Along the Sangqian River, near Loufan Pass, this is the only way from Tokyo to Yunzhou.
Chai Rong rubbed his hands, feeling a little excited. Although he knew it was inappropriate to appear here in his own capacity, he just couldn't restrain his inner excitement and little vanity.
At the age of six or seven, he had to seek refuge with his aunt because his father had lost all his family property. Then at the age of eleven or twelve, he was forced to travel all over the country to sell tea.
To suddenly get the attention of a prince-level figure like Zhang Zhao, anyone else would burst into tears and lose control of themselves.
Moreover, Chai Rong is still a very ambitious and far-sighted young man, otherwise he would not insist on practicing riding and shooting while selling tea with the caravan.
Later generations had an evaluation of Chai Rong as having access to the skills of Huang and Lao, haha! With Chai Rong's violent character, how could he use the skills of Huang and Lao in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?
In fact, this was when Chai Rong was in the caravan and there were no other books to read. He could only seize every opportunity to learn to read and study hard. The Book of Huang Lao was about the only book he could find.
This is a young man who has vision, understands hardships, is ambitious, and is willing to study hard.
He clearly felt Zhang Zhao's interest in his talents, and knew in his heart that if he could follow Zhang Zhao, he would be able to realize his ambitions.
However, his adoptive father and uncle Guo Wei had just become a confidant of Liu Taifu in Hedong. If he followed Zhang Zhao, it would definitely affect Guo Wei.
It is really difficult to choose between the kindness of my aunt, adoptive mother and adoptive father, and my own rapid rise.
While Chai Rong's mind was in confusion, more than a dozen envoys with red pennants on their backs and more than twenty Khitan knights in leather robes were escorting a man in green who looked like an official as he came out of Loufan Gate and headed towards Yunzhou.
Gallop away.
"Sure enough, Commander Zhejie was right. How can the emperor here be so shameless?" Li Cunhui cursed in a low voice through gritted teeth.
Murong Nobunaga was a little embarrassed because he was Shi Jingtang's brother-in-law and he married Shi Jingtang's sister-in-law, the former Princess Yongle of Tang Dynasty. Every time someone scolded Shi Jingtang, his face would get a little hot. It was really so fucking embarrassing.
Zhe Deku noticed Murong Nobunaga's embarrassment, expressed his sympathy in his heart, and then pointed at the fast-running cavalry and said.
"Captain Murong, go ahead and lead thirty people to intercept. Chai Dalang will come out from the left, and Cun Hui will come out from the right. After I cut myself off, don't let anyone escape!"
This was the idea of the old fox Zhe Congyuan. Yelv Deguang, the leader of the Khitan Kingdom, arrived outside Yunzhou City in September. He spent more than ten days to capture Yingzhou first, and then went to Yunzhou to deceive Sha Yanxun.
Detained out of town.
After that, the army and people of Yunzhou elected Wu Luan, the judge of Yunzhou, as their leader and resolutely refused to allow the Khitans to enter the city.
Yelu Deguang was furious and continued to attack for seven days without being able to conquer the city. Then he began to lure the soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender, but the soldiers and civilians remained unmoved.
Yelv Deguang could only use Zhang Zhao's usual trick and shouted: 'Where is my son Jingtang?'
Then he sent envoys straight to Yedu to question and reprimand Shi Jingtang, asking him to hand over Yunzhou City.
At this moment, An Chongrong is still holding on in Zhenzhou, and An Congjin's old nest of Xiangzhou has not been captured, so the emperor can only kneel down again.
He originally wanted to send an important minister to Yunzhou, but no one was willing to go.
So Shi Jingtang could only send his eunuchs to accompany the Khitans to Yunzhou, and ordered Wu Luan, the official in charge of Yunzhou, to abandon Yunzhou City and hand over tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to the Khitans.
Zhe Cong, an old man who has become a master, predicted Yelu Deguang's prediction from a distance, and asked Zhe De and other four people to lead 200 elite riders to the Sanggan River outside Loufan Pass to ambush and directly intercept and kill Shi Jingtang's envoy.
Amid the dots of snowflakes, thirty elite knights wrapped in horse hooves suddenly rushed out. Murong Nobunaga flew out with a horse, vibrating the long bow in his hand three times in a row, and the three Khitan knights in leather robes fell to the ground in an instant.
The leading Khitan knight was very experienced. Someone in front of him intercepted him, so he didn't even think about running back towards Loufangguan.
Because there must be an ambush behind, just rush forward and scatter those who are intercepting you. Maybe there is still hope.
It was a pity that he met Murong Nobunaga. The thirty elite cavalry around him were all selected from the three tribes of Murong family and Shandong Tuyuhun. The lowest one was the cavalry fire chief of the Yijun army, and they were among the elite among the elite.
Before the twenty Khitan cavalry could rush to Murong Nobunaga, seven or eight of them were shot to death by a hail of arrows. Then dozens of people were killed on both sides. The two leading men each held a horse spear, and they were unparalleled in bravery.
With one attack, the Khitans were completely dispersed.
When the more than ten post-Jin cavalrymen noticed something bad, they turned around and ran back with their servants. They happened to bump into Zhe Deku behind them, and were not surprised to be dispatched with a bow and arrow.
Two hundred elite cavalry ambushed forty or fifty people, and there was absolutely no reason to let them escape.
When the soldiers at Loufanguan saw that something was wrong and came out, in addition to the corpses on the ground, they even stripped off their clothes and armor.
"Sure enough, it was the one who asked Judge Wu to hand over Yunzhou City. How could the majestic emperor be so shameless!"
Now even Murong Nobunaga began to scold him. Shi Jingtang's edict required Wu Luan and Yunzhou officers and soldiers to hand over Yunzhou City to the Khitans, but he only led the officers and soldiers back and left the people alone.
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Outside Yunzhou City, Yelu Deguang was still waiting anxiously. This gentleman was tall and had a simple and honest face. He looked like the kind of loyal elder who was harmless to humans and animals.
But in fact, Yelu Deguang inherited his father Yelu Abaoji's scheming and his mother's cruelty, the Queen Mother Shu Luping, and his honest appearance was just his disguise.
This guy knows how to package himself, otherwise he wouldn't be able to coax his mother Shuluping around and take away his brother Yelube's position.
However, Yelu Deguang also has a few minor flaws, that is, his fighting skills are really not very good.
If the Khitan people were not on the rise, and Shi Jingtang was stupid and sent him to the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, Yelu Deguang, who was addicted to food, would have been able to maintain the scale of the Bohai Kingdom at most.
How should I put it, this guy is an enlarged version of Zhao Er.
Both of them are equally good at dealing with internal affairs and political balance, and both have high ambitions and low ambitions.
Having a kind of obsessive confidence in one's own military abilities also gave the Khitan and the Northern Song Dynasty a fundamental problem.
In addition, both of them are good at 'driving!'
Zhao Er's donkey cart drifted across the Gaoliang River. Not only did he run faster than his generals, but even the Liao's horses were unable to catch up with them.
He ran so fast that his generals thought that Zhao was dead in World War II, thus achieving the reputation of the Chariot God of the Gaoliang River.
Yelu Deguang did not hesitate to give in too much. After the Khitan army was defeated by the Jin army at Baituanwei Village in Yangcheng, Yelu Deguang also had people drive a carriage to escape.
Later, he thought it was too slow, so he rode a camel himself and ran for thousands of miles, not stopping until he reached the depths of the grassland.
The cavalry pursued by the Jin army did not even see his camel's butt, which earned him the title of Camel God of War.
Moreover, the temple names of these two are both Taizong, and they are also the second eldest son in the family. They can be called the most iconic figures of Taizong in all dynasties, and their names are Taizong Erhui.
All in all, to say that Yelu Deguang is an enlarged version of Zhao Er is actually to look down upon him a bit.
If Zhao Er is counted as one hundred points, Yelu Deguang is also one hundred and ten points.
The extra ten points were because Yelu Deguang's historical opponents were idiots like Shi Chonggui and 'heavyweights' like Du Chongwei and Li Shouzhen. Zhao Er's opponent was Empress Chengtian Xiao Chuo.
Yelu Deguang only relied on his opponents to set him off, making him look a little taller than Zhao Er.
For example, when we came to annex Yunzhou this time, the resistance of Yunzhou's military and civilians was not very strong.
After all, it had been two years since Shi Jingtang conquered Yunzhou. If Yelu Deguang made a wish and promised not to relocate the people or plunder, he would probably be able to win it.
However, he just wanted to show his majesty of surrendering when the troops arrived, and he succeeded in frightening the soldiers and civilians of Yunzhou. They did not dare to open the city gate and closed the door to them.
Since this was the case, it was okay to send someone to explain the situation and try to comfort him. Yelv Deguang thought so, so he summoned Sha Yanxun, the military governor of Yunzhou Datong Army, out of the city to pay him a visit.
After Sha Yanxun arrived, Yelu Deguang's tricks came again. He felt that as the dignified father of the Central Plains, he could only say good things to win Yunzhou, which was a bit shameful, so he forced Sha Yanxun to call Kaicheng.
Door.
At this time, Sha Yanxun felt insulted and refused to obey. After the soldiers and civilians in the city knew about it, they deeply felt that Yelu Deguang was unreliable. In addition, he did not want to be a Khitan, so he elected the judge Wu Luan as the leader. The soldiers and civilians were united.
Never open the city.
Yelu Deguang became even more angry and ordered the army to attack the city.
Alas! He didn’t even look at the level of the Khitans’ siege skills.
Historically, the Uighurs in Ganzhou could not be defeated after being surrounded for seven or eight months. How do you think about attacking a fortified city like Datong in Yunzhou?
So they fought for seven consecutive days, killing hundreds of people and not even filling up the trenches outside Yunzhou City. Only then did the dumbfounded Yelu Deguang wake up and began to send people to offer benefits and coax.
But it was too late, and no one dared to open the door now.
To be honest, if it weren't for the shameless Shi Jingtang's cooperation, with Yelu Deguang's level and the Khitan tribe five times larger, let's see if they can capture the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun.
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After intercepting and killing the envoys of the Later Jin Dynasty, the four Zhe De and Kuang people ran back to the vicinity of Dongshoujiang City in Shengzhou, about four hundred miles away from Yunzhou, which was the southeast of Hohhot in later generations.
Here, the two thousand cavalrymen of the Guiyi Army and the two thousand cavalrymen of the Zhe family practiced and cooperated with each other.
After they arrived, the nearby Turks, Tuyuhun, Sogdians and other ethnic groups who were oppressed by the Khitans came to surrender one after another.
Although these tribes did not dare to lead troops to follow directly, they helped Zhe Deku and others to find out information about the Khitans, and led them to ambush the small Khitan troops who came out to clear grass valleys.
It is still a dare to cut off the connection between the thousands of Khitan tribes entrenched in the former Fengzhou Tiande Army and Yunzhou.
After waiting for ten days, the Khitan soldiers and horses at Loufan Pass finally informed Yelu Deguang of the news that the envoy had been intercepted and killed.
Suddenly, the Khitan leader felt a burst of evil fire shooting straight from the chrysanthemum to his forehead.
(Fuck, fuck)!
It was an icy November! Fifty thousand Khitan soldiers and horses had been waiting outside the city for more than 20 days. Finally, all the envoys from the Later Jin Dynasty reached Loufan Pass, which was only over a hundred miles away. In the end, they were all intercepted and killed.
Is there any more royal method?
"Summon the prince, Xiao Tiannu, and order him to lead three hundred far-reaching agents to search the area of three hundred miles. We must find out who dares to go against me, the Great Khitan!"
The furious Yelu Deguang roared to find the person who intercepted the envoy. In fact, at this moment, the most important thing to advise was that Yelu Deguang should retreat temporarily and wait until the ice and snow melted before coming back.
But no one dares to say it at this time. First, Yelu Deguang is on fire. Second, this winter is not very cold and the snow is not heavy. They still have plenty of food and grass. Third, if the wind and snow get serious, they can still go to Yingzhou.
It's completely late to escape from the city.
"Your Majesty, the tribes near the Tiande Army have not sent anyone for more than ten days. I wonder if the villains who intercepted the envoy this time came from the west?"
As a veteran of the two dynasties, Yelvbode, who was at home in Zuopi, thought for a while and said, he obviously felt something unusual.
"Take the left leather room and send three thousand troops of the Holy Army to explore the west. If you encounter the enemy, don't waste your time fighting. Come and report back quickly!"
Yelu Deguang had begun to calm down at this time, but after thinking about it again and again, he really couldn't think of any force in the west that dared to stroke the tiger's beard of his Great Khitan Kingdom?
"Your Majesty, now that the messenger from the Southern Dynasty has been intercepted and killed, Wu Luan will definitely not obey the order. It is better to send elite cavalry south from Youzhou to get the imperial edict from the Emperor of the Southern Dynasty."
King Yan and Zhao Yanshou, the governor of Youzhou, also spoke at the side.
Although Yelu Deguang didn't like Zhao Yanshou's father, Zhao Dejun, he still had great faith in Zhao Yanshou and nodded after hearing this.
"Please ask King Yan to send your horse south quickly. This time when you go to Youzhou, you must send my son's edict to Yunzhou!"