Five hundred and thirteenth, I didn't expect you, Yelu Dashi, with big eyebrows and big eyes, to do
As night falls, in front of Beigui Mountain, there is a buzz of people.
Firelights rose from several places near and far, making the sky faintly red.
Spring is already bright and sunny in Jiangnan and even Bianjing, but the frost and grass are still withering here. In the past, the grassland overlords would never choose to send troops at this time.
The Jurchens are an exception.
They never cared about the severe cold. Nowadays, the Jurchens are only four or five years away from launching an army to rebel against the Liao Dynasty. Many of the soldiers are still hunters who lay down in the snow for several days.
In the past ten or twenty years, when the Jurchen Tatars who grew up under the service of slaves of various ethnic groups became the main force of the Jin Kingdom, they began to decline.
Now, it seems to be the strongest fighting force in the world. Under the leadership of Wanyan Loushi, they crossed the rolling mountains, walked on the snow, and swept Beigui Mountain in one fell swoop.
Yelu Dashi and Yao Pingzhong worked hard in the Northern Expedition and all the foundation they had built was knocked back.
The fierce battles in recent days have left thick black ash marks in front of various forts and fortifications on the mountain. The Jurchen Tatars were taking a group of Liao prisoners and were resting here.
In the continuous Beigui Mountain, there used to be dozens of Wubi forts, all of which were local snakes. These people used the villagers to control the people living in Beigui Mountain, just like local emperors, a bit similar to the chieftains in the south.
During the Yelu Dashi Northern Expedition, although the powerful men and women around Wudi followed the orders of the old Khitan clan, they still listened to them if it was beneficial, and did not move if it was not beneficial.
On weekdays, the surrounding Wubi Forts didn't pay much attention to Yelu Dashi. They basically had nothing to do with each other and could only provide some food and grass. However, when the Jurchen cavalry suddenly appeared and swept across the Beigui Mountain area, these people turned to the Khitan for help.
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These people have good intentions. I will defect to whoever comes, and I will be loyal to whoever is strong. I am just the local snake from Beigui Mountain.
However, after the Jurchens arrived, they smashed through the fortresses along the way like a whirlwind, searched for their food and grass, slaughtered the old and weak, and the strong carried heavy loads to transport military supplies and food and grass to survive in the snow. Even if there were strong men who wanted to surrender in advance, the Jurchens' troops and horses would not be accepted, and they still
They slaughtered their leaders, gathered their tribesmen, and collected their food, grass, and luggage.
Along the way, Wubibao Village no longer had the courage to resist, and they all fled eastward. Those who were lucky enough could still struggle out of the ice and snow, while those who were not lucky enough were frozen in the snow. Along the way, there were corpses everywhere.
In the cold wind, inside a fence like a pigsty, a group of Khitan prisoners shivered. Most of their clothes were stripped off by the Jurchens and wrapped around their horses.
There were only a few Jurchen Tatars guarding them. They didn't know what they were talking about, and they were very interested.
One of them suddenly drew an arrow, deliberately walked up to the prisoners, and aimed for a long time. One of the Khitan prisoners raised his head and took a peek, and the Jurchen Tatars immediately shot him with an arrow.
The others didn't even dare to look, and lowered their heads for fear of becoming the next target. The Jurchen Tatars laughed ferociously for a while, shot two more people to death, and then scolded a few Khitan people for handling the bodies.
In the big tent, all the generals of the Jurchen army arrived. Wanyan Lou was holding a map, pointing at it, and occasionally asking a Khitan general beside him.
If someone could see it, they would be surprised to find that the map in his hand is not the Khitan Yunzhou Prefecture, but a map of the Song Dynasty.
The Khitan general whom he questioned was none other than Yelu Yujian. After Emperor Tianzuo failed in his Northern Expedition, it was he who, with his high position as deputy capital commander, suddenly launched an army to rebel.
The Khitan, whose vitality was severely weakened, missed the best time to control the Jurchens and was forced to deploy the main force to quell the rebellion. Wanyan Aguda took advantage of the situation to conquer the Bohai people.
Yelu witnessed later and Concubine Wen go to Beijing to support Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi's eldest son as emperor. After being defeated by Wanyan Lou's family, he surrendered to the Jurchens.
Beigui Mountain, as the Yunzhou Ping Fan, had finally conquered the dangerous position, but Yelu Dashi had chosen to give it up.
In fact, Yelu Dashi has never been a militant. When he was under the command of King Yan, he always advocated "recuperate and wait for the time". He recruited soldiers and horses, trained them strictly, stood still, and waited for opportunities.
However, King Yelu Chun of Yan was steadfast and defeated the main force of Youyan Khitan troops in the first battle, while the Xi people were disloyal. At the critical moment, King Xi Xiao Qian stood still and wanted to take advantage of the situation to restore the country, but was recaptured by Yang Lin.
After defecting to Emperor Tianzuo again, Yelu Dashi also wrote many times, advocating to run a good defense in Yunzhou, just like the Song people in Youyan, waiting for the war to break out between the Jin and Song Dynasties, and the Liao Dynasty to take advantage of the opportunity to revive.
Yelu Yanxi still refused to listen to him. Now that he had become emperor and the lord of Khitan, he categorically abandoned the entire Beigui Mountain.
Concentrating all his strength, he built fortifications in Yunzhou, Yingzhou, and Yuzhou, recruited soldiers and horses, and hoarded food, grass, and supplies. In the court, while beheading Xiao Sixian, he also forgave many previous ministers and gained Xiao Sixian's achievements over the years.
He plundered and accumulated countless money and bought war horses on a large scale on the tea and horse trade routes of the Song Dynasty and the Mongols.
He expelled a group of young warriors who clamored for attack every day. He killed three of Gao Bing's ten sworn brothers. The others, led by Yu Shinan, fled from the border to the Song Dynasty to follow the deposed emperor Yelu Yanxi.
Heading to Bianliang.
At the beginning of usurping the throne, Yelu Dashi sent envoys to the Song Dynasty and exchanged the deposed emperor Yelu Yanxi for a large amount of food, grass and equipment. He also secretly sent people to negotiate peace with the Jin State, betrayed countless Zahu and Mongolian Tatars, and ceded the vast territory of Western Liao.
The grassland, hoping to exchange for a short-term peace, let the Jin people take the lead in starting a war with the Song Dynasty, and let the Khitan breathe.
The crumbling Khitan Dynasty also received a rare buffer. Wanyan Loushi was ordered not to go south again, but to prepare troops and horses for the upcoming war with the Song Dynasty.
Yang Lin always thought that Yelu Dashi was a hero who would rise up and fight to the death with the Jurchens, averting the humiliation of the Khitan in recent years. Unexpectedly, he was a hero, so capable of taking up and letting go, and even giving up things he couldn't keep without even frowning.
Wrinkle it. The large grassland in western Liaoning and the countless miscellaneous tribes on it have all become vassals of the Jurchens.
I originally thought that only the grandson of Yelu Yanxi would secretly negotiate peace with the Kingdom of Jin, but I didn't expect that Yelu Dashi, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would do such a shameful thing, which made Young Master Yang very angry.
As a result, it will be difficult to take back the remaining six states of Youyun's sixteen states in a short period of time. It would not be a good thing to force this bastard to completely defect to the Jin Kingdom. After all, the Jin Kingdom currently controls the territory.
, the Khitan people's constant troubles are one of their future troubles. If the small court of Yunzhou surrenders, most of these future troubles will be eliminated.
There was already an irreparable hatred between the Song and Jin Dynasties. Yang Lin went back on his words and attacked the Jurchen troops returning to the west to withdraw their troops less than ten days after the alliance was formed. He almost killed all of Wanyan Zonghan's men. The Jurchen soldiers on the east route went south but failed, but almost
The entire army was wiped out. If Yin Keshu had not stopped the pursuers with his death, Wanyan Zonghan and Lou Shi would most likely have perished in Youyan.
Later, he chased to Zhulu Mountain and killed Wanyan Wu at the place where Chi You fell.
The total losses to the local area are several times greater. It is impossible for this Jurchen to not retaliate.
For the Song Dynasty, the Jurchens were a thorn in their hearts. They fought from Hebei to Kaifeng Mansion, killing bodies and bones and rivers of blood along the way.
How can I not avenge this?
At the beginning, our army and horses were weak, and the civil servants were unwilling to go to war in order to suppress the generals, and they were not even willing to see the generals win the battle. The Khitans often went south, Xixia was eyeing them, and Hebei was a hunting ground for the Khitans all year round.
At that time, forbearance was enough, but now the troops are strong and the horses are strong, the territory is being expanded, the momentum is like a rainbow, the horses are like clouds, the soldiers are like rain, the supplies are abundant, and generals are emerging in large numbers.
Not to mention that the Jurchens will go south, even if they don't plan to go south, these hundreds of thousands of Han soldiers will inevitably have to step out of the Great Wall to try the powerful northern enemies of the generation after the Huns, Turks, and Khitans. You