Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Shao Shude woke up to the crisp sound of stones being polished.When I poked my left hand, I felt a tingling sensation of stubble.

Astad had woken up a long time ago, she was lying flat on the bed, carefully leaning against Shao Shude.

After the hair on the body was shaved once, short stubble grew out again.She knew that the saint didn't like this very much, so she always felt inferior.

Shao Shude's right hand probed again, and there was a smooth and delicate feeling.He also woke up, and she buried her head in Shao Shude's arms.

This kind of action, Astad would not dare to do.It was clear at a glance which of the two was more favored.Zhang Yi came in with four female historians and stood aside.

Shao Shude glanced at the woman.

Mrs. Zhang was born in the third year of Emperor Xizong Guangqi (887) of the former Tang Dynasty. He was the same age as Shao Shude's already dead fourth daughter, and one year younger than the third daughter Foya.

A few years ago, Mrs. Zhang also gave birth to a son, but it was a pity.

Shao Shude suddenly remembered that, as Zhu Yougui's wife, Zhang seemed to have been a queen for less than a year in history.Looking at He Shi in his arms, and Zhang Hui who is still in Jiaotai Palace in Youzhou, he has already enjoyed three empresses.

This is really - great!

He is not as interested in women now as before, but he is still passionate about women with special identities.Think about it quickly, which queens have not been collected now.

The first thing that popped up in Shao Shude's mind was Shuluping.Very good, anyway, Abaoji is sure to kill him.After getting up and getting dressed, Shao Shude stood outside the tent.

The ferocious young men who came here are still working hard to drag wood and stones to build the palace.

When fighting with the Khitans a few days ago, their emotions were turbulent, as if they hoped that the Khitans would win and come to rescue them.But the result disappointed them, Ah Hui couldn't stand it anymore and ran away.

And as soon as they ran away, these people became completely honest, and the construction speed of the Changxia Palace also accelerated.People are like this, after losing the chance of being rescued, thinking about his wife and children who are still in Youzhou, he loses all thoughts.

"Kill his head and roll!" The men of the Iron Forest Army lined up in the wilderness and had already begun their drills.Shao Shude laughed.

These grandsons are lacking in practice and fighting.Compared with the forbidden troops, they should have fought relatively few battles.Sometimes Shao Shude felt that he was delaying them, because he had been serving as a pro-army before, so the number of times they went into battle was only a fraction of that of Tianxiong, Wuwei and other troops.

However, it still had a strong deterrent effect on the foreigners near Changxia Palace.First, they are well equipped and presentable.

Secondly, they are indeed familiar with the military formation and have strict discipline.

In the end, they did have a considerable number of veterans, and with them, their combat effectiveness could still be maintained to a certain extent.

Of course, in Shao Shude's view, there may still be considerable shortcomings.

Good equipment certainly means an advantage on the battlefield, but after all, it is human beings who fight.

Strict military discipline is of course good, but don't others have strict military discipline?The Jin army used by Li Ke is famous for its love of looting, but when it was snowing seven feet on the flat ground, they still attacked bravely and attacked Huangchao with very firm tactics.When fighting with Li Kuangwei, it was freezing cold and snowing heavily in Daibei, and the Jin and Yan troops fought repeatedly.

Looking at the entire ancient history, there are not many people who can endure such a harsh environment.

Does Zhu Quanzhong have strict military discipline?It is impossible to kill a large number of soldiers and tattoo their faces without strict military discipline.

Therefore, such things as strict military discipline were not really an advantage in the late Tang Dynasty, because everyone's battlefield discipline was not bad.To be able to do this is only a qualified army, and there is still some distance from a strong army.

Shao Shude felt that it was time to let go, and he could no longer use the Tielin Army as a guard of honor, so he called Yeli Yulue.

"Your Majesty." Ye Li Yulue bowed and saluted.

"You—" Shao Shude looked at the graying of his brother-in-law's temples, feeling something in his heart, and said, "What do you think about the Khitan matter?"

"Your Majesty, if you want to defeat the Khitan, 3 people are enough. If you want to conquer the Khitan, you must have 10 people." Yeli Yulue said.

"I now

In the absence of 10 people to fight Khitan. " Shao Shude shook his head.

The 10 people Yeli Yulue mentioned referred to the imperial army, not any miscellaneous troops.The larger the place, the more troops need to be dispatched, perhaps not even 10 people.

But if it is just to defeat the Khitan, and then make a conditional offer to surrender, it is true that [-] to [-] elite soldiers are enough.

Is it to occupy the pastures of Khitan?Can it be occupied?What needs to be done in advance?How much will it cost?To be honest, Shao Shude hasn't thought about it carefully.This also shows from the side that he is not yet ready to destroy Khitan, and Daxia is not ready for this either.

"Picture here." Shao Shude pondered for a while, then stretched out his hand.

Just as Chu Shenping, the commander of Yin An Zhi, was about to give instructions to his subordinates, Pugu Cheng'en quickly took out a copy from his pocket and handed it over.

Good guy!Chu Shenping took a look at this middle official, and thought that he really underestimated him.

"Ye Li Yu Lue listen to the order!" Shao Shude looked at it for a long time, then raised his head, and said, "Immediately set up the camp behind the mountain, the left wing of the Iron Forest Army, the Dingnan Army, the Iron Cavalry Army, the Qingyi Army and the various tribes behind the mountain. , all under the control of the camp.

"The minister complies with the order." Ye Li was overjoyed and responded.

This is the same position as Ge Congzhou Ping, the front of the mountain belongs to Lao Ge, and the back of the mountain belongs to him, very good, very good! "I'll tell Chen Shilang later." Shao Shude turned his head again, looked at Chu Shenping, and said, "I want to set up Longhua County (now Longhua) in the old city of Yanle, under Ruzhou; Today's Dage Town, Fengning County) was set up in Fengning County, which was attached to Ruzhou; in North Yanzhou and Guangbian Army, Longguan County (now Chicheng) was set up in the north, and was attached to Guizhou. Newly set up counties and townships, suitable for farming and grazing grazing. According to the size of the tribe, dictate the amount of land as soon as possible.”

In fact, this is to further consolidate the area behind the mountain, and it is also to receive the war dividend won by Nabo after defeating the Khitan the year before, which is a solid foundation.

"Abiding by the order." After hearing this, Chu Shenping immediately responded.

"Let Li Shaoye, Li Neng and other tribes go eastward and graze on the grassland of the Ahui tribe. This is what Ye Liyulue said.

The two tribes add up to more than [-] people, and their strength is limited.And the Khitan is quite famous in the Northeast, and they may not dare to occupy the pasture of Ahuibu, but this is not up to them, and they have to go if they don't.

"Wang Hebu took Ding Wugan, went north to the pine forest on the flat ground, and returned to the command of the cavalry army, and marched eastward along the Huangshui River to harass."

With the Iron Cavalry Army and Sanquan Fanbing, it is impossible to take down the Khitans and their vassal tribes in the Pine Forest area, but it is not difficult to consume and weaken the strength of the Khitans.

As for his own consumption, Shao Shude didn't care.

The important principle of war is to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses.What are the advantages of Daxia?Is the productivity and wealth advantage.

Then make good use of this advantage.Heishui City, Xishi City, Dongshi City, Nanshi City, Zendan, Yongqingzha, Yinchuan, Tiandu Mountain, Shayuan, Guozhou, Heyang, Guangchengze, etc. There are too many government-run pastures, and the accumulation of livestock is too large. rich enough.It doesn't matter if it is consumed, it will be replenished for you, just hit it.

Shao Shude's punch really contains 20 years of skill, can the Khitan people take it? Only the brains are tricky and the moves are more subtle than yours.

Shao Sheng's moves used the rotten boxing techniques that everyone knows, but the advantage is that there are no flaws, and the internal strength is very deep, so the effect of the punches is naturally different.

"Let Li Cunxiao recruit tribes, and use this as a basis to harass Khitan."

After Li Cunxiao went to the White Wolf Garrison, there were indeed some grasshopper tribes who came to surrender.Of course, Shao Shude couldn't let them go lightly, bleeding was inevitable, and he used resources to support the Qingyi army's attack on the Khitans, thinking that atonement was their only choice.

"Having said so much, I'm not asking you to aggressively attack Khitan." Shao Shude looked at Yeli Yulue again, and said, "The back of the mountain is newly restored. Many counties have just been established, and immigration continues. It's a mess. You, Ping Zhou, Ji, Tan, Zhuo and other prefectures are also checking their household registrations and searching for remnants of the enemy. Right now, they don’t have the conditions for a big fight. Therefore, the main thing behind the mountain is defense, you have to be clear about this.”

"I know what your Majesty means." After Ye Liyulue finished speaking, he smiled again, and said, "This is the Daxia Lecture Hall's non-instruction of the art of war, which is called active defense. I also went to the Lecture Hall, so I understand."

"Haha!" Shao Shude also

Smiling, he said, "It's good that you know. The Changxia Palace is a nail wedged into the hinterland of Khitan, and there is no room for loss.

In defensive operations, some people like to defend Yingcheng to the death and set up strongholds to block it.Some people like to take the initiative to attack, disrupt the enemy's deployment and defuse the enemy's offensive with active offensive actions.The former is passive defense, while the latter is active defense. Both are defensive operations, but the ideas of using troops are quite different.

In addition, Shao Shude valued the Changxia Palace very much.Its existence itself is a great deterrent to the Khitan people, because it is not far from the Tuhu Zhenshui, and it is already one of the Khitan's core territories.

Shao Shude couldn't imagine how A Baoji could go south in such a leisurely way. "The right wing of the Tielin army, Yin Anzhi, all civil and military officials, follow me back to the south."

After Shao Shude gave the last order, it means that his inspection in the area behind the mountain will come to an end.The next step is to wait for the Khitan people to make moves, and at the same time continue to improve a series of tedious tasks such as the construction of strongholds, the formation of town troops, the selection of officials, and the investigation of tribes.

He did what he had to do, followed the plan step by step, and drove the enemy to a dead end step by step.A Baoji, I don't know if he has felt Shao Sheng's enthusiasm.

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A Baoji will be in western Liaoning.

He plundered a large number of people from the Bohai Sea. These people were mainly farming, and they were all agricultural populations—more precisely, they were good at growing rice.

The Meituo Lake (Xingkai Lake) in the Longquan Prefecture of Shangjing in the Bohai State is mainly planted with rice.Its domestic "Lucheng rice" is a tribute to the Central Plains, and its quality is still very good.

A Baoji moved them to western Liaoning.It is relatively far away from Bohai Kingdom, and it is also not close to Youzhou. These slaves have nowhere to go if they want to, so they just settle down, open up wasteland and cultivate land, and provide food for the Khitan army to go south to southern Liaoning.

Xiao Shilu, Yu Lujiangu and his wife followed behind Abao's plane, step by step.

Xiao Shilu originally helped Abaoji manage Bohai and Haner slaves. This time, he was appointed by Yuyue Yelu Shilu as the military governor of Pinglu and governor of Yingzhou—this is the first time in the history of the Khitan Kingdom that this kind of Han slavery appeared. local official position.

Similarly, Liu Rengong was officially appointed as Fuyu Yin, which was the first time that Khitan had such a position as Fuyu Yin.

The appointments were all issued by Shi Lu, but the idea came from A Baoji, which is also in line with A Baoji's reform ideas.

He wants to make the Khitan stronger, and eagerly learns the Central Plains system to manage Haner and Bohai, and learns the Tubo system to manage tribes, so as to achieve the unity of Han and Tibetan.Otherwise, the Khitan will be destroyed by the Xia people sooner or later, this is the idea he has always instilled in his cronies.

"Shi Lu, I will leave Yingzhou to you." A Baoji said, "I asked Agu to assist you only. He is located in Yingzhou City as a barrier to the west. You can manage the slaves well and make a career as soon as possible. I have long disliked the Anton mansion of the Xia people, and I will hand it over to you after the attack."

"Don't worry Yi Li Jin, I will take good care of these slaves and I won't let you down." Xiao Shilu patted his chest and said.A Baoji laughed loudly and said, "You are my brother-in-law, I don't trust you, who else can I trust?"

But what he thinks in his heart, only he knows.

In fact, A Baoji felt that Shi Lu's ability was not enough to provoke the burden of the Pinglu Army Jiedu envoy and Yingzhou governor.If given a choice, he would prefer to appoint Liu Rengong.

A Baoji's desire for the Han people and the Han land is very strong, even a little pathological.Otherwise, history would not have entrusted such a repeated villain like Lu Wenjin with great power, so much so that the big joke of Tang taking more than 1 people to defect to Khitan, and then bringing 20 Han soldiers and civilians to surrender came out.

A Baoji was really too generous to the Han officials and generals, which may be related to the inferiority complex buried in his heart.That is to say, the Khitan is barbaric, ignorant, and backward, and any Han Chinese are more educated and knowledgeable than them, so they must be entrusted with important responsibilities.

Shi Lu didn't know what A Baoji was thinking, he only knew that their family was well-off.

The husband is the Jiedushi, and the wife is the chief shaman of the Dieci Department, who is good at boosting the morale of the army, and even Yu Lujiangu is the most famous shaman in the entire Khitan Eight Departments.

Both husband and wife have great power, all of which are given by A Baoji.at least in
At this moment, Shi Lu is really grateful to A Baoji.

"Yi Li Jin, Yu Yue is back." Suddenly, the messenger rushed to report. "Why did you come back?" A Baoji asked, holding back his smile.

"The Xia people massively increased their troops in Liuhe, and the battle was fierce. Shilu couldn't resist the enemy, so he withdrew with Ahui." The messenger said.A Baoji felt a chill all over his body.

The Liuhe area has already passed the Tang border and entered the Khitan territory.Xia Ren seemed to put in a lot of strength, otherwise Shi Lu would not have retreated.

Is this going from the Liu River to the Yinliang River?
Combined with the news received before, Li Cunxiao entered the White Wolf Garrison, and the Qiangtoucao tribe surrendered one after another.In this way of thinking, is there any danger in the flat pine forest?
A Baoji originally thought that the Xia people were just trying to restore the fortresses such as Bailangshu and Zimengshu that Li Keyong gave up not long ago, but now it seems that it is not that simple.

Is this going to attack Khitan from three directions?A Baoji felt the chill on his body getting heavier and heavier.Shao Shude had just occupied Youzhou, and his foothold was not stable. How could he be so aggressive?How dare you? !