Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 587 Destruction of Li Dynasty (please subscribe!)

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Hainan Island.

Hainan County City, Li Yan's temporary residence.

Li Yan took a letter from Liang Hongyu, "Huizong Zen was located in his eldest son Zhao Huan, who was Qinzong. Qinzong changed Yuan Jingkang with "Rijing Sifang" and "Yongkang Zhaomin". Qinzong was stationed in Bianliang City... Jinxi Road Army was blocked in Taiyuan City, and [-] troops from Jindong Road crossed the Yellow River and came to Bianliang City..." After reading the secret report, he murmured: "There is only one year left. ?"

After all, Li Yan did not study solid history, so he was not too clear about the year number.

but--

Li Yan knew that the shame of Jingkang happened in the first month of the second year of Jingkang.

Moreover, it is not difficult to analyze from the current intelligence that the Jin army with only [-] troops is still unable to conquer Song State for the time being.

After all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. It is actually not difficult for the Song Dynasty to gather 30 to [-] soldiers capable of fighting.

It can even be said that if Zhao Huan gave enough trust and policy support to loyal ministers and good generals, Song would definitely be able to create hundreds of thousands of troops in a short period of time.

Let's put it this way, as long as Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and his sons, and the ministers of the Song State don't risk their lives and dare to give it a go, the current Jin State cannot destroy the Song State at all, even if it is replaced by Shuibo Liangshan, the result will be the same.

It's not that Li Yan is praising Song, but that Song's national power is at stake.

The Song State has a population of more than 1 million, and there are still hundreds of thousands of imperial troops, Xiang armies, and township armies from all over the country. As long as there is a monarch with a bit of a sense, it is not the current state of Jin or the current Shuibo Liangshan. perishable.

The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty lost its country, including the reason why the Southern Song Dynasty was partial to peace, was mainly because the monarchs of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, Zhao Gou and his father and son, were cowardly, always fighting and making peace, and often made foolish moves. The fact that some people are not reused is not because of their national strength. This is also one of the reasons why Li Yan did not go south when he occupied Yanyun.

Li Yan put down the secret report and asked Liang Hongyu, "How is the front line?"

Liang Hongyu said: "The news from Xiao Xuanfu said that both the East Route Army and the West Route Army have reached the ancient Fa Prefecture of Beijiang, and they should be able to destroy the Li Dynasty in a few days."

Li Yan went to sea this time, in addition to opening up the Maritime Silk Road, he also had a military purpose, which was to destroy the Li Dynasty.

The so-called Li Dynasty is the Vietnam of later generations. It used to be called Annan, but now most people call it Li Dynasty.

This country was originally a part of China. It has been the territory of China since the Qin Dynasty in China in the third century BC. During the Tang Dynasty, it was part of the Annan Protectorate. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Wu Quan separated Annan from the Southern Han Dynasty. Unable to unify, it became formally independent, and then existed as a vassal state of Song State.

but--

Since the founding of this country, this country has shown a very strong aggressiveness, often harassing Song State to snatch Song State's territory, and also rob Song State's population.

After Shuibo Liangshan acquired Hainan Island, Li Yan planned to build Hainan Island into the bridgehead of the southern line of the Shuibo Liangshan Maritime Silk Road. Therefore, in the past two years, under Li Yan's order, the Ministry of Households moved 100 to Hainan Island. There are more than 100 Han Chinese and more than [-] million Japanese. Li Yan also sent Xiao Jiasui, who is both civil and military and experienced, to run the place.

Conquering the sea is not easy. The sea is not only windy and rough, but also difficult to tell the direction. Therefore, the two most difficult points for human beings to conquer the sea are to avoid capsizing and to identify the direction.

The former, Shuibo Liangshan, whose shipbuilding technology has been quite developed, has basically overcome it, especially after the birth of the treasure ship, general strong winds and waves can no longer destroy the warships of Shuibo Liangshan.

The latter, under the inspiration of Li Yan, Shuibo Liangshan has invented relatively advanced navigation tools such as compass, weather instrument, and sextant to identify directions.

But even so, for the sake of safety, Shuibo Liangshan's current voyage is still carried out in the coastal waters not far from the mainland - this can not only ensure that there are reference objects to identify the direction, but also ensure that in case of strong winds and waves, they can go to the shore to escape.

Along the road, Li Yan built Jiaodong County, Shanghai County, Taiwan County, Xiangjiang County, Hainan County and other large coastal counties and dozens of ports as transfer stations to ensure the safety of ships.

In fact, the Maritime Silk Road is already a very mature route, and some bold Song people even carried out maritime trade along this route with only a few small boats not much bigger than a sampan.

The purpose of Li Yan's trip is just to clear up this route, and then attract foreign sea merchants to Shuibo Liangshan for trade.

Needless to say, the eastern route is a route established by Shuibo Liangshan itself, which is absolutely safe.

The first stop on the west line is Li Chao.

Originally, Li Yan wanted to establish a good relationship with Li Chao and achieve a win-win situation.

But this is just Li Yan's wishful thinking.

Because of the strong support of Shuibo Liangshan, Xiao Jiasui, who is very capable, built three big cities, more than a dozen small cities and hundreds of villages on Hainan Island in less than two years, making this remote place The island became prosperous.

This aroused Li Chaoren's greed. At the same time, Li Chaoren was also worried that Hainan County's growth would threaten it.

Therefore, not long ago, the Li Dynasty launched an invasion of Hainan County, robbing three county towns and more than a dozen villages in Hainan County, plundering a large amount of food and wealth and more than [-] people.

If this Li Yan didn't fight Li Chao, then Li Yan wouldn't be Li Yan.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived in Hainan County, Li Yan asked Xiao Jiasui and others to formulate a strategy to attack Li Chao.

Xiao Jiasui has long been planning revenge. You must know that Hainan County was built by him alone. The people in the county are all his children. They were attacked by Li Chao and more than [-] were taken away by Li Chao. How could he not want to revenge?

Therefore, Xiao Jiasui collected a lot of information about Li Chao, and also recruited many Li Chao people.

After Li Yan learned of these things, he simply appointed Xiao Jiasui as the Xuan Fu envoy, and Han Shizhong and Yue Fei as the commanders of the left and right, responsible for commanding the army to attack the Li Dynasty.

This man from Li Chao was really bold and reckless, he even assembled an army of 20, claiming to be [-], to fight head-on with Liang Shan's army.

As a result, the Liangshan army defeated Li Chao's army without any effort, killed and wounded more than 3 people, and captured more than 2 people. After that, Xiao Jiasui divided Liangshan Army into two armies, east and west, and went straight to Beijiang Gufa, the capital of Li Dynasty. state to kill.

In fact, there is no suspense in this battle - Li Chao's army is too backward, some soldiers are not complete, and Liangshan Army is the most advanced army of this era, none of them.

The armies of the two armies from the east and the west were in full swing, and the towns along the road were easily breached by the armies of the two armies. In just a dozen days, the armies of the two armies successively attacked under the ancient Fazhou of Beijiang, the capital of the Li Dynasty.

Li Yan believes that it won't be long before news of Li Chao's destruction will come.

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(End of this chapter)