Chapter 647 Battle of Song Liao 11 Fifth Update
Otherwise, when he first met Han Shusheng, Yelu Zhongke would not have asked that question: "Han Shusheng, how can you be so sure that His Highness will succeed to the throne." “”
The answer that Han Shusheng gave him was that the Southern Army and the Gong Branch Army would support His Highness, even if Xiao Feng took control of the capital first!
Yelu Zhongke also admitted that in Shangjing, Xiao Fengxian had an absolute advantage, and his two younger sisters, one of them was Yelu Yanxi's queen Xiao Duoli, and the other was Xiao Guige, the concubine who gave birth to Yelu Yanxi's youngest son, Yeluding.
It was precisely for this reason that Xiao Fengxian quickly stabilized the situation in Shangjing.
However, at this moment, it seems that even God can't get along with Xiao Fengxian.
The Jurchens raised their troops.
Yelu Yanxi died suddenly, and as soon as the news spread, everyone in the Wanyan Department who received this 'good' news was smiling.
At this time, there is no need for Yan Yingge to continue to agitate, even if he doesn't say it, the leaders of other tribes also know that now is the best time to raise an army against Liao.
Many important ministers of the Liao State are at odds with Xiao Fengxian, the old lord has just died, and the candidate for the new monarch has not yet been determined, and the Liao people will definitely fight for the throne.
Don't miss the opportunity, and never miss it.
As a result, the Jurchens were led by the Wanyan Department, with Wanyan Aguda as the main commander, and swore in the Lailiu River, and after unremitting efforts, they finally gathered a team of less than 3,000 people.
The primary target of Wanyan Agu's attack was Ningjiang Prefecture, an important town of the Jurchens defended by Liao, but unfortunately, the Liao's armaments were lax, and no large army was stationed in this important town, which made the first battle of the Jurchens go extremely smoothly.
After paying only a few losses, Wanyan Aguta took an important frontier city of Liao, and also captured a lot of military horses, military supplies and food from the city.
All of a sudden, the Jurchens were very popular, which also gave a great touch to the surrounding ethnic groups, first of all, the Bohai people were no longer willing to accept Xiao Fengxian's order to transfer troops, and the excuses given were also very high-sounding. The first emperor died suddenly, and the new emperor was not established, and they would not obey Xiao Fengxian's orders.
Xiao Fengxian was actually already solving this problem, he had gathered the important ministers in the court, and the next day he set up his sister Xiao Guige's son to succeed the Qin king Yeluding.
As a result, after the news came out, except for Shangjing Province, no one in the other two northern provinces recognized it at all.
At the same time, Concubine Wen and Yelu Ao, the king of the Jin Dynasty of Liao, came to the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing together.
Zhongjing stayed behind and the capital was unified to recommend Yelu Ao Lu Hu to succeed him, and finally got the news of Yanjing Xilu Mansion, Yelu Yu saw that he held the military power, and Yanjing stayed behind and the capital had to express his support for Yelu Ao Lu Hu to succeed to the throne. Yunzhou had no choice but to follow suit.
On the contrary, Tokyo Dao was the first to get the news, but he kept silent, it turned out that the Second Highness Yelu Yali was in Liaoyang City at this time.
He is Yelu Yanxi's favorite son, and he is also the son who is most like Yelu Yanxi, both in appearance and personality, he is very similar to Yelu Yanxi. Originally, this faint monarch was also ready to make Yelu Yali the crown prince, but there was Yelu Aolu, the eldest son of Yelu Aolu, and then there was Yelu Ding, who was born to Xiao Guige, the queen's sister, and Yelu Yali's biological mother status was very low, so the matter of making him the crown prince had to be put on hold.
He was also the first prince to be set up by Yelu Yanxi among the sons of Yelu Yanxi, and was crowned king together with Yelu Aolu, and Yelu Aolu was succeeded to the Han family, which only got the title of King of Jin, but Yelu Yali was directly named King of Liang.
With the prince in hand, the Tokyo Guards and the Metropolitan naturally hope that they can also become the ministers of the dragon. The reason why Yelu Yali has never ascended the throne is that he wants to wait for his imperial brother and Xiao Feng to fight to the death first, and then he will pick up the bargain from behind.
Xiao Fengxian himself did a stupid thing first, which made his prestige in the Liao State extremely low, resulting in more and more civil and military ministers supporting Yelu Ao Luwei's succession, and more and more people opposed him.
It turned out that in order to curb the offensive of the Jurchens, Xiao Fengxian sent the capital commander Xiao Qili and the deputy capital commander Xiao Tzu Buye to lead 100,000 cavalry to attack the Jurchens, and in order to stabilize his power in the army, Xiao Fengxian actually sent his younger brother as the vanguard to defeat Yan Aguda.
Of course, the 100,000 foot cavalry is just a lie, because the elite soldiers in Shangjing have long been brought to Yanjing by Yelu Yanxi. However, the vanguard army in Xiao Sixian's hands has a real 7,000 elite soldiers.
In this classic battle that has been commemorated by the Jurchens of later generations, Xiao Sixian, a fool, made all the mistakes he could make, he slowly and leisurely led the troops to the river, and the Jurchen army across the duck river, Wanyan Agu crossed the river all night, and on the morning of the second day, he attacked Xiao Sixian's camp, although there was no strong wind to help the Jurchen army, but Xiao Sixian saw that the Jurchens were brave, and actually fled without a fight, resulting in the rout of the entire Liao army.
And the soldiers gathered by Xiao Qili, the commander of the capital and Xiao Tzu Buye, the deputy commander of the capital, are all miscellaneous soldiers, if they fight a smooth battle, their combat effectiveness is good, but the forward army is so defeated, the two main and deputy commanders can no longer restrain their subordinates, and the army that went to crusade against the Jurchens collapsed at once.
Xiao Si fled first, and after this battle, the Liao army not only lost most of the elite in Shangjing, but also lost a large number of horses and supplies, which made the Jurchens further stronger.
After the victory in Chuhedian, he took advantage of the victory to capture Pennzhou, Xiangzhou, Xianzhou, and the land of Sanzhou in Liao.
Not only that, but he also took the opportunity to recruit the prisoners of the Liao State who were willing to surrender, as well as the captives of other ethnic groups, and took advantage of the situation to expand the strength of the Wanyan Tribe.
Next, Wanyan Aguta's troops pointed directly at Huanglongfu, an important town of Liao State, which had been surrounded.
For a time, Liao's Shangjing and Tokyo were all rumors.
After Xiao Sixian returned from defeat, Xiao Fengxian did not blame his younger brother, but put the blame for the defeat on the capital and deputy capital, and after the two of them returned to the capital, they were immediately punished and hanged.
Although Xiao Fengxian destroyed the mouths of the two capitals, he couldn't extinguish the mouths of all the soldiers who fled back, and now Xiao Fengxian and the new army Ye Luding, don't say anything about people's hope, that is, they can just protect themselves in the capital.
Now, the civil and military officials and ordinary people in Shangjing are all looking forward to the return of the new virtuous emperor Yelu Ao Lu Wei from the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing as soon as possible.
After Yelu Ao Lu Wei ascended the throne in Zhongjing Dadingfu, Han Shusheng secretly persuaded him to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty immediately, and he also made all the peace conditions given by the Song Dynasty to the Liao State.