1216 Now the Khitan, the aggressiveness will become stronger
"Yelu Abaoji destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, and then chose Huhan City to be renamed Tianfu City, and used Ganlu as the year name to establish the Dongdan Kingdom. It adopted the allusion of the three talents of heaven, earth, and man, and called himself Emperor Tian. The queen Shuluping was the Empress of Earth and was also named Crown Prince Yelu Bei as the King of Human Emperor. She was given a crown to control the former land of Bohai..."
"Are (the title of monarch) of the Khanate of the Khanate, also sent envoys to the Khitan to express his willingness to surrender. The Khitan then set up the King's Mansion of the Khitan, annexed a large area of the territory of the vassal state, and expanded its territory to Jinshan in the west (later generations crossed the Altai Mountains of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia)......"
"The second son of the Khitan Emperor, Yelu Deguang, who was named the Grand Marshal of the World, gathered troops and horses in the northern corner of Yanyun, and elected surrendered general Shi Jingtang as the commander of the southern official Youyan Capital. He often sent cavalry to cruising in the northern border. The situation with our border troops is becoming increasingly tense..."
After hearing the news from the north one after another, Li Tianqu thought that it was indeed not just the Wei Dynasty who made the separatist regimes return and merge into the Central Plains dynasty through the southern expedition... Yelu Abaoji was also spared no effort to expand his territory. Now the Khitan's national strength is even better than that at least he has more confidence to challenge the Central Plains dynasty.
After all, the Khanate of the Khanate, which dominates the northern desert, has bowed to Yelu Abaoji... Although at this time, the vast Mongolian grasslands are vast and sparsely populated, and there are almost no people. The bustling and prosperous city walls are bustling. However, from the territory, it seems that it has suddenly become several times larger, and it forms a pattern of mutual support between the two strong forces of the north and the south with the Wei Dynasty.
What's more, an emerging empire encapsulated such a large territory outside the Great Wall, and under its rule, it has integrated most tribes on the grassland... Since ancient times, it has often been the biggest threat to the Central Plains dynasty.
In addition, the entire annexation of the territory of the Bohai Kingdom was also the more demon monks Gongren on the Korean Peninsula that year. The territory occupied south of the Yalu River was much more than the official trajectory... In addition to most of the sixteen prefectures in Yanyun, the territory of the Khitan Kingdom now is not very different from the heyday of the Liao Dynasty in history.
However, what Li Tianqu paid the most attention to was: Yelu Abaoji, the lord of the Khitan Kingdom, is indeed not dead yet...
According to the official history line, Yelu Abaoji should have died of illness on his way back to the court after going to the Bohai Sea. His second son Yelu Deguang was supported by the empress Shu Luping, who was the general manager of the government, so he was appointed as emperor, and he was Emperor Taizong of Liao in the official history. However, now it seems that the founding Emperor Taizu of the Liao Dynasty returned to Linhuang Mansion safely and did not receive any news that he was seriously infected with the disease.
It seems that it is because of the evolution of the current situation, which has been many years ahead of the original trajectory... Li Tianqu thought in his heart that Yelu Abaoji gathered a large army to go south, but was defeated by Li Cunxu, the Emperor Zhuang of Later Tang, and then temporarily lost Nan Gu Yanyun's thoughts. If he still followed his original fate, he died of illness just after destroying the Bohai Kingdom, so he naturally had no chance to avenge his previous shame. His son Yelu Deguang took over and took advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains to join forces with Shi Jingtang, who came to curry favor with him, and destroyed the Later Tang Empire, which had always suppressed the Khitan's invasion in the south.
But the progress of the current time and space situation is: Later, the Khitan also used the Wei Dynasty to send troops to invade part of the northern part of the Later Tang Dynasty, and to expand southward, it would be that the Wei Dynasty would become a barrier in front of him... After successively annexing the Bohai Kingdom and the Khanate of the Khitan, Yelu Abaoji had not yet died. Now he must be even more ambitious, and he is likely to regard the Wei Dynasty as his next goal to challenge.
What's more, Han Yanhui, the Han confidant who was the most trusted by Yelu Abaoji, had already run away to join the Central Plains dynasty because of his desire to miss his mother. He did not follow his original trajectory because he was jealous of his colleagues and had no choice but to join the Khitan again... Han Yanhui, as the first important minister to advocate the "Hu and Han division of the Han Dynasty" in the Khitan Kingdom, has always tried his best to dissuade the Khitan from going to war with the Central Plains dynasty. With his position in Yelu Abaoji's mind, speaking in the north was also very important.
However, Han Yanhui's departure now has now flattered Yelu Abaoji, and even Yelu Be, Yelu Deguang and other Khitan princes. What are the most Han ministers? Such as Shi Jingtang, Wang Yu, Zhao Dejun, Zhao Yanshou..., they have always been deliberately trying to instigate the Khitan to invade the south, hoping to use foreign tribes to manage the Han people, Han army, and Han territory on their behalf to fulfill their ambition to become king and dominate.
So Li Tianqu thought that now it is not just me who want to recover Andong, Anbei, Beiting, the former place of the Shanyu Protectorate, the white mountains and black waters, the northern grasslands, and the vast territory in the northern corner of the clouds will sooner or later return to the territory of the Central Plains dynasty, so it is inevitable that the decisive battle with the Khitan is inevitable... Yelu Abaoji, now, should also be thinking about expanding to the south, considering when the war should be officially started with our dynasty... After pondering for a while, Li Tianqu suddenly ordered:
"Lu Long, Yunzhong, Shuofang and other northern Serbian vassal states pay close attention to the movements of the Khitan soldiers and horses... It seems that it is not far from the war with Yelu Abaoji. Then we must give the Khitan a chance to dare to invade our dynasty..."
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Beijing, the capital of China in later generations, has now become the forefront of the Wei Dynasty and the Khitans in the north and south. The north is equivalent to the territory of Shunyi District, Miyun District, and Yanqing District is occupied by the Khitan, while the south is controlled by the Wei Dynasty. The soldiers and horses on both sides are looking up every day but not looking down. The more they look at each other, the more they look at each other, and there is a possibility of fire from fire at any time.
What's more, when Emperor Wei Li Tianqu issued an edict to mobilize civil servants, he also asked to use Feng Shui master to determine the central axis of the terrain, build the inner garden palace and the palace city wall. Now, as the emperor's patrol, it is likely to be upgraded to the palace of the other people in the future... The inner city is called the Forbidden City. Although the fortifications are gradually progressing, it is not necessary to force the completion deadline, but judging by this situation, the palace city here will continue to be expanded in the future. The Wei Dynasty has also spread the trend. When the palace city walls here form a certain scale, they will be named Yanjing.
Originally, it was not far from the border area between the two countries, but the Wei Dynasty built a large-scale construction here, just under the eyes of the Khitan, and there were still some palaces to build... What does this mean? According to the Khitan State's view, this will not only be a bridgehead for attacking its own forces, but the Wei Dynasty is not clearly aware that it is claimed that the prefectures in the north are all mine, and they will be taken back sooner or later?
Therefore, especially in the Youyun area, although the Wei Dynasty and the Khitan have not yet started a war, their relationship has become increasingly tense. Yelu Deguang, who controls the prefectures in the northern part of Yanyun, has also begun to make secret troubles to test the Wei Dynasty's reaction, resulting in bloody conflicts between the two sides...
The winding Yanshan Mountains are majestic and undulating, traversing the northern corner of Yanzhao. Suddenly, there was a sound of horses neighing, followed by a rush of hooves. Since the Khitan controlled the gateway of North China to the Northeast, Inner Mongolia, and later the Tanzhou, known as the "King of the Capital", even if there were the Lulong army of the Wei Dynasty to search for the border in the south, it was easy to cross the border and enter the territory under the Wei Dynasty.
The number of this trench was nearly a thousand, all of which were cavalrymen without flags. There were about six hundred of them, and the rest were all Han people, with hair and left-sided lapels, felt hats and leather jackets. The cavalry general led by the leader also had two war horses for transfer, riding bows, and the pair of sharp moves looked around, and suddenly shouted softly, calling on the other knights to continue to move towards the smooth side of the south hillside...
In theory, the Khitans did not officially declare war now, and they should not have rashly entered the territory under the rule of the other side... However, they had already noticed that they were becoming more and more tense. According to Yelu Deguang's instructions, Khitan cavalry recently began to harass the border on a small scale in the name of nomadic people. Such behaviors are as described in "Zizhi Tongjian":
Zhao Yanshou asked the troops of the superior country to feed the troops. The Khitan master said, "There is no such method in our country." So he let the Hu cavalry go out in four places, and plundered them in the name of herding horses, which was called "Caogu"...
Chapter completed!