Chapter 1840 A bigger threat? Another force is approaching
Within a few days, Xiao Tang received the battle report that Juyong Pass had been captured. The total number of casualties among the rebel troops was no more than a thousand, and the more than 4,000 Jin soldiers who were defending were either captured or killed.
Annihilated, and successfully captured the strategic pass leading to the northern part of the Great Wall.
In the next step, there are two marching routes to choose from. One is to continue to the northeast, drive to the Jin Kingdom's Tokyo Road, and join forces with the troops of Li Jun, Yuan Lang, Xiao Qian, He Chongbao and other generals to march directly to Huanglong Mansion.
After that, he took advantage of the situation to attack north and captured Ningfu, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, and destroyed the political center of the Jin Kingdom in one fell swoop.
However, the northeastern region, especially the Jin people called it "the land of Jinyuan" and changed its name to the Liao Dynasty. The road manager is now the capital of the Jin Dynasty.
, to Shinshu in the south (later Gongzhuling area of Jilin Province), to the Sea of Japan in the east, to the Sea of Okhotsk and Sakhalin Island in the northeast... The farther north you go, the mountains and plains are covered with dense virgin forests that block out the sky and the sun.
, with mountains and ridges lying across it, it would be difficult to allocate the sling artillery that could have been deployed in the flat plains of North China, and the combat effectiveness of the various cavalry armies and horses may also be greatly reduced. I am afraid that if we continue to advance, the troops under our command will
Brothers will also have to pay a lot of casualties.
And even if the capital of the Jin Dynasty was successfully captured under ideal conditions, Emperor Wu Qimai and the remaining Jurchen civil and military officers would certainly not sit still and wait for death. Where would they be able to survive and continue their escape? After leaving the Waixing'an Mountains, go to
Sakhalin Island in the north, even the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Aleutian Islands or Siberia... If they are really pushed to the limit now, they will compete to see who can endure hunger and cold, in the ice and snow.
Fighting guerrillas with you in the deep mountains and old forests. It is really a primitive ecological and bitter cold place in the north of the Great Wall. Every time Zhemo sends out troops, they will most likely be defeated. Xiao Tang is not willing to repeatedly engage in war, and waste his combat power on that large area of extremely dangerous living environment.
The environment and those people have been suffering for a long time. However, with the resilience that the Jurchens have learned from being born in the white mountains and black waters, I am afraid that within a few decades, they will be able to multiply and grow again... Xiao Tang thought
The ethnic group that destroyed the Ming Dynasty in later generations had not yet formed an era in which the Chinese nation condensed into brothers in terms of national cognition. The ethnic group that grew up from the dangerous mountains and rivers and was able to form a tribal alliance has always been able to control the Central Plains.
The dynasty poses a deadly threat.
Instead of doing this, it is better to postpone the continuous offensive on Shangjing Road, where the capital of the Jin Kingdom is located. When a country is strong, all internal forces will benefit from each other and can still maintain a relatively close unity. However, in such a dangerous situation now,
Presumably the internal conflicts and disputes in the Jin Dynasty will also become intensified. The Wanyan Talan faction, which had previously advocated ceding territory to Xiao Tang and begged for peace, lost a large area of territory in vain, but Xiao Tang's invasion from the north became even more fierce. The Jin Kingdom was exhausted.
How will Emperor Wu Qimai and other ministers treat Wanyan Tarlan who has such a bad idea?
In the face of accusations from the Jin Dynasty's monarchs and ministers, conflicts and internal strife will inevitably intensify. In addition, Zhe Mo within the Jin Dynasty has developed a hopeful heart. Now he may not be planning to follow the Wanyan tribe to death.
...Give those guys a chance to breathe. Before Xiao Tang assembles the main force to launch a fatal blow to the Jin Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty will also be in vain as internal strife among various factions intensifies.
A military force that cannot be underestimated.
The other route of march was to invade from the north of Juyongguan and capture all the cities under the rule of Beijing Road of the Jin Dynasty. It was about to reach the Sea of Japan in the east of the Jin Dynasty and Huolu Huotuanmouke in the north (later Boroda in the south of the Xing'an Mountains in Russia). The upper reaches of the river), and the northwest to the Hetao area is adjacent to the desert tribes. The boundary trench in the west is cut into two sections by the huge territory that is opposed by the Xia Kingdom. The remaining forces of the Jin Army in the west do not need to worry about it for the time being. , after all, the Xia Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom were completely at odds with each other. Li Qianshun and Chage had been deliberately planning to expand aggressively, and they had to deal with the remaining troops to the west of the Jin Kingdom. The territory that the Jin Kingdom could still directly rule would be reduced by more than half in an instant. , by then Xiao Tang will send his army to the east, which will be enough to form an encirclement and encirclement on the surviving Jin Kingdom.
Such planning and arrangement, according to Xiao Tang's thinking, would be a strategic deployment that could quickly occupy most of the Jin Kingdom's territory in the fastest possible time.
Just going further north, the terrain environment, the division and deployment of the state capital's road administration, and the lifestyles of the various tribes that flowed and multiplied in the region were completely different from the Song Dynasty roads, Yanyun land and other territorial administrations that Xiao Tang now controlled. The world is completely different. Compared with the previous method of using military power step by step to conquer cities and prefectures and appease the people in various places, if you want to maintain a stable dominance in various places in the northern part of the Great Wall, you must also use a different approach...
"The troops left Juyongguan and headed north, and now they are under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Road of the Jin Kingdom. However, the territory is vast and sparsely populated, and the distance between the cities, towns, and prefectures is even further. If it were placed in the Central Plains of the Song Dynasty, Zhemo would be equivalent to waiting a few days. The distance between counties and cities is relatively rare. As for those places, if you want to capture them quickly and bring them under your rule, you don't just have to rely on the lives of the troops and horses. If you only use soldiers and horses to take them, even if It is easy to capture the state and city walls, but traveling back and forth requires sending generals everywhere. However, even if a large number of garrison troops are deployed to guard it, it will be difficult to maintain long-term peace and stability over time. Therefore, whether it is the Liao Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty, most of them are based on the Jisu's policy controlled all the tribes and tribes under the rule of Saibei, and the Jin army was mixed with troops from other tribes, except for the Liao people in the northeast who surrendered, as well as the Xi, Bohai, Five Kingdoms, Jilimi, Wu Digai and other ethnic groups. The nomadic clans living in the north of the Great Wall chasing water and grass..."
In the palace of Yanjing, Ma Kuo, who was well versed in the customs of the Jurchens and other clans, as well as the distribution of clans in various regions under the rule of the Jin Kingdom, talked eloquently, and then said: " But as far as I know, although more tribal groups in northern Saibei are nominally under the rule of the Jin Kingdom, many of their tribal leaders are unruly and do not listen to the Jin people's calls, and even go to war to kill each other. This was also the case in the Liao Dynasty. .At the beginning, the Jin State coveted the prosperity of the Song Dynasty and had no time to visit the north. It could only appoint various tribes and tribes through the system of restraint and hereditary official positions, and recognized the autonomy of each tribe.
Just like when the Liao people moved the north and south of Liaoyang to divide their power, those who were not Khitan were classified as Jurchens and were governed like that. However, the Mobei outside the Great Wall was no better than the white mountains and black waters in the northeast. The Liao Dynasty directly controlled the Taoism in Tokyo and could maintain control over it. The Jurchen tribes exerted pressure and coercion to control the various tribes in the north of Saibei with the strategy of restraint, but the sky was high and the emperor was far away. At the beginning, Emperor Aguda of the Jin Kingdom could edict to abolish the Liao law, save taxes, and set up Meng'an to directly defeat the enemy. The northeastern and Monan areas of the original Liao Dynasty were also directly ruled by the Jurchen tribes, the Bohai, Five Kingdoms tribes, Jirimi and other tribes. However, for the large territory of Mobei, the Jin people had no choice but to issue an edict and appoint their tribes. The chiefs of the tribes were entrusted with self-governance, and nominally ordered them to maintain a vassal relationship, but as far as I know, there are many tribal leaders who do not obey the rule of the Jin people..."
After Ma Kuo said in a deep voice, he immediately raised his head and looked at Xiao Tang. His brows were filled with deep thoughts, and he asked: "If we can securely control the large territory in the north, it is certainly possible to cut off the Jin people."
The way to escape is to the west, but since the Jin Kingdom is powerful, no matter how gentle the suppression is, it is still unable to make the vast and sparsely populated Moxi further north of Saibei. Most of the tribes in Mobei sincerely surrender, but they don’t know how the lord plans to recruit them.
, and make the tribes of the Mengwu and Wei tribes in the north willing to return and obey?"
