Chapter twenty-six painstaking efforts
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Yelu Chun was very depressed and very depressed.
This morning, he received the news that the rebels had conquered Targas and Chengzhou and successfully broke through the south. The news was like a bolt from the blue and immediately stunned him. Year of hard work and year of hard work were wasted.
Yelu Chun finds it difficult to accept this fact.
Last year, the Liao army lost Tarras Mountain and Chengzhou, which was very accidental, mainly because the resentful army mutiny at the time of the battle. Luo Qinghan suddenly rebelled and disrupted the deployment of the Liao army. He caught the Jin army off guard and seized the opportunity. Later, Yelu Dashi recaptured Chengzhou and Tarras Mountain and strengthened the Tarras Mountain defense line. After Yelu Dashi was transferred, Xiao Gan was in charge of the eastern route military affairs, with a stable defense line, and a 40,000 to 50,000 troops. According to principles, it should be foolproof. Unexpectedly, Xiao Gan was so vulnerable that he was beaten to annihilation by a group of rebels.
Then the officials of the Xi Palace and a group of generals fled one after another. From their mouths, Yelu Chun finally learned about the loss of the Tribulus Mountain. In order to shirk responsibility, these people talked about the rebel Li Hu like a god and was invincible. There is no way, and we can't say that we are incompetent. Besides, if Yelu Ma Ge was defeated by Ye Niu Yuan before, it would be annihilated. Since Yelu Ma Ge can be annihilated, why can't Xiao Gan be annihilated? Anyway, the opponents are all Li Hu, and the result is normal.
Of course Yelu Chun didn't believe it. The battle between Wild Bison Yuan was because Li Hu had the help of the Jin army, and Yelu Ma Ge's entire army was wiped out, which was understandable. In the battle between Targlutinous Mountain, Li Hu was attacked on both sides and was in danger. In this case, the Liao army was defeated, so of course it is unforgivable. Xiao Gan must have the responsibility, but the commanders of the Eastern Army were even greater.
However, Yelu Chun knew the corruption within the Liao army better than anyone else. Otherwise, why did the Liao army defeat repeatedly in the battles over the years? However, what made Yelu Chun heartbroken was that the Liao army could not defeat the Jin army, but even the rebels could not be defeated. If this continues, how can the great Liao army be preserved?
The root of corruption within the Liao army was in the palace tent and the emperor, but the ministers and emperors in the palace tent ignored the facts and were still arrogant and domineering. In order to maintain their own interests, they even opened their bloody mouths and ate meat and drink blood unscrupulously on the shaky country. Now they have become even worse and have been sucking bones and sucking marrow. The country of Liao, the foundation of the ancestors, cried sadly in the bloody storm. How to save it? How to turn the tide and fall?
Yelu Chun was thinking about this issue, and the ministers who were just as determined to protect the great Liao Dynasty were also thinking about this issue, and what Yelu Chun was most afraid of was this.
Three years ago, Yelu Zhangnu, his brother-in-law Xiao Dili, and a group of palace ministers planned to take advantage of the emperor's opportunity to launch a mutiny, deposed the emperor, and then pushed himself to the throne of the emperor, but he did not agree. It was obvious that this was not to save the Daliao, but to defeat the Daliao. Once this happened, the Daliao was very likely to fall into division. When the Daliao fought, the Daliao might be destroyed. He betrayed Yelu Zhangnu, his brother-in-law Xiao Dili, and many good friends. In the end, he was defeated by Bu Dagang and the rise of the Jurchens. Although he saved the Daliao Kingdom's destiny, he also pushed the Daliao into a terrible abyss, so that the situation in Liaodong became uncontrollable.
Sometimes, when it was late at night, I was thinking, if I had promised Yelu Zhangnu, what would happen in Liaodong now? Will there be a great defeat in Bubu Dagang, the rise of the Jurchens and the rebellions one after another? Will the great Liao Kingdom still be in danger as it is now?
Without an answer, there will never be any more.
The strategy of the Eastern Expedition has devoted all his efforts. Over the past year, I have worked hard and never stopped. I have tried all the ways and tried all the means. Finally, I have made the emperor and the ministers of the palace tent agree. Who knew that it failed before it even started.
The pro-war faction had three chances to revive the country with force. The first was the Bohai people rebelled. At that time, he tried his best to lead the army to fight, but the emperor and the lords ministers did not believe in him, so he actually asked Zhang Lin, the prime minister of the Southern Palace, to lead the army to fight eastward. The result was self-evident. The Liao Kingdom lost the Bohai people, while the Jurchens got the Bohai Army, which increased and deteriorated, and the situation became even worse. In this case, the emperor finally let himself come out to clean up the mess. However, the heavens did not follow the wishes of others, the resentful army mutiny, Luo Qinghan rebelled, and gave him a fatal blow, and the second chance was lost.
The warlords sent all their hopes to this Eastern Expedition, which was the third chance, but this time they were defeated even worse.
The consequences of the failure of the Eastern Expedition were very serious.
The situation is getting worse and worse, and the patience of the ministers is limited. After all, this is related to the vital interests of the princes and powerful people, so I know the best in my heart what will happen next.
The current emperor is incompetent and incompetent. The reason why the Liao Dynasty has reached this point is directly related to him. So early on, someone planned to usurp the emperor and depose the emperor. Yelu Zhangnu was not the first, and of course not the last. If the third Eastern Expedition failed, the palace tent would inevitably start another battle for the imperial rule. In this terrible vortex, he was the center of the vortex and would be destroyed at any time.
He resolutely did not do usurpation, and the ministers in charge of war may give up. Then, they need a crown prince and a crown prince. As long as the emperor establishes an heir and the matter of the imperial rule is resolved, the current emperor's good life will come to an end. The ministers and leaders of various tribes will join forces to force him to abdicate, then seize power, establish national policies, and revitalize the great Liao Dynasty.
But the question is, who will inherit the imperial throne?
In the palace tent, whether it is the pro-war faction or the pro-peace faction, the ultimate goal is the same, to preserve the great Liao Kingdom's destiny, and the only way to allow the pro-war faction and the pro-peace faction ministers to work together is to establish the imperial unity. However, if the change of an emperor, the interests involved are too great. At that time, it would not be a dispute between the pro-war faction and the pro-peace faction, but a dispute over power, a dispute over interests, and a fierce struggle. The minority of the struggle can lead to civil strife, and at worst it can lead to national destruction. There are countless examples of the defeat of the national destiny due to the dispute over imperial unity. With the current situation of the Daliao, if a dispute over imperial unity breaks out, it is not impossible to destroy the country.
The current emperor is still unwilling to establish an imperial regime. This is why. If he does not become an emperor, he can be the Supreme Emperor, but if the country is gone, he will not even be the Supreme Emperor, so he is also afraid and afraid.
The real reason why he supported the Eastern Expedition this time was that he did not want to establish the imperial throne. He was forced by the ministers of the palace tent and had to pin his last glimmer of hope on the Eastern Expedition. However, man's calculations were not as good as God's calculations. The third Eastern Expedition failed again, and everyone lost patience. The struggle in the interior of the palace tent would inevitably become fierce. If the emperor wanted to delay the unification of the imperial throne, it would probably not work.
The army continued to advance, but Yelu Chun stopped, wrote letters to the emperor, letters to the priests, and memorials to the palace tents. He had only one request, and gave me time to encircle and suppress the rebels. He just waited to eliminate the rebels, and then the Liao Dynasty could gather all its forces and continue to implement the strategy of the Eastern Expedition.
Yelu Chun's letter reported to the commander of the Northeast Road of Jingdao, Yelu Mage, and asked him to suspend the attack and station heavy troops on Longhua and Shancheng, Taizhou and Changchun, to ensure the safety of the route of Shangjingdao. At the same time, he ordered Yelu Han Funu, deputy commander of the Southeast Road, immediately led his army to withdraw from Zhongjingdao, crossed the Daling River from Xingzhong Prefecture, attacked Qianzhou and Yizhou eastward, and encircled and suppressed the rebels. Yelu Chun immediately sent a letter to the Southern Privy Council and the Marshal's Office of Nanjing, asking them to report to the emperor, and resigned the guards of Nanjingdao again, Yanyun militia, rushed to Jinzhou to support Yelu Dashi, and must block the rebels on the north bank of Xiaoling River.
Yelu Chun followed up and ordered the Xi army to be transferred from the Xi Palace, asking the leaders of the six Xi tribes to comply with military orders and support quickly. The area of Dading Prefecture of Zhongjing is the place where the Xi people live, so there are many Xi troops on Zhongjing Road. The foreign people are fighting horses and they are soldiers, and this custom has not changed to this day.
Yelu Chun also urgently wrote to the Northern Privy Council, asking them to report to the emperor, urgently dispatching the eight enemy troops of the north and south to block the divination, the Wugu people and other northwest foreign races to quickly support Zhongjing Road and encircle and suppress the rebels.
After Yelu Chun finished all these things, he felt as if he had been hollowed out, and his flesh and blood seemed to have left his body, leaving only a thin body.
He coughed violently, in great pain. At this moment, when he saw Xiao Gan, he could no longer bear the anger in his heart, and opened his mouth and vomited a mouthful of blood.
Xiao Gan had no face to deal with it.
Xiao Degong and Yelu Yuji comforted him, the situation had not deteriorated to an irrescueable level.
The most urgent task of the Liao army was not to fight the rebels, but to defend against the Jin army. Compared with the Jin army, of course, the Jin army had a greater threat. Moreover, the rebels went south and were obviously coerced by the Jin army, otherwise the two sides would not fight on Mount Targas. The Jin army drove the rebels into Zhongjing Road with obvious purpose, which was to use the rebels to restrain the Liao army and thus prevent the Liao army from expeditioning in the east.
Now the Jin army is behind the rebels. When the rebels retreat, they can seize the Tarras Mountain and Chengzhou without any effort, threaten Zhongjing, and use this to restrain the main force of the Liao army and help the rebels continue to move south, causing trouble to Zhongjing and Nanjing. Therefore, the Liao army must take back Chengzhou and Tarras Mountain at any cost to ensure the safety of the Zhongjing Road, and ensure that the main force of the Liao army can encircle and suppress the rebels.
As for the rebels, because they received the help of the Jin army and had a grudge to open up a passage for them, there would definitely be no problem when they went south to Jinzhou, and we couldn't stop them even if we wanted to.
Xiao Gan was surprised, "Has the resentful army rebelled?"
"The rebellious army rebelled." Xiao Degong said what happened, "We are only one day away, otherwise we can stop the rebellion of the rebellion."
The main force of the resentment army advanced eastward, just in time for Qianzhou, the army in Yizhou was transferred by Xiao Gan to the defense line of the Targlutinous Mountain by Xiao Gan. The troops were empty, and with the strength of the resentment army, they could go down in one go. When Yizhou was lost, the rebels retreated south without any obstacles. They could vent and kill Jinzhou. Fortunately, Yelu Dashi led his army to Jinzhou in advance, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
Chapter completed!