The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Yelu Hongji fled to Ningzhou in shock, and before he was able to breathe and settle down, Yelu Chongyuan's messenger had already rushed to his butt. But he didn't mention anything about it, and he didn't seem to care about it; at the end of the letter, he asked Yelu Hongji to lead the remaining troops back to Linhuang Mansion to join his army and take back Shangjing in one fell swoop.

Yelu Hongji didn't want to go at all, but he had no choice but to go, the Linhuang mansion was lost in his hands, and he even killed the queen because of it, at this time, if he didn't behave more actively, he would take it back to Linhuang The government has done meritorious service, how will it be explained in the future?

Although Yelu Kanrong and others tried their best to dissuade Yelu Hongji from staying, and the generals led troops to attack Linhuang Mansion, but Yelu Hongji led his army to go south after deliberation.

Yelu Chongyuan's army had already occupied Seoul, but the Song people were really tricky. After moving their troops into the imperial city, Seoul was set on fire and burned. It was filled with soil; and the supplies in the city were pitifully low. The people in the city had already been driven away by the Song people to evacuate all the wood and other things, and they took them to the imperial city to build shacks. Yelu Chongyuan had to set up a military tent on the ruins. All in all, much better than camping in the wilderness.

After Yelu Hongji arrived, Yelu Zhongyuan first comforted him with Wen Yan, and then began to scare Yelu Hongji: "Nephew, you have gone too far this time, how could you kill the queen and the prince with your own hands? Princess? This will be a lifelong stain on you, which cannot be washed away. After the emperor returns, do you know what will happen to you?"

Yelu Hongji blushed and said: "Uncle Huang didn't know something, the situation at that time really cannot be considered too much, the people of Song Dynasty used their mother, queen and younger siblings to threaten them, and at that time our army had already driven the people into the North City of Seoul as the vanguard, I don't want to Maybe I surrendered in order to save them, and if I attack, the Song people will humiliate the queen and princess, and my nephew has to do this in order to prevent the mother from being humiliated; uncle, what would you do if you were present?"

Yelu Chongyuan sighed: "What you said is the truth, but others don't think so, and your father doesn't necessarily think so. I'm worried for you."

Yelu Hongji's face turned blue, he rubbed his hands together and said, "Uncle Huang, do you think Father will blame me?"

Yelu Chongyuan let out a long sigh and fell silent, Yelu Hongji almost burst into tears, he shook Yelu Chongyuan's sleeve and said, "Uncle Emperor, please save me, explain a few words for me."

Yelu Chongyuan said: "That's natural, but the Linhuang mansion must be taken back, otherwise why should I plead with your father? Originally, I planned to capture the Linhuang mansion myself, but judging from the current situation, you are better than me. It is even more necessary to take back the credit for Linhuang Mansion, so I decided to give this credit to you, so that you can explain something."

Yelu Hongji was so excited that he almost cried, he knelt down and kowtowed, "The emperor treats me like this, my nephew will be a good and filial emperor from now on."

Yelu Zhongyuan waved his hand and said: "Forget it, since it is due to you, I can't interfere, otherwise people will say that I gave you the credit, I decided to allocate [-] troops to you, and you already have [-]. In this way, there will be an army of [-]. In the siege battle, you have full command of the troops and horses in the post, and my uncle will sweep the formation for you."

Yelu Hongji said in astonishment, "How can this... [-] troops be captured?"

Yelu Chongyuan lowered his face and said: "Do you still want me to hand over all the soldiers and horses to you? I will send people to feign an attack in the four cities, so the Song army will have to divide its troops to defend the four cities. The Song army only has more than [-] people. The number of people in the four cities and one point is three times less than yours, and you can't win this, so what else can you say?"

Yelu Hongji said happily: "It turns out that uncle will feint to attract. If so, my nephew is confident."

Yelu Chongyuan said: "That's good. Start attacking tomorrow afternoon. Once you attack, don't be discouraged. You have to take it all at once. The army rations are running out and it won't take time. If you don't have the confidence to take it down, you'd better take it as soon as possible." Speak, so I can change people to attack the city."

"Don't worry, uncle, my nephew will definitely win the imperial city."

"The ugly words are in the head. If you retreat, you will damage the morale of my army. I want military law to do it. I came here with a big victory in Xinzhou, and my morale is extremely high. If you weaken my morale, I will never agree."

Yelu Hongji patted his chest and said: "Nephew is willing to issue a military order. If he retreats, he will let his uncle deal with it."

Yelu Chongyuan laughed and said: "You are very ambitious, so I will allow you to issue a military order. Uncle is not trying to force you, but to inspire your courage to fight the enemy bravely. My Prince Daliao is the future lord of the people, so of course you must look down upon me." The power and influence of the world, in the future, when your father and I are old, we can only rely on you to fulfill my great wish of unifying the world in Daliao."

Yelu Hongji's face was flushed with excitement, he picked up a brush and wrote down the military order, and returned to the camp excitedly.

Yelu Chongyuan held the military order in his hand, read it carefully several times under the lamp, and sneered; Wang Han held back from the corner of the tent, and the two looked at each other and laughed under the lamp, strange and inexplicable.

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More than ten days ago, after the defeat of Xinzhou, the dynasty led 2 Song troops to break through to the north. He wanted to rush to Linhuang Mansion to join Su Jin, but Yelu Chongyuan's army pulled out the stronghold and returned to the army. The route was completely blocked, and the dynasty could not wander around with these [-] horses within their line of sight. When they escaped, they took nothing with them, not even rations, so they had to find a place to rest.

The Dynasty turned its attention to Longzhou occupied by the Jurchens, and marched for three days with [-] defeated troops, and finally arrived at the city of Longzhou. When Wanyanhu attacked Xinzhou, he did not take away all the elite Jurchens, but took half The Jurchen soldiers, the other half were surrendered soldiers from the Liao army. I didn't expect that this selfish act would leave an ordinary elite for the Jurchen tribe.

The news brought by the dynasty made the entire Jurchen clan deeply saddened. The leader Wan Yanhu died in Xinzhou, and all the 10,000 Jurchen clansmen who went with him also died. This is a great loss to the small Jurchen tribe. There are only two [-]+ people in their whole family.

The Jurchens quickly elected a new leader, who was Wanyanhu's sworn brother Wanyanfeng. Wanyanfeng offered to avenge the dead Wanyanhu. Ten thousand horses, plus the 9 that I brought out is only 11, which is far less than Yelu Chongyuan's 16. If the Jurchens are willing to send troops, there will be tens of thousands of new troops, whether it is defending the city or fighting in the field. Fear the opponent.

Some people in the Jurchen tribe objected to Wan Yanfeng's decision, thinking that the strength of the Jurchen tribe was greatly damaged and they should focus on self-protection. At the tribal meeting, Dynasty tried to convince the tribal elders with the ability to analyze problems learned from Su Jin. Tell the tribal elders that once the Song army is wiped out, the next goal of the Liao people is to avenge the Jurchens who took advantage of the fire. Originally, the Jurchen still had 5 horses, but now their strength has been greatly reduced. Only by joining hands with the army and defeating Yelu Chongyuan's army can the safety of the Jurchen tribe be guaranteed.

The Jurchens are not fools, they know the truth, but they know that once they send troops, it will be a big gamble, and if they lose the bet, they will lose everything; The number of soldiers is also tens of thousands less than that of the Liao army. In addition, the defense of Shangjing City is strong. Jin's army was blocked in the wilderness with tens of thousands of horses, and the consequences were unimaginable. Even if the dynasty and his own Jurchen [-] reinforcements arrived, they would be powerless to recover, and instead angered the Liao people even more.

Dynasty is not as good at eloquence as Su Jin, nor is he as extravagant as Su Jin. Facing the doubts of the elders, he has no good reason to explain; It broke out, and he ordered his subordinates to arrest several chattering guys and force them to agree.

This move was considered a hornet's nest, and the Jurchen soldiers and the Song Army confronted each other in Longzhou City. Seeing that civil strife was about to erupt, Wan Yanfeng jumped anxiously. As soon as he became the leader, civil strife broke out between the tribe and the Song Army. It's quite tricky to deal with. If you accidentally do it, it will obviously hurt you more. The only family you have can't fight internally. Otherwise, when the Liao people come in the future, what will you do to deal with them?

Wan Yanfeng dealt with it earnestly, and everyone still had to give the new leader face. Under Wan Yanfeng's persuasion, both sides calmed down, and finally made a change, and decided to take a step back, and the Jurchen sent [-] troops to follow the Song army. Go to support, once it is found that Su Jin has not captured Linhuang Mansion, the Jurchen soldiers have the right to return immediately.

The dynasty is helpless, this is already the best result he can strive for, if the young master is here, how can there be so many twists and turns, the young master only needs to say a few words, and these Jurchens will be ashamed Follow along, a shrewd guy like Wanyanhu was thrown around by the young master and lost his life in the end, this is the gap.