Chapter 467: Running for 700 Miles

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Just when the sworn brother Yelu Deguang was almost pushed down, Zhang Tianwang in Lanzhou was really pushed down.

There was a hot beauty from the North, her legs were like vines entangled in a big tree. Zhang Tianwang only drank a little wine and was pushed down on the gorgeous bed by her.

The beauty of the people outside the Great Wall is indeed unique, although riding horses all year round has resulted in a fat buttocks and slightly bowed legs.

But the leg muscles are extremely developed, and when they wrap around the waist, there is a strange and hot feeling that cannot be escaped.

Zhang Tianwang squinted his eyes comfortably, folded his hands and put them behind his head, and let Yelu Abli explore his body left and right, up and down like a waxy white hamster.

However, she is a sixteen-year-old girl after all, and the little hamster Yelu lost her strength after a while.

She pouted her pink lips and looked at Zhang Zhao with watery eyes.

"Uncle really knows how to enjoy it, and I want to lie down too."

Zhang Zhao laughed and stroked Yelu Abli's long, satin-like hair, but his thoughts had long since drifted to the battlefield in Hebei.

I don’t know if his sworn brother ever transformed into a camel god of war, as happened in history.

Zhang Zhao is very conflicted in his heart now. On the one hand, he doesn't want Yelu Deguang to lose too badly.

If the defeat is too disastrous and the people who are beaten dare not go to the Central Plains, then Zhang Zhao's plan will have to be drastically changed.

However, if Yelu Deguang can still destroy the Later Jin Dynasty as in history, the people of the Central Plains will suffer from the Khitan military disaster after they have already suffered the four major disasters of floods, drought, locusts and harsh government. Who knows how many people will die?

"How is your brother doing in the Central Plains? Do you want to bring him to Hexi?" Zhang Zhao hugged Yelu Abli, but he began to make plans in his heart.

Yelv Ruan was originally supposed to be sent back to Khitan by the Later Jin Dynasty after Yelv Bei's death. However, for unknown reasons, he only went back to Yelv Yaliguo and Yelv Ruan did not go back.

If history had not changed after this, Yelu Deguang still entered the Central Plains and died of illness.

Yelu Abli's elder brother Yelu Ruan was actually the most suitable candidate for the emperor of the Liao Kingdom.

Because Empress Dowager Shuluping, Abaoji's three sons, and Yelu Lihu, mother and son, were too cruel in their methods, most Khitan nobles were afraid that their mother and son would take power.

Without Yelu Ruan, the Khitan might start civil strife on its own.

Moreover, even if Yelu Lihu were to take power, that would be okay. With his cruel, fierce and simple-minded character, he would be much easier to deal with than Yelu Ruan.

Yelu Lihu is simply the ancestral version of Mang Gurtai of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Even in the Houjin Dynasty in the past, if Huang Taiji had not succeeded to the throne but Mang Gurtai, he might have been pacified by the Ming Dynasty, let alone now

of Khitan.

Yelu Abli smiled and blinked, "Are you going to compete with my second uncle for supremacy on the grassland?

In that case, my brother is a good chess piece. My grandmother is ruthless, and many people in Khitan miss my father."

Okay! Zhang Zhao sighed, and an Aries-like girl lay on top of him and called him uncle, and then discussed using her brother as a chess piece to deal with his uncle and grandmother.

Zhang Zhao felt that this scene was quite inconsistent in his heart.

However, he still didn't know that historically Yelu Abli was eventually married to Xiao Han by his brother Yelu Ruan, Shizong of the Liao Dynasty, and Xiao Han was Yelu Deguang's brother-in-law.

In other words, Yelu Abli finally married his second uncle's brother-in-law, his cousin.

Well, that's about the same for him. This little girl is destined to either have sex with her uncle or marry her cousin.

....

Liao Kingdom, Xijing Road, Fengsheng Prefecture, northwest of Yanzi City, beside the Yuanyang Park, a tall camel was eating leisurely.

What it eats now is not grass, but black beans cooked in salt water.

A group of girls in colorful costumes were putting flowers on the camel to make it look beautiful.

There is also a great wizard holding an animal bone scepter, singing and dancing in front of the camel. This is the wizard begging Tengger to bless this noble camel.

The reason why a camel is so respected is because it saved the life of the Great Khitan Emperor!

Yanzi City is Zhangbei County in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province in later generations, and Yuanyangbo is the dried-up Angulinao in the northwest of Zhangbei County.

Yelu Deguang mounted his camel and ran from near Baoding to Zhangbei County, north of Zhangjiakou, before stopping, a distance of more than 750 miles.

Relying on the super endurance of the camel, Yelu Deguang got rid of all the pursuing soldiers, and also got rid of his own bodyguards.

When he rushed to Weizhou, which is near Zhoukoudian in Beijing, Huchile and Yao Yuanfu had just passed through Yishui.

They can't even see Yelu Deguang's camel butt, they are so arrogant!

Are you awesome, Brother Guang?

However, Yelu Deguang was actually safe at that time, because Hu Zaile and others did not dare to pursue him after they passed Yishui.

But he still didn't stop. He just waited for his personal guards outside Fengshengzhou (Zhuolu), and then continued to go north to Yuanyangbo.

Because the nomadic tribe here is the mother tribe of his first wife, Queen Jing'an Xiao Wen.

After arriving at Queen Xiao Wen's mother clan, Yelu Deguang immediately recruited thousands of cavalry, then erected the emperor's banner at Yuanyangbo and sent messengers to all directions to ask them to come to Yuanyangbo to worship.

The reason for being so cautious was determined by the political situation in Khitan.

The danger of the Khitan emperor was actually similar to the danger of the emperors of the Central Plains during the Five Dynasties at this time.

An emperor of the Central Plains who suffered such a defeat would most likely be doomed.

The Khitan emperor was similar.

Therefore, no one could believe Yelu Deguang at this time, not even his mother Shulu Ping.

Because Shuluping's favorite son was not Yelu Deguang, but his third son Yelu Lihu.

Therefore, the only person Yelv Deguang can trust is his wife Xiao Wen's mother clan, because their interests are consistent.

Xiao Wen's only son, Yelu Sage, is the official successor of Yelu Deguang.

If Yelu Deguang disappears at this time, Yelu Sage will definitely not be able to control the situation, and Yelu Lihu will most likely succeed to the throne. Then it will be difficult for Xiao Wen's mother family to maintain their current wealth.

Ten days later, the defeated Khitan troops returned one after another, and the leaders of each tribe personally took their guards to the edge of Yuanyangbo to pay homage to Yelu Deguang.

Seeing that the leaders and generals of various ministries came with only personal guards instead of large armies, Yelu Deguang was relieved of his heavy heart.

But as soon as he felt relieved, Yelu Deguang immediately remembered the losses caused by this defeat.

Tragic! Too miserable! Too miserable!

Eighty thousand Khitan troops besieged Bai Tuanwei Village. After being defeated by the Jin army, the Jin army pursued them to the Ru River.

The blood of the killed Khitan army flowed into a river, and the water was blocked by corpses. The Jin army beheaded more than 3,000 people and returned.

This resulted in the Liao army losing 60% of its armor and weapons and 40% of its horses.

There were 24,000 Pishi troops on the left and right, and more than 3,000 died in battle alone.

Of the 20,000 Shan army, more than 6,000 were lost.

The total casualties of the other tribal armies were more than 10,000.

Of the 80,000-strong army, as many as 20,000 were killed in battle, and as many as 20,000 were missing. Only about 30,000 of them managed to escape and were still able to assemble. The remaining 20,000-odd people still don’t know when they will be able to assemble.

The Khitan lost nearly half of the armor it had accumulated since the Abaoji period, and a quarter of its elite palace troops, namely the Left and Right Pishi Army and the Shushan Army.

It can be said that since this battle, the Khitans have temporarily lost the ability to go south, and have begun to lack both armor and troops.

What's more important is that the Khitan went south and fought in the north in two battles. Each defeat was worse than the last. This time plus the previous one, the total number of soldiers killed in the battle exceeded 50,000.

For a grassland regime like the Khitan that was not very stable, the Central Plains did not need a Ming lord like Wu Tangzong of the Han Dynasty at this time. With people of the caliber of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan's annihilation of the country was a certainty.

No! As long as Li Siyuan and Shi Jingtang were left alone, the Khitans would have to live in the woods of Liaodong.

But the lives of Khitan people should not be cut off. What they were facing was a man whose talent for governing the country might not even be matched by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Shi Chonggui of the Jin Dynasty.

Just thinking about these losses made Yelu Deguang feel like wiping his neck.

He looked fiercely at the noble ministers and chieftains who came to pay homage, and ordered them to be pulled down to the edge of the mandarin duck berth, giving each of them thirty sticks.

For a time, these dignitaries who were extremely dignified in the Liao Kingdom were beaten to pieces with their skins and flesh bruised, and they were wailing and screaming. Even Yelu Deguang's uncle Yelu Anduan was not spared.

However, this seems to be Yelu Deguang venting his anger, but in fact he is engaging in pua.

Now is the time when Taizong of the Liao Dynasty is at his weakest. I must use the authority of the past and the method of spanking to arouse the fear in these people's hearts towards the Yelu Deguang of the past.

....

At the end of February, the Jin army returned to the court and arrived at Chanzhou on the bank of the Yellow River.

Shi Chonggui, who was ill, took his eldest son Shi Yanxu and Zongzheng Shi Guangzan as angels and went to the Yellow River to congratulate the soldiers on their great achievements.

At this moment, the morale of the Jin army that arrived at the Yellow River was high. They used donkey carts, mule carts, etc. to carry back the heads of more than 3,000 Khitan soldiers, including dozens of high-ranking officials of the third rank or above of the Liao Kingdom.

There were more than a thousand prisoners tied up with ropes and paraded through the streets.

An Shenqi and others gathered information and learned that the Jin army had captured 2,200 Khitan iron armored collars, tens of thousands of leather armors, and more than 7,000 fine horses. Thousands of them had been killed, drowned, and seriously wounded. The number of dead was at least close to ten thousand.

The Jin army itself suffered more than 4,000 killed and more than 10,000 wounded, which can be described as an unprecedented victory.

Moreover, the losses of the Jin army were due to the defeat of Xue Huairang and An Shenqi in the early stage. After the wind blew up, the casualties were only a few hundred.

Shi Yanxu immediately conveyed Shi Chonggui's decree and granted great titles to all the generals. Even Hu Cile, a newcomer from the Liang Kingdom who was guarded by Shi Chonggui, was given the position of military governor of Xuzhou Wuning Army and was immediately sent to Fangzhen.

By the Yellow River, the Jin army was extremely happy, shouting long live the mountain. Although the court did not announce the reward immediately, which made the soldiers below a little disappointed, they did not pay too much attention to it, thinking that it might be announced after returning to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo.

But, in fact, Shi Chonggui was losing his temper in the palace at the moment.

Because some time ago, Shi Chonggui fell seriously ill.

Is he not sick? Since this guy felt that the threat of Khitan was lifted, he has been playing in the palace with Queen Feng and other palace guests night after night. He has made a lot of wine and delicacies to his death. His iron body cannot bear it.

Such nonsense.

At this moment, Shi Chonggui, who had just recovered a little, was about to summon Sang Weihan.

Because the army won such a great victory this time, it can be said that since the Five Dynasties, the Central Plains court had never fought such a victory against the Khitans, and rewards were absolutely indispensable.

But Shi Chonggui never cared much about the state of the country, and Sang Weihan was always in charge of finance and taxation.

Shi Chonggui didn't dislike Sang Weihan, but he was a little unable to withstand the traps of Empress Feng's brother Feng Yu and others recently.

In addition, Sang Weihan himself was also unclean and accepted bribes wantonly. Shi Chonggui indeed had the intention to replace Sang Weihan and make Feng Yu the privy envoy.

It's just that Sang Weihan is also a genius. Before Shi Chonggui did anything to him, he couldn't sit still.

This guy actually took advantage of Shi Chonggui's serious illness and ran to see Empress Dowager Li, offering to choose a master for Shi Jingtang's only heir, Shi Chongrui.

That’s okay!

Shi Chongrui was Shi Chonggui's counterattack, and Sang Weihan's touch immediately made Shi Chonggui's hair explode.


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