Late Tang

As the New Year approached, the situation outside the customs became more and more clear, and good news came back every day.The two groups of troops sent in autumn with [-] soldiers went straight to the Khitan and Shiwei grasslands, and began to cut the grass and roots to completely stabilize the results of the battle.

Those who obey will prosper, those who oppose will perish!

Under the trample of a hundred thousand iron hooves, the entire Northeast trembled.All the tribes in the Northeast, under the banner of Hunting Flying Eagle, go from the mountain pass of the Mongolian plateau to the east to the Tatar Strait of Tatar Strait, to the north to the vast snow country, and even to the west of the plateau mountain pass, all the way to the North Sea, which was called Beihai by the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, Lake Baikal was called Xiaohai, and it was successively controlled by the Huns, Xianbei, Rouran, and Turks. The Tatar, Tiele, Uighur, Xi and other tribes were all defeated one after another, and their vitality was seriously injured. When the entire army was almost wiped out, no one could stop the iron hooves of the Qin army.

Under the flag of the flying eagle, either surrender or be conquered by arrows and swords.

Those who surrendered, the tribe was ordered to move southward, and they would be scattered and resettled in the territory of the Qin Dynasty for thousands of miles from Liaodong to Bohai, from Rehe to Peiping, and from Shanxi to Huaihai.Their young sons and daughters will be selected to go to the Central Plains for the new education of the Qin Dynasty, and their young men and women will also be required not to marry within the clan. They must marry foreign women and foreign men.They even asked all men to cut their hair short, and women were not allowed to be bald, and even their clothes had to be changed to Hanfu, following Han etiquette. The two religions, and the rest are all silver shrines of evil religions.

The conditions of the Qin army were harsh. They went south for thousands of miles, not directly going south along the way, but all the surrendered tribes started from their tribal settlements, and all the old and young started to build roads, going south while building roads.Build a series of roads to converge in the northeast, build spider-like vertical and horizontal roads in the white mountains, black waters, forests and swamps, all the way to the south.

Although Qin Jun promised that when they got to the south, King Qin would give them land, pastures, and a better life than they have now.But the fear of the unknown still made them confused and panicked. In addition to the bad weather and heavy labor, people died every day, people fled every day, and sometimes even the tribesmen who had surrendered rebelled on a small scale.

For the rebels, the Qin army gave iron and blood suppression and ruthless beheading.

There are more fierce and savage tribes who refused to submit. They either joined forces to resist, or began to migrate further north and west to the plateau and prairie.The rebels were mercilessly purged, and those who moved north and west were also chased by several cavalry sent by the Qin army, causing them heavy losses.

For the Qin army, after defeating the tribes in the vast northeastern region, they will exercise real control here. They will establish state counties and provinces, rather than the Jimi system like the Han and Tang Dynasties.From now on, in this land, Qin Fan is the real master, no matter whether it is Khitan or Shiwei, they will only be a member of Qin Fan, and they will not be allowed to have the chance to make a comeback.This is also the reason why the Qin army implemented a tough strategy in the Northeast that was completely different from that in the occupied areas of the Central Plains.In the Baishan Heishui grassland forest where the strong are respected, fists are the most important.

The tribes surrendered one by one, and were conquered one by one.

The tribes continued to go south. Following their footsteps, behind them, one road after another was built from all directions, leading directly to Yanjing in the customs.

One after another, the legions triumphed from the Northeast, and at the same time, one after another of the new border guards and road protection troops also assembled from the customs and marched towards the Northeast.The most elite troops marched triumphantly, and the newly-built troops marched to the frontier.

When the end of the year was approaching, a total of 40 elites had been withdrawn from the northeast, and there were also twelve legions composed of hundreds of tribes, large and small, including Bohai.

This is a terrifying number, 40 Qin troops and 60 tribal troops.

Of course, this is a number advertised to the outside world. In fact, the 40 Qin army is indeed elite, but there are also 15 united soldiers and rural soldiers recruited from areas outside the pass. The combat troops actually only have five legions.The so-called twelve tribal legions are even more exaggerated.Under the attack of the Qin army, the tribal army was wiped out, and even if they were captured and surrendered, not many were captured.In addition to the remaining Wuhe of Bohai State, there are not many real soldiers.These twelve tribal legions are actually Li Jing who forcibly conscripted the strongest and even young men from the larger tribes to form an army.The establishment of this army is not really to use them to fight, but a strategy for Li Jing to take time out of the tribe.Without the young men and teenagers, those tribes would have no backbone to resist Qin Fan.

After the twelve legions went south, Li Jing didn't even want to keep the establishment of one of the legions. He only planned to pick out one-tenth of the tribal warriors from the 60 people, disrupt them and divide them into various groups of the Qin army. to the army.Even the Ninth and No. 13 Legions, the two pure-Fan legions that have just made great achievements, will be disbanded immediately and replenished with other armies.

As for the remaining Hu people, Li Jing planned to organize them into army camps with refugees from other parts of the Central Plains and people from Bohai, and send them to Ganga In the occupied Northeast region, establish military storage areas one by one, develop the Northeast, and build the Northeast.

Li Jing thought very long-term, and couldn't leave this large number of Northeast tribe aborigines in the Northeast, otherwise, it would become a serious problem sooner or later.But for the development of the Northeast, these natives are the best candidates.So after much deliberation, Li Jing finally came up with a plan to move all these northeastern tribes to the Central Plains, disperse them to various parts of the Qin Dynasty, break them up into pieces, and control the leaders of those tribes.Then, in a similar manner to military service, these tribal men were recruited to the production corps to develop the Northeast.It also lasts for five years, and after five years of service, you can return to your hometown.In this way, the resources of the tribal people are used reasonably, and they are not allowed to take the opportunity to restore their strength in the Northeast, which will cause future troubles.

Such a plan of relocation and resettlement, and then being called back to serve in the Northeast, seems to be a bit of a circle, but it seems superfluous, but it is very necessary.It is very necessary to develop the Northeast, but the development of the Northeast is for the Qin Fan, and in the long run, it is a century-old plan for the descendants of the Han people in the entire Central Plains.If the Northeast is developed in the end, but the tribes in the Northeast rise, isn't it digging a hole for yourself, or even harming future generations? Therefore, all this is necessary.

Defeating the tribes in the Northeast is just the first step in the journey of thousands of miles, and there are many things to come.

But now, for Qin Fan, this is no longer the top priority.

Seeing that the new year is approaching, more and more troops are returning to the pass from the northeast. Several important towns around Yanjing, Shanhaiguan, Tangshan, Tianjin, Lulongsai, Junduguan, Mozhou Sanguan, Hejian, Zijingguan, etc. began to There are more than [-] troops stationed there.The new year is approaching, but these triumphant troops have not yet been granted a vacation.

With so many troops gathered, no one can catch up with the tense atmosphere that the war is about to take place.

At such a moment, Yang Fuguang was very anxious.

He knew very well in his heart that the situation of the Qin army was actually a demonstration. A huge field army group of 50 legions and 120 troops gathered in Hebei. In addition, there were 60 legions brought back by Li Jing from the northeast. The [-] tribal fighters of the army are stationed in Liaoxi, Rehe and Shanxi.

It was agreed to negotiate, but it turned out that Li Jing held a sword to his throat. How can this be discussed?

Yang Shouliang has already received real information from the secret agents arranged by the Imperial Military Department's Secretary of State in Qin Fan. Although the tribal army is not all elite, the number of 60 is not bad, and the Qin army's 50 elite is even more amazing There is no mistake, and among the 50 troops, there are 30 elite soldiers, and the remaining 20 are also prepared troops who have fought big battles in the Bohai Sea for several years.This is still without counting the huge reserves in the Bohai Rim. With the huge number of reserves and mobilization capabilities of the Qin Army, the Qin Army can gather at least 30 reserves in the north at any time.

He has repeatedly confirmed this news several times, and it is absolutely correct.

"With the strength of the Qin army, they can send troops directly to the south. Why didn't they start fighting immediately? What are they waiting for?" Yang Shouliang was puzzled. In his opinion, if the imperial court had an army of millions, they would have sent troops directly. Do it, and beat anyone who refuses to accept it.However, after Li Jing achieved the great victory in the Northeast, he unexpectedly stopped to negotiate.And after their side put forward such a condition yesterday, Li Jing actually backed down a bit, as if he was very concerned about the negotiation.

Anyone can see that with the current strength of the Qin army, they will forcibly start a war with the Chang'an court without any worries, and the odds of winning are mostly on the Qin army's side.But when the Qin army had such a chance of winning, they gathered millions of troops in the northeast, stood still, and even secretly negotiated with them.

"Will there be a conspiracy? Could it be that Li Jing wanted to paralyze us through negotiations, and then suddenly sent troops?" Yang Shouliang only thought of this possibility.

Yang Shouyi shook his head, "A certain person thinks that Li Jing is very scheming, and it's hard to guess his real thoughts, but maybe he wants to use force to deter others, and he wants to win him directly at the negotiating table. something you want."

"You mean that Li Jing wants to get the four towns of Weibo, Chengde, Hedong and Xuanwu without bloodshed?"

"Or what Li Jing wants more is to use our hands to kill Li Keyong and Zhu Wen!" Yang Shouyi murmured. After repeated battles and repeated defeats, Li Jing still has the hatred of taking his wife and killing his father to Li Keyong, which can almost be said to be endless.Li Keyong is currently occupying the important town of Hedong, blocking Li Jing's road from going south to Luoyang and westward to Chang'an. If there is a strong attack, it will definitely cost a lot of money, but if you can use the hands of the court to get rid of Li Keyong, it is quite cost-effective of.

But even if he could guess Li Jing's purpose, what's the point? Yang Fuguang sat on the couch like an old monk in meditation, but his heart was very disturbed.He felt that his trip to Yanjing was doomed to be a failure.Li Jing finished sharpening the knife, but he jumped to the door on his own initiative.

"Father, I think Li Jing's last move today shows that he is very concerned about this negotiation and does not want the negotiation to break down. Therefore, I don't think we want to reach this negotiation unilaterally. Why don't we be tougher? Otherwise, blindly Concession will only allow the other party to slaughter at will." Yang Shouyi put forward his own opinion.

Yang Fuguang opened his eyes, smiled wryly and shook his head. Today, the two parties only put forward their own initial conditions, and did not conduct any substantive discussions.But judging from the conditions put forward by both parties, it is too difficult to reach a conclusion in this negotiation, because the conditions of the two parties are so far apart, it is simply a world of difference.Seeking common ground while reserving differences, at least there must be some similarities, but they are too far behind.

Just now Li Jing sent someone to inform that the negotiation will continue tomorrow morning, but Yang Fuguang's heart is still in confusion at this time, how should this negotiation be discussed? (To be continued.)