Overlord!

Liaohe River is the first natural hazard in Liaodong.

His position is almost as important as the Yangtze River in the Central Plains.

This river rises from the Liao Mountains in the northeast and stretches southward until it enters the sea. The river basin directly crosses the four counties of Liaodong, Liaodong Army, Xuantu County, and Goguryeo!

What kind of concept is this? The Yangtze River stretches eastward, isolating the entire Jiangdong and only blocking three counties.

This means that if the Central Plains army wants to cross the Liao River, just like crossing the Yangtze River, it must cross this natural chasm, and there is no way around it.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty personally supervised a million-strong Sui army to attack the Liaohe River. The Sui army even lost the vanguard general Mai Tiezhang and Wu Benlang generals Qian Shixiong and Meng Jincha.

They had to wait until the Sui army built a pontoon bridge and the main army crossed the river before they defeated the Goguryeo defenders and beheaded tens of thousands.

This is also the normal state of war. As long as they cross the rivers and natural chasms, the Central Plains King's division can confront the enemy in a majestic formation and can often defeat them.

The Central Plains army really has an unparalleled advantage in terms of army size, well-trained, and fierce fighting skills.

Therefore, when Zhuge Liang asked how to cross the river, the counselors did not advocate storming the barrier.

The Gongsun family's army in Liaodong built forts for more than 20 miles along the Liao River. The Song army's frontal attack was to use a small number to defeat a large number, and it was difficult to develop a formation.

The marching Sima Lu Ji took the initiative to remonstrate: "The thieves have built a high base and want to exhaust our soldiers. Attacking them is part of their plan. This is why this king's city is ashamed to have surpassed Kunyang. The ancients said that although the enemy is high, Those who have no choice but to fight me must attack and save the fortress. If the thieves are here, their nests will be empty. If I point directly at Xiangping, people will be afraid and seek battle out of fear, and they will surely break it."

"Therefore, I thought that I should carry out the strategy of attacking from the east and attack the west. I would first put up several flags on the southern front, pretend to attack the siege, attract the main force of the enemy army, and then use the main force to secretly cross the Liao River in the north and approach the enemy's Xiangping base camp. If I can cross the 30,000-strong division, , attack it and you will save it. Then it will fight me in the wild."

If Pang Tong is the top scholar in Nanzhou. Then Lu Ji was truly the leader of Jiangnan scholars.

The celebrities and heroes in Jiangdong all praised Lu Ji's talents, thinking that his talents were especially superior to Lu Xun's.

And the reason for this is because Lu Ji's wisdom is really close to that of a demon.

He and Zhuge Liang are the exact opposite. Zhuge Liang has a great reputation for his martial arts and martial arts throughout his life. But later generations will remember his false image of being able to pinch and count monsters.

But Lu Ji was really good at calculating, but later generations hardly heard of it. Instead, they remembered Lu Ji's allusions to the incorruptibility of Lu Ji's love for oranges, his head-on refutation of Sun Ce, and his ballast stone.

In fact, he is the character in history whose real intelligence is equivalent to Zhuge Liang in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

When Lu Ji came of age, he was erudite and knowledgeable. He was familiar with astronomy and calendars, and was involved in ephemeris and arithmetic. Although he led the army to fight, he did not abandon his writings even though he was in the army. He once wrote "Pictures of the Hun Tian", annotated the "Book of Changes", and wrote "Annotations to the Taixuan Jing".

To be able to write such a metaphysical work, Lu Ji also had a very thorough study of the general trend of the world, and he was almost able to do calculations. When he was ordered to march to the south, he contracted an epidemic in Jiaozhou. Before his death, he lamented: "From now on, sixty years from now, cars will be on the same track, and books will be on the same text. It's a pity that I can't see them." He accurately predicted the time when the Jin Dynasty would dominate the world. , one year is not bad, sixty years after Lu Ji's death, the Jin army launched an army to attack Wu in December, advancing on multiple fronts, approaching Jianye, Soochow surrendered, and the world was unified.

Chen Shou wrote a biography of Lu Ji and said frankly that Lu Ji was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and he should read everything about ephemeris and arithmetic. Lu Ji was to Yang Xuan, Zuo Qiuming was to Zhongni, and Yan Zhou was to Lao Dan.

Of course, since Sun Ce's influence on him can be said to have been deeply rooted in his bones since he was young, in terms of metaphysics, he has long concluded that the Sun family will dominate the world, and there is no such classic prophecy.

Now that he has grown up, he has requested orders to go to the frontier early.

Lu Xun was in the west, and he was in the east.

Regarding the Liaodong War, he had long expected this battle.

His suggestion was very bold, precise and sharp, pointing directly at the enemy's vital points.

What he was betting on was that the Liaodong defenders were far less talented than the Central Plains heroes. In other words, he bet that the generals who are still willing to fight for Gongsun to the death will inevitably be mediocre and unable to understand each other and make correct responses.

The Song army abandoned the barriers along the Liaohe River and headed straight towards Xiangping, attacking what they had to save. What was the biggest flaw?

It can be said that there is no doubt that the Song army was afraid that the defenders would remain motionless.

If the Song army bypassed the enemy's barrier, marched straight in, and attacked Xiangping, it would already be nearly a hundred miles away. If the siege of the city fails and the war continues for several months, and the army carries insufficient food and grass, it will not be easy for the tens of thousands of troops crossing the river to return even if they are supported.

If Gongsun Kang had been wiser and abandoned Xiangping directly and retreated south to Lelang or Tiefang County, then the Song army would have traveled a long distance and would have been like the Sui army, with heavy casualties and piles of corpses all over Liaodong.

But it is obvious that the Liaodong Army, from Gongsun Kang on down, does not have the intelligence and strategy to understand others and abandon themselves in advance.

If Gongsun Kang could really abandon Xiangping and leave, he would have adopted a clever plan. Since he sent troops to guard the Liao River, it was a trick. He would not defend the fortress and watch the Song army invade Xiangping.

Zhuge Liang, who led the army, was not a playful and fun-loving emperor like Emperor Sui Yang.

He immediately adopted Lu Ji's suggestion and ordered the three generals Yu Jin, Zhang Fei, and Zhu Huan to lead their troops more than thirty miles north to cross the Liao River secretly.

At the same time, he ordered the Xianbei, Wuhuan, Goguryeo and other servant armies to storm the Liaodong barrier.

The life and death of the servant army has no impact on Zhuge Liang at all.

The casualties they suffered in foreign battles would not have much impact on the post-war merit assessment.

It can be said that as long as the battle is won, even if these 40,000 servants are dead, they will not be remembered again after the war. But if the battle is lost, the casualties of these 40,000 servants will immediately be recorded by historians, writing about the Battle of Liaodong. The Song army suffered heavy casualties, with tens of thousands of people beheaded.

Therefore, although these 40,000 servants were feigning an attack, their offensive was very fierce, directly attracting all the attention of the Liaodong defenders.

The defender only thought that the Song army was trying to attack the barrier with all its strength. He never expected that this powerful offensive was actually just a feint attack to cover its main force's secret crossing of the Liao River.

This is also the dynastic spirit that the separatist princes can never possess.

As a separatist force, it is completely unimaginable that the enemy army would be indifferent to thousands of casualties and casualties, just to confuse people's attention.

After all, for a separatist force, the loss of several thousand elite soldiers is enough to break the muscles and bones, and even lead to the decline of the force.

When the scouts discovered that the main force of the Song Army, 30,000 men, had crossed the Liao River from the north and was rushing towards Xiangping, the commander of the Liaodong Army, Gongsun Gong, was completely frightened and lost his mind.

He was very aware of how empty Xiangping was now. As a separatist force in a bitter cold land, the Gongsun family was doing their best to guard the Liaohe River with 50,000 elite infantry and cavalry.

Only a few thousand forbidden troops and a group of temporarily recruited rabble were left in Xiangping, but they contained the wealth that Gongsun had collected in Liaodong for many years and the food and grass that supplied the entire Liaodong army.

Just as the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers expected, the Gongsun family relied on its strength and wanted to wait for the snow. They never thought of abandoning the city in advance, so they did not transfer food and grass to the south.

This made them dare not give up Xiangping. If Xiangping was captured, the tens of thousands of troops supporting Gongsun's hegemony would collapse without a fight.

So Gongsun Gong was frightened and hurriedly led his army to fight against Yu Jin, Zhang Fei, Zhu Huan and others.

There is nothing worth saying about the process.

How can the separatist forces in the remote land defeat the well-trained elite kings in the Central Plains? The Song army was all tall professional warriors, well-armed and well-trained.

The leader, Zhang Fei, was so fierce that a mediocre man like Gongsun Gong could not compare with him.

The tiger and wolf troops commanded by Zhang Fei clashed with the despicable army commanded by Gongsun Gong, and the outcome was doomed.

After Zhang Fei, Yu Jin, Zhu Huan and others crossed the river, they crossed in formation. When the thief saw the soldiers coming out, he invited them.

Zhang Fei was overjoyed and said to the generals: "That's why we don't attack his camp. We're going to do this and we can't miss it."

Then he sent troops to counterattack, defeated them, and won all three battles.

The thieves retreated to protect Xiangping, so the Song army took advantage of the victory and entered the siege.

The Song army marched in March, arrived at Liaoshui in May, and successfully besieged Xiangping in June. The progress was extremely fast.

It is not impossible to expect the Liao Dynasty in a hundred days.

At this point, the Gongsun family was completely defeated and it was difficult to fight against the 100,000 Song army king division.

The only thing that worried Zhuge Liang was the heavy rain in Liaodong. It was raining heavily in June, and the encirclement was not completed. Zhuge Liang was deeply worried that the enemy troops would flee.

Therefore, Gongsun Kang's soldiers went out of the city to graze cattle and collect firewood. The generals wanted to attack them, but Zhuge Liang refused to allow them. He said to the generals: "Now the thieves have run out of food and have not closed the siege. They have plundered their cattle and horses and captured their firewood. This is why they are driven away. The soldiers are deceitful and are good at changing things. The thieves rely on the rain, so even though they are hungry and sleepy, they are not willing to tie up their hands. It should be shown that they are incapable of calming them down. It is not a plan to take a small profit to scare them."

When the court heard about the heavy rain in Liaodong, some people asked to recall Zhuge Liang.

But now that the main war faction in the court is in control of the court, Zhang Zhao directly replied: "Zhuge Liang will make changes in the face of danger, and Gongsun Kang will be captured soon."

Sure enough, the situation in Liaodong was as Zhang Zhao said.

The water in Liao Dynasty surged, and the ships moved from Liao's caliber to the city.

Liaokou is also the mouth of the Liaohe River, which is the junction between the Liaodong vassal state and Liaodong, where the Liaohe River enters the sea. The transport ship can go up from here to the foot of Xiangping City, and the Song Army's naval superiority is fully utilized.

Ships brought massive quantities of grain, baggage, and heavy siege equipment.

Before the rain stopped, the Song army built earthen hills and built oars under the city, and even transported thousands of stone carts and continuous crossbows.

When the rain stopped in July, the Song army immediately surrounded Xiangping City and launched a fierce attack day and night. The people of the Eastern Kingdom were in a frenzy, and the city was becoming more and more frightened.

One hundred thousand Song troops attacked fiercely, but the Gongsun family did not have any foreign aid. So on the 13th day of the siege, Gongsun Kang's nephew, Gongsun Gong's son, and General Liu Fu secretly opened the city and surrendered.

Gongsun Kang was defeated and died, and he and his son burned themselves in the mansion.

The Gongsun family, which had dominated Liaodong for more than thirty years, was destroyed by the Song army in one fell swoop.

However, since Gongsun Kang was still a guest and did not have an official title, there was no reason for Zhuge Liang's army to massacre Xiangping.

Therefore, while Zhuge Liang sent envoys to the court to win, he also sent generals to continue southward to regain and pacify the entire four Han counties and subdue the surrounding foreign forces.

The Song army regained the four Han counties of Lelang, Daifang, Zhenfan, and Lintun, which was a typical example of the Central Plains' expansion of territory.

This process is the process in which barbarians are forced to assimilate and bring "dowry".

No matter how much territory they occupied during the war in the Central Plains, once the Central Plains completed the change of dynasties and had a new master, they were determined to regain their mountains and rivers.

Then how do they, the barbarians, have to return the territory that they took away in the first place, and also bring other territories of their own power as a "dowry".

Even if I return all of this, I have to kneel down and return it.

Whether the master wants it or not depends on whether the master is in a good mood.

Anyway, now that the Song Dynasty is strong, all the land in the Central Plains they once seized must be returned in full. The territory that he has opened up has to be divided between Song Ting and Song Ting. This 70% must belong to the master Song Ting, and must be incorporated into the unified sequence.

Whether I can keep the remaining 30% for you depends on whether you are good at singing and dancing.

Because all those countries and nations that are not good at singing and dancing basically lie quietly in the history books.

This is clearly demonstrated in Buyeo.

Buyeo is located in the north of Xuantu County. Its land is rich in mountains, hills and wide swamps, covering an area of ​​2,000 miles, with 80,000 households. The land is the flattest and most spacious among Dongyi lands. The land is suitable for grains. Its people are thick, strong, brave and cautious. Without Kou Chao, his power has expanded to Xuantu since the end of Han Dynasty.

As the Song army marched into Liaodong, Fu Yu provided military supplies to the Song Dynasty. There were military conquests, taxation, supply and service, and he treated them like civilians.

The Song army regained Xuantu County and brought the Fuyu forces under their control in one fell swoop. The area was more than 2,000 miles in diameter, and all of it became their "dowry" and became the territory of the Song Dynasty.

This also allowed the Central Plains' territory of power to directly expand to the Sanghua River in the Northeast for the first time.

The evaluation of Fuyu that "the land is the most spacious among the Dongyi lands, the land is suitable for grains, and the people are thick, strong, brave and cautious" is simply the most popular image of the Northeastern people of later generations. Their land is two thousand miles away and has many waters. The fertile land of nets and weir ponds is exactly the black land of Heilongjiang in Northeast China.

Because this nation was strong, brave and cautious but not good at singing and dancing, it disappeared directly into the long stream of history. But when they were integrated, the gift they brought was to truly help the Central Plains expand its territory, allowing the Central Plains' rule to finally expand to the northeastern Heilongjiang Province.

From then on, the Central Plains Dynasty began to rule this black land.

It's just that the current folk customs of this race are slightly different from those in the Central Plains. Within the territory, the death of a brother, his wife, and his sister-in-law are common to the Xiongnu. He is also good at raising animals and has famous horses, red jade, mink, and beautiful pearls. The larger beads are like jujube. We use bows, arrows, swords and spears as weapons, and every family has its own armor.

This prevented them from discovering the black soil, a fertile soil suitable for farming. Of course, it was also related to their lack of iron tools. They could only fish and hunt, but it was difficult to develop the Northeast.

Therefore, their fishing and hunting tools must be confiscated and encouraged to practice farming and mulberry farming, so that this race of more than 80,000 households can become a solid population of the Song Dynasty.

This is feasible because the evaluation of "land suitable for grains" was not discovered by the Song Dynasty. It was the local Liaodong scholars who had already summarized this during the Han Dynasty.

Being suitable for grains meant that farming and production could be done here during the Han Dynasty.

It's just that there is a lack of a strong agency to govern this place and force the entire nation to change their customs and make them give up fishing and hunting and switch to farming. (End of chapter)