The Death of Li Dynasty (please vote for me!)

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Because Shi Honggu lied to Li Cun and wanted to hide some of the belongings of the Dan family thieves, Li Cun whipped Shi Honggu severely.

But Li Cun did not kill Shi Honggu.

Because there is no need at all.

Almost all the men in the Dan family were killed by Li Cun, while all the women were rewarded by Li Cun to the officers and soldiers of the Huben army who had made meritorious service.

As for Shi Honggu's remaining twenty, no, nineteen relatives, Li Cun scattered them and assigned them to various naval forces as idle posts.

In this case, only Shi Honggu herself was left.

In this feudal society where men are superior to women, how much more extravagant can Shi Honggu be?

Besides, Li Cun is not the kind of person who pulls out the ruthlessness.

The key is that Xu Dadao may not be reliable. Shi Honggu is left behind, and Xu Dadao is intimidated so that Xu Dadao does not dare to play tricks.

Of course, this Shi Honggu still needs to be trained slowly.

This is actually one of Li Cun's few pleasures.

Long story short.

Under the leadership of Xu Dadao, the Huben Army cleared all the Dan family bandits' dens, and completely uprooted the Dan family bandits who had been roaming the southeastern sea for many years.

During this process, the Huben army collected property, enough to support Li Cun's ten expeditions south.

And the Dan family thieves were not the only pirates that Li Cun went south to destroy this time.

Later, under the leadership of Xu Dadao and other people who were familiar with the pirates nearby, the Huben army followed the plan and annihilated the pirates faster.

At the same time, the property seized from the pirates was continuously transported to Hangzhou...

Regardless of whether they are dead pirates or living pirates, the Tiger Army will hang them on the port for public display.

Because the strength of the Tiger Army in suppressing pirates was so great, those pirates were either wiped out by the Tiger Army, or were so frightened that they quickly left the large southeastern sea area.

In just over a month, there have been very few pirates in the southeastern waters...

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When Li Cun received the news of the defeat of Langoudian, it was already June 3rd, which was a full seven days after the defeat of Langoudian occurred on May 26th.

Although Liu Baiqin repeatedly assured Li Cun that he would definitely make Feinu Network more efficient.

But Li Cun still asked Hu Tu to arrange for him to meet Zhang Fang.

Zhang Fang is a branch of the Zhang family in Qujiang, and is a descendant of Zhang Jiuling, a famous official in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Cun didn't care whether he was right or wrong. The reason why Li Cun wanted to meet Zhang Fang was entirely because Zhang Fang was a professional pigeon breeder and one of the top pigeon training masters in the world, especially good at training homing pigeons.

Hu Tu told Li Cun that many of Liu Baiqin's pigeons were provided by Zhang Fang to Liu Baiqin and were not raised by Liu Baiqin himself.

Li Cun understood that Hu Tu wanted to build his own information transmission network and no longer wanted to use Wudesi's information transmission network, so that Hu Tu would no longer have to be manipulated by Zhang Chao and Liu Baiqin.

The cost of laying out an information delivery network is not small.

Li Cun had been reluctant to spend the same amount of money before.

This time, having made money from fighting pirates, Li Cun decided to build two more carrier pigeon transmission networks - the other one was prepared by the Military Intelligence Department.

However, the prerequisite is whether excellent homing pigeons can be supplied.

Therefore, Li Cun asked Hu Tu to make arrangements and ask Zhang Fang to come and meet him. He would first make sure he knew what was going on, and then decide whether to lay out so many information transmission networks.

After explaining Hu Tu, Li Cun picked up the news about the defeat of Langoudian. He sighed leisurely, then walked to the window and looked to the north...

Yang Keshi lost when he should have lost the most.

Yelu Dashi won when he least should have.

actually--

Throughout this period of history, the only opportunity for the Liao Kingdom, and the only opportunity for the Zhao and Song Dynasties, was to unite the Zhao and Song Dynasties with the Northern Liao Dynasty.

Judging from the current situation where the Liao Kingdom has been crippled and the Zhao Song Dynasty has not yet fallen, if the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Bei Liao want to unite, the only way for the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Bei Liao to express their support is to express their support to the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

If the Northern Liao Dynasty is willing to express its support to the Zhao and Song dynasties, then the alliance between the Song and Jin Dynasties will collapse. At that time, it will be two weak countries fighting one strong one. After all, the Jin Kingdom has just swallowed up most of the territory of the Liao Kingdom like a snake swallowing an elephant.

I definitely wouldn’t dare to start a war easily with the paper tiger of the Zhao and Song dynasties that has not yet been exposed.

To say the least, let's start a war.

In a field battle, the Song Army could not defeat the Jin Army, but if there were Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, then the Jin Army would definitely not be able to enter the pass in a short time.

In this way, there may be a delicate balance between Song, Liao and Jin.

After that, whether the Zhao and Song dynasties annexed the Northern Liao Dynasty and completed the real recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, or whether the Northern Liao Dynasty survived in the cracks and slowly recovered its vitality is a story for another day.

All in all, if the Northern Liao Dynasty paid tribute to the Zhao and Song dynasties at this time, both the Song and Liao dynasties would have a chance to breathe.

But it happened that Yelu Dashi won a war that should not have been won at this time, which gave many people in Northern Liao undue confidence, and also exposed the paper tiger of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Therefore, to a certain extent, Yelu Dashi, who won the battle, was actually one of the gravediggers of the Liao Empire. If he could not establish Western Liao as in history, then he would be one of the sinners of the Liao Empire.

Li Cun went south this time, first of all because the two small countries of Annan and Champa had offended Li Cun and Li Cun was eager to restore the Maritime Silk Road. In addition, Li Cun also gave way to the Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties.

The reasons for their national fortunes.

In fact, Li Cun had already thought about it. If Song and Liao could unite, he would be able to stabilize the situation and manage his southeast well after he returned.

Afterwards, Li Cunhui would look for opportunities to seize the Jingxiang and Huaihe areas and completely separate himself from the south.

After that, Li Cun will decide whether to go west to annex Shu or go north to compete in the Central Plains based on the changes in the world situation.

And if the general trend of history does not change, the Zhao and Song dynasties are still foolishly determined to destroy the Liao Dynasty, and the Northern Liao Dynasty is still determined to go to a dead end, then Li Cun can consider taking chestnuts from the fire.

Others may not know the reality between the Song, Liao and Jin dynasties. How could Li Cun, who was familiar with the history of the two Song dynasties, still be unclear?

Let’s talk about the Liao Kingdom first, or Northern Liao to be precise.

Bei Liao now has about 50,000 troops at most.

To be honest, Beiliao might not even have 30,000 troops.

If we take out Guo Yaoshi, who has a bone on the back of his head, and his victorious army, the Northern Liao army may only have more than 20,000 troops.

This few men and horses are not enough for Li Cun to send a branch of troops to fight.

To be honest, the Zhao and Song dynasties were cowardly and wanted to be a bitch and wanted to erect an archway. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of troops would just drive over and immediately cut off the last breath of Bei Liao and seize Yan.

Sixteen prefectures of Yunzhou and three prefectures of Pingluanying.

In this way, the Zhao and Song Dynasties can also frighten the Jin Kingdom for a period of time, and then the Zhao and Song Dynasties can use the Great Wall and natural barriers of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to block the Jin Kingdom from the pass, giving the Zhao and Song Dynasties some breathing space. Look at the Zhao Song Dynasty.

Can the Song Dynasty use this precious time to revitalize itself?

Let’s talk about the Zhao and Song dynasties.

yes.

The Zhao and Song dynasties had hundreds of thousands of horses on the border between Song and Liao.

But among the hundreds of thousands of troops, the only ones who were truly capable of fighting were Tong Guan's Victory Army and a small portion of the Western Army.

The rest are either the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army who are more specialized in building gardens and palaces than fighting, or the Hebei Forbidden Army who are rotten to the core, or Dong Pang'er and the others who were recruited by the Zhao and Song Dynasty to make peace.

Not only could these troops not be a boost to the Song Army, on the contrary, they were actually a drag on the Song Army.

In other words, the real combat power of the Song Army is extremely limited, and it will definitely not be superior to the Song Army on the northern front that was completely wiped out by Li Cun.

Finally, let’s talk about the Golden Army, which seems to be the strongest.

Is the Jin Army strong?

Definitely strong.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Jin Army during this period must have the strongest field combat capabilities among all armies in the world.

"If there are not even ten thousand Jurchens, they will be invincible" is really not an exaggeration.

Even if it were a fair fight in the wild, it is not necessarily known whether the Tiger Army could defeat the Jin Army.

Although the Jin Army is very strong, it also has its fatal weakness, which is that there are too few.

The real birth of a girl is the old foundation that she and Wanyan Agu fought in the Changbai Mountains. In fact, it only costs 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

Later, Wanyan Agu defeated them and annexed the Jurchen people, and then annexed a large number of Bohai people, and then annexed a large number of Liao people.

Only then did we achieve growth again and again.

But even so, the Jin Kingdom only had a total of more than 200,000 troops.

And with these more than 200,000 troops, they had to prevent the endless Liao rebellions in the country, fight the Tatars in the west, and even prevent the Koreans from the east from invading eastward.

In addition, don't forget that Yelu Yanxi is not dead yet. He still has Xixia and a group of grassland tribes in his hands. From the current point of view, he does not have no chance of making a comeback.

In this way, the Jin Kingdom's actual army that can go to war will definitely not exceed 100,000.

Too little.
To be continued...