Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 820 What a big strategic deception
Murong Xinchang knew in his heart that what he had just passed was the greatest crisis in his life.

Don't look at Master Cixian as just a monk, but in Anton, whose religious atmosphere is more than ten times stronger than that in the Central Plains, a highly respected religious figure has a very great influence.

What's more worrying is that, to Master Cixian, he, Murong Nobunaga and the army under his command, are outsiders.

Because the land of Anton has been occupied by Bohai and Khitan for hundreds of years, it can no longer be regarded as Han land.

If it were in the Han region, let alone a religious leader like Master Cixian who could influence 30 to [-] people, he would have been removed by the court long ago.

But in the past in Khitan, Master Cixian was an eminent monk who did not need to be notified when he entered and exited the Shuluping palace tent. Yelu Deguang often summoned him to listen to his lectures, and a mixed person like Yelu Lihu would treat him with courtesy.

And on the bright side, Master Cixian is kind to Murong Xinchang.

He saved the life of Murong Xinchang's grandfather Cao Yuanzhong in Jingzhao Chang'an Mansion, and helped Murong Xinchang recruit the Tuyuhun people from the Helian tribe to Andong.

It also played a very important role in stabilizing the people of Andong and promoting the cooperation between the old Khitan nobles and Murong Nobunaga.

It is very difficult to deal with such a religious figure and such a relationship, and he did not mess with it openly.

Moreover, this old monk has a close relationship with Yanshou, and Monk Yanshou is the sixth generation patriarch of the Pure Land School.The White Lotus Sect, a professional family of rebellion in the past dynasties, developed from the Pure Land Sect. Without a complete grasp, it is impossible to do it at all.

So although Murong Nobunaga was not afraid of Master Cixian, he still chose to forbear, until he had hundreds of thousands of core people under his command and mastered tens of thousands of masters, before he came to solve the problem of Master Cixian.

Because the hundreds of thousands of people under Murong Nobunaga's command all moved from the Central Plains and other places. Unlike the Khitan people who have not fully accepted the Six Dharma Sect, these hundreds of thousands of people are authentic Six Dharma Sect believers. Follow Master Cixian's tricks.

But now, the old monk seemed to be ready to admit defeat completely, and took the initiative to face the wall in the palace.

Then Murong Nobunaga is not polite, and he can't be let go again. Such a religious leader is reluctant to succeed, but it is even more dangerous when things are revealed.

Moreover, his father, Zhang Shengren, also told Murong Xinchang that he must control Master Cixian, otherwise the Six Dharma Sect would not be able to fully penetrate into the vast pine forest north of Liaoyang.

Therefore, Murong Xinchang immediately ordered his personal guard General Yuhou, and his uncle Murong Yan led a hundred soldiers to personally 'guard' Master Cixian.

At the same time, the old monk expressed his willingness to go south with him, which was to hand over the religious authority in disguise.

And what Murong Xinchang has to do is to separate Dharma Master Cixian from his congregation, and then use various means to coerce and lure him to transform his disciple Fa Yan and others into the great virtues of the Six Dharma Sect, Murong Xin The right-hand man who ruled the old land of Silla and the country of Wa.

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In fact, what Zhang Ting said to Song Qiqiu that Goryeo did not come to pay tribute was inaccurate, or in other words, it was completely slandering.

Because Wang's Korea has sent six or seven envoys, but they were all stopped by Murong Nobunaga.

As soon as the envoys from Jianghua Bay arrived in Dengzhou, they were also captured by local officials, and all of them were sent to Jinyi Qinwei Prison, where they used threats and lures to extract information about Wang's Korea.

It's not that people don't come to pay tribute, it's because of you.

Ordinarily, several waves of envoys failed to reach the Great Zhou, Wang's Koryo should be vigilant, but in fact, Murong Nobunaga played a pretty trick on them to mislead them, making Wang's Koryo completely confused about the situation in the Central Plains .

Murong Nobunaga was able to use information to mislead Wang's Koryo because the territory of the current royal family of Koryo is different from the territory of Korea in our impression in later generations.

At this time, the territory of Wang's Koryo did not advance to the banks of the Yalu River, and they did not even border Khitan.

Because between Wang's Koryo and Khitan, there is also a small country that is not well-known in history, Ding'an.

The so-called Ding'an Kingdom is the post-Bohai Kingdom established by the survivors of Bohai after the demise of the Bohai Kingdom, Da Guangxian, the son of the last Bohai King Dachao Zhuan (yin zhuan).

They took advantage of the opportunity of Yelu Deguang's fight with the Yelubei brothers, and after Yelubei fled to the Later Tang, they almost restored the entire Bohai Kingdom except Huanglong Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion.

But then Yelu Deguang, who stabilized his position, mobilized his army and defeated the survivors of Bohai again. The newly restored Bohai Kingdom collapsed in an instant.

However, at this moment, Yelu Deguang suddenly received Shi Jingtang's kneeling and licking, and immediately ran to the Central Plains to be the emperor in joy.

Thus, these guys got a precious respite.

It's just that they didn't make good use of this opportunity. After the Khitan army went to the Central Plains, these Bohai people didn't want to regain the lost ground, but started internal strife instead.

Dachao Zhuan's younger brother, Dachao De, joined forces with Lieshi, Wuzhi, etc., and started a war with his nephew Da Guangxian because of the throne issue.

After more than a year of infighting, Daguang was clearly defeated and fled to Korea in the south.

It's just that before Big Chide had time to be happy and his buttocks were warm, he found that the Camel God of War had already been canonized and the emperor had returned.

What are you talking about!

Afterwards, the Khitan soldiers broke through the Longquan Mansion (Mudanjiang) and killed the whole family of Dagede. The remaining Bohai survivors, Lieshi and Wuzhi, retreated to the banks of the Yalu River to survive.

Brother Guang, the camel God of War, was about to continue to deal with the Bohai survivors. Among the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, Yunzhou and Fuzhou refused to surrender, so Brother Guang had to go to the Central Plains first, and never returned here.

The Wu family and the Lie family who escaped from the dead survived again. The group, headed by Lie Zhoudao, the patriarch of the Lie family, established a village that started from Dandong in the west, including Ji'an and Tonghua in Jilin, and went east to Hamgyongdao in North Korea. Ding'an country.

In history, Ding'an Kingdom has gone through dramas such as Wuzhi Dailie, Dashi's Restoration of the country, etc., and also surrendered to the Northern Song Dynasty several times, agreeing to attack the Liao Kingdom together, and persisted until about 1000 when the first Liao-Li War broke out.

In this time and space, Yeluruan and Liu Zhiyuan, in order to accumulate strength to deal with Zhang Teng, sent troops to attack Ding'an State many times, captured their Tonghua and Ji'an and other places, and plundered a large number of people and materials in Bohai.

But Yeluruan was not able to completely conquer Ding'an, so now, between Liao and Goryeo, there is a small country occupying the Yalu River.

Murong Nobunaga took advantage of this advantage and released a lot of false news to the south through Ding'an, claiming that the people who replaced Khitan were Tuyuhun people from the grassland.

The kings of these Tuyuhun people were originally adopted sons of the Great Zhou Emperor in the Central Plains, but after taking control of the Khitan land, they rebelled and became self-reliant, and they are now at war with the Great Zhou in the Central Plains.

This is a dangerous move for soldiers!Originally, Murong Nobunaga was almost self-contained in Anton. If this kind of rumor was really believed, it would be a great disturbance.

But fortunately, Zhang Yu and Murong Xinchang have enough trust. This kind of rumors with seven parts false and three parts true is very lethal. It not only deceived Wang's Koryo, but even many Jurchen and Bohai people were deceived.

And the person who passed on the news was also chosen very well, that is, Gao Song Gao Mouhan, the former son-in-law of Wang Jian, the founding king of Wang's Koryo, who defected to Khitan from Bohai.

Gao Mouhan even told the King of Goryeo at this time, his former brother-in-law Wang Zhao, that since the fall of Khitan, King Murong Tuyuhun was cruel and ruthless. return.

But Wang Zhao was not fooled by Gao Song, not because he didn't want the vast territory in the north, but because Wang's Koryo was very weak now.

Wang's Koryo is actually a small Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the few years before the death of the founding hero Wang Jian, the strength of Wang's relatives, honored officials, and local tyrants in Korea and abroad swelled greatly.

After Wang Jian's death in 943, Prince Wang Wu succeeded to the throne, but he was sick and weak and could not control the situation at all.

In 945, Wang Yao, Wang Wu's younger brother, staged a coup and killed power ministers Pu Shuxi and Wang Gui. Wang Wu, who was seriously ill, died of starvation and became king himself.

After Wang Yao came to power, he always wanted to get rid of the restraint of his clan and foreign relatives, so he premeditatedly moved the capital from Kaijing (Kesong) to Xijing (Pyongyang), which caused extreme dissatisfaction among many vested interests.

In 949, his younger brother Wang Zhaoyi followed suit and launched a palace coup, forcing his elder brother Wang Yao to death and proclaiming himself king.

That is to say, in just nine years, Wang's Goryeo changed four kings, and two consecutive kings were killed in coups, which greatly weakened Goryeo's strength.

At this time, Wang Zhao himself had just usurped the throne for less than a year, and he couldn't sit still under his buttocks, so he couldn't look north at all.

But it is precisely because of this situation that Murong Nobunaga's strategy has achieved great success.

Wang Zhao only wanted to stabilize the country, and he didn't want to pay attention to the changes in the north. When he heard that Tuyuhun was replacing Khitan, he didn't make a careful distinction.

He even wanted to strengthen the throne under his ass by sending envoys to Dazhou to obtain the canonization of Dazhou.

Therefore, he did not take any precautions at all, but kept trying to send envoys to the Central Plains to seek canonization.

And as early as last year, people such as Jurchen and Bohai went south to Goryeo, telling Wang Zhao that the Liao king had hoarded a large amount of supplies and military supplies in Hengzhou (Ji'an) and might invade south.

But Wang Zhao believed in his heart that the King of Liao was going to war with the Great Zhou, so he didn't want to believe what these barbarians said.

Moreover, he was even more afraid that the news would spread, and the ambitious people in the country took advantage of the situation to ask for help from the King of Liao, causing troubles to lure wolves into the house, so he suppressed the news.

At the same time, due to the news blocked by Xiang Xun and Gao Song, these Bohai and Jurchen little heads who ran southward really didn't quite understand the relationship between Murong Nobunaga and Zhang Tie. Even the Kaifu Liaoyang County King thought they were Liao king.

On the other hand, in order to get Wang Zhao's reward, these people couldn't help exaggerating.

What is it said that the Liao king had a million troops, and they had to kill tens of thousands of enemies to pass the blockade. Some people even said that Da Zhou was going to cross the sea to conquer Goryeo and so on.

The spittle was flying around, and it sounded like nonsense, and there was not much truth at all, which made Wang Zhao even more unwilling to believe them.

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Anton.

It was under such successful deceit that Murong Xinchang ordered Xiangxun, Gao Song, Murong Yanchao and others to mobilize soldiers and calmly take turns to attack Ding'an.

On the one hand, it is to clear the way for the attack on Wang's Korea, and on the other hand, it can also use actual combat to exercise the combat power of the army and the tacit understanding between the armies.

At the beginning of October, before the mountains were covered by heavy snow in eastern Liaoyang, General Wang Bafu of Liaoyang County and Sima Wang Jing personally led Li Hanqiong, Marquis of Youdu Yu, and Commander Murong Yanchao of Qihuo Lang, and other generals, broke through the mountain city of Lieshi at the foot of Changbai Mountain.

This is the last fortress of Ding'an Kingdom. In this battle, Wang Jing captured and killed dozens of civil and military ministers of Ding'an Kingdom, including Wang Lie and Zhou Dao. Another powerful figure, Wu Xianji, surrendered with more than [-] people from his family. Ding'an was basically destroyed. .

Murong Xinchang was overjoyed when he received the news, and immediately left Li Hanqiong to guard Lie's mountain city, and gradually transported the supplies hoarded in Hengzhou to various places in Changbai Mountain, and enlisted tens of thousands of people of all ethnic groups to build roads and bridges with Ding'an prisoners to facilitate the dispatch of the army.

At the same time, Murong Nobunaga sent an envoy to Tokyo on a flying horse, requesting Zhang Tie to send [-] light cavalry from [-] households in the south and north of the north to Liaodong to help in the battle.

At the same time, the [-] sailors in Jiangbei and Jiaodong provinces are requested to march across the sea and east no later than April next year.

(End of this chapter)