Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 174 Thief Liu, you too have today!

Jin Guo and Liu Ling both knew each other that their so-called "peaceful relationship" was just a piece of paper, just like the relationship between Liu Ling and the Song Dynasty.

After Liu Ling led the army south, most of the remaining elite and main forces were actually deployed north of Yandi, that is, in the Yanshan Prefecture area. In the past two years, a large number of fort systems began to be built north of Yanshan Prefecture to guard against the Jin people.

However, there was only so much money, food and manpower that could be allocated. Once the north side was built, there was no way to build the south side. Therefore, after Tong Guan led his army across the Baigou River at first, it was indeed "like entering an uninhabited country." What he saw was The Yannan area was empty and unprepared. The Yan people seemed to have no field troops and could only passively defend the city.

Therefore, he made wrong judgments one after another.

Tong Guan is the epitome of Song people's temperament. The most obvious characteristic is that he is unwilling to believe that he is going to lose, and would rather play the last game and gamble to his heart's content.

"That's actually not a bad thing."

Liu Ling pushed the battle report in front of Han Fang and said slowly: "The Song people want to fight one last time and block us in Hebei, so let them block us and send an order to Liang Zhe to let him come from the east. To advance, first ensure that we can open up the road to Bazhou at any time; other armies are not allowed to act rashly.

As for Liu Sichu, whether he can hold Hejian Mansion or not, more people will surrender in the future. "

"Your Majesty, Liu Sichu, let's leave it aside for now. Thirty thousand soldiers are eagerly waiting to go home. I'm afraid everyone in the army has no fighting spirit in case something happens."

"I would tell them that if they wait one more month, they will be able to take home twice as much money and food."

Han Fang frowned, silently thinking about the changes in the past two days, and suddenly realized something, and asked: "Are you deliberately preparing to make Song people interested again?"

At the same time, Wanyan Zongwang is guarding the south of the Kingdom of Jin. His relationship with Liu Ling cannot be said to be a collusion. At least the two sides have been flirting with each other in the past year. They have already made good progress. Liu Ling is not worried that Wanyan Zongwang will take the opportunity to go south to cooperate. The people of Song Dynasty ate the land of Yan.

"How many Tongguans are left in the north?"

"Your Majesty, Tong Guan's army has been wiped out and he is nowhere to be found. Han Shizhong captured more than 20,000 Song troops and dispersed most of them to various places. He recruited 21 Song generals to surrender. The rest either escaped. Or die on the battlefield.”

In his opinion, the people of the Song Dynasty did give a lot this time, but they were all given in the name of marrying the emperor's concubine, which was called "yearly gifts and gifted gifts".

Liu Ling's original plan was to wait for next year or the year after to take a breather, digest the seven states of Hebei ceded by the Song Dynasty, and then find an excuse to attack the Song Dynasty again, but he didn't know that the Song people would actually present such an opportunity again.

Zhao Guanjia stood up from the dragon chair for the first time and looked at Wang Yun, Minister of War, in disbelief. His face seemed to say, are you kidding me?

After all, the bottom line is lowered step by step, not to mention that with Yanyun's current size, he cannot even swallow a Hebei.

The hundreds of thousands of Northern Expedition Song troops led by Tong Guan were completely wiped out, which meant that the defenders in Yanyun and Yunnan could mobilize more troops to go south.

at last.

Wanyan Bali, who had already arrived with his army, looked at Han Shizhong and said. :

"The Jin people also have an army of 100,000 going south?!"

Immediately afterwards came the tens of thousands of Xia troops led by Queen Mother Yelu, who also announced that they were 200,000 troops heading south.

After a while, he had to sit down.

Yan Yun, led by Han Shizhong, led the Yongqing Army and the Yelv Dashi Luanzhou Army, plus soldiers and horses drawn from various places, and 15,000 Liao troops who had gone south to submit. It was impossible to make up 50,000 soldiers. question.

It doesn't matter if you can't provide money or food, then simply recognize the founding of our country, and the annual gifts must be changed into annual tributes.

Now it's your ministers and generals who disobey orders and attack me without authorization again. So you must at least give me some compensation, right?

If we expand it and add civilian auxiliary troops, we can completely display the banner of an army of 200,000 to the outside world.

On the surface, the Song Dynasty still calls the King of Han a minister. This is also the bottom line for their determination not to retreat - you can give money and food, you can also make a king, but you must be a minister. From now on, you, Liu Ling, will be my vassal town of the Song Dynasty. .

"The three families have a total of five hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and I, the Great Song Dynasty, have lost all of them in consecutive years. What should I do?"

"There may not be that many of his three families, but even if they are only half, given the current situation of our Song Dynasty, I am afraid we can only barely cope with it." Wang Yun said slowly.

In the past ten years, the Song Dynasty first failed to conquer Liao twice, and then successively pacified Song Jiang Fangla and other bandits. In the battle with the Xia Lord in the northwest, several "senior generals" led by Liu Yanqing were killed. . During this period, Liu Ling, a big leech, sucked blood desperately. If it were just a loss of money and food, it would be okay. At worst, the Zhao Guan family would miss two birthdays, and the country could recover in two years.

Then there is the recent disastrous defeat. A conservative estimate of the number of soldiers who fell into Yan territory, were captured, killed and disappeared is 70,000 to 80,000. Most of them were surrendered by the Yan people, which was equivalent to becoming the latter's army.

The embarrassment of money and food can be relieved in a year or two, but these soldiers who dare to go out to fight in the field can't just ask grandpa and grandma to give birth to one, right?

In the early morning, it was originally just a talk among a few people. It would be great if everyone could enjoy Henan University under the wise leadership of the Zhao Guan family. But now that the army is approaching, some people want to take advantage of this moment to stick their heads out and test it out.

There were already quarrels in the court. Several of the resurrected ministers, led by Cai Jing, began to express their opinions, saying that Liu Ling only asked for money and food, but now his subordinates were repeatedly disobeying his orders.

Cai Jing was already very old. At this time, his face turned red with excitement and he shouted angrily:

"Are they resisting Liu? They are clearly resisting the imperial decree! What they are resisting is the majesty of the imperial court. These children still hold power. I beg the officials not to listen to the words of the villain. Liu Ling is originally a Han citizen from the north, and his heart is great. Song, he is innocent."

"You are shameless!"

Finally, someone couldn't help but stand up and sprayed Cai Jing directly.

We all know that you were brought back by Liu Ling just before he left. It is true that you have a good relationship with him, and we accept that you speak for him. After all, the imperial court always needs a step to negotiate peace with Liu Ling.

But what you said is too shameless, right?

The minister said angrily: "Liu Ling has repeatedly rebelled, how can he be called innocent?"

"It's just innocent!"

Cai Jing puffed up his withered chest and pointed outside the palace: "Did Liu Ling go south before attacking Yan? Tong Guan started the provocation first, but Liu Ling had no choice but to go south. Then he could have negotiated a peace, and even if it was to cede territory, it would only be one or two. In the land of Zhouzhou, Zongze, the peace envoy, disobeyed his orders and gathered troops and horses on the spot to resist, leaving Daming Mansion unprepared and allowing Liu Ling to attack directly to the Yellow River!

Then some people in the court wanted to fight and surrender. It was not until the battle outside Bianjing that they were awakened.

Now Zhang Xiaochun, the governor of Hedong Province, is even more disobedient. He imitates Zongze and gathers troops without authorization. I feel that he alone would not dare to do this. Someone in the court must have given instructions.

Officials, they are not slapping Da Song in the face, this is clearly..."

Cai Jing sneered and turned back to look at Zhao Guan's house.

"Official family, I see that this thief is not in Yanyun or Hebei, but in this court!"

Zhao Guanjia narrowed his eyes and was about to say something when he saw someone suddenly coming out of the queue.

Prime Minister Wang Fu took off his official hat, and then slowly knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty Wang Fu is old and faint, and he is begging for his bones to return home."

The court suddenly became much quieter.

At this moment, an announcement suddenly came from outside, and a man stumbled in. Then the eunuch at the door could only shout outside: "Urgent report! Urgent report of a great victory!"

"Yue Fei from Hebei Province attacked Hejian Mansion at night, defeated the rebel general Liu Sichu's troops, and beheaded him as a message to the three armies!"

"Liu Ling, the king of Han, has retreated thirty miles south and is blocked in Shenzhou. Zhang Xiaochun, the governor of Hedong Xuanfu, has ordered the entire army to march!"

Zhao Guan's family was carrying a series of news, which made it a little difficult to react.

To the north, the "half a million coalition troops" are about to move south, but if Liu Ling can be blocked in Hebei, this half million army may be able to collapse without attacking.

That.

(End of this chapter)