Danzhou, Han Shizhong's camp.

In the manager's tent, several sentry detectives were covered in blood and were helped to sit in chairs.

Han Shizhong and several other major generals surrounded them and asked them carefully.

"The Jurchen soldiers and horses are frequently mobilized, and in the area of Songziling, there are large armies stationed, and supplies have been arriving."

Han Shizhong lowered his waist and asked, "How many soldiers and horses are there?" ”

"Look at the flags and tents, no less than 100,000."

There was a sudden exclamation in the tent, Han Shizhong nodded, wiped his eyelids, and said, "It seems that I am going to fight again." ”

"Some time ago, Wang Yu sent someone to say that the Wanyan Lou Room in Yehuling also had an increase in troops. Now it seems that these people are all Zong Han's people, and this guy has always wanted to go south, and it is not ruled out that he is pretending to make a gesture and lead us to attack with military horses, so he has an excuse to go south.

Zong Han's status in the Jin country is not low, if he has always been a thief, it is a matter of time before the Tartars go south, we can't be stupid and wait to be beaten, immediately report to the court, and then ask for some soldiers and armor, and wait for the war. ”

Han Shizhong went to Bianliang and participated in Yang Lin's conspiracy to become the king, and he knew in his heart that Shaozai didn't want to fight now.

He is waiting for a better opportunity, Shaozai said that there is an eighty percent chance of winning and a twenty percent chance of losing, and he is waiting for a ninety or even ten percent chance of winning before fighting.

Yang Lin has this idea because he knows the power of the new deal, as long as it is on the right track, the national strength will get an unprecedented leap. However, Han Shizhong, as a general, does not understand this and does not agree, in his opinion, if there is a sixty percent chance of winning, he should chase the north and fight out of the Great Wall.

In the past few years, the combat strength of the Great Wall Corps has been significantly improved.

Several major battles have tempered the soldiers, sufficient food, day and night drills, and complete logistics, so that the entire battalion is full of fighting spirit and momentum.

The cultural and educational instructors sent by the imperial court felt noisy at first, but later learned more, and Han Shizhong was surprised to find that it helped to improve military discipline.

The land of Youyan that has just been taken, after the Jin Liao Song Dynasty has changed hands several times, the local people are already three or four out of ten.

The reward and punishment mechanism set up by the imperial court allowed many battalion officers and soldiers to own land.

Some time ago, the new policy was implemented, and there were many local officials and errands who needed manpower, so many soldiers moved their families here and became Youyan people.

They have taken root here, and they have become more stable, and the atmosphere in the barracks has been very different from before.

Although Han Shizhong prides himself on being a good general, he can't make such a change when he asks himself, and he can only say that the new policy of the imperial court does have its own uniqueness.

A few fast horses galloped out of the barracks, rolled up smoke and dust all the way, and went straight to Bianliang.

The border pass, which had not been peaceful for a long time, was once again vigorously armed and ready for war.

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In the city of Fuliao, Yelu Dashi stood in the city tower, and there were no enemies in this land.

The Seljuk Empire, far away in Persia, is now the overlord of Western Asia, and has also sent people to repair it.

Yelu Dashi knew in his heart that the only enemy in the vicinity of his Great Liao was the Seljuk Empire and the Khwarazm Dynasty that had rebelled against him.

Both of these countries flourished in history, occupying the entire Middle East and the Caucasus now occupied by the Liao.

In history, they were also defeated by Yelu Dashi's Western Liao, but now Yelu Dashi, in order to avoid the more powerful Song and Jin, ran out of Moxi in one go, lost the support of the Mongol tribes, and also got a more stable environment and a more comfortable territory.

Yelu Dashi's eyes have been set to the west, and no two powerful countries are allowed to exist in one place, which is the common idea of people like Yelu Dashi.

This is similar to a mountain that does not tolerate two tigers, and Zhao Kuangyin also said that the side of the couch does not allow others to snore.

After a burst of footsteps, several officials followed Xiangguo Yelu Xin to the city tower, and when they saw Yelu Dashi, they stepped forward and bowed: "Your Majesty, the messenger of the Seljuks has arrived in the city. ”

Yelu Dashi nodded and said with a smile: "I have seen their guard of honor at the head of the city, these people are really extravagant, and the carriage of a messenger is also covered with gold cloth, are you afraid that I will not know their wealth?" ”

Yelu Xin stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, are you going to go on an expedition to Seljuk?" ”

Yelu Dashi shook his head and said, "Have you ever thought carefully about how our Youyan and Yunnei were lost step by step. ”

Ye Luxin gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "It's all the Song people who are shameless and have made treacherous plots in the middle." ”

In the process of the Song people taking back Youyan, they first negotiated an alliance with the Great Liao, and then negotiated peace with the Jin people at Juyong Pass, and immediately tore their faces to negotiate peace with the Great Liao. In just one month, they were almost bloodless, got Youyan, and repelled the Jurchen Eastern Route Army, which threatened them the most, and killed the commander Wu Qimai. Yelu Dashi talked about the old things without the slightest sense of frustration, during that time he was a prisoner of Yang Lin and was imprisoned in the city for a long time.

"Those who do great things can't choose to run away and not think about it because you have failed in one thing. I often pondered over this matter, and the Song people won the greatest benefit at the lowest price, which is a good strategy. Now the Seljuks and Khorezm are fighting each other, and if we attack in the south, we will make them form an alliance against the Great Liao. I want to use the original strategy of the Song people to take this broader territory for our Great Liao. ”

Yelu Dashi looked at the glittering golden mission, and a confident smile appeared on his face: "Distant and close attack, first form an alliance with the Seljuks, and take Khorezm together!" ”

Khorezm is a Turkic race, and they were also beaten out of the old Khitan soil at the beginning, when they faced the Tang Dynasty.

These people were driven out of the steppes of East Asia, did whatever they wanted in West Asia, and for a time became the masters of Persia. It was not until later that the country was destroyed by the Temujin expeditionary force, also from the East Asian steppes.

The Seljuk Empire is dying, but this Khorezm has just risen, and once they were vassals of the Seljuks in their heyday, they showed their fangs once they declined.

Such a wolf-like race would not coexist peacefully with the new Liao he had just established, Yelu Dashi knew it in his heart.

He didn't know at this time that now was the land under his feet, a rare period of quiet and peaceful development. During this time, this land gradually condensed its own nation, the Azerbaijani nation.

In the history of later generations, after the success of the battle between Khorezm and Seljuk, troops were immediately sent to occupy this place, and since then it has become a vassal of the strong, and it has not turned over again until later generations. Until a thousand years later, it was either annexed by great powers, such as Chechnya, etc., or impoverished and became vassals of great powers, such as Azerbaijan, Georgia...

Now because the Qarakhanid was occupied by the Great Song Dynasty in advance, and the Mongolian tribes bordering it, because of the ancient tea horse road, became a pro-Song faction, Yelu Dashi's Western Liao Po had to come to the west and enslaved and occupied this unique land in advance.

Yelu Dashi's idea was to gather for ten years, and after forbearance, he waved his army to expand his territory and prepare to compete with Song Jin.

But the enemy here is really a little different from Song Jin, just like if you budget a project, which was originally intended to build a skyscraper, and suddenly changed to a small bungalow, it will naturally greatly shorten the construction period.

He had already begun to covet the lands to the south, and the first step was to destroy the Turks of Khorezm.

The Turks, as a race of people who have been active in the steppes for a long time, are actually not a single people. It is a collective name for ethnic groups active in the Mongolian Plateau and Central Asia in history, and is also an important nomadic people in the northwest and northern steppes of China after the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Rouran.

The Khitan is a single ethnic group from Northeast China in later generations, which was divided into eight Khitan tribes in the early days, and formed a unified Dahe alliance in the early Tang Dynasty. After Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty placed the Governor's Mansion of Songmo and gave him the surname Li. After the collapse of the Dahe Alliance, the Khitans established the Yaoran Tribal Alliance, which was attached to the Later Turkic Khanate for a long time.

Now these two northern enemies of the former Han Dynasty are going to fight in the west.

The Liao Emperor, Yelu Dashi, was heroic at this time, looking forward to life, overlooking this strange land.

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Luoyang, the spring is bright, and several officials gather here to drink among the flowers.

Today is to celebrate the joy of Yang Lin, the king of Yue, who has a high status now, which can be described as powerful.

He himself is not a cool character, since he tried his hand and captured the hearts of the two girls, he sent Lu Qian to make a straw post and accept him as a concubine.

Yang Lin's status, in the Great Song Dynasty, as long as he wants to, there are few women who can't get it.

Concubinage does not need that cumbersome process, even if it is a prince's concubine, it can be done within a day. Several officials from the Henan Mansion who got the table all came to celebrate, Yang Lin sat on the top, wearing a red robe, more and more graceful, and there was a peony flower on his head.

The prefect of Henan got up with a smile and toasted, and at this time, a hurried post man came outside and took out a secret letter from his arms.

After Yang Lin saw it, his expression moved slightly, and then he received it in his arms.

"Shaozai? But what kind of official duties? ”

"It doesn't matter." Yang Lin knew in his heart, he was not very panicked, his defense at the border pass, the attack was not yet known, the defense was foolproof, these Jurchen Tartars, when they crossed the Great Wall at will, they were gone forever.

He raised his glass and said, "Come, drink this glass!" ”

After drinking, Yang Lin turned his head and said to Lu Qian: "Send people only Han Shizhong, Zong Ze, and Yao Pingzhong, wait and see what happens, stick to the Great Wall, face the attack, and if necessary, if there is a suitable fighter, you can also take the initiative to attack." How can the generals fight a war with the instructions of the imperial court, I guarantee that they will not lack logistics. Reward for playing well, and make substitutions for bad play. ”

In the Huang Mansion, two young girls were in the same room, and they looked at each other a little unpleasantly.

Naturally, Yingqin couldn't come down from the Shangqing Palace, so Zhang Changqing simply sent his daughter to the Huang Mansion, which was more convenient.

The two former little sisters have now broken up and coiled their braids into women's buns, and the girl's fluff on the jade face is slowly twisted away by the colorful silk threads.

This is called opening the face, also known as twisting the face, choosing the face, raising the eyebrows, etc. It is one of the traditional marriage ceremonies, which is a ceremony to twist the hair on the bride's face, cut the forehead hair and sideburns, and trim the eyebrows and makeup. A woman meets only once in her life as a sign of marriage. It is mostly opened by the blessed person or the bride's concubine who has complete parents and children.

Generally, in front of the girl's forehead, cheeks, around the eyebrows, up and down the lips and chin, rub some "open flour", and then take out the double-strand cotton thread prepared in advance, pull it into a clip-like shape, and twist it repeatedly on the forehead, cheeks, lips, chin and other hairy parts in turn, until the hair is twisted clean. After such an "opening", the bride's sideburns are neat, the lines are clear, the eyebrows are curved like the moon, the lips and forehead are smooth and fair, and the posture is suddenly added to the posture and is much more beautiful.

After opening his face, a few more women and maids came over to help put on makeup, and a mother-in-law who was changing her head bow shoes for Lingyun said with a smile: "The two girls are so blessed, the prince's mansion, which ordinary people can enter." Look at this makeup, I haven't seen it so decently in so many years. ”

After all, the two have been best friends for many years, and they ignored each other for a while, and they couldn't help it.

Huang Xuanzhi pointed to Lingyun's eyebrows and said, "After you fell here, you looked a lot better." ”

"You're a lot more handsome, too."

Once the two broke through their hostility, they smiled and commented on each other's wedding dresses.

As he spoke, the two of them frolicked again, after all, it was the cardamom girl who was happy. At this time, a mother-in-law pushed the door in, took out a booklet with pictures from her sleeve, and stepped forward to explain with a smile.

Suddenly, there was no noise in the room...

In the Shangqing Palace, Zhang Changqing's face was solemn, and several apprentices did not dare to speak on the side.

I have calculated for my daughter, the fate is unspeakably expensive, Yang Shaozai him...

Now is the critical period of my cultivation, if there is really a major event to change the dynasty, won't it affect my cultivation? The most hateful thing is that now because of Lingyun, I have a bond, no!

Zhang Changqing stood up and said loudly: "Listen, I want to go to Qinlongzhong South Mountain to do penance, and wait for a good student to see the Shangqing Palace." ”

"When will Master come back?" Several apprentices asked urgently.

Zhang Changqing had already walked out quickly, leaving only Lang Lang's voice:

"I have been lightly lifted today, and the path of cultivation ends in Nanshan.

The Three Realms are all at the head, and the five elements are at the fingertips.

The apprentice didn't know how to count, so he asked me when I would return.

Nine days after the ascension, Huabiao will be 1,000 years. ”