Liaoyang, the eleventh year of Hongwu, early May.
This former Tokyo city of Liao Dynasty, and also the most powerful city in Liaodong outside the Guan Dynasty, Liaoyang Fucheng, showed a vast white color under the midsummer sunshine. There were few people on the city streets, and the doors of every household were closed. The yard is either not popular, or there are white linen tied everywhere!
This is when every family mourns and every household pays filial piety!
The two battles between Kaiyi and Guangning resulted in the complete collapse of Wanyan Zongpan's ten-strong army. Wanyan Zongpan, protected by his 2,000 Hezha Meng'an cavalry and 2,000 Alixi auxiliary soldiers, fled the battlefield in panic and ran across the Liaohe River. After crossing the river, Zong Pan ordered his people to raise the banner of the King of Liao again to recruit the remaining soldiers to defeat them. In the end, he only gathered more than 20,000 people, which was really miserable!
Fortunately, his brother Wanyan Zonggu was smarter and did not dare to confront Yue Fei head-on. He led his men and horses across the Liao River early and saved 30,000 troops (including about 60,000 auxiliary troops).
But even if these 60,000 people were saved, plus the more than 24,000 people brought back by Wanyan Zongpan from the battlefield, there were only more than 84,000 people left.
Not all of these 84,000 people were officers, soldiers and auxiliary troops from Liaodong and Xianping towns, but also troops from Helan Road, Posu Road, Supin Road and other places. Among them, there are only over 60,000 officers and soldiers in the two major towns of Liao and Xian.
The total number of regular and auxiliary soldiers in these two towns exceeded 200,000! Two hundred thousand people went out in high spirits, and now only 60,000 people are back. This time, there were no more than 140,000 people!
For the towns of Liao and Xian, whose total population (including the two ethnic groups of Guoye) is only a few hundred thousand, isn't it just a matter of mourning and paying filial piety to each household?
The disasters in Liao and Xian towns will not end because of the 140,000 men who will never come back. Because the Song army, which had won consecutive victories in Jinzhou, Kaiyi, and Guangning, had no intention of retreating and reorganizing its troops.
How could it be a class teacher? They fought really hard!
And it’s only May now, and there will be at least three more months until autumn really begins. If these three months are used properly, it will not be five years, but three years, or even two years!
Therefore, after the great victory, Zhao Kai not only had no squad, but also officially stationed in Jinzhou Xiongcheng, and divided his troops to attack Yizhou, Guangning, Yizhou (belonging to Xianping Town, located north of Guangning), Fuzhou (Huacheng Pass) Fuzhou where it is located) and other places.
At the same time, the partial division led by Dong Jingang also attacked from Shemi Island, landed on the Tiezhou Peninsula of Goryeo, and occupied Tiezhou and Tongzhou. It was considered to have officially "crossed the Yalu River" and invaded Goryeo that Wanyan Zongpan wanted to occupy. within the country.
This is a bit like closing the door and beating the dog!
Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zonggu were dumbfounded. They originally regarded Goryeo as their retreat. Now that the Song army has launched a Tiezhou landing and has established a stronghold in the coastal plain area on the south bank of the Yalu River, what is the next step? Will the King of Koryo who fled to the island be returned to the land of Koryo?
If we really get to that point, where should Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zonggu go?
In the palace of the King of Liao in Liaoyang City (the original palace of the Liao Kingdom), three brothers and sisters, Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zonggu and Wanyanyan, were in a study room, discussing how to escape the situation in front of them. Disaster!
"If that doesn't work, we'd better run east to the areas of Haolan Road and Supin Road! The sky is huge there, and there's always room for us!"
It was Wanyan Zonggu who advocated running eastward. He said to Zongpan and Wanyanyan, "Haolan Road and Subin Road are the birthplaces of the Bohai Kingdom, and we Jurchens are also survivors of the Bohai Sea! We only need to retreat to the land where our ancestors made their fortunes to recuperate. , there may not be any chance of making a comeback in the future!”
Wanyan Zongpan shook his head repeatedly, "Will there be a future in the future? Hu Lu, do you think the hero of the Song Dynasty will let us recuperate and accumulate strength in the northeastern coastal areas?"
Wanyan Zonggu snorted, "Both Haolan Road and Supin Road are bitterly cold places. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. Every winter, there is a sea of snowfields and forests. How can people from the southeast live in such cold places for a long time?"
Wanyan Zongpan still shook his head, "It is indeed not easy for Zhao Kai to pacify Haolan Road and Subin Road, but why is it so difficult to buy my head? Those fierce Anmou Ke on Haolan Road and Subin Road are not the same as us. How much friendship is there?”
Under the rule of the Liao Kingdom, the Jurchens were divided into three major groups: the mature Jurchens, the raw Jurchens, and the wild Jurchens (also known as the East China Sea Jurchens). Among them, the mature Jurchens and the raw Jurchens were actually relatively civilized and advanced tribes. The only difference between raw and cooked is whether the people were registered as households and brought under the effective jurisdiction of the Liao State. The savage Jurchens are the real savages. They are large in number and widely distributed, and most of them live among the forests, seas and snowfields of Northeast China where conditions are difficult, so it is difficult to effectively control them. Even after the Jurchen Wanyan tribe counterattacked the Liao Dynasty and established the Jin Dynasty with the Jurchens as the ruling nation, they were unable to incorporate these wild Jurchens into the national establishment. They could only control them and seal a lot of them. The fierce An Muke.
These savage Jurchens, An Mooke, have provided many brave and strong men for the Kingdom of Jin in the past ten years. But the premise is that the Great Jin Kingdom can provide enough wealth to exchange for these barbarian Jurchen tribe warriors. If the Great Jin Kingdom cannot provide wealth, it is undoubtedly a foolish dream to expect these tribal barbarians to help fight the war.
These tribal savages don't care what the "Jurchen nation" is. They are just savages, and the language they speak is somewhat close to the Jurchen language.
If Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zonggu and others were too desperate to surrender, how could the leaders of the savage tribes treat them as guests?
If Zhao Kai is willing to provide enough silk and iron tools (actually not much is needed) to reward the tribal leaders, the heads of Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zonggu will have to be put in boxes and sent to Shuntian Fucheng in Beijing!
"It's not just those savages who are unreliable? How many of the strong men in our hands are willing to join us as savages?"
Wanyan Yan also frowned and expressed her opinion.
She originally left Liaodong and went to North Korea, but because the wind direction on the sea was wrong and the waves were too strong, she stayed in Haeju, Koryo, and did not return to Japan. As a result, we learned about the defeat of Liaoxi!
After learning that her eldest brother Wanyan Zongpan had lost an army of 100,000 men, Wanyan Yan immediately went north to Liaoyang to discuss countermeasures with his brothers.
"Sister Yan," Wanyan Zonggu glanced at himself, a girl with a lot of troubles in front of the widow's house, "Do you have any clever tricks? If so, just tell me. Proudhu and I have no tricks now!" "
Wanyanyan chuckled and said, "As a prostitute, what clever tricks can we do? It's just a trip to Jinzhou to meet this great hero of the Song Dynasty!"
After hearing this, Wanyan Zonggu's eyes lit up and he looked at the girl, "Why, is he willing to spare you?"
Wanyanyan shook her head, "I didn't let go," she giggled, "Maybe he would have caught him and cut him to pieces after seeing him, and that would be painful."
Wanyan Zongpan also glanced at Wanyan Yan, "Then you are still going?"
Wanyanyan blinked her eyes and said with a smile, "Go! I have wanted to go for a long time, but the time was not ripe in the past, so it would be in vain if I went. Now that the heat is almost there, if Zhao Kai wants to calm down this troubled land in the Northeast as soon as possible , maybe we brothers and sisters can be spared."
"Forget it," Wanyan Zongpan breathed out, "Then I will send someone to take you across the Liao River and prepare a generous gift later!"
Wanyanyan chuckled, "There's no need for generous gifts. Aren't I just generous gifts?"
"You? What do you think?" Wanyan Zongpan looked at the girl with strange eyes.
Wanyanyan smiled and said, "I want to surrender to the police. Zhao Kai has been looking for my rebellious brother and sister! You can have someone build a more comfortable prison van, put me in it, send me across the Liaohe River, and hand it over to Song Dynasty on the other side." Just the army will do.”
"Officially, the memorial from Duke Wei said that Princess Kang was put into a prison car by her brother Wanyan Zongpan and sent to Guangning Mansion to surrender!"
Zhao Kai, who was on a trip to Beiputuo Mountain in the north of Jinzhou City, bowing his head to deal with military and government affairs, suddenly heard a bit strange news from Yu Yunwen, a Hanlin student.
"Father Bin, what did you say?" Zhao Kai looked up at Yu Dahanlin.
"Guan family," Yu Yunwen said with a smile, "your younger brother and sister Wanyanyan has come to surrender!"
"Surrender?" Zhao Kai asked, "What crime did she commit?"
Yu Yunwen thought for a while and said, "It seems that the most serious crime is rebellion!"
"Rebellion? Doesn't that mean we're going to be punished?" Zhao Kai looked at Yu Yunwen, "Father Bin, you are proficient in criminal law. Do you think this crime of rebellion can be established?"
"This" Yu Yunwen looked at Zhao Kai and said after careful consideration, "Her crime of rebellion was given by you, but according to the "Hongwu Criminal Code", it seems that it cannot be established!"
"Really?" Zhao Kai frowned, "Tell me, why can't it be established?"
"Official" Yu Yunwen said, "If a subject of the Song Dynasty rebels against you, that is the crime of treason. This Wanyanyan has never been a subject of the Song Dynasty! She is the princess of the Kingdom of Jin, the king's concubine of the Kingdom of Jin, she How could she possibly plot against you? She is your enemy to begin with! How can anyone convict someone from an enemy country of treason?"
"That's the truth!" Zhao Kai nodded, "The crime I convicted Brother Jiu of was not rebellion, but the crime of acknowledging a thief as his father, treason and surrendering to the enemy! Can this crime implicate her?"
"I'm afraid not." Yu Yunwen still shook his head, "In the official family, the laws of the Song Dynasty do not recognize the crime of thief as father, only the crime of treason and surrender to the enemy. Of course, treason and surrender to the enemy can implicate relatives, but King Kang's mother, princess, and his five None of the daughters were implicated. Wanyanyan was not even a princess when King Kang rebelled and surrendered to the enemy. In fact, she was never Princess Kang, but the concubine of the Song Dynasty of the Jin Kingdom. If the officials do not pursue the case of King Kang’s principal concubine and the five As a daughter, why should I pursue Wanyanyan?"
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