Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Chapter 475 Locust Strategy

However, although there are 20,000 rebels below, they are all old and weak, women and children, and they don't have any siege weapons. It is extremely difficult to take down Zhenhai Mansion! They were just making loud noises below, shouting constantly!

Less than a quarter of an hour later, the Jurchen commander of Zhenhai Mansion finally arrived here, and countless Jurchen soldiers were alarmed, and they also came to the city wall at this moment.

The Jurchen commander looked down, with a look of horror on his face.

"Why are there so many Khitan untouchables?" the Jurchen commander murmured with a pale face.

He came to the Zhenhai Mansion area five days ago. At that time, the Jurchen already knew the news that the Song army had invaded Zhenhai Mansion. He only came here to investigate the news! But after arriving here, he found that the Song army had retreated from Zhenhai Mansion, and it was he who brought his thousand-man team to Zhenhai Mansion! Unexpectedly, only five days later, Zhenhai Mansion was in crisis again!

"General, the Khitans rebelled!" said a centurion.

"That's right, the Khitans have rebelled!" The commander nodded and said.

At this moment, the commander naturally knew this truth.

"General, although there are many Khitan people below, they are all weak women and children, not to mention!" the centurion said.

"Oh?" The commander looked down, and someone below was holding a simple homemade torch, so the commander could see the scene below clearly. After a while, he burst out laughing, and said, "Sure enough, they are all old people." Weak women and children! They are all skinny, how ridiculous! I was flustered just now! Is it just these old and weak women and children who are weak and have no weapons, and they want to attack Zhenhai Mansion?"

"Our Jurchens are invincible in the world, general, as long as a thousand of us rush out, we will surely kill all the Khitan pariahs!" the centurion said.

"That's right! Come on, gather everyone. There seem to be 10,000 to 20,000 Khitan untouchables below, but as long as a thousand of us rush out, they will definitely be defeated! These old and weak women and children actually want to rebel! How can there be such a ridiculous thing in the world?" After the commander knew the situation below, he didn't feel the slightest fear in his heart, but felt that this matter was extremely absurd!

There is a huge gap between ordinary rioters and real regular troops! Generally speaking, a hundred thousand rioters may not be able to defeat a ten thousand regular army! What's more, the so-called Liaodong rebels below are all old and weak, women and children, and they have no weapons, so the combat effectiveness can be imagined! Of course the commander looked down on the Liaodong rebels below!

After another quarter of an hour, a thousand Jurchens had assembled, all of them were cavalry, and they all drew their weapons at this moment, with excited and bloodthirsty expressions on their faces.

"Brothers, we Jurchens are invincible in the world, and we are arrogant! But we didn't expect that the weak Han people would bully us, and these lowly Khitans like slaves would actually want to rebel! They were starving to death, and they were as thin as firewood. They are like this, but they still want to rebel? Do you think it's ridiculous?" The commander laughed loudly.

"ridiculous!"

"Absurd to the extreme!"

"General, let's go out and teach them a lesson!"

The Jurchen soldiers roared with laughter! The shouts of the Khitan people continued to be heard outside, but the Jurchen soldiers felt extremely absurd when they heard it!

"Open the city gate, rush out, and kill all the Khitan pariahs! Let the Khitan pariahs know how wrong their choices are!" the commander sternly said.

Soon, the south gate of Zhenhai Mansion opened, and a thousand Jurchen cavalry rushed out like a rainbow!

The Liaodong rebels outside had no idea that the Jurchens would dare to rush out, and all the rebel soldiers in front stayed there, at a loss! They were ordinary poor peasants last night, and most of them had never fought with anyone before, so they didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of them!

"Kill!" The commander-in-chief laughed, and slashed forward with a knife. Suddenly, the head of a Khitan man was chopped off, and the commander-in-chief showed even more excitement.

All the Jurchen soldiers moved forward one after another, they encountered almost no resistance, those Khitans almost stood there waiting to be killed by them! All the Jurchen soldiers were laughing!

"Run!" At this moment, the soldiers of the Liaodong Rebel Army finally came to their senses, and they ran back without hesitation.

Countless Khitan people were scared to death, but unfortunately their physical fitness is very poor, it is impossible to outrun the Jurchen cavalry!

A thousand Jurchen cavalry were slaughtering almost one-sidedly!

"Haha, kill all these Khitan people, let's go back and drink!" The commander-in-chief laughed!

The Khitan people in front cried, ran away, and kept falling to the ground. Although there were 20,000 of them, they were extremely vulnerable now! The Jurchens were laughing wildly, excited and excited!

However, at this moment, an army behind the rebel army rushed forward without haste!

They are getting closer and closer to the Jurchen cavalry. At this moment, this army has been divided into three parts. There are about 2,000 people in the front, and 1,500 people in the left and right directions!

This army is exactly the five thousand naval soldiers led by Wang Gui!

It was pitch black, and countless torches had been extinguished in the defeat of the Liaodong Rebel Army. The thousand Jurchens on the opposite side didn't even notice the arrival of the five thousand Song soldiers!

"Shoot!" Song Jun was getting closer and closer to the Jurchens. Wang Gui gave an order, and in the front direction, dense bowstring vibrations sounded!

At the same time as the vibrating sound of the bowstring sounded here, the sound of bows and arrows also sounded in the left and right directions!

The sound of bows and arrows was continuous, and those Khitans who were running away couldn't help but stop for a while!

The Jurchens had hundreds of people shot to death in an instant! They originally only had a thousand people, but now nearly half of them were shot to death, and the rest of the Jurchens were in chaos!

These Jurchens wanted to escape, but the Song Army was everywhere, and there was no way for them to escape!

The Song army on the two wings has already faintly blocked their way of retreat at this moment, and it is impossible for them to retreat to Zhenhai Mansion!

Half a quarter of an hour later, the remaining hundreds of Jurchens also fell in a pool of blood, including the commander who was shot to death by the arrows!

"The Jurchens were killed by Song Jun!"

"Song Jun is so strong?"

"Great, we have defeated the Jurchen! Under the leadership of His Royal Highness King Liao, we have defeated the Jurchen! Thousand-year-old Liao King!"

"King Liao is a thousand years old!"

The fleeing Khitans stopped one after another, and not long after, the voices of "King Liao Qiansui" were everywhere on the battlefield!

"We have captured Zhenhai Mansion! Go! Enter Zhenhai Mansion, our rebellion has succeeded!" A Khitan shouted loudly and rushed forward.

"There are war horses here, you can kill and eat meat! I haven't eaten meat for seven years!"

"I haven't eaten meat in ten years!"

Countless Khitan people shouted excitedly, they were old and weak, women and children, but at this moment they rushed towards Zhenhai Mansion recklessly.

"There is still food in Zhenhai Mansion! Let's grab food inside!"

"Grab it! Eat and drink in it! It's ours!"

"Come on! Those who rush in first will have food!"

Twenty thousand old and weak women and children frantically rushed towards Zhenhai Mansion!

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It was already dawn, and Wang Gui and Yeluhong entered the Zhenhai mansion surrounded by the Song army.

There is chaos in Zhenhai Mansion!

Originally, this place had been ransacked by the Song army, and there were not many things left, but now it was ransacked by the Liaodong rebels again! There were even continuous screams from a distance, Wang Gui's face remained unchanged, but Yeluhong's face revealed a look of surprise.

"What happened?" Yeluhong asked.

"It's nothing more than the rebel army robbing the people in the city! There are still a lot of people in this city. They still have some food and surplus money in their families, and now they are all taken away by the rebel army!" Wang Gui said.

"Isn't that a little bad? We rose up to rebel to save the people, but if we do this now, wouldn't the people in the city suffer?" Yeluhong said.

"It's nothing bad." Wang Gui said lightly.

"General Wang, I think we should stop the rebels!" Yeluhong said.

"Stop them? Why stop them? The reason why they rebelled with the court, with His Majesty, and with you, the King of Liao, is to have something to eat! But the granary of Zhenhai Mansion was burned down by our army that day. There is not much food in the government, and the rebels can only grab food from the Khitan people in the city! If you stop them now, those rebels will definitely not listen to you, but will complain about you instead, which is extremely detrimental to our great cause!" Wang Guidao.

"However, the Khitan people in the city are also my people, and I can't bear to see them suffer disaster." Yeluhong said

"I didn't expect you to have a bodhisattva heart! In fact, even if the rebel soldiers don't rob the Khitan people in the city of food, I will find a way to let them rob it." Wang Gui said coldly.

"This..." Yeluhong stayed there.

"You are short-sighted, and you don't know how to rebel at all! The Khitan people in this city have been robbed of their food, and they can't survive. They can only rebel with us, and continue to go to other places to grab food! After the place where countless rebels robbed all the food in that place, the people there had no choice but to rebel with us! In this way, the number of our rebels is increasing, just like a snowball! It doesn’t take long for us to be able to There are hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of rebels! At that time, the Jurchens will have nothing to do with us!" Wang Gui said.

"This..." Yeluhong was shocked in his heart, he kept thinking, and thought that what Wang Gui said was right, so he froze there.

There was a sneer on Wang Gui's face!

This is exactly the Liaodong strategy formulated by the General Staff Headquarters! These rebellious Khitans are like locusts, they will harm a place wherever they go, more and more Khitans can't survive, they can only rebel with them! In Wang Gui's opinion, this strategy is really brilliant!

Of course he didn't know that Li Zicheng of later generations did this!

The famous King Li Chuang robbed every place he went, making the people in that place unable to survive, so they had to rebel with him, so the number of troops under him increased! The army of the Ming Dynasty continued to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng was defeated repeatedly, but his soldiers and horses turned out to be more and more defeated! Once, Li Zicheng's entire army was almost wiped out, but within a few months, the number of soldiers and horses under him exceeded 500,000 again! The army of the Ming Dynasty was invincible, and the more they killed, the more they killed. In the end, the Ming Dynasty was finally overthrown by Li Zicheng!

The General Staff Headquarters named this strategy the "locust strategy". The Liaodong rebels were like locusts. The locusts crossed the border without leaving a blade of grass, and the local Khitan people could only become "locusts." Jurchens can't deal with it! Their strategy coincides with that of the later Li Zicheng!

In Wang Gui's opinion, such a strategy is much better than the White Lotus Rebellion in Dongting Lake! However, such a strategy will cause great harm to the world beyond imagination! At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of people killed by Li Zicheng's peasant uprising army was definitely far more than the number of people killed by the Ming army! If it was in the Central Plains, the General Staff Headquarters would never adopt such a strategy, but this is Liaodong, where most of the population is Khitan, so it happened to adopt such a strategy! Of course, there are also Han people in Liaodong, and those Han people will inevitably encounter disasters!

"Loot! From south to north, rob all places, all food and drink, so that people everywhere have to rebel with us, so that our team will grow bigger and stronger, and our strength will become stronger At that time, we don't even need the regular army from the imperial court to come, we will be able to contend against Jurchen!" Wang Gui said slowly.

Yeluhong stood there, but he felt chills all over his body! In this way, I am afraid that the whole Liaodong will be turned into ruins, and countless Khitan people will die in the flames of war!

The Zhenhai mansion was in chaos, and how many crimes occurred that night!

It was not until July 7th that the Liaodong Rebel Army left Zhenhai Mansion, and now their number has exceeded 50,000!

They went all the way north, passing through the villages and towns of the Khitan people without letting them go, and their ranks became more and more!

"His Royal Highness, where are we going now?" Yelufeng, Xiao Jingye and the others saw the increasing number of teams, and they were extremely happy. They came to Yeluhong in the early morning of July 8th and asked.

"General Wang, tell me about it." Yeluhong said.

"We now have two paths. The first path is to attack Liaoyang to the west, but there are tens of thousands of Jurchen troops in Liaoyang, and we are not their opponents! Therefore, we only have to go north and attack Zhengzhou! Let's go to the Jurchen forces. Go to the smallest place, and continue to increase our own strength, and soon we will be able to fight against the Jurchens!" Wang Gui said.

"Just listen to General Wang." Yeluhong nodded immediately.

Zhengzhou is about to be located in the North Station area of ​​Tonghua City, Jilin Province in later generations. Tens of thousands of Liaodong rebels in ragged clothes and starved for food headed there.

Along the way, they robbed every place they went, and every time they went, more Khitans who couldn't survive followed them northward!

By the time they arrived at the city of Zhengzhou on July 15th, the number of rebels had reached 130,000!

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