Brother Xiao Bodhisattva was not taken away because of Huang Ruifeng's plea. Although Huang Qiong was extremely dissatisfied, looking at his son's pitiful eyes, Huang Qiong finally let him stay with him on the pretext of appeasing the Xiao family of Beiliao. As for Xiao Yujin, he served Huang Qiong extremely hard. Moreover, in order to please Huang Qiong at all costs, not to mention the princesses of Northern Liao, even his own sister-in-law was sent to the Lord. But after arriving in Liaoyang Mansion, because of its original status in Bei Liao, it was originally relatively high.
Brother Xiao Bodhisattva, who clearly did not want to get involved anymore, was entrusted by Huang Qiong with the responsibility of managing the captured concubines and eldest daughter of the Northern Liao Dynasty. And after being entrusted with the important task, Xiao Yujin, after being honest for a period of time. The ambitions that had disappeared with the collapse of the seemingly powerful Bei Liao slowly gathered together again. Relying on Huang Qiong's apparent love, he targeted Duan Jin, who came from Yanshan Mansion to arrange the wedding for the fourth son of the emperor. Because Duan Jin has the highest status among all the concubines from the north.
Although her original ambition to be the empress in the past, the empress dowager in the future, and the empress dowager of Chengtian in the future, it was no longer possible to realize it because of the fall of Daliao. But because of serving Huang Qiong, a trace of greed arose. If you can't be the queen of Daliao, then you can be the queen of Daqi. Even if you can't be the queen of Daqi, you can still be the concubine of Daqi. Especially when she heard that there were only two concubines in Da Qi Dynasty. Then she was thinking about how she could get rid of Duan Jin, a woman who was already over fifty and in her eyes was already old and lustful.
She would have the opportunity to succeed Duan Jin and take the position of Da Qi's noble concubine. Therefore, the Yuan Concubine of Daliao used the dirty methods she used against Brother Bodhisattva again. As a result, who is Duan Jin? That is the eldest princess of Dali Kingdom and the noble concubine of Daqi. The son who was raised by his own hands is now Huang Qiong, determined to be his heir. Although she is a little looser on weekdays, it doesn't mean that she is really easy to bully. Not even Brother Xiao Bodhisattva, how could he spoil her? She even took the opportunity to put her own son together with Brother Xiao Bodhisattva. Even if she could smash it, she could not break it open, and all the anger she caused was vented on her head.
In addition, Huang Qiong is not the soft-hearted Yelu Longxu. Although Duan Jin is old, he is no longer sleeping with him. But Huang Qiong's love for her never diminished. Even because Duan Jin and He Yao are older, Huang Qiong cherishes them more. Not to mention now. At the beginning, did Dong Qianhong have a high status next to Huang Qiong? While Huang Qiong was away in Jingzhao and stirred up trouble, wasn't he also sentenced to death? How could Huang Qiong spoil an old lady like her? It was even more impossible to wrong Duan Jin for her.
If it weren't for the fact that she was the biological mother of Princess Dongping, and that she had served her so well during these days, I'm afraid she would have died directly. However, before Huang Qiong left, he directly ordered him to become a monk in a nunnery in Liaoyang Mansion and handed him over to the custody of the Ying Mansion. Duan Jin's thunderous performance in this matter also taught a deep lesson to the concubines from the north. Most of them realized at this time that Concubine Duan was usually peaceful and disdainful of palace fighting. People simply look down on the so-called small tricks of some people.
It’s not that they really don’t have the means and abilities. After this incident, all the women treated Duan Jin respectfully. Especially the Khitan women who were newly admitted to Huang Qiong's harem looked at Concubine Duan with awe in their eyes. Even the young concubines, such as Da Ru and Da Ru, now understand that their cousin aunt has not lost favor because of her age and beauty. On the contrary, because he is getting older, His Majesty cherishes her more and holds a more important position in His Majesty's heart. If someone doesn't sleep with you, it doesn't mean you are really out of favor.
Huang Qiong, who was personally conducting the expedition, set off back to Jingzhao. As for Huang Ruifeng, who stayed to deal with the follow-up matters, even though his father had told him before leaving, it would be better to move to Linhuang Mansion as soon as possible. After the aftermath of this incident, whether it was dealing with the tribes on the grassland or the Jurchen and Shiwei tribes in the north, the location of Liaoyang Mansion was still a little too biased. Especially in the following days, dealing with the grassland tribes is the top priority. However, after much hesitation, Huang Ruifeng decided to at least wait until the war in the north and east had generally calmed down before moving.
As for Linhuang Mansion, he left it to Zheng Daoyuan, who was good at Fubo, to deal with it first. He must at least wait until Yelu Zongzhen is completely defeated, or Yang Jiyuan's side is certain, before heading to Linhuang Mansion. After all, in the currently fragmented grassland, no matter how many tribes there are, they are far less threatening than a single Yelv Sect. There is also Yang Jiyuan to the east. He is sitting in Liaoyang Mansion. Even if everyone is dissatisfied with him, they don't dare to use any dirty tricks. If you are not here, some people may not be honest about certain things.
If the small thoughts of those people affected the progress of the war, it might even lead to Yang Jiyuan's failure. At that time, even if they take their heads, it will not help. Therefore, I still stay in Liaoyang Mansion for the time being. Huang Ruifeng originally wanted his fourth brother, who also stayed in Liaoyang Mansion, to take charge of Linhuang Mansion. But after some hesitation, I finally gave up the idea. This is not just the fourth brother who is not familiar with government affairs. If he goes, it might cause trouble for Zheng Daoyuan, and there are other inconvenient reasons.
Although Huang Qiong and his party have already set off to return, the subsequent war to wrap up will still continue. As spring warmed and flowers bloomed, the armies that had stopped began to move due to the severe cold and heavy snowfall in winter. Zhao Wuhu led 20,000 cavalry and used captured Khitan war horses. He carried three horses per man and twenty five-pound cannons, and penetrated thousands of miles into the desert. They successively attacked Hedong City, where the Uugu enemy Lietong Army Division, which was used by Bei Liao to control the various tribes in the desert steppe, was located, and reorganized the border city of Zhen. On the banks of the Linju River and the Northwestern Recruitment Division of Bei Liao, the 10,000 cavalrymen who came to help and the 10,000 Zubu tribe troops who had been recruited fought several battles in succession. Using the cooperation of artillery, the last elite troops of Bei Liao were defeated.
And taking advantage of the opportunity of the Northwestern Recruitment Division of Bei Liao to move eastward with all their strength, Zhenzhou City was empty. Ouyang Shantong led ten thousand cavalry. They broke through nine Dadan tribes in succession and camped with tens of thousands of Ye Lianggu tribes. Defeated the obstruction of eight thousand cavalry from the Prince of Zubu, and successively conquered Weizhou, Zhenzhou, and Fangzhou. More than 100,000 households from various tribes in the desert were captured, and hundreds of thousands of war horses were captured. In the autumn, he joined forces with Zhao Wuye in Pibei River City. At this point, most tribes in the desert have surrendered. In Pibeihe City, Zhao Wushu received the imperial decree and transferred General Dingbian to lead 10,000 troops and horses to stay in Zhenzhou.
Ouyang Shanze was ordered to escort the captured tribal leaders and the surrendered grassland tribe leaders. The captured war horses, cattle and sheep were returned to the original Dading Prefecture, which has now been renamed Chengde Prefecture, and were prepared to return to the mainland. After a year of continuous battles, the Qi army entered the Mobei grassland for the first time since the Qi Dynasty destroyed the Tang Dynasty. Continuously defeated the grassland tribes and completely destroyed Bei Liao's last elite in the grassland. It was also the first time in hundreds of years that the Han people penetrated into Mobei since the Tang army continuously penetrated into the desert grasslands and defeated the Turkic tribes during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
Zhao Wushu and Ouyang Shan traveled thousands of miles across the desert grassland until they reached the north coast where Su Wu was herding sheep. He conquered hundreds of thousands of grassland tribes and captured countless cattle, sheep and horses. On the eastern front, Guo Chen controlled Huanglong Prefecture and Changchun Prefecture, and suppressed Yelv Zongzhen, who used the winter in Binfu to recruit 18,000 Jurchen soldiers, 10,000 Wei soldiers, and 20,000 Khitan troops from various tribes. After the failure of the attack on Changchun Prefecture, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and go south in order to survive. They fought several battles with Dayanlin's Bohai Navy in succession, and both sides suffered heavy losses.
Although Fengzhou was captured, 30% of the troops, horses and grain collected were lost. The two armies were in a confrontation, and neither could do anything to the other. When the two armies were in a stalemate, Yelu Zong really thought that the Qi army was using troops on the grassland and that the commander-in-chief Cao Rui had been transferred back to the Central Plains. The troops and horses left behind will also guard the territory thousands of miles from Huanglong Mansion to Dading Mansion. All the remaining cavalry have been transferred to the grassland. The remaining infantry troops, which were not strong enough to hold on to their current territory and were even less likely to take the initiative to attack, suddenly came out from behind.
After Cao Rui was transferred, Guo Chen, who took over the command of Cao Rui's unit, was not idle this winter. The number of captured Liao army horses gathered in Shangjing was too many. Even if it is guaranteed that Zhao Wuhu and Ouyang Shan will join forces, the next step will be to go deep into the grassland to fight with one person and three horses. Following Cao Rui, tens of thousands of horses were transferred back to the Central Plains. He actually still has nearly 50,000 war horses in his hands. Looking at these war horses, he looked at the infantry in his hands. Guo Chen has been thinking that these war horses need fodder if they are kept like this, so they might as well make use of them.
It does take a lot of time to train a cavalry. But it would be much easier to let the infantry learn to ride horses without having to fight immediately. Anyway, it's snowing heavily, and the weather in this damn place is extremely cold. With these tens of thousands of infantry troops nestled in barracks and doing nothing all day long, wouldn't that be causing trouble for themselves? Those were tens of thousands of strong men, not a group of old, weak and disabled soldiers. If they are allowed to be idle, not only will the people in the capital suffer, but their own heads may suffer even more. In addition, the territory of Bei Liao is not small.
Next, most of the cavalry left by the emperor had to go deep into the grassland, and the only ones left for him to deal with the Tokyo Road were infantry. If you rely on the infantry's two legs to move forward, you may not be able to catch even a hair by the time you get to the place. Therefore, he just gritted his teeth and simply learned to ride horses. Anyway, he didn't require these people to be able to fight on horses. As long as they can ride the horse and run without falling off the horse, that's fine. Under the dual inspiration of Guo Chen's persecution and Huang Ruifeng's strong support after learning about the incident, he was motivated by a high bounty.
What's more, I feel a little nervous this winter when I have so much free time. It's better to have something to do than to sit in the military camp with nothing. Therefore, Guo Chen's 30,000 infantry troops, except for those guarding important towns, basically learned to ride horses after one winter. This time when they attacked Hengzhou from Huanglong Mansion, these mounted infantry troops were extremely effective. After a great battle, Yelv Zong was caught off guard and was severely defeated. Before sending troops, Yelv Zongzhen, who had hastily succeeded to the throne as the emperor of Daliao, was captured. He also captured more than 60 kings, dignitaries and important ministers of the Northern Liao royal family.
At the same time, they captured more than 30 heads and clan leaders of the Jurchen and Haixi Jurchen tribes, Huangtou Shiwei and Xiaohuangshi Wei tribes. They also seized more than 30 square meters of jade seals and treasures passed down from the Northern Liao Dynasty. After Huang Ruifeng received the news that Guo Chen was going south, he personally led 10,000 infantry troops and led 10,000 surrendered Northern Liao and Han troops out of Liaoyang. Together with Guo Chen, they formed a north-south pincer attack on Dayan Lin's troops. There were five consecutive battles within a month. With the cooperation of the Bohai Gao clan leader who accompanied the army, they completely wiped out the more than 50,000 Bohai navy under Dayanlin's command.
Huang Ruifeng took this opportunity to personally rush to Huanglong Mansion to meet with various ministries. And unified the Jurchen tribes in the Haixi, the Jurchens in the East China Sea, the Jurchen tribes in the Five Kingdoms, and the Huangtou tribes in Shiwei into the Eight Banners that united the military and civilians. They are Zhenghong, Zhenglan, Zhengbai, Zhengqing, Xianghong, Xianglan, Xiangbai and Xiangqing. Banner people graze, farm, fish and hunt in peacetime, but are called upon to send troops in times of war. The surrendered Northern Liao and Han armies were also mobilized and organized into the Han Army Banner. Each banner has one person each for Hanjun, Jurchen, and Shiwei. It is stipulated that three hundred households are divided into one team, and one assistant leader is set up for management.
