Qian Song

Chapter 195 Yelu Dashi: Li Cun never thought of letting you and me leave alive
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Ever since the Daqian Dynasty took control of Yanjing City, there has been an undercurrent in Yanjing City.

There are many vested interests in the Liao Kingdom, such as the royal family Yelu, the descendant Xi family, and two or three other descendants.

Many of them must be unwilling to let these nobles who once ruled the Daliao Empire submit to the feet of Li Cun, a Han Chinese.

Especially when these people heard that Li Cun put Xiao Puxian, their supreme ruler of the Northern Liao Dynasty, to sleep as soon as he entered Yanjing City.

At that time, there were many Liao people in series, ready to cooperate with Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian to take back Yanjing City when Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian returned with their troops.

Who would have thought that Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian had been wiped out by the Qian army as soon as they led the army back!
Moreover, at that time, the Dagan Dynasty sent tens of thousands of heavily armed soldiers to patrol the streets and alleys.

Who dares to act rashly?
Immediately afterwards, it was reported that the emperor of the Dagan Dynasty agreed that those who were willing to leave Yandi could leave with Yelu Dashi or Xiao Qian after one month, and they could also take their belongings with them.

At the same time, the Dagan Dynasty issued an order to change the service, to keep the head, and to change the Han.

This gave those Liao people who did not want to accept the rule of the Dagan Dynasty even more reason to leave.

The mansions in the imperial city that used to be sky-high prices, and the gold shops that are not sold by thousands of dollars, are sold at a [-]% discount.

They're all on sale, can't they sell them with a [-]% discount?

Then I will sell it at a discount.

It's better than being robbed of their property by the emperor who likes to confiscate all the property of the gentry and nobles without giving them a penny, right?
Sell ​​everything that can be sold, as long as you give real money.

Many Liao people had the same idea as Yelu Yanxi at the beginning. I have real money, and everywhere I go, I am aristocrats and rich people. Why should I be ruled by a Han?
Later, it suddenly came out that the Daqian Dynasty was going to war with the Jurchens, and they had a chance to take revenge.

This made some Liao people who hated the Jurchens from the bottom of their hearts choose to give up and leave. They would rather wear Hanfu, grow their hair, and get used to Chinese characters, as long as they can get revenge anyway.

But there are still many people who want to leave.

Most of the people who wanted to leave were the rich and powerful gentry class of the Liao Kingdom.

no way.

For one thing, these people are reluctant to part with their former glory, and dream of following Yelu Dashi or Xiao Qian to make a comeback.

Secondly, these people have already inquired about what Li Cun did in the south, and they feel that Li Cun will definitely not let them go, and he will deal with them sooner or later. Years of wealth fled.

Moreover, these people are not only preparing to escape from Yandi themselves, but also bewitching others to escape from Yandi with them.

These people said: "My Daliao has risen from the grasslands, and now I can only return to the grasslands. We have gold, silver, cattle and sheep, why should we be ruled by Han children?"

Someone was said to be tempted and chose to leave.

Some people may not want to live the life of wandering on the grasslands that they are no longer used to, or they may choose to stay because they want to avenge the Jurchens.

This is a choice that determines your own destiny. No one can help you, everything can only depend on yourself.

During this process, Li Cun not only did not retain these Liao people who wanted to leave, but also ordered the Ministry of Households to come forward to collect the real estate of all Liao people who wanted to leave at a discount of [-]%.

Li Cun's actions seemed to be driving these Liao people who didn't want to stay in Yan to leave quickly, and even said: "If there is no travel expenses, then I will get you some."

The intensity of the incident this time was not as intense as that of Britain's dragging off Europe and India, but it was still a rare event.

After a one-month cooling-off period, the Liao people who still chose to leave packed up their belongings, drove their cattle and sheep, and left Yanjing City in a mighty way with their servants who were willing to leave with them.

At the same time, many Liao people who also chose to leave also left from other prefectures and counties in Yandi.

Under the escort of 10,000+ cadres, it took almost three days for these Liao people who were about to leave Yandi to gather at Gubeikou.

Although Li Cun didn't deliberately ask people to count how many Liao people were leaving Yandi, the officials of the household department dutifully gave Li Cun a number, that is, almost [-] Liao people were leaving Yandi.

This is a large part of the population. You must know that the entire Yandi has a population of just over 200 million.

The point is that these [-] households of Liao people included almost half of the elite class in Yandi.

The key point is that these [-] Liao households also took away almost one-third of Yandi's wealth.

All the Liao people who were about to leave all left Gubeikou. Li Cun, who stood on the pass and stared at these Liao people who were either full of ambition, confused, or already beginning to regret for a long time, knew that Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian These two heroes would definitely not stay to assist him, but Li Cun couldn't help but give Yelu Dashi, Xiao Qian and the hateful and pitiful Liao people another chance.

Li Cun turned his head, looked at Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian and asked, "You two really don't think about staying and helping me to rule the world?"

Xiao Qian said lightly: "Could it be that Your Majesty wants to break his promise?"

Yelu Dashi said: "The two of us have shallow abilities and are not worthy of Your Majesty's lofty ambitions. Let's just say goodbye."

Li Cun raised his head to look at the sun above his head, and said to himself, "It's hard to persuade the damn devil with good words, and you can't help yourself if you are merciful."

Thinking of this, Li Cun turned his head back, and said without joy or sadness, "You guys go."

I don't know if Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian's Chinese skills are not enough.

Or Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian were too "returning their hearts like an arrow" and chose to ignore Li Cun's implication.

In short, seeing that Li Cun was finally willing to let them go, Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian couldn't wait to get off the pass, and then each rode a horse and left from Gubeikou.

After the sea was wide and the sky was high and the birds were flying, Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian looked back at Li Cun who was still standing on the pass, they both thought in unison in their hearts: "Li Cun, I will definitely come back !"

Gubeikou is a throat connecting Guanwai and the North China Plain.

At this time, the sun is in the sky, and there are many peaks and steep cliffs around Gubeikou, a narrow path winding forward, and a torrent on the west side of the road.

After leaving the dry army's defense area, Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian reined in their horses and stopped with a tacit understanding.

——Further ahead, there is a fork in the road, where there are two roads to go: one is to the northwest; the other is to Liaodong.

Xiao Qian first opened his mouth to persuade Yelu Dashi to stay and said, "You really don't want to go to Jianda Mountain with me? If you and I work together, we may not be able to reshape the glory of Daliao."

Yelu Dashi shook his head: "Jianda Mountain has a narrow area, and the sea is not far to the east, and the counties in the north, west, and south have been occupied by Jurchen, there is a pocket, how can King Xiao get there? Only by going to the west and returning to His Majesty, we can join forces together, can we survive and make a comeback."

As soon as Yelu Dashi said this, before Xiao Qian could say anything, Xiao Bodie, the former son-in-law, expressed his opposition to Yelu Dashi's proposal: "Emperor Tianzuo is extremely stupid, and I wait for no one to know how to vote. Looking for a way to die."

As soon as he heard that Xiao Bodie was going to spoil his affairs, Yelu Dashi decisively drew his sword and cut Xiao Bodie in half, and then said loudly: "Xiao Bodie disturbed our army's morale, death is not a pity!"

Immediately afterwards, Yelu Dashi said murderously: "Anyone who dissents will be killed without mercy!"

Seeing such a bloody scene, all Liao people were all in awe.

At this moment, some people began to regret, why did they have a stable life, but they had to bring their own family to live such a life with an uncertain future?

Seeing this, Xiao Qian knew that Yelu Dashi had made up his mind to vote for Yelu Yanxi Palace.

At this moment, Xiao Qian completely realized that he was a Xiren after all, not a Khitan. Therefore, even if the Khitan emperor Yelu Yanxi was so incompetent, and his own king Xi was so holy and brave, Yelu Dashi and the Khitans would still choose Traveling thousands of miles to vote for Yelu Yanxi, but not willing to vote for yourself who is close at hand.

This made Xiao Qian hate the Khitan people even more.

Xiao Qian no longer had any fantasies about Yelu Dashi and other Khitan people, he said impatiently: "This place is not too far from my Jianda Mountain, let's go our separate ways."

Seeing that Xiao Qian still insisted on going to Jianda Mountain in Liaodong, Yelu Dashi also regretted that the Liao Empire still lost Xiao Qian, a general.

Just when Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian were about to say goodbye to each other, smoke and dust billowed suddenly in the distance, as if a sandstorm was coming.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Qian, who was extremely experienced in commanding troops, immediately judged that there was a large-scale cavalry attack.

Yelu Dashi also quickly realized that it was not a sandstorm, but an enemy.

Yelu Dashi was terrified, he hurriedly asked Xiao Qian, "Is it Jurchen?"

Xiao Qian narrowed his eyes and looked at it for a while, then shook his head, and spat out an answer that Yelu Dashi didn't want to hear: "It's Tata'erbu."

At this moment, Yelu Dashi wished so much to hear that the enemy that Xiao Qian said was the Jurchens, not the vulture-like Tataerbu.

Yelu Dashi looked back at the tens of thousands of eyes that had left Yandi with him because they believed in him.

To be honest, for a moment, Yelu Dashi thought about taking the five hundred men with horses and weapons away.

But for one thing, this is not something that Yelu Dashi, a national hero, can do. These people were led by him, and he has to be responsible to these people to the end.

Secondly, if Yelu Dashi does this, then he will lose his greatest political capital, and even if his political career is over, no one will believe that he is the hope of the Khitan people and will lead the Khitan people to reshape their ancestors brilliant.

Therefore, Yelu Dashi suppressed the weakness and fear in his heart, pulled out his saber, and said loudly: "It's the Tatar tribe, a group of wolves who eat people and don't spit out their bones. Weapons, prepare to fight to the end."

On the other side, Xiao Qian was more straightforward. He straightforwardly arranged the strategy for facing the enemy: "All spread out, stand in a single horizontal row in a long queue, rush to the opponent row by row, shoot arrows when they are within the range of the riding bow, and quickly turn around and retreat. When the formation collapses, launch a charge directly from the march..."

On the opposite side of Tataer's tribe, Bu Luhui looked up and saw that there were indeed a large number of cattle, sheep and women among the Liao people led by Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian, and these people were generally dressed brightly. Lie Ti said: "Khan, if you kill this batch of prey, our clan may double in size!"

Tie Lieti also saw the situation of these Liao people, and he also noticed that very few of these Liao people had horses and weapons.

Tie Lieti ordered without hesitation: "Kill all the men, and don't be greedy for money during wartime. After the decision is made, they will be divided equally. Kill them!"

Following Tie Lieti's order, Tata'er's people, like tens of thousands of hungry wolves, killed tens of thousands of Liao people led by Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian.

If this was a fair fight, with two outstanding generals, Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian, leading the battle, it might not be clear who would win the battle.

It's a pity that the Liao people had their teeth broken and their claws chopped off by Li Cun before the battle...

The Khitan family lives in the middle of the clouds, and their chariots are like water and horses like dragons.

In spring, the grass is ten thousand miles away, and the peonies and peonies are red and white.

The big Hu leads the cart and the little Hu dances, playing the Hu pipa to tune the Hu girl.

One spring, wandering and not returning home, I have my own dome to block the wind and rain.

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A desperate struggle for survival lasted for nearly an hour on this grassland before it ended.

When Yelu Dashi fell in a pool of blood, his body was full of arrows, he was hit by countless knives, and one of his arms was cut off.

As he was dying, Yelu Dashi flashed through his mind the beautiful life of the Khitan clan when they were strong. The adults led the carts, the children danced happily, and the women played the pipa. Live by water and grass...

Yelu Dashi turned his head to look at Xiao Qian, who had been dead for an unknown amount of time beside him, with the last ounce of strength, smiled miserably, and said in a voice that only he and the dead Xiao Qian could hear: "You and I were plotted by Li Cun. Li Cun... I didn't want you and me to leave alive."

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the area where Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian were.

I saw that there were at least three to five hundred corpses lying densely there.

Most of them are dressed by Tataerbu, and only a small part are dressed by Liao people.

Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian died without losing the great reputation of the Liao people.

It's a pity that they were born at the wrong time and met opponents they shouldn't have met...

When Li Cun led an army of [-] infantry and [-] horses to the battlefield, corpses covered the field, blood flowed like rivers, mountains and rivers were full of grievances, and heaven and earth were crying.

Li Cun recalled a song of Qiyu in the Northern and Southern Dynasties:

Poor man, he goes out with fear of death.In the narrow valley of corpses, no one collects the bones.The head hair is depraved, and the head of the grass is flying...

The dry army continued to march to the main battlefield.

At this point, the battle has basically ended.

The men in the Liao Kingdom were either killed by the Tata'er tribe, or fled to the depths of the grassland regardless. Can't stand a wave of attacks.

And the women and children of the Liao Kingdom, as well as the cattle and sheep all over the place, and the inexhaustible property, have been surrounded by tens of thousands of Tataer tribes. Calling, like driving a flock of sheep, gather these women, children, cattle and sheep together.

It wasn't until the people of Tata'er found out that the Qianjun was marching to the battlefield, they put away the arrogance of the winners, and turned to look at the Qianjun with a wary face.

Seeing this, a tall Khitan girl decisively greeted and organized the women and children of the Liao Kingdom to run to Ganjun.

Li Cun glanced at this clever Khitan girl, then stretched out his index and middle fingers and waved lightly.

Seeing this, the messenger immediately used the command flag to send Li Cun's order, telling Han Bie and Yao Xing to attack immediately, and let go.

After Han Bie and Yao Xing received the order, they immediately commanded [-] horse troops each, like two sharp cones, directly wedged towards the encirclement circle of Tata'er's department.

Just when the people of Tata'er's department were still hesitating whether to attack the soldiers of the Gan army, Han Bie and Yao Xing had decisively ordered to shoot and kill the people of Tata'er's department without keeping their hands.

The original Liao people in the dry army, after receiving such an order, how could they hold back the grassland robbers who just slaughtered [-] to [-] of their compatriots?
They desperately drew their bows and arrows, only regretting that their parents gave them two hands, otherwise they would definitely be able to shoot and kill this group of robbers who took advantage of the fire faster.

After a dense rain of arrows, the Tatar men who stood in front of the Gan army were either shot or killed, or ran away in fright.

Naturally, a big gap appeared in the encirclement circle of Tata'er's department in the direction close to the Gan army.

Seeing this, the women and children of the Liao Kingdom ran desperately towards Gan Jun.

Han Bie and Yao Xing didn't stop because of this - after opening the gap, they continued to advance along the encirclement of the Tata'er Department while shooting and killing the people of the Tata'er Department.

Slowly, almost half of this huge encirclement fell into the hands of Gan Jun.

The Tatar tribe also took advantage of this period of time to organize a battle formation unique to the nomads, which seemed to be loose, but could actually advance and retreat.

Next, the two sides confronted each other on the grassland full of Liao corpses...

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