Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 493 Three Tasks Before New Year's Day
The city of Liaoyang had reopened its ban after Wanyan Dari withdrew his troops, but security was much stricter than usual.

But on this day, Liaoyang City was suddenly closed again.

In the city, generals under Wanyan Yong, including Ugur Yuanzhong, Li Shi, Chen Songting, Wang Wanhua, and Yuan Zhao, each led their troops and began to blockade and arrest people in the houses, and also massacred those who resisted.

The city of Liaoyang was filled with blood and gore for a while.

Wanyan Yong drew up a list and did not make any tentative contacts with those forces that were unlikely to betray the court. Instead, he carried out a bloody purge directly.

He doesn't have much time left, he must cut the Gordian knot.

Many of these purged forces were not originally from Liaoyang City.

Most of them were local tyrants in Liaodong. They felt that they were unable to deal with Wanyan Darui's troops, so after Wanyan Yong raised the banner of "loyalty to the emperor and suppression of rebellion", they fled to Liaoyang City with their families.

Not only did they bring their entire family's savings, gold, silver, jewelry, and food, they also brought people they thought were useful.

Among these people were craftsmen, scholars, and soldiers who were more courageous and capable of fighting than the average militia.

And after their deaths, all of these naturally became Wanyan Yong's.

Even their wives and daughters were tied up and brought here for custody.

They will also become an asset.

For soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in battle, Wanyan Yong's rewards will not only be promotions and wealth, but also women.

Many powerful people did not understand why Wanyan Yong suddenly started a killing spree. They stayed indoors in fear, waiting for the decision of fate.

Finally, they received an order from Wanyan Yong: Go to the Tokyo Garrison for a meeting immediately.

These powerful people did not dare to delay and immediately dressed up and rushed to the Tokyo Garrison.

However, if they can be summoned to the meeting, there is a high probability that they will not become part of the group that will be executed without any instruction.

This made them secretly feel fortunate and they dared not complain.

Wanyan Yong summoned all the gentry and powerful people in Liaoyang City and conveyed his decision to them: he, Wanyan Yong, was going to rebel!

If you want to oppose, of course you have to have a reason to oppose.

Although Wanyan Yong launched his rebellion in a hurry, he was able to easily compile ten major charges against Wanyan Liang and make them public.

After hearing what Wanyan Yong said, all the powerful gentry were a little confused.

Because just the day before, Wanyan Yong had just issued his Nth anti-rebellion manifesto.

In the manifesto, Wanyan Yong also vowed that he would never coexist with the rebels, would be loyal to the Emperor of the Great Jin, and would fight the rebels until his last breath.

It's only been one night, and Wanyan Liang has suddenly become unforgivable?

A loyal minister who was willing to sacrifice his life for the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty suddenly became an accomplice of the rebels, and was even ranked among the top of Amabojilie?

This world is too magical, isn't it?

Wanyan Yong didn't care what they thought. Wanyan Yong was now being forced into a desperate situation by Wanyan Hongkang.

He knew clearly that this was "Wanyan Hongkang" forcing him to make his position clear and force him to join the war immediately, but he had no other choice and could only follow the path marked out for him by "Wanyan Hongkang".

The cleansing and clearance of the city had not yet ended after three days.

Cartloads of confiscated treasures, gold and silver were transported to the Tokyo Governor's Office.

Cartloads of grain were transported to the granaries in the city.

One by one, the women were taken to the nunnery where Wanyan Yong's mother Li Hongyuan became a nun and practiced Buddhism.

Those powerful subordinates were disbanded and incorporated into the Liaoyang army.

On the evening of the third day, a basket was slowly hoisted up from under the east tower of Liaoyang City.

There was a scout sitting in the basket, and he brought good news to Wanyan Yong: the imperial court's grain and fodder had arrived at Jiuliancheng.

Jiuliancheng general Zhao Yijia was personally escorting the grain and fodder, and was heading to Tokyo Liaoyang with the eunuch Sun Gonggong who delivered the imperial edict.

After receiving the news, Wanyan Yong immediately summoned his trusted generals including Ugulun Yuanzhong, Li Shi, Chen Songting, Wang Wanhua, and Yuan Zhao to discuss countermeasures.

After some discussion, the East Gate of Liaoyang City was "reopened".

However, the merchants, pedestrians and farmers who left the city from here always walked around outside and then came back to continue queuing up to leave the city.

Some unaware people outside the city began to enter Liaoyang City, but they could only enter but not leave.

Only those who hold the entry and exit permit issued by the Liaison Office can actually leave Liaoyang City.

This false relaxation was just to paralyze Zhao Yijia's possible investigation.

"When the time comes, Chen Songting, Wang Wanhua, and Yuan Zhao will follow me to welcome the angel, while Li Shi and Yuan Zhong will set up an ambush in Wengcheng."

Wanyan Yong's rebellion was temporarily postponed due to the arrival of Zhao Yijia and Eunuch Sun.

On top of the city wall, the flag of the Great Jin was still flying.

According to Wanyan Yong's plan, after he lured Zhao Yijia and Eunuch Sun into the city wall, he would immediately break away with Chen Songting and others on horseback and rush out from the front city gate.

Afterwards, the gate of the city wall will be blocked, and groups of archers will appear on the top of the city wall to suppress the people below.

Wanyan Yong doesn't know yet that his favorite general Gong Zhenglong, who was sent to Zhao Yijia's side, has been killed, and Zhao Yijia has already shown his fangs to him.

He was also planning to shoot and kill all the enemy troops who entered Wengcheng, except Zhao Yiji and Eunuch Sun.

Then, use Zhao Yijia to force the troops he brought with him to transport grain and fodder to surrender.

Since Gong Zhenglong was not among the grain transporting army, he must have stayed in Jiuliancheng.

Therefore, Jiulian City will be within his reach.

By then, he will have the strength and confidence to form his own school without having to rely on others!

……

At the same time, the "food transport" army coming from Jiuliancheng was on the way.

There were large carts, but only a portion of them were loaded with the military rations they needed.

Most of the vehicles are equipped with parts for siege equipment and can be assembled.

When Zhao Yiji was only one day away from Liaoyang City and was setting up camp, he summoned the generals in the army and determined the action plan for the next day.

In the commander's tent, Zhao Yijia said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow, we will arrive at the city of Liaoyang. By then, Wanyan Yong will definitely go out of the city to welcome the angel.

When he comes before Eunuch Sun, I will immediately chop off his head and use his head and the imperial edict to order the defenders in the city to surrender."

Zhao Yijia couldn't capture Wanyan Yong alive.

In order to prevent the scouts of Liaoyang City from discovering that he was going to send troops to attack Liaoyang City, his main army was separated from the "food transport troops" in front by fifty miles.

Therefore, his main force was unable to provide him with timely assistance.

If he wanted to capture Wanyan Yong alive, there would be too many variables.

If they were not careful, he and Eunuch Sun would die on the spot.

Therefore, he had the best chance of success if he killed Wanyan Yong without hesitation, took advantage of the leaderlessness in the city, and then threatened with the imperial edict.

If it fails, just flee immediately.

When the main force arrives, he can launch a stunning counterattack.

All the generals knew that this was a risky move, so they all obeyed the order with awe.

……

Liaodong, Xiuyan.

Wanyan Dari personally led his most capable subordinates Kong Yanzhou and Lu Tianfei (Fei Tianlu) and galloped towards Jiuliancheng on the Yalu River.

Wanyan Darui now has a strong army and a powerful force. If you only look at the number of people, it is really intimidating.

Because in such a short period of time, Wanyan Darui already had an army of 120,000!

However, there are only three groups of people who have strong combat capabilities.

This army was formed by the former troops of Prince Zhao's Palace and is now commanded by his second brother Wanyan Dazhi. This army currently has 10,000 elite soldiers.

The second team was led by Kong Yanzhou. Kong Yanzhou was once controlled and divided by Wanyan Daruizhi, but now he has grown into a team of 6,000 people.

The third team was led by his favorite general Lu Tianfei (Fei Tianlu).

This force was not too large, only about 1,400 people.

However, these 1,400 people were all selected and trained by Lu Tianfei himself.

These 1,400 people were regarded by Wanyan Dari as his ambush camp.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Gao Shun's Xianzhen Camp had only 700 men. Although the number was small, it was sometimes enough to change the situation of a battle.
This shows how much Wanyan Darui expected from this group of people.

Today, Wanyan Darui brought all his elite troops, including Lu Tianfei's 1,400 men. These 17,000 elite soldiers were all obtained through killing on the battlefield.

Every elite veteran is the result of the sacrifice of many lives, and cannot be acquired with money alone.

Wanyan Darui can be said to have risked everything on one throw.

Because he is in a hurry.

The gap between him and Wanyan Luti is getting bigger and bigger.

When he first left Shandong, he was the most powerful person in the world.

As a result, Wanyan Luti, with the help of his father-in-law, persuaded Jiang Huazhou, a Bohai man and the commander of the Hesuguan Road, to surrender, and directly obtained tens of thousands of Dajinbian troops.

Then he went to garrison in Dading Prefecture and fought against Wanyan Liang's army to suppress the rebellion.

In this fierce battle, the casualties were certainly heavy, but Wanyan Luti was also constantly recruiting soldiers.

His men were constantly tempered in this brutal battle and grew rapidly.

And because he defended Dading Prefecture, he became famous.

Now Wanyan Darui is surpassed by Wanyan Luti both in strength and fame.

This time, Wanyan Dari took out all his elite troops and took advantage of the fact that Zhao Yijia was leading his troops outside and Jiulian City was empty, and he was determined to capture this fortress.

In this way, he would not only obtain a huge amount of supplies from this military settlement, but also add a large number of surrendered soldiers to his team.

These soldiers are not comparable to the newly recruited farmers and can quickly form combat effectiveness.

For this reason, after receiving the news from Lu Tianfei (Fei Tianlu), Wanyan Dari asked his military advisor Yu Jiguang and his second brother Wanyan Dazhi to guard the rear, while he personally led Kong Yanzhou and Lu Tianfei to launch a surprise attack on Jiuliancheng.

Xiuyan is only about two hundred miles away from Jiuliancheng, so even if the cavalry marches quickly, it is not that far away.

In this battle, he must succeed and not fail!
……

The tribal alliance system has its backwardness, but it also has its advantages.

In fact, any system that appears and can be implemented for a long time is the best choice that people at that time found after various attempts and that best suits the subjective and objective conditions at that time.

If we forcibly copy and paste the systems of later generations into that era, we will only suffer a worse fall.

As for the Jurchen tribes in the Shangjing area, if they adopt the official system and military system of the feudal empire, even if all the tribes fully agree, it will take at least several years for Yang Yuan to sort out the administrative and military systems and finally achieve unified command and form combat effectiveness.

However, the characteristics of the tribal alliance system enabled him to effectively mobilize various forces from the moment the tribal leaders swore an oath on the holy mountain to respect King Wanyan Luti of Yue as the leader of the alliance, and Anban Bojile "Wanyan Hongkang" temporarily assumed his position.

He did not need to consider the supplies, weapons, pay, organization, rewards and punishments, and transfers of each troop.

He only needs to formulate a unified action plan and tell these Bojins.

As long as he does not harm the interests of any particular tribe in an unfair way, all the tribes will obey him.

Anyone who breaks his oath and disobeys will become a public enemy.

Therefore, on the day of the Holy Mountain Conference, "Wanyan Hongkang" made arrangements for the next unified action.

The reason why Ugun Yuanyi, who pretended to be Lai Guanfu, did not know his next action plan was not because Yang Yuan discovered something, but because Lai Guanfu's tribe was not very big and belonged to the Liaodong region.

Therefore, he can play no role in Yang Yuan's current plan.

Therefore, in order to avoid the action plan being detected by the enemy in advance, it was excluded.

When Yang Yuan led his own troops, and the tribes of King Zhenzhu, Longquan Ancient City, Puchaye, Hesheli Chuding, Nalanbuha, Wujihe, Tudan, Yanzhan, and Wuyan, they were blocked by two thousand elite cavalrymen from Shangjing when they went down the mountain and returned north.

Those were Tan Jiu and Du Mingtang sent by Wanyan Yan. They had rushed to the vicinity of the holy mountain.

Yang Yuan was leading more than a dozen tribes at this time. Each tribe brought an average of more than two hundred people to the meeting in the Holy Mountain. The total strength was greater than that of Tan Jiu and Du Mingtang.

Moreover, the people who attended the meeting with Bojin from each tribe were the elite of that tribe.

Therefore, this complex armed force was superior to the cavalry from Shangjing in terms of both combat effectiveness and morale.

The two sides fought a fierce battle in the wilderness in the cool autumn weather.

After a fierce battle involving nearly five thousand knights, Tan Jiu and Du Mingtang gradually became exhausted and were eventually defeated.

The pursuers rode on carefully selected horses from each tribe, and their speed was generally faster than that of Wanyan Yan's cavalry.

Therefore, Tan Jiu and Du Mingtang only lost less than two hundred people in the head-on confrontation between the cavalry of both sides, but lost more than four hundred people in the process of being chased.

In this great cavalry battle, the total losses of the various tribes were less than three hundred people.

This was a great victory, which immediately boosted the morale of the tribes and raised the reputation of the Yue Palace in Huanxiling.

When they left the battlefield that had been trampled into mud, local people heard the news and came running, stripping the clothes off the dead bodies and picking up arrows from the weeds.

Afterwards, a battle between 50,000 troops from both sides took place, and the news spread that the allied forces had defeated Wanyan Yan and killed more than 10,000 enemies.

Many years later, as more information was decrypted, people learned that the person who led the allied forces to defeat Wanyan Yan here was not Wanyan Hongkang, the prince of Yuewang Palace of the then Jin Dynasty, but their wise and powerful emperor.

Thus, the legend about this battle changed again:

His Majesty the Emperor went deep behind enemy lines to divide the Jin Kingdom. He attended the Holy Mountain Conference as "Wanyan Hongkang" and was elected as the leader of the alliance with his supreme demeanor and wisdom.

On the way back to Huanxi Ridge with 300 cavalrymen, His Majesty encountered Wanyan Yan's 50,000-man army. His Majesty remained calm and defeated the 50,000-man enemy army with only 300 warriors...

Tan Youyou, the Grand Secretary in charge of compiling history, felt that this statement was absurd.

Academician Tan, who was a rigorous historian, first visited the local people. The people all swore that the statement that 300 brave warriors defeated 50,000 enemy troops was absurd and very inaccurate.

The fact is that Your Majesty defeated Wanyan Yan's million-strong army with only 300 warriors.

Academician Tan felt that the common people were even more unreliable, so he sought confirmation from Yu Jiguang, who had followed His Majesty in the north and had now retired and returned to his hometown, and from Shangguan Luo, the prime minister who was still in office.

The two old men were vague and ambiguous in their words, and in the end it seemed as if they had said everything and nothing at the same time.

Finally, Grand Secretary Tan asked Eunuch Luo to invite Concubine A'man, who had been with the emperor during the battle.

After being personally certified by A'man and reported to Lord Fan Jiang, who was in charge of supervising the history books, the number that finally appeared in the imperial history became three hundred to seven thousand.

……

Yang Yuan returned to Huanxiling and attended the family meeting of the Prince of Yue's Mansion under the identity of "Wanyan Hongkang".

Important family figures such as Grandpa Li, Fourth Aunt, and Sixth Uncle all participated in the meeting.

Yang Yuan is actually the only outsider among these people.

The Prince of Yue's Palace won the position of "Du Bojilie", and everyone was a little excited.

Yang Yuan was happy to sit aside and think about his thoughts quietly.

He felt a little homesick, and he was still thinking about his wedding with Luxi.

Everything for the wedding should have been prepared, but he, the groom, was not there.

The wedding will probably have to be postponed.

I heard that in some places, if the groom is not at home, the sister-in-law can be asked to hold a big rooster and worship on behalf of the groom.

But I don’t even have a girlfriend. If I do have one, it’s Luxi. She wouldn’t get married by herself holding a big rooster, right?
Perhaps because of the full moon tonight, Yang Yuan's thoughts seemed particularly confused.

I have to go back, at least before the end of the year.

Yang Yuan thought, the wedding date has been missed, but he can't keep delaying it.

Moreover, New Year's Day is the day when the emperor changes the reign title, so it is best not to miss this opportunity.

However, if you want to go back before this time, you must first complete three things before you can retire successfully.

The first thing is to remove the thorn of Wanyan Yan in Yanjing.

Otherwise, if this powerful rebel army that I have worked so hard to build for the Jin Kingdom fails in an accident, all my efforts will be wasted.

Second, kill Wanyan Yong.

In the original history, this man was called a wise ruler by later generations. He was very good at governing the country, at least better than Wanyan Liang.

But frankly speaking, if Wanyan Liang was not so eager for success, he would be able to govern the country well, at least better than these garlics in Wanyan Luti's family.

But no matter what, since history has proven that this person is extraordinary, it is better to get rid of him.

Otherwise, I'm afraid that once I leave, the fruit will eventually be picked by him.

Third, standardize, stabilize and expand the Shangjing area’s reliance on maritime trade.

If this matter is done well, it will be the "Qi silk and Lu silk" strategy. It will be very easy to control this regime at that time.

Can I complete these three things before the end of the year?

Yang Yuan closed his eyes for a moment, then slowly opened them. There was already a hint of a happy smile in his eyes.

He believed that when the northern land was covered in snow, he would be able to board the pointed-bottomed ship built by the Song Dynasty for Goryeo, and take advantage of the north wind to return to Lin'an at a speed of thousands of miles a day.

(End of this chapter)