After talking about Western Xia, let's talk about the Liao Civil War, at this time, the Liao Civil War has been fought for more than a year, except for the Battle of Huanghe at the beginning, there has been no large-scale battle for more than a year; For more than a year, Yelu Hongji's Northern Liao was hiding in Yong'an Mountain and licking his wounds, while Yelu Chongyuan's Southern Liao was consolidating and depleting his territory.
In the Battle of Huanghe, although Yelu Chongyuan failed tactically, he won a strategic victory, completely destroying Linhuang Mansion, where Yelu Hongji was based, so that Beiliao had to hide in Yong'an Mountain and silently lick his wounds; In this more than a year, Yelu Chongyuan was able to easily integrate his own strength, so that the Southern Liao was united, and it has gradually gained the recognition of the people and become the orthodoxy of the Liao State.
After a year of integration, the strength of the Southern Liao Army reached 400,000, although it was 200,000 less than a year ago, but the 400,000 army was absolutely loyal to Yelu Chongyuan, unlike the Jingzhou soldiers who were basically a rabble a year ago.
Yelu Chongyuan once in Yelu Hongji poured troops to attack Linhuang Mansion, Yelu Ren first sent troops to attack Xijin Mansion, at that time Xijin Mansion had Yelu Nerugu garrison, the two sides broke out a small war, the final result of both sides have their own victories, although Yelu Renxian failed to sneak attack, but also waited for the opportunity to occupy Yingzhou and Ulzhou, solved the threat in the south of Datong, and obtained an effective defense and offensive favorable position centered on Datong Mansion.
The Xijing Province of the entire Liao State originally had nine states, but now it is divided into three parts, and the three major forces are entrenched here, of which the four western states belong to the Western Xia, and the four southern states are under the control of Yelu Renxian and are the sphere of influence of the Northern Liao, and only the Fengsheng Prefecture located in the northeast is under the control of the Southern Liao; The four southern states controlled by Yelu Renxian were next to Nanjing Dao, and for this was the base camp of Yelu Chongyuan, Yelu Chongyuan would never allow such a deadly threat to exist.
In addition, the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty towards the Liao Civil War, during the Song Yingzong period, the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty was vague, and he basically didn't ask about the Liao Civil War, as long as the war did not affect the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, it was easy to say; But now it is different, Song Yingzong died, and Song Shenzong succeeded to the throne, the young emperor had an ambition, he hoped to let China complete the reunification again and achieve his own great cause; This was fully reflected in the subsequent reforms.
Song Shenzong's succession to the throne is no longer an attitude of indifference to the civil war of the Liao State, unlike the relatively delicate Northern Liao supported by the Western Xia, Song Shenzong is more inclined to the Southern Liao, first of all, the Southern Liao is strong, and directly borders the Great Song Dynasty, although the Northern Liao controller Xijing Dao of the southern four states, but in the eyes of Song Shenzong, this enclave will sooner or later be annexed by the Southern Liao; In addition, more importantly, Nanliao can provide some war horses for the Great Song Dynasty, although there are very few only a few hundred, but for the Great Song Dynasty that lacks war horses, this is tantamount to a great temptation.
The reason why Yelu Chongyuan wanted to obtain the support of the Great Song Dynasty was actually very simple, first, to maintain the Rongchang trade with the Great Song Dynasty, and at the same time cut off the trade routes between the Great Song and Datong, and secondly, to prevent the Great Song from stabbing himself in the back; Officially, because of these two points, Yelu Chongyuan spared no expense to use war horses to gain the support of the Great Song Dynasty; In Yelu Chongyuan's opinion, as long as the trade between Yelu Renxian and the Great Song Dynasty was cut off, and their material supply was cut off, this nail could be easily removed.
In the palace of the Southern Liao Dynasty, the Southern Liao Emperor Yelu Chongyuan, the crown prince Yelu Nelugu and the prime minister Zheng Hun are discussing the battle plan for attacking Datong, and this time Yelu Chongyuan Dashu invested 300,000 troops to occupy the four states controlled by Yelu Renxian in one fell swoop, and completely pulled out the nail behind him, but Yelu Chongyuan also had concerns that the northern defense line, because most of the troops were transferred to attack Datong, there will be loopholes in the northern defense line, and Yelu Hongji will definitely seize this opportunity to counterattack.
Yelu Chongyuan sat next to the map and pointed to the two and said: "Once I command the army to attack Xijing, Yelu Hongji will inevitably send troops from the north to echo the Datong defenders, and then our army will fall into a two-sided battle, do you two have any good way?"
Zheng Hun first said to Yelu Chongyuan: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that this battle should be resolved quickly, and it is not appropriate to drag the battle for too long; As for the defense of the north, Weichen thought that it should be handed over to His Royal Highness the Prince, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince led 70,000 troops to garrison Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and His Majesty led the main force of 150,000 troops from Fengshengzhou to Datong Mansion in the west, and His Royal Highness King Yan led 50,000 troops to Ulzhou to contain the Northern Liao army in Ulzhou. ” Zheng Hun's strategic concept almost all things are envisaged, according to Zheng Hun's thinking, such a deployment can both attack and defend, needless to say, the attack is a flank attack on Datong by the north and the south, and the main thing is to defend the hidden ones in the attack.
We can first make an assumption, at the same time that the Southern Liao army attacked Dading, Yelu Hongji led the main force of the Northern Liao Army to suddenly go south, crossed the Huang River to attack Zhongjing Dadingfu, Yelu Nelugu lost in the process of fighting with Yelu Hongji, and the Northern Liao Army could only defend Dadingfu, and in this case, the main force of the Southern Liao Army in the northeast of Datong could quickly give up the plan to attack Datong to reinforce Dadingfu.
If the Song army takes advantage of the emptiness of Xijin Mansion and wants to sneak attack, there is no need to worry, although Yelu Chongyuan only left 20,000 soldiers and horses in Xijin Mansion, but the 50,000 army commanded by Yelu Mu, the king of Yan, can quickly return to help; In this way, no matter which side of the north and south is threatened, the Southern Liao army can turn into defense in the fastest time.
Yelu Chongyuan agreed with Zheng Hun's strategic plan very much, and agreed to Zheng Hun's offensive plan on the spot, and the Southern Liao Army began to deploy according to Zheng Hun's plan.
All you have to do before the war is to choose a good target and then prepare a lot of food and grass.
After everything was prepared, Yelu Chongyuan issued an edict to the world announcing the purpose of crusading against Yelu Renxian, and then the three armies swore to go on the expedition.
Yan King Yelu Mu is the second son of Yelu Chongyuan, this Yelu Mu is a brave and militant element, although Yelu Mu likes to fight, but he is not good at strategy, that is to say, he is only a brave horseman, so for Yelu Mu to lead an army of 50,000, Yelu Chongyuan is very uneasy, in Yelu Chongyuan's opinion, this defeat is a trivial matter, if Yelu Mu even loses his life at that time, it will not be good.
For this reason, Yelu Chongyuan was insured by his son, and sent his most trusted military advisor, that is, Zheng Hun, the prime minister of the Southern Liao Kingdom, to Yelu Mu's side, and asked Zheng Hun to help watch, before leaving for the expedition, Yelu Chongyuan called Zheng Hun to his side and said: "King Yan has the courage of ten thousand people, but he has no ability to make plans, the prime minister is the person I trust the most, and I hope that the prime minister will be optimistic about my second son and save his life." ” Hearing Yelu Chongyuan's words, Zheng Hun could only say helplessly: "Wechen tried his best to fulfill His Majesty's will. ” The plot of the war is coming again, but it is still the Liao Civil War, so Tianyu wrote more briefly, and please understand, if you have any requirements, just leave a message, Tianyu will try its best to meet everyone, I hope you can support Tianyu more in the future, thank you: