Chapter 60 A small test to collect the three states

Genghis Khan laughed and said, "One is to bring me the famous order bus back to Mongolia for trial; The second one is to send Queen Luo and Princess Hexian to my sleeping tent. ”

The envoy of Western Xia was stunned for a long time, and said in a hurry: "The first condition is completely okay, the second one, it is a little difficult, the Great Khan knows that Queen Luo is the emperor's most favored woman, the princess is his most beloved daughter, and the women of the Western Xia Kingdom can be, but these two women ......"

Without waiting for the envoy to speak, Genghis Khan suppressed his smile and said sternly: "Does he want a head or a daughter, a queen or a throne?" ”

"Of course, of course the throne and the head are gone." The Western Xia envoy said.

"Okay, send someone tomorrow, I will withdraw the troops, otherwise ......" Genghis Khan did not finish speaking, and the Western Xia envoy hurriedly said: "The Great Khan is angry, I think my lord is a person who understands, and your conditions will be agreed." ”

The alliance under the city, as long as the desperate Xiangzong can keep the throne and save his life, any woman is a thing outside the body, and quickly sent someone to send Empress Luo Qi and Princess Hexian to Genghis Khan's camp, and handed over the letter of surrender of the famous Linggong and Nagong to the Mongolian army.

Genghis Khan got his wish and got two beauties, so he ordered the army to carry the stolen horses, cattle, sheep, camels, women and supplies for dozens of miles, and returned to the Mongolian steppe.

The Mongol army retreated, and the Western Xia escaped annihilation. Li An'an let out a long sigh of relief, this level has finally passed. However, the ministers' tone has not passed, if it weren't for Luo Yukun's father and daughter who brought disaster to the country and the people, and brutalized Zhongliang, how could the Xixia Kingdom suffer such a catastrophe, labor and money, loss of wife and soldiers, and from now on, the country will not be a country or a family. These grievances were spread to Emperor Li An'an.

Li An'an lost his two most beloved women, and almost lost the country, he was also angry, regretting that he didn't listen to Luo Yukun's slander at the beginning, misled the country and the people, and harmed the loyal and famous generals. In front of the civil and military officials, Luo Yukun was escorted to the main hall, scolded and scolded, and put all the blame on Luo Yukun's head.

After scolding himself, he asked the ministers to take turns scolding his mother and slapping him. Luo Yukun didn't know that Queen Luo was given to Genghis Khan by Li An'an, in order not to be implicated in her daughter, she had to swallow her anger, the dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and the winner was the king and the loser Kou, anyway, it was just a bunch, what should I do, I just ask the emperor to see the queen's face and Luo's sake to put you on the throne, and let it fall lightly.

Li An'an saw that the anger of the hundred officials was almost gone, and he bleached a lot, so he ordered Luo Yukun's five horses to be divided, and the whole house was beheaded, and the nine clans were wiped out.

The public anger subsided slightly, and Xiangzong Li An'an was arrogant again, and began to pageant in the country again, and he didn't care about political affairs. The ministers dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and the Taifu Xibi clan contacted the ministers to launch a palace coup. The faint monarch Li An'an and the crown prince were killed, and the king of Qi (Li An'an's nephew) was established as the emperor of Shenzong of the Western Xia Kingdom.

After the succession of Emperor Shenzong, he summoned the whole country to repair the city and restore social order and the normal life of the people. Shenzong came to a conclusion from the Mongol invasion: if a country wants to be stable for a long time and not be bullied by foreign enemies, it must be strong, and it must be strong by force, and to some extent, bandits are the logic of eternal victory.

Emperor Zun reorganized the mountains and rivers, developed a strong country and enriched the people, and soon established an army of hundreds of thousands. Surprisingly, it was not the Mongols who he wanted to seek revenge but the Jin State. He believes that when the Western Xia Kingdom asked for help from the Jin State when it was in danger, the Jin Emperor Yongji not only did not send reinforcements, but also said that "the enemy attacks each other, and our country is blessed". Since you can't become an ally, you are an enemy, and if you are an enemy, you have to take revenge, and if you want to retaliate, it is far from enough to rely on your own strength, you have to find help. Looking for help, the national conditions of the Southern Song Dynasty are declining, and they are too busy to take care of themselves, which is unreliable. Only the Mongols who had just invaded Western Xia were the most reliable, and the reasons for this were that the Mongols were strong, the country was prosperous, and the people were strong; the second is the Mengjin feud, Mengbi wants to cut gold; The third is that the Western Xia and Mongolia had a peace agreement, which was a relationship of subordination. Three situations show that cooperating with Mongolia to attack gold is the best choice.

The new emperor of Western Xia, Shenzong, made up his mind and sent people to Mongolia to ask for a joint attack on Jin. In fact, the new emperor of the Western Xia Kingdom is as short-sighted as the embroidered pillow emperor of the Jin Kingdom, and he does not understand the truth of the cold lips and teeth, and without the Jin Kingdom, the Western Xia Kingdom would not exist.

After Genghis Khan withdrew from Western Xia to the Mongolian capital of Helin, he enjoyed his whole day with Empress Luo and Princess Hexu of Western Xia. The courtiers and herdsmen were also richly rewarded, and they enjoyed the women and food they had plundered from Western Xia. In the past few years, the materials looted from Western Xia have greatly enriched the national strength and laid a material foundation for revenge.

At this time, Mongolia can be said to be a time when the wind and water were rising, with material support, and more importantly, it subdued the Western Xia Kingdom and relieved the worries of attacking gold. Genghis Khan's worries about revenge were basically eliminated, and he spent a year enjoying the spoils he had stolen from Western Xia while fighting hard and preparing to attack gold.

At this time, the Western Xia Kingdom came to ask the alliance to attack the Jin State, and Genghis Khan's favor ordered the Western Xia to attack from Liangzhou to Qinchuan, and the Mongol army sent troops from the north.

Until now, the original impetus for Genghis Khan's conquest had remained on the possession of women and revenge. And the enmity with the Jin State is the greatest hatred in Genghis Khan's heart that no enemy tribe can match.

This feud between Mongolia and Jin does surpass the hatred of all tribes in the Mongolian steppe. Not only the three generations of Great Khans of the Mongolian tribe were thorns in the side of the Jin State, especially I Ba Gai was tortured to death by the Jin people with a wooden donkey, but Genghis Khan was also bullied by the Jin State over the years.

At that time, when Temujin's power was still small, and when he was trying to survive in the midst of the clashes of the various tribes in the steppe, in order to achieve the purpose of avenging the hatred between the tribes, he had to let go of the biggest enemy of the Jin State first, and also used the power of the Jin State to contain the hostile tribes.

The Mongols were considered weak and timid by the Jin people on the surface of submission and moderation, and they never trusted Genghis Khan, and even when the Mongols paid tribute every year, the Jin Dynasty only accepted them outside the Sai, never allowed the Mongols to enter the country, and made it difficult and humiliating in every way. Genghis Khan swallowed his anger for many years, and now that Mongolia is no longer what it used to be, this forbearance is coming to an end.

Genghis Khan's attack on the Jin State was not only stronger than before, but also the submission and alliance of the Western Xia, but also an important factor was that there were problems within the Jin State.

During the reign of Zhang Zong, the Jin Dynasty was already in decline. Especially in the later period, entertainment and sensuality, stealing peace from top to bottom, competing for luxury, insatiable corruption, economic decline, and poor livelihood of the people. The contradictions between the Jin and the Han people, and between the nobles and the common people, broke out. The Jurchen royal family intrigued and stabbed each other. Zhang Zong murdered his uncles Zheng Wang Yongji and Zhao Wang Yongzhong, who posed a threat to him, and set up the weak and incompetent Wei Wang Yongji as his heir. Since then, the palace has become more corrupt, and the powerful ministers and powerful people have taken the opportunity to search for the people and embezzle official funds.

The level of corruption in the army is even worse. The life of the officers is corrupt, the military discipline of the soldiers is corrupt, bullying men and women, and "drinking and gambling together, and becoming accustomed to it." The military system is swollen and chaotic, there are many officers, ten sheep and nine herds, and the orders are different, and there is still combat effectiveness there, but only the ability to deal with the people.

Jinguo's economy is also severely lacking, and it is unable to make ends meet. I had no choice but to print a large amount of paper money, change the name and depreciate, and the "treasure coupon" became "Tongbao", with a low face value, and "the coupon of a thousand coins is only worth a few dollars". In this way, the treasury is still in a huge deficit, what should I do? Only by increasing taxes is that it has more than tripled.

Moreover, the imperial court often has to borrow for several years, and even collect taxes after five years. The time limit for expropriation is shortened, strict and urgent, and people who fail to complete it on time will be punished with lawsuits. The villagers were hungry and cold, and every year they had to cut down their crops that were not yet ripe to satisfy their hunger. When the food is finished, they go out to beg. No one pays taxes if they don't farm at home, so there are more and more fugitives. For example, there were more than 60,000 households in Bozhou at that time, and less than 5,000 households were left who fled; In Dangshan County, because of the escape of one neighboring ten households to share its taxes, the villagers simply abandoned their hometowns and left the wells, "no residents in the wild", and they could not find a single person, and the taxes of the imperial court could not be collected.

Such a devastated Jin country can be said to be a godsend for Genghis Khan's revenge. To add insult to injury, at this time, the Emperor of the Jin State was incompetent, and Yongji was in power. The new emperor, who did not know the current affairs, still sent people to summon the Mongols to the northwest city of the Siziwang Banner (now Inner Mongolia) to pay tribute.

The envoy of the Jin State came to the Mongolian capital and Lin, and saw that Genghis Khan was still arrogant and rude as an envoy of a great power, and when he saw that Genghis Khan did not worship or call himself the Great Khan, he pointed at Genghis Khan to prepare the best tribute and send it to the designated place to pay tribute as soon as possible.

Genghis Khan was already angry, and he also knew that the Jin State had changed Yongji as the emperor, so he deliberately asked: "Who is the new master of your Jin Kingdom?" ”

The messenger said, "King Wei Yongji." ”

The corners of Genghis Khan's mouth were stretched so long, and he sneered: "Heh, you call the emperor the Son of Heaven, I thought that the emperor of the Central Plains was a man from heaven, and a stupid camel like the embroidered pillow Yongji can also be made?" Haha......"

Seeing that Genghis Khan was disrespectful, the envoy of the Jin State was very annoyed and reprimanded: "You have been rewarded by the Great Jin State, you are a courtier of the emperor, and you should bow down to the edict. ”

Genghis Khan saw that the envoy of the Jin State was still so domineering, and said angrily: "You golden dogs and wolf lambs, Lao Tzu's ancestors were killed by you by torture, will we forget this feud?" If you dare to spread wild in the king's house, you will be blind. He nailed these golden dogs to the wooden donkey and rolled them. Leaving one person to gouge out his eyes and send him back to the Jin Kingdom, let him report to the stupid emperor Yongji, saying that Lao Tzu's iron hooves were about to level the Jin Kingdom, and let the emperor lick Lao Tzu's ass. ”

The envoy of the Jin State and his party of six people were killed by Genghis Khan with a wooden donkey, and sent a messenger with gouged out eyes back to the Jin State, which was regarded as a formal declaration of war on the Jin State.

In the autumn of 1211, when the cattle were fat and the horses were strong, Genghis Khan ordered the three sons of Jochi, Chagatai and Ogedei and his nephew Jebe to lead an army as the vanguard, and he personally led the main army to follow up and enter the gold realm from Daribo.

The arrogant Yongji Emperor of the Jin Kingdom never imagined that the Mongols would turn their faces and rebel, kill the envoys, insult the imperial court, and threaten to attack the Central Plains. Furious, a small Mongolian tribe, so bold and reckless, dared to openly confront the Dajin Kingdom, the real person is a mouse licking the cat's ass - living impatiently. So he ordered to send a soldier and horse to crusade against the Mongols.

The soldiers and horses of the Jin crusade had not yet been organized, and the report of the border battle arrived: the vanguard of the Mongol army had entered the border from Daribo and was attacking the fortress of Wusha Castle on the northwest road.

The Jin Emperor sent the generals Ji Qian, Jia Nu, Wanyan and Shuo to meet the enemy in three ways. The generals of the Jin State have always lived in the aura of their ancestor Aguda 800 cavalry to destroy the Liao State, and they have the arrogance and courage of Aguda in their bones, but they do not have the integrity and strategy of Aguda. Millions of soldiers and horses are like scattered sand, military discipline is sloppy, it is okay to scare the common people, and when there is a war, the first thing that comes to mind is to take the opportunity to loot property, rather than killing the enemy and winning the battle.

The three generals of the Jin State did not look at the Mongols at all, and arrogantly wanted to catch Genghis Khan sitting on a wooden donkey. However, the Jin army marched into the middle and plundered the common people as they went, and the common people not only did not help them stop the Mongols, but in turn killed the Jin soldiers. The three-way army stops and goes, all the way slower than the other. The vanguard led by the Mongol general Jebe worked day and night, non-stop, and rushed into the Wuyue camp and captured Wusha Castle.

Jebe won the first battle and occupied the important town of Jinguo leading to Xijing Datong. Genghis Khan was overjoyed and ordered a large army to attack Xijing Datong in the Jin State. The defender of Datong is Hu Shahu, the commander of the Jin State, who has the courage and strategy, and suddenly encounters the attack of the Mongol army, calmly responds to the battle, and resists and waits for the reinforcements of the Jin State. The passage to the western aid of the Jin State has been cut off by Jebe, and it is impossible to let a single soldier pass through Wusha Castle. Hu Shahu defended the city for seven days and seven nights, and could not wait for reinforcements, so he abandoned the city and fled east. was stopped and killed by Jebe's army, and the Jin army suffered countless casualties. Hu Shahu fled on his own.

Genghis Khan captured Xijing Datong, and the rest of the generals divided the road to take Changzhou (Jiulian City in the southwest of Taifusi Banner in Inner Mongolia), Huanzhou (Beishilang City in Zhenglan Banner), Fuzhou (Zhangbei, Hebei) and Zhucheng in the northwest.

At this time, the emperor Yongji of the Jin State woke up from his arrogant sleep, feeling that the war was not good, the Jin State was not so strong as he felt, and the Mongols were not as small as he imagined, so in order to avoid its edge, he ordered to retreat from Zhangbei in Hebei to Zhangjiakou, and readjusted the deployment of the order to make Wanyan Jiaojian lead an army of 400,000 to block the invasion of the Mongol army in Yehuling (now Wanquan Shan Fangbao, Hebei).

Genghis Khan successfully occupied Zhangbei in Hebei Province and confronted the 400,000-strong army of the Jin State led by Wanyan Jiejian, who was held by Yehuling.

Yehuling is located on the north side of Wanquan Shan Fangbao in Hebei Province, which is a natural barrier and a strategic place in the west of Jinguo. Yehuling Mountain is high and steep, the peak enters the sky, the bird is difficult to fly over, a man is a pass, and ten thousand people are not open. The 400,000 troops of the Jin State held on to the danger and mixed the iron hooves of the Mongol army into the east.

Genghis Khan's victorious army of several roads was blocked by Yehuling, and he was so anxious that he shouted "whooping" and shouted at the bottom of the mountain for more than ten days. Helplessly, the Jin army could not hold out, and the Mongolian army could not move an inch.

Genghis Khan was also so anxious that he couldn't sit still, and came to the forward position with Mu Huali to check. Yehuling really lives up to its name, with steep mountains and steep mountains, full of thorns, and sheep intestine trails hovering between dangerous peaks. Genghis Khan couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "It is difficult to do it without a defender in Yehuling, let alone 400,000 troops guarding it." ”

Mu Huali shook his head and sighed when he saw Genghis Khan looking at Yehuling, pondered for a moment and said: "Yehuling is also easy to defend and difficult to attack Helan Mountain in Western Xia, but General Jin Wanyan is far from being famous and Linggong in Western Xia. ”

"Oh?" Genghis Khan looked at Mu Huali and said disdainfully, "Aren't they all holding on?" What's the difference? ”

"Wei Ming Ling Gongning will not go down the mountain if he dies, and it is not necessarily necessary to finish his face." Mu Huali smiled secretly.

"He is well-known and insightful, and he is proud of his face. If the same method is applied, different results will be obtained. Haha......" Genghis Khan laughed and said, "Well, according to your wishes, this king will go back to his bed." ”