A knife in love

Chapter 1983
Although Qi Jiu is young, he has read many military books and war strategies since he was a child, and is quite knowledgeable about battle formations.Hearing what Feng Wei said, he thought to himself, Yelubei is really powerful, even when the Liao army was defeated, he could come up with such a way to turn defeat into victory.Although Li Cunxu was brave and good at fighting, the biggest shortcoming of his trip was that he only brought 5 soldiers and horses.Yelu Abaoji's southern expedition almost dispatched all the elites of the Liao Kingdom. Yelubei led 15 horsemen from his headquarters as the east road, and he himself commanded 20 cavalry as the west road. six states.Prime Minister Li Cunxu relied on [-] troops to resist the [-] Liao troops from the east and west, which is more difficult than reaching the sky.

As soon as the two armies fought, although Li Cunxu defeated Yelu Abaoji and fled, he just took advantage of the surprise attack.If Yelu Abaoji gathered the defeated troops in Yizhou City and waited for them, it would be absolutely impossible for Li Cunxu to attack the city when the enemy was in chaos like he attacked Wangdu City.However, there were only [-] Jin troops facing Yelubei, and Li Cunxu was not in the army. As long as Yelubei led [-] cavalry to hide and kill them, the Jin army would undoubtedly be defeated.After Yelubei succeeded, he rushed straight to the Central Plains and attacked Li Keyong who was confronting Zhu Wen.Just like Li Cunxu's sneak attack on the Liao army under the city of Dingzhou before, Li Keyong was caught off guard and was bound to be defeated.Zhu Wen took the opportunity to counterattack and joined forces with Yelubei from the north to the south. Li Keyong's entire army was very likely to be wiped out.Li Cunxu, who got the news, heard that Yelubei led the army to go south, so he must abandon Yizhou City and rush back to the Central Plains.As the saying goes, "At the end of the crossbow, it is impossible to penetrate Lu Jin." At that time, Yelubei and Zhu Wen's soldiers and horses are waiting for work, and they will be able to wipe out all of them in one battle against Li Cunxu who has rushed back thousands of miles.However, Yelu Abaoji could take advantage of the chance of chasing and killing Li Cunxu to lead his army into the Central Plains, and then join forces with Yelv Bei to raid Zhu Wen and destroy Liang State, and the Central Plains would belong to Khitan.Yelubei's strategy is extremely ruthless, but it is also extremely clever. If it is carried out according to the plan, most of the Central Plains will be lost.

Although Li Qiufeng said that he was not as good at reading as Qi Jiu, but he was working in Jinyiwei, and he saw a lot of intrigue in the palace and the court.After listening to Feng Wei's words, Li Qiufeng thought to himself that Yelubei came up with the plan of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao", regardless of whether it is clever or not, but although he is the crown prince, he is not the emperor of Liao after all.It must be known that the emperor is most jealous of his subjects' disobedience, even if the subjects have good intentions, if they disobey the dragon scale a little, disaster will happen.It is a prudent plan for Yelu Abao to secretly ask Yelu Bei to lead his army back to help, and to join him in Yizhou City.If the two Liao armies from east and west were gathered in one place, even if they could not defeat Li Keyong and Li Cunxu and his son, they would not be defeated.What's more, Yelu Abaoji was persecuted by Li Cunxu and lost two cities in a row, causing countless casualties among his soldiers.Although most of the defeated remnants of the Liao army retreated into Yizhou City, which revived Yelu Abaoji's army, they were in adversity after all, and hoped that Yelubei, a new force, could come back to help.But Yelubei only wanted to get rid of Li Keyong and his son, seize the Central Plains, and rule the world, but he didn't think about Yelu Abaoji.In this way, I am afraid that his status as the crown prince will not be guaranteed, and he may be killed.

When Li Qiufeng and Qi Jiu were thinking about it, they only heard Feng Wei continue: "After the envoy returned to Yizhou City, he returned the command arrow to Yelu Abaoji and told the matter that Yelubei could not obey the edict. Yelu Abaoji thought that Yelubei This plan was very clever, so I didn't think much about it. But as the saying goes, you are not afraid of bad things, you are afraid of bad people. Someone secretly told Yelu Abao that Yelubei had disobeyed the emperor's order, and he was afraid that he had other plans.

"It turns out that Yelu Abaoji has many wives and concubines, but only Empress Shuluping and his concubine Xiao Shi gave birth to him. Although Empress Shuluping is a woman, she is cruel and resourceful, and she is not inferior to men. And Shuluping Luping was jealous by nature, and he was very strict with Yelu Abaoji. Although there were many concubines in the harem of the Liao Kingdom, only Shuluping and Concubine Xiao served Yelu Abaoji on weekdays. If the other concubines got too close, they would be punished. Shuluping was murdered secretly. Yelu Abaoji had four sons who grew up, namely the eldest son Yelubei, the second son Yelu Deguang, the third son Yelu Lihu, and the fourth son Yelu Yaliguo. Among them, the eldest son, the second son, and the third son They were all born to Shuluping, the fourth child was born to Concubine Xiao, and the only grown-up princess was also Shuluping's own daughter. Yelu Abaoji originally valued the prince Yelubei the most, but although the queen Shuluping is Yelubei's My mother, but I like the second son Yelu Deguang the most. The mother and son often discuss secretly, wanting to overthrow Yelubei and make Yelu Deguang the crown prince..."

Feng Wei finished speaking, only to hear Wang Xiaoyu say "huh", and said: "Isn't the most powerful empress of the Liao Kingdom Empress Dowager Xiao? Empress Dowager Xiao led an army to attack Song Dynasty, and even the generals of the Yang family could hardly deal with her. It's really strange that the empress you're talking about isn't surnamed Xiao."

How did Feng Wei know that Wang Xiaoyu didn't intend to argue with him, but just heard all kinds of weird things from the storyteller, and they were confirmed one by one with what Feng Wei said, most of them were different, so he couldn't help feeling suspicious. This interrupted him from time to time.Fortunately, Feng Wei is not surprised anymore, and Wang Xiaoyu has restrained himself compared to before, at least he no longer uses guns and sticks when he speaks, and is full of sarcasm.Therefore, even though Feng Wei heard Wang Xiaoyu's words clearly, he pretended not to hear them, and said to himself: "Although Shuluping intends to help his second son, Yelu Deguang, to the throne, Yelu is both civil and military. She was very pleased with Yelu Abaoji. Although Shuluping held Yelu Abaoji to death and forbade him to get close to female sex, she did not dare to stand up to Yelu Abaoji when it came to military and state affairs. Therefore, she had no choice but to persuade Yelu Abaoji Be patient for now and wait for the time.

"Although Yelu Deguang's talent is not as good as Yelubei's, he is also extremely smart. He listened to Shuluping's orders and acted resignedly every day. Since he won the favor of Yelu Abaoji, he did not let Yelubei see him. Intentionally seized the throne. Yelubei threw out a lot of gold, silver and jewels secretly. As the saying goes, money can make ghosts turn the millstone. Those ministers, generals, eunuchs, and concubines who benefited from him will naturally be in Yelu Abao Yelu Deguang spoke for Yelu Deguang in front of the machine. Later, although Yelu Abaoji did not intend to store easily, he paid more and more attention to Yelu Deguang. When conquering enemy countries, Yelu Deguang sometimes led the army. Later, Yelude only had the military power, and he took away a lot of Yelubei's power. The ministers in the Liao court naturally saw the clues, and many ministers who were good at adapting to the wind secretly speculated that Yelubei's crown prince might not be seated It was safe, so they made friends with Yelv Deguang one after another. Among them, some ministers who hated the Han people in the Central Plains knew that Yelubei admired the elegance of the Han people, and after becoming emperor, he would definitely favor the Han people in everything, so they wholeheartedly wanted to drive Yelube from the crown prince. Throne, help Yelu Deguang to be the emperor.

"Yelu Abaoji led the army to the south this time, and Yelu Deguang was at his side. After the envoy returned to Yizhou City and played Yelubei's strategy, Yelu Deguang immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to get rid of Yelubei. Yes Because he secretly ordered several ministers loyal to him to slander Yelu Abaoji, slander Yelubei and lead troops to wait and see, and deliberately trap the Liao army in a desperate situation without saving him. , he can follow the trend and become the emperor of Daliao Kingdom."

(End of this chapter)