Last time, it was said that the Liao Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty at the hands of Yelü Yanxi, but this did not mean that the Liao Dynasty was completely completely completed, and there was a Khitan nobleman who successfully revived the Liao Dynasty, and this person was Yelü Dashi.
Yelü Dashi is a descendant of Yelü Beiyi, who was diligent and studious when he was a child, and was both literate and martial, and when he grew up, he passed the examination for jinshi, and was the only Khitan jinshi in the Liao Dynasty, if placed in Xiao Yanyan's era, with the talent of Yelü Dashi, he could definitely mix well.
At this time, the Liao Dynasty was almost finished, the Houjin established by the Jurchen clan in the north were defeated and retreated, yelü Yanxi also ran out of shadows, in order to stabilize the situation, Yelü Dashi and others put Yelü Yanxi's uncle Yelü Chun on the throne, at this time the Northern Song Dynasty also wanted to take the opportunity to recover Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and allied with the Jin state to fight the Liao state, the Liao soldiers could not win the Jin soldiers, it was still possible to clean up the Song soldiers, and the result could be imagined.
A few days later, Jeroboam fell ill and died, and Yerushalayim, who had received the news of Yerushalayim, went to him again. Yelü Yanxi expressed great annoyance at the establishment of another emperor, and Yelü Dashi defended himself and made Yerushalayim speechless, and this matter was so calculated, but Yelü Yanxi always hated him in his heart.
After that, Yelü Dashi fought a defeated battle and was captured by the Jin army, and then he saw the opportunity to run away and returned to Yelü Yanxi's side, but Yelü Yanxi did not listen to his opinions and suggestions, and When Yelü Dashi saw that this cargo was really impossible to count on, he led a group of people and horses to leave Yelü Yanxi's side overnight, and sure enough, after less than half a year, Yelü Yanxi became a prisoner, and the Liao Dynasty was finished.
Yelü Dashi went all the way to the liao dynasty's northern Xinjiang Kedun City, where it established a base area, recruited troops to buy horses, accumulated strength, and sent people to contact the Western Xia and Southern Song Dynasties to work against the Jin Dynasty. Jin Taizong was very annoyed after Yan Sheng knew about it, and sent troops to clean up the Yelü Dashi, but because the road was too far and there was a desert blocking it, it ended in failure.
Although Yelü Dashi had become bigger and stronger in Kedun City, the strength of the Jin Dynasty still could not be underestimated, and hard gang was not the way to go, so Yelü Dashi decided to open a new world in the west, and then turn back to deal with the Jin Dynasty. Soon Yelü Dashi ascended the throne as emperor, the national name is still "Liao", the history is called "Western Liao", due to Yelü Dashi's deep feelings of home and country, everything in Western Liao is the same as the Liao Dynasty.
It is said that the Emperor Yelü Dashi began to expand westward on a large scale, successively eating up several kingdoms and tribes in the western region, and building an empire with a vast territory, probably in today's Xinjiang and Kazakhstan, no smaller than the territory of the previous Liao Dynasty. At this time, Yelü Dashi sent a large army to attack the Jin Dynasty, but the desert between the two countries was also far away, and the Eastern Expeditionary Forces found nothing and could only return to the capital; at this time, the Jin Dynasty also attacked the Western Liao in turn, and the result was an ambush and a big defeat.
In this way in the east, the Great Stone of Jerusalem could only continue to expand further westward. After twenty years as emperor, Yelü Dashi ended his legendary life, the temple name Dezong, his name also became a synonym for the Western Liao, the Jin Dynasty, the Western Xia, and the Southern Song Dynasty all called the later monarchs of the Western Liao "Dashi".
The successor Tonzong Yelü Yilie was younger, according to the tradition of the Liao Dynasty, by the empress Xiao Ta no smoke regency, this Xiao Ta no smoke is also very Xiao Yanyan's demeanor, when the Jin Dynasty sent people to the Western Liao Zhao'an, saw Xiao Ta no smoke is very arrogant, also did not get off the horse, Xiao Ta is not smoke is very angry, let people pull the emissary off the horse, force him to kneel, did not expect that this goods is too ignorant, continue to break the mouth and scold, completely annoyed Xiao Ta no smoke, the result of receiving a box lunch. Relying on the national strength of the Western Liao at that time, Xiao Ta could not buy it without smoke, so the Jin Dynasty could only be bored if it wanted to recruit security.
Xiao Ta is not like Xiao Yanyan, Yelü Yilie is also a bit similar to Yelü Longxu, during which the Western Liao society was stable and the economy continued to improve, which was the most powerful period. After Yelü Yilie returned to heaven, his sons were also young, but he did not have an empress like Xiao Yanyan, so Yelü Yilie's sister Yelü Pu became the regent empress dowager, but her life was not very good, and finally she died in a palace coup, and then the power of the Western Liao fell into the hands of the new emperor Yelü Zhilugu.
At this time, the Western Liao had begun to decline, and Yelü Zhilugu was also addicted to pleasure and did not do the right thing, so the political situation in the Western Liao became more and more unstable, and slowly, the vassal states of the Western Liao Dynasty were all separated, and the territory was getting smaller and smaller, and it had lost the glory of its heyday.
At this time, the Mongol Ironwood was really unifying Mongolia, and the defeated prince Ofeman ran to the Western Liao, and Yelü Zhilugu was kind enough to take him in, but this cargo was ungrateful, and actually tried every means to deal with the Western Liao, and finally forced Yelü Zhilugu to abdicate and take the Western Liao for himself, Yelü Zhilugu worshiped in pain and frustration, but Qu Zhilugu did not have good fruit to eat, and later the Mongolian general Zhebei led his troops to destroy the Western Liao, and the fleeing Qu Chulu was captured alive and executed.
When the Western Liao was about to cool down, Yelü Liuge, a descendant of the Liao Dynasty clan in the east of the Jin Dynasty, established the state as a king, and the country name was also "Liao", and the history was called "Eastern Liao", but this Eastern Liao had been giving Mongolia a younger brother, and when the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, withdrew his domain, the Eastern Liao was gone, and the Liao Dynasty ended completely.
The Liao Dynasty was a dynasty established by the Khitan people, but today we do not see the shadow of the Khitan people, perhaps this ethnic group has merged with the Han or other ethnic groups.