The Liao Kingdom has been in a strange state recently. The victory in the Battle of Jijin Mansion eased the crisis faced by the Liao Kingdom in the face of the attack from the Zhou Dynasty and the Jurchens. After the Zhou soldiers and horses were defeated, the Jurchen army also realized what was going on.
They did not dare to approach Dading Prefecture anymore, but quickly retreated to the west of Liaoyang Prefecture on Tokyo Road and prepared a defensive posture.
It stands to reason that under this situation, the monarchs and ministers of the Liao Kingdom should have breathed a long sigh of relief and celebrated the alleviation of the crisis. However, for Yelu Zongyuan, he still felt huge pressure. The peace talks with Dazhou were first encountered.
Many people opposed it, and the most intense one was none other than Han Desui, the abbot of the Liao Kingdom who had made great contributions in the Battle of Jijin Mansion and was named the King of Nanyuan. Han Desui believed that he should take advantage of the momentum to attack the Great Zhou Dynasty and seize the opportunity to defeat the Great Zhou Dynasty.
All the lands in the north were annexed, and a large amount of human and material resources were obtained. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Based on Han Desui's years of experience in confronting the Zhou Dynasty, he believed that this opportunity was a godsend. If the Zhou Dynasty could be given a breather,
If there is no chance, then the Great Zhou Dynasty will recover quickly, and the effect of the victory in the battle of Xijin Mansion will be greatly reduced.
Just like the wave of a flood, when the peak of the flood hits, the power of the flood will be overwhelming. With the power of a great victory, you can make great progress. If you delay this best opportunity, the power of the winner will fade and the loser will be defeated.
The patient will also have a chance to breathe and make adjustments. Then things will be much more difficult to handle.
For Han Desui, going south has been his dream for many years. Having lived in Xijin Mansion for so many years, he has guarded this largest city where the Liao people interacted with the Zhou Dynasty for so many years. He thinks that he knows the Zhou Dynasty better than all the Liao people.
Everyone in the imperial court was deeply impressed. At the same time, he was also the one who felt the wealth and prosperity of the Zhou Dynasty most intuitively, which made him salivate for the Zhou Dynasty.
He specifically studied the terrain in the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty. From a military perspective, after breaking through several border towns and cities in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Bianliang, the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was actually within easy reach. In addition to the natural dangers of the Yellow River,
The capital city of Bianliang has a vast plain to the north, and there is no danger to defend it. The difficulty is that it is difficult to break through the more than ten border towns such as Xiongzhou, Bazhou, Rongcheng, and Baozhou. The other side has heavily stationed troops and has built the city like an iron barrel.
Generally speaking, there is really nothing that can be done. So now that the Zhou Dynasty's 100,000-strong army has almost been lost, isn't this an opportunity to break through the opponent's border town in one go? Once the border town is broken, what resistance does the Zhou Dynasty have? It will soon be destroyed.
General troops came to Bianliang City.
I have to say that Han Desui's idea is quite reasonable. Today, all the elites of the Great Zhou Dynasty have been lost, and a group of remnants in the border towns have been defeated. The old and weak soldiers are also at a low morale. Once all the elites of the Liao Kingdom come out at this time, they will threaten a great victory.
If the powerful attack comes, it may not be really devastating. If we don't take action now and wait until the Great Zhou Dynasty calms down, the troops and horses can be replenished, and the morale can be restored, then it will be a missed opportunity.
However, Han Desui's idea was clearly driven by a life-threatening impulse. His fundamental shortcoming was that he ignored the threats posed by the Jurchens. Han Desui had never fought against the Jurchens, and he was not cold towards the Jurchens. He even
He felt that Yelu Zongyuan was really incompetent. How could a mere Jurchen tribe besieged and suppressed for three years and still not be solved? On the contrary, they were allowed to become powerful and had hundreds of thousands of troops. This was simply a big joke. In front of Yelu Zongyuan's
He had laughed at him in front of him. Although Yelu Zongyuan was angry, he could only endure it because he could not offend Han Desui. If
In the Liao court, if there was anyone whom Yelu Zongyuan, an extremely tough and brutal man, did not dare to offend, Han Desui must be one of them.
Han Desui's plan on how to defend against the Jurchens' frontal and rear attacks was to send some troops to defend Zhongjing Road and Dading Prefecture, while all the rest of the elite troops attacked the Great Zhou Dynasty. After taking Bianliang City, all problems were solved.
When the time comes, if you want people and money, you will have what you want. We will go back and solve the Jurchens' problem. He even said that it would not matter even if the Zhongjing Road is given to the Jurchens, because Daliao will have a broader and richer land.
The southern land, even if it is an exchange, it is still worth it.
This radical idea naturally did not receive support from everyone, including Yelu Zongyuan and his Yelu Chun Yelvcai, including Prime Minister Han Yanshou, and a large number of tribal leaders. Of course Yelu Zongyuan refused.
If he loses the fight, he will lose the throne of the Emperor of Daliao. This loss is too great. In addition, he has known Dazhou for many years and thinks that it is a big fat piece of meat, but he can't eat it in one bite.
Fatty. If you really want to provoke a desperate counterattack from Dazhou, you must not underestimate it. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even if Dazhou is declining now, and even if Dazhou has just been defeated by Daliao, there is actually no chance of winning.
In addition to others believing that the Great Zhou Dynasty was not easily defeated, the important reason why they opposed Han Desui was because their roots were in the land of the Liao Dynasty. Their tribes, their industries, and their property were all in the Liao Dynasty.
Han Desui of the Liao Dynasty said it easily. According to his thinking, everyone would have to follow him in a desperate move, and the land and property of the people of his tribe would all be destroyed. Moreover, in the eyes of many people, the land of the Southern Zhou Dynasty was not as good as what they owned.
The tribal land in the south is rich and fertile. As the saying goes, no matter how bad it is here, it is a place where you can give birth and raise yourself, and it is also a place where you can run freely. No matter how good the south is, it is still a foreign land. If you ask the people of Daliao if they are willing
If you are willing to move to the land of Dazhou in the south, I am afraid that the vast majority of people are not willing at all.
Although Han Desui had a high status and great contributions, his proposal could not be implemented when everyone opposed it. Yelv Zongyuan and most of the ministers of Liao Dynasty were inclined to the second plan of Prime Minister Han Yanshou.
That is to negotiate peace with the Zhou Dynasty and break up the alliance between the Zhou Dynasty and the Jurchens. At the same time, they can severely rip off the Zhou Dynasty and use the money, food and materials provided by the Zhou Dynasty as the cost of annihilating the Jurchens. In this way, we can immediately make up for the losses caused by the war.
The losses caused can also weaken the strength of the Zhou Dynasty while annihilating the Jurchens with all their strength. This plan is called killing two birds with one stone and has been approved by the vast majority of people. Han Yanshou's sophisticated strategy was also approved by Yelv Zongyuan
.However, Yelu Zongyuan added one more thing to Han Yanshou's plan, that is, after annihilating the Jurchens, Daliao will target the Zhou Dynasty to punish this unkind and unjust country that deceived Daliao.
The reason why Yelu Zongyuan added this was not only because he had long coveted the Great Zhou Dynasty, but also because of the pressure he was under. The Liao court was actually not monolithic now, and many people were very dissatisfied with Yelu Zongyuan. The original version of Yelu Zongyuan
This caused dissatisfaction among the major tribes. If Han Yanshou hadn't bridged the gap and offered generous terms, the battle of Xijin Prefecture would have been a failure. However, these tribal leaders did not know about the Yanniu of Zhongjing Road at that time.
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The collapse of the canyon dam was Yelu Zongyuan's idea. But this incident obviously could not be concealed.
Therefore, after the battle of Jijin Mansion, when the tribal leaders learned that Yelu Zongyuan had issued an order to dig a dam, resulting in the fact that 200,000 people in Zhongjing Road and an area of dozens of miles around were washed away by floods and turned into a place of death,
While they were astonished, they also had a new understanding of Yelu Zongyuan. Yelu Zongyuan's prestige and reputation among the major tribes had reached a new low. This kind of emperor who didn't care about the life and death of the people under his rule was simply unworthy of the founding of the Liao Dynasty.
Unique in the past two hundred years. This person is too cruel and has no bottom line. Then the conditions he agreed to will definitely fall out and be torn up at any time in the future. This person cannot be trusted and relied on.
Therefore, the tribal leaders have secretly reached a consensus that they must be on guard against Yelu Zongyuan. They have even put forward conditions to Yelu Zongyuan through Han Yanshou. What they want is a high degree of autonomy, and they require Yelu Zongyuan.
The Yuan Dynasty announced the announcement to all the people in the world as evidence. In fact, this is to fight for independence one after another and to split the territories of the major tribes in Shangjing. It belongs to Daliao in name, but in fact it requires all officials and garrisons stationed by the Central Government of Daliao to
Even all military, political, and financial powers such as money, grain, and taxation were taken back, and the imperial court was not allowed to get involved.
It is conceivable that Yelu Zongyuan was angry when he found out about this. This greatly weakened his power as the emperor of Liao. These tribal leaders were so hateful that they dared to make such excessive demands. What is the difference between this and rebellion?
It's just a literal difference. But Yelu Zongyuan also knew that he couldn't fall out with the tribes at this time. Now the court's soldiers and horses have suffered serious losses. The total number of troops is less than 500,000, of which only 150,000 are left.
The cavalry on the left and right. The tribal alliance has more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, and they are all cavalry. Jin has become an indispensable force to a large extent. If they offend them at this moment, if they take these 200,000 soldiers and horses,
, or rebellion, then you will not be able to cope with it.
Of course, Yelu Zongyuan refused to anger them. He asked Han Yanshou to continue to stabilize the tribal leaders and told them that as long as the Jurchen rebellion could be suppressed and the situation in Daliao stabilized, their soldiers and horses could obey his orders and fight bravely.
, then you can agree to all the conditions. The premise is that they must not be half-hearted, otherwise if they cannot achieve their goals, you will not agree to their conditions.
The reason why Yelv Zongyuan decided to immediately add the plan to march into the Great Zhou Dynasty after annihilating the Jurchens was to maximize the use of the tribe's soldiers and horses to fight for himself and drain the value of the tribal alliance's soldiers and horses. At the same time, with the help of the enemy
Weakening the strength of the tribe's soldiers and horses with his own hands. Every time one of them dies in battle, he will have one less opponent to punish them in the future. Yes, Yelu Zongyuan has already thought about it. Once the situation stabilizes, he will not hesitate to do so.
He hesitated and destroyed all the tribes that were involved in threatening him. Even if he killed all the tribesmen, he would never tolerate their threats and coercion. No one in the world could coerce him.
In short, the Liao court has been in a state of excitement and carnival caused by victory in recent times. At the same time, it is also in a state of noise and unhappiness caused by disagreements. There is also covert coercion and
Transactions have their own calculations hidden under the calmness. So it feels very weird and subtle.
