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Chapter four hundred and fourteenth acting

After the Song army took control of the Great Wall, the cross-sea landing combat troops finally found their foothold and were no longer afraid of falling into a dilemma due to logistical problems. In the past, all the retreat routes of the cross-sea landing combat troops were at sea, so they did not dare to go too deep into the Liao territory. After confirming that they could also obtain sufficient supplies by land, the cross-sea landing combat troops began to attack westward after being strengthened and supplemented. The main force of the Liao Kingdom also came south towards Jinzhou, and a major war between the two sides finally began around Jinzhou.

After receiving the intelligence from the Intelligence Bureau, the unintentional special forces immediately returned northward and continued to ambush the Liao army halfway, which also made sufficient preparations for Jinzhou. After Lu Dafang loaded the artillery on the ship, Yang Chongyue also used this method to arm his inland fleet and achieved very good results in the Battle of Sanggan River Crossing. The Song Dynasty navy transformed the ships and installed ten artillery on both sides of a ship.

If Wang Jinghui saw such a modified artillery warship, he would definitely think of the British fleet in the Opium War in the mid-19th century. Of course, this modified warship was only a temporary measure, and the artillery placed in it would naturally not reach the forty or fifty artillery on the side of the British fleet.

However, this temporary warship played a great role in the Battle of Jinzhou. A total of three such warships appeared outside Jinzhou. In addition, the five artillery guns that Lu Dafang had originally left on the ship, the power of the volley of thirty-five artillery fired terrorized the Liao army who were sieging the city. The Liao army attacking at the South Gate and North Gate suffered heavy losses for a while, especially the more eye-catching Liao generals, many people were killed.

During the Jinzhou War, the unintentional special forces did not enter the city to participate in the defensive operations. After Lu Dafang expanded him to 10,000 people, they all turned into cavalry by looting. If they entered the city to participate in the defensive operations, they would greatly offset their role. It would be better to stay outside the city as a surprise soldier to seize the fighter plane and give the Liao soldiers a heavy blow.

After receiving the latest order from the Privy Council of the Song Dynasty, Lu Dafang once again took advantage of the main force of the Liao army that had not yet arrived in Jinzhou. The soldiers guarding the city had reached 50,000, and various combat preparations were ready, and they could directly get supplies from the sea from the east gate under the cover of artillery warships. The order given to them was to resolutely defend Jinzhou and Laizhou. The political significance of these two cities was increasingly prominent at this time. As long as the Song army occupied these two cities, the main force of the Khitans would not go south with peace of mind. And as long as these two cities were not captured, the Song Dynasty would still have the upper hand, and the Khitans would not have any insignificant thoughts during the peace talks.

The 300,000 main force of the Liao army, except for the 100,000,000, the remaining 200,000 were all rushed towards Jinzhou. What was more favorable for the Song army was that Jinzhou City was backed by the sea and could not set up its formations near the east wall of the port. Therefore, if the Liao army attacked the city, it could only attack the city from the south, west and north, and there was artillery support nearby, so its defense focus was on the west wall.

During this period, Lu Dafang was not idle. He mobilized all the people in the city to dig moats for the Song army and correct the city walls. What ordinary people could get was food and other physical subsidies. When the vanguard discovered the traces of the Liao army, the people in the city were allowed to leave freely, and the Song army would not be too embarrassed to stay or leave. However, one thing was that the Khitans could never leave. They and the Khitan soldiers who had captured Jinzhou who had previously captured the Song Dynasty had been transported back to the Song Dynasty. Except for the original Khitans in the city, the rest were captured by their special forces from Wuxin.

Due to the unintentional existence, the land where the combat troops cross the sea landed on the east road was cleaner than the locusts. If the situation could allow, then the person could also be regarded as one of the spoils. Of course, they refer to the Khitans. Wang Jinghui and his disciples were not murderers and were helpless about the war. Once this national hatred was planted, it would be settled only if one of them fell completely. They plundered the population not for massacre, but used Wang Jinghui's slave business to replace these prisoners as free laborers in the infrastructure of the Song Dynasty. Of course, as long as these prisoners were not the most evil roles like the "Life Capture Army", they would gain freedom after serving a certain period of labor. This freedom was all broken up and distributed in villages and towns in the south or in the South, and would never give them the possibility of gathering.

Wang Jinghui thought about how to completely disappear a nation. In addition to massacre, there is naturally a path of assimilation, but he was not very satisfied with these two paths. The Khitans established an extremely powerful Liao Kingdom in Chinese history. I am afraid that in Chinese history, the only ones that can be compared with the Mongols and the Jin Kingdom established by the Jurchens. Such a powerful nation came to the thousand years after Wang Jinghui lived in, but there was no such thing as the "Khitan people". They all disappeared completely. Like the Dangxiang people, all civilizations they created, such as the words, wealth, etc., completely disappeared.

Wang Jinghui did not know much about these famous ethnic changes. He only knew that after the Jurchens became powerful in history, the Khitans were attacked by the north and south of the Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom in military terms, and the entire empire began to collapse and destroyed. Some Khitans moved west to the Western Regions to establish the Western Liao Dynasty, which was also prosperous for a while, but were finally destroyed by the Mongol Yuan. The Mongol Yuan massacre policy must not work at this time. Even if it worked, Wang Jinghui was unwilling to use it. Not to mention that there was a saying of Gantianhe, he would not want to end up as a butcher even thinking about it.

In the end, only by using the emergence of a large number of prisoners in the war to carry out infrastructure construction for the Song Dynasty, Wang Jinghui gradually realized that doing so could also achieve the goal of completely eliminating a nation. The main reason for massacre and elimination of the population at the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was that they had a small population and could not assimilate other nations. However, the Song Dynasty did not have this shortcoming. As long as these prisoners were dispersed, the concept of state and nation was not very deep-rooted in this era. Doing this was indeed a good way to erase a nation in the shortest time.

In the fifty years after the Battle of Dashun City in the second year of Zizhiping, the huge number of prisoners of war obtained by the Song Dynasty through various wars was digested by this method. After the prisoners of war served from ten to twenty years, they would be completely dispersed and dispersed to various places in the Song Dynasty to settle down. What Wang Jinghui didn't know was that he and his successors used this method to completely erase more than ten ethnic groups such as Dangxiang, Khitan, and Zubu. Among these ethnic groups, in addition to Dangxiang and Khitan, some spider silks could be found in later historical materials.

Apart from the horse's tracks, all the civilizations they created were submerged in the Song Dynasty civilization. Through this method, the descendants of the prisoners and the descendants of the prisoners forgot their own language and culture in the shortest time, because when they were serving labor, the heavy labor made them unable to think of other things at all. Under such high-pressure governance, these prisoners of war of various races could only silently accept the fate provided to them by the Song Dynasty. After two or three generations, the descendants of these prisoners of war became no different from those of the Song Dynasty.

Because Lu Dafang was well prepared and the active cooperation given by the Song Dynasty Privy Council, the newly renovated gunboats continued to join the battle, which made the 200,000 Liao troops helpless against the small Jinzhou city. They could only attack through the west city wall. However, the Song army turned the Jinzhou city defense like a hedgehog in the shortest time, especially the west of Jinzhou, and there was no city gate at all, but the Song army laid mines and dug traps outside the west city wall. After the Liao army finally cleared the battlefield, at night, the Song army would put the Song army down the city wall through a hanging basket, and secretly lay mines outside the city wall while taking advantage of the night, making the Liao army miserable, but there was no way to deal with the city wall.

Because of the power of the Song army's artillery, especially the kind of gunboats, a volley was a disaster for the Liao army, which was undergoing intensive charges. The battlefields corresponding to the two walls on the north and south were within the range of the Song army's gunboats. With this powerful factor interfering with the Liao army, the Liao army gave up the attack on these two walls. However, the Song army was still small after all, and the order given by the Privy Council to Lu Dafang was to resolutely defend Jinzhou and ensure that the Song army in the city did not dare to take the initiative. Only more than 10,000 cavalry led by Wuxin outside the city sneaked up on the Liao army from time to time. As the Liao army stepped up its guard at night, this sneak attack gradually lost its due effect. For a time, neither Song and Liao army inside and outside Jinzhou City could do anything to each other and became stalemate in a short time.

When the Song and Liao sides were entangled with each other, the Song Dynasty restored Yelu Jingui's freedom, and under the arrangement of Wang Jinghui, Yang Chongyue personally escorted out of the country. However, at this time, the so-called "outbound" was on the border Great Wall of the Song Dynasty, which was actually controlled by the territory. Yelu Jingui could also feel Wang Jinghui's intentions. He knew that this young man who once made his predecessor Xiao Youdan was taking this opportunity to suppress the will of resistance of the Liao Kingdom. Through his own eyes, he told the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji that the Song Dynasty is much stronger now than the Liao Kingdom. We hope that the truce is not begging for peace but taking back our territory!

Just after Yelu Jingui left the Great Wall, Yang Chongyue's central army also began to take action, but this action was very different from the past. An army with a hot weapon unit of 20,000 people as the main force and a supplement of 50,000 cavalry began to move towards the direction of Dading Prefecture.

Since the last time I accidentally encountered a cavalry unit in Liao Kingdom, I won the victory, the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty have been willing to take advantage of this time to hone the new army and see how much potential it has. However, in order to protect this "golden army", the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty have sent 50,000 cavalry as bodyguards to protect the hot weapons unit. Everyone has horses and has strong mobility. In other words, the ability to escape is very powerful. I guess unless the firearms in their hands fail, if this army wants to break through, it may not be able to stop their army today, even the Dingxi Army may not be able to do this!

However, before Yang Chongyue started to kill all directions, the Dingxi Army once again vibrated the nerves of the high-level rulers of the Song and Liao countries. Two days ago, after secretly crossing the Luan River, the Dingxi Army sneaked into more than 30 small towns and tribes, and traveled 200 miles in two days. Finally, he met a Liao army's main force in the south, less than 300 cities from Dading Prefecture, and fought. The 100,000 Dingxi Army and 60,000 Liao troops were angry on the grassland for a whole day and night. Finally, when the opponent's reinforcements arrived, they had to retreat to the depths of the grassland at night.

In this battle, the Dingxi Army annihilated more than 40,000 enemies, and the remaining Liao army was injured. If it weren't for the rapid rescue of reinforcements, the 60,000 Liao army would have explained it here. The reputation of the Dingxi Army had already spread among the Liao army a few years ago, but this time it made it even more famous. After the two armies met, no one chose to retreat. The Dingxi Army even took advantage of the other's charge and overwhelmed the opponent at once. The next one was a day and night pursuit battle. The two armies fought less than 150 miles from Dading Prefecture before they stopped.

From then on, the Dingxi Army's bravery began to become famous on the grassland. It was so close to Dading Prefecture that the Liao army was still pursuing it for a day and a night, which was incredible to anyone. However, it was precisely because of the battle of Dingxi Army that the turbulent high-level leaders of the Liao Dynasty's rulers who completely calmed down. The surrender and compromise factions in the Liao Dynasty's court immediately rose, especially the change in Yelu Yixin's attitude towards the Song Dynasty played a decisive role.

Yelu Yixin was meeting guests in his study late the night a few days ago, a sharp arrow was nailed to the pillar in the room through the paper window, and there was a letter on it. Yelu Yixin was frightened at that time and thought that it was a political enemy who sent someone to assassinate him. As a result, Yelu Yixin caught an assassin at his home for a night, and it was not until dawn to be finished. When Yelu Yixin read the letter, he was even more shocked. The letter wrote about the detailed process of him and Zhang Xiaojie colluding to conceal the court's private reselling of prohibited items to the Song Dynasty. Although Yelu Yixin was of high power, he and Zhang Xiaojie could be considered powerful. However, the Liao Kingdom had very strict requirements on exporting items to the Song Dynasty. According to the Liao Code, as long as the person was discovered, he would inevitably be the result of the official position and the people, and the worst was to lose his head.

Yelu Yixin and Zhang Xiaojie immediately called Ma Renwang because their business was similar to Wang Jinghui. Wang Jinghui was Xu's business for him, while Yelu Yixin and Zhang Xiaojie used Ma Renwang to manage their business. They just provided protective umbrellas for Ma Renwang. Ma Renwang's business has been getting bigger and bigger in recent years. When wealth expanded to a certain level, it became inevitable to get involved in the prohibited area. Wang Jinghui gave Ma Renwang a while.

The goal is to try to involve more Liao officials in some illegal businesses. Using this method to control these Liao officials is more effective than bribery. Officials of the level of Yelu Yixin and Zhang Xiaojie naturally cannot tie up these two big fish. If you want to tie these two people to yourself, you can just play with your head-breaking business. So smuggling prohibited items from the Song Dynasty is the headline choice.

After seeing this letter, Ma Ren was very calm. Although he still pretended to be horrified, because the letter was written by Nirvana, and Brother Zhao Zhong himself "sented the letter" and he naturally knew what was written in it. Because the letter did not state what he asked Yelu Yixin for in exchange for keeping the secret, this letter made Yelu Yixin and Zhang Xiaojie feel even more puzzled.

"Your Highness the King of Wei, in fact, this letter is not scary in the following opinion!" said Ma Renwang.

"What is this explanation?" Zhang Xiaojie leaned over and asked. He and Yelu Yixin were both poor and focused on enjoyment after becoming famous. Especially Zhang Xiaojie's sentence "How can he be called the prime minister's family without ten thousand taels of gold in his family?" is a classic of the inner confession of corrupt officials. Therefore, he valued his power more than Yelu Yixin. If he lost his current power, Zhang Xiaojie really didn't know how he lived.

"If the assassin asks for gold, silver and treasures, it is not difficult. If the assassin is our opponent, then there is no need for them to send me such a letter, and to take it directly to the emperor to complain to us..."

"Then what do they want to do?!" Yelu Yixin said with some anger.

"It can be said that only the three of us know about this matter. After all, it is a matter of losing our heads. This kind of business is hidden very tightly. If the two adults had not accidentally leaked the news, there would be only one possibility left!" Ma Renwang said.

"It's not what we revealed. We care very much about this kind of thing... What the last one Brother Ma said might refer to..."

"In the following view, this should be done by the Intelligence Bureau of the Song Dynasty!" Ma Renwang deliberately made a regretful expression, which made Zhang Xiaojie and Yelu Yixin unable to understand Ma Renwang's meaning for a long time.
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