Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 843 Night in Ulaanbaatar (Please subscribe!)

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in fact--

Ketun City is just west of Ulaanbaatar in later generations.

Not long after the Chinese army crossed the desert, Yue Fei sent his eldest son, Yue Yun, to lead an army of [-] cavalry, and Wang Sheng and Li Yanguang each led [-] cavalry to attack Ketun City in Ulaanbaatar West.

In order to ensure the effect of the surprise attack, all of Yue Fei's cavalry were equipped with one man and two horses.

Yue Fei himself led the remaining troops as the central army, and slowly advanced towards Ketun City.

The Chinese army spent so much effort to cross the desert in order to surprise the city of Ketun.

Therefore, how could Yue Yun, Wang Sheng, and Li Yanguang dare to neglect?

The three led [-] cavalry on a starry night and arrived at Ulaanbaatar West and the city of Ketun.

The so-called Ketun City is actually an earthen city that has been in disrepair for a long time, and its defense capabilities are very limited.

but--

Because of the desert as a natural barrier, and because Ketun City has tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of horses, the surrounding small tribes dare not peek at it.

Therefore, people in Ketun City live a boring life day after day, year after year.

This kind of boring life will undoubtedly make people numb and lose their vigilance.

In addition, after the last mutiny, Yelu Shulie and Yelu Dilie were killed by the rebels. Now there is no leader in the city of Ketun, and everyone is muddling along.

Therefore, the city of Ketun was not prepared at all.

The night in Ulaanbaatar is so quiet and beautiful.

Unfortunately--

The [-] cavalry led by Yue Yun, Wang Sheng, and Li Yanguang and the muskets they used broke the quiet beauty of the night in Ulan Bator.

The process will not be repeated.

There are mental arithmetic and unintentional, and they are twice as many people in Ketun City. In addition, in terms of weapons, the two sides are very different.

Therefore, there was no suspense in this battle—Yue Yun, Wang Sheng, and Li Yanguang captured Kedun City in the first battle, and almost all the people in Kedun City were captured.

The intelligence sent back by the big and medium spies in Kedun City is correct, because of the unique geographical environment of Kedun City and the accumulation of countless years, there are actually more than 40 war horses here, and all of them are war horses.

This made Yue Fei and others all amazed!

Yue Fei invited the Liao King Li Xu and the former Liao people who were highly respected and determined to join the Dazhong, and asked them to recruit the people from Kedun City.

At the beginning, after the Khitan conquered Mobei, the various tribes in the group fell and rebelled from time to time, so Emperor Shengzong of Liao ordered Wang Taifei (Concubine Qi) to lead Ugu and other troops to the west to comfort. Later, Kedun City was built near the original Uyghur King City In Nianzhi Town (Zhiketun City), Weizhou, and Fangzhou, more than [-] cavalry from various tribes and more than [-] exiled homes of Bohai, Jurchen, and Han people were dispatched to guard there, and a death order was issued: no matter what No matter how far the country has come, the [-] cavalry in Duncheng are not allowed to go south.

In the blink of an eye, more than 100 years have passed.

For more than 100 years, it is said that the people of Kedun City were stationed in Kedun City to guard the frontier for the Liao Dynasty. It is better to say that they were exiled here.

Moreover, several generations have passed, and all those who had feelings for the Liao Dynasty have passed away, and now the people in Kedun City don't actually have much affection for the Liao Dynasty.

However, the more than 1 Khitans brought by Yelu Shulie and Yelu Dilie still had some feelings for the Liao Dynasty, but firstly, they were few in number, and secondly, they died a lot during the last military rebellion. Became a minority in Ketun City.

Furthermore, Yelu Yuliyan was the last officially conferred princess of the Liao Dynasty. She and Li Xiansheng's son could gain the approval of these leaderless Liao people to a large extent, at least giving them an excuse to surrender.

Of course, more is still the general trend. If they have become rootless duckweeds, if they don't surrender to Dazhong like most Liao people, they will probably be slaughtered.

All in all, without much effort, Yue Fei and others recruited and surrendered the remnants of the Liao Dynasty in Kedun City, and took over Kedun City.

Capturing Ketun City was only the first goal of Yue Fei and others' trip.

Soon, Ma Kuo, in the name of the recruiting department of the Northwest Road of the Dazhong Empire, gave the remnant Liao army chiefs from seven military prefectures including Weiwu, Chongde, Huifan, Xin, Dalin, Zihe, and Tuo, as well as Rhubarb Shiwei and enemy Lai, Wang Jila, Chachila, Yexi, Bigude, Nila, Dalaguai, Damili, Mierji, Hezhu, Uguri, Zub, Pusuwan, Tanggu, Humusi , Xidi, Jiuerbi and other surrounding small tribe leaders sent invitation letters, inviting them to come to the alliance.

in fact--

Long before coming to Ketun City, under the lead of the people sent by Yelu Dashi, Honglu Temple had already got in touch with these remnants of the Liaojun Prefecture and the leaders of these small tribes, and some of them had even He promised to surrender to Dazhong and respect Li Yan as Khan.

For these tribes that had surrendered to Dazhong, Dazhong traded with them at a fair price, sold them the food and daily necessities they needed, bought their livestock and furs, and even allowed them to move the tribes to nearby Liaoning and mix with the Han people there.

In this way, these tribes who surrendered to Dazhong have gained real benefits.

This also made those tribes who were still waiting and watching couldn't help but move their hearts to surrender.

Therefore, Ma Kuo called the remnants of the Liaojun Prefecture and the leaders of these small tribes to a meeting in the name of the Recruitment Department of the Northwest Road of the Dazhong Empire, and most of them rushed here.

And for those who came, the people of Honglu Temple warmly entertained them, and talked with them one by one about the benefits of surrendering to Dazhong.

A few months later, the meeting of the alliance chaired by Ma Kuo was held.

Ma Kuo gave an impassioned speech at the conference, saying that in the Tang Dynasty, from the Sea of ​​Japan in the east, to Annan in the south, to the Aral Sea in the west, and to Lake Baikal in the north, the whole world is one family, regardless of each other, everyone can trade freely, and vassals can learn freely Advanced culture and system, everyone progresses together, unlike now, the grassland is full of killings, people are dying, and the people of the grassland have nowhere to buy even the most basic food and daily necessities...

To put it simply, what Ma Kuo said inside and outside the words is that our Dazhong Dynasty plans to follow the example of the Tang Dynasty to unify the grassland and make the grassland a part of my Dazhong Dynasty. We will trade with you, we will accept you, and we will spread advanced culture to you, otherwise, we will send troops to attack you.

After the demise of the Liao Dynasty, due to the constraints of the terrain and the obstacles of the Tataer, Mongolian, Kelie, Naiman, and Wanggu tribes, the power of the Jin Dynasty could not reach the north of Yinshan Mountain at all. As a result, these military states and small tribes that originally belonged to the Liao Dynasty actually became children without mothers, and their lives were very difficult-not only were they subject to the Tatar tribe, Mongolia tribe, Kele tribe, Naiman tribe, The bullying and forcible annexation of big tribes such as the Wanggu tribe, and there is no local trade, and life is difficult.

Therefore, these military states and small tribes that originally belonged to the Liao Dynasty urgently needed to be unified, or to find a large dock to rely on, and the prosperous and powerful Dazhong was actually a good choice.

in fact--

Prior to this, these military states and small tribes that originally belonged to the Liao Dynasty also thought about responding to Xixia Li Qianshun's call to unite and fight against Dazhong.

But Li Ganshun has been raging for several years, and the Dajin Kingdom he tried to push to the top failed to annex the surrounding Tataer, Mongolian, Kelei, Naiman, and Wanggu tribes, let alone accept them, such as Mobei The remnants of the Liao Dynasty in the area.

More importantly, the old emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai of the Dajin Kingdom died, and the current emperor is just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy. Correspondingly, Li Yan, who is 44 and five years old this year and fought north and south to unify the Central Plains Dynasty, is more in line with the image of the Great Khan in the hearts of their grassland people.

Moreover, although their relationship with the Liao Dynasty has actually faded, they still hate the Jurchens who destroyed the Liao Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts.

Therefore, Dazhong sent troops to the grassland, and sent [-] troops to Ketun City at one time, so that these military states and small tribes that originally belonged to the Liao Dynasty surrendered one after another.

Of course, there are also blind eyes.

Yue Fei was not polite to those who didn't open his eyes, and immediately united with those tribes that had surrendered to send troops to destroy them, then killed all the men, and distributed their women and livestock to those who were willing to surrender.

Now equipped with muskets, the Chinese army is almost invincible in the world. In addition, there are tribes with many women working as minions. How can those tribes who are disobedient can withstand the encirclement and suppression of the Chinese army?
Soon after, Dazhong unified Mobei and restored the old land of the Tang Dynasty. The sphere of influence of Dazhong and North has reached the Lake Baikal area.

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