Chapter 628: Silver Saddle Khitan Straight in the Western Suburbs of Luzhou
Chapter 628 Western Suburbs of Luzhou, Silver Saddle Khitan Straight
In the second year of Shaoming Dynasty, 947 AD, on July 20th, Zhang Yan personally led the six guards of 18,000 people including the Lin Guards on the right, the Longxiang Guards on the left, the Jinwu Guards on the left, the Qianniu Guards on the right, and the Baotao Guards on the right.
people.
In addition to Li Shengtian's 1,000 Khotanese warriors and 2,000 horsemen from Han Shandu, the total was 21,000 people, as well as auxiliary troops and 30,000 civilians, for a total of 51,000 people.
First go north out of Xinkou to Yunzhou (Datong) to appease the local people.
Then go east, take the Feihu Ancient Road in Yuzhou (Yuxian County, Hebei Province) to enter Yizhou, and then turn northeast to Youzhou.
On the way, Zhang Hao also personally directed a battle.
Wang Hui, the governor of Daizhou in the northeast of Taiyuan, had colluded with the Khitans long before Shi Jingtang ceded the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture.
After the Shanxi-Liao War, he surrendered to the Khitans in advance and let go of the Yanmen Pass, which caused the Khitans to march straight in several times and almost broke into Taiyuan City. This was a heinous crime.
When the Khitans were defeated, Wang Hui was so frightened that he scraped the land in Daizhou and bribed Liu Zhiyuan three feet thick.
In order to reserve resources to fight against Zhang Yan, Liu Zhiyuan pardoned Wang Hui and secretly ordered him to send troops to search Yunzhou and Yuzhou, which were occupied by the Khitans.
After Yan Jin arrived, Wang Hui sent people to seek refuge with him, but how could Yan Jin accept the surrender of such a person.
According to Zhang Zhou's law, Wang Hui's death ten times is not too much. It is simply a daydream to continue to serve as the governor of Daizhou after surrendering.
So Wang Hui, who had no way out, frantically began to recruit troops and grain in Daizhou, built Daizhou City, and gathered more than a thousand tooth soldiers to prepare for stubborn resistance.
Zhang Yan was merciless this time. He ordered his army to surround Daizhou, raised Lu's chariots, piled up mountains of earth, and shot down the city of Daizhou from a high position. He divided the money and blasted the city gates everywhere, rushing and crashing the chariots into battle.
On the third day of the battle, the troops and horses in Daizhou City could no longer hold up. The people in the city fought against Wang Hui and his soldiers opened the west gate and surrendered. Li Cunhui took the lead in sending troops to break into the city and beheaded Wang Hui, the governor of Daizhou, and his two sons.
Zhang Yan showed for the first time the courage of an emperor to lay down millions of corpses in anger.
In one fell swoop, he killed Wang Hui's soldiers and generals, the local bandits and bandits who colluded with them, and the families who served as guides for the Khitan people. He demoted the women to slavery and killed all the men.
Just outside Daizhou City, 1,500 people were executed.
This incident not only greatly shocked those with evil intentions from all over the country, but also made the people of Taiyuan realize that Emperor Shaoming was not incapable of killing people, but rather treated Taiyuan people with special preferential treatment, which made people even more convinced.
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And when Zhang Gao was personally supervising the army to capture Daizhou, Murong Nobunaga was also working on solving the situation that Zhang Gao didn't want to face the most.
That's Zhao Yanshou's problem.
In fact, Youzhou did not need to be attacked at all. On that day, Murong Nobunaga intercepted Gao Song's troops and directly beat the last Liao cavalry to pieces.
Although Gao Song finally led more than a hundred cavalry to escape in the dark night, Youzhou's fate was already sealed.
Since the six states of You, Tan, Ji, Mo, Ying, and Gui were betrayed by Shi Jingtang to the Khitan people, the local quality of life has suddenly dropped by a notch.
No matter how warlords the Lu Longjun and Zhao family were, they still regarded these six states as their own property. They could certainly plunder them, but it was within the tolerance of the common people.
But the Khitan people are different. When they enter the colorful world of Youzhou, they will definitely not restrain themselves unless they eat their bellies full.
Coupled with the Jin-Liao War and the subsequent oppression by Yelu Ruan, the six states of the Lulong Army were simply like hell.
This is actually the reason why Zhao Yanshou was still able to gain a foothold in Youzhou after he suffered several setbacks in the Central Plains, destroying the old foundation of the Lu Long Army and even after his son Zhao Kuangzan abandoned it and returned south.
Because the people of the Six Prefectures of Lu Longjun discovered that compared to the Khitan people, the Zhao family was undoubtedly much gentler, and they missed the time when the Zhao family was there even more.
Therefore, people's hearts turned towards the Zhao family, and even Yelu Deguang had to rely on Zhao Yanshou's name to stabilize the six states.
But for Zhang Zhou, Zhao Yanshou was completely a burden.
From the perspective of national sentiment, Zhao Dejun, Zhao Yanshou and his son were especially shameless. If Zhao Dejun and Shi Jingtang were not competing, Shi Jingtang would not be so cruel as to sell Youzhou to the Khitan.
Because the six Lulongjun states, including Youzhou, were Zhao Dejun's territory at that time, Shi Jingtang not only had no burden in his heart by selling it, but he could also eliminate a powerful competitor.
Zhao Dejun himself is not a good person. In terms of shamelessness, he is only a little inferior to Shi Jingtang.
More importantly, in the third Jin-Liao War, which was the time when Yelu Deguang was able to take control of the Central Plains, Zhao Yanshou went south as a vanguard.
The two thousand men led by Wang Qing by the Hutuo River were attacked and destroyed by Zhao Yanshou, and Zhao Yanshou even killed Wang Qing with his own hands.
On Zhang Zhou's side, Wang Qing was a great hero who fought against the Khitan and died unyieldingly. He has been posthumously promoted to the high position of King Wu'an, so no matter from which aspect, Zhao Yanshou must be killed.
But unfortunately, Zhao Yanshou had a good son, Zhao Kuangzan, who not only caught up with Zhang Gao early, but also married Zhang Gao's adopted daughter, Princess Baoding, and is now Zhang Zhou's consort.
In other words, Zhang Yan and Zhao Yanshou were actually sons and daughters.
Murong Nobunaga also knew that Zhang Yan was very taboo about killing relatives, not to mention that Zhao Kuangzan was very favored by Zhang Yan, and he was not willing to hurt Zhao Kuangzan's heart.
However, it is impossible for Zhao Yanshou not to die, there is no reason for him to continue to live!
Therefore, Murong Nobunaga, who knew his adoptive father's heart well, was the best person to solve this problem.
Because he has another identity, that is, he is Zhao Yanshou's brother-in-law and Zhao Kuangzan's uncle. If he gives Zhao Yanshou a ride, Zhao Kuangzan will not have other bad associations.
As early as May, when Zhang Yan went south to pursue Liu Zhiyuan, Murong Nobunaga had already entered Youzhou City.
Because after the collapse of the 40,000-strong army that the Khitans had worked so hard for, the people in You, Ji and other six states who were deeply oppressed by the Khitans immediately rose up to resist.
Khitan general Gao Song originally planned to lead his men into Youzhou to rob him, and then take Yelu Ruan's son to go to Linhuang Mansion in Beijing to settle down.
As a result, the Han people in Liuzhou became violent and defeated the more than a thousand cavalry he led back to the border of Youzhou.
Gao Song was so frightened that he could only run away with more than a hundred riders. Not to mention Youzhou City, he didn't even dare to go to Lu County (near Tong County), so he ran all the way into the grassland and disappeared.
So Murong Nobunaga immediately divided the work and cooperated with Gao Xingzhou. Murong Nobunaga led the army directly into Youzhou City and controlled the four states of You, Yi, Ying and Mo.
Gao Xingzhou went northwest to Changping and left Juyongguan to stabilize Guizhou.
Gao Huaide led the 500 Linwei elite cavalry and 400 Hanshandu elite cavalry assigned to him by Murong Nobunaga, and headed northeast through Taogu Mountain to Tanzhou to block Gubeikou.
Zhang Xibao led 500 Lin Wei Jing to ride out of Sanhe County to control Jizhou, rebuild the Yanshan Fortress, Yancheng, and guard the city to guard against the Khitans in western Liaoning.
This set of combos showed Murong Nobunaga's long-term strategic vision.
He entered Youzhou and directly controlled Zhao Yanshou to stabilize the most important Youzhou.
The father and son of the Gao family have been entrenched in the north and south of Yanshan for a long time, and heroes from the north of the mountain still recognize the Gao family as their brand name, immediately stabilizing the situation in Youzhou.
Then Murong Nobunaga, as the governor of Chijie Pingyan, ordered the volunteers from various states to garrison the state city on the spot. The governors of each state immediately stabilized the place and asked them to submit a list of volunteers. Once the saints arrived, they would be rewarded according to their merits.
With Wen's help and Wu's help, the six states of Lu Longjun were immediately settled down.
After doing this, Murong Nobunaga ordered his people to release the blockade of Zhao Yanshou's residence, and after disarming all the troops, he went to the city to meet his brother-in-law, Zhao Yanshou, King of Khitan Wei.
However, when Murong Nobunaga saw Zhao Yanshou again, he was immediately startled by Zhao Yanshou's appearance.
When he let Zhao Yanshou go in Henan, Zhao Yanshou was still a energetic and handsome old man.
But when I saw him today, I saw that Zhao Yanshou was much older, with white hair on his head and almost eighteen wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.
You must know that Zhao Yanshou has been beautiful and handsome since he was a child, otherwise Zhao Dejun would not have regarded him as his biological son. Emperor Mingzong of the Tang Dynasty and Li Siyuan married his daughter to him after only one meeting.
Zhao Yanshou has always been proud of his appearance, but now, Zhao Yanshou, who pays great attention to appearance, no longer cares about these things, and his tall body in the past seems to be much shorter.
"My brother's life has not been satisfactory!" Murong Nobunaga couldn't help but sigh.
That's what he is like. Maybe the literary youth gene passed down by Mrs. Cao Sanniang always has a soft heart towards those close to her, like spring and autumn.
Zhao Yanshou glanced at Murong Nobunaga and said nothing, but nodded slightly, "Is Shiro Fourteen here to kill his brother?"
Murong Nobunaga was about to shake his head and deny it, but he quickly stopped. Zhao Yanshou must die. Only if he dies everyone, including his son Zhao Kuangzan, will things be better.
In the awkward silence, Murong Nobunaga suddenly changed the topic and took out a fragrant purse.
"This is Brother Cun's fetal hair when he was a hundred days old. Baoding left some of it and asked me to bring it to make a pen for my brother."
Brother Cun is the son of Zhang Qiwan, the eldest daughter of Zhao Kuangzan and Princess Baoding, adopted by Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan's biological grandson has just turned 100 days old. At this time, according to the custom of fetal development of writing brushes after a hundred days, it will only be given to the closest elders. Zhang Yan also
Got a purse.
Zhao Yanshou glanced at his purse and did not reach out to take it. Instead, his eyes suddenly turned red and his breathing became heavy. He said to Murong Nobunaga: "The weather is getting colder. Will you, Shishi, be willing to have a drink with me?"
Murong Nobunaga nodded and waved the guards around him to go down and prepare. Now Zhao Yanshou's mansion is completely controlled by Murong Nobunaga. If he doesn't speak, Zhao Yanshou can't do anything.
Soon, warm wine and several plates of side dishes were brought to the table. Zhao Yanshou took a few mouthfuls and stopped shaking. He seemed to have regained his original appearance of a warrior on horseback.
He didn't care about the heat and drank a large bowl of hot wine. The crystal liquid dripped down Zhao Yanshou's beard.
Suddenly, Zhao Yanshou put the bowl heavily on the table and said bitterly: "In the past, a certain person kept telling the adults that the opponent of my Zhao family was not Ah San from Luoyang, but Shi Jingtang from Hedong, but he just didn't believe it!
Then Li Asan came to the throne through crying. He was old and suffered from injuries. There were not many people who obeyed him, and many disciples were incompetent.
On the other hand, my father and son, the Zhao family, are in good health and have mastery of the northern goblin elite cavalry. Once Li Asan dies, we can use the northern goblin elites to take advantage of the situation and move south. How can we be uncertain?
Only Shi Jingtang appears to be respectful, but in reality he is shameless and cruel. He also occupies the land of Longxing in the east of Hedong. He treats him as a formidable enemy, and it turns out to be true!"
Li Asan refers to Li Congke, the late emperor of the late Tang Dynasty. In the past, Li Congke was extremely brave in his prime. During the Tang-Liang War, he once took a risk and took more than a dozen cavalry among the Liang army to retreat to the Liang army's camp.
He prepared a sudden attack and killed more than ten of Liang Jun's cavalry, cut down the flag in front of Liang Jun's camp and ran back to the main formation.
When Emperor Zhuangzong Li Cunxu saw it, he shouted: "How magnificent, Asan!"
Li Congke is Zhao Yanshou's uncle, so he is also called Li Asan.
The past events Zhao Yanshou talked about were the past events when Li Congke ordered an army to besiege Jinyang and attack Shi Jingtang.
At that time, Zhao Yanshou's father, Peking King Zhao Dejun, was also ordered to attack Shi Jingtang. Zhao Yanshou urged that Shi Jingtang should be killed as soon as possible, and then he could control the people of the North before making plans.
Because at that time, it was almost obvious that Shi Jingtang wanted to borrow troops from the Khitan. Zhao Yanshou was in Youji and knew that the strength of the Khitan people was not what it used to be.
As long as Shi Jingtang borrows troops, he will probably use Zhao and his son, who have always been a thorn in his side, as bargaining chips.
But Zhao Dejun didn't listen. He also regarded the Khitan as the Khitan who was beaten by the Central Plains during the Li Cunxu period.
He didn't take it seriously, but he asked Li Congke to rule the entire Hebei Province, and also wanted to annex Fan Yanguang's team who also went to suppress the rebellion.
Of course, the result was a fight. The Tang army did not attack Shi Jingtang and almost started fighting on his own. This also gave Shi Jingtang an opportunity. He immediately chose to sell out the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun in exchange for the Khitans going south.
After the Khitan army defeated Zhang Jingda, the commander-in-chief of the Later Tang Dynasty, they immediately surrounded the Zhao family and his son, who were their henchmen.
The soldiers under his command were also disappointed with Zhao Dejun and left one after another. The Zhao family and his son became Khitan prisoners, and Zhao Dejun was beaten to death on the grassland by the Khitans.
Murong Nobunaga sighed in his heart, if Zhao Dejun could listen to Zhao Yanshou back then, it is really unknown what the world would be like, at least the Khitans would not be able to take away the six states of Lu Longjun.
After talking about the past in his heart, Zhao Yanshou felt depressed again.
After he finished venting his anger, Murong Nobunaga's heart hardened. He raised his wine bowl and asked Zhao Yanshou for a drink.
"What my brother regrets is that the plan in the past did not come true, but have you ever thought about it? If my brother and his son could have been loyal ministers of the country, instead of trying to overcome difficulties, how could things have happened today?
When my brother and his son were alive, there were one million households and five million people in Hebei, but now they are less than half. How could they be so innocent? My father-in-law died in the wild, and his wife and daughter were kidnapped by the Northerners. It is all the fault of my brother and his son!"
Zhao Yanshou did not expect Murong Nobunaga to say such words, because in Zhao Yanshou's view, the people are like weeds in the field, they will grow again after being cut. I want to do a great cause, who cares about their life and death?
After being stunned for a long time, Zhao Yanshou said slowly: "Shiro Fourteen seems to be different from us."
"Mencius said: In the world, the people are the most valuable, the country is second, and the king is the least important.
Xunzi said: A king is like a boat. A common man is like water. Water carries the boat, and water overturns the boat.
The elder brother and the son never knew this truth, so they harmed others and themselves. Today's saints take this as their motto and engrave it in Chongwen Hall, and they should be regarded as heroes who save the world."
When Murong Nobunaga said this, his eyes showed deep disdain for people like Zhao Dejun, Zhao Yanshou and his son, and what rose in his heart was the infinite admiration for his adopted father Shaoming Zhang Shengren.
When Zhao Yanshou saw Murong Nobunaga like this, he knew that there was no way to survive, but he still refused to give up. After muttering for a long time, he finally raised his head and looked at Murong Nobunaga.
"Jushiro, is there really no chance?"
Murong Nobunaga slowly shook his head and replied decisively: "No more!"
Suddenly he couldn't bear to say, "Unless brother is willing to go to Yelu Lihu's place."
"Hahahaha! Yelu Lihu! Hahahaha!" Zhao Yanshou suddenly stood up and laughed like a madman until tears flowed down his face.
"Then forget it! Just stay here, you can still bury your bones in your hometown. In the past years in Luzhou, when the Silver Saddle Khitan died, my father and son should have died together!"
Amidst the wild laughter, a figure of a strong man with curly hair and a leopard head flashed in Zhao Yanshou's mind. The deafening sound rang so loudly in Zhao Yanshou's ears.
"Zhao Yanshou, today we will all die, and the next day your father and son will also die violently!"
Twenty years ago, Zhao Yanshou and his son gathered Khitan heroes in Lulong to form the Silver Saddle Khitan Order.
The three thousand men under his command are equipped with silver saddles, hold silver spears, are invincible with bows and horses, and are invincible. They are one of the few cavalry teams in the world. They are the foundation of Zhao Dejun, Zhao Yanshou and his son.
After the defeat of Tuanbai Valley, Zhao Dejun and his son ran south to Luzhou, but were eventually forced to surrender by the Khitan. Yelu Deguang asked Zhao Dejun: "Where is the silver saddle Khitan placed when you were in Youzhou?"
Zhao Dejun gave instructions with his hands, and Yelv Deguang ordered the people to kill all 3,000 Yinan Khitan people in the western suburbs of Luzhou, lock up Zhao Dejun, and Zhao Yanshou was sent to the grassland for detention.
From that moment on, the Zhao family and his son lost all their capital, and their subsequent use was just that Yelv Deguang wanted to use Zhao Yanshou to stabilize the six states of Lulong Army.
Murong Nobunaga stood up silently, took a breath, and turned to walk out.
Zhao Yanshou suddenly threw himself on the edge of the table, opened the sachet given to him by Princess Baoding, took out a strand of soft baby hair, and greedily sniffed the smell of milk on it. His face was filled with tears, and finally,
He showed a somewhat loving expression.
"After all, my son knows the time of justice better than you. Please report back to Emperor Shaoming. Zhao Yanshou knows that he does not want to be stained with the blood of his relatives, so a certain family has killed Yelu Ruan's son and daughter in advance, so as not to embarrass him!
He wants my son Kuangzan to be a prince for all generations!"
Amidst the screams, Zhao Yanshou picked up the long dagger that Murong Nobunaga left specially for him on the table, howled wildly, and suddenly inserted it from the left side of his neck. Blood spattered everywhere, killing him on the spot.
It was too late to watch the World Cup last night. I was really sleepy and couldn't rest at work. I wrote a thousand words less today and I will find a time to make up for it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.