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Although Yelu Yanxi was extremely stupid and angry with both humans and gods, he was definitely the biggest trouble for the Jurchens at present!

Why do you think this is?

It is because there is only one person in this world who can overthrow the great situation that the Jurchens have achieved now, and this person is Yelu Yanxi, the emperor of the Great Liao Empire.

Some people may think that the Jurchens are too arrogant to Yelu Yanxi, just because of his foolish monarch?

Those who would ask this question must not understand the current situation in the Jin area, nor the foundation of the Great Liao Empire.

Although the Jurchens now occupied a large piece of land in the Great Liao Empire and reorganized most of the military and civilians of the Great Liao Empire, there were still many people loyal to the Great Liao Empire. In fact, the Jin area has been constantly rebelling, and these rebels respected Yelu Yanxi to beat Yelu Yanxi's flag. Not to mention now, even in a few years in history, Zhang Jue, Dadan tribes and other forces respected Yelu Yanxi's flag against Jin.

The key is that the Great Liao Empire still has the foundation for a comeback.

During the prosperous period of Liao Dynasty, it reached the Sea of ​​Japan in the east, the Altai Mountains in the west, the Ergun River in the north, the Xing'an Mountains in the outside, and the Baigou River in central Hebei in the south.

Now, most of the land in the east of the Great Liao Empire was occupied by the Jurchens, but the Great Liao Empire also has vast land in the west.

Not to mention anything else, at least the Dadan tribes are still nominally ruling the Great Liao Empire.

To put it another way, there are tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of war horses in Keduncheng alone. In history, Yelu Dashi created the powerful Western Liao Empire because of these people and horses in Keduncheng.

In addition, Li Qianshun, the king of the Western Xia Kingdom, married Yelu Yanxi's daughter, Princess Cheng'an of Liao. In addition, Tong Guan almost destroyed Xixia a few years ago. Later, Yelu Yanxi came forward to reconcile, which saved the fate of the destruction of Xixia. Therefore, if Yelu Yanxi borrowed troops from Xixia, Xixia would definitely help Yelu Yanxi. In history, Xixia had borrowed 30,000 troops from Yelu Yanxi.

Therefore, as long as Yelu Yanxi is willing to change his previous stupidity, cowardly and hard-working efforts, he can definitely fight to the death with the Great Jin Kingdom, or even complete a gorgeous turnaround.

Moreover, the conflict between Yelu Yanxi and the Jurchens will never end.

The Jurchens not only captured most of the Liao Kingdom, but also, the Jurchens captured Shangjing Prefecture and Zhongjing Prefecture, burned and killed and looted everything. They even dug up the tombs of the Khitan ancestors one by one, setting all the Khitan palaces and temple statues.

It can be said that if he chose a more hated person between Cai and the Jurchens, Yelu Yanxi would definitely choose to hate Jurchens more, because, in Yelu Yanxi's view, it was the Jurchen rebellion that caused all this to happen, which made him unable to hunt with peace of mind like a dog from the fiasco of a family, fled from the north to the south and from the east to the west.

The Jurchens knew this very well. After all, no one knew better than themselves what they had done.

To take a step back, even if Yelu Yanxi cannot turn the tables, even if he harasses Jin Zhanqu from time to time, it will make the Jurchens very uncomfortable.

You should know that there are no natural dangers, the Great Wall and fortifications in Jinzhan District, so they can only fight against Yelu Yanxi head-on, and can only defend against Yelu Yanxi's harassment at all times.

This is definitely the thing that the top leaders of the Jin Kingdom, who currently have few soldiers, are most reluctant to face.

Therefore, the senior officials of the Jin Dynasty, especially the Jurchens, were eager to get rid of Yelu Yanxi as soon as possible, because as long as Yelu Yanxi was not captured in one day, the Jin area would continue to rebel, and those Liao people and even the surrendered ministers of the Liao Dynasty would think about restoring the country.

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After Wanyan Zonghan fled back to Yangcheng with the remnants of defeat, Wanyan Xie also heard that Wanyan Zonghan had fought with the Song army without authorization, and suffered such a big defeat, losing 14,500 troops and defeating Wanyan Zonghan's 100 whips in public.

The current Jin Kingdom is actually not a country where imperial power is supreme. The current Jin Kingdom determines the major policies of the country in the form of a collegial system of a few senior core officials. It is a political system to assist the emperor. The emperor's power is actually restrained by various senior core officials, similar to collective leadership.

The supreme leader is undoubtedly Dubojilie (i.e. the emperor) Wanyan Aguda.

Next are:

Anbanbojilie (this is the crown prince, that is, the heir of the emperor after his death) Wanyan Wuqimai.

The national theory is bourious (this position is equivalent to the national prime minister) Wanyan Sa changed.

Amaibo Jilie (this position is equivalent to the first assistant of the Prime Minister) Wanyan's words are not lost.

Haobo Jilie (this position is equivalent to the second assistant of the Prime Minister) Wanyan Xieye.

The above five are the five members of the Central Standing Committee of the Jin Kingdom and the highest decision-makers of the Jin Kingdom.

Therefore, although Wanyan Zonghan is the eldest son of the Jin royal family and the prime minister Wanyan Sagai, his identity cannot be compared with Wanyan Xie at all.

Not only his identity, but only his previous record, Wanyan Zonghan cannot compare with Wanyan Xie, the first coach of the Jin Dynasty.

Let me put it this way, in history, if Wanyan Xie had not died early, the Jin Kingdom would not have been so chaotic later. Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongpan and others would not have been so fierce. The small court of the Southern Song Dynasty might have let the Jin Kingdom perish long ago.

The key is that this is not a matter of identity and past achievements, but a matter of right or wrong.

Wanyan Zonghan did not listen to Wanyan Xieye's orders twice. Not only did he send troops to pursue Yelu Yanxi without authorization, but he also left Yangcheng without authorization and ran to Yuanyanglu to pursue Yelu Yanxi, and then entered the pass without authorization and started a war with the Song army. The key was that he was defeated and suffered heavy losses.

You know, there are actually not many Jin troops.

Although Wanyan Aguda and other students merged with the mature Jurchens in Liaodong, and swallowed many Liao troops like a snake swallowing an elephant, even so, the Jin Dynasty actually had only more than 200,000 troops, and many of them were of many troops. The senior executives of the Jin Dynasty were not completely relieved. For example, the troops led by Yelu Yujiu, in this way, to Duoli, the reliable troops of the Jin Dynasty were only 150,000 to 160,000.

And 100,000 out of these 150,000 and 60,000 will be left in the original Liao area to suppress the rebellion that cannot be produced.

In other words, the Jin army can only use 50,000 or 60,000 troops - not that it is only 50,000 or 60,000, but only 50,000 or 60,000 or 60,000 or 30,000 or 30,000. In addition, they always like to temporarily capture some servants and bluff their momentum.

These less than 100,000 people were led by Wanyan Xieye, Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Jiemu, Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Chang, Wanyan Yinshuke, Wanyan Loushi, Yelu Yuji and others.

These people are divided into three small groups - small groups led by Wanyan Xie, small groups led by Wanyan Zonghan, and small groups led by Wanyan Zongwang.

Among these three small groups, Wanyan Zonghan's troops were the purest - among his troops, only five or six thousand were surrendered troops from the Liao Kingdom, and the rest were the Jurchens.

Therefore, Wanyan Zonghan lost 14,500 troops at once, which was definitely a trauma for Dajin, which made all Jurchens feel very painful.

Moreover, in addition to losing these four to five thousand elite soldiers, Wanyan Zonghan also lost many outstanding Jurchen generals such as Wanyan Xiyin, a general with both civil and military affairs, and Wanyan Zongxiong, a son of the royal family, which made all Jurchens even more painful.

In addition, as mentioned earlier, the Jin Dynasty is now in a collective leadership system. In this case, not to mention that Wanyan Zonghan is just the son of the prime minister, he is the emperor, and he will be punished if he has any mistakes. In history, Wanyan Wu Qimai, the second emperor of the Jin Dynasty, was spanked by Wanyan Zonghan and the others.

In this case, not to mention Wanyan Xie, he just beat Wanyan Zonghan. Even if he cut Wanyan Zonghan directly, no one would say anything.

Wanyan Zonghan was also tough. He had already had gunshot wounds, but he resisted Wanyan Xi's whip with a hundred times without saying a word.

After Wanyan Xie finished fighting, Wanyan Zonghan, with the support of Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Yinshuke, followed Wanyan Xie into the big tent.

Wanyan Zonghan said in a weak voice: "Ashi is crucial to the rule of our Great Jin Dynasty. We must not be captured and imprisoned. However, the weapons of the Song people are too powerful. You cannot fight with them before you study the tactics of fighting them. I suggest that you come to Ashi with the Song people through diplomatic means. If the marshal does not have a suitable envoy, I recommend... to recommend Yinshu Ge (Wanyan Yinshu Ke) as an envoy."

After listening to Wanyan Xie, he rushed to Wanyan Zonghan and said, "Go and recover from your wounds. I will help you with your army."

Wanyan Zonghan said nothing.

Seeing this, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Yinshu were about to send Wanyan Zonghan to recuperate.

But Wanyan Zonghan pulled his hand out of Wanyan Yin Shuke's hand, and then said to Wanyan Yin Shuke: "Brother Yin Shu, you stay here and tell the marshal in detail how we lost this battle."

After saying that, Wanyan Zonghan signaled Wanyan Zong to take him out.

After Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongyan went out, Wanyan Xie also looked at Wanyan Yinshuke and said, "Tell me about the whole process of this battle in detail."

Wanyan Yinshu responded: "No." Then he told Wanyan Xie in full about the battle between them and the Jinwu Army.

Not only that, Wanyan Yinshu also told Wanyan Xie about his analysis of the Jinwu Army.

After listening to all of them, Wanyan Xieye's face was also very heavy. He said, "If it's really like what you said, it's really troublesome."

Wanyan Xie also pondered for a while, and then asked Wanyan Yinshuke: "Do you want to go to Dasong?"

Wanyan Yinshuke nodded and said, "Yes, Marshal, in addition to using diplomatic means to bring Ashi, I also want to inquire about the situation in the Song Dynasty."

Wanyan Yinshuke explained again: "Now Ashi has been captured by the Song Dynasty, and the Liao Kingdom is about to perish. In this way, it is inevitable that our Jin and Song will become neighbors. Therefore, we have to guard against the ambitions of the Song Dynasty. If the Song Dynasty wants to imitate the Han and Tang Dynasties, then the Song Dynasty will be our Jin Dynasty's mortal enemy. We must know ourselves and the enemy, and then designate feasible diplomatic strategies."

Wanyan Xie also thought that Wanyan Yinshu was very reasonable. He pondered for a while and said, "Okay, I will write a letter to the emperor and recommend you to be an envoy to the Song Dynasty..."

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Cai was still waiting for the Jin army in Yehuye for three days, but he did not see the Jin army revenge again.

Three days later, Cai still left the Jinwu Left Army and Shenji Right Army in the wild fox field to prevent the Jin army from going south again, and then led the remaining troops to escort the Liao captives such as Yelu Yanxi and seized food and grass (cattle and sheep) materials to respond to the state first, then consolidate the army, and then sweep the entire cloud land.

When passing by Guihua Prefecture (Wuzhou where the Liao Kingdom obtained the Later Jin Dynasty, it was changed to Guihua Prefecture), Cai still suddenly had the idea of ​​"Otherwise, use Yelu Yanxi to try it out, can you pry open the gate of Wuzhou City?"

In fact, this idea was not something Cai Shen had just made a temporary decision. The reason why he spent so much effort to capture Yelu Yanxi was to use Yelu Yanxi as a hostage to force the resistance forces in various parts of Yundi, so that he could not get any damage to himself, who was short of his troops.

only--

Recently, Cai is still responding, Shuo and Wei have recruited many new recruits, and now he has obtained a lot of war horses and armor from Yuanyanglu, so Cai is still preparing to expand his strength first, and then use Yelu Yanxi as a hostage to sweep the entire cloud land.

As for the idea of ​​a temporary idea, Cai still just said that he had a date or not, and tried it casually to see if he could open the gate of Guihua City.

Even Cai still had already thought about it. If he couldn't cheat, he would attack casually, and then temporarily leave Guihua Prefecture and continue southward to Yingzhou.

But what Cai Shen never expected was that he pushed Yelu Yanxi and a group of royal men from the Liao Kingdom under the city, sent someone to shout a few casually, and the gate of Guihua City opened.

The gate of Guihua City opened so happily that Cai Shen was a little confused: "What's going on? Is there a fraud?"

But Cai still thought again: "It shouldn't be possible. Does a small naturalized city still want to wipe out my 20,000 army?"

After thinking about this, Cai still sent Niu Gao, who was a rough and thin person, to take over Guihua City first.

As a result, after Niu Gao led his troops into the city, he took over Guihua City smoothly - there was no turmoil in the middle.

In this way, Cai still brought most of his troops into the city.

After entering the city, Cai still couldn't believe that Guihua City was occupied by himself so easily.

Cai still changed Guihua Prefecture back to Wuzhou and appointed Chen Kangbo as the governor of Wuzhou to take over Wuzhou in full.

For this reason, Chen Kangbo, who had not done well in Weizhou, was still grateful to Cai. He secretly made up his mind to govern Wuzhou well.

Cai still definitely believes in the potential of Chen Kangbo, the prime minister's talent. He believes that Chen Kangbo will learn from his mistakes and manage Wuzhou well for himself.

but--

At present, what Cai is most concerned about is not the matter of Chen Kangbo's governance of Wuzhou.

What Cai still wants to figure out the most is why the people in Wuzhou opened the city so easily and surrendered?

Cai still ordered Chen Kangbo to investigate the matter clearly.

After many inquiries, Chen Kangbo learned that there are four reasons why people in Wuzhou surrendered so quickly:
To be continued...