"So, you are all from famine-stricken people in Liaodong?"
In the evening, in a field at the very edge of the Mingdao Palace complex, on a ridge where the crops had just been harvested, beside a campfire, Emperor Zhao casually put down the clay bowl, wiped his mouth without any grace, and continued to question.
"Your Highness..."
"Just call me everyone. We can just sit down and talk." One of the biggest advantages of a time traveler is that he or she can be humble.
"Report to everyone." The strong man who sat back on the stool with the bowl in his hand was obviously one of the few eloquent people in the camp, but at this moment he was at a loss, and even his speech seemed incoherent. "We were not originally hungry people, we were just ordinary people in Liaodong... Like me, I used to be a horse trader... But when the Jurchen Emperor Wanyan Aguda fought against the Khitan Emperor, the Khitan Emperor collected too much money and grain, and Liaodong had no place to make a living, so we became hungry people. Later, the Khitans could not defeat the Jurchens, so they recruited us Han hungry people in Liaodong, because they said that we blamed the Jurchens for our loss of livelihood, so they called us the Resentment Army. Later, a Xi became emperor and changed it to the Ever-Victorious Army. The 800 cavalrymen who followed the emperor now are all veterans from the Yanzhou Camp of the Eight Camps of the Resentment Army..."
"Where is Yanzhou?" Zhao Jiu was curious and asked again.
"Reporting to everyone, in fact, the official name of our Yanzhou is not Yanzhou, but Yanyuanzhou. It is next to Liaoyang Prefecture of the former Liaodongjingdao, and is close to the sea to the south..." Someone else couldn't help but interrupt.
It turns out to be an old friend from Yingkou!
Emperor Zhao, who was sitting there in a striking round-necked red robe, suddenly realized something. He nodded repeatedly and couldn't help but patting his thigh.
Besides, Emperor Zhao nodded repeatedly, but he couldn't help but be moved in his heart, and he began to daydream... Firstly, he had been to Yingkou that year, and he couldn't help but feel a little homesick; secondly, he knew that this was a "beggar army" with no ties to anyone! Moreover, they were rare skilled cavalrymen in the army!
So naturally I started to think about it.
On the other side, several old friends from Yingkou saw that the young Emperor Zhao seemed to be in deep thought, and they thought that he was just a prince before and didn't know about the affairs of the court, so they wondered why they came here again... But they didn't dare to stop easily, and could only explain their origins clearly.
It turned out that after this army was established, the commander of the camp was called Liu Yan, and the commander-in-chief of the Resentful Army, that is, the Ever-Victorious Army, was the famous Guo Yaoshi.
Guo Yaoshi is a legendary figure in this era... This is not to say that his martial arts are extraordinary or his military strategy is outstanding, but that as a remnant of the Khitan, he was fickle on the border between Song and Jin after the demise of the Liao Dynasty. He first surrendered to the Song Dynasty, but then surrendered to the Jin army after seeing the internal weakness of the Song Dynasty. He also directly advised the Jin Dynasty's Grand Marshal and Second Prince Wanyan Wulie not to attack Bianliang directly, which in fact contributed to the southward advance of the Jin army and the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty.
In other words, this person was one of the originators of the Jingkang Shame.
However, among the eight battalions of the Resentful Army, which were basically composed of Han people from Liaodong and later renamed the Ever-Victorious Army, the commander of the Yanzhou Battalion, Liu Yan, was a genuine Song person, and seemed to be a scholar from the south. But for some reason he ended up in the Liao Kingdom in his early years, and there was a hidden story... So, when Guo Yaoshi returned north, most of the Ever-Victorious Army returned north with him, but this man led the Yanzhou Battalion to stay in the Song Dynasty.
In response to this, Emperor Huizong at that time gave this army a special name, the Red Heart Team, to commend their loyalty!
Later, this unit tossed around, but always maintained a firm stance. During the Jingkang Incident, it was one of the few units that had been active on the front line of the anti-Jin war and was able to maintain its organization and combat effectiveness after the war.
The more Zhao Jiu listened, the more ideas he had, to the point that he even called it luck... You have to know that the reason he came here was 30% out of curiosity and 70% to avoid Yang Yizhong, but he unexpectedly gained a lot!
As for where is the harvest?
It is precisely this army that comes from Liao!
You must know that throughout history, both in China and abroad, when the internal situation became more complicated and the status of monarchs and generals was the most unstable, they would often use foreign troops as their guards, because they had no strong ties with the internal affairs. As long as the monarchs and generals could guarantee their treatment, these foreign troops would be the most reliable troops.
For example, around this time, on the religious dividing line in the Western world, the guards of many small princes came from the opposing side... The Christian Guards were popular among the North African Moorish warlords; and the North African Guards were popular among the Spanish nobles. That was roughly the reason.
Of course, Zhao Jiu is not an expert in history.
On the contrary, most of his historical knowledge came from nine years of compulsory education and some basic popular science books, plus some high-end online novels such as "Qin Li" and "Han Que", and low-end games such as Total War, so he didn't know these weird things.
Only the principles in the world are the same, and Zhao Jiu happens to have his own personal situation and needs.
With this thought in mind, Zhao Jiu began to think about how to win over this army so that he could have a good sleep.
Unexpectedly, just when Emperor Zhao was gradually making some plans in his mind, those old friends from Yingkou started talking to each other, and gradually they spoke more and more fluently and in more and more detail, with more and more information. Among them, they even mentioned the name of a person that Zhao Jiu was particularly concerned about, and made him think of another person!
"That day in Tokyo, we followed Liu Yingtou under the command of Liu Taiwei. However, we didn't expect that Liu Taiwei's long legs had not changed after so many years. He ran away as soon as the battle started, from Gaoliang River to Tokyo! We were just a Yingtou, and we had no choice but to be surrounded by his tens of thousands of Guanxi soldiers and run away. Before we even got a foothold, we heard that Liu Taiwei ran too fast, and we ran into the Jin people head-on at Guier Temple and were killed directly. Then tens of thousands of Western soldiers were defeated in a daze..."
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