Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 563
In June of the fourth year of Kangding, the original Liao Shangjing sent news to Li Jilong that the defense line of Lianhuabao in the north had been built.

In contrast, the border defense pressure on Li Jilong's side was even greater. Some remnants of the Liao Kingdom fled to the grasslands to win over the local tribes, preparing to retake Huangzhou, and harassed the border from time to time.

But fortunately, there is no such person as Yelu Dashi among the fleeing nobles of the Liao Kingdom. They have limited ability and cannot integrate the northwest grassland. At most, it was only about a thousand.

Their raids were not very successful, and only a few frontier herdsmen were plundered.

And the large-scale southward movement, no matter hundreds of riders or more than 1000 riders, was hit head-on by the Lotus Fort in the border valley, causing many casualties.

However, their undisciplined continuous harassment and killing aroused the hatred of the original Liao people and accelerated Qin's rule over the local area. Once the herdsmen on the border found the enemy's attack, they immediately reported to the government, and the counterattack of the government and the army was also faster and more convenient. .

Moreover, at the beginning of February this year, the remnants of the Liao Kingdom raided the Qin Army stronghold in the valley and killed [-] soldiers, including a Dutou.

By mid-February, some herdsmen reported to the government the whereabouts of some rebel strongholds.

Li Jilong personally sent scouts to verify the situation, and then rewarded the herdsmen who reported the news. He personally led 500 people, including an artillery battalion, to rush out of the river valley for [-] miles into the grassland, and raided the rebel stronghold.

Beheaded more than 500 people, captured more than [-] people, and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

At the beginning of April, Han Derang led an army to besiege a rebel stronghold resting in a river valley, captured [-] people, and captured many cattle and sheep.

Under the successive blows, coupled with the increasing number of lotus castles in the valley, the living space was constantly squeezed to resist the attack of the grassland.

In this way, in June, the tribes of the grassland couldn't stand it. Many of their leaders directly killed and encouraged them to rebel against the old nobles of the Liao Kingdom, and sent their heads to the border fortress to the Qin army. At the same time, they expressed their willingness to continue to surrender in exchange for peace. , Let their livestock enter the valley to drink water, and they will continue to pay tribute to the Liao Kingdom as before.

When these and the news of the construction of the Lotus Fort defense line were sent to Daliang, Emperor Shi was naturally very happy, and rewarded Li Jilong and Han Derang for the military merits of the generals, and then agreed to the conditions of the grassland tribes.

However, Emperor Shi also explained to them in the letter that long-term peace is impossible, so they must always be prepared to prevent the grassland tribes from going south.

People often joke that machine guns make nomadic tribes good at singing and dancing, but in fact this is a one-sided view, because even in the 21st century, there are still many nomadic tribes in the world that are very good at fighting and cruel, such as some nomadic tribes in Africa.

It's just that their size and reputation are far less than that of Mongolia, which once stretched from the Sea of ​​Japan in the east to Vienna in the west. They are famous all over the world, so they are less known.

It is not that the development of weapons has made nomadic tribes less good at fighting, but the development of productivity and the improvement of living conditions have changed nomadic peoples. If everyone can easily live a good life without depending on the weather, no one is willing to lick it Blood.

But considering the current conditions, as long as they cannot survive due to natural disasters, the nomadic tribes on the grassland will inevitably go south, and precautions are necessary. Even if they don't come this year, they may not go south in the future.

This is why Emperor Shi wanted to build the Lotus Fort in the north.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival in August of the fourth year of Kangding, the rebel army from the Western Regions sent envoys to Beijing to bring BMWs to the emperor. At the same time, they also secretly sent a map of the Hexi Corridor, mainly marking the gathering places and movements of the Tubo and Uighur tribes.

At the same time, there is a news that on June [-]th of this year, Cao Yuanzhong, the Jiedu envoy of the Guiyi Army, passed away. His nephew Cao Yangong was loved and recommended by the generals as the new Jiedu envoy, hoping that the emperor will approve.

Emperor Shi naturally agreed, and they came to ask just as a procedure, and it was useless to object, and it would offend others.

Cao Yuanzhong, who died, was posthumously presented, and eventually made him an official in Fengguo Baosai, Jiedu Envoy of Guiyi Army, Tejin, Calibration Taishi, Jianzhong Shuling, and King Xiping.

At the same time, the envoy also told Shi Congyun about the current situation of the Guiyi Army in a private meeting. Since Cao Yijin implemented the policy of uniting the surrounding tribes, he married Princess Shengtian of the Uighur Khan of Ganzhou before his death. One daughter married Uighur Khan of Ganzhou, and the other married Li Shengtian, king of Khotan. Later Jin canonized her as "Da Tian Kingdom with great dynasty, great government and great Ming, and all the titles of the heavens are the emperor of filial piety".

So at that time, they had a good relationship with the surrounding forces, which was not bad, but gradually with the differences in cultural customs, competition for living resources and other issues, they continued to conflict with the surrounding forces, but overall they were considered stable.

However, they do not want to be isolated in the western section of the Hexi Corridor, because they can still survive under the constraints of the surrounding tribes, but there is always a difference between trembling to survive in the cracks and returning to China.

Cao Tinggong also sent someone to bring a new letter, in which he stated their eager desire to return to the big country, and also talked about the difficulty of surviving among many forces. His words were sincere, and he said that if the big country can communicate with the Western Regions, they will surely Raise all manpower to help, and is willing to enter the court as an official.

Emperor Shi could see that this was a letter of loyalty, but he praised it, but he didn't fully believe it in his heart. There were many forces in that area and the situation was complicated. He was going to send an envoy to see it for himself.

Furthermore, Emperor Shi was not Emperor Sui Yang. He knew that it was a good thing to have ambition, and it was a good thing to want to do great things, but things in the world need to be done one by one, and one step at a time.

In the past few years, the imperial court has focused on digesting Liaodong and building a new line of defense in the north, but it has not been able to spare any effort.

Just like when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty stopped halfway through the management of the Southwestern Yi, he focused his energy on fighting the Huns in the north, and then dealt with the Southwest after the Huns were defeated.

This is a strategic priority. Although it seems that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked everywhere, he attacked the Huns, Lingnan, Vietnam, the Southwest, the Western Regions, and North Korea, but he did not do it at the same time. There is also a priority, otherwise Yang Guang would be nothing compared to his military intensity.

The same is true for the current state of Qin. It seems that there are many countries and forces brought down by Emperor Shi, such as Nanping, Wuping, Shu, Southern Tang, Southern Han, Li Yun, Northern Han, Liao, etc.
It can be regarded as opening bows on all sides and fighting against barbarians from all directions, but Emperor Shi never started a war on two fronts at the same time. When using troops to the south, he first stabilized the north, and when using troops to the north, he stabilized the south first.

The current situation is similar, assimilate the East and stabilize the West first, and wait for the East to stabilize before starting to deal with the West.

To digest the territory seized by the Liao Kingdom and stabilize the northern defense line, Emperor Shi expected in his heart that it would take at least five years.

Fortunately, the Liao Kingdom itself is also a country with deep Sinicization, so many local governance structures can be directly taken over, reducing the cost of taking over the rule.

This is a bit like South Vietnam at the beginning. After Qin Shihuang sent troops south to conquer Lingnan, he established a Sinicized ruling area. After continuous transformation and intensive cultivation, they were not assimilated by the local people, but assimilated by the local people, and established a Sinicized area. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed Nanyue In fact, the Han Dynasty could easily rule Lingnan, which was regarded as a barbarian land at the beginning, because the Nanyue Kingdom had been intensively cultivated.

The role of the Liao Kingdom to the north of Beikou, at the foot of the Great Xianbei Mountain, and the large area of ​​Inner Mongolia in later generations is roughly the same.

Although the Liao Kingdom was established by the Khitan people, their Emperor Gaozu was determined to be the Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, so that area was more Sinicized than the previous dynasties, and it was much more convenient for Qin to implement rule after it took over.

This was beyond Emperor Shi's expectation. In the thousands of miles from Beikou to Huangzhou, the degree of Sinicization was deeper than he had imagined, and the degree of resistance was much lower.

(End of this chapter)