In mid-June, Cai still personally led an army of 100,000 to the east, with Yue Fei and Han Shizhong as the vanguard on the left and right, respectively, targeting Ruzhou and Fuzhou in Yundong.

Yanzhou (later Huailai County, Hebei), in the name of Feishui, got Yanzhou.

The geographical location of Fuzhou is too difficult and dangerous, and it is the top priority to guard the eastern, southern, western and northern arteries.

To the north of Fuzhou, there is another huge stone called monolith, and there is a mountain pass in the place of monolith, which is the famous monolithic mouth.

The Dushikou is the sixteen states of Yanyun, the most northernmost military important place, and its importance also lies in the fact that it is the second important passage for foreign invasion - its north is basically an endless prairie, without any natural barrier to defend, and it can go directly to Mobei through the grassland.

It can be said that the north goes to the monolith to pound the Yellow Dragon, the south goes to Xinzhou to echo each other, the east and Ruzhou look across the mountain, the west goes to the clouds, and the generations complement each other.

Known as the concubine, Confucian, and Xinzhou, they are flexible and changeable, and they can also go alone and threaten the side.

This shows how important it is.

Ruzhou (later Yanqing, Beijing).

The importance of Confucianism has surpassed the importance of the state, and since ancient times, it has been a dangerous place above the soldiers.

Losing Ruzhou is equivalent to losing the head of Yanyun.

The loss of Confucianism is equivalent to the loss of the pre-war advantage and the loss of the overall initiative.

Getting Ruzhou is equivalent to getting the opportunity to fight.

Ruzhou is related to the strategic key points of the entire "Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures", which is balanced left and right, and supported by the front and back.

It can be said that under the game, the first opportunity to annex, and the first to arrive when the garrison is held, it is really the heartbeat of the bond, and the ethereal strategy of nothingness.

Another cloud, on the spring dam of the northern country, under the Junling Mountains of the southern country, in the mist of the middle mountain, in the rain after the monolith, the morning sun is stacked with green, the sunset is like blood, the dragon is in the place of erection, and the sniper of the rock is firm.

In addition, the two states of Concubine and Ruzhou are also the barriers of Juyong Pass, the gateway to Yanjing (Yan Zhou and Ulzhou are also the barriers of Bauhinia Pass. ）

All in all, the geographical location of the two states of Concubine and Ru is very important.

It is precisely because of this that when Yeluchun learned that Cai was still attacking the city in Yunxi, he immediately sent two veterans loyal to Da Liao, Wu Yong and Ma Renwang, to garrison the two states respectively, and allowed them to recruit men and horses to resist Cai Zhen's invasion.

After Wu Yong and Ma Renwang arrived in Erzhou respectively, they recruited twenty or thirty thousand loyal ministers and righteous soldiers loyal to the Great Liao, fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness, scorched the earth to resist, and stubbornly blocked the attack of Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, so that Cai, who was preparing to advance eastward, was still here to move forward, and also restored some dignity to the Great Liao Empire in the sunset.

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Northern Liao has both people who are loyal to Da Liao like Wu Yong and Ma Renwang, as well as people who are flexible in their own plans, such as Li Chuwen, the prime minister of Northern Liao.

At the beginning, when Zhao Liangsi was still in Liao, he had a good relationship with Li Chuwen, and the two even agreed to descend to the Song Dynasty together.

Later, when the Song army went north and the situation in Northern Liao was extremely bad, Li Chuwen moved the idea of surrendering to the Song Dynasty, and even helped the Great Song Dynasty persuade Yeluchun to claim the title of Fan to the Great Song Dynasty.

It can be said that Li Chuwen was very successful at the beginning - under his suggestion, Yeluchun moved the idea of claiming Tibet to the Great Song Dynasty, and even sent envoys.

But Li Chuwen did everything he could, but he didn't calculate that Da Song was defeated by Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi at this critical moment.

Because Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi defeated the Song army, the Liao army thought that the Song army was vulnerable, so they all demanded a decisive battle with the Song army to the end.

In addition, among the Hanchens, people like Zuo Qigong and others also made it clear that they would rather reduce Cai and Jin than the Song Dynasty - they were angry with the Great Song Dynasty, thinking that the Great Song Dynasty had broken the century-old covenant, reversed its word, was very dishonest, and played cautiously, the key was that force was not good, it was not reliable at all, and it was not enough to save the Great Liao.

But—

Li Chuwen did not give up the Song Dynasty because of this, he took the initiative to contact Tong Guan and said that he would dedicate Yanjing to the Great Song Dynasty.

This made Tong Guan and Cai You, who originally wanted to evacuate, finally choose to stay in Xiongzhou to take a look at it again, and then make plans.

Li Chuwen was indeed trying his best to surrender the Song Dynasty (it was okay to reduce the gold, in short, he thought that Northern Liao could not exist alone), but he suffered from the fact that he did not have any weapons in his own hands, even if he almost became the marshal of the soldiers and horses.

By the way, Yeluchun made Li Chuwen, who advocated the surrender of the Song Dynasty, the marshal of the soldiers and horses, and it is very likely that he also hoped that Li Chuwen would take the Northern Liao to surrender to the Song Dynasty and claim the vassal to the Great Song Dynasty.

The Liao army is now divided into several pieces.

Except for the Liao army stationed in Confucianism and Fu Prefecture and defending Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass, Gubeikou and other important places, the rest of the Liao army was roughly divided into four parts.

Part of it is in the hands of Xiao Gan, mainly stationed in the area of Fan Village.

Part of it is in the hands of Yelu Dashi, mainly stationed in the area of Xincheng and Baigou River.

Part of it is in the hands of Guo Yaoshi, mainly stationed in the Zhuozhou area.

There is also a part of the army defending Yanjing, which was originally in the hands of Yeluchun, but because Yeluchun was seriously ill, it was actually in the hands of Xiao Puxian.

Not a single army was in the hands of Li Chuwen.

And without armament, there will be no power to influence the situation, and the confidence will be insufficient.

Li Chuwen believes that the top priority at the moment is to build up an armed force of his own in case of emergency.

But building an army doesn't happen overnight.

The good thing is that -

Li Chuwen had a sum of money in his hand, which Ye Luchun gave him to recruit troops to defend against the Jurchens.

Lee was ready to use the money to recruit warriors and build his own arm.

Soon, Li Chuwen asked his son Li Zheng to write a letter to Tong Guan, introducing the situation in Yanjing, and swore that as long as there was an opportunity, he would unite with Yanjing's anti-Liao righteous people to dedicate Yanjing to the Great Song Dynasty.

Tong Guan and Cai You had great hopes for Li Chuwen and Yanjing's anti-Liao righteous men - they both believed that it would not be long before Yanjing would undergo internal changes.

Tong Guan and Cai You are not guessing, their staff have already analyzed for them, Ye Luchun is now facing a lot of pressure, both from Cai Yi and from the Jurchens, and now with a heavy pressure from their Great Song Dynasty, Ye Luchun must not be able to support it for long.

Moreover, Ma Kuo also told Tong Guan and Cai You that Ye Luchun is now seriously ill and bedridden, and it is estimated that his life is coming to an end.

Therefore, Tong Guan and Cai You did not leave Xiongzhou in the end, but sat in Xiongzhou and waited for the internal incident in Yanjing to happen.

Really!

It didn't take long for Li Zheng to send news to Tong Guan that Yeluchun had died, and that Northern Liao would have been replaced by Xiao Puxian, and that if Xiao Gan hadn't led troops into the city in advance, they would have dedicated Yanjing to the Great Song Dynasty.

Tong Guan and Cai You were both overjoyed and a little sorry when they got the news, and they hurriedly told Zhao Ji the good news as soon as possible, and at the same time paid close attention to the further development of the matter, that is, waiting for Li Chuwen and the righteous people in Yanjing City to sacrifice Yanjing City.

But Tong Guan and Cai You waited and waited, but they waited for a bad news - Li Chuwen was given death, and Li Zheng was beheaded by Ling Chi.

It turns out -

At the beginning, Li Chuwen, who supported Yeluchun with Li Chuwen and Li Zheng's father and son, felt that Li Chuwen's practice of collaborating with the enemy in private was too dangerous, so he hid in the temple and became a monk, and resolutely did not participate in the dedication of Li Chuwen and his son.

Li Chuwen was unhappy about this, and at the same time realized that he could not procrastinate any longer, and he had to act as soon as possible.

Therefore, Li Chuwen urged his son Li Zheng to say: "You must hurry up the formation of an army and speed up the pace, the sooner we will be more active, and the later we will be more passive." ”

Li Zheng nodded in agreement, and then summoned his main helpers Ye Luce, Gao Xian, and Ma Ge to discuss.

Yeluce was a palace guard, Gao Xian was a military chief, and Ma Ge was a secretary and young eunuch, and they were very enthusiastic about Li Chuwen and his son's preparation to dedicate Yanjing City to the Great Song Dynasty.

After discussing and discussing, Li Zheng, Ye Luce, Gao Xian, and Ma Ge decided to kidnap Xiao Puxian, and then forced Xiao Puxiannu to sacrifice the city.

Of course, the premise of wanting to kidnap Xiao Puxian is that they have to have an army of their own.

So, Li Zheng, Ye Luce, Gao Xian, Ma Ge and others contacted separately and secretly recruited warriors with a lot of money, preparing to raise an army of 3,000 people.

Everything is going on quietly and intensely.

On this day, that is, the seventh day after Ye Luchun's death, Zhuozhou's remaining and Chang Shengjun were in charge of Guo Yaoshi, and they came to Yanjing from Zhuozhou to mourn Ye Luchun.

Guo Yaoshi is a native of Tiezhou, Bohai.

Six years ago, Gao Yongchang, a native of Bohai, rebelled, killed Xiao Baoxian, who was left behind in Tokyo, and established himself as the emperor of the Great Bohai Kingdom, controlling more than 50 prefectures in eastern Liaodong.

Yelu Yanxi sent Zhang Lin, the prime minister at the time, to crusade.

As a result, Zhang Lin was defeated by the Jurchens in Shenzhou.

Later, Yelu Yanxi granted the position of Marshal of Yelu Chundu, the then King of Yan, and ordered him to go to conquer Gao Yongchang.

Yeluchun recruited hungry people in Liaodong and formed an army, known as the "Grievance Army", which means the army that complained about the Jurchens.

This contingent totals more than 28,000 people, and is divided into eight battalions: Qianyi Battalion, Houyi Battalion, Qianjin Battalion, Houjin Battalion, Qianxian Battalion, Qianxian Battalion, and Yanzhou Battalion.

After the establishment of the resentment army, rebellions occurred one after another, especially in the first month of last year, the general of the resentful army, Dong Xiaocun, because of the unfavorable conquest of Lizhou, feared that he would be punished, and a rebellion occurred, and was finally suppressed and executed, and his subordinate general Luo Qinghan and others then led the army to rebel and attack Jinzhou.

Pharmacist Guo saw the opportunity to strike in time and killed Luo Qinghan and other rebels, and his meritorious service stood out.

Later, Xiao Gan and Yelu Yujian led an army to quell the rebellion, and were ordered to completely solve the problem of the rebellion of the resentful army.

Yelu Yu suggested to Xiao Gan that he kill all the resentful soldiers.

Xiao Gan disagreed, thinking that there were still some loyal people in the resentment army.

Subsequently, Xiao Gan carried out a large-scale reorganization of the resentment army, leaving only 2,000 men and horses, organized into four battalions, which were led by Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, and Zhen Wuchen, and the rest of the men and horses were scattered and dispatched to various forbidden armies.

After Yeluchun was proclaimed emperor, Xiao Gan recommended Guo Yaoshi to come to Yanjing to serve as the emperor's palace zhi, that is, the emperor's attendant.

Yeluchun renamed the resentful army as the Changsheng Army, promoted Guo Yaoshi to the general of Weishang, and took charge of the Changsheng Army, and stayed behind in Zhuozhou.

Judging from the rapid rise of Pharmacist Guo, it is not an exaggeration to say that Xiao Gan is Pharmacist Guo's benefactor, and the relationship between the two is not ordinary.

Xiao Gan heard that Pharmacist Guo had come to the palace to mourn Ye Luchun, so he wanted to take the opportunity to further win over Pharmacist Guo.

The current Changsheng army has been expanded to more than 8,000 horses by Guo Yaoshi, who is very good at expansion.

For Northern Liao, which was seriously short of soldiers and horses, the Changsheng Army was now a force to be reckoned with.

Guo Yaoshi's political sense of smell is very sensitive, and as soon as he entered the palace, he felt that the atmosphere in the palace was very tense and the situation was very secretive.

Therefore, as soon as the condolence activities ended, Guo Yaoshi immediately left the palace, and then he didn't even return to his residence in Yanjing, so he went out of the city directly, and then returned to Zhuozhou.

Xiao Gan entered the palace and didn't find Pharmacist Guo, so he went to Pharmacist Guo's house in Yanjing to find it.

But there are only a few entourages in Pharmacist Guo's family, how can there be Pharmacist Guo?

As soon as Xiao Gan got angry, he even called Pharmacist Guo's entourage to interrogate them one by one.

It's also a coincidence.

Xiao Gan has a hideous appearance and a great reputation, and he is in a bad mood if he doesn't find Pharmacist Guo, so when he was interrogated, his tone was a little scary, and he was a little bit like fighting and killing.

One of Pharmacist Guo's entourage, named Fu Zun, was afraid that Xiao Gan would beat him, so he reported him, "Xiao ...... The villain knew that Taiwei Li Chuwen had sent secret messages back and forth with Tong Guan of the Great Song Dynasty Xuanfu, and Li Chuwen tried to ...... attempted to hijack the Empress Dowager Nacheng to the Song Dynasty. The person who delivered the secret message to them was...... It was Zhao Luren and Liu Yao, Zhao Luren had been awarded the title of Chaosan Doctor by the Great Song Dynasty, and Liu Yao had been awarded the Junzhou Regiment Training Envoy, and they were now both waiting to take office in the Xuanfu Division of Xiongzhou. ”

When Xiao Gan heard this, he was shocked, and hurriedly went to tell Xiao Pu about the matter.

Xiao Puxian's daughter ordered Xiao Gan to immediately and secretly arrange people to control Li Chuwen's father and son and their comrades, and not let them escape from the city.

Actually-

At this time, Li Chuwen's father and son had almost prepared, and Li Zheng had even agreed with his subordinates that Yeluce was responsible for holding Xiao Puxian in the palace, Gao Xian was responsible for closing and controlling the gates of Yanjing, Ma Wei was responsible for contacting and persuading the ministers to surrender, and Li Zheng was responsible for contacting the Song army, and as soon as the Song army arrived, they immediately opened the city.

But at this last moment, Li Chuwen and his son and their henchmen were arrested by Xiao Gan.

Xiao Gan found a total of 3,000 military equipment such as armor and saddles, more than 70,000 yuan of money, as well as a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, and exquisite porcelain and jade from Li Chuwen's house.

Everyone got the stolen goods, there was nothing to say, Xiao Puxian immediately ordered: "Li Chuwen once made meritorious service to the country, leave a whole corpse, and Li Zhengling will be beheaded." ”

Knowing that Li Chuwen and his son fell short at the last moment, Tong Guan and Cai You regretted it, and then quickly told the news to Zhao Ji and Wang Hao.

Zhao Ji and Wang Hao also felt very sorry for the failure of Li Chuwen and his son at the last moment.

(Later, after the Northern Song Dynasty recovered Yanjing, Zhao Ji issued an edict posthumously crowning Li Chuwen as the king of Guangyang County, and Li Zheng as the envoy of the Baoning Military Festival, and ordered the Yanshan Mansion to change Li Chuwen's mansion into a temple to commemorate the sacrifice made by the father and son for the Great Song Dynasty to recover Yanjing.) ）

Although Li Chuwen's father and son's dedication to Yanjing did not come to fruition, Zhao Jijunchen learned through Li Chuwen and his son that Yeluchun was dead, and Northern Liao was ruled by a female streamer, and the Yandi people thought about Song, and there were many internal contradictions.

This made Zhao Jijunchen move the idea of sending a large army to recover Yanjing.

Actually-

Zhao Ji can't recover Yanjing - if he doesn't recover Yanjing, then Cai is still bound to seize Yanjing, in that case, Cai Yi, who was originally trapped in Yundi, can escape from Yundi Jiaolong into the sea, and at that time, the Great Song Dynasty may be in danger.

Therefore, it was imperative for the Great Song Dynasty to recover Yanjing.

Zhao Ji soon issued an edict to Tong Guan and Cai You, ordering them not to return to Beijing without a teacher, and the imperial court planned to send another 200,000 troops to meet in Sanguan, Hebei in September, and this time Yanjing must be taken......

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