Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 562 Ping Liaodong

Another year of winter, the snowfall in Daliang was two days earlier this year, and the winter weather became extremely cold.

In order to keep out the cold, Emperor Shi had no choice but to report to the regiment with the wives in the harem to keep warm. After going out to fight for more than half a year, he couldn't bear it long ago.

The winter in the north will be colder, which is why he has to withdraw the main force to the south in advance.

The weather is also an insurmountable obstacle, one of the natural forces that human beings cannot fight, and it is better than a million troops.

The rise of the Tubo Dynasty was due to the warming of the climate on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the use of troops in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties to Myanmar and Vietnam was almost like a template carved out. First, they were overwhelming, and then the local army broke up to resist, and then fought until the summer. , the weather was hot and the disease was rampant, so we had to retreat.

Several dynasties have sent many troops, and it can only be said to be luck once or twice, but it is not luck to send troops every time for hundreds of years. It can only be said that the weather is always the biggest enemy.

If the army stays in Beijing until winter, the 10,000+ army will all come from the south. I don’t know how many people can adapt to the bitter cold there. It is a very dangerous thing. Therefore, Emperor Shi’s rush to withdraw his troops was not because of his harem, but for the sake of the world. , For the sake of more than [-] soldiers.

After returning this time, Xiao Hunian and Xiao Huanghua's children were all born, and because of Emperor Shi's hard work, tireless efforts, and day and night, Dongyue, Zhao Shijian, and Empress Dowager Fu had happy pulses again.

At the end of the month, Luqiu Zhongqing, the privy envoy, and Taiwei Li Chuyun presented the charter for rewarding the three armies. Emperor Shi focused on the promotion arrangements for the main generals. These positions are very important.

Most Emperor Shi agreed, only a few he readjusted the arrangement.

As for the rewards of ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers, Emperor Shi looked over them himself, and after seeing those who had done more meritorious service, he called all the commanders of the entire army to the Privy Council Office to look at them the next day, and asked them if there were any omissions.

These were originally reported by the commander of the capital, and Emperor Shi asked them to confirm again, firstly to show importance, and secondly said directly: "Everyone come and take a closer look, I asked you to confirm the signature and leave a note.

The merits of the soldiers with their heads hung on their waistbands were reported by you. If there are any concealed reports or false reports in the future, they will have to come to you. "Emperor Shi said with a smile, and after he finished speaking, he beckoned all the commanders to come over and see.

Then he went to drink tea by himself, watched them check, and added: "Think about it, you are just a temporary mental effort, but to the sergeant, it is the credit for life and death, so don't miss anything."

Then they were given another two days to go back and think about it, and report any mistakes or omissions as soon as possible.

In the next two days, someone really reported it again, and then Emperor Shi outlined the seal and asked the Privy Council, the Department of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War to implement it.

In the twelfth lunar month, the work of rewarding the three armies has been basically completed, and most soldiers of the imperial army are on vacation.

However, the court ushered in a major event, and the Dingnan Army Jiedu made a family of more than 60 people have arrived in Beijing.

Emperor Shi sent officials from Honglu Temple to meet them and temporarily placed them in the post house.

Afterwards, a banquet was held in the imperial city to entertain them. Many people in the court did not expect that the border towns that they thought would be extremely difficult to deal with were so easily called to Daliang by Emperor Shi.

It is obvious that Li Guangrui led the whole clan to Beijing to tell the emperor that he is willing to give up military power in order to seek wealth and safety.

This incident shocked many veterans who had experienced the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the separatist regime of the feudal towns for nearly 200 years seems to have been resolved so easily by Emperor Shi!
But Emperor Shi understood in his heart, is it really easy?That was 20 years of conquests from south to north, millions of people fought one after another, blood flowed in exchange for Tianwei, if the Liao Kingdom survived, the Li family would not be easily subdued.

At the reception banquet, Emperor Shi said some words of comfort to Li Guangrui's family, and also saw his elder brother Li Guangyan.

However, compared to the two brothers, Shi Congyun is more interested in Li Guangyan's ten-year-old son Li Jiqian, because in later generations, this son is much more famous than his father and uncle.

But looking at the nervous child in front of him, Emperor Shi couldn't help but smile, and didn't take it seriously, only gave him a set of the Four Treasures of the Study, and encouraged him to study hard.

Then he ordered rewards of money and housing, and Li Guangrui was added as a servant, and he was sent to the Ministry of War, and his brother Li Guangyan was also given an official status and stayed in Daliang.

As for the situation in the northwest, after discussing with the Privy Council and the prime ministers, Emperor Shi decided to use Xiang Xun as the defense envoy of Xiazhou to lead the military forces of the five states of Xia, Sui, Yin, You, and Yan to guard the northwest.

The party members are also different. Some of them, represented by the Li family, are willing to submit to the imperial court. However, there are some party members in the north who were not too submissive to the rule of the Li family before, and they were even more resistant to the Central Plains dynasty.

So Emperor Shi also found his confidant veteran, told him about the situation there, and then gave him a big policy. After he went there, he would suppress and appease them, win them to surrender, and send troops to suppress them if necessary.

For this reason, he specially transferred two artillery battalions from the Forbidden Army to Xiang Xun.

Xiang Xun took the order to prepare to set off after the year and lead the army to the northwest.

Time flies, the sun and the moon fly, and in March of the fourth year of Kangding, Emperor Shi's tenth child was born, a little princess born to him by Xiao Chuo, and Emperor Shi was very happy.

In March, there were also results in Liaodong. After more than a year of blockade and attack, Yelumo, the last force in Liao, who stayed behind in Tokyo, became ill from fear and died of illness in the Liaoyang army. The defenders surrendered and the Qin army entered the city. , Meaning the complete demise of the Liao Kingdom, the two-year war against Liao came to an end, and Liaodong was completely controlled by the Qin army.

In the past year or so, the generals Lin Renzhao and Wang Shenqi of the Qin Army have fully implemented Emperor Shi's strategic plan. On the one hand, they blocked the west of Liaoning with heavy troops, and on the other hand, they continued to send rangers to harass the Liao army, and the navy also continued to raid from the sea. They plundered Liaodong ships, cut off the sea, blocked the sea, and fired at the troops on the shore from time to time.

As time went by, Liaodong became more and more closed and desperate.

Many states and counties in the west surrendered one after another, while the Qin army continued to fight steadily, slowly advancing eastward with absolute superiority in strength and equipment.

The Liao army trapped in Liaoyang understood the seriousness of the matter. They had been blocked, there was no way out, and there was no reinforcements.

As a result, the Qin army's tactics were deep trenches and high fortresses, and they refused to fight. They just kept getting close to the Liao army, and only approached Liaoyang step by step eastward with superior forces. The Liao army tried to raid several times but was repelled.

This tactic was proposed after discussion between Wang Shenqi and Lin Renzhao in combination with reality, and Emperor Shi agreed.

This is a bit like Sima Yi's tactic against Zhuge Liang in history. The army is close to the body and then avoids the battle. This is one of the better tactics for the side with the advantage. Because the advantage is in hand, the fight may lose, because the war is full of risks. As long as you don't fight Definitely win.

Sima Yi's purpose was to cut off the Shu army's food or compress them out of Guanzhong, while the Qin army's purpose was to compress the living space of the remnants of the Liao army eastward with a huge advantage.

In the east, there are female straight people and Goryeo, and the sea is blocked again. This kind of battle is getting more and more desperate for the Liao army.

The more the Qin army stopped fighting, the more fearful and desperate they felt, because the only hope at the moment was for the Qin army to fight with them in the field, and then seek a chance of victory in the chaotic battlefield.

It's a pity that they didn't have a chance in the end. By August of that year, the Qin army had steadily advanced to the city of Liaoyang Prefecture. All the prefectures and counties along the way surrendered, and many Liao troops also surrendered. Just wait for the nobles of Yelu to guard the isolated city of Liaoyang.

The subsequent matters were easy to handle. Wang Shenqi continued to lead the army to besiege the city, and Lin Renzhao divided his troops to pursue the remnants of the Liao army to the east, and at the same time regained many counties in the east along the way.

In the end, only Liaoyang City was still standing in Liaodong, and the Qin army was not in a hurry to fight, because winter was coming, the city was short of supplies, and the weather was bitter and cold, which was more useful than any sword.

After besieging the isolated city for five months, Yelumo was only worried about death due to illness. The defenders in the city could no longer hold back and surrendered. There were about 8 soldiers and civilians in the city during the siege, but only 5 remained when the Qin army entered the city. .

Many people were killed by hunger and cold, and there was even a situation where a large number of people cannibalized each other. It is really unbearable until now.

After that, Wang Shenqi immediately mobilized food from surrounding states and counties to support, and only then did the situation in the city improve.

This also means that since then, Liaodong has also returned to Qin, and Qin's territory has reached the border of Koryo to the east.

In April of the same year, Meng Xuanzhe made a statement that the northern border was in Yunzhou, Wuzhou, Yanzhou North and other places. The border defense line based on the ancient Great Wall and the Lotus Fort as the core was basically completed.

(End of this chapter)