Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 516 Competing in the Central Plains (43)

Three months later
Spring of the sixth year of Duke Yan 310 (526)
With the coming of the second year, 12 people including Hou Jing were appointed as [Liao Pay Inspectors], went to various villages, and urged their [Liao Pay Envoys] to arrive in Huang County with the second year's Liao pay.

The Liao salary for the second year is five cows or twenty young men (regardless of gender).

The looting team has slaughtered all the villages that are unwilling to pay Liao's salary, so the rest are willing to pay.

It is necessary for the [Liao Pay Envoy] to take the Liao pay to Huang County by himself, and the expenses along the way are all settled by himself, which is similar to the reason that the Shang Dynasty asked all the princes to pay tribute.

You regard Liao pay envoys as vassals, villages as vassal states, and female monarchs as Shang emperors/gods, in fact, there is no problem at all.

Whenever we feel that something seems bloody and cruel, it is only after careful study that we find that this kind of thing has been going on for thousands of years.

The female monarch Yan Lian called her looting operation "respecting the king and fighting the barbarians", which means respecting her royal power and smashing the barbarians of the Wei state.

Just like the Shang Dynasty did not control the land, but the population clans, Yan Lian did not control the land of the villages in Qingzhou, Guangzhou, but their population. Yan Lian never ruled the land of these villages, but relied on The authority of the military, and thus control over their population.

It's not that she doesn't want to, but reality forces her to do so.

Controlling such a vast land requires a large number of troops to garrison and a large number of officials to manage. The cost is too high, so the blood and fear brought by the authority of the army can only be used to control the opponent's population and clan.

The same is true for an important purpose of human sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty. Through the horrible and bloody means of human sacrifice to form supreme authority, so that the princes did not dare to resist, so they had to submit obediently to pay tribute to the population and wealth.

When Hou Jing came to Yangtouling again, a new [Liao Pay Envoy] had been replaced here.

Along the way, his companions laughed at him, just because Hou Jing recognized the wrong person at the beginning, and mistakenly thought that the most luxuriously dressed beauties were female monarchs. As a result, the most luxuriously dressed women were pets, and the real female monarchs wore A cheap plain cloth.

This is the difference between power and a vase.

Female pets are essentially just hangers for the owner, just as we like to dress our pets in nice clothes, we essentially treat maids as pets.

It started a long time ago, maybe it was the ethos brought up by the three generations of former kings Tairan. The high-ranking members of the royal family like to dress plainly to look amiable, and at the same time let their maids and servants wear luxurious dresses to show their wealth.

The lower class wear plain clothes because they have no money to buy luxury clothes, and the upper class also wear plain clothes because they want to show their diligence and love for the people. On the contrary, the middle class likes to wear luxury clothes because they are either vassals of the powerful, or rich but No status.

Even Yan Lian, who loves beauty, only wears beautiful and luxurious clothes in the court. If it is in public, she usually does not wear luxurious clothes, but deliberately wears the same clothes as ordinary people.

This is the same as Xiao Yan, the great Buddhist emperor. Xiao Yan always likes to wear plain or even patched clothes to show his hard work and love for the people, but it doesn't affect his disregard for the lives of the people and regards the people as worthless.

"This year's Liao pay is five cows or [-] people who can work. Those who don't pay will not be left alone. As long as they pay, next year's Liao pay will continue to decrease."

Hou Jing gave instructions to the [Liao Pay Envoy] of "Yangtouling".

Sustainability is the national policy of the Yan State. As for whether the collection of so much Liao pay will cause the people to rebel, it is not within the scope of consideration of Yan Lian and the nobles.

If you want to rebel, you can rebel. Anyway, we don't plan to rule the Central Plains for a long time. After we have searched everything we can, we will go back to Liaodong. Let the rulers of the Central Plains have a headache how to suppress you.

Hundreds of Liao pay envoys headed towards Huang County with their Liao pay to pay tribute to this year's Liao pay.

The entire village in Gwangju has been completely conquered by Liao Xing, and a small part of the villages in Qingzhou has also been conquered by Liao Xing.

Those generals of the Wei State who were trapped in the city did not dare to go out of the city to destroy the Yan State's marauding team.

On average, there are only a few hundred soldiers defending each city, and the two big cities with thousands of guards are closely watched by the Yan State. Once they leave the city, they are waiting to be besieged by the Yan State cavalry.

Although there are more than 1 Wei soldiers in Qingzhou, Guangzhou, they are scattered in various cities.

As long as I don't want to attack the city, I don't have to worry that the city is too strong to be attacked.

After basically controlling the entire rural area of ​​Gwangju, Yan Lian began to consider attacking a few cities in Gwangju to deter the defenders of Wei State in Qingzhou, Gwangju.

Wei Guo "borrowed captives to suppress the bandits" and invited Yan Guo in to help wipe out the rebels in the six towns. As a result, Yao Guo not only did not suppress the rebels, but also cooperated with the rebels, and even attacked Wei's cities.

"We have built hundreds of catapults in the past few months, and now it's almost time to attack a city to deter them." Yan Lian pointed to "Jian County" on the map and said lightly.

The county seat of the Wei State is next to the Yellow City of the Yan State, and there are several hills between the two, so the two countries use the hills as the dividing line, and they live in peace.

20 days later, Yan Lian arrived in Wucheng with 3000 imperial guards, accompanied by more than [-] civilian husbands.

The Guards guarded the security of the camp, and the peasants carried supplies and operated catapults.

A total of 108 catapults were thrown towards the city wall of the city, and they were still arranged in the traditional "丅" shape, focusing on a point of the city wall.

Yan Lian didn't even prepare too many ladders, and didn't have many bows and crossbows, because Yan country has a small population and few troops, but only has more money, more food, more supplies, so it can't forcefully attack the city with manpower, and can only watch the continuous stream of projectiles Flint came and forcibly broke through the city wall.

The 108 catapults were divided into four formations, attacking a point on the city wall in turn, without giving the enemy a chance to respite the city wall.

The peasants dug deep trenches around the camp to prevent the Wei army in the city from suddenly leaving the city to attack at night.

boom!
boom!
A large number of flints wrapped in gunpowder hit the city wall. This was the first time that Wei people had seen such burning stones.

A flint just hit the gate tower and set the gate tower on fire.

boom!
A raging fire burns.

"Quickly put out the fire!"

The guard of Yucheng quickly ordered people to put out the fire, and looked at the hundreds of catapults under the city wall, feeling his scalp numb.

He sent scouts to ask for help from other cities, but Xiqu City called for help. However, as soon as the reinforcements from Xiqu City left the city, they were discovered by Yan Guo sentry. Afterwards, another [-] Yan Guo armored cavalry rushed to Xiqu The [-] infantrymen in the city smashed the [-] infantrymen of Xiqu City in just one round of charge, and occupied the unguarded Xiqu City by the way, and forcibly moved all the population and wealth of Xiqu City.

Yan Lian is a standard siege to fight for aid. If you don't send troops to rescue, I will slowly grind down the city. If you dare to go out of the city to rescue, I will wipe out your reinforcements in the field first.

The tactic of besieging the city and fighting for reinforcements is simple to say, but it is more troublesome to implement, because you need your field combat ability to be far stronger than that of the opponent, and you must also have accurate information, so that you can quickly annihilate the opponent's reinforcements when they leave the city.

Otherwise, once the opponent’s reinforcements cannot be annihilated and let the opponent’s reinforcements reach their destination, then our [Siege and Aid] will become the enemy’s [Center Blossom], and the enemy’s reinforcements will cooperate with the defenders to attack you on both sides, so that You are under attack.

At the beginning, Zhou Yafu used the [Center Blossom] tactic to defeat the Wu and Chu rebels who were besieging the city.

18 years ago, Wei Rui "Wei Tiger", the famous general of Liang State, also used [Center Blossom] to defeat the 20 army of Wei State.

The success of tactics depends not only on the commanding ability of the general, but also on the intelligence system, on the ability of the soldiers, and even on one's own luck. That's really useless no matter what tactics you use.

(End of this chapter)