The Uighur envoys of Gaochang quickly alarmed Zhu Ming, because the envoys of Yelu Dashi were hidden inside!

In order to keep it secret, the envoy did not reveal his identity all the way, and only informed the officials of Honglu Temple when he arrived in Tokyo.

Although the Liao State has perished, Mobei has not yet been included in the rule of the Jin State. Including the Altay region of Xinjiang in later generations, together with Mobei formed the Northwest Road Recruitment Division of the Liao State, these places still maintain the administrative system of the Liao State.

At one time, it existed in name only, and the ministries already had a tendency to become independent.

It was Yelu Dashi who led 200 iron cavalry to deter those tribes from acting rashly with force, and gained dominance through the revival of the righteousness of the Liao State.

He has been connecting various departments in tandem for the past few years, and if he is really disobedient, he will directly send troops to fight.

This year, just after the settlement of the Altay region of the Mubagh tribe (the predecessor of the barbarian tribe), by the way to the south to contact the Gaochang Uighurs, heard that the Gaochang Uighurs were going to send an envoy to the Ming Dynasty, so they quietly came with the envoy group.

Zhu Ming first met with the Uighur envoy from Gaochang, and after listening to the account, asked, "In other words, Yelu Dashi has just established diplomatic relations with Gaochang?" ”

The head of the Uighur envoys in Gaochang was named Tsecher, which means "keeping the precepts" in Buddhism, and he replied: "China has always been a subject state of the Great Liao, and Yelu Dashi claims to be the orthodox state of the Liao State, and orders us to continue to swear to submit." ”

Zhu Ming nodded and said: "Liao and China are brotherly states, and Gaochang's submission to Liao is not a betrayal. ”

Ce Che expressed his loyalty: "Although our country is subordinate to Liao, it is concerned about China. He had an appointment with the Great Song Dynasty as a nephew before, but now the Ming Dynasty has replaced the Great Song Dynasty and asked the prince to continue to let Gao Chang be China's nephew. ”

Zhu Ming said: "I should be Your Majesty and officially canonize the King of Gaochang." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness the Prince!" Tseche was overjoyed.

Gaochang occupies Hami and Turpan, which are all important nodes of the Silk Road, and can be described as guilty.

They can only look for their father everywhere, the previous Liao State was their father, and Da Song was their uncle, and later they simply regarded Yelu Dashi as their father.

You can canonize the king of Gaochang first, and then send troops to Gaochang after destroying the Western Xia in the future, opening up the Hexi Corridor.

If the king knows each other, he can retain the throne, but the military power must be deprived, and the specific pattern is similar to the Mongol rule of Dali - the king of Dali is still there, and the military and political power is vested in the Mongols.

After Tscher retreated, the yellow-headed Uighur emissaries were brought in again.

The yellow-headed Uighurs had many tribes and lacked a large leader with sufficient prestige.

They were nomadic in northern Qinghai, southwestern Gansu, and southeastern Xinjiang, and were nominally subordinate to the Great Song Dynasty. Usually pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty some special products, but also eat some leftovers from the Silk Road, if they are coerced by Western Xia, they will ask the Great Song Dynasty to send troops to help.

If the Great Song Dynasty attacked Western Xia from Hehuang, it would also allow the Yellow-headed Uighurs to send troops to harass (mainly plundering) on the southwestern border of Western Xia.

After some exchanges, Zhu Ming promised to be canonized.

The Ming Dynasty canonized three generals among the Yellow Uighur tribes, and the rest of the tribal leaders were generals.

The Northern Song Dynasty's Longyou Protectorate has been revoked, and it will not be restored until the future of the Qinghai-Tibet raids, and the Yellow Head Uighurs are an extremely important force to lead the way.

Zhu Ming asked: "The west of Western Xia is Gaochang, and which country is the west of Gaochang?" ”

A yellow-headed Uighur envoy said: "To the west of Gaochang is the Black Khanate, and the religion of the Great Food Sect is the Great Food Religion. ”

Zhu Ming nodded in contemplation, corresponding to the Karakhanid State in his memory.

At this time, the Qarakhanid State had been divided into two parts, the east and the west, and later Yelu Dashi went west, and the main conquest was the Eastern Qarakhanid.

After the Eastern Qarakhanid annexed Khotan, it continued to pretend to be Khotan to pay tribute, calling the emperor of the Song Dynasty "the uncle of the Han family" in official documents.

A bunch of regimes in the Western Regions came to China to recognize their uncle, and the reason was that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty married a princess.

At that time, the princess was married to the Uighurs, which led to the fact that since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Western Regions regimes have been competing for Uighur orthodoxy.

Even the Qarakhanids, who had been slaughtered from the west, entered the countryside to compete for Uighur legal rule, and rushed to be the nephew of the Chinese emperor.

And there is some truth to it, because the Qarakhanid state was founded by the Uighurs who migrated westward.

Although the legal system is a relatively empty thing, it is extremely easy to use. It can increase the stability of the rule, establish the legitimacy of the ruler, and make it more difficult for the rebels in the country to rebel.

……

The messenger sent by Yelu Dashi is called Xiao Lira!

This person was born in the Xiao clan of the Liao State and served as the king of Xi Liubu. He was captured and imprisoned by the Jin people, and after successfully escaping, he has been following Yelu Dashi.

Xiao Lili greeted him and said a few words, and then he got straight to the point: "I heard that Jin Bing went south and set up the puppet emperor of the Song dynasty in Hebei. Jin and the Ming are enemies, and our Liao is also an enemy, my Khan is willing to form an alliance with the Ming, the two countries are about brothers, and the next year will go to the north and south to attack the Jin country! ”

Zhu Ming asked, "How many troops does your lord have?" ”

Xiao Lira said: "The Great Khan has 100,000 elite soldiers! ”

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "If there were really 100,000 elite soldiers, I'm afraid I would have gone to fight against the Jin Kingdom a long time ago." ”

Xiao Lili said: "Although there are no 100,000, there must be 60,000 elite soldiers." ”

Zhu Ming said: "Go back and tell Yelu Dashi how many soldiers he has, I know very well, and there is no need to blask to deceive." Daming and Jin Guo, there will be a battle next year, and then he can send troops to flank Jin Guo. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really a cheerful person!" Xiao Weili was overjoyed.

At this time, Yelu Dashi had not yet thought about going west, he had been integrating the remnants of the Liao State and wanted to lead his troops back from Mobei.

Two years ago, Yelu Dashi also contacted Western Xia and asked Western Xia to attack the northern territory of Shanxi in the Jin Kingdom. Who knew that Xixia turned around and sold him, and directly called him a tribute to the Jin State.

What "Yelu Dashi 200 iron horsemen conquered Central Asia" is pure fucking nonsense.

Today, Jerodashi is stationed in the city of Kedun, near Ulaanbaatar.

He has ruled Mobei for two or three years, and has incorporated the Mobei border guards of the Liao State, with more than 10,000 troops under his direct control. Now he forced the Altay Sticky Blag tribe to submit, and ordered the Uighurs of Gaochang to submit, so that the Uighurs of Gaochang could contain the Erwuzai Western Xia.

If there is a real battle, Yelu Dashi is likely to directly pull out 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry!

Xiao Weilira said: "The Great Khan has befriended the White Tatars, and the White Tatars will no longer sell horses to the Jin Kingdom. The rest of the tribes also have dealings with the Great Khan, and although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is at war with the Jin State, the Great Khan will be able to contain 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Jin State in the north! ”

"Then I wish the two countries of Ming and Liao a victory!" Zhu Ming said with a smile.

The White Tartars, that is, the Wanggu Division, openly chose to break with the Jin State under the instigation of Yelu Dashi. Although he was nominally subordinate to the Jin State, he refused to provide the Jin State with war horses and soldiers.

At the same time, Yelu Dashi was planning to send troops to seize the territory of the Jin Kingdom in Mobei.

It is precisely because of the various actions of Yelu Dashi that the Jin Kingdom did not go south in a big way this year. The Jin people realized that the Ming Dynasty was not a weak Song Dynasty, and it was impossible to take it in one go, and Yelu Dashi was connecting everywhere, and the Jin State must first digest and consolidate the hometown of the Liao State.

What are the consequences of not digesting the territory?

When Yelu Dashi captured the second battalion in the north of the Jin State, the Jin State ordered to send troops to levy, but the leaders of the Monan tribes did not cooperate at all!

As a result, after the elite of the Jin Kingdom set out, they could not effectively supply along the way, and they could not recruit the grassland troops to fight. The Jin State vigorously engaged in the Northern Expedition, and could only withdraw its troops halfway through, which became a complete joke.

Xiao Lira asked: "I heard that the Ming Dynasty captured more than 100,000 Western Xia, can you take a look at the military power of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Yes." Zhu Ming smiled.

The envoys of the Liao State raised this matter because they wanted to observe the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and they were really frightened by the Song army.

Zhu Ming called Bai Sheng and asked him to take the Liao envoy to the military camp outside the city, and summoned the soldiers for the envoy to take a look.

Three thousand heavily armored guards, one thousand were taken to Huainan by Wang Yuan, and now they are stationed in Jiangling to confront Zhong. There are two thousand left, and they are on duty to guard the imperial city.

In front of Xiao Lira, there were only five hundred heavily armored guards, led by Gu San.

These soldiers no longer use wolf milling and boring palladium, but all iron cones, armor-piercing infantry spears. There is also an iron bone on his waist, which weighs only two or three pounds, and is used for close hand-to-hand combat.

Gu San personally shouted the password, and the five hundred heavily armored soldiers were like fingers, advancing and retreating, turning to draw their guns in unison. They even lined up in a stacked formation to practice wave attacks and staggered cover retreats.

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.

Xiao Lila, the first hero of the founding of the Western Liao, quickly understood that those heavily armored guards were full of combat effectiveness. He couldn't help but ask, "How many such warriors are there in your country?" ”

Gu San had already received the order and exaggeratedly said: "It is not easy to train such a strong army, and now there are only 8,000 people. The south was not pacified, and five thousand of them were sent to the southern battlefield, and the rest remained in Tokyo to defend the Imperial City. ”

"Eight thousand men is not a small number," Xiao Lili asked again, "besides, is there a strong army in your country?" ”

Gu San asked three thousand people who practiced the mandarin duck formation to come over: "With such an army, I have more than 100,000 people in the Ming Dynasty. ”

The 3,000 people in front of him did not wear heavy armor in foot combat, but their armor should not be underestimated.

They are all wearing armor and helmets, and the full set of armor weighs about 28 kilograms, and they are about to touch the threshold of heavy armor.

Gu San was also bragging, and the Mandarin Duck Formation troops, all dressed in such armor, were actually only thirty or forty thousand people. There are also many troops wearing light armor and slowly waiting to change their outfits, and all that can be done at the moment is to completely eliminate paper armor.

The school yard was deliberately set up with rough terrain, and even wooden planks were erected to imitate roadways.

I saw the 3,000 soldiers divided into two teams, 1,000 of them standing on small mounds, fighting in formation over the rough terrain. The other 2,000 people used traditional weapons to surround and attack on both sides, but they could not break through the mandarin duck formation.

Then, in the planked tunnels, they fought in small formations.

Xiao Lira exclaimed: "Such a formation is not very useful in the open battlefield, but it can be invincible in the mountains and in the city!" ”

Gu San said again: "I still have more than 30,000 cavalry in the Ming Dynasty, and I was sent to fight against the Western Xia and Jin Kingdoms. ”

Xiao Lira sighed with emotion: "No wonder the Ming State can defeat the Song State, and defeat the Western Xia State by a great victory, and force the Jin State to withdraw its troops." When I return to the city of Kedun, I will be blessed with the Great Khan. When the Liao State regained its lost territory, it followed the example of the Liao-Song Alliance, and the two countries became brothers forever. ”

Gu San said: "The prince has a saying, the Ming Dynasty does not call ministers, does not pay tribute, and does not make peace with relatives, this is the 'Ming Three No'." The Liao State wants the New Year's coin, but that is impossible. ”

"The year's coins will naturally be invalidated." Xiao Weili said with a smile.

(End of chapter)