Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 998 Countermeasures
The news hadn't reached Bohai yet, but it had already reached Yaonian City, Diela pasture, and a marching team.

The size of the team is huge, with many vehicles, thousands of them.

The car is full of various military supplies such as dried meat, cheese, millet, hay, arrows, etc., and the total number of drivers and guards is about 2.

Obviously, this is a logistics transport team.Judging from the direction they were traveling, they should be going to Fuzhou, Bohai State.

Bohai State has fifteen prefectures and three prefectures.

The fifteen prefectures include five capitals, namely:

Zhongjing Xiande Mansion, leading six prefectures and 25 counties, governed Xianzhou, roughly located in today's Helong City, Jilin Province.

Ryuwon-fu, Tokyo, led four prefectures and eighteen counties, governed Gyeongju, and was roughly located in Buju-ri, Chongjin City, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea.

Nanhai Prefecture, Nanjing, led three prefectures and sixteen counties, governed Wozhou, and was located in Qinghai Tucheng, Bukcheong County, South Hamgyong Province, North Korea.

Yalu Mansion in Xijing led four prefectures and eleven counties, governing Shenzhou, which is now Linjiang County in Jilin Province.

Shangjing Longquan Mansion, leading three prefectures and nine counties, governed Longzhou, located in Bohai Town, Ning'an City, Heilongjiang.

In addition to the five capitals, there are ten prefectures of Changling, Tieli, Fuyu, Shuibin, Dongping, Hujie, Anyuan, Huaiyuan, Anbian, and Tingli.

In addition, the three prefectures of Ying, Tong, and Wei are solo prefectures, which can directly reach the six departments of the three provinces of the capital.

When the Khitan attacked the Bohai Sea, they usually attacked Fuyu Prefecture first, which governed Fuzhou and Xianzhou.

Fuzhou has jurisdiction over Fuyu, Buduo, Xianyi, and Hechuan counties; Xianzhou has jurisdiction over Qiangshi, Xin'an, and Yugu counties.

Both Fuyu Prefecture and Fuzhou are located in Fuyu County. The city wall of this county is more than four miles in circumference, but it is actually not that big. It is the level of a small county town in the Central Plains.

There are many soldiers outside Fuyu County, and most of them are Khitan people based on their clothing and attire.

The soldiers of the Khitan headquarters rode horses, carried bows at their waists, and held bones and sabers.The composition of a large number of servant infantry is complicated. There are Xi people, Han people, Mohe people and Tatars, most of whom are slaves.

The morale of the slaves is good, and they fight bravely.Because war is their best chance to be free, each of them desperately wants to seize it.

Bohai has been established for 200 years, and its strength was good in its early years. It even dared to wrestle with Datang, and it didn't pay attention to Khitan at all.But the 200-year dynasty is getting old and gradually declining.

The most obvious sign is that the subordinates are not very obedient.

The subordinate ministries of the Bohai State are roughly divided into two parts. One is the Five Heishui Ministries (located in the northern part of Heilongjiang and in Russia).

The second is the small country of Koryo, with about [-] counties (mainly located in Ping'an Province, North Korea).

These two major powers are a state within a country in Bohai. When Bohai is strong, they are more obedient. When Bohai is weak, they naturally want to become independent.At present, the Blackwater Department (located in Khabarovsk) has raised the banner of rebellion, and the Bohai State dispatched a large army to suppress it, but the other four departments are also ready to move, and the situation is very critical.

In addition, the internal strife in Bohai State is also very fierce, cruel and bloody.

Most of the losers in the political war went to Silla, and some people went to Khitan.

The Bohai nobles who defected to Khitan brought detailed internal information, which greatly stimulated the ambitions of Khitan Babu.Since many years ago, they have been advancing eastward. At the beginning, it was a small-scale invasion of the border. After discovering that the Bohai people were decayed and their combat effectiveness was declining day by day, their ambitions were undisguised.

In order to guard against Khitan, the Bohai Kingdom made great efforts to renovate post roads and stationed heavy troops in Fuyu and Tieli.

These so-called heavy soldiers are still capable of fighting, but their morale is not very high. They have fought many times over the years, with fewer victories and more losses, which is already a little scary.

"Yue Liduo!" Brother Yeluhua jumped out from nowhere, looked greedily at this beautiful woman, and said with a flattering smile, "Are you sending food and grass again? In fact, there is no need to send it. The Bohai people are invincible. We looted a lot food, livestock."

"Did you win the battle again?" Yue Liduo didn't like Brother Hua's perverted look, but she still asked patiently.

"A Baoji just rushed to Xianzhou, wiped out the reinforcements dispatched from Zhongjing by the Bohai people, and captured more than [-] people." Speaking of this, Brother Yelu Hua felt a little sour, and then burst into a violent anger. Why did A Baoji What's the secret? The war is so powerful, and the women are so beautiful?

"Bohai claims to be a big country in the east of the sea, why does it have so few troops?" Yue Liduo was a little surprised.

"The Bohai Kingdom has only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and half of them have been dispatched to the north to suppress the five Black Water Clans. How many soldiers are there?" Brother Yelu Hua quietly approached a few steps, looked directly at Yue Liduo, and said: " Now most of the defenders of the city are young and strong, that is, the Tutuan peasants in the Han area, and they cannot fight."

"Swipe!" Yue Liduo drew out a sharp knife, and with lightning speed, touched Brother Hua's chin.

Brother Yeluhua stayed there, not daring to move, and shouted, "Yue Liduo, what are you doing?"

Yue Liduo didn't bother to pay attention to him, so she asked her subordinates to bring a horse, turned over and rode on it, and after two rounds, she gave Yelu Hua a cold look, and rode away.

The knights guarding her immediately followed, and when they passed Brother Hua, everyone laughed.

With this ability, you still want to play with women?
Brother Yelu Hua was angry and impatient, stomped his feet resentfully, and then left.

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Outside Fuyu County, a large army gathered, attacking and killing endlessly.

The city wall is not big, but it is very strong. It was built by Bohai people from the mountains and took stones for many years. It has repeatedly surprised the Khitan people.

There are less than [-] defenders in the city, but they are stubborn and will not surrender.

Yeluyi actually didn't think about attacking the city by force, because the Khitan people are not good at this kind of way, they have more energy than energy.

But this time he decided to give it a try, so he drove many slave soldiers and started a storm.

The commander-in-chief of the siege was Liu Rengong.

He is an expert in this field, and he put forward many suggestions on the attack and defense of the city. The more Yeluyi listened to it, the more he felt that it made sense. Later, he simply gave Liu Rengong full command and asked him to lead an army of [-] to besiege Fuzhou.

Liu Rengong is still very resourceful.

He let the infantry besiege on all sides, and constantly changed the direction of the main attack, making the defenders tired of coping.

They also built several earthen platforms outside the city, and the soldiers shot arrows on them to suppress the defenders at the top of the city.And behind the earth platform, there was still a tunnel being quietly dug. More than a month passed, and it was basically dug into the city.

Yeluyi watched quietly from the side, feeling very excited.

If he captures Fuzhou, it will be a huge victory for him, and his status among the eight departments will be improved to a higher level, and no one else can compare.

"General Liu, if Fuzhou is captured, you will be the defense envoy of Fuyu Mansion." Yeluyi said.

"Xie Yili is cultivated." Liu Rengong was overjoyed.

The fifteen prefectures and three solo prefectures of Balhae State have a population of about 150 million.The conditions of Fuyu Mansion are good. After years of fighting, there should be [-] to [-] people. If the tribe is included, it may be even more.

There are only so few people in the two prefectures and seven counties. It is indeed less, and it is much worse than the Central Plains. But how can I put it, it is not easy to have a piece of land.It's not difficult to get a population of more than [-] in the future if he manages it well, and then goes to Bohai to plunder some more. At least it's enough to support his army.

Brothers Gao Silun and Gao Siji stood aside anxiously, listening silently.

Brothers Gao Xinggui and Gao Xingzhou carefully looked at the city in front of them. They were very surprised by the vigorous and powerful "Fuyu" on the city wall: it turns out that the Bohai Kingdom also used Tang Chinese characters.

They had broken through two counties before, and looking at their official documents, they were actually parallel prose, and their calligraphy skills were good.If no one pointed it out, they almost thought it was a frontier state in Datang, not a foreign country.

Reminiscent of the rubbings of the epitaph of Princess Zhenxiao of the Bohai Kingdom that I saw before, which was used by local scholars to practice calligraphy, it said: "My husband reads Tang books, and the concubine descends to the shore of the emperor and daughter; Wang Ji's banquet. Isn't it true that the woman's virtue is manifested, and her reputation can only be expected later; her mother's ceremonies are mum, and Yu Qing gathers in Wujiang... The emperor ends the court and mourns, stays away from bed and hangs down, and the funeral ceremony is ordered by the official. The man sobs , follow the rice paddies and linger; the horses cry mournfully, look at the suburbs and hold low..."

The person who wrote the epitaph is full of literary talents, the antithesis is neat, and the allusions are easy to come by.The calligraphy is handsome and strong, with elegant mood, and has the legacy of Yu Shinan, so that it has become a copybook for young men to practice calligraphy.

This is a highly civilized country.

Gao Xingzhou is very skilled in martial arts, but he also likes to study poetry and prose. It is very regrettable that such a country is attacked by Khitan.If they are destroyed, the Mohe people, the main body of the Bohai Kingdom, will inevitably degenerate into barbaric tribes, and civilization will definitely disappear. Isn't it a pity?

"It's done!" Liu Rengong suddenly slapped his thigh and stood up.

There was a huge commotion in Fuzhou City, and the defenders at the top of the city panicked and rushed to the bottom of the city one after another.

"What a Liu Kutou!" Gao Siji sighed.

Yeluyi also stood up excitedly, like a vulgar man who saw a beautiful woman stripped naked in front of him, his eyes sparkled.

"Husband!" A soft cry sounded not far away.

Before Liu Rengong and Gao Siji could react, Yeluyi was shocked and turned around suddenly.

"Yue Liduo? Why are you here?" He asked in surprise.

"Husband." Shuluping frowned, walked a few steps closer, leaned close to Yeluyi's ear, and said in a low voice: "Xia's army marched eastward in a big way, and divided into two groups. One has reached the White Wolf Garrison, and the other has conquered Huangshuishi. The bridge is wantonly robbing Dingkou, cattle and sheep."

"What?!" Yeluyi almost fainted.

He has worked so hard to plunder the population and wealth of the Bohai State, but his hometown was taken away?

"Where's Xie Niechi? What about Yushen? What are they eating?" Yeluyi raised his voice involuntarily and asked.

Liu Rengong turned his head suspiciously.

Brothers Gao Silun and Gao Siji glanced at each other quietly, pretending to be ignorant.

The matter has come to this point, Shuluping can't hide it anymore, she took Yeluyi's hand and said: "My husband, this matter is absolutely true. Shilu is already recruiting troops and intends to fight against the Xia people. My husband , You better have a countermeasure here."

Yeluyi kicked over Maza beside him, his expression was cloudy and he was clearly on the verge of eruption - in fact, it is understandable that anyone who encounters this situation will yell at him.

I just saw the dawn of breaking through Fuzhou. This is a breakthrough that hasn't been seen in many years, but you told me that Xia Jun has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Khitan?
"The countermeasure..." Yeluyi murmured.

"Husband!" Shu Luping was calmer than him, and suggested: "In fact, this is also an opportunity. The Xia people came to attack for no reason, and it may be beneficial for Husband to calm them down."

Yeluyi didn't answer, but his hand was already on the handle of the knife at his waist.

Liu Rengong turned his head to look at the couple for a while, and turned his head to look at Fuzhou City for a while.

Gao Silun and Gao Siji did not speak, but stood and waited.

"Withdraw troops, return aid!" Yeluyi was silent for a long time, and finally made a decision.

"I'll go back to Yaonian City first. Here in Fuzhou, Yue Liduo, you come to sit in town and clean up the mess." He added.

"Okay!" Shuluping agreed directly without any stage fright.

(End of this chapter)