Chapter 541 Welcome back to the bosom of the people
In the end, Shi Tianze still performed a perfect self-slaughter for them with full of resentment, and when he fell with the blood sprayed on his neck, the battle of Jinan was basically over.
Of course, the hunt is still ongoing.
Not only Yang Feng's expeditionary force, but in fact, the 50,000 troops of Li Pu's department have already begun to chase and kill with great momentum, including Liu Sijing's department, which defected to the battle, and Han Anshi's department, which was knocked to death by Yang Feng's stick, also quickly plunged into this pursuit purely to expand the results of the battle. And as the pursuit continued, more and more Han troops chose to defect, such as Zhang Rong's son Pizhou Wanhu Zhang Bangzhi, Zhang Bangyan and others, at this time Zhang Rong, the marquis of Jinan, was already useless in his eighties, his eldest son Zhang Bangjie had already died, and the eldest grandson Zhang Hong inherited the title. Before Li Pu attacked Jinan, Zhang Hong knew that he was invincible and could only abandon the city and flee, and the Zhang family's army was in the hands of his uncles, and they were all stationed in the southern states on the Song and Mongolian borders.
As for how Kublai Khan cleaned up Zhang Rong, who was retired in Yanjing, and Zhang Hong, who had just gone to see him......
Loyalty and filial piety cannot be both!
In short, compared with the great cause of conforming to the mandate of heaven, the lives of his father and nephew in his eighties had to be sacrificed, and the two brothers Zhang Bangzhi took the Zhang family's nearly 20,000 troops, all of which joined the ranks of expelling the Tartars......
"Welcome back to the arms of the people!"
Yang Feng said solemnly.
Kneeling in front of him were the Zhang brothers and Liu Sijing, and there was also another Wanhu Meng De and his son Meng Yi of the Zhang family, these four families controlled all the armies of the Zhang family, and Meng De's father and son had participated in the Battle of Ezhou, and they were also quite familiar with Yang Fengna. The Zhang brothers surrendered so simply, it is estimated that it has something to do with their rendering of Yang Feng, of course, the main thing is that their family business is in Jinan, for these guys, the death of a few hostage sons is not worth mentioning at all, and keeping the family's property is the most important thing, saying that Zhang Rongzu has more than forty grandchildren, what is the big deal if ten or eight die?
"Immortal Venerable, the disciple is ignorant and ignorant, he failed to greet Immortal Venerable as soon as possible, and he asked Immortal Venerable to forgive him!"
Meng De said cautiously.
This counts his age, he is actually from the same generation as Zhang Rong, he is already gray-haired, this person is actually a civil official, he was the county commander when the Jin Kingdom fell, and he followed Zhang Rong for half a century, so it can be said that he is an old minister of the Zhang family.
"Forgive you of your innocence!"
Yang Feng waved his hand and said.
"I don't know how Immortal Venerable will place disciples and so on."
Meng De then asked.
He actually asked how to divide the territory in the future, before the Zhang family was the same as Li Pu, the Zhang family controlled Jinan Road, Li Pu controlled Yidu Road, usually there was no lack of grievances or something, now we have indeed surrendered, we can listen to Li Pu, but how to calculate our territory? The reason why we surrendered was to give Xianzun your face, but we weren't afraid of him Li Pu, if he Li Pu wanted to annex us, we didn't say that it would be easy to provoke, in short, you have to give us justice next.
"Li Pu has presented his ministers to the Song family, and you will be Song ministers in the future, and your officials and titles will be decided by the Great Song Dynasty, and it is inconvenient for me to interfere."
Yang Feng said.
He won't care about that!
As an immortal venerable, he can't make a statement too clearly.
Because if he gave Jinan to the Zhang family, then Li Pu would definitely be dissatisfied, Li Pu largely made Kublai Khan's rebellion in order to grab territory, how could he spit out what he ate? And if he gives the territory to Li Pu, then the Zhang family will definitely be dissatisfied, this is their territory, they surrendered with an army of 20,000, they can't help but take care of their feelings, right?
Since this is the case, the wicked man let Jia Rudao do a good job.
Jia Nidao knows how to control the north, and he will definitely not allow Li Pu's family to dominate, and he will definitely support the Zhang family, so Li Pu's dissatisfaction is also dissatisfied with Jia Nidao or the Southern Song Dynasty court, it is all done by this treacherous minister, Zhao Yun is ignorant, and Xianzun is still good......
Well, that's the way to be a king.
Since this is the case, it is not easy for the Zhang family to say anything, and then they also made up a thousand elite cavalry to follow Xianzun.
This cavalry is led by Liu Sijing, this guy is also a well-known fierce general, originally in history even did Kublai Khan's guards and the deputy commander of the left wing of the army, can be Kublai Khan's guard general, that is definitely able to fight, he led the cavalry of the Zhang family to follow Yang Feng to kill Yanjing, so that Yang Feng's subordinates expanded to 4,500 people, and all of them are cavalry, especially many people have been replaced with captured Arab horses or Central Asian horses, which can be regarded as barely having the appearance of a real iron horse.
The other divisions stayed behind and attacked Dongping with Li Pu.
At this time, Yan Zhongfan of the Yan family in Dongping on the South Road, and Di Hun of the Dedi family led the troops to hold on to the mountainous area, and then Li Pu's main opponents were these two, and the main target was the Dongping of the Yan family.
The Yan family started in the late Jin Dynasty Changqing County Commander Yanshi, he led an army in the Red Jacket Army and the Mongol Army under the attack of the stubborn resistance, and later surrendered to the Southern Song Dynasty with a lot of face, but when the Jin army besieged the Southern Song Dynasty and did not save him very facelessly, in a fit of anger he simply surrendered to Mongolia with 300,000 households in the eight states of the department. At this time, Yan Shi had already died, and the Yan family was dominated by his eldest son Yan Zhongji, but Yan Zhongji was in Kublai Khan's place, and the Yan family was each controlled by his two younger brothers Yan Zhongfan and Yan Zhonghei, Yan Zhongfan was on the North Road, and Yan Zhongsi was on the South Road with Guo Kan to attack Brother Li Gao in Xuzhou.
Even if he didn't go, as long as these princes kept their territory, they would not have any loyalty to the Mongols.
And the same is true of Guide's Di Hu.
However, it is not nine out of ten, although Di Hun is the family of Guide Di, but in fact his family is in Baoding, and the more north the marquis is more loyal to the Mongols, they are not Li Zhangyan, they have been separated from the Central Plains regime since the fifth generation, more than 300 years have passed, they have no feelings for the title of Han people, psychologically they are more to the Hu people.
In short, whether Li Pu's attack will be like a bamboo, this Yang Feng is not sure, what he can be sure of is that Li Pu will definitely win.
Because at this time, Jia Rudao couldn't sit still.
"Master, what is this?"
In the silent tent in the middle of the night, Li Yao, who was only wearing a thin veil, pressed on her master's shoulder and asked curiously.
The latter is constantly busy.
In front of him was a strange box, with a strange thing on his head, and his right index finger pressed against a strange piece of metal, and kept pressing it up and down, and every time he pressed it, there was a strange dripping sound in the strange thing on his head......
Uh, she didn't know it was a telegram.
Yang Feng made it himself, using the old electronic parts that Xiao Qian sent him to put together, a total of three have been made at present, one is here for him, one is on the black boat, and one is for his three apprentices, which are operated by him, Xiaoyu and Bi Niang, although the power is very small, but in this era without any signal interference, it is enough to ensure his normal contact within a range of thousands of kilometers, in fact, no matter how far away, it can barely make do, and the shortwave thing is nothing more than the size of the antenna.
Yang Feng ignored this female apprentice who was so strong that she could still get up from after fighting with him for three lilies, and continued to send Morse code.
In the distant Lin'an Haotian God Palace, his three apprentices were constantly drawing dots and lines on the paper, and Jia Nidao next to him looked nervously, and after only ten minutes, the communication across thousands of miles was completed, Bi Niang took off the earphones with a long breath, and then took a holy oracle book, and began to decipher the code on it, relaying it to Jia Nidao while deciphering.
"Shizun means that all parts of Shandong are dilapidated, even if the court can not increase any taxes, but must be helped with money and grain, since this may as well be a complete feudal town in the north, with Li Pu as the king of Qi, its old land except for the six states of Denglaining, Haiyi, Juhai, all other states as the fief of the king of Qi, all the fiefdom in the fiefdom is analogous to the feudal state. In addition, the four generals of Zhangjia are each the king of the county, and each of them is in a state in Hebei as their fief, but they need to rob it themselves, and the original Jinan Road is set up as Jinan Mansion, and the east and west roads of Shandong are merged into Shandong Road, and Jinan Mansion is the capital of Shandong Road, Li Pu is the pacification and establishment envoy of Shandong Road, and the officials who are not the fiefs of the kings are nominated by them to be appointed by the imperial court, but they can also be directly appointed when the imperial court needs them. ”
She said slowly.
"Everything is according to the will of the national teacher!"
Jia Rudao said immediately.
Shandong's strategic significance to the Southern Song Dynasty was only that it could threaten the Lianghuai from the flank, and further threaten Yanjing, so that the Southern Song Dynasty, which could only passively defend, gain strategic initiative.
But the value of Shandong itself is not high.
Even in the Northern Song Dynasty, Shandong is not a rich place, at this time, after more than a hundred years of war, the land is barren and the population is sparse, it is estimated that the taxes that can be collected in the whole Shandong are not as good as a government in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there are frequent famines, such a place is impossible for the imperial court to collect taxes, and even have to pay money to feed, especially if those warlords are accepted as officials and soldiers, it is a heavy burden, so it is best to control themselves by the feudal towns, and reward points for obedience to the court, and fend for themselves if they are disobedient, Anyway, when needed, the imperial army can use Shandong as a base.
Yang Feng's arrangement is very reasonable.
The nationalization of the feudal kingdom guaranteed to satisfy those warlords, and the imperial states and counties mixed in it also ensured the imperial court's control there, anyway, the imperial court's requirements for them were only to contain the Mongol army from the flank, if the Song and Mongolia continued to confront each other, they were the best help for the Southern Song Dynasty, if the Southern Song Dynasty could defeat the Mongols and recapture the Central Plains, then the real control of Shandong was just to recruit vassal vassals into the court, and their strength would not dare to resist at that time. In other words, these things can be thought of in Jia Rudao's mind, not only Shandong in the future, if the Yan family in Dongping is returned to Shun, it can also be dealt with in this way, let them be the northern barrier of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty relies on the Huai River defense line as the second barrier, with the Yangtze River as the third barrier, both the imperial court and those gentry can enjoy the peace and prosperity in the south of the Yangtze River comfortably under such triple protection.
Of course, he didn't know that soon Yang Feng would make Shandong very rich, and the warlords after the partition would not look at the imperial court, they would only recognize the national teacher who brought them everything.
"In addition, I would like to inform the national teacher that Xia Gui's sailors are already on standby in Huai'an, and they have all been replaced with the banner of the Volunteer Army, and they can go north to Xuzhou at any time!"
Immediately afterwards, Jia Yidao said.
Bi Niang immediately began to send a report.
Thousands of miles away in the tent, Yang Feng quickly received and translated the message, and then sent back two words: "Attack!" ”
After finishing, Yang Feng took off his headphones, sat on the chair and let out a long breath, meditated on the future conspiracy with a sinister smile, and then looked back at the pretty face on his shoulder, and suddenly he twisted and threw her on the felt carpet in Li Yao's scream......
Two days later.
The two Huaishui divisions led by Xia Gui personally, under the banner of the Great Song People's Volunteers, set off from Huai'an and went north along the Yellow River.
Still, he was a step too late.
The Mongol army led by Guo Kan broke through Xuzhou and captured Li Gaoge.
However, Li Gao's younger brother Li Donkey led his army to withdraw from Xuzhou and rendezvous with Xia Gui, and at the same time, the news of Li Pu's defeat in the north and his attack on Dongping reached Xuzhou, and Yan Zhongsi, the main force of Guo Kan's subordinates, had to lead his troops to abandon Guo Kan and return to Dongping to save Dongping. In addition, the Mongolian army and naval division were defeated by Xia Gui with fireball arrows on the Yellow River, Guo Kan was unable to defend Xuzhou alone, and under the pressure of Xia Gui, Li Donkey and Ma, and Li Pu's troops who went south from Yizhou, he had to abandon Xuzhou and retreat to Guide.
Xia Gui occupied Xuzhou and marched north along Surabaya with a naval division.
When he arrived in Jeju, Li Pu on the northern front broke through Tai'an Prefecture, the Yan brothers in Dongping surrendered, Di Hun had to flee west in a hurry, and the three families of Li, Zhang, and Yan combined forces to sweep Luxi, Xia Gui cruised Surabaya with a sailor, and transported grain from the south to the north to receive Li Pu and other troops. Because the daimyo Wang Wengan refused to go south for reinforcements under the pretext of Yang Feng's approach, Guo Kan and Di Hun were unable to resist and had to retreat to the line between Kaifeng and Guide, effectively giving up the entire territory east of the Yellow River.
Fortunately, the main force of the Mongol army, which was immediately reinforced, also arrived.
But it didn't work when it arrived.
Because Yang Feng crossed the Yongji Canal in Jiangling, that is, modern Dezhou, and marched towards Zhending, the base camp of the historian.
As soon as he led the army to defeat Hun Duhai, a supporter of Ali Buge, for Kublai Khan in Longyou, he had to lead the Guanzhong Mongol army to urgently reinforce Lian Xixian, who was on the eastern front, and had to personally lead the elite north to cross the Yellow River to reinforce Shijia while departing part of his troops to reinforce Guo Kan. At the same time, Wuliang Hetai led the main force of the Mongol army to the south from Yanjing, and Kublai Khan also hurriedly pardoned Wang Wengan's crime of escaping, after all, he was in Daimyo, once he fell to Yang Feng, he could attack Lian Xixian to the west at any time. In this way, tens of thousands of Mongolian iron horsemen, one south and one north, killed Zhending like two big pincers, preparing to strangle Yang Feng, the demon of Yang Feng, with the Dong family, the historian of Zhending.
And Yang Feng continued to move forward unhurriedly.