Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

After the Jin people left, the vast area south of Yanshan was only set up as Yanshan Prefecture and fell under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province.

Hebei's Ansu Army, Shun'an Army, Baoding Army, and Xin'an Army will all cancel their military-level administrative establishments because they will no longer be located on the front line, and will be downgraded to Ansu County, Gaoyang County, Guixin County, and Xin'an County.

Baozhou and Dingzhou were officially merged into Baoding Prefecture.

Rongcheng County on the Jin side (there was also Rongcheng County on the Ming Dynasty side) was downgraded to Beirong Town and placed under the jurisdiction of Ansu County. Ansu County was completely merged into Baoding Prefecture.

There were many similar changes in administrative divisions, basically integrating the former Song and Liao borders based on geographical conditions.

Yizhou was demoted to Yi County, Zhuozhou was demoted to Fanyang County, Shunzhou was demoted to Huairen County...all came under the jurisdiction of Yanshan Prefecture. Some states don't even maintain county-level divisions and are reduced to small towns because the population is so damn small.

The soldiers and civilians of the Jin Kingdom who fled south to join the Ming Dynasty were moved back to their original villages to obtain land.

Many people randomly identify farmland and say it belongs to them. The government of the Ming Dynasty recognized it. As long as they could grow it and pay taxes honestly after the tax holiday, the government actually encouraged them.

Immigrants from the three southern provinces are also moving at a faster pace, and the prefectures and counties they pass along the way must fully cooperate.

At the same time, all the cavalry under Li Yanxian's command were sent out to lure the people in Taihang Mountain and Yanshan Mountain.

The conditions for the inducement were very relaxed. As long as the people in the mountains were willing to come out, they could cultivate the nearby land at will.

Even taxes will be completely exempted for five years. This is because the land is so vast and sparsely populated that even small towns cannot be formed, only natural villages. Under this situation, the cost of tax collection is too high, so we simply let it go and wait until a town is formed before reorganizing households to integrate the people.

The same situation also occurs in some other areas, with scattered villages in the wilderness. The nearby state and county towns were all infested with ghosts. The Jin Kingdom was too lazy to collect taxes, and the Ming government naturally did not collect taxes either. Those cities were temporarily left unused.

These mountain people and scattered villagers number in the millions.

They are wary of all imperial courts and can only use time to heal their psychological wounds.

After several months of luring, only two to three thousand people were willing to come down the mountain. Moreover, they are scattered in the foothills area that is 700 to 800 miles long. Basically, five or eight households gather together to resist wild beasts. They do not even dare to have small settlements with more than ten households for fear that too many people will attract the government to recruit troops and food.

Gradually, Li Yanxian discovered a situation.

There are a large number of gentry even in the mountainous areas, and they belong to the leaders of the mountain people.

When they first fled, ordinary people, led by the village gentry, hid in the mountains to reclaim wasteland in villages to survive.

As long as one family of gentry is persuaded, at least twenty or thirty families of common people can be lured out of the mountain!

After these gentry went down to the mountains to farm for a year, and the government did not come to collect taxes, they would probably be able to trust the Ming court. Let them go into the mountains next year and persuade more gentry to return with the people. There should be no problem in luring hundreds of thousands of people within three to five years.

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In the Ming Dynasty, the development of people's livelihood was in full swing.

The Jin Kingdom is also not idle either.

Jin soldiers guarded the dangerous passes of Yanshan and Taihang Mountains to prevent the Ming Dynasty from breaking the peace treaty and suddenly sending troops. At the same time, elite soldiers and horses were mobilized to wait for the harvest of food in the autumn.

Before autumn arrived, Wanyan Zonghan dispatched his cavalry and went to the grassland to order all ministries to send out troops.

They are going to hit the Yelu Dashi!

Jin Guo actually endured Xixia's backstabbing and did not plan to raise troops to retaliate. The main reason is that the territory taken away by Xixia is too poor and too remote to have much oil and water, and most of the area is separated by the Gobi desert.

The Wugu Dilie tribes that had been moved to the Songnen Plain, as well as the Tanggu tribes distributed in the upper reaches of the Liao River, were called to a meeting by Wanyan Zonghan to discuss sending troops.

Two tribal leaders were late and were immediately attacked by the Jin cavalry. All the nobles of the two tribes were executed, the young men and livestock were taken away by the Jin Kingdom, and the pastures were distributed to other tribes.

Immediately afterwards, there was another meeting in Linhuang Mansion (Bahrain Left Banner), and the leaders of the grassland tribes hundreds of miles away had to come.

Hit whoever doesn't come!

Under a series of violent conquests, various grassland tribes were in turmoil, so they could only obediently send out troops and food, and follow the Jin soldiers to fight against the Yelv Stone.

The Jin soldiers could not defeat the Ming army, but they regained their confidence in the grassland.

Often dozens of Jurchen cavalry would charge directly into tribes of thousands of people, chopping melons and vegetables along the way, invincible.

The Jin Kingdom made such a big noise in the south, how could Yelu Dashi not receive news in Mobei?

He quickly summoned the Mobei tribes for an alliance. As a result, the Nylon Mongolian tribes did not come, and only two leaders from the Tatar tribes came.

This situation made Yelu Dashi feel heavy.

Most of the tribes that were loyal to him half a year ago chose to wait and see in the face of the upcoming massive invasion of Jin soldiers. These tribal leaders, fearing bloody revenge from the Jin Kingdom, have shown an attitude of breaking away from Yelu Dashi.

Orici came back from Mongolia and reported: "Great Khan, there is definite news from the south that the Ming Dynasty has negotiated peace with the gold thieves."

"Ming Jin negotiated peace?" Yelu Dashi couldn't believe it.

Orici said: "The golden thieves have been defeated one after another, so they probably don't dare to fight the Ming army again. The Ming army recovered the territory of the Song Dynasty last year, and the golden thieves ceded Nanjing Road, my hometown of Daliao, in exchange for negotiating peace with the Ming Dynasty this spring."

The Nanjing Road of the Liao Kingdom was the entire area south of Yanshan Mountain and north of the Juma River.

Yelu Dashi frowned: "The soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty were so fierce, they actually beat the Jin people to cede territory and seek peace. If I were Prince Zhu, I would destroy the Jin country in one go!"

Orici said: "The Nanjing Road is dilapidated and exhausted, and the Ming Dynasty is busy taking over the territory. It is estimated that they will not send troops this year. As long as the Jin soldiers hold the pass, they can attack Mobei with all their troops. This battle may not be easy to deal with." ah."

Yelu Dashi said: "If we persist for two or three more years, Prince Zhu will definitely make the Northern Expedition. By then, the golden thieves will have nothing to worry about, and we will be able to take the opportunity to unify the northern and southern grasslands!"

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In autumn, the soldiers and horses are strong.

The Kingdom of Jin dispatched 8,000 elite cavalry and more than 10,000 prairie cavalry, totaling 24,000 troops to conquer Mobei.

The Nilun Mongolian tribes directly watched the show, neither helping Yelu Dashi to fight nor accepting the dispatch of the Jin Kingdom.

There are several leaders of the Black and White Tatar tribes who are willing to follow Yelu Dashi.

Since the Naiman tribe was far away, they promised to help. However, he was unwilling to send troops to the east. Instead, he asked Yelu Dashi to lead his troops to flee west, claiming that he was willing to meet them on the Altai Mountains.

Yelu Dashi chose to avoid its sharp edge and fled westward with his tribe and livestock, while leaving a small group of cavalry along the way to lure the enemy.

Wanyan Zonghan's army quickly occupied the pasture where Yelu Dashi was abandoned, and sent his cavalry in all directions to search and pursue Yelu Dashi.

Yin Shuke led 1,200 cavalry and discovered the enemy at the southwest foot of Wushan (Hangai Mountain). One man and three horses pursued for two consecutive days, and were suddenly surrounded by more than 10,000 Yelu Dashi cavalry.

These more than a thousand Jurchen knights, instead of running away, went straight towards Yelu Dashi's handsome flag.

Yelu Dashi personally led his troops to attack. Before the two sides engaged in battle, Yin Shuke suddenly led his troops to turn and kill Damili's cavalry.

Damilibu is one of the die-hard followers of Yelu Dashi, but their equipment is not very good. Not to mention the extremely low armor coverage, the supply of iron arrows could not even be guaranteed, and many cavalrymen still used bone arrowheads.

They were originally narrowing the encirclement, but they didn't expect the Jurchen Knights to suddenly rush in.

After just one attack, Damili's cavalry scrambled to escape.

In the situation of using less to defeat more, Yin Shuke actually divided his troops. When he was chasing the defeated troops of Damili's army, he suddenly detached two hundred Jurchen warriors and killed the Yijiagu tribe in the other direction. The latter were killed in an instant and were unable to resist.

The 1,200 Jurchen cavalry charged in like this, causing chaos among tens of thousands of troops at Yelu Dashi.

In the end, they even split into three and charged towards Yelu Dashi's headquarters from three directions.

The two sides fought fiercely for half an hour. The Jurchen cavalry suffered more than 200 casualties, but they became even more crazy and brave. After alternating retreats, they continued to attack one after another. Occasionally, during the retreat, they would seize the opportunity to suddenly counterattack.

Yelu Dashi went crazy with anger. When many of his troops fled, he personally led 300 cavalry to fight tenaciously with the Jin people.

Yin Shuke realized that this was a tough one and finally threw down the bodies of the dead and broke out.

Yelu Dashi led his troops to pursue him, and many cavalrymen who had not yet been defeated gradually gathered together to pursue them together.

During the chase, Jin Guoxiao suddenly changed his horse and fought back.

After another fierce battle, they broke out and beat Yelu Dashi so hard that they didn't dare to pursue him anymore.

In this battle, more than 400 Jin soldiers were killed, and almost everyone who escaped was injured.

However, more than 5,000 of Yelu Dashi's more than 10,000 soldiers fled. He also lost more than eighty of his core three hundred cavalry, which was a huge blow to Yelu Dashi.

A few days later, more than three thousand Jin Kingdom Xiaoqi came to kill him.

Yelu Dashi once again lured the enemy deeper and tried to surround and annihilate the Jin soldiers. However, they were defeated and fled.

The combat effectiveness of the tribal cavalry who followed him was too weak!

Yelu Dashi retreated all the way to the west until it snowed, and then the Jin soldiers gradually withdrew. Moreover, they vented their anger on the surrounding tribes and stole a large number of livestock and women.

After this battle, Yelu Dashi's prestige in Mobei dropped sharply, and the Nilon Mongolian tribes openly broke away from its rule.

The Tatar tribes also complained because they were the hardest hit by the Jin soldiers.

The Mobei grassland was not the foundation for establishing a career, and Yelu Dashi finally had the idea of ​​​​migrating westward.

His foundation here is too weak, even worse than that of the Nellon Mongolian tribes.

Those Mongolian tribes have developed for several generations, have blood ties with each other, and have a large number of married tribes.

And what about Yelv Dashi?

He is just an outsider and has no tribes by marriage in Mobei. He relies solely on three hundred cavalry to overwhelm the tribes. Once in danger, the powerful tribesmen would not listen at all and were only willing to follow him to gain territory.

This winter, Yelu Dashiwo was licking his wounds in Mobei.

Choose brave men and make up for the three hundred iron cavalry. Even after people died, the armor was still there, and hundreds of pieces of armor were obtained from the Jurchen knights who died in battle.

He suffered some losses in the great defeat, and he now has more than 500 pieces of armor in total.

It's pitiful enough that the dignified Yelu Dashi only has more than 500 pieces of armor, and all of them are medium-sized armors, not even a pair of heavy-duty armors.

Looking at the wind and snow in the sky, Yelu Dashi planned to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor next year, and immediately move westward after awarding hundreds of officials.

In this place of Mobei, anyone would be treated as they liked, but he couldn't stay any longer.