Yelv Zongyuan's face changed several times and he said with great joy: "Yes, this is exactly the truth. They are dissatisfied with me, but they never want the Liao Dynasty to be destroyed, so they will be finished. They can only support me. How could I forget it?
What about such a simple truth? In other words, they will fully support me, right?"
Han Yanshou smiled and nodded: "Exactly, but the truth needs to be explained to them to prevent them from being confused. The veteran can do this for me. The veteran will leave for each ministry tomorrow to meet with their leaders and explain this truth to them clearly.
As long as several major tribes continue to support the imperial court, there will be no need to worry about war horses. The men of our Daliao tribe can kill the enemy without even training. If everything goes well, within a month, we, Daliao, will have at least 400,000 more cavalry."
Yelu Zongyuan nodded with great joy and said: "That's it, that's it. Just one word to wake up the dreamer, the Prime Minister can really see clearly, even more clearly than I can. Hahaha."
Han Yanshou waved his hand and said: "The emperor is just too worried and has not thought about it carefully. With the emperor's wisdom, he will think of this sooner or later. What the emperor has to do now is to withstand the Jurchens' attack. The soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the south will surely besiege the analysis.
Jin Mansion, Jin Mansion cannot be lost and must be defended. The emperor can dispatch 100,000 troops and horses for reinforcements. The remaining 350,000 troops and horses must block the Jurchens east of Zhongjing. The situation cannot deteriorate too quickly.
When the old minister convinces the tribes and leads the army to go south, first destroy the male soldiers and horses, and then save the Jurchen siege, this crisis will be eliminated."
Yelv Zongyuan nodded and said happily: "Exactly, what the prime minister said is what I think. Humph. When I get through this crisis and look back, I will settle the score with Dazhou. If I don't touch them, they will
We have come to disturb us. As for the Jurchens, I will exterminate them. This lowly race must not leave any one behind to avoid future troubles."
Han Yanshou said solemnly: "That's something for later. The only thing I'm worried about is that the prince is captured. If the soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty threaten the prince's life, what will the emperor do? Prince Yelvshi is the emperor's beloved son.
Woolen cloth."
Yelv Zongyuan felt a pain in his heart. Yelv Shi was his favorite son. Zhuozhou was captured and fell, and was now in the hands of the Zhou people. Just now, he was still thinking about how to rescue him. What should he do if the Zhou people threatened the prince's life?
Woolen cloth?
Yelv Zongyuan frowned and glanced at the faces of the ministers in front of him. Seeing that everyone was waiting for his answer, he felt hard and said in a deep voice: "I am naturally worried about Yelv Shi being captured. But the safety of the Liao State is more important than anything else.
, they try to use Yelvshi's life to coerce me, but that is impossible. I hereby give an order, if the other party threatens you with Yelvshi's life, I order you to kill Yelvshi, and you must not be coerced by the enemy. Everything is important.
Heavy."
Everyone was awe-inspiring and agreed in unison that the emperor was ready to give up the life of Prince Yelvshi. It is no wonder that in this situation, if he is detained again because of Yelvshi's capture, it will obviously be a small gain. Yelvshi
He is the emperor's third son. Although there are various signs that Yelvshi is deeply liked by the emperor and is intending to train him as the successor to the Daliao throne. However, this matter can only be given up. After all, except for Yelvshi, the emperor
He also had two sons, Yelu Chun and Yelu Cai. Although these two were dandy, they did not leave the emperor with no heirs.
"The emperor is so talented and broad-minded that I deeply admire him. So I made preparations and set out early tomorrow morning to go to various ministries to persuade them." Han Yanshou said with a cupped hand.
"No, the Prime Minister has a hard time, can you leave now? Just take my chariot and horses, and the road will be more comfortable. I will order the guards to escort the Prime Minister, and send the servants to take care of you along the way. The Prime Minister has a heavy burden on his shoulders, so I will count on you.
Your trip this time can unite Daliao again and let them send troops to fight against foreign enemies." Yelu Zongyuan said solemnly.
Han Yanshou thought for a moment and said, "I obey the order and will leave immediately."
Yelv Zongyuan cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Prime Minister, for your understanding."
Han Yanshou bowed in return, turned around and said to all the civil and military officials: "My lords and generals, the safety of the Liao Dynasty depends on you. We must guard the Xijin Prefecture and the Dading Prefecture. If Nanjing and Zhongjing are lost, the situation will be over.
also."
Everyone raised their hands and said, "Don't worry, Prime Minister Han. We will fight to the death to protect the two capitals. Weng Han will be careful along the way and I hope you will succeed immediately."
…
On the north bank of the Sangqian River, among the rolling hills and mountains south of Xijin Mansion, Lin Jue and his party were hiding and walking cautiously in the mountains and fields.
In the middle of the night two days ago, Lin Jue and others crossed the Sangqian River to come here, and the process was very dangerous. That night, what Lin Jue waited for was not Yang Jun's gratitude, but thousands of people sneaking closer with evil intentions.
The Zhou cavalry attack. Instead of thanking Lin Jue for capturing Yelv Shi and occupying the ferry for him, Yang Jun sent troops and horses to sneak attack the ferry. His intention was of course obvious, which was to kill Lin Jue and his entourage in one fell swoop.
Naturally, everyone under Lin Jue cursed him profusely afterwards, angrily accusing Yang Jun of being ungrateful and ungrateful. But Lin Jue didn't take it seriously because this was something he had expected.
When Yelvshi was escorted to Zhuozhou, Lin Jue was prepared for Yang Jun to attack him. It was simple. Yelvshi would expose his identity, and he would be a thorn in the side of the imperial court. He only led more than a hundred people to go deep into the place where Liao and Zhou fought.
, this is inherently extremely dangerous. In addition, after his identity is exposed, Yang Jun is likely to take the opportunity to strangle himself. Lin Jue is not bragging, if he can strangle himself, it will be more attractive to Yang Jun than taking Zhuozhou City.
It also made Guo Xu even happier.
But how could Lin Jue give him this opportunity? Who is Lin Jue? He is a person who has crawled from the mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, a person who has come from all kinds of conspiracies and conspiracies. He has already seen through these high positions in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
How could he not take these things into consideration if he knew the nature and appearance of people, and decided never to compromise with them and believed that they would change? Lin felt that it was fine if he didn't try to deceive others, so how could he let Yang Jun succeed?
?
When the cavalry sent by Yang Jun quietly approached several miles away, the secret sentry sent several miles away had noticed it. After galloping back to report, Lin Jue and his group of more than a hundred people had already boarded two large ships and sailed away.
Leaving the pier, we crossed the river to the north.
When Bai Qi led thousands of Zhou soldiers and horses to the ferry dock, what they saw were the blurry black shadows of two large ships on the river.
However, the people under Lin Jue did not have Lin Jue's good attitude. They were aggrieved on the boat and cursed Yang Jun for being ungrateful. Lin Jue smiled and appeased them. Originally, what he did was not to make Yang Jun feel grateful, and Yang Jun did not.
If you are grateful to yourself, how can you be ungrateful? Lin Jue advises everyone to calm down and understand one thing. All actions are for the people of Zhou Dynasty, not for Yang Jun or the imperial court. Then
Your mentality will be much more balanced. When you do things with the heart of helping the world, it doesn't matter what kind of kindness you repay. If you don't expect it, there will be no sense of gap. For a person like Yang Jun, do you still expect him to be grateful to you?
Crossing the Sanggan River to the north is not an easy task. There was a commotion at the south ferry crossing of the Sanggan River, but the North Ferry crossing across the river was quiet as usual, with no special movement. The observation during the day was that the north bank of the Sanggan River
It was quiet, with no movement of personnel or ships, which was obviously not in line with common sense. The news of Zhuozhou's defeat should have been known to them soon, and they should have made some response. They were so quiet, so normal
, in fact, it is extremely unusual.
Therefore, Lin Jue would not rashly sail directly to the North Ferry to disembark, otherwise he might fall into the trap of the Liao people. Therefore, after the two large ships reached the middle of the river, they drifted eastward along the current. At dawn, they rushed
After crossing a torrent, they ran aground on a shoal on the side of a steep cliff. Sun Dayong led the people to find a slightly gentler slope, and he and dozens of guards cut through the obstacles and opened up a narrow path. Only then did he let his troops
After going ashore with difficulty, we set foot among the hills and mountains to the north of the Sanggan River.
After Lin Jue and his party successfully set foot on the north bank of the Sanggan River, before they could take a breath, they immediately found themselves in a subtle and dangerous environment. To say it was a subtle danger meant that it did not seem to be a real danger. Because this
Although the danger has not occurred, Lin Jue and others may fall into death at any time.
That's because as soon as Lin Jue and others came down from the cliff along the river bank, they quickly sensed the danger around them. The scouts sent out soon brought news that alarmed Lin Jue, that is, among the hills and hills along the river bank
Suddenly, seven or eight Liao army soldiers and horses were discovered marching westward. The number of Liao army soldiers and horses in each group was not large, only about a thousand, and the most was only two thousand. But once Lin Jue and others
If someone is discovered fighting against them, it will inevitably cause all the Liao troops to swarm over and fall into a tight siege.
Of course, Lin Jue did not dare to act without permission. The purpose of crossing the river to the north was to spy, not to fight with the Liao people. What's more, if he really wanted to fight with the Liao cavalry, there were only a hundred people in his group, and they would not end well. Even if they were matched,
Even with firearms, it would be impossible to confront the tens of thousands of Liao people head-on. That would be absolutely stupid.
So Lin Jue immediately ordered everyone to hide and stop taking any actions to avoid being discovered by these soldiers and horses. At the same time, Lin Jue, Sun Dayong, Gao Muqing, Baibing and others briefly discussed and reached an agreement on this matter.
consensus.
Lin Jue and others believed that the Liao people were increasing their troops near North Ferry and Xijin Prefecture. These Liao troops should have gathered to go there, but the reason why they dispersed was probably due to two reasons.
They are not affiliated with the same army. Judging from the quantity and equipment, they should be the manpower belonging to local states, counties and tribes. The military system of the Liao State is similar to that of the Zhou Dynasty. These should be similar to the local armed forces of the Zhou Dynasty and belong to the Xiang Dynasty.
Soldiers or regiments were training troops and horses. Once Zhuozhou was lost, the Zhou soldiers and horses crossed the river and approached Xijin Prefecture in Nanjing. The regular Liao army soldiers and horses guarding Xijin Prefecture were afraid that they were insufficient in number, so they recruited people and horses from these places to assemble.
Another reason may be the need to keep their whereabouts secret. These soldiers and horses quietly reinforced the ferry in the mountains and fields, fearing that they would set up an ambush and sneak attack between Beidukou and Xijin Prefecture. This was just a concentration of troops in one direction, and it seemed that the number of people
There aren't many, but the troops and horses from the east and west are all gathering in the direction of Xijin Mansion, so their number should be considerable.
Whether it is for that reason, or a combination of both, this shows that the Liao army is actively preparing for war and is ready to meet the Zhou soldiers and horses. This matter is not optimistic.
