The rise of the prince

Chapter 613 Xiao Qian Fortified
"What about the Jurchens? Recently, Wanyan Wugu left his son in the Juyongguan area. He is very arrogant and often goes outside the city to plunder."

"Avoid as much as possible. The Jurchens have finally withdrawn their troops. Don't fight on both sides. Let him go now. After dealing with Jingguo, we will deal with him." Yelu Dashi ordered.

"Well, it's really annoying, that kid is too arrogant." Xiao Qian said angrily.

"Be patient, no matter what, Daliao Guozuo cannot be broken in our hands. Jurchen Jingguo, we can only deal with one side and stabilize the other side."

Yelu Dashi said helplessly, then he hesitated and said: "It's about the emperor." After all, it is not a glorious thing to put the little Khan under house arrest.

Xiao Qian smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "I understand you, at this point, nothing is more important than winning this battle, as for the emperor, as long as he is of the Yelu family blood, who would object.

At this time, everyone understands what is more important. According to the news sent by the people of Jingguo, King Pingnan, who is somewhat famous in Jingguo, sent troops in two ways. He took the Taihang Mountain Avenue all the way, and there were more than 1 people.

Obviously the main force is still on land. You deal with the land army. As for blocking the Haihe River, I will do it myself.There are more than enough people in the two battalions. "

Yelu Dashi nodded: "Thank you for your hard work, but after all, is this King Pingnan as capable as the Jing people say?"

"After all, he is only sixteen or seventeen years old, what do you think he can do?" Xiao Qiandao: "I have also heard about the legendary incident of him suppressing the rebellion in Jingguo, but it sounds so exaggerated that it is impossible at all. You can tell it's fake."

"That's good." Yelu Dashi nodded, thinking a little differently from Xiao Xiang's in his heart. When Han Gong (Han Derang) was alive, he often told him that nothing happens out of nothing in the world. It must happen for a reason. Maybe the truth may be distorted or It is quite different from what you think, and it can be determined to have a source.

Why don't the people of Jingguo talk about others, but say that such a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young prince must have his own uniqueness.

He showed disdain, just to stabilize people's hearts, but he took it seriously in his heart, the main force of 1 people.
He silently made up his mind: "If you scare Jing Guo once, they won't come here one after another."

While he was thinking about these things, his servants came to report that Khan was furious because he had no honey and milk tea to drink. Yelu Dashi just sighed and told him to go back. In the narrow area between the Shanhai Pass, the supply is not painful, and it becomes difficult for the soldiers to eat. How can there be any honey.

Daliao Kingdom often does business with Jingguo, and one of the most important products is Jingguo tea bricks, but their tea drinking habits are different from those of Jingguo people. Jingguo people like to add some salt and spices to it and boil it after frying. drink.

They like to boil it with goat milk and drink it with sugar or honey. It is also called milk tea. Almost every household on the grassland drinks it, but things like sugar and honey are not affordable for ordinary people.

Thinking of this, Yelu Dashi couldn't help but think of Princess Yali who was captured by the Jin people in Shangjing, the child who held the umbrella for him, was stronger than her father, and smarter than her brother, and wondered what she was doing now.

Wanyan Wugunai sent people to lobby several times, as long as he surrendered, he would be crowned King of the Kingdom of Jin with a different surname, and at the same time let Princess Yali marry his eldest son.

He almost agreed several times, but in the end he gritted his teeth and refused. He understood his situation, although it was extremely difficult, but as long as he let go, Liao Guozuo was completely cut off, and all the ancestors' foundations were ruined in his hands.
In this way, I don't know what her situation is. If she had inherited the throne like Queen Mother Xiao, instead of her father and brother, the situation might have been much better.

Thinking about it, he must face the next big battle. Since the opponent has few people and is a young prince, he is going to lead the army across Lugou and fight against him on the southern plain. In fact, the Khitan cavalry has never been afraid of anyone.

Yangcun is a distance to the northwest of the mouth of the Haihe River. This is a narrow section of the Haihe River. Because of this, merchant ships going up the river from the Bohai Sea have to pass through here. Therefore, the Daliao Kingdom used to set up checkpoints here to collect merchant taxes. , because of this, villages gradually formed in the surrounding area, and many fishermen also settled here. After nearly a hundred years of development, it has become the most prosperous town in the south of Nanjing.

The section of Yangcun is open on both sides, and the villages are built about half a mile away from the shore. This was requested by the Liao government at the time. Because some ships wanted to break through the customs and evade taxes, they set up towers and sentries at the narrowest place on the river bank. There are wooden two-story buildings on both banks.

Soldiers were stationed on the first floor, crossbowmen patrolled the second floor, and there was a stone foundation in the middle of the first floor, with wooden piles buried one foot deep in the ground, and between the wooden piles on both sides of the bank, strong iron bars as thick as arms were pulled up. chains to block passing ships trying to evade taxes.

Most of the people in the surrounding villages and towns have fled, and there are only occasional people looking here in the distance. After the soldiers of the two battalions arrived, they camped on both sides of the river.

Soldiers from the two battalions camped around the sentry tower of Yangcun, which immediately made the village, which had been abandoned for more than half a year, lively again and became more popular.

Xiao Qian caressed the iron chain, which was about as thick as an arm, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect this thing to be used now. The people of Jingguo are also fanciful, thinking that other people are fools. How can such a river be left unattended."

He can almost imagine the situation after the war. The two chains are usually half submerged in the water, and when Jingguo's boat is about to pass by, they are suddenly pulled up. At that time, it is too late to slow down. It is a solid stone, buried about three feet deep in the ground, and it is indestructible.

In this way, when a moving ship collides with the iron chain, it can tear itself over instantly, and the crossbowmen on the sentry towers on both sides are firing thousands of arrows. It is simply fantastic to think about the waterway.

"It's just a child's whim." Xiao Qian shook his head, full of confidence, not to mention guarding the waterway, as long as he handled it properly, he felt that he could even defeat the enemy army. The sentry towers on both sides of the river were condescending, and the people on board had no chance at all. As long as the front boat overturns, the rear will crash into one piece. If you want to get off the boat in an emergency, you must either dive into the water or slowly get off the side. Either way, you will become a ghost under the knife of the Khitan warriors who have been ambushing on the shore for a long time. , they couldn't fight at all.

Xiao Qian made various assumptions in his mind, none of which Jingguo people could win.

With 5000 people, it is a joke to say that they are going straight to Nanjing. This Yangcun is the place where Jing Jun was buried.
(End of this chapter)