Section 6 Yelu Abaoji’s expedition to the Western Regions

In the Central Plains at this time, Li Cunxu had destroyed Daliang and established the Tang Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor. Yelu Abaoji couldn't sit still. He was worried that after the back hall stabilized its pace, he would turn around and deal with the Khitan.

When Li Keyong was dying, he gave his son Li Cunxu three arrows. These three arrows represented his three wishes, namely to defeat Liu Rengong, to eliminate the rear Liang, and to attack the Khitan in the north. Now the first two wishes have been fulfilled.

Now, Li Cunxu will definitely start to fulfill his third wish.

At this moment, Yelu Abaoji wanted to quickly expand his strength and unify northern Xinjiang before Li Cunxu pacified the Central Plains vassal towns. Therefore, Abaoji decided to personally lead his army to the west to unify the tribes in the grassland.

Before setting off, he still had to convince the leaders of various ministries and the ministers of civil and military affairs. Yelu Abaoji said it sincerely, and everyone was dumbfounded. Before they could recover, Yelu Abaoji was already ready to go, leading the Khitan army in a mighty way.

Set off to the west.

The Khitan army first conquered two small tribes, then climbed over Langjuxu Mountain and arrived at the ancient Uighur City. Regarding the various tribes in the west, Yelu Abaoji decided to teach them according to their aptitude and defeat them one by one. After Abaoji captured all these tribes, there were no

Feeling satisfied, he thought of the former overlords on the grassland, all of which had declined one after another. He also thought of how to make the Khitan Empire he established prosperous for a long time.

Unknowingly, the Khitan army arrived at Jinshan, which was once the place where the Turks arose and is now inhabited by Turks, Uighurs, Shatuo and other tribes. Among these tribes, the most difficult to deal with was the Uighurs. After the demise of the Uighur Khanate

, most of the Uighurs moved westward to the Hexi Corridor, with their capital in Ganzhou, and they were called Ganzhou Uighurs. Another group of people moved to Gaochang, and were called Xizhou Uighurs. The Xizhou Uighurs did not like to fight and kill, so they

After hearing the news that Yelu Abaoji was going to march to the west, he immediately sent people to pay tribute to the Khitan, and they have always been obedient. However, the Uighurs of Ganzhou not only did not make any move to surrender, but instead prepared their troops for war and sharpened their swords. Yelu Abaoji

He decided to lead his army to attack Ganzhou Uighur, but Ganzhou Uighur was vulnerable. Abaoji took advantage of the victory and sent envoys to persuade the leaders of Ganzhou Uighur to surrender. After some thinking and struggle, they finally agreed to surrender. After surrendering, they still chose

Stayed in Ganzhou.

Yelu Abaoji was very happy and took advantage of the situation to capture Futu City. He also attacked various Dangxiang ministries and completely captured the entire western frontier.

From then on, the territory of the Khitan Empire included the entire western region of China. Merchants from the Western Region countries had to pass through Yelu Abaoji's Grassland Silk Road. This further promoted the economic and cultural exchanges between the Khitan and the Western Regions.

Section 6 Yelu Abaoji sweeps across the Northeast

The Western Expedition had just ended, and the entire Khitan Empire was still shrouded in joy. At this time, another good news came. Before Abaoji's Western Expedition, he had already sent people to Japan and Silla to find out the truth and prepare for the next expedition to Bohai.

Make preparations. Now envoys from Japan and Silla came to see Khitan. They congratulated him one after another. Silla also expressed its willingness to assist Khitan in attacking Bohai.

However, Yelu Abaoji also had another concern. He was worried that during the attack on Bohai Kingdom, Li Cunxu would take the opportunity to attack the Khitan rear. When he heard that Li Cunxu sent a large army to attack Xishu because Wu and Xishu refused to surrender, he

Finally relieved.

The military meeting before the expedition did not go smoothly. Some people did not agree with the expedition to the Bohai Kingdom. Yelu Abaoji was very depressed. Originally, the right time, place and people were all concentrated on the Khitan side. If he did not seize this golden opportunity,

, I don’t know when the next encounter will be. He announced the dissolution of the meeting and asked everyone to go back and think about it again.

Yelu Abaoji, who was depressed, took people out to hunt to relax. During the hunting process, he found a monster more than one foot long. Yelu Abaoji bent his bow and arrow, and shot it with one arrow. The monster was shot to death.

Already.

Everyone began to spread rumors that it was a dragon that was shot to death. This undoubtedly provided public opinion for Yelu Abaoji's expedition to the Bohai Kingdom. The Khitan people believe in shamanism, and they all believed that Li Gu's shooting of the dragon was a good omen, so they all agreed to go on the expedition.

Bohai country.

In this way, Yelu Abaoji led an army to surround Fuyu Prefecture of Bohai State with lightning speed. It was officially New Year's Eve, and no one expected that Khitan would attack at this time. So after they got the news, they were frightened and overwhelmed.

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The defenders of Fuyu City were panicked and had no power to resist. Soon the Khitan army captured Fuyu City. Yelu Abao took advantage of the victory and led his army directly to Huhan City, the capital of the Bohai Kingdom. At this time, the king and the people in Huhan City

The concubines were celebrating the Spring Festival. When they heard the news that the Khitan army was coming, they hurriedly organized 30,000 troops to resist.

Unexpectedly, the 30,000 Bohai soldiers who came to block the Khitan army were also vulnerable. The king of Bohai was very anxious. Now he had only one way to survive, and that was to surrender. Yelu Abaoji was very happy and agreed to Bohai's surrender.

, and allowed the king and the royal family to continue to live in the city, and only sent 13 soldiers to the city to inventory the treasury. The palace guards of the Bohai Kingdom quit. They were not in favor of surrender in the first place, and now they saw the Khitan soldiers.

They came into the city arrogantly, but they felt uncomfortable. So together they killed 13 Khitan sergeants who came into the city.

The King of Bohai Kingdom, who was initially timid, turned from worry to joy after hearing about this incident. Thinking back to the previous failure of Yelu Abaoji's siege of Youzhou, he decided to lead his guards to fight to the death.

Yelu Abaoji was furious and immediately sent troops to capture Huhan City at all costs. The king of Bohai Kingdom never expected that his men were angry but had no ability to serve the country. Soon the city was captured

The king of Bohai Kingdom had to wave the white flag again and surrender.

Yelu Abaoji pardoned them again, but in order to relieve his inner anger, he changed the names of the King and Princess of Bohai to the names of his two horses.

Life insights: Everyone wants to be a sensible person, but the complexity of life and the complexity of human nature make it impossible for people to understand all the connotations of the world in a limited time. So someone sang: "Looking at the flowers in the mist and the moon in the water,

Can you distinguish this unpredictable world? The clouds are flying, the flowers are blooming and withering, can you grasp this swaying season?" and asked, "Lend me a pair of eyes, so that I can see this chaos clearly and clearly.

Baibai is so real!”

Who can lend you a pair of wise eyes? This world is inherently intertwined and chaotic. The more you try to see clearly, the more you will find that you cannot see clearly. If you cannot see clearly, you insist on seeing, trying to be more realistic, and trying to be more detailed. As a result,
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