Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Section 38 Northern Expedition

Looking deeply at the other party, Lei Juetian said slowly with a complex expression: "I just hope that the Great Khan will remember the promise he made to his subordinates. After capturing the Five Lakes area, he must treat the people of the Tang people kindly. The difference is the ditch, otherwise Lei Juetian would really be a historical sinner whose death is not enough to atone for his crime."

Bi Xili stopped and said solemnly: "Juetian can rest assured, not to mention that I have promised you, I will keep my promise. I also have the blood of the Tang clan. If I want to gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains, I must win the hearts of the people of the Tang clan. , There is no doubt about this point, I don’t think Juetian thinks that I don’t even have this knowledge? What’s more, after the advocacy of several generations of Khans in the past hundred years, many customs and habits of our Maqihan people have gradually become the same as those of the Tang people. To put it bluntly, the Maqihan people today are probably not much different from the Tang people. I have never thought that the Maqihan people are superior to the Tang people. What's more, the culture and art accumulated by the Tang people for thousands of years is more worthy of us. The Khan people learn and learn from it, but I also think that excessive national pride also makes the vast majority of Tang people lie too lazy and do not think about making progress in the shadow of their ancestors. People who are not enterprising will be eliminated by history. This is history. The inevitable law of the Tang Dynasty, this is what you told me, I may be like the portrayal of today's Tanghe Empire, if the Tang people want to get a new life, I'm afraid they really need a blow in the face, so let me be the blow .”

Taking a long breath, Lei Juetian lowered his head and walked forward. He knew what the other party said was very reasonable. As a Tang tribe, Max helped foreign regimes conquer their own country. Terrific, but for the orthodox Tang people, it is still an unacceptable fact. I have been in charge of the Maqi Khanate for more than ten years, and the Great Khan has a lot of trust in him. It can be said that one person is under 10,000 people, and the status of ordinary Tang people in the Maqi Khanate has also improved a lot. Is there a reason why you are serving the Machi Khanate? Lei Juetian was a little dazed.

"Juetian, you seem to have something on your mind?" Bi Xili keenly sensed the melancholy in the expression of his confidant Humerus.

"It's nothing, sweating profusely, I'm just feeling a little emotional. I'm about to march into the Five Lakes, and my mood is a bit complicated. Many past events are slowly resurfaced. Maybe one day I will face my former colleagues again. It's just this position. But it is totally different, this kind of feeling is probably difficult for you to experience." In front of his lord, Lei Juetian didn't want to hide anything, the ups and downs of more than ten years could not erase the gaps in his memory On the contrary, with the passage of time, certain scenes became clearer in my mind, as if it just happened yesterday.

Bixili can understand the feelings of the other party. He believes that a successful monarch must first have a broad mind. Without a mind that tolerates others, this monarch is not a qualified monarch. He himself has always used this standard to demand himself It is a clear proof that Lei Juetian can get his reuse. As a member of the Tang tribe, seeing that his painstaking efforts have made the Maqihan people stronger and stronger, but now they are directing their troops to their own motherland. This kind of complicated mood is indeed beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

"Juetian, if you don't do this, you won't participate in this Northern Expedition. You should trust Ya Ning's character. I have already given them a death order. It is strictly forbidden to disturb the people. Anyone who violates the order will be executed. As long as the army of the Tanghe Empire is willing to surrender, we will not kill them all. We will accept surrender as much as possible. Of course, you also know that this is a war, and it is impossible without sacrifice and bloodshed. We can only avoid it as much as possible. Bleeding." Biscili's words were plain and simple.

"Thank you Dahan for your kindness, but I think it is better for me to go out with General Yaning. After all, I know the situation in my hometown better. I don't want to add more people to die because of unnecessary resistance. Big Khan , I also need to prepare, so I will go down and rest first." Lei Juetian shook his head heavily and rejected Bixili's suggestion, saluted, and walked forward sadly.

"Standing in a dangerous building, the wind is soft, looking at the extreme spring sorrow, and the sky is gloomy. In the afterglow of the grass and smoke, who will be silent without words." In the shadow of the setting sun, his thin figure seemed even more lonely.

In the early morning of March 23, 697 in the mainland Gregorian calendar, the 210,000 Machi Khan army, which had already been ready to go, split into east and west with lightning speed, crossed the border between the two countries, and went straight to Wenning and Baling. Two prefectures.

By noon on March 24, the Maqi Khan army of the four corps on the Eastern Front, under the personal leadership of Dingguo General Ya Ning, rushed for more than 100 miles, and conquered several important checkpoints and towns along the way. Half of Wenning Mansion was already under the control of Maqi Khan's army. On the evening of March 25, Maqi Khan's army on the East Road finally encountered their first battle since the war began. The two infantry regiments of the Third Division of the Sixth Army of the Empire stubbornly attacked the Fifth Army of Maqihan, who was marching northward, near Luomadu, fifty miles away from the city of Wenning in the middle of Wenning Mansion. The imperial infantry took advantage of the favorable terrain to effectively restrict The role of the Maqihan cavalry was brought into full play, and the two infantry brigades guarding the flanks of the Luomadu used the ships near the ferry to make a detour and reverse, and raided the Maqihan Fifth Corps that had just camped. Therefore, due to excessive pride, he relaxed the defense of his own command post, and was seized by the imperial assault troops attacking from the river, annihilating the entire command post of the Fifth Corps in one fell swoop, except for the command post of the Fifth Army of Machi Khan Qin's deputy corps commander escaped by chance, and the rest of the command staff, including the corps commander, were all wiped out, and the Fifth Corps was defeated.

Fortunately, the 4th Army Corps of Maqihan, which was advancing side by side, noticed the abnormality of the 5th Corps on its flank, and quickly adjusted its deployment. Due to the disparity between the enemy and ourselves, the two imperial troops guarding Luomadu were forced to retreat after a day and night of heroic resistance. So far, the important ferry leading to Wenning Mansion has been controlled by the Machi Khans. The gate of Ning Mansion has been opened.

In the early morning of March 30th, Ma Qihan's North Expedition East Road Army, except for the Fifth Corps which was still regrouping and reorganizing near Luomadu, the other three regiments had successfully crossed the Xiangshui River and approached Wenningfu City. On the night of March 29th, the Third Division of the Imperial Sixth Army, which received the order, began to withdraw from Wenningfu City and made a strategic shift to the north. Along with the Third Division, there were also a large number of Wenningfu gentry and landlords with their children. and rich merchants, and the Wenning Guard Division received an order to stick to Wenning Fucheng. When the third division withdrew from Wenningfu City, the affluent Wenningfu City immediately fell into chaos. The refugees quickly got tangled together, burning, killing and looting everywhere, and the garrison who was ordered to stick to the city of Wenning was not only unable to control the situation in the city, but even a considerable amount of garrison soldiers joined forces with the mob to take advantage of this vacuum to ransack the rich families in the city. , The entire Wenningfu city was filled with smog, and this chaotic situation lasted until March 31 when the Machi Khan army entered the city and the situation was brought under control.

At the same time, Yan Ning's deputy, Bi Xiao, launched a fierce attack from the three corps from the western front, and the attack went very smoothly. The water reaches Dongting Lake, the famous land of fish and rice. The fertile plains and beautiful lakes and waters make the soldiers of Maqi Khan linger and forget to return. On March 26, Bi Xiao led an army to capture the dock base of the Dongting Lake Navy Fleet - Botou Town. (Han River - Dongting Lake) the southern section is withdrawn northward to Han River.

On March 28, after Bi Xiao received information that the Fourth Division of the Sixth Army of the Empire stationed in Baling Mansion was retreating, he divided his troops into two groups and led the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps along the Dongting Lake. The West Bank advances, while the Tenth Corps goes north along the east bank of Dongting Lake, passing through the town of Chuanji along the way~IndoMTL.com~ It's smooth sailing, but many landless tenants fled due to a large number of landlords, and the local grassroots officials were unable to intervene and joined in one after another. The trend of scrambling for land and land is getting worse.

The Five Lakes area was originally the birthplace of the empire's nobles and landlords. When the empire was founded by the emperor, there were many meritorious officials here. Correspondingly, a large amount of compensation was given to those meritorious officials. Many of these people returned to their hometowns to buy land and became rich. With the changes of the times, these families enjoying many privileges in political rights tried every means to continuously annex land , so that the farmers in this area continued to be reduced to tenants, and the entire Wuhu area became an area with a high concentration of imperial land. However, those peasants who became tenants and farm laborers lived in poverty day by day. The only way for them to survive after losing their land was to join these big nobles and big landlords. In fact, they lost their personal rights and became serfs of semi-dependent landlords.

Now that I have this opportunity, I can see that these usually majestic owners panicked at this moment, and even joined the ranks of fleeing before they could take away much. As for the land and houses, no one cares about them, even those The servants of the village also took advantage of the fire to loot and plunder the property of their masters, and the tenants could not hold back anymore, they swarmed up and launched the final attack towards the dream goal of becoming a landowner.

On March 31, 697 in the Gregorian calendar of the mainland, the Maqi Khan army on the western front led by Bi Xiao achieved a historic victory in silver carp mouth at the northern end of Dongting Lake. The main point of the Hanshui River is only 30 miles away from Balingfu City, and the water and land transportation is very convenient. It can be said that it has already stood at the gate of victory.