Chapter 1873 Goodbye Zhao Huan and Yelu Yanxi (Part 2)
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Unlike the Eastern Route Army who defeated Shangjing and destroyed the main force of the Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop, the Western Route Army has achieved much less results.
Although the Western Route Army led by Yue Fei, Yang Yizhong and others were also retreating step by step, the Mongols did not have a strong city like the Jin people, so they could not defeat it. The Mongols naturally wanted to escape to Siberia in the north, even if it was a dead end.
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Although the Western Route Army led by Yue Fei, Yang Yizhong and others have not achieved great results at this stage, Yue Fei ordered Zhang Xian, Wang Yan and Wang De to send people to attack the Mongol ranch. In those battles, the central army achieved great results. A total of 300,000 livestock were seized, and these livestock were enough for the 300,000 to 400,000 people from the Western Route Army to eat for a whole year.
After that, the central army blocked the Mongols for a long time and drove the Mongols into the Central Siberian Plateau before giving up.
This pursuit caused the Mongols to lose a lot of food and livestock.
In other words, the Mongolians now have very little food and livestock.
These food and livestock are enough for all Mongolians to survive the winter, and even one-tenth of Mongolians who support one-tenth of Mongolians can survive this cold winter.
After the Western Route Army captured the Onon River and Buerhan Mountain areas, they set up camp here.
At the same time, Yue Fei also sent Zhang Xian, Wang Yan and Wang De to guard the various important roads that the Mongols could go south.
Then, while sending people to raise millions of livestock, Yue Fei also asked Li Yan to request the court to mobilize food and supplies to the Onon River and Buerhan Mountain areas.
After all this was done, Yue Fei ordered people to raise the banner of "Surrender and have food to eat" written in Chinese and various ethnic languages in all conspicuous places.
From Yue Fei's series of deployments, it is not difficult to see that the Western Route Army is preparing to lock the Mongols in Siberia, and then wait for the Mongols who cannot stand up in the Onan River and Buerhan Mountain areas to surrender, waiting for the Mongols who would rather die than surrender to freeze and starve to death, or waiting for the Mongols who refused to surrender to kill each other while fighting for food.
After receiving Yue Fei's memorial, Li Yan immediately ordered Li Cunhua to recruit another three million civilians to Liaoning City, and then let these civilians deliver food and winter supplies to the Onon River and Buerhan Mountain areas, and ensure everything needed by the Western Route Army.
Li Yan knew very well that as long as Yue Fei's idea was achieved, after this winter, the Mongols would not be afraid of within a hundred or two hundred years, even if Temujin was born like in history.
Therefore, Li Yan did not spare any effort to support Yue Fei.
At the same time, Li Yan also sent someone to Yue Fei, Yang Yizhong, Zhang Xian, Wang Yan, Wang De and others: "Whether there will be any border problems in Dazhong in the future depends on your achievements in this winter."
On the West Road, Li Yan could not do anything except to provide them with supplies to them with all his might.
However, when the Eastern Army saw that it had been attacking the capital for a long time, Li Yan provided Wu Jie and others with the method of a surprise attack of airships.
As a result, the Eastern Route Army captured Shangjing City and destroyed Li Yan's hearts.
Of course, it is not entirely true that you say that the Great Jin Dynasty was completely destroyed. After all, going to the capital does not mean going to the Jing Road. There are still a large number of Jin counties and counties under the control of the Jin people.
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Those counties are actually insignificant. The Eastern Army will capture several key counties around it, and after setting up defenses, we can pacify the Northeast region in one fell swoop and completely incorporate it into the territory of Dazhong.
According to Li Yan's instructions, all Jurchen nobles were arrested and punished.
The characteristics of the Jurchen surname are that there is a difference between "white surnames" and "black surnames", and it is divided into four major branches.
The Jurchen surname "Bai Nie" is divided into three branches, with ninety-nine surnames.
The Jurchen surname "Black Name" has only one branch and sixteen surnames.
Total: The Jurchens of the Jin Dynasty had a total of 115 surnames.
All of these surnames were arrested and punished.
In addition, Li Yan also issued two unpardoned orders, including two surnames, one is Wanyan and the other is Aisin Jueluo.
Just because of the various crimes committed by the Jurchens in the first place, Li Yan asked about the entire Jurchen tribe, and even if he massacred the entire Jurchen tribe, it was not surprising that this was a relatively backward feudal society, such as massacre of cities, wheels, etc., which was really common.
The problem is that although Li Yan had sued all the Jurchens, he only issued two unpardoned orders, which means that he would only massacre the Jurchens with two surnames in the end.
This is OK, too.
If you don’t forgive the Wanyan clan, it’s fine. After all, the Wanyan clan is the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty, and all the evil deeds committed by the Jin people southward were all ordered by the Wanyan clan.
But which onion is this "Aisin Jueluo Family"? How can it be compared with the Wanyan Family of the Great Jin royal family? This made Li Yan, the first emperor of the age, specially issued an unpardoned order for this surname?
This is really not the world's doubts.
Not to mention during this period, even in the Ming Dynasty, among the surnames of the Manchu people, "Aisin Gioro" was just a small surname in the early Ming Dynasty. The Aisin Gioro family was just a family with very few people, including the Sixth Patriarch of Nurhaci and their twenty-two sons. At that time, the eight major surnames of the Manchu people were "Tongjia", "Guarjia", "Majia", "Suochuolu", "Hesheli", "Fucha", "Nara" and "Niuhulu", and there was no "Aisin Gioro". In this era, there was no surname of "Aisin Gioro" among the Jurchens.
Where did Wu Jie, Han Shizhong and the others ask to find this?
Later, the surrendered Jurchens told Wu Jie and others that the surname Jurchen was divided into two parts, one was the surname (Hara), and one was the clan name (Mukun) based on blood kinship. In the Aisin Jurchen surname, Jurchen was the surname and Aisin was the clan name. From this they infer that a very backward Jurchen family in Sanli outside the east gate of Ningguta old city may be the unforgivable Aisin Jurchen family.
Wu Jie and Han Shizhong and others, based on the principle of rather killing the wrong person, sent a cavalry to destroy the small tribe under the guidance of the surrendered Jurchens, and then the matter was finally gone.
Next, Li Xiu, Li Ci and other Li Yan's sons, and a large number of capable officials who were good at immigration, presided over the presidency. They punished the Jin people (not only the Jurchens, but also the Khitans, Xi, Bohai, the Five Kingdoms, Jiri Mi, Wudi Gai and other people), those who were guilty, and those who were not guilty would change their surnames to Han, keep their hair, wear Dazhong clothes, and then break up, and become small tribes with no more than one hundred people. Then they moved these small tribes to various areas of Dazhong and were resettled by local governments.
At the same time, the Eastern Route Army dispatched one after another to attack several counties around Shangjing.
After cleaning up all these counties and re-arranged defenses, Wu Jie, Han Shizhong and others sent people to Beijing to invite Li Yan to go to the capital for inspection. At the same time, they also brought Li Yan a message: they had rescued Zhao Huan, Yelu Yanxi and others who were trapped in the Five Kingdoms City, and had found Zhao Ji's corpse.
Chapter completed!