On the eighth day of November, Su Lie led 50,000 troops from Chang'an, the capital, to the direction of the Anxi Protectorate in the north. When he arrived at Zhongzhou, he heard an urgent report from Yanzhou and asked for support. Han Shizhong also sent an order for Su Lie to lead his troops directly. Yanzhou.
When they arrived outside Yanzhou City, they encountered the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry blocking them. The two sides fought and suffered casualties. After that, the Mongolian troops retreated and retreated to the northern camp of Yanzhou. Su Lie led his troops to station in the west of Yanzhou and ordered Let the militia and auxiliary troops set up camp together, and the infantry patrol and guard.
He himself took a hundred personal guards and entered Yanzhou City at dusk and met the Yanzhou garrison.
This man's name was Wang Zhen, who was born in the Longwei Army. He followed Xiao Di and Yue Shan in the Northern Expedition. He had military exploits and was promoted to General Xuanwei.
After Daqian established the Anxi Protectorate, Han Shizhong recommended this person to guard Yanzhou. By the time Han Shizhong sent the information about the Anxi Protectorate to the capital, Wang Zhen had resisted eight sieges by the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry.
The Mongolian and Yuan cavalry are indeed not suitable for attacking cities, but they do not have to be cavalry. They have very strong combat effectiveness when dismounted.
It's just that they are not very good at siege warfare.
For example, when the Imperial Guards attack a city, they usually have artillery carts, goose carts and other tools.
The Mongolian infantry did not have these, they just had to build a ladder and climb the city wall.
Wang Zhen commanded Ruoding and personally defended the city.
There are artillery carts in the city that can cause a certain amount of disruption and also have some lethality.
However, Meng Yuan also fought on the city wall several times, and was finally repelled slowly by the Daqian Imperial Army.
Defending the enemy eight times, the casualties were considerable.
If Meng Yuan sends reinforcements again, they can completely bypass Yanzhou and directly surround Yanzhou City, and then other cavalry break through the pass and enter the pass.
This is why Wang Zhen asked for help immediately, because he found that there was something strange happening in Meng Yuan's camp, and he needed reinforcements from the capital to shock Meng Yuan's camp.
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The Anxi Protectorate is located in the west of Hetao.
After crossing Helan Mountain, we arrived at the land of Houtao, which was originally the junction of Xixia and Mongolia.
However, because Xingqing Mansion was established as the capital of Xixia, Houtao, the place of origin that originally belonged to the Dangxiang people, gradually shrank and was partially occupied by the Meng Yuan.
Harlem, the capital of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, is located to the east of Houtao.
In fact, the Meng Yuan people also have their own birthplace, which is their original ancestral home, Ulan Batu, several hundred miles north.
At that time, Temujin and the northern grassland tribes established the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and moved the capital to Harin in an attempt to unite Xixia and Dajin to attack Daqian.
At that time, the four-nation Allied Forces had already blocked the border.
Xixia attacked Guyuan City on Longyou Road, Meng Yuan attacked Yulin, Jin Thief attacked Shuozhou, and Beiyan attacked Baoding Pass.
It can be said that Daqian was in danger at that time.
Fortunately, God bless Daqian.
Xiao Di and Yue Shan led the Daqian imperial army to march north, defeating the Xixia army before Guyuan, annihilating 300,000 Xixia troops, and directly reached the outside of Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xixia.
Finally, Li Qianshun hurriedly submitted a letter of surrender and a confession, expressing his surrender and becoming a vassal state of Daqian.
Then, Xiao Di and Yue Shan immediately led their troops eastward, crossed the Yellow River, and supported Yanzhou.
Because Yulin has been captured by Temujin and is attacking Yanzhou, and tens of thousands of cavalry have already gone south to plunder everywhere on Hedong Road.
Xiao Di and Yue Shan's Daqian imperial army fought against Temujin's cavalry in Yanzhou. At that time, it was really cavalry fighting cavalry.
In that battle, the Imperial Guards suffered heavy losses.
But fortunately, Temujin finally defeated the Meng Yuan cavalry and recaptured Yulin Pass.
Dajin attacked Shuozhou, but was defended by Daqian's imperial army.
In that battle, the Daqian Forbidden Army suffered more than 100,000 losses, and they fought almost every day. The reinforcements from Jinyang to Shuozhou for hundreds of miles around Shuozhou City almost never returned.
Beiyan also failed to break through Baoding Pass. When they heard that Xiao Di personally conquered Xixia and Meng Yuan, and Dajin did not conquer Shuozhou, they did not dare to attack, fearing that Xiao Di would continue to lead troops to personally conquer Beiyan.
Xixia, Meng Yuan, Dajin, and Beiyan surrendered one after another. From then on, the border of Daqian was stable for several decades.
However, just a few decades have passed since the last war, and the barbarians in the North seem to be unable to bear it anymore.
This time, Xiao Yi's tactics were very simple.
He wanted to plow the court, sweep the holes, and go straight to the Yellow Dragon. It was no longer as simple as quelling the barbarian rebellion, and it was no longer as simple as making them surrender.
Instead, he directly destroyed the country and established a Protectorate.
Then some of them migrated, and through trade and benevolent government, they were allowed to leave their homeland and settle in the Central Plains.
Then, it’s education.
Unified weights and measures, unified carriage tracks, and unified writing allowed them to retain their own writing and dialects, but when doing business, they still used Chinese as the main language.
And, try every means to promote Chinese.
After two generations of education, they will naturally regard themselves as Dagan people.
It's like Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms. From then on, there were no longer distinctions between the six kingdoms, such as Zhao people, Qi people, Zheng people, etc.
Everyone is from Qin.
Later, about 400 years after the Han Dynasty was unified, the people of the Central Plains really regarded themselves as Han people.
The biggest contributor is naturally the influence of Confucianism.
Depose hundreds of schools of thought and respect only Confucianism.
What Confucianism emphasizes is the relationship between king, relative, and teacher. From then on, Han Confucianism no longer distinguished each other.
Xiao Yi has many means, some policies, and some ideas, so that those Xixia people, Meng Yuan people, Jin people, and Beiyan people slowly become Daqian people.
Facing the powerful Meng Yuan cavalry and Beiyan cavalry, he already had enough confidence.
But.
Artillery must be used at critical times.
As soon as they came up, they fired a few cannons, and Meng Yuan and Beiyan were so frightened that they quickly surrendered. Is Daqian going to fight or make peace?
In addition, the current number of artillery is still not enough, and they are working overtime to forge it.
Now, the artillery has been led by Yue Hongling himself and escorted to the Anxi Protectorate.
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Anbei Protectorate
In terms of military strength, Di Qing now only has more than 50,000 troops.
He had ordered Liu Wu to lead 10,000 troops out of the city and quietly go to the southeast, waiting for a fighter opportunity.
Of course, this also means taking risks, and using small to win big is a risk in itself...
Since Meng Yuan chose to go south to fight.
Then both sides are enemies.
Since he is an enemy, Di Qing will make it difficult for the enemy to occupy the Anbei Protectorate.
A piece of meat always had to be torn off, which made Meng Yuan feel pain.
More than 50,000 troops were naturally more than enough to guard the Anbei Protectorate, which was already about to be abandoned.
Twenty thousand troops were used as surprise troops to attack the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry by surprise.
Thirty thousand people fought and retreated, and finally retreated to Datong, where they guarded Datong together with the King of Liao.
The King of Liao is a prince.
After Taizu aspired to conquer the world, he established the national policy of having several princes guard the borders for Da Qian.
The Liao king of the previous two generations originally guarded Yanzhou.
Later, Xiao Di put down the Golden Thief Rebellion and directly attacked Ulancha, which made Wan Yanwu surrender and dare not go south. He built a heavy city in Datong and let the previous generation of Liao kings guard Datong.
As for the intention, it is naturally multi-faceted.
First of all, it was also intended to reduce the vassal status.
The King of Liao in Yanzhou was already somewhat entrenched, reaching out to the capital, and he was also a prince very close to the capital.
Xiao Di took the initiative and asked King Liao to go to Datong directly.
With Xiao Di's prestige at that time, the King of Liao had to go even if he didn't want to. Otherwise, it would be rebellion and disrespect.
Xiao Di definitely has that reputation and authority, so he can only be granted a title by the King of Liao.
The previous generation of Liao kings died a few years ago. This generation of Liao kings have fought against gold thieves more than a hundred times during their years in Datong, and have also developed very good leadership skills.
