Ten days after the recovery of Yanjing, Zhao Yong led the three armies of wolf generals, tiger generals and leopard generals to leave Yanjing and march all the way to Beigukou. According to the plan, they will go out along the post road between the two places, through the new hall, the Worulai hall, the Liuhe hall, the tribal hall, the Niushan hall, the Huixian hall, the Luerxia hall, the iron pulp hall, the Fugu hall, the Datong hall until the city of Dadingfu. This is a hundred years of road between the Liao and Song dynasties, and there will be a fierce battle on the way through the state.

At this time, Zhao Yanzheng of the Western Route Army led the Longyi Army to march to Dading Mansion day and night, and Yelu Yuzhen led the Lion Wing Army and the Datong Army to follow, and the two armies were hundreds of miles apart. After the fall of the Liao State, a large number of people were captured by the Jurchens to the eastern Liaodong region, and the remaining population was concentrated around the state capital, and now it has entered the cold winter, and the nomadic tribes have also entered the winter pastures to avoid the cold, and the vast area is rarely populated for hundreds of miles. This provided cover for Zhao Yi's surprise attack troops, but they still did not dare to be careless, and traveled all the way day and night, bypassing the fortified state capital, and trekking through the wind and snow on the wasteland.

One is positive and one is strange, one is urgent and one is slow, and the two roads go hand in hand. The west road penetrated the enemy's hinterland with the momentum of the black tiger's heart, disrupting the enemy's deployment and cutting off the enemy's escape route to Linhuang Mansion. The Southern Route Army attracted the attention of the Jin Army, creating conditions for the surprise attack of the Western Route Army, and at the same time dividing the Dadingfu Road into two halves to complete the strategic detour...

Zhao Ta, who was sitting in Yanjing City, was depressed, and he wanted to go with the army to conquer Dading Mansion, but was dissuaded by Zong Ze and the generals. Li Gang and his courtiers also asked the emperor to return to Beijing, and now it is about to be the end of the year, and the envoys of various countries and the ministers from all over the country will go to Beijing to worship, and some rituals such as worshipping ancestors and sacrificing heaven and earth still need him to go back to preside. What's more, the Wushu is still missing, and the remnants of the Jin army are still wandering around. all threatened the emperor's safety.

And the emperor left Beijing for more than half a year to fight for the country, and he didn't even go back to see the queen and the imperial concubine. Failed to celebrate the birthday of the emperor, which can be compared with the three emperors and five emperors of the year. The Great Song Dynasty finally came up with such a virtuous monarch who can be literate and martial, of course, there can be no more mistakes. Zhao Ta had no choice but to give up the plan to go to Beijing, but the day of returning to Beijing was also delayed again and again, everyone knew that Emperor Lu Dao was worried about the battle situation in Dading Mansion, but he didn't know the reason why Lu Dao was really worried, this battle is likely to face not only the Jurchens, but also another empire that has just risen...

At the same time as Zhao Taji's Northern Expedition, Yelu Dashi, who was far away in the Western Regions, led a large army into Balasa Yancheng and declared it the new capital of Western Liao. And it was renamed Husurdo, which means fortified city, and at the same time changed to Yuan Kangguo. Here the left mountains and right rivers, vast thousands of miles, the land is abundant, and the products are abundant. The vast land can be grazed with free horses, and the harvest of grain can be cultivated, becoming the base for the revival of the Khitan.

Although it is far away from the old place. However, Yelu Dashi was always concerned about the situation in the Central Plains, and was thinking about the eastward expedition and the restoration of the country all the time. One day not long after he entered Hu Sihan's ears, a caravan suddenly brought news. The Song and Jin countries negotiated in Yanjing, and the Song Dynasty stationed 100,000 troops in the border area, and it seemed that if the negotiations failed, they would have to take action.

After Yelu Dashi heard it. He thought that even if the information was not necessarily accurate, there must have been a delay. But through careful inductive analysis and judgment, he decided that a major war could not be avoided. The dream of the Crusade rose again in his heart. wanted to take advantage of the great opportunity of the confrontation between the Song and Jin sides in Yanjing to send troops to recapture their homeland. Dashi decided to go east to restore the country, on the one hand, because the situation in the Central Plains could be taken advantage of, and on the other hand, because the Khitan soldiers and Han soldiers who followed him on his westward expedition were about to be unable to survive.

The Khitan soldiers who followed Yelu Dashi's westward expedition crossed the desert, crossed the mountains, traveled through many uninhabited lands, and were repeatedly harassed by local nomads, and finally found a good place suitable for grazing and farming, but the people in that place did not understand the language and had different customs. They are looking forward to returning to their homeland all the time, they didn't go back because they didn't have a chance, they were worried that they would be enslaved by the Jurchens when they went back, and it was better to die in a foreign land, but now they are strong and strong, enough to fight, why can't they go home?

Hearing that they were going to return to their hometown, the Khitan generals cheered excitedly, they fed the war horses under their crotches, sharpened the war knives in their hands, and prepared to regain the resting place of their ancestors' souls to fight with the Jurchens until they died, in order to avenge the blood of the country and the destruction of the family. Dashi advanced eastward at this time, and the timing was well chosen, but after all, the two places were separated by thousands of miles, and when the Khitan soldiers returned to the Central Plains, no one could predict whether the situation would change in advance. The plan is in the people, the success is in the sky, and the next step has to depend on the will of God!

Although it was decided to go east to return to the country, the cautious Yelu Dashi still kept his hands behind. The Eastern Qarakhanid Kingdom had just been conquered and was not stable enough, and if he personally led his troops back to the Central Plains as an emperor at this time, once defeated, the consequences would be unimaginable. In order to leave a way for himself and those Khitan compatriots who followed him on an expedition of thousands of miles, he decided not to conquer in person, but only appointed a capable general to lead the main force to return eastward.

The commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army selected by Dashi is Xiao Hulira, the king of the Six Yuan Division, who belongs to the northern official and is responsible for nomadic affairs, which is roughly equivalent to the household department compared to the Han system, but has more power and is considered a figure at the level of the prime minister. The deputy marshal selected Xiao Cha Ra Abu, the former Tongzhi Privy Council member of the enemy department, and in addition, he also appointed the Cha Chi Lai Department of Balu Yelu Yanshan as the capital deployment, and the guard Yelu Tiege as the capital supervisor. Tongzhi Privy Council, equivalent to the Deputy Minister of Defense, "Vulture" means the head, and the escort is the Praetorian Guard, this lineup can be said to be super luxurious.

Not only did the generals send luxuriously, but the number of troops was also amazing, and 70,000 cavalry were prepared, including the Khitan cavalry and Han cavalry that followed Dashi's westward expedition, as well as the 16,000 Khitans and Turks who moved to the Western Regions earlier, all of which were included, and they were simply the soldiers of the emerging Western Liao regime.

When slaughtering green oxen and white horses, and raising the flag and swearing an oath, Dashi once again gave a speech to his heroic warriors, saying: "Since the great Khitan and Taizong had a difficult business, many subsequent monarchs have been indulging in leisure and ignoring national affairs, causing thieves to swarm and the world to collapse. I am forced to lead you on an expedition to the desert, hoping to restore your homeland and rejuvenate the Great Khitan. Although this place is rich and fertile, it is not a place where you and my monarchs and ministers have lived for generations, and we always have to go back to our hometown! These words shouted out the ideals of Oishi himself, and also shouted out the hearts of the soldiers, and immediately attracted cheers like the tide of the sea.

Then Dashi took care of the marshal Xiao Lira and said: "When you go this time, you must have clear rewards and punishments, share weal and woe with the soldiers, choose a place where water and grass are lush and set up camp, investigate the enemy's situation clearly before attacking, don't bring about your own defeat." Because Dashi was full of considerable worries about this Eastern Crusade, he was not very relieved to put such a large army in the hands of Xiao Lila.

In the sound of the horn of advance, Yelu Dashi watched his 70,000 soldiers slowly embark on a new journey, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and every step of the army's advance raised a diffuse dust, Yelu Dashi firmly believed that his army would sweep the east like a storm, recreating the glory of the ancestors' expedition to regain his homeland...

At the height of the battle against Yanjing, Zhao Ta also received information from the caravan, and at this time, the Western Liao army had been set off for more than a month, and he immediately ordered the intelligence department and Sheng Hetang's caravan to go to the Western Regions to find out the movements of the Western Liao army and the target of the attack. The powerful intelligence system once again showed its might, and as news continued to come from various channels, according to their marching route, Zhao Ta made a judgment that the target of the Western Liao army was the Qijin Mountain region in the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom, that is, Dading Mansion.

For the Western Liao, the Song at this time was also an invader, Datong, Yan Kyoto was their homeland, especially the scattered Monan White Tatars although they temporarily succumbed under the suppression of the Song army, but they have been friendly with the Liao for generations, and even funded the expedition of Yelu Dashi, once the two forces converge, the border of the Great Song Dynasty will be rekindled with war, and there will be no peace. And Western Liao also wanted to unite with Western Xia to attack gold a few years ago, but it was only because Zhao Ta interfered with the two countries that they gave up.

But for Xixia, who has milk and is a mother, and has always been a snake and mouse at both ends, if Xiliao stands here and stops here, he will never let go of the opportunity, and he will definitely take advantage of the fire to rob and restore the previous range of power with the Great Song Dynasty as the enemy. The Mongolia, which destroyed the Jin, Song, and Western Xia in later generations, swept the world and dominated Europe and Asia, was likely to break the containment strategy implemented by Zhao Ta against them and take the opportunity to rise.

It can be seen from this that the importance of the current Dading Mansion to the Song, Jin and Western Liao is self-evident, and if the Western Liao occupies it first, there will be no benefit for the Song Dynasty, not only will it lose its advance base, but it will also form an obstacle to future expansion, and it will become a potential enemy, and it will also completely change the current situation and strength of the Song-Jin confrontation, and it will not be able to face the dilemma of being attacked on three sides again.

Now the only way to solve this problem is to change the established plan, occupy Dading Mansion first, strangle Yelu Dashi's ambition to restore the old frontier, let him retreat in the face of difficulties, and continue to be the king of the Western Regions, and after cleaning up the old enemy of the Jurchen, he will free up his hands to deal with him, so Zhao Taming willfully launched the battle to seize Zhongjing in the name of the emptiness of Zhongjing and the place of strategic advancement, but secretly he wanted to prevent the potential invasion of Western Liao, drive them out of Lu, and cut off the idea of recovering the country.

was ready to fight on both sides, but Zhao Ta quickly realized that he might be a little nervous, but he had to guard against it, after all, he was careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years... (To be continued......)