After Shi Jingtang's hard persuasion, the Khitan finally decided to seize the Longquan treasure.
In fact, Yelu Abaoji and Yelu Yaoguang should have been interested for a long time, but they still had concerns, so they convened the third meeting.
Under the personal arrangement of the Generalissimo, dozens of teams of spies filed out of the Khitan military camp and headed straight for Jie Liang.
And the moment these Khitan spies stepped out of the Khitan camp, they were immediately targeted by bad guys or people from Huanyinfang or Tongwen Hall.
The Khitan army is indeed very strong, especially the cavalry, which is much stronger than today's Jin army.
But when it comes to intelligence spying, it is far behind the bad guys, Huanyinfang, and Tongwenguan, which are institutions that have been entrenched in the Central Plains for a long time!
However, although the Khitan sent spies to verify the authenticity of the Longquan treasure, they did not give up the war at all!
Attack on three fronts: Daizhou, Dingzhou, and Taiyuan.
Youzhou is like a portal. Breaking through Youzhou City is like kicking open the security door of Jin State. Even if there are doors in the rooms inside, they are just ordinary wooden doors.
Of course, the main ones to attack are Daizhou and Dingzhou. For Taiyuan Prefecture, it is just a test.
If Youzhou City is like the security door, this Taiyuan Mansion is like the safe welded to the wall in the house. As long as the safe is broken open, the most important thing in the house can be obtained.
However, this is obviously a difficult thing. Even if there are not many defenders in Taiyuan Mansion, it is still a hard nut to crack.
No matter how strong Zhu Wen was back then, he only forced Li Keyong back to Taiyuan Mansion and never made any further progress. This is enough to show that Taiyuan Mansion is easy to defend but difficult to attack!
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Taiyuan Prefecture is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only thing left is a towering city wall. If you want to capture Taiyuan Prefecture, there is no other way but to attack by force.
Even if Taiyuan Prefecture only has 50,000 or 60,000 defenders, if you want to attack by force, you have to pile up at least ten times the number of troops to have a chance.
Five to six hundred thousand, this is probably all the Khitan troops going south, and the Khitan is not good at attacking cities, so this number will have to be increased a bit.
For a Taiyuan Mansion, it is impossible for Khitan to bear such a price.
Unless it was a last resort, the Khitan would not have chosen to attack by force.
Even if they want to attack by force, they have to capture Daizhou and Dingzhou and capture Li Conghou and Li Congrong, the two heirs of the Jin Dynasty.
In order to avoid attacking Taiyuan when the time comes and being attacked from both sides, we can also try to see if we can use the two princes of the Jin Dynasty to coerce Taiyuan City to open the city gate.
Although Taiyuan Mansion is now under Li Cunli's control, Li Cunli is not justified in his name and only uses violence to suppress the court.
There are still many contradictions in Taiyuan Mansion. If these contradictions are used well, there is still a chance to capture Taiyuan Mansion without any blood.
Of course, this presupposes that the two stepping stones, Li Conghou and Li Congrong, can be captured.
After all, Shi Jingtang was just Li Siyuan's adopted son and son-in-law, so he was not qualified to be used as a stepping stone.
On the tenth day of August, in less than half a month, the Khitan army captured Dingzhou and captured Li Congrong, the second son of the former Jin Dynasty king Li Siyuan.
At the same time, the spies sent by the Khitan also found out the authenticity of the Longquan treasure, which was mountains of gold, silver and jewelry, and countless wealth.
The most crazy thing is that the spy saw the imperial seal in the cave!
I just met spies from various princes in the Central Plains. In order not to alert others, the spies did not take out the Jade Seal of the Kingdom, but hid the Jade Seal of the Kingdom deep in the cave.
This information reached the ears of Yelu Abaoji and Yelu Yaoguang, and they made the same decision almost at the same time.
Give up attacking Daizhou, give up attacking Taiyuan, go south to capture Jie Liang, and seize Longquan!
As long as they get the imperial seal and the Longquan treasure, even if they lose the war and are targeted by the Central Plains princes and join forces to drive them out of the Central Plains, even if their Khitan withdraws from the Central Plains, they can still claim to be the orthodox of the Central Plains and can make a comeback at any time!
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Outside Dingzhou City, a Khitan soldier wearing Khitan leather armor looked around and found no one following him, so he walked into a slightly sparse forest.
Because the woods were sparse and they barely went deep, the Khitan soldier could vaguely see a figure wearing a bamboo hat and standing with his hands behind his back in the depths of the woods.
Immediately, the Khitan soldier ran wildly as if he had been given a shot of blood.
In just a moment, the Khitan soldier came to the depths of the woods, and the figure vaguely wearing a bamboo hat and standing with his hands behind his back truly appeared before his eyes.
As soon as the Khitan soldier approached, he knelt on one knee in front of the figure wearing a bamboo hat and standing with his hands behind his head. He was respectful and lowered his head.
"Three Thousand Villains of the Bad Guys, see the Commander-in-Chief!"
The figure wearing a bamboo hat and standing with his hands behind his back turned around. The cold mask under the bamboo hat was particularly conspicuous. It was the bad handsome man - Yuan Tiangang!
Under the cold mask, those deep eyes looked down at Sanqianyuan, and Yuan Tiangang's hoarse voice sounded: "What's wrong?"
"The Khitan has believed it, and Marshal Yelu Yaoguang personally led the army to liberate Liang!"
Sanqianyuan, who looked like an ordinary Khitan soldier, was meticulous and answered respectfully.
"Huh, do you believe it to be true? Of course they will believe it to be true. Except for the imperial seal, everything there is true!"
Yuan Tiangang snorted coldly and asked: "Where is the real imperial seal?"
"Taken away by people from Tianlixing..."
Sanqianyuan answered without hesitation, hesitated for a moment and then said: "Took Fengxiang."
"Fengxiang..."
The hoarse voice murmured softly, turning his head to look in Feng Xiang's direction, a stern look flashed in his eyes under the mask.
Jiang Yunqing, I hope you don’t have any thoughts that you shouldn’t have!
This stern look disappeared in a flash, and in the blink of an eye Yuan Tiangang returned to his profound look: "You continue to lurk and wait for His Highness's order!"
"yes!"
Sanqianyuan responded and lowered his head.
The next moment, there was a gentle trembling sound in the air. Sanqianyuan seemed to feel something, but when he looked up, the figure of the commander was missing.
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In Yunzhou City, 50,000 elite Qi troops have quietly stationed themselves, and they are expected to stay there for some time!
At this time, the Central Plains has become a huge pocket under Jiang Yunqing's plan. The Longquan treasure and the imperial seal are the bait, and the Khitan is the poisonous snake.
Now the venomous snake has just discovered the bait and is cautiously testing the edge of the pocket, but barely puts its head in. If it wants to tighten the pocket at this moment, it will easily scare the snake and it may be bitten at any time.
At this moment, the only thing to do is to wait until the Khitan snake has completely entered the pocket, and then close the pocket. Then the Khitan snake will be unable to fly.
When the Khitan has run out of energy after struggling, that's when Li Xingyun, the snake catcher, takes action with a "snake trap" in hand!
