Late Tang

From the hinterland of the Central Plains to the sky above the northeast outside the pass, there are dark clouds of war everywhere. .

Li Jing was very annoyed by the conservative strategy of the Yanjing Left-behind Joint Conference, but from another perspective, although the left-behind team was not aggressive enough and conservative, it at least maintained the status quo of the Qin Fan in the pass. Yong waited for the coalition forces of the nine towns to continuously attack the border, but they held the border town firmly, which made Li Keyong and others' plan to lure the Qin army to attack the field failed.In the end, the Nine Towns' attack turned into a robbery, which caused a lot of trouble, but Qin Fan did not suffer any real harm.In the words of the staff of the attendants, the left-behind joint meeting did not lose an inch of land or a city.

But such a result, Li Jing must not be satisfied.In Li Jing's view, Qin Fan has the most elite troops and the most sound reserve service, especially after the implementation of the compulsory military system, the combination of the veteran military system and the professional military system, the Qin Army has tens of thousands of 10,000+ veterans every year. Go to the reserves.In Li Jing's view, although Li Keyong and the Nine Towns coalition forces are very famous, they are at best a loose alliance. They are not a joint force, but attack everywhere on a front thousands of miles away.On the surface, they are attacking from all directions, but in Li Jing's view, this is a good time for the enemy's forces to be scattered and they can be defeated individually.

It's just that the anger didn't take long for Li Jing to dissipate a lot. He also knew that, on the other hand, there was nothing wrong with the conservative strategy of staying behind in the meeting.After all, the left-behind meeting is mainly a group of civil servants. In terms of generals, there is a lack of people who can really make decisions.Moreover, when he left by himself, the left-behind meeting he set up limited the status of the military generals group. Although doing so played a great role in the internal stability of the rear, it also did not have enough prestige when facing the attacks of the towns. The generals came out to fight.

Taking a step back, not everyone can maintain a strong self-confidence while attacking the north and south of the eighteen towns at the same time.Especially when Li Jing led a full 40 army to expedition to Liaodong, most of the main force was fighting thousands of miles away. Facing the attack of the North and South Eighteenth Route Fanzhen, not many dared to fight back.They have to consider a realistic result. If they choose to defend, although the Qin army will suffer losses, but the losses are within the tolerable range, but it can ensure the stability of the thousands of miles of defense line in the Qin Fan Pass and defend against the enemy at the gate of the country. outside.But if you choose to attack, there will be several results.The best result is naturally that Qin Fan wins and defeats the enemy army.The medium result is mutual confrontation and stalemate. Such a result will not cause trouble for a while, but it will seriously increase the load on Qin Fan. Qin Fan cannot provide sufficient supplies for millions of troops to fight at the same time.Just like a bow that collapses too full, it will be in danger of breaking.The most terrifying result was the failure of the counterattack. As a result, the door was opened and the defense line fell, allowing the enemy to rush into the inner area of ​​Qin Fan.

For a long time, the most important military strategy of the Qin army was to defend the outside and the inside, with heavy troops gathered on the long line of defense, but there were not many troops on the inside.Especially in the rear, the defensive strength is insufficient.Once the outside line is broken through, for Qin Fan, the consequences will be unbearable.

Li Jing got angry for a while, then gradually calmed down, reconsidered the whole situation, and finally had to admit that although the decision to stay at the meeting was not the best, it was also the most prudent.

Soon there was a piece of good news reported, which made Li Jing feel much more comfortable.

After he led the fleet to sweep the Nine Blackwater Tribes, under the operation of the Supervision Office, Agulang, the commander of the right army of the Shangjing Alliance Army and the governor of the Blackwater Tribal Alliance, finally received a terrible news.What they were most worried about happened. The Qin army who had already circled behind them and blocked their way came back with a more ruthless move. Their old nest in the rear, the villages and towns of the various tribes between the black waters.

The deputy commander of the Right Route Army, King Yeluwan of the Khitan North Court, tried hard to persuade him, but in the end Agulang still failed to resist the demands of the leaders of the nine tribes of Heishui. Leaders, after hearing the news from the rear, none of them could sit still.They have been fighting here for several years, and they have long wanted to go home.But they had been promised by the Khitan people and Agulang before, that if they persisted for a while, Bohai Sea would be wiped out, and they would be able to share countless slaves, cattle, sheep and money. Those beautiful temptations made them persevere.But now, such a temptation can no longer convince the fighters of the Blackwater Alliance.

They became manic and rebellious, and often robbed, wiped out money, and even fought with each other between different tribes and different villages and towns, in order to vent the growing pressure and anxiety in their hearts.Now, after hearing these bad things at home, they finally broke out and asked to go home.Even desertion began to appear in the army, and many soldiers left the team without authorization and went home directly.There are also many who are directly deserting the whole team.The tribal soldiers are basically organized according to the tribe. The large tribes form a team of ten thousand people, and then the smaller tribes form a team of thousands, and several villages form a team of hundreds.Originally, this traditional organization made the tribal fighters more familiar when fighting, and they didn't even need to choose officers, and they didn't need to cultivate a tacit understanding.But now, this has become a convenient way for them to desert. The team of hundreds formed by the same village and the team of thousands formed by small tribes, under the leadership of the village chief and tribal leader, left without authorization and returned home.

Those commanders and commanders are all battered, and if this continues, their soldiers will run away.And they also wanted to go back. A Gulang finally ignored Yelu Wansi's advice, and all his subordinates would go back. If he persisted, it would be difficult for him to be the governor.

Agulang directly took his nine tribes of the Blackwater Alliance with more than [-] troops back north and left Shangjing.Yelu Wansi also wanted to keep Shangjing, and persuaded the members of the Shiwei tribal alliance to stay together.But the Shiwei people just persisted for ten days, and immediately left Khitan and those who were allied with the small tribes attached to Khitan in a dark night, and ran away without a word.

People from the Blackwater Alliance and the Shiwei Alliance were on the right, and the Khitan and other small tribes together did not have much left. In the end, Yeluwansi had to admit the reality, and the right army collapsed without attacking.When he discovered that more and more reconnaissance cavalry were approaching the Qin army's defense line in Zhongjing, Yelu Wansi finally led his people to evacuate Shangjing helplessly.

What happened next was as Li Jing expected. The Blackwater Tribal Army, who was eager to return north, was ambushed by the Qin Army in Derry Town.The tactics of the Qin army were nothing new. First they ambushed and attacked, then retreated with a feigned defeat, luring the eager Heishui fighters to pursue them, and then ambushed again, but this time there were still not many people ambush, and the Qin army still feigned defeat. The Qin army lost eighteen battles in three days, and the Heishui tribal army pursued for 120 miles in one day.The entire Heishui army was chasing after them. In the end, they finally chased to the front of the Heishui Fortress, and were led step by step by the Qin army to the unique and dangerous mountain pass. Wei, Wang Qiang, the commanders of the four major armies led [-] troops and surrounded more than [-] Heishui tribe fighters in the dangerous canyon of the mountain pass.

This is an ambush from ten sides!

At first, the Blackwater Tribe thought it was just another ambush, but when they charged bravely to break through, they encountered thousands of flying thunder cannons, hundreds of catapults, and countless A strong bow and crossbow attack.

Since the Northeast War, this is the strongest battle between several forces, the largest and most intense fierce battle.

Cannons rang out, arrows rained down, one after another strong black water warriors were mercilessly shot in the valley, the corpses piled up like mountains, blood even pooled and overflowed the insteps.

For seven days and seven nights, Agulang commanded the Blackwater Tribe to launch countless breakouts, but Qin Jun ruthlessly crushed them relying on the pre-set dangerous battlefield, the firearms he had accumulated for a long time, and countless crossbow arrows. Desperate to break through again and again.

In order to prevent the plague from rotting Xia Ri's corpses, the Blackwater warriors surrounded in the valley burned the corpses of their fellow clansmen every day.The Heishui warriors trapped in the valley had already run out of food, and they lived by slaughtering war horses every day.But after seven days, the horses will also be killed.

They also counted on people from the Shiwei Alliance and the Khitan Alliance to rescue them. Unfortunately, although the Shiwei Alliance and the Khitan people wanted to rescue them, they were isolated hundreds of miles away from the battlefield and could not get through.

On the ninth day, the Qin army sent envoys into the valley.The envoy of the Qin Army issued an ultimatum for the last three days, asking them to surrender within a time limit. If they vetoed it, they would completely besiege and die the remaining 10,000 of the [-]+ Heishui people in the valley. The Mohe people from various tribes in the Heihe River Basin conveyed to them the true situation of the various tribes in Heishui today, and proposed preferential conditions for their surrender.

After the envoys of the Qin army left, for two days in a row, the Blackwater fighters in the valley did not launch the suicidal breakout attack again.

On the third day, the time for the final ultimatum finally arrived.

Just when the generals of the Qin army in the camp thought that the Heishui Mohe people were going to fight to the death, a group of Heishui cavalry appeared on the mountain pass, but the number was very small, and they raised the white flag as agreed.

The Heishui tribe surrendered. Agulang and the governors of the other eight major tribes went out of the valley alone and came to the camp of the Qin army. They presented their sabers to Lin Wei, the commander of the Qin army. Then they cut their palms, drank the blood, and swore From then on, he descended to Qin and never betrayed him.

Lin Wei accepted this set of rituals, and finally put forward the conditions of the Qin army. All Blackwater fighters, under the age of 20 and over 50 years old, will receive a three-month ideological education in Derry Town and learn the legal system of Qin Fan. After the etiquette and so on, you can return to your hometown.However, all non-disabled soldiers over 20 years old and under 50 need to be recruited into the Qin Army, reorganized, and supplemented into the various units of the Qin Army.They must serve five years of military service in the Qin army before they can return home.During their service, they must learn Chinese characters and obey the laws and regulations of the Qin Dynasty.At the same time, during the five-year service period, they enjoy the same military salary and salary allowance as other Qin troops, and they can also enjoy family leave for good performance.

For the leaders and nobles of the tribes like Agulang, Qin Fan gave them a certain rank, but did not confer titles. All officers and leaders above the rank of centurion had to be sent back to Yanjing for further study.Of course, among the conditions offered by Qin Jun this time, the official positions and titles are very stingy, but the rewards such as money and land are still very generous. Their original properties are all protected, and they also get a lot of new rewards.However, from now on, he can only become a wealthy but idle fan, and must stay away from their tribe.

This condition is very harsh. When discussing this item, there were many objections, thinking that this item was too harsh and would make it difficult for the leaders of Blackwater to accept it.But now the situation is very good, this one was finally taken out, and the negotiation with the knife resting on the neck was of course completely in the hands of Qin Jun.

The Blackwater Tribe had long been desperate, and they had no other choice but to surrender.Although the generals of the Qin army felt that the conditions were very harsh, in the eyes of the leaders of the Heishui tribe, it was considered light. Even after hearing all the conditions and only these, they couldn't help but relax. tone.

The land of the Blackwater Basin is bitter cold, remote and barbaric, and the law of struggle here is even more cruel. If their law is used, the Blackwater coalition army as the loser will be demoted to slavery, and their wives and children will be the same Doomed.Even some crueler tribes will kill all the men who are higher than the wheel in the defeated enemy tribe, or sell them to other tribes as slaves.Then occupy their tribal territory and enslave their wives and daughters.

This is the law of struggle in the most backward and savage land, never stop dying, and cut grass and roots.

They deliberated for three days before finally deciding to surrender. It was also because they had heard about the favorable conditions offered by the Qin army to those tribes who surrendered in battle, and the conditions proposed by the envoys of the Qin army, and thought it was very good.Although the condition is too simple, it is unbelievable, but they all think that this may only be a superficial treaty, and there will be some more stringent treaties secretly, but although they still have many fighters today, they can The besieged are dead, there are no reinforcements outside, no food and grass inside, and there is only a dead end to continue.

No one would have thought that Qin Jun's conditions at that time were the final conditions.

Agulang took the lead in signing the letter of surrender, and then sent his followers back to the valley.

Later, the fighters of the Blackwater Alliance, who survived nearly one hundred thousand catastrophes, lined up and walked out of the valley one by one, put down their knives and guns, and even walked naked into the camp vacated by the Qin army, consciously and honestly becoming captive.

"Heishui Mohe, I have completely surrendered to His Highness King Qin!" Lin Wei couldn't help sighing proudly as he watched the spectacular scene.

Li Cunxiao also laughed loudly, and even said slyly: "It won't be long before we have to change the title of King Qin to His Majesty!"

No one objected to his words, not even Zhang Zimian said a word.To this day, who else can deny that the future master of this world, besides Li Jing, is there anyone else?

Riding on the horse, Lin Wei quickly wrote a victory letter in hand, the content of the letter was only four words, Heishui surrendered! (To be continued.)