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Chapter 42, The Quest for Liao (I)

In the early spring of the second year of Jingkang, Mobei grassland

The leaden-gray clouds in the sky were piled up, and the north wind howled in the wilderness.

In Wang Qiu's field of vision, the sky is gray and the ground is white, except for the frozen river in the distance, the dead trees protruding beyond the snow, dyeing a few sparse black spots between the heaven and the earth, there is no longer the slightest variegation in the vast four fields covered by snow in the entire Mongolian steppe.

The howling cold wind mixed with large snowflakes blew on the face like a knife, and I don't know how many lives of people and animals on the grassland were buried.

And a brightly coloured, richly decorated floating castle soars over this snowy field in the face of this terrible biting cold wind.

“…… It's already the second lunar month, and it's still a land of ice and snow...... Is this the 'white plague' that makes the nomads of the steppe smell and change? ”

Standing by the window of the castle tower on the top floor of the castle, Wang Qiu was still shivering from the cold, and his hands and feet were cold, although he was wrapped in a thick down warm suit, "...... Doraemon, how far are we from the city of Kotun now? Is this the right way forward? ”

The grassland in "White Calamity" was so cold that the hot breath he exhaled when he spoke turned into a white frost at his mouth and nose in the blink of an eye.

“…… I don't know...... The cold snap in Siberia this season was so violent that we had already strayed from our intended course - I don't know how far the floating city had been blown southeast during the blizzard...... In these years, there is no GPS satellite positioning, and the grassland in winter is also white, and I can't see anything clearly, and I can't find a ground marker......"

Doraemon stared at a compass in his hand and pouted, "...... Anyway, we should still be over the Mongolian plateau......"

――As for why their floating city is here, let's turn the calendar back to two months ago for a moment......

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On the last day of December in the first year of Jingkang, in the midst of the frenzied siege and arson of prisoners of war of various ethnic groups, the capital of the Jin Kingdom ushered in its destruction.

Then, stepping on the smoke-stamped ruins and the accumulation of corpses, facing the dawn of the new year, the surviving prisoners of war of all ethnic groups drank the jurchen stored soju while ravaging the captured enemy women, celebrating freedom and the arrival of the New Year in a special way.

In addition, it was not until the battle was completely over that some of the Khitan prisoners of war woke up from their violent state, and suddenly remembered that their last emperor, the Great Liao Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, seemed to be imprisoned in Huining City at this time...... After some careful searching, they finally found this Khitan king in the backyard of a certain official office - but unfortunately this Great Liao Emperor has no idea who has been pierced through the chest with a sword, and even the body is cold at this time, and they have not been able to see the destruction of the Jurchen old enemy with their own eyes...... As for who the murderer is, it can only become an eternal confused account......

-- Hearing this news, thousands of Khitan prisoners of war wept, but a few traversers did not feel that there was anything to be sad about: according to the official history, this deceased king of the Liao State will be trampled into meat by the Jin army with 10,000 horses after being tortured next year. Now that history has been changed, he has only died a year earlier, and he can have a full corpse to be buried, and by the way, he will provide 5oo reward points to the master of the traverser, which is barely worth it.

However, after the revelry, the people of all ethnic groups soon broke out into a fierce dispute over the ruins of Huining Castle.

-- After a day and a night of fierce fighting, almost all of the 30,000 Jurchens in Huining City, except for a few young women, died by swords or in the flames. The 30,000 prisoners of war slaves who were instigated by the Song army also suffered heavy casualties, with less than 20,000 remaining.

But among the less than 20,000 slaves, there were more than a dozen ethnic groups such as the Song people, the Liaodong Han people, the Bohai people, the Khitans, the Goryeo people, the Xi people, and the Mongols. Before, everyone was full of anger and grief, and they were bent on revenge against the Jurchens, but they could still work together. But when the Jurchens were defeated, Huining City was burned, and the grievances accumulated for many years were vented at one time, they each had their own ideas:

The exotic prisoners of war such as the Song, Mongols, and Goryeo, who were captured by the Jin soldiers, naturally wanted to leave this strange and bitter cold land as soon as possible and return to their hometown as soon as possible after taking revenge. However, the indigenous people of the black soil of Northeast China, the Bohai and Xi people, were already homeless by this time - the Bohai people lived mainly in the old Liao Province of Tokyo Province (later Liaoning, Jilin and the Russian Far East), and the Xi people lived in the area of Zhongjing Province (the border of the future Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and Hebei provinces), all of which are now the world of the Jurchens. If they want to return to their hometown with dignity and reunite with their families and wives, they must carry the war to the end and completely defeat the Jurchens!

But the problem is that just relying on the thousands of Bohai people and Xi people here, a group of unorganized, logistical and baseless armed homeless gangs, trying to defeat the world-famous Jurchen Iron Cavalry and recapture their respective hometowns, it really makes people feel that there is no chance of winning. Therefore, they tried their best to persuade the Mongols, Song and Goryeo, who had fought side by side before, especially the incredibly fierce Song raiding team, to stay and "participate in great things" with them.

――Even if you add these allies, you may not be able to win, but you can give your own people courage, right?

As for the Han people in Liaodong, some are tired of the endless wars in the north and want to return to the Central Plains to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors; But there are also people who are reluctant to leave their homes, preferring to fight to the end in this black land - so some people look forward to disbanding and returning home. Others wanted everyone to make persistent efforts to make a revolution on the spot, so they quarreled with each other so much that no one could convince anyone...... Thanks to them, they all know that they are in the heart of the Jurchens and are surrounded by enemies on all sides. Whether it is to fight a bloody way to return to his hometown, or to take root in Saibei, he must be united, so he did not fight by himself.

And Doraemon and other traversers were busy checking the loot, and with a little disappointment, although the Jurchen iron cavalry plundered the land of the Liao and Song dynasties, scraping the sky three feet high, and should have a lot of belongings, but most of them were enjoyed on the spot, and the gold and silver goods that were really transported back to Huining were really limited, coupled with the damage in the battle and the personal collections of the rebel slaves, the amount of booty was further reduced, and finally only from the [automatic pawn machine] to exchange huàn out of the "meagre" one billion yen, Many of them come from wood piled up in the countryside and locally grown ginseng......

Then, seeing that there was no end to the quarrel between them, the leaders of the rebellious slaves finally came to meet the "protector of the country", and begged the officials and soldiers of the court to escort them back to their hometowns, and they would do their best to repay them in the future; On the other hand, they claimed that they were willing to serve Guo Jing and them as the main and make a career in Saibei...... It's just that as traversers, Guo Jing, Wang Qiu, and Dora Aemon have different thinking angles - fundamentally speaking, their actions revolve around "getting reward points to help Guo Jing get out of trouble" and "collecting money to pay off Doraemon's debts".

But the problem is that with this fire in Huining City, the historical process of the Battle of Song and Jin has been distorted and subverted to the point that there are almost no celebrities left in the Jin Kingdom in this era. Even if you continue to fight in Liaodong, you may not be able to get any bonus points. Moreover, with the vast and sparsely populated Northeast region in this era, it is wild and backward, and it is very difficult to scavenge more goods.

As for returning to the Song Kingdom...... Who can guarantee that the Song Dynasty scholars who are experts in internal fighting, outsiders in foreign wars, short-sighted, strange-minded, arrogant, and have no discipline at all, after the threat of Jurchen foreign enemies is temporarily weakened, what kind of moths will be tossed out of Guo Zhenren, an "internal trouble"?

At this time, the Khitans, the old overlords of the original Northland, put forward a third "new thinking".

“…… You said that you want to escort Emperor Tianzuo's body back to his homeland for burial? After listening to a Khitan leader's story, Guo Jing's face couldn't help but feel a little strange, and there was a hint of confusion in his words, "...... As we all know, the Khitan has perished, and the territory of the old Liao State has been seized by the Jurchens. Unless you try to lay a foothold in Saibei yourself, where is there any homeland to speak of? ”

“…… This honorable national teacher, although my Daliao is extremely dilapidated, there are still loyal people in the West. In the past, when the first emperor was defeated and captured, Dashi Linya led a number of elite horsemen to leave Mobei, and now he has set up a tooth tent in Kedun City, gathering and living, and Xu Tuhui has a big plan. ”

The Khitan leader, who claimed to be from the Yelu royal family, bowed slightly, and replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, "...... I heard that adults have flying magic weapons, and they can travel thousands of miles in just a few days. I also ask you to assist us in carrying the remains of the first emperor to the west and join us with the Great Stone Forest. If it happens, my Khitan will have a good reward!

Although my Khitan clan is now very down, after all, it has dominated the north of the country for 200 years. All those who suffer from the tyranny of the Jurchens take the revival of the Great Liao as their own responsibility. If the Song Kingdom wants to exterminate the Jurchens, it will definitely be useful to us. In addition, if I, the Khitan, can sweep away the Jurchens and restore the country, then whether it is to redraw the borders between the two countries, or to reduce the Khitan to a foreign domain, and from now on to be subordinate to the Great Song Dynasty, my Khitan clan can agree......"

“…… Big Stone Wood ...... Jerodashi?! After half a ring, Guo Jing suddenly realized, "...... How did I forget this guy! ”

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If it is said that in the turbulent and turbulent times when the Jin soldiers went south and the Central Plains fell, although the Song Dynasty had the shame of Jingkang who was extremely humiliated, and traitors like Qin Hui, there were also a series of national heroes such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong. Then in the process of the Jurchen extermination of Liao, in the Khitan camp of flies and civil strife and strife, the only Khitan hero worthy of praise is this Yelu Dashi.

Yelu Dashi, the eighth grandson of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji, has been studious since he was a child and is good at riding and shooting. He is also fluent in Chinese and Khitan. In the fifth year of Tianqing (1115), Yelu Dashi Zhongjinshi, won the first place in the palace examination, entered the Hanlin Academy, and served as the Hanlin Chengzhi, becoming the only Khitan Jinshi in the Liao Dynasty recorded in the "History of Liao". Since the Khitan language refers to Hanlin as Linya, people usually call him Dashi Linya.

If it had been in the peaceful era, he might have only become a literati who was good at poetry. However, the turbulent and turbulent times of the collapse of the Liao State made him the last Khitan hero, and his military talent has always been praised - although he has suffered repeated defeats, he is good at seizing the opportunity and rising with defeat. He first led a city of mourning soldiers to break 100,000 Song troops in Yanjing, and then led hundreds of iron horsemen to open thousands of miles of land in Central Asia, extending the national honor of the Yelu clan for nearly a hundred years.

-- When Yelu Dashi embarked on his official career, it was the time when the Liaoguo Mansion was about to fall, and Emperor Tianzuo was so busy with hunting and playing that he ignored state affairs. There were many contradictions and rebellions within the Khitan ruling group, and the party struggle reached a fever pitch. The Jurchens took advantage of the situation to rise and swept across the north like a devastating devastation. In 1122, the Jin army launched a general attack, and its troops pointed directly at the hinterland of the elite of the Liao State, Shangjing Linhuang Mansion and Zhongjing Dading Mansion. Liao Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi left his army and did not dare to fight, retreated from the front line in a hurry, was attacked by the Jin army on the way, fled in a hurry, and "rode lightly into the Jiashan", isolated from outside news.

When Emperor Tianzuo abandoned his army and fled, he issued an edict ordering the prime ministers Zhang Lin, Li Chuwen and the Qin and Jin kings Ye Luchun to stay in Nanjing (Nanjing, Liao, i.e., Yanjing). As a result, because the news did not arrive for several days, it was rumored that the emperor had died, so Li Chuwen conspired with Xiao Gan, the commander of Nanjing, and Yelu Dashi, the envoy of the Liaoxing Army, to establish Yeluchun as the emperor.

As one of the two major military pillars of the Northern Liao regime, Yelu Dashi had outstanding military talents, and once worked closely with Xiao Gan to defeat the two attacks of the Northern Song army on the southern front, that is, the "Xuanhe Northern Expedition" in which Yue Fei had participated, and removed the threat of the southern front. Although the Song people in the south were repulsed, the Jin army in the north approached the Great Wall. The situation in Liao has deteriorated again. In 1123, Yelu Dashi was defeated by the Jin army at the Battle of Juyong Pass and became a prisoner. A few months later, Xiao Gan was also defeated and killed, and the Northern Liao regime was completely destroyed. However, after a few months of captivity, Yelu Dashi miraculously escaped alive and came to the grassland with an army to join Emperor Tianzuo.

At this time, Emperor Tianzuo, who was in exile in the grassland, gathered the remnants of the Liao State. With the support of the nomadic tribes in Yinshan, he actually collected a lot of soldiers and horses, so he claimed to have received heavenly help, and then sought to send troops to recover Yanyun. Dashi thought that it was not appropriate to fight back rashly at this time, but Emperor Tianzuo refused to accept it and insisted on sending troops.

Yelu Dashi saw that this faint monarch was determined to bring about his own destruction, so he led two hundred iron horsemen to leave the Tianzuo Emperor's camp at night and find another way out. After he left, Emperor Tianzuo sent troops to Xijing Road, at first achieved some small victories, but was quickly defeated by the Jin army, in the spring of 1125, Emperor Tianzuo was captured by the Jin army on the way to flee to Western Xia, and the Liao State was officially destroyed...... At this time, it was only half a year before Yelu Dashi's departure.

On the other side, after leaving Emperor Tianzuo, Yelu Dashi went north across the desert, marched to the city of Kedun, garrisoned in Beiting Duhufu, took over the last territory of the Liao State, and at the same time summoned the seven states of Weiwu, Chongde, Huifan, Xin, Dalin, Zihe, and Camel, as well as the people of the eighteen kings of Dahuangmurwei, Dira, Wang Jira, Chachira, Yexi, Nose Gude, Nira, Dara, Damili, Mierji, Hezhu, Wuguli, Zubu, Puwan, Tanggu, Humusi, Xidi, and Jierbi, and told them: " My ancestors have gone through hardships to create a great cause, through nine generations and two hundred years. As vassals, the Jin people persecuted our country, slaughtered our people, slaughtered and destroyed our cities, and made our Emperor Tianzuo flee to the outside world. I am now marching westward, hoping to use the power of the Tibetan tribes to destroy our enemies and restore the territory of our country. Do any of you think about our country, worry about our society, and think about those who together save your father and help the people in their suffering? ”

Relying on the call for the rebuilding of the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Dashi successfully won the support of the various departments of the grassland, and obtained 10,000 soldiers and horses from the hands of these leaders, so as to set up officials in the city of Kedun, arrange armor, prepare honor guards, and establish the "Liao government-in-exile".

Soon after the Jin soldiers captured Emperor Tianzuo, they also learned that Yelu Dashi had regrouped in Kedun City. But the problem is that the city of Kedun is far away in the north of the desert, separated from the Jurchens' control area by a vast desert, and if you want to pursue it, it is really difficult to guarantee logistics and supplies. In addition, at this time, the Jin army had decided to start a war with the Song Dynasty, and they were all bent on going south to plunder the rich Song land, and no one wanted to go to the bitter cold Mobei to eat sand and be frozen, so they had to temporarily connive at Yelu Dashi to survive in the north, and prepared to stay until later to find a way to solve it.

According to the original history, Yelu Dashi will lie dormant in the city of Kedun in Mobei for several years, seeing the Jin soldiers sweeping through the Central Plains, the national strength is flourishing, and there is no hope for the restoration of Daliao. Therefore, he turned around and went westward, through a series of arduous expeditions and surprise attacks, re-established a country for the Khitans in the Western Regions, established himself as emperor, established the so-called "Western Liao Empire", and continued the national fortune until a hundred years later, when the Mongols went west.

Unfortunately, although the national glory of the Great Liao has been continued, the source of the Khitan people in the Huangshui Valley has been lost forever.

Therefore, after the Western Liao was destroyed by the Mongol iron cavalry, the Khitan, as a nation, also disappeared forever in the long river of history.

But in this time and space, the exhibition of one thing is all different......

――After learning the news of the Khitan remnants and Yelu Dashi, the traversers, who were struggling to continue collecting reward points, immediately decided to take the floating city "Third New Tokyo" to Kedun Castle to try their luck!