Chapter 348 The double defeat of the Eight Pyu of Liangshan, the tiger general of the Liao Kingdom
The Khitan envoys listened to Zheng Yunzhong's simple words and resolved their ulterior questions. After they looked at each other, they all saluted Zheng Yunzhong and others. Xiao Tang learned from their conversation that these three Khitan envoys
Among the Han people, two of them were local officials in Zhuozhou, and the other one came to surrender to Qu Da. He was Yelu Yujian, who was granted the title of General Jinwuwei by the Liao Dynasty and lived in the East Road Dutong.
Xiao Tang also knew about this man. Although he was praised as a talented person in the Yelv clan, his wife was the sister of Concubine Wen in Emperor Tianzuo's harem. Concubine Yuan, the sister of Xiao Fengxian, a minister of the Liao Dynasty, wanted to win the title of crown prince for his son.
However, the evildoers complained first, falsely accusing Yelu Yujian of colluding with Concubine Wen, and wanted Concubine Wen Yelu Aolu'o to be the crown prince. When Yelu Yujian was questioned by the Liao Dynasty, he defected to Jurchen with his confidants. After the war between Song and Jin Dynasties, he
He led troops to conquer the Song Dynasty and made many military exploits. However, after he later raised troops to rebel against the Jin Dynasty, he fled to Xixia but was not taken into custody. He was later killed by the Tatars on the road to Beitou.
As for that Han Chinese, his name in history is much more famous than that of Yelu Yujian.
"Ma Zhi, from Yan, has seen the envoys of the Song Dynasty." The Han official bowed and said to Zheng Yunzhong and Tong Guan.
Is this the initiator of the plan to "alliance with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty"? Xiao Tang thought in his heart: This person was originally from a wealthy family in the Liao Kingdom, but for some unknown reason, he secretly chose to surrender to the Song Kingdom and changed his name to Li Liangsi to advocate the Song Dynasty.
The imperial court made friends with the Jurchens, whose conflicts in the Liao Kingdom were increasingly intensifying, and joined forces with them to launch an army to conquer the Liao Dynasty.
Ma Zhi's decision to surrender to the Song Dynasty from the Liao Dynasty was probably not because of any national sentiments. After the Jin Dynasty defeated the Liao Dynasty, Zhang Jue, the original Han general of the Liao Dynasty, planned to surrender to the Song Dynasty, but was intercepted by the Jin army. This Ma Zhi (Li Liangsi) appealed to the court again
Chen could not accommodate Zhang Jue in order not to offend the newly allied Jin State. In fact, the corruption and weakness of the Song Dynasty had already been exposed to the Jurchens. When the Jin State invaded the south, Ma Zhi, who advocated good relations with the Jin State, naturally ended up in the same situation.
The fate of being executed.
I'm afraid that at this time, Ma Zhi already had the idea of secretly visiting Tong Guan and preparing to surrender to the Song Dynasty? Xiao Tang secretly sighed in his heart, but these two courtiers from the Liao Kingdom came to meet the Song Dynasty envoy.
, later one surrendered to the Song Dynasty and the other invested in gold. It seems that the day when this country will fall apart and completely collapse is indeed not far away...
When Ma Zhi was chatting with Zheng Yunzhong and Tong Guan of the Song Dynasty in Yeluyu of the Liao Kingdom, Xiao Tang also saw the strong soldiers guarding behind several officials of the Liao Kingdom. The two men who led the group of sergeants, one had white lips and red body.
He is extremely tall. He wears a three-pronged purple gold crown with two pheasant tails tied inside the crown. He wears a white Luo robe with an armor collar and three phoenixes embroidered on the back. He wears a pair of chain-linked iron armor and a jeweled lion.
Mandai wears a pair of cloud-rooted eagle-claw boots, a gold handkerchief with a neck pin, an iron bow with a sparrow painting, a pot of carved feathers and arrows, a pear-dotted steel spear in his hand, and a silver fisted horse.
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The other one was born with a swallow's jaw and a tiger's beard, a tiger's back and a wolf's waist. He wore a fish-tail cirrus iron crown on his head, a dragon-scale frost-stitched armor, a pomegranate-red embroidered robe, and a golden belt of lychee and seven treasures around his waist.
Wearing boots with green eagle beaks and gold thread, hanging from the waist is a cooked steel whip made of silver bamboo. A hard bow is inserted on the left, and a long arrow is hung on the right. The horse crosses the mountain beasts in the mountains, and the spear crosses the river and stirs up the sea dragon.
Obviously they were just here to receive the envoys from the Song Dynasty, but each of these two men were fully dressed in military uniforms, which seemed to be a demonstration.
While Xiao Tang was thinking in his mind, he suddenly heard the two generals speaking in Khitan language. "Do you think any of these visiting Song envoys are real?" warrior?"
"I heard that the person leading this mission was a eunuch who was favored by the Emperor of Song Dynasty. When have you ever seen a gelded son Ma Zi (the leader of the horse group responsible for breeding and commanding the horse group), who can lead a group of strong horses? "
"But I heard that there is a Khitan in the visiting delegation this time. His name is Xiao Tang. He is very famous in Hebei."
"We, the Han family members of the Liao Kingdom, have failed, but those who have lived in the Song Dynasty for a long time are from the Khitan ethnic group. They have been hanging out with the Song people for a long time, but they can still ride a bad horse and shoot a strong bow? After the blue wolf left the grassland, how could it still be done? Can it be considered a wolf?"
Xiao Tang could understand a lot. He suddenly smiled and said to the two Liao generals in his half-familiar Khitan language: "The Song Dynasty has a vast territory, and there are fertile grasslands for athletes to run horses. No matter where the wolf goes, he will still be a wolf."
The expressions of the two Liao officers changed, and all four of their eyes turned to Xiao Tang to see the coming general. One of the officers was unfamiliar with Xiao Tang's Khitan. He smiled coldly and said in Chinese: " What kind of Xiao Tang are you? Some people have left their homeland. Even if the blood of the Khitan people is still flowing in their bodies, even if they can still ride a horse and shoot a bow, they may not be worthy of being called a good son of the Khitan. !”
As the two largest ethnic groups in the Liao Kingdom, the Khitan and the Han people, the Liao court also adopted a policy similar to "one country, two systems" with official systems in the north and official systems in the south, giving the Han people a lot of room to develop in terms of power, living habits, etc. It can be. Among the countries where ethnic minorities have been in power throughout history, the Liao State's tolerance and kindness to the Han people (during this historical period when they have not yet been assimilated) is extremely commendable. Even now, there are many Khitans in the Liao State People were assimilated by the Han civilization, but from the perspective of the two countries, Song and Liao, the soldiers in the Liao still maintained a strong competitive spirit against envoys from the Song Kingdom like Xiao Tang.
Therefore, Xiao Tang understood the attitude of the two Liao officials very well. He did not take it seriously at all, but said leisurely: "Whether he is a good man or not can not be proved by just talking. .I don’t know how to call these two Xiang Wen (meaning general in Khitan language)?”
The general holding a pear-shaped steel gun and riding a silver-colored flower horse snorted coldly and said: "I am Xiangping Arich, the Commander-in-Chief of the Nanjing Army of the Liao Dynasty."
Another officer holding a hardened steel gun and riding a Bashan horse said: "I am the commander of the Nanjing Army of the Liao Dynasty, Xiangping Qiongyao Nayan!"
After hearing this, Xiao Tang's expression changed slightly, and he said to himself that it is no wonder that these two people are quite arrogant. In terms of martial arts, these two Liao officials are indeed extremely brave tiger generals.
Although many of the brothers who are now reunited with Xiao Tang may not fight against the Liao army on the battlefield. However, this Arich has the strength to kill the golden gunner Xu Ning within thirty rounds, while Qiong Yao Nayan can only defeat the golden gunman Xu Ning within twenty or thirty rounds. Then let Jiuwen Long Shi Jin be defeated and return to the main formation.
It's a pity that of these two first-rate generals who had the strength to defeat the Eight Horsemen of Liangshan, one was hit in the left eye by Zhang Qing's flying stone and died of pain, while the other was shot off his horse by Hua Rong's arrow and was driven back by his horse. Shi Jinfu took a knife and was killed. Both of them died because of the unfeathered arrows of Liangshan's top hidden weapon master, and the arrows of Xiao Li Guang, the unparalleled archer in the world. It must be said that they died unjustly. But Because of their fleeting heroic performance in the book, Xiao Tang was determined not to underestimate the two of them.
"It turns out to be Ali Qi and Qiong Yao Nayan. I've heard your names for a long time. It's a pleasure to meet you." Xiao Tang smiled slightly, clasped his fists and said to the two of them.
When Arich and Qiong Yao Nayan saw Xiao Tang's calm appearance, they felt as unhappy as if they had been punched on cotton. Arich snorted coldly and said: "Humph, I also heard that you were in Song Dynasty. He has a certain reputation, but he also knows the two of us!"
Qiong Yao Nayan was about to speak when he suddenly felt two scorching eyes coming towards him from beside him. He frowned and when he looked over there, he saw Shi Jin, one of the Song Dynasty envoys, looking unhappy. He was staring at him fiercely.
Shi Jin had a hot-blooded temperament. Hearing the loud tone of the two Liao officials, he felt furious in his heart and stared straight at Qiong Yao Nayan.
Seeing this, Qiong Yao Nayan raised his head. He looked up at Shi Jin coldly, which made Shi Jin even more angry. "What are you looking at!?" Shi Jin pointed at Qiong Yao Nayan, angrily. He drank and said.
If it were Qiong Yao Nayan's original temperament, he would probably have to fight with Shi Jinsi according to the routine of "What are you looking at!?" and "What are you looking at!?". But he also knew that this trip was to attract Song Dynasty. A foreign mission was not the time to compete with others. So Qiong Yao Nayan just sneered twice and ignored Shi Jin, but the disdain on his face was not concealed at all.
Shi Jin became even more angry when he saw it. He rode his horse to Xiao Tang and said, "Brother Xiao Tang! What did those two Liao officials say in Khitan language? These two people were so rude that they dared to treat my brother. Disrespectful! I want to try their methods to see why they are so arrogant!"