Murong Nobunaga knew in his heart that what he had just overcome was the biggest crisis in his life.
Even though Master Cixian is just a monk, in Anton, a place where the religious atmosphere is more than ten times stronger than that of the Central Plains, the influence of a highly respected religious figure is very great.
What is even more worrying is that for Master Cixian, he, Murong Nobunaga, and his army are outsiders.
Because this land of Anton has been occupied by Bohai and Khitan for hundreds of years, it can no longer be regarded as Han land.
If we were in Han Dynasty, not to mention a religious leader like Master Cixian who could influence 20,000 to 30,000 people, he would have been expelled by the imperial court long ago.
However, in the past in Khitan, Master Cixian was an eminent monk who did not need to report his comings and goings to Shulu Ping Palace. Yelu Deguang often summoned him to listen to his lectures, and even a mixed person like Yelu Lihu would treat him with courtesy.
And on the surface, Master Cixian was kind to Murong Nobunaga.
He saved the life of Murong Nobunaga's grandfather Cao Yuanzhong in Jingzhao Chang'an Mansion, and helped Murong Nobunaga recruit the Tuyuhun people from the Helian tribe to Anton.
It also played a very important role in stabilizing the people of Andong and promoting cooperation between the old Khitan nobles and Murong Nobunaga.
It is very difficult to deal with such a religious figure and such a relationship without him openly messing around.
Moreover, this old monk has close contacts with Yanshou, and Monk Yanshou is the sixth generation founder of the Pure Land Sect. The Bailian Sect, a professional rebel house in the past, developed from the Pure Land Sect. Without complete assurance, it is impossible to take action at all.
Therefore, although Murong Nobunaga did not hate Master Cixian, he still chose to endure it until he had hundreds of thousands of core people under his command and tens of thousands of powerful troops before he came to solve Master Cixian's problem.
This is because the hundreds of thousands of people under Murong Nobunaga's command have all moved from the Central Plains and other places. Unlike the Khitan people who have not fully accepted the Six Dharmas Sect, these hundreds of thousands of people are authentic followers of the Six Dharma Sect. Follow Master Cixian's tactics.
But now, it seems that the old monk is ready to completely admit defeat and take the initiative to face the wall in the palace.
Then Murong Nobunaga was rude and couldn't let him go no matter what. Such a religious leader could achieve things reluctantly, but when he failed, it was even more dangerous.
Moreover, his father Zhang Shengren also told Murong Nobunaga that he must control Master Cixian, otherwise the Six Methods Sect would never be able to fully penetrate into the vast pine forest north of Liaoyang.
Therefore, Murong Nobunaga immediately ordered his bodyguard general Yuhou and his uncle Murong Yanzheng to lead a hundred soldiers to personally 'protect' Master Cixian.
At the same time, the old monk expressed his willingness to go south with him, which was to hand over his teaching rights in disguise.
What Murong Nobunaga wants to do is to separate Master Cixian from his followers, and then use various means of coercion and inducement to transform his disciples Fa Yan and others into great virtues of the Six Fa Sect, and become Murong Xin. The right-hand man who ruled the old land of Silla and the Japanese country.
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In fact, what Zhang Yan said to Song Qiqiu that Goryeo would not pay tribute was inaccurate, or it was a complete slander.
Because the Wang clan had sent six or seven groups of envoys to Korea, but all of them were stopped by Murong Nobunaga.
As soon as the envoys who went to sea from Ganghwa Bay arrived in Dengzhou, they were captured by local officials and sent to the Jinyi Guards Prison, where they were forced to use coercion and inducement to extract information about Wang's Korea.
It's not that they don't pay tribute, it's that you've done something wrong.
Ordinarily, after several waves of envoys failed to reach Dazhou, everyone in Wang's Korea should be alert, but in fact, Murong Nobunaga used a very clever trick to mislead them, making Wang's Korea unable to understand the situation in the Central Plains. .
Murong Nobunaga was able to use information to mislead the Wang family of Korea because the territory of the current royal family of Korea is different from the territory of Korea in our minds in later generations.
At this time, Wang's Goryeo territory had not advanced to the Yalu River, and they did not even border the Khitan.
Because between Wang's Goryeo and Khitan, there is another small country that is unknown in history, Ding'an Kingdom.
The so-called Ding'an Kingdom refers to the post-Bohai Kingdom established by the Bohai survivors after the demise of the Bohai Kingdom in support of Da Guangxian, the son of the last Bohai King Dazhuan (yin zhuan).
They took advantage of the conflict between brothers Yelu Deguang and Yelu Bei, and after Yelu Bei fled to the Later Tang Dynasty, they almost restored the entire Bohai Kingdom except Huanglong Prefecture and Liaoyang Prefecture.
But then Yelu Deguang, who stabilized his position, mobilized his army and defeated the Bohai survivors again. The newly restored Bohai Kingdom collapsed again in an instant.
However, at this moment, Yelu Deguang suddenly received a kneeling lick from Shi Jingtang, and immediately ran to the Central Plains to confer the title of emperor.
This gave these guys a precious respite.
But they failed to make good use of this opportunity. After the Khitan army went to the Central Plains, these Bohai people did not want to regain their lost territory, but instead started internal strife.
Dachengzhuan's younger brother, Dachengde, joined forces with powerful factions such as the Lie family and the Wushi family to start a war with his nephew Daguangxian over the issue of the throne.
After more than a year of internal fighting, Daguang was defeated and fled to Goryeo in the south.
However, before the Great Emperor could be happy and his butt was still warm, he discovered that the Camel God of War had finished consecrating the emperor and returned.
What do you think this is?
Subsequently, the Khitan soldiers and horses attacked Longquan Mansion (Mudanjiang) and killed the whole family of Daqide. The remaining Bohai survivors Lieshi and Wushi shrank to the banks of the Yalu River to survive.
Brother Guang, the Camel God of War, was preparing to continue to deal with these Bohai remnants. Yunzhou and Fuzhou among the sixteen states of Yanyun refused to surrender. Brother Guang had no choice but to go to the Central Plains first, and never returned here again.
The Wushi and Lie clans, who had narrowly escaped death, survived again. Led by Lie Zhoudao, the leader of the Lie clan, they established an empire starting from Dandong in the west, including Ji'an, Tonghua and other places in Jilin, and ending in Xianjingdao in later Korea in the east. Ding Anguo.
In history, the Ding'an Kingdom experienced dramas such as the Wushi Dynasty and the Da clan's restoration of the country. It also surrendered to the Northern Song Dynasty several times and agreed to jointly attack the Liao Kingdom. It persisted until about 1000 when the first Liao-Li War broke out.
In this time and space, in order to accumulate strength and work with Liu Zhiyuan to deal with Zhang Yan, Yelu Ruan sent troops and horses to attack Ding'an Kingdom many times, captured their Tonghua and Ji'an and other places, and plundered a large number of Bohai people and supplies.
But Yelu Ruan was not able to completely conquer Ding'an State, so now, the Liao State and Goryeo were separated by a small country occupying the Yalu River.
Murong Nobunaga took advantage of this and spread a lot of false news southward through Ding'an State, claiming that the people who replaced the Khitans were Tyuhun people from the grasslands.
These kings of the Tuyuhun people were originally the adopted sons of the Emperor Zhou of the Central Plains. However, after taking control of the Khitan land, they rebelled and became independent and were at war with the Great Zhou of the Central Plains.
This is a dangerous move for the army! Originally, Murong Nobunaga was almost a man of his own in Anton. If anyone really believed this rumor, it would be a big turmoil.
Fortunately, Zhang Yan and Murong Nobunaga and his son had enough trust. This kind of rumor that was 70% false and 30% true was very lethal. It not only deceived the Wang family in Korea, but also many Jurchens and Bohai people.
And the person who passed on this news was also chosen very well, that is Gao Song Gao Mouhan, a Bohai native who defected to Khitan and the former son-in-law of Wang Jian, the founding king of Goryeo.
Gao Mohan even told the King of Goryeo at this time, his former brother-in-law Wang Zhao, that King Tuyuhun Murong had been cruel and cruel since the fall of the Khitans. As long as the king was willing to take him in, he could bring 50,000 Bohai people and 2,000 elite warriors south again. Return.
However, Wang Zhao was not fooled by Gao Song. It was not that he did not want the vast territory in the north, but that Wang Zhao himself was very weak now.
Wang's Goryeo is actually a small version of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
A few years before the death of Wang Jian, the founding hero of the country, the strength of Wang's Korean relatives, honorable ministers, and local tycoons at home and abroad had expanded greatly.
After Wang Jian died in 943, Prince Wang Wu succeeded to the throne, but he was sickly and weak and could not control the situation at all.
In 945, Wang Wu's brother Wang Yao launched a coup and killed the powerful officials Pu Shuxi and Wang Gui. Wang Wu, who was seriously ill, starved to death and proclaimed himself king.
After Wang Yao came to power, he always wanted to get rid of the control of the clan and relatives, so he planned to move the capital from Kaijing (Kaicheng) to Xijing (Pyongyang), which caused extreme dissatisfaction among many vested interests.
In 949, his brother Wang Zhaoyi followed suit and launched a palace coup, forcing his brother Wang Yao to death and proclaiming himself king.
In other words, in just nine years, Wang's Goryeo changed four kings, and two consecutive kings were killed in coups, which greatly weakened Goryeo's strength.
At this time, Wang Zhao himself had just usurped the throne for less than a year. He was unable to sit down from his buttocks and was unable to look north at all.
But precisely because of this situation, Murong Nobunaga's strategy was a great success.
Wang Zhao wanted to stabilize the country and was unwilling to pay attention to the changes in the north. When he heard that Tuyuhun was replacing the Khitan, he did not make a careful distinction and thought that the chaos in Liaodong and western Liaoning was a good opportunity for him to integrate the internal affairs.
He even wanted to strengthen his throne by sending envoys to Dazhou to seek canonization from Dazhou.
Therefore, he did not take any precautions at all, but kept trying to send envoys to the Central Plains to seek canonization.
As early as last year, Jurchen, Bohai and other people rushed south to Goryeo and told Wang Zhao that the King of Liao had hoarded a large amount of supplies and military supplies in Hengzhou (Ji'an) and might invade south.
But Wang Zhao believed in his heart that the King of Liao was at war with Zhou Dynasty, and he was not willing to believe what these barbarians said.
And he was even more afraid that if the news spread, domestic careerists would take advantage of the situation to ask for help from the King of Liao and cause trouble, so he suppressed the news.
At the same time, due to Xiang Xun and Gao Song's blockade of the news, these Bohai and Jurchen small-headed people in Nanben did not know much about the relationship between Murong Nobunaga and Zhang Yan. Even the prince of Liaoyang County in Kaifu thought that they had become Liao Dynasty. king.
On the other hand, these people could not help but exaggerate in order to get Wang Zhao's reward.
It is said that the King of Liao had a million troops, and they had to kill tens of thousands of enemies before passing the blockade. Some even said that Zhou Dynasty was going to cross the sea to conquer Gaoli and Yunyun.
The saliva was flying everywhere, and it sounded like they were talking nonsense. There was not much truth at all, which made Wang Zhao even more reluctant to believe them.
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It was under such a successful deception that Murong Xin Changming raised troops to Xun, Gao Song, Murong Yanchao and others, and calmly attacked Ding'an Kingdom in turn.
On the one hand, it is to clear the obstacles for attacking Wang's Goryeo, and on the other hand, it can also use actual combat to exercise the combat effectiveness of the army and the tacit understanding between the armies.
In early October, before the heavy snow closed the mountains in Liaodong, the Liaoyang County Prince Bafu Zhonglang General, the marching Sima Wang Jing personally led the right capital Yuhou Li Hanqiong, the beggar commander Murong Yanchao and other generals attacked Lieshi Mountain City at the foot of Changbai Mountain.
This was the last fortress of the Ding'an Kingdom. In this battle, Wang Jing captured and killed dozens of Ding'an Kingdom's civil and military ministers, including King Liezhou Dao of Ding'an. Wu Xianji, another powerful figure, surrendered with more than 40,000 members of his family, and the Ding'an Kingdom was basically destroyed. .
Murong Nobunaga was overjoyed when he received the news. He immediately left Li Hanqiong to guard Lieshi Mountain City, and gradually transported the supplies stored in Hengzhou to various places in Changbai Mountain. He recruited tens of thousands of people from all ethnic groups and prisoners of Ding'an Kingdom to build roads and bridges to facilitate the dispatch of the army.
At the same time, Murong Nobunaga sent an envoy to Tokyo on Pegasus, requesting Zhang Yan to send 20,000 light cavalry from 40,000 households in Monan and Mobei to Liaodong to assist in the battle.
At the same time, he requested 30,000 naval troops from Jiangbei and Jiaodong provinces to march eastward across the sea no later than April next year.
