Chapter 524: Ice and Snow Grassland
In the open grassland, the sound of horses' hooves is unusually clear.
The Khitan team that was marching eastward was immediately alarmed, and at that moment thousands of cavalry came out of the ranks and headed forward.
The sound of horses' hooves in front of them became clearer and louder, but the cavalry who stepped forward was relieved! Listening to the voice, there are only a few dozen people in front, and it is impossible to have much impact on the Khitan team that is marching!
The other party was getting closer and closer to them, and the thousands of cavalry immediately met them.
"Who are you?" In the darkness of the night, there was a voice from the other side, which turned out to be the voice of the Khitans.
The thousands of cavalrymen were already preparing to bend their bows and shoot arrows, and when they heard this sound, they immediately put down their bows and arrows, but they still ran forward.
"Is it Lord Jerodashi here?" After a while, there was another sound from the other side, but this time the Khitan cavalry had already surrounded them.
"Who are you?" A response finally came from among the Khitan cavalry.
"We want to see the Great Khan!" The voice on the other side said.
"Who the hell are you? If we don't, we're going to attack! Someone in the Khitan cavalry shouted.
"It's me! Jereil! A clear voice came from the other side.
"What? The little prince? "These thousands of Khitan cavalrymen were all surprised!
Some of the Khitan cavalry lit torches, and sure enough, there were Khitans on the other side, and one of them was a young man on a horse, his body was a little thin, who was it not Yelu Yilie?
"See the Little Prince!" Suddenly, there was a sound of seeing from the Khitan cavalry.
"Where is Father Khan? I'm going to see him right away! Jeremiah said.
"The Great Khan is behind him, and now he must have gotten the news and will be coming soon!" A Khitan general led the way.
Yelu Yilie nodded, and immediately led his dozens of cavalry to ride his horse behind!
After about a quarter of an hour, he met the middle-aged Khitan man who was galloping with the Khitan cavalry in the afternoon! After seeing this middle-aged Khitan, Yelu Yilie immediately dismounted and knelt on the ground, saying, "The child sees his father Khan!" ”
It turned out that the middle-aged Khitan was the legendary Yelu Dashi in history! Ten years after the fall of the Liao State, Yelu Dashi led his own soldiers and horses and tribes to Central Asia, and now he is known as the "Khitan Great Khan", Yelu Yilie is the son of Yelu Dashi, so he is called the little prince by the Khitan people.
"Yilie, aren't you in Shangjing? Why are you here? Jerodashi got down from his horse, lifted him up, and said in astonishment.
"Father Khan, it's only been two or three years, and you've aged a lot!" Jereil looked at his father and sighed.
"Did something big happen in the capital?" Yelu Dashi hurriedly asked.
"I'm about to report to my father! The Han defeated the second prince of the Jurchens last year, Wanyan Zongwang, and the 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Jurchens in the Central Plains were completely annihilated by the Han people! Two or three months ago, the Han people raised the whole country's troops to the north, and they were invincible and invincible all the way, and the Jurchens could not match them at all! Now the Jurchen Taishi and the Fourth Prince of Zhongjing are afraid that they have also been defeated by the Song army, and it is difficult for the 100,000 Jurchen elite soldiers in Zhongjing to escape! In addition, the Mongol Hebul Khan and Kuzha Husi Khan led nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses south, and in the area of Fengzhou, they were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Song troops, and now they have also been completely annihilated by the Song army! The Song army was extremely strong, and we were no match for the Song army at all, so I left Shangjing and came to inform my father Khan that he would not continue to go south. Jeremiah said.
"What? The Jurchens are so vulnerable? 200,000 Mongolian soldiers and horses were also wiped out by the Song army? Is the Song army so strong now? Jerodashi said incredulously.
"Song Jun is very strong, very powerful! South of Toyoshu that day, we saw the battle with our own eyes! Under the siege of the Song army, more than 100,000 Mongolian soldiers and horses were all annihilated before they could hold out for a day! On that day, I stood outside, thinking in my heart that if I replaced the Mongolian soldiers and horses with my Khitan soldiers and horses, I was afraid that it would be difficult to hold out for a day. Jeremiah said.
"It can't be! In the past ten years, we have tried our courage, and the elite soldiers we have trained are by no means comparable to the Mongols! The Mongols have no organization and no discipline, but we are learning from the Jurchens and commanding the army with ten thousand commanders and thousand commanders! Even if we are surrounded by the Song army, we will be able to fight back against them! Yelu Dashi shook his head.
"This ...... Father Khan is right, but the Song army is indeed strong now, and we really can't continue to go south. Jeremiah said.
"Let's all tell me about the war that day." Yelu Dashi ignored Yelu Yilie and looked at the cavalry behind Yelu Yile.
"Great Khan, what we saw in that day, the cavalry of the Song army is unusually elite, and it is not under us! Standing outside, I only felt that the momentum of the Song army was amazing, every soldier of the Song army was desperately moving forward, and no one retreated! The generals of the Song army were also extremely powerful, and no matter how much the Mongols charged, they could not rush out of their encirclement! Behind Yelu Yilie was a middle-aged man.
"Great Khan, every soldier of the Song army is extremely powerful, and they give people the feeling that they are very strong! They also have an extremely large number of horses and they ride very well! I really can't understand why they have trained such powerful cavalry in just seven or eight years. There was another man behind him.
"If it's a head-to-head battle, will they be able to defeat us?" Yelu Stone Road.
"In a head-to-head battle, we may not be their opponents! The Song army fought in the east and west over the years, all the way from Guanshan to the Western Xia, and from the Western Xia to the Central Plains, from the Central Plains to the grasslands in the north. Jeremiah said.
Yelu Dashi stood there with a frown, both incredulous and compulsory.
He knew that his son Yelu Yilie, although he was weak on the surface, was very serious and observant in doing things, and Yelu Yiel would never talk nonsense! Moreover, the people who returned to the homeland of Liao with Yelu Yilie were also the elites under Yelu Dashi, and it was impossible for these people to talk nonsense.
"Great Khan, we can't go south! The Han people are too strong, much stronger than the original Jurchens! The Jurchens had a limited population, and although their combat strength was amazing, it was difficult for them to form a large number of troops, while the Han Chinese, with their extremely large population and great wealth in the country, could easily mobilize hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of troops when they went north this time! We can defeat the Jurchens, but it is too difficult to defeat the Han Chinese. There was a man behind him.
"When my Great Liao was wiped out by the Jurchens that day, the Han people were still vulnerable, and the Song army, whether it was the Western Army or the Forbidden Army, was extremely weak! The Jurchens went south, and in only one year, the Han people lost half of their country, and the two emperors of the Han people were also captured by the Jurchens! At that time, Emperor Xuanwu of the Han people was only ten years old, which was not enough to command the world, and Zhao Gou ascended the throne as Emperor Jianyan in Jiangnan! It's only been eight years, how can the Han people become so strong? Yelu Dashi shook his head.
"Father Khan, when I went south for the first time that day, I was going to cooperate with Emperor Xuanwu to destroy Jin together, and at that time I felt that the Song army was very different from what you said! At that time, it was the time when the Song army went north to destroy the Western Xia, which was also considered a powerful country in the northwest, and the country was established for more than 100 years, but the Song army went north, and in less than half a year, the Western Xia lost all the territory in the south, and the Western Xia emperor had to send his son out as a hostage! I wrote to you, but you didn't think so, until the Great Song Dynasty occupied the sixteen states of Yanyun, you decided to cooperate with the Jurchens! Now that the Han people have become the climate, we can't take advantage of it when we go south! Jeremiah said.
"But we must go south!" Yelu Stone Road.
"Why is that?" Jereh said incredulously.
"Let's go, get on the horse first, and I'll talk to you about it." Yelu Stone Road.
The Khitan army was still marching towards the east, and in the night, the cold wind was howling, and the torches were blown out by the strong wind, but fortunately there was still starlight in the sky, so they could barely see ahead.
"We started to go south in the autumn, and took all the warriors, clansmen, cattle and sheep south across thousands of miles, and the losses along the way were great! Now that it's winter, if we go north again, the weather is so cold, we may not be able to return to the original place, I don't know how many people will die in this harsh winter! You say, can we go north? "Yelu Dashi Road.
"However, Song Jun is too strong!" Jeremi.
"No matter how strong the Song army is, this north is still the homeland of our Khitans, and there are still millions of clansmen here! As long as millions of people are united, we can still drive out the Han Chinese! "Yelu Dashi Road.
"This ......," Jereil was stunned.
"Tell me about the current situation in the world! What is the situation in Liaodong? Didn't the Han people occupy Liaodong yet? Wanyan Zonghan should still have a lot of elite soldiers in his hands, right? "Yelu Dashi Road.
"In Liaodong, it is difficult for our clansmen to survive, and since this summer, countless clansmen have risen up to rebel! Originally, I followed your order and asked them not to go against the Jurchens, and when you go south, Father Khan, let's cooperate with the Jurchens to recapture Yanyun! The clansmen originally obeyed my orders, but in July, Emperor Xuanwu sent a man to the north and actually encouraged the clansmen to rebel! The people listen to that man and no longer listen to my commands. Jeremiah said.
"Oh? Who can incite our people to rebel? Yelu Dashi said in surprise.
"That man is Yeluchun's eldest son, Yeluhong!" Jereil smiled bitterly.
Although Yelu Dashi calls himself the "Khitan Great Khan" in Central Asia, this Khitan Khan is not recognized by the Khitan people in the homeland of the Liao State at all, and many people do not know how much foundation Yelu Dashi has created in Central Asia, and they listen to the so-called "Khitan Khan" as a joke! On the contrary, Yeluhong is the son of Yeluchun, the former emperor of Northern Liao! Yeluchun turned the tide at the end of the Liao Kingdom, and his prestige in the hearts of the Khitan people was extremely high, and Yeluhong was also regarded as a prince by the Khitans! Therefore, in Liaodong, Yelu Dashi's subordinates could not compete with Yeluhong at all.
"He's still alive?" Jerodashi was surprised again.
"Yes, he is indeed alive, and he has been recruited by the Han Chinese! The Han people are unusually cunning, they first sold a stone man in a deep pit, and then let people dig it out, the stone man is engraved with 'Mo Dao stone man has one eye, this thing is out of the world', the stone man looks exactly the same as Yeluhong! After this matter spread to Liaodong, the world immediately shook, and the clansmen regarded the rebellion as the will of God, and there were righteous armies everywhere in Liaodong, and all the rebels were responding to Yeluhong! Originally, the Song army went north, and the Liaodong Jurchens could help Zhongjing, but now they are stuck in the mud and can't get over at all! Jeremiah said.
"The Han people are so powerful! Admire! Yelu Dashi was silent for a while before he had to nod.
"Father Khan, there is no place for us in this north!" Jeremi.
"Let's go to Liaodong and take over the rebel army!" Yelu Dashi asked for a long time, pondered for a long time, and then said.