Chapter 839: Night in Ulaanbaatar (Part 2)
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actually--
Kedun City is located west of Ulaanbaatar in later generations.
Shortly after the central army crossed the desert, Yue Fei sent his eldest son Yue Yun to lead a 10,000-carrying army, Wang Sheng and Li Yanguang each led 20,000 cavalry to Ulaanbatosi to attack Kedun City.
In order to ensure the effect of the surprise attack, all Yue Fei's cavalry were equipped with one man and two horses.
Yue Fei himself led the remaining troops as the central army and slowly advanced towards Keduncheng.
The Central Army had abolished such great strength to cross the desert, so that it would be a surprise attack on Kedun City.
Therefore, how dare Yue Yun, Wang Sheng, and Li Yanguang be negligent?
The three of them led 50,000 cavalry to travel at night, arrived at Ulaanbaatosi and under the city of Kedun.
The so-called Kedun City is actually a dirt city that has been in disrepair, with very limited defense capabilities.
but--
Because there is a desert as a natural barrier, and because there are tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of war horses in Kedun City, the surrounding small tribes dare not peek at all.
Therefore, the people of Duncheng live a boring life day after day, year after year.
This kind of boring life will undoubtedly make people become numb and lose their vigilance.
In addition, after the last mutiny, Yelu Shulie and Yelu Dilie were killed by the rebels. Now there are no leaders in Keduan City, and everyone has to live by.
Therefore, there is no defense in Duncheng.
The nights in Ulaanbaatar are so quiet and so beautiful.
It's a pity-
The 50,000 cavalry led by Yue Yun, Wang Sheng, and Li Yanguang and the muskets they used broke the quiet beauty of the night in Ulaanbaatar.
I won't go into details about the process.
Those who have ambition but not intentions are more than those in Kedun City. In addition, in terms of weapons, the two sides are very different.
Therefore, there was no suspense in this battle - Yue Yun, Wang Sheng, and Li Yanguang attacked Kedun City in one battle, and almost all captured the people in Kedun City.
The information sent back by the large-scale intelligence personnel in Kedun City is correct, because of the unique geographical environment and countless years of accumulation, there are actually more than 400,000 war horses here, and all of them are warable horses.
This surprised Yue Fei and others!
Yue Fei invited people from the Liao king Li Xu and the former Liao Kingdom who were respected and determined to submit to Dazhong to the Central Committee and asked them to surrender to the people from Keduncheng.
At the beginning, after the Khitan conquered the northern part of the Mo, the various tribes of Bu surrendered and rebelled. Emperor Shengzong of Liao ordered the princess (Qi Concubine) to lead Wugu and other troops to the west to guard the pacification. Later, the city was built near the original Uighur royal city. The following year, the town was established (maining Keduncheng), defending the three states, and dispatched more than 20,000 cavalry of the tribes, as well as more than 700 Han soldiers, and more than 700 Han people, to settle down and guard the houses, and issued a death order: no matter how far the country reached, the 20,000 cavalry in Keduncheng were allowed to go south.
In a blink of an eye, more than a hundred years have passed.
For more than a hundred years, it is said that the people of Keduncheng were stationed in Keduncheng to guard the border for the Liao Dynasty. It is better to say that they were exiled here.
Moreover, it has been several generations, and all those who have feelings for the Liao Dynasty have passed away. Now the people in Kedun City do not have much feelings for the Liao Dynasty.
However, the more than 10,000 Khitans brought by Yelu Shulie and Yelu Dilie later had some feelings for the Liao Dynasty. But first, they were few, and secondly, they died a lot during the last war, and they had become a minority in Kedun City.
In addition, Yelu Yuliyan was the last princess of the Liao Dynasty to be officially enthroned. Her son and Li Yanshen were largely recognized by these headless Liao people, at least giving them an excuse to surrender.
Of course, it is more about the general trend. If they have become rootless duckweed, they do not surrender like most Liao people, they may be massacred.
In short, it was not too strong to destroy it. Yue Fei and others surrendered the remnants of the Liao Dynasty in Kedun City and took over Kedun City.
Capturing Kedun City was just the first goal of Yue Fei and others on this trip.
Soon, Ma Kuo, in the name of the Northwest Road of the Dazhong Empire, sent invitation letters to the leaders of the remnants of Liao army in seven military prefectures including Wei, Chongde, Huifan, Xin, Dalin, Zihe, Tuo, and other small tribes such as Wei, Dila, Wang Jila, Chachila, Yexi, Bigude, Nila, Dalagude, Damili, Mierji, Hezhu, Wuguli, Zubu, Pusuwan, Tanggu, Humusi, Xi, Jiuerbi and other leaders of the surrounding small tribes sent invitation letters to the alliance.
actually--
Long before coming to Kedun City, with the help of the people sent by Yelu Dashi, Honglu Temple had already contacted the remnants of the Liao army and the leaders of these small tribes. Some of them had even agreed to surrender to Dazhong and respect Li Yan as Khan.
For these tribes that had surrendered to Dazhong, Dazhong traded with them at a fair price, sold the food and daily necessities they needed, purchased their livestock and fur, and even allowed them to move their tribes to the vicinity of Liaoning and live with the Han people there.
In this way, these tribes who surrendered to the high school have gained tangible benefits.
This also made those tribes who were still watching and unable to help but feel compliant.
Therefore, Ma Kuo convened the remnants of the Liao army prefecture and the leaders of these small tribes to have a meeting in the name of the Northwest Road of the Great Zhong Empire, and most of them rushed over.
And everyone from Honglu Temple welcomed everyone warmly and talked to him about the benefits of surrendering to Dazhong one by one.
A few months later, the alliance meeting chaired by Ma Kuo was held.
Ma Kuo made a generous speech at the conference, saying that during the Tang Dynasty, it started from the Sea of Japan in the east, occupied Annan in the south, reached the Aral Sea in the west, and crossed Lake Baikal in the north. Everyone had one family in the world, no distinction between each other, everyone could trade freely, and the vassals could freely learn advanced culture and systems, and everyone made progress together. Unlike now, there were killings everywhere on the grasslands and living creatures. The people of the grassland had no place to buy the most basic food and daily necessities...
To put it simply, Ma Kuo's words meant that we, Dazhong and the North, are ready to imitate the Tang Dynasty and unify the grasslands and make the grasslands a part of my Dazhong and the North, and you are better off as you understand and surrender. If you surrender, we will trade with you, accept you, and spread advanced culture to you. Otherwise, we will send troops to attack you.
After the fall of the Liao Dynasty, due to the limitations of the terrain and the obstruction of large tribes such as the Tatar tribe, the Mongolian tribe, the Kelie tribe, the Naiman tribe, and the Wanggu tribe, the power of the Jin Dynasty could not reach the north of Yinshan, so that these military provinces and small tribes that were originally under the Liao Dynasty actually became children without their wives, and life was very difficult - they were not only bullied and forcibly annexed by large tribes such as the Tatar tribe, the Mongolian tribe, the Kelie tribe, the Naiman tribe, and the Wanggu tribe, but there was no local trade and life was difficult.
Therefore, these military prefectures and small tribes that were originally under the Liao Dynasty urgently needed to be unified, or to find a large wharf to rely on, and the prosperous and powerful Dazhong is actually a good choice.
actually--
Before this, these military prefectures and small tribes that were originally under the Liao Dynasty also wanted to respond to the call of Li Ganshun of the Western Xia to unify and confront Dazhong.
But Li Ganshun had been organizing for several years, and the Great Jin Kingdom, which he vigorously promoted to the throne, was unable to annex the surrounding Tatar tribe, Mongolian tribe, Kelie tribe, Naiman tribe, and Wanggu tribe, let alone accept the remnants of the Liao Dynasty in the northern desert area.
More importantly, the old emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Wu Qimai died. The current emperor is just a young boy of sixteen or seventeen years old. This does not conform to the image of the great khan in the hearts of the grassland people. In contrast, Li Yan, who fought south and north at the age of 44 or 5 this year, unified the Central Plains dynasty, is more in line with the image of the great khan in the hearts of the grassland people.
Moreover, although their relationship with the Liao Dynasty was actually very weak, they still hated the Jurchens who destroyed the Liao Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts.
Therefore, the army sent troops to the grassland, and sent 100,000 troops to Kedun City at one time, so that these military prefectures and small tribes that were originally under the Liao Dynasty surrendered.
Of course, there are also those who are not open to their eyes.
Yue Fei was not polite about these unsightly eyes. He immediately joined forces with the tribes that had already surrendered to send troops to destroy them, then killed all the men, and distributed their women and livestock to those who were willing to surrender.
Now the central army, which has been equipped with muskets, is almost invincible in the world. In addition, there are tribes with many girls who are accomplices of the tiger. How can those unofficial tribes withstand the encirclement and suppression of the central army?
Soon after, Dazhong unified the northern part of the Mobei region, restored the old land of the old Tang Dynasty, and the sphere of influence in Dazhong and northern part reached the Baikal area.
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Chapter completed!