Yelu Yanxi died mysteriously, and most of the soldiers of his Yulin Military Palace also returned to Yanjing City.

However, the battle of Song Liao was still ongoing.

Before, the combined force composed of the tribes and the cavalry of the Bohai people, who had bypassed Cai Dao's 500,000-strong army to the south, had come to the Yellow River unimpeded all the way, and at this time, they realized that their tens of thousands of people had jumped into the trap set for them by the Song people.

Along the way, neither the Song army intercepted them, nor did they discover the target of their southward breakthrough - the grain transport troops of the Great Song Dynasty.

What's even more strange is that along the way, all the counties they passed through found that the gate of the county was open, and when they entered the city, not only did they not find a single corpse of ordinary people in the city, but they didn't even see any food, supplies, and other supplies for a big living person.

Halfway through, some people wanted to retreat, especially those Bohai people, who kept clamoring to return to Yanjing City. As a result, the strength of the tribes was stronger, and they insisted on carrying the Bohai people all the way south.

Finally, more than a hundred years later, the Khitan people once again drank the Yellow River.

Unfortunately, it was spring, and the Yellow River had already thawed, so they searched all the nearby rivers, and in the end they could not find even a small fishing boat.

At this time, they finally found themselves in a dilemma with tens of thousands of cavalry.

In desperation, they had no choice but to assemble and attack a nearby state city, fighting for three days and three nights in a row, and the result was, of course, a big defeat. The Song State had already prepared, and Cai Dao had prepared enough archers and a large number of bows and arrows in various state cities, so that for the cavalry troops who were not good at siege warfare, such a city was like a nightmare in front of them.

Taking advantage of this gap, under the careful arrangement, the Bohai people first threw themselves into another nearby state city.

After that, this cavalry coalition composed of various tribes not only failed to sneak attack Cai Dao's grain road, but put their soldiers and horses in a desperate situation.

The siege of the city was not over, and some people took the initiative to surrender to the Song army, and after that, the tribes fled for their lives, and the coalition army immediately collapsed.

As Han Shusheng said, Cai Dao personally led all the Tuntian forbidden army and a part of the standing forbidden army to completely surround Yanjing City. And his student Zhang Jianbei led his vanguard army, and the front of the army was directed at the cities and checkpoints north of Yanjing. It didn't take him half a month to completely take over all the cities and levels in this area.

For a while, the entire Yanjing Mansion was greatly shaken, a few days ago, the capital also jokingly said that the Song army was here, there was no chance of victory, if he went out, he would definitely fight the enemy. It's a pity that everyone can say big things, but this commander is a straw bag at all, and he was sent by Xiao Fengxian to monitor Yelu Yujian.

Otherwise, with his qualifications and abilities, he would not be able to take on such a final and more important responsibility.

In the end, this army of tens of thousands of tribal cavalry was able to return to Yanjing City alive, and almost one in ten remained. Most of them were captured by the Bohai people, who later surrendered to the Song army.

The captured Khitan warriors of various tribes were not able to return to their hometowns alive, and they were all sent to Hedong Road to work as miners to dig coal.

Cai Dao left the palace division army and the southern army in Yanjing City, that is to preserve the military strength of the Liao State loyal to the imperial family, if these tribal armies are put back, after this incident, how many of them will be able to continue to finally the new emperor of the Great Liao State? Cai Dao was not sure about this matter, rather than letting these people cause chaos in the Liao State, it was better to reduce them to slaves, which could be regarded as repaying the heavy blood debt committed by the Khitans against the Han people.

At the same time, the Western Xia Kingdom also suddenly sent troops.

To the surprise of the Liao State Xijing and the Western Army, the target chosen by the Western Xia State was actually themselves.

Cai Dao didn't know whether Brother Richard was a famous general, but judging from the battle report, the Jin king of the Western Xia Kingdom was at least better than all the generals of the Xijing Province of the Liao State.

Brother Richard personally led 100,000 heavy troops, led by infantry, to attack Shuozhou.

Shuozhou, in the northwest of Yanmen Pass, this state city is about the same distance from the Song and Xia realms, and it is also the state city closest to the Weifu Military Division of the Black Mountain of the Western Xia Kingdom in the Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom.

As for the remaining 100,000 Western Xia troops, which were mainly cavalry, they were very boldly divided into ten units by Richard Ge, led by his lieutenants, each of which was responsible for plundering in one direction, and their goal was to plunder all the people and property of the entire Xijing Province of Liao.

On the Song army's side, Zhi Kexing and Zhi Keshi's uncle and nephew respectively led a part of the men and horses to set off from Yanmen Pass at the same time.

Zhi Kexing led the army to besiege Huanzhou, and Zhi Keshi led a part of the soldiers and horses to besiege Yingzhou. The Song army only besieged but did not attack, on the one hand, it not only contained the Liao army in Xijing Province and did not dare to move, but on the other hand, it was watching the play, and by the way, accepting some Han people of the Liao State who took the initiative to surrender to their victory.

Even if these Han people were accepted, Cai Dao would not let them continue to gain a foothold on Hedong Road, but would immediately send them to Luoyang Mansion.

Whenever they encounter a state city, the ten Western Xia armies will directly detour, but if they encounter the county seat, the generals leading the army will try to feint and attack, if there is hope to break through, they must spare no effort to capture it, if it is a very well-defended county town, Richard allows them to bypass it.

Ten days later, when Shuozhou was finally captured by Richard, the ten Western Xia troops finally returned with a full load and joined Richard's army in Shuozhou.

Facts have proved that Brother Richard learned Cai Dao's strategy of dividing troops and applied it to the Liao army of Xijing Dao, which is really effective.

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Nearly 20 days later, Yelu Zhongke and the little lieutenant finally returned to Shangjing with the body of Yelu Yanxi, who had begun to stink.

As a result, as soon as they entered the city, they were immediately arrested by Xiao Fengxian.

The news of the death of the Liao Emperor immediately spread, and the entire north of the Liao State immediately fell into chaos.

As soon as he entered Shangjing, although Yelu Zhongke was locked up by Xiao Fengxian, he also had his own sources, and he had already learned that before he entered Shangjing, Concubine Wen and the eldest prince and all the people of the Han family all disappeared from Shangjing, and disappeared under Xiao Fengxian's nose. This made Xiao Fengxian very angry.

Xiao Fengxian was able to preemptively arrest himself in Shangjing City because his strength in Shangjing was stronger than anyone else.

This is also something that Jerodonk had foreseen a long time ago.