That night, Du Chong received news that Zhang Yong and Wang Shan led hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to the north. Du Chong originally wanted to call a few people over for a drink, and then captured and killed them all in one fell swoop. But I didn't expect everyone to lead the army northward, making Du, who still didn't know the truth, full of doubts in his mind.
When he learned that Ma Kuo, who had left the barracks without permission, was also among the hundreds of thousands of militia rebels who suddenly went north, Du Chong immediately understood that they had gone to the Xinwang Zhaozhen.
Originally, the Loyalty Army and the people totaling hundreds of thousands or even millions of people went north together, which made Du Chong very puzzled, not knowing who organized it. This time Ma Kuo was no longer hiding his identity, and Du Chong knew immediately that Ma Kuo had done it all. Immediately, Du Chong sent someone to Yangzhou to deliver the letter.
However, what Du Chong did not expect was that the letter he sent would not reach Gaozong Zhao Gou's hands. Because at this time the Jin army is attacking Yangzhou.
After the Jin army attacked Xinwang Yijun and failed, Wanyan Zonghan (Nianhan) and Wanyan Zongbi (Wu Shu) led the army from Xuzhou and Sizhou to the south to fight against Zhao Gou in Yangzhou.
At this time, Tokyo Bianliang seemed to be isolated, and almost lost contact with the Song army in the Jiang and Huai areas. Du Chong did not dare to stay in such a dangerous place anymore, so he planned to retreat to Jiankang with his subordinates. In February, Du Chong decided to go south with the goal of Jiankang, and temporarily handed over the responsibility of staying in Tokyo to Guo Zhongxun, the deputy staying behind. After that, Du Chong could bring thousands of soldiers and horses to the south for Jiankang.
After Zhao Gou became the emperor, he had only a few guards to follow, and he no longer trained officially. All the millions of militiamen were forced by Zhao Gou to go north to the letter king Zhao Zhen. However, Zhao Gou was afraid of the local army's rebellion, so he ordered the local army to be frozen and guarded and not allowed to move.
In this case, if Jin Bing can't take Yangzhou, he can really just find a piece of tofu and kill him.
However, Yue Fei, the commander of the letter king Zhao Zhen, attacked the city and seized the land, and successively regained Liaozhou, Fenzhou, Xinzhou, and Qinzhou. However, with the adjustment of the strength of the Jin Army, a large number of the Jin Army deployed for defense in the surrounding areas occupied by the Xin Wang Yi Army. The battle was at an impasse. Coupled with the influx of millions of people in the Xinwang governance area, Xinwangjun can only fully develop production and construction now. There is no more power to start a war.
Since the faithful Wang Yijun gathered a million volunteers, their strength gradually increased. In order to win over Zhao Zhen, Jin Guo immediately sent an envoy to express his willingness to admit that Zhao Zhen is the real Emperor of Song Dynasty. In order to gain time for his own construction and development, the letter king Zhao Zhen didn't expel or kill the messenger for the time being. He just pushed that he could consider it, and then treated the Jin Guo messenger coldly. In this way, the two sides are temporarily in a state of peace.
At this time, Wang Shan, Zhang Yong and Ma Guo also rushed to Qinzhou from Bianliang, Tokyo. They had just withdrawn from Bianliang, and heard that the rebel army Yue Fei led his troops to conquer Qinzhou, and the king of letter Zhao Zhen had arrived at Taiyuan Mansion. The three of them were surprised and delighted, and hurriedly came to pay a visit.
Yue Fei can come to help, this time the rebels can gather millions of people and militias, and Ma Kuo has made great contributions. In addition, Wang Shan and Zhang used to defect to themselves, so Xin Wang Zhaozhen personally greeted a few miles.
The King of Letters Zhao Zhen is approachable and unassuming, and the King of Letters is full of murderous majesty. Let Wang Shan and Zhang Yong both worship and obey at the feet of Xin Wang. After the two parties exchanged greetings, Wang Shan and Zhang Yong were also unceremonious and outspoken.
It means that as long as Zhao Zhen is not driven to kill by Zhao Gou and Du Chong because of herself, she will settle accounts later. Both of them were willing to go through fire and water for Believe in the king, and they reluctantly. "
The letter king Zhao Zhen was very moved and agreed. This time the rebels suffered heavy losses and exhausted due to repeated bloody battles. They only waited for a period of rest and stabilized in the current occupied area, and then resisted the gold and attacked the ground.
A large number of various armed militias gathered in Hedong and Hebei, plus a large number of prisoners need to be resettled. Therefore, the letter king Zhao Zhen immediately organized people to select the elite of the strong and strong for rigorous military training and incorporate them into the regular army. Select the elite, carry out general military training, enter the city to defend the army and defend against the golden soldiers and bandits of the militia. The remaining millions of people were immediately settled on the spot.
Today, the affairs of the commander-in-chief of the Wang Jun are co-chaired by Wang Shu, the commander of the commander, Sima Kao and the marching Sima Gao Yunfei, as well as Zhang Ketao, the head of the spy war department, and a group of staff.
The second princess of the letter, Zhao Qing'er, led the rear army and served as the commander-in-chief of the rear army, and his men commanded one hundred thousand elite militias.
The Guards of the Letter Crown also expanded into an army of 10,000, consisting of two troops. The commander of the guard left army is Di Lei, and the commander of the guard right army is Zhao Xiaodao.
The letter king Zhao Zhen also established a truly elite guard, which consisted of thirty thousand elite soldiers. The imperial guard controlled Wang Jin concurrently as the commander of the imperial guard.
The other commanders of the Guards are divided into: the commander of the Shenlong Army of the Guards is Yang Fan; the leader of the Golden Dragon Army of the Guards is the beast; the leader of the Silver Dragon Army of the Guards is Yan Chengfang; the commander of the Bronze Dragon Army of the Guards is Gao Chong; The leader of the Guardian Iron Dragon Army is Yu Hualong.
Marshal Yue Fei directly under the jurisdiction of the 50,000 Chinese Army, the Chinese Guards are commanded by Jin Biao. The Chinese army back Wei army control is Zhang Xian. The control systems of the Beiwei Army were Yue Zhen, the first army of the Beiwei Army, Xu Qing, the second army of the Beiwei Army, and Yang Jin, the commander of the third army of the Beiwei Army.
The Chinese army defeated the Czech army to control Wang Shan. The commanders of the Victory Czech Army were Wang Dalang, the commander of the Victory Czech Army; Zheng Huai, the commander of the Victory Czech Army; and Zhang Kui, the commander of the Victory Czech Army.
The Brave Army of the Chinese Army is controlled by Zhang Yong. The leaders of the Brave Army are Ding Jin, the commander of the Brave Army; Wang Zaixing, the commander of the Brave Army; and Li Gui, the commander of the Brave Army.
Xin Wang Yijun, the left deputy commander, Zhao Bangjie, directly governs the fifty thousand left army. The Han Chinese army of the Zuo Army was controlled by Zhao Songyong, under the jurisdiction of the Golden Tiger Army, the first army commander Ding Huaiyi; the Golden Tiger Army second army commanded Li Li; the Shenshan Army commanded Liu Xi; the Fenglei Army commanded Wu Feng; the wild leopard army commanded Liu Sange; The army commanded Liu Shaner.
The Black Dragon Army of the Left Army is controlled by Gaobaoshan. Under the jurisdiction of the Black Dragon Army, the first army commanded the Qidan general Yelvde; the black dragon army second army commanded Xi Renfan general Gan Guduo; the black dragon army three army commanded Bohai general general Gao Yulong.
Xin Wang Yijun's right deputy commander Ma Zheng commanded fifty thousand soldiers and horses on the right. The Han Chinese army of the Youjun is under the command of Liang Xing, under the command of the first army of the Tianma army, Zhang Ying; the second army of the Tianma army, commander Ma Guanyu; the Tieshan army commanded Fu Xuan; the war tiger army commanded Jiao Wentong; the Pojin army commanded Zhao Yun; Commander Cui Qing; Yuntian Army command Wang Bao; Assault Army command Ruan Liang.
The Swift Army of the Right Army is composed of armies of other clan groups, mostly cavalry. The Swift Army is controlled by the Khitan general Xiao Deli who has repeatedly made military exploits. Under his jurisdiction, the first army of the Swift Army led the Bohai Fan General Hou Dahai and the second army of the Swift Army led Xi Ren Fan General Yelv Xiu.
The current military strength of the entire Xin Wang Yi army is apart from the hundreds of thousands of local guards guarding a town and hundreds of thousands of militiamen. The rest of the regular field army is divided into 10,000 soldiers, 30,000 guards, 50,000 central, 50,000 left, and 50,000 right, a total of 190,000 elite. The one hundred thousand rear army under the leadership of the Second Queen is the reserve force for the rebels.
Xin Wang Zhao Zhen is the son of the emperor. In the past, when the letter king Zhao Zhen had just entered Wuma Mountain, Zhao Zhen could only listen to it and couldn't speak. But later, Xin Wang Zhao Zhen suddenly showed his powerful ability. He was resourceful and scared the Jin army back. He is victorious in all battles, brave and good at fighting. He loves the people, T-shirt sergeant. He is brave and invincible, leading his army to win one victory after another.
Everyone gave a feeling to Wang Zhaozhen, whether it was about driving out the golden dog and restoring the great cause of rivers and mountains or about their own future in the future. All the believers in Wang Jun have full confidence in the believers in Zhao Zhen. What moved him in particular was that he could feel their loyalty to himself.
This feeling is very clear and very real. This loyalty can be felt in their smiles, in their eyes, and even in their hearts. They transferred their loyalty to the Song Dynasty and the Zhao family's imperial family to themselves. In the final analysis, the reason is his own record. More importantly, his own strength is his noble character and infinite wisdom. Without these things, of course they cannot be subdued, and once they are subdued, the kind of enthusiasm for the restoration of Da Song Heshan. That perseverance, that loyalty to the emperor, is touching. impressive.
Gao Yunfei, Ma Kuo, Ma Zheng, Yue Fei, and Zhao Bangjie are the five people who have the most real power besides Xin Wang Dajun. Zhao Zhen's eyes moved back and forth on the faces of the five people. If you believe that Wang Yijun is a Ding Ding, then you are the main body of Ding, and these four people are the four pillars of Ding. In the future, if the faithful Wang Yijun achieves great cause, expels the Jinbing to restore the rivers and mountains, and go straight to the Golden Dragon Mansion of the Golden Kingdom. These four people must be the Optimus Prime supporting the great cause. Without them, without their loyalty, without their persistence in restoring the Great Song Heshan and expelling the great cause of the Golden Soldiers, believing in the King Army would not have achieved what it is today.
The top military commanders and aides of several believers in the king's army talked about the two roads in Hedong and Hexi, and talked about the rebels fighting the gold everywhere. Then we talked about real problems.
Gao Yunfei mentioned Lian Gaozong's strategy of attacking gold. Under the current situation, Xin Wang Yijun is still in the encirclement of the Kingdom of Jin on all sides. The victory of the Xin Wang Yijun was to temporarily stop the Jin army's strategy of encirclement and suppression, and achieved the first success in anti-encirclement and suppression. Now it seems that Heshan has been restored and he has successfully defeated the Jinjun. But take a closer look, but it's still within the encirclement of the Jin Army. The encirclement is still an encirclement, and this fact cannot be changed.
In any case, Xin Wang Zhao Zhen and Xin Wang Yijun have only developed for more than a year after all, and they have now reached their limits. Even if I want to develop faster, I am powerless.
The most important issue restricting the faith of Wang Yijun now is the issue of money and food. After this battle against encirclement and suppression, although the Xin Wang Yijun annihilated the Golden Army East Route Army, they seized a large amount of food, grass and property from the Golden Army East Route Army and the Jin Army West Route Army.
However, as many as millions of people in Hedong, Hebei Road, Shandong Lianglu, Jingzhao Road and Huoyan Road were taken in. In addition, more than two to three million soldiers and civilians have been taken in from Bianliang and Bianliang, Tokyo. Now the entire occupied land of King Xin is covered with a sea of people, and the population density of the occupied area has surpassed that of any place.
Although in the era of human resources, there are people who have everything. In addition, the Makotuo people also brought back a large amount of sweet potatoes from the south to make seeds, but the food that everyone needs now is far from enough. This big problem can only be solved by waiting for the harvest of grain in the coming year.
Now, all the troops in the occupied area of King Xin have two meals a day, plus one bone soup and one porridge. All the people can only drink two meals of porridge a day to wrap their stomachs. Everyone tightens their belts and saves food and seeds for next year. In this situation, Xin Wang Yijun has no ability to let Xin Wang Zhaozhen continue to expand and continue to fight with the Jin army.
Now the actual occupation of the Xinwangyi Army is Taiyuan Prefecture and Zhending Prefecture. Together with the newly occupied Qizhou, Dingzhou, and Jing'an City areas, Hedong and Hebei have occupied a total of ten states and two and a half states.
Even if all the rear army and militiamen farmed their own fields, the army of the letter kings also implemented the military field system. However, the dozen or so state capitals cannot support the army's expenditure, no matter whether it is population or financial resources. War is not just for food and grass. The army needs salaries, weapons, coal and clothing. Where do these things come from
Zhao Zhen, who had no alternative, immediately implemented the military industry and rationing system. All mining ore and smelting steel and coal are all developed and produced by the commander. However, the land area occupied by King Xinwang was limited and the output was limited. Zhao Zhen immediately sent all kinds of troops to secretly fight the grass valley of the Golden Army to seize the Golden Army's food, grass, and equipment.
After the war with Xin Wang Yijun ended, the situation in the Central Plains changed drastically. In the short term, the Jin army has been unable to deal with both the powerful rebel army of Xinwang and the weak Gaozong Zhaogou in the south that control a large amount of land, military and civilians. Jin Jun's strategy for dealing with King Xin Wang, Zhao Zhen, will shift from offense to defense. In the defensive strategy, temporarily maintaining peace with King Xin is the best strategy.
Before and after, more than 200,000 Jinjun were beaten up by Zhao Zhen. The golden people need time to adjust national policies, time to recruit troops, and time to accumulate strength. Not surprisingly, the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin would also send out envoys to try to recruit the rebels. Of course, appeasement is false, and keeping the existing short peace is true.
The Jinren are obviously worried that the rebels will continue to cause trouble in their occupied areas. The current psychological estimate of the Jurchen is very contradictory. It needs the rebels to stay still, so that they can organize their troops to quickly go south to take down Gaozong Zhaogou and obtain a lot of wealth and land. But they were also worried that the rebels would suddenly launch an offensive and join forces with Gaozong Zhaogou in the south to attack the Kingdom of Jin, so their strategy against the rebels was to appease and contain them.
In the military meeting of the commander-in-chief of the Xin Wang Yijun, Xin Wang Zhao Zhen said: "We should not expect the Jinren to give us the materials we need. The Jinren are a group of wolves, and its instinct is to use us first, and then kill after using it. Similarly, we shouldn’t expect Gaozong Zhao Gou. My cowardly ninth brother will not give us the supplies we need. Facing Jin Ren, a fierce tiger who is staring at him, Zhao Gou would like to let Jin Guo make peace with him after we lose both sides. As for us, it’s best to destroy the entire army. For Gaozong Zhao Gou, we are just disobedient tools."
Zhao Zhen secretly rejoiced when he saw that everyone, especially Yue Fei, didn't care about his rebellious words. It seems that everyone is really tied to a boat with themselves.
"Therefore, if we want to get out of the predicament, we must first join Gaozong to attack the gold, further attack the Jin Ren, and consume the Jin Ren's strength. At the same time, we have to get in touch with the Jin Ren as a threat to force the Jurchen Ren. Promise our terms. However, Gaozong Zhaogou and Jurchen are not fools. They will not watch the rebels develop and grow and threaten their safety. They will also come up with countermeasures. They may negotiate peace and become allies. If Jin Guo gave up everything, negotiated peace with Gaozong, and attacked us in an all-round way, then we would be miserable. Therefore, the implementation of this plan is extremely difficult, and the results are extremely limited. However, we have to do it." Zhao Zhen looked at everyone. , Said solemnly.
Zhao Zhen's opinions have been recognized by everyone, and Gaozong Zhaogou now owns a large area of land in the south and has a large number of soldiers and civilians. In fact, there is still a very strong resistance against Jin Guo. It's just that Zhao Gou, who wants to escape and seek peace, doesn't understand the actual situation at all. He blindly thinks that the Golden Army is strong, and fears the Golden Army to the extreme. I was afraid that any of my actions would offend the Jinjun, but I was afraid that the people of the militia would gather to fight against the Jin and grow stronger, threatening their throne.
Therefore, I must use the Kingdom of Jin to force Zhao Gou to fight against Jin. It is actually very simple for Zhao Gou to resist the Jin. As long as Zhao Zhen secretly gives Jin Guo the conditions for his surrender, Zhao Gou will be destroyed and he will become the emperor of Songdi to the south. And if he didn't send troops to anger the Jin army, the Jin army would naturally arrest Zhao Gou, first destroy Gaozong's forces and then deal with the letter king Zhao Zhen. In this way, Xin Wang Jun can get a short rest period.
Li Bocai, an envoy of the general commander, reported in detail the financial situation of the rebels. Most of the money of the rebels came from captivity in the war. In fact, to put it plainly, it was the Jin Army who robbed the Song Dynasty, and the Xin Wang Yi Army who robbed the Jin Army.
At present, most of the people, soldiers and civilians gathered in the rebel-occupied areas are the seeds of sorghum, wheat, millet, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, Chinese cabbage, and radishes. As long as the harvest is possible in the coming year, the area occupied by the Xin Wang Yi army will be able to obtain countless grains and grass next year.
The rebels now occupy more than a dozen state capitals, and the population of these more than a dozen state capitals together is now estimated to exceed 8 million people. There are more than one million households, now they are mainly farming and animal husbandry, handicrafts and commerce are scarce, and tax income is extremely low. With the sudden influx of countless people, food has become a big problem. The current fiscal revenue of the Rebels cannot sustain the survival of the army and the people.
Of course, the fiscal revenue mentioned here is not gold, silver and copper, but is actually food. The quickest and easiest way to increase income now is to secretly pretend to be the rebel bandits everywhere, looting the grain and grass of the Golden Kingdom, and secretly make a deal with the big businessmen with background.
In the months of fighting, the rebels have plundered richly, camel horses, cattle and sheep, brocade forged silk cotton, horse fur, gold and silver jewelry, salt, wine, medicinal materials and iron utensils...
In addition to ironware and medicinal materials, these other things can be used to make trades, especially horses, salt, fur, silk satin, which are all needed by people from all countries, and can be exchanged for food urgently needed by the rebels.
In addition to these, Zhao Zhen now also distributed some money to the army, which caused the handsome man's money to be tight. However, he also came from the future after all, with more foresight and bad ideas.