposed a plan to Liu Bang and wanted to get ideas from the Yan family. Liu Bang adopted Chen Ping's plan and sent envoys to ride in the mist.
He went down the mountain and presented many gold, silver and jewels to the Yan family.
So the Yan family said to Maodun Chanyu: "The army has received news that hundreds of thousands of troops from the Han Dynasty are coming to rescue. I'm afraid they will arrive tomorrow."
Shanyu asked: "Is there such a thing?"
The Yan family replied: "The two masters of Han and Hungary should not push each other too hard. Now that the emperor of the Han Dynasty is trapped in the mountain, how can the Han people give up? Naturally, they will fight to save each other. Even if you defeat the Han people and capture them
The city and land may be unsuited to the soil and water and cannot be inhabited for a long time. If the Han emperor cannot be destroyed, we will wait for reinforcements to arrive and attack from both inside and outside. Then we will not be able to share peace and happiness."
Modun Shanyu asked: "What should we do?"
The Yan family said: "The Emperor of Han was besieged for seven days. There was no panic in the army. It must be that the gods were helping him. Although there was danger, he would be safe in the end. Why did you go against the destiny and have to drive him out? Why don't you let him go?
A way out for him to survive, so as to avoid any disaster befalling us in the future."
Modun Shanyu originally agreed with Wang Huang and Zhao Li, the subordinates of King Xin of Han, on a date for the meeting, but their troops did not arrive on time. Modun Shanyu suspected that they had colluded with the Han army, so he adopted Yan's suggestion and opened the army.
A corner of the encirclement was allowed for the Han troops to withdraw. It was a heavy fog that day, so the Han troops drew their bows, loaded their arrows, and slowly walked out of the corner where the encirclement had been lifted, and were able to escape.
Yun Zheng was not ignorant of this period of history. As early as when Tokyo and Di Qing and others were formulating strategies, Di Qing specifically told Yun Zheng about Baishan Mountain, the most dangerous place in Xijing.
Di Qing didn't believe in any gods, and Yun Zheng naturally didn't believe in any gods either. The barbarian gods had no choice but to allow the Song army to garrison this mountain.
On the contrary, as long as there is sufficient food, it is not a bad thing to drive a nail into Baishan Mountain. Back then, when Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty was short of food and clothing, he was able to hold on for seven days and seven nights against the Huns' 400,000-strong army. There is no reason for him to be equipped to the teeth.
The Song army would not be as good as those armies in the early Han Dynasty that lacked food and clothing.
Baishan Mountain is different to the barbarians. Not to mention the early Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Yang Wudi's last northern expedition was only to attack Baishan Mountain, where he encountered Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty who was defeated with an arrow.
After hearing the news, they had no choice but to retreat to Xijing together with Pan Mei. The two states they had previously robbed were all taken away by the Liao people. In the end, Yang Wudi and his son died in a bloody battle on Jinshatan Beach.
Therefore, as long as an army can be stationed on Baishan Mountain, it will inevitably lure the Liao people to come out of Xijing, which has been preparing for war for five years. However, this is just a willing plan. What is planned is determined by man and God. How can we defeat it first?
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At this time, Yun Zheng was no longer the ignorant military leader who led Jiaziying. After fighting countless fierce battles, he had completed the perfect transformation from a scholar to a general. (To be continued)