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After the Jinwu Army and the Yulin Army escorted the grain and grass baggage to Yanjing, Li Cun sent Yang Zheng to lead 10,000 horses and Yelu Dashi to receive Juyong Pass.

Li Cun specially instructed Yang Zheng that he must check Juyong Pass well, especially the cliff wall, and don't have the possibility of collapse because of disrepair or other reasons.

Li Cun: This is not a loss.

Historically, when Wanyan Aguta led his troops to Juyong Pass, the cliffs on Juyong Pass suddenly collapsed, and most of the Liao soldiers guarding Juyong Pass were stoned to death by falling stones, and then collapsed without a fight.

Only then did Wanyan Agu easily pass through the dangerous pass of Juyong Pass, and then won Yanjing City without blood.

Yang Zheng was a first-class careful person among the generals under Li Cun, and he was particularly good at guarding.

Li Cun believes that with Yang Zheng guarding Juyong Pass, it will definitely be foolproof.

Li Cun also sent Guo Hao and Xie Yuan to lead 10,000 horses to take over Gubeikou and Songting Pass with Xiao Gan.

Guo Hao and Xie Yuan are also fine and good generals, Gubeikou and Songting are in their hands, and Li Cun is also very relieved.

However, Li Cun still instructed Guo Hao to reconcile Yuan with a few words, telling them not only to beware of Jin Ren, but also to be careful of Xiao Gan and Xi Ren.

Gubeikou and Songting Pass are both the throats connecting the Guanwai and the North China Plain.

These two places have long been inhabited by the Xi people.

Xi nationality is a very ancient ethnic group, belonging to the Donghu system, called Kumo Xi during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Tang Dynasty was relatively strong, divided into five tribes, distributed in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, southern Liaoning Province and other places in later generations.

When Li Shimin conquered Goryeo, the great chief of the Xi tribe, Suzhi, followed the expedition and made meritorious contributions.

During the Wu Zetian period, the Xi people rebelled and were in harmony with the Turks, known as the "two Tibetans".

The Xi people are sometimes attached to the Tang Dynasty and sometimes to the Turks, which is a typical wall-head grass.

In order to stabilize the northeastern border, the Tang Dynasty adopted a policy of appeasement towards the Xi people.

Later, the Xi people were attacked by the Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji.

——Yelu Abaoji conquered the Xi people several times before and after, and it took more than ten years to finally incorporate the Xi people into the Khitan regime, so that the Xi people changed their surname to Xiao, and became one of the descendants of the Liao State for generations.

At this time, Xiao Gan was actually the chief of the Xi clan.

It has to be said that the reason why the Jin people have not been able to enter Yandi for so long has a lot to do with Xiao Gan and Xi Ren, and it is their existence that makes it impossible for the Jin people to go south from Gubeikou and Songting Pass.

Now it is the turn of the cadres to guard Gubeikou and Songting Pass, and these protectors of Gubeikou and Songting Pass have become the biggest hidden danger of these two dangerous passes.

Of course, Li Cun did not give the Xi people a chance, and the Xi people who were willing to live a stable life could move to a nearby city as long as they abided by the rules and regulations formulated by the Daqian Dynasty.

In addition, Li Cun did not forget the Nanyinkou, a small road that can enter Yandi.

——Here in Nanyankou, Li Cun sent Xu Shi'an to lead 10,000 horses to garrison.

At the same time, Li Cun sent Han Shizhong and Wu Jue to control 20,000 horses each, and fully recovered the seven states in front of the mountain.

During this period, Li Cun officially launched a recruitment plan to recruit 50,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry.

The Yan-Liao area was the most traditional animal husbandry area of the Central Plains Dynasty, especially the Yanyun area, which was the most important animal husbandry base of the Central Plains Dynasty as early as the Xia Dynasty.

However, it is not too easy to buy fifty or seventy thousand good horses at once.

After all, due to years of war, Yandi has been repeatedly plucked by the Liao State, and horses are not as abundant as in its heyday.

But then again, emaciated camels are bigger than horses.

The army is the foundation of Liao, so whether it is peacetime or wartime, Liao has as many as 300,000 professional soldiers.

At the same time, as a nomadic dynasty, the Liao State also had advantages that the traditional Han dynasty did not have.

Until now, the Liao State has actually insisted that all the people are soldiers, which is also the tradition of the nomadic people.

According to historical records and statistics of later generations, in the state of extreme mobilization, the Liao State could even expand its army to more than 1.64 million people in a short period of time.

And the Liao army is all horse army.

In other words, there are at least 1,640,000 horses.

According to the population of Yanyun area, it is one-third of that of Liao.

The number of war horses in the Yanyun region is at least half a hundred thousand.

Removing the war horses in Yundi, when the Liao Kingdom was in its heyday, there must have been 300,000 war horses in the entire Yan Land.

In this case, the Liao State is to repeatedly gather wool in Yandi, and theoretically speaking, if Li Cun wants to get 50,000 cavalry in Yandi, it should not be a big problem.

Moreover, Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan alone have twenty or thirty thousand war horses, and after removing the one thousand horses that Li Cun promised them, there should still be twenty or thirty thousand.

But—

In order to ensure that he could really form a cavalry of 50,000 horses, Li Cun proposed a recruitment policy of giving priority to callees who brought their own horses.

Of course, the premise of this is that the recruitment plan proposed by Li Cun is that as long as the cavalry is selected by the Ministry of War, the monthly salary during the internship period will be consistent and half, and the salary will be doubled during the non-commissioned period.

In addition, like other cadre troops, the salary of newly recruited Yan soldiers has also increased by half a whole for each level of promotion.

The military salary of the Liao State was much lower than that of the Great Song Dynasty.

-- This is mainly due to the large gap between the national strength and economic level of the two countries.

In this case, according to the military salary system of the Daqian Dynasty formulated by Li Cun according to the military salary standards of the Great Song Dynasty, recruiting troops here in Yandi must be extremely attractive to the people of Yandi, especially for those cavalry who bring their own horses.

In their opinion, the military salary of the Daqian Dynasty is absolutely too high to be higher.

In fact, some people persuaded Li Cun to consider that the actual situation of Yandi was different from that of the Daqian Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty, and suggested that Li Cun could give Yan soldiers less military salaries.

However, Li Cun considered that if two military salary systems were created in the same army for no reason, wouldn't that create contradictions and make the army alienate from himself?

You know, the army is the most taboo and unfair here.

Therefore, Li Cunli ignored public opinion and resolutely gave Yan Bing and Nanbing exactly the same military salary.

As for the Yan soldiers who can bring horses, that is the ability of others, if the southern soldiers can also get good horses, during the period of soldiers, Li Cun will also double their military salary.

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Jiashan.

Knowing that Yelu Yanxi went hunting again, Xiao Guige couldn't help but sigh.

Brother Xiao Gui is the concubine of Yelu Yanxi, and she is also the sister of Xiao Fengxian, the first traitor of Liao.

Yelu Yanxi had a queen and three princesses in his life.

Of course, Yelu Yanxi also has some concubines such as Zhaorong, Zhaoyi, Shuyi, Heyi, Liyi, Shunyi, and Fangyi.

However, because Yelu Yanxi is not too good a woman, these concubines did not get much luck from Yelu Yanxi, and most of them never gave birth to children for Yelu Yanxi.

In addition, the system of the Liao State is that the status of concubines and concubines is very different.

- In the Liao Kingdom, the status of the concubine is not much higher than that of the palace maid.

Therefore, the four most important women in Yelu Yanxi are: Queen Xiao Duoli, Concubine Xiao Shigu, Concubine Wen Xiao Sese, and Yuan Concubine Xiao Guige.

Aunt Xiao died of grief in her early years because of her son's early death.

Xiao Sese was given to death by the mediocre Yelu Yanxi two years ago.

Not long ago, Yelu Yanxi's queen Xiao Duoli was lazy, couldn't stand the pain of bumps, and was relatively old, and died of illness.

Now Yelu Yanxi is left with only the imperial concubine Xiao Guige.

Yelu Yanxi had a total of six sons and six daughters.

Among them, the eldest son Zhao Wang Yelu Xi Nilie was born to Zhao Zhaorong, the second son Liang Wang Yelu Yali was born to an unknown low-level concubine, the third son Yan Wang Yelu Tart Lu was born to Concubine Xiao Shigu, the fourth son Jin King Yelu Ao Lu Hu was born to Concubine Wen Xiao Sese, and the fifth son Qin King Yelu Ding and the sixth son Xu Wang Yelu Ning were all born to Xiao Guige.

The six princesses, in addition to the unknown concubine who gave birth to the eldest daughter Yelu Yabuli and the second daughter Yelu Guyu, Xiao Sese gave birth to the princess of Shu Yulu Yu Liyan, and the rest of Yelu Liyan, Yelu Da Aoye, and Yelu Ci Aoye were all born to Xiao Guige.

In other words, Yelu Yanxi has a total of twelve children, and the youngest two sons and three daughters were all rounded up by Xiao Guige.

It can be seen that Brother Xiao Gui is favored by Yelu Yanxi.

More importantly, with Yelu Yanxi's son being stupid, dying to death, being born out of his concubine, and being given death by Yelu Yanxi, Yeluding, born to Xiao Guige, has become the most suitable heir of Liao.

- Yeluchun passed the throne of the emperor of Northern Liao to Yeluding.

In addition, Xiao Guige, a woman, is quiet in nature, indisputable in everything, extremely virtuous, and extremely beautiful, therefore, since Brother Xiao Gui entered the palace, Yelu Yanxi has never favored others anymore, so that Xiao Guige has taken all the energy of Yelu Yanxi, who was not young at that time.

It is precisely because of this that Yelu Yanxi blindly favored Xiao Fengxian, who dedicated Xiao Guige to Yelu Yanxi.

This has also become one of the reasons why the Liao State has come here.

From this point of view, it is not an exaggeration to call Brother Xiao Guige a beauty at the level of "disaster water".

Of course, putting the blame on women is just an excuse for those useless men.

Brother Xiao Gui himself really hasn't done anything bad.

In fact, Brother Xiao Guige is not only not a bad woman, on the contrary, she is also very kind and generous.

- Once, when Xiao Guige was taking a nap, a servant sneaked into her bedroom to steal her beloved mink fur, and she obviously found out, and she didn't call the guards to catch the waiter.

All in all, no matter what aspect it is, Brother Xiao Guige is the best choice for the queen of Liao.

In fact, now Yelu Yanxi and they are displaced, and not long after Xiao Duoli passed away, Yelu Yanxi has no time or mood to canonize Xiao Guige, otherwise Xiao Guige will definitely be the queen.

Brother Xiao Guige actually doesn't want to be this queen.

In Brother Xiao Gui's heart, the reason why the Liao Kingdom has reached this point is largely caused by her brother Xiao Fengxian.

Xiao Guige even felt that she had her own responsibility, if she could support Yelu Ao Lu as the crown prince, instead of moving the idea of making her son Yelu Ding the crown prince, the Liao Kingdom might not be what it is now.

Based on this, Brother Xiao Gui, who is not very strong, can only strengthen himself and temporarily help Yelu Yanxi take care of the harem, so as not to worry about Yelu Yanxi for these women.

After sorting out his bad mood and suppressing his worries about the future, Xiao Guige entered a particularly large tent.

At this time, the tent was full of hundreds of women.

Some of them were Yelu Yanxi's concubines, some were the concubines of Yelu Yanxi's sons, some were other Zong daughters or concubines of the Zong clan, and there were also Yelu Yanxi's six daughters.

Yelu Yanxi's eldest daughter, Yelu Yabuli, was already married, but unfortunately her colt had been killed in battle.

The second daughter Yelu Guyi, the third daughter Yelu Yu Liyan, the fourth daughter Yelu Liyan, the fifth daughter Yelu Da Okeye, and the sixth daughter Yelu Ci Oye have not yet married.

These women in the tent, both young and old, are all very beautiful, especially Xiao Guige, Yelu Yu Liyan, Yelu Yu Liyan, Yelu Da Oye and Yelu Ci Oye and more than a dozen other women.

This is actually very normal, after more than two hundred and twenty years of countless generations of beautiful women excellent genetic modification, how can these daughters of the imperial family and the daughters of the Zong family in Liao State look so bad?

Seeing Brother Xiao Gui coming in, someone couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Niangniang, Your Majesty is going hunting again?" ”

Brother Xiao Guige could see how much the woman in the tent wished that she could hear answers such as "No, Your Majesty is studying how to recover the lost land" from her mouth.

These pampered women really don't want to stay in this deserted mountain anymore.

More than 220 years have passed since the founding of Yelu Abaoji.

This made the degree of sinicization of the Liao aristocracy very high.

Many nobles of the Liao Kingdom, especially aristocratic women, no longer like life on horseback, and they prefer to live in a comfortable palace with whatever they want.

It's okay to go out hunting and relax once in a while, but they really can't stand living this kind of savage life every day.

In addition to being physically unbearable, they are also mentally unbearable.

Once upon a time, these people, who were not high-ranking noblewomen, princesses, and monarchs, but now they have become the playthings of the lowly Jurchens, and they live in fear every day, for fear that the next moment, a group of Jurchens will rush in, resist them away, and then ravage them in every way.

Who wants to live like this all the time?!

Therefore, they all hope that their emperor Yelu Yanxi will stop playing with things and lose his mind, quickly cheer up, lead the army to fight back, recover the lost territory, and let them live back to their former lives.

Brother Xiao Guige wanted to deceive these poor women, but Brother Xiao Guige was born to lie.

As a result, as soon as Brother Xiao Guige hesitated, all the women in the tent suddenly collapsed collectively!

- They really can't understand that the Liao Kingdom is like this, how can Yelu Yanxi still be in the mood to hunt?!

Uncle Liao's concubine Huluwa, relying on her high seniority, said with red eyes: "Can Niangniang persuade Your Majesty to take me and wait to fight back, I and other women and children are willing to go to the battlefield, whether it is the Jurchens or the Song people, we will fight with them, and we will die in Shangjing, instead of living in this mountain." ”

As soon as Huluwa's concubine's voice fell, someone immediately cried and agreed: "Yes, I can't wait to escape, let Your Majesty take me and others to fight back, I would rather die on the battlefield than flee like a rat anymore!" ”

Then all the women began to cry.

How miserable and miserable these cries are, how heartbreaking and heartbreaking they are!

Xiao Guige's eyes were also red.

But Brother Xiao Gui must be strong, she has to help Yelu Yanxi stabilize the emotions of these women, otherwise it will make the already gloomy behavior even worse.

Brother Xiao Guige cheered up a little and said: "Your Majesty did go hunting, however, this is all because Your Majesty has been under too much pressure recently, and you need a place to vent, you also know that Your Majesty has borrowed troops from the Xia Kingdom, and is gathering various tribes, and when the army is assembled in the coming day, Your Majesty will definitely lead us to return to Shangjing and recover the lost land......"

Brother Xiao Guige is actually not entirely comforting a group of women who are emotionally out of control, in fact, Yelu Yanxi has not been idle since she fled into Jiashan in mid-March this year.

In the past few months, Yelu Yanxi has been trying to find a way to organize forces to resist the invasion of the Jin army.

But in Yelu Yanxi's view, the situation is becoming more and more serious.

Following Yelu's remnants, the southwest has also lowered the gold of Yelu Buddha, Yunnei, Yongbyon, and Dongsheng prefectures, and Xijing has also fallen, so it can be said that the areas south of the desert are basically occupied by the Jin army.

Fortunately, at the beginning of May, the commander of Yelu Margo collected some stragglers, and joined forces with Yelu Yanxi in Lili.

Yelu Yanxi was very happy with Yelu Margo and thousands of men, and he immediately appointed Yelu Margo as the envoy of the Northern Privy Council and the capital, and planned to go out of the mountain to kill Yanjing in August this year, and find Ye Luchun who dared to plot against the usurper to take revenge.

——Yelu Yanxi was very angry about Yeluchun's usurpation of the throne and the title of emperor in Yanjing, and he ordered that all Yeluchun's official titles be stripped away, and Xiao Puxiannu was demoted to a concubine, and Xiao Puxiannu was given the surname Yu.

Later, before Yelu Yanxi went to crusade against Yeluchun, Yeluchun died.

This made Yelu Yanxi lose his short-term goal all of a sudden, and then postponed his departure from Jiashan until now.

So far, Yelu Yanxi has borrowed 30,000 troops from Western Xia by taking advantage of his special relationship with Li Qianshun, the lord of Western Xia.

In addition, Yelu Yanxi also gathered many steppe tribes to form an elite cavalry of 50,000 horses.

Recently, Yelu Yanxi did have a plan to attack the Jin army, preparing to go out of Jiashan to recover the Tiande army......

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