In comparison, both Xixia and Tubo were naturally powerful countries in the eyes of Goryeo. In the impression of the world, the Song Dynasty rarely achieved victory in its foreign conquests. Although Chu Yi destroyed the Jin Dynasty, it was clear that
The strength of the Song Dynasty.
However, this deep-rooted impression is difficult to change. Otherwise, Xixia would not have tried every means to unite with Tubo to fight against the Song Dynasty when facing Chu Yi's conquest. Isn't it just to give it a try?
Similarly, although the Song Dynasty in the eyes of Goryeo showed signs of rising, in Tuo Junjing's heart, his view of the Song Dynasty had not changed much, so he was so sure to tell Li Ziqian that the Song Dynasty would definitely rise.
Defeated by Xixia and Tubo.
As the saying goes, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment. Li Ziqian and Tuo Junjing fully expected that the Song Dynasty would be defeated by Xixia and Tubo. In this way, the defeated Song Dynasty would definitely have no spare time to take care of the border areas.
conflict.
After all, the northeastern borderland was thousands of miles away from the capital of the Song Dynasty. It was a bitter and cold place, so it should not be taken seriously by the Song Dynasty court.
Only in this way can they seize the opportunity to expand.
But now Li Fang has brought such shocking news. If the news is true, doesn't it mean that the Song Dynasty has successively destroyed the three powerful countries of Jin, Xixia and Tubo?
After all, Li Ziqian is a powerful minister of a country, and his character is naturally unusual. He came back to his senses, looked at Tuo Junjing and said: "If my family, Xixia, and Tubo are destroyed, there is no guarantee that the Song Dynasty's attention will not be diverted to us.
The earth’s expansion must stop.”
Tuo Junjing took a deep breath and nodded towards Li Ziqian. The fool also knew that if he provoked Da Song again at this time, he would be really ignorant of current affairs.
Tuo Junjing could only be heard saying: "When I return, I will gather my men and keep a low profile during this period so as not to irritate the Song Dynasty."
Hearing what Tuo Junjing said, Li Ziqian felt a little relieved and said: "I hope the Song Dynasty will not notice the movements here, but although our Goryeo is not a powerful country, we are not people who are afraid of trouble, so the in-laws must go back this time.
Take the time to train your troops and horses, just in case."
As a famous general of Goryeo, Tuo Junjing certainly knows that if the Song Dynasty does not seek trouble for them, then that will be fine. But once the Song Dynasty sets its sights on Goryeo, Goryeo will not be left to be slaughtered.
, you have to give it a try, right?
After all, in the past thousands of years, Goryeo and the Central Plains have not fought once or twice. During this period, although there were great defeats and losses, there were also times when they defeated the Central Plains dynasty. Therefore, although Tuo Junjing, Li Ziqian and the others were quite worried, they did not
Not too scared.
His eyes fell on Li Fang, and Li Ziqian said to Li Fang: "My son will immediately ask Cheng Zongfeng to go to the Central Plains. We must find out the information clearly and bring it back as quickly as possible."
Li Fang obeyed the order and left.
As the largest clan in Goryeo, the Qingyuan Li clan naturally has a good foundation. Not to mention the Celestial Ancestor who is in charge of the clan, they have gathered more than one strong person.
The person Cheng Qi enshrined was a powerful person in the Grand Master realm supported by the Li family. With the footsteps of a powerful Grand Master, it really didn't take too much time to go back and forth.
On the third day, when Li Ziqian was busy preparing military supplies for Tuo Junjing, Li Fang walked into Li Ziqian's study with a secret letter in hand and an extremely ugly expression.
When Li Ziqian was dealing with government affairs, he hated people breaking into the study to disturb him, so the disturbed Li Ziqian looked up with anger on his face. When he saw Li Fang, Li Ziqian frowned slightly and said, "What's the matter?"
Li Fang didn't understand her father's temperament, and knew in her heart that she had disturbed Li Ziqian's handling of government affairs. However, Li Fang presented the secret letter in his hand and said: "Father, this is the information brought back by Cheng Qi. It can be called
It's so urgent that I ask my father to see it in person."
Reaching out to take the secret letter, Li Ziqian opened it, glanced over it, his expression suddenly changed, his whole body trembled, and the inkstone next to him was hit by Li Ziqian and fell to the ground.
Obviously, the contents of the secret letter were so shocking that even Li Ziqian's concentration was suppressed.
After a while, Li Ziqian finally came back to his senses and said to Li Fang: "Fang'er, send someone to invite Tuo Junjing immediately."
Li Fang responded.
After Tuo Junjing received the news, he rushed over immediately.
In the study, when Tuo Junjing took the secret letter from Li Ziqian and scanned the contents, Tuo Junjing's reaction was not much better than Li Ziqian's, he was completely stunned by the news.
After all, after a period of relaxation, Li Ziqian had obviously calmed down. Looking at Tuo Junjing who looked shocked, he said: "My dear, the Song Dynasty doesn't take us to heart at all. It's just Chu Yi who leads the army."
We only have 50,000 soldiers and horses, but they actually want to destroy our country, Goryeo. What a shame."
Tuo Junjing sneered and said: "I think back then, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty returned with hundreds of thousands of troops defeated. Wanting to destroy our country, Goryeo, is simply a delusion."
Faced with pressure, they either collapsed or exploded. Obviously, Tuo Junjing and Li Ziqian would not collapse so easily. If not, it would be impossible for the two of them to control the military and political power of Goryeo.
While speaking, Tuo Junjing looked at Li Ziqian solemnly and said: "My dear, it seems that we will try our best this time, otherwise, we will become the sinners of Goryeo."
Li Ziqian was worthy of being a powerful official of the generation. Looking at Tuo Junjing, he nodded without hesitation and said, "Don't worry, I will provide you with the most abundant weapons and food. I will definitely not leave the frontline soldiers without weapons or food."
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Tuo Junjing cupped his fists at Li Ziqian and said, "On behalf of all the soldiers, I would like to thank my relatives."
After the two calmed down, they naturally discussed how to deal with this disaster. After successfully evading Renzong, the rift between the two gradually grew, but now that there is pressure from the Song Dynasty, the gap between the two naturally disappeared.
, as usual, the cooperation is tacit.
Nearly an hour later, Tuo Junjing left the Duke's Mansion. Not long after returning to his own mansion, many Goryeo people in the King's Palace saw Tuo Junjing, the general manager of Goryeo's army and horses, leading a group of personal guards.
He rushed out of Wang Jing at an extremely fast speed.
With Tuo Junjing's own cultivation level, it only took half an hour for him to return to the camp on the bank of the Yalu River.
On the banks of the Yalu River, there are tens of thousands of troops stationed here, accounting for almost 30% of Tuo Junjing's troops.
The hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under Tuo Junjing are almost 70% to 80% of all the troops in Goryeo. Otherwise, Tuo Junjing would not be afraid of Li Ziqian.
However, the first thing Tuo Junjing did when he returned to the camp this time was to order his generals to find ways to recruit soldiers and expand the army.
Yes, according to the results of Tuo Junjing's discussion with Li Ziqian, before Chu Yi's men arrived, they were going to pile up an army of 200,000.
That is to say, excluding Tuo Junjing’s current men, at least 50,000 men must be added. Fifty thousand men is not a small number, and it cannot be achieved in one or two days. Therefore, Tuo Junjing will launch
His generals.
Not to mention other things, many of the generals under Tuo Junjing were descendants of powerful families in Goryeo, and had close ties with Wang Jing and many powerful people in Goryeo.
According to Tuo Junjing, as long as these people can recruit a team of people, no matter how many people there are, the people they raise will belong to that person, and they will be appointed officials according to the number of people under them.
It has to be said that this method is still very tempting for quite a few people. After all, they are in the military. Although some people have high status, due to various reasons, their subordinates do not have much rights at all, let alone
How many troops does he command?
After all, almost all of Tuo Junjing's soldiers and horses are in the hands of his trusted generals, and one can only imagine what kind of treatment those generals who are descendants of powerful people will receive.
But now that Tuo Junjing's order comes out, the eyes of many generals who are descendants of powerful nobles are brightened. According to Tuo Junjing's order, doesn't it mean that as many people as they recruit, they will have as many people as they have.
Maybe they can't afford thousands of troops, but with the family power behind them, it's not a problem to have hundreds or even thousands of troops.
Not to mention other things, among these powerful people, none of them has tens of thousands of acres of fertile farmland, and at least thousands of tenants are dependent on them. As long as they are willing, they can easily recruit hundreds or even thousands of young people.
Sun Cheng is a representative figure among the children of powerful people, and the family behind him is one of the most powerful families that Wang Jing can count. He looked at Tuo Junjing and said: "What the general manager said is true. No matter how many people we bring in, they will all be under our command."
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Tuo Junjing nodded slightly and said: "I will do what I say. As long as you have the ability, even if you bring tens of thousands of troops, then these tens of thousands of horses will be under your command."
Sun Cheng laughed loudly and said: "In that case, the chief manager will wait for our news."
Soon the entire Goryeo was shocked by Tuo Junjing's order. Even Li Ziqian, who was in command among the kings, was a little surprised when he got the news. Obviously, he did not expect that Tuo Junjing would issue such an order, but he had no choice but to do so.
I don't admit it. In the long run, this order will definitely greatly enhance the power of those powerful families, but for now, it is an extremely effective method.
With the help of these noble families, it is really not difficult to gather 200,000 troops.
While Goryeo was moving up and down here, tens of thousands of troops led by Chu Yi were galloping across the vast land.
Even if there were tens of thousands of cavalry, marching at extremely fast speed, it would not take them just a few days to reach Goryeo across thousands of miles.
Along the way, wherever the army passed, it naturally had an excellent deterrent effect. After all, it was only a year or two before the Song Dynasty incorporated this land into its territory, and this land had been separated from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty for hundreds of years.
After a long time, it is naturally not that easy to win people's hearts.
There are even remnants of the big money who are secretly making trouble in many places. But this time, tens of thousands of troops passed by, and all those with ulterior motives were suppressed. Many people even calmed down their thoughts and became honest from now on.
Be a truly obedient citizen.
At the end of April in the fourth year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty, in nearly a month, tens of thousands of troops finally crossed thousands of miles and arrived at the newly established Guining Road in the northeast of the Song Dynasty, where the first government seat of Changming Prefecture was located, Changzhou
.
Changzhou is the most peripheral state adjacent to Goryeo, and the reason why Changming Prefecture was chosen as the seat of government was to be nearby to guard against Goryeo.
However, after all, the land of Changzhou had just been included in the territory of the Song Dynasty not long ago, and the power of the Changzhou government, where the Changming Prefecture was located, was very weak.
As the military envoy of a state, he has less than 500 troops. As for the troops in the counties under Changming Prefecture, there are even fewer troops. For example, Yongning County was conquered by the Koreans.
The chief's subordinates, including all the county government officials, only numbered a hundred or so.
At this time, Mao Ang, the magistrate of Changzhou, was leading his officials to stand in front of the city gate and look at the official road from a distance. The official road was rugged, obviously due to its long disrepair.
Suddenly someone exclaimed: "Look, it's coming, the army is coming."
Many officials couldn't help but look surprised when they looked at the billowing smoke and dust in the distance of the secret passage. It was really difficult. They were sent here to serve as officials. They thought it was a good job, but they never thought that the conditions here were so bad.
Of course, many officials still feel a sense of accomplishment in establishing a state government from scratch.
But what makes them feel uneasy is that Goryeo from the north actually invades the county under their rule from time to time. Ordinarily, in this case, they should send troops and horses to fight back, but it is a pity that the troops and horses they can mobilize
There were less than a thousand people, and self-protection was a problem, so how could they possibly attack Goryeo?
Many officials were worried that maybe when they woke up, the Korean army would already be approaching the city. But now, looking at the smoke and dust in the distance, everyone was completely relieved.
Everyone knows the evil reputation of General Manager Chu Yi. He even led his army to destroy the three powerful countries of Jin, Xixia and Tubo. Now he is heading north to just Korea. Isn't that easy to destroy?
When they thought that they could have a peaceful sleep from now on, many officials couldn't help but look forward to it when they looked at the army above the official line.
They are not qualified to meet Chu Yi, so no one has seen Chu Yi at all. But now they have the opportunity to see Chu Yi's true face in Lushan. It can be imagined that these people are still looking forward to it.
Just as these people were looking expectantly at the group of men and horses galloping towards the official road, they saw the first general suddenly tightening the reins in his hands. The war horse neighed loudly and jumped up to a height of more than ten feet.
Many officials screamed in fright.
Gao Chong saw the reactions of these officials,
They are not qualified to meet Chu Yi, so no one has seen Chu Yi at all. But now they have the opportunity to see Chu Yi's true face in Lushan. It can be imagined that these people are still looking forward to it.
Just as these people were looking expectantly at the group of men and horses galloping towards the official road, they saw the first general suddenly tightening the reins in his hands. The war horse neighed loudly and jumped up to a height of more than ten feet.
Many officials screamed in fright. The war horse neighed and jumped more than ten feet high, which only made many officials scream in fright.
