A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 1034: Chasing the enemy in the north and conquering the south of the desert; the Southern Han Dynasty changes and conquers Guangnan

Year 12 of the Great Chapininus

June 4
The main force of Xia and Liao consisted of 300,000 soldiers. In the great battle of Deshan, the Liao was defeated and the Xia army pursued them for more than 30 miles.

The Liao emperor fled back to Linhuang Prefecture in a hurry.

June 8
Yuzhou and Dading Prefecture of the Liao Dynasty fell one after another.

June 15

The Xia army captured Fengzhou and Yikuzhou, which were only twenty miles away from Linhuang Prefecture.

Not only that, the Xia Korean Front Army captured Liaoyang City, and then joined forces with the detachment sent by the main army to break through Jinzhou and seize the Liaodong Corridor.

Daxia was finally able to reconnect with Korea on the road, thus restoring the Liaodong territory of the Han and Tang dynasties.

June 20

The Xia army occupied the Liao capital of Linhuang Prefecture, and the Liao emperor Yelu Jing fled north to Hedong City with his civil and military officials, concubines and princes.

What was unexpected was that because the Liao emperor fled north, Xia Yunzhou Governor Feng Zongdao's troops, who had been rushing thousands of miles to besiege Hedong City, were attacked from both sides.

Feng Zongdao fought desperately and finally escaped back to Yunzhou with only a thousand remaining cavalrymen.

July
Yelu Jing personally led tens of thousands of cavalrymen to the west to attack Prince Bu's palace.

When Xiazhou Governor Li Guangrui saw the enemy reinforcements arriving, he hastily retreated south, but returned empty-handed.

Fortunately, Lanzhou achieved significant results.

The governor of Lanzhou, Bai Mufeng, called on the Tibetan tribes in Hehuang to join the army. With the support of the Xia army, the Tibetan tribes took revenge when they had revenge, and their morale was very high.

In the end, the Ganzhou Uighur Khanate was no match for the enemy and lost Liangzhou, Ganzhou, and Suzhou successively.

When the defeated Uighur army passed through Guazhou, Cao Zhijie, a powerful Han Chinese in Guazhou, raised an army, killed the Uighur military supervisor in the city, and then ambushed the Uighur army.

The Uighur Khan Yaoluogemili controlled life and death, the Ganzhou Uighurs were destroyed, and Daxia regained the Hexi Corridor.

Of the five armies, three were successful, one was defeated miserably, and the other was unsuccessful.

Overall, Daxia's northern expedition strategy was very successful. It not only interrupted the Liao Dynasty's road to recovery, but also drove it out of the south of the desert, just like the Huns who were driven into the north of the desert by the Han Dynasty.

Not only that, the other grassland tribes that originally submitted to the Liao Kingdom would also have inappropriate thoughts because the Khitans had lost their prestige.

September

After handling all affairs, Bai Mu, the Crown Prince of Daxia who was stationed in Linhuang Prefecture, ordered his troops to return to the capital.

The imperial court of Daxia issued an edict to divide the original southern region of Liao into four parts.

That is, with Linhuang Prefecture as the administrative center, the Mobei East Road was established; with Shengzhou as the administrative center, the Mobei West Road was established; with Liaoyang Prefecture as the administrative center, the Liaodong Road was established; with Ganzhou as the administrative center, the Hexi Road was established.

Military governor's offices were also set up in Linhuang, Liaoyang, Shengzhou, Ganzhou and Guazhou.

In order to better manage the tribes south of the desert and the ethnic minorities in Liaodong.

The Xia court established the Left and Right Military Commands of Mo Nan in the east and west routes of Mo Nan, and the Liaodong Military Command of Liaodong Route, all of which were under the jurisdiction of the Fanzhengyuan.

Like the Tusi in the southwest and Hehuang areas, these tribes were divided into large and small commanding officers, or Tusi, according to pastures, tribesmen, and able-bodied men, in order to represent Daxia in grazing pastures.

These chieftains had to be enfeoffed by the Fanzhengyuan. Although they had to provide special products such as war horses stipulated by the court every year and accept the court's conscription, they had a great deal of autonomy.

At this point, the Fanzhengyuan of Daxia, which was specifically responsible for managing ethnic minorities, had five Fansi under its jurisdiction: the Yunnan-Southern Dusi, the Hehuang Dusi, the Mo Nan Dusi, the Mo Nan Dusi, and the Liaodong Dusi.

Dusi was a large regional division above Tusi, equivalent to the road system of prefectures and counties among the Han people.

The 15th year of the Great Chaupenin

Daxia saw that the ruler of Southern Han was incompetent and that state affairs were controlled by eunuchs.

The original capable monarch Liu Sheng passed away and was succeeded by Liu Xiong, who was only seventeen years old.

Liu Xiong was young and incompetent and did not know how to govern the country, so he delegated all state affairs to eunuchs Gong Chengshu, Chen Yanshou, and female attendant Lu Qiongxian.

Even palace maids could be appointed as political officials, while the rest of the officials were just there to serve as a supporting role.

Liu Xiong even believed that all the ministers had families and would neglect state affairs because of their family interests, so he was only willing to trust eunuchs.

If a minister wants to be promoted, he must castrate himself.

As a result, there were as many as 20,000 eunuchs in the Southern Han court.

You should know that there were only a few hundred eunuchs in the Great Xia Palace, which unified the entire Central Plains and opened up new territories.

In addition, many of the former generals who had expanded the territory for the Southern Han and once broke through Lingnan and advanced to Jiangxi and Hunan were killed due to slander. The royal family was also wiped out, and eunuchs became the ones in charge of the military.

Bai Xi knew very well that the corrupt Southern Han was the easiest to conquer at this time.

So the strategy of conquering Southern Han was immediately launched.

Daxia sent Changsha Governor Chai Rong to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Southern Han.

He also sent Chang Tianyou, the commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Navy, with 10,000 soldiers and sailors to sail down the coast and attack the capital of the Southern Han Dynasty, Xingwang Mansion (Panyu).

Upon learning that Daxia had sent troops to attack, Liu Yan dispatched Gong Chengshu to garrison Hezhou, Guo Chongyue to garrison Guizhou, and Li Tuo to garrison Shaozhou to guard against the Song army.

However, Gong Chengshu, Guo Chongyue and Li Tuo were all eunuchs, inexperienced in battle and knew nothing about military strategies.

On the other hand, Xia Jun’s commander-in-chief was Chai Rong.

He had great ambitions since childhood, had a heroic appearance, was good at riding and shooting, and had a basic understanding of literature, history, and Huang-Lao philosophy.

He passed the boy's examination at the age of eighteen and was admitted to the Xingzhou Provincial School. He passed the provincial examination at the age of twenty and became a famous scholar in the state.

Later he joined the army in Jibei, and after passing the military test, he was awarded the position of Dutou, in charge of a team of 100 men. He followed the army to fight against the Liao army many times and made many military achievements.

After that, he served as deputy commander of the business operations, commander of the wing, commander of the camp, deputy commander of the wing, commander of the wing, and commander of the army.

At the age of thirty, he led an imperial army and made great achievements in the northern frontier.

At the age of 32, he followed the Northern Expedition Army and pursued the Liao Emperor to Hulunbuir Lake, where he was valued by Crown Prince Bai Mu.

Because of his merits, he was appointed Governor of Changsha, and from then on he became a high-ranking general of Daxia and could be considered a local leader.

Now he has been appointed as the 'Commander-in-Chief of the Hezhou Road Camp Troops', leading a part of the imperial guards, the guards of ten states, and a total of 50,000 land and sea troops, marching southward, and it seems that he will achieve the great feat of destroying the country.

On one side are young talents and veterans of the battlefield.

On one side are the palace eunuchs and the military rookies.

The outcome of this battle was determined from the very beginning.

September 10th
Chai Rong broke through the middle and drove straight in with his elite troops, crossing the front lines of Guizhou and Shaozhou, and drove straight from Daozhou to Hezhou, threatening to take Xingwang Palace along the Heshui River to the east.

Upon hearing this, Liu Xiong hurriedly sent his general Wu Yanrou to lead a fleet up the Yujiang River and the Heshui River to the west to reinforce.

Chai Rong had long anticipated that the Han army would certainly send reinforcements, so he set up ambushes along the route and won a great victory, killing Wu Yanrou, occupying Hezhou, and expelling Gong Chengshu.

Afterwards, Chai Rong successively captured four states, namely Fu, Zhao, Gui and Lian, eliminating all threats to the army moving south.

December

Chai Rong's army advanced to Shaozhou.

Li Chengwo, commander-in-chief of the Southern Han Dynasty, led an army of 100,000 to the foot of Lianhua Peak and formed an elephant formation to fight against the Xia army.

The Xia army used the powerful firepower of strong bows, crossbows, cannons and muskets to break their formation and occupied Shaozhou.

The Sixteenth Year of the Great Chaupenin

New Year
The Xia army successively conquered Ying and Xiong states.

February
The Xia army advanced to Majing and once again used powerful firepower to defeat the 60,000 troops of Guo Chongyue, the Southern Han's commander, and besieged the Prince Xing's palace.

Seeing the Xia army approaching the city, Liu Xiong hurriedly selected a dozen ships, loaded with gold, silver, treasures and concubines, and prepared to flee to the sea.

However, just as the ship set sail, Chang Tianyou, the naval commander from the South China Sea, finally arrived from afar. More than a hundred warships were lined up at the mouth of Yujiang River, blocking the entire harbor.

The eunuchs and guards who were accompanying him saw that they could not escape, so they grabbed the jewels in desperation.

The port was instantly in chaos.

Liu Xiong was afraid of being killed by the rebel army, so he did not care about his concubines and rushed back to Panyu City.

February th
With no other options left, Liu Xiong had to surrender, and Chai Rong accepted the surrender on behalf of the emperor, thus marking the end of the Southern Han Dynasty.

March
When the news of Southern Han's surrender reached Kaifeng, Bai Xi was overjoyed and ordered a general amnesty.

At the same time, Bai Xi ordered Chai Rong to escort Liu Xiong back to Kaifeng Prefecture, granted him a mansion, conferred him the title of Enshe Hou, and appointed him as the General of the Right Thousand Oxen Guard as a token of favor.

April
For his contribution in destroying the country, Chai Rong was promoted to Duke of County, Commander-in-Chief of the Cavalry, General Guarding the Country, and Honorary Pillar of the State. He was given a fief of 10,000 households, but actually a fief of 1,000 households.

Regarding the Southern Han territory, the Xia court established Guangnan East Road and changed the Xingwang Palace to Guangnan Prefecture, which was the seat of Guangnan East Road.

Guangnan West Road was established, with Guizhou as its capital.

Two more admirals were appointed to the Nanyang Naval Headquarters, namely Guangzhou and Liuzhou.

The Guangnan Military Governor's Office and the Guizhou Military Governor's Office were set up to govern Guangnan.

At the same time, in order to manage the aboriginal people under the jurisdiction of Guangnan and the two routes, the Xia court set up the Guangnan Left and Right Offices under the Aboriginal Affairs Council, with the same system as in Mo Nan, and appointed more than a hundred chieftains of all sizes.

In less than half a year, Guangnan was finally pacified.

(End of this chapter)