Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 558 Li Yan's Japan (please subscribe!)

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After the Japanese officials and nobles in Kyoto learned that Zhou Fang, Nagato and Shikoku Island had all been breached by the Liangshan Army, they were collectively shocked!

Someone suggested that Emperor Baihe surrender to Shuibo Liangshan.

Some people suggested that samurai, monk soldiers and reserve troops from Gyeonggi and Kanto should be transferred to help Kyoto.

There was also a secret discussion that Emperor Shirakawa and Emperor Toba, who provoked Li Yan's anger, were captured and dedicated to Li Yan and Yuzao to quell the war.

and many more……

Emperor Shirakawa has been in charge of Japan for decades, and his political methods are relatively clever and ruthless.

He first acted preemptively and cleared away all those who wanted to capture him and dedicate him to Li Yan and Yuzaoqian, and then transferred all the samurai, monks, and reserves in Gyeonggi and Kanto to Kannei (that is, Suzuka, Tōkaidō). (Mie County in later generations), Hokuriku Road (Gifu County in later generations) and Higashiyama Road Aifa (Fukui County in later generations) to the west of Sanguan), and then the northern line was guarded according to Sanguan, and the southern line was hoarded and heavily guarded. road.

At the same time, he continued to send envoys to discuss with Li Yan about paying tribute to the vassal—this time, Emperor Baihe did not mention where the cession was, but only said that he wanted to stay in the Kinki area to support his life.

The Kinki area is located in the central and western part of Honshu, Japan, bordering the central region in the east, bordering the Chugoku region in the west, bordering the Seto Inland Sea, Osaka Bay and the Pacific Ocean in the south, bordering Wakasa Bay and the Sea of ​​Japan in the north, just cutting off Japan from north to south.

May I ask, how could it be possible for Li Yan to allow Japanese officials and nobles to occupy this important area?
What's more, they still have hundreds of thousands of samurai, monks, and reservists in their hands, which seriously endanger the stability of Li Yan's Japan.

Therefore, it has already reached this level, no matter how much the price is, Li Yan will destroy Japan in one go, and then completely occupy Japan.

Therefore, as soon as Li Yan gritted his teeth, he sent another 15 troops to the right army, preparing for a final battle with Japan.

Counting the 15 troops, there are already more than 35 Liangshan Army in Japan, and these are all the main force of the Liangshan Army.

What is this concept?

Li Yan has a total of more than 40 main forces, of which 6 are defending the Jin army in the north, and more than 3 are stationed in various important places in Shuibo Liangshan (more than 1 in Taiwan Island, more than 1 in Jiaodong Peninsula, Hainan Island, Jeju Island, Huating County, and Dongguan County each have [-], and the ports on the Korean Peninsula add up to more than [-].), and the rest are all in Japan.

It can be said that this is also a battle for Li Yan.

Under such circumstances, Li Yan really couldn't sit still in Seoul - if the Liangshan Army was defeated in this battle, then Li Yan would have worked hard for nearly ten years and returned to before liberation.

Therefore, Li Yan brought Yu Zaoqian and Li Yu also to Japan, preparing to take charge of the battle in person.

Why did Li Yan bring Yuzaoqian and Li Yu?
This is because many people have suggested to Li Yan that they use the name of Tamazamae to attack and govern Japan, and then let Li Yan and Tamazamae's son serve as the emperor of Japan for a while.
Doing so will make the Japanese less resistant. After all, there are rumors throughout Japan that Tamamo-mae will replace Emperor Toba in charge of Japan, and Tamamo-mae is an out-and-out Japanese.

When Li Yan, Yu Zaoqian, and Li Yu arrived at the front line, Xu Guanzhong and others had already begun to make arrangements for the decisive battle. In addition, the left army had already reached the third pass, making a gesture of knocking at the pass.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, but the place Xu Guanzhong and the others chose for the decisive battle was Nasuno.

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Tong Guan failed to regain Yanyun by force, and was defeated twice by the already declining Liao army, which exposed the weakness of the Song army, which made Zhao Ji grieve.

Wang Fu and Liang Shicheng saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, so they jointly recommended Tan Zhen to replace Tong Guan as Xuanfu envoy of Hedong, Yanshanfu Road and Hebei Road.

Zhao Ji readily agreed and ordered Tan Zhen to be stationed in Hedong to be fully responsible for the defense of the northwest and north.

Tan Zhen's prestige and power could not be compared with Tong Guan's. Zhao Ji was worried that Tong Guan would interfere with Tan Zhen, which would be detrimental to Tan Zhen's work. The Xiaogong envoy took up his post in name.

After Tan Zhen went to Hedong, he found that the situation in the Hedong area was very complicated.

At this time, the Jin army had expanded to the border of Xixia, so Li Qianshun was a little scared, so he didn't dare to continue to take in Emperor Tianzuo.

Emperor Tianzuo left sadly and returned to Jiashan, intending to organize an army to make a comeback.

Later, in order to protect himself, Li Qianshun decided to call the Kingdom of Jin a vassal.

Jin Guo readily agreed.

After Xixia became a vassal, the Kingdom of Jin promised to cede to Xixia a large area of ​​land north of Xiazhai, south of Yinshan Mountain, and west of Yishi Latululuo.

Xixia promised not to rescue Emperor Tianzuo again, and if Emperor Tianzuo came to his territory, he would be escorted immediately.

In order to further implement the peace agreement with Xixia, Zong Han sent Salumu secretly to Xixia, detailing the land promised to be ceded to Xixia in detail: Tiande, Yunnei, Wuzhou, Dongduda, Sila, Hedong , Wild Magpies, Shenya, Yulin, Baoda, Yumin Baguan, and the Jinsu and Heqing Second Armies in Hexi.

The condition Zong Han put forward was that Xixia must send troops to attack Linzhou (later Shenmu, Shaanxi) in order to contain the trend of Hedong.

The purpose of Zong Han's deployment is, on the one hand, to set up a net to capture Emperor Tianzuo, and on the other hand, he wants to create some trouble for the Song State and prevent the Song State from digesting the Yanyun area with peace of mind.

Song Guo didn't know about these secret transactions between Jin Guo and Xixia.

The main reason for this is that Tan Zhen did not put his main energy on external affairs—his thoughts were mainly on domestic affairs.

Not long after Tan Zhen took office, he heard many negative questions about Chang Shengjun and Guo Yaoshi.

Tan Zhen immediately reported these negative issues of Guo Yaoshi and Chang Shengjun to Zhao Ji.

With the growing strength of the army, the Changsheng Army has gradually occupied a large area of ​​land and major passes in Yanshan.

As the commander-in-chief of the Ever Victorious Army, Guo Yaoshi was domineering, deceived his superiors and concealed his subordinates, and often disobeyed Yanshan Mansion's restraint. People were all discussing in private: If it is allowed to develop, it may become the second Anlu Mountain.

In fact, Tan Zhen was not the only one who responded to Zhao Ji about this issue. Zhan Du also repeatedly told him that Guo Yaoshi was of poor character, had ulterior motives, and was very unreliable.

This aroused Zhao Ji's vigilance and uneasiness, and he also wanted to solve this hidden danger.

But now most of the Song Army's troops are rotten to the bone, and the Western Army has to guard Xixia, which has been moving a lot recently, so that Zhao Ji really can't find an army that can replace the Changsheng Army to guard Yandi.

After some investigation and thinking, Tan Zhen suggested to Zhao Ji: set up another team of about [-] people in Hedong, mainly recruiting Han people from Yun and Shuo, and let them guard the key places in each prefecture and county, named "Yisheng". Army", let Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong be the commanders-in-chief and deputy commanders, so as to counter the Ever-Victorious Army, and also make Guo Yaoshi a little afraid.

Zhao Ji felt that Tan Zhen's suggestion was very good, so he quickly approved it.

Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong were both defenders of Hedong, and they were familiar with the terrain and population of the Yunzhong area.

After receiving the order, Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong immediately started recruiting.

They selected those young and strong men from the returnees, registered their names, established military status, and paid military salaries.

In the Song Dynasty, there were so-called "returned people", "returned people" and "returned people". They were all special groups formed during the Song Dynasty's handling of the relationship with the surrounding ethnic minorities and their state power.

Returning to righteousness refers to people who were originally from the Central Plains, but later fell into a foreign country, and then returned to the Central Plains. They are people who returned to righteousness from evil.

Guiming people refer to people who are not originally from the Central Plains, but are ethnic minorities outside the Central Plains. Those who come to the Central Plains are people who have returned to the Ming from darkness.

Returnees refer specifically to those who belonged to the Han people in the Yanyun area and returned to the Song Dynasty.

Due to successive years of wars, a large number of refugees appeared in the Yanyun area. They were basically returnees and met the recruitment requirements, so they came to sign up one after another and joined the Yisheng Army.

The remuneration of the Yisheng Army was extremely generous, and even attracted many soldiers of the Ever Victorious Army to secretly join the army.

Guo Yaoshi was very panicked by the establishment of the Yisheng Army, especially after soldiers from the Ever Victorious Army continued to secretly go to join the Yisheng Army.

In order to prevent the situation from expanding, Guo Yaoshi ordered that all the soldiers' faces be engraved with the marks of the Ever Victorious Army to prevent them from escaping.

Guo Yaoshi's actions aroused the dissatisfaction of the soldiers of the Changsheng Army, which made everyone complain, and the morale of the army was very unstable.

This made Guo Yaoshi secretly hate Zhao Ji and the Song court!
The generous treatment of the Yisheng Army not only dissatisfied the Changsheng Army, but also dissatisfied the Song Army.

In the eyes of the soldiers of the Song Army, Yanyun Han people are still "Fan people" and "Han children", so they are often looked down upon by the soldiers of the Song Army.

According to the policy of the imperial court, the monthly rations and clothing of the Yisheng army were twice that of other Song troops, and the Song army ate old food, while the Yisheng army ate new food. Soldiers met Yisheng soldiers on the road and often insulted them: "You Fan people eat Xin, and our officers and soldiers eat Chen. I am not as good as Fan people? I will punish you!"

Not only the soldiers of the Song army were very unfriendly to the Yanyun Han people, but the common people of Song State also disrespected the Yanyun Han people and regarded them as "Fan people".

In fact, the attitude of the Song court towards the Han people in Yanyun was also very ambiguous. It not only suspected that they did not trust them, but also wanted to win them over and use them.

This made the Han people in Yanyun fear and hate Song people.

Slowly, the Han people in Yanyun began to be disappointed with the Song State, even desperate, thinking that the Song State was not only far worse than the Shuibo Liangshan, but might not be as good as the Jin State and Xixia!
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(End of this chapter)