525 Ice and Snow Grasslands 2
"Go to Liaodong and take over the rebel army? But now Yelu Hong controls the rebel army and he has a high prestige. After we rashly go to Liaodong, those rebel army may not listen to us." Yelu Yili said.
"Yelu Hong is just an incompetent person. He is a puppet in the hands of the Han people. Not to mention it! Although his prestige is high, there is still one person in this world. His prestige is much higher than Yelu Hong! If you ask for this person, we can order the rebel army!" Yelu Dashi said.
"Who has such a high prestige?" Yelu Yilie said in surprise.
"Of course it is Emperor Tianzuo of the Great Liao!" Yelu Dashi said lightly.
After Yelu Dashi said that, the Khitans around him were stunned.
Emperor Tianzuo was Yelu Yanxi, the last emperor of the Liao Kingdom! Historically, Yelu Yanxi was afraid of the Jurchens and fled to the primeval forests in the Jiashan area of Mayu Mountain. Yelu Chun ascended the throne. However, relatively speaking, Yelu Chun was still unjustified and was called the "Emperor of Northern Liao", while Yelu Yanxi was the serious emperor of the Liao Kingdom! After the demise of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Yanxi was not killed by the Jurchens, but was captured and imprisoned by the Jurchens near Huining Prefecture in Liaodong! In history, it was not until 1156 that Yelu Yanxi was trampled to death by the Jurchens. Now it is the seventh year of Xuanwu, but it is only 1133. Yelu Yanxi is still alive in the world!
"We asked the Jurchens to release the emperor and asked the emperor to order the rebels. The rebels are all composed of me, Khitans. Who dares not listen?" Yelu Dashi said.
"Not bad!" Yelu Yilie nodded, and a smile appeared on his face.
"When we mastered all the rebels, our strength was greatly shocked and we could compete with the Han people! When Emperor Taizu of our Great Liao led the Khitan tribe to unify the north, we only had a population of hundreds of thousands, but now there are two or three million Khitans in the Liaodong area alone. I heard that the number of rebels is close to one million! With so many populations and so many rebels, we can unify the north like Emperor Taizu in the past!" Yelu Dashi said.
"When it comes to that time, Da Khan, you will be the new emperor of our Da Liao!" a general next to him said.
Whether it is Yelu Dashi or the other generals, they did not take Yelu Yanxi seriously! Speaking of which, Yelu Yanxi was one of the culprits of the demise of the Liao Kingdom! Yelu Yanxi ascended the throne for more than 20 years, and his favorite thing was hunting every day. He spent most of his time hunting. In addition, Yelu Yanxi liked Buddhism and the country's national strength was consumed in Buddhism. He appointed treacherous ministers. When the Jurchens emerged, the Liao Kingdom would no longer be an opponent! He treated the Liao Kingdom like Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, who were the kings of the country who were destroyed! He naturally disdained the kings of the country who were destroyed! They just wanted to use Yelu Dashi as a tool to control the rebel army in Liaodong!
"It doesn't matter whether I can become an emperor. What's important is that my Khitans can still stand on the mainland, become the first race, and live a prosperous life. This is the most important thing! What I do is for the tribe members!" Yelu Dashi said.
"We naturally understand the ambition of the Great Khan. We will follow the Great Khan forever." The Khitan generals around said one after another.
"The direction of our marching will change. We can no longer move towards Shangjing. We have to pass north of Shangjing and go to Liaodong from there! It is very likely that we will encounter Han people along the way, so we must be careful!" Yelu Dashi said.
"Maybe the Han people are not as powerful as the little prince said!" a Khitan general led the way.
"The Han people were able to defeat Xixia, Jurchens, and Mongolia, which proved that their strength was indeed good. I underestimated them before! Before heading to Liaodong, we should try not to have a head-on conflict with them!" Yelu Dashi said.
As they spoke, they continued to lead the Khitan team toward the east.
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The night is dark!
On the vast grassland, another army was also moving forward on the grassland.
This army is all composed of cavalry, and there are no elderly, weak, women, and children among them. They are wearing the uniforms of the Song army! The army is also extremely long, and it seems that the number of soldiers is also very large!
In the night, there is no end at a glance!
A general with an extremely ordinary appearance walked in front of the army. At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from afar. The general looked forward. The night was dark, but the general had a very good eye. When he saw that the soldiers in front were all wearing Song army uniforms, he breathed softly.
"Master, we are back!" The Song cavalry came to the ordinary generals and saluted.
"Have you found out the road ahead?" said the Song general.
"There is an abandoned city not far ahead, which seems to be where Hedong City is!" said a cavalry.
"Oh? Hedongcheng? What is this place?" Another Song army general came over next to him and said.
"Hedong City is one of the border towns built by the Liao people back then! The grassland we are now in is the former Khitan Wugu, where the enemy Lie tribe is located, with a radius of thousands of miles. Hedong City is the center!" The ordinary-looking general of the Song army led the way.
The Liao Kingdom belongs to a semi-nova and semi-agricultural country. After the establishment of the Liao Kingdom, there were still many Khitan tribes on the endless grasslands. Wugu and Dilie were all extremely large Khitan tribes! This grassland is located in the northwest of Shangjing, and Hedongcheng is the center of this grassland, probably located in the Qiaoba Mountain area of later Mongolia.
Compared with later Mongolia, the civilization of Liao Kingdom was much more advanced! Later Mongolia would only destroy, while Liao Kingdom knew how to learn and build! They had a perfect system, they learned the culture of the Han people, and they built countless cities on the grassland! Whether it was Shangjing, Zhongjing or Hedong City, they were the crystallization of Liao people's civilization. Unfortunately, in the chaotic era when Liao, Song, Jin and Mongolia coexisted, the civilization of Liao Kingdom was completely destroyed. Later Liao Kingdom had once again turned into a barren grassland, and all the cities built by the Liao people were ruined!
In this era, most of the cities in Liao Kingdom still exist.
Half an hour later, the Song army came to the city of Hedong.
It was dark here, and the city had no gates! They entered it!
The city of Hedong is also dark, the whole city is empty and there is nothing! The cold wind is blowing on the grassland, and the sound of ghosts crying in Hedong is constantly coming from Hedong City, which is frightening.
The Song army has not rested for many days and is now stationed here.
There were many empty houses in the city, and countless soldiers squeezed into the empty houses. They lay on the ground and began to sleep soundly.
The ordinary-looking general of the Song army had already brought more than ten generals into a big room. Soldiers were setting fires in the room, and they sat next to the fire to cook the fire.
"I don't know where Yelu Dashi has been?" said a Song general.
"They should be not far from here! There is another possibility that they will go south in advance, so that Li Xianzhong will block them! We don't have to march tomorrow. We will send people to investigate the whereabouts of the Khitans from all directions!" said the ordinary-looking general of the Song army.
The generals around nodded one after another.
"I think Yelu Dashi may already know that we have wiped out Mongolia. They will definitely be careful!" said a young general who had a jumpy appearance.
"Yes, our army is strong. This time we went north, we swept the north in a short time. Yelu Dashi should not fight us head-on! They are likely to go east to enter Liaodong!" The ordinary-looking general of the Song army thought for a moment and said.
"If they go to Liaodong and unite with Wanyan Zonghan, it will be a huge threat." Another Song general led the way.
"I'm afraid that if they incite the rebels after they arrive in Liaodong, that's a big trouble! So, we must find them and wipe them out! There are a lot of Khitan soldiers and horses, but unfortunately they are dispatched this time, and there are countless old, weak, women and children in the army! With old, weak, women and children, their marching speed will slow down, and their army will not dare to leave their tribe too far away. They have lost the greatest advantage of cavalry!" The general who looked ordinary smiled.
The biggest advantage of cavalry is mobility. When the Khitan army is with their tribesmen, they cannot give up their tribesmen and cannot leave their tribesmen too far, so they naturally have no mobility! Under such circumstances, the Song army can attack them at will, but they can only be beaten passively!
"General Yue, how do we deal with the Khitan army?" said a general.
"It's very simple. Whether we or Li Xianzhong encounter a Khitan army, they will use the strength of the entire army to harass them without any rest! A few days later, the Khitans were exhausted, and then Li Xianzhong's troops arrived and used elite troops to fight the tired army, and they would definitely win a complete victory! Yelu Dashi led his tribe south. Under the current circumstances, there is only one way to fail no matter what!" said the general who looked ordinary.
These people are naturally Yue Fei, the general manager of the Datong Military Region, and others!
Yue Fei was drawing a map on the ground at this moment. They were nearly a thousand miles northwest of Shangjing, and in the west of Shangjing, Li Xianzhong's army was located, which was the territory of Heichezishi Wei!
Shiwei is a famous ethnic minority in ancient China and belongs to the "Donghu" remnants! In the fourth century AD, the Khitan split from Shiwei. It is said that Shiwei Khitans came from the same source, with Xing'an Mountains as the boundary. "The south is the Khitan, and the north is the Shiwei". The languages of the two are exactly the same! In addition, the Mongols also belong to the descendants of Shiwei people. The Mongols originated from the Mongols. In the tenth century AD, the Mongols moved west to the Da'Onon River, developed into the Sixteen Mongolian tribes, and then developed into the five major Mongolian tribes! Of course, although Shiwei, Khitan and Mongolia had the same ancestor, in this era, their relationship had long been alienated! Heichezi Shiwei was a huge grassland tribe that was destroyed by the Khitan when the Khitan rose. It was probably located on a large grassland in the southeast of Mongolia. Li Xianzhong led the army there.
In this way, the defense line between Yue Fei and Li Xianzhong will be more than a thousand miles, and the Khitans will never be allowed to escape! Especially when Yue Fei is located further north is the Great Xing'an Mountains and the Little Xing'an Mountains are located. The Khitans must go south from here, which is the only way.
In the morning of the next day, Yue Fei sent more than 10,000 people to divide them into more than 100 teams to find the whereabouts of the Khitans on the grassland. The Khitan troops were mixed with the people and had huge goals, so it was very easy to find them.
On October 29th, Yue Fei finally got the news of the Khitan army. Now the Khitans are less than 150 miles away from here!
Chapter completed!