Chapter 4 Khitan peeks at Yan Yun

Xuyi County

Tang Dynasty: Wei Yingwu

The sails are lowered to entertain Huai Town, and the boat is stopped to visit Guyi.

The mighty wind is blowing, and the sun is setting.

When people return to the mountains and valleys, it is dark, and the wild geese descend on the Luzhou in white.

I recall the Qin Pass alone at night, and listen to the bell without sleeping.

After Yelu Abaoji became emperor, he never gave up his conquests. After conquering some small ethnic groups in the surrounding area, he wanted to go further south to conquer the Central Plains. However, judging from the history of Khitan's dealings with the Central Plains for hundreds of years, Yelu Abaoji had no choice but to

Wait for a favorable opportunity.

Huangtian paid off, and an opportunity soon came. Lu Wenjin, the general of Jin Xinzhou, led his troops to seek help from Khitan, and invited Abaoji to go south with him.

Lu Wenjin was originally a subordinate of Liu Shouguang of the Yan State. After Liu Rengong and Liu Shouguang and his son were beheaded, Lu Wenjin returned to Jin King Li Cunxu, and Li Cunxu placed him under his younger brother Li Cunju.

Li Cunju was arrogant, domineering, lazy and lustful. He took a fancy to Lu Wenjin's daughter and forcibly took her as his concubine. Lu Wenjin dared not speak out about this matter.

Soon after, Li Cunju finally received his retribution. A rebellion broke out in the army and Li Cunju was killed. Lu Wenjin was usually very kind to his subordinates, so everyone supported him as their commander-in-chief and left the Later Tang Dynasty.

Lu Wenjin led his troops to attack Wuzhou, but was defeated, and finally had to surrender to the Khitan. Yelu Abaoji knew that Lu Wen had come to defect to him, and it was just a last resort expedient. But Yelu Abaoji did not take him seriously at all, so when Lu Wenjin

When I proposed to him to go south, he readily agreed.

The Khitan army first attacked Xinzhou. The defender of Xinzhou was a coward. When he saw the Khitan army coming to attack, he surrendered directly.

After Li Cunxu learned about it, he was furious. He immediately sent Zhou Dewei, the governor of Youzhou, to lead troops to attack. However, Zhou Dewei was defeated again and lost more than 30,000 people. He could only defend Youzhou. No matter how the Khitan army yelled and cursed under the city,

Zhou Dewei just stayed behind closed doors. At this time, Yelu Abaoji had no choice. Lu Wenjin suggested to Yelu Abaoji that the Han army should lead the Khitan army to attack the city. Under the obstruction of the defenders, the Khitan army was beaten back again and again.

When the forceful attack failed, Abaoji came up with another strategy, which was to dig tunnels. What he didn't expect was that Zhou Dewei already knew their intentions and sent people to pour molten copper water into the tunnels. The Khitan army suffered heavy casualties.

In this way, the two sides were in a stalemate for nearly two hundred days. Yelu Abaoji was very anxious. On the one hand, he did not want to give up the opportunity to go south easily. On the other hand, he could not bear to see the heavy losses of his soldiers.

At this time, Li Cunxu was leading his army to fight Zhu Liang's army. He also knew that if the siege of Youzhou was not solved, he might not be able to hold it. So he ordered Li Siyuan and Li Cunxen to lead 70,000 troops to rescue

Yelu Abaoji was severely defeated. Only then did he realize the gap between himself and the Central Plains countries, so he had to withdraw his troops.

Life insights: People often say: People have a stupid life. Why? Because people are generally too lazy to care about fools. If they care about fools, wouldn’t they also become fools? They don’t bother to compete with fools for anything - win the fool.

People are not a glorious thing. On the contrary, in order to show that they are smarter than fools, people are often willing to take care of fools. Therefore, fools also have a good life.

The counterpart of a stupid person is a smart person. Most people want to establish an image of a smart person for themselves. They are afraid that others will not know that they are smart, so they show their intelligence everywhere. This kind of person who is afraid that the world will not know that he is smart,

He can only be regarded as a shrewd person. Just like those who use money to show off, no matter how rich they are, they can only be called nouveau riche, not nobles.

Because a shrewd person is shrewd, he always has a potential power over those who have interests around him. People are always wary of him and suppress him at every turn. Lü Kun, a statesman in the Ming Dynasty, used his rich experience in studying the West and his in-depth investigation of life in the field.

In "Fu Kuai Yu", it is said that during the Yuan Dynasty, there were very few cities and villages, and only street merchants played a role in the year. The ancient and modern times are closely related, and the shrewd people in the Ten Kingdoms (Wang Zhaofeng in "Red Mansion Steps") can not be said to be unsmart.
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