1311 Emperor Xing fell, Khitan changed hands
Hearing that the Wei generals who rushed to Wende City had signed up as Huo Yanwei, Zhang Li and some assistants around him, the generals knew that he was originally a vassal state of Yangwu Army under the command of the Wei Dynasty's father Ge Congzhou. He once occupied the city to resist Zhou Dewei, a famous general of the Later Tang Dynasty. Although he was unable to fight, he was able to escape... and then he made great achievements. He retired from the Zhou Dynasty. After the Yangwu Army was reorganized into the Datong Army, the Yangwu Army was transferred to the Bianjing court. He is now in his fifties and is also an important official with a certain weight in the Wei Dynasty.
Although Zhang Li surrendered, most of the Han officials and military generals in the city were sent to the Later Tang and Jie Yan, and were later incorporated by the Khitan, and they have always been in a hostile position with the Wei Dynasty. However, the separatist regimes they had previously belonged to were all the old past, and now they were regarded as livestock by the Khitan... Now Zhang Li has already thought through it, and there is only one way in front of him:
They have been forced to fight by the Khitan, and now they can only surrender to the Wei Dynasty.
So when he heard Huo Yanwei named him directly, Zhang Li immediately stood up. He cleared his throat and replied loudly:
"Zhang Li, the humble man, has seen the commander of Huo Du! Fortunately, the commander of Meng Du led the army to rescue the Han'er soldiers and civilians in Wuzhou. Such a great kindness and recreation of great virtues will be unforgettable to the humble man!"
Huo Yanwei raised his head, looked in the sound, and said loudly:
"Your Majesty Zhang does not need to be polite. Our soldiers from the Wei Dynasty not only want to stabilize the country, but also to determine the world, drive the enemy into the enemy, rebuild the Han family, and regain my crown and clothes. It is also the responsibility! In the Central Plains, thieves emerged together, and even more ambitious people competed for the competition, and they were insatiable to destroy the brutes and poisoned the creatures, causing the Han territory to collapse.
When I went to the emperor, he put on his armor and went to the army in person. He always had the great strategy of saving the world and had the ambition to support mountains and rivers. In different places, there were barbarians who rose up in different places and enslaved the Han'er in order to invade the Central Plains... His emperor then sent a man of bears and tigers to recover Yanyun, attacked the Khitan in the north, and brought the people of the states back to the Central Plains. This was also inevitable!
Fang Jinshun, Tan, Gui, humiliation... The Khitan Husbands in several states have been destroyed by our army. The soldiers and civilians everywhere celebrated happily and were willing to submit to our dynasty. Fortunately, they rushed to Wuzhou in time, but the Khitan did not allow the Khitan to invade the Han people in Wende City. Now, Xianggong Zhang must be willing to accept the tribute from our dynasty, and please open the city to discuss and discuss with each other."
After hearing Huo Yanwei's words to this point, it also directly pointed out that the time was time for the military and civilians in the city to surrender to the Wei Dynasty... Zhang Li knew that there was no reason to resist stubbornly, so he ordered to open the city gate and welcome the Wei Dynasty military brigades under Huo Yanwei's troops into the city...
Although the Khitan troops besieged Wende County, the capital of Wuzhou were heavy, only hundreds of cavalry escaped from the battlefield by chance and fled north into the grassland... In the following days, various military armies of the Wei Dynasty still wiped out the plundering barbarian cavalry with the wind and swept away the plundering cavalry, recovering the northern corner of Yanyun in one fell swoop, and since then, the Khitan completely drove back to the outside of the border.
When Li Tianqu heard the good news, he learned that Wu, Shun, Gui, Tan... and other Han people in various states not only agreed to surrender to the Wei Dynasty, but also responded enthusiastically, and the process went very smoothly. He thought that this was within his expectations. After all, the Han people in the local area were still inferior to the Khitan. They had not accumulated over several generations of family traditions, but had formed a certain sense of belonging to the Liao Dynasty in the future... Considering their own situation, when the Central Plains gradually formed a unified and prosperous Zhengshu Dynasty, they were naturally willing to return to the Han court to get rid of the situation of being slaughtered by others.
As a result, the Khitan completely lost Yanyun, western Liaoning and other places. According to the saying that the large group of Han people under the rule of the country is now only some areas in Liaodong, as well as the west building of the capital, and a small number of Han people gathered... The proportion of domestic Han people has now dropped sharply to less than 10% of the previous ones.
Zhang Li, the Han minister who expressed his willingness to assist the Wei Dynasty and sorted out the civil affairs of several prefectures in the north of Yanyun, was on his way to Jibei to meet the Emperor of Wei... According to the north, Li Tianqu learned that something earth-shaking happened in the Khitan country, which was seriously injured:
The Khitan king Yelu Abaoji was no longer aware of his life on his way back north. When he was still a long way from the capital Xilou, he seemed to be dead because of his anger and his depression and illness...
Yelu Abaoji, the founding leader of the Khitan country, has passed away now... Li Tianqu thought in his heart. According to historical records, Abaoji was already at his peak, and his body and mind were hit hard. He really couldn't swallow his anger, but his body could not withstand it. In the end, he died, which was probably reasonable.
The death of the founding emperor Yelu Abaoji, who was praised by the Khitan, and the complete defeat in the battle with the Wei Dynasty, was undoubtedly even worse for the Khitan... Thinking of the demise of the previous emperor and the new emperor ascended the throne, Li Tianqu thought that he must still follow the trajectory of the historical record. The second prince Yelu Deguang should inherit the position of the Khitan king...
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In the capital of the Khitan Kingdom, Linhuang Mansion, in front of a large dome tent hall in the Longmei Palace in the West Tower. The queen Shulu Ping stood beside her husband Yelu Abaoji... She was originally of Uighur blood, with deep eye sockets and high nose bridge. Her face was infiltrated at the moment, making her look even more terrifying and ferocious.
Yelu Abaoji, who was lying in front of Shuluping, had been cleaned up by his servants on the way. At this time, his face looked very peaceful, and he did not seem to be defeated by Emperor Wei Li Tianqu, who abandoned the Nabo tent, and had to be so unwilling to be as unwilling as when he fled... But although Abaoji seemed to be alive, he seemed to be sleeping peacefully, but his face and body seemed a little shriveled. If you look closely, you can see that this was a processed mummy...
When the bad news of Yelu Abaoji's death on his way to the west building of Linhuang Prefecture was spread to Shuluping, he felt deeply sad, but she was a tough person by nature and immediately sent a quick horse to pass the imperial edict, so that Abaoji's complete body must be kept back to the west building.
In order to ensure that Yelu Abaoji's corpse did not rot on the way, the Khitan ministers who were defeated and fled to the West Tower had to send people to cut Abaoji's corpse, remove the internal organs, clean the body cavity, and fertilize it with salt, fill it with spice plants, salt and alum... Finally, the corpse was sewn with five-color thread to ensure that the body could be preserved and not rotted.
So Shuluping looked at Yelu Abaoji's body and saw that although her husband's body was very familiar, it looked strange... Even though Shuluping's face was as deep as water, a hint of mourning still appeared between her eyebrows.
The second prince Yelu Deguang, the third prince Yelu Lihu, and even other nobles of the Yelu clan clan crawled and knelt down in front of him Shuluping and Abaoji... The leader of Yelu Deguang had to endure the pain of his command to deal with the body. Although he felt his heart was broken. When he thought of the Emperor Li Tianqu of Wei who made Yelu Abaoji die in anger, he felt even more gritting hatred...
However, Yelu Deguang was not aware of the trajectory of the historical record. He was supposed to be unable to sit firmly when he destroyed the Later Jin Dynasty, so he had to go back north and spit out blood on his mouth. After a lifetime, the civil and military ministers who accompanied him also followed the imperial decree that "I want to see people alive, and I want to see corpses when I die." Then, Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty used a blade to break his stomach and take his stomach, cleanse it with incense medicine, salt and alum, and sew it in five colors to make an imperial mummy... Now Yelu Deguang needs to make the decision to deal with his father's body in this way...
Seeing Yelu Deguang just kneeling on the ground silently, Shuluping turned his head and his eyes fell on his second son, and then said in a deep voice:
"You get up... The Emperor passed away. Not only should I prepare for funeral matters immediately, but I have important matters in Khitan. I will decide immediately..."
Chapter completed!