Spring is here, and the morning of going to Beijing is still cold.
Yang Gun lifted the thick sheepskin curtain and a cold wind blew towards him, causing him to suffocate.
Just got off the warm kang, the cold seemed even more unbearable than usual.
He suddenly found a roll of paper tied beside the curtain door, so he hurriedly untied it and looked around first.The genius was just dazzled, the air was dry and cold in the wind, and there was no one in the camp to set up the tent, and nothing was found.
Yang Gun walked into the tent with paper, took a piece of charcoal and lit the oil lamp. He went under the lamp and looked at it, which read: King Yue must rebel.
Yang Gun hurriedly hid the things in his arms, packed them up and left the tent.
When he arrived at the residence of Yelu Xizhen, the Privy Councilor of the Northern Court, he saw Xiao Siwen and Yelu Hu'er in the hall.When Yelu Xizhen saw Yang Gun, he said: When the Yang Mansion is in charge, some people will be arranged to go to the Jurchen King's Mansion in Yalu River.
Yang Gun asked: What happened?
Yelu Xizhen said: The imperial court sent a letter from the Jurchen envoy to write to him. The local Jurchen tribes used the excuse of reducing the output of pearls to reduce the number of pearls offered.We have to know whether those Jurchens began to despise the prestige of the Great Khitan.
He thought about it and said in a deep voice, I also doubted whether the Goryeo people had contact with the Jurchen tribe.
Xiao Siwen said fiercely: If you don’t teach those savages a lesson every now and then they will forget to obey!
After hearing this for a while, Yang Gun finally took out the secret letter from his arms and handed it on both hands: This is a letter from someone quietly put it outside my tent.I don't believe it very much, but I dare not keep it privately... The King of Yue has always been humble, and this letter may be caused by someone's personal grudges and slandering him.
A few people saw it: King Yue will rebel!They looked at each other in an instant.
King Yue was named Yelu Bishe, the fifth son of Emperor Taizong of Liao, and the younger brother of the tyrant Yelu Jing.
But Yelu Bishe's mother has a low status and is always humble. She often advised her brother Yelu Jing not to drink and kill indiscriminately. She saved many people and had a good reputation.
After Yelu Xian ascended the throne, he was not embarrassed and even appointed him as King of Yue.
Xiao Siwen frowned and said: King Yue does not look like an ambitious person.
Yelu Xizhen said: What if some people encourage him?
Yang Gun said: The Khan will move to Dongdan, and we must be more careful when we travel.
The capital of the Great Liao Dynasty is in Shangjing, but the power center is not necessarily in Shangjing at any time. Wherever the king's camp migrates, it is the center that governs the vast grasslands.
...And just half a month later, Xu Jun's third party had already gathered north.
On the fields on the north bank of the Yellow River, the fields of crops have turned green.There were a few rising fireworks everywhere. It was not the smoke from the village, but the manure cooked.
Last year, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River had a bumper harvest, and grain ships on the Caohe River were endless from autumn to winter.
On a small mound, Guo Shao, who was riding a dark horse to the north, couldn't help but say joyfully: This year is another great harvest!
He pressed his sword and looked back. On the roads in the fields, the dark people and the dust filled the new green spring.
The cavalry with shiny armor surged rapidly on one road, while the other roads were long and slow moving dragons.
The infantry carrying firearms walked slowly in columns on the side of the road, and there were various vehicles in the middle of the road.
Donkey carts, horse carts, and wheelbarrows are all available.
The copper cannon with a huge kilogram on the cart occasionally reveals a hideous metallic luster under the covered felt.Food, tents, gunpowder, and arrows were transported with the infantry.
How big is the central army with dozens of officials formed the front camp of the Liaoxi Army to help Guo Shao manage the army's grain roads and warehouses.
There is no danger of tens of thousands of infantry and riders being mobilized in Hebei.
Guo Shao then led his personal guards to ride a horse and left the Liaoxi Army and went straight to Shandong for inspection.
He arrived at Dengzhou Port a few days later.Han Tong, the commander of the Jiaolong Army, went out to welcome him one mile outside the port, and led Guo Shao and others to inspect the other two armies.
There are already many camp tents inside and outside Dengzhou Port, and both Tiezhou Army and Suzhou Army are waiting in this port.In the past few days, Guo Shao has seen another large-scale military mobilization in this era, and the scene is very spectacular.
Several huge Mulan ships docked on the pier, with masts standing like towering trees.
Teams of soldiers carrying packages were walking onto the dock through a wooden corridor on the coast.
They climbed the tall Magnolia ship deck from the rope ladder.
Many small boats shuttled through the docks, and the soldiers climbing on the large boats looked like ants.People on the dock found the emperor's flag, and at some point, the shouts of long live the noise.
This will be the first time that the Daxu dynasty launched a large-scale attack on the Liao Kingdom's mainland, but the way of war was completely different from previous dynasties.
...On the seaside at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, the nearby Suzhou City of Liao Kingdom is sparsely populated.
The center of this area is Fuzhou (Fu County) hundreds of miles away, where the Southern Jurchen King's Mansion and the Southern Jurchen Tanghesi are all there; Suzhou City is just a dilapidated small town.
Several wooden boats were floating on the beach, and the Jurchens in animal skins threw a fishing net into the water with a harpoon in their hands staring at the sea.
The sea breeze and the sound of waves remained unchanged. It was a quiet morning, and the mist surging like smoke on the sea.Just then, a chirping scream suddenly came.
The Jurchens on the boat looked up and immediately widened their eyes and stayed on the shaking board.
Three huge ships first came into view, the huge sails covered like clouds, and the yellow dragon flag on the ship was fluttering in the wind.
After a while, more ships filled the sea, and the three columns were like geese on the sea.
The Jurchen fishermen hurriedly rowed a boat to escape to the beach, as if they had seen a monster.
Xu Jun's fleet gradually approached the seaside, and there was a dilapidated fishing village on the seaside.A string of dust was flying behind the fishing village, and a group of Liao cavalry had already left the city and approached the seaside.
At this moment, the black shadow in the mist suddenly lit up like lightning, and a thunderous sound came.The savage fishermen in the fishing village were frightened and ran out in a mess.
Soon, pieces of light flashed and thunder turned into pieces.
The three big ships' side stringed cannons rang out together, and the ten-pound iron balls roared into the air.
The houses in the fishing village suddenly collapsed in patches, and earth, stone, and thatch flew around.
Xu Jun also approached the seaside with a large number of light boats and ships, and the sound of cannons of all sizes roared.
The Liao cavalry on the beach held bows and arrows, waved iron spears and iron bones, and shouted there.
At this time, an iron ball roared and hit the ground by the sea and bounced up. The war horse next to him was frightened, neighed, and turned around and ran.
Boom boom boom... The lead ball of the mother-in-law's gun flew over to the face.
The Liao soldiers screamed and kept people falling off the horse.
A general raised his iron sword and waved it. Everyone turned their horse's heads and ran northward, away from the iron balls and lead balls.
The sound of cannons on the sea surface sounded several rounds.
Many sand boats appeared on the beach. People above took their paddles and rowed the sand boats to approach the beach. Then soldiers kept jumping off the sand boats and landed on the beach almost without resistance.
Seeing that the artillery on the large ship could hit the seaside, the Liao general did not dare to step forward again. At the order, he led his troops back to the city.
...Xu Jun successfully landed on the beach without hurting a large number of troops and soldiers, and set up camp fortifications first.Seeing that more and more people were involved, the Liao army knew that they were out of control, so they hurriedly sent a fast horse to Fuzhou to inquire.
Fuzhou immediately responded to Liaoyang Prefecture, the capital of the Eastern Dan Kingdom.
But at this time, Liaoyang Prefecture was already panicked because the military camps in Tiezhou and Liaoxi Corridors also sent people to make trouble.The Khan's tent was about to arrive at Liaoyang Prefecture again soon, and the various yamen in the Dongdan Kingdom were busy building a group.
The monarch and ministers in Yelu Xian's tent of the Great Liao camp gradually understood the movements of Xu's army from the news of Liaoyang: the Xu army had advanced from the three routes of the Liaoxi Corridor, Tiezhou and Liaodong Peninsula, and launched a large invasion!
Some nobles advised that Liaoyang is no longer safe and that migration to Liaoyang should be stopped.
Xiao Siwen said: The four fields of Liaoyang are flat and empty, just in line with the Liao cavalry galloping, and Xu's army is still dominated by infantry, which is not worth fearing.
Yelu Xian, 19 years old this year, asked directly: Is there a way to retreat to the enemy?
Xiao Siwen expanded a picture, pointed to the city and mountain painted above, and said: There are a total of thousands of people on the east side of Xu Jun, and the main force is tens of thousands in the western Liaoning Corridor.Our army was waiting for labor in the hinterland of western Liaoning, and sent light cavalry all the way from Bazhou (Chaoyang) to cross Songling, breaking the Xu army's food route, which was a dilemma.
Yelu Xizhen said calmly: Even if the Xu army's food route can be cut off by land, the Xu army will transport grain and grass from sea to Liaoxi Fortress.
Xiao Siwen was speechless.
A year ago, the people of Xu suddenly strengthened the Liaoxi Fort in Longshan, and the lonely city was standing there, and now they finally determined the function of the fortress.
Dahan Yelu Xian, who was sitting on a large chair with tiger skin, held the scepter tightly in his hand and sat there without saying a word.
In the rough tent, all the ministers and nobles of the court were silent.
Yelu Xizhen was thinking about something, Xiao Siwen guessed that the Privy Councilor of the North Court wanted to discuss peace...
Xiao Siwen stood up first and bowed to the superiors: Since the founding of Taizu, the nomadic tribes on the grassland to the west and the fishing and hunting tribes on the east have all surrendered to the Great Khitan. We are the kings on the grassland and the tigers in the jungle.If a tiger lowers its head to the sheep in the sheep pen, it will no longer be respected by the world.
Yelu Xizhen couldn't help but say: The southerners are not like people in the sheep pen... Mr. Xiao also said before that the Hun Khanate was destroyed by the southerners and no longer existed.
Xiao Siwen said excitedly: You have also seen many southern slaves. They are weak and timid. Are you willing to admit defeat to such people?
Finally, some nobles started to shout in embarrassment, and someone shouted: The vast grassland and boundless Muye Mountain will be the cemetery for the southerners!
Xiao Siwen took the opportunity to bow and said: Khan, the Dongdan Kingdom Mansion can be moved from Liaoyang and rebuilt in Hukhan City, the ancient capital of the Bohai Kingdom.The Liao avoided the frontier of Xu's army and was waiting for an opportunity to counterattack!
Yelu Xizhen and other officials in the North Court did not comment. Yelu Xizhen only said: The imperial court could not maintain its output by grassland alone. After the Great Liao lost its Youyun, the Eastern Dan Kingdom could not make any mistakes.
Yang Gun lifted the thick sheepskin curtain and a cold wind blew towards him, causing him to suffocate.
Just got off the warm kang, the cold seemed even more unbearable than usual.
He suddenly found a roll of paper tied beside the curtain door, so he hurriedly untied it and looked around first.The genius was just dazzled, the air was dry and cold in the wind, and there was no one in the camp to set up the tent, and nothing was found.
Yang Gun walked into the tent with paper, took a piece of charcoal and lit the oil lamp. He went under the lamp and looked at it, which read: King Yue must rebel.
Yang Gun hurriedly hid the things in his arms, packed them up and left the tent.
When he arrived at the residence of Yelu Xizhen, the Privy Councilor of the Northern Court, he saw Xiao Siwen and Yelu Hu'er in the hall.When Yelu Xizhen saw Yang Gun, he said: When the Yang Mansion is in charge, some people will be arranged to go to the Jurchen King's Mansion in Yalu River.
Yang Gun asked: What happened?
Yelu Xizhen said: The imperial court sent a letter from the Jurchen envoy to write to him. The local Jurchen tribes used the excuse of reducing the output of pearls to reduce the number of pearls offered.We have to know whether those Jurchens began to despise the prestige of the Great Khitan.
He thought about it and said in a deep voice, I also doubted whether the Goryeo people had contact with the Jurchen tribe.
Xiao Siwen said fiercely: If you don’t teach those savages a lesson every now and then they will forget to obey!
After hearing this for a while, Yang Gun finally took out the secret letter from his arms and handed it on both hands: This is a letter from someone quietly put it outside my tent.I don't believe it very much, but I dare not keep it privately... The King of Yue has always been humble, and this letter may be caused by someone's personal grudges and slandering him.
A few people saw it: King Yue will rebel!They looked at each other in an instant.
King Yue was named Yelu Bishe, the fifth son of Emperor Taizong of Liao, and the younger brother of the tyrant Yelu Jing.
But Yelu Bishe's mother has a low status and is always humble. She often advised her brother Yelu Jing not to drink and kill indiscriminately. She saved many people and had a good reputation.
After Yelu Xian ascended the throne, he was not embarrassed and even appointed him as King of Yue.
Xiao Siwen frowned and said: King Yue does not look like an ambitious person.
Yelu Xizhen said: What if some people encourage him?
Yang Gun said: The Khan will move to Dongdan, and we must be more careful when we travel.
The capital of the Great Liao Dynasty is in Shangjing, but the power center is not necessarily in Shangjing at any time. Wherever the king's camp migrates, it is the center that governs the vast grasslands.
...And just half a month later, Xu Jun's third party had already gathered north.
On the fields on the north bank of the Yellow River, the fields of crops have turned green.There were a few rising fireworks everywhere. It was not the smoke from the village, but the manure cooked.
Last year, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River had a bumper harvest, and grain ships on the Caohe River were endless from autumn to winter.
On a small mound, Guo Shao, who was riding a dark horse to the north, couldn't help but say joyfully: This year is another great harvest!
He pressed his sword and looked back. On the roads in the fields, the dark people and the dust filled the new green spring.
The cavalry with shiny armor surged rapidly on one road, while the other roads were long and slow moving dragons.
The infantry carrying firearms walked slowly in columns on the side of the road, and there were various vehicles in the middle of the road.
Donkey carts, horse carts, and wheelbarrows are all available.
The copper cannon with a huge kilogram on the cart occasionally reveals a hideous metallic luster under the covered felt.Food, tents, gunpowder, and arrows were transported with the infantry.
How big is the central army with dozens of officials formed the front camp of the Liaoxi Army to help Guo Shao manage the army's grain roads and warehouses.
There is no danger of tens of thousands of infantry and riders being mobilized in Hebei.
Guo Shao then led his personal guards to ride a horse and left the Liaoxi Army and went straight to Shandong for inspection.
He arrived at Dengzhou Port a few days later.Han Tong, the commander of the Jiaolong Army, went out to welcome him one mile outside the port, and led Guo Shao and others to inspect the other two armies.
There are already many camp tents inside and outside Dengzhou Port, and both Tiezhou Army and Suzhou Army are waiting in this port.In the past few days, Guo Shao has seen another large-scale military mobilization in this era, and the scene is very spectacular.
Several huge Mulan ships docked on the pier, with masts standing like towering trees.
Teams of soldiers carrying packages were walking onto the dock through a wooden corridor on the coast.
They climbed the tall Magnolia ship deck from the rope ladder.
Many small boats shuttled through the docks, and the soldiers climbing on the large boats looked like ants.People on the dock found the emperor's flag, and at some point, the shouts of long live the noise.
This will be the first time that the Daxu dynasty launched a large-scale attack on the Liao Kingdom's mainland, but the way of war was completely different from previous dynasties.
...On the seaside at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, the nearby Suzhou City of Liao Kingdom is sparsely populated.
The center of this area is Fuzhou (Fu County) hundreds of miles away, where the Southern Jurchen King's Mansion and the Southern Jurchen Tanghesi are all there; Suzhou City is just a dilapidated small town.
Several wooden boats were floating on the beach, and the Jurchens in animal skins threw a fishing net into the water with a harpoon in their hands staring at the sea.
The sea breeze and the sound of waves remained unchanged. It was a quiet morning, and the mist surging like smoke on the sea.Just then, a chirping scream suddenly came.
The Jurchens on the boat looked up and immediately widened their eyes and stayed on the shaking board.
Three huge ships first came into view, the huge sails covered like clouds, and the yellow dragon flag on the ship was fluttering in the wind.
After a while, more ships filled the sea, and the three columns were like geese on the sea.
The Jurchen fishermen hurriedly rowed a boat to escape to the beach, as if they had seen a monster.
Xu Jun's fleet gradually approached the seaside, and there was a dilapidated fishing village on the seaside.A string of dust was flying behind the fishing village, and a group of Liao cavalry had already left the city and approached the seaside.
At this moment, the black shadow in the mist suddenly lit up like lightning, and a thunderous sound came.The savage fishermen in the fishing village were frightened and ran out in a mess.
Soon, pieces of light flashed and thunder turned into pieces.
The three big ships' side stringed cannons rang out together, and the ten-pound iron balls roared into the air.
The houses in the fishing village suddenly collapsed in patches, and earth, stone, and thatch flew around.
Xu Jun also approached the seaside with a large number of light boats and ships, and the sound of cannons of all sizes roared.
The Liao cavalry on the beach held bows and arrows, waved iron spears and iron bones, and shouted there.
At this time, an iron ball roared and hit the ground by the sea and bounced up. The war horse next to him was frightened, neighed, and turned around and ran.
Boom boom boom... The lead ball of the mother-in-law's gun flew over to the face.
The Liao soldiers screamed and kept people falling off the horse.
A general raised his iron sword and waved it. Everyone turned their horse's heads and ran northward, away from the iron balls and lead balls.
The sound of cannons on the sea surface sounded several rounds.
Many sand boats appeared on the beach. People above took their paddles and rowed the sand boats to approach the beach. Then soldiers kept jumping off the sand boats and landed on the beach almost without resistance.
Seeing that the artillery on the large ship could hit the seaside, the Liao general did not dare to step forward again. At the order, he led his troops back to the city.
...Xu Jun successfully landed on the beach without hurting a large number of troops and soldiers, and set up camp fortifications first.Seeing that more and more people were involved, the Liao army knew that they were out of control, so they hurriedly sent a fast horse to Fuzhou to inquire.
Fuzhou immediately responded to Liaoyang Prefecture, the capital of the Eastern Dan Kingdom.
But at this time, Liaoyang Prefecture was already panicked because the military camps in Tiezhou and Liaoxi Corridors also sent people to make trouble.The Khan's tent was about to arrive at Liaoyang Prefecture again soon, and the various yamen in the Dongdan Kingdom were busy building a group.
The monarch and ministers in Yelu Xian's tent of the Great Liao camp gradually understood the movements of Xu's army from the news of Liaoyang: the Xu army had advanced from the three routes of the Liaoxi Corridor, Tiezhou and Liaodong Peninsula, and launched a large invasion!
Some nobles advised that Liaoyang is no longer safe and that migration to Liaoyang should be stopped.
Xiao Siwen said: The four fields of Liaoyang are flat and empty, just in line with the Liao cavalry galloping, and Xu's army is still dominated by infantry, which is not worth fearing.
Yelu Xian, 19 years old this year, asked directly: Is there a way to retreat to the enemy?
Xiao Siwen expanded a picture, pointed to the city and mountain painted above, and said: There are a total of thousands of people on the east side of Xu Jun, and the main force is tens of thousands in the western Liaoning Corridor.Our army was waiting for labor in the hinterland of western Liaoning, and sent light cavalry all the way from Bazhou (Chaoyang) to cross Songling, breaking the Xu army's food route, which was a dilemma.
Yelu Xizhen said calmly: Even if the Xu army's food route can be cut off by land, the Xu army will transport grain and grass from sea to Liaoxi Fortress.
Xiao Siwen was speechless.
A year ago, the people of Xu suddenly strengthened the Liaoxi Fort in Longshan, and the lonely city was standing there, and now they finally determined the function of the fortress.
Dahan Yelu Xian, who was sitting on a large chair with tiger skin, held the scepter tightly in his hand and sat there without saying a word.
In the rough tent, all the ministers and nobles of the court were silent.
Yelu Xizhen was thinking about something, Xiao Siwen guessed that the Privy Councilor of the North Court wanted to discuss peace...
Xiao Siwen stood up first and bowed to the superiors: Since the founding of Taizu, the nomadic tribes on the grassland to the west and the fishing and hunting tribes on the east have all surrendered to the Great Khitan. We are the kings on the grassland and the tigers in the jungle.If a tiger lowers its head to the sheep in the sheep pen, it will no longer be respected by the world.
Yelu Xizhen couldn't help but say: The southerners are not like people in the sheep pen... Mr. Xiao also said before that the Hun Khanate was destroyed by the southerners and no longer existed.
Xiao Siwen said excitedly: You have also seen many southern slaves. They are weak and timid. Are you willing to admit defeat to such people?
Finally, some nobles started to shout in embarrassment, and someone shouted: The vast grassland and boundless Muye Mountain will be the cemetery for the southerners!
Xiao Siwen took the opportunity to bow and said: Khan, the Dongdan Kingdom Mansion can be moved from Liaoyang and rebuilt in Hukhan City, the ancient capital of the Bohai Kingdom.The Liao avoided the frontier of Xu's army and was waiting for an opportunity to counterattack!
Yelu Xizhen and other officials in the North Court did not comment. Yelu Xizhen only said: The imperial court could not maintain its output by grassland alone. After the Great Liao lost its Youyun, the Eastern Dan Kingdom could not make any mistakes.