Chapter 132 Creating Hatred
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"General Hua, why don't you let me go to the north?" Hu Sanniang stopped Hua Rong and asked unhappily. 4∴8065
"You stay in the south to suppress the bandits. This is also an important task." Hua Rong said.
"The rebels in the south are not worth mentioning, so why don't I stay here myself?" Hu Sanniang frowned.
"The resistance is indeed vulnerable, but it is difficult to completely eliminate them. They have close ties with the local Koreans, who provide them with food and intelligence. Over time, they may even develop and grow.
"I asked you to stay in the south because I want you to completely eliminate them and not let them show up again," Hua Rong said.
"To completely eliminate it? This is not easy..." Hu Sanniang frowned again.
"It's actually simple, just create hatred." Hua Rong said.
"Create hatred?" Hu Sanniang said with some confusion.
"We can pretend to be rebel fighters, and then go to the countryside of Goryeo to kill people and set fires, or take the initiative to rob the Koryo people of their food. If there are too many things like this, the Koryo people will naturally not like the rebels, and the rebel army will lose the basis for its existence.
It will be much easier to destroy them again," Hua Rong said.
"This..." Hu Sanniang had to admit that Hua Rong's method of "creating conflicts" was indeed useful. If this method was followed, it would not be impossible to completely eliminate the resistance.
"Actually, the method of creating hatred was also thought up by the Governor, and this is only the first step. There will be many ways to create hatred in the future. According to the Governor, we must create 'ethnic divisions' in Goryeo, and slowly
Let most Korean people change from hating us to supporting us. The rest of the measures may not be implemented until the entire Korea is conquered. For now, you are responsible for annihilating the rebels. I hope that after the north is pacified, the banditry in the south will also disappear.
." Hua Rong said.
"Okay, I accept this military order." Hua Rong said a lot, and Hu Sanniang finally changed her attitude and decided to eliminate the banditry in the south.
However, although Hu Sanniang accepted this military order, Sun Li, Sun Xin and others in the Third Army were dissatisfied. They also wanted to go to the battle to kill the enemy and wanted to go to the north to participate in the war. It was not until Hua Rong personally persuaded them that they
Agree to stay.
"***, these rebels have forced us to stay in the south. I will never let them go!" Sun Li said fiercely.
"General Hua has given us an order. We don't need to use force for the time being. Let's pretend to be Goryeo rebels, and then steal the food of ordinary Goryeo people so that they can't survive the winter." Hu Sanniang said coldly.
Originally Hua Rong also ordered "murder and arson", but Hu Sanniang automatically ignored these, and her "compassion" came into play again. Sometimes, Hu Sanniang even wondered if she was really not suitable to be a general?
In this era, if you want to be a general, you need to be absolutely cruel. In order to destroy the enemy by any means, Hu Sanniang found it difficult to do this. The Korean people in the south complained. Originally they supported the rebels, but in the end, many
Everyone cursed the rebels.
At this time, Liangshan stood up again and distributed food everywhere to win the hearts and minds of the Korean people. These were Hu Sanniang's own methods.
Hu Sanniang was suppressing the bandits, while Hua Rong had already led three armies of 60,000 soldiers towards Kaijing.
There was heavy snow in the sky and the road was somewhat difficult to travel. Hua Rong thought about the strategy of the north while marching.
The current war situation is very different from what was predicted before the war. First, the tenacity of the resistance army was underestimated, so Hu Sanniang's third army was left in the south of Goryeo to take charge of the work in the south. Therefore, the strength of the Yangshan army was
weakened.
The second is that after Wu Dong led the grain transport team to besiege Kaijing, the performance of the Goryeo monarchs and ministers in Kaijing was beyond Hua Rong's expectations. For this time of the Goryeo War, this was definitely a brilliant move, and it will be used again in the future.
Can be used in large quantities.
Therefore, the current military plan is no longer to divide the troops into two groups and continue to march north, but to focus on opening the capital and destroying the enemy's effective forces there.
Wudong has been besieging the city for more than a month. During this month, the Goryeo monarchs and ministers who opened the capital tried their best to collect gold, silver, grain, and war horses, and continuously sent these to Wudong's military camp, hoping to make Wudong retreat.
However, Wu Dong's demands were too much. 5 million yuan in war compensation, 5 million kilograms of grain, and 10,000 war horses were simply not what Kaijing City could provide.
When it snowed in the sky, the Goryeo monarchs and ministers thought that Wu Dong would retreat. Unexpectedly, Wu Dong was still outside Kaijing City and had no intention of retreating.
At the beginning of November, the sky was a little gloomy. Li Haoran stood on the wall of Kaijing and looked at the Liangshan army below, feeling very worried. At this time, dots of people suddenly appeared in the distance, and gradually more and more people appeared.
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This is a neatly organized army, much neater than the current grain transport team stationed near Kaijing. The entire army exudes a brutal murderous aura, as if it had just experienced a great war.
Li Haoran was surprised and said: "Is it Liangshan's army again?"
The whole day, he stood on the city wall observing the Liangshan army in the distance. In one day, Liangshan increased its troops to more than 60,000 people. These were naturally the troops led by Hua Rong.
However, on the next day, another army went north. The number of this army was also about 30,000. These were the navy led by Ruan Xiaoqi, Zhang Shun and others. After they completed the blocking mission of the Yalu River,
After resting in Incheon City for a few days, they all now came ashore near Kaijing City, preparing to participate in the next stage of combat missions.
The Divine Arm Bow was all installed on the ship of Ruan Xiaoqi and others, but now it was also unloaded and brought to Kaijing City.
In just these two days, the number of Liangshan's troops outside Kaijing City reached 100,000. In the vast white snow, at a glance, there were military camps everywhere.
The monarchs and ministers of Goryeo were shocked. With such a large number of troops, they were absolutely unstoppable. Especially the winter in Goryeo was extremely cold, and the moat was almost useless, making it impossible to continue to intercept the Liangshan army.
"What should we do?" Wang Mata hid in the palace, feeling extremely anxious.
"Your Majesty, why don't I go see the Commander-in-Chief of Liangshan and ask him how he is willing to withdraw his troops?" Li Haoran said.
"That's fine! Li Aiqing, if you can make Liangshan retreat this time, I will reward you well!" Wang Ma said.
A wry smile appeared on Li Haoran's face, thinking that he was already a grand master now. He could get whatever he wanted, and what kind of rewards could he get? Besides, Liangshan threatened the entire Goryeo court. Even without Wang Ma's orders, he could
We must try our best to make Liangshan retreat.
He left Kaijing City with dozens of guards and walked towards the Liangshan military camp outside. Along the way, many Liangshan soldiers could be seen running and exercising. Everyone was so strong. Everyone looked at them.
His eyes were extremely fierce, which made Li Haoran feel even more sad.
He finally entered the center of the military camp and saw Wu Dong, the Grand Governor of Liangshan.
He looked at this person carefully and found that apart from being taller and having bright eyes, there was nothing special about this person. He didn't understand why such a person would threaten the security of the entire Goryeo country?
Li Haoran looked at him for a moment, bowed and said, "Li Haoran, Grand Master of Korea, has met the Grand Governor."
Wu Dong smiled and said: "Master Li, when you came to see me, could it be that you have prepared all the gold, silver, grain, and war horses, and want to give them to me so that I can retreat?"
Li Haoran's expression was stagnant and he said: "Grand Governor, there really isn't that much gold, silver, food, and war horses in Kaijing. Can you please give us some grace and wait until next year's Kaichun?
Everything is sent to Incheon City."
Some time ago, the Koreans had provided a lot of gold, silver, and food, but it was far from what Liangshan needed, because in the original peace treaty, Liangshan asked for too much. At that time, what would happen to Liangshan?
No one knows how it happened. Okay, hurry up and gather all your things, and I will leave with my troops and horses immediately. With so many of our troops and horses, staying here in the ice and snow is also a very difficult thing. We had already thought
You left, but if your things aren’t delivered, there’s nothing we can do about it?”
Li Haoran gritted his teeth and left Wu Dong's military camp, thinking that only by gathering everything together and reaching the conditions stipulated in the peace treaty could the Liangshan army leave.
Returning to Kaijing City, Li Haoran told Wang Ma the news and said: "Your Majesty, everything in our city has been plundered. Is it difficult to meet the needs of Liangshan?"
It turned out that in order to meet Liangshan's conditions, all the gold, silver, and food from the homes of ordinary people in Kaijing City were robbed by the Goryeo government and given to Liangshan as conditions for peace talks. But now, it is basically impossible to plunder those common people.
The family was also extremely poor and had nothing.
Wang Ma thought for a while and said: "Aren't there still many powerful people? Don't these people have gold and silver in their homes? Don't they have food? If we search out all the gold, silver and food in the homes of these powerful people, we should be able to reach Liangshan.
Require."
Li Haoran was stunned and said: "Your Majesty...but...those people are just unwilling?"
Wang Ma's face turned red and he said: "Why don't you want to? For the future of my country, let them make a little sacrifice. Are they not willing? If they are not willing, it is treason, so just give it to me!"
Li Haoran sighed and said, "Okay, just follow the king's instructions."
In the original history, after Master Nv surrounded Bianliang City, in order to make Master Nv retreat, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty first robbed the people of Bianliang, and then robbed the noble houses of Bianliang, in order to collect the gold and silver that Master Nv needed.
For this reason, Song Huizong and Song Qinzong even "killed relatives for justice". The Empress Dowager's family had surplus wealth and was unwilling to provide it. The two emperors ordered that everyone in the Empress Dowager's family be stripped of their official positions and would never be hired.
The performance of Goryeo at this moment was exactly the same as that of the Song Dynasty. All the property of the noble families had been plundered, and the entire city of Kaijing was full of cries.
In the end, all the wealth in the capital city was deprived, and the emperors and ministers of Goryeo began to issue orders to the surrounding states and counties to provide gold, silver, Liangshan, and war horses to meet Liangshan's needs.
Chapter completed!