"A letter from home is worth ten thousand dollars! Du Gongbu's poem was most fully expressed at this time."
One month after the court completed another round of deployment, the court finally received reports about the Yelu Yixin rebels. They were reports from border towns, border troops, and border villages.
The delivery of letters at the post station is based on the information from the Imperial City Department and is delivered separately.
This was originally the military strategy of the country, and the court also directly used the military's courier method.
The reports from the border were all in the same tone... After the surviving rebels received the letter from home, all the rebels knelt down to Bianliang, and then there was a burst of wailing...
Even Yelu Yixin locked himself in the room when he received a letter from his family... After all, he was once the king of Wei in Northern Liao and the privy envoy. When the border army received Yelu Yixin, he still gave him
He received preferential treatment and even gave Yelu Yixin the dormitory of the commander of the border village.
The Khitans who fought for the Song Dynasty against the Khitans should be thanked at all costs, right?
Many nobles in the Northern Liao Dynasty knew Chinese, and it was even common. Therefore, most of the letters were in Chinese. Even if someone used Khitan, the court would not care...
Regardless of whether it is true or false, all the letters focus on the novelty of coming to the Song Dynasty and talk about some daily trivial matters... What they don't know is that this is the content that can capture people's hearts the most.
For example, how big was the house allocated to them in the Song Dynasty, what was bought on the market, how the Song Dynasty court arranged for them to go to work, and their children started to go to school, etc. These may not mean anything to the already stable family members.
Some facts.
As for the rebels fighting outside, they are the most seducing. I am already like this, it is nothing more than death. If I can give my family some credit for settling down, it can be regarded as a worthy death.
Therefore, after a proper rest and recuperation, those rebels who no longer cared about their lives embarked on the journey again, wreaking havoc throughout the entire Northern Liao territory and becoming organized horse bandits.
When a regular cavalry is transformed into a horse bandit, no matter in terms of combat effectiveness or damage, it is by no means comparable to ordinary horse bandits.
When the rebels no longer aimed at conquering cities and territories, but instead turned to fleeing from east to west and from north to south, even the Northern Liao court felt at a loss.
Rebels are easy to suppress, but horse bandits are difficult to destroy. The purpose of concentrating the rebels is to capture the city and seize the territory. As long as the superior force is concentrated, the rebels can be completely wiped out. Just like before.
The horse bandits have no fixed residence, and the territory of Northern Liao is too vast. With the number of soldiers the imperial court has, it is difficult to encircle the horse bandits of the Yelu Yixin rebels in the territory of Bei Liao... They are too scattered.
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Moreover, this group of so-called horse bandits are not really horse bandits. They don't care about property, and they can even ignore supplies. They just blindly destroy and harm Beiliao.
The territories of the tribal leaders of the Northern Liao Dynasty, the royal family, and the descendants' territories, including the remaining twelve states of Yanyun, were all severely damaged by Yelu Yixin's rebels.
"I really understand what the officials are saying. If one day, the imperial dynasty takes over the territory north of Yinshan Mountain in Yanshan Mountain, it will really have no choice but to use barbarians to control barbarians."
After so many years, the imperial dynasty has indeed exaggerated the role of chariots, and even thought they were invincible. After seeing the report of Yelu Yixin's disaster in the Northern Liao Dynasty, I finally discovered that the combat effectiveness of cavalry is still at the top.
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Wang Anshi was really amazed at the ability of Yelu Yixin's rebels, and also the damage the cavalry could do to a court. He once thought about using the invincibility of chariots to rule the entire grassland nomadic tribe in the future, but was rejected by Yelu Yixin like this.
The approach was completely shattered.
It was originally thought that after the Song Dynasty regained Yinshan Mountain in Yanshan Mountain in the future, by placing chariots north of Yinshan Mountain in Yanshan Mountain and dragging them around the grasslands, they would be able to effectively rule the grasslands and be completely invincible even against cavalry.
Now it seems that it is still taken for granted.
"The terrain is different. There are many states and cities in the country. Whether it is cavalry, carriages, or even pedestrians, the roads that can be passed are fixed. Even if the cavalry wants to cause such a harm in our Song Dynasty, it will be wiped out.
result."
"The weather is also different. It's already mid-spring, and the climate in Northern Liao is more or less suitable for camping in the wilderness. If it's winter, the weather can wipe out these rebels without the Northern Liao court encircling them."
"People and people are different. No matter what, Yelu Yixin or the rebel generals under him were all high-ranking officials in the original Northern Liao court. Even if they fell into decline, in the eyes of the common people of Northern Liao, they were still
The dignitaries are always in awe, so it is inevitable to give them convenience."
Yelu Yixin's actions really shocked the Song Dynasty court. Zhang Dun had many discussions with Wang Shao and the Ministry of War and the Privy Council about this, and even went to the martial arts hall many times to harass the elderly Di Qing.
Jia, Guo Kui and others, who were border generals, also participated in this discussion.
Finally, we came to the conclusion about the right time, right place, and the right people. To put it bluntly, the way Yelu Yixin and the rebels acted, there was no possibility of surviving the winter.
The saying that people in Bei Liao have no fixed residence does not include winter. In Bei Liao, there is no fixed number of so-called roads and no fixed number of places to live. However, there is a definite number of places where people can spend the winter.
No matter which capital or tribe you are in, there are countless places where you can escape the winter wind and snow. They can all be called settlements.
In winter, the white-haired wind is not something that can be easily dealt with.
"Then how do they spend the winter?"
Han Zhen is really a little naive.
"There is no winter!"
Zhang Dun was very rude.
In Zhang Dun's view, there is no way that the Northern Liao court would allow such chaos to continue for a whole year. The war continued last year, and if it continues for another year this year, the Northern Liao Dynasty will not be able to withstand such troubles, no matter how solid its foundation is.
Supplies are on the one hand, and war horses are on the other. No war horse can continue to fight like this. In two years... the rotation of Bei Liao war horses will probably be stretched.
"No winter?"
"This group of rebels probably know that there will be no winter, so they are working so hard to find a good future for their families. Another point is that they hope to use this kind of unscrupulous disaster in Northern Liao to win the opposition of the country and the DPRK.
Their trust will make it possible for the DPRK to tolerate them."
"The most important thing is that even if they are broken into pieces, they are still fighting. With more than 50,000 cavalry, how many will be left in winter?"
Indeed, it can be seen from each letter sent back through the post that Yelu Yixin's team is gradually decreasing...it is inevitable.
Fighting, disease, and injuries killed people. How much can be left after a year of being displaced in such a desolate environment?
It's a pity that we can't even talk about sympathy. If this situation lasted longer, the country and the DPRK would be better prepared.