my wife is mulan

Previously, in order to march on the road, in order to search for the enemy

People, the soldiers eat dry food every meal, and even after drinking, they can only stuff snow water into their mouths. Now all the troops in the Mukun Department have been dealt with, and there are no other enemies around. The soldiers can finally take a good rest , eat a hot meal.

Early the next morning, Hua Mulan ordered to burn down all the camps left by the Mukun people, and led the soldiers back to the camp to join the main force.

Guo Sheng, Cui Hao and others greeted them outside the camp with officials and left-behind generals and academies.

"Congratulations to the general for returning with a great victory!" The officials and generals clasped their fists and bowed one after another.

Hua Mulan clasped her fists and said, "I'm worrying you all. This battle can only be won by the soldiers working hard! By the way, Brother Guo Daguo has contributed a lot this time. If he hadn't reminded the general, we should not speak loudly in the snow-covered valley. Speaking of which, this time, this general and the two thousand soldiers may be buried deep in the mountains and old forests!"

Someone immediately asked, "General, what's going on?"

"Let's go into the camp and talk, go in and talk!"

Immediately someone echoed, "Yes, yes, the general and the soldiers are very tired, let's talk about it after entering the camp!"

After entering the camp, Guo Sheng reported to Hua Mulan, "General, Yuchi Yandong and General Fu Zhan jointly sent a courier to report the battle with A Hui. They used the same method as the general. A Hui fought in the mountains. They lingered for several days, and finally they were forced to fight with them. The two sides fought a bloody battle. Our side won miserably, killing more than [-] people in the battle, while the entire army of A Hui's family was wiped out. The leader Yu Chuzhen and dozens of people were killed. Our captives will be wiped out by the rest of the Ah Hui clan!"

Chapter 615

Ji County, Youzhou.

Seeing that the New Year is coming soon, and there is no news from Yingzhou, Zhao Junsheng is a little anxious and angry. His one-year-old son, Zhao Dong, misses his mother and cries at night. He has to be coaxed by Zhao Junsheng himself to fall asleep. Others can't do it, it's so miserable that Zhao Junsheng, who is both a father and a mother, lamented that it is not easy to have a child, and he is worried if the child has a slight headache.

That night, Zhao Junsheng had just put the child to sleep, and he was about to rest early, when a voice came from outside the door: "My lord, a messenger from Yingzhou is waiting in the lobby, see you or not?"

Zhao Junsheng signaled a servant to open the door, and said to the official on duty standing outside the door: "Take the messenger to the inner hall to rest, and get him some food and wine. The king will be there in a while!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Seeing his son Zhao Dong fast asleep, Zhao Junsheng got up, took the cloak from the servant, put it on his shoulders, and walked towards the inner hall.

There was a brazier burning in the inner hall, and it was warm. The messenger just happened to be full of wine and food, and Zhao Junsheng came.

"The villain pays homage to the prince, Madam sent the villain back to deliver a letter to the prince!" The messenger stood up and took out a letter from his pocket and presented it with both hands.

An attendant next to him took the letter and turned around to hand it to Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng took the letter, opened it, and read it carefully. In the letter, Hua Mulan roughly described the process of attacking the Kumoxi people, and captured the leader of the Kumoxi Alliance, Yu Chukuzhen, and dozens of people. He also said that the Kumoxi people were all enemy soldiers, ranging from [-]-year-olds to children, and almost all the people were soldiers. The soldiers of the Youzhou Army had no choice but to wipe out them all.

Now the army is resting on the south bank where the lower reaches of the Huangshui River meet the Wuhou and Qinshuis. The dry food they brought with them can last for more than a month. The food, grass and livestock are enough for the army to feed for more than two months.In addition, the loss of weapons and arrows is not large, and it is enough to support several battles.

Therefore, Hua Mulan said in the letter that the general's mansion does not need to send people to transport the luggage to the army for the time being, and it will not be too late to deliver the luggage after the spring of next year.

Hua Mulan also said in the letter that she had sent someone to escort Yu Chukuzhen, the leader of the Kumoxi Alliance, and dozens of people captured together with him back to Jixian County. She also decided to let the army rest for a few days at the confluence of the two rivers. Then push eastward to attack Khitan.

She has already sent people to investigate clearly, the Khitan people are divided into Xiwandan tribe, He Dahe tribe, Fufuyu tribe, Yuling tribe, Rilian tribe, Pijie tribe, Li tribe, Tuliuyu tribe and other tribes , with a total population of more than [-] people, [-] slightly more than Kumoxi.

The Khitan people are savage and fearless of death. They live in the deep mountains and old forests all the year round, adapting and familiarizing themselves with the dangerous and cold environment between the black mountains and white waters.

The Khitan people are a half-agricultural and half-animal husbandry nation. They are no strangers to riding horses, and every Khitan warrior is proficient in riding and archery.

Just after the first month of 435 A.D., Hua Mulan sent another letter to Zhao Junsheng, as well as a battle report as usual. In the battle report, she described in detail the process of attacking Khitan during this period.

The army marched eastward from the confluence of Huangshui and Wuhou Qinshui along the south bank of the West Liaohe River, while Gao Xu, the general of Yingzhou Town and the envoy of the Longcheng Army, led more than [-] Yingzhou troops from Yinlongcheng in the northeast of Longcheng.

The area where the Khitan people live is much wider than the Songmo area where the Kumoxi people live. They start from the northern part of Yinlong County in the south, extend to the north of the Xiliao River in the north, border on the old place of Kumoxi in the west, and reach the banks of the middle section of the Daliao River in the east.

There are less than [-] Khitans living in such a vast and wild land, which is a very small population density.

The Khitan people had already heard the news that Zhao Junsheng sent a large army to conquer and suppress, and also received the news that the Kumoxi people were exterminated. In order to learn the experience and lessons of the Kumoxi people's genocide, the Khitan people were divided into parts, and each tribe had its own Scattered and hidden in the deep mountains and old forests with the family as a unit, trying to avoid the Youzhou army's conquest.

Hua Mulan had no other choice but to use a sweeping net to search every mountain and every river and bank, and destroy all the houses and farmland left by the Khitan people.

But this method was only implemented for ten days

It had to be terminated, because it was too time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the pressure on logistics was also greatly increased, so Hua Mulan had to order to cancel this method.

Under the advice of Cui Hao and Guo Sheng, Hua Mulan adopted the method of building fortresses and cities at key traffic locations to completely seal off the hiding Khitans in certain areas, preventing them from leaving to go elsewhere.

When more than a dozen fortresses, passes, and small cities were built, the Khitan people finally couldn't hold on anymore and were forced to come out and surrender. If they didn't surrender, they would starve to death or freeze to death in the deep mountains and old forests.

At the beginning of March in 435 AD, when Zhao Junsheng received the battle report from Hua Mulan's neighbors, Hua Mulan had already pacified Khitan, and the Khitan chose to surrender.

In the letter, Hua Mulan asked how to deal with those Khitan people. After discussing with Dongfangchen, Kou Qianzhi, Gao Yun and other counselors, Zhao Junsheng wrote to Hua Mulan to disperse and resettle the Khitan tribe, and one of them went to the Korean peninsula. One, one was moved to Liaodong, one was moved to Liaoxi, one was moved to Youbeiping, and the remaining four were placed in Yuyang, Shanggu, Fanyang and Dingzhou respectively.

After all the Khitan people were moved away, the area around the Liaohe River Basin became a vacuum. Of course, Zhao Junsheng could not abandon that rich land. He ordered to relocate some people from Youzhou, Jizhou, Dingzhou and Yingzhou to Liaohe River. Set up a family in the river basin, allocate fields to them, and build a city in the Liaohe River basin, so as to completely occupy this land, and no longer give Didouyu and Shiwei in the north a chance to take advantage of it.

When the Khitan tribes were relocated, and the people were transferred from the states to the Daliao River Basin to open up wasteland and reclaim the frontier, Hua Mulan had already stationed troops on the east bank of the Daliao River.

Zhao Junsheng is in charge of the overall situation in Youzhou, and spends part of his energy on the migration of the population. At the same time, he has to deal with the court in Pingcheng and the princes in the south.

"My lord, I just got a secret report that Liu Xun, who killed his father and usurped the throne in the Southern Dynasty, was defeated by the coalition forces of the Southern Dynasty kings. Liu Xun died in the chaos, and the new emperor Liu Yikang of the Southern Dynasty ascended the throne."

The death of Liu Xun did not surprise Zhao Junsheng. This man murdered his father and usurped the throne. He was not popular among the people, and he did not get the support of the local governments and generals. His demise was a matter of time, but what surprised him was that he was enthroned. The emperor turned out to be Liu Yikang.

Liu Yikang is not a fuel-efficient lamp either. This person has endured for many years and has been suppressed by Liu Yilong. Now that Liu Yilong is killed by his son Liu Xun, he naturally feels that the opportunity has come. He was the first to attack Liu Xun. Liu Xun was later crowned emperor.

Zhao Junsheng felt that this matter was not trivial, so he immediately sent people to summon Dongfang Chen, Kou Qianzhi, Gao Yun, Pei Jin, Liang Ji and other counselors and officials to discuss the impact of this matter on the forces in various places in the north.

In the lobby, counselors and officials knelt on both sides, and Zhao Junsheng sat on the main seat. Under his signal, General Li Fan stood up and told the counselors and officials about the succession of the Southern Dynasty throne.

Li Fan was a native of Zhuolu in Fanyang.

Gao Yun was the first to stand up and say: "Your Majesty, I think that the replacement of the throne in the Southern Dynasty should not have much impact on the North in a short period of time. If Liu Yikang wants to stabilize the throne and power, he must take a period of time to integrate domestic forces. It took Liu Yilong several years to eradicate the powerful officials and control the power, Liu Yikang will not be much smarter than Liu Yilong, the minister thought that the Southern Dynasty needed two to three years to quell the civil strife and stabilize the situation!"

Gao Yun's analysis was well-founded and reasonable, and the other officials and counselors present couldn't find anything to refute.

However, only two months later, Gao Yun was slapped in the face. In order to divert domestic conflicts, the new emperor Liu Yikang sent troops to Karasuma to attack Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

Xuzhou barely resisted for half a month and then lost. The whole territory was captured by the army of the Southern Dynasty, and then Yanzhou and Qingzhou also fell one after another.

But soon the army of the Southern Dynasty was blocked in Qizhou. The guard of Qizhou was Sima Chuzhi. This was a person whom Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao admired very much. In the south of Qizhou, they could not advance an inch, and the offensive of the Southern Dynasty army stopped.

The news spread to Jiankang

Later, someone told Liu Yikang that it was probably not that Tan Daoji could not match Sima Chuzhi, but that Tan Daoji was raising his own self-respect, or colluding secretly with Sima Chuzhi to take care of each other in order to gain more power, territory and military strength.

After Liu Yikang heard this, he hated secretly, but he couldn't do anything to Tan Daoji for the time being, so he could only bear with it and sent his confidants to lead troops to support Tan Daoji. On the one hand, he added military strength to the Northern Expedition, and on the other hand, he monitored Tan Daoji.

Until mid-June when Hua Mulan defeated the Sumo and Baishan tribes of the Wuji people in the northeast, Sima Chuzhi still relied on Qizhou City to block the siege of Tan Daojiwan's army.

Tan Daoji saw that he could not attack Qizhou for a long time and wasted food and grass, so he led his army back to Qingzhou and attacked Guangzhou with a partial division.

In late July, Hua Mulan returned to Youzhou with his army. The battle to pacify the barbarians in the Northeast lasted for a month, and completely resolved the Kumoxi people, Khitan people, and the Sumo and Baishan tribes in the southern area of ​​Wuji. State and Anton State intrusions.

Zhao Junsheng ordered to reward the Zhengdong army who returned to Jixian County, not only rewarding money and grain, but also ordered the army to kill cattle and sheep to provide extra meals for the soldiers of the Zhengdong Army for several days in a row.