Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 287 Removing the Grinding and Killing the Donkey

In the era of cold weapons, no matter how you compare all the armies in the world, the Shiwei people are the strongest.

It is a kind of unreasonable strength, a kind of strength that belongs to the whole nation.

In Zhao Guangmei's opinion, the armies of the Five Dynasties and even the early Song Dynasty were the pinnacle of professional soldiers in the cold weapon era. If taken alone, they would definitely be able to defeat the Shiwei people, who would later become the Mongolian cavalry.

But this is the pinnacle of all people being soldiers.

This whole nation is a soldier, and it is not just men. Their women, the elderly, and children are all part of the soldiers. They may not actually go to the battlefield, but they have become part of the national war machine.

They are the extremists of militarism in the Cold War Era!

What about Nazis, Zionism, Bushido, these things are simply weak compared to them.

People raised under the wind and sand of the desert are all damn born militarists.

Once this kind of nation develops, it is really untouchable. It is also a general mobilization, but the mobilization efficiency is indeed different. These Shiwei people are not only ruthless to their enemies, they are even more ruthless to themselves.

When a nation starves its elderly to death and throws its children to death for the sake of war, its enemies should feel fear.

So, don’t let your opponents be too poor. Poverty and suffering are powerful weapons. Once the poor unite, the rich will have nothing to do with them. This is a truth that applies to all countries in ancient and modern times.

Once Dading Prefecture was passed, the remaining Liao territory was basically a smooth road for the Shiwei people. They were very murderous just to grab territory, so they basically killed everyone they saw, regardless of men, women, old or young, even Newborn babies will not be spared either.

After all, they even threw their own children to death, so why do they expect them to have sympathy for the enemy's children?
Only when the grass on the grassland is watered with blood can it grow stronger and support more cattle and sheep.

Their method of attacking the city was exactly the same as that of the later Mongols: if they could go around, they would go around, and if they couldn't go around, they would provoke them outside the city. If the provoking enemy did not come out, they would not fight hard, but would simply graze outside the city.

(Methods such as returning artillery and civilian siege came later, and were basically mainly used on the Song people. To put it bluntly, they were just desperate.)
This is the scariest thing about a nation where all the people are soldiers.

People graze their cattle directly outside your city and live their lives.

If the soldiers in your city come out, they are sure to kill you.

For them, war and life can be switched seamlessly. Maybe one second the girls in Shiwei were nursing their children, but the next second the enemies in the city came out, they picked up their scimitars and started fighting with their masters. We went into battle together to kill the enemy.

Formation?What is a formation?Why do we need formations with such military qualities?
Otherwise, this person becomes more ruthless as he gets poorer. In Shiwei, people who are not ruthless will not reach adulthood. Each of them grew up "eating people". When this living habit was brought to the desert Outside, so-called civilized people are naturally vulnerable in front of them.

These Shiwei people did not dare to come directly to Linhuang Mansion. They also knew that it was the best place. His Highness King Qin of the Song Dynasty wanted it. His Highness King Qin was a friend and even his master, so he could not compete with his master.

They were in a quasi-alliance with the Song people, so the Song people occupied Linhuang Mansion. They occupied Shuibin Mansion, Dingli Mansion, Tieli Mansion, and Zhenhai Mansion to the west of Linhuang Mansion. They just wanted these pastures for them to graze.

At this time, millions of Shiwei people were really stationed in Tingli Mansion and began to prepare for war while living their lives.

I don’t know if Yelu Xiezhen had expected this cruelty in advance. He and Yelu Chong led the real elite of the Liao Kingdom back and issued another recruitment order in the name of the King of Beiyuan. They quickly expanded again. army.

This time, the Khitans had no choice. Regardless of whether they were big or small nobles, they could only join the army.

Yelu Xian also issued additional recruitment orders, and the entire Liao Kingdom was already in motion. Yelu Xiezhen was a famous person, and he recruited everyone to defeat Shi Wei. He was now considering himself a minister of Song Dynasty.

Those little nobles who originally didn't want to follow him, or wanted to see it again, but were unwilling to be Song ministers unless they had to, had to respond to his call and began to fight with the Shiwei people.

But it seems that the emperor Yelvxian is ignorant: The people of the imperial family are about to be exterminated, so why are you fighting with the Song army?Isn't it just subjugation of the country? It is better than annihilation of the species.

But it forced Yelvxian to give up his plan to harass the Song army and began to march westward.

If he doesn't move when the genocide comes, will he still be a shitty emperor?But the political interests of Yelvxian and Yelu Xiezhen and Yelvchong are different after all. In fact, most of his people are really around Linhuang Mansion, and even to the east of Linhuang Mansion, which is now the territory of the iron-clad Song Dynasty. Shi Wei didn't go there at all, so he was actually not in a hurry to have a decisive battle with Shi Wei now.

Therefore, although others went back, the battle with Shiwei was only tentative and focused on harassment without any effort.

He still has to look at Da Song's attitude.If Zhao Guangmei recruits him to surrender at this time, he may actually surrender, and then join forces with Yelu Xiezhen to destroy these Shiwei people here. The hard power of the Liao Kingdom is still higher than that of the Shiwei people.

If the Song people sided with Shi Wei and supported Shi Wei as an ally to occupy the Khitan grassland, there would be nothing to say. They would just join forces with Yelu Xiezhen and join Shi Wei. Yelu Xiezhen’s military power would be considered as useless. Well, I can just give him death, and then he will conquer Shiwei first, and then Song Dynasty.

Even if you can't do it, you have to do it. The war of national subjugation can still be surrendered, but there is no way out from the war of genocide?
However, what if Zhao Guangmei supports Yelu Xiezhen and falls out with Shi Wei?

That's actually interesting.

To the west of Linhuang Mansion, that is not the core control area of ​​the Die La tribe.

Can we instead form an alliance with the Shiwei people, use Linhuang Mansion as the boundary, divide the east and west grasslands, and drive the Song people out of Linhuang Mansion?

Even so, his Liao Kingdom still existed in name only. In fact, he had been beaten back to Yilijin from the Diela tribe from the emperor of a country, but at least he had preserved some of the foundation left by his ancestors.

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"The whole army is setting off. The infantry and artillery will stay behind in Linhuang Mansion. The Xiaoqi Battalion will still stay here to take care of the supply lines. Father-in-law, you will stay in Linhuang Mansion to take charge of the government affairs here. You will take care of the railway repairs, loan disbursements, and the merger of the commercial banks will continue. , the accounts that need to be settled will continue to be settled, and the business of attracting investment cannot be stopped for a moment, this is enough to protect the safety of Linhuang Mansion."

"What about you? Are you staying with the Xiaoqi battalion?"

"Ask Yang Ye to lead the feudal army and cavalry with me, and send a message to Brother Yelvxiu, instructing him to lead troops to attack. Finally, order Li Yixing and Zhe Deku to lead the army to help."

As he spoke, he smiled bitterly and said: "If we really let the Shiwei people kill all the Khitans west of Linhuang, I'm afraid the first people to jump up will be them party members. This is really... I raise bandits, I don't Understand it."

The unification of Shiwei was entirely due to Zhao Guangmei. It can be said that this is a disaster created by him.

Of course, if it weren't for raising this thing, the Liao Kingdom would not have collapsed so quickly and allowed him to peacefully unify.

Even to a certain extent, the current Shiwei is still trying to divert ethnic conflicts for the Song Dynasty, turning the original conflicts between the Han people and the Khitans into secondary conflicts.

Xiao Chuo said: "How are you going to deal with this matter? In any case, Shi Wei has been fighting for the Song Dynasty for these years. Who can't see that the Song Dynasty can annex the Liao Dynasty so smoothly? Shi Wei It can be said that people take credit for their great achievements. Are you going to kill the donkey now that you have just taken off the grindstone? How will you explain it to the princes of the world? Don't forget your military reform."

Zhao Guangmei became slightly silent after hearing this.

That's a real problem.

Because if the people of Shiwei are measured by the standards of younger brothers, they are really loyal. If he sends troops at this time, he can help the Khitans to fight Shiwei...

That would be too weird.

It's hard to explain the world's people's hearts.

Internally, there were a large number of Shiwei slaves in the country, and some of them had obtained the legal status of the Song Dynasty.

Your Song army and Shi Wei attacked the Liao east and west together. We Shiwei people still listened to your Song people's orders to attack the Liao. As a result, halfway through the expedition against the Liao, you Song and Liao united to attack me, right?
It is difficult to say whether these Shiwei slaves will revolt and cause riots.

It is even more unjustifiable to the outside world. The current younger brother of the Song Dynasty is not only Shiwei, but also there are more and more foreigners in the Song Dynasty. Strictly speaking, even people like Li Yixing and Cao Yuanzhong, although they are related to the Song Dynasty, Much closer than Shi Wei, there is no difference between them and ministers, but if they really do such a cruel thing, it is hard to say whether they will feel the sorrow of the death of a rabbit and a fox.

That's trouble.

The military system he had just changed meant that they would be reused as vassal soldiers in the future.

The best result is of course to persuade these Shiwei people to go back to the desert, but in fact, I know that this is impossible, and their children have all fallen to death.

"Let's talk as much as we can. If we can't talk, we'll fight again. Even if it's a fight, it's just to talk after the fight is over. Hey~, in fact, I never thought about treating Shiwei badly or killing the donkey. They are too anxious! Hey~"

Problems that can be solved with money are not problems in Zhao Guangmei's eyes. He is just afraid that this matter cannot be solved with money.

(End of this chapter)