Chapter 14: The Three Kingdoms Kill
A day later, Wu Qinglie sent an antidote to His Majesty the Emperor, and Ouyang Feng and Ouyang Ke had already gone to Jiangnan.
Yang Kang put his mind at ease, this shows that it is possible to cooperate with the Western Poison, Ouyang Feng left Wu Qinglie is a hint, he encouraged Wu Qinglie, and by the way, he got the news of Qian Qingjian and Lou Shidao, since the Mingjiao Bright Left Envoy is so hard working in the Western Regions, he can't do nothing.
After careful consideration, His Majesty the Emperor handed over the military information that Yang Tiexin brought back from Mongolia to the Ministry of War, and this kind of professional matter should be judged by professional people, and he specifically pointed out that this information is likely to be a false information, for reference only.
Emperor Majesty also met with the Western Xia prince Li Chengzhen, the Western Xia prince's intention is obvious, if one day the Jin Kingdom defeats Mongolia, he hopes that the Emperor Majesty Xi à can support him to become the emperor of the Western Xia Kingdom, Yang Kang is just perfunctory, the Emperor Majesty Xi à does not have any hope of defeating Mongolia in a few years, and wants to come to this Western Xia prince to be idle for a long time.
Moreover, even if the Jin State really defeated the Mongols one day, it would not be far from dominating the world, how could it be possible to support a Western Xia royal family to be the emperor of the Western Xia, if Li Chengzhen is willing to do things for himself, Yang Kang will arrange a position for him, if Li Chengzhen has been dreaming of being an emperor, then His Majesty the Emperor can only say sorry.
In the second year of Jin Tianci, in early summer, the war between the three kingdoms finally broke out.
The Mongol army was divided into two routes, gathering 150,000 troops all the way, entering the territory of Shaanxi from the Western Xia Kingdom, approaching the Jingzhao Mansion of the Jin State, and gathering 70,000 troops all the way, and entering the Liaodong land of the Jin State from Mobei.
The Mongol army that invaded from Western Xia was led by Mu Huali, half of whom were soldiers of the former Western Xia Kingdom. In terms of combat effectiveness, it is going to be greatly reduced, and King Rong Wanyan Hongxi has already rushed to Chang'an City. The attack on Liaodong was the elite of the Mongol state, led by Temujin himself, and the governor of the Jin state, Wanyan Chengyu, led 300,000 troops against the enemy.
The Song State also organized an army of 200,000 along the Yangtze River, preparing to cross the river to fight, intending to subdue Kaifeng Prefecture. At this time, a Song official named Jia Shi stepped onto the stage of history, this person was the father of Jia Yidao, a powerful minister of the Song State after Shi Miyuan, who was the county magistrate of Baoying County.
Baoying is located along the Yangtze River, which is an important transportation point connecting the Song Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, and its strategic location is very important.
In the context of the imminent outbreak of the war between the Song and Jin countries, a small incident happened in Baoying, Elder Li Shengli, the snake king of Jiangdong who was responsible for managing the affairs of the beggar gang, was killed outside Baoying City, which caused internal turmoil in the beggar gang and indirectly affected the process of the Song State's invasion of Jin.
Because of the alliance between the Song State and the Mongols, there were beggars to help. The beggar gang was very enthusiastic about this military operation of the Song State, and regarded it as a big step to recover the old mountains and rivers.
At this time, the beggar gang had signs of splitting, Li Sheng controlled the Dirty Clothes Faction in Jiangnan, and Mu Nianci controlled the Pure Clothes Faction in the Central Capital City. This was inherited from Elder Peng, and the Dirty Clothes Sect and the Pure Clothes Sect had long been separated.
Jia Sheng expressed deep concern over the killing of Li Sheng. As the local parent official of Baoying, he is well aware of the influence of the beggar gang, but the servants of the Baoying County Ya can only judge that Elder Li was poisoned to death, and it was snake venom, and Li Sheng, nicknamed the Jiangdong Snake King, died of snake venom, no matter how you look at it, this matter is weird.
Last time, in order to cover the four princes of Mongolia, they dragged mines and escaped. Lu Youjiao, who was injured under the pursuit of the Iron Palm Gang, was ordered to temporarily take over Li Sheng's position, and continued to direct the actions of the disciples of the Beggar Gang against the Jin Kingdom, and also to track down the murderer of Elder Li, what they didn't know was that the murderer had already left Baoying. Heading towards Taoyuan County, Xiangxi, the beggars are about to suffer a catastrophe.
The first step of Yang Kang's prediction has been basically realized, as long as Ouyang Feng succeeds in killing Hong Qigong next, even if he can't control the beggar gang, he will let the beggar gang split, once the dirty clothes faction does not have the support of the clean clothes faction in terms of materials, it is just a group of beggars who know martial arts.
The news of Li Sheng's death did not make the emperor happy, he was also worried, Yang Kang received the news that Liaodong was not calm, Yelu Chucai had already sent people to carry out activities in Liaodong, the purpose was to encourage those princes of the Jin Kingdom to rebel, the third prince Wanyan Hongxi killed many princes from the clan who were born in Liaodong in the middle capital, this adverse influence was finally revealed, or Yelu Chucai had already expected this result.
Those princes are all veteran royal relatives, and Liaodong is the origin of the Jin Kingdom, and if one is not well controlled, there will be chaos, and His Majesty the Emperor hopes that Wanyan Chengyu can handle this matter.
Wanyan Chengyu is a rare general in the royal family of the Jin Kingdom, which is Wanyan Honglie's evaluation.
As a traverser, Yang Kang does not know much about the history of the Jin Kingdom, and it is already rare to be able to remember the names of a few Jin emperors in the history books, and it is impossible to remember those famous ministers and fierce generals, so most of his impressions of the Jin courtiers come from Wanyan Honglie's evaluation.
However, what the emperor did not expect was that under the surprise attack of the Mongol elite and the non-cooperation of those Jin princes, Liaodong soon fell, and the 300,000 troops of the Jin State were defeated without a fight.
At the junction of Zhangbei County and Wanquan County in Zhangjiakou, there is a place called Yehuling, Yehuling Mountain is high and steep, the wind is fierce, geese fly over here, fall in the wind, here is an important military passage leading to Mobei in the Central Plains, if Yehuling is lost, the Mongolian army will approach the imperial city of Zhongdu.
At this time, only twenty days had passed since the war between the Jin Kingdom and the Mongols.
His Majesty the Emperor never imagined that the shape would take such a sharp turn, and he had heard of the place of Yehuling, which was in a historical science and education film, and he remembered that the narrator said so, it was precisely because the Mongol army broke through Yehuling that the Jin Kingdom gradually went to defeat.
Is history going to repeat itself?
At this time, the court sounded the mention of moving the capital, and some ministers thought that in order to ensure the safety of the emperor's majesty, the capital should be moved to Kaifeng Mansion in Nanjing, otherwise once the central capital city was besieged, the Jin Dynasty would be in danger, and some ministers mentioned that even if they did not move the capital, they could first let the little prince Wanyanxu go to Kaifeng Mansion, which was just in case, and some ministers proposed to negotiate peace with Mongolia.
Yang Kang was not able to pro-government, he coldly watched those ministers arguing, at the beginning of the war, these people were full of confidence, and when they encountered a slight defeat, they changed their faces, it sounded like it was for the sake of Emperor Jin, but in fact, it was just to save his own life.
At this moment, His Majesty the Emperor has nothing to worry about, if the central capital is broken, he will have a big deal to escape with Mu Nianci, this kind of singleton spirit made Yang Kang make a decision, he wants to go to Yehuling, fight to the death with Temujin, and see if history can be changed. (To be continued......)