The concept of a great power. Both ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, have multiple political meanings.

Western Zhou feudalism. Hundreds of miles for the country, ten miles for the home, the king of the period of the hundred and small in one breath out of the hundreds, the vassal states, after hundreds of years of mutual conquest and annexation, the so-called big country has also formed its unwritten standard. Thousands of miles of land, thousands of cars, is for a big country. The so-called Che Qiancheng, that is, the standing army in the country reached more than 10,000 people, and the Zheng, Song, and Qi states in the early Spring and Autumn Period were such standard powers. Later, after political innovation and economic development, the Qi, Jin, Qin, and Chu dynasties were finally formed, and the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period and the seven heroes of the Warring States Period were finally formed.

The historical tide is rolling forward, and the concept of the so-called great power is also constantly evolving, and the simple way of ranking seniority according to geographical area and military strength has been constantly impacted, and the concept of great power has begun to carry more and more political and diplomatic connotations. The so-called great power, can make the princes of the world to serve as ministers, the heyday of the great country, just an envoy to hold the festival, can destroy a country, Ban Chen Tang Wang Xuance, is a typical representative of the power of a great power. The so-called "those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away" is a slogan shouted by the Central Plains in its heyday with a naked and undisguised chauvinistic color.

Once upon a time, the heavenly khan was angry, the dust and sand of the desert in the Western Regions were flooded, the blue waves of the East China Sea were turbid, and the lazy and strong man in the Taiji Palace was a fart, and he could also stir up great wind and thunder on the desert grassland.

Different from any previous grassland empire, although the Yelu family inherited the old tradition of the steppe peoples who straddled horses and held longbows, they were unwilling to admit that they were the bloodline of the former nomadic overlords such as the Xiongnu Turks, on the contrary, the monarchs and ministers of the Great Liao, the nobles and important ministers of the Khitan, almost without exception uphold the incomprehensible orthodoxy, although the Great Liao lived in the northern Xinjiang, it was the main line of China that had been canonized by the Tang Dynasty, compared to the Central Plains feudal towns that fought and annexed and changed in rotation like a marquee; Da Liao is more qualified to call himself China, after all, the so-called Khitan is one of the remnants of the Tang Dynasty under the order of Tian Khan, and the five dynasties and ten kingdoms of the Central Plains, Liang, Tang, Jin, Han and Zhou, can be regarded as the traitors and rebels of the Tang Dynasty in the past. In contrast, the great power of Daliao is not only proud of its military strength and land area, but also stands above the countries of the Central Plains without humility on the issue of the so-called origin and unification.

Regardless of whether Chai Rong admits it or not, the bloodline of the Great Liao comes from the Tang Dynasty, and the so-called Great Zhou is just a new warlord of the Central Plains.

Even the arrogant Chai Rong must admit that at least in the first year of Xiande, Daliao is indeed a great power in the world.

A strategic corps of more than 30,000 men can be dispatched at any time to provide strategic support to the vassal state. And in the case of basically not shaking their own foundation, this alone has to be taken seriously.

After all, in this time and space, the number of regimes in the country with more than 30,000 soldiers and horses combined is only five or six. The Northern Han Dynasty marched to the south, and the whole country mobilized but pieced together more than 30,000 foot cavalry, and Chai Rong responded to the battle. The mobile forces that could be mobilized in a hurry were only about 30,000. Although it is said that the policy implemented since the establishment of Guo Wei Dynasty is to rest with the people, but after all, the Later Zhou Dynasty is the Zhengshuo Dynasty that occupies the belly of the Central Plains, and it is really more serious to mobilize the whole country to sweep the seams of the pants and 200,000 horses can still be made. But that's a national war. If the Liao army marched south, the Great Zhou monarchs and ministers would naturally have to put down all their arms and respond with the strength of the whole country, if it was only the Northern Han with the support of the Khitan, the situation would not be very different.

Chai Rong is a new treasure. The status is not stable, and the important ministers and generals of the Guo Wei era have not yet truly submitted to the young emperor psychologically, and local feudal towns such as Li Wenge are still waiting, after all, most of the changes in the Zhengshuo Dynasty in the past 70 years have been born at the moment of the replacement of the old and the new. The kings of this era rarely expected their so-called loyal courtiers to work together to assist their young heirs after their deaths! In this era, that is simply an unrealistic luxury, and instead of daydreaming, it is better to pass on his stature to a brother in the prime of life or to raise an adopted son who has enough prestige and resources. No matter what future generations think, in this chaotic century, the country has a long monarch and the blessing of the society. These eight words are more than a simple slogan for courtiers to exhort the king.

That's a bloody experience drawn from a bloody reality.

Even if it's Changjun, it's not a little weak!

In this sense, Wang Jun is an out-and-out idealist, and Guo Wei is much more realistic than him.

In this era, the world is like this!

Liao is no exception. Emperor Taizong has been dead for only seven years, and there have been two emperors in Shangjing, and the Khitan nobles have been busy fighting in line over the years, almost every year there are several major cases of rebellion that shake the government and the opposition, and today they are still suppressing the rebellious prime minister and marshal under the banner of the imperial court, and tomorrow they may be regarded as rebellious and kill the Yi clan, and the important ministers of the clan are panicked. There is no guarantee for the power of the superior and his subordinates, and even the life and property, if it were not for this, how could Da Liao, who had stepped on the great river seven years ago and trampled the flowers and rivers of the Southern Dynasty under his feet, be unable to point south in these seven years, and could only make some small moves by supporting the Liu clan in Hedong? Even if the national strength is limited, the intervention of the year has changed. If it is used well, at least it can take advantage of the competition between Guo Wei and the orphans and widows of the Liu family to annex Hebei, and it may not be easy to attack the river again, and it is still easy to eat three or four more prefectures and counties in Hebei.

However, internal friction makes all this impossible, although in recent years, Da Liao has not stopped using troops against the surrounding tribes, but at best, it is a small fight to incorporate a few more primitive tribes in the north that are still at the level of slash-and-burn cultivation, as for the Southern Dynasties, there has been no advance since the sixteen states of Youji.

The southwest of the Liao State recruited Yelu Luen is the youngest line of Emperor Taizong Yelu Deguang, and his mother is a female slave captured by Emperor Taizong when he conquered Nirvana, and her status is humble. Don't say that Yelu was still young at that time, and he was Sishao Zangjia. He didn't dare to be delusional and want to seek justice with the Shulu family, the first descendant of the Great Liao. Taizong's mother, the Empress Dowager Shu Luping, was ordered by Abaoji to preside over the military affairs behind Taizu, and the empress of Taizong was the daughter of Shu Luping's younger brother.

However, Yelu Deguang did not treat his younger son badly, before his southern expedition, in order to avoid Woen staying in Shangjing Mansion and being cleaned up by the queen, he worshiped the original southwest to recruit Xin'en for Yu Yue, and sent Yelu Rouen to the southwest to recruit envoys, and sent him back to the place where his mother lived. In this way, although En has no chance to participate in the central battle, he can barely save his life far away from Shangjing and the Nirvana clan.

Over the years, his eldest brother and cousin have taken turns to appear, and the court and the middle are stunned, but they sit in the Khan Prefecture and enjoy the worship of more than a dozen ethnic groups in the southwest.

Neither the deceased Emperor Sejong nor the current reigning Emperor of the Great Liao had no time to care about this younger brother in the southwest until the hidden enemies in the system were cleared.

It's a pity that Yelu's good days were completely destroyed by a guy named Li Wenge in March of the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Although the southwest side of the recruitment division is also said to be set up. There are five sections of the Tiande Army, the Kaiyuan Army, the Zhenxi Army, the Wuxing Army, and the Heqing Army, but in addition to the Heqing Army stationed in Dongshengzhou, which is a palace guard army of 3,000 people. The rest of the armies are tribal armies to which each tribe belongs. Among them, the Tiande Army is the military name of the Tibetan Cai and Uighur tribes, the Kaiyuan Army is the military name of the Dangxiang Qiang tribe and the Tuhun tribe, the Zhenxi Army is the military name of the four divisions of the Wet Thorn, Black Mountain, Wugu Nirvana, and Nirvana Yuewu, and the Wuxing Army is the military name shared by the Hantu Wangu Division, the Meigu Xi Division, the Doing Force, the Hidden Tanggu Division, and the Crane Thorn Tanggu Division. These tribes, large and small, are scattered all over the land of the five states. Respect the Great Liao Emperor as the Great Khan of the world. The military establishment is nominally under the jurisdiction of the commander of the Southwestern Recruitment Division, but in fact, both the soldier system and the equipment are still at an extremely primitive level, and those official and military titles that sound quite glamorous and conspicuous have far greater significance than actual significance. Since the Taizu period fought several battles with the Dingyan army, the Khitan has not used troops in the southwest for decades, on the one hand, the party Xiang Tuoba clan has always adopted a political attitude of submission to the Great Liao. On the other hand, the two sides are jointly facing the hard bone of the Fuzhou family, which is poor and sparsely populated. Poorer than Hedong, this place has neither enough strategic value nor economic value for Daliao, the food is tasteless, it is a pity to abandon it, it is a real chicken rib, so for many years, the southwest strategy of Daliao has been to use the Tuoba family and the Liu family to contain Fuzhou on three sides, so as to ensure the security of the national border in the southwest of Daliao.

This strategic situation underwent a major change in June last year, when the collapse of the Tuoba family of the Dingyan Army collapsed a corner of the layout of the southwest triangle, and the Liu family of the Northern Han Dynasty was from then on in the middle of the attack between the Yang and Li New Triangle Alliance and the Later Zhou court, and the southwest direction of the Great Liao suddenly began to bear strong military pressure, so that in September and October last year, Li Wenge gnawed off half of the German army and was forced to give up the rich Hetao Plain.

As a big country, the Great Liao Emperor and the center are naturally angry, this face loss is not light, but then that, the time happens to be the key time for the open and secret struggle between the forces of the DPRK and China to the white heat, and the Empress Dowager should be the Empress Dowager Shu Flat collapsed, shrouded in the imperial banquet and the clan nobles. Collapsed with a bang, the huge political power left behind by Lu Ya of the Great Liao and the Sinicized faction that had been suppressed by him during his lifetime was about to start a decisive battle, and since his accession to the throne, he has been known for his special ability to sleep, but the current emperor has a vague attitude during the Gazuo period, and the behemoth of Da Liao is undergoing the largest thoracotomy since the Zhen Kingdom, even if there is no general anesthesia. It is also difficult to expect an effective response to the arrogance of an ant on its toes thousands of miles away.

For the nobles of Da Liao, Li Jiange is also an ant!

Except for Jerod.

The 10 regiments of combat troops under the jurisdiction of the Military and Political Department of the Xijing South Road of the Eighth Route Army entered Ningbian Prefecture in a big way, covering each other and interspersing them with Shuozhou, and several military operations were carried out almost with zero time difference, and the three towns of Jingping, Daiyue, and Ningyuan, which belonged to the Shunyi Army of Shuozhou, fell on the same day, and the cavalry under the command of Shen Ke forced Duyang within ten days. Shuozhou is administratively under the jurisdiction of Yunzhong Datong Prefecture. Militarily, he belonged to the supernumerary members of the Southwest Recruitment Division, and Yelu Jieen was shocked to urgently recruit troops and horses, even if he was self-aware, he did not take the Heqing army in his hand to go to Shuozhou to touch the stones, but went to the east of the tribes to issue a levy order, and at the same time risked being reprimanded to the Shangjing Imperial Tent.

Fortunately, he did not rush into action, should be four on the tenth day of the third month, on the day he got the military report of the fall of Duyang, the Heqing army unit of the expedition to explore the column horse on the east bank of the Jinhebo and the security cavalry regiment scout troops encountered, eighteen expedition to the column horse only three of the remaining three returned to Dongshengzhou to report the news, the rest were all killed, although Yelu Quan was quite confident in the combat effectiveness of the expedition column horse, convinced that the enemy's losses must be above his own side, but especially this made him even more frightened. It took fifteen expeditionary horses to spare their lives to bring the general back, indicating that the enemy forces that appeared near Jinhebo were by no means a small force of harassment.

Yelu Zhien couldn't stop walking around in the big tent and groaning, he really couldn't tell how much troops Li Wenge had mobilized this time. Since the founding of the Great Liao. In addition to the blockade in the north and the Bohai Sea in the east, which once brought some military confusion to the Great Liao. I have never encountered such naked provocation and coercion from the Han people in the south. The difference in wildness between the farming and the nomadic peoples made the Han people inherently unaggressive, as evidenced by the history of the country over the past century, until the "strong Han people in the era of Xiaogong Khan." Jerewne thought it was just an ancient legend. ”

Since Taizu. The Han people who dared to brazenly provoke Da Liao with such a posture, Li Wenge was the first!

It was only now that the Joy of the Devil appeared, and it was really unbelievable that the ant was now powerful

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The tribal warriors were still in the process of assembling, and it was not easy for them to fight, and they had to bring their own military rations, bows, arrows, horses, and equipment. The previous mobilization was quite easy because it was a call for everyone to rob, and everything that was robbed belonged to their own families, and the ministries still had some motivation, but this time it was completely different, and there was almost no gain from this battle, which could be regarded as pure loss, and naturally no one wanted to do this kind of loss-making business, so it was very difficult for the ministries to respond.

Yelu Liangen crossed his fingers and calculated, if he could gather all the armed forces of more than a dozen tribes under the jurisdiction of the Recruitment Division to Dongsheng Prefecture within a month, plus the 2,800 river Qing troops in Dongsheng Prefecture, he would be able to have about 10,000 soldiers in his hands, provided that all ethnic groups did not ambush one Under the current circumstances, this is pure luxury.

"Give the elders of all ethnic groups another wolf head order, and tell them that if they win this battle, I will take out the grassland in Yunnei Prefecture and distribute it to them!"

The tribal cronies in the tent raised their heads in surprise and looked at the boss, Yunnei Prefecture was in the shadows. In the southern foothills, the most fertile pasture was given by Emperor Taizong to Yelu'en as a hereditary territory, and Yelu'en's "decision is undoubtedly to support this war with his own private wealth, and everyone understands that the emperor in the imperial tent in Shangjing will never compensate this younger brother or anything, and it is already thankful that he does not ask for guilt."

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Ye Lu En of the secretary of Han Kuangyin is the second son of Han Zhigu, the secretary of Taizu Zuo's order to order the political affairs of the Han Er, compared to his younger brother who is obsessed with medical skills, Wen Taowu is three points stronger, but after Taizu Yan drove the Empress Dowager to govern, excluding the Han people, he went to the southwest to recruit the division is also to avoid trouble, in comparison, although his younger brother Han Kuangsi has no ability, but he is good at medicine and political affairs The temperament is quite important to Emperor Taizong's empress Shulu, and he has always been left in the palace as an official. The same life is not the same, Han Kuangyin does not complain, the Han family, as the first family of Han blood in the Liao State, is scattered, and it is a branch that can be saved.

At this moment, the future Erlang of the Kuang Si family, who is known as Zhenyu, is twelve years old, and the fate of the Han family is still fluctuating with the turmoil of the Great Liao.

"The marshal is the right way to break the family and serve the country, so let's order!" Han Kuangyin looked at Yelu En and commanded.

All the people in the tent, only he understands the helplessness of Yelu Limit, Yelu's enemy Lu aided Han and took away the elite soldiers in the clouds, the West Kyoto Deployment Division is now an empty shelf, and the southwest recruitment division seems to be huge but is actually an "empty shell, Jinhebo is only fifty miles away from Dongshengzhou Prefecture, and there is almost no strategic buffer, and the troops gathered by Yelu Luen at the cost of his own grassland can repel the frontal enemy is the limit, and Shuozhou is no matter what.

Li Wenge's battalion commander was set up on a dirt slope on the east bank of the Jinhe River, guarded by the internal guards led by Zhang Guizhi, Qiu Huaiwei's Yan" infantry regiment camped in front of the east of the camp, Li Hu's Fushi infantry regiment guarded the southern flank of the camp at the confluence of the Jinhe River and the Great River in the south, and the two cavalry regiments of Baoan and Huai'an spread out to the northeast along the line of the Jinhe River to cover the battlefield.

In addition to the marshal's account, there are Yu Hou account and capital supervisor account, sub-division staff and military law, but at this moment, Cui Bao, the capital supervisor of the camp, participated in the Yu Hou meeting held by Qin Haoran, the deputy commander of the camp, and the capital Yu Hou Qin Haoran, in addition to Cui Bao, there were also four infantry cavalry regiment Yu Hou officers and staff officers of the Yu Hou Division of the camp.

Although Li Wenge was a pro-conscription, he unconsciously delegated the command to the commander of the Xifeng Minda, and the commanders of the battalions and the commanders of each regiment, and did not even participate in the battle plan 1 staff meeting presided over by Mu Haoran, but he called a group of people of all kinds from Fenglin Academy and Street Guanyu to hold a small meeting behind closed doors, and actually used the internal guard to guard the commander's account, and no one knew what important military affairs this Taiwei Lord led a group of half-grown boys to discuss with Mr. Kanyu.

"Vein! The most important thing is the distribution, thickness, surface and back of various ore veins, which should be specific to the data to form a mineral map! No matter what the battle looks like, this thing must be done, and it doesn't matter if the battle is won or lost. As long as this thing is done, it will be your great achievement, and we will not do it in vain. There are only two key things, one is to be realistic. One is one, and two is two. Yes is yes. Nothing is nothing; Second, it must be confidential, and it must not be disclosed to anyone except you in today's account. It doesn't matter how old he is. Li Wenge's tone was categorical, those students of Fenglin Academy were just okay, but the gentlemen who were temporarily tied up looked at each other one by one.

Is the army of "Taiwei" coming here to survey the ore veins and earth? One, a feng shui master with a concubine's beard and a scorched face boldly asked.

Li Wenge raised his eyes and glanced at him: "What's your name?" ”

The rat shrunk his neck: Small, villain Hu Yunwei, Chen Fujun's tomb was chosen by the villain! ”

Chen Shutong began to choose a tomb for himself so early, Li Wenge was dizzy for a while, he reluctantly calmed down, and coughed dryly: "We are fighting to make money in business, to survey mineral veins, and to make money from doing business on this land in the future."

Everyone looked at each other. The sky is vast and a desert grassland, doing a ghost business.

Li Wenge ignored them and said, "In the future, even if the army withdraws." We also want to set up an eight-way money bank branch in the cloud, and when the time comes, maybe we will set up a trading company there! ”

"A trading company?" Everyone was even more confused, and they really couldn't see any business opportunities in this nomadic tribe.

"Well, I've got the name in mind!" Li Wenge said triumphantly, "It's called the East Khitan Commune!" ”