At that time, the Liao Kingdom had not seen a war for a hundred years. The generals were arrogant and the soldiers did not know how to revolutionize. The nobles of the imperial court were all keen on hunting, sensual, arrogant, and greedy for pleasure. All day long, princes and nobles rode tall horses, carried bows and arrows on their backs, led hunting dogs, and held "Haidongqing" in their hands, galloping through the mountains and river valleys, bending their bows and shooting arrows, and hunting prey.
In the hunting grounds, whenever the princes and nobles shot down their prey, the hunting dogs in front of their horses would bark wildly, and the "Haitongqing" held in their hands would fly away from their hands with a "chirp, chirp" sound, and they would pounce or fly away. Go over and take the swans and other prey to the hunting princes and nobles. The princes and nobles were too happy to think about Shu, and they didn't think about getting down to business.
Therefore, the falcon Hai Dongqing became the most important treasure of the Liao royal family and Khitan nobles. For the princes and nobles of the Liao Dynasty, anything was fine, but Haidongqing was indispensable.
The Heshilie tribe where Ashu was located happened to be at a key location on the way for the Liao court to capture Haidongqing. The Liao court sent personnel to Haidong to capture Haidongqing, and they had to pass through the Heshilie tribe of Ashu.
Ashu is the leader of Heshilie tribe. Because the envoys sent by the Liao Dynasty to Haidong ignored the feelings of the Jurchens, they blindly let the Jurchens capture and pay tribute to Haidongqing. Whenever they went to the Ashu tribe, they feasted and drank, and even asked for property and property. A Jurchen woman stayed with him, and Ashu was disturbed very much.
In a fit of anger, Ashu gained courage and thought, what about the Khitan people? Do we deserve to be oppressed and exploited by him? ! I also want to cure him of this bad Khitan habit so that he can restrain himself. The angry Ashu decided to detain the envoy sent by the imperial court to Haidong to capture Haidong Qing, and blocked the imperial court's eagle road to see what the imperial court would use to capture the prey.
The imperial court did not know that Ashu planned to block the Ying Road of the imperial court; therefore, they were not prepared and did not send soldiers to escort them. Instead, they continued to send envoys on the road to capture Haidongqing. Go to the Jurchen Department of Haidong to search for Haidong Qing.
The team of envoys from the Liao Kingdom set out from Zhongjing. They arrived at the territory of Heshi Lie's tribe in a proud and arrogant way. Unexpectedly, a group of people suddenly poured out from the roadside and stopped the Liao Dynasty envoys. The horses and vehicles of the ministers' team, no matter what, shouted and shouted, pulled the Liao envoys off their horses and vehicles one by one, then tied them with ropes and took them to the tribe leader Ashu. at.
Ashu Gao was sitting in the hall. Seeing the tribe soldiers and horses binding the Liao envoys and escorting them in, he asked his entourage to press all the Liao envoys to the ground and scolded: "You Khitan is also a big country, why don't you Sympathize with the hardships of the Jurchens like us? You blindly ask for the falcon, and you also ask for the Jurchen woman to stay with you. What's the point of this?! It makes people angry just to say it! If Ashu doesn't teach you a lesson today, how will you know that you are wrong? Where is it? Come here, give me a harder blow! Twenty sticks for each person."
Ashu's followers originally hated the Liao people to the core. After hearing that their leader asked them to beat them harder, they couldn't help but pull the Liao envoys over one by one, push them to the ground, and hit them with sticks on their buttocks, beating the Liao envoys until they were beaten. The envoy cried for his father and called his mother, which was so miserable.
After the fight, Ashu ordered his followers to drive the Liao envoys out of the hall and drive them back to the south. From then on, they were not allowed to go to Haidong to ask for or capture Haidong Qing.
The envoys of the Liao State fled back to Zhongjing in embarrassment and complained to Yelu Hongji about Ashu's unreasonableness.
At this time, Yelu Hongji was nearly seventy years old, but he was still keen on hunting, especially watching Hai Dongqing catch prey.
When Yelu Hongji heard that Ashu from He Shilie's tribe had blocked the Ying Road, gathered a crowd to rebel, and beat the imperial envoys with sticks, Long Yan was furious and immediately sent the imperial general Xiao Dahan to command 30,000 troops. , went to He Shilie's tribe and carried out conquests to open up the Eagle Road to the imperial court.
Xiao Dahan received the order and immediately mobilized 30,000 troops at the east campus of the capital to prepare to march eastward and conquer He Shilie's tribe. Before Xiao Dahan was about to send troops, Yelu Hongji sent another edict, asking Xiao Dahan to postpone sending troops.
What is this scenario? Could it be that Yelu Hongji didn't want to conquer the Heshi Lie tribe again? Have you reformed your evil ways? No more seaweed?
No, in fact, when the imperial army was about to set off, Yelu Hongji suddenly thought that Wanyan Yingge was the governor of the Sheng Jurchen tribe. Since there was a problem with the Sheng Jurchen tribe, of course he should be responsible for conquering it. He Wanyan Yingge Yingge couldn't be the governor of the Jurchen Tribe Alliance in front of the imperial court, and receive the imperial salary, but not contribute to the imperial court, right? !
Yelu Hongji meant that the Jurchens were barbarians and had not yet been civilized. It was better to let Wanyan Jiedushi organize forces to defeat the He Shilie tribe. In this case, the court could sit back and watch the tigers fight and avoid unnecessary sacrifices.
Yelu Hongji's wishful thinking was that if Wanyan Jiedushi defeated He Shilie's tribe, it would be a contribution to the court; even if Wanyan Jiedushi could not defeat He Shilie's tribe, it would also weaken his complete With the strength of the Yan tribe, at that time, the imperial court will send troops again. While annihilating the He Shilie tribe, he will also destroy the entire Jurchen tribe with him!
Therefore, Yelu Hongji urgently stopped Xiao Dahan and asked him to postpone sending troops, and sent another envoy to the Wanyan tribe to find Wanyan Yingge, the governor of the Jurchen tribe alliance, and ordered him to send troops to conquer He. Shi Liebu, in order to restore the imperial court's Yinglu.
After receiving the order, the envoys of the Liao State rode out of the capital on fast horses and galloped all the way, traveling day and night. Within three to five days, they arrived at the Wanyan tribe and conveyed Yelu Hongji's edict, asking Wanyan Yingge to He quickly led his troops to the expedition, wiped out He Shilie's tribe, and restored the Ying Road of the imperial court.
Wanyan Yingge was overjoyed when she heard that the imperial court had asked her to lead troops to attack Heshilie's tribe.
Attacking Heshi Lie's tribe, capturing Ashu, and annexing his city god is already a very urgent wish of Wanyan Yingge. Wanyan Yingge has been looking for this opportunity for a long time; now, since the Liao court assigned her to fight Ah Shu, the reason is even more sufficient. Why not take the opportunity to beat him, Ah Shu? ! Why not take the opportunity to annex their He Shilie tribe? ! Wanyan Yingge was extremely happy after receiving the order from the Liao court to conquer Ashu.
Wanyan Yingge thought to herself, after I took over the position of leader of Wanyan tribe and Jiedu envoy of Shengnvzhen tribe alliance, I led the troops for the first time to fight against Wendu tribe. I really expected to win the battle immediately and show off my grand plan. This matter has nothing to do with your He Shilie tribe. You, Ashu, are like an idle nephew, running to help the Wendu tribe diligently and preventing me from attacking the Wendu tribe. This is not allowed to me. To save face!
What makes Wanyan Yingge even more resentful is that my Wanyan tribe and your Heshilie tribe have always had a good relationship. The elders are all very good friends and they often visit each other like relatives. When you, Ashu, were young, you went to my Wanyan tribe as a guest with your father, and you often stayed at my house. My aunt treated you like a son, and we treated you like a brother. You can tell yourself, if you don’t help I'm just a member of the Wanyan tribe, but why am I helping others? ! Aren't you repaying kindness with enmity? Okay, now the court asked me to beat you. This opportunity is too hard to find. If you are unkind, I will be unjust. I will take advantage of the situation to destroy you. This is a legitimate thing. This is called having a good reputation as a teacher. You can't blame me.
After receiving the order from the Liao court, Wanyan Yingge immediately convened a meeting with other tribal leaders to determine the strategy of attacking Ashu, and stipulated that each tribe should send troops to follow him to attack Ashu. Each tribe sent troops as scheduled, and Wanyan Yingge led the 1,000 troops gathered from each tribe, with his nephew Wanyan Aguda as the vanguard officer, to conquer the Heshi Lie tribe.
Wanyan Yingge and Wanyan Aguda led 1,000 troops and galloped all the way. Within a day, they arrived at the foot of Ashu City and surrounded it.
Before this, Ashu had already made preparations. Ashu blocked the imperial court's Eagle Road and spanked the imperial envoy. Naturally, he knew very well in his heart. He knew that the Liao court would definitely send troops to attack him because of the blocked Eagle Road. Therefore, Ashu did it in advance. Prepare, arrange tribal troops and horses, climb the city wall, and wait for the imperial troops to conquer him.
Now, Wanyan Yingge led 1,000 soldiers and horses organized by various tribes to surround Ashu City. Wanyan Yingge stood on her horse, pointed her whip at the guards on Ashu City, and loudly ordered: "Listen! Let your leader Ashu leave the city immediately and come to the envoy here to accept the crime!"
The guards on the city wall rushed to Ashu's lobby and reported the situation to Ashu.
Ashu, who was sitting in the lobby, saw the guards coming in in panic. Without waiting for the guards to report, he asked first, "Are the imperial troops coming?"
The guard replied: "The imperial troops and horses are coming, and the troops of Wanyan Jiedushi are here."
Hearing this, Ah Shu jumped up from his seat and said loudly: "What I, Ah Shu, have blocked is the Imperial Court's Eagle Road. What does Wanyan have to do with him?! He actually stood up for the Imperial Court and beat me." Let’s go and take a look.”
Immediately, Ashu followed the guards and came to the wall of Ashu.
Under the city wall, Wanyan Yingge's thousand Jurchen soldiers were preparing to attack the city. In the distance, Wanyan Yingge was riding on a horse, looking at the Ashu city wall.
Ashu had expected that the imperial court would come to conquer him, but he did not expect that Wanyan Yingge would represent the imperial court to conquer him. Ashu was not afraid of the imperial soldiers and horses coming to conquer him. He was just waiting for the imperial soldiers and horses to conquer him! Ah Shu thought to himself, I dare to block the imperial court's Eagle Road, which shows that I, Ah Shu, am a Jurchen hero! I blocked the imperial court's Eagle Road, and the imperial court came to attack me because of this. I will resist the imperial soldiers and horses again. In that case, other Jurchens will respect me, Ashu, and maybe they will send people to help me, Ashu, resist the imperial soldiers. Where is the horse! I can also use this to become a hero and establish the prestige of our Heshi Lie tribe in one fell swoop.
Now, it was not the imperial troops but the Jurchen troops led by Wanyan Yingge. Ashu panicked.
The reason why A Shu panicked was because he had been friends with Wanyan Yingge and Wanyan Agu since he was a child. Secondly, he knew the strength of the Wanyan tribe. If he fought with the Wanyan tribe, his own tribe would definitely not be able to defeat it. win.
Ah Shuqing knew that he was no match for Wanyan Yingge. He was afraid of being captured after the city was breached, so he had to send people out of the city to collect the charges. He quietly climbed down the city wall and escaped.
Wanyan Yingge accepted the surrender of the Ashu tribe and led a large army into the Ashu city. However, they could not find Ashu, so they robbed all the property in the Ashu city and took the women of the Ashu tribe to the Wanyan tribe. Another general was sent to station in Ashu City to guard Ashu City.
Before Wanyan Yingge led the Jurchen soldiers and horses to break through the city, Ashu took advantage of the chaos outside the city to ride on a horse and single-handedly sneaked out of the city. Like a mad dog chasing a wolf, he fled to Dading Mansion in Zhongjing of Liao Dynasty. .
Dading Mansion in Zhongjing is the permanent residence of Yelu Hongji. In addition to hunting throughout the year, Yelu Hongji lived in Zhongjing for the longest time. Therefore, Dading Mansion in Zhongjing can basically be regarded as the political, economic and cultural center of the Liao Kingdom. .
