Chapter 6 1. Expedition to the Bohai Sea

During the chaos in the Central Plains and the more than ten years of Liang Jin's war, Khitan developed rapidly under the leadership of Yelu Abaoji.After conquering the Turks, Uighurs, Dangxiang, Xiaofan, and Shatuo in the west, Khitan's territory has expanded westward to the Hexi Corridor, northward to Mobei, and southward across the Great Wall.Next, Yelu Abaoji set his eyes on the Bohai State in the east. The founding of Khitan was not synchronized with the founding of Yelu Abaoji.In the spring of 907 AD, Yelu Abaoji ascended the throne of Khan and proclaimed himself emperor. This was only his first step in seizing the ruling power of the Khitan Eight-Party Alliance.After that, Yelu Abaoji started an internal and external struggle that lasted for nearly ten years, mainly aggressing and countering aggression against the surrounding neighbors.Tribes such as Shiwei, Daxie, Uighur, etc. were all nomadic peoples who once dominated one side, and they had a life-and-death relationship with the Khitan. Either they fought the Khitan, or the Khitan beat them.Yelu Abaoji recruited the superior forces of the eight Khitan tribes, and launched a arduous conquest against these external tribes.After ten years, these powerful opponents were finally defeated one by one, and the status of the most powerful ethnic group in northern Khitan was established.

The struggle within Khitan mainly revolves around the struggle for imperial power.According to Khitan's centuries-old tradition, the position of the Great Khan needs to be elected, and it needs to be changed every three years.But after Yelu Abaoji took this seat, his buttocks did not move.In the past few years, other young nobles in Yelu Abaoji's tribe have grown up, especially the younger brothers who are very powerful in blood and power. They have grown up one by one. These young people also want to be a great sweat, and they are all ambitious. .So wave after wave of coup movements were launched, trying to overthrow Yelu Abaoji.In the dangerous and treacherous political struggle, Yelu Abaoji showed superb political struggle experience and skills.Under the banner of his family, country and world, he punished his younger brothers who stabbed and rebelled one by one.Not only that, Yelu Abaoji also adopted a more gentle policy, forgiving the rebellious emperor's younger brother again and again, and did not pursue too much with those who followed them to fight, trying not to expand the struggle.It wasn't until the final limit of irreconcilable contradictions that Yelu Abaoji activated the killing machine, and the killing range was very small.

Among nomadic peoples, the law of survival of the fittest, bullying the weak, and survival of the strong has prevailed for thousands of years, and usurping power has become a habit.If this habit is not curbed, no one will be able to sit comfortably on the emperor, let alone sit for a long time. Yelu Abaoji decided to eliminate this habit gradually.Not only must it be cleared from the behavior of people, especially nobles, but also from their consciousness, so as to fundamentally establish the new game rules of hereditary imperial power and establish the sacred and inviolable status of imperial power.After quelling the internal power struggle by relying on his strong influence and superb political wisdom, Yelu Abaoji formally established the Khitan Kingdom in 916 AD, changed his original strategy, and renamed the title of emperor.

Since then, Yelu Abaoji's imperial dominance has been firmly established in the Khitan Kingdom. In the process of Khitan's rapid outward expansion, the greatest resistance was the south. Although in Chinese history books, movies, storytelling, and dramas, it is said that the Khitan invaded the Central Plains, and the Central Plains were deeply troubled by it.But in fact, Khitan is also trying to survive in the cracks, seeking development in the place of the Four Wars.In the process of fighting with neighbors from all sides, the Khitan became more brave and stronger as they fought.However, during the many years of war going south to the Great Wall, the Khitan suffered heroic resistance and powerful blows from the Central Plains dynasty and feudal forces.This shows that the Han people are superior to the Khitan in terms of border defense, defense of the country, strategy and tactics, and productivity. Only by being more advanced than the Khitan can they defeat the Khitan.It's just that the civil strife in the Central Plains and the separatist regimes of the princes are all busy fighting each other. They have no strength, no mind, and no time to build the Great Wall.Therefore, in the initial stage of the war between the Khitans and the Han, the Khitans took the initiative to attack, the Hans defended passively, and the Hans struggled to cope.

Khitan did not obtain a breakthrough in territory and interests south of the Great Wall, but instead shifted its focus to the east.The east is the ancient Bohai State. Bohai State is not on the Bohai Sea. Bohai State is not in Bohai Bay either. The Bohai State is actually a land country, but a little of the sea is in the Bohai Sea. It is relative to say that the Bohai Kingdom is ancient.A little old, not too ancient. The history of Bohai State is similar to that of Khitan, and strictly speaking, the age of Bohai State is earlier than that of Khitan. The Bohai Kingdom is almost the same age as the Li Tang Dynasty.

Bohai State is located in the northeast, basically covering most of Jilin, Liaoning, and Sakhalin Island. In its heyday, it reached Mongolia in the west and Heilongjiang in the north.His ancestors were the Sumo Mohe tribe in the early Tang Dynasty.During Li Tang and Wu Zetian's period, in the appointment of local officials who ruled the Khitan and Northeast tribes, they employed improperly, oppressed, exploited and even harmed local ethnic minorities, which aroused the resistance of ethnic minorities.In the first year of Long Live Tongtian (AD 696), Li Jinzhong, the leader of Khitan, fought against the Li Tang court and attacked and killed Zhao Wenhui, the governor of Yingzhou.During Li Jinzhong's rebellion, the Sumo Mohe people living in Yingzhou also took the opportunity to raise troops and participated in the anti-Tang action.

After the Yingzhou Incident, Empress Wu Zetian of Li Tang sent an army to crusade, and implemented a policy of division and disintegration.The leader of Sumo Mohe, Qiqi Zhongxiang, led his tribe to escape from Yingzhou and migrated eastward across the Liaoshui River, intending to escape from the rule of the Tang Dynasty.On the one hand, the Tang Dynasty implemented a crusade policy of iron and blood suppression against Khitan, and on the other hand, it adopted a policy of appeasement towards Sumo Mohe. Li Tang's court pardoned Su Mo Mohe's crime of rebellion, and made Qiqi Zhongxiang the Duke of Zhenguo.But Su Mo Mohe didn't fully believe that the Li Tang court would really let them go, and divisions appeared within the tribe.Most people advocate continuing to flee east to north and continue the great migration of thousands of miles.On the way of migration, beggar Zhongxiang died of illness.Da Zuorong, the son of Qiqi Zhongxiang, succeeded him as the leader and led the tribe to continue to migrate.During Da Zuorong's escape to the north, a part of Su Mohe who was originally under Goguryeo's rule moved on hearing the news, broke away from Goguryeo's rule, and defected to Da Zuorong's team.This migratory army gathered more and more people, and integrated the tribes scattered in the Northeast.

Li Tang's government's appeasement policy failed, and Wu Zetian became furious, and once again sent general Li Kaigu to lead an army thousands of miles away to attack Da Zuorong.In September 697 A.D., the official army of the Tang Dynasty caught up with Sumomohe at Tianmenling (now Hadaling, Qingyuan, Liaoning Province), and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.Da Zuorong was brave and good at fighting, and he used the tragic psychology of the Mohe tribe to flee to arouse the morale of the tribe to fight to the death.At the same time, Da Zuorong used his troops skillfully, took advantage of the terrain, and arranged troops, defeating the Tang army in World War I.Li Kaigu fled back to the Central Plains alone.

In the first year of the Tang Dynasty (AD 698), the powerful Turks invaded Guizhou, Tanzhou, Dingzhou, Zhaozhou and other places in the Tang Dynasty (now the central and western regions of Hebei Province). At that time, the weak Khitan was forced to surrender to the Turkic rule. The connection between the Central Plains and the Northeast outside the pass was cut off.Da Zuorong took the opportunity to establish the Mohe Kingdom, following his father's title, the country's name was Zhen, and the capital was now Dunhua County, Jilin Province. After the founding of the Bohai Kingdom, in fact, there were many crises. The threat of the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains was not completely eliminated, but only temporarily relieved.The strength of the Eastern Turks not only threatened the Tang Dynasty, but also threatened the Khitan, Xi, Mohe, and Tatars. The Bohai Kingdom had to surrender to the Turks.Goguryeo in the east was defeated by Li Ji in the early Tang Dynasty. Although it surrendered to the Li and Tang courts, it was still a powerful local autonomous regime, annexing and ruling the surrounding small tribes.Although Heishui Mohe in the north is also Mohe, it is different from Sumo Mohe and does not belong to each other.In this environment, Da Zuorong launched a superb diplomatic activity, and finally gained a firm foothold through various maneuvers.The diplomatic relations of the Balhae State went to Japan as far as the sea, and they had a long-term friendship with Japan.

After 705 AD, the relationship between Bohai State and the central government of the Tang Dynasty improved, and it expressed its willingness to submit to the Tang Dynasty.However, in order to maintain safe diplomatic relations, the Balhae State still had close contacts with the Turks, and was neither close nor offended by the Turks.Later, the Turks were wiped out by the Uighurs, and the Bohai State continued to maintain friendly relations with the Uighurs.In order to contain Silla (the regime on the Korean peninsula), the Balhae Kingdom once united with Japan to attack Silla from east to west by sea and land, forcing Silla to bow its head and make concessions.Silla endured it for a while, and joined forces with the emerging Khitan to attack Balhae from east to west.In just a few years, Bohai Kingdom rose rapidly, with a prosperous population, reaching more than 100,000 households, and tens of thousands of combat troops.

In 713 A.D., Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, canonized Da Zuorong as the king of Bohai County, and also granted him the governor of Huhan Prefecture.From then on, Sumo Mohe's Zhen State was officially renamed Bohai State.In terms of the generation of monarchs, Bohai State has a high degree of autonomy and implements a hereditary succession system.But it needs the canonization and approval of the Li Tang Dynasty to take effect.When the Li and Tang Dynasties canonized the King of Bohai, they also had to confer a title at the same time, that is, the governor of Huhan Prefecture.This is the result of a compromise between the two regimes.The Bohai State has a high degree of autonomy. The Li and Tang Dynasties declared the sovereignty of the celestial dynasty through canonization ceremonies, and regarded the Bohai State as a state, but a subordinate autonomous prefecture.The face of both parties is saved, and both parties feel very comfortable, at least under limited conditions. In 755 AD, the capital of Bohai Kingdom was moved to Shangjing Longquan Mansion (now Bohai Town, Ning'an, Heilongjiang). The ruins of the imperial city of Bohai Kingdom are now in Bohai Town, Ning'an County, very close to Jingbo Lake.I went to see it in the autumn of 2011, and there was only the base of the city wall palace, square and layered, with broken walls and ruins hidden in the weeds.The stone carvings and stone tools are all made of volcanic rock, which is very distinctive. The dark stones are densely covered with holes.A few cultural relics are placed in the township museum that has been in disrepair for a long time.Portraits of fifteen monarchs of the Balhae Kingdom hang on the walls of the museum.When I went, the ruins of the Bohai Kingdom were still under archaeological excavation. Many archaeologists were busy bending over, trying to interpret the rise and fall of the history of this ancient country through searching with shovels and brushes, and excavating brick by stone. , Lifting the veil covering his face layer by layer. The imperial city of Bohai Kingdom was completely modeled on the blueprint of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. The blueprint of Chang'an Imperial City sent by the Li Tang court was specially reduced. After comparing with the blueprint, the Bohai Imperial City was built.This not only expresses Bohai State's yearning and respect for the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty, but also takes into account the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and its scale is smaller than that of Chang'an City.This is the only two highly similar architectural city groups in China, and it also bears a historical story. The politics, economy, and culture of Bohai State were deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty, and almost completely copied the various systems, models, production tools and production relations of the Tang Dynasty. It was the second independent regime after Japan that was deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty.Wen Tingyun, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem describing the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Bohai Kingdom.The title of this poem is "Sending the Prince of Bohai to His Country", and the poem reads: Although there are many seas in Xinjiang, Che Shuben is a family. Sheng Xun returned to his homeland, the best sentence is in China. The demarcation divides the autumn and rises, and sails to the dawn. Jiumen Fengyue is good, looking back is the end of the world. Following the example of the Tang Dynasty system, Bohai State established a central administrative system of three provinces and six ministries, vertically implementing the prefecture and county system of Beijing, prefecture, prefecture, and county, and the military system is also a sixteen-guard system.Agriculture, handicrafts, and iron smelting are highly developed, and its economic strength has greatly increased.During its heyday, the Bohai Kingdom had a vast territory, with Jilin as the center, bordering the Sea of ​​Japan to the east, reaching the current border of Inner Mongolia to the west, reaching Hamhung in North Korea to the south, reaching the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang to the north, and extending to Sakhalin Island.In terms of domestic administrative divisions, five capitals and fifteen prefectures, sixty-two prefectures, and more than one hundred and thirty counties have been established.It has a population of hundreds of thousands and nearly ten ethnic groups.In terms of culture and education, the government of Bohai State sent people to Chang'an to study and train in batches, and introduced the educational system and education system of the Tang Dynasty. Confucianism, Buddhism, music, art, and painting all took root in Bohai State and flourished, making Bohai State has become a country with comprehensive development of politics, economy and culture.For decades, the Bohai State had become a powerful country at that time. For more than two hundred years, the Bohai Kingdom has always maintained a vassal relationship with the Central Plains court, paying tribute every year, visiting the court every year, congratulating on festivals every year, sending envoys, and sending princes to the Tang Dynasty as hostages.The Tang Dynasty also awarded many gifts, and the exchanges were frequent and harmonious.This relationship lasted until Houliang and Houtang. Any regime will decline, either due to internal troubles or external enemies. Internal troubles are like wolves, and external enemies are like tigers. Tigers and wolves knocked on the door at the same time. The so-called "born in sorrow and died in peace" may mean that the small life of the Bohai Kingdom is too moist, there are no powerful enemies to invade and make trouble in the local area, and the Emperor Tiangao of the Tang Dynasty is far from having so many annoying things. Passed down, it seems that the whole country is healthy and the four fields are peaceful.Even if life is too good, there will be problems. The Bohai Kingdom has been carefree for two hundred years, but the ability to govern the country has been degraded invisibly.By the time of the fifteenth king, Da Yanyi, the decadence of the Bohai Kingdom had reached the point where it was impossible to extricate itself.He became a big piece of fat, placed in front of the increasingly powerful and militant Khitan. The seductive fragrance emitted by the Bohai Kingdom climbed over the mountains, crossed the steep mountains, and penetrated into the nostrils of the Khitan people. The Khitan couldn't hold back anymore. The Khitan people want to eat this big piece of fat from the Bohai Kingdom. The Khitans are about to act. In 924 A.D., the second year after Li Cunxu of the Later Tang Dynasty took control of Luoyang, the Khitan Emperor Yelu Abaoji launched a preparatory war against the Bohai Kingdom.This war has two meanings. One is the prelude to the development of an all-out war against the Bohai State, which is of a foreshadowing nature.The second is the prelude to launching an all-out war against the Central Plains. As long as the Bohai Kingdom is destroyed, the Khitan will get rid of the last worry, and free up their hands to go south in a big way, and start a full-scale war against the Central Plains. Khitan's preparatory war against Bohai State this time, the battlefield is in Liaodong of Bohai State.Khitan fought with Bohai Elementary School.As a result, Khitan did not reap any benefits and returned without success. In December 925 AD, after careful and sufficient preparations, Yelu Abaoji personally took command of the Eastern Expedition to the Bohai Kingdom. The reason for the Eastern Expedition to the Bohai Kingdom is very simple, and there is only one sentence: "If the feud in the Bohai Sea has not been settled, it is not suitable to settle down."Yelu Abaoji defined the Bohai Kingdom as the Khitan's generational enemy for hundreds of years. If the feud is not avenged, how can they live with peace of mind?Yelu Abaoji is still very powerful, and his excuse for war is very provocative and high-sounding.Bohai Kingdom and Khitan have been neighbors for two or three hundred years. They have fought and killed each other for generations, and indeed they have won and lost each other, but this kind of hatred is not as serious as Yelu Abaoji said. It is just a border dispute or property plunder.Out of the political needs of the war, Yelu Abao mobilized the power of the whole country to incite the anger of revenge from all the Khitan tribes, mobilized more than 100,000 troops, and planned to finish their work in one battle and destroy the Bohai Kingdom. It is Khitan's strategic need to destroy the Bohai State. Only by destroying the Bohai State can the long-term invasion of the Central Plains be achieved. Since it is a strategic need, it must be done. What the emperor wants to accomplish, the whole country must work hard. The matter was big enough for the emperor to mobilize resources for it. It can be seen that the cost of this matter must not be small, and the dividend of this matter must not be small. The Khitan's military expedition to Bohai Sea can be seen from the luxurious command system of its scale, high standard, and firm will.The Khitan Emperor Yelu Abaoji personally led and commanded this war operation. The emperor Yelu Deguang, Yelu Yaogu and Yelu Tuyu all because they liked Sinology, they were later changed to Chinese names) as assistants.Khitan not only has a luxurious command system, but the composition of the army is also unprecedented.The eight tribes of Khitan were the main force, and the chief of the Xi tribe, Bruen, Wang Yu of Dingzhou, Hebei, Uighur, Silla, Tubo, Dangxiang, Shiwei, Shatuo, Wugu and other subordinate tribes also sent troops to join the campaign. The ceremony of the Khitan army's expedition was very grand.First of all, worship Konoha Mountain.Muye Mountain is the sacred mountain of Khitan, where the totems of their ancestors originated.Then arrive at Wushan, kill the black cattle and white horses to worship the heaven and the earth, and pray for the blessing of the gods.Then go to Sage Mountain to hold a witchcraft activity called "shooting ghost arrows".This series of activities are all to boost morale, pray for a smooth expedition, and gain support from God.After various expedition ceremonies were held, the mighty Khitan army crossed Shangling and arrived at Fuyu City (now Nong'an County, Jilin Province). From the route of the Khitan expedition this time, it can be seen that the Khitan adopted a beheading strategy, directly attacking the capital of Bohai State from west to east, instead of marching from the south of Liaoyang.So this military operation is an absolute heavyweight and powerful blitzkrieg. The mountains were blocked by heavy snow. Freeze three feet. The river freezes. The four fields are boundless. The north wind blows like a knife, piercing through the armor and fur, piercing the heart. The vast earth is sleeping in the dreamland of hibernation, and everything is sealed, waiting for the sunshine of the coming year. The Khitans set off. With bowed shoulders and arrows, leather hats, leather jackets and leather combat boots. Cars rumble, horses rustle, tents with thousands of banners flutter. The infantry and cavalry snaked for hundreds of miles, and the sobbing horn pierced the sky. The Khitan people stepped on knee-deep snow, walked through dense and scattered jungles, and climbed over rugged valleys. Without removing their armor and horses, they penetrated into the enemy's territory with lightning speed. In the first month of 926 A.D., on the night of the full moon, hundreds of thousands of Khitan troops surrounded Fuyu City. At this time, the Bohai people were still sleeping soundly in the warm blankets, and they didn't know that the disaster had come. The Khitan army, with the rank of Ma Lekou, was silent, and carried out their tasks according to the deployment. The camp of the Luo Department was at the fourth gate of Fuyu City.Under the bright moonlight, the snow-covered land glows white, so sweet and pure.On the top of the city, the night-time lights shine out from the arrow tower, twinkling and twinkling, as if they are stars from the depths of the universe.The howling north wind blew past the crenels of the city wall, and the snow on the bricks and tiles was blown off one after another, sinking into the night.A crow whined and flapped its wings and flew over the battlefield. Suddenly, the Khitan Central Army issued an order to attack.The cowhide war drums thundered, the expedition horns exploded, and the conch horns blew.The Khitan attack broke out like a landslide and a tsunami, and the black Khitan army rushed towards the sleeping city.In an instant, dozens of ladders were set up on the city wall, hundreds of chariots rushed through the trenches, thousands of knives and axes climbed up to the top of the city, light balls and torches lit up the ground, and the Khitan army clamored to break through the city like a tide. enter. The Bohai defenders in their sleep were awakened by the sound of trumpets and shouts of killing. They didn't know where the enemy came from. They put on their armor in a panic, grabbed their weapons, and rushed to the top of the city.In a hurry, the Bohai army organized resistance and defense operations.Fuyu City has not fought for many years, and the grandfathers of the defenders can't remember.Driven entirely by an unconscious conditioned reflex, they desperately threw stones, threw logs, swung knives, and opened bows at the besieging Khitan army. The Bohai army has not been tempered in battle for too long, and its combat ability has been exhausted by the superior life.There has been no war in Fuyu City for too long, and the fortifications are weak and simple.In less than a meal, the city wall was opened by the Khitan army, and the Khitan army swarmed in.In the dark night, flames shot up to the sky everywhere, shouting for killing.The Bohai army and the Khitan army launched street fighting, hand-to-hand combat, guerrilla warfare, and offensive and defensive warfare. Dawn comes and the sun rises. A white mist stretched across the sky, reaching the orange morning sun. The shouts of killing in the city gradually decreased, and the Bohai defenders were all annihilated by the Khitans.Fuyu City fell.Blood and snow condensed together, and the corpses of the enemy and defenders were piled together. After the Khitan army seized the city, they would often loot it wantonly. They are a typical army that supports war by fighting.This time was no exception. Fuyu City fell, and the Khitan tribes rushed to snatch property in the city.Yelu Abaoji ordered that the captive Bohai residents inside and outside the city be turned into slaves and moved to the rear of Khitan. At this time, Crown Prince Yelubei stood up and suggested to Emperor Yelu Abaoji: "Father, Fuyu City is very close to Huhan City in Longquan Prefecture, the capital of Bohai Sea. We should not stay here for long. Advance quickly and conquer Huhan City, Longquan Mansion in one fell swoop." Yelu Abaoji nodded, agreeing with Yelubei's opinion.He ordered the troops to temporarily stop looting, leaving a small part of the army to guard Fuyu City, and the army rushed to Longquan Mansion day and night. The Khitan army led 10,000 cavalry to Longquan Mansion with Tiyin Anduan and former Beifu Prime Minister Xiao Agu as the vanguard generals.On the road, the Khitan vanguard encountered the army sent by King Dayanyi of Bohai Kingdom to rescue Fuyu City. The two sides fought fiercely, and the Bohai Navy was defeated.Afterwards, the Khitan main force, led by Crown Prince Yelubei, Grand Marshal Yelu Deguang, and the General of the North and South Institutes, marched forward in a mighty way. After a day of hasty marching, the Khitan army reached the city of Huhan at midnight. One hundred thousand Khitan troops surrounded the city of Huhan completely. It was only at this time that King Dayanyi of Bohai really believed that the Khitan's main force had arrived in front of him, and that the comers were not kind and aimed at destroying the country. In the early morning of the next day, Dayanyi lay on the top of the city and looked at the Khitan army that was completely sprawling outside the city. Flags and banners were unfurled, horns were fluttering, people were screaming, yurts and tents were rising and falling like waves, and carts and horses, cattle and sheep filled the mountains and plains.King Bohai has never seen a war since he was breastfeeding, nor has he conducted military exercises, nor heard the sound of war drums.This bloody and tense scene frightened Da Yanyi.The little fighting spirit left by King Bohai collapsed. He slumped on the corridor at the top of the city, crying with snot and tears, not knowing what to do.All the ministers looked at each other in blank dismay, facing the national crisis, these guys who were shaking their heads on weekdays also lost their minds.Junchen looked at me and looked at you, and finally thought of the same idea, surrender. So Dayanyi took out his white handkerchief, struggled to hold on to the crenelation of the city wall, and shook desperately at the Khitan army below the city.The Khitan army under the city saw a guy who looked like a leader at the top of the city shaking a white handkerchief, and knew that this meant surrender.They hurriedly reported it to Yelu Abaoji.Yelu Abaoji nodded and said, "I accept the surrender." There are three poles in the sun. The south gate of Huhan City slowly opened. A group of men and horses came out of the city and stood on both sides of the city gate. A fat man in plain clothes hobbled out the door, holding a cow and a sheep in his hands, followed by three or four hundred officials from the Bohai State. This is the surrender ceremony. The fat man walking in front is the king of Bohai, Da Yanyi. Dayanyi seemed to be struggling to walk, and the steam exhaled from his nostrils slowly dissipated in the rising sun. With the shouts of the Khitan vanguard Yiwei army, the surrender ceremony began. Khitan Emperor Yelu Abaoji sat on a fiery red war horse, with a yellow umbrella behind his back.Even when he was sitting on horseback, Yelu Abaoji could be seen to be tall, with a slender figure and straight shoulders.He wore a leopard-skin hat inlaid with orbs on his head, a narrow tiger-skin-patterned jacket, and a light gold armour.A Baoji's face was thin and grim, his eyes were piercing, and his three strands of black beard were clearly discernible.The aura of the Khitan emperor's dominion over the world radiated tremendous power, without anger and prestige. On the left of Yelu Abaoji is Queen Shuluping.She was riding a snow-white war horse, wearing a leopard-print leather jacket, a fiery red fox fur shawl on her chest, a light green cloak and a gray fur cap, and a goose-shaped ruby ​​inlaid on the front door.Although Shu Luping is nearly fifty years old, he still looks handsome, with two black eyebrows flying into the clouds, a pair of beautiful eyes that are deep and calm, and two red lips that are thin and strong. On the right of Yelu Abaoji is Crown Prince Yelubei, and on the right is Grand Marshal Yelu Deguang.Lined up on both sides are the tribal chiefs, kings, generals, prime ministers, privy envoys and other civil and military officials.All of them were angry horses in fresh clothes, full of energy and murderous. King Dayanyi of Bohai held the seal and genealogy in his hands and walked to the Khitan Emperor Yelu Abaoji's horse, presented the token respectfully, and said weakly: "The people of Bohai Kingdom are waiting for the punishment of the Khitan Emperor." Yelu Abaoji lifted the rein with his hand, led the horse half a step forward, and winked at the prime minister beside him.The Prime Minister of Khitan took the token from Dayan Yi and stepped aside.Yelu Abaoji said in a calm voice: "King of Bohai, are you guilty? For many years, you, Su Mohe, have harmed my Khitan people and seized my land and home. This time, I am punishing the people and conquering Longquan Mansion personally, in order to repay me The Khitan's blood feud over the past two hundred years." Dayanyi nodded again and again, expressing his guilt.In fact, Dayanyi thought to himself: "What crime do I know? Since I took the throne, Bohai and Khitan have basically never fought any battles, and Bohai has not received any benefits from war. It is obvious that you, Khitan, have attacked our Bohai country for thousands of miles, and you are still making unreasonable words. .” Yelu Abaoji went on to say: "I think you took the initiative to surrender and pardon your sins in consideration of the loss of life. You go back and prepare. Tomorrow I will enter the city." King Dayanyi of Bohai originally thought that the Khitan people would kill him, or put him in prison, or at least send him to the army.Although the weather was cold, Dayanyi's forehead and back were already dripping with sweat.Now when Yelu Abaoji said that he would be pardoned for his crimes and let him go back to the city, Dayanyi couldn't believe his ears, and was so dumbfounded that he couldn't move for a long time.Khitan officials came over to take him back, in fact they escorted him back to the city.Only then did Da Yanyi wake up, and he muttered silently in his heart: "My God..." The king of Bohai surrendered without firing a single shot. This is great news for Khitan, and it is unknown how much casualties and losses can be reduced.To be honest, although the Khitan has an army of 100,000, it is difficult to attack far, and the weather is cold, and it has already paid a lot of casualties.If there is a bloody battle in Longquan Mansion, the stalemate will last for a long time, and the outcome will be unpredictable.But when A Baoji saw Da Yanyi's useless appearance with his own eyes, he already had full confidence in his heart.Yelu Abaoji ordered the inspectors to enter the city, count the money and food in the treasury, check the household registration population, clean up the garrison guards, clean up the streets, government offices, and collect knives, guns and weapons.Get ready for tomorrow's entry. But to Yelu Abaoji's surprise, not all the people in Huhan City were willing to surrender, and there was still a small group of Bohai Navy who insisted on fighting.A dozen people sent by Khitan to the city to do reception work were wiped out by the Bohai guerrillas.The people in the city hijacked the King of Bohai, closed the city gate, refused to surrender, and vowed to fight the Khitan people to the end. Yelu Abaoji was furious and ordered to attack the city.After a burst of indiscriminate bombing and several bloody charges, Huhan City fell.Yelu Abaoji entered Huhan City and ordered Dayanyi and his royal family to be imprisoned and sent to the Khitan army, which completely broke the Bohai people's desire to support their master and resist. Khitan successively captured Fuyu City and Huhan City, and the political and economic center of Bohai State collapsed.The king was captured, which was a devastating blow to Balhae.After occupying the capital of Bohai, Yelu Abaoji plundered all the gold, silver, treasures, rice flour, money and grain of Bohai.Rewards for meritorious deeds, rewarding the three armies, this is what has been agreed before the expedition, and it is also the purpose of a hundred thousand troops fighting thousands of miles in the severe cold.In addition to rewarding Xi, Tubo, Dangxiang and other allies who participated in the war, the one who got the most benefits was of course the Khitan.Yelu Abaoji not only valued material wealth, but more importantly, territory. He almost doubled the territory of Khitan.Not only that, Abaoji also started a large-scale immigration, moving the Sumo Mohe tribe of Bohai State to Linhuang, the capital of Khitan (now southwest of Bahrain Zuoqi, Inner Mongolia).After the Khitan invaded and occupied the Bohai Kingdom, many Mohe people refused to accept the Khitan's conquest and fled in all directions. More than 100,000 people fled north to Jurchen, and tens of thousands fled east to Goryeo.Not long after, Huhan City and Fuyu City had become abandoned capitals, deserted and in ruins. In order to strengthen the control over the residents of Bohai land, Yelu Abaoji changed the Bohai state to Dongdan County, and changed Huhan City to Tianfu City.The Crown Prince Yelubei was crowned as the Emperor, and he stayed in Dongdan to preside over military and political affairs.In addition, the emperor's younger brother Diela was stationed as the prime minister of the left, the old minister of Bohai was the prime minister of the right, Situ Da Suxian of Bohai was the secondary prime minister of the left, and Yelu Yuzhi was the secondary prime minister of the right to assist Yelubei in ruling Dongdan. In the fifteenth generation of the kingdom, the Bohai Kingdom, which lasted 229 years, was destroyed and incorporated into the territory of Khitan. After all, the Bohai State has existed for more than two hundred years, and its material civilization and culture are highly developed. Although its civilization is an imported civilization, it is remarkable that it has developed independently for such a long time.The country is subjugated in an instant, which is sighing. The Khitan became the most powerful regime in the north, and the most powerful military empire in the east of the earth.The territory stretches across Hetao, grasslands, deserts, white mountains and black waters, and stretches for thousands of miles.Civil strife in the Central Plains interrupted cultural and commercial exchanges with foreign countries, so that Central Asian countries believed that China was the Khitan Kingdom, and the Khitan King was the supreme ruler of China.Until now, it is said that the name of China in the Slavic language family is still "Khitan". Yelu Abaoji destroyed the Bohai Sea in one battle, shaking the world.No less than Li Cunxu took Sichuan lightly last winter.For a time, the north and the south were strong, and the two tigers lived side by side.But the world is changing, and fortune and misfortune depend on each other.Li Cunxu entered the Central Plains, conquered the two Sichuan provinces, and became famous throughout the world, but the smoke of the gunpowder has not yet dissipated, the disaster was born in Xiaoqiang, and he died at a young age.Coincidentally, Yelu Abaoji never expected that this trip to the Bohai Sea would become his end in a foreign land.