But as the Jin-Liao War progressed, the prospect of the collapse of the Liao State had gradually emerged, and the same question appeared in front of the Yandi Han people more than a hundred years later: under the chaos of the collapse of the Liao State, how could the Yandi Han people survive this catastrophe. Faced with this question, the Han people in Yandi made a variety of answers, including those who advocated voting in the Song Dynasty, those who advocated investing in gold, and those who voted in the Song Dynasty first and then invested in gold. But in fact, there is no difference in essence between these choices, their starting point is only out of the political situation at the time and their own interests, and the monarch and the national righteousness do not occupy much weight in the consideration of the Yan Di Han people, because these things are too luxurious for them to consider between strong neighbors. The reason why their answers differed was simply that the information they had obtained was different from the conclusions they had reached after analyzing and judging them.

At this time, the ritual of shooting willows had ended, and the victor was a female knight named Wanyan Yinshuke. According to the custom of the female no, the winner was entitled to a large reward from the chieftain, perhaps a beautiful slave girl, a sturdy suit of armor, or a horse. Among the female chieftains on the earthen platform, the most noble is naturally Wanyan Aguta, and I saw him smile and say: "Vigorous eagle, what reward do you want to get?" ”

Wanyan Yinshu raised his head and replied loudly: "Venerable Emperor, I have only one request, and that is to be able to stand at the forefront of the team attacking the Khitans in Beijing!" ”

"Good, good! He is worthy of being a straight man! Wanyan Aguda stood up: "Yinshuke, I agree to your request, let you stand at the front, and you also have the right to choose the loot in front of everyone." Speaking of this, Wanyan Agu turned his head, looked at the dusty Wushu on the side, and said loudly: "As for you, Wushu!" Since you can't even sit firmly on horseback, go and lead the horse for the good man who is straight, and wait until you know what it takes to be worthy of a son who is perfect and good! ”

"Whoa!" Wanyan Yinshu and Wushu replied in unison, the difference was that Wanyan Yinshuke's voice was full of joy of victory, while Wushu was full of humiliation.

"Two envoys, let's see how the children attack the city!" Wan Yan turned around, a relaxed smile on his face.

Compared with many cities in the Central Plains, Shangjing of the Liao Kingdom, which is located on the grassland, is very simple in terms of scale and defense facilities, without facilities such as horse faces, urn cities, sheep and horse walls, and only a simple city wall. Of course, this Shangjing city has not been tested by the enemy several times in the more than 100 years since it was built, after all, the Khitan people have been the overlords of the grassland for more than 100 years, and they have always been the only ones who fight others, and few others have beaten them, so naturally they have not put much effort into building the city wall. What's more, the female straight man had already defeated the main force of the Khitan army in the field, while the Liao Emperor was drinking and hunting all day long thousands of miles away, abandoning the ancestral mausoleum, and it was naturally impossible to talk about how high the morale of the remaining Wujing soldiers in the city could be.

Due to the occupation of Liaodong Province, the Nü Nao people controlled the Bohai people and mature women who were highly civilized, and their technical level improved rapidly. Zhao Liangsi and Wang Huan on the high ground were surprised to see that the army of the female direct army had a large number of siege equipment such as wooden donkeys, ladders, and catapults, all of which were built with timber obtained from demolishing buildings outside the city and cutting down the woods by the river, and the rout of the Khitan army was so rapid that they did not even have time to burn the buildings outside the city to avoid allowing the enemy to obtain wood for the construction of siege equipment. Of course, the use of wooden donkeys and ladders required the filling of the trenches outside the city walls, a task performed by a large number of civilians and captives captured by the female cavalry.

Forced by the spears of the female soldiers, the captives and civilians slowly moved towards the trenches, flanked by small cavalry to ensure that the poor men could not escape. In this large group, each of whom carried a bundle of firewood or a bag of earth on his shoulder, which was used to fill the trenches, and that was to consume the defenders on the city walls, for whom both arrows and energy were limited, and to shoot these poor men, who not so long ago had been in their robes and neighbours, was also mentally devastating, and few could remain indifferent to such devastation.

As this large black crowd approached the city wall, there was a dull drum sound from the city tower, and then Zhao Liangsi saw a rain of arrows flying out of the city wall, from the high ground he could clearly see a chaotic situation at the front of the crowd, some people fell, more people dropped the things on their shoulders and wanted to escape, but the dense crowd behind them blocked their way, a captive wanted to escape around the crowd to the open space on the right, a female straight cavalry immediately rushed over and pierced him with a spear, and the body was carried up by a huge momentum, fell to the ground, scaring many people who tried to emulate him back.

No matter how dense the arrows on the city wall were, the crowd was still slowly approaching the trench, and bundles of firewood, dirt bags, and corpses rained down on the trench, and the trench was filled in several sections with about half a sound, the long section was twenty or thirty zhang, and the short one was more than ten zhang. Seeing all this, Wanyan nodded slightly, and the sticky Han on the side turned around and shouted twice to the heralds on the side, and the thunderous drums began to sound, Zhao Liangsi noticed that the siege equipment began to move forward slowly, and the fourth prince who had just fallen off the horse's back was at the front of the team, obviously his task was to command the siege equipment to open a gap and prepare for the opening of the gap.

"Zhao Longtu, this barbarian chief is really the heart of Yidi, the generation of dogs and sheep, he actually let his son do such a thing!" Wang Huan said in a low voice, although he was only a scribe, he could also see that the task of the vultures was extremely dangerous, and it was better than the captives who had just gone to fill the trenches. Compared with the Great Song Dynasty, although his son was born to observe the envoys, festival envoys and other ** eunuchs piled up on the top of their heads, they often never left Tokyo City in their twenties, and the difference is not only in the Tao.

"What Brother Wang said is very true!" Zhao Liangsi said perfunctorily, with his knowledge, he would naturally not be like Wang Huan. By this time, the siege equipment of the Jin army had approached the city wall, and the defenders on the wall began to fire rockets, throw torches, and even pour boiling water, oil, and even lead into the equipment. The besieging female army suffered casualties immediately, but Yinshuke, who was the commander, brandished the spear in his hand, shouted the hesitant and timid soldiers, and pressed the wooden donkey and siege tower close to the city gate, as if he did not feel the storm of death falling around him. The archers in the siege tower and the catapults of the Bohai soldiers also began to fire live ammunition and arrows at the defenders of the city, trying their best to suppress the defenders on the city walls.

Finally a wooden donkey approached the gate, and the female soldiers under the roof made of heavy wood and cowhide began to push the thick wooden stakes wrapped in wrought iron, and slammed into the gate. The guards on the gate threw torches and rockets downward, but because the gate was built without horse faces and other facilities that could be fired from the side, the wooden donkeys that rushed to the gate had actually entered the dead end of the shooting, and only a few shots from the top of the gate road could be shot, but these small number of arrows and torches were also blocked by the wet cowhide on the roof, and the cracks in the gate gradually increased, and the gate was about to be knocked open.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang inside the city gate, and the soldiers who were defending the city removed a step stone, threw it through the gap in the top of the city gate, and smashed it right on the roof of the wooden donkey. The heavy stone stone pierced through the roof, and immediately smashed several female soldiers inside into meat cakes, and then the defenders threw down the boiling oil and torches, and the flames slammed up, and the few female soldiers who survived rushed out of it screaming, and the flames flew over their bodies, like several humanoid torches.

Seeing this terrible scene, even the female soldiers, who were known for their bravery, couldn't help but stop, and with the help of boiling oil, the flames burned on the wooden donkeys, and the city gate was tightly blocked, and this round of attack was about to be repulsed.

At this moment, a burly figure rushed into the flames of the city gate hole, got under the wooden donkey that could collapse at any time, and pushed the wooden stake to hit the city gate. Seeing this, the other female soldiers also rushed in with shouts, and under the impact of the wooden stakes, the city gate finally turned into a pile of broken wood, and the female soldiers let out a burst of cheers.

"Drums, trumpets!" Sticky Han ordered loudly, with the sound of high-pitched horns and drums, the cavalry of the female straight rushed towards the city gate, the defenders of the city finally collapsed, abandoned their weapons and armor and fled to any place in the city where they could hide themselves, the pursuing female straight soldiers easily cut off their heads, and a large amount of blood seeped into the rammed earth city wall, forming a special black, and in this way, the capital city fell.

"Sure enough, he is worthy of being the son of His Majesty!" Sticky Han laughed.

"It's still a little bold!" Wanyan turned his head proudly and smiled at Zhao Liangsi: "Envoy Zhao, in order to express my kindness to the Great Emperor of the Southern Dynasty, I want to give you a gift!" Speaking of this, he turned to a female chief beside him and ordered: "Hulu Bu, you send an order to enter the city, go to the ancestral tomb and temple of the Khitan Dog Emperor!" ”

"Whoa!" He replied and strode out, the armor leaves on his body hitting each other, making a crisp sound.

"The sincerity of the Great Emperor touched heaven and earth, and the lower officials will definitely tell this to the saint when he returns! As long as the covenant is completed, our Great Song Dynasty will immediately send troops north to attack the Liao. Zhao Liangsi hurriedly bowed down and said, Wanyan Aguta's meaning is very clear, he burned the ancestral tomb and temple of the emperor of Liao, it is naturally impossible to negotiate peace with Liao, which is equivalent to writing a very weighty letter of nomination for the upcoming Song-Jin covenant, and then it depends on the expression of the Song Dynasty.

"Good, good!" Wanyan Agu laughed very happily, the founding emperor of the Dajin Kingdom was over fifty years old at the time, and this age was already the twilight of an ancient person. It can be said that the purpose and career of his life is to ** and destroy the Liao Empire that is pressing on the female straight nation, and this purpose is very close to success by this time, for this old man, what could be happier than seeing this become a reality?

"Your Majesty the Great Emperor!" Zhao Liangsi solemnly took a letter from Wang Huan on the side, and presented it with both hands: "This is my handwritten imperial book from the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, the book has the alliance to attack Liao, and please accept it!" ”

"Good, good!" Wanyan Aguda took the imperial book, handed it to the attendants on the side, and said with a smile: "I heard that there is a Yanhe Building in the upper capital, which is the residence of the Emperor of Liao, so it is better to wait for you and I to enter the city, and put wine and drink on the Yanhe Tower to form a covenant." I wonder what your envoy thinks? ”

"The foreign minister obeys his will!"

Yanhe Building, because most of the defenders surrendered after the Jin army entered the city, this building is generally intact, except for the smell of wood and burning corpses in the air, the people in the building do not even feel that this is a city that has just been captured.

On the main hall on the top floor, dozens of female nobles sat on the ground according to their customs, even the Great Emperor Wanyan Aguta, the only thing that could distinguish him from other female nobles was the Hu bed below. In order to show respect for the Song envoy, Zhao Liangsi and Wang Huan sat on the right hand side of Wanyan Aguta, and they were only two or three feet apart. A Bohai scribe was whispering the handwritten letter of Huizong brought by Zhao Liangsi into a female straight voice and speaking it to everyone. The content of the letter is very simple: "According to Yanjing and the state city under its jurisdiction, it was originally a Han land, if it is allowed to restore the old, it will be transferred from the source to the Khitan silver silk, and it can be discussed." Although there is no national trust, forgive me for not lying to me! ”

After Yan Agu inquired, he smiled and said: "The Khitan has no way, it has been defeated by me, and the fields of the prefecture and county to which he belongs are naturally all my home, in order to thank the emperor of the Southern Dynasty for his kindness, and Yanjing was originally a Han land, and Yanyun was authorized to be the Southern Dynasty!" ”

Zhao Liangsi was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly nailed him to death in Wanyan's words: "Today, it is said that the covenant is established, although there is no oath, the heavens, earth, ghosts and gods are also coming, and they cannot be changed!" ”

"That's natural, your envoy can ask around, my Aguta doesn't count if he speaks!" After Yan Agu laughed, everyone laughed, and when the laughter was over, he asked casually: "The Great Emperor of the Southern Dynasty said in his letter that there were Khitan silver silks, but he didn't say how many, can your envoy know the specific number?" ”

Zhao Liangji was stunned when he heard this, and was thinking about what kind of number to report, and Wang Huan on the side responded: "Pray to the Great Emperor, it should be thirty thousand silver silk in one Chinese New Year's Eve!" ”

Hearing this number, the faces of the golden nobles in the field all showed satisfied smiles, and even Wanyan Aguda himself laughed easily. Suddenly, an abrupt voice broke this atmosphere: "During the Khitan period, Yanjing did not belong to the Southern Dynasty, and it was still with 500,000. Today, with Yanjing, why is there only 300,000? ”

Everyone's eyes focused on the place where the voice came from, but it was the Bohai scribe who was translating the documents, and he was looking at Zhao Liangsi with a sneer.

Wanyan Aguda's face turned cold: "Two noble envoys, how many are the Southern Dynasty and the Khitans?" 500,000 or 300,000? ”

Zhao Liangsi secretly screamed badly, he knew that although the female straight people were honest and simple, they hated others to deceive them the most, if they found out that the Song people were deceiving, then it would be troublesome, and it was not impossible that the covenant would not be successful.

"Tell the emperor, it was originally 300,000, and later the Khitans fought with my Southern Dynasty for the land of Nanguan, and there were 200,000 more."

"I see!" Wanyan Agu's face was slightly gentle: "Based on what a certain family has seen, it is still 500,000 yuan, after all, the land of Nanguan is not as important as the land of Yanjing!" ””

Zhao Liangsi had no choice but to answer: "What the emperor said is true!" At this time, he couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart why the official family mentioned the matter of silver silk with the Khitan in the letter, which was originally an alliance between the two countries to attack Liao, but now it became a Song people asking for gold to attack Liao, which is much more troublesome to talk about.

Seeing that Zhao Liangsi had agreed to his request, Wanyan Agu's face became better-looking, and he said with a smile: "Since the covenant has been made, come and drink to celebrate the marriage between the two countries!" The female chieftains also applauded, the population of the female straight at that time was only hundreds of thousands, and being able to get 500,000 silver silk every year at once was simply a big pie in the sky, which couldn't help but make them ecstatic. As the banquet began, the atmosphere in the hall gradually improved. Zhao Liangsi's heart is secretly beating the drum, as a fugitive minister of Liao, he has a much deeper situation in Yanyun and even Liaodong than Huizong and others, and he knows that there are quite flaws in Song Huizong's handwritten letter as soon as he hears it, such as the "Yanjing and the state city under the management of the letter" If according to the administrative planning of the Liao State, it only includes Danzhou, Shunzhou, Jingzhou, Jizhou, Zhuozhou, Yizhou, known as Yanjing Road. In addition to the "Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun" ceded by Shi Jingjiao at that time, in addition to Mozhou and Yingzhou, there were also seven prefectures such as Yunzhou, Huanzhou, Yingzhou, Shuozhou, Ruzhou, Xinzhou, and Wuzhou. Not to mention Pingzhou, Yingzhou, and Luanzhou, which controlled the three prefectures of eastern Hebei, which controlled the western Liaoning corridor before Shi Jingjiao ceded it to the Khitan, by Yelu Abaoji. The purpose of the Song people's joint Jin attack on Liao was to regain all the territory south of the Great Wall, and if it was written in the handwritten letter of Song Huizong, I am afraid that half of it would not have been. More importantly, if you want to control the land of Youyan, you must control many key passes on the Yanshan Mountain Range in order to keep the nomadic cavalry on the grassland out of the Hebei Plain. Its main passes are Zijin Pass, Juyong Pass, Gubeikou, Songting Pass, and Yuguan (Shanhaiguan). And Yuguan is within the scope of Pingzhou, if according to the requirements of Huizong's letter, even if the Jin people return the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Youzhou Road to the Song Dynasty according to the agreement, the Song Dynasty will no longer be able to stay under the iron hooves of the Jin people. (To be continued.) )