Chapter 793: Jurchen Chaos (1)
In the city of Tongzhou, Liao Kingdom, Yelu Jun walked around the hall with an anxious look on his face. Finally, he suddenly grabbed a vase on the coffee table and threw it to the ground with anger. As a result, with a "bang~", the exquisite vase from the official kiln of the Song Dynasty was broken into thousands of pieces of broken porcelain. The palace maids and eunuchs in the hall were also scared and trembled all over. They stood there silently and dared not move, for fear of accidentally getting angry.
"Waste! A bunch of waste! Even a group of barbarians can't beat them. What's the use of I raising you?" Yelu Jun threw a vase and couldn't relieve his hatred. He shouted loudly. Fortunately, the generals who had lost the battle on the front line were not here, otherwise he would have to cut them all to relieve his hatred.
In fact, it is not a reason why Yelu Jun is so angry. Three years ago, the Wanyan tribe of the Jurchens launched a rebellion with other tribes and broke through the Huanglong Mansion in one fell swoop. The Huanglong Mansion of tens of thousands of people was slaughtered. This shocked Yelu Jun, and what made him even more angry was that the Wanyan tribe actually occupied the Huanglong Mansion and refused to leave, as if he was demonstrating to the Liao Dynasty.
Faced with this provocation, Yelu Jun immediately mobilized a large army to encircle and suppress Wanyan's troops. However, when his army arrived, Wanyan's troops immediately hid in the mountains. In a rage, Yelu Jun ordered the army to go into the mountains to pursue, but unexpectedly, the Wanyan's troops took advantage of their familiar mountains and forests to continuously attack the army. In the end, they set up an ambush and defeated the Liao army. In the end, the Liao army had to retreat in shame.
After this battle, although Huanglong Mansion was taken back, the huge mansion was almost emptied by the Jurchens. Almost all the food, cloth or other materials could be used were plundered, and even the population could be killed and captured. Those arrested became slaves of the Jurchens, and they would never come back in their lives. In the end, the total population of the entire Huanglong Mansion suddenly decreased by nearly half. After all, when the Huanglong Mansion was destroyed, tens of thousands of people were killed, which caused a huge blow to Huanglong Mansion, which was already small.
Faced with this situation, although Yelu Jun was angry, he had no choice but to issue a decree across the country to prohibit any Jurchens from appearing in China. Anyone who was discovered could kill any Jurchens, and the head of the Jurchens could go to the government to receive a reward of consistent money. Once this decree was promulgated, it had a good effect at the beginning, and many Jurchens were killed because of this. However, later the Liao Kingdom discovered that some Jurchen tribes actually killed Jurchens from other tribes, and then pretended to be Liao people to go to the government to exchange for rewards. For such shameless Jurchens, the Liao government had no choice but to deal with them, and finally had to cancel the decree.
In the next three years, Yelu Jun tried hard to let Huanglong Mansion rest and strengthened the monitoring of the Jurchens, and sent heavy troops to guard the area where Huanglong Mansion and the Jurchens handed over to prevent the Jurchens from coming out of the mountains and forests again. However, these Jurchens were very smart. They did not make any moves in the three years, but instead made the Liao Kingdom spend a lot of money and property for these garrisons.
After three years of rest and recuperation, Huanglong Mansion finally recovered a little bit of its original atmosphere, and the Jurchens were always very honest, which made Yelu Jun breathe a sigh of relief. At the beginning of this year, the Huiba tribe in the southeast of Huanglong Mansion launched a rebellion, and the local garrison suppressed it was unfavorable. So Yelu Jun discussed with the ministers and thought that part of the army that was guarding against the Jurchens could be drawn out of the rescue and returned to the Ba tribe. However, he did not expect that as soon as the troops here were transferred, the Jurchens immediately killed out of the mountains and forests.
This Jurchen rebellion was still headed by the Wanyan tribe, and after three years of dormancy, the Wanyan tribe was even stronger. Last time, their entire tribe, even the subordinate tribes, had only integrated an army of two or three thousand people. However, when they broke out of the mountains and forests, they had an army of five thousand people, and their equipment was several times stronger than before. These were all obtained by them robbing the Huanglong Mansion at the time, and many of the Jurchens were even the weapons held by the Liao ** team.
The 5,000 people from the Wanyan tribes, plus the several Jurchen tribes they joined together, had tens of thousands of people. It can be said that they were coming in full force. Half of the 50,000 troops guarding them in the Liao Kingdom were transferred away. Although the remaining 25,000 people still had a significant advantage in numbers, what no one expected was that when facing the Jurchens who had less than half of their military strength, these 25,000 people seemed extremely fragile when facing the Jurchens who had less than half of their military strength. After only ten days of resistance, they collapsed and were covered up by the Jurchens from behind. In the end, only more than 10,000 people escaped, and all the remaining more than 10,000 were killed. Moreover, the Jurchens also cut off the heads of these Liao troops and put them into a Rentou Mountain to demonstrate.
In the following period, the Jurchens once again entered the hinterland of Huanglong Mansion and killed people and robbed them when they saw them. For a moment, the entire Huanglong Mansion became a hell on earth again. Half a month later, the Huanglong Mansion City was also captured again. The city finally recovered tens of thousands of people, but was slaughtered by the Jurchens again. Then the entire Huanglong Mansion City was demolished by the Jurchens, and the efforts of the Liao Kingdom were wasted for several years.
Faced with such an arrogant and cruel Jurchen, Yelu Jun was completely angry. He mobilized a hundred thousand troops and ignored the dissuasion of his ministers to command the army. In Yelu Jun's view, the Jurchens were just a group of uncivilized savages. They only rely on their blood and courage to fight and did not know any tactical strategies. Therefore, as long as his army arrived, they could definitely destroy the other party in a short time. At that time, he must seize the leader of the Jurchens and send them to the streets of Shangjing to cut them into pieces to relieve their hatred.
It was also under this situation that the 100,000 army led by Yelu Jun arrived in Tongzhou. Although it was the imperial commander in person, he could not go to the battlefield in person. Therefore, he led 40,000 personal troops to take charge of Tongzhou. The remaining 60,000 army was divided into two parts, led by the son-in-law Xiao Derang and the mature and steady Xiao Yanshou, and divided into two groups to attack the Jurchens from both east and west directions.
Yelu Jun sat firmly in Tongzhou and was waiting for the good news from the two generals on the front line. But what he never expected was that just this morning, he suddenly received Xiao Delang, the son-in-law who led the eastern army, fell into the trap of the Jurchens. The 30,000 army was killed by the Jurchens, and the wounded general retreated and fled fifty miles north of Tongzhou. The Jurchens who were chasing retreated. Now Xiao Delang is rectifying the remaining soldiers and cannot come back to apologize for the time being, but Yelu Jun felt that it was Xiao Delang who dared not come back, otherwise he would have to cut him down today, even if he was his brother-in-law.
Yelu Jun got angry in the temporary palace, but in the end he couldn't come up with any good idea. After all, Xiao Derang was already defeated, and even if he was killed, he could not make up for the loss. What's more, Xiao Derang could not kill him. Not only was he his brother-in-law, but also an important figure in the Xiao family. The Xiao family has always occupied half of the Liao country, so even the Emperor of Liao had to be careful when dealing with the Xiao family.
"Send someone to summon Yelu Yixin to the palace!" Finally, Yelu Jun sat heavily on the dragon throne and shouted. When he was the crown prince, his relationship with Yelu Yixin was not good. Therefore, after ascending the throne, he deliberately neglected Yelu Yixin for a period of time. However, a few years later, he found that Yelu Yixin could not be lacking in the government, so he gradually began to be important to the other party. Now Yelu Yixin has once again become an important minister in the court. In the past, there was another Zhang Xiaojie on an equal footing with him. However, two years ago, Zhang Xiaojie died of illness, and only Yelu Yixin, the two important ministers left in the court.
In a short while, Yelu Yixin quickly walked into the hall. In fact, he had already received news of Xiao Derang's defeat, so he hurried to ask for a meeting, but he met someone who summoned him into the palace halfway.
"Old me, please see Your Majesty!" Yelu Yixin immediately politely to Yelu Jun. In the original history, Yelu Jun died after him, but no one expected that after Zhao Yan changed history, Yelu Yixin would become Yelu Jun's humble minister.
"Don't give me a gift, Xiao De'er will defeat the army. What kind of remedy do you have?" Yelu Jun said anxiously at this time. It was originally the two armies that attacked the Jurchens, but the army on the east route was defeated first, but the army on the west route had not received any news yet. So what he was most worried about now was that the Western army would be defeated by the Jurchens again without knowing it. If this was true, then his personal expedition would become a joke and would also cause a serious blow to his prestige.
"This..." Yelu Yixin pondered for a moment and finally stepped forward, "Report to Your Majesty, the defeat of the prince-consort is a foregone conclusion, and it will be useless to ask him again. Therefore, the best way to do this is to send someone to take over the position of general of the prince-consort, and at the same time, send more soldiers to let the Eastern Army attack the Jurchens again, and form a pincer attack with the Western Army as the original plan!"
Hearing Yelu Yixin's words, Yelu Jun also felt it made sense. Of course, he could also notify the Western Army and ask them to temporarily suspend their advance. However, this time he personally led the Jurchens to fight against the Jurchens, and the Eastern Army was destroyed by the Jurchens at the beginning. If the Western Army stopped again, wouldn't it be declared that he was unfavorable to the army? This would be absolutely unacceptable to Yelu Jun, who has always been conceited.
Thinking of this, Yelu Jun nodded, but then hesitated: "It is feasible to reintegrate the Western Route Army, but who should I send to replace the prince-consort?"
"Report to Your Majesty, I think that Linya Xiao Delit in the north is proficient in military affairs and can replace the prince's consort!" Yelu Yixin stepped forward without thinking at this time. Xiao Delit was his confidant in the court. If he could lead the army to suppress the rebellion successfully this time, he would definitely be highly valued in the army. In this way, his power in the court will be more stable.
If it were in the past, Yelu Jun would definitely have noticed Yelu Yixin's behavior of taking over power. Unfortunately, like his father Yelu Hongji, he has gradually become addicted to pleasure and is not very concerned about the government. Therefore, he did not even notice Yelu Yixin's intentions. After thinking for a moment, he nodded in agreement with Yelu Yixin's suggestion. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!