The Great War of the Khitan

The next target is the Khitan. To put it in detail, there is no hatred between Li Keyong and the Khitan for killing his father, nor is there a hatred for taking his wife, the so-called grievance is actually the negative man of the Khitan leader Yelu Abaoji who hurt Li Keyong's feelings. The feud between them began in 907.

This year, Yelu Abaoji led 300,000 people to invade Yunzhou, Li Keyong met with him in the east city of Yunzhou, Li Keyong is a hero, Abaoji is also a hero, heroes cherish heroes, pity and pity, plus both sides are ethnic minorities, so at first sight, they immediately signed a friendly alliance and agreed to be brothers.

After the meeting, Li Keyong invited Yelu Abaoji to his tent to drink heartily, and the two sides agreed to jointly send troops to attack the Liang Dynasty in the winter of this year. At this time, someone persuaded Li Keyong and said: "You can take this opportunity to catch Abaoji." ”

Li Keyong said: "Our most important enemy is still there, we should unite the forces of Yidi, if we lose faith in others, this is the way to self-destruction." ”

It's really funny to think about it, Li Keyong himself is Yidi, he has not changed his head, he has not changed his face, he just changed his name and called himself a Han Chinese, so as to regard other ethnic minorities as Yidi, which is really ridiculous.

Abaoji stayed in Yunzhou for ten days before returning to the grassland, Li Ke sent him tens of thousands of gold, silver and silk, and Abaoji also left 3,000 war horses and more than 10,000 other livestock as a gift.

However, the scholar is also extremely reckless in two or three of his virtues, Comrade Abaoji is more forgetful, swears at the wine table, talks sweetly, and forgets everything when he gets off the wine table. After going back, he immediately sent Qiu Bo to Zhu Wen secretly and threw himself into his arms.

I would have set my heart on the bright moon. However, the bright moon shines on the ditch, and Li Ke has a feeling of being played. Since then, he has been very hurt, very hurt, very hurt, and hates Abaoji to the core, and the two sides have formed a bond.

Here it is necessary to introduce Yelu Abaoji

Chinese name: Yelü Abaoji

Alias: Yeluyi, Yeluyi

Nationality: Liao Dynasty, China

Ethnicity: Khitan

Place of birth: Inner Mongolia Alukorqin Qidong

Date of birth: 872

Profession: Emperor of the Liao Dynasty, politician, military strategist

When Abaoji was born, he was just in time for the Khitan aristocratic class to fight for the leader of the alliance. Abaoji's grandfather, Yun De, was killed in a brutal political struggle, and his father and uncles fled. Hidden. Grandmother is very fond of Abaoji and is worried that he will be harmed by the enemy. Therefore they often hid him in tents elsewhere to prevent him from seeing outsiders. Therefore, Abaoji's childhood was relatively boring, and he often spent time in hiding in Tibet, fearful and afraid.

What is this situation? I have an acquaintance who gave birth to a second child illegally, and the child began to live at my grandmother's house, and later took it back to my own home. is also cautious, dare not speak loudly, for fear of outsiders, usually do not dare to call friends as mothers but call them aunts. Whenever someone knocked on the door, the child would hide under the bed with a cigarette, and he didn't dare to make a sound. I think. That's what Abaoji looked like at that time.

As an adult, Abaoji is burly and strong. His martial arts are strong, and the "History of Liao" says that he is "nine feet long." Feng Shang is sharp, his eyes are shooting, and the bow is three hundred catties." At that time, his uncle Shi Lu was in power, and Abaoji was deeply trusted, and was appointed as the tart tamarin sari (Hu guard officer) of the Khan of the Yao Ran clan, and formed a guard army, with this elite army,

Abaoji quickly ascended to the position. In 901, Abaoji served as the head of the headquarters Yili Sumire (military chief), specializing in conquest, and broke the Murwei, Yu Ju and Xi.

Enter the Great Dielie Mansion and leave the Sumire. In 902, Abaoji conquered Hedong and Daibei with an army of 400,000 soldiers, captured nine counties, and obtained 95,000 livestock, camels, horses, cattle, and sheep.

On the south bank of the Huang River, the city of Longhuazhou was built, and the captured Han people were relocated here. In 903, he attacked Nuzhi in the north, took the Huaiyuan army in the east of Hedong in the south, and slightly moved to the north of Ji. Ascended to Yue (second only to Khan, known as the "General Governor of Military and State Affairs" in history, higher than Yi Lijin, in charge of the military and administrative affairs of the alliance, equivalent to the prime minister of the Central Plains Dynasty), became the actual manipulator of the tribal alliance.

In December 906, the Khan of Hindjin died, and he was ordered to elect Abaoji as Khan. According to tradition, the position of khan is re-elected every three years.

But at this time, Abaoji is no longer the previous Abaoji, under the influence of Han intellectuals, Abaoji has been out of ignorance and has become a cultural person, and now he sees another system,

That's hereditary. He hoped that he could rule for life like the emperor of the Central Plains and be hereditary and passed on to all generations, so when he served as the khan for three years, he still pretended to be stupid, sat on the throne of the khan, and refused to come down.

This caused dissatisfaction among the other nobles of the family, because according to custom, the khan implemented the family hereditary election system, that is, after the position of the khan was transferred to the Yelu clan, the khan had to be held by an adult of the family, and since it was an adult, there was no limit to which adult.

Everyone competes fairly, takes turns to govern, and everyone has the possibility of being chosen, but now that you Abaoji does not give way, others will have no chance of being elected, everyone is the descendants of the Yelu clan, why should you let Yelu Abaoji be the emperor alone.

So in order to fight for the right to be elected, those clan nobles who are as qualified as Abaoji to be elected,

That is, the relatives of Abaoji from the Diera tribe colluded and formed a faction, determined to fight with Abaoji in order to restore the world election system that had been destroyed by Abaoji. Thus, the struggle for the throne of the Khan ensued.

Among Abaoji's relatives, the one who is most qualified and capable to compete with him is his uncle Yeludi. The governor fled to the Bohai Sea when Pugu only rebelled, and after Abaoji replaced the Yao Yin clan, he returned from the Bohai Sea and was appointed as the new Yu Yue.

But at this time, Abaoji firmly grasped the military and administrative power of the tribal alliance, and Yu Yue became vain, which caused great dissatisfaction among the jurisdiction. He began to hide behind the scenes, fanned the flames, and launched an operation to bring down Abaoji like Cheng Kun, a thunderbolt of the mixed yuan, who was plotting to bring down the Ming Sect.

Its backbone members are Abaoji's younger brothers, Ra Ge, Diera, Yin Dishi and An Rui, etc., who communicate with each other under the banner of maintaining the clan election system. Secretly conspired together to form an armed rebel group. For three years in a row. Three large-scale struggles for power were launched, known in history as the "Rebellion of the Brothers".

The central figure of the rebel group is Abaoji's eldest brother Rage. In the alliance, he held the position of Tiyin (an official in charge of the politics and religion of the imperial family), often followed Abaoji to conquer the south and the north, and was deeply skilled in military affairs, and was also familiar with the history of the Diera, and was more authoritative among his younger brothers.

He called for all three rebellions. The second brother is wise and quick-witted, and he is quite appreciated by Abaoji.

On one occasion, Abaoji asked him to receive Uighur envoys, who had no knowledge of the Uighur language and writing, but came into contact with them in less than 10 days. The Uighur envoys were greatly surprised to be fully acquainted with and mastered the Uighur language and script, and to the surprise of the Uighur envoys, they accurately translated Abaoji's words into the Uighur language in his tent and wrote them down on the spot.

Such talents, if you want to put it aside now, the fourth, sixth and eighth IELTS and TOEFL will definitely be completely fine. After that, Abaoji ordered him to create Khitan characters based on the Uighur script.

The other two younger brothers, the third brother Yin Dishi and the fourth brother An Rui, are completely ignorant and young, ignorant and fearless. There is no fixed opinion, but he is stunned by the bewitchment of his brother Rag, who tells them to go west and they go west, and let them go east and they go east. He was completely used as a gunman and did not know the seriousness of the consequences of participating in the rebellion.

In May 911, the four brothers, led by Rage, instigated the old-fashioned nobles of the Yelu clan who were dissatisfied with Abaoji. Under the pretext of asking for the captive Han slaves and livestock, he suddenly attacked Abaoji.

Abaoji's wife, Shu Luping, expected that this matter was not so simple. and refused. Shu Luping, small character Yue Liduo. Ping is her Chinese name.

His father was a Uighur, and his mother was the aunt of Yelu Abaoji, a Khitan nobleman. According to the clan tradition, Yelu and Shulu are two tribes that intermarry with each other, so according to the customs of the clan, at the age of fourteen, Shuluping married his twenty-year-old cousin Yelu Abaoji.

When the four brothers' request was denied, the four brothers used this as an excuse to plot a rebellion, preparing to use force to storm the sweat tent and rob the flag that symbolized the royal power and the ancient divine tent.

However, Anduan's wife, Mu Mugu, was afraid of causing harm to herself, so she told Abaoji, who immediately took measures to quell the first rebellion.

Afterwards, in view of the love of flesh and blood, Abaoji swore an oath with his brothers and forgave them, and everyone continued to maintain the harmony on the surface, everything seemed to be calm, but in this seemingly quiet air, there was a bigger storm hidden.

One night, Shu Luping wanted to predict the future of the tribal alliance. Then they lit horse manure and mugwort and roasted them on the bones of lamb. In the Khitan divination method, it is a good omen for the sheep bones to be burned through, and it is a bad omen for the sheep bones to be burned through. However, within the scheduled time, not only was the lamb bone not burned through, but not even a crack appeared.

Shu Luping was shocked, and she told Abaoji the results of the divination, asking him to take strict precautions against the four of them. In July 912, Ra Ge and Diera, Yin Di Shi, and An Duan again launched a second rebellion under the instigation of their bad uncle Yu Yue. The new Tiyin Slippery Brother is also premeditated.

This rebellion was even more powerful than the first one, and several of the most important officials within the alliance, Yu Yue, Tiyin, and Yili Sumire, all took action to form a powerful rebel group, which posed a serious challenge to Abaoji's throne. At the time of the rebellion, Abaoji was leading his troops outside, and he ordered Ra Ge to divide his troops to attack Pingzhou.

Just as Abaoji was returning from the southwest, Ra Ge and the other four brothers led troops to block the way, and bluntly demanded that Abaoji restore the tribal election system, so that the four of them also had the opportunity and right to be elected khan. Abaoji did not have a head-on conflict with them, but led his troops south and came to Seventeen.

On the same day, a solemn ceremony of burning firewood to worship the heavens and an election ceremony of the successor khan were held.

In the raging fire, Abaoji led the elders of various tribes, sacrificed to the ancestors and gods, worshiped the sun god to the southeast, solemnly announced the succession of the khan, regained the banner and the divine tent, and continued to serve as the khan of the Khitan Eight-Division Alliance.

Abaoji's preemptive move immediately gained a political advantage, not only consolidating his position, but also holding high the banner of maintaining the traditional electoral system, and in the name of the righteous army, he led a large army to conquer the rebels led by Ra Ge.

After learning that the traditional ceremony of Abaoji's succession to the khan was completed, Rag and the others had no reason to resist. On the next day, they surrendered to Abaoji one after another, expressing their submission.

Abaoji once again tolerated them, but only imprisoned them, reviewed and admitted their mistakes, explained the problem, and did not punish them heavily.

After learning the lessons of the first two rebellions, Ragar and others planned a third, higher-quality rebellion. The scale of the rebellion was greater than any previous one, and the nobles of the Otomuro tribe also actively participated, forming an even larger rebellion group.

In March 913, the rebel group led by Ra Ge took the opportunity of Abao's expedition to Lushui, and took a three-pronged approach, sending more than 1,000 cavalry to lead the army of Diera and Anduan, falsely claiming to report to Abaoji, and taking the opportunity to assassinate Abaoji; On the one hand, he sent Yin Dishi to rob the palace of Abaoji, and seized the Son of Heaven and the Divine Tent;

One led the crowd to the elder of the B tribe Sumire, and made his own efforts to usurp the throne. Abaoji discovered this conspiracy in time, and immediately laid a net and set up an ambush to wait.

The two living treasures, Diera and An Duansu, had no experience in military struggle, and were quickly captured. Abaoji then led his army north and pursued Rage.

However, the rebels led by Yin Dishi went smoothly, smashing the Khan's camp tent of Abaoji, and Shu Luping, who stayed in the camp, led his own pro-army coral army to defend himself, but finally failed to stop the rebels who rushed like a flood, and the rebels set fire to a large number of baggage, arsenals and tents, and robbed the flag and divine tent that symbolized royal power.

Shu Luping responded to the battle calmly, leading the troops to fight the fire on the one hand, and sending troops to pursue on the other, but he only recaptured the banner. Thorn Ge claimed to be a khan, and when he heard that Abaoji was coming to chase him, he fled north. After Abaoji chased to Tuhe, he temporarily stopped the pursuit.

He said very sadly: "People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless, they are my brothers, Humayi North Wind, people feel for their hometown, after a long time, they will come back." ”

When he said this, three true feelings were revealed, and seven points of impure motives were impure, and he said this with the original intention of paralyzing Rage, but in fact, he had already arranged for the army to set up an ambush on the way through which Rage fled.

In the end, Abaoji completely defeated the rebels of Rage and recaptured the divine tent. Capture rebel generals such as Rage, Zhidi, and Yindishi.

The rebellion, which lasted for two months, was unprecedentedly large, and the losses caused by the war were incalculable.

As Abaoji said: "In the past, the army went out to fight, and the baggage stretched for several miles, and the people had 10,000 fine horses, but now they can only go on foot, and the livestock die eight or nine times out of ten; In the past, there was an abundance of grain and meat, but now the soldiers can only cook horses and pick wild vegetables for food. ”

He then ordered the execution of more than 300 people, including Zhidi, Hua Ge and Di Ligu of the B Division. But he opened his eyes to his brother, and released him with the rod of Rag and Diera; Yin Dishi and An Duan were young and ignorant and did not dispose of them. (To be continued......)