Although before the war, Zhao Xiaoxi expected that the start of the Song Liao war would cause a shock in all directions. But in his opinion, Song Liao didn't distinguish the winner or loser. Compared with the countries along the border, they dare not act rashly. The most likely to participate in the war is also divided into winners and losers.

Take Western Xia, which was allied with the Song Dynasty and bordered the Liao State. In this battle of Song and Liao, they were undoubtedly the happiest. can join this war, Western Xia did not dare for the time being, but did not dare in the later period.

As Cho Hyo-seok learned from later generations, there is no eternal alliance between countries, only eternal interests. Whether it is the Great Liao or the Great Song Dynasty, if they lose in this battle, they will encounter the matter of the wall falling down and everyone pushing it.

At present, the sudden rebellion of the Jurchen tribe is also due to the excessive persecution of the Liao State, so that the Jurchen tribe that gradually completed the unification. Unwilling to continue to accept the rule of the Great Liao and the Khitan, he angrily killed the officers and soldiers of the Great Liao and captured the battle of the eastern Liaodong city.

Zhao Xiaoxi, who learned the news, immediately sent elite spies into the eastern Liaoning region to inquire about the military situation. In his opinion, having the Jurchen tribe in the rear to contain the Liao army was undoubtedly a good thing for the Song army attacking in the front.

Even in this case, Goryeo, who was originally hesitant to send troops to the war. After learning the news of the rebellion of the Jurchen tribe, he immediately refused to send troops to support the Liao State in the name of border instability.

Yelu Hongji, the embattled Great Liao Emperor, naturally knew that all this was caused by the Jurchen rebellion. To this end, he gathered heavy troops to attack Liaodong, hoping to quell the rebellion of the Jurchen tribes.

What is somewhat surprising is that the Jurchen tribe seems to have expected the counterinsurgency of the Great Liao Iron Cavalry. The occupied cities, personnel and materials were all emptied, and a tug-of-war was fought with the Liao army in the eastern Liaodong region.

Even before long, the Jurchen tribe sent emissaries. Arrived at the camp of the Song army to meet Zhao Xu. Ask Zhao Xu, the Song emperor, to be canonized, and hope to join forces with the Great Song to overthrow the Great Liao established by the Khitans.

If Zhao Xiaoxi was here, he would definitely sigh that this Jurchen envoy, in addition to being young, is still a person he needs to watch out for. This messenger is. The founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty in later generations was a bone.

As the second son of the current leader of the Jurchen tribe, Wanyan Agu is naturally not small in the Jurchen tribe. This time, he took the initiative to come to Yanyun to meet Emperor Song in order to ask for a title for his father.

understands that at this time, a title gives the Jurchen an official status. Let them be more able to get the cooperation of the people of the tribe and the followers of more minority tribes in the matter of overthrowing the rule of the Liao State.

If you want to resist the encirclement and suppression of the elite cavalry of Daliao. The Jurchen tribes must pull together all the forces they can. And the title they need, for Zhao Xu, there should be no difficulty.

Most of the forces are concentrated in the Jurchen tribes of Liaodong, and the title they need this time is the king of Liaodong. As long as the Song Emperor gave this title, after the overthrow of the Great Liao, the Jurchen tribe swore allegiance to the Song Dynasty.

Regarding Wanyan's request, Zhao Xu said very rationally: "Wanyan Gongzi, you Jurchen are so sure." This battle of Song and Liao, the victorious side. It must be the Great Song? ”

In the face of Zhao Xu's inquiry, Wanyan Aguta said very respectfully: "Back to the emperor, the Great Liao Emperor is cruel and unkind, only focusing on the interests of their Khitan clan, but ignoring the life and death of other tribes, and the tribes of the grassland already have a lot of resentment against him.

Although it was the first time for the subordinate to meet the emperor. But he also knew that Emperor Song was young and promising, and he was kind-hearted. Attached to the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, the ministers believed that the Jurchen people would also be happy that there was a good emperor who could truly deserve allegiance. ”

This sycophant is naturally good, and Zhao Xu thought about it and said to Zhang Dian beside him: "Zhang Aiqing." Do you think I want to approve Yan Gongzi's request? Speaking of which, this should be the second time I have been crowned king since I succeeded to the throne, and I am still a king with a different surname. ”

In the face of Zhao Xu's inquiry, Zhang Dian said very rationally: "Wanyan Gongzi, the matter of the king is very important. The emperor also said earlier that this was the first king with a different surname in the Great Song Dynasty, so he had to act cautiously.

Although the old minister doesn't know much about the Jurchens, he wants to know, after the emperor bestows your father with the title of noble, will you serve the emperor loyally? According to the information that Lao Chen learned, the Jurchen tribe should be in a bad situation at the moment, right? ”

Wanyan Aguta, who seemed to have done some investigation when he came, did not get angry in the face of Zhang Dan's suspicion: "The subordinate has seen Zhang Chenxiang, even if the subordinate lives in the remote Liaodong, but he has also heard of the prestige of the minister.

Before the subordinate came to the barracks again, he had already obtained his father's consent. Regardless of this victory or defeat, the subordinates and the 1,000 tribal cavalry under his command will serve the emperor by his side. No matter what you send, don't dare to disobey! ”

The meaning of this passage, not to mention that Zhang Xuan understood it, even Zhao Xu understood it. The meaning of Wanyan Aguda is very straightforward, that is, he can stay as a proton. Once the Jurchen loses his trust, the Great Song Dynasty can take his life at any time.

Despite this proton, the real meaning is not much. But Zhang Dun felt that the sincerity of the Jurchen seemed to be not bad. What's more, Wanyan also said it before. This time, in order to overthrow the rule of the Great Liao, they also gathered 100,000 people who controlled the strings.

Although compared to the hundreds of thousands of cavalry in Daliao, it seems a bit insufficient. But Zhang Dun also understands the truth that the enemy of the enemy is the friend. A king of Liaodong, in exchange for the loyalty of 100,000 cavalry, is also worth a try.

Whether it is the Great Song Dynasty or these Jurchen tribes, the purpose is the same, that is, to completely destroy the foundation of the Great Liao. If the Great Song Dynasty captured the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, it would have a great deterrent to the nomads.

And the Jurchen tribe, who live far away in Liaodong and are also some distance away from the Great Song Dynasty, it seems that they really don't have to worry too much. And according to the pre-war arrangement of the Song Dynasty, the goal of this battle is to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

If Yelu Hongji, who is sitting in Zhongjing, is restrained by the cavalry of the Jurchen tribe, it will also play a big role in accomplishing the predetermined goal. For a while, Zhang Dian felt that a seal should still be worth the risk.

Seeing Zhang Dian nodding, Zhao Xu thought for a while and said, "Okay, since you are willing to belong to me, then I will give you what you want." It's just that I remember that I hate betrayal very much. If the Jurchens dare to betray in the future, I will let you know the consequences. ”

After getting the answer he wanted, Wanyan Aguda immediately knelt down and said: "Please believe that the Jurchen tribe will definitely become the sharpest saber in the emperor's hands." Any enemy who dares to invade the emperor will be an enemy of the Jurchen tribe. ”

In this respectful allegiance, Zhao Xu personally wrote a holy decree in the name of the Great Song Emperor. Let Wanyan Ah Gu beat, send someone back to Liaodong, and hand it over to his father. It is considered to give him one, a nominal canonization.

Then he escorted the 1,000 elite cavalry that came from Yan Agu's fight and accompanied the Song army. Under the dispatch of Zhang Dan, he really dared to fight, so that the cavalry of the cavalry battalion also admired the bravery and good fighting of these cavalry.

Only Zhao Xiaoxi always felt that there was something wrong with this. He personally wrote a secret fold and handed it to Wu Dingyuan, the commander of the cavalry water word battalion. There is also Wang Zishu, the commander of the Fengzi Battalion, who asked them to keep an eye on every move of these Jurchen cavalry.

As soon as they make any inappropriate moves, they immediately send cavalry to kill them. For the future founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Zhao Xiaoxi is still somewhat jealous. But at the moment, he didn't have much to say.

After all, at the moment, the offensive of the Song army is good, and the three-way army is progressing smoothly. The state cities belonging to the Liao State were recovered by the army. Even in the process of recovery, the casualties of the Song army continued to increase.

But in the same way, the strength of the Great Liao in the state capitals must also be continuously reduced. As for Zhao Xiaoxi, in order to ensure that in case, he had already led a thousand regrouped ghost cavalry troops to arrive at the secret camp arranged in Nanjing, Daliao.

According to the information obtained, Zhao Xu had the cooperation of the artillery team, and the siege became much smoother. Although the appearance of artillery caught the Liao State off guard. But later, Da Liao also adjusted the defensive arrangement.

Some of the gates were sealed before the battle. Even if the city gate was blown open, the Song army could not attack the city in one fell swoop. More sieges ended with artillery and infantry attacking the city.

In this way, although the casualties of the Song army were greatly reduced. But for Da Liao, there is also a sense of survival oppression that is at stake. Facing the main force of the Great Song Dynasty that was about to enter the city, the Great Liao cavalry of Nanjing Mansion was also in a nervous assembly.

Even in order to fight a decisive battle with the Song army outside the city of Nanjing. Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji also dispatched 50,000 elite cavalry to Nanjing from the relatively tight troops, hoping to break the Song army's direct advance by virtue of the superiority of troops.

Faced with this situation, Zhang Dian also urgently ordered Yang Shipeng's troops, who had completed the battle of Sizhou recovery, to immediately turn to stop the forward attack. The elite border army was retained, responsible for the defense of the land of the four states, and the main force of the army rushed to join the Chinese army.

This decisive battle of Song and Liao, which should have been sealed in history, reached a staggering 500,000 troops as the two sides continued to deploy troops. The strength of the two sides was almost equal, but the Liao army was more cavalry.

In the face of this upcoming war, according to the meaning of Zhang Xuan, he wanted to ask Zhao Xu to retreat. But Zhao Xu, who was already ambitious, was not willing to give up the opportunity to enter the imperial city of Liao, and bluntly said that he would fight with the army in Daliao.

In this kind of big war, it will really form a situation where corpses are scattered all over the field and rivers of blood are flowing. Zhao Xiaoxi has an intuition that this battle is afraid to be very dangerous. Da Liao, who gambled on the fortunes of the country, was afraid that he would never be able to afford to lose again.

But based on the information received from all over the country, Zhao Xiaoxi couldn't find it, and it made him feel a chill. In the end, he could only stay in the secret camp and wait for the decisive battle to come.

In any case, Zhao Xiaoxi also hoped that the Song army would attack Nanjing Mansion and recover this imperial city for later generations. Only by taking Nanjing Mansion and recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun can be regarded as achieving the expected goal.

With this natural barrier, give Da Song a little time to recuperate. In the future, it will be much easier to dominate the world. So, will Cho Hyo-seok's expectations really go as he wishes? (To be continued......)