Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 870 Difficulty Sleeping and Eating (Please Subscribe!)
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After reading the confession memorial on Yu Yunwen, Li Yan put it aside calmly, then looked at Li Xiu and Li Ci who had already arrived in the palace, and his twenty sons who had just grown up, and said: "The nomads hunt on horseback. Their characteristics determine that they are born warriors, civilians are soldiers, and soldiers are civilians. However, the way of nomadic life cannot guarantee that nomads have sufficient food accumulation. Once encountering bad weather, the cattle and sheep herded by nomads will be in large numbers. As a result, the life of the nomads cannot be maintained, so the nomads will inevitably invade the southern farming peoples to plunder, so as long as the nomads are not completely wiped out, the nomads will definitely invade our Dazhong.”

After a pause, Li Yan looked at his sons, and asked again: "Then how to deal with the nomads, so as to avoid future troubles forever?"

Li Yan didn't use his sons to answer, so he replied: "The Great Wall can protect our farming people from being invaded by nomads, but it is precisely because of the Great Wall that our farming people and nomadic people will always be opposites. The Great Wall is just like the Chu River and the Han Dynasty. In the past, most of the dynasties would only guard behind the Great Wall, drawing the grassland as a place outside the square, and never crossing a step. This seems to be a kind of self-protection, but it is not. In my opinion, this is self-restriction and self-defense, so I will never do such a stupid thing, only let the nomads become a part of our Dazhong, the grasslands become part of our indivisible territory, nomadic Nationalities will not attack our Dazhong anymore. As for how to make the nomads a part of our Dazhong, we must first completely conquer them, and then assimilate them with culture..."

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Not long after, Li Yan transferred Yu Yunwen and asked him to transfer the order of the school secretary, which was regarded as a warning to Yu Yunwen and Li Cun, and then continued his footsteps of conquering the grassland tribes.

Tietong eight years autumn.

After more than half a year of conquest, the Wanggu, Tataer, Wangjici, Gulie, Mierji, Bacihu, Menggusi, and Chachici tribes were successively defeated by the Chinese army. Some were even directly wiped out by the Chinese army.

Today, the vast majority of the remnants of the Mongolian tribes are gathered in the Onan River and the Burhan Mountain area, led by Borjijin Hebul Khan of the Mongol Kingdom, that is, Hebul Khan.

There are also a small number of Mongols who fled to Dajin and completely integrated into the Jin people. Now they gather in the area of ​​​​Shangjing to guard against death.

The weather in the north, after autumn, will turn cold if it is said to be cold, and the temperature is frighteningly low. In many areas, water is even turned into ice.

And many soldiers of the Chinese army came from the south, and they couldn't stand the weather at all.

Therefore, if the Muwu Kingdom and the Dajin Kingdom cannot be wiped out as soon as possible, Dazhong can only withdraw its troops for the time being, and make a comeback after the spring blossoms in the coming year.

But if this is the case, it will undoubtedly give the Mongols and Jin people a chance to breathe, and countless variables may arise.

Li Yan brought Xu Guanzhong and Liu Qi to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Qi boldly proposed: "It's better to take a risk and attack once. If you can defeat the Muwu and Dajin countries, you can continue to fight. If you can't defeat the Muwu and Dajin countries, you can retreat for the time being."

Liu Qi’s idea was that if the Mughal and Jin kingdoms could be conquered, the Chinese army could occupy the areas of the Mughal and Dajin kingdoms to rest, so that they could occupy important places and prevent the Mongols and Jins from escaping. You can also put pressure on the Mongols and Jin people to recruit them.

Xu Guanzhong disagreed with Liu Kai's radical ideas. Xu Guanzhong said: "The method of using soldiers is to put the whole country first, and destroy the country second..."

What Xu Guanzhong meant was that the basic principle of war is that it is the best policy to make the enemy's whole country surrender, and destroying the enemy's country is the second-class choice.

Xu Guanzhong said again: "Now, our Chinese army has pushed the Jin people and Mongols into a desperate situation. We should stop and find a way to make the whole country surrender. We shouldn't continue fighting. In that case, the Jin people and Mongols will be desperate. , causing unnecessary casualties to us Dazhong."

Liu Kai objected to negotiating a peace now, saying: "But the problem is that now, neither the Jin nor the Mongols can sincerely surrender. At most, they just want to trick us away by delaying their troops, and then continue to occupy the Northeast Plain and the Mongols. The Mongolian plateau continues to be our big and middle enemy, so we must conquer Shangjing and Onan River, so that the Jin people and Mongols will be afraid, and they will surrender the whole country."

Xu Guanzhong asked Liu Qi back: "Then if we lose in Dazhong, by then, the Jin people and Mongols are bound to make a comeback, and there will be a tug-of-war, and we will even promote their real unification and become our great enemy." , Therefore, why don’t we just accept it now, and then use political means to wipe out the Daikin and the Mongolian tribes bit by bit.”

Speaking of this, Xu Guanzhong bowed to Li Yan and said: "Officials, the policy of reducing the population implemented by Dajin is not advisable. It cannot really eliminate the Hulu. Therefore, blindly beating is not enough. Now, we The Dajin and Mongolian tribes have already been beaten, and I feel that we should stop taking risks and continue to fight, and it is time to stop and have a good talk with the Jin people and the Mongols."

The so-called reduction policy is one of the policies formulated by the Jin government to deal with the Mongols, that is, to regularly send troops to exterminate the people of the Mongolian tribes. All the adult men of the Mongolian tribes are within the range of being killed. In the years of poverty and famine, the killing is even worse. This kind of policy is called "reduction of Ding".

To put it bluntly, Dajin was afraid that the Mongols would become bigger and endanger its rule, so it sent troops to kill the Mongols regularly, and then robbed the women and children of the Mongols to strengthen itself.

The Mongols also hated the Jinren because of this. If Dazhong didn't push too hard, they would never be able to merge with the Jinren.

(Historically, the Jin Kingdom perished, the Mongols massacred the Jin people, and Temujin even ordered that "only the Wanyan family should not be pardoned".

In fact, there is also the credit of the Song people-the Jin Kingdom moved its capital to Bianjing after negotiating peace with Mongolia. They must be killed in a certain period of time, so that, after searching for traces and catching shadows, they will be slaughtered within three or two days, and even dig graves and discard their bones. The Jurchens in the entire Hebei, Henan, and Shandong regions were slaughtered. The demise of the genocide is almost equal to the genocide. )
Therefore, it is not advisable to blindly kill, and it will also be subject to crazy revenge.

Liu Kai also bowed to Li Yan and said: "The official, I agree with the Marshal, but I insist on conquering Shangjing and Onan River first, otherwise, with the greed and cunning of the Jin people and Mongols, they will never be obedient." Those who are vassals of our big and middle schools will never cooperate with our big and middle schools to divide and manage them."

The ball hit Li Yan's feet again.

Li Yan was too clear about the viciousness and survival ability of the Jin people and the Mongols, and it was absolutely impossible to conquer them without completely maiming and destroying them.

Therefore, Xu Guanzhong was actually wrong this time.

but--

Xu Guanzhong's worry is not unreasonable. After all, winter is coming. If Shangjing and Onanhe cannot be captured in one fell swoop, it will become the home of the Jin and Mongols, and it is likely that the Jin and Mongols will find a desperate place Chance to fight back.

But even so, Li Yan still stood decisively on Liu Kai's side and said: "If the Jurchens and Mongols are not destroyed, I will have trouble sleeping and eating, so keep fighting!"

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(End of this chapter)