Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

After some secret observations, Guo Yaoshi saw the crux of Jin, a rising power.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, heroes like Wanyan Zonghan certainly made great contributions to the founding of the Jin Kingdom.However, it is precisely because of these people's outstanding military exploits that they have accumulated too much prestige and grasped too much power.

There is no doubt that a group of Jurchen founding heroes headed by Wanyan Zonghan have actually become local warlords, large and small.

And all of this posed a great threat to the supreme imperial power of the Jin Kingdom.

Guo Yaoshi saw that the Jurchen nobles were no longer monolithic due to power struggles, and there would be a lot of fighting and political purges in the future.

Out of the habit of supporting centralized power, most of the Han officials who surrendered to the Kingdom of Liao stood on the side of the imperial power, helping the emperor Wanyan Wu to beg for money to govern the country and the people, and at the same time to balance and suppress the warlords in the army.

However, Guo Yaoshi took a fancy to the political ambition of the prince Wanyan Zongpan to inherit the throne, and decided to help him deal with the biggest warlord and powerful minister Wanyan Zonghan.

If Wanyan Zongpan wanted to successfully inherit the throne and become the emperor of Jin Kingdom, he had to fight against the heir to the throne ahead of him, Wanyan Zonghan.

Because among the Jurchen aristocrats in the Kingdom of Jin, not only Wanyan Wu Qimai and Wanyan Zongpan father and son have been sinicized, they are learning the political system of the Han family.Even the most conservative Wanyan Zonghan was surrounded by Gao Qingyi, Xiao Qing and other Liao ministers to advise him.

Wanyan Zongpan has reason to suspect that once his father dies, Wanyan Zonghan will quickly change the political system of the Kingdom of Jin after he ascends the throne according to the traditional system, turning the heir to the throne into his son Wanyan Shiyama.

If he could not use his status as the eldest son of the emperor to establish the right to inherit the throne while his father Wanyan Wu was begging to buy the throne, then Wanyan Zongpan would completely lose the opportunity to inherit the imperial power.

With such a crisis in his heart, Wanyan Zongpan also secretly recruited civil servants and generals to plot big things.

The survivors and generals of the Liao Kingdom who had no friendship with Wanyan Zonghan became Wanyan Zongpan's key targets.

When Guo Yaoshi, who had a grudge against Wanyan Zonghan, came to seek refuge with Wanyan Zongpan, the two really met each other and hit it off right away.

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Guo Yaoshi made suggestions for Wanyan Zongpan and attacked his prestige in the military field where Wanyan Zonghan was best at.

Therefore, Wanyan Zongpan persuaded his father, Wanyan Wu, to beg for money, and supported Wanyan Zonghan to cross the desert for a military expedition.

Secretly, Guo Yaoshi sent someone to inform Yelu Dashi in Ketun City of the information about the Jin army's westward expedition.

Wanyan Zongpan and Guo Yaoshi's plan is to let Wanyan Zonghan go to nothing, and after working hard through the desert, he can't find the Yelu Dashi Army for a decisive battle.

It should be known that this westward expedition has a long journey and has to pass through the Gobi Desert. The logistical support is difficult to support for a long time, and Wanyan Zonghan can only make a quick decision.

If it is delayed for a long time, Wan Yan Zonghan, who holds a heavy army, can only return without success.

In fact, Wanyan Zonghan, who is good at using soldiers, had already taken precautions against this when he led the army to the west.

In order to prevent the Yelu Dashi army from fleeing far away, Wanyan Zonghan specially arranged for the famous general Wanyan Loushi to lead the troops to outflank the rear, and agreed with himself to attack before and after the date.

If it hadn't been for Yelu Yujian's change, perhaps Wanyan Zonghan's tactics would have worked again, and he would be able to block Yelu Dashi on the grassland outside Ketun City and fight to the death.

It's a pity that Wanyan Zonghan is still a hundred secrets after all, and he couldn't predict that Yeluyu would betray and cooperate with the enemy.

Because of Yelu Yujian's collusion with Yelu Dashi, the famous general of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Loushi, was wiped out and defeated.

The fourth prince of the Aguda family, Wanyan Zongbi, also disappeared in the scuffle and failed to escape back to the Kingdom of Jin. His life and death are unknown now.

Wanyan Zonghan commanded an army of 15 troops to the outside of Kedun City in Zhenzhou. When he saw the corpses of his favorite general Wanyan Loushi, his father and son, and the generals, as well as the heads of [-] Jurchen soldiers in Jingguan, he was so angry that he spurted blood on the spot and almost fainted past.

Wanyan Zonghan has never suffered such a disastrous defeat on the battlefield since Tianqing followed Wanyan Agu to fight against Liao in the fourth year.

Tens of thousands of Nuzhen Erlang were lost in this battle, and he was also accompanied by the famous general of the Kingdom of Jin. His right-hand man, Wanyan Loushi, and Wanyan Zonghan were also seriously injured.

Wanyan Zonghan spent a day recuperating in Ketun City, and after collecting the bones of the Jin army soldiers, he immediately sent out scouts to search around, looking for the Yelu Dashi army to fight to the death and avenge Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Zongbi and other generals.

Generals in the army, such as Wanyan Yinshuke, Wanyan Jiamu, Wanyan Chang, and Wanyan Saliyao, are also gearing up to fight, wanting to avenge the shame of this defeat.

However, after years of military struggle, Yelu Dashi is more mature than Yanjing City.

As an excellent commander, Yelu Dashi knew that although he had 20 troops, he was still no match for Wanyan Zonghan's army on the frontal battlefield.

Therefore, after concentrating its forces to defeat the few with the masses and encircling and annihilating Wanyanlou's army, Yelu Dashi resolutely fortified the walls and cleared the fields, abandoned the four cities on the grasslands of Fangzhou, Zhenzhou, Zhaozhou, and Weizhou, and led the main force to the west. escape.

What Wanyan Zonghan's army got was just four empty towns.

After severely injuring the Jin army with one blow, Yelu Dashi took his [-] troops and wealth of cattle and sheep westward through Wushan (Hangai Mountain) and Jinshan (Altai Mountain), and hid in the Yizhishui River Basin, leaving the Jin army far away. behind.

The cavalry of the Nianbage tribe and other tribes also scattered as planned, making it difficult for the Jin army to find their way.

Yelu Dashi knew that although Wanyan Zonghan's army was good at fighting, their expedition across the desert would not last long.

The Liao army only needs to avoid its edge, and Wanyan Zonghan can be helpless.

At the same time, Yelu Dashi led the troops to Yizhishui River Basin, just as Ximenqing said, it also meant to manage the Western Regions and expand the living space.

Although he had one hundred thousand elite soldiers in his hands, Yelu Dashi knew that if there was no civil strife in the Kingdom of Jin, it would be difficult for him to cross the desert and conquer the Kingdom of Jin.

What Yelu Dashi is best at now is to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity.

At this time, some news from the Western Regions attracted Yelu Dashi's attention.

The regimes of the countries in the Hezhong region of the Western Regions were unstable, and many Turkic tribes sent people eastward to contact Yelu Dashi and invited the great Juerhan (the respectful title of Yelu Dashi from the tribes of the Western Regions) to march westward.

Therefore, Yelu Dashi decided to defend the powerful Jin army to the east, conquer the countries of the Western Regions to the west, rebuild the Liao Kingdom, and then lead the army to fight back to his homeland.

This strategy had just taken shape in Yelu Dashi's mind, and it was officially implemented because of Wanyan Zonghan's Western Expedition.

What shocked Yelu Dashi was that none of his generals understood his strategic intentions, yet Ximen Qing, the emperor of Qi who was far away in the Central Plains, was able to see through his intentions at a glance.

Hearing what the envoy brought back, Yelu Dashi was astonished at Ximen Qing.

When having dinner with the generals and announcing the strategy of marching into the Western Regions, Yelu Dashi sighed to the generals: "After this battle, Yan Zonghan is not worried about the end of the Kingdom of Jin! All the heroes in the East, I am only afraid of Ximen Qing of the Kingdom of Qi!"

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Not to mention how Yelu Dashi escaped from the entanglement with the Jin Army and turned to manage and open up the Western Regions.In the city of Kedun at this time, Wanyan Zonghan was already caught in a dilemma.

Because of the destruction of Wanyan Loushi's army, the Jin army searched for the Liao army of Yelu Dashi on the grassland in an attempt to avenge their hatred.

However, the Liao army had already run away without a trace, but where did the Jin army go to find the Liao army's decisive battle?

Not to mention the main force of Yelu Dashi, but the nomadic tribes in the grasslands around Duncheng have all run away, leaving more than [-] gold troops with courage, but there is no one to vent their anger.

Moreover, because the surrounding tribes fled far away, the Jin army could not even replenish food and grass supplies.

War horses can gnaw grass on the grassland, but an army of more than [-] cannot live by grazing!

The Jin army is good at shooting and hunting, but there are not so many herds on the surrounding grasslands and mountains that can meet the food needs of more than [-] Jin troops.

Although Wanyan Zonghan and the generals under his command were unwilling, they had to accept the reality. When more than half of the supplies and food were consumed, they had to withdraw their troops and return to the mainland of the Kingdom of Jin.

After sweeping the surrounding grasslands for the last time, but still had nothing to gain, Wanyan Zonghan could only choose to retreat and accepted the fate of this partial defeat.