The ancients said: "The heavens will descend upon the People of Si, and they will first suffer their minds, strain their bones and bones, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and act in a disorderly manner. "So behind every successful person, there will always be a price that a very human person can bear." The Great Stone of Jerusalem, which we are talking about today, is a man who has suffered a lot of physical and spiritual suffering.
1. Born in the nobility, both literary and martial
Yelü Dashi ( Jeremiah ) , a Khitan of the Khitan clan , was born in Shangjing in 1087 , the eighth grandson of the Liao Taizu Yelü Abaoji , and was also a descendant of the noble blood flowing through his body. He was proficient in Khitan and Han Chinese, was good at riding and shooting, and in 1115 entered the High School, entered the Hanlin Academy, and served as a Hanlin Chengzhi, the only Khitan jinshi in the Liao Dynasty.
Originally, the future of Yelü Dashi was bright, but it was ups and downs due to the political struggle within Daliao.
Later, the Liao king Yelü Yanxi fled with his troops, and Yelü Chun was forced to ascend to the throne, and Yelü Dashi entered the core of the regime.
At that time, the Song Dynasty directly sent a large army to attack the Northern Liao to retake Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, but unexpectedly, thousands of light horses were ambushed by Yelü Dashi, which was his first actual battle, and he won a complete victory, which showed that his military talent was extremely high.
The Song army was not discouraged, and sent an additional army to attack Yanjing, and sent a letter of surrender to Yelü Dashi, who tore up the surrender book and said to the soldiers: "There is no more to say, there is only death." As a result, the Liao army launched a battle that was put to death and reborn, dodging the Song army's sharp edge, encircling from behind, the Song army panicked, fled in defeat, and Dashi took advantage of the victory to pursue and kill Xiongzhou.
Yelü Dashi had courage and strategy, and on the battlefield, he waved his fangs and pointed out the country, and fought for a short rest for the survival of Daliao.
Falling from heaven into a trough, Jeroboam wanted to hide the shame of a lifetime
Even if the Liao army defeated the Song soldiers, it was still like an egg touching a stone in the face of the Jurchens who grew up on the grassland. In 1123, the Liao-Jin War, the Liao army was completely destroyed, and Yelü Dashi was captured.
When the Jin army faced the lair of the Liao Emperor Tianzuo, he always looked at the "quagmire of sixty miles" and sighed, but returned without success. This time, the Liao army's capital Yelü Dashi was captured, and the Jin commander Yan Zongwang threatened him with his life, tied him to his horse, and forced him to lead the way.
Under normal circumstances, as a general of a country, he would not hesitate to refuse such a request, especially like Yelü Dashi, who was both a royal nobleman and had always guarded the fragile Liao Dynasty, and it was even more impossible to do something rebellious and treasonous, however, the reality was always unexpected, and he really obediently did it. With his lead, Jin Bing smoothly and smoothly entered the Jiashan Mountain and directly pounded the old lair of the Tianzuo Emperor, who survived because of the "safari" of the Tianzuo Emperor in the Yingzhou area at this time.
When the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom heard this news, he was overjoyed, and learned that Yelü Dashi had defeated the Song army twice, and both won more with less, so the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom was very important to the stone and was eager to recruit him.
The Emperor of Jin not only returned Dashi's sons to him, but also gave him a beautiful woman as his wife, and also appointed him as a counselor of the great general Yan Zonghan.
Seeing this, many people may wonder, is it that once it comes to their own interests, the homeland is no longer important? Obviously not, it seems to me that the Great Stone of Jerusalem should have taken into account the terrain at that time. Before, the Jin soldiers could not find the Liao army hidden in the jiashan mountain in any way, not only because the jiashan was hidden between the two mountains and thus easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also because the sixty-mile quagmire was used as a vanguard to block the foreign enemy, perhaps Yelü Dashi wanted to use this perfect terrain to catch the golden soldiers in an urn, but he failed to cooperate with the Liao army, or the jin soldiers were too strong and the plan failed.
In any case, I always believed in his loyalty to the Liao Dynasty.
Third, pretend to surrender, and even take advantage of the pillow people
After this time, after attracting the Jin soldiers into the mountain, the monarch of the Jin Kingdom used the high-ranking official Houlu and the beautiful wife to tie up Yelü Dashi, but he was unmoved, and with his handsome appearance and deliberate personality charm, he successfully captured the heart of a woman named a wife, who was actually a surveillance, and from then on, his wife no longer monitored, but helped him cover.
Just when the main force of the Jin army was marching west, Yelü Dashi knew that the opportunity was coming, and he persuaded his wife to flee with his five sons in the middle of the night. When Yan Zonghan wanted to discuss with the counselors, he found that there was no trace of The Great Stone of Yelü long ago, so he brought his wife to him, who knew that the wife was silent, and refused to reveal a single thing at the mercy of the whip and stick. After Yan Zonghan gave her to the most despicable slave to torture her, who knows, this girl is also a backbone, knowing that she is humiliated, it is better to ask for death, so she put the dog that Yan Zonghan scolded with blood, and was shot by Yan Zonghan who was angry and angry.
At this time, Yelü Dashi had already escaped from the Jinguo territory with his sons, and had subdued many remnants of the Liao army along the way, and by the time he fled to Jiashan to join the Tianzuo Emperor, he had more than 7,000 horses.
Fourth, another treason, but counterattack became a generation of emperors
To say that this Heavenly Emperor Zuo always made the wrong decision at the wrong time. When Yelü Dashi defeated the Song army, it was a good time for him to stabilize the government, but he indulged in hunting and eating, drinking and having fun; and now, when he saw Yelü Dashi leading more than 7,000 horses back to him, that plain heart actually stirred, coupled with the support of the surrounding nomadic tribes, it made his tail fly to the sky, and he resolutely attacked the Jin army despite the opposition of everyone.
Yelü Dashicai escaped from the Jin camp, knew the strength of their army very well, and specially advised the Tianzuo Emperor: "To make the whole country and Han land jinyou with the whole division without seeking war readiness." The national situation has reached this point, and the party seeks war, not to calculate. When raising soldiers to wait, it is impossible to move lightly. ”
However, I don't know who gave the courage of emperor Tianzuo, so he ignored the dissuasion of Yelü Dashi and scolded him bitterly. After that, Yelü Dashi was well aware of the unreliability of Emperor Tianzuo, so he fled west with two hundred soldiers overnight. The Tianzuo Emperor, unsurprisingly, became a prisoner of the Jin army.
Therefore, the great stone of Jerusalem was faithful and not foolish. He saw the ignorance of Emperor Tianzuo, and first made admonitions, but after persuasion was not possible, he chose another way out.
After he came to the west, he first recharged his batteries and found the right time to march west, and finally a battle of Katwan with fewer victories and more decided on his position as the hegemon of Central Asia. He ascended the throne as emperor and established the Western Liao Empire, which continued the fate of the Khitan state for hundreds of years!
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