Sun Dayong nodded slightly and said: "But I'm afraid Xingzhong Mansion can't be saved, right? How will Yelu Zongyuan respond? If the Jurchens capture Xingzhong Mansion, they can march straight into the Dading Mansion and threaten Dading Mansion. If Yelu Zongyuan doesn't
If you dare to fight with them, you will give the Jurchens time to build siege equipment."
Lin Jue nodded and said: "Yes, Yelv Zongyuan is probably going to have a headache. In my opinion, what he can do now is to gather all his troops in Dading Mansion and defend Zhongjing. If he wants to annihilate the enemy in the wild, he may
It's a wishful thinking. I'm afraid Xingzhong Mansion can't be saved. If Wanyan Agu attacks Dading Mansion, Yelu Zongyuan still has a little chance to win back. After all, Dading Mansion is a fortified city and can be defended by a large army.
The city is still more than enough. But I am afraid that if... Wanyan Agu fails to attack Dading Mansion, that would be the real terror."
"Not attacking Dading Mansion? How can you say this?" Sun Dayong said in surprise.
Lin Jue waved his hand and said: "Eat and drink water. Let's go up the mountain to watch the battle. It's not safe here. The defeated Liao army will probably flee to the mountains. It's better for us to avoid encountering them. Once we get to the mountain, I'll do it again.
I’ll tell you slowly.”
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As the morning sun rose, the battlefield in the wasteland south of the Daling River was in a mess. Groups of victorious Jurchen cavalry were wandering in the wasteland, collecting trophies.
Although armor is not a must-have item for the Jurchen cavalry, it is better than nothing. The collected armor has been modified and turned into something that Jurchen warriors like to wear. It is better than those animal skin clothes with no protection.
Much. As for how to transform it, it is very simple. Just cut off the already short sleeves and hem and turn it into a short armor similar to a waistcoat, so as not to affect the movements of the Jurchens.
The Liao people's scimitar is also a good thing. Although the Jurchen's scimitar is also good, it is still far behind compared with the Liao army's standard scimitar. The Jurchen tribe is backward in all aspects, and all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation are very primitive.
The Crescent Knife is a weapon made by the Jurchen tribe using pig iron smelted from iron ore. The craftsmanship is much different. Therefore, the Jurchens never miss the opportunity to plunder local weapons. Of course, they are not used to using other people's weapons.
All the weapons collected will be put into the furnace to be melted into molten iron and cast into the shape of a crescent sword for the army to use.
Naturally, the Liao people's war horses were also something that the Jurchens urgently needed. Because all the baggage materials were not carried this time, there were no carriages and horses to follow the army. The food and materials robbed along the way could only be carried as much as they could, and anything that could not be carried was left behind.
Burned. Once these Liao people's war horses are obtained, they can build carts and load supplies to follow the army. And soon they will start building siege equipment, and these war horses will soon be reduced to coolies pulling equipment. Poor these Liao people
The war horses were all carefully selected, but in the hands of the Jurchens they were worthless and could only be reduced to working animals like mules pulling carts.
In a depression near the hills to the south, Wanyan Agu's right-hand lieutenant Yalu Buhua was doing something inhumane. More than 20,000 captured Liao soldiers and injured cavalry were removed from the Jurchen soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield.
Everyone gathered here. At this moment, these people who had their bare hands stripped of their armor and clothes were all naked and had their hands and feet tied up, half of their bodies immersed in the muddy water in the depression. The dark depression was densely packed with people. Although it was late spring,
The early morning in the Northland and the water in the depression were still cold. They huddled together and shivered, like a group of pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
They didn't know the purpose of being gathered here, but they could vaguely feel great fear and uneasiness from the contemptuous eyes of the Jurchen cavalry around them.
General Yarubuhua rode his horse and stood on the hill on the east side of the depression. He held a black branch in his mouth and chewed it. The green juice from the chew flowed down the beard at the corner of his mouth. His eyes flashed with excitement like a beast.
of light.
Several Jurchen generals galloped up on their horses and came to Yarubuhua, stroking their breasts and bowing their heads in salute.
Yalu Buhua frowned and shouted: "General Hulu, General Alibai, aren't you ready? The sun has come out. The big boss asked us to assemble before now. Do you plan to let me disobey the big boss's military order?"
A general with a yellow beard hurriedly bowed his head and said: "General Yalu Buhua calmed down, everything is still ready. All the captured Liao dogs are concentrated here, and 24,129 of them are attacked."
"I don't care how many people there are. In short, if you don't keep any of them, they are all a burden. Let's do it." Yalu waved his hands, his tone impatient, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.
Several Jurchen generals received the order, bowed and saluted, then galloped away. Soon, the low sound of horns caused the noisy Liao prisoners of war in the puddles to stop making noise, and they looked at the surrounding heights in astonishment.
But after hearing the sound of horse hooves, a moment later, a dense crowd of Jurchen cavalry came on horseback and circled the puddle and grass nest twice. They held the crescent sword in their hands, and the crescent sword shone in the sun.
There are also faint blood stains that have not yet been wiped off. These are the marks left after last night's battle.
"Do it." The yellow-bearded General Hulu ordered in a deep voice. The next moment, countless whirling crescent knives came out of the Jurchens' hands, shining with frightening light, spinning through the air. A puff of blood mist appeared in the air.
Erupting in the sun, the crescent knife cut through the flesh, cut the throat and blood vessels, and then spiraled away. Naked bodies fell into the turbid water, and the blood quickly dyed the water red.
Only now did the Liao captives truly realize the reason why they were gathered here. The ferocious Jurchens wanted to slaughter them all here, leaving no one alive. After they woke up, they immediately began to wail loudly. However, their hands and feet had already lost their strength.
They were tied so tightly that they could only squirm in the muddy water, like a group of wriggling maggots, but they could not escape their terrible fate.
With cold and cruel smiles on their lips, the Jurchen warriors threw the crescent knives out again and again. This was a good target for them to practice throwing. Every bloody wound on these naked flesh and blood bodies would be stimulated.
Thinking of the Jurchens' stronger animalistic nature, later on, they even burst out laughing.
Circle after circle, the massacre continued crazily. After killing everyone on the outside, the Jurchens rode their horses closer and continued to kill in the inner circle. Until their horse hooves were immersed in the muddy and blood-stained puddles, until the last wailing Liao army
The prisoner stopped his howling.
The scene that was originally noisy, harsh, noisy and crying has calmed down. Everyone's ears seem to still be echoing with the sound of crying and the sound of the crescent knife cutting through the air. None of the Liao prisoners survived, and their naked bodies were intertwined.
They fell on top of each other into the filthy puddle. The blood on their bodies dyed the shallow water in the puddle black and red. The Jurchens also rode on their horses.
They stood and stared blankly at the scene in front of them, their chests heaving, and the excitement and cruelty on their faces gradually dissipated, replaced by a trace of fear and loneliness.
In the sky, the sun was shining brightly. The wind was blowing across the wasteland, and the wild grass was rolling like the ocean tide. Vultures began to circle in the sky. They had already smelled the smell of death, and were gathering and circling, ready to come down and have a feast.
The Jurchens officially ended the war in this way. All of this was an order from Wanyan Agu. First of all, there was really no way to relocate these Liao people. It was impossible for Wanyan Agu to allocate manpower to guard these wounded soldiers.
It was even more impossible to release those who were prisoners and prisoners, so they were massacred. Secondly, the Jurchens had been oppressed by the Liao people for decades, and they had already hated the Liao people. Especially these Liao soldiers were even more hated by the Jurchens.
The Jurchens have no sympathy for the soldiers of the Liao Kingdom. The Jurchens have already had an unwritten military order within the Jurchens. All prisoners and wounded soldiers will be executed without mercy.
Wanyan Aguda is about solving complex problems and understanding all feuds in an extremely brutal and direct way.
At 6 o'clock, Wanyan Agu's army reorganized and set out, and before noon they advanced to the wilderness two miles below Xingzhongfu City to camp. At this time, just as Lin Jue expected, Yelv Chun's army had stopped crossing the river, and even
They also retreated ten miles to the north. When the defenders in Xingzhong got the news, they were already in chaos.
After urgent discussions, Zhang Yuanqing, the prefect of Xingzhong Prefecture, and Xiao Zheng'an, deputy envoy of the North Privy Council of the Liao Army who led troops from Dading Prefecture to defend, decided to immediately send someone to consult Yelu Zongyuan for countermeasures. Everyone fell into panic.
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Two hundred miles away, in the Imperial Palace of Dading Prefecture in Zhongjing, as the sun set, Yelu Zongyuan was sitting with his eyes closed by the koi pond on the side of the corridor, breathing and resting. Beside him was an old man with a white beard dressed as a Taoist priest, holding a whisk in his hand.
Whisper softly next to you.
"My Taoist health-preserving art of inhalation and breathing emphasizes tranquility and nothingness, and the true energy flows from it. To move the qi, if it is deep... it will be accumulated, if it is accumulated it will be extended, if it is extended it will go down, and if it goes down it will be settled. When it is settled... it will be solid. It will be solid.
If it grows, it will grow; if it grows, it will retreat; if it retreats, it will be heaven. If the heaven is above, the earth will be below. If it goes smoothly, it will lead to life; if it goes against the will, it will lead to death."
Yelu Zongyuan nodded slowly, with a smile on his face. This Taoist priest was the headmaster of Tianyi Pavilion invited by Yelu Zongyuan from the Zhou Dynasty. Like many emperors, Yelu Zongyuan became the leader of the Liao Dynasty.
The emperor then hoped that he could live forever, sit on the emperor's throne forever, and enjoy glory and wealth forever. The Liao Kingdom was greatly influenced by the Great Zhou Dynasty, so Yelu Zongyuan also believed in the Taoist health-preserving techniques that were popular in the Great Zhou Dynasty, so he invited this old Taoist to come
He specialized in teaching himself the art of breathing and nourishing his body, practicing it every day, and never slacking off. Even when the war in the Liao Dynasty was raging, Yelv Zongyuan still found time to practice breathing and meditation under the guidance of the Taoist priest.
"It means that if you take a deep breath, you will accumulate Qi in your body. If you draw the stored Qi downward, then..." The Taoist priest was still talking, but at this time, a burst of rapid footsteps disturbed the two of them.
people.
Yelu Zongyuan opened his eyes angrily, and he saw the palace servant Li Gouer running towards him with a robe in hand and an anxious look on his face. Yelu Zongyuan drew the long sword hanging on the pillar with a Canglang sound.
Come out. Yelv Zongyuan has issued strict orders that no one can disturb him when he is practicing breathing. Because the Taoist priest said that being interrupted by foreign objects during breathing can easily cause the energy to go wrong, so whoever interrupts him at this time
, is tantamount to murder. How can such a person forgive himself?
When Li Gouer saw this, his face turned pale with fright. He raised his hand and shouted with the letter in his hand: "Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty, please calm down. This is an urgent report from the Xingzhong Mansion. I dare not delay."
Yelu Zongyuan was stunned, took back his sword and shouted: "Is there an urgent report from Xingzhong Mansion?"
"It's the urgent message that the golden eagle from the palace flew back." Li Gou'er offered it with both hands. There were several types of birds used to deliver letters in the Liao Kingdom. Pigeons, mountain eagles, golden eagles, etc. each represented different degrees of urgency.
The fastest flying eagle is also the most difficult to tame, so once the golden eagle is dispatched to deliver a letter, it means that it is the most urgent situation and cannot be delayed for even a moment. This is how Li Gouer knew that the letter could not be delayed.
Yelv Zongyuan tore open the bamboo tube, took out the wax seal, took out the letter, and quickly opened it to take a closer look. Within a moment, his face changed drastically, and he shouted angrily: "How is this possible? How is this possible? Bastard, how could this happen?"
"
"Your Majesty, please be careful not to get angry after vomiting." The old Taoist priest said beside him.
"Go away." Yelu Zongyuan cursed angrily.
The old Taoist had a look of surprise on his face and did not dare to say anything. He bowed and walked away quickly. Li Gou'er knelt on the ground and raised his face and said, "Your Majesty, Gou'er didn't waste any time."
Yelu Zongyuan was filled with rage and had nowhere to vent. He suddenly raised his sword and struck down with it. Li Gouer's skull rolled into the pool. A large group of koi carps thought it was food that had been thrown into the water and swarmed around the head.
He couldn't stop biting it.
Yelu Zongyuan shouted angrily: "Come here, come here. Tell me my will and summon all the ministers to the palace."
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After a short rest, Wanyan Aguda began to prepare for the attack on Xingzhong Prefecture. Xingzhong Prefecture is the roadblock to the southwest of Zhongjing Road. Xingzhong Prefecture must be captured in order to allow his troops to truly rest and recuperate.
At the same time, you can also use Xingzhong Mansion as your foothold on Zhongjing Road. Things can be done slowly after that.
Wanyan Aguda was not inflated by last night's victory. He believed that last night's victory was not enough for him to control the situation. At best, he could take the initiative. The Liao army still had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses on the Zhongjing Road.
Not to mention the distance, there are currently more than 200,000 soldiers and horses nearby. On the way from the attack, there are hundreds of thousands of Liao infantry rushing towards Xingzhong Mansion.
Wanyan Aguda even planned his next move. If after he captured Xingzhong Mansion, Yelu Zongyuan huddled in Dading Mansion and defended it, he would not have to pay attention to him. Zhongjing was important, but instead of attacking Dading Mansion,
It would be more practical to actually control the Zhongjing Road. Wanyan Agu's plan is that if Yelv Zong Yuanruo cannot retreat, he will lead his troops to sweep across the entire Zhongjing Road, occupy all the cities, and make Dading Mansion a
An isolated city. By then, Yelu Zongyuan will be in his pocket.
Of course, the main purpose of this is to force Yelu Zongyuan to go out of the city to fight with him. Last night's victory was not enough, and more than 100,000 main cavalry of the Liao army needed to be annihilated. By then, Yelu Zongyuan would be completely defeated.
However, all of this still requires the Zhou soldiers and horses in the south to be able to contain the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses belonging to the South Academy of Liao. Otherwise it will be difficult to do.
In any case, the immediate priority is to capture Xingzhong Mansion. The craftsmen in the army are all here, and the precious drawings sent by Dazhou are all ready-made, so we must hurry up and cut down the wood to make tools.
weapons, and captured Xingzhong Mansion as soon as possible. Although they experienced a great victory last night, the supplies carried by the brothers were less than a few days, and the soldiers and horses were sleepy, seriously injured, and in urgent need of rest. So, starting from the evening,
Wanyan Agu sent tens of thousands of men to cut wood in Helong Mountain. The captured war horses dragged the logs in a long queue to the camp under the city. Thousands of craftsmen started construction with axes and chisels, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses assisted, and began to vigorously manufacture
Siege equipment.
The Jurchens made no secret of their intentions. After dark, the camp was brightly lit and extremely lively. They acted openly under the eyes of the defenders of Xingzhong Prefecture, without hiding it at all. Wanyan Aguda wanted to
Put pressure on the defenders of Xingzhong Prefecture, making them sleepless at night and unable to eat. If the other party can't hold back and go out of the city to fight with them, it will be what they want. However, Wanyan Agu knew that the Liao people did not have the courage.
…
It was late at night, but the lights above and below the city were brightly lit. On the city, they were busy reinforcing the defensive facilities of the city wall, transporting the objects to defend the city in preparation for the battle, while below the city there was a lively scene of making siege equipment. The air was filled with tension.
The atmosphere before the war was so depressing that it made people feel breathless.
Not only is this happening up and down the city, but at this moment, in the sky under the bright moon, a special fight is unfolding.
Wanyan Agu knew that the Liao people were good at using birds to convey messages. Over the years, the Jurchen tribe was forced to pay tribute to the Liao people with various birds of prey produced in Changbai Mountain.
Soldiers and horses are tools for transmitting messages. A good falcon can fly several times faster than a homing pigeon, and has long-lasting endurance, rain or shine. Raptors are very safe and fast, and are an extremely efficient way to transmit messages.
.Compared with land-based carriage and horse stations, there are many advantages. The only trouble is that training these birds requires special methods and takes a lot of time. But the Liao people have mastered this method. Starting from chicks
Taming, you can successfully tame a messenger falcon in one year.
Wanyan Agu naturally knows these things very well. Don't look at his soldiers and horses making siege equipment under the city with great fanfare. It seems that he doesn't care about anything, but Wanyan Agu will never take it lightly. In fact, he
He really wanted to know the details and reaction of the other party. He knew that the defenders in the city would be in frequent contact with Yelu Zongyuan in Dading Mansion. In this case, they would not waste time and would definitely use raptors such as golden eagles and mountain eagles.
Deliver the message.
As a result, Wanyan Agu gave an order and released a dozen sea green raptors from the Jurchen army, hovering over Xingzhong Mansion, with the purpose of intercepting and killing these birds that were transmitting messages.
Although Haidongqing is small in size, it is the most ferocious among all birds of prey. Moreover, they are highly aggressive and are accustomed to snatching prey from the mouths of other birds. They can be called robbers among birds. Wanyan Agu got up early in the morning
Secretly taming these sea greens for future use. As a person who has long harbored lofty ambitions, he made many unknown preparations for his future. Just like taming sea greens, others thought that
His leader likes this kind of plaything, but he doesn't know that Wanyan Aguda's purpose is to put it to use one day.
More than a dozen sea turtles were hovering at the top of the city of Xingzhong Prefecture. They did not wait too long. In the western sky, several golden eagles carrying messages fluttered their wings. They flew to Xingzhong Prefecture from Dading Prefecture in the evening.
What was delivered was Yelu Zongyuan's top secret order. Because the matter was so important that one golden eagle could not ensure safety, so Yelu Zongyuan sent a team of two golden eagles and three mountain eagles. The two golden eagles carried two
Although Shan Ying also had a bamboo tube tied to his leg, it was a fake letterhead, completely designed to confuse the public.
Hai Dongqing, who had been waiting for a long time, saw the golden eagle and mountain eagle flying towards him. He immediately fluttered his wings and screamed, and rushed over in a swarm. The golden eagle was huge and ferocious, with its wings spread as long as a person, and its claws and beak were sharp and powerful.
, most birds will stay away from it when they see it. Although the mountain eagle is small in size, it is also a ferocious bird. Protecting the golden eagle with a mountain eagle is like a fighter jet protecting a bomber. However, Haidongqing is fearless and has no fear of sea eagles.
As far as Dongqing is concerned, there is nothing they dare not attack. Although they are small in size, they are naturally fearless. Moreover, these dozen Dongqing have been specially trained. Wanyan Agu paid tribute to the golden eagle mountain eagle to Liao
When he was a human, Hai Dongqing's training was to use the golden eagle as the imaginary enemy, and the training was not for Hai Dongqing to fight with it, but how to steal the mailbox on the golden eagle's foot. This was specifically targeted.
training and conducted it for several years.
A dozen or so sea green eagles rushed towards the team of golden eagles and mountain eagles, and started to fight. Although the golden eagles have sharp claws and sharp beaks, their flexibility is far less than that of sea green eagles. The dozen or so sea green eagles have a clear division of labor. Five or six of them have a clear division of labor.
They bite and fight around the mountain eagles, entangling them, and the rest fly up and down around the two golden eagles, waiting for an opportunity to attack. The fight lasted for less than a minute, when a sea green eagle passed through the belly of a golden eagle, and suddenly
It fluttered its wings and twisted around, grabbed the mailbox with both claws and pulled it off. Then it chirped triumphantly. The other Haidongqing screamed loudly in harmony, and formed a formation to protect the successful Haidongqing. The golden eagle lost the letter and was eager.
They snatched it back, but were blocked by a formation of sea greens. The appearance of more than a dozen sea greens showing their teeth and claws was also extremely intimidating. The golden eagle and the mountain eagle had no choice but to turn around and fly to the side. The sea greens flapped their wings and headed east.
They flew to the Jurchen camp and fell one after another.
Soon after, the snatched bamboo mailbox was already in Wanyan Aguda's hand. In the big tent, the grease lamp flickered and emitted black smoke, and the air was filled with a pungent smell. Wanyan Aguda
Use your thick fingers to remove the cork and wax seal on the bamboo tube, pull out a roll of yellow silk cloth, and slowly unfold it under the lamp.
There seemed to be no writing on the silk cloth. Wanyan Aguda frowned, looking a little annoyed. Until the silk cloth was unfolded to the middle position, suddenly, two tiny words fell into view. Wanyan Aguda was there.
The moment he saw those two words, he jumped up as if he had been bitten by a poisonous snake. The seven or eight generals and several personal guards in the tent looked at Wanyan Agu in surprise. But when they saw
Wanyan Aguda's face turned pale, the muscles on his face were trembling, and large drops of sweat rolled down his forehead.
"Big leader, what's wrong?" General Yalu Buhua asked hurriedly.
"Send the order, send the order!" Wanyan Agu shouted loudly: "Send the order to the whole army to move out immediately, enter Helong Mountain immediately, and send the order immediately."
Wanyan Aguda's voice trembled and became hoarse. He also rushed out of the tent like a gust of wind. Yalu Buhua and others looked at each other, Yalu Buhua stepped forward and reached out to pick up the paper on the table.
She opened the yellow silk cloth, unfolded the crumpled yellow silk, and found two small words in the middle: Dig Dam!
