Spring is coming, and the morning in Beijing is still cold. Yang Gon lifted the thick sheepskin curtain, and a cold wind poured in his face, causing him to suffocate suddenly. Having just come down from the warm kang, the cold seemed even more unbearable than usual.

He suddenly noticed a roll of paper tied next to the curtain door, and hurriedly untied it, and looked around first. It was just dawn, the air was dry and cold in the wind, and there was no one in the tent camp, and nothing was found.

Yang Gon walked into the tent with a piece of paper, took a piece of charcoal to light an oil lamp, and looked under the lamp, which read: The king of Yue will be opposed.

Yang Gon hurriedly hid his things in his arms, packed up his things and went out of the account.

When he went to the mansion of Yelu, the privy envoy of the North Court, he saw that Xiao Siwen and Yelu Huer were already in the hall. When Yelu saw Yang Gon, he said, "Yang Mansion will immediately arrange some people to go to the Jurchen Palace" in the Yalu River. ”

Yang Gon asked, "What happened?" ”

Yelu slanted and said: "The imperial court sent an envoy to give birth to the Jurchens, and the local Jurchen tribe wanted to reduce the number of pearls offered under the pretext of reducing the output of pearls. We have to know if those born Jurchens began to defy the prestige of the Great Khitan. ”

He thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "I also doubt that the Goryeo people have dealings with the Jurchen tribe. ”

Xiao Siwen said fiercely: "If you don't teach those wild people a lesson every once in a while, they will forget to be obedient!" ”

Yang Gon listened for a while, and finally took out the secret letter from his bosom and handed it over with both hands: "This is a letter that someone quietly placed outside my tent. I don't believe it, but I don't dare to keep it private...... King Yue has always been humble, and this letter may be a personal grudge against him. ”

A few people took a look: The king of Yue will be opposed! Immediately looked at each other.

The king of Yue is named Yelu Bise, the fifth son of Liao Taizong, and the younger brother of the "tyrant" Yelu Jing. However, Yelu Bishi's mother had a low status and was always humble, and she often persuaded her brother Yelu Jing not to drink and kill indiscriminately, and she saved many people and had a good reputation.

After Yeluxian succeeded to the throne, he was not embarrassed for him, and he also named him the king of Yue.

Xiao Siwen frowned and said, "King Yue doesn't look like an ambitious person. ”

Jerod slanted and said, "What if some people encourage him?" ”

Yang Gon said: "The Great Khan will migrate to Dongdan, and we must be more vigilant in this trip." ”

The capital of the Great Liao is in Shangjing, but the center of power is not necessarily in Shangjing at any time, and wherever the king's tent camp migrates, it is the center of the vast grassland.

…… And just half a month later, Xu Jun's third route has completed gathering and going north.

On the north bank of the Yellow River, fields of crops have turned green. Everywhere there were few fireworks, not the smoke of the village cooking, but the manure of cooking.

Last year, there was a bumper harvest in the north and south of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and the grain boats on the Cao River were in an endless stream from autumn to winter. On a small mound, Guo Shao, who was riding a black horse north, couldn't help but be overjoyed: "This year is another big harvest year!" ”

He pressed his sword and looked back, and on the several roads in the field, the black oppressive men and horses, and the dust, added a bit of weight to the new green spring.

Brightly clad cavalry surged rapidly along one main road, while others saw slow-moving long dragons. Footmen carrying firearms walked slowly in column on the side of the road, and in the middle of the road were various vehicles. Donkey carts, horse-drawn carts, wheelbarrows, you name it.

The heavy copper cannon on the cart occasionally showed a hideous metallic luster under the covered felt. Grain, grass, tents, **, and arrows were all transported with the infantry army.

Dozens of officials from the Chinese army formed the former battalion of the Liaoxi Army to help Guo Shao manage the army's grain roads and warehouses. There is no danger in the domestic mobilization of tens of thousands of horses in Hebei. Guo Shao then led his guards to leave the Liaoxi Army on horseback and went straight to Shandong to inspect.

A few days later, he arrived at the port of Dengzhou. Han Tong, the commander of the Jiaolong Army, greeted him one mile outside the port, and took Guo Shao and others to inspect the other two armies.

Inside and outside Dengzhou Port, there are already camp tents, and the Tiezhou Army and the Suzhou Army are waiting in this port. In the past few days, Guo Shao has seen another large-scale army mobilization in this era, and the scene is very spectacular.

Several huge magnolia ships are docked on the docks, and the masts rise like towering trees. A group of soldiers carrying packages on their backs were walking through the wooden corridor on the shore to the dock. They climbed up the tall deck of the Magnolia from a rope ladder.

Many small boats shuttle on the docks, and the soldiers clinging to the big ships are like ant colonies. The people on the dock spotted the emperor's flag, and at some point, the shouts of "long live" became noisy.

This will be the first large-scale attack on the Liao mainland by the Daxu Dynasty, but the method of war is completely different from that of previous dynasties.

…… On the shore of the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, the city of Suzhou in the Liao Kingdom is sparsely populated. The center of this area is in Fuzhou (Fu County), a few hundred miles away, where the Southern Jurchen Dawangfu and the Southern Jurchen Tanghe Division are located; The city of Suzhou is just a small and dilapidated city.

Several plank boats were drifting on the seashore, and Jurchens dressed in animal skins threw a fishing net into the water, staring at the sea with harpoons in their hands.

It was a quiet morning with the sound of the wind and the waves, and the mist was surging on the surface of the sea. At this moment, there was a sudden shout of "Whoa".

The Jurchens on the ship looked up, and their eyes suddenly widened and they stayed on the rickety plank.

Three huge ships were the first to catch people's eyes, the huge sails covered like clouds, and the yellow dragon flag fluttered in the wind. After a while, more ships filled the sea, and the three columns were like a flock of geese on the sea.

The Jurchen fishermen hurriedly rowed their boats and fled to the sea, as if they had seen a monster.

Xu's fleet gradually approached the seashore, where there was a dilapidated fishing village. Behind the fishing village was a pile of dust, and a group of Liao cavalry had left the city to approach the sea.

At this moment, the black shadow in the mist suddenly brightened like lightning, and a thunderous sound came. The savage-like fishermen of the fishing village were frightened and ran out in a mess.

In a short time, patches of bright light flashed and thunder turned into a patch. The cannons of the three big ships sounded together, and the ten-pound iron ball roared into the air. Suddenly, the houses in the fishing village collapsed in pieces, and the earth and thatch flew everywhere.

A large number of light boats and ships of the Xu army also approached the seashore, and the large and small cannons roared. The cavalry of the Liao army on the seashore held bows and arrows, brandished iron spears and iron bones, and shouted there. At this time, an iron ball roared, "bang" smashed on the soil by the sea and bounced, and the war horse next to it was frightened, "neighed", turned around and ran.

"Boom, boom, boom......" The lead shot of the son and mother flew over and covered the face. The Liao soldiers and horses screamed and people kept falling off their horses. One of the generals raised his iron sword and swung it, and the group turned their horses around and ran northward, away from the iron balls and lead pellets.

Several rounds of cannon fire were fired on the sea. Then I saw that many sand boats appeared on the seashore, and the people on them rowed the sand boats with oars and approached the seashore, and then the soldiers jumped off the sand boats and landed on the beach almost without resistance.

Seeing that the artillery on the big ship could hit the seashore, the Liao army general did not dare to step forward again, so he gave an order and ran back to the city with his troops.

…… A large number of Xu Jun men and horses successfully landed on the seashore without a single soldier or soldier, and first set up camp fortifications. Seeing that there were more and more men and horses, the Liao army knew that they were invincible, and hurriedly sent fast horses to Fuzhou to report the emergency.

Fuzhou immediately reported to Liaoyang Mansion, the capital of Dongdan.

But at this time, Liaoyang Mansion was already panicked, because the military villages in Tiezhou and the western Liaoning corridor also sent people to report the emergency. The Great Khan's tent will soon arrive at Liaoyang Mansion again, and the yamen of Dongdan Kingdom are busy.

The monarchs and ministers in the big tent of Yeluxian in the Great Liao Xingying Camp gradually figured out the movements of the Xu army from the news from Liaoyang: the Xu army has advanced by sea and land from the West Liaoning Corridor, Tiezhou, and Liaodong Peninsula, and has entered the army in a big way!

Some nobles advised that Liaoyang was no longer safe and that migration to Liaoyang should be stopped.

Xiao Siwen said: "The four fields of Liaoyang are flat and empty, which is just in line with the galloping of the Great Liao cavalry, and the Xu army is still dominated by infantry, so there is no need to be afraid." ”

Nineteen-year-old Yeluxian asked directly, "Is there a way to retreat from the enemy?" ”

Xiao Siwen unfolded a picture, pointed to the city and mountain painted on it, and said: "There are a total of thousands of people on the east side of the Xu army, and the main force is tens of thousands in the western Liaoning corridor. Our army waited for work in the hinterland of western Liaoning, and sent light cavalry all the way from Bazhou (Chaoyang) to cross Songling, cut off the army's grain route, and put it in a dilemma. ”

Yelu said quietly: "Even if the land route can cut off the grain route of the Xu army, the Xu army will transport grain and grass from the sea to Liaoxi Fort." ”

Xiao Siwen was speechless for a moment.

A year ago, Xu Guoren suddenly built Liaoxi Fort in Longshan, where the lonely city pestle was located, and now the role of that fortress has finally been determined.

Sitting on a large chair covered with tiger skins, the Great Khan Yeluxian, holding his scepter tightly in his hand, sat there without saying a word. In the rugged royal tent, the ministers and nobles of the Manchu Dynasty were silent. Yelu pondered something, and Xiao Siwen guessed that the privy envoy of the Northern Court wanted to negotiate peace......

Xiao Siwen stood up first, bowed to the upper position, and said: "Since the founding of Taizu, the nomadic tribes of the western steppe and the fishing and hunting tribes of the eastern imperdiment have all surrendered to the Great Khitan, we are the kings of the grasslands and the tigers in the jungle. If the tiger bows its head to the sheep in the fold, it will no longer be feared by the world. ”

Yelu couldn't help but say, "The southerners don't look like people in the sheepfold...... Xiao Gong also said before that the former Xiongnu Khanate was destroyed by the southerners and ceased to exist. ”

Xiao Siwen said emotionally: "You have also seen a lot of southerner slaves, they are weak and timid, are you willing to admit defeat to such a person?" ”

Finally, some nobles shouted in annoyance, and someone shouted: "The vast grassland, the boundless Konoha Mountain, will be the cemetery of the southerners!" ”

Xiao Siwen took the opportunity to bow and said: "Great Khan, the Dongdan State Mansion can be moved from Liaoyang and rebuilt in the ancient capital of the Bohai Kingdom, Khuhan City." Da Liao avoided the edge of Xu Jun and was waiting for an opportunity to counterattack! ”

Yelu Xianzhen and other officials of the Northern Court were noncommittal, and Yelu Xianzhen only said: "It is difficult for the imperial court to maintain only the output of the grassland, and after the Great Liao loses the clouds, the Dongdan Kingdom cannot be missed." ”.