Chapter 947 0942 [Party members must also surrender]
The headquarters of the Weifu Military Division, Wu Lahai City, is more than 600 miles away from Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty.
If you encounter a major military situation, you can ride to death and receive it in two days at most.
The news spread in Xingqing Mansion, and the civil and military forces of Xixia panicked.
This is Xixia's most vulnerable period!
The century-long Song-Xia war caused the Xixia economy to collapse. Corruption was rampant in the country, and natural and man-made disasters continued. Even if no foreign enemies invaded, many tribes wanted to rebel. The famous general Richard Brother was already old, and he could not find a general who could turn the tide.
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Moreover, the new king has not yet consolidated his power after taking the throne.
The person who truly brought Xixia into its heyday was the current new king, the fifteen-year-old Li Renxiao.
Historically, he endured the death of Brother Richard, executed Ren Dejing, interfered with government affairs against the two powerful ministers before and after him, established new laws, conducted imperial examinations, promoted culture and education, took back power, changed the tax system, minted coins, encouraged farmers to grow mulberry trees, and built water conservancy...
Created the governance of Xixia.
But these are all things for later, what Lee In-hyo has inherited now is a mess!
Li Renxiao looked very flustered and asked: "My uncle has just returned from Luoyang. What does Emperor Zhu think? Does he want to seize some territory, or is he deliberately trying to destroy me, Daxia?"
Cao Tuan told the truth:
"I really don't understand the thoughts of the kings and ministers of the Ming Dynasty. But the public opinion in Luoyang, especially the scholars, is divided into two groups. One group thinks that it is enough to subdue the barbarians and all the nations to come to court, while the other group thinks that it is enough to conquer the barbarians.
We want to restore the territory of the prosperous Tang Dynasty."
"The latter occupy the mainstream of public opinion, and their number is particularly large. They even like poetry and hate lyrics, and they must learn from the prosperous Tang Dynasty when writing poetry. Some radical scholars have great hopes of becoming Jinshi, but they go to the martial arts (military academy)."
"The civil servants are clamoring to destroy our country, Great Xia!"
Li Renzhong, the Prime Minister of the State, said: "We should send another envoy to Luoyang to question Emperor Zhu why he went against his promise and attacked the subordinate country!"
Brother Richard sneered: "Even if the envoy scolds Emperor Zhu, can he scold the enemy troops in the north away? Now we should think about how to retreat from the enemy."
Li Renxiao said: "The King of Jin is our famous general in Daxia. I also ask the King of Jin to lead the army to defend against the enemy."
Brother Richard stopped answering.
He is indeed old. He has not been riding much in the past two years, and fat has grown on his waist, abdomen and thighs. However, more and more houses have been built, and there are dozens of concubines in the family. As long as he is given enough money, he can help arrange for his promotion.
matters.
Li Renxiao asked Ren Dejing again: "If Ren Qing is in charge of the firearms camp, is there any way to retreat from the enemy?"
Ren Dejing served in the border states of the Northern Song Dynasty for several years. He was indeed knowledgeable about military affairs. But it was okay for him to put down the rebellion, but it was sheer nonsense to lead the army to resist the Ming army.
Ren Dejing politely excused himself: "Weifu Army Division's war is mainly based on cavalry, and the firearms battalion in my hands is of little use."
The scene turned cold.
Li Renzhong was so angry that he asked: "How can the King of Jin be willing to lead his troops to fight?"
Brother Richard said: "I want to take away the iron kite. I will deploy the troops of Qiangzhen Military Division and Chaoshun Military Division. Zhenyan Military Division will immediately send troops to rescue Wu Lahaicheng."
Li Renxiao quickly said: "Yes, yes, as long as we can defeat the enemy, everything will be in accordance with King Jin."
Brother Richard added: "Other military commanders cannot act arbitrarily. They must make preparations in advance and gather towards the border. Emperor Zhu will definitely launch a massive invasion next year!"
Li Renzhong asked: "The King of Jin asked the Zhenyan Army to rescue Wu Lahaicheng?"
"Yes, we can only save Wu Lahai City now," Brother Richard said, "Tiande Army City will definitely not be able to be rescued. By the time I gather my troops to kill them, Tiande Army City will be gone long ago."
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Li Renxiao, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, ordered the Qiangzhen Military Division, and the Chaoshun Military Division immediately gathered troops.
The military division of Baimaqiang Town is located in the north of Alxa Left Banner, where there are many salt ponds where salt can be mined.
The right side of the Chaoshun Military Division is located at Keyi Gate in the northwest of Yinchuan City.
Brother Richard led three thousand iron kites to set out and rushed to Xingzhou to station and urge them. He ordered the two military commanders to quickly gather troops.
Drawing small groups to gather troops is the next step, but where will the food and grass needed for the army come from?
Xixia implements a military system for all the people, and there are military warehouses in each state capital. Under normal circumstances, food can be obtained from the military warehouses. The problem is that the current Xixia is not normal.
There was a famine in the past two years, so we had to provide food relief from military warehouses.
As a result, due to bureaucratic corruption, the victims did not receive much relief food, and most of it went into the pockets of corrupt officials.
Now that there is a war, there is a huge shortage of military rations, so we can only collect food from Xingqing Mansion and surrounding areas.
After finally gathering the food, Brother Richard led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses northward. Before he could reach Wu Lahai City, a fire broke out in the backyard of Xixia.
The first person to rebel was not Xiao Heda or the Mu brothers.
But...the two Dangxiang tribes in the northwest of the Xixia capital!
Dingzhou was called Tianzhou in the Tang Dynasty. As the name suggests, the land there is fertile and very suitable for farming. There are also mountainous grasslands and forests where you can cut wood and grazing cattle.
The farmland and pasture there are mostly occupied by the Dangxiang tribe.
Some Dangxiang tribes rarely graze livestock and mainly rely on growing grains for a living. Unfortunately, they are very close to the capital and are grain-producing areas. They share in every increase in taxes. Moreover, they are also very close to Chaoshun Military Division. The same is true this time.
A large amount of grain has been collected so that it can be transported to Brother Richard's army nearby.
In addition, Brother Richard and his cronies have been frantically occupying land in recent years, and the land annexation in Dingzhou and Jingzhou is particularly serious.
In order to resist the Shaanxi army of the Ming Dynasty next year, Li Renxiao also ordered the various states to draw troops and send them to the front line after the beginning of spring.
A combination of factors combined, and the powder keg was finally detonated.
There are four major Dangxiang tribes in Dingzhou, which existed before the founding of Xixia. They are the Mianzhen tribe, the Kunlang tribe, the Fuer tribe, and the Xiaofuer tribe.
Now, four tribes in Dingzhou have rebelled against two.
The Qunlang tribe and the Fu'er tribe revolted directly in Dingzhou!
The Mianzhen tribe was the strongest, and most Dingzhou officials came from this tribe. They were vested interests, so naturally they would not follow the rebellion, but instead took the initiative to send troops to help the court suppress it.
However, neither of the rebel groups could survive, and they unleashed an astonishing fighting force, beating the Mian and Jin tribes to such an extent that they hid in the city and did not dare to come out.
After plundering the countryside of Dingzhou, the two troops turned their troops southward and headed towards Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Xixia Kingdom.
Fifteen-year-old Li Renxiao was completely panicked and asked anxiously: "The King of Jin is away, who in the court can calm the chaos?"
Ren Dejing was in charge of the firearms camp. He did not dare to fight the Ming army, but he was confident of quelling the domestic rebellion. He immediately stood up and said: "I am willing to share your worries for Your Majesty!"
Li Renxiao was like a drowning man grasping for life-saving straws: "Okay, let Ren Qing lead the army to fight!"
Ren Dejing felt that the firearms force had too few soldiers, so he recruited soldiers from Xingqing Prefecture, Jingzhou, and Huaizhou, and barely managed to gather 10,000 troops before heading north to put down the rebellion.
Firearms are still firearms after all, and Ren Dejing can win a battle.
Yan Lang and Fu'er were defeated and fled, hiding in the mountains with their tribesmen to defend themselves.
Just when Ren Dejing was planning to continue to advance his troops and wipe out all the remnants of the two tribes, another tribe in Jingzhou rebelled!
The reasons for the rebellion were similar, but the direct cause was related to Ren Dejing.
Ren Dejing's previous positions were first as the defense envoy of Jingzhou and as the commander of the capital army in Jingzhou. The defense envoy was only in charge of military affairs, while the commander-in-chief of the army was also in charge of some civil matters. Ren Dejing was in Jingzhou's role. He was a bone-crusher. This time he led the troops to defeat the enemy.
After the rebellion, Ren Dejing began to draw men and grain in Jingzhou, and the people in Jingzhou finally couldn't bear it.
This uprising became even bigger and spread even further to Weizhou. Dabin, Miqing and other party tribes rebelled one after another.
It is a pity that the various rebel armies are scattered and fighting independently without forming a joint force.
Ren Dejing gave up on annihilating Qian Lang, and Fu'er's two remnant troops hurriedly returned south to quell the rebellion. If they didn't go back, the rebels would attack the capital.
Within ten months, Ren Dejing defeated three groups of rebels, and Li Renxiao frantically promoted him to a higher rank.
However, after Ren Dejing led his troops to withdraw from Dingzhou's Qian Lang and Fu'er tribes, the remaining forces immediately resurrected.
And during the battle, a rebel leader appeared.
This person's name is Duo You, he is a small chief of the Dangxiang tribe. He is young and strong, has shown bravery, and is extremely intelligent and able to win people's hearts.
Duoyou said to the two nobles hiding in the mountains: "Winter is coming soon. If we stay in the mountains, we will only freeze to death and starve to death. If we go back home, we will be killed by the officers and soldiers again. We will die on both sides!"
A nobleman asked: "How can we survive?"
Duoyou said: "I went to Xiazhou and Shizhou the year before last. The victims there who fled to the Ming Dynasty were all given land and food. I also heard people say that Emperor Zhu was the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva who came down to earth to rescue people in distress.
Dangxiang and the Han people are of different races. If Emperor Zhu was not the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva, why would he help our Dangxiang victims?"
"I also heard that Emperor Zhu didn't want to see the poor suffering, and he would behead any officials who dared to take a stone of rice. Over the years, Emperor Zhu killed hundreds of corrupt officials and exiled thousands more. Now all the people left in the Ming Dynasty are
A good official."
"Are you going to stay here and be killed by corrupt officials, or are you going to follow me and surrender to Emperor Zhu?"
Everyone didn't believe it.
They are exploited by corrupt Xixia officials every year and no longer believe that there are any good officials in the world.
Moreover, the Emperor of Xixia was from the Dangxiang ethnic group, and they were also from the Dangxiang ethnic group. If the same ethnic group was so oppressed, how could they be better off with an emperor from a different ethnic group?
Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, Duoyou said again: "If you go to Emperor Zhu, there is still a way to survive. If you stay here, you can only wait for death. You will die if you hide in the mountains, or you will die if you go to the bottom of the mountains. You choose for yourself!"
Everyone started to quarrel and argue, and found that they had no choice but to join the Ming Dynasty.
But the Shaanxi border of the Ming Dynasty is too far from Dingzhou of Xixia, and there are large areas of desert and mountainous areas in the middle.
Duoyou said: "Kill them all the way! Among the four tribes in Dingzhou, Xiaofu's tribe is the weakest. They dare not rebel with us. They also suffered a disaster this time and were looted by Ren Dejing's troops. After we came down from the mountain, we immediately went
Xiao A's father and son's tribe, whether forced or persuaded, let them set off together to strengthen their strength. Then we bypassed Shengwei City. The troops in the city were just in time to fight. If no troops were sent in the city, we left. We looted and coerced along the way, and from the desert
Go through it!"
A nobleman said: "It's not easy to walk in the desert."
"You can go, there are only two roads I know that can cross the desert!" Duoyou said.
In desperate situation, everyone was persuaded by Duoxie.
They took the old, weak, women and children down the mountain and went straight to kill the little father and son's territory.
The chief of Xiao'a'er's tribe did not want to rebel together, but he shared the same hatred with the two tribes, so he gave them the few remaining grains to entertain them.
While eating, Duoyou suddenly rose up with a knife and controlled the chief of Xiaofu's tribe, forcing his entire clan to rebel and surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
Since Ren Dejing's counter-rebellion army was in the south, they swaggered around Shengwei City, plundered the people of the Mianzhen tribe in the countryside outside the city, and freed all the slaves of the Mianzhen tribe.
Some slaves were captured Han Chinese, and some slaves were simply snatched from Xixia.
Duoyou had long since freed the slaves in his tribe. He said to the newly rescued slaves in front of him: "You can escape on your own, or you can follow me and join the Ming Dynasty. Those who are willing to follow me will all stand by the river.
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Everyone walked to the river.
The chief of Mianzhong tribe stood at the top of the city, looking at the rebels outside the city with great anger.
Suddenly a merchant asked for an audience and was taken to the chief of the Zhenbu tribe. He said, "Du Tong, I have some friendship with the bandit chief. Perhaps I can persuade him to surrender."
The chief of Mianzhenbu shook his head: "There is no way he can surrender."
The merchant smiled and said: "You can lie to him that there is food and grass in a certain place, and lead an army to set up an ambush there."
"That's a good idea," asked the chief of the Mianzhen tribe. "Where are you a merchant? Which tribe do you belong to?"
The merchant replied: "My ancestral home is in Baichi City. It has been two generations since I moved to Yanzhou City. Now I do not belong to any tribe. The Longzhou Dutong Army sent people to transport cloth and tea to Yanzhou. I can eat some Ming Dynasty products and transship them.
Go to Dingzhou to make a little money. This year I just shipped a batch and sold it, but two tribes in Dingzhou rebelled, and I didn't have time to bring the money back to Yanzhou."
The chief of Mianzhen tribe sent someone to inquire, and it turned out that he was engaged in long-distance trade, and that he also rented a private house for a long time to store goods and money.
After some discussion, the chief of Mianzhen tribe withheld the merchant's money.
The businessman, with only a few confidants, quietly caught up with Duoyou's troops, and was quickly tied up as a spy.
Seeing Duoyou, the businessman immediately revealed his identity: "My Chinese name was Zhu Baicheng a few years ago, which is the same surname as the Ming Emperor. I am from the Tubo tribe, but my ancestors were actually Han people. The Ming Emperor said that we should be recognized as such.
The ancestors return to the clan. My wife, children, and children are all in Lanzhou, where there is the Shaanxi Intelligence Office under the Ming Dynasty's Military Department. Can the leader understand these words?"
Duoyou said suspiciously: "Are you from Emperor Zhu?"
Zhu Baicheng said: "I only took my confidants out of the city. All the people and money in the city were detained by Dingzhou. He set up an ambush at Luotuo Port and asked me to lead you there. Don't wander around, you should go around.
Camel Port, cross the desert and mountains to Xiazhou. Xiao Heda of Xiazhou has secretly defected to the Ming Dynasty, and he will welcome you to join forces."
Duoyou was a little hesitant.
Zhu Baicheng said: "I will stay with the leader. If I lie and deceive, the leader will chop me to death with a knife."
Duoyou suddenly put on a smile and spread his arms to hug you: "How could I doubt you? I was going to turn myself in!"
The next day, Duoyou sent a group of cavalry to burn, kill and loot in the direction of Luotuo Port, but the real main force went in the opposite direction.
When they reached the edge of the desert, they stopped to wait for the cavalry to return, and then plunged into the desert.
After crossing the desert, they raided Huangyangping on the edge of the desert. They robbed livestock, freed slaves, and headed northeast with great fanfare, but rushed to the southwest at night.
Then they raided Anqingze (Wushen Banner) and came to Wangting Town with the loot.
Outside Xiazhou City, Xiao Heda personally came out to greet him and said with a smile on his face: "What a good boy, you brought so many people here from the desert."
The core of Duoyou's command consisted of three tribes, as well as slaves rescued along the way, and some scattered herdsmen. Counting the old, weak, women and children, there were more than 10,000 people.
Zhu Baicheng said: "General Xiao, the Ming Dynasty has sent troops to the Weifu Army Division, and there will be a war here in Hengshan in the spring. You only need to raise troops to defend this winter, and in the spring you can join forces with the Ming Dynasty troops to attack the Xiangyou Army Division."
"What are you guarding? You must take the initiative to send troops to seize Xiazhou Iron and Steel Industry!" Xiao Heda said with a ferocious expression.
He has had enough resentment over the years and can't wait to jump back.
Xiazhou Iron Smelting Affairs is the largest iron smelting organization in Xixia. It used to be under the jurisdiction of Xiao Heda, but it was taken away by Brother Richard's cronies a few years ago.
If you capture Xiazhou Iron Smelting Bureau, you can get a lot of soldiers and armor!
