Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

But his voice was getting lower and lower.

"It's Qin Jun everywhere," someone complained, already trembling in the words.

Other than that, no one spoke, and there was a dead silence.

Yelusha glanced at the generals around him, everyone lowered their heads wherever they looked, how could he not understand at this point.

He is exhausted physically and mentally, and his face is ashen. If Qin Jun can go to their rear and take down King Xi's tooth tent, either Gao Xun in the east will be in danger, or Brother Yeluxiu in the west will be in danger. No matter where Qin Jun breaks through , the entire war situation has been completely irreversible.

He sighed, looked at the endless Qin army banners all over the mountains and plains, and said softly: "Those who can't speak Chinese, quickly learn a few words for a while, let's surrender." He remembered Shi Congyun's promise in Hedong.

In Beikou Village, Emperor Shi stayed at a farmer's house. The forward army had already pursued northward, while his reserve army would temporarily receive prisoners of war and food at Beikou, and was expected to head north in five days.

It was the first time he met Han Derang who was escorted up here. This man was one year younger than him, and he was a man in his early thirties. Naturally, he had heard of his famous name, Emperor Shi.

But of course what he was thinking about was not the gossip and gossip about him and Xiao Chuo, but he was curious about why Xiao Chuo fell in love with a Han Chinese who was 12 years older than her.

After meeting Han Derang and asking him some questions, Emperor Shi roughly had the answer in his heart.

Although Han Derang led the army, he was well-mannered, knowledgeable, and had read many Confucian classics. He answered his questions fluently and was very polite. The wound, I'm afraid it's hard to think that he is a person who leads soldiers to fight.

What Emperor Shi asked was not about the deployment of the Liao army. Those Yelu Xiezhen had already explained almost everything. What he asked was Han Derang's family background, the customs and customs of Shangjing, and the composition of power.

After asking these questions, he understood why Xiao Chuo was so "infatuated" with a man 12 years older than her in history.

Because the Han people in Shangjing are very powerful, and they have been very large since the founding of the Liao Kingdom. After finding a piece of pure land, a large number of Han people went north to seek refuge, and the number of refugees continued after that.

They were all important supporters of Yelu Abaoji's rise. Facing the blockade and hostility of the various Khitan tribes, Yelu Abaoji was able to persevere and finally turn the tables and establish the Liao Kingdom, which is inseparable from the large population of his subordinates. It mainly depends on those Han people and Xi people who went north.

Therefore, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Han people have a great voice in the Liao Kingdom. With the development of the Liao Kingdom, their strong cultural dominance has also been demonstrated. The Liao Kingdom has become a country that worships Buddhism and respects Confucianism.

The Han family is the representative of the Han faction. Han Derang's grandfather finally became the Liao Kingdom Zhongshu Ling. Although his father was mediocre, Ye Luxian was also named King Yan after he came to power, and Han Derang himself held a high position at a young age. .

Then after her husband died and her son was young, why did Xiao Chuo rely so much on Han Derang, and even showed the state of two people ruling the world together? The reason is self-evident. It is not just a purely emotional issue, but also a political issue. .

She wanted to use the strength of the Han family to stabilize her rule, and at the same time show the situation that the Khitan people and the Han people ruled the world together, and since then called on the Han people in the country to be used by her.

It has to be said that Emperor Shi was a little more curious about Xiao Chuo, a woman who had never met before but gave him the image of being smart and capable, and asked Han Derang by the way, "Is Xiao Chuo in Shangjing?"

Han Derang nodded. He had heard of many things, including that the Emperor of Qin asked Xiao Siwen for his daughter Xiao Chuo many times.

Regarding Han Derang, Emperor Shi did not kill him, Xiao Chuo used him to realize his rule, and Emperor Shi also had this idea, after all, it was too far to go to Beijing.

It has to be admitted that the empire that used the custodial policy to the extreme in history must be the former empire on which the sun never sets, Britain. A great feature of their custodial policy is to create local divisions.

The most commonly used method by the United Kingdom is not to directly control a certain area after a military victory, but to use various reasons, regardless of religion, nationality, or geography, to split the area into internal struggles, and then choose one of them. A regime that won some, but not all, support.

In this way, they can use the locals to check and balance and suppress the locals, and at the same time transform external conflicts into internal conflicts in the region, allowing them to continue to consume in internal struggles.

And when they see that they are almost exhausted, they intervene, reap the fruits of victory, and stabilize their rule.

It can also make the local regime that is not fully popular to completely submit to the United Kingdom in order to continue to consolidate its power and rule, no matter what conditions they put forward, they will agree.

Relying on this trick, coupled with the guarantee of naval power, the extremely small Britain managed to achieve the empire on which the sun never sets. Its colonial area was more than a hundred times larger than that of the mainland, which was very terrifying.

This kind of power game has something to learn from. It is said that the sky is high and the emperor is far away. With the current level of technology, it is difficult for power to touch remote places without reservation.

Especially the limitations of transportation and communication technology. At this time, if Emperor Shi wanted to keep these remote areas, he needed to use the means of the British to achieve rule.

The Han family is such a good seed that can be used. They have deep roots in the Liao Kingdom, but not everyone welcomes their rule, because they are Han people, so the Khitan people and Xi people will definitely be dissatisfied.

To gradually implement the rule, first of all, after the military conquest, the contradictions must be transferred, and the external contradictions should be transformed into internal contradictions. Don't let the local people point the finger at the Qin army, let them internal friction, and then wait until they are almost exhausted. The final stable rule can be established only when the army is finished.

If it is all taken over by the central government, Shangjing is more than 1000 miles away from Youzhou, and the mountains are high and the roads are far away. The cost of stationing 50 troops is basically equivalent to [-] troops in the south. , the loss outweighs the gain.

Emperor Shi took all the important places and stationed troops, and stationed heavy troops near Youzhou, such as Beikou, Jinzhou, Wuzhou, Juyongguan, etc., and then the court officials made a wish to hand over the land that was no longer safe to defend in the north of the Liao Kingdom. The original Liao officials went to govern and allowed them to recruit soldiers.

At this time, conflicts will erupt. Apart from ethnic conflicts, there will definitely be conservative and radical conflicts. Conservatives will feel that they have no danger to defend, and they can only obey under the surveillance of the Qin army, even if they want to regain their former glory. You must also be patient first, and the radicals will think that the conservatives have no bones, which is an appeasement idea.

No matter what the result is, the contradictions and divisions within the Liao Kingdom will continue to deepen.

Just as Emperor Shi said in Sanguan more than ten years ago that he would kill all Khitan people and not kill other tribesmen, just as he said in Hedong many years ago that he could speak Chinese and not kill, these accumulations will further intensify their internal conflicts.

What he wants is Liaodong, and the area in Shangjing is a place where food is tasteless and it is a pity to discard it, so let them fight internally. After a few years or more than ten years, they are almost exhausted, and the Qin army can go north to collect the fruits of victory.

So he treated Han Derang with courtesy, and explained to the soldiers that Han Derang was a distinguished guest, so he didn't need to be tied up or put in a prison van, just keep him in a tent.

Emperor Shi also explained to Han Derang that as early as more than a month ago, their West Route Army was defeated behind the mountain, brother Yeluxiu was killed in battle, and the army had gone straight to King Xi's tooth tent, in order to dispel his idea of ​​fleeing. , Hande knelt down in front of him in horror, then wailed loudly, and then became more obedient.

At this point, it is unknown how many other states the Liao Kingdom has.

Good news also came from the east in late May. Lin Renzhao had led his troops northward along the Liaoxi Corridor, conquering states and counties along the way. He led the army to meet and repelled the Liao army outside Jinzhou City, capturing and killing more than [-] people.

Gao Xun retreated and did not dare to attack, but he never withdrew his troops. They obeyed the emperor's instructions and defended Jinzhou with all their strength, and did not go out to fight at will.

Emperor Shi was very happy after reading it, and wrote back asking Lin Renzhao to continue to control the Liaoxi Corridor and not to rush eastward.

Because as long as Shangjing is captured and Jinzhou and other important places are guarded, there is a high probability that Liaodong will surrender without fighting. As long as the central reinforcements of the Liao Kingdom in the west are cut off, Liaodong will be isolated and helpless, and it will not last long.

By the beginning of June, the reserve corps where Emperor Shi belonged had completely received the supplies of the Liao army, settled the prisoners, and started heading north.

Not long after leaving the north entrance, another good news came from the north. Xiang Xunjun had penetrated behind the Liao army more than ten days ago, captured King Xi's tooth tent, and intercepted the defeat of the Liao army. He killed more than 7000 enemies and captured 200 soldiers. More than [-] people, including more than [-] middle and high-level civil and military officials of the Liao army, also captured the Liao army's middle road army commander, Yelusha, the prime minister of the North Mansion of Liao Kingdom!

However, they also pleaded guilty in the letter, saying that Ye Luxian, the puppet emperor of the Liao Kingdom, was very vigilant and led his people to flee immediately when he realized that something was wrong, but they did not catch up.

Emperor Shi was overjoyed, he didn't regret Yeluxian's escape at all, he just calculated in his heart, now that the Liao army's three-way army has 4 people, only Gao Xun on the East Road still has the main force. Shangjing must be empty!

This victory has greatly exceeded his expectations, so he immediately wrote back, asking Li Chuyun, Wang Shenqi, Xiang Xun, Li Jilong, Yang Jiye and other armies to go north immediately, without delay, and go straight to the Liao capital to go to Beijing!

Chapter 542, Dismemberment

Along the way north, Emperor Shi and Han Derang had a pleasant chat, and asked a lot of useful information, especially the intricate relationship and power structure of the Liao Kingdom's top leaders.

Only now did he know that Yelu Xiezhen was the grandson of Yelu Helu, that's why he was activated so quickly, and that's why Xiao Siwen was willing to take him in and treat him as a confidant.

Because Yelu Helu is a brother of the same clan trusted by Yelu Abaoji, he was entrusted with a big task, and after the founding of the country, he held a high position.

Along the way, Emperor Shi asked Han Derang many questions, and he knew all the answers. When the army arrived at King Xi's Yazhang on the eighth day of June, he was still too shocked to say a word. The Qin army took over, and Qin flags were everywhere in the settlement of the Xi clan. He was still too shocked to speak.

Li Jilong and Yang Jiye, who stayed in King Xi's tooth tent to rest over there, also came to meet the saint and explained the situation to him.

"Officials, the vanguard army has already gone north. General Yang and I have been in the vanguard. The soldiers are exhausted and there are many casualties, so Xiang Shuai ordered me to stay and wait for the Chinese army." Li Jilong was a little excited when he saw him.

Seeing the busy Li Jilong and Yang Jiye, Emperor Shi was quite relieved, especially Li Jilong, who performed brilliantly in this battle, the key is that he is still young and has a bright future.

Emperor Shi has always had a hidden worry, that is, the top generals of the Qin army are gradually getting old, and if there are no successors, the situation after Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty will appear.

Fortunately, now I see that Li Jilong and others in the youth are very brave and good at fighting. Although Zhang Qixian lacks experience, he is also very brave. Yang Jiye, Hai Jin, Meng Xuanzhe and others in the middle-aged generation are all brave men who dare to fight, at least in the future. In 30 years, Qin will not lack military generals.

"You have done a good job. The breakthrough behind the mountain has established the situation. Guo Jin has already told me that this is due to you and Yang Jiye. I will remember it." Emperor Shi said, and Li Jilong and Yang Jiye knelt down on one knee. Yang Jiye opened his mouth and said: "It is the duty of a minister to serve the government, and we will go through fire and water without hesitation."

Emperor Shi helped them up, and then asked them about the history of the battle behind the mountain, and how they got into King Xi's tooth tent.

Li Jilong said that under the leadership of the local guide, they went north from Yanzhou, then went all the way north, crossed the Daxianbei Mountains and turned east, and then went straight into Xi Wangya tent all the way.

During the period, the mountains were high and the road was far away, and it was indeed very difficult to walk. They walked for nearly a month before reaching their destination. Six soldiers accidentally fell off the cliff and died on the road. Only two of their bones were collected and buried. Can't get it back.

Fortunately, the emperor paid off. After going through all kinds of difficulties, the morale of the whole army was still high, and they successfully left the Daxianbei Mountains, and headed eastward to King Xi's Yazhang, just in time for the frontal battle in the Liao Kingdom to be tense, and they kept moving the people behind Go to the vicinity of Beikou to add. When they arrived, there were only a few thousand people, and they had more than 2 main troops.

The opponent was defeated on the first day of the confrontation, especially the false emperor of the Liao Kingdom, who escaped faster than anyone else. He ran away as soon as the fight started, and he never caught up after that.

Yang Jiye also described the process of his pursuit of the false emperor: "Officials, they are very cunning. Not long after going north, his personal guards ran around in a team of more than ten people. We were not familiar with the road to the north, and we didn't know where to go for a while. Chasing, it is not easy to divide the troops to chase, afraid of being ambushed, so I had to choose a few stocks to chase, but failed to catch up. …

This is my business, please punish the officials. "

Emperor Shi laughed: "He is very dedicated to running away. It's not your fault. You've done a good job. As long as you wipe out the Liao army steadily, he won't be able to do much. What's more, the Liao army is best at guiding your troops to disperse and lure the enemy. Go deep and set up an ambush, you are right not to pursue."

A team of 200 people marched in different directions. The Liao army could use mobility to gather people in one direction to fight more and fight less, and then quickly moved to the battlefield in the other direction. However, it was difficult for troops with poor mobility to quickly Coping and rallying.

So before the start of the fight, Emperor Shi explained that when fighting the Liao army, even if they retreated, they could not pursue too far, because if they pursued too deeply, their defeated troops might gather and launch a counterattack that was caught off guard.

No matter in Beikou or Xiwang Yazhang, everyone implemented this point very well.

After discussing some trivial matters with them, Emperor Shi ordered the whole army to be dispatched in three days, and the whole army went north to Beijing!

When Emperor Shi announced the matter outside the big tent, everyone cheered, and the soldiers were so excited that they wished they could leave immediately.

Shi Congyun didn't come on a whim either. Li Chuyun ahead had sent someone back to report that they had cleared all the obstacles along the way. There was no one on the long road north to Beijing, and Shengjia could go north safely.

And their army has advanced to a place less than fifty miles away from Shangjing. The Liao Kingdom was shocked, and temporarily recruited blocking troops were deployed on the river outside the city. However, their fate is probably the same as that outside Youzhou City, because the accompanying artillery has reached Ten battalions, except for the city wall built by Shangjing imitating Youzhou, there is no line of defense that can withstand the artillery attack.

After reading it, Emperor Shi already knew it, so he asked the civil servants around him to write for him, and wrote a very nasty letter reporting safety, and exaggerating the results of the victory. The letter was taken back to Zhao Shijian in Youzhou, saying that their army had surrounded Liao In the capital of the country, the day of breaking the city is just around the corner, and the day of capturing the false emperor alive is not far away.

He also said that the Qin Army's three-way army was interspersed with encirclement and defeated head-on. With all kinds of heavy blows, 50 Liao troops had been wiped out, and there were no more invincible soldiers in Liao. Announce good news to Empress Fu, Prime Minister Fan Zhi, and Privy Envoy Luqiu Zhongqing.

In short, he said it in a hype. This is a little trick he learned from Napoleon.

Through letters with relatives and friends to "inadvertently" reveal some exaggerated results, in order to achieve the purpose of publicity.

This is not only true and reliable, but also can greatly inspire the morale of the army and the people. Anyway, [-]% of the people in the country must rely on their imaginations for the battle situation in places thousands of miles away, and they have never been to or seen. The right to speak of public opinion is in the hands of Emperor Shi, and everyone does not know if they are bragging, and they all take it seriously. ....

In fact, even ordinary soldiers and mid-level and low-level officers who actually fought the war had no specific concept of casualties on the overall front, and only a few generals at the top had a clear idea.

Emperor Shi also knew it in his heart. If the death, capture, disappearance, injury and loss of combat effectiveness were added up, the loss of the Liao army on the front thousands of miles was close to 50, and [-] was definitely not there.

However, just like the fact that Emperor Shi used one against a hundred, few people know the truth about many things, but the facts were created by a few people. At least in Shu, everyone has believed that history in the Battle of Three Passes The emperor killed [-] Liao troops for a reason.

Three days later, the army set out with the emperor Luan, heading towards Beijing with momentum like a rainbow.

Before that, good news came from the east again. Outside Jinzhou City, Lin Renzhao led his army to defeat Gao Xun, the privy envoy of the Southern Court of the Liao Kingdom, killing more than a thousand enemies, and more than 6000 people surrendered. Gao Xun was captured. The Route Army was almost wiped out.

Yelumo, who stayed behind in Liaodong, only heard the news that the Qin army had reached Jinzhou and Gao Xun led the army to attack the city. Under the pressure of female straight men to harass the city, he gathered a team of soldiers and horses to go west to join Gao Xun to attack Lin Renzhao's army. .

Unexpectedly, before arriving in Jinzhou, he heard the news that the Liao army was defeated and Gao Xun was captured, so he immediately went back to his home and went to defend Liaoyang.

In the current situation, the territory of the Liao Kingdom has been clearly divided into four parts by the offensive of the Qin Army. The economic center south of Yanshan Mountain, north of Yanmen Pass, and east of Juyong Pass have all been occupied by the Qin Army.

On the other hand, the tribes in the Mobei Grassland to the west of the Daxianbei Mountains (Daxing'anling) were separated from the Liao Kingdom. The new emperor of the Liao Kingdom could not move at all. has been occupied.The Qin army in the Liaodong area in the east has not set foot, but they have completely cut off their connection with the central area in the west from the Jinzhou area. They only dare to defend and dare not move.

Moreover, they were also harassed by fishing and hunting tribes in the snowy forests in the northwest, such as Nvzhi funded by the state of Qin, so they could hardly protect themselves.

At this point, Emperor Shi dared to go north to Beijing with more confidence. In the huge Liao Kingdom, the overlord of the north has been dismembered by his military, political and diplomatic offensives. The next step is how to eat.... .

Chapter 543, The Wind and Cloud in Shangjing

At night, the rumbling sound resounding through the dark sky was constant, and Yeluxian sat in the palace wearing a armor and could not fall asleep.

The summer night in the north is still chilly, and the shadow of the Daxianbei Mountain in the distance is looming in the sky. The scene that used to look normal is now extremely depressing.

The north and the south are invisible, stretching between the vast sky and the earth, shadows under the moonlight, covering thousands of ravines, distant mountains and nearby lights, and even distant palaces are under its oppression.

Ye Luxian felt that his chest was very stuffy and uncomfortable, he could feel that kind of oppression all the time, those mountains, those tree shadows, just like Shi Congyun who always made him out of breath......

Ever since King Xi fled back from Yazhang, he knew that something was wrong.

The west was defeated, the rear was copied, the Chinese army was at a disadvantage, and more and more things were going in a bad direction.

After he returned to Shangjing, he immediately ordered Xiao Siwen to recruit young men to prepare to defend Shangjing.

Xiao Siwen, who stayed in the capital, only woke up to the severity of the battle at this time, and then urgently called all men over the age of 14 to join the army and issued weapons to defend Beijing.

His judgment was correct, and the quick response also saved Shangjing.

A few days after they recruited new recruits, the army of the Qin army had arrived at the bank of the Shali River, looking at the outer city of Shangjing.

The river in the south was used as the moat of the upper capital. On the same day, the patrolmen at the head of the city saw a large number of people and horses going north along the road in the distance. Many people were expelled by them along the way, and a large number of tents and houses in Henan were robbed.

However, because they deployed the defenders early and had a large number of troops on the riverside, the Qin army was unable to cross the river for a while, but cautiously chose to wander and occupy near the south bank, checking the villages and towns there.

They were just the vanguard of the Qin Army, about a thousand cavalry, but their arrival also meant that the Qin Army's middle army was not far away.

Sure enough, the next day, the advancing army arrived one after another, and soon crossed the Qingshui River, a tributary of the Shali River, from the west. Attacking from the front, they are not the opponents of the Qin army who are as imposing as a rainbow and whose whole body is wrapped in iron sheets.

After a round of field artillery salvos, the Qin army swarmed forward, broke through the bridgehead in just half an hour, and then moved forward to control the passage to the west of Shangjing.

Qin's army crossed the river from the west, quickly reached the city, and then detoured north and west, besieging Shangjing tightly.

In the next few days, the Qin army continued to arrive, and the number increased. By mid-June, the guard at the top of the city reported that the Qin army on all sides exceeded at least [-]!And it's still increasing.

The Qin army bombarded the city head and walls with their artillery every day, causing some casualties to the generals. Fortunately, this strong city built in imitation of Youzhou, the Qin army's artillery was helpless.

Although they continue to bombard, they can cause limited damage to the wall.

The Qin army is still increasing its troops, and the people in the city are panicking, each with their own ghosts, and the rumbling cannons heard every day destroy the will of everyone in the city all the time...

Ye Luxian has been unable to fall asleep listening to those terrifying cannons for many days. He only brought back more than 1000 people from King Xi's Yazhang, and that is all the strength he can rely on now.

After a while, Xiao Siwen came in and reported to him the situation outside.

"Your Majesty, there is no news from the east. It is uncertain whether Yelumo can only send reinforcements. It is reasonable to say that the armies of the various tribes in the northwest should arrive in these few months..."

He could hear that Xiao Siwen was trying to put things in a good direction, but the situation must be worse than what he said.

Not to mention Shi Congyun's cunning in the east, there must have been a response, and Yelu Mozhi's reinforcements should be indefinitely. Now that he thinks about it, it may not be an accident that the female straight people just made trouble at this time and dragged down a large number of Liaodong troops. .