Yelu Tahaoli, who has been on death row for more than half a year——
Put on the military uniform again, return to the court, recruit old troops again, and rebuild glory.
This guy originally held a high position as Privy Councilor in the North Courtyard. He had been in officialdom for many years and had a number of useful people under his command.
Emperor Tianzuo had previously put him on death row. He was worried that his troops would cause rebellion, so he dispersed most of them and distributed them to various states, and the rest of them were dismissed along with his old soldiers.
This is quite cheap for Lao Cao.
If not, these men and horses must now be under the control of the Jin people at Yanmen Pass. Wouldn't it be that one is declining and the other is increasing?
Now that it was better, there was a loud sound in the sky, and Tahaoli reappeared, planting flags and waving people. Those old troops who were resentful towards Emperor Tianzuo from yesterday gathered together. In three days, they gathered seven or eight thousand people. He is a veteran who can fight.
Ta Haoli was still not satisfied, so he told Lao Cao Versailles: "Hey, the fifty thousand soldiers under my command were scattered in the clouds, north and south. Only one or two percent remained near Yunzhou. Otherwise, my brother-in-law could do it alone." We can pull down Yelu Yanxi's son with just a few men and horses."
Cao Cao was full of compliments: "With one order, eight thousand Liao warriors returned. Such prestige shows that my brother-in-law is the true God of War of the Liao Kingdom."
Yelu Tahao laughed loudly: "Soldiers have their own eyes, how can they not know who is worthy of following? Since Yelu Yanxi took control of the country, he has been defeated again and again, and the morale of the army and the people has been completely lost. Fortunately, his ancestors are alive in heaven. , so that my brother-in-law can rescue me from prison, so that I can bring order to the chaos and rebuild the world!"
The two of them were talking about speculation when Lu Fang flew up to the hall and said, "Brother, Ma Ling and Shi Qian are here."
Cao Cao was overjoyed. He stood up and said to Tao Hao: "Brother-in-law, when my two brothers return, this plan will be feasible. Brother-in-law is busy with military affairs. I will make arrangements later."
After bidding farewell to Tahaoli, Lao Cao quickly walked out of the Privy Council and came to the door, where he saw Ma Ling and Shi Qian, pretending to be wandering Taoists and Taoist boys.
Cao Cao laughed loudly: "Brothers, you have worked hard all the way! This is not the place to talk. Come to my house and explain in detail."
After that, he led the two of them to his residence in Yunzhou - the palace of Emperor Tianzuo.
He also summoned all the brothers who had no official duties, and everyone gathered in Emperor Tianzuo's study. The maids carefully served snacks and fragrant tea, and then left.
Ma Ling looked at Shi Qian and said, "I'll give you your words. Come and talk to your brother."
Shi Qian bared his teeth in amusement, and without refusing, he said: "Brother asked me to go to Yingzhou to find out the whole story of the war between Song and Liao Dynasty. We found out in detail. When we returned to Wusheng Pass, we passed by Guizhou, but it was Hao Siwen's brother. Speaking of it, Brother Wu went straight to kill the tiger, so the two of us turned around and rushed there. When we were passing here, we saw the west wind flags were flying at the top of the city. When we came in, we saw that all the brothers were there."
Cao Cao smiled and said: "I'll let you two travel back and forth, so don't make it more difficult."
Shi Qian sighed: "What kind of hard work is this? I don't know, brother, but the defeat of the Song Army was really annoying..."
Then he told everything he knew——
It turned out that Zhong Shidao had completely different intentions from Tong Guan and others. He was not in favor of starting a war with the Liao Kingdom. For this reason, he wrote several times to Yanmen Pass to state his interests.
In the view of Mr. Zhong, although the Liao Kingdom was a bad neighbor, the two families had been on good terms for hundreds of years and had lived in peace and had their own affection. The Jin Kingdom's attack on the Liao Kingdom was like a robber breaking into a neighbor's house. As a Song Dynasty, not only Instead of helping your neighbors, you take advantage of the situation and share the stolen goods with the robbers. This is a great injustice. How can an unjust teacher last long?
When Lao Cao heard this, he couldn't help but sneer: "I have heard for a long time that the old gentleman is a good man, but now it seems that he is also a mediocre person. What he said may be true, but since he has become a marshal all the way, he is like an arrow on the string. At this juncture He also said that he was unknown when he launched the army, which has completely weakened the morale of the army! If I were Zhao Guan's family, I would rather change the commander before the formation than let him lead the army."
Everyone nodded after hearing this, thinking that if they were a general under the command of Lao Zhong, they would be prepared to risk the fate of the country in a battle. But still listening to the old man nagging that this battle should not be fought every day, wouldn't it be frustrating?
Shi Qian said again: Zhongshi Dao and Tong Guan were divided into two marshals, the west and the east. Tong Guan was afraid that he would make a contribution first, so he repeatedly wrote letters telling him not to advance rashly, but this played into Zhong Shidao's wishes, so he defended Yan Can't get out.
When Lao Cao heard this, he became even more amused: "The country sent him two groups of soldiers, originally to support them. It was difficult to attack the Liao people from the beginning to the end. One of the two leaders of the army wanted to take the credit and fight rashly, and the other said no. Righteousness is as immovable as a mountain. It is a miracle that a country like this can survive to this day."
After laughing, he asked again: "Then why did he suddenly send troops after that?"
Shi Qian smiled bitterly and told the whole story: It was Tong Guan who defeated Hejian Prefecture. He had more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, and not a single one of them was left. He fled all the way to Daming Prefecture. Three to five memorials were sent out every day, urging Zhao Guan's family to add more troops to him. , otherwise if the Jin soldiers capture Daming Mansion and lose all Hebei and Shandong, they will have to drink horses by the Yellow River and point their swords at Bianliang City!
However, although Zhao Guan is a painter, how can he draw people and horses without Ma Liang's magic brush?
In this massive attack on Liao, the two groups combined an army of 350,000. Including Wang Huan of Hebei and Kai Kai's original troops, the number was close to 400,000. It was truly an all-out attack. Now if we want to do it again, unless we find the magic pen, Where can I get it?
Moreover, as an artist, Zhao Guan's mind is the most sensitive. He originally had strong ambitions, but Tong Guan was defeated so easily. The official's ambition turned into a heart of glass in an instant, and he woke up several times in his dreams.
In addition, in order to shirk his guilt, Tong Guan boasted that the Liao soldiers were in heaven and earth. The memorial clearly stated that "the Liao people and the Jin people fought fiercely for many years. Although they were defeated, they were increasingly brave and brave. The Hebei Forbidden Army had not fought for many years and its armaments were slack. One Liao soldier can be regarded as ten of his soldiers, and one Liao soldier can be regarded as ten of his generals. Therefore, they collapsed at the first touch and scattered the Western Army under the veteran's command, leading to a great defeat..."
The officials were horrified by what they saw. They first issued an edict and dismissed Wang Huan and Zhang Kai, representatives of the Hebei Forbidden Army, from their posts and took them to Tokyo for trial. They also sent trusted eunuchs to the West Route Army and secretly asked Zhong Shidao to withdraw their troops to avoid being misled by the Liao people again. Defeat, and by the way, he can still protect Tokyo——
As for Hebei and Shandong under the Liao army, the officials couldn't see it anyway, so they simply ignored it for now.
Zhong Shidao looked up to the sky and sighed after hearing the military order secretly transmitted by the eunuch.
He lamented that the emperor had no responsibility - sending troops on two fronts was the emperor's own strategy. Now that the west route army returned without firing an arrow, the emperor felt that it was not good-looking, so he did not issue an edict, but only hinted that he must cultivate the way of a teacher. He found a reason to retreat and took the blame for Emperor Shengming.
In fact, it would be fine if he took the blame, but from Zhong Shidao's point of view, precisely because of Tong Guan's defeat, he had to fight even if he didn't want to. This was also the meaning of his helpless sigh.
After all, he was a veteran general. Although he had not started a war since he was appointed as the commander-in-chief and went to Yanmen, he also sent spies to collect intelligence on the Liao people. Therefore, he knew that outside the Great Wall, the Jin soldiers were rampant and could devour thousands of miles like tigers. Naturally, he was deeply afraid of them. .
In his opinion, Tong Guan's defeat completely exposed the Song army's weakness as a sheep and stupidity as a pig. Tigers and wolves like the Jin Kingdom must sharpen their knives against pigs and sheep.
At the same time, the troops of the Liao Kingdom's southern expedition also had a serious problem. If he listened to the emperor's hint and returned to the dynasty, his strategic initiative would be gone. It would be better to engage in a big fight to shock the Jin Kingdom. Secondly, they surrounded Wei to rescue Zhao and forced the Liao army southward to return.
When Lao Cao heard this, he couldn't help but nodded: "Although Lao Zhong is not a talented person, he is responsible. He didn't know that I occupied Youzhou and it was difficult for Yelu Chun to return home. He also overestimated the loyalty of Xiao Qian, Yelu Dashi and others. From his perspective, offense is indeed a way to solve problems."
Zhong Shidao made up his mind and led an army of 150,000 troops to march north from Yanmen Pass.
Among these 150,000 troops, there are 80,000 Western troops, all of whom have fought with Xixia for a long time and can be called sharp soldiers.
The remaining 70,000 Shanxi frontier troops had fought against Tian Hu the year before last. After all, they had been tempered by the fire of war and were barely useful.
However, the equipment of the Liao army in the nine states behind the mountain was not as good as that of the Liao army in the seven states in front of the mountain, and there were no famous generals in charge. Therefore, after leaving the pass, the division route went smoothly and went down to Shuo and Luo states, and fought a decisive battle with the main force of the Liao army in Yingzhou. They also won several games in a row, and the Liao army was exempted from the war.
Now that the battle has reached this point, not only the old gentleman is proud, but also the generals in the army are high-spirited.
At first, they were still preparing for the return of Youji soldiers and horses from the Liao Kingdom. Later, prisoners confessed that Youji was occupied by the rebels and Juyong Pass was lost. The Song Army suddenly felt that the overall situation was determined. The Liao Kingdom was about to be destroyed, and it was only a matter of time before the Liao Dynasty was destroyed. .
Master Zhong and others will discuss it and make a plan:
The first step is to capture all the nine states behind the mountains;
In the second step, high-ranking officials and generous salaries recruited Youji to surrender the rebel army, and captured Yanyun without a single blow;
The third step is to cross the Juyong Pass and eliminate the Liao Army from the top down;
In the fourth step, the old man is crowned the king and the young man eats his shit.
For more than ten years, Tong Guan has been in charge of the military power of a country as an eunuch. If Lao Zhong and other generals and disciples disobey, they will be suppressed. Although they don't say it on the face, they are always ashamed in their hearts. Now that the general situation is in hand, it is easy to see it. Wouldn't it be great to counterattack in one fell swoop, seize Tong Guan's forbidden treasure, regain Yan Yun Qigong, and replace him?
When people are happy, they are inevitably frivolous, and a seventy-year-old man is no exception.
He calculated on his fingers that he had 150,000 strong soldiers in his hands, 70,000 remaining soldiers in Yingzhou city, and all the other states were empty. How could he be invincible?
So to plan for the future, he sent Taiyuan military commander Zongze to lead 20,000 troops back, via Taihang, to help Tong Guan guard Daming Mansion——
Lest on the day of success, when the victorious troops and horses are deployed to attack the remaining troops of the Liao Kingdom in the south, Tong Guan will be jealous and break the jar, causing another accident to happen for nothing.
Lao Zhong has been very close to Zongze these days. The two are similar in age and have similar words. Therefore, Lao Zhong knows that Zongze is a talented person. If he is in Daming Mansion, even if Tong Guan maliciously destroys him, Liao will recruit troops from the south. It's hard for a horse to make a difference.
Anyway, to the enemy in front of us, 150,000 or 130,000 are the same thing.
When all the generals heard this, they all remembered the old man's foresight and far-reaching plan.
No one expected that when Zongze led his troops back south, Emperor Tianzuo's surrender letter had been delivered to Aguda's table.
Aguda was still a little hesitant at first. After all, they were allies with the Song Dynasty. After the Liao Kingdom surrendered, would they help them fight against the Song Kingdom?
His brother Wu Qimai took the opportunity to state his opinion: Since the Liao Dynasty sent gold, that land is my land. When the Song Dynasty attacked my land, it was him who provoked him first! We promised to give them the seven states in front of the mountain, but we didn’t say we would give them the nine states behind the mountain!
When Lao Cao heard this, he sneered frequently, shook his head and said: "People like Tong Guan are really not successful enough. They talk about the covenant but refuse to conclude it, so that there is no other reason to follow."
It turned out that the year after his mission, the Song State sent another envoy, who formed an alliance with the Jin State. The two parties agreed that the Jin State would take Shangjing and Zhongjing from the Liao Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty would take Xijing and Nanjing. After the Liao State was destroyed, the Yanyun states would return to the Song Dynasty. The state transferred the annual coins originally given to the Liao state to the Jin state.
However, regarding the specific description of Yanyun Land, Song and Jin Dynasties actually had different opinions——
The Song State believed that all the sixteen states of Yanyun were included, while the Jin State believed that it was limited to the seven states in front of the mountains, and the nine states behind the mountains were not included.
At that time, the Kingdom of Jin deliberately held back its hand, and the Song envoys did not dare to argue. Therefore, this clause was never written clearly on the black-and-white covenant, but was only briefly mentioned.
After all, Aguda was an ambitious emperor. With an excuse, he nodded and sent a message with a flying eagle, instructing General Wanyan Loushi, who had originally attacked Hukou, to hand over the surrender to the Liao Kingdom and introduce the army into the pass, "Don't let the Song Dynasty Anyone who steps on our soil will be blamed for breaking the contract and breaking the alliance, and I will attack them with troops."
On November 7, the Liao soldiers in Yingzhou opened the city gate and rushed out. Zhongshi was cut off and his supplies were exhausted, so he had to fight. He was overjoyed and ordered the entire army to fight.
At the beginning of the war, the Song army had the upper hand. At this time, a group of soldiers and horses suddenly rolled in from the north. The leader of the general shouted loudly: "The Emperor of Liao has surrendered to Jin Dynasty. The land under your feet belongs to Jin Dynasty. Jin Dynasty belongs to Jin Dynasty." The emperor issued an edict: People from the Song Dynasty should not step foot on our soil, otherwise you will break your alliance and break the treaty!"
Immediately, some Jin soldiers brought out a few war drums and told them: After three drums, the army must retreat. Otherwise, it will be regarded as betraying the alliance.
Zhong Shidao was shocked and angry. His front and middle armies were all entangled with the Liao soldiers. Where could he retreat in a hurry?
The Jin people ignored them and just played the drums three times. The general sneered and said: "The Song people are shameless. They betrayed their former alliance and occupied my land. They will be severely beaten!"
After that, the whole army attacked.
When he said this, everyone was entranced. Shi Qian's thin face showed clear anger: "Brothers, although General Zong led 20,000 people at that time, the Song army still had 130,000 people. People and horses, and they have won many games in a row, it is the time when the fighting spirit is high. The Liao soldiers are only 70,000. Even if they add some Jin soldiers, they will still be able to fight. However, from Mr. Laozhong down, everyone is afraid of going to war with the Jin soldiers. Being blamed for 'breaking the contract and betraying the alliance', he actually ordered the entire army to retreat and defend without fighting!"
Cao Cao was furious when he heard this. He jumped up and kicked over his stool: "Old man, you are so confused!"
Guan Sheng said angrily: "With an army of 150,000 and many famous generals, no one dares to speak out?"
Shi Qian smiled bitterly and said: "If brother Guan Sheng says so, there really is one! But he is not a famous general. I heard that he is a cavalry general in front of Wang Yan, the fierce general of the Western Army. The boy is only seventeen or eighteen years old, riding alone. He galloped up to the stallion of the old prime minister, grabbed his bridle, and said in a loud voice: "A true man serves the country, so he can fight to the death! Today the Jurchens are coming with swords and guns, and they regard us Song people as if they are nothing. If we don't fight back, we will really become pigs and dogs." also!'"
Cao Cao clapped his hands and shouted: "Well said! How should I answer him?"
Shi Qian shook his head and said: "The old man said to him: 'You are not the only one to know about national affairs. The official family has been planning for many years to form an alliance with the Jurchens. If it is ruined by me, it will be blamed by thousands of people!'"
Cao Cao let out a long sigh, and all the brothers sighed together.
Shi Qian continued: "That young general is so brave! I heard that the old man was so fierce at that time that everyone was frightened, but he didn't change his expression. He spoke back and shouted: 'It will be a blessing for the country to use you as its commander. I am a man who has shouldered the responsibility, but I want to have a clear conscience and have no regrets even if I die. Are you afraid of being accused by thousands of people, but aren't you afraid that you have killed thousands of people under your command in vain?'"
"Hey, brother, the person who said this to me was a prisoner of the Song Army. I was bribed by two buns in the prison city of Liao State. When the guy said this, he burst into tears and told me that he would rather be here. If a young man is the commander, even if he dies on the spot, it is better than being captured later."
Cao Cao said coldly: "Song is not without good men, but only good generals! Why do generals lose their courage? It's because the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked! The Zhao family is a rat, and it is wrong for me to be a Chinese!"
Shi Wengong was concerned about the young general and asked: "What happened after the young general contradicted the old man like this?"
Shi Qian shook his head, grimaced, and spoke slowly.
There is a saying: Ambition always takes life and death lightly, but how can one be heroic if one cherishes one's own body? There is a youthful air in my chest, which has not been calmed down despite all the hardships.
The Peak Rap Showdown was played, and people angrily praised Will's "Crawling for the Foot", Hot Dog's "Second Half of the Tenth Round", Kung Fu Fat's "Kunlun", and Ai Ge's "First Round".
(End of chapter)
