Chapter 782: The Fall of the Yan Kingdom
After Taibu's determination, the date of the ceremony of proclaiming the king on the plateau was set on October 25. The time for Gao Yuan to leave Daijun and leave for Lingshou is set for September 12.
Before the departure of the plateau, Daijun successively set out two groups of people to settle in Lingshou, and the total number of people who moved exceeded 180,000 before and after. This time, the plateau was officially relocated to Lingshou to settle down, not only to inspect, but also the largest number of migrants, including 100,000 troops, officials, and family members.
In addition, there are still some people left in Daijun who will be relocated for the last time in October, so the number of people who have migrated from Daijun to Lingshou has reached 300,000, of which the number of soldiers, officials, and craftsmen has reached 100,000, and the rest are the families of the army and officials, and some of the residents of Daijun, accounting for almost forty percent of the population of Daijun.
After all the migrations are completed, the settled population of Lingshou will exceed 400,000, and with the garrison soldiers, it can reach 500,000. And because Lingshou is a new city, in the next ten years, there will be people who will move to Lingshou to settle down, it is expected that the total population of Lingshou will definitely exceed 500,000, plus the army stationed in Lingshou, as well as outsiders who have lived in Lingshou for a long time, so the permanent population of Lingshou in the future will be more than 600,000, in this era, although it cannot reach Xianyang, Daliang, Linzi such a super capital, but it is also a large city. And as the strength of the plateau continues to grow, it may not be able to develop into a new super capital city in the future.
After Takahara and the others left Daigun, the mansion where they originally lived in Daigun was not deserted, but will be renovated and repaired to a certain extent, and will be retained as a palace of Takahara in Daigun.
And just two days before Gao Yuan and his entourage set off from Daijun, they received a good news from Jiang Huanwu. It turned out that Jiang Huanwu set out from Daijun at the end of April to attack Liaodong and sweep away the remnants of the Yan State. The army entered Liaoxi County in early June, and happened to encounter the Yan army.
After the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State in Liaodong got the news, they were also shocked, and Yan Wangxi immediately gathered the ministers to discuss countermeasures.
It turned out that the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State who fled to Liaodong had already received the news through the scriptures, because there were still many clans of the Yan Kingdom who hoped to restore the Yan Kingdom, although they did not dare to openly resist the rule of the Dai County, but they could still do it in secret to report to the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State who fled to Liaodong, and at the same time, the clans of the Yan State also hoped that the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State in Liaodong could defeat the Dai army, and then take advantage of the victory to recover Yuyang County and restore the Yan Kingdom.
Although Yan Wangxi led a group of ministers to flee to Liaodong, he has always aimed to restore the Yan Kingdom, and has also done some things. At the beginning, he also sent people to sneak back to Yuyang County, contact the Yan family, and rebelled against the rule of Daijun. And a few Yan family members were really moved, so they recruited their own family members to start an incident. However, the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State in Liaodong did not make any moves, neither sent troops to respond, nor sent people to reinforce, and the result can be imagined, as soon as the army arrived, they were immediately beaten to the ground, and the Yan family who made the incident was either killed or arrested, all the family property was confiscated, and the family was reduced to slavery.
The contemporaneous army also took this opportunity to strike a hard blow to the power of the Yan family, although many Yan families did not participate, but in order to show their innocence, they were forced to sacrifice a large amount of family property, and their power was naturally greatly reduced. And the other Yan clans also learned wisely, and did not dare to rebel against the rule of Daijun again, and then someone came to contact and persuade them, and they all asked Liaodong to send troops first, if Liaodong did not send troops, they must not take any action.
But now there are only 30,000 or 40,000 troops in Liaodong, although the monarchs and ministers of Yan State are impassioned, but they understand in their hearts that sending troops to recover Yan State is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, so the monarchs and ministers of Yan State came up with a way to send people to cross the sea to Qi State, hoping to be able to say that Qi State sent troops to attack Daijun, and then persuaded the family of Yan State to do things, so as to restore Yan State, but it is a pity that the envoys of Yan State arrived in Linzi Although they received the support of Qi Xianghou Sheng, and Qi Wangjian still received the envoys of Yan State with the etiquette of state guests, but in terms of sending troops to rescue Yan State, Qi Wangjian always played haha, did not give a positive reply, after a long time, the envoys of Yan State knew that the king of Qi had no intention of sending troops at all, so he had to return to Liaodong in disgrace.
At this time, someone sent an envoy to the monarch and ministers of the Yan State, saying that the Qin Wangzheng would send troops to attack the county, because the Qin Dynasty had enemies, and it was of course more likely to move the Qin State. But some people oppose this construction, the reason is that the Qin State is a country of tigers and wolves, the Zhou State was destroyed by the Qin State, and the Yan State is still the country of the Zhou Dynasty, how can it join forces with the Qin State?
And just when the monarchs and ministers of Yan State were arguing endlessly about whether to unite with the Qin State, the news that the Dai Army sent troops to attack Liaodong also spread to Liaodong, although the monarchs and ministers of Yan State thought of a lot of ways to restore Yan State, but no one thought that the Dai Army would send troops to attack Liaodong, so they were not prepared at all, and the ministers of Yan State were also panicked, accusing each other and complaining, some people thought that there should not be so many actions, which angered the plateau; There are also people who accuse Yan of not preparing in advance to resist the attack of the Dai army; Some people were happy to build yƬ to King Yan, and hurriedly negotiated peace with the army; Of course, there are also people who are impassioned and want to fight to the death with the Dai army. It also made King Yan happy, and he left the two councils halfway and went back to the harem to rest.
But the Dai army pressed the border, and it was impossible to hide, so Yan Wangxi could only be patient, and still had to discuss with the ministers, and after a few days of quarreling, the monarchs and ministers of Yan finally decided to concentrate the full strength of Liaodong and fight to the death with the Dai army.
There are not many ministers of Yan who fled to Liaodong with Yan Wangxi, but several important ministers are there, including Xiangguo Honggao, Da Sima Cavalry, and Liaoyang Jun Gongzi Yuan and others. Therefore, once the decision is made, it is still good to do things efficiently.
When Yan Wangxi fled to Liaodong, he took more than 20,000 Yan troops, and Yan still has more than 10,000 local garrisons in Liaodong, which is all the current strength of Yan State, although Yan Guo's monarchs and ministers do not know, the Dai army actually only sent more than 30,000 troops to attack Liaodong, of course, even if he knows, Yan Guo also hopes to concentrate more troops to fight a decisive battle with the Dai army. Therefore, Yan Wangxi immediately ordered to collect the people in Liaodong and form an army to resist the attack of the Dai army.
The result was good, it only took a month, Yan State recruited 80,000 soldiers, with Da Sima Qijiao as the commander and Liaoyang Jun Gongzi Yuan as the deputy marshal, leading the army to meet the Dai army. At this time, the Yan State also got the exact news, knowing that the Dai army attacking Liaodong turned out to be only more than 30,000 horses, so the top and bottom were full of confidence in this battle, thinking that the Yan army would definitely be able to repel the attack of the Dai army, and even many people hoped that after defeating the Dai army, they could also take advantage of the victory to attack, recover Jijing, and restore the Yan Kingdom.
The armies of the two sides met near Lingzhi in Liaoxi County and a fierce battle ensued.
As a result, in the first battle, the Yan army was defeated by the Dai army, and more than 20,000 people were killed in the battle.
It turned out that although the total strength of the Yan army reached more than 80,000 people, there were only 20,000 real soldiers, and all the others were collected from the people of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and even the weapons and armor were not complete, and nearly half of the soldiers did not have armor and weapons, or wore the usual cloth clothes, and found a wooden stick to use as a weapon, and some soldiers had armor, but it was not complete, either missing helmets, or missing combat boots, or missing bronze pieces on the armor, and many weapons were still agricultural furniture, not to mention chariots and horses, Because Liaodong did not have much military material reserves, and the Yan army fled to Liaodong, not only did it not bring any military supplies, but there were also many shortages, so it could only be a little bit like this.
In addition, the Yan army was temporarily recruited, and there was not enough training time, let alone arranging troops, and they hadn't even practiced the queue a few times, so they were pulled onto the battlefield, and the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State didn't think so much, and in their opinion, 80,000 against 30,000, as long as the number of people was enough.
Naturally, such an army cannot be the opponent of the Dai Army, let alone 80,000, even if it is 800,000, it is useless, and as a result, the cavalry of the Dai Army will be charged by the Dai Army, and the Yan Army will be thrown into chaos, and then the Dai Army's army will be covered, and the Yan Army will suddenly collapse and collapse. Moreover, men and horses collided and trampled on each other, injuring and killing countless people. The commander of the Yan army, Da Sima Cavalry, did not die under the swords and guns of the Dai army, but because the chariot overturned, and was trampled to death by the rebellious army.
Liaoyang Jun Gongzi Yuan was more clever, and escaped from the battlefield first, so as to save his life.
But the Dai army did not let go of the Yan army because of a victory, but dispatched a cavalry army, and then pursued, and did not give up. Moreover, the pursuing Dai army is a cavalry army, one person with two horses, of course, faster than the Yan army, the Yan army has no resistance in the escape, and is completely slaughtered by the Dai army, so the Dai army is divided into two groups and takes turns to chase and rest.
As a result, this pursuit battle lasted for three days, and there were a total of seven battles between the two sides, and the Yan army was chased by the Dai army and fled for more than 300 miles, unable to gain a foothold with the original, so that there was almost no time to rest, and some soldiers even ran to death on the side of the road. On the third day, the soldiers of the Yan army did not even have the strength to escape, and after the Dai army caught up, they fell to the ground and surrendered. In the end, when Gongzi Yuan fled back to Liaodong County, he led less than 1,000 soldiers.
In the head-to-head battle with the Yan army, Luo Huan took the lead, personally led a thousand cavalry troops, attacked the Yan army, and killed two generals of the Yan army, disrupted the Yan army's position, and later participated in the pursuit of the Yan army, led his troops to catch up with the Yan army three times, and beheaded more than 4,000 levels, which can be said to have made a great contribution.
And this battle also shocked Yan Wangxi and Xiangguo Honggao, who stayed in Liaodong, but they didn't expect that the 80,000 army would be wiped out by the Dai army at once, and there were not even 1,000 people who fled back.
A month later, Jiang Huanwu led a large group of men and horses into Liaodong County, Yan Wang Xijun saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to be captured, surrendered to the Dai army, so far, the last clan of the Zhou family, but also the Warring States Seven Heroes China lineage is the longest, the founding of the Yan State for more than 800 years, finally completely destroyed.