Chapter 376: Plan before the rain, the harbor wants to build a city
The Jurchens marched south and their troops approached Youyan.
Yelu Chun no longer cared about the Song people in the south, and hurriedly gathered a large number of troops to prepare for the attack.
Yelu Dashi reached into the bag, grabbed a handful of white rice, and slowly flowed out of his palm and returned to the bag.
Contrary to his expectation, the rice was not moldy old rice, but new rice. In Khitan, only the Youyan land under his feet could produce this kind of rice. Since the Khitan people occupied the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun, they also gradually
They developed their own agriculture, and the Youyan area they called Nanjing Xijin Prefecture was the most developed place for Liao agriculture. There were many skilled people there, including mulberry, zhe, hemp, wheat, vegetables, melons, fruits, rice,
Liang and the like are endless.
It's a pity that Youyan doesn't have much food left now. Fortunately, Yang Lin sent these.
The weapons and baggage he sent had no quality problems and could be said to be of excellent quality.
Yelu Chun had a rare smile and said: "Yang Lin is quite trustworthy. I hope he can continue to be trustworthy and not stab him in the back while we are fighting with the Jurchens."
A trace of worry flashed in Yelu Dashi's eyes. Yang Lin was so generous because he didn't take the Khitans seriously. He was sure that he couldn't defeat the Jurchen Tatars, so he was so generous.
Give us food, grass and supplies, let us consume the Tatars, and then you come and pick up the ready-made ones? Yelu Dashi sneered in his heart and said to himself, I want you to see if I, Yelu Dashi, can stop the Jurchens.
Carefully putting the rice grains stained in the palm of his hand back into the bag, Yelu Dashi said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, King Yan, these military states in our hands are all high-city cities. No matter they are Jurchen Tatars or Nanbarbarians, don't worry about them."
Easily captured."
Yelu Chun smiled bitterly. If he had believed this a few years ago, after all, Youyan had the backing of Daliao, which covered thousands of miles.
Nowadays, the ten isolated military states have to rely on supplies from the Song people to fight against the Jurchens.
Once this kind of dependence is formed and one's own inventory is depleted, won't he become a puppet manipulated by the Song people?
Now there is only one way to change this situation, and that is to defeat the invading Jurchens head-on and regain Daliao.
This hope is indeed a bit slim. Yelu Chun raised his head and looked at the sky, filled with sorrow in his heart. He had never thought about being independent.
The results show that both Yelu Zhangnu and Yelu Dashi want to support him as emperor, take over the Liao foundation that was completely ruined by Yelu Yanxi, and revive the glory of the Khitan.
This was too difficult. Yelu Chun was speechless to the sky, hoping that the Jurchen Tatars and Nanmanzi would never come.
The Khitan soldiers and horses were transferred to the north to clear out the Song troops who refused to return to the villages along the Baigou River. They became more and more bold, often crossing the Baigou River to kill local snakes in the Liao area.
The Liao people, unable to be distracted, could only indulge in these behaviors and pretend not to see it with their eyes closed. Anyway, these people had enough sense to never go near the towns of Yan.
Yang Lin even ordered Han Shizhong to drive a group of prisoners to build a bridge on the Baigou River and prepare to cross the river.
I wonder how long Yelu Dashi will be able to persist this time with his own support, and whether it will last longer than in history.
Anyway, I have enough patience to wait, as long as I don't collapse the embankment in one defeat and hand over more than a dozen military states to the Jurchen Tatars.
The Jurchens' killing of the Yelu clan was too brutal. Yelu Dashi and Yelu Chun would definitely not surrender to these life-and-death enemies. As long as they could not defeat them, they would most likely accept their land and return to the Song Dynasty.
The war was about to begin, and Yang Lin, who was waiting to take advantage of the situation, led a group of people to patrol around Hebei East Road.
The Chengdu navy was frantically transporting supplies by sea to Hebei. Yang Lin was going to take people to the coast, choose a place to build a port, and then slowly headed east.
If I remember correctly, Tianjin has not yet built a city. Although it has always been an important water transportation area, and after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it became a water and land terminal for transporting grain and silk from the south to the north. However, it was not until the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Di officially ordered the construction of the city.
The location here is very important. If war with the Jurchens inevitably breaks out in the future, the navy from Tianjin can directly attack the hinterland of the Jurchens. Even a general harassment can have a great containment effect.
Yang Lin planned to go to the seaside where the Song and Liao dynasties met, select a site to build a port, and report to the imperial court to start building a city.
The road along the way is not easy to walk. This is an area abandoned by the Song Dynasty strategy. It is very different from the south. There are villages similar to Xujiazhuang everywhere, with their own armed forces.
For hundreds of years, they needed to unite and spontaneously resist the plundering of the Liao people, which also created the martial habit here.
Riding a horse up the high hill, Yang Lin looked at the continuous dense forests and dense rivers in the distance, and frowned slightly.
There is no reason to abandon one's own family and plant trees to defend against enemies. The civil servants of the Song Dynasty are so unwilling to make progress, no wonder they have not taken back Youyan yet.
Those Gonggun princes who enjoyed great fortune in Bianliang never thought of sending troops to the Northern Expedition. Occasionally, a few ambitious emperors would appear and would be scolded by them for being timid.
Zongze, who was behind him, slowly came over and said: "Young Master, there is news from the front that the Jin soldiers are divided into two groups. Wanyan Aguda personally led the troops to attack Datong Mansion, threatening to capture the Lord of Liao alive. However, his younger brother Wu was asked to
I am begging and leading my troops to go south, hoping to eat Youyan, hey, the Jurchens have a really big appetite."
Yang Lin chuckled and said: "No wonder there are fewer and fewer Liao soldiers in Baigou River recently. It turns out that the Jurchens are here."
Zongze's eyes lit up and he asked: "Do you want it?"
Yang Lin shook his head, clasped his hands behind his back, and let the horse graze aside. Yang Lin sighed: "The saint says that people have no faith, and I don't know what to do. I am a disciple of the saint. In ten years of poverty, the Golden Palace has won laurels, and I am the only scholar in the world."
You are a role model, how can you not follow the ancient teachings?"
Zong Ze curled his lips behind Yang Lin, with a look of helplessness and disgust. Who doesn't know that you are full of bad ideas? Now that you don't send troops, you don't know what tricks to think of. You have to pretend to protect your own people. Isn't it really tiring?
When Yang Lin turned around, Zongze quickly put away his expression. Yang Lin was a little surprised: "Why is your mouth twitching?"
Zongze quickly rubbed his nose and said, "The cold has warmed up recently, and I'm feeling a little sick."
Yang Lin scolded: "A big thing is about to happen. How can we relax? Give me a good rest. Don't let me use you. By the time you are used, you will all be sick. Then I will kill you one by one for shrinking from the battle."
You have to sacrifice the flag.
This time is extraordinary, but it is related to the rise and fall of our Han Dynasty for thousands of years, and there is no room for error. Success will be famous throughout the ages, and failure will be infamous for thousands of years. The folk customs here are strong, and you have been here for so long, and you still have some troops to recruit.
not enough."
Although Zongze was scolded, he was agitated and said quickly: "I will not hold you back when I am a lower official."
"That's about the same." Yang Lin was actually a little nervous in his heart. He was so lucky to be standing at this point. Looking at the northwest sky, it was melancholy and vast. Standing at a high place often makes people feel uneasy.
"A man is determined to die, let's see if he can mend the cracks in the sky."