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Ximen Qing has made so many military exploits, and Wanyan Shengguo, who secretly supported him, is also happy in his heart and brows.
Seeing Ximenqing approaching him, Wanyan Shengguo also smiled at him and said, "Brother Ximenqing, it's Shengguo's fault that I couldn't call you back to the capital earlier. Then Lu Yanlun has many schemes, I thought that going to the capital There are tens of thousands of Liao troops, how can he survive for two days, brother, you can still catch up with the battle of breaking the city. How did you expect the Liao army to be so vulnerable, under the strong attack of our army, they lost the outer city in less than half a day and shrank in In the imperial city. The general of the Liao army was frightened by our army's bravery, and before our army attacked the imperial city, he begged for surrender."
"Whose army was the one that broke through the city first, Shengguo, you, or brother Nianbuhua's army?" Ximen Qing asked the two of them.
"Ashamed! Although our army stormed Ximen and killed countless people, it was Uncle Jai from Dongmen who broke through the city first." Wanyan Nianmei said to Ximen Qing.
What?Possessing Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshu, two fierce generals, Wanyan sticks and claims to be brave in the whole army, but these three fierce fighters failed to win the first place?
Wanyan's mother led the army to go to the city first?There are too many nobles in the Wanyan clan, Ximenqing has never met him before, so he doesn't know his details.After asking Wanyan Shengguo in a low voice, Ximenqing realized that Wanyan's mother also had a lot of history.
Wanyan's mother is the uncle of Wanyan Shenguo and the No.11 half-brother of Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Kingdom of Jin.In the second year of Jin Shouguo, he assisted Wanyan Nianbudou's uncle Wanyan Hanlu to lead an army to Tokyo to suppress Gao Yongchang, a Bohai native who claimed to be emperor without authorization, and defeated Gao Yongchang's army in Shoushan.Afterwards, Wanyan's mother replaced Wanyan Wulu as the deputy capital of Xianzhou Road in Jin State, and fought against the Liao army in Zhongjing Road and Nanjing Road in Liao State.
This time Wanyan Aguda led the army to attack the Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, Liao Kingdom, and specially transferred Wanyan's mother army from Xianzhou to the north to meet in Shangjing.
After Wanyan's mother joined forces with her elder brother Wanyan Aguda, she immediately joined the siege of Shangjing's Linhuang Mansion.Wanyan's mother is leading a new force that did not participate in the attack on the Shangjing Road, and has not made an inch of merit in the battle of the Shangjing Road before, so she is eager to fight.
After the Jin army launched a four-sided siege on Shangjing, Wanyan's mother took the lead, and was the first to rush up the city wall from the ladder with a sledgehammer in her hand. She led the troops to repel the Liao army and captured the east gate of the outer city.Once the east gate was lost, the morale of the Liao army defending the outer city in Shangjing was sluggish. The generals of the Jin army broke through the south gate and west gate one after another, and drove the Liao army into the imperial city.
Seeing that the general situation was over and the imperial city could not escape the fate of perishing, Yeluta Buye and Lu Yanlun, who stayed in Shangjing in Liao Kingdom, gave up resistance and led the crowd to surrender to the Jin army.
Because of the activeness of Wanyan's mother army, after the Jin army launched an attack, it took less than half a day to capture Shangjing.Therefore, the first victory in this battle is naturally Wanyan's mother.Even though the battle was as brave as Wanyan Nianmeihe and others, he still admired Wanyan's mother's performance in this battle from the bottom of his heart.
When Ximen Qing was discussing with Wanyan Shenguo and Wanyan Nianmeijiu, Wanyan Aguda called his brother Wanyan Jiamu to his side and asked him to ride with him and walk at the front of the team to inspect The surrendered Liao army received tens of thousands of onlookers and cheers from the Jin army.
Ximen Qing saw that Wanyan's mother was born with a hulking back and thick muscles, and a jet-black terrier sledgehammer that had just been washed hung under the saddle.Thinking about it, he should be of the same type as his elder brother Wanyan Wu Qimai, they are both powerful warriors.I really don't know how many Liao soldiers' heads were crushed by Wanyan's mother's sledge hammer.
There are so many fierce generals in the Jin army!When you really want to fight the Jin army in the future, I'm afraid you will have to fight a lot of hard battles!Ximen Qing secretly sighed in his heart.
While thinking about his thoughts, Ximen Qing followed the Jurchen noble generals Wanyan Aguda, Wanyan Jiamu, Wanyan Shenguo, Wanyan Nianmudou, etc., and rode past the kneeling Liao army prisoners on horseback. Accept the kneeling of the surrendered army.
The heavily armed Jin army around gave out bursts of cheers, celebrating the victory in the Battle of Shangjing and boasting of the Jin army's martial arts.
In front of the Liao army's descending troops, Yeluta Buye and Lu Yanlun and other Liao army generals knelt in a row, listening to the cheers of the Jin army, and lowered their heads with ashen faces, waiting for the emperor Wanyan Aguda to deal with him.
When the aristocratic generals of the Jin Army rode to the front of the general of the Liao Army, Wanyan Shenguo suddenly smiled at Lu Yanlun and said, "General Lu, we meet again. I once said that I will enter you to go to the capital and stay in your house." Let's have a drink with you. General Lu, do you know if the house has prepared some good wine?"
Lu Yanlun looked up at Wanyan Shengguo, and replied respectfully: "The villain is arrogant and ignorant. He offended the prince the day before yesterday. He deserves death. Please punish the prince. The prince wants to drink. There is a bottle of wine in the treasury of the Imperial City of Shangjing." A lot of good wine. The villain is a defeated general, how dare he drink with the crown prince."
Wanyan Shengguo jumped off his horse suddenly, helped Lu Yanlun up, took his hand and said, "At that time, each was his own master, so why offend? General Lu is good at using troops, and Shengguo admires him. Now that the general has surrendered to us The Kingdom of Jin is the subjects of my Great Kingdom of Jin. After this matter is over, Shenguo will definitely go to the general's residence to have a few drinks."
Seeing Ximen Qing later, he thought that my future brother-in-law is very good at buying people's hearts!
6Chapter 17 Disposal after the war
It has to be said that Wanyan Shenguo may not be the bravest among Wanyan Aguda's many sons, but he has inherited Wanyan Aguda's political ability to win people's hearts.
Wanyan Shengguo's words made Lu Yanlun, who was uneasy under the threat of the Jin army's force, see a glimmer of the possibility of a bright future, and he felt a lot of affection for the prince of the Jin Kingdom.
Since Wanyan Shenguo said so, Lu Yanlun knew that he should be safe.It's just that I don't know how the brothers of the Han army who followed him will be punished by the Jin army.
Without waiting for Lu Yanlun's random guesses, what the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda said in front of everyone completely knocked a stone from Lu Yanlun's heart to the ground.
Wanyan Aguda said to Yelv Tabuye, Lu Yanlun and the tens of thousands of Liao troops who surrendered, since the princes have decided to surrender to our Dajin Kingdom, from now on, all the soldiers and civilians in Shangjing City will be Dajin Kingdom soldiers and civilians.
Wanyan Aguda said that the army of the Dajin Kingdom would never burn, kill and loot their own soldiers and civilians, but would let the people of Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing recuperate and live a better life than under the rule of the Liao Kingdom.
Amidst the astonishment of Yelv Tabuye, Lu Yanlun and other soldiers, the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda announced his decision:
The more than 3 Liao troops who surrendered outside the north gate were all exonerated, and all were incorporated into the Dajin army from today, and the lieutenant generals and officers were reinstated.
Yelv Tabu, who was originally staying in Shangjing in the Liao Dynasty, and Lu Yanlun, who were engaged in military affairs, led the Dajin Kingdom Quan to dispatch Shangjing to stay behind. They commanded the former headquarters of the army and horses, and jointly managed and guarded the Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing for the emperor of the Dajin Kingdom.
The original exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the people of Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing during the rule of the Liao Kingdom were all abolished, and the Dajin Kingdom implemented a policy of light corvee and taxation in Shangjing Road, so that the people who had experienced the war could recuperate.
Knowing that they will not be harmed by the Jin army's revenge, that they can still stay in Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, that they will not be separated from their relatives at home, and that the people in the city can also reduce or exempt taxes, many Liao soldiers gave heartfelt cheers.
All of a sudden, the soldiers of the Liao army shouted long live to Wanyan Aguda one after another, and their excitement and gratitude were beyond words.
Most of the Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing is Han, and the majority of the defenders in Shangjing are also Han troops.They are different from the few Khitan people in the city, and they have no generational enmity with the Jurchens of the Kingdom of Jin.Therefore, whichever ruler can implement good governance to these Han people will inevitably win the sincere support of these Han people.
After the war between the Liao and the Jin Dynasties, from the childhood of Yelu Chigou who stayed behind in Shangjing, the Khitan Liao army in Shangjing often deliberately exploited the Han people in the name of war needs, which caused dissatisfaction among the Han people.
For this matter, Lu Yanlun, who represented the interests of the Han people in Shangjing, once sparked an argument with Yeluchi Gou'er.However, little has been achieved.
Compared with the Khitan people who are greedy and have lax military discipline, it is obvious that Wanyan Aguda's actions made the Jurchens initially win the hearts of the Han people in Shangjing.
In particular, Lu Yanlun, who was the representative of the Han people in the city, was blessed by misfortune this time, and was promoted as a general, and was able to jointly manage the Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing with Yelv Tabuye.
I thought that the Jin army's attack was a catastrophe, but I didn't know that the Jurchen's friendliness to the soldiers and civilians in Shangjing City was far better than that of the Khitan people in Liao Kingdom.Whether it's Lu Yanlun himself or the Han troops under him, at this moment there is a real feeling of returning home.
Therefore, Ximen Qing could tell that most of the Liao army present cheered sincerely to the Jin Emperor Wanyan Agu, and their joy was beyond words.
After Emperor Wanyan Aguda's instructions were over, Yeluta Buye and Lu Yanlun heard that the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda cut themselves off like this, and knelt down to Wanyan Aguda's subordinates again, leading the Liao army to shout long live three times, Accepted the appointment of the emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom.
Ximen Qing looked on coldly, unlike the joy of Lu Yanlun and most of the Han army, Yeluta Buye and other Khitan soldiers were also relieved, but their excitement was not as good as that of the Han army soldiers.
This is no wonder, after all, the war between the Jin and Liao countries is, in the final analysis, the grievances and hatred between the Jurchens and the Khitans.
As Khitan people, although they received a magnanimous pardon from the Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Kingdom of Jin and allowed them to continue to serve the Kingdom of Jin, from the perspective of national sentiment, it is embarrassing for Yeluta Buye and other Khitan soldiers at this moment have no choice.
As far as Yeluta Buye, who stayed behind in Shangjing, was reinstated as an official, Emperor Wanyan Aguda promoted Lu Yanlun to a position comparable to his own. Obviously, power was checked and balanced, and he could no longer monopolize power.
Yeluta, who has been in the ups and downs of his career for many years, is not wild, so he naturally understands what it is like.Obviously, among the officials and generals of the Liao Kingdom who surrendered in Shangjing, the Jurchens of the Kingdom of Jin trusted the Han people more than the Khitan people and the Han people.
The reality is so, we can only tacitly say it, and take one step carefully and then look at it!
Ximen Qing rode behind Wanyan Aguda and Wanyan Shenguo father and son, watching them skillfully attract, divide and use the surrendered Liao army in Shangjing's Linhuang Mansion, and he admired them greatly.
The Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Kingdom of Jin deserves to be the hero of the generation who founded the country. Not only did he march and fight against gods and ghosts, but he swept the world invincibly;
Facing such a strong man, how could Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom be undefeated?
Fighting with the Jin army these days, Ximen Qing also gradually understood how the Jin army invaded and encroached on the territory of the Liao Kingdom.
Although Jin's Jurchen army has strong combat effectiveness and can beat the Liao army in field battles, its current strength is still too small to occupy the vast territory of Liao.
Therefore, the strategy of the Jin army has always been to lure the Liao army to a decisive battle, and use the field army to massacre the main force of the Liao army outside the city.
When the Liao army was defeated and the city of the Liao Kingdom surrendered, the Jin army usually just accepted the surrender outside the city, and then let the surrendered officials of the Liao Kingdom in the city continue to govern the local people and provide money and food for the Jin army.
If the Jin army is disposed of in this way, it will not disperse tens of thousands of Jin troops into the occupied cities one by one, avoiding the disadvantages of the dispersion of troops, which is not conducive to large army operations.
As for whether the surrendered city will rebel and return to the rule of the Liao Kingdom, the Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Jin Kingdom doesn't care.
If any state or county rebels, the Jin army will concentrate its forces to attack again, and take the opportunity to attract another Liao army to annihilate them in the field.Just like this back and forth, until the Liao army dared not come to compete with the Jin army for lost ground, and the prefectures and counties did not dare to surrender again and rebelled.
The cities on Dongdong Road and Xianzhou Road in Liaodong were completely consolidated after the Jin army used this strategy to repeatedly seesaw and annihilate countless Liao troops.