Along the Sangqian River, near Loufanguan, this is the only way from Tokyo to Yunzhou.
Chai Rong rubbed his hands, feeling a little excited. Although he knew it was inappropriate to appear here in his own capacity, he just couldn't restrain his inner excitement and little vanity.
At the age of six or seven, he had to seek refuge with his aunt because his father had lost all his family property. Then at the age of eleven or twelve, he was forced to travel all over the country to sell tea.
If someone like Zhang Zhao suddenly favors him, anyone else would burst into tears and lose control of himself.
Moreover, Chai Rong is still a very ambitious and far-sighted young man, otherwise he would not insist on practicing riding and shooting while selling tea with the caravan.
Later generations have an evaluation of Chai Rong as the art of understanding Huang Lao, haha! With Chai Rong's irritable character, he played the tricks of Huang and Lao in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?
In fact, this was when Chai Rong was in the caravan, and there were no other books to read. He could only seize every opportunity to read and study hard. The Book of Huang Lao was about the only book he could find.
This is a young man who has vision, understands hardships, is ambitious, and is willing to study hard.
He clearly felt Zhang Zhao's interest in his talent, and knew in his heart that if he could follow Zhang Zhao, he would be able to realize his ambitions.
However, his adoptive father and uncle Guo Wei had just become a confidant of Taifu Liu in Hedong. If he followed Zhang Zhao, it would definitely affect Guo Wei.
It is really difficult to choose between the kindness of my aunt, adoptive mother and adoptive father, and my own rapid rise.
While Chai Rong was in confusion, more than ten envoys with red pennants on their backs and more than twenty Khitan knights in leather robes were escorting a man in green who looked like an official as he came out of Loufan Gate and headed towards Yunzhou. Speed away.
"Sure enough, Commander Zhejie was right. How can the emperor here be so shameless?" Li Cunhui cursed in a low voice through gritted teeth.
Murong Nobunaga was a little embarrassed because he was Shi Jingtang's brother-in-law and he married Shi Jingtang's sister-in-law, the former Princess Tang Yongle. Every time someone scolded Shi Jingtang, his face would get hot. It was really so fucking embarrassing.
Zhe Deke noticed Murong Nobunaga's embarrassment, expressed his sympathy in his heart, and then pointed at the fast-running cavalry.
"Captain Murong, go ahead and lead thirty people to intercept. Chai Dalang will come out from the left, and Cun Hui will come out from the right. After I cut myself off, don't let anyone escape!"
This was the idea of the old fox Zhe Congyuan. Yelv Deguang, the leader of the Khitan Kingdom, arrived outside Yunzhou City in September. He spent more than ten days to capture Yingzhou first, and then went to Yunzhou to deceive Sha Yanxun. Detained out of town.
After that, the army and people of Yunzhou elected Wu Luan, the judge of Yunzhou, as their leader and resolutely refused to allow the Khitans to enter the city.
Yelu Deguang was furious and could not conquer the city after seven days of fierce attacks. Then he began to lure the soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender, but the soldiers and civilians remained unmoved.
Yelu Deguang could only use Zhang Zhao's usual trick and shouted: "Where is my son Jingtang?" '
Then they sent envoys straight to Yedu to question and reprimand Shi Jingtang, asking him to hand over Yunzhou City.
At this moment, An Chongrong was still holding on in Zhenzhou, and An Congjin's old nest of Xiangzhou had not been captured, so the emperor could only kneel down again.
He originally wanted to send a senior minister to Yunzhou, but no one was willing to go.
So Shi Jingtang could only send his eunuchs to accompany the Khitans to Yunzhou, and ordered Wu Luan, the official in charge of Yunzhou, to abandon Yunzhou City and hand over tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to the Khitans.
Zhe Cong, an old man who has become a master, predicted Yelu Deguang's prediction from a distance, and asked Zhe Deku and other four people to lead 200 elite riders to the Sanggan River outside Loufan Pass to ambush, and directly intercepted and killed Shi Jingtang's envoy.
Amid the dots of snowflakes, thirty elite knights wrapped in horse hooves suddenly rushed out. Murong Nobunaga flew out with a horse. The long bow in his hand vibrated three times in a row. The three Khitan knights in leather robes fell to the ground in an instant.
The leading Khitan knight was very experienced. Someone intercepted him in front of him, so he didn't even think about running back toward Loufangguan.
Because there must be an ambush behind them, if they rush forward directly and scatter those who are intercepting them, there might be hope.
It was a pity that he met Murong Nobunaga. The thirty elite cavalry around him were all selected from the three tribes of Murong family and Shandong Tuyuhun. The lowest one was the cavalry fire chief of the Yiyi army, and they were among the elite among the elite.
Before the twenty Khitan cavalry could rush to Murong Nobunaga, seven or eight of them were shot to death by a hail of arrows. Then dozens of people were killed on both sides. The two leading men each held a horse spear, and they were unparalleled in bravery. With one attack, the Khitans were completely dispersed.
When the more than ten post-Jin cavalrymen noticed something bad, they turned around and ran back with the servants. They happened to bump into Zhe Deku behind them, and were not surprised to be dealt with by a bow and arrow.
Two hundred elite cavalry ambushed forty or fifty people, and there was absolutely no reason to let them escape.
When the soldiers at Loufanguan saw that something was wrong and came out, in addition to the corpses on the ground, they even stripped off their clothes and armor.
"Sure enough, it was Judge Wu who asked him to hand over Yunzhou City. How can the majestic emperor be so shameless!"
Now even Murong Nobunaga started to scold him. Shi Jingtang's edict required Wu Luan and Yunzhou officers and soldiers to hand over Yunzhou City to the Khitans, but he only led the officers and soldiers back and left the people alone.
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Outside Yunzhou City, Yelv Deguang was still waiting anxiously. This gentleman was tall and had a simple and honest face. He looked like the kind of loyal elder who was harmless to humans and animals.
But it's not true. Yelu Deguang inherited his father Yelu Abaoji's scheming and his mother's cruelty, the Empress Dowager Shuluping's broken wrist. His simple and honest appearance is just his disguise.
This guy knows how to package himself, otherwise he wouldn't be able to coax his mother Shuluping around and take away his brother Yelube's position.
However, Yelu Deguang also has a few small flaws, that is, his fighting skills are really not good.
If the Khitan people were not on the rise, and Shi Jingtang was stupid and sent him to the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, Yelu Deguang, who was addicted to food, would have been able to maintain the scale of the Bohai Kingdom at most.
How should I put it, this guy is an enlarged version of Zhao Er.
Both of them are equally good at dealing with internal affairs and political balance, and both have high ambitions but low ambitions.
Having a kind of obsessive confidence in one's own military capabilities also gave the Khitan and the Northern Song Dynasty a fundamental problem.
In addition, both of them are good at racing! '
Zhao Er's donkey cart drifted across the Gaoliang River. Not only did he run faster than his generals, but even the Liao Kingdom's horses were unable to catch up with them.
He ran so fast that his generals thought Zhao was dead in World War II, thus achieving the reputation of the God of Chariots on the Gaoliang River.
Yelu Deguang did not give in too much. After the Khitan army was defeated by the Jin army in the Hundred Regiment Guards Village of Yangcheng, Yelu Deguang also had people drive a carriage to escape.
Later, he thought it was too slow, so he rode a camel himself and ran for thousands of miles, not stopping until he reached the depths of the grassland.
The cavalry pursued by the Jin army did not even see his camel's butt, thus earning him the title of Camel God of War.
Moreover, the temple names of these two are both Taizong, and they are also the second eldest son in the family. They can be called the most powerful figures of Taizong in the past dynasties, and their names are Taizong Erhui.
All in all, to say that Yelu Deguang is an enlarged version of Zhao Er is actually to look down upon him a bit.
If Zhao Er is counted as one hundred points, Yelu Deguang is also one hundred and ten points.
The extra ten points were because Yelv Deguang's historical opponents were fools like Shi Chonggui and 'heavyweights' like Du Chongwei and Li Shouzhen. Zhao Er's opponent was Empress Chengtian Xiao Chuo.
Yelu Deguang relied entirely on his opponents to set him off, making him look a little taller than Zhao Er.
For example, when we came to annex Yunzhou this time, the resistance of Yunzhou's military and civilians was not very strong.
After all, Shi Jingtang has been seizing Yunzhou for two years. If Yelu Deguang makes a wish and promises not to relocate the people or plunder, he will probably be able to win it.
However, he just wanted to show his majesty of surrendering when the troops arrived, but he succeeded in frightening the soldiers and civilians of Yunzhou, so they did not dare to open the city gates and refused to accept them.
Since this is the case, it is okay to send someone to explain the situation and try to comfort him. Yelu Deguang thought so, so he summoned Yunzhou Datong Army Jiedushi Sha Yanxun out of the city to pay an audience.
After Sha Yanxun arrived, Yelu Deguang's tricks came again. He felt that as the dignified father of the Central Plains, he could only say good things to win Yunzhou, which was a bit shameful, so he forced Sha Yanxun to call Kaicheng. Door.
It was then that Sha Yanxun felt insulted and refused to obey. After the soldiers and civilians in the city found out, they deeply felt that Yelv Deguang was unreliable. In addition, he did not want to be a Khitan, so he elected the judge Wu Luan as the leader. The soldiers and civilians were united. Never open the city.
Yelu Deguang became even more angry and ordered the army to attack the city.
well! He didn't even look at it, how good were the Khitans in attacking the city?
Historically, the Uighurs in Ganzhou could not be defeated even after being surrounded for seven or eight months. How about attacking a fortified city like Datong in Yunzhou? What do you think?
So they fought for seven days in a row, killing hundreds of people and not even filling up the trenches outside Yunzhou City. Only then did the dumbfounded Yelu Deguang wake up and began to send people to offer benefits and coax.
But it was too late, and no one dared to open the door now.
To be honest, if it weren't for the shameless Shi Jingtang's cooperation, with Yelu Deguang's level and the Khitan tribe five times bigger, let's see if they can win the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture.
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After intercepting and killing the envoys of the Later Jin Dynasty, the four Zhe De and Kuang people ran back to the vicinity of Dongshoujiang City in Shengzhou, about 400 miles away from Yunzhou, which is the southeast of Hohhot in later generations.
Here, the two thousand cavalry of the Guiyi Army and the two thousand cavalry of the Zhe family practiced and cooperated with each other.
After they arrived, the nearby Turkic, Tuyuhun, Sogdian and other ethnic groups who were oppressed by the Khitans came to surrender one after another.
Although these tribes did not dare to lead troops to follow directly, they helped Zhe Deku and others to find out the Khitan intelligence, and led them to ambush the small group of Khitan troops who came out to clear grass valleys.
It is still dare to cut off the connection between the thousands of Khitan tribes entrenched in the former Fengzhou Tiande Army and Yunzhou.
After ten days of waiting, the Khitan soldiers and horses at Loufan Pass finally informed Yelu Deguang of the news that the envoy had been intercepted and killed.
Suddenly, the Khitan leader felt a burst of evil fire, rushing straight from his chrysanthemum to his forehead.
(Fuck, fuck)!
It’s a snowy November! Fifty thousand Khitan soldiers and horses waited outside the city for more than 20 days. Finally, the envoys of the Later Jin Dynasty reached Loufan Pass, which was only more than a hundred miles away. However, they were all intercepted and killed. Is there any way for the king to do it?
"Summon the prince, Xiao Tiannu, and order him to lead three hundred far-reaching detectives to search the area of three hundred miles. We must find out who dares to go against me, the Great Khitan!"
The furious Yelu Deguang roared to find the person who intercepted the envoy. In fact, at this moment, the most important thing to advise was that Yelu Deguang should retreat temporarily and wait until the ice and snow melted before coming back.
But no one dares to say it now. First, Yelu Deguang is on fire. Second, this winter is not very cold and the snow is not heavy. They still have plenty of food and grass. Third, if the wind and snow get serious, they can still go to Yingzhou. It's completely late to escape from the city.
"Your Majesty, the tribes near the Tiande Army have not sent anyone for more than ten days. I wonder if the villains who intercepted the envoy this time came from the west?"
As a veteran of the two dynasties, Yelvbode, who was attentive in Zuo Pi's room, thought for a while and said, he obviously felt something unusual.
"Take the left leather room and send three thousand soldiers and horses of the Holy Army to explore the west. If you encounter the enemy, don't waste your time fighting. Come and report back quickly!"
Yelu Deguang had begun to calm down at this time, but after thinking about it again and again, he really couldn't think of any force in the west that dared to stroke the tiger's beard of his Great Khitan Kingdom?
"Your Majesty, now that the messenger from the Southern Dynasty has been intercepted and killed, Wu Luan will definitely not obey the order. It is better to send elite cavalry south from Youzhou to get the imperial edict from the Emperor of the Southern Dynasty."
King Yan and Zhao Yanshou, the governor of Youzhou, also spoke at the side.
Although Yelu Deguang didn't like Zhao Yanshou's father, Zhao Dejun, he still had great faith in Zhao Yanshou and nodded after hearing this.
"Please ask King Yan to send your horse south quickly. This time when you go to Youzhou, you must send my son's edict to Yunzhou!"
