Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 495
"Life is easy, God is hard to grow old, every year is Chongyang.

Today it is Chongyang Festival, and the yellow flowers of the battlefield are very fragrant.

The autumn breeze is strong once a year, not like spring.

It is better than the spring, the boundless river and the sky are covered with frost"

In the autumn of the first year of Kangding, the small courtyard behind the Long Live Hall was a bit bleak.

Emperor Shi leaned on Fu Da's thigh and watched Fu Ermei's sword dance in the distance.

Her sword is very graceful, like a dance, and it is more of a performance, not a murderer. In his harem, if you really want to kill people, you have to look at Xiao Hunian's sword.

Empress Dowager Fu is very gentle. This woman always gives him a sense of understanding, tenderness, and compassion. Whenever Shi Congyun is dizzy with a lot of government affairs, he likes to come to her to relax. .

In addition, Empress Dowager Fu's mind is not covered, she is really tolerant and has no opponents, which is quite sacred.

It was another autumn, watching Fu Ermei's sword dance, he remembered the days in the Qinling Mountains, it was the first time he led the army to fight alone, and now thinking about it, he felt like a vicissitudes of life.

This year, grain production in Hebei has gradually returned to pre-disaster levels, while most other places are doing well.

The local emperors in the south of the Yangtze River who were affected by the war ordered a two-year tax exemption, but in fact, because of the precise and rapid advance of the Qin army and the rapid collapse of the Tang army, the production and life of the entire Jiangnan people was not greatly damaged.

In terms of casualties, the Tang army had only about 5000 people killed in battle, and about 100 were injured, while the Qin army was even fewer. After the entire Jiangnan war was over, the army finally returned to Daliang. Two thousand and one hundred people.

More than 8000 people were injured. The reason why many wounded soldiers survived is due to the distilled wine.

Distilling alcohol is not a difficult technique, and the first wave of alcohol can reach a level of more than 70 degrees, which is not as good as alcohol, but it is enough to prevent wound infection. , it can be brewed in a small workshop.

When injured on the battlefield, the most feared thing is wound infection, and the wounded soldiers are always the most.

As a strategic resource, these high-purity wines are still being brewed, and they are not only used for cleaning wounds. The wines with this concentration can already burn in case of fire, and can be used as military supplies.

On the surface, Emperor Shi seems to be leaning on Empress Dowager Fu's thigh to meditate quietly. He is like this often, because he is wise and powerful, wise and decisive. When he thinks about something, whether it is the entourage around him or the civil and military ministers, he will be respectful and aweful. Thinking about it, the emperor must be thinking about major events in the world, thinking about things they can't imagine, thinking about things they don't think about.

But in fact, most of the time, what Emperor Shi thought about was calling that wife to sleep with him today, and whether there would be any new ways to play tomorrow.

Of course, in my spare time, I also want to think about national affairs.

For example, now, after he decided not to leave with Empress Dowager Fu tonight and had the cheek to keep Fu Er behind, he began to think that by next year, Li Chuyun and Dang Jin should be transferred to the north.

He has many generals under him, but in his opinion, these generals are different.

For example, Cao Bin is well-read in poetry and books, and he does things more decently. He is mostly strict when marching, and he loves the people very much, and he has the demeanor of a Confucian general.

Wang Shenqi is very stable, just like his archery technique of piercing Yang with a hundred steps, no matter what the situation, his hands will not shake. He may not win a quick victory with his troops, but he will definitely not be defeated, even if he loses to him It will also bring the army back safely.Correspondingly, because he is stable, it is difficult to achieve very impressive results.

Li Chuyun struggled in the Northwest, fighting wits and courage with many frontier ethnic minorities, party members, etc., and the situation he faced was very harsh and complicated, so since he came under his tent, Li Chuyun has shown decisiveness and ruthlessness. Spicy, unscrupulous, surprising victory.

If Cao Bin is pursuing justice in the process, then Li Chuyun is completely justice in the result. He doesn't care about the means to achieve the result, as long as he wins the battle.So they are all handsome talents with completely different styles.

Emperor Shi used them differently. Most of the time, Wang Shenqi led the Chinese army, while Cao Bin used them in places where it was not a life-and-death battle and did not want to destroy local production and life. Military conquests also wanted to appease the local people. Wars, such as the Battle of Lingnan , such as the Battle of Jiangnan, Cao Bin was reused.

But if facing the north, facing the Khitan people, there is no doubt that Li Chuyun is the best candidate in Emperor Shi's heart.

Going north is always more difficult than going south. In addition to transportation, climate and geographical conditions are also very different.

Many people imagine that the nomadic life is drinking milk and eating meat every day, and traveling everywhere, which is a joy, but the real nomadic life is grassland ecology and instability, lack of materials, relying on the sky for food, watching the face of the sky, starving to death is commonplace.

The Mongolian nobles also exchanged their sons for sheep to survive, not to mention the living conditions of ordinary people and slaves.

When the Liao Kingdom was founded, their military service system required all Khitans to join the army as long as they reached the age of fifteen, which was unimaginable for farming peoples.

But the situation is that the grassland resources are scarce and the ecology is unstable. It can only support so many people, but the human reproduction continues.

This is the largest part of the source of combat power of the nomadic army. Anyway, there is nothing left, so it is better to give it a go. The so-called horizontal is afraid of being stunned. reason.

However, as they have gradually shifted to farming over the years, the younger generation has less and less motivation to go south to plunder. Who wants to go all out if they have food?

This is also the reason why the current leader of the Liao Kingdom is able to ascend to the throne. The previous leader, Sejong Yeluruan, did not notice the changes in the country, and still maintained the nomadic tradition. Those who worked hard for the people and money had to go south with their own will, but were assassinated by their own people during the Huoshendian Rebellion. .

In fact, the death of Emperor Shizong of Liao Dynasty shows that many people in the Liao Kingdom no longer agree with the nomads who used to be, and gradually began to Sinicize.

However, many Khitan nobles in the north still retain their past traditions, so Emperor Shi has never let down his vigilance about their combat effectiveness. There are many unexpected factors in wars, which are full of accidents. The short-term victory may be affected by many unexpected factors, but in the long run Whether an army is strong or not depends on its combat philosophy and goals.

The nomadic army can maintain its militant nature for a long time in many cases. The most important goal of them is to fight for survival, which is fundamentally different from those separatist forces in the south.

For this alone, Emperor Shi felt that he had to send a ruthless person, preferably someone like Li Chuyun.

So in the autumn, Emperor Shi thought of the people who would go to the north in his mind, Li Chuyun, Dang Jin, Guo Jin, Xiang Gong, Yang Jiye, Murong Yanzhao and other ruthless people in his mind are what the north needs. .

In contrast, Cao Bin, Guo Tingwei, etc. are not suitable. They care too much about the local people and will hinder them.

Fighting in the south, it doesn't matter if there are these constraints. The Qin army is crushing them. If you fight north, you can't do this, and you have to spare no effort.

However, what Shi Congyun is most looking forward to is that there will be some troubles in the Liao Kingdom first, so that he can see the needles and take the opportunity to send troops.

He estimated in his heart that it would take time to implement land reform after taking over Jiangnan and Wuyue, and he estimated it would take three to five years.

In other words, he can wait another five years at most. He has already dispatched tens of thousands of troops to the north and deployed them to Hebei. If there is any change in Liao within five years, he will immediately send troops out of chaos.

If there is no change within the Liao Kingdom within five years, he will forcefully send troops, because the Qin army cannot prepare for a long period of time without fighting, and the more it is delayed, the more it will be detrimental to the experienced Qin army, and such a huge army is exhausted for long-term preparations huge.

Generally speaking, although there was no war in the first year of Kangding, there were many things to do. The people in the second government and the third division, the sixth department, and the two major military divisions were almost all busy without touching the ground, but most of them were troublesome things.

The army returning from Jiangnan is still rewarding for meritorious service. This matter is estimated to not end until the end of the year, and most of the troops that did not participate in the war have begun to be transferred to Hebei.

In the autumn, near Sanguan in Hebei, the Qin army had maintained [-] forbidden troops. If you add the army west of Taihang Mountain and the east east, there are about [-] forbidden troops deployed on the entire northern line. There are more than [-] troops in Hebei and Hedong.

Everyone could see clearly that after the south was resolved, Emperor Shi looked to the north.

Different people have different pressures. If the leader of the Northern Han Dynasty looked north, the Liao Kingdom would only think he was filial. If the former Zhou State looked north, the Liao Kingdom might feel that it should pay attention, but that's all.

Just like when Emperor Shizong of the Zhou Dynasty was preparing for the Northern Expedition, the king of the Liao Kingdom ignored it at first and continued to hunt on the grassland. He only said to let the south continue to cultivate. horse.

But when the emperor of Qin, who controls a huge and unified empire and has won consecutive battles for more than ten years, looks north, it is impossible for Liao to sit still.

In fact, both Qin State and Liao State have spies deployed in each other's country. Everyone knows it well, so it is impossible for Liao State to not know about such a large-scale military deployment.

On August [-]th, an envoy from the Liao Kingdom came to bring gifts to the emperor in the name of celebrating the entry into the court during the Mid-Autumn Festival, as well as Liao’s specialty, the Khitan beauties, which Emperor Shi liked. things.

Emperor Shi knew that they would have such a reaction, so he directly said to the emissary that the south has been wiped out, and he has hundreds of thousands of troops. The country also needs to take care of it?

His reasons were reasonable, and for a while the Liao envoys didn't know how to refute.

Afterwards, he received the envoys from the Liao Kingdom, and repeatedly emphasized to him that the two countries had a peace covenant, and as long as the Liao Kingdom abided by it, they would never break the covenant, so that the Liao Kingdom envoys could go back with peace of mind and tell their lord.

The Liao envoy was skeptical and stayed in Daliang for half a month before returning.

(End of this chapter)