Chapter 424: Set (Part 2)
"Yin Jilun, bring five thousand soldiers to Shucheng immediately and annihilate the Yukou."
"Here." The famous black-faced husband in the future will be ordered, but now, including Song Jiu, has not yet discovered his military talent.
"General Yang, you will continue to wipe out deserters with your five thousand subordinates."
"Here."
After Song Jiu finished his order, Li Jilong also cleaned the battlefield and walked over, saying in surprise: "It also came in handy."
"Blame me," Song Jiu said dejectedly. During this period, he stayed at home. If he hadn't occasionally gone to the academy's laboratory, he would have almost become an otaku. He stayed with his family every day, and he didn't want to think about anything, did anything, and asked about anything.
Otherwise, the people of Hebei might not have suffered this disaster.
But if the Liao Kingdom had not done too much, divided its troops south and killed the people at a young age, Song Jiu might not have been able to remember it.
The battlefield was filled with dead bodies of the Liao army, and nearly two thousand prisoners of war.
Li Jilong looked at the prisoners and said in disgust: "Duke Song, kill them."
"Kill them, it's so cheap. Send them to the rear to mine, and you will never forgive me!" Song Jiu said angrily.
When the war between the two countries will inevitably lead to casualties, and even affect the common people, which is inevitable. Even Song Jiu clearly knew several brutal acts of nomadic people entering the Central Plains to massacre the Han people, but they really happened in front of him, which made him angry.
At least the Song army did not attack the civilians during the two northern expeditions. Even Wu Xuanming went south to Liaonan, but did not attack the civilians. At most, some houses were burned.
"General Li. I want to hand over the Liao bandits in Shenzhou to you. Can you complete it?"
"Okay." Li Jilong said loudly.
This mentality is the same as Cui Yanjin who went to Qizhou. After Yu Junzi escaped, Li Jilong also wanted to prove himself.
"I can only give you ten thousand troops, and you must fight quickly, and then quickly arrive at the Yongning Army and wait for my order."
"My subordinates will definitely not let down the entrustedness of Song Gong." Li Jilong was preparing to count the troops.
"Don't worry, let's discuss first."
After breakfast, the three armies rested quickly, and as Li Jilong divided his troops into two. One escorted the prisoners of war and the horses nearby to Nanpi, and the other returned to Leshou to continue defending the city. These were all infantry soldiers, one could not ride horses, and the other could not skate, so they could not bring them. The ten thousand soldiers and horses they brought were all from the capital. Song Jiu was afraid that he would not be familiar with them, so he asked him to wait for Yin Jilun to come back and set off. However, they were not entirely ice skating soldiers, and some of them were also cavalry, but they did not ride horses when they left the capital, and they were all skating. Now there were horses, so they divided into two thousand cavalry and eight thousand ice skating soldiers. Tomorrow he fought for the Gulu army.
It's still time to set off at night.
Before the Liao Kingdom could react, it would also eat Xiao Jiyuan's troops.
More than 10,000 Song troops set out quietly, followed the Yongji Canal, then turned to the Hutuo River, and slid towards Gucheng, Qizhou.
At this time, Cui Yanjin also arrived at Gucheng and contacted Liu Zhixin. Liu Zhixin's remnants had not arrived yet. Seeing that Song Jiu had arrived, Cui Yanjin said in surprise: "Duke Song. It's been solved there."
"More than 3,700 people were killed, more than 2,000 people were captured, and the others escaped," Song Jiu shook his head. This is the advantage of the cavalry. Even with ice skates, it is impossible to completely wipe out. However, some of these escaped Liao soldiers would become dogs who hate the people's beatings and would not completely escape.
"The harvest is not small."
"It's okay, fight again and again. What's the situation with the Liao band Xiao Jiyuan's troops now?"
"This is the information," Cui Yanjin sent the news from the scout. Xiao Jiyuan's troops had the largest number of troops, but after seeing the emptiness of the Song Dynasty, in order to increase the speed of plundering, the troops were voluntarily dispersed. Some were in Zhaozhou and some were in Mingzhou, but only in the northern region, which was close to the capital of the Song Dynasty. Daming Prefecture also had a Song army, so it was always close to the main force of Xingzhou. Another was in Qizhou City, and the same troops were divided into four plunders.
After reading the information, Song Jiu said, "Send someone to notify Liu Zhixin, telling him not to join him, and drag the Liao army in Qizhou. Let's eat the Xingzhou unit first."
The two discussed specific measures again.
The army is very fast, and after resting again, the army heads south, first divided into five groups in Zhaozhou, destroying thousands of Liao troops who were plundered in Zhaozhou, and then the five groups of troops went straight to Xingzhou along the waters.
When the two armies of Xingzhou met, Xiao Jiyuan was very fierce, but the troops in his hands were divided, with only 5,000 troops. After two days of tragic battle, Xiao Jiyuan was defeated and led the remaining troops to flee to the north. Song Jiu left a group of people and continued to clear them. Even the Liao soldiers fled from Fukou Xing to Hedong under the pursuit of the Song army. More than a month later, they were successively captured by Pan Mei and sent to him.
But Li Jilong played the best.
In fact, except for some golden fingers, Song Jiu's military capabilities are really not as good as Li Jilong.
Li Jilong had not many troops in his hands, but he was familiar with the terrain and assisted the people, and always maintained the fight with less and more. In addition, he went deeper into Gulu too hard. Nearly 6,000 soldiers were annihilated by Li Jilong, and more than 2,000 people were captured alive. Only more than 1,000 people escaped. In fact, less than 500 Liao soldiers who escaped in the end were arrested. With the help of the people of various prefectures and counties in the Central Plains, all of them were captured, and some were beaten to death by the people on the spot.
At this time, Xiao Yanyan learned the news.
Some generals were not convinced, but Xiao Yanyan wisely chose to retreat.
But they had gained so much that they not only snatched a lot of cloth, gold and silver, but also many people. This seriously dragged down the speed of the march.
At this time, Tian Chongjin received the order from Song Jiu.
Before, Yizhou was completely lost.
Song Jiu asked Tian Chongjin to send troops again and took Dongyizhou.
He also ordered Zhao Tingpu to send troops to attack.
Zhao Tingpu was afraid, and Song Jiu suddenly led his army to the city of Yingzhou, sent someone to arrest Zhao Tingpu, and asked: "The court ordered you to support Liu Tingrang, why did you hide in Mozhou and Yingzhou?"
"Mr. Song, I am worried that the army will be defeated and Yingzhou will be lost."
"Okay, then I'll ask you again, how far is Shucheng from Yingzhou when the Liao bandits attacked Shucheng?"
"But it is also close to the Junzi Pavilion. The main army of Liao Kingdom is in the Junzi Pavilion. I may not be able to defeat it."
"Then I'll ask you again why I asked you to send troops. You haven't sent troops yet."
"Mr. Song, you have to reason. I only have this little army. How to send troops? It's not to send troops, but to let the soldiers die. Do you think so?" Zhao Tingpu continued to make a cunning judgment, and seeing that the situation was not good, he wanted to trick his subordinates into counterattacking Song Jiu together.
Song Jiu was so angry that he took out an imperial edict from his arms and said, "Zhao Tingpu, look at what is above."
The situation in Hebei was serious, so Song Jiu asked Zhao Kuangyi for an imperial edict before leaving. This imperial edict was to allow Song Jiu to handle all military and political affairs in Hebei at a cheap price, and even have the right to enforce military law against any general on the front line.
That is, Li Jilong, Cui Yanjin. Even if it is Tian Chongjin and Zhang Yongde, as long as they do not obey orders or make mistakes, Song Jiu can act in military law.
This is written in black and white, and it is clearly written. It is clear, but it is not the blank letter Zhao Kuangyin gave to Cao Bin. But there is still a difference between the two. Cao Bin was a military general and was in the military for a long time, and Song Jiu was a civil servant. His military career was very short, and Song Jiu was very "loyal" from beginning to end. He also didn't seem to have a strong desire for power. He seemed to have always been Zhao Kuangyi's person before, so he should be less taboo.
"Mr. Song, I am the observer." Zhao Yanpu was then scared.
"Drag and kill." Song Jiu shouted.
"Duke Song, Duke Song..."
"It is you, who are greedy and afraid of death, and even many soldiers died, and many people in Hebei have destroyed their families and were killed by the Liao bandits!"
Song Jiu took a detour to Yingzhou and killed Zhao Yanpu.
Zhao Yanpu slashed in front, and the whole Hebei behind was shocked. Zhang Yongde and Song Wei were no longer qualified. They started to allocate troops from Bazhou and Cangzhou and rushed to the front line to reinforce. The troops with Tian Chongjin attacked the Liao army from left to right.
Li Jilong and his troops kept harassed and attacking from the rear.
In anger, Xiao Yanyan killed all the more than 20,000 people he had looted were killed on the banks of the Juma River.
However, most of the people did not send them to the north because of timely rescue. Not only the people, but also most of the wealth captured by the Liao Kingdom, had no time to take them away.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Song Jiu came to the banks of the Juma River. Another mountain of corpses was found.
But this mountain of corpse made him even more angry. Seeing that the weather in the north was still very cold, he issued an order, asking Li Jixuan, Jing Si, Li Jilong, Yin Jilun, Yang Ye and others to divide their troops into Gu'an Yongqing Wuqing Anci, and burned and killed and plundered like the Liao army. Song Jiu still couldn't do it, and it was even more unrealistic to plunder the population. However, letting these brave generals enter the Liao territory, only do one thing, burned, and burned all the buildings and houses together. The people were all homeless.
There is no way to survive, come to the Song Dynasty by yourself, and the Song Dynasty arranged for you. If you don’t want to come to the Song Dynasty and continue to be a good citizen of the Liao Kingdom, then find a way to survive. Li Jixuan and Li Jilong and others even burned all the way to the yin of Xianghe not far from Youzhou. While using the flexibility of shoes to hide and seek the large army surrounded by the Liao Kingdom, they continued to burn. It was not until spring gradually came and the glacier became thinner, and they retreated one after another.
At this time, Zhao Yanpu's family in the capital beat the drum and sued the emperor.
Some ministers impeached Song Jiu and killed the general of the country in vain.
Song Jiu did not explain it much, but only handed back a set of data. Since Xiao Yanyan invaded Hebei in the twelfth month of the year, more than 37,000 soldiers and officials have been killed, and more than 89,000 people have been killed. This is only a preliminary estimate, and the actual number is more than this, and some severely affected counties have almost become a wasteland.
Can the lives of more than 100,000 soldiers and people be exchanged for Zhao Yanpu's life?
But there is no set of data from Song Jiu, and the controversy is not very controversial. On the contrary, many scholars and officials applaud.
These incompetent generals were killed, including Cao Bin.
Song Jiu's killing of Zhao Yanpu was a victory for civil servants.
After hearing the discussions in the capital in Hebei, Song Jiu smiled bitterly. It was such an ugly officialdom. But if you think about it carefully, not only was the officialdom in ancient China ugly and dirty, but also the Western countries that claimed to be democracy in later generations were the same?
In fact, Hebei caused the Liao Kingdom to invade this time.
Song Jiu listed a group of cold numbers, but it means that at least 100,000 households in the civilian family were dismembered.
In addition, the people who died in the Northern Expeditions were not large in the Song Dynasty now, and there were only about 4 million households in the entire country. How many people can there be in Hebei? Almost every family wears mourning and hears crying along the way.
However, Song Jiu never thought about it.
Xiao Yanyan harmed the Song Dynasty and he harmed the Liao Kingdom.
In this ice skate battle, Song Jiu used the division of the Liao Kingdom and unexpectedly captured nearly 30,000 war horses and killed more than 23,000 Liao soldiers, some of which were killed by the people. Anyway, none of the Liao soldiers who fled alone were captured by the people and sent to the government office, and all were beaten to death. At the same time, more than 4,700 prisoners of war were added, and the proportion of prisoners of war was pitifully small, which shows the resentment of the people and soldiers towards the Liao army. Although these prisoners of war were alive, their fate was even more miserable, so they stayed in the mines, and when did they die and when would the bones meet the sky. Maybe they would not even see the sky.
Nearly half of the houses and property in the six southeastern counties of Youzhou were burned out.
There are really people who couldn't survive and fled to the Song Dynasty to find a way out.
These people, Xiao Yanyan, must also be appeased, but the Liao Kingdom has been poorer until now. What’s so bad is that every winter comes, these shoes may continue to come...
The beams on both sides are getting bigger and bigger.
Xiao Yanyan saw that the river was so icy that she was furious that she prepared to call more troops to invade the south.
Zhao Kuangyi looked at the data reported by Song Jiu and was furious at the court meeting. He prepared for three northern expeditions and was preparing for another northern expedition. Song Jiu was so scared that he hurried to the capital despite the end of Hebei.
Chapter completed!