Verse 139 The dog with B was struck by lightning
After Chigou'er finished talking about the mission, he finally went back and gave an explanation, and immediately set off to return to China.
There is more important news to be reported to the higher authorities in a timely manner, so that the upper authorities can make new countermeasures in time...... For example, it is necessary to focus on preventing the Jin State with new forces joining, such as calculating and winning over Cangzhao, and the corruption and fierce disputes within the Song State that can be used.....
With the help of the news told by Zhao Yue and the deterrent power of the Cangzhao group against Liao, the Song court finally dealt with the extortion of Liao, and they all breathed a long sigh of relief......
The crisis of the death of the country has been lifted, and the murderous knife of the Liao State hanging over his head can be removed, and he is peaceful and friendly, and he can enjoy the power and wealth more safely and securely, no longer need to be so worried about it all day long, these princes have always been arrogant and comfortable in the unique relaxed political environment of the Song Dynasty, how can they stand this wave after wave of long-term panic and tension, how can they bear such huge mental pressure and months of high-intensity work, they all feel that everything is terrible from the pirate trouble to the present, It was not a human life, and it was not for the sake of being a ruler, a king, and a ruler to enslave sentient beings on high and enjoy happiness, but not to take responsibility for preventing any calamities and suffering...... In this state, it is conceivable that from Emperor Zhao Ji to Emperor Zhao Huan to the courtiers as soon as the negotiations ended, they were all light, and they couldn't help but show joy......
In fact, there is no need to compensate the Liao State at all, but it can be tough, counter-threaten, and even anti-blackmail the Liao State to be honest, at least it can force the Liao State to have some fear and at least respect for the Great Song Dynasty, and it is completely possible to tear up the "Lanyuan Alliance" on the spot, and disown this old account, and you can no longer have to bear the burden and shame of this alliance from now on, but none of these sons and ministers think so, and none of them are ashamed of it........
For a Liao envoy who was trampled under the feet of Zhao Yuedang's palace and wantonly humiliated and tortured but obedient, he endured a voice and did not dare to say a majestic face, but the Song court still couldn't stand up.
Even the little people brought by the red dog seem to be afraid,
For these lowly envoys, from the time they entered the Song Realm until these days in the capital, they wantonly killed and looted, and committed a series of crimes and provocations against the Song people, and did not dare to investigate and punish them in the form of negotiation and pressure, as if the Liao army could overthrow the capital of the Great Song Dynasty......
This is the capital, the face of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are 400,000 forbidden army murderers stationed here, but these sons and ministers are afraid.
Song Chongchen, who succeeded Geng Nanzhong in charge of the negotiations, was unusually tough and stubborn, but in fact he was a fierce and inward-looking red dog, generous, polite and enthusiastic....... Let the rude but not lack of cunning, let alone the shameless red dog of the barbarian, keenly aware that the Song court is still the bear-like in its bones, still weak and bullied, and still wants to be reluctant, the gloomy heart suddenly brightened, so it became more and more fierce and tenacious, and the arrogance was arrogant again, threatening that if the Southern Dynasty refused to fulfill the covenant and refused to vigorously help the Liao State through the difficulties, then the Liao State would not be able to survive and immediately rise up and go south...... was so frightened that the important person in charge of the negotiation was so flattering and ugly to Chigou'er, begging not to open his mouth so much, so he knelt down and kowtowed to Chigou'er behind his back and begged for relaxation of the compensation conditions so that he could complete the negotiation task, so that Chigou'er, who only insisted on asking for 108,000 stone grain in his heart, was bold and climbed along the pole, and was able to extort more than one million stones, which was enough for Liao to survive the grain crisis and more than enough, undoubtedly allowing Liao to make up for blood, quickly recover his vitality, and continue to press Song Guo to bully .......
Chigouer left the capital triumphantly.
The Song court was worried that the Liao envoy would make trouble and cause trouble on the way back, causing trouble and scourge the Song Dynasty, so that the Song Dynasty would further lose face and lose prestige among the people, and it also wanted to show the military power of the Song State, and my Great Song Dynasty also had elite cavalry, and according to Zhao Yue'er, the number of polemic horses may not be less than that of your Liao State now...... He sent five hundred elite cavalry of the forbidden army to escort them along the way, wanting to look at the Liao mission with him in deterrence, but also to protect the Liao mission, for fear that something would happen to the mission in the Song Dynasty.
For Song Guo's careful thinking, Chigou'er can easily see that he is not smart.
He didn't say anything, as if he didn't notice the intentions of the Song court, but in his actions, he slapped his face again, and as soon as he left the capital, he led the two hundred subordinates who came here to gallop away, saying that the Song State lacked sincerity, and the negotiations were delayed for too much time, and the country must be impatient to wait, and he had to go back quickly to report the result, otherwise he was afraid that the army of Daliao would be angry and raise troops to kill...... If there is a misunderstanding and a big conflict, it will be difficult to clean up...... In fact, it is not good to get rid of the Song Protector and laugh at the Song cavalry in disguise.
The Liao State has suffered the misery of this year's disaster, and the number of war horses is indeed not as good as that of the Song State.
The headquarters of the Liao State and the Liao Emperor who shrank to the homeland of Western Xia are added up, and even if they are horses, the total number of horses is probably less than 10,000. It's not that there are so many Zahu tribes in the grassland that they are so poor that there are not many horses for the Liao State to rob, but the surviving tribes are all far west, and the Liao army can't reach them for a while.
Jin Guo is even more miserable, the foundation is so thin that it scares people to death, and it is not easy to accumulate some family foundation, but this time it was ruthlessly harmed by Liao and pirates....... Fewer horses.
And on the side of the Song Kingdom, other places, including the Hedong Road Zhejia Army, which originally had a large number of horses, and the border area of Hebei West Road are indeed very few horses now, and they have become rare, but the reduced state capital army still has some war horses, you don't care if it is a horse from the grassland, or a horse raised by the Song State Wonderful Ma Zheng, and don't care if it is a horse that is not rare when the pirates washed the Song State or deliberately left it for the Song State to prepare for war, how can it be a horse, not a donkey, It is also the current Liao State and Jin Kingdom, and the minimum requirements for more pack horses and horses are just whimsical, and there are not so many horses.
The number of war horses owned by the four military states of Cangbei alone is 6,000..... At that time, the Cangbei military and civilians defected and took away too many things, but the Cangbei war horses and pirate ships did not take the opportunity to transport them, and most of them were abandoned on the beach. The 20,000 or so troops left behind in Cangbei were also deliberately arranged, and all the soldiers, one of them was the elite of the Kangbei Army, and everyone could fight on horseback, and now there are at least 6,000 elite cavalry.
In addition, the 40,000 warrior monks absorbed themselves have good martial arts, and many of them can even be called martial arts, and they will protect the temple's Arhat formation or something, (not only Shaolin Temple has warrior monks and temple protection formations, all slightly large-scale temples in this era have similar means of protecting the temple, otherwise how to ensure that the loan shark is not retaliated by the eager debtors, how to keep the fat wealth in the deep mountain wilderness temple from being robbed by robbers or something) When the monk is accustomed to the minimum rules and precepts, and also has the habit of abiding by discipline, Naturally, they are qualified soldiers, and they don't need to deliberately train martial arts and cooperate with combat, and they can become an army with a little training after strengthening military discipline, at least an elite infantry army......
The highly skilled warrior monks, who are impatient to fight in groups and fight in battle formations, have been trained into elite sentry cavalry scouts who can freely wander and fight alone with the group, giving them the freedom to give full play to their strengths and make meritorious contributions to the army and make new career prospects.
All the monks in Cangbei were also forced to be loyal to the Cangbei group by the cruel reality, at least until they could not see the light of day.
The soldiers formed by these martial and evil monks, who were originally monks but not good birds, were already fierce and aggressive, but now they have become an army, and they can kill people but make meritorious contributions, and they can drink wine and eat meat..... In fact, it is more in line with their nature and needs, and they are willing to support and follow Zhao Gonglian and the Cangzhao family, who are famous and most capable of ensuring their right to survive, to fight for a way and a future in this unpredictable and troubled world.
These are the reasons why the Cangbei Group dares to challenge the imperial court and threaten the Liao State, and it really has this confidence.
The headquarters of the Liao State really had to be afraid of the Cangbei Army's uprising.
At this juncture, the tired and weak Great Liao State really couldn't withstand the large-scale invasion and tossing of the Cangbei Army, which was recuperating and recuperating, killing with nowhere to go.
Let's go back and compare the war horses.
The city of Tokyo in the Song Kingdom still had nearly 20,000 war horses that the pirates had deliberately extorted.
In other words, the Song Dynasty, if the number of horses alone is used as the combat value, it can now be stronger than the sum of the Jin and Liao countries.
This result was naturally deliberately arranged by Zhao Yue.
Zhao Yue just wanted to take a look, the nomadic barbarians in the north and west did not have the advantage of restraining the war horses of the farming Han nation, both sides were mainly engaged in foot combat, and the battlefield conditions of the two sides were basically the same, and even the Song State still had a certain advantage in the logistics supply of horses and grain and grass, so why should the barbarian country be arrogant. Also look at the infantry army formation that the Song State has specially restrained the nomadic cavalry, and has this traditional war advantage project to deal with the barbarians who have to rely on foot combat, whether they have the courage to resist when the time comes, and whether they can defeat the invasion.
Don't mention the defeat of foreign wars, and say that we are an agrarian people, no horses, not as good as nomads, born to ride and shoot....... During the Han and Tang dynasties, China was more difficult, there were no horses, the population was still small, and the population economy was far inferior to that of the Song Dynasty, but how could it be done at that time? How can the farming people fight the nomads and almost become extinct......
Of course, Zhao Yue did not have much hope that the Han people who remained in the Song State would be able to resist the barbarian invasion.
He's pretty sure:
After the Jin State destroyed the Liao State and entered the Song State, the Song and Han people will still be as vulnerable as in history, either holding their heads and running away, or obediently bending their knees and surrendering, and the obedient and good people of the foreign race help the foreign race to fight back and rob their own people to rule their own people...... Even if almost all the people left in the Song Kingdom are vicious and unscrupulous and dare to do evil, even if the number of unconcerned bachelors and the fighting potential of food production are still far beyond those of other races, when the time comes, they will still be bears, and the fierce scheming, guts and courage will only fight in the nest, and they will only dare to deal with their own people in their own country.
They have all been corrupted by Confucianism, and they have all been treated stupidly by the rulers, and their brains have been weakened, and their bodies and minds have been weakened.
Zhao Yue had already expected what ridiculous, shameful, and tragic tragedies would be staged on this Chinese homeland at that time, and what kind of cruelty, wanton, and rampant massacres, bullying, humiliation, plundering, and enslavement would the Song people who stayed here would suffer...... But he only sneered, and there was no regret.
Dare to do evil and harm one's own people and even relatives and brothers, but dare not rise up to resist the alien race to protect their lives and vital interests, no matter how miserable the suffering is, they deserve it.
He expected that without those kind, honest, and cowardly people who defected to the pirate empire, but who would force them to have or be so angry that they dared to resist at the moment of national crisis, they would shed blood and sacrifice, and defended their families and the country at all costs at all costs at the cost of their lives, and the Han nation that remained in the Song Kingdom would have no backbone and blood, and could only be a group of vicious dogs and garbage who were bullied by foreign races. Even if the Song Dynasty could still flee to Jiangnan and seek peace, it would not be able to stand, and would only be chased and killed by the Jin State in one go, and it would be impossible for the Southern Song Dynasty to exist.
The ferocity, arrogance and cunning of the nomadic barbarians and the cowardice and incompetence of the Song people can be fully rehearsed and reflected in the return journey of the Liao envoys.
The war horses ridden by Chigou'er and his party of more than 200 people are all specially selected good horses, such good horses, in the headquarters of the Liao State now, I am afraid that there are no more than 1,000 horses, and they are finally snatched from Zahu to pick out, and they are the double horses of the envoys who are so good horses, and the luxurious furs, decent clothes and leather boots, and dazzling gold and silver ornaments worn by the members of the envoys are also specially given to the envoys by the Liao State to rob the wealth of the Zahu masters, and the purpose is naturally to pretend to be B fooled and scare Song Fang, Silently enhance deterrence and blackmail success.
Southern Dynasty, you see, my Great Liao Kingdom has suffered a disaster this year, but my Great Liao is still so awesome, it's not your Southern Dynasty that dares to resist. Those who know each other obediently bow their heads, and generously and actively offer a lot of wealth, so that my great Liao country is satisfied. Otherwise, as soon as my Da Liao gets angry, a torrent of iron horsemen composed of millions of elite soldiers and tens of thousands of BMW will kill you...
This hand is well pretended, and B really shocked the Song Dynasty......
The members of the envoys who came to the Song Kingdom on this trip were naturally all specially selected powerful warriors, and even the horsemen were cavalrymen with superb riding skills.
With excellent two-horse equipment, superb riding skills, and the heart to throw off the Song cavalry to hit the face of the Song Dynasty, how can it not be easy to succeed?
The five hundred Song troops accompanying them, the war horses were not good horses, and the good horses that the Beijing army once had were deliberately picked up by pirates at the moment of extortion, and staying in the Song State would not play its due role anyway, and would only be reduced to a tool to play a role as a cart for the powerful and the family, or a tool for the princes to ride and play face, just a waste. There is only one person and one horse, and the riding skills may not be very good, how can it be possible to catch up with the footsteps of the envoys flying away. It was soon left behind........
Chigou'er laughed wildly, and after leading the team to fly for dozens of miles, it was expected that the Song army would not want to arrive for a while, and when he saw the villages and towns or something, he passed the scourge as when he first came, and forced the local Song people to provide all the good food and drink they could have at home, and to feed their war horses with steamed grain and soup, which frightened the local Song people to tremble and honestly do everything they could. The Liao mission became happier and more rampant, so it didn't count, but it had to be looted, money, and clothes that could be seen...... These are now in short supply in the poor Liao country, and everything they see is snatched and stripped away, if there are women who can make do with it locally, they will naturally inevitably be caught and forcibly vented to their animal desires.......
When the escort Song Jun arrived panting, the Red Dog Gang had also eaten and drunk enough, and the scourge was almost over, so they laughed and got on the horse and left.
The Liao people are so arrogant, these Song soldiers are not the honest and good people at the beginning, they are all members of the gangsters in the capital who used to do evil, there is no good thing, but they are also very face-loving, and they are also ferocious and accustomed to the master, they can't be angry, but at this moment, they are so angry that they can't bear the tone of the Liao people who are so provocative. It's a pity that they want to teach this gang of Liao people a lesson, but the generals and main officers of the noble gate who lead the team are all timid and incompetent people who just want to escort away this group of animals smoothly, and they do not allow their subordinates to rectify the Liao people...... Seeing the local victims crying miserably and ignoring them, he hurriedly rode his horse to chase the Liao mission.......
Chigou'er and his entourage tasted the sweetness, and became more and more arrogant, and they continued to play with the Song army and the Song people who wantonly plagued the place all the way north, and they also robbed a lot of things by playing prestige.
The face of the accompanying Song Jun was beaten, and he was constantly pumped, but he could only stare dryly when he was angry, and urgently reported to the court to ask what to do, and the court did not hear from him. The officials along the way also pretended to be deaf and dumb, but they didn't know. The inauguration of the envoys and his entourage wantonly continued to do evil all the way.
Obviously, everyone from the imperial court to the magistrates was afraid of having more trouble. I am afraid that I will get into diplomatic trouble again.
Sure enough, it is a typical embodiment of "diplomacy is no trivial matter", and it is necessary to endure and sacrifice one's own people to fulfill foreigners. When foreign friends are happy and satisfied, their own countries can breathe a sigh of relief. This is not only the sorrow of a weak country, but also the shame and sorrow brought about by a corrupt regime. It is a shame that should not exist at all in this era and this period.
On this day, Chigou'er played with the escort again, tired of running, but did not see the villages, towns and counties in front of him that could be harmed, and was saying that there was a laughing horse through a wilderness, thinking of the front to see if there was anything to grab and play to enjoy, but suddenly a group of knights appeared in front of him, about thirty or forty horsemen, it seemed to be a group of robbers or something, fully armed, all covered with cotton hats, I don't know the true face.
As the first to ride, he immediately hung up his spear, held a bow in his hand, stared at Chigou'er and shouted: "Liao Gou, your time of death has come." ”
In the midst of the shouting, with a whoosh, sharp arrows shot sharply, and the bow was strong, obviously not an ordinary person.
The excited red dog, who didn't take it seriously and even wanted to grab it, was startled, and dodged the blow in a hurry, but the one behind him was unlucky, was shot squarely, and fell off the horse with a scream. Of course, Chigouer didn't care about the life or death of his subordinates, just breathed a sigh of relief, but the other rider on the opposite side was tricky, followed by an arrow, this time Chigouer couldn't dodge, Xiong Zhuang's agile body twisted in a hurry, avoided the vital point but was hit by an arrow in the shoulder socket, and he was so painful that he screamed, and the strength of the arrow was almost knocked off the horse.
Almost at the same time, the knights on the opposite side fired their bows in unison.
The members of the envoy are all warriors, and riding and archery is the least ability, so they don't have to be afraid of such an opponent, just open their bows and fight back, and they can be confident that they are strong against the bold opponents who suddenly appeared, but a large number of bows and crossbows came out of the silent and desolate roadside on both sides at the same time, and there were not enough to count in a hurry, but the number of people was also hundreds.......
The knight opponents on the opposite side were still far away, but the ambushes on both sides were only a dozen meters away. At such a close distance, no matter how powerful the members of the Liao envoy are, he is not a strong man like Lu Junyi, how can he withstand this kind of surprise attack..........
When the five hundred Song cavalry who accompanied them finally caught up, what fell into their eyes was: a group of barefoot and thin-clothed envoys, all of them shivering in the cold wind with wounds, oh, they were warming and shivering around a pile of boiling fires that had melted into fat and were afraid that there were at least forty or fifty corpses.
The previously rampant red dog was black and purple with a blue nose and swollen face, a big face that looked more and more ugly, covering the shoulder socket injury that was improvised and bandaged, and he was baring his teeth and staring at him, moaning high and low, and he couldn't get angry anymore.....
As for the things of the envoys, there were more than 400 fine horses, scimitars, fur furs, and fine leather boots...... and the looting of the money that has been harvested so far along the way....... It's gone.