Chapter 334: Establishment of Western Liao
Li Qianshun had a batch of trotting shells in his hands, but the number was not very large. Originally, www.biquge.info he believed that he would not be able to use the weapon of small cannonballs in his conquest of the Uighurs of Gaochang. After all, in the eyes of Li Qianshun, the fighting power of the Gaochang Uighurs was scum.
Originally, everything was also developed according to Li Qianshun's ideas, but the arrival of Yelu Dashi changed everything.
The retreating Uighurs of Gaochang were already counterattacking the Xia army from time to time, and the battle between the two sides turned into a tug-of-war, and the casualties of the Xia army began to increase.
Looking back at the east, Zhao Shuo had already controlled Qi Land, and also got a large area of land north of the Huai River - Dasan Pass from Zhao Gou, and Qi Land returned to Zhao Shuo's hands again, and also attached Yue Fei and Yue's army.
Jin Guo also has a small cannonball, although there are not many, but it also has a certain deterrent effect.
To the north there is a Hamuhei Mongol kingdom, which is not very large in territory now, but it is extremely warlike. How many small shells there are in hand, no one knows.
The Hamuhei Mongols are warlike, but there is still a Kereh tribe separated from Western Xia, which should be a good thing, but the Kereh tribe also has small cannonballs.
It can be said that all the threatening big forces in the east of Western Xia, except for Zhao Gou, have small cannonballs.
This surprised Li Qianshun, who wanted to use small artillery shells in the Uighur battlefield in Gaochang, and postponed the plan to mobilize small artillery shells.
He knew very well what the small cannonball meant to Western Xia. There are small cannonballs, which can be placed there to keep the peace temporarily, if not, these wolf-like forces may give Xixia a surprise attack at any time.
Li Qianshun didn't dare to bet. But he couldn't swallow it.
In desperation, Li Qianshun thought of Li Yuanhao, the relationship between Li Yuanhao and Zhao Shuo, and the military alliance signed between Western Xia and Zhao Shuo.
Let Zhao Shuo send the army to help, Li Qianshun knew very well that this was almost impossible. First, the stipend of the military alliance was that when one side of Western Xia and Zhao Shuo was attacked, the other side must go all out to rescue. And now it was the Western Xia that the Uighur conquest of Gaochang was blocked, and the military alliance signed with the two sides was not applicable. came, Zhao Shuo did not have many soldiers in his hands. Even if you get Yue Fei and Yue Jiajun now, you still get a lot of new land. But with the Yuejia army, the Zhejia army and the recruited recruits, plus all kinds of weapons in Zhao Shuo's hands, Zhao Shuo has no problem protecting himself, but when it comes to attacking, it is far behind. Therefore, this time, Li Qianshun had the same idea as Wanyan Wu begging to buy at the beginning, and tried to find a way to trade with Zhao Shuo and buy small cannonballs.
Although Zhao Shuo issued an order that all military supplies were prohibited from being exported, Wanyan Wu still bought a batch of small artillery shells. This made Li Qianshun see an opportunity.
Wanyan Wu can beg to buy, and so can he. As long as he got a batch of small cannonballs from Zhao Shuo that could take down the Uighurs of Gaochang and Yelu Dashi, and paid a price, Li Qianshun thought it was worth it.
The will soon arrived in Yanzhou, and after Li Yuanhao saw it, he didn't say a word, and went to Luoyang with Tuoba Hong non-stop.
From Li Qianshun's edict to Li Yuanhao's arrival in Luoyang, a total of 15 days passed. In the past fifteen days, Yue Fei of Qidi has begun the reform of Qidi with the help of Wu Yashi, and the Yue family's army has been dispersed and stationed in various places to maintain order. Liu Yu and other royal families of Qi who were still in Qi were rewarded by Zhao Shuo one by one, and they were all given certain official positions, but all of them were fictitious titles and had no power.
In the past, the magistrate of Qidi, Zhao Shuo let Wu Yashi conduct an assessment, and he could continue to use the appointment, and those with poor ability were delegated to the official position and slowly cultivated. As for the category of people who follow the relationship, they are all removed from official positions and demoted to commoners.
The Qi army, which was still in Qidi, was not taken away by Zhang Jun, and after the Yue Jiajun was absorbed, he was retrained.
The laws implemented in Qi were exactly the same as those in Chang'an and other places controlled by Zhao Shuo, and the people were exempted from harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the whole people cheered, and Zhao Shuo won the hearts of the people.
Ju Zheng was originally in Qi to track down Zhao Heng's killing, Zhang Jun had been to Qi and a bunch of black-clothed people entered Qi Land, all of which he found out.
After Feng Yue Fei waited for Qi, Zhao Shuo also arranged a new trust for Ju Zheng - to build a warship in the port.
Zhao Heng's death, Zhao Shuo had already guessed that eight or nine would not be far from ten, but this was not the time to find out. His immediate priority now is to address hunger in the areas under his control.
During this time, Zhao Gou was also not idle, he had returned to Lin'an and changed his name to Shaoxing. and mobilized all the troops that could be mobilized in the Great Song Dynasty to go to the south bank of the Huai River to conquer Li Cheng.
The Uighurs in the west became a purgatory at this time, and the Western Xia army fought bloody battles with the combined forces of the Uighurs of Gaochang and Yelu Dashi. The two sides have changed from a competition for one city and one place to a competition for grass and trees. Every time the Xia army took a step forward, it would pay more than a dozen or even twenty casualties, and the same was true of the combined forces of the Gaochang Uighurs and Yelu Dashi.
Yelu Dashi was originally a nobleman of the Liao State, and now he is being followed and respected as the emperor, so naturally he did not really come to defect to the Gaochang Uighurs.
He began to help the Gaochang Uighurs, firstly, to gain the trust of the Gaochang Uighurs, and secondly, because the Xia army was really strong, if he took advantage of the chaos to help the Xia army destroy the Gaochang Uighurs, in the end, he could not defeat the Xia army, and he would not get anything. When the time comes, you have to run with your tail between your legs. He wouldn't do this kind of thankless thing.
His idea was to help the Uighurs of Gaochang and consume the Xia army until he was able to fight it.
However, the Uighur emperor was not stupid, and after the Uighurs and the Xia army were in a tug-of-war, he found various excuses to let the Uighur army rest and retreat, leaving Yelu Dashi's soldiers to fight with the Xia army.
For this, Yelu Dashi was naturally aware of it. He knew very well that if this continued, his soldiers would be exhausted by the Xia army sooner or later, and that when the time came, whether the Xia army won to capture the Uighurs in Gaochang or the Uighurs in Gaochang won to keep the Uighurs in Gaochang had nothing to do with him.
After some thought, Yelu Dashi decided to meet the commander of the Xia army this time, that is, Li Qianshun, the emperor of Western Xia.
The meeting between the two sides was held under extremely secret conditions, and no one knew what Yelu Dashi had talked about with Li Qianshun at this meeting, nor did he know what agreements the two sides had made.
It's just that the day after the meeting of the parties, the fighting stopped.
And at this time, Li Yuanhao arrived in Luoyang and met Zhao Shuo.
After Zhao Shuo and Li Yuanhao were polite, Li Yuanhao told Zhao Shuo about the war in the Uighurs of Gaochang, and then hoped that Zhao Shuo would sell a batch of small cannonballs to Western Xia.
After Zhao Shuo listened, he just said a word. "The Uighurs of Gaochang no longer existed, and Yelu Dashi established a new Great Liao there."