Throughout June, Yingzhou was in a state of chaos and disorder.
Only two Xia people's strongholds outside Linyu Pass have been restored so far. The attack on Yingzhou is only part of the active defense. Originally, they just wanted to repel the Khitan attack and stabilize the position.
But who could have imagined that it would become too big all of a sudden.
Li Cunxiao led his troops to capture Xiao Aguzhi alive and defeated the main Khitan force. After the Gao family army was defeated, Yingzhou no longer had any armed forces worth mentioning.
From Yingzhou to the east, the Khitans resettled immigrants on the basis of the old military towns of the Tang Dynasty, and then transformed the environment and set up villages in the swampy areas between Bailangshui and Daliaoshui. It seemed that they were doing things very well, but there was one thing.
Fatal shortcomings: everything is in a primitive state, the city is not strong enough, the people's morale is not stable enough, and the military is extremely weak.
The combination of these factors made it impossible for these settlements to organize effective resistance, and there were even spectacles of cavalry breaking through the city.
And Li Cunxiao was also an experienced player. He fought hard until he was injured in four or five places, his clothes and armor were completely shattered, he ran away, and several horses were injured or killed. He gritted his teeth and chased after him. In the end, the Khitan troops were defeated and almost cried.
Wherever there are more people, he will chase and kill them. He will bite you hard, not giving you a chance to adjust, not letting you go into the city to breathe. He will fight with your will, physical strength, and martial arts to chase the Khitans.
There is no way to the sky and no door to the earth. They don't dare to stop when they encounter a city. They rush into the vast grassland to try their luck.
This level of pursuit was like killing one's father and enemy, and was really rare. And the effect was naturally surprisingly good - each city fell one after another, Abaoji's great cause of developing Yingzhou collapsed instantly, and the losses were incalculable.
In late June, rough statistics finally came back: nearly 10,000 bandits and soldiers were captured and killed, six cities were captured, more than 70,000 people were captured, and the wealth of cattle and sheep was incalculable.
The remaining Khitan forces in Yingzhou were all frightened when they heard Li Cunxiao's name and fled one after another. Of course, there were also many tribes who took the initiative to surrender.
On the twelfth day of the sixth lunar month, a small tribe of the Fe people came to surrender, with a population of more than 5,000, and 80,000 cattle and sheep. On the 16th day of the sixth month, a tribe of the Wei people came to surrender, with a population of 7,000, and 100,000 cattle and sheep.
On June 21, Gao Shuo, the chief official of Huaiyuan town and a native of Goguryeo, led thousands of soldiers and civilians to surrender.
On June 25, the Sogdian Hu merchant Kangmao killed the Khitan governor of Botso River, Da Pugu, and led more than 2,000 Sogdian households to surrender.
As the saying goes, you don’t know until you see it, but you will be shocked when you see it.
Helianjun, who was in charge of Yingzhou, knew for the first time that there were so many miscellaneous tribes living on the land of Yingzhou, and a variety of lifestyles coexisted, including herding, farming, fishing and hunting, and even cooking.
Business - Since the Northern Dynasties, the Sogdians have been doing business everywhere. They are good at doing business. They also like to invest in local military and political affairs in an attempt to make a big gain out of small things. Even now, there are a large number of Sogdians living in the south, a little bit.
It tastes Jewish.
"Everyone pushed down the wall, broke the drum and beat it." He Lianjun looked at the various tribal leaders, officials, clan leaders, etc. gathered outside Yingzhou City, and sighed with emotion: "Just like this, Abaoji should go home as soon as possible.
Hold the baby."
Isn't that right? How could the foundation of the rule be so poor? A disastrous defeat, wars everywhere, and everyone rebelling. This shows how unpopular the previous rule was, and it was purely suppressed by the force of the eight Khitan tribes.
He Lianjun felt that even if they did not come to attack Yingzhou this time, even if Abaoji was allowed to develop stably for another twenty or thirty years, even if Abaoji was allowed to choose a khan and successfully establish the country, it would not be much better.
The Khitans don't look like they can accomplish anything, they are worse than the Turks and the Uighurs.
"This Kang Maoyong is a deceitful woman with ulterior motives. General Helian had better be careful." Aunt Yu Lu was wearing a bright red hunting suit, and her daughter Xiao Chongsheng followed closely behind her. This was the time they were captured.
appeared in public for the first time.
"Ao Gu knows this person?" He Lianjun asked.
"There are a lot of Sogdians in Yingzhou. There are tens of thousands of them openly, but there may be even more secretly. Anyway, the Khitan has no ability to check household registrations." Yu Lu said when he saw his aunt, "There are no good people in Sogdiana."
Helianjun laughed and said nothing, but many warriors in the bodyguards looked at Yu Lujiangu angrily.
Most of these people are from Hong Kong
Yuan Palace and Yulin Palace. There are many remnants of the nine surnames of Turks, Zhaowu and their mixed descendants in Hexi and Hetao areas. Naturally, there are also many who join the slave tribe of the Supreme Khan. Yu Lu Jiangu is naked "racial discrimination"
, of course they were unhappy.
"Greetings to General Helian." While the two were talking, a large group of chiefs came over and knelt down and shouted, "Greetings to General Helian." After paying their respects to General Helianjun, these people ran to Yu Lu and knelt down in front of Aunt Ao.
"Gao said, why doesn't Tongding Town General Gao Zi surrender? He is your nephew, you should persuade him to surrender. If that doesn't work, kill him..." Yu Lu Jiangu stopped mid-sentence.
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I'm so used to being so angry that I almost forgot my identity.
Helianjun glanced at her in surprise, and Gao Siji, who was following them, also looked slightly moved.
The saint had just issued a message of virtue, ordering the Helong Palace to be rebuilt, pardoning Yu Lu's crime of seeing his aunt, and Xiao Zhongshen, and using it to appease the various tribes in Yingzhou. Unexpectedly, this woman was really not polite at all, which surprised Helianjun.
However, he was a bodyguard and general, and he was most taboo about making friends with officials inside and outside the court. This was something that would greatly affect his future. Therefore, after talking for a while, he left and left the matter to Gao Siji.
Let some local snake like my aunt do it.
"Gao said, what I said just now was not a joke. Abaoji will definitely not come to rescue you. If you don't surrender now, Li Cunxiao will beat him and I'm afraid he will massacre the city. Think about it carefully." As soon as He Lianjun left, Yu
Aunt Lu Jian then started threatening her boldly.
"Two Aunts, what are you doing?" Gao said, a little unsure. Isn't Xiao Shilu dead? Why are you still so arrogant? "We were robbed by the Supreme Khan, so naturally we are his family." Yu Lu met her aunt.
He said impatiently: "Are you going to persuade me to surrender?"
"Go! Go!" Gao Shuo said quickly.
After Gao Shuo retreated, Yu Lu Jiangu called another person and said: "Ba Yegu, you said that the whole family came to vote, but in the end there were only 3,000 people? Who are you kidding?"
Ba Yegu did not dare to lie in front of someone like Yulu Jiangu who was familiar with the inside story. He could only smile bitterly and said: "Aogu, forgive me. There are still some people in Tuli Mountain who dare not come over. Last year, Aogu, you were hanged."
Nie Ge, everyone is afraid."
"Let them come to Yingzhou within five days, otherwise... Yu Lu saw her for a long time and found that she had lost her power now and could not rely on influence to control others. She could only threaten: "The Khan is furious, Bald
There will be no grass growing in Mount Li."
Ba Yegu was startled and kowtowed repeatedly, indicating that he would send his son back to summon him. Xiao Chongsheng was very impressed when he saw his mother frightening and scolding these leaders.
Yu Lujiangu turned around, caressed her daughter's face, and said: "Chongsheng, you can't be kind to these people. They don't understand any great principles, and they don't know how powerful you are. You are the Great Xia Sage.
Half of the world, in the minds of these ignorant leaders, may be just a larger tribal Khan. They really don't know how big Daxia is, how rich it is, and how many soldiers it has. Even if you tell them, they won't understand.
.They are only afraid of force, and this is always the custom of the grassland."
After hearing this, Xiao Chongsheng became more and more impressed and said, "Your Majesty, my daughter will still have to learn more from you in the future." "You just need to learn more about how to please men." Yu Lujiangu sighed and said.
On June 30th of the fourth year of Jianji, several horses came galloping from Youzhou, causing the chieftains of the tribes who had not dispersed to look at them. There was no doubt that they were messengers, and they were on a five-hundred-mile rush.
A summons of this level must be something big, so everyone was not in a hurry to leave and decided to wait and see.
Sure enough, after a while, officials hurried out of the city, posted a proclamation near the city gate, and read it loudly - "I have conquered Liucheng and settled Yingzhou. Although I did not commit any crimes in the autumn, there were several years of wars before.
Many of the fields are in ruins, and the households are in exile... The people of Yingying Prefecture, having experienced a great calamity, need to negotiate for preferential treatment and be exempted from paying taxes for three years."
"As well as the chiefs and lords of their tribes, who assist Khitan and hide their crimes for fear of committing crimes, they should order the officials everywhere to try to recruit them and show their righteousness. They should state the charges of their crimes, present their books, repent and make a new start, and return home. People of all kinds should not be allowed to do so.
If they are wavering, if they are self-defeating and crazy, and if they still gather together, they should be captured strictly to prevent them from escaping.
"I also heard that the deserters broke up their troops, ran into the valleys, howled in the marshes, built owl nests, and stayed in danger to survive. You may be the righteous soldiers of the Bohai Sea, or the remnants of the great country, hiding and fleeing, how much have you abandoned. Now you can build a house and return to farming, and you will not do anything.
Question: The time will never come again, the opportunity must be resolved quickly, and the long-term plan and long-term calculation will make your choice."
". When the two armies faced each other and eliminated the fierce rebellion, many people died and many were exposed. It was appropriate to order officials to offer sacrifices to the skeletons that were exposed and buried within the boundaries of each base in the counties, counties, and villages of the prefecture.
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After reading it out one by one and repeating it seven or eight times, everyone listened to it. Even if there was someone who didn't understand, they all asked someone to ask. After understanding it, they felt relieved, and they were not afraid of settling the scores for the time being.
Since then, the situation in Yingzhou has been rough.
At almost the same time, there was a storm in the Khitan Xilou territory. As soon as Khan Dejin woke up from his sleep, he received a letter of credence from the Great Xia court.
The West Building is the place where Khan Haronenshi likes to live very much.
In the second year of Jianji (902), the Khitan built the west tower in Shimili (in today's Balinzuo Banner). In the third year, the East Tower was built in Longhua Prefecture (in today's Naiman Banner).
Before the war broke out this year, the south tower was built on Mount Konoha and plans were made to find land to build the north tower next year. There were Yu people on each of the four floors to manage the gardens for Khan's hunting trips.
"Safari during the year, often in the fourth floor" - this is the last stubbornness of Khan Yaonenshi, and it is also his last resistance to the power seizure by Shilu, Abaoji, uncle and nephew. He hopes that through this four-season safari
In this way, you can get to know more tribal nobles and win their support.
He was in the West Tower today not just for fun, but because the Khitan warriors were gathering in large numbers in the plain pine forest. As Khan, he came personally to boost morale.
However, his body was really badly broken. He just rode a horse for a while and felt dizzy, so he had to go back to rest. In the afternoon, there was lightning and thunder, and heavy rain poured down. Hende Khan was awakened, and then he saw his credentials.
The book first reviews the "happy alliance" between the Khitan and the former Tang Dynasty, and the tone is very polite and quite friendly.
Then the conversation changed and Abaoji's crimes were enumerated, saying that he "hidden evil intentions" and intended to "commit trouble" and that "in a country where there is a father and a king, nothing is tolerated."
Later, he asked Khan Dejin whether he wanted to "listen to deception, the sin of one man, and destroy the happy alliance between the two countries." Finally, Xia Ting directly threatened that if Abaoji was not punished, he would "see the search soldiers."
, The Decisive Battle at the West Tower." Hende Jinhan Khan was silent for a long time after reading it.
"Let Duyu come over." Hende Jinhan Khan coughed heavily, his face flushed and full of pain. The attendant glanced at him worriedly, and then went out.
After a while, the Yu people from the West Tower came in quietly from afar: "Great Khan." "Look at this credential." Khan Dejin pointed at it and said.
Du Yu directly picked it up and read it carefully. After a while, he put it on the case again. "Have you finished reading it?" asked Khan Dejin.
"I've finished reading it," Du Yu replied.
"How do you think you should reply?" Hendejin Khan coughed violently again.
"Great Khan, the strength of the Dieci tribe has accounted for more than half of the eight tribes." Du Yu said: "Even if the other seven tribes unite, there is nothing they can do. What's more, some tribes still side with Dieci.
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"Then there's no other way?" Khan Dejin was a little dissatisfied.
"Great Khan, the Xia people actually don't have any good intentions. They are just trying to sow discord." Du Yu reminded.
"How can I not know about this?" Khan Dejin said coldly: "Just tell me, if you really want to deal with Shi Lu and uncle and nephew Abaoji, is there a way?"
Duyu was silent for a long time, and just when Hendejin Khan was getting impatient, he finally spoke: "Maybe we can ask Yelvhadi privately."
