Chapter 715: The End of an Era
Daegu is just an ordinary county town in Gyeongsang-do, and the battle of Daegu is by no means the focus of the tug-of-war between the two sides. But the besieging side paid the price of more than 3,000 people in order to take the city. Intuitively speaking, the first batch of siege soldiers had no losses except for a thousand archers, and the infantry who landed in the city was almost one in ten, so that the siege army sent a total of three batches of personnel before and after, and finally even the reserves were used to take this inconspicuous small city.
The 3,000 casualties were another small local battle of the partial division, presumably Li Ziqian would not take it seriously. But the key point is that when the battle is fought to this extent, there is no regular army on both the offensive and defensive sides. The original Goryeo Jing army was basically packed and taken away by the Song people in the Battle of Kaijing, and the border army of the two realms sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight. Even the remaining reinforcements from all over the country were killed and wounded in the three-way battle. So at present, the north and the south are basically gathering a group of powerful nobles who support themselves, and use their ambition and strength to achieve their own goals.
If you want to talk about the major shareholders who contribute money and efforts, who is as generous as Li Ziqian, the shopkeeper? On the way south, Han Anren's ancestors have not been born in peace for eighteen generations, and they don't know how much they have been insulted by these people in the north.
However, in the beginning, things were not that complicated.
The previous joint expeditionary army in the north fought Han Anren quite well, and drove him from Wang Jing to flee in all directions like a lost dog. How do you know that fleeing and fleeing, this guy suddenly has no bottom line, and he dares to challenge the interests of the nobles all over the world, and privately announces the abolition of the current slave spleen system in the face of the world's disapproval.
The loyalty of these slaves is so rewarding! Han Anren drew a big pie for them, and they followed Han Anren's ass with all their hearts, shouting about the restoration of the Great Goryeo Kingdom, and claiming to be the Liberation Army. The most hateful thing about this group of people is not here, but that they will only defend the city and never dare to go out of the city to fight.
If it's just a matter of attacking one or two cities, it's fine, but it's all the way around. Every county, state city, and checkpoint with a city wall has become a blood loss on the attacker's body. More or less have to be bled by the other party.
Of course, slaves alone are not enough to inflict such large casualties on the joint expeditionary army, but the Southern Army also has its own killer feature: slaves are cannon fodder, and private soldiers are the backbone.
In a place like Goryeo, Li Ziqian is not the only one who is an old fox, but Han Anren is also not a vegetarian. Li Ziqian knows that he can't bear the truth that the child can't trap the wolf, and has already used the land in the south as a carrot in front of the donkey, luring the powerful people in the central part of the country to step by step into the script he designed. In the final analysis, it boils down to one sentence: whoever has a great contribution now will make a lot of profit in the future.
To do so was to expel the local tyrants of the South from the upper echelons of the future unified regime. As Li Ziqian's old opponent for many years, Han Anren will certainly not let go of this opportunity to have a united front that shares the same hatred with the powerful in the south.
Although the act of freeing the slaves also violated the interests of these allies to a large extent. But the huge private property of the former Goryeo royal family as compensation (land) more or less alleviated the discontent of the southern slave owners. Coupled with the fact that the northerners have clearly exposed their ambition to not play with them at all, they will eventually kick them out. Therefore, at the moment of the great enemy, there is a strange situation in which the slave owners and slaves work together to resist the northerners.
The people of the north are not fools, and of course they know the consequences of driving a dog into a poor alley. But Haoqiang and landlords' thirst for land has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow. When the land in the central part of the peninsula is saturated, the extra land in the south is like fat falling from the sky. And Li Ziqian fanned the flames behind his back: You go and rob it, and finally leave me a share.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this has become a never-ending dead end. It's not at all that the northerners don't know how to divide their opponents. It's really only three words, impossible!
They themselves have taken a fancy to the land in the hands of the powerful in the south, and they want to take it quickly, and the contradictions have obviously reached the point of irreconcilability. And Han Anren announced the release of all slaves in his sphere of influence. This is even more unacceptable to them. This is beyond the scope of "more and less", but Han Anren wants to cut off their roots.
Therefore, the battle situation that lost the possibility of reconciliation was even more brutal in some Cheng DΓΉ than when the Khitans attacked. The powerful and powerful in the south, the landlords in order to defend their property, and the newborn slaves in order to be free, had no choice but to resist. And the result of resistance was slaughter. The massacre provoked more fierce resistance, and the fiercer resistance forced the central powerful to invest more (private soldiers), thus forming an unsolvable endless circle.
Li Ziqian is the most grateful person in his heart now. I'm afraid it's Han Anren, an old opponent. Apart from him, who else in the world can do him such a big favor and make him the man with the best chance of surpassing Wang Jian, the founding lord of Goryeo?
Time is undoubtedly favorable to him, and Han Anren will bid farewell to this world very undignified after completing his historical mission. Who told this person to break the jar and break it, desperately trying to learn from the Song people to win people's hearts, and not hesitating to offend the heroes of the whole world? Song Ren came over and grabbed a handful and left, where can he Han Anren go? Now even if he, Li Ziqian, wants to be extrajudicial to Han Anren, I am afraid that these powerful people in the south will not be willing.
Although Li Ziqian is also very sympathetic to Han Anren on this issue, he can only silently promise this old opponent in his heart: Old man, you can leave with peace of mind, I promise not to dig up your ancestral grave.
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Sangju, Gyeongju (formerly Goryeo Tokyo), Jinju, Jeonju, Seungju, the six major cities under Han An-in, are now lost to the last Naju.
At this time, Luozhou, in the eyes of the besieging northern army, was eager to break it overnight. Thanks to the thief surnamed Han inside, in the additional "investment" again and again, their capital was almost lost. At present, it is easy to trap Han Anren in Luozhou City, and many heroes have personally brought people from all over the country, and even the most tricky distribution of spoils has been suspended. I have to say that Han Anren has a big face.
There is a lot of anger in the city, but there is some poetry in the city.
Han Anren stood at the head of the city, feeling that the afterglow of the sunset was quite intoxicating, making him unconsciously think about the past and reminisce about the past.
Just a hundred years ago, Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu led 400,000 people to attack Goryeo, and the then Goryeo Emperor Xianzong fled to this Luozhou to wait for an opportunity to counterattack. Perhaps, Xianzong also looked north of the city at this juncture, right?
But it's a pity that now Master Han is helpless, and even hurt the five-year-old child surnamed Wang who was found out of nowhere.
"Although I am damaged, I will eventually make the people of Goryeo go to the distinction between good and low, and Qingshi should also write my name, although I have no regrets in death!" Han Anren stood on top of the city, talking to himself in the wind. He believes that as long as this fire is lit by him, Li Ziqian will definitely not have a good time in the future.
The left and right sides were shocked when they heard the words, and Master Han regarded death as home, but what about those people who followed the left and right? Now sitting in a lonely city, there are no reinforcements outside, no fighting spirit inside, and there is no good end to surrender.
After all, wherever the Northern Army passed, they were competing to slaughter prisoners in order to vent their personal anger. Even the ordinary people who did not participate in the two realms could not escape the disaster of the pond fish, and they were also captured as slaves by them, and they would never be lovers again.
Everyone knows the truth of success and defeat, but they didn't expect that when the bad luck of failure befell them, it was so terrifying.
"Taishi...... Can you make peace with the Northern Army? There are still 200,000 female spleens in the city, which may make the northerners tempting! "Someone cautiously proposed to build yì.
Han Anren looked at this person with a smile, and suddenly his face changed, "Why don't you wait for me to go to the national thief camp to make peace?" β
As the saying goes: The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, but there is still a group of slaves in the city who are loyal to Han Anren, this person was suddenly frightened by this heavy sentence, his face became pale for a moment, and he defended: "The villain followed the Taishi, fought for nearly a thousand miles, and fought dozens of bloody battles, and there were no two hearts!" β
Han Anren smiled, withdrew his gaze from this person, looked at the sunset in the distance, and sighed: "Think about the past, when I studied hard in the cold window of the grass house, fought openly and secretly in the court, and finally got the current scenery, I don't know if it's worth it or not?" β
"The Taishi is a traitor for the country, and the people of the country admire it, because there are countless people who dare to die to follow the Taishi so far! That Li Ziqian's ambition is obvious, he is plotting to usurp the throne, and he is a thief in the world, and he will not die well! Left and right replied, "There are still 30,000 people who dare to die in my Luozhou City, and there are countless grains and grasses, which can last for three years!" Three years later, maybe the world has changed greatly, and we will be alive again! β
The left and right said impassionedly, but Han Anren listened very perfunctory, and after listening to it, he was noncommittal, and after a pause, he sighed and said: "In my life, I only have one death to say 'consummation'!" It's just for the sake of you, and you can't 'abandon' it lightly. Defend it! The more ruthlessly we defend, the more enemies we kill, and maybe there is still a way to survive. β
When they saw it, they looked at each other and were speechless. At this moment, there was a movement outside the city, only to hear the loud sound of "boom" shocking the sky, a burst of smoke and dust from far and near, rising all over the sky, Han Anren had a soldier beside him: "There is a large group of cavalry pressing the border!" β
As the saying goes: if you have a lot of debt, you don't have to worry about lice. The countless reinforcements and confluences under the city have already numbed the defenders in the city, and this time it is still the cavalry, anyway, the siege is useless, and no one is too afraid, only to hear someone whisper: "Cavalry of this scale, I am afraid of no less than five collars!" Didn't the border army arrive? β
The city tower is thinking like this, and the northern army camp under the city tower is even more puzzled, if you don't receive any news, there will be reinforcements from the border army? I hadn't seen their shadows in the countless bloody battles in the city before, but they appeared at this sensitive moment, could these bastards come to grab credit?
"Bastard! Your border army came over at this time, and the horse army you sent, what do you mean!? (To be continued......) R527