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Liaodong Chapter 4(1/2)

After the founding of the Grand Governor's Office in Lilinkou, this place naturally became the military center of Daliang on the Liao border, and the military forces distributed in Daliang on the Liao border naturally gathered here.

Hurun traveled north and directly brought three thousand troops. Before that, Xu Mao's son Xu Lang led a thousand people as an advance force, and later added a portion one after another. But even so, the royal army directly invested in the Liao border before that, but before that, there were only more than three thousand troops directly invested in the Liao border.

After the attack and destruction of Jie Kingdom, more than 10,000 people moved in in western Liaoning. In addition, some caravans organized by Zhongzhou merchants spontaneously, if necessary, the Pingliao Grand Governor's Office also had the power to directly requisition. After a long period of time, the initially established Pingliao Grand Governor's Office reached more than 20,000 combatants.

From this point of view, the troops that Daliang has on the Liao border can be said to be extremely considerable. But from a practical perspective, these forces not only need to maintain the current defense in the controlled area, but also limited by the difficulties of the Central People's Republic of China in terms of border operations and logistics supply, they cannot exert all their combat effectiveness.

For example, some large offensive and defensive equipment and the most important war horses are still extremely scarce in the Liao border.

Therefore, the current Grand Governor's Office of Ping Liao is not suitable to launch a large-scale war directly. Hu Run did not dare to squander the blood and enthusiasm of the soldiers of the royal army, and fought with the Donghu slayers in a physical and bloody battle with the Donghu slayers in case of insufficient use.

To take a step back, once the war officially starts, even if the king's army wins step by step, every time a soldier's life is consumed on the Liao border battlefield, it still needs to be supplemented from the country, while the Donghu tribes can be supplemented on the spot. The efficiency issue in the matter is also a very serious military dilemma.

What's more, although the king's army had 20,000 war soldiers, the powerful people in the Donghu tribe were also not weak. The most important of them were the several troops of the Murong tribe. Murong Zun, the son of Murong Huang, was now full of tens of thousands.

At present, Murong Zun controls most of the Changli County east of the Liaoshui River, and has not completely given up on the western Liaoshui area where he originally sent troops to attack. For this reason, the royal division troops in the western Liaoshui still had to continue advancing eastward without any scruples and meet with the Lilinkou army.

As for how many troops Murong Ye, who occupied the Murong army base camp in Dajicheng, there is no specific situation yet. However, in addition to confronting Murong Zun, Murong Ye can still suppress Murong Jun and others who are in trouble in the east to a certain extent. It can be seen that the strength Murong Ye currently possesses cannot be underestimated.

In addition, in the eighth year of Qitai, Murong Huang sent troops to attack the Xianbei Yuwen tribe, which was attached to Jie Kingdom and occupied western Liaoning. He was defeated and defeated, and the leader Yi Dougui was even missing. After the war, most of the former Yuwen tribes were annexed by Murong tribes, Duan tribes and other forces.

But soon after, the Daliang King's Army was in northern expedition, and the Chinese incident resurrected. The Murong tribe itself fell into civil strife because Murong Ye killed his father and became independent, and he no longer had the energy to calmly digest the rest of the Yuwen tribe.

Because a large number of Yuwen tribes fled north, the Dai Kingdom, which coveted China from outside the border but was never allowed to go south, did not miss this opportunity. It even sent its troops to support Yuwen Luming, the son of the former leader of the Yuwen tribe, begged for the turtle, and led the former land of Yuwen tribe, gradually forming a scale. Today, the Yuwen tribe has also become a vassal force established by the Dai Kingdom in the Liao border.

The current Daliang court has not yet focused on fully developing the Liao border, so for a long time, the power of the royal army controlled by Hurun was mainly based on deterrence and to control the barbarians. If a war really starts, the situation is not impressive.

Of course, the founding of the new Daliang Dynasty was a place where China had the victory of things and even the power of defeating Jie Kingdom. Although the Donghu tribes are still powerful, no one dared to directly challenge the authority of Daliang.

Under such circumstances, as the highest military commander of the Liao border in Daliang, how Hurun should open up the situation is also a great challenge.

Not long after Hurun entered the town, after initially grasping the situation in the Liao border, he launched a series of actions this winter. He mainly focused on the royal army and also governed the Duan tribe and other Hu Yishu. He focused on Lilinkou and attacked the rebellious officials in the name of proclaiming the order of the Daliang king. In the long cold winter of the Liao border, he conquered dozens of tribes of all sizes in the Liao River Basin.

Although it is not suitable for military use in winter, these small Donghu tribes have no fixed place and no fixed area of ​​influence. They can only hold them in their nests while the snow is blocking the mountain.

If it were other times, it would be a waste of time to track their activity trajectory alone, and the soldiers would not be dispersed for a long time, and the consumption would be amazing. Even if they conquered and merged these small tribes, it would often be more cost-effective.

This is also an important objective condition for these small Donghu tribes to exist in the Liao border. The reason why Hurun chose to launch it at this moment was to follow Jin Xuangong's advice. This was discussed in detail in Jin Xuangong's strategy of pacifying Liao.

Hurun's power was still very effective. First of all, it ensured the security of the region around Lilinkou. The existence of those small Donghu tribes was like fleas, which was extremely disturbing. Even if they did not pose a direct threat to the safety of Lilinkou, their presence would still cause great invasion to the settlement matters.

Secondly, the Grand Governor's Office of Ping Liao gave a strong sense of existence on the border of Liao, especially Hu Run, the Grand Governor of Ping Liao. Originally, his arrival was not spread much from the outside world except for the kings and ministers of the Liao border and the Hu tribe who depended on Daliang.

However, after this cold winter clearance, almost everyone in the Liao border who is well-informed is aware of Hurun's reputation. This also made more people in the Liao border realize that the newly rising Daliang China is not only a person who is good at being gentle and restrained, but also a arrogant and cruel iron-blooded general like Hurun!

Hurun's image, which was different from ordinary people, and his style of treating human lives as grass and often deceased tribes, quickly made him famous in the Liao border. The people of the Donghu tribes in the Liao border were called blind Hu with contempt but more fear.

One-eyed blind Hu, eating meat and bones, so some Donghu tribes flew hundreds of miles away when they heard their names and dared not confront them.

In fact, the deepest feeling of Hurun and Liu Qun's completely different styles of behavior were those Donghu Yisong who were already dependent on Daliang. In the past, they could discuss everything when responding to Liu Qun's call, and there was room for maneuver.

However, when these tribes were classified as governor of the Grand Governor's Office of Ping Liao, the relaxed atmosphere in the past was gone. The Hu Rundian Army was extremely strict, especially for the Hu tribe's righteous consuls, they were almost zero tolerant. Once the order of conquest was issued and attacked a certain tribe, those who dared not accept the conquest would be postponed or the troops sent did not meet the requirements of the order of conquest, and they would be punished without forgiveness!

These Hu tribes are often used to being idle and rarely have the concept of military orders. Therefore, at the beginning, after the Hu Run command was issued, they often did not send troops directly. They first dealt with those Hu tribes who resisted the command or were discounted during implementation, so that they would send troops to conquer the real goal.

The Hu Yizong was so arrogant and vicious that the Hu Yizong was suffering because it was Hu Run's reputation, and most of them were promoted by these Hu Yizong.

But even if Hu Run has a lot of arrogance, he has done a very good job, that is, the rewards for military achievements are really generous, and it also makes these Hu Yizong love and hate them, and it is hard to leave them.

Although Hu Run was very strict with the use of these Hu Yizong, he was never stingy in sharing the war. He did not collect any gains from those who participated in the war.

However, the Liao border has poor products, which can be said to be a nest of evil wolves and poor ghosts. Even if they succeed in attacking, their harvest is really limited. They are nothing more than some people, livestock and groceries with little value. According to the early environment of the Liao border, these harvests are really not worthy of their tribes' hard work in the cold winter, and they risked the attack and hunted far away.

However, now they are under the leadership of the Pingliao Grand Governor's Office, so there is no difficulty in realizing the captured manpower. The women can directly sell it to those maritime merchants through the Grand Governor's Office, and the males can rent it to the Pingzhou Governor's Office to take on corvee labor and labor, and they can gain a long-term harvest.

In terms of livestock, the headquarters can be retained for consumption, or sold to the governor's office at a high price for livestock reclaiming. As for the confiscated fur, herbs, pearls and jade, there is no need to worry about sales.

The battle capture is not only that. After they conquer a certain place, the governor's office will follow up immediately. If any resources available for development are found in the territory, they will also give them some rewards.

Such many ways of monetization have also made these poor Hu Yizong one by one, united closely under the command of General Hu, attacking wherever he pointed, and even actively provided those Hu Yian who had no Guiyi.

With such a generous reward, the strict military orders are not a problem at all. Anyway, the tribes are the ones who really go to fight to kill the enemy, and those Hu chiefs can enjoy the fruits.

After getting started with a large amount of wealth, you will naturally have enough food and clothing, and your sense of shame will become stronger. Looking back on your life in previous years, eating raw meat, drinking blood, lying on blood and enduring cold, you will feel unbearable to look back. In terms of life, you will naturally have higher demands.

In previous years, even if there were huge stocks in Liaobian, to be honest, the enjoyment that could be had was really limited. Eating a few bites of meat and wearing more layers of fur is already an amazing luxury.

But now, if you have money, you really don’t have to worry about flowers, gorgeous silk, sweet cheese, and refined utensils. As long as you have money, people will continue to transport them to the border of Liao. There is only luxury that they cannot imagine and no enjoyment that China cannot provide.

A large number of Chinese artifacts and lifestyles were introduced to the Liao border. In addition to opening the eyes of these Liao border Hu chiefs, they also made them feel that their lives in previous years were really wasted.

People’s yearning for a better life is also an innate instinct. Very few people can be content with poverty, especially when they have the ability to live a better life.

In previous years, the Murong tribe dominated Liaodong. In addition to its powerful strength to intimidate these Hu tribes, they actually made many wishes to them. It is said that China is in chaos at present and that it is an opportunity for the rise of the border Hus. As long as it invades China, the land of China can be divided and shared.

But now, China has decided that the Daliang court even killed a vicious opponent like Jie Kingdom to destroy the clan and the heirs. How many people will take the bold words of the past seriously?

But they don’t have to despair. It seems impossible to enter China, but they can still rely on the Grand Governor’s Office to make achievements. Although the blind Hu was fierce, he also proved to them through practical actions that the Daliang court was not stingy in rewarding meritorious people. The real wealth and goods were much more real than the strong threats and false promises of the Murong tribe in previous years!

People's hearts are in a subtle way. Even during the Murong tribe, Murong Ting, the Murong tribe's most powerful control over the hearts of the Hu people in the Liao border, they could not be called absolute control, let alone now that they are still in a split and internal strife, and their private affairs are still unclear. What energy and majesty do they have to win over the hearts of the people?

Especially after Murong Ping of the Murong tribe was awarded the title of commander-in-chief and became the commander-in-chief general under the command of the Grand Governor of Pingliao, the mentality of the Hu tribes originally controlled by the Murong tribe even worsened.

To be honest, Murong Ping's Gao Sheng really relied on his own efforts. He was Murong Ling's youngest son, who lived here all year round, and was much clearer about the distribution of power in the Donghu tribes than Jin Xuangong who had been away from the Liao border for many years. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is like observing the palm lines.

The military rewards of the Liao Grand Governor's Office were so generous that for Murong Ping, who was already greedy and despised, would not be willing to be inferior to others. After several outstanding performances in military operations, he was appreciated by General Hu, and even led his troops straight into the vicinity of Daji City to attack those tribal forces that depended on Murong Yan, and repeatedly made great achievements.

For Murong Ping, as Murong Ping's youngest son, he was watching his brothers fight and have a lot of fun, but due to his age, the ancestral property he could obtain was really limited.

It doesn’t matter, if you don’t give it to me, I will take it myself. There is nothing wrong with this. How can I have a sick child under the knees of a tiger? In previous years, Murong Huang and Murong Ren just took advantage of their age to seize their ancestral property. Now the younger generation is also infighting with the crowd. If I don’t bravely rob, I will be misunderstood that I can be bullied!

Of course, in the narrow territory of Liao border, the expansion and growth of the Liao Governor's Office naturally could not hide it from the Murong Jun brothers. It should be said that the Murong tribe has been very favored in modern times. Those direct tribes were either vicious or cunning, but few talents were rare.

It is precisely because of the emergence of talents and the failure of Lunde to cultivate, that internal strife frequently arises, and everyone is proud of their talents and unwilling to be the last. Whether it is the brothers such as Murong Yong, Murong Han in the early years, Murong Ye, Murong Zun, who are still fighting in the internal strife, and even Murong Ping, who is busy digging his own corners, they can be regarded as first-class talents among the Donghu group.

In fact, as early as Hurun's entry, Murong Ye and Murong Zun brothers were alert and sent envoys to visit Li Linkou. While peeping, there were many threats. They did not want Daliang to interfere too much in the Liao border affairs, hoping to maintain Liu Qun's old situation at this time.

Hu Run came on the order of the king, and was cunning and fierce, so how could he be intimidated? However, he did not want to completely get into the Murong Ye brothers at this moment, so he simply avoided it. Then he led his troops to clean up the Donghu tribe in the Liaoshui River Basin.

During this process, the Murong Jun brothers also had a tacit understanding of each other. In particular, Murong Zun, who is relatively powerful at present, led his troops back to Zimengchuan and vaguely acted as if he wanted to attack Hurun's troops with Murong Jun.

If he changed to a weak general, he would have to be more or less afraid of the enemy and lead the crowd to retreat under such a threat. But if Hu Run really did this at that time, it would inevitably reveal the fact that some of the royal troops were still weak. If he wanted to incite those Hu Buyi to attack and act in an attack, it would be difficult for him to do it like an arm and finger.

Hu Run's response was very simple. He just met with the messengers of Murong Jun and Murong Zun respectively.

When he met Murong Jun's envoy, his words were that Murong Zun had briefly claimed to be the King of Yan after Murong Feng's death. This was an unforgivable act of crime for the Daliang court. Therefore, the court could not agree to Murong Zun's request to be the governor of Pingzhou and the captain of Dongyi.

When meeting Murong Zun's envoy, Hu Run said again that Murong Jun's man killed his father and became independent, which is a breaking through the limit of human ethics and an unforgivable sin. The saint of Daliang ruled the world and educated the masses. How could he use this evil person as Fang Bomu's guard!

So, after a month of quit, Murong Zun and Murong Jun attacked each other again, and had no time to pay attention to Hurun's problem of clearing out those small tribes of Donghu. After all, only by killing each other can he become the unquestionable leader of the Murong tribe. As for the survival or death of those small tribes, it is not a painful pain for them.

Hu Run's provocation method is actually not a clever one. It is no secret that Daliang's attitude towards the Hu clan is actually. Even Shi Hu, the former Hebei Supreme, was cut off from life. Even if Hu Run patted his chest and promised to support one of them, they would probably not believe it.

Murong Jun and Murong Zun are not mediocre people, and they think more because of their intelligence. Hurun avoided their envoys before, and they really couldn't figure out the reality of the Great Governor's Office of Ping Liao.

But now Hu Run is willing to meet their envoys and act as a false alarm to sow discord, which shows that Hu Run is still afraid of the enemy after all, and the King of Daliang is not sure to solve them in the short term.

After learning about this, what should they do? Should they give up their old grudges, shake hands and make peace, cooperate sincerely, and drive the Daliang King's Army out of the Liao border first?

This is a joke! As Hu Run said, Murong Jun was a criminal who killed his father and was unable to take responsibility for great evil, and Murong Zun was also audacious and was not tolerated by Daliang. Both of them were guilty and unforgivable. Only by eliminating the other party is the best way to unite tribal forces.

As long as they can fight quickly, solve the other party first, then integrate the tribal powers, and have enough strength, they are qualified to sit down and negotiate with the Daliang court. Otherwise, even if they have a temporary relationship, not to mention who is the main person or who is the deputy, if Daliang proposes that they need to eliminate each other in order to obtain formal recognition, should they take action or not?

In short, in the next two years, the two Murong Jun brothers fought endlessly, while Hu Run was busy leading his Hu Yi from the miscellaneous army to eliminate the other Donghu tribes in the Liao border, and they were all in peace.

The reason why their strength is generally balanced is that no one has eliminated each other requires testing Hurun's micro-operation ability.

During this process, Murong Zun was almost destroyed, because his general Mu Yugen was persuaded to surrender by Mu Rong Jun. During the battle between the two sides, Mu Yugen suddenly led his people out of the battle formation and retreated to the direction of Zimengchuan, causing Murong Zun to fall into a fight alone, and the central army even almost made a breakthrough.

However, just as Murong Jun was overjoyed and was about to continue pursuing and expanding his results, thousands of Han people fled collectively in Daji City. Murong Jun was busy returning to the city to settle the chaos and did not dare to go out lightly, allowing Murong Zun to withdraw calmly, seize the rebel general Mu Yugen, and stabilize the front again.

Although Murong Zun was in danger this time, Mu Yugen's betrayal still hurt his vitality. It should be noted that Mu Yugen was a long-time general in the middle of the country. He had made great achievements as early as the time when Jiezhu Shihu attacked Liaodong. The reason why Mu Rong Zun was able to rule over the troops for several years and fought with Mu Rong Jun was that Mu Yugen's support for him.

However, even the humerus aid like Mu Yugen chose to betray Murong Zun, which immediately made him feel full of crisis. For a long time afterwards, Murong Zun did not dare to continue to attack Dajicheng. The reason why this crisis was able to survive this made him realize that he could ask for more help from the Grand Governor's Office of Ping Liao, because Daliang still needs their brothers to fight to continue to maintain the situation in the Liao border.

Moreover, the disputes in the Liao border were no longer a secret in the north. The Northern King's Army continued to attack the remnants of Jiehu. With the unremitting efforts of Xie Ai, the Great Governor of Heshuo, Li Nong, the Quehuo Army, officially changed his flag and returned to the right, so that the Daliang King's Army could point directly to the front!

In order to resolve the threat from the Daliang King's Army on the southern front, the acting lord Shi Yijian also focused more on Liaodong. After supporting the Yuwen Department, he sent an envoy to contact Murong Zun. They still had a relative relationship. Shi Yijian was the son-in-law of Murong Hua. At present, Shi Yijian planned to marry him and give his daughter to Murong Zun.

Of course, the secret songs between Murong Zun and Shi Yijian were all secretly carried out, and Hu Run had no idea.

After nearly two years of development, the strength of the Grand Governor's Office of Ping Liao was already quite strong at this time. The battle power of the royal army in the headquarters was nearly 30,000, and the Hu Yicong had reached 30,000. However, those Hu Yicong were still able to fight the family and rob the house, and it was still uneasy to use the battle formation. As for the people in the headquarters of the royal army, a considerable number of them were limited to western Liaoning and dared not move lightly.

In order to maintain Murong Zun's power immortal, Hu Run asked Wen Fangzhi to cooperate. Although Wen Fangzhi, as the governor of Pingzhou, did not involve military affairs, many civil affairs matters have been steadily being built in recent years under the context of increasingly powerful military power of the Grand Governor's Office.

Among them, the Yang family in Beijing secretly contacted Murong Jun and cooperated with Wen Fang to transport the Han people controlled by Murong Jun to a steady stream of transports outward. The reason why Yang family was willing to do this was naturally due to the situation. They had to recognize the reality and dared not to put their vitality into Murong Jun. Being close to Daliang was a way out.

After receiving Hu Run's request, Wen Fangzhi urgently contacted Yang Wu, hoping that Yang Wu would find a way to restrain Murong Jun's military operations and make a practical guarantee. As long as Yang Wu can complete this task, after the Liao border is fully settled in the future, this merit will be named and reported, which is enough for the descendants of the Yang family to seek to survive the country and continue the successor of the clan.

In fact, Murong Jun knew what Yang did. Murong Jun also hated Yang's vest Li De deeply.

But the reason why it can be tolerated is that the scale of Yang's private transport of people is still controllable, and the loss of these Han people can also weaken the consumption pressure of Dajicheng to a certain extent. Second, he also hopes that after destroying Murong Zun, people like Yang also need to run for him and strive to negotiate with the Daliang court.

However, although Murong Jun did not kill Yang, he gradually undermined his family's military and political power, and only kept it in captivity for later use.

Therefore, when Yang Wu received the order from Wen Fangzhi, he was also helpless because he had no power in his hands. However, Wen Fangzhi's promise still made him feel moved. He knew that if he missed such an opportunity, he would no longer be able to do so. The Yang family had been in Donghu for a long time and had no achievements. Once the Liao border was pacified, his death would come.

Because Yang Wu made up his mind to plan this Han people's escape incident, although it disrupted Murong Jun's military plan, it actually put himself to death. This hasty organization's large-scale escape, there is no need to think about it, there is no possibility of success at all!

Sure enough, when he learned that the rear was unstable, Murong Jun immediately returned to the army, forced all the fugitives back to Daji City, and directly captured Yang Wu who was hiding among the wandering people.

Yang Wu's blatant betrayal this time actually caused no harm to Murong Jun than Mu Yugen's betrayal of Murong Zun. It is conceivable that he personally cut Yang Wu's throne to death with a knife, and ordered the entire city to capture all the Han portals, including the Yang family, to kill these Han portals with an undead Han portals!

Just when Murong Jun was planning to start a massacre, the envoy of the Grand Governor's Office of the Pingliament entered Daji City and represented the Grand Governor Hu Run to negotiate with Murong Jun. General Hu was willing to send troops to challenge Murong Zun with Murong Jun, and was willing to help Murong Jun ask the court for a title.
To be continued...
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