Chapter 1049 The Southern Expedition and the Northern Expedition - The Storm Will Rise
The "His Highness of the King of Wei" that Gao Yongchang mentioned is Yelu Chun, the son of Emperor Taishu Yelu and Luwu. He is now a left-behind Tokyo, stationed in Liaoyang Prefecture, and is in charge of the crisis-ridden Baishan and Black Water.
Later generations of "History of Liao" portrayed the rise of the Jurchens as an accidental event caused by the carelessness of the Khitans, as if as long as there were some left-behind Tokyo like Yelu Chun and Yelu Yanxi, there would be nothing else to do with the Jurchens.
If Yelu Chun, who is now in Liaoyang Prefecture and is at a loss in the face of crisis, he would probably curse him when he saw the views in "History of Liao".
Because the Great Liao Kingdom faced only one real crisis on Tokyo Road, that is, the unsolvable population crisis!
There are too few Khitans!
And there are too many female Naoto and Bohai people, too many!
The main reason for the small number of Khitans is of course the rise of Buddhism. Although both the Han and Bohai people believe in Buddhism, the proportion of Buddhist thought in the Han and Bohai people is not high. These two nations are mainly influenced by Confucianism and regard clan inheritance as more important than Buddhas. What they believe is Buddhism after integration with Confucianism, so it did not affect the population growth. Moreover, monks belong to the ruling class in the Liao Kingdom, and they are not able to be as long as the Han and Bohai people want to be.
Although the noble Khitan people in the Liao Kingdom were also influenced by Confucianism, their level was not comparable to that of the Han and Bohai people. Moreover, they were the ruling nations and were the most popular targets for monks to deceive, so the Khitan people who were fooled and became monks must have more than the Han and Bohai people.
In addition, the Khitans also implemented internal marriage system for a long time. Those with the surname Yelu can only marry someone with the surname Xiao, and those with the surname Xiao can only marry someone with the surname Yelu, with few exceptions.
After a long-term internal marriage system, the harm of in-kin marriage is naturally inevitable. This further reduces the population growth rate of the Khitans.
The root cause of the surge in the population of Bohai people and the female pride was buried by Yelu Abaoji. The original living areas of Bohai people and the female pride were mainly in the "northeast peripheral areas", and the natural conditions were relatively harsh, so it was not very conducive to population growth.
However, after conquering the Bohai people and the Naomi Nao people, the Khitans moved the Bohai people to a considerable degree of development and were suitable for agricultural production, and left the land of the "outside the Northeast" to the Naomi Naomi. After that, many Naomi Naomi were moved inward to the Liaodong area. Therefore, the living space of these two ethnic groups has been actually expanded, and it is not surprising that the population has grown rapidly.
Although the population of childbirth who still live in the "Northeast Outer Area" is not large, as long as it is far away from the Liaohe River, there are various mature female tribes, such as the Hesuguan Department, Huiba Department, Yidian Department, Yalu River Department, Hue Wang Department, and Longfu Department, which are too many to count.
In the rich and fertile Liaohe River Basin, there are land cultivated by the Bohai people everywhere! In the coastal towns along the Liaohe River, most of the Han people engaged in industry and commerce and served as middle and lower-level officials. There are few Khitans on Tokyo Road that are almost impossible to find.
Because the population of the ruling nation was too small, the Liao Dynasty naturally did not have the ability to establish an effective rule in the vast Tokyo Road. Therefore, a large number of tribes with children and mature women retained their own arms, and if they were not careful, they would get up and have a fuss. The Bohai Youn and Han families living in the Liaohe River Basin and the Daling River Basin also raised private soldiers of the tribe, and some even built fortress walls and owned their own private cities!
What made the Khitan rulers even more worried was the emergence of the tribe alliance with the birth of daughters!
The tribal alliance is the prototype of the country! How could the rulers of the Liao Kingdom, who also developed from the tribal alliance, not know the threat of the tribal alliance?
The territory occupied by the tribe of Naoji is so vast. From the banks of the mountong River to the vast sea in the east, this vast land with sparsely populated land is almost the home of Naoji.
Once they establish a country in the territory, they will be the reappearance of the former prosperous country of the sea and the east!
But what if you know that sooner or later, the female Nao Ren will become a major disaster for the Liao Kingdom? Will you send troops to wipe out? The Mogus Rebellion has not completely subsided until now! Now the Liao Dynasty has started fighting with the Song Dynasty in the south, and the situation of the war does not seem to be able to win no matter how hard it is!
Although the army led by the Emperor of the Great Liao sang and sang happily all the way after the Battle of Dingzhou, it is now flowing north along the Yellow River and is almost approaching Kaifeng Prefecture.
However, on the Daoxiejin Prefecture of the Great Liao Dynasty, the situation was very unfavorable to the Liao Kingdom! The tens of thousands of troops of the Song Kingdom not only established a camp between the Sanggan River and the Gumliang River in the south of Yanjing City, but also built a new fortress along the Sanggan River and the Gumliang River to the north.
This is clearly a way to surround Xijin Prefecture City with the fortress!
The rescue army commanded by Xiao Xiamai, the official in charge of the Xi Palace, and Yelu Guanligu, the Nanjing Dao Troupe, was moving slowly and has been operating in Yutian, Jizhou and Sanhe areas so far.
Yelu Chun really dared not imagine what the war between the Liao and Song dynasties would have. He dared not imagine how the result would be? He would not even imagine how the Bohai people had a daughter, a mature woman, and some Han tyrants would react after learning that the Xijin Mansion was captured by the Song Dynasty!?
Yelu Chun, who was sitting in the inner hall of the Tokyo Road Left-Secret Service, was looking at a letter from Yutian Camp repeatedly. Suddenly, he heard a burst of rapid footsteps outside the door, and then he saw his wife's brother Xiao Dili walking in quickly, looking shocked.
"King of Wei, something big happened! The Song army is fighting!"
"What!? Fight, hit Tokyo Road!? Why is it so fast!"
Yelu Chun was immediately covered in white sweat. He was left behind in Tokyo! Tokyo Road is more than a thousand miles away from Xijin Prefecture, how could he call him so quickly?
"No!" Yelu Chun picked up the letter from Yutian Daying on the desk. "The letter bought by Xiao Xia only arrived this morning. In the letter, he said that the Song army was still digging trenches around Xijin Prefecture City! How could it be that it could reach Tokyo Road so quickly?"
Xiao Dili, who looked like a white-faced scholar, shook his head, "What he called was another Song army, coming from the sea... Yesterday morning, at Chenzhou Port, two wastes, Da Gong Ding and Gao Yongchang, could not resist, and they both ran to Liaoyang Prefecture! They were crying in the lobby!"
“From the sea?”
Yelu Chun couldn't sit still now, so he stood up suddenly, and trotted to the lobby of the Liushousi. As soon as he arrived at the door of the lobby, he heard Gao Yongchang crying there.
"Everything is dead, all dead. My subordinates are so pitiful. They don't even have paper armor and don't even have a gun with a long length. When they meet the Song people's iron armored Modao team, they can only stand up and die..."
Iron armored modao team?
Yelu Chun took a breath, accelerated his pace and entered the lobby. Seeing that the old man Da Gong Ding had already collapsed on the ground, his hair was loose, his beard was messy, and his clothes were covered in charred colors. I wonder if it was blown up by the burst rockets of the Song people?
Gao Yongchang felt even more pitiful. His head was covered with blood-stained gauze, and one of his arms seemed to be folded, and he tied it up with a wooden board and a cloth strip around his neck. However, he was in good spirits and could still cry loudly.
"What's going on?" Yelu Chun asked.
"Report to the King of Wei!" Seeing Yelu Chun coming in, Gao Yongchang knelt down, "The General of the Mo is guilty, and the General of the Mo is not defending Chenzhou... But the Song people are too fierce, there are too many, hundreds of warships covered the sea, with iron armored soldiers on it! The General of the Mo is not even a long-handled iron hammer, and he can't deal with iron armor at all. He can only live and die!"
The Bohai people were the least popular in the Great Liao Dynasty. There were many guards in the Han people, and there were fewer regular troops composed of the Bohai people. Only the Liaoyang Prefecture had thousands of Bohai infantry as elite soldiers. The Bohai Township soldiers led by Gao Yongchang were just weak people to maintain public order and could not go to war with the well-equipped Song New Army.
Of course, if the Bohai people really had a large number of well-equipped troops, Yelu Chun, the left-behind Tokyo, would have been unable to do it any longer.
Gao Yongchang cried loudly, "Your Highness King of Wei, please send troops to retake Chenzhou and kill all the hateful Song army!"
Send troops?
Whose soldiers should be sent?
Yelu Chun frowned. There were three thousand Bohai soldiers in Liaoyang Prefecture, which were very good heavy-armored infantry and thousands of garrison soldiers, all of which were the soldiers of the Khitan nation. There were also northern and southern female soldiers used to guard against female Naomen, named female Naomen, but were actually Khitan tribe soldiers.
In addition, there are 21 Jiedu states under the Tokyo Road Left-Back Department, each state has a military number, which has some force. However, most of them are Jingzhou soldiers and have no combat power.
In addition to these forces, there are the tribal army of the mature woman tribe, the Han clan and the private soldiers of the Bohai right surname, and some Khitan nobles also have troops under the military prefectures.
There are many soldiers together, but most of the people in charge of the soldiers have ulterior motives!
In addition, the Zhe tribe alliance not long ago captured nine castles built by the Goryeo in Helandian, and it is said that they also used the gunpowder weapons of the Song people! I wonder if the Song people and Zhe colluded with each other? Will these barbarians who fought with wild animals in the mountains and forests take advantage of the opportunity of the Song people invading from the sea to rebel against the Liao Kingdom?
This is a terrible thing to think about!
"Your Highness of the King of Wei," Yelu Chun's wife Xiao Dili came to his ear at this time and whispered, "It's better to send the Bohai tribe in Liaoyang Prefecture to Dagong Ding and Gao Yongchang and let them go to Yaozhou to garrison. Tokyo Road is not something that the Song people can stay for a long time. I guess they are here to ignite the fire, so we still have to be careful..."
Needless to say, Yelu Chun also understood. Tokyo Road was a firewood that was just a little bit, and only the Khitan rulers knew the most. It was possible for the Song people to grab one or set fire to seize a large area of land in Tokyo Road. No one would believe that the Song people’s swords were not so fast and they could not conquer those monsters and monsters.
So the crisis on Tokyo Road is still internal!
Chapter completed!