Chapter 812: Beacon Flames Spread
However, it was said that Xiao Mo's army was preparing to attack Liao, and Kuai Yue on the eastern side of Liaodong also received Xiao Mo's order, and Kuai Yue, who had returned to the tribe, immediately decided to lead his men and horses to attack Tongzhou in Liao.
This resolution was naturally protested by many elders of the Jurchen tribe.
The reason why it was protested is because although it is now early spring, the whole territory of Liaodong is full of glaciers and snow-capped mountains, under such conditions, it is good to be able to live a good life and not be attacked by the Liao State.
The current patriarch of the Jurchen clan is Kuai Yue's brother, who is more than ten years older than Kuai Yue, and is a Northeast Han who is nearly fifty years old!
Kuai Yue's brother called Kuai Liang, and when he heard Kuai Yue's proposal, he interrogated carefully, and only then did he know that it was an order from Xiao Mo.
So Kuai Liang thought about it, and decided to support Kuai Yue's troops, and gave him 8,000 Jurchen warriors!
Don't look at the fact that there are only 8,000 men and horses, this is already close to a quarter of the strength of the entire Jurchen clan.
Now all the warriors of the Jurchen tribe add up, and there are only 40,000 people, which is the result of the Liao State's long-term suppression of the Jurchen tribe and the adoption of the policy of reducing Ding!
The policy of reducing the number of people who can fight is to constantly attack an area or tribe, killing them in the prime of life, so that the number of people they can fight can be controlled within a reliable range.
This is an extremely cruel policy, and it is also the reason why the Liao State has been able to absolutely control Liaodong for hundreds of years!
Don't let your Jurchens reproduce, send troops to attack you every year, kill a group of you, so that the number of your Jurchen population will never go up, and the soldiers and horses will be kept at about tens of thousands, and my Liao country will not be afraid of you!
It is also because of the Ding reduction policy that the Jurchens' hatred for the Liao State is very strong, and the same is true for the Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang brothers.
Not only them, it can be said that as soon as every Jurchen person was born, their hearts were already marked with hatred for the Liao State.
This is a deep hatred of blood that has been passed down from generation to generation, and such hatred can only be resolved with the blood of the enemy!
Originally, Kuai Liang wanted to give Kuai Yue 20,000 horses, but the elders of the Jurchen tribe very much disagreed with the use of troops against the Liao State in the cold winter, and in the end, Kuai Liang had no choice but to let Kuai Yue use the method of borrowing troops to borrow 8,000 warriors from the Jurchen tribe!
The number of people is only 8,000, and the Liao State has always had a saying that 'the Jurchen is less than 10,000, and the 10,000 are invincible', so it is ...... The combat effectiveness of these 8,000 people should not be underestimated!
Kuai Yue led the troops to rescue Shangjing, but the Jurchens also had a certain distance to Shangjing, and they had to cross Tongzhou in the Liao State in the middle.
This military city is a city used by the Liao State to monitor and deter the Jurchens, and there are naturally many people in it.
Kuai Yue was anxious to rescue Shangjing, so he traveled under the stars, and he did not dare to slack off, hoping to bypass the people of Kaizhou and go straight to Shangjing......
On the side of Beijing, after Xiao Guanyin led the soldiers to the front line, Zhang Xiaojie, who had just returned from running errands, was shocked when he heard the news.
My aunt and grandmother! Is that the front line you can go on?
So Zhang Xiaojie hurriedly found Xiao Hui and said to him: "Your Majesty, the princess heard that the princess led the troops to Linhuang Mansion to defend against the enemy, and I came to tell you!" also sent an edict to the emperor immediately to let the princess come back, otherwise, if the princess misses, I am afraid that I will ...... The consequences are unimaginable! β
When Xiao Hui heard this, he sighed and said, "Alas! Zhang Aiqing, why am I not worried about her? It's just that this girl is ...... I don't want to stop talking about it, that's it...... Just let her go to the front line to make trouble, Zhang Aiqing don't worry about it! β
When Zhang Xiaojie heard this, he said in his heart: My emperor...... Then Zhang Xiaojie said: "Doesn't the emperor know that the life and death of the Yuan Kingdom now lie on the princess alone?" β
Xiao Hui asked, "Why did Zhang Aiqing say this?" Why is the survival of my country all on Guanyin's body? β
Zhang Xiaojie said: "The emperor thinks about it, now the Mongolian tribes are so frightened by Zhang Yuanzhi's army that they dare not resist, and the morale of my Yuan country is greatly damaged, and it is not Zhang Yuanzhi's opponent at all. And...... Chen believes that in the near future, Xiao Mo will definitely put enough pressure on the Liao State to force Zhang Yuanzhi to withdraw his troops. By that time...... Isn't the life and death of my Da Yuan completely between Xiao Mo's thoughts? β
When Xiao Hui heard this, he felt that this was really the case.
Indeed, after being defeated by Zhang Yuanzhi, the soldiers of the Mongol tribes collapsed, and Xiao Hui lost his previous arrogance and ambition, so he had to obediently determine a fact.
This fact is that no matter whether he Xiao Hui is the emperor or not, his power is still very weak now, and he must still see the faces of An Chao and Xiao Mo!
And Xiao Guanyin's safety is the only point of implication between Xiao Mo and Yuan Guo, Zhang Xiaojie is right, if Xiao Guanyin has something wrong on the front line, I am afraid that Xiao Mo will be furious, and then implicate Yuan Guo, so Xiao Hui hurriedly asked Zhang Xiaojie to help issue a golden edict and send it to Linhuang Mansion to transfer Xiao Guanyin back.
The soldiers sent the edict to the front line, but Xiao Guanyin didn't look at it, and said directly to the person who delivered the edict: "The general is outside, and the king's order is not affected!" Go back and tell your father, and say that what your son is doing now is what you do, and ...... This princess is still their former queen, forgive them and don't dare to do anything to this princess! β
The messenger didn't dare to do anything to Xiao Guanyin, so he could only return to Shangjing with the golden edict, and told Xiao Hui Xiao Guanyin's words word for word.
Xiao Hui was really helpless, so he asked Zhang Xiaojie again, who listened to Xiao Guanyin's words and said to Xiao Hui: "Your Majesty, the princess is confused!" As far as the minister knows, now the military and political power of the Liao State has been controlled by the old thief Yelu Aluhan, and Yelu Hongji has been put under house arrest by this old thief! This is exactly the result of the subordinate's scheming, and now ...... Yelu Aruhan must be a person who wants to ascend to the throne of the emperor of this Liao country, if the princess is captured by them, doesn't this just give Yelu Aluhan an excuse? β
When Xiao Hui heard this, he couldn't be surprised by the coup d'Γ©tat of the Liao State, and immediately asked the messenger to go to the front line to find Xiao Guanyin.
And...... Xiao Hui was afraid that Xiao Guanyin would not obey the order, so he sent eight eunuchs to the front line, but where was Xiao Guanyin willing to come back?
In half a day, Xiao Guanyin rejected ten golden edicts in a row, just to stay on the front line.
Xiao Guanyin's refusal of the ten golden edicts also spread on the front line, and the soldiers saw that the former queen of their country, the current princess, actually had such a determination, so their morale was also shocked.
Under such circumstances, Zhang Yuanzhi waited for tens of thousands of infantry behind his army, and then ...... Zhang Yuanzhi waved the banner, and the horn of war was also sounded!