Although Yelu Dashi was born in Shangjing, when he was young, he went to live in Xijin Prefecture in Nanjing, Daliao, with his father, who was an official in Nanjing Road.
That was old Nanjing (perhaps it should be the real old Beijing, right?), and even the household registration was in Xijin Prefecture. They also bought a large house in Xicheng District, Beijing, and a manor-style mansion near the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Haidian District, Beijing, where they can run horses in the garden... Just these houses spread to 21 century, it would be worth countless small goals!
As an "Old Beijing", how could Yelu Dashi be willing to spend the rest of his life here in Mobei Grassland? No one would be happy to change it!
Anyone who wants to own a luxury house in Haidian District, Beijing, where horse racing can take place, will not be willing to live in a tent in Mongolia... This is not a trip, but a long-term stay, without returning to Beijing!
This is what Yelu Dashi means. Almost all of his closest friends are "Old Beijing"! Now he is working hard with Dashi in Mobei Town, Zhoucheng, just to return to "Beijing City" one day.
If Dashi tells everyone that we will no longer "Beijing" and will live in tents on the Mobei grassland for the rest of our lives, it's hard to say whether those people will follow or not!
In the original history, Yelu Dashi, who proclaimed himself emperor in Central Asia and established the Western Liao Dynasty, also launched two Eastern Expeditions. The first Eastern Expedition sent 70,000 troops. However, due to the long distance and lack of preparation, he failed to fight against the Jin Kingdom. Abandoned halfway. The second Eastern Expedition was smaller in scale but relatively well prepared, so they were able to return to the Mobei grassland. The Kingdom of Jin sent Wanyan Zonghan to lead his troops to resist. Although Zonghan was defeated, Dashi's Eastern Expeditionary Army also suffered heavy losses and was unable to fight again.
Although these two eastern expeditions did not achieve the expected results, they undoubtedly showed Dashi's determination to return eastward and restore his homeland of Daliao!
How could such a big determination be shaken so easily?
But at this time, Dashi didn’t realize that times had changed!
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Rumble...
A loud noise suddenly dragged the Mobei Grassland from the cold weapon era to the threshold of the gunpowder weapon era!
Although gunpowder weapons have appeared long ago, before the appearance of the four-piece set of granular black powder, explosive pot, hot pot cannon, and casserole cannon, gunpowder weapons were really difficult to play a major role. Let alone playing a leading role on the battlefield, even as an auxiliary weapon, it was a bit unsatisfactory. Great pass.
But now, just a copper bomb filled with black granular gunpowder is enough to change the balance of strength and weakness on the battlefield!
Although this statement has the meaning of "weapons only", it is very appropriate in today's general trend of the world. Because the Song army, which had no truly useful gunpowder weapons, could not withstand the powerful offensive of the Jin Kingdom? Before that, there were no effective gunpowder weapons, and they still valued culture over military affairs. They would also defend the country from time to time. From time to time, the Song Dynasty would have a cowardly leader. Not only did it maintain the confrontation between the northern and southern dynasties, but it still had the energy to launch an attack on Xixia. Round after round of blows?
Now that we have fried kettles, hotpot cannons, casserole cannons and powerful granular black powder, who has the advantage in the world? Is there any need to ask?
And... no matter who this advantage belongs to? Yelu Dashi, who takes refuge in Mobei, will definitely face a more unfavorable situation after the emergence of effective gunpowder weapons!
Because he can barely get enough iron tools now, let alone gunpowder, frying pots, hotpot cannons, and casserole cannons...
Although there is no granular black gunpowder in Daijin and Xixia, there is powdered gunpowder of poor quality. There are also some copper pots used to hold medicine... If the ammunition capacity in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties was one million pots, Dajin could dig out 100,000 pots, while Xixia could dig out at least 10,000 pots. Where is Dashi? After looting the entire Mobei grassland, it's hard to say whether they can dig out three thousand copper pots!
Of course, the situation in Yelu Dashi is not good, only compared to the "gunpowder players" of the Jin Dynasty, Xixia, and Song Dynasty, but not to the more backward group of Tatars, Zubu people, and Naiman people on the Mobei grassland. For a long time, the Khitans, who have obtained the iron weapons and explosive pots supported by the Song Dynasty, will be unstoppable!
"Your Majesty, please take a look!"
A wooden board with several holes made by the fragments of the bombing pot and the iron beads filled in the bombing pot was carried outside the south gate of Ketun City by two Khitan warriors with excited faces and placed on the Yelu Big Stone. , Xiao Weilila and Yelu Yujian.
Xiao Weili came close to Dashi, with uncontrollable surprise on his face, "Your Majesty, if we can get two to three hundred thousand kilograms of good iron and ten thousand explosive pots from the Song people, we can step by step Eat the Zubu, Tatar, Naiman and other tribes. Then completely capture the central and western parts of the Mobei grassland! Then go east to conquer the Mongol, Ugu Dilie, Shiwei and other tribes. Finally, recapture Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, Rescue the millions of nationalities enslaved by the Jurchens... At that time, the king will be able to dominate the grassland, looking south to Yanyun and Liaodong, waiting for opportunities, and there may be a chance to return to Yanyun!"
Yelu Yujian also agreed: "That's right... When our Great Khitan did not have the land of Yanyun, it was already dominating the north and eyeing Zhongzhou! Moreover, China now has the conflict between the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, and there may not be any in the future. In the fifth generation, we Khitan people may not have the chance to enter Yanyun again!
The official family of the Song Dynasty didn't just want to join forces with us just by talking in vain...Xiaguan brought 500 fried pots and 10,000 kilograms of good iron this time!
Moreover, he also asked you to form an alliance in Montenegro. As long as the alliance can be successful, the officials of the Song Dynasty will give us an annual gift of 500,000 guan..."
Yelu Dashi nodded lightly. He was not willing to live in Mobei forever, but that didn't mean he didn't know how much he weighed.
Dashi thought about it and asked a series of questions: "The high official wants to make an alliance with the Gu family in Heishan? What is the situation in Heishan now? Is it in the hands of the Dangxiang people or in the hands of Master Xiao? What will the Jin people do about the battle of Lingzhou?" Reaction? Will we send troops to Montenegro to block the communication between us and the Song Dynasty? In addition, how many people does Taishi Xiao have at hand? Is he willing to join us in the Liao Dynasty, or does he want to continue to be the governor of the Song Dynasty? "
When Yelu Yujian heard these questions, he knew that this alliance was probably a success!
He smiled and replied: "When I left Heishan, the Heishan Military Division was still in the hands of Master Xiao. Master Xiao gathered many people who had fled to Dabai Gao Kingdom, and there were 20,000 households in his army! Moreover, he also Zhahu, who has received support from the officials of the Song Dynasty, should be able to defend Heishan... Although Taishi Xiao gained wealth and honor in the Song Dynasty, he only has the Liao Dynasty in his heart, so he is willing to come back and work with the king!"
Yelu Dashi laughed loudly and said: "What a man! Our Daliao is a country with two surnames: the Yelu family and the Xiao family... If Heda can come, the Gu family can give him the title of King Xi Liubu and allow him to inherit the throne. No matter what!"
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The situation in Montenegro was a bit beyond the expectations of Yelu Dashi and Yelu Yujian... When Yelu Dashi and Yelu Yujian met in Kedun City, Mobei Town, Dajin Southwest Road summoned envoys Wanyan Lou's general's flag is already flying high above the military city of Weifu Supervisory Military Division in Heishan!
In the spring of the third year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, which was also the spring of the seventh year of the Great Jin Tianhui, Wanyan Loushi had returned to the foot of Heishan from Keyi Gate. Start waiting for the counterattack of the Northern Song Dynasty army and the march of Yelu Dashi southward!
That's right, he already knew that Yelu Dashi was coming south!
Because he captured many prisoners when he raided Xiao Heda's headquarters, and learned from them the information that Zhao Kai was contacting Yelu Dashi - in fact, he had already guessed this!
Xiao Heda, the military governor of the Difficult Army, could not sit back and relax in Xiazhou, but instead traveled all the way to Black Mountain for what? Don't you want to help Zhao Kai contact Yelu Dashi?
And what is Zhao Kai's purpose in contacting Yelu Dashi? Wanyan Loushi can also guess it - he must be trying to export iron weapons and explosive pots to Yelu Dashi, so that he can drive the barbarians on the grassland to bring bad luck to the Kingdom of Jin.
In fact, the advantages of Dashi are similar to those of Dakin, both of which are cheap and good-quality barbarians!
Although the Khitan population in Dashi's hands is not large, there are too many barbarians from all walks of life on the grassland. They can't catch them all and die... The most important thing is that they are cost-effective! If you catch them and train them, you can fight them. If you defeat the foreign enemies and kill them to eliminate internal troubles, you will make money no matter what.
It takes many years to cultivate a Jurchen or Khitan nation, and you have to start by holding hands... But it would be much easier to catch a group of raw Tatars on the grassland and some wild Jurchens in the old forest!
It's not like the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty when the weather was freezing. There was still a large population on the grasslands and in the old forests... There were millions or even tens of millions of people in existence!
The annual increase is as much as 70,000 to 80,000 (newly grown males)... Historically, when the Jurchens were relatively powerful, they sent troops to the grasslands every year to help the grassland peoples control the population (minus (Ding)! After persisting for so many years, they were finally wiped out by the Mongols. This shows that the grassland population in this era is still very large!
And the nomadic, fishing and hunting barbarians added iron weapons and firearms, and they were even more powerful!
Isn't it because they can continue to get iron tools from Mature Women and Bohai people? The current Great Jin Kingdom can overpower the Second Song Dynasty, isn't it also because it can be supplemented by cheap and fierce barbarians?
Among the "Jurchens" who were beaten to death by the Second Song Dynasty, there were a lot of miscellaneous people. This was equivalent to asking the Second Song Dynasty to help reduce the number of people, without even paying out pensions, so Wu Qimai, Wu Shu, Nianhan and others These Wan Yan don't feel distressed at all.
If Yelv Dashi could use iron weapons to arm the Zubu people, Tatars, Naiman people, and other barbarians on the grassland, and then drive them to attack the Jurchens to consume the barbarians that the Jurchens could collect. Then the biggest trump card in Daikin’s hand is gone...
Without this trump card, the Kingdom of Jin would have to be beaten by the Second Song Dynasty. If they rely on their own nation to fight for consumption, sooner or later they will have to ask the Song people to blow them up with a kettle?
Therefore, cutting off the connection between the two forces of the Song Dynasty and Yelu Dashi has become the top priority of the Jin Kingdom!
