After Guo Quer and Wei, a young officer from Mazhi, got married, a senior general from Mazhi, walked to his end. Li Siyuan ordered Guo Congqian, the former commander of Mazhi, to be the governor of Jingzhou, and removed his military position, so that he could be separated from his contact with the officers and soldiers of Mazhi. Then, a secret order was sent to Jingzhou, and Guo Congqian, who had no soldiers, was executed for the crime of regicide, and his clan was barred!

As for Zhuang Zongzhu's personal army who had rebelled from Ma Zhi and others, Li Siyuan gradually disrupted him and gradually abolished his organization, and organized him into the newly formed imperial army led by Hedong veteran An Yuanxin, and Yan Weijun led by his confidant Wang Qing.

Although Guo Congqian is one of the biggest promoters of holding Li Siyuan to the throne, Li Siyuan is very clear: Guo Congqian is not his own person, and the person he wants to support is not himself. As long as this person is still alive, it will weaken his legality in inheriting the Later Tang Dynasty and also a dangerous person who makes him unable to sleep well every night.

Of course, there are far more dangerous people who can't sleep well for the elderly and new emperors, but are far from the world. Some of these dangerous people Li Siyuan dared to take action, while others made Li Siyuan hesitant and dared not take action easily.

In May of that year, Li Siyuan transferred Zhao Zaili, the governor of Weibo, to serve as the governor of Yicheng. Zhao Zaili openly disobeyed the order, saying that the army was in turmoil and he didn't want me to leave! In the end, Li Siyuan revoked the edict. But in private, Zhao Zaili, who was also a puppet, secretly wrote a letter to explain the situation: Huangfu Hui and Zhao Jin are still there, and I can't leave even if I want to!

Later, Li Siyuan promoted Huangfu Hui to the Governor of Chenzhou and Zhao Jin to the Governor of Beizhou. He divided the core of the rebellion in the name of being promoted to Jin's title, and then transferred Zhao Zaili to Cangzhou to be the governor of Jiedu. But even so, Li Siyuan did not kill any of the three people like he did in killing Guo Congqian.

The danger did not only come from the country, but at this time, the threat from the north also increased. Almost when the Tang army entered Shu and Wang Yan surrendered, Abaoji gathered his Khitan troops and horses, and ordered the Tubo, Dangxiang, Shiwei troops who surrendered to him, and also joined the army, forming a huge coalition army with a population of 300,000, to launch a battle to destroy the country against the Khitan enemy, Bohai Kingdom.

The Bohai Kingdom was a country established by the Limo tribe of the Limo tribe, the Limo tribe, during the Wu anniversary of the Wu anniversary. The Limo tribe of the Limo tribe originally surrendered to Goguryeo. After the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, they surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and moved to Yingzhou to settle down, and lived next to the Khitans.

At first, the Khitans and the Muhe people were not only neighbors, but also grasshoppers on the same rope. During the Wu Anniversary, the Khitan leaders Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong raised an army to rebel. The Muhe people followed suit and raised an anti-flagration. Seeing that the two groups of barbarians were not easy to deal with, Wu Zetian adopted the method of division and disintegration, and first pardoned the Muhe people. They also signed their leader Qisi's neighbors as Duke Xu, Qiqi Zhongxiang as Duke Zhen, and then concentrated their efforts to deal with the Khitans. So the Muhe people ignored the life and death of the Khitans and allowed them to fight against the Zhou army.

After taking down the Khitan and hanging Sun Wanrong's head in Luoyang, Wu Zetian turned against him and wanted to pursue the blame of the Mohe people. The Mohe people had to flee east. Wu Zetian deliberately sent the Khitan surrender Li Kaigu to lead the Khitan surrender troops to pursue the defected Mohe people. The Khitan surrendered soldiers succeeded and killed Qibi's neighbors, and Qiqi Zhongxiang was also fleeing.

Death due to death.

However, the Marin did not fall. Qiqi Zhongxiang's son Dazuorong led his troops to fight back at the Tianmenling Jedi and defeated the Khitans who were pursuing him. Li Kaigu was saved only by himself. The victorious Dazuorong announced the establishment of Zhenguo and proclaimed himself the King of Zhen. A few years later, Zhenguo and the Tang Dynasty, which restored the orthodox Tang family, rebuilt it, and was named the King of Bohai and changed the name to Bohai. The unlucky Khitan still knelt at the feet of the Tang Dynasty, and his hatred with the Bohai Kingdom became deeper and deeper.

However, there is no way to be revenge. After being severely damaged, the Khitan could not defeat the Bohai fruit at this time. The Bohai Kingdom was vast at that time and was known as the Haidong Sheng Kingdom. It had five capitals, fifteen prefectures, sixty-two prefectures, and more than one hundred and thirty counties. The area was about the same as the Later Liang Empire, but it only had a population of more than three million. But even so, it was still much stronger than the Khitans.

More than two hundred years have passed, and with the rise of Abaoji, the Khitans have also established a country. The Khitan Kingdom at the beginning was like the rising sun, full of vitality, full of vitality and desire to expand. At the same time, the Bohai Sea, which has been established for a long time, is deep and gradually corrupted, and is no longer as brave as it was in the past. Although the two countries had similar areas at this time and the population was larger than the Bohai Sea, there was a gap in military strength.

The fifteenth generation of Bohai monarch, who was later posthumously named King Ai of Bohai, happened to be the rank of the national rank of the same year as Abaoji. The writer naturally witnessed the expansion of Abaoji and the strong rise of the Khitans with his own eyes, but he was not very alert and did not make obvious preparations. He just followed the old system and paid tribute to the Later Liang and Later Tang in the Central Plains, and occasionally had border friction with the Khitan. The Bohai King felt that with the Central Plains dynasty, the Bohai Sea would be without danger.

At first, Abaoji aimed at the Central Plains, which gave Bohai Kingdom a few more peaceful days. However, after suffering from Youzhou and Wangdu’s two severe setbacks, Abaoji woke up. The Central Plains is not a good bone to chew, so he can only be more rational. Change the target, it is easy to start and then difficult to do so. So, Abaoji’s greedy eyes stared at Bohai, the old enemy of the Khitans.

As soon as the Khitan coalition was launched this time, it was a rush of overwhelming force. The army advanced through Muye Mountain along the Xilamulun River to the Xiliao River, and quickly surrounded Fuyu City, the important western city of the Bohai Kingdom. Although Fuyu City was known as a major city and also stationed heavy troops, the level of the city defense of the Bohai Sea was obviously one level lower than that of the Central Plains, which were constantly fighting at this time. Abaoji asked the Han army, who was the best at siege in the coalition, to attack Fuyu City, led by Han general Zhao Siwen, to attack Fuyu City fiercely.

Zhao Siwen was originally Liu Rengong and Liu Shouguang's old subordinate. He was a teenager and was very powerful in medical treatment. When Li Cunxu destroyed Yan, he was captured by Zhou Dewei and surrendered to the Jin army. In the battle with Liu Xiu, the general of the Later Liang Dynasty, Zhao Siwen made military achievements and was awarded the title of governor of Pingzhou for his merits. However, he was very dissatisfied with the suppression of the former general of Lu Long by Zhou Dewei, the governor of Lu Long, so when Abaoji went south to invade Lu Long, he took the initiative to offer the city to surrender and became a Han general in the Khitan army.

In the view of Zhao Siwen, who had experienced the baptism of the Central Plains War, the city defense of Fuyu City was a pile of garbage. He took the suicide squad and took only three days to capture this important military center of the Bohai Kingdom and kill the Bohai Sea defenders. After taking down the Bohai Kingdom's big city, A Baoji immediately ordered the inventory of the household registration and the taxes were approved.

At this time, his eldest son Yelu Beiti

He raised objections and said, "The Bohai people were already worried about us. If they just took a city and did this immediately, it would only make the Bohai people hate us even more. In this way, it would easily cause their family to resist, and it would be difficult to stabilize the place they had just won't be able to settle down. This time we set out, our goal is to completely conquer the Bohai Sea, not to just take advantage of the situation and leave! It would be better to take advantage of the situation and attack Huhan City, which would definitely destroy the Bohai Sea. When they lose the backbone of their resistance, wouldn't it be more appropriate to discuss how to arrange the aftermath?"

A Baoji was very happy to see that the eldest son he admired most had such insights, so he immediately followed the good and adopted it. At this time, there was a undercurrent in the Khitan that was not easy to detect. A Baoji was already fifty-four years old, and the originally clear problem of heir was becoming dark and unclear. Although A Baoji had already made Yelu Bei the crown prince at the beginning of his reign of emperors. However, the queen Shuluping did not like the eldest son and had been planning to use the second son Yelu Deguang to push him off! If it was not good, it would be fine to replace the third son Yelu Lihu.

One winter, it was very cold. A Baoji wanted to try his three legitimate sons' ability to do things, so he asked them to go out to pick up firewood and bring them back to keep warm. The first one was the second one, Yelu Deguang, who did not care about dry firewood and wet firewood, carried a large bundle. The second one was the eldest one, Yelu Bei, who only chose dry firewood that could ignite, tied it neatly, and brought it back. The third one was the third one, Yelu Lihu, who was tired, and the youngest son picked it up and threw it away, almost returning home empty-handedly. A Baoji looked at the result and said: The eldest was smart in his work, the second was down-to-earth, and the third one was unable to do anything. Therefore, the eldest was the one he liked the most.

Shuluping did not comment on her three sons, but she used her later practical actions to prove that the second son is good and the third son is good, but the eldest son is not good. For Shuluping, who has a strong desire for power, this son is too different from herself and is not obedient enough.

Shuluping's status was not given by A Baoji. She had her own subordinates and her own army. The relationship between them and their husbands was like partners. Therefore, A Baoji could not ignore her wishes. Under her promotion, A Baoji appointed her second son Yelu Deguang as the Grand Marshal of the World. With this position, Yelu Deguang led the army on behalf of his father A Baoji many times and fought with the Later Tang and other ministries, overwhelming the prince Yelu Bei in terms of real power and performance.

This naturally made A Baoji a little uneasy. This time, A Baoji went to the Bohai Sea, the queen, prince, and the marshals of the world all accompanied him. In addition to seeing the weakness and bullying of the Bohai State at this time, it was a good opportunity, A Baoji also had a big plan, which was to help his eldest son Yelube gain prestige and accumulate experience in governing the country in front of his wife and second child, and imply that they: the heirs have been confirmed, you better not have any inappropriate thoughts!

After learning that the Khitan had made a big attack and Fuyu City had been captured, the Bohai King was shocked. Although the Bohai Kingdom seemed to be a giant at this time, its power had declined and its mobilization ability was limited. The Dahai King could only piece together 300,000 troops and handed it to the old prime minister to resist the Khitan coalition, which was claimed to have 300,000. Although the 300,000 contained a lot of water, it was still much more than the 300,000 Bohai Army.

This became a battle without suspense. The main force of the Bohai Army led by Lao Xiang went east to Changling Prefecture and went to Hailong to meet the 10,000 vanguards of Abaoji's army.
Chapter completed!