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Chapter 782 Ding Run: Liao Dog!Lao Tzu's Shuibo Liangshan Army is here!

"In the land of Baigou, how many Liao soldiers are currently stationed?"

"According to the secret investigation at the time, there are at least [-] people, and they are still increasing."

"Where is Yanmen?"

"There are also tens of thousands of soldiers guarding it."

After the initial formation of the military establishment, Li Yan naturally asked about the situation of Baigou and Yanmen.

Baigou is located between Xiongzhou and Yanjing, which is the boundary river between Song and Liao.

In the Battle of Baigou in history, the Song and Jin Yues attacked the Liao Kingdom. The [-] Song army led by Tong Guan and Zhong Shidao attacked Yanyun, but was defeated by the Liao army who was repeatedly defeated by the Jin soldiers at that time. , All the way back after fleeing, the corpse lying hundreds of miles away completely exposed the incompetence of the Northern Song Dynasty, which became the prelude to Jingkang's shame.

Needless to say about Yanmen, the place where Xiao Feng's soul is broken in "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" is also the border of Song and Liao, but the Daizhou Township Army and the Township Army who want to go north to Yanyun through Yanmen Pass and go to Hedong will naturally not detour so far.

Li Yan commented on this: "The Liao people are afraid. They are afraid that we will counterattack Yanyun, and they are even more afraid that we will attack Yanyun and block the retreat of Emperor Tianzuo's army."

Lu Junyi smiled and said: "Imagine half a year ago, when the Liao people just went south, they would only laugh at us peasant soldiers and brave men, and even sent troops in to burn, kill and loot, but now they are so frightened that they hurriedly guard the border I'm counting on it to last ten days!"

Chai Jindao: "This is also related to the turmoil in the land of Yanyun. At that time, many spies were secretly sent there. As my brother expected, under the heavy pressure of food and grass from Emperor Tianzuo's personal conquest, the people were tossed. The Han people fled to Cangzhou and Xiongzhou, and we accepted them all.”

Seeing that all developments are under the strategic arrangement of the chief coach, everyone becomes more and more motivated, Gao Qiu also eagerly said: "Then let's go to Xiongzhou now and break through the Liao army in Baigou first?"

Li Yan smiled, but was about to go to an unexpected place: "The main force of the Township Army will go first. Everyone, please follow me to the Cangzhou Wharf to see the progress of the navy. This will be a key part of the attack on Yanyun."

The troops were divided, except for leaving the necessary marching command, a group of generals followed Li Yan, patted their horses and headed east to the Bohai Bay Wharf.

Looking from a distance, it is in full swing here, and ships are being built.

Cangzhou is a relatively special boundary in Hebei. It borders the Liao Kingdom and has natural terrain advantages. It is not suitable for a large number of cavalry to drive straight in. In addition, it is a coastal state and county with convenient transportation. The Grand Canal in Cangzhou and the Bohai Bay in Cangzhou The wharf is very important in water transportation and sea transportation.

For a considerable period of time in the Northern Song Dynasty, the taxes and land taxes of Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi were not enough to support the huge local army expenses. The demand for military rations in Hebei is very large, and the supply is in short supply. The imperial court also specially sent Bao Zheng to Hebei to coordinate and solve the problem of food supply for the army.

Bao Zheng discovered the importance of Cangzhou shipping at that time, and proposed to transport grain to Cangzhou by sea. , said "Cangzhou is the northern starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road".

Whether the importance is that exaggerated or not, Li Yan, based on the characteristics of Cangzhou shipping, ordered Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng, and Meng Kang to supervise the construction of the Navy before leaving for Shandong, and Chai Jin, Ling Zhen and others fully cooperated.

Now it seems that they have indeed lived up to expectations, and they have made some achievements.

However, when Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng and Meng Kang came up to meet them, they felt very ashamed: "Brother, we have only built so many ships in the past few months, we are really ashamed!"

Li Yan expressed his understanding: "The navy of the imperial court has actually been abolished long ago, dying earlier than the Northern Army."

"In the early days of the founding of the country, before the unification of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the battles were mostly in the area of ​​rivers and water networks. Taizu attached great importance to the navy. After the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed, the status of the navy began to plummet. Later, a Jinming was built in the outer city of Bianjing. Chi, intends to train the navy, but the result is mostly for show."

"Under such conditions, in just a few months, it is already very hard work to build so many ships with only this little manpower."

Zhang Heng heaved a sigh of relief, while Zhang Shun said: "Thanks to Meng Kang's contribution, he is really a craftsman who was born to build ships!"

Li Yan already attached great importance to craftsmen, so he naturally praised them even more: "The soldiers on the front line work hard and fight hard, and they can't do without the craftsmen who supervise the construction of ordnance and warships in the rear. I hope that Vice General Meng will continue to give full play to his strengths!"

Meng Kang didn't know that he had become the general in charge of manufacturing, and he was overjoyed when he heard that: "Yes!"

Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun were inevitably a little disappointed when they found out that they were not on the list. Fortunately, Li Yan continued: "It's time for you to make contributions."

Also in Sui'an Phase [-], Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun's specialty is water. Although their combat effectiveness on land has improved a lot, they are still inferior to fierce generals such as Lu Junyi and Hua Rong. There is no meritorious service, so they are not included in the list of the first batch of generals.

Now that the opportunity came, the two cheered up, clasped their fists together and said, "Please order, brother!"

Li Yan looked around at the crowd and clarified the next step strategy: "We are going north to counterattack the Liao Kingdom. In terms of military strength and military power, we are not qualified. If we want to win, the Han people in the land of Yanyun must fight for it." Object."

"But as I told you before, the Liao Kingdom has occupied the land of Yanyun for [-] years, and the local rule is deeply rooted. Emperor Tianzuo's personal conquest put great pressure on the rear and exposed the tyranny of the Khitan ruling class. After we go north, we will not be welcomed, but will only be regarded as invaders, and we will be unanimously hostile."

"Now the brutal rule of the Khitan people has aroused the resistance of the local Han people, but they are still afraid and will not rashly accept foreign troops, so the second step to be done is to eliminate the Han people's fear of the Khitan ruling class heart of."

Gao Qiu said: "We have defeated the Liao army now, doesn't it mean that the Khitan people have nothing to fear?"

Li Yandao: "But the Han people in the land of Yanyun don't know that those officials in the South Court of Liao Kingdom will definitely not tell the people under their rule that the Liao army was defeated by a group of township soldiers and Xiangyong. The tyranny of the army forced the capital of the Southern Dynasty to move to the south of the Yangtze River, so as to strengthen the confidence of the people."

Chai Jin came to a sudden: "Yes, the common people are already suffering enough. If their sacrifices brought about victory in the front line, at least there is some comfort. If they learn that the front line has been defeated, their mentality will be completely different, and they will welcome Master Wang even more. .”

On the one hand, Wu Yong was a little worried about Chao Gai's situation, and on the other hand, he was also thinking about his strategic intentions. He lightly shook his feather fan and echoed: "This will also help us occupy the land of Yanyun, but how can we make Yanyun Do the Han people know that the Liao army is strong on the outside and capable on the inside?"

Li Yan said: "Get the map!"

Carrying maps with him is a good habit cultivated by his subordinates. Soon the maps of Yanyun Fourteen Prefectures and the surrounding areas were unfolded. All the way to the east: "My plan, the first step in taking Yanyun, is for the navy to land from Yingzhou in Liao Kingdom and seize the lands of Yingzhou, Pingzhou and Luanzhou."

Everyone looked at the very unfamiliar land and looked at each other: "Chief coach, is this a strategically important place?"

Li Yandao: "Yes, and no, if there is no Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, these three prefectures will be almost barren land, not worth mentioning, but once we seize the strategically important Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, the three prefectures will The state must also be defended in order to stop the alien attack from the north of the Taihang Mountains."

Yingzhou is the landing site, nothing special. Not long after in history, Pingzhou and Luanzhou really became the strategic highlands of the Kingdom of Jin, used to attack Yandi and Hebei.

To use an analogy, the Song Dynasty originally took back the complete sixteen prefectures of Yanyun in order to make their homes have a door to guard against thieves. As a result, the Kingdom of Jin occupied Pingzhou and Luanzhou, because these places were not ruled by Shi Jingtang back then. Because of this, it was not returned to the Song Dynasty.

What has this led to?

The door is there, but it cannot be closed firmly, and a huge gap is still open.

Therefore, it was clear that the Jin people returned the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and later in the Northern Song Dynasty, they were driven straight in by the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin, and they went all the way to Bianjing smoothly. This is the reason.

Of course, in the eyes of the Liao Kingdom, which owns the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, these prefectures and counties are leftovers, and they are not as important as they are. The Liao army will not station heavy troops in these prefectures and counties, so they are watched by Li Yan Above: "These three continents are close to Yanyun, and news will come in at any time. If the Liao army can't take it back quickly and see the foreign enemies raging, then no matter how they whitewash the victory internally, the Han people should know that this group of ruling classes are paper tigers. .”

This analogy is quite novel, and everyone nodded after hearing it.

Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun also understood, but they were a little bit troubled: "The navy of the Liao Kingdom is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty, and there are enough ships today, but the number of our navy is still seriously insufficient. I am afraid there are only less than a thousand people. Afterwards, it will be too much effort to capture prefectures and counties!"

One hundred of them are willing to become naval generals, but it’s not enough to have generals without soldiers under them. It’s impossible to capture the states and counties of Liao with a few hundred people, right?

"Don't worry, it's not just you who do it."

Li Yan looked at Gao Qiu: "Maybe Gao Tiju doesn't know that there is an old friend of ours, who is now the head of the Liangshan Village in Shuibo, with great power..."

Gao Qiu was startled for a moment, then realized who it was, and said happily, "Okay! He is also willing to make a move this time?"

Li Yan said with a smile: "I don't want to, this one has always been the first to strike first, and now he has led the Liangshan hero to climb Yanyun first!"

……

"Grandpa was born between heaven and earth, he is not afraid of the imperial court or officials, the sky net is cast in the water, and the tortoise king is inside!"

"Grandfather was born between heaven and earth, and he was born to kill people. Although he was born to kill thieves, he didn't kill people!"

Ding Run stood at the bow of the boat, and behind him was the chorus of boats mooring Liangshan, singing in a mighty, majestic, wanton and passionate way.

So much so that the head of the Liangshan village was so excited when he heard it, he rubbed his head, looked at the land of the Liao Kingdom in the distance, and laughed loudly:

"Liaogou! Lao Tzu's Shuibo Liangshan Army is here!!"

(End of this chapter)