Xianxia version of Water Margin

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During this time, Jiang Hongfei was very busy.

Busy ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor.

Busy building new systems.

Busy formulating the laws of the new dynasty.

Busy in providing relief to the vast number of victims in Yanyunping area.

He was busy setting up defenses in his own territory.

Busy appointing officials.

Busy adjusting the appointment of officials.

He was busy holding the second imperial examination and the second martial arts examination to select new talents and give the ambitious people in his territory the opportunity to show their talents.

He is busy dealing with the dignitaries, wealthy families, and gentry in his territory who still have a sense of luck.

He was busy dividing fields, distributing grain, canceling debts, and appeasing the common people in his territory.

Busy recruiting another 100,000 garrison troops.

In addition, there are projects such as using work-for-relief to expand Yanjing City, building a new palace in Yanjing City, using work-for-relief to build the Grand Canal and waterways in the Yanyunping area, using work-for-relief to control the Yellow River that often floods, etc. Wait wait wait wait...

In short, Jiang Hongfei has been busy with a lot lately.

However, at this moment, Yelu Yanxi came to make trouble for Jiang Hongfei.

Yelu Yanxi fled from Yanjing to Liaoxijing in March this year, and then fled from Liaoxijing to Jiashan.

After arriving at Jiashan, Yelu Yanxi was not idle. He sent people to contact the Liao army and grassland tribes who were loyal to the Liao Empire to come to Jiashan King Qin to rescue him.

Not long after, grassland tribes such as Guojiu Zhangbali, Yishiji, Yaonan Jiuzhang, Guojiubie, Hengzhang Sanfufang and other grassland tribes came to Jiashan King Qin one after another to rescue him.

In addition, the tribes north of the desert and the Zhaofu tribes in the southwest and northwest also expressed their support for Yelu Yanxi's restoration of the country.

In addition, Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, also strongly supported Yelu Yanxi's restoration of the country.

Li Qianshun married Yelu Nanxian, Princess Cheng'an, a royal daughter of the Liao Kingdom, and became the queen. She was regarded as Yelu Yanxi's son-in-law.

The key point is that when the Zhao and Song dynasties were about to destroy the Xixia dynasty ten years ago, it was Yelu Yanxi who sent troops to help Xixia fight Zhao and Song to "mediately mediate", so that Zhao Ji and his ministers had to let Xixia go. Therefore, Li Qianshun owed Yelu Yanxi a huge debt. favor.

Therefore, facing the imminent demise of the Liao Kingdom, Li Qianshun immediately sent 5,000 troops to aid Liao Xijing.

However, as soon as Xixia troops were sent out, Liaoxi Capital was captured by the Jin people.

Then, Li Qianshun sent minister Cao Jie to Jiashan quietly to ask Yelu Yanxi about his daily life, and sent Yelu Yanxi grain, grass, baggage, and various luxury goods to ensure Yelu Yanxi's quality of life.

Seeing that his son-in-law was so filial, Yelu Yanxi waved his hand and agreed to transfer a large area of ​​land to the north of Xiazhai, south of Yinshan Mountain, and west of Yishila Tululu, namely Tiande, Yunnei, Wuzhou, and Douda and Si in Hedong. The eight palaces of La, Huodong, Yeque, Shenya, Yulin, Baoda and Yumin, as well as the Jinsu and Heqing armies in Hexi, were ceded to Xixia and asked Xixia to help him restore the country.

Li Qianshun was overjoyed and agreed to lend 30,000 troops to Yelu Yanxi and provide his own food, grass and baggage.

Politically, Yelu Yanxi still had many supporters on the grassland.

The Daliao Empire can be said to be a hundred-footed insect that is dead but not stiff.

In fact, the main enemies of the Jin people have not been Yelu Chun, Xiao Puxiannu and others from Bei Liao. It can even be said that the Jin people did not take these people from Bei Liao seriously at all. Their main enemies There is always only one person, and this person is Yelu Yanxi.

That's right.

Yelu Yanxi was arrogant, extravagant, fond of hunting, and re-appointed the treacherous minister Xiao Fengxian, which completely destroyed the huge family fortune of the Liao Empire. He was a cowardly emperor who disappointed many Liao people.

However, no matter how miserable Yelu Yanxi was, he could not obliterate the indisputable fact that he was the legitimate emperor of the Liao Empire.

In the eyes of most Liao people, including most Jin people, and even several surrounding countries and forces, such as the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the Xixia Dynasty, the Goryeo Dynasty, and various grassland tribes, the emperors of the Liao Empire were recognized by There is only one person, and this person is Yelu Yanxi.

Be it Yelu Chun or Xiao Puxian, the Northern Liao established by them with the support of many Liao ministers is nothing more than a local government in the eyes of most Liao people, Jin people and the surrounding countries and forces. It is a pseudo-regime and cannot represent the Liao Empire at all. Everything is actually just their own wishful thinking.

Even Yelu Chun, who founded the Northern Liao Dynasty, did not really recognize his identity as emperor until his death. Xiao Puxiannu, the queen mother of the Northern Liao Dynasty, was also appointed by herself, and did not get the majority of the Liao and Jin people, nor any other country or country. Recognition of power.

Some people may say, is this a bit too high a view of Yelu Yanxi? He is a useless and foolish king, even more foolish than Zhao Ji. How could he still have such a high status? Such an important role?

Not really.

First of all, feudal society attaches great importance to etiquette and law. The king is the king and the ministers are ministers. This does not mean that whoever gathers a few people and ascends the throne can become the emperor of a region, unless you are really big enough not to care about any country. The situation of power perception.

Under normal circumstances, if you want to be an emperor, you must not only have territory, an army, and support, but also need to be canonized by a powerful country. Of course, you can also regard this canonization as the recognition of a big country or the establishment of diplomatic relations.

for example:

At the beginning of the rise of the Jin Kingdom, the Jin people approached the Liao Kingdom to canonize Wanyan Aguda as the emperor of the Jin Kingdom.

However, the Liao Kingdom thought too highly of itself at that time and rejected the Jin people's request without even considering it, so Wanyan Aguda raised troops again and continued to fight against the Liao Dynasty.

Later, the Liao Kingdom was really unable to defeat the Jin Kingdom, so Yelu Yanxi sent Liao Taifu Xi Nilie to confer a seal to confer Wanyan Aguda as the "Emperor of the East Huai Kingdom", but Wanyan Aguda did not allow it. Wanyan Aguda said to the ministers: "The Liao people have been defeated repeatedly. They sent envoys to sue for peace. They were just making false promises as a way to delay the war. We should discuss advancing the attack." Then the negotiations broke down and war broke out again.

Therefore, no matter from which aspect, there is no dispute that the emperor of the Daliao Empire was Yelu Yanxi.

In order for the Daliao Empire to perish, the prerequisite must be to capture Yelu Yanxi or kill Yelu Yanxi.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to bring an end to the destruction of Liao.

More importantly, since the founding of the Jin Kingdom, the Liao people in the Jin Kingdom have often revolted against the Jin under the banner of Yelu Yanxi, which has brought great hidden dangers to the stability of the Jin Kingdom. Therefore, the Jin people had to A large army was left in the country for a long time to suppress these rebellions.

Also, the three prefectures of Ping, Luan, and Ying previously ruled by Zhang Jue only temporarily accepted the rule of the Northern Liao Dynasty when Yelu Yanxi disappeared. Later, people in the three prefectures of Ping, Luan, and Ying learned that Yelu Yanxi While the living people were accumulating strength to fight against the Jin Dynasty in Jiashan, the three prefectures of Ping, Luan and Ying soon broke away from the control of the Northern Liao Dynasty and changed to Yelu Yanxi as the authentic sect.

All of this made the Jin people desperate to capture Yelu Yanxi.

For this reason, Wanyan Aguda even did not hesitate to go out personally.

Just because the Jin people felt that as long as Yelu Yanxi was not arrested and died for one day, their country of Jin would never be able to stop.

It is precisely because of this that before Jiang Hongfei started the battle with Wanyan Agu, the Jin people had been entrenched in Yundi.

——At that time, Wanyan Aguda personally led 100,000 elite cavalry to garrison in the east of Fengshengzhou, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin garrisoned tens of thousands of troops in the south of Yingzhou, Wanyan Yinshu could compete with Wanyan Loushi in garrison Tens of thousands of troops were in the west of Hongzhou, and the three armies formed a "pin" shape. This was a big net waiting to capture Yelu Yanxi.

At that time, after this big net was laid out, the Jin army followed the edict of Wanyan Aguda. While resting their troops and herding horses, they paid close attention to the situation in Yelu Yanxi and the Yanjing area, and waited for the Zhao and Song Dynasty to send troops north to recover. Yan land.

And it was precisely because Yelu Yanxi heard that the Jin people were setting up a net to wait for him to leave Jiashan, and because he was afraid of the Jin people who would beat him from north to south, and then from east to west, that he did not leave Jiashan for a long time. .

Later, a fight broke out between Jiang Hongfei and Wanyan Aguda, and Yelu Yanxi was overjoyed. He was prepared to fight with the snipe and the clam to reap the benefits, let alone go out of Jiashan to disrupt this battle that was extremely beneficial to him.

Yelu Yanxi was extremely surprised, no, extremely shocked, that the person who lost was not Jiang Hongfei, who jumped out of a rock he didn't even know, but Wanyan Aguda, who made him tremble with fear!

Only then did Yelu Yanxi look squarely at Jiang Hongfei for the first time.

Seeing that Jiang Hongfei was so powerful, Yelu Yanxi thought a lot, and his civil and military ministers also gave him many ideas.

As a result, Yelu Yanxi and his ministers rarely reached an agreement and wanted to form an alliance with Jiang Hongfei to deal with the Jin Kingdom together.

Moreover, Yelu Yanxi and his ministers had already thought out the conditions for the alliance, that is, as long as Jiang Hongfei could help them in the Liao Empire defeat the Jin Kingdom, all the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom would be ceded to Jiang Hongfei, and even marriage would not be impossible. By the way, Yelu Yanxi had six daughters, four of whom were unmarried.

As soon as he thought of it, Yelu Yanxi immediately sent an envoy to talk to Jiang Hongfei about the alliance between the two families.

No, Jiang Hongfei refused without even thinking about it.

Jiang Hongfei's reason for rejecting Yelu Yanxi's request for an alliance is very simple, that is, Yelu Yanxi is definitely a pig teammate. Wouldn't it be too long to team up with such a pig teammate?

You know, during World War II, if there was no pasta, maybe it would be possible... There would still be a chance there.

Of course, besides Yelu Yanxi being a pig teammate, Jiang Hongfei had three other reasons.

First, Jiang Hongfei's next strategic goal must be to compete in the Central Plains first - he cannot give up the rich Central Plains and go to the grasslands to fight those barbarians to the death to consume his national power. Isn't this losing the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds?

On the second day, Jiang Hongfei has found the power to contain the Kingdom of Jin, and there is no need for Yelu Yanxi, a waste, to contain the Kingdom of Jin.

Of the three, in fact, like the Jin Kingdom, Jiang Hongfei also had a large number of Liao people in his country. Therefore, Jiang Hongfei could not let Yelu Yanxi stand up, and he was even bound to win Yelu Yanxi, otherwise Yan Yunping and the three places would have endless troubles.

Jiang Hongfei refused to form an alliance with their Daliao Empire, which made Yelu Yanxi furious. Especially when Yelu Yanxi heard that Jiang Hongfei had formed an alliance with Xiao Qian.

After Xiao Qian escaped from Yanjing, he led the Xi, Han, and Bohai armies to leave Gubeikou and return to his hometown Jianyan Mountain. He renamed the original hall of Prince Xi's Palace as the "Iron Walong Wulong Palace" and established the Great Xi Empire here, establishing himself on his own. He was named the "Holy Emperor of the State of Xi" and his name was changed to "Tianfu".

Politically, he established the three privy councils of Xi, Han and Bohai to take charge of the affairs of the three ethnic groups. He also changed the Eastern and Western Jiedu envoys into two kings and established officials in separate departments. Economically, he minted "Tianfu Tongbao" money and circulated it in Xidi. In terms of policy, he pursued the policy of hating the Khitan people, constantly attacked the Khitan tribes, and plundered people and animals. This caused dissatisfaction among the people of all ethnic groups against him, and the people's morale was greatly lost.

Jiang Hongfei sent someone to find Xiao Qian and said to Xiao Qian: "You can't do this. You might as well hate the Jin people instead. I will sell you food, grass and luggage, do business with you, and provide you with everything you need, including soldiers and armor." "

Jiang Hongfei was willing to support Xiao Qian, and was also willing to sell Xiao Qian grain, grass, baggage, and various materials, giving Xiao Qian a way to survive.

If you have milk, you are a mother.

Xiao Qian is still Jiang Hongfei's uncle, and the hatred between the two must have ended.

Furthermore, Jiang Hongfei did not intend to annex Xiao Qian's Da Xi Empire.

What's more, Xiao Qian and his men already hate the Jin people.

The key is that after Xiao Qian changed his ethnic policy to hate the Jin people, he won the support of the people of all ethnic groups on the grassland.

Therefore, in just a few months, Xiao Qian's army grew to 70,000 to 80,000 people.

Xiao Qian has been leading these 70,000 to 80,000 troops to fight against Jin generals such as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, and Wanyan Zongfu, making the Jin people temporarily unable to care about harassing the border of Shuibo Liangshan.

Jiang Hongfei would rather form an alliance with a former minister of Yelu Yanxi than Yelu Yanxi, which made Yelu Yanxi feel that he had been humiliated.

Moreover, Yelu Yanxi gave a large piece of Yundi's territory to Xixia. Without Jiang Hongfei's alliance with him, he must not lose Xixia, an important ally.

Therefore, Yelu Yanxi decided to send troops out of Jiashan to seek revenge on Jiang Hongfei and regain Yan Yunping's lost territory.

In response, all Liao ministers advised Yelu Yanxi:

"Jiang Yan is good at both civil and military skills, and he is like a god in using soldiers. Throughout his life, he has made no mistakes in his decisions and almost never made a mistake. He is like a peerless swordsman. If he doesn't move, he will seal his throat with one sword. He will win cleanly. Without a single unnecessary move, he is Huo Qubing among the emperors, the most capable emperor in ancient times. Even Aguda is no match for him, let alone me, Daliao. Your Majesty, I, Daliao, must never be an enemy of him!"

"Since the Jin Dynasty first fell into Changchun and Liaoyang roads, the drivers had the misfortune of Guangpingdian, and the capital was in the middle of Beijing. When it fell in the upper capital, the capital was in Yanshan. When it fell in the middle of Beijing, the capital was in Xijing. When it fell in Xijing, it rushed to Jiashan. To Yi The whole army was not prepared for war, so that all the Han territory was owned by the Jin people. The country was so weak that it was not necessary to prepare troops for the time being. "

The people under Yelu Yanxi's evaluation of Jiang Hongfei could not be higher. Looking at history, only Emperor Qin Yingzheng, Han Wu Liu Che, Tang Zong Li Shimin could be compared with Jiang Hongfei, and even Song Zu Zhao Kuangyin was not enough. qualifications.

Ordinarily, Yelu Yanxi should not seek death.

But at this time, the Yinshan Tatars and the Maogeshi tribe also came to Jiashan to seek refuge with Yelu Yanxi.

With these two teams, Yelu Yanxi believed that he had received God's help and his confidence increased greatly.

At the end of September, Yelu Yanxi went down to Yuyang Ridge and led a cavalry army of 50,000 Khitans and grassland nomads as well as 30,000 Xixia elite cavalry all the way east, pointing their swords at the clouds.

After this coalition army advanced eastward, it successively captured the Tiande Army, Dongsheng, Yunnei, Yongbyon and other states that had been previously occupied by the Jin people.

——Since the main force of the Jin Army had been driven away by the Liangshan Army, the coalition forces quickly reached Yunxi as if they were in an uninhabited territory.

After that, Yelu Yanxi continued to harass Yunxi, and he also sent people to secretly contact the former Liao officials in an attempt to defeat Jiang Hongfei from both inside and outside, seize the Yan Yunping area, and even overthrow Jiang Hongfei's power that had not yet been fully established... …

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