Gao Chugong and others dared to be angry but dared not speak out.
Kou Ji coughed slightly to relieve his embarrassment, and then said with a serious face: "I thought about it carefully for a long time, and I think it would be a bit passive if we just sit back and wait for death.
So I want to attack in advance and nip the danger in the bud.
How feasible do you think it is?"
Gao Chugong and others were stunned for a moment when they heard Kou Ji's words.
Zhong Shiheng pondered and said: "How does Privy Kou plan to attack?"
Kou Ji solemnly said: "Use the Great Wall as a stronghold and send cavalry out to destroy and drive away the thugs. Put pressure on them and make them feel that we are not easy to mess with and avoid us.
Then we will send cavalry to attack hundreds of miles away to separate the criminals who have invaded hundreds of miles outside our territory of the Song Dynasty.
In this way, the pressure we have to endure will be greatly reduced.
The murderers were just some common people and members of various small tribes.
The number looks strong, but the strength itself is not strong.
Unless the thugs elect a leader and work together to deal with us.
Otherwise, they would not be able to keep the troops and horses we sent out.
We can advance and attack, retreat and defend. The initiative is in our hands.
In this way, we will be much more confident in resisting the large-scale southern invasion of the thugs."
Zhong Shiheng and others heard Kou Ji's words and fell into deep thought.
They felt that the strategies and tactics proposed by Koji were also a way to weaken the enemy.
They were considering the feasibility of the strategies and tactics proposed by Kou Ji, and how much benefit the Song Dynasty would gain after implementing the strategies and tactics proposed by Kou Ji.
After several people thought about it for a long time.
Li Zhaoliang suddenly said, "The blind killing has driven them into a panic. Will they unite to deal with us?"
Zhong Shiheng and others nodded and looked at Kou Ji.
They thought the same thing as Li Zhaoliang and had the same concerns.
Kou Ji said bluntly: "I have thought about this issue carefully. It is really inappropriate to kill them blindly. It can easily push them to a dead end. So I want to recruit a group and fight a group."
Zhong Shiheng and others were speechless, staring at Kou Jijing and waiting for the next sentence.
Kou Ji continued: "After we send people out, we can properly recruit and surrender some of their obedient people. As long as they can occupy a city and surrender to me, the Song Dynasty, in the name of dedicating the city.
Then we can consider providing them with some shelter and some food.
If they are respectful enough and have done meritorious service to the Song Dynasty, it is not impossible to give them official positions.
Anyone who is disobedient or tries to negotiate terms with us will be killed by us."
Zhong Shiheng and others raised their eyebrows.
Some people couldn't help but ask: "Privy Councilor Kou wants to give them an official position?"
Kou Ji asked, "Isn't it possible? If they surrender to our Song Dynasty, they will be our captives. If they can make meritorious service to our Song Dynasty, they can escape from prisoner status and become people of the Song Dynasty."
After becoming a Song Dynasty person, if you make great achievements, you will naturally be promoted to an official position.
Our Song Dynasty now treats prisoners with this attitude and implements the same government decrees.
Isn’t it against the rules?”
Zhong Shiheng and others looked at each other, muttered, and said nothing.
Once Kou Ji's proposal is successfully implemented, it will naturally be of great benefit to their war against the murderers.
They were only resistant to outsiders serving as officials in the Song Dynasty.
The creed they adhere to is "Those who are not of my race must have different hearts."
Unless outsiders completely integrate into the Song Dynasty, just like Yici Leye people in Bianjing City, and completely become a part of the Song Dynasty, it will be difficult to gain their recognition.
Kou Ji saw their thoughts and said in a deep voice: "If you have other ways to weaken the murderer or annihilate the murderer, I can take back what I just said."
Zhong Shiheng and others heard this and remained silent.
There are a huge number of criminals, and if it was really easy to deal with them, they wouldn't gather here.
Seeing that they didn't speak, Kou Ji knew that they had no way to solve the problem, so he immediately ordered: "Since there is no objection, just follow my instructions.
Di Qing led his army to guard Yuguan.
Zhong Shiheng led his army to Gubeikou.
Gao Chugong and Li Zhaoliang jointly guarded the Great Wall from Gubeikou to Linzhou.
Wang Kai worked harder and went to the Great Wall from Linzhou to Hexikou."
Zhong Shiheng and others stood up, saluted Kou Ji and said yes.
According to Kou Ji's allocation, the distance between the Great Wall guarded by Di Qing and Zhong Shiheng was the shortest.
The Great Wall where Wang Kai sits is the longest.
But Di Qing and Zhong Shiheng are facing the greatest pressure.
On the contrary, Wang Kai is the one with the least pressure.
The murderers have already started wreaking havoc outside the Great Wall in Yuguan and Gubeikou. However, there is no trace of the murderers outside the Great Wall from Yinzhou to Hexikou.
It can be seen that Yuguan and Gubeikou are the passes that the criminals will focus on later.
After Kou Ji finished assigning the task, he ordered Di Qing and others to rush to the place where he was in charge.
When Di Qing left, he took away three local soldiers in Gubeikou.
When Gao Chugong left, he took away a group of forbidden troops and a group of local soldiers from Gubeikou.
The military strength at Gubeikou was sharply reduced.
The soldiers could finally all move to Gubeikou.
Zhong Shiheng led the soldiers while repairing the Great Wall and cleaning up the murderers who emerged from outside Gubeikou.
After Di Qing and others returned to their respective places, they couldn't wait to start taking action.
For a time, outside the Great Wall were all the Song Dynasty’s iron cavalry.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were slaughtered outside the pass.
The criminals who emerged outside the pass were suppressed and pushed back.
The murderers gave up spying on Da Song in a short time and set their sights elsewhere.
Gubeikou.
On the city wall.
After Kou Ji inspected the outside of the city, he turned to Zhong Shiheng and said, "What you are doing is very dangerous."
Zhong Shiheng stood next to Kou Ji, looking at the Song Dynasty cavalry galloping outside Guancheng without saying anything.
Kou Ji frowned, "In half a month, you defeated hundreds of thugs and eliminated hundreds of thousands of thugs. But you didn't see a single prisoner.
Not only did I not see any prisoners, someone actually gave me a view of the capital."
Zhong Shiheng said in a deep voice: "We also ordered our soldiers and horses to recruit the murderers, but the murderers refused to surrender, so according to your order, we can only annihilate them all.
As for Zhujingguan, it was just to deter those murderers.
As far as I know, after the Jingguan was cast, the effect was very intuitive. There were more than 20 groups of murderers who were so frightened by the Jingguan that they did not dare to show their faces."
Kou Ji stared and asked Zhong Shiheng, "Do you think I am an idiot? Those murderers only evolved from common people, not from dead soldiers.
Of the hundreds of thousands of people, not a single one was willing to surrender.
The consciousness of the people of the Liao Kingdom has actually reached this level."
Just as Zhong Shiheng was about to open his mouth to defend, he heard Kou Ji yelling: "If the people of Liao really had the consciousness to sacrifice their lives for the country, Emperor Yelu Longxu of Liao would not have defeated Youzhou City.
It's obvious that you refused to take prisoners, so you deliberately killed all the criminals you encountered.
Do you know that what you are doing is telling the murderers that I, the Song Dynasty, will not give them any way to survive, and as long as they oppose me, the Song Dynasty, they will be driven out and killed.
You also told them that the 10,000 to 20,000 thugs should not hang around the Great Wall. If they want to invade our Song Dynasty, they should gather a million people and come again.
You are forcing them to go to a dead end, forcing them to fight us to the death.
Their lives were cut short, and if they were defeated, they wouldn't lose much.
We are different. Our family has a great cause. Once we fall, thousands of people behind us will be implicated."
The more Kou Ji talked, the angrier he became. At the end of the sentence, he yelled, "And that idiot Gao Chugong actually cast the Jingguan for me?! Who allowed him to cast the Jingguan?"
Who gave him the courage to let him build the Beijing Palace?
What's even more annoying is that you didn't stop it after you discovered it?
You don't know how those hundreds of thousands of people outside Yumen Pass died.
If Gao Gonggong caused a plague due to his wanton behavior, who would be responsible at that time?
Outside the Great Wall, millions of people are now causing chaos.
Once a plague occurs, it may infect millions of people in a very short period of time.
Millions of people infected with the plague flocked to our Song Dynasty, and our Song Dynasty had to follow them."
When Zhong Shiheng heard the word plague, his pupils shrank slightly.
He has witnessed the horror of the plague with his own eyes and knows how quickly the plague spreads after people are infected.
We also know that the plague harvests people’s lives and makes almost no sense.
If millions of people really were infected with the plague, if they really flocked to the Song Dynasty together.
Then the Song Dynasty will really suffer.
Kou Ji said that once a plague occurs, millions of people will be infected, which sounds a bit exaggerated.
But Zhong Shiheng had no doubts.
If a plague really breaks out, millions of people may not be able to stop it.
The thugs outside the Great Wall do not have a unified organization. They are a group of unorganized and undisciplined bandits, running around.
Once someone is infected with the plague, it will be transmitted to others as it spreads.
The murderers were unorganized and undisciplined, which meant that once a large-scale outbreak of plague occurred, no one would be able to control it.
In this way, the plague can naturally spread among the murderers without restraint.
After the murderers were infected with the plague, their desire to invade the Song Dynasty became more intense.
Because they will definitely feel that if they stay in the Liao Kingdom, they will definitely die. Only by entering the Song Dynasty can they have a chance of survival.
Zhong Shiheng hesitated and said: "Plague... shouldn't appear that easily, right?"
Kou Ji stared at Zhong Shiheng coldly, "How many people died on the Yumen Pass battlefield? How many livestock and wild beasts died? How many people have died in the Liao Kingdom now, and how many livestock and wild beasts have died?
Your troops are outside, won't they tell you what they saw outside?"
Zhong Shiheng's face looked a little ugly.
Kou Ji said coldly: "The red ground is thousands of miles away, and the corpses are everywhere, isn't it an exaggeration to describe it?"
Zhong Shiheng hesitated for a moment, then nodded stiffly.
Wherever the murderers passed, they ate up everything that could be eaten, leaving only corpses on the ground.
This matter is now well known on the Great Wall.
Kou Ji continued: "In the Song Dynasty, even a flood might breed plague. Do you think the Liao Kingdom, with thousands of miles of bare land and corpses everywhere, would not breed plague?"
Zhong Shiheng hesitated for a moment and did not speak.
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "I know my words may be a bit exaggerated, but we are not afraid of ten thousand, just afraid of the eventuality. If we don't take precautions before they happen, we will be at a loss if something happens.
At that time, all we can do is watch the people we want to protect die in front of us one after another."
Kou Ji pointed to the direction where Gao Chou Gong was sitting and shouted: "So go and tell that idiot, and tell others by the way. The body must be burned to kill someone.
Even if I don't have time to burn the corpse, I still have to dig a hole and bury it deeply.
Not only do the corpses of those killed by us need to be burned, but those killed by others must also be burned when we encounter them.
I don't care how you fight, and I won't interfere.
But I will supervise this matter to the end.
Tell them not to take any chances.
Since the official family has given me authority, I dare to kill no matter how big the official is."
After hearing Kou Ji's murderous words, Zhong Shiheng knew that Kou Ji was not joking. He said solemnly: "I will send someone to pass on your order truthfully."
The cold look on Kou Ji's face faded a bit, and he stared at Zhong Shiheng and said, "Also...when you can take prisoners, take more prisoners.
The reason why I allowed the murderers to surrender was not just to solve the problem of the murderers outside the customs.
Part of the reason is for the people of Yanyun.
Since we expelled the Liao people from the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, there have been many ownerless lands in Yanyun.
After the imperial court sends officials to clean up some of the pests in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, there will be more unclaimed land in the Yanyun Land.
After allocating part of it to the people, there is still a lot left over.
Those remaining fertile fields cannot just be abandoned.
Someone needs to farm it.
The more prisoners there are, the more land can be cultivated.
The more crops will be produced.
Naturally, I don’t need to say any more about the benefits to my country, the Song Dynasty.”
Zhong Shiheng frowned slightly and said: "Liao people are not good at farming..."
Kou Ji sneered, "With the knife on his neck, they can imitate the musket."
Zhong Shiheng looked stunned.
Kou Ji snorted coldly: "If they don't know how to do it, if they're not good at it, let someone teach them. If one out of ten knows how to do it, I, Da Song, will make a profit."
Zhong Shiheng hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded and agreed.
After he got off the top of the city wall, he sent someone to quickly convey Koo Ji's order.
As Koji's order was conveyed everywhere.
The attitude of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty towards the murderers outside the city also changed.
Those who kill must be burned, and those who surrender must be accepted.
Just a few days.
Tens of thousands of prisoners were captured at various passes from Yuguan to Linzhou.
Some criminals even took the initiative to go to various passes of the Great Wall and asked to become prisoners of the Song Dynasty.
Not for anything else, just to have a full meal.
Most of them were squeezed out by large-scale thugs.
Others took the initiative to seek refuge in the Song Dynasty because they relied on plundering to make a living and had insufficient food to eat.
Kou Ji and others learned some details about the murderer through their mouths.
After the murderers went through a long period of wreaking havoc, several major forces emerged.
Nowadays, several major forces are attacking cities and territories in the Liao Kingdom, devouring other small forces, and constantly strengthening themselves.
In the process of continuous devouring, the leaders of several major forces also formed short-term alliances.
They are known as the Nine New Khitan Tribes.
They declared to the outside world that they would replace the eight old Khitan tribes and become the new nobles of the Liao Kingdom.
The five most powerful forces among them.
They are the Wulie tribe located on Shangjing Road, the Ayan tribe entrenched in Jingnan Road, the Jurchen tribe wandering in the coastal areas, the Tuoba tribe wandering in the east section of the northwest road of Liao Kingdom, and the Liao tribe who bewitched Liao in the name of gods.
The longevity sect that caused chaos among the people of the country.
Among the five major forces, the strongest is the Ullie tribe.
The Wulie tribe used to be one of the strongest tribes among the eight Khitan tribes.
After the elite soldiers and horses of the Liao Kingdom were lost in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, the leader of the Wulie tribe saw the opportunity and led the warriors of the Wulie tribe to rebel. They sacked thirteen cities in the northwest of Shangjing City and plundered
A large amount of gold and silver treasures as well as cattle, sheep and horses.
During the civil strife in Liao, they took advantage of the situation and annexed more than a dozen small tribes.
The tribe's strength jumped by more than a dozen levels.
Now the number of warriors of the Ullie tribe exceeds 300,000.
The most important thing is that the Wulie tribe was the first force among all the rebellious forces to establish regular troops.
His name is Ullie Iron Cavalry.
There are sixty thousand people.
Slightly inferior to the Song Dynasty cavalry, but far stronger than other thugs.
Nowadays, the Wulie tribe relies on the Wulie cavalry to run rampant in the Liao Kingdom.
He had previously defeated the army sent by Yelu Zongzhen and became famous.
Now they regard themselves as the imperial clan among the nine new Khitan clans.
The Ayan tribe is a large tribe composed of nine small tribes. The warriors of the nine tribes combined have 150,000 martial arts.
The people of the Ayan tribe dug out the incomplete armaments of the Liao Kingdom's Tielin Army from nowhere, and managed to piece together a specious heavy armored cavalry force.
The number of people is about three hundred.
The fighting ability is not weak yet.
Although it is not as good as the Ullie tribe, there is no problem in bullying other small tribes.
More importantly, a tribal leader of the Ayan tribe was the father-in-law of the leader of the Ulie tribe, and he negotiated peace. The Ayan tribe and the Ulie tribe were the first to form an alliance.
The subsequent nine new Khitan clans were also jointly established by the two of them.
In comparison, the Jurchen Department is weaker.
If the leader of the Jurchen tribe hadn't absorbed some born Jurchens, who were fierce in combat, fearless of life and death, fought several key battles and gained some prestige, the Jurchen tribe might not have been able to stand out and become one of the new nine Khitan tribes.
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The Tuoba tribe is a bit special.
They were founded by prisoners who were killed from Xingqing Mansion and other places.
After the criminal prisoners from Xingqing Prefecture and other places were killed, some people chopped off the heads of Liao people and then decisively returned to Xingqing Prefecture and other places with the heads of Liao people.
After Zhao Zhen issued the recall order.
Most of the prisoners also returned to Xingqing Mansion and other places.
But there were still some people who chose to leave the Song Dynasty and stay in the Liao Dynasty to become kings and hegemons themselves.
This is why the Tuoba tribe came into being.
Nowadays, the Tuoba tribe should be regarded as the tribe with the largest population among the nine new Khitan tribes.
But its strength is far inferior to that of the Wulie tribe, and its foundation is far inferior to that of the Ayan tribe.
Although the Tuoba tribe was the first to cause rebellion in the Liao Kingdom, they were also the tribe that looted the most places in the Liao Kingdom.
However, the gold, silver, cattle, sheep and horses they initially looted were all taken away by the prisoners who returned to Xingqing Mansion and other places.
The leader of the Tuoba tribe thought about keeping the gold, silver, jewelry, cattle, sheep and horses, but after he made some moves, he was almost beaten to death by the prisoners who were eager to return to the Song Dynasty.
He only sent people to rob the money of a team of prisoners who were robbing the Liao Kingdom, but this caused dissatisfaction among all the prisoners who were eager to return to the Song Dynasty.
Hundreds of thousands of people pushed him and his people to the ground and rubbed them. Not only did they get back their own money, but they also plundered all their gold, silver, jewelry, cattle, sheep, and horses.
Then everyone rode their horses and returned to the Song Dynasty happily.
After suffering a big loss, the Tuoba tribe leaders now dare not even go to the western section of the Liao Kingdom's northwest road and the southwest road that has been returned to the Song Dynasty.
Because the criminal prisoners who returned to Song Dynasty from Liao Dynasty are now grazing in the western section of Northwest Road and Southwest Road.
The Tuoba tribe leaders did not dare to provoke them.
Because even though the damn Song people recalled them, they didn't cancel the damn military merit system.
It would have been nice if the prisoners didn't go out to the west section of Northwest Road and chop off his head in exchange for military honors. How could he dare to tease others?
Those guys have tasted the sweetness of the military merit system, and every one of them looks like a dead soldier.
It's unbelievably vicious.
Nowadays, the western section of the Liao Kingdom's Northwest Road and the Southwest Road have not yet been completely owned by the Song Dynasty in name.
But no one in Liao dared to go to the western section of the northwest road and the southwest road of Liao and shout, "This is our territory of Liao."
Whoever dares to shout will die.
The first thing that stabbed you was probably a very ordinary-looking sheepherder boy on the ground.
The Tuoba tribe leaders could not afford to offend those vicious people, so they could only bully and bully the Liao people in the eastern section of the northwest road of Liao Kingdom.
Of course, compared to the Wulie tribe, the Ayan tribe, the Jurchen tribe, and the Tuoba tribe.
The Immortality Religion is completely an anomaly.
The Changsheng Sect was named by Kou Ji because they had no name in the Liao Kingdom.
They are a force composed of countless stragglers and ordinary people.
The leader is a sage from a tribe in the Liao Kingdom. He claims to have received the revelation from the Immortal Heaven and is ready to lead the Liao people to create a new paradise in this chaotic world.
Under the encouragement of him and his tribe, many people believed it.
Then they followed them and chanted the slogan of taking charge of the Liao people, and implemented the three-guang policy in Liao.
The Wulie tribe and other forces still have their own fixed territory, while the Immortality Sect has no fixed territory at all.
They are like a group of bandits, a group of locusts, living in no fixed place, burning, killing and looting everywhere.
Nowadays, they are the ones giving Yelv Sect the biggest headache.
Because they mainly operate on the north and south sides of Shangjing City.
If Yelu Zong really wanted to put down the rebellion in Liao Kingdom, they could not avoid them.
The remaining four are classified as the nine new Khitan tribes, and almost all of them developed from the original Liao tribes.
One of them is still a branch of the original eight Khitan tribes.
After receiving this series of news, Kou Ji showed a rare smile, "I thought these murderers would be in chaos for a long time before they could compete for the Gu King, but I didn't expect that they would compete for the Gu King so quickly.
The situation is starting to become clearer.
Our danger was instantly reduced by half.
The biggest headache now should be Yelu Zongzhen."
If Yelvzong really wants to regain power and quell the rebellion in the Liao Kingdom, he must break these hard bones.
Since it is a hard bone, it is destined to be difficult to chew.