Xiao Ming took 10,000 Wuhuai warriors to escort Ami back to Xijing, in fact, this is very unruly, the emperor and the empress's security guards have their own imperial camp army and forbidden army, and 10,000 tribal warriors are not in the Liao army sequence at all, nominally it only belongs to Xiao Ming's private army, and the food, grass and supplies of this army can only be solved by Xiao Ming.

But now Xiao Ming has money, a lot of gold and silver, the key is to find a place to purchase first, or take these people back to Wuhuai first, but soon the emperor's will will arrive, let him go to Nanjing, meet the people of the southern courtyard of the headquarters, and wait for the rest of the people and horses to be heavy, the emperor needs him to take Shangjing back soon.

Xiao Ming thought about it, sent someone to send a letter to Ami, and said that after going to Beijing more, he would welcome Ami back to the Daliao Palace, and he would meet him. And at the end of the letter, he said: "Brother will always protect you!" ”

Xiao Ming doesn't know what he is doing to Ami, he often sees Ami's little tiger teeth in a trance, she naughtily pulls her arm and calls her "brother", Ami has married a woman, and she is also a queen, she is suddenly very reluctant, but he really hopes that Ami can be happy, but unfortunately Ami is destined not to be happy.

He brought a Ami's escort team, these 10,000 Khitan warriors, who came to protect their princess, but now they want to become their own private army, Xiao Ming feels that he should not decide the fate of others.

He told everyone: "Princess Ami has become the queen of Liao, if you continue to stay to protect her, I can arrange for everyone to enter the rear army of the Jingshi garrison, or if you want to return to the tribe, I will also let everyone go, and I have been sent by the emperor to fight now, and I can't take everyone with me anymore."

In the team, a few commanders designated by Xiao Ming stepped forward and said, "The patriarch has already sent the warriors of the tribe to the capital to follow Princess Ami, and we are only willing to follow Lord Ami now."

Xiao Ming said: "But the safety of the tribe still needs to be guarded by everyone, Anping is still surrounded by the Jurchens, and the Wuhuai Department can no longer lose its sacrificial ground!" ”

Commander Han Lu said: "Your Excellency, why don't you go back to Anping with us first?" The emperor sent you to fight in Beijing, but there are no soldiers and horses for you, why don't we wait in Anping City and wait for the soldiers and horses to arrive? ”

Xiao Ming said: "But the emperor has already sent me to Nanjing!" ”

Han Lu said: "After the Southern Courtyard King Yelu Zhangnu was executed, it is currently the Yan King Yelu Chun who is the first to act as the King of the Southern Courtyard, and the Nanjing side is an independent soldier and horse, and the adults will not have any place to go, and the Southern Courtyard is not the same heart with the emperor at all, why should the adults be angry at both ends?" ”

Xiao Ming knew that what Hanlu said was right, the Yanwang line was the most unique line of the Liao State, and the entire Southern Courtyard was now called Liunanfu, which was completely different from the Privy Council of the Northern Courtyard of the Northern Courtyard, and the Privy Council of the Northern Courtyard basically belonged to the Khitan ancestral system, with a battalion of soldiers and horses, military administration, and civil and military ministers all under the old system of the Liao State.

However, it is different in the first department of the Southern Academy, basically the Southern Academy has become a khanate system, and the official positions and systems have been the same as the Han people in the Tang Dynasty, although the entire Liao State was founded by Confucianism and selected talents through the imperial examination, but the talents in the examination are basically in the first department of the Southern Academy, but the Northern Academy is not hired.

Although the Liao State was also founded on Confucianism, following the example of the Great Song Dynasty, and also engaged in the imperial examination, it was just that from the early days of Abaoji's establishment of the government, the Khitans were not allowed to take the exam, and the restrictions were gradually relaxed, and it developed to the top 13 in each palace examination after the Muzong Dynasty, which was actually among the Khitans. Therefore, there is a proverb called "the fourteenth imperial examination of the southerners". Let the Khitan men read the Four Books and Five Classics, and the effect can be imagined. Therefore, the Nanren, that is, the fourteenth among the Han and Bohai people, is actually the first "champion". For decades, those Khitan "jinshi" in the Liao State, everyone discussed that the real water was enough, only Yelu Dashi, the commander of the imperial guards and the pro-army of this meeting, and there were only a few people.

The Prime Minister of the Northern Prefecture Li Chuwen, the privy envoy Xiao Gan, the prime minister of the Southern Mansion Zhang Lin, the privy deputy envoy Wu Yong and others were all born in the "Fourteenth Imperial Examination of the Southerners". In other words, they are all de facto "champions" from their backgrounds. Especially in the first year of Qiantong, the "champion" Li Chuwen, although he is not as good as old thieves like Cai Jing, he is also famous in the Great Liao Kingdom.

Li Chuwen is especially supernatural in the law, because the prime minister's daily work is too complicated, and the brains of most Khitans who are a little retarded are really unbearable. Therefore, since Liao Xingzong, the position of prime minister of the two provinces is often held by Han people, but the name of this prime minister is called Dayue or Pingzhangshi.

Yan King Yelu Chunxian was implicated by Yelu Zhangnu, he was very suspicious of Emperor Tianzuo, his status was already in jeopardy, and his fate was only a few months, and finally he was deceived into the capital by Xiao Fengxian, and Emperor Tianzuo wanted to give him death, and then exempted his title from being demoted to a concubine, which also removed the biggest stone that Xiao Feng first established Yelu Ding, and the rest was the king of Jin, Yelu Aolu.

Xiao Ming also felt that what Hanlu said made sense, so he adopted his suggestion, and directly took 10,000 Khitan warriors back to Anping City, the brigade was pulled, Ma Jianying flew, and after autumn, the climate became cooler, the grass gradually withered and yellowed, and soon arrived in the Hanwal grassland area.

This day is marching, suddenly heard the scout coming, there are a large number of people and horses in the south, I can't see the flag can not know which side of the people, Xiao Ming jumped up the small slope, put his hand on the pergola and looked south, only to see the dust in the distance in front of him, raised more than ten zhang high, like yellow clouds surging on the ground, black and brown flags fluttering, covering the sky and the sun.

There are a lot of men and horses, and there seem to be more than 100,000 people, and the soldiers and horses are divided into four divisions: the front army, the left army, the right army, and the middle army. Xiao Ming ordered the scouts to reprobe, and at the same time ordered the team to be prepared and seize the favorable terrain on the high ground.

After a while, the scout led a chess and card hall to worship, saying that it was Lord Xiao Gan, the privy deputy envoy of the Southern Yuan, who came to meet the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan by the holy decree of the Emperor of Liao, and recruited the general Xiao Ming, and jointly attacked Shangjing.

This time it was not Yelu Chunxian, the king of Qin and Jin, who came with the team, the Liao State is now occupied by the Jin State in the northern Liaobei region, and the soldiers are pointing directly at the south of Liaoning, but the post station system in the country is still basically sound, Xiao Ming as the uncle of the country was appointed as the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, and the news of leading the troops to attack Shangjing has been known to the world, and the holy decree of Emperor Tianzuo has also been issued.

Sure enough, according to Xiao Zhonggong's judgment, this time the people who were given to Xiao Ming were sent from the first department of the Southern Academy, which was originally a team independent of the Liao army, and the entire military uniform, weapons, armor and even training were not the same system as the regular Liao army, basically saying that they were their own faction.

Xiao Ming later learned why although the banner of the entire team was flying, there was no sign of the Liao army, because this army was the most famous "resentful army" in history! Most of them are Han Chinese and Bohai people.

In the first month of the second year of Jin Shuguo (the sixth year of Liao Tianqing, that is, 1116), Gao Yongchang, a native of Bohai, established himself as king with troops and occupied more than 50 states east of Liao. Emperor Tianzuo ordered the prime minister Zhang Lin to attack, Gao Yongchang asked Jin for help, and Jin Taizu took the opportunity to send troops to attack the eastern part of Liao, defeating Zhang Lin's army in Shenzhou (present-day Shenyang City, Liaoning Province in northeastern China), and then defeating Gao Yongchang and occupying Tokyo.

Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao State recruited 28,000 displaced people from eastern Liaodong and organized them into 8 battalions, known as the "resentful army". In the Battle of Tokyo, the resentful army was defeated by the Jin army, not only did the number not decrease, but more, these were all done by Yelu Chunxian, he took in more displaced people and scattered Liao soldiers, intending to increase the strength of the Southern Yuan and the first group of people.

Xiao Gan is the privy deputy envoy of the Southern Yuan, and the commander of the army is the commander of the guards of the forbidden army in Liunanfu, Yelu Dashi, after Yelu Chun first received the holy decree of Emperor Tianzuo, Xiao Gan originally dissuaded him from sending troops, this newly rising uncle Xiao Ming did not know the details, no one knew what his ability was, according to Emperor Tianzuo's consistent use of people, all the people who were reused by him were the disciples of wine bags and rice bags, why bother to hand over the people of the Southern Academy to him for waste.

But Yelu Chunxian thought that he was still an important minister of the Liao State, how could the rise and fall of the country only preserve his strength for himself, and the country should still be important in the major affairs of the family and the country, and as a subordinate, he could not openly violate the emperor's will for his own selfishness, so he wanted to personally lead the troops to join Xiao Ming.

In order to ensure that the power of the Southern Yuan faction was preserved, the commander chose Yelu Dashi, who was very prestigious in the army, and they raised an army of 100,000 and marched north day and night.

On the way, I heard that Xiao Ming did not get up and go south, but turned east to Anping, thinking that he wanted to gather troops in Anping, so the army marched in the direction of Anping, and finally joined Xiao Ming's men and horses a few days later.

Xiao Gan brought Yelu Dashi to meet Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming warmly entertained the two, and gave them all the five thousand cattle and sheep rewarded by Emperor Tianzuo, but unfortunately the number was too small, Xiao Ming noticed that their army also carried a large amount of heavy grain and grass, and five thousand cattle and sheep were not much, but they also gave some supplies, which was also what Xiao Ming had to do as a chief officer.

Fortunately, the army has arrived in Anping City, and it can be purchased for military needs, Xiao Ming still has some gold and silver in his hand, and the supply of the army is not a problem, the question is whether this army is obeying its own dispatch, and the army dominated by the Han people, the leading general of the entire army is the backbone, which is worse than the Song army's soldiers who don't know the handsome, and the handsome don't know the soldiers.

When the general of the army has too much power, the commander will basically be hollowed out, and the more people there are, the more dangerous the army will be, and the ability and difficulty of controlling an army, Xiao Ming has long known, and he is also a person who has emphasized the line of elite troops from the beginning, including his tiger guard construction, which has always been a policy that people are not more elite.

Now to lead the army of 100,000 people, but also to fight them, it seems that it is not easy, Xiao Ming decided to recover Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi first, if the two can cooperate with him, then he is still a little sure of attacking Shangjing, if the two do not cooperate with him, he has to drive the two away first.

Xiao Gan is very talented, he is the son of the enemy Lu of the prime minister of Beifu, he has always been on the southern border to deal with the Song army, has many years of experience in the war against the Song Dynasty, and has trained a group of generals, such as: Yelu Sha, Yelu Xiuge, Yelu Yungu, etc., these people basically belong to the backbone of the general department of the Southern Academy, and this person was finally crowned the king.

And Yelu Dashi is even more amazing, Yelu Dashi is heavy on morality, the eighth grandson of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji, Tongqi Dan and Chinese characters. His military talent has always been praised, his 29-year-old Dashi passed the first place in the palace examination, Hanlin should be fed, so called Lin Ya Dashi, at the age of 30, he has become the Liaoxing military festival envoy.

Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi's uncle, when Yelu Chun first formed the Southern Yuan faction, he dug up Yelu Dashi to the Southern Courtyard, and the people banned the army and guards, and reported to the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, Tianzuo Emperor did not approve, and has been staying in Nanjing Xijin Mansion, he is a very outstanding figure among the young generation of generals in Liao.

The historical Yelu Dashi, after the fall of the Liao State, led the army to the west and established the Western Liao Dynasty.

For such two outstanding figures, Xiao Ming couldn't come up with a better idea for a while, but he didn't worry, he also had the Wuhuai Department of the Khitan, a tribe that has always regarded Xiao Ming as a hero, the god of war of the entire tribe, and the eldest brother of the current queen Ami!

Everything will wait until after Anping City, don't dare to do anything, the battle of Shangjing is inevitable.