Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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The Song Dynasty not only secretly contacted the Han officials in the Yunzhong area to recruit and accept rebellion against them, but even sent people to contact Emperor Tianzuo to express Song Huizong's goodwill to him.

Song Huizong's wishful thinking was to use Emperor Tianzuo to hold back the Jin army so that the Song Dynasty had time to manage the land of Yanyun.

If Emperor Tianzuo is defeated one day, he also hopes that Emperor Tianzuo can surrender to the Song Dynasty.The Great Song Dynasty will provide asylum for Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, allowing him to enjoy glory and wealth.

The reason why the Song Dynasty wanted to accept Emperor Tianzuo was of course to use his influence on the Khitan people of the Liao Kingdom to help the Song Dynasty compete with the Jin Kingdom for the survivors in the old land of the Liao Kingdom.

However, neither Song Huizong in Bianliang City in Tokyo nor Tong Guan in Taiyuan City expected Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi to fall so quickly.

In October of the fourth year of Liaobao University, shortly after Ma Kuo and others returned to Taiyuan City, Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi received cavalry support from the Shiwei Department and decided to send troops to recover the Xijing area.

Emperor Tianzuo, who had been hiding in Jiashan all day long, heard that the commander-in-chief of the Jin Army, Wanyan Zonghan, had returned to the capital of the Kingdom of Jin for business and discussion, and only Wanyan Xiyin was temporarily acting as Marshal of the Jin Army in Yunzhong. He thought it was a good idea to attack the Jin Army. Given the opportunity, he decided to lead his army out of Jiashan and take the initiative to attack.

After Yelu Dashi learned about Emperor Tianzuo's plan, he tried his best to persuade Emperor Tianzuo not to send troops rashly.

Yelu Dashi said that when we fought against the Jin army, we always rushed to attack with the whole army without preparation, and the result was that the whole army was always wiped out and a large area of ​​land was lost.

Then we did not learn our lesson, and sent out all the assembled troops again and again, and again and again the entire army was wiped out, and then lost a large area of ​​land, which eventually led to the fall of a large area of ​​land to the Kingdom of Jin today, and Daliao was at its most critical time.

Although our army has assembled some troops today, it should not attack rashly to prevent repeating the same mistakes.

Our army should recuperate, train and prepare for war, and wait for the right time before attempting to recover the rivers and mountains.

Yelu Dashi was forced by Emperor Tianzuo to lead his troops to serve in Shengzhou after he led his troops to Yelu Yanxi, but he met Wanyan Loushi, a famous general of the Kingdom of Jin at Longmenbi, and was beaten to annihilation.

Yelu Dashi himself was also captured alive by Wanyan Loushi.The Jin Army tied Yelu Dashi and asked him to lead the way as a guide, leading the Jin Army to attack Emperor Tianzuo.

Yelu Dashi took advantage of the Jin army's unpreparedness to escape from birth on the way, and returned to Emperor Tianzuo after all kinds of hardships.

Now only a short year has passed, and the strength of the Liao army has not recovered much, and Emperor Tianzuo will act rashly again to fight the Jin army.

How could Yelu Dashi be willing to follow Emperor Tianzuo to die, so he tried hard to dissuade him, hoping that he could change his mind.

However, Emperor Tianzuo was self-willed and did not listen to Yelu Dashi's advice, and even sent someone to monitor Yelu Dashi who opposed sending troops.

Yelu Dashi was very disappointed with Emperor Tianzuo, and was afraid that he would kill him, so he killed the Liao general who was guarding him at night, and took two hundred soldiers away.

Yelu Dashi's escape did not shake Emperor Tianzuo's determination to regain Xijing Road. He led his troops out of Jiashan and down Yuyangling, and successfully occupied Tiandejun, Dongsheng, Yunnei and other counties.

I don’t know if there is a conspiracy with Xixia and Song Dynasty. Emperor Tianzuo’s marching route this time is not to go directly to the Datong Mansion in Xijing, but to occupy the Tiande army westward and occupy the border with Xixia and Song Dynasty. Sheng, Yunnei and other prefectures and counties launched an attack on Wuzhou, which was at the junction of the Song Dynasty's Huoshan Army and Kelan Army.

When they reached the border between Wuzhou and Shuozhou, the Liao army and the Jin army encountered each other, and a fierce battle broke out.

The temporary commander-in-chief of the Jin Army, Wanyan Xiyin, ordered Han soldiers from various prefectures to serve as the vanguard to lure the enemy, but Wanyan Loushi led a thousand Jurchen elite cavalry to lie in ambush in the valley.

When Liao Shiwei and Tatar troops attacked the Jin army's Han frontier township soldiers, the Jurchen cavalry led by Wanyan Loushi suddenly rushed out from the rear and attacked the Liao army's rear army.

The Liao army was attacked by the enemy, unable to withstand the assault of the famous Jurchen general Wanyan Loushi, and was immediately defeated.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Emperor Tianzuo fled south to Wuzhou, preparing to cross Wuzhou and wait for an opportunity to go south to Song Dynasty.

After Emperor Tianzuo fled, the Jin army arranged for the army to hunt him down, and at the same time sent envoys to the Xuanfu Department of the Song Dynasty to question Tong Guan for communicating with Emperor Tianzuo in private, which violated the contract between the two countries.

The envoy of the Kingdom of Jin said that the Kingdom of Jin already knew about the fact that you secretly recruited Emperor Tianzuo to surrender. Now that Emperor Tianzuo is missing at the border of the Jin and Song Dynasties, he must have gone to you. Please hand it over immediately.

In fact, Emperor Tianzuo did not go to the territory of the Song Dynasty, how could Tong Guan admit it, and immediately rejected the envoy's request.

How could the Jin army give up so well, and sent envoys to the Xuanfu Department for important people.The envoys accused Tong Guan face-to-face and insulted the Song Dynasty, and the words were quite rude.

Tong Guan knew he was wrong, so he could only order all his generals to dispatch to the border for inspection.

In front of the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin, Tong Guan asked them to kill any Liao people they met immediately, and cut off their heads and gave them all to the Jin army, trying to get rid of suspicion in this way.

On the other hand, the Jin army is also trying its best to hunt down Emperor Tianzuo in the territory of Jin Kingdom.

The Jin army stationed three hundred miles in Shuozhou and Wuzhou in the north of Yanmenguan, completely cutting off the way for Emperor Tianzuo to flee south and return to Song Dynasty.

Emperor Tianzuo had no choice but to go west and defect to the Xixia Dangxiang.

Water and food were cut off on the road, so Emperor Tianzuo could only swallow ice and snow to quench his hunger and thirst, and the accompanying troops also fled.

When Emperor Tianzuo lurked and made a detour to Yujian Valley, sixty miles south of Yingzhou Xincheng, his tracks were exposed due to heavy snow.

Wanyan Loushi led elite soldiers and iron cavalry to catch up with Emperor Tianzuo in Yujian Valley and captured him alive.

After Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi was escorted to Yunzhong Datong Mansion by Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Zonghan, who returned from the capital, was overjoyed. He organized hundreds of officials and generals to pay homage to Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda's portrait spiritual seat, and ordered people to pay respects to Emperor Tianzuo as a guest Treat each other with etiquette.

The capture of Emperor Tianzuo meant the demise of the Liao Kingdom.The Kingdom of Jin finally won the war of extermination against the Khitans of the Liao Kingdom.

Although Yelu Dashi, an aristocrat of the royal family of the Liao Kingdom, fled to the Northwest Road to recruit Kedun City, Sizhen Prefecture, to proclaim himself king and continue the regime of the Liao Kingdom, but he has few soldiers and is alone in the north of the desert, and he is no longer seen by Wanyan Zonghan. in the eyes.

After Yan Zonghan's success, he sent an envoy to the Xuanfu Department of Taiyuan City in the Song Dynasty to inform Tong Guanjin that Emperor Tianzuo had been captured.

Then, Wanyan Zonghan advanced 20 two-year-old coins to Tong Guan in the name of needing to reward soldiers who had made military achievements.

Tong Guan agreed to Wanyan Zonghan's request.

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Emperor Tian Zuo was captured alive by the Jin army so quickly, which made Tong Guan, the Xuanfu envoy of Lianghe Yanshan in Taiyuan, secretly startled.Therefore, Tong Guan readily agreed to Wanyan Zonghan's request for an advance payment of 20 two-year-old coins in an attempt to win Jin Jun's favor and repair the rift between the two countries.

Because the maritime alliance is still valid, Liao is still the common enemy of Song and Jin on the surface.Therefore, after receiving the notification from Wan Yan Zonghan, Tong Guan reported the victory to the imperial court for the demise of the Liao Kingdom.

However, at this time some officials and scholars on the border have already felt a trace of abnormality on the border between the two countries.

Some people in the court also pointed out that the Jin army had been repairing with the Song Dynasty before and did not attack south. It was not because they kept their promises and abided by the treaty, but because they took into account that there were three remaining Liao forces in the rear: Zhang Jue in Pingzhou, Xiaoqian in Xidi, and Emperor Tianzuo in Jiashan. Eyeing.

However, the Changsheng Army wiped out Xiao Qian, the Jin Army occupied Pingzhou, wiped out Zhang Juejun, and finally wiped out Emperor Tianzuo. There were no threatening hostile military forces within the Kingdom of Jin.

However, the army of the Song Dynasty had been repeatedly defeated in the war against the Liao State, and had already exposed its weak side to the State of Jin.In addition, the Song Dynasty was erratic in dealing with things in the north, which has already annoyed the Kingdom of Jin.

Now that the Jin Kingdom has destroyed the Liao Kingdom and quelled the civil strife, it is very likely that they will invade the Song Dynasty in the south.

Although some insightful people in the DPRK expressed their concerns about the threat of the Jin Kingdom, at this time, many people in the DPRK still imagined that the relationship between Song and Jin could be the same as the relationship between Song and Liao before. Silver can buy border peace from Jin Guo.

How did Song Huizong's monarchs and ministers know that the powerful figures in the Jin army, such as Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang, had already been plotting a punitive war against the treacherous Song Dynasty.

After the Emperor Tianzuo was wiped out, the Kingdom of Jin sent three groups of envoys to the Song Dynasty.

These envoys nominally celebrated the great victory of the cooperation between the two countries and finally wiped out the common enemy Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom. In fact, they secretly inspected the mountains and rivers of the Song Dynasty to prepare for the future southward invasion.

On the other hand, Jin Guo frequently sent envoys to create the illusion that Jin Guo was willing to maintain the status quo with the Song Dynasty, so as to paralyze the Song Dynasty.

These methods of the Kingdom of Jin were able to hide the truth from the Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty in Bianliang City, Tokyo, but they could not hide it from Ximen Qing, who already knew the direction of history.

Ximen Qing is located in Ximen Fort, Yanggu County. Brother Qiao Yun and Lu Xiaoyi continuously report to Ximen Qing the information collected on Yanshan Mansion, Hebei Road, Hedong Road and Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Ximenqing not only accelerated the armed construction of the army, hoarded guns, horses and grain, but also gradually cleared the business on Hebei Road.