Chapter Thirty-One
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On the second day of October, the Liao army on the eastern route retreated one after another. Yelu Yujiu gave up Chengzhou and led the army to retreat directly to the front line of Chuanzhou and Xingzhong Prefecture...
Immediately afterwards, Li Hu received a letter from Wanyan Zongwang. Because Yelu Yu saw the retreat, he had to give up the Tokyo War and asked Li Huchen to fight heavily in Yizhou and Andezhou to cooperate with the Jin army to threaten Xingzhong Prefecture.
At this point, the development of the situation has become clear.
Li Hu's decision was very correct, but it puzzled everyone. Why did the Liao army retreat one after another? If the Khitans knew that the Jurchens had rebelled, they should have attacked more fiercely. Could it be that bloody internal strife occurred in the Great Liao palace tent? But this reason is not important. What is important is that the Tokyo War has been abandoned, and the rebel army can only transfer its main force to Pingzhou Road, cooperate with the Song army's northern expedition, and wait for an opportunity to attack Yanjing. However, due to the lack of restraint of the Jin army, the difficulty of the rebel army attacking Yanjing has greatly increased.
On the tenth day of October, Wanyan Aguda led his army to retreat and returned to Shangjing.
The Khitans didn't understand and didn't know what Wanyan Aguda was going to do. If the Song and Jin teamed up to attack Liao, the Jin army would have forced them even more fiercely, but Wanyan Aguda did the opposite and retreated. Could it be that Wanyan Aguda wanted to retreat as an advance and take advantage of the Liao army's support for Xijing to attack again?
The Khitans can't control so much now. The most urgent task is to mobilize troops to support Xijing, while the battlefield in Zhongjing can only be based on the city.
At this time, Li Hu was the one who caused the most headache for the Khitans.
This rebel is too ambitious and is still unwilling to accept the pacification. He is engaged in the Liao and Jin countries, and is in good condition and does not offend both sides. In fact, he has made sufficient preparations in secret and has to give his opponent a fatal blow at any time to develop and strengthen himself. At this moment, the Song and Jin teamed up to attack Liao, and Li Hu would definitely take advantage of the situation, with the goal of Yanjing. The Liao army was attacked on both sides and fought on both sides. It was difficult to support and was in danger. If Li Hu did this again, it would be a disaster for the collapse.
Perhaps the Jin Dynasty's approach of winning over Li Hu through marriage reminded the Liao people, Zhang Lin, and Li Chuwen, the prime minister of the Southern Palace, and then suggested that since Li Hu was unwilling to be dependent, they should temporarily stabilize Li Hu through marriage. If the marriage is successful, they will immediately declare the world. Establish the Han Palace in Jinzhou, and grant Li Hu the title of King of Han, and turn the urge into facts. To put it bluntly, I will put the shit pot on your head and must make you bad.
The Han leaders in the rebel army may not be obeyed by Li Huyan. They saw Li Hu marrying the Khitan princess. They also heard that Li Hu was named King of Han. It was obvious that Li Hu had betrayed the banner of "Killing the enemy and restoring the Han Dynasty". At that time, Li Hu had no choice but to defend himself. In order to stabilize the rebel army and preserve his strength, he had to spend all his energy and time to maintain internal stability. In this way, he had no way to take advantage of the situation.
In critical circumstances, it is still very cost-effective to use a princess to exchange for the safety of Yanjing, to repel the time of the Song and Jin armies, and to exchange for the stability of the country. Besides, this princess may not be the daughter of the emperor. The princess is just a title. You can choose one from the prince or other royal daughters and give it a title to the princess.
The Emperor of Liao agreed immediately and immediately issued an order to King Yelu Chun of Yan. He granted his youngest daughter Yelu Mingyue as the princess. He immediately issued an order to marry Li Hu.
Yelu Chun had not figured out what was going on. His beloved daughter became a victim of the palace tent. Chang Gao was Li Chuwen, the prime minister of the Southern Palace.
Out of courtesy, Li Hu personally rushed to Lulong City, Luzhi Prefecture, Pingzhou. He thought Li Chuwen was here to talk about the local pacification again. Unexpectedly, Li Chuwen opened his mouth and proposed a marriage plan.
Li Hu immediately understood the meaning of the Khitans. If he couldn't help, he used the beauty trick. His purpose was the same. He must stabilize himself and ensure the safety of Yanjing. However, this move is very clever and makes himself very passive.
In the minds of the Liaodong people, the land of the Great Liao for more than two hundred years was the true story. The Khitan emperor was the true emperor. The Jurchens were only a few years ago. Many Liao people didn't even know that the Jurchens had founded the country. They heard that the land was all Jurchen thieves. Like the Han thieves, they were all rebel landlords.
For the Liaodong Rebel Army, although the Jurchens were also enemies, they were easily accepted emotionally because they all created Khitans and had common enemies. Everyone could accept Li Hu's desire to join the Jin Dynasty to attack Liao and marry the Jurchen princess. However, Li Hu's resistance to join the Liao Dynasty to stop the Jin Dynasty was much greater. This is also the reason why Li Hu dared not openly negotiate with the Liao people so far. Even in the high-level military discussion, there were only few things about the Khitans' responsibility and did not dare to reveal the details of it.
This time, the Khitans turned against each other and even surrendered to the nobles and wanted to marry the princess to a traitor. Once this matter was made public, the sensation caused by the rebel army can be imagined. As long as it was a normal person, the first reaction was that Li Hu was taken care of and secretly betrayed the rebel army. Killing the enemy and restoring the Han Dynasty became a joke. Li Hu wanted to be the son-in-law of the Khitans and the dog of the Khitans.
Why did Li Hu not want to be dependent? Why did he strategically require you to occupy Youyan and establish an independent kingdom and achieve a three-point pattern in Liaodong? This is the reason. In the three-point pattern, the rebel army was on an equal footing with the Khitans. In a sense, the rebel army successfully rebelled and got rid of the enslavement of the Khitans on their own territory. Before the rebel army achieved this goal, any close contact with the Khitans could cause division and rebellion within the rebel army.
Beauty schemes and the plan of disagreement are twin brothers, and there must be disagreement if there is a plan of beauty. This move by the Khitans is indeed brilliant.
Li Hu can refuse, but the consequences of refusal are equivalent to telling the Khitans that I want to beat you and take your territory. The relationship between the two sides has broken down again, which is very unfavorable to establishing a three-point pattern.
As for the rebel army, if we want to establish a three-part pattern, the primary condition is to rely on the Song Dynasty, which is determined by strength and territory; the second is to unite Liao and suppress Jin, which is related to future survival and development. The rebel army's goal is to unify the north. If the Khitans or Jurchens dominate the north, they will obviously not take advantage of the development of the rebel army.
In other words, if you focus on the future, this marriage is necessary for the rebel army, but the key question is, how many people know the survival and development strategy of the rebel army? Since the soldiers of the rebel army basically do not know this strategy, the consequences of the marriage can be imagined.
After Li Hu discussed with the General's Office, there was only one way, to drag it to the Song army to the northern expedition, and then look at the situation on the Jurchen side. If the Jurchens quickly resolved the internal rebellion, made a comeback, and attacked Zhongjing again, then the rebel army could attack Yanjing.
On the eighth day of November, the envoys of the Song Dynasty, Ma Kuo and Zhao Liangsi, came together, and they brought bad news, very bad news.
On the ninth day of last month, Fang La, a qiyuan qiyuan man in Qingxi County, Muzhou, gathered a group to rebel. In a short period of time, the number of thieves increased to tens of thousands, and the defeat of the Song army suddenly started. Liangzhe Road and Jiangnan East Road were located in the south of the Song Dynasty. There were not many troops in garrison. In addition, there were no wars for more than a hundred years and the military was desolate. These troops were vulnerable. If nothing unexpected happened, Fang La would be able to sweep Jiangnan East Road and Liangzhe Road in one or two months.
Fang La? Fang La really appeared? Li Hu looked at the two of them blankly, unable to speak for a long time.
Is the father's story true? Is it a prophecy for the future? Does the father have the ability to predict the future? Since he has this ability, why has he escaped for more than ten years? Could it be that this ability was learned on the way to escape? It's so terrible. If all this is true, then the Great Liao will perish and the Jingkang shame will happen. My father once said that just a few years after the failure of the Song army's Northern Expedition, the Jin army went south to the Central Plains, and then the Jingkang disaster occurred.
Looking at the Jurchens today, I think about the Jurchens in the father's story. Li Hu felt incredible. Could it be that the Jurchens were invincible after receiving the help of God and were invincible in the world in just a few years?
If the Jurchens are invincible in the world after a few years, what should I do? What should I do with the Liaodong Rebel Army? There is no Li Hu in my father's story, nor does it have the Liaodong Rebel Army. So can we speculate like this? Before Li Hu and this Liaodong Rebel Army have developed, they were swept away by the Jurchens?
Li Hu felt sweating on his body and sweating on his forehead. He was afraid, a fear of seeing the future clearly.
"Fang La is a disciple of the White Lotus Sect. This time he raised the flag to rebel in the name of the White Lotus Sect, so his strength expanded very quickly." Ma Kuo said, "We have tried our best to find Fang La, but his real name is Fang Shisan, and we can't find it at all."
"Zixiong, how did you know Fang La?" Although Zhao Liangsi didn't believe that Li Hu was the son of a god, he could accurately predict things thousands of miles away, which was amazing.
Li Hu was unintentionally answering such irrelevant questions. After calming down a little, he immediately asked: "Have the Song army started the Northern Expedition as agreed?"
Ma Kuo and Zhao Liangsi looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.
"Song Jiang's army has already gone south to Yizhou and is approaching the Huaiyang army. If he cut off the Grand Canal, what will the Song army take to fight the Northern Expedition?" Ma Kuo sighed, "Fang La's army is very close to Hangzhou. If the army on Liangzhe Road cannot resist and throw away Hangzhou, the source of the Grand Canal will be cut off, how can the southern materials be transported to the Central Plains?"
Chapter completed!