Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Seeing this, Yeluyu was already feeling uneasy, but after Li Heda's persuasion, he couldn't help hesitating.

In order for Li Heda, the most powerful clan aristocrat among the Khitan people, to make up his mind, he even died in front of Yelu Yujian.

Before he died, Li Heda told Yelu Yujian that his words were not for his own begging, but for his ambition to restore the Liao Kingdom.Therefore, I, the Xiren, came to remonstrate with death, hoping that Yelu Yujian, as the Khitan clan, would be able to realize something.

Seeing Li Heda's body, Yeluyu was shocked by his loyalty and fearlessness, and finally made up his mind to unite with Yelu Dashi to fight against the Jin Dynasty and restore the Liao Dynasty.

Yelu Yujian used the dead Li Heda to ask for credit from Jin Guo in exchange for the trust of Wanyan Zonghan and others, but at the same time secretly released Li Heda's confidants and used them to formally establish a secret relationship with Yelu Dashi.

Yelu Dashi did not refuse to unite with any forces in order to realize his ambition of restoring the Liao Dynasty.Knowing that Ximenqing, the emperor of Qi State, was on good terms with Jin State, he refused to give up and sent envoys and lobbyists to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

Yelu Yujian, who is also a nobleman of the Khitan clan, wants to join forces with him, so Yelu Dashi is of course what he can't ask for.

Not long after Li Heda died admonishing Yelu Yujian, which led to the secret contact between Yelu Yujian and Yelu Dashi, Wanyan Zonghan ordered Yelu Yujian to lead the army to conquer Heishui City, and included the Yanjun Division of Heishui Town in Xixia Kingdom into the territory of Jin Kingdom .

Seeing that Yeluyu did not dare to disobey his orders, he led the Khitan cavalry across the desert and marched westward, snatching Heishui City from the party members.

Only in this way, Yelu Yujian would be farther away from the political center of Jin Kingdom.

Disappointed and resentful, Yelu Yujian formally formed a secret alliance with Yelu Dashi by taking advantage of Emperor Shangao's farewell.

After all, Wanyan Zonghan had overlooked the changes that Yeluyu had seen.

When conquering Ketun City in Yelu Dashi in the west, Wanyan Zonghan organized Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Zongbi and Yelu Yujian into an army, and asked them to sneak attack the back of Yelu Dashi, and attack Ketun City back and forth with himself.

There was no problem with this tactic. Both Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Zongbi were capable generals in the Jin army. In particular, Wanyan Loushi had once defeated and captured Yelu Dashi alive. He was a god-like figure in the Jin army.

However, even the best tactics are afraid of information leaks.After Yeluyu saw that the tactics of splitting the Jin army into two groups and attacking from front to back were revealed to Yelu Dashi, Yelu Dashi immediately mobilized all his combat power to attack the weaker Wanyan Loushi army first.

With the information from Yelu Yujian, the Liao army successfully set up an ambush. At the critical moment, Yelu Yujian led the troops back, causing Wanyan Loushi's army to be quickly surrounded.

At that time, the failure of the Jin army was doomed, even if Wanyan Loushi was the god of war, he would not be able to return

What's more, Wanyan Loushi, who was of the same generation as Wanyan Aguda and fought for half his life, is old after all, and no longer the courage of the past.

After a bloody battle, Lou Shi Wanyan failed to break out of the encirclement of the Liao army, and died in battle with his beloved son Wanyan Huonu.

But Yelu Yujian, the chief culprit of this defeat, was the leader who withdrew back to Heishui City unscathed, and waited here to collect the defeated soldiers of the Luo Jin army.

Seeing this move, Yeluyu certainly had no good intentions, he was worried that General Wanyan Loushi and others would successfully break out of the siege and escape from Yan Junsi in Heishui Town and return to the Kingdom of Jin.

Many of Yeluyu's cronies are still officials in various parts of the Kingdom of Jin. He doesn't want to turn against the Kingdom of Jin directly, but wants to continue to lurk inside the Kingdom of Jin, cooperating with Yelu Dashi inside and outside to plan big things together.

Therefore, Yeluyu saw that Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Zongbi and others could not be allowed to flee back to the Kingdom of Jin.Otherwise, as long as the defeated troops of the Jin Army fled back to the Kingdom of Jin and told about the abnormal behavior of Yelu Yujian's army in the First Battle of Wushan, with the shrewdness of Wanyan Zonghan and others, they would definitely find out that Yelu Yujian had become a traitor.

Seeing the start of the battle, Yeluyu led his troops back to Heishui City to block the road, just to wipe out the Jin army and not let anyone slip through the net.

On the grasslands in the north, Yelu Dashi's Liao army and tribal coalition forces are sweeping the battlefield.

Yelu Yujian also prepared a big net for the defeat of the Jin army in Heishui Town Yanjun Division in the south.

Chapter 52

After Wan Yan Zonghan divided his troops, Wan Yan Xiyin was left to guard the rear and lead the North Route Army to the expedition.

After the 15 troops drawn from various places joined forces in Baishuiluo, Fengsheng Prefecture, they took Wanyan Yinshu Kebu as the vanguard and marched towards Ketun City in the northwest.

This time the Jin army went out, and the nomadic tribal army of servants also participated in the battle.

The Yinshan Shi Weimoge Shibu, who had supported Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi to resist the Jin army, also surrendered to the Jin Kingdom after Emperor Tianzuo was captured. At this time, he sent [-] cavalry to serve as guides for the Jin army.

In addition to the Yinshan Shiwei Moge Lost Department, the Heiche Shiwei Department that once fought against the Jin army in Linhuang Mansion on Shangjing Road also sent troops to join the battle.

Although most of the Zoubu tribe supported the former Khitans, some Zub tribes near the border of the Jin Kingdom still chose to join the Jin Kingdom, and this time they also sent tribal cavalry to follow the Jin army to fight.

Of course, Wanyan Zonghan did not count on the combat effectiveness of these servants.The nomadic tribes on the grasslands gather and disperse suddenly, respecting the strong.

The other generation only defected to the Kingdom of Jin because the pasture was bordered by the Kingdom of Jin and they were afraid of the mighty Jin army.

The servant army of these nomadic tribes can only fight with the wind, and participate in pursuit and plunder after victory.If the battle is unfavorable, these tribal cavalry will definitely flee in all directions and return to their tribe.

Wanyan Zonghan brought these nomadic miscellaneous troops, but to take advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, to help the main force of the Jin army cross the desert and go straight to Ketun City.

Due to the heavy baggage of the 15 army, and the fact that Wanyan Loushi's army had to wait for the completion of the outflanking of the enemy's rear, the advance speed of Wanyan Zonghan's army was not fast.

When Yelu Dashi had ambushed Wanyan Loushi's army at the foot of Wushan Mountain, Wanyan Zonghan's army had just turned over Wugu Mountain to the east of Ketun City and appeared in the upper reaches of Tuwula River.

The upper reaches of the Tuwula River flow from east to west, divert to the north at Fangzhou City, pass through the city of Zhenzhou Ketun, and then merge with the Ulugu River originating in Wushan, and then flow northward into the North Sea, which is the future Baikal lake.

The Tuwula River and the Ulugu River Basin formed a lush pasture, and the four frontier defense cities Fangzhou, Zhenzhou (Kedun City), Zhaozhou, and Weizhou of the Liao Northwest Road Recruitment Division were built on this pasture. .

From the names of these four cities, it can be seen that the Liao Kingdom built cities and stationed troops here in the past to appease and suppress many nomadic peoples in the western part of the Mobei grassland.

In order to maintain the rule of the northwest, the Liao Kingdom stationed tens of thousands of elite cavalry here, which also became the basis for Yelu Dashi to maintain the remnant Liao forces.

During the Jinliao War, Xiao Yixue once recruited troops here to counterattack the Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, but was finally defeated by Ximenqing.

Later, Liang Wang Yelu Yali, the son of Yelu Yanxi, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Kingdom, once established the short-lived Northern Liao regime here.

At that time, Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi was defeated in Xijing Road and planned to flee to Xixia Kingdom.

Minister Yelu Dilie's persuasive persuasion was ineffective, so he robbed Yelu Yali with Taibao Temu and others and fled northward.

After fleeing to the Northwest Road to recruit the Secretary, Yelu Dilie and other Khitan nobles supported Yelu Yali as emperor and changed the year name to "Shenli".

Because Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi was still alive and the Liao Kingdom did not perish, the small regime of Liang Wang Yelu Yali was called Beiliao.

However, before the Jin army was wiped out, and Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi's suppression of the rebellion was not ushered in, the small regime of the Northern Liao Dynasty died on its own five months later because of the death of Emperor Yelu Yali.

Under the powerful offensive of the Jin army, the regime of the Khitan people was in jeopardy.However, after Yelu Yali, a wonderful emperor, came to power, he didn't think about making every effort to restore his family and country, but he was keen on playing polo and hunting all day long.

Judging from these preferences, Yelu Yali is indeed a good son of his father Yelu Yanxi.

In October of the same year, Yelu Yali hunted in Chaci Mountain and hunted 21 gazelles and [-] wolves in one day.Due to running back and forth, this guy was overworked and fell ill. In a few days, he died and died.

Without the emperor, the small regime of the Northern Liao Dynasty also died without a problem.

Yelu Dilie, Brother Temu and others were disgusting as if they had swallowed a fly, so they had to once again declare their allegiance to Yelu Yanxi, the Emperor Tianzuo who was running around in name.

At that time, Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi was also at the end of the road, and could no longer control these generals.

At this time, the well-known Yelu Dashi also gave up Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, and took his confidant generals and three hundred guards across the desert to the city of Ketun, the recruiting department of the Northwest Road.

The leaderless generals of the Liao army elected Yelu Dashi as their leader, and held high the banner of anti-Jin and Liao.

Yelu Dashi integrated the strength of the recruiting department of the Northwest Road, mastered the last elite cavalry of the Liao Kingdom, and won the hearts of the surrounding tribes.

After several years of reunion, Yelu Dashi finally once again possessed the strength to compete with the Jin Army.