One Piece of Song Dynasty

Emperor Tianzuo was still uneasy while he was in Xixia. He knew that the Jurchens would not let him go. Sure enough, the Kingdom of Jin soon sent envoys to Xia and proposed to Li Qianshun that if Emperor Tianzuo fled into Xia, he should be captured and given to the Kingdom of Jin. If the Xia State can serve the Jin State with the same courtesy as the Liao State, then the Jin State can cede the land in the northwest of the original Liao State to the Xia State. Seeing that the demise of the Liao Kingdom was a foregone conclusion, Li Qianshun agreed to the conditions proposed by the Jin Kingdom in order to preserve the Xia Kingdom.

Yelu Nanxian secretly told Emperor Tianzuo the news. Emperor Tianzuo was afraid of being sent to the Kingdom of Jin by Li Qianshun, so he quickly left Xixia.

Emperor Tianzuo returned to the Jiashan base camp and was surprised to find that Yelu Dashi was also here, and the team had grown again. He was very happy. Yelu Dashi led men and horses to escape from the Jin camp one night in September last year when the Jin army was not paying attention. They raised elite animals in Jiashan, waiting for the opportunity. Emperor Tianzuo seemed not to know that Yelu Dashi had been captured by the Jin army and served as a guide for the Jin army.

Soon, the Yinshan Tatar Maogeshi tribe also came to Jiashan to seek refuge with Emperor Tianzuo. With these two teams, Emperor Tian Zuo believed that he had received help from heaven and his confidence increased greatly. In July of the sixth year of Xuanhe, he decided to send troops out of Jiashan to regain the lost land in Yanyun area.

Yelu Dashi was very clear-headed. He knew that if he attacked the Jin army at this time, it would be like hitting a stone with an egg. He said to Emperor Tianzuo: "Since the Jin Dynasty first fell into Changchun and Liaoyang, the chariots and drivers were in Guangpingdian, and the capital was in the middle of Beijing. When they fell in the upper capital, they were in Yanshan. When they fell in the middle of Beijing, the capital was in the clouds. When they fell in the clouds, they were all in the clouds. In the middle, rush to the mountains. Xiang Yi's entire army will not prepare for war, so that the whole Han Dynasty will be owned by the Jin people. The country is so weak that it is not a plan to strive for war. When raising troops and waiting for action, do not do it lightly. "

Yelu Dashi's words were concise and comprehensive, but rich in connotation. He not only severely criticized Emperor Tianzuo's wrong route of blindly escaping in the past, but also denied Emperor Tianzuo's current plan to risk war. At the same time, he also put forward the correct strategic policy of "raising troops". Wait until the time comes.”

However, Emperor Tianzuo "rebuked but refused to obey" and insisted on going his own way. Yelu Dashi then decided to leave and open up a new world independently. One night, Yelu Dashi killed Xiao Yixue and Polikuo, the secret envoys of the Northern Privy Council who were responsible for monitoring him, and led two hundred of his trusted subordinates to leave the camp overnight and embark on the long journey westward.

After Yelu Dashi left, Emperor Tianzuo did not go down the mountain immediately. He was a little frightened by Marshal Zong Han of the Jin army stationed in Yunzhong, and he did not dare to send troops. It was not until the winter of the sixth year of Xuanhe that Emperor Tianzuo heard that Zonghan had returned to Beijing, and Xiyin was appointed marshal in Yunzhong. He thought the time was ripe, so he led a total of Khitan and Tatar troops out of Jiashan and went down. In Yuyangling, they successively captured Tiandejun, Dongsheng, Yunnei, Yongbyon and other prefectures, and the army seemed to be in uninhabited territory.

Emperor Tianzuo's real purpose when he left the mountains and went south this time was not to regain Yanyun's lost territory, but to take advantage of the opportunity to join the Song Dynasty. Not only did he take away all the troops and horses in Jiashan, but he also "took with him his concubine, his second son, King Qin, King Zhao, and his clan members." In addition, he also carried more than bags of various treasures such as pearls, jade, gold and silver utensils. Obviously, this was a major relocation planned by Emperor Tian Zuo.

The Song Dynasty had been paying close attention to Emperor Tianzuo who was hiding deep in Jiashan Mountain. "Tong Guan works day and night, saying that if Tian Zuo is here, he will be troubled." Tong Guan analyzed that "Tian Zuo is extravagant and admires China." Now he is homeless and in a miserable state. If he goes to recruit him, he will definitely be willing to do so. "Come and return". If Emperor Tianzuo can come back, then the Yanshan area will naturally be stable, because in this way, he can "defeat the expectations of his countrymen." Therefore, Song Huizong decided to make a secret operation and asked Tong Guan to find suitable candidates to "lure" him in Jiashan. From the perspective of hindsight, Tong Guan and Song Huizong were indeed seriously wrong in their analysis and judgment of the situation in the north at that time. They valued the influence of Emperor Tianzuo too much, but underestimated the threat of the Jin people.

Soon, Tong Guan recommended a foreign monk to Song Huizong. Song Huizong ordered the foreign monk to secretly go to Jiashan to contact Emperor Tianzuo with an imperial pen and silk book. Monk Fan came to Jiashan and found Emperor Tianzuo, who also wrote a reply to Song Huizong. At the beginning, this matter was kept secret. As the number of contacts increased, more and more people knew about it. Fan Monk "all came and went through the clouds, so the Jin people knew all about it." The reason why the Jin people remained calm towards this Fan Monk and did not arrest him was because they were also taking advantage of this opportunity and were waiting for Emperor Tian Zuo to leave. Mountains, "just ignore them." "Every time the Jin people are unable to enter the Yinjia Mountain due to their strength, they hate it and cannot get out. If they do, they will surely get it."

Emperor Tianzuo later replied to Song Huizong and promised to return to the Song Dynasty. Song Huizong then "changed the letter into an imperial edict to express his wishes to his ministers" and assured Emperor Tianzuo that "when he returns, he will be treated as an elder brother, and he will be placed on the throne of the two kings of Yan and Yue. He will build the thousandth room and have female musicians. Treated generously." Emperor Tianzuo was so happy that he made an appointment to meet him. Song Huizong then asked Tong Guanluo to become an official and serve as the Xuanfu envoy to Hedong, and went to Taiyuan to "secretly welcome him".

During this period, because Zong Han had been stationed in Yunzhong, Emperor Tianzuo did not dare to go out. It wasn't until the winter of the sixth year of Xuanhe that Emperor Tianzuo dared to lead his troops out of the mountain, "when he suddenly returned to the Kingdom of Jin and proposed that he replace the post of Marshal Yunzhong with a Wu room."

Emperor Tianzuo didn't know that the Jin army was waiting for him. As soon as he led his army past Yunzhong, he suddenly received a report that Xi Yin had "covered his return path with a large army." Later, he received a report that Zong Han had returned to Yunzhong and was sending troops to pursue him. Emperor Tianzuo was shocked and ordered his army to advance towards Wuzhou quickly.

At that time, Xiyin formed the vanguard of Haner soldiers from Yuzhou, Yingzhou, Fengshengzhou and Yunzhong Prefecture to pursue Emperor Tianzuo, and ambushed more than a thousand Jurchen cavalry in the valleys that Emperor Tianzuo must pass through. , waiting for work with ease. When Emperor Zuo of Tian led his army to the west of Xidaihai, which is now Xidaihai in Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia, the Jurchen cavalry suddenly came out from behind the Tatar army, and the Tatar army immediately collapsed. After a battle, the Liao army suffered numerous casualties. Some were captured, some surrendered, and some fled. Emperor Tianzuo fled south in a hurry, and Xi Yin sent Lou Shi with cavalry to pursue him all the way. Emperor Tianzuo originally planned to go directly to Wuzhou and Nantou to the Song Dynasty. When he ran to the vicinity of Wuzhou, an accompanying monk advised him not to go to the Song Dynasty. The monk said: "The Southern Dynasty is weak, so you will not dare to stay. You should be taken by the Jurchens. If you wait for the humiliation, you must not humiliate it again. You must go back to the Jurchens." , and he is still a king."

Perhaps Emperor Tianzuo felt that what the monk said was reasonable, so he changed his plan and fled westward, finally escaping to Shanjinsi. Shanjinsi is located in Yinshan. Because Yinshan produces gold, the Liao Kingdom set up smelting and mining here, so it was named Shanjinsi. After Emperor Tianzuo came, he changed it to Tongjunsi.

In the first month of the seventh year of Xuanhe, the Dangxiang Xiaogulu tribe sent people to Shanjinsi to invite Emperor Tianzuo to "visit their land." The Xiaogulu tribe is a very small tribe in Dangxiang. It is distributed between the Tiande Army and Yunzhong. It has always been subordinate to the Liao Kingdom. Emperor Tianzuo planned to discuss with the leaders of the Xiaogulu tribe to join Xixia, so he hurried to the Tiande army and planned to cross the desert from there. On the way, he suddenly encountered Jin soldiers, and Emperor Tianzuo fled in panic again.