In order to block the attack of the Jurchens, Yelu Zongyuan almost took all the troops in his hands. The entire Zhongjing Dao gathered only more than 500,000 troops, and these two places exceeded 450,000. It can be seen that he was determined to turn the Jurchens away from the Zhongjing Dao.

However, after all the calculations, Yelu Zongyuan forgot one thing. The Jurchens grew up in the mountains and ridges of Changbai Mountain and had already adapted to the life of galloping among the mountains. The Jurchens could ride horses between the rugged rocks, through forests and streams, and through many dangerous terrain. The famous horses, the specialty of Changbai Mountain they rode, were also extremely strong, and the steep mountain roads could also be passed through the plains.

It is precisely because of this ability and capital that Wanyan Aguda proposed a bold plan to directly cross Yiwulu Mountain. He wanted to cross the dangerous peaks and steep slopes of more than 40 miles, so that his 170,000 troops could directly reach the inland of Zhongjing Road.

Wanyan Agu dared to think, he dared to do it. Even if someone in the army raised objections, he still insisted on this. Entering the mountain from Dongxianzhou, Wanyan Agu sent an advance team of 10,000 troops to build bridges in extremely dangerous places. Any road to go cannot stop the Jurchen army from moving forward. Only those places where there is no way to be feasible need to build simple vine bridges and move huge rocks to open up passages.

No one could have thought that Wanyan Aguda had done this impossible thing in just three days. Although nearly 6,000 people were lost on the way across this mountain, most of them fell to death and fell into the cliffs of the mountain stream. However, more than 160,000 troops successfully crossed Yiwulu Mountain at dusk three days later and entered the flat land of Zhongjing Road. Moreover, Wanyan Aguda also destroyed several Huanglings of the Liao people in Yiwulu Mountain, destroying the so-called dragon vein Feng Shui of the Liao people.

That night, the people of Yizhou City, located in the middle of Daling River in the south of the mountain, were attacked by Jurchen soldiers who emerged from nowhere without warning. There were so many soldiers in Yizhou City, and the soldiers in the city had been exhausted. Moreover, Yizhou is still in the middle of Yiwulu Mountain, and it is the safest place, so there is no defense. In this battle, the entire Yizhou was covered by blood and massacre all night. At dawn, nearly 70,000 Liao people in the city were almost dead.

The reason why Wanyan Aguda agreed to his subordinates to start their conquest journey with this brutal way of massacre was not only to make his subordinates stimulate their fierce blood and give them clear motivation. It also wanted to give the Liao people a warning, which made all the Liao people feel trembling and lose their fighting spirit.

Wanyan Aguda issued an order, and whoever sees the first woman will enjoy it, and whoever grabs the first woman will own it. This is to inspire the cruel nature of the Jurchen warriors and encourage them to fight for these things. Of course, Wanyan Aguda also issued strict orders, but if there are internal struggles between women for property, both sides will be executed regardless of right or wrong. Even the teams to which both sides will be punished for being prohibited from participating in the city massacre carnival.

At dawn, the water of the Daling River passing through the city was dyed red. Countless corpses drifted eastward along the Dahe River. The situation was terrible, just like the river of blood in hell.

Yelu Cai, the son of Yelu Zongyuan, who was stationed in the downstream Haibei Prefecture, did not learn about the bloodbath of Yizhou until the next morning. It was because the body that had been drifted dozens of miles upstream was discovered by residents by the river and reported it that Yelu Cai realized that something big happened somewhere upstream.

When he learned that Yizhou was attacked by the enemy, the Jurchen cavalry had left Yizhou for four or five hours, like a huge sharp blade, and rushed straight into the inner part of Zhongjing Road. Yelu Chun urgently mobilized his troops and drove away and chased him quickly. At the same time, he also immediately notified the news of Yelu Chun, the eldest prince stationed in Yizhou, and asked him to return to the army to pursue him immediately. The other party had already put wings and flew in.

How could Yelu Zongyuan have thought that the formation of his so-called two-headed snake had no effect at all. He reached seven inches in one hand and reached his life gate.

The situation is extremely serious. This so-called two-headed snake formation uses most of the soldiers and horses in Yelu Zongyuan's hands. Now, only 70,000 troops are stationed in Zhongjing Dading Prefecture, and the inland prefecture is even empty. Now the Jurchen cavalry is heading straight for Zhongjing Dading Prefecture, and the two large troops resisting the enemy are now left on the periphery. The two-headed snake failed to bite people, but the Jurchens came to the heart of a black tiger.

One day later, the Jurchen army conquered Qianzhou, and another bloody massacre. Qianzhou was baptized, and only half of the 80,000 people in the city escaped and fled south along the Daling River to Xingzhong Prefecture. But because of this, the Jurchen army delayed time to capture the prefectures along the way, which gave Yelu Zongyuan the opportunity to dispatch troops.

Yelu Zongyuan quickly ordered 50,000 out of the 70,000 troops of the Dading Prefecture to Xingzhong Prefecture. At the same time, the Eagle Falcon used to convey the message passed the emergency order of Yelu Zongyuan to the army led by Yelu Chun and Yelu Cai. Yelu Zongyuan asked the two to send all the cavalry and light cavalry to help Xingzhong Prefecture, and the slow-moving infantry and baggage troops followed up and did not delay the speed of the army's aid.

The two Daliao armies, which were originally not far from the Jurchen army, had a slow overall marching speed, so after being conquered Qianzhou, not only did not take advantage of the opportunity to catch up with the enemy, but were instead pulled away dozens of miles away. The order issued by Yelu Zongyuan was to ask them to take the lead in rescue with cavalry and no longer drive back with the slow-moving infantry.

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Moreover, Yelu Zongyuan knew that the terrain position of Xingzhong Prefecture had the capital to block the Jurchen army. At the critical moment, he had the last means to block the Jurchen attack. Of course, the premise was that Xingzhong Prefecture could not stop the Jurchen army, so he would use the last means.

On the tenth day of April, Wanyan Agu rushed his troops to capture the last prefecture in the northeast of Xingzhong Prefecture. When Chuanzhou was lost, Xingzhong Prefecture was exposed and there was no barrier. The good news was that before the Jurchen army arrived, Chuanzhou had become an empty city, and all the officials and people fled to Xingzhong Prefecture for refuge. The entire city was destroyed and burned, and almost nothing was left to Wanyan Agu's troops. When the Jurchen army attacked the city, they saw the ruins of a city.

In fact, most of the cities of the Liao Kingdom can be said to be unprepared cities. This is naturally due to their habit of living on the grasslands in their early years. Except for the Five Capitals and several Dazhou Prefectures, the rest of the cities did not have any decent city defense. To put it simply, the so-called county towns of the Zhoucheng County were just a settlement that built a wall and built a house and built a road. This is the same as the settlements that the ancestors of the Liao people, the Khitans, used tents and wooden fences on the grassland.

In order to facilitate the convenience of riding horses, some cities will not even have real city gates. There are many exits in the city, which is completely open. This also led to the Jurchen army that can level these so-called cities without any effort. However, in the face of Xingzhong Prefecture, the second largest city in Zhongjing Road, the situation is completely different. Although Xingzhong Prefecture must be half smaller in size, it is a solid city on the plain. As an affiliated city guarding Dading Prefecture, it can serve as a barrier and become a retreat at critical moments. Therefore, Xingzhong Prefecture's urban defense facilities are complete, and it is definitely not comparable to those unprepared cities.

Xingzhong Prefecture has an excellent geographical location. There are four peaks in the north and south, with Dahua Mountain and Qingshan Mountain on the north and Helongshan Mountain and Fengtai Mountain on the south. Although these four mountains are not tall and steep peaks, and the altitude is only a few hundred meters, they perfectly blocked all the passages in the radius of hundreds of miles on the north and south sides of Xingzhong Prefecture. Let the Daling River pass through the four mountains and let Xingzhong Prefecture guard the important road between the four mountains. This is also the reason why the Jurchen army must take down Xingzhong Prefecture. It is unrealistic to want to pass through the mountains again, and it will take a lot of time. When passing through the mountains, the other party may have retreated and gathered and ready for battle. Moreover, the strategic significance of taking down Xingzhong Prefecture is extremely important, which will lay a solid foothold for the Jurchen army to advance and become a strategic stronghold for attacking and retreating. This is extremely important.

Among Wanyan Aguda's strategic intentions, Xingzhongfu must be won, which is a key step in his strategy.

Don’t look at Wanyan Agu’s troops coming with great force, but in fact they themselves have great crisis. You should know that in order to unexpectedly attack the hinterland of Zhongjing Road, Wanyan Agu ventured across Yiwulu Mountain. This move did work, but it actually brought great hidden dangers. When the army crossed Yiwulu Mountain, it had to abandon all its supplies and equipment and move forward lightly, so that it could cross the mountains. As the saying goes, there are gains and losses. Although the strategic intentions have been achieved, the price and pressure paid for it are getting bigger and bigger with the passage of time and the situation has evolved.
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