It is said that the shape of the Liao State was not stronger than that of the Song Dynasty, Tokyo and Upper Kyoto were captured by the Jin State, and there were rebellions in the country from time to time. is more similar to the emperor of Liao, who is also as poor and extravagant as Zhao Ji, who does not care about political affairs and reuses traitorous ministers. In the first month of this year, because the prince competed for the throne, the emperor also gave a concubine to death, and a group of Khitan nobles led troops to defect to the Jin State.

It can be said that the Liao State is also stormy.

However, there are also some people of insight in the Liao State, and Yelu Dezhong, the king of the Southern Courtyard, is such a Khitan nobleman, after learning of the Liangshan rebellion, he let the soldiers and horses of the Nanjing Province of the Liao State assemble at the border.

As soon as the news of Liangshan's capture of Tokyo returned, Yelu Dezhong ordered the border state capitals to invade Hebei in a big way, and he led his troops and horses to follow.

The capital of Hebei was short of troops and could only hold on to the city.

The soldiers and horses of the Liao State did not storm the city, but bypassed the city and went all the way south.

Shandong and Hebei have always been the key places for the intelligence department to operate, and in addition, the navy dumped burning knife wine to Liaojin, and also bought some eyeliner in Liaojin and Jinjin, and the movements of Liao's soldiers and horses did not hide from the Liang.

After receiving that the Liao army was just plundering grain and grass outside the city, he went all the way south, and Shi Jin invited Xiao Jiasui and Zhu Wu to discuss.

Xiao Jiasui thought for a moment, and then said, "It is very likely that the soldiers and horses of the Liao State are coming for us. ”

Shi Jin, who was dressed in a yellow robe, frowned and said, "Coming at us? ”

Xiao Jiasui said: "Now the Liao Kingdom is also in the west, and it is not able to go south. This time, I am afraid that I will take a fancy to the wealth of Tokyo, and want to take advantage of the fact that we have just established the country to extort a sum of gold and silver, and even let us take down the capital of Hebei Prefecture. ceded to them. ”

Shi Jin snorted coldly and said, "Liao Guo really thinks that I will be the emperor there?" ”

Zhu Wu said with a smile: "My Emperor Daliang is not comparable to Shi Jingjiao and his ilk, and today's Liao State is not the Liao State of a hundred years ago. Just send a naval army and 20,000 soldiers and horses to defend the Yellow River and the Shenggong Bridge. It can make it impossible for the Liao soldiers to invade our Daliang territory, so why not be afraid of their threat. ”

At this time, there are two pontoon bridges on the Yellow River, one is the Pujin Bridge between Shaanxi and Hedong, and the other is the Tiancheng Bridge and Shenggong Bridge located in the northeast of Kaifeng.

When Shi Jin led the people of Shaohua Mountain to cross the Yellow River, the Tiancheng Bridge and the Shenggong Bridge had not yet been built.

In the fourth year of Zhenghe, in order to reduce the flooding of the Yellow River, the Song Dynasty divided the Yellow River into two strands in Da Ling Mountain. Passing between the Great Ling Mountain and the two small hills respectively, the Song people used these three mountains as bridges to build two pontoon bridges. Connecting both sides of the Yellow River. Zhao Ji gave the name Tiancheng Bridge and Shenggong Bridge, Tiancheng Bridge belongs to Junju on Hebei Road, and Shenggong Bridge belongs to Huazhou on Gyeonggi Road.

Shi Jin didn't want to be attacked by the Liao soldiers, so he nodded and said, "Then let's attack Xiazhou first." Then stop the Liao soldiers north of the Yellow River. ”

Zhu Wu said: "The Liao soldiers may also cross the river in the north. The emperor can order the state capitals of Shandong to clear the walls and be prepared. ”

Xiao Jiasui said: "The rivers on the East Hebei Road are staggered, and if the Liao soldiers want to go south quickly, they should still take the West Hebei Road and cross the river from the Junzhou area." ”

The three of them discussed for a while, and Shi Jin sent Lin Chong and ordered him to lead 30,000 troops to attack Huazhou.

The next day, Lin Chong led his troops out of the city.

The army has just arrived at the city of Huazhou. The soldiers and civilians of Huazhou arrested the Zhizhou of Huazhou to offer, and the Zhizhou of Junzhou on the other side of the Yellow River also heard the wind and surrendered.

The soldiers and horses of the Liao State were also as the three of them expected. From Hebei West Road all the way south, but Junzhou's lookout was a bit unexpected by the three of them.

All the soldiers and horses in Daliang are only 150,000, except for the 30,000 led by Lin Chong in Huazhou, 50,000 are deployed in the capitals of Shandong, and 20,000 are also deployed in the counties under the rule of Tokyo, and there are only 50,000 in the city of Tokyo, of which there are only 10,000 veterans, and the rest are untrained recruits.

Even if all of them are sent to the battlefield, they may not be able to resist the 100,000 Liao army, so Shi Jin didn't think about fighting with the Liao soldiers at the beginning, so he could only defend the Yellow River.

However, Junzhou is located on the north bank of the Yellow River, and if Junzhou is received, Daliang will send troops to garrison Junzhou and fall into the encirclement of Liao soldiers.

If Junzhou is not accepted, it will inevitably affect the prestige of Daliang.

After a little consideration, Shi Jin decided to let Lin Chong quickly lead his troops into Junzhou, fortify the wall and clear the wilderness, and at the same time he drove his own expedition and led 10,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce Lin Chong, attracting the Liao soldiers in Junzhou, while Xiao Jiasui and Zhu Wu stayed in Tokyo to defend the city.

When Shi Jin wanted to drive the royal expedition and snipe the Liao soldiers on the north bank of the Yellow River to the city, the people of Tokyo were all grateful, and many Ding Zhuang joined the army one after another.

In the Song Dynasty, the army had to be tattooed, and the people also called the soldiers as thieves with the army, and there was a saying that "a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail".

The soldiers of Daliang do not need to tattoo, and their salaries are much higher than those of the Song army, and the Liang's continuous expansion of territory is the time when men make contributions, and Ding Zhuang's enthusiasm for enlisting in Shandong is still very high.

Only the people of Tokyo seem to be accustomed to the leisurely life of this city that never sleeps, and Ding Zhuang in the city would rather make a small living, walk the streets and alleys, and play tricks than join the army.

The day after Shi Jin led his troops into Junzhou, the Liao cavalry vanguard arrived at the city of Junzhou.

Lin Chong led the horse army out of the city, stopped the Liao cavalry forward, reprimanded the Liao cavalry for violating the border, ordered it to retreat, and said that the Emperor of Daliang personally led his troops to Junzhou to defend against the enemy.

When the Liao cavalry heard that Emperor Daliang had arrived in Junzhou, they did not continue south, but they did not retreat, but set up camp outside Junzhou.

Half a day later, the Liao army arrived at the city of Junzhou and besieged Junzhou.

Jerod sent someone to invite Shi in and out of the city to meet.

Shi Jin took Guan Sheng, Tang Bin, Dong Ping, and Zhang Qing out of the camp on light horses.

Yelu Dezhong took four sons, the eldest son Yelu Zongyun, the second son Yelu Zongdian, the third son Yelu Zonglei, and the fourth son Yelu Zonglin.

Ten people will be outside the north gate of Junzhou.

When he arrived, Yelu said in a somewhat stiff Chinese: "I heard that Liangshan Shijin was young and promising, but I didn't expect to be so young!" ”

Dong Ping scolded: "Bold Liao, how dare you call me by the emperor's name? ”

Yelu Zongdian immediately shouted: "It's just a group of grass cowards, how can you be the emperor?" ”

"Look for death."

Shi Jin waved his hand to stop the angry Dong Ping, looked at Yelu and said solemnly: "The Liao State raised troops to invade the border of my Daliang, but it wants to be the enemy of my Daliang?" ”

Yelu said seriously: "My Da Liao and the Song Dynasty are brother states, you captured Tokyo and drove away the emperor of the Song Dynasty, and my Da Liao should send troops to help the Song Dynasty quell the chaos." ”

Shi Jin sneered: "In this way, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, then we can provide some siege equipment for the Jin Kingdom." ”

When Jerod heard the words again, he was stunned for a moment.

Liangshan trained a navy by dumping burning knife wine, while Song Liaojin only had a small number of naval troops, and the sea had already become Liangshan's world in the past two years.

If the Great Liang wanted to provide siege equipment to the Jin State by sea, the Liao State would not be able to stop it.

The war between the Liao State and the Jin State was originally a gradual defeat, and if the Jin State obtained the siege equipment of the Great Liang again, I am afraid that it would not be long before the Jin State could defeat the Liao State.

Yelu was stunned for a long time before he said: "The Jin people are barbaric and untamable, you provide siege equipment for the Jin country, and sooner or later you will be injured by them." You're not going to do that. ”

Shi Jin said with a smile: "How can the wisdom of my Han people be comparable to yours, as long as we provide some inferior siege equipment for the Jin Kingdom, it will be enough for the Jin Kingdom to wipe you out." If they dare to come to Banmen to get an axe, we will naturally have better weapons to defend against it. ”

Yelu Dezhong also had to admit that the wisdom of the Han people was much higher than that of the Khitans, and the Song Dynasty had a lot of siege equipment.

Seeing that Shi Jin was not afraid of threats, Yelu had to laugh and said: "The heroes of Liangshan really live up to their reputation. In fact, my country also heard that the Song Dynasty and the Jin State conspired to jointly attack our Liao State, and our Da Liao also had the intention of asking the Song Dynasty Xingshi for his guilt. You sell the burning knife wine and buy war horses in our country, and we have been in contact for a long time. I, Da Liao, can also make an alliance with you and recognize you as orthodox in the Central Plains. Of course, you also have to give us the money for the army to help the Great Liao like the Song Dynasty. ”

"Haha."

Shi Jin couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

Seeing Shi Jin laughing, Yelu had a little contempt for the four sons.

No matter who is replaced as the emperor in the Central Plains, he is weak after all.

Shi Jin laughed twice before he said: "Throughout the ages, it was mostly my Central Plains Emperor who canonized various ethnic groups. Why do I need you to admit it? ”

"Okay."

Dong Ping was still a little worried that Shi Jin would agree to this humiliating alliance like the Song Dynasty, and when he heard Shi Jin's domineering reply, he couldn't help shouting yes, and then he felt a little inappropriate, and said: "The emperor is sage." ”

Yelu had to look at Shi Jin categorically refused, and he also sank his face and said, "You really want to start a war with my Da Liao?" ”

"If you want to fight, you will fight."

Shi Jin left five words loudly, and then turned the horse back to the city. (To be continued......)