Qian Song

Chapter 185 Empress Dowager, Here I Come (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)
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As early as the era of Emperor Yelulongxu of the Liao Dynasty, in order to defend against the Zhao and Song Dynasty in the south, the Liao Kingdom deliberately set up a "Niulan Capital Commander" here in Niulan Mountain in the north of Shunyi District.

The department was under the control of the Marshal's Mansion in Nanjing, Liao, and there were two armies under it, the "Jianjunzhai Commander Division" and the "Shimen Commander Division".

Originally, the two Liao armies formed the horns of each other, deploying defenses along the Baigou River for more than [-] li from east to west, blocking the border between Song and Liao.

However, due to the serious shortage of troops in the Northern Liao Dynasty, Yeluchun could only withdraw the Shimen Commander, and only kept the Supervisory Commander.

The Niulan Jianjunzhai Commanding Division, the current Niulan Jianjun, is the only Liao army operating on the border between Song and Liao. In fact, the total number of troops is only [-].

The reason why the Niulan Supervising Army sometimes seems to have more troops is because there are often a large number of Liao people mixed in.

Liao people are composed of Khitan people, Xi people, Bohai people, Zub people, Shiwei people, Jurchens and Han people.

These Liao people, including the Han people in the Liao region, have horses in every family, men, women, old and young are good at riding and archery, so as long as they are led by an army, these Liao people are good light cavalry.

but--

Are these Liao people civilians or not soldiers, and Northern Liao can't afford so many soldiers.

Therefore, the Liao people usually help the Liao army fight a smooth battle, capture some spoils or something, and then they will be scattered.

For example, this time, Xiao Yulu, the supervisor of Niulan, wanted to lead the army and people of the Liao Kingdom to resist the invasion of the "Song Army".

But the strength of the "Song Army" is too strong, and it is simply invincible.

The Liao people saw that there was no advantage to take advantage of, and soon scattered all over.

No way, Xiao Yulu could only lead his 500 troops to withdraw from the new city to the ancient city.

The ancient city is located between Zhuozhou and Yizhou, and its strategic location is very important.

Xiao Yulu is going to repeat his old tricks here in the ancient city, gather some Liao people, and then fight the "Song Army", just like the one when he followed Yelu Dashi to fight Yang Keshi, and dispatched troops to fight for Xiao Puxian. Wait for some time, and then they will concentrate their strength to fight a big wave, just like Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian teamed up to win the battle of Zhong Shidao.

But who would have thought that not long after Xiao Yulu arrived in the ancient city, someone came to report that the "Song Army" had already advanced into Yizhou.

Xiao Yulu was furious, he wanted to immediately lead his more than 1000 Niulan army out of the city and face him.

But when Xiao Yulu climbed to the top of the city, he saw that the "Song Army" was not a small army at all, but at least 30 troops pouring in orderly like a flood.

Fifteen versus 30?

No matter how arrogant Xiao Yulu was, he didn't dare to be so crazy, so he could only continue to back away, lest "Song Jun" stretch out a finger casually and crush him to death.

But behind the ancient city are Juyongguan and Yanjing. Should they withdraw their 500 troops to Juyongguan or Yanjing?

Xiao Yelu considered that Yelu Dashi still had more than 1 horses in his hands, and that he and Yelu Dashi might be able to fight another big wave, so he led his 500 troops to find Yelu Dashi...

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When the vanguard of the Gan Army arrived at the foot of Yizhou City, it was completely dark.

Then, more and more people gathered.

It was not until the second half of the night that all the more than 30 troops came to the city...

As the war between Liao and Jin was not progressing smoothly, the people in Yanjing City, especially the Han people, were spreading rumors that Xiao Puxian, the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Northern Liao Dynasty, wanted Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian to kill all the Han officials.

This is not groundless.

Everyone in Yanjing City knew that Miss Xiao Puxian didn't like the Han people. She thought the Han people were cunning, unsteady, and didn't keep their promises.

Of course, this is mainly due to the fact that the Zhao Song Dynasty tore up the Tanyuan Alliance when the Liao Kingdom was in the most crisis, preparing to seize the last living place of the Liao people and not give them a way out for these Liao people who were already homeless.

In addition, the last time Li Chuwen, Li Shi and his son were going to capture Xiao Puxian and surrender to the Zhao and Song Dynasty, it also made Xiao Puxian hate the house and Wu, and hated the Han officials, even though many Han officials were actually staunch supporters of the Liao Kingdom.

In addition, Miss Xiao Puxian looked down on the Han people, thinking that the Han people had ambitions but no ability.

This is mainly due to the fact that the Daliao Empire was already in decline, and even 5 horses could not be assembled. However, the Zhao and Song Dynasty sent millions of troops, but they failed to step into the Liao territory for more than half a year. There were 2000 troops deployed on the border, and the Zhao and Song Dynasties did not dare to cross the thunder pond.

Submitting to such a Zhao and Song Dynasty made the strong-natured Lady Xiao Pu feel it was a shame.

Instead of surrendering to the despicable and incompetent Zhao Song Dynasty, Xiao Puxian would rather surrender to the Jurchens who annexed most of the territory of the Daliao Empire with only 2 horses and beat the Daliao Empire to death.

In fact, Xiannv Xiao Puxian has submitted to Jin Guo four times, saying that as long as Jin Guo allows Li Yeluding to be the emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty, she will agree to all other conditions.

However, the Kingdom of Jin firmly refused to allow Yeluding to be the emperor of Beiliao.

Now, the fifth wave of envoys sent by Xiannv Xiaopu has gone to Dading Mansion with Xiaopuxian's more sincere memorial, hoping that Jin Guo can give Beiliao a chance.

Different from constantly begging for mercy from the Kingdom of Jin, Xiao Pu Xiannv's attitude towards the Zhao and Song Dynasty became more and more tough, and she even meant that even if the land of Yan was given to the Kingdom of Jin, she would never give it to the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

This is actually what many Liao people mean.

The specific manifestation is that the Liao people extremely distrust the Han people and are extremely unfriendly to the Han people.

This made all the Han officials in the Northern Liao Dynasty feel insecure and looking for a way out.

The political atmosphere of Northern Liao soon spread from Yanjing to Yizhou.

Yizhou is in the southwest of Yanjing, about 200 miles away from Yanjing.

To the west of Yizhou, there are lofty mountains, that is, the famous Yanshan Mountains, and to the east is a flat river.

Yizhou got its name from Yishui.

During the Warring States Period, Prince Dan sent Jing Ke to assassinate King Qin, and said goodbye by the Yishui River.

"The wind is blowing, the water is cold, and the strong man will never return!"

The greatest strategic value of Yizhou is actually to control the Bauhinia Pass next to Yizhou.

Zijingguan is located at the east entrance of Puyin Xing in the Eight Xings of Taihang, guarding the main road from Jingyundi to Yandi.

For Yanjing, Juyongguan is the back and Zijingguan is the throat. Both passes are the most important barriers for Yanjing.

Therefore, Yizhou has a very important strategic position.

The magistrate of Yizhou was named "Gao Feng", a Han official, and dozens of members of his family lived in Yizhou City.

Once Xiao Puxian gave the order to kill all the Han officials in a frenzy, the dozens of members of Gao Feng's family might all die.

So, after hearing the news from Yanjing, Gao Feng was restless.

Gao Feng knew that the Zhao Song Dynasty intended to take advantage of the weakness of the Liao Kingdom to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

Gao Feng thought, since he is a Han Chinese, he might as well take this opportunity to return to his roots, so as to save the lives of his family.

Tongshou Wang is also a Han official, and he is also worried about the safety of his family.

After discussing secretly, the two made a plan to find an opportunity to dedicate Yizhou City to the Zhao Song Dynasty.

In this way, not only can their families be preserved, but they can also get a fortune, why not do it?
But just when Gao Feng and Wang Ji wanted to dedicate Yizhou City to the Zhao Song Dynasty, the Zhao Song Dynasty's army actually withdrew.

This made Gao Feng and Wang Tai dumbfounded!
For the next period of time, Gao Feng and Wang Tai lived in fear every day, for fear that one day people from Yanjing would come, and then the Khitan people in the city would violently rise up and kill all the Han people.

Who would have thought that there would be no way out, and there would be another village with dark willows and bright flowers.

The "Song Army" actually came overnight, and hundreds of thousands of troops marched to the city of Yizhou, and it was the emperor's personal conquest.

Gao Feng and Wang Tai were overjoyed, and quickly ordered the guard Zhao Bingyuan to start massacring the Khitan people in Yizhou City according to the plan they had prepared for a long time, especially those with the surname Yelu.

There are actually not many Khitans in Yizhou City.

But this kind of method of slaughtering a race without asking indiscriminately still caused a bloody storm in Yizhou City for a while, and the atmosphere was extremely terrifying.

Gao Feng, Wang Ji and Zhao Bingyuan couldn't care less about these things. They couldn't wait to open the city gate at dawn, and then sent people to invite the emperor to take over Yizhou City.

When Li Cun's civil and military officials heard the news for the first time, they all felt that there must be fraud in it. How could it be possible that as soon as they arrived, the people in Yizhou City took care of everything and let them pick it up without bloodshed? Such an important state city?
Zhao Ding and Qin Hui didn't believe it even more. They felt that Yizhou City was not a small town like Xincheng, so how could it be recovered so easily.

If this is the case, then the millions of troops of their Great Song Dynasty are pigs.

Only Li Cun laughed and said, "This must be true. Tell Gao Feng, Wang Tai, and Zhao Bingyuan to come and see me quickly."

As a result, Gao Feng, Wang Tai and Zhao Bingyuan really came to Li Cun's Chinese army camp to meet Li Cun soon.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Ding and Qin Hui's eyes almost popped out. A state city was recovered like this?Then what did the millions of troops of the Zhao and Song Dynasty do during the six months they went north to patrol the border?
When they came in, Gao Feng and Wang Tai had already noticed that something was wrong.

The Zhao and Song Dynasties belonged to Huo De, advocating red, and everyone from the emperor to the army was dressed in red.

And this line must be at the imperial level, but it is a uniform black suit, and the standard is obviously different from that of the Song Army.

The key point is that the eight words "Emperor Daqian's Royal Conquest" are clearly written on the banner.

It is impossible to confuse the characters "Song" and "Qian" for this kind of flag used by the emperor.

Gao Feng and Wang Ji are senior Han officials, not Yue Fei and those low-level people who were still digging in the soil not long ago. It is impossible to wait for someone to explain in detail later to know that Li Cun is the emperor of the Southern Dynasty and not the Northern Dynasty. Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, Gao Feng and Wang Tai had already guessed that they might have caused a big oolong, only Zhao Bingyuan was still stupid and didn't know anything.

But what can they do if they know, they have already killed the people and sacrificed the city, so can they return to the courtiers of the Liao Kingdom?

The point is, whether he is the emperor of the Song Dynasty or the Dagan Dynasty, he is always an emperor, an emperor with hundreds of thousands of troops and a large territory, and he can give them a way of life, and even give them glory and wealth. .

that's enough.

Therefore, as soon as they saw Li Cun's face, Gao Feng and Wang Tang bowed respectfully: "The villain Gao Feng/Wang Tang pays homage to His Majesty."

Seeing this, Zhao Bingyuan hurriedly bowed down.

Li Cun highly praised the loyalty of Gao Feng, Wang Ji, and Zhao Bingyuan, and rewarded the three of them on the spot, and even asked them intimately if they wanted to go to the south to serve as officials, or would they like to continue to be governors in Yizhou?
At this time, Zhao Bingyuan figured out that Li Cun was the emperor of the newly-emerged Dagan Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty.

But it was similar to the situation when Yue Fei and the others knew about this matter. They didn't care whether Li Cun was the emperor of the Southern Dynasty or the Northern Dynasty, as long as he was the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Gao Feng and Wang Ting just killed so many people here in Yizhou, they definitely don't want to stay in Yizhou any longer.

Knowing Gao Feng and Wang Ji's wishes, Li Cun promised to send them to Jiangnan to be magistrates after a while.

And Zhao Bingyuan was appointed by Li Cun as the commander of the Shengjie Army, and continued to control his more than 1000 troops.

After taking over Yizhou City, Li Cun immediately asked Gao Feng, Wang Ji, and Zhao Bingyuan to find a few people who were familiar with Yanjing's roads and terrain, and planned to surprise Yanjing himself.

When Zhao Ding and Qin Hui heard that Li Cun had just obtained Yizhou City and was going to attack Yanjing City again, they all felt that Li Cun was inflated.

On the contrary, Gao Feng, Wang Tai and Zhao Bingyuan felt that Li Cun's decision was very wise, because they knew very well that Yanjing was extremely empty now, and there might be thousands of people.

Zhao Bingyuan volunteered to be the guide.

Then, Li Cun made a decision that no one thought of, that is, he wanted to surprise Yanjing himself.

In this regard, many people expressed their opposition and advised Li Cun to think twice, suggesting that Li Cun send a general to Yanjing.

Li Cun didn't say that the key to this battle is not to fight at all, but to regain political power and compete with the people of Beiliao, otherwise they will be like Yang Keshi, Guo Yaoshi and the others, who have already entered Yanjing City, and have even entered Yanjing City. It had already reached the palace, but in the end it was beaten out by the soldiers and civilians of the Liao Kingdom, and even killed the Han people in Yanjing City.

Li Cun didn't want to make such a big oolong that would be notorious for thousands of years.

So it's better for Li Cun to go there himself.

In order to march in a hurry, Li Cun didn't bring all the food, grass, luggage and Li Cun, and only asked the soldiers to bring three days' food with them.

In addition, Li Cun used [-] Dali horses to bring tiger squatting guns, swarming rockets, thunderbolts and explosives.

By the way, since the weather has turned cold, the war elephants are not used to it in the north, so Li Cun has already sent people to send the war elephants back, and explained that the more than 3 war elephants will be evenly distributed to various ports to serve as Paid moving work.

In terms of the choice of troops, in addition to the front guard army, rear guard army, Tabai army, eight thousand soldiers and three thousand Xiangzhou soldiers led by Li Cun, this time Li Cun also brought the Beiwei army and [-] soldiers. Civil husband.

Before leaving, Li Cun told Han Shizhong and Wu Jie that after the Bauhinia Pass was captured, the rear troops of Habayashi were stationed at Yizhou City, and the rear troops of Jinwu were stationed at Bauhinia Pass. Go ahead, don't delay.

After explaining the matter, under the leadership of Zhao Bingyuan, Li Cunqin led an army of [-] to [-] troops, first bypassing Baima Mountain, then Dafang Mountain, and then passing through Da'an Mountain and Liupeng Mountain. After crossing the Yuhe River, two days later, in the middle of the night, I arrived in front of a village called Sanjiadian in the west of Yanjing City without anyone noticing.

Because it was a long-distance raid, they marched for more than 300 miles in two days and one night. The soldiers and horses were very tired. If they didn't take a good rest, they would definitely not be able to fight a particularly intense battle.

Zhao Bingyuan is a Han Chinese in Yandi, and he knows Yanjing like the back of his hand.

Under the leadership of Zhao Bingyuan, these tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians methodically entered a large dark poplar forest to rest.

This poplar grove stretches for dozens of miles, not to mention tens of thousands of troops, even hundreds of thousands of troops can hide there.

It was already late autumn, and the fallen leaves were everywhere.

And the winter clothes of the Huben Army include military coats.

Therefore, the soldiers and civilians gathered the dead leaves, ate something casually, and fell asleep on the ground.

Many people wanted to take off the general's coat to make a bed for Li Cun.

But not only did Li Cun not want it, but he also took the opportunity to teach the generals that they should be able to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. Every time they fight, they always rush to the front and severely punish those who retreat before the battle. Only in this way can they convince the crowd...

Soon, Li Cun also wrapped his military coat and fell asleep leaning on the horse.

Zhao Li, who was arranged by Li Cun to watch the night, still took off his military overcoat and put it on Li Cun carefully.

Li Cun noticed it, but didn't move.

For one thing, he didn't want to disappoint Zhao Li's kindness.

Secondly, it's really fucking cold in the woods.

At this time, the moon was as cold as a hook, the sky was full of stars, and the poplar forest was quiet, except for the occasional cooing of some unknown birds in the depths of the forest, which seemed to be talking in sleep...

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