In addition to the 112,000 palace army and the leather room army directly under the Great Liao Emperor, the Liao Emperor was able to immediately mobilize the troops, and there were less than 20,000 Han guards and pro-army. These guards are stationed in Nanjing Road, and are divided into eight battalions, including the North and South Ya Soldiers, the Left and Right Yulin Soldiers, the Crane Control Soldiers, the Shenwu Soldiers, the Xiongjie Soldiers, and the Xiaowu Soldiers, all of which are the elite composed of the children of the Yanyun Han clan.

In addition, there is an elite army composed of Bohai people in Tokyo Road, known as the Bohai Capital, known as "three people Bohai as a tiger", but the number is very small, only thousands.

Of course, it is impossible for the dignified Liao Emperor to have only an army of 1340,000 people, and he cannot control the Nuoda Empire with this point.

In the military register of Daliao, there are two major military organizations, the tribal army and the Jingzhou township army.

Among them, the tribal soldiers mainly refer to the more reliable Khitan and Xiren tribes, and the Khitan tribes have four tribes (Yaoran Nine Tents, Heng Tent Three Fathers, National Uncle Babari, B Chamber, and Uncle Guo), North and South Wangfu (Five Yuan, Six Yuan Departments), Xi Wang's Six Departments, B Chamber, Pin Department, T Department, Wukui Department, Nira Department, Tulu Bu Department, Tuju Department and other Khitan and Xi tribes of different sizes, as well as some tribes firmly controlled by the Prime Minister's Mansion in the north and south of Liao (the Prime Minister's Mansion in the north and south of Liao and the Mansion of King Xi are both local governments that manage the tribes). There are about thirty of them, and the number is growing.

The increase in the number of tribes was not due to the number of new tribes allegiance to the Great Liao Emperor, but to divide the original tribes and add new ones.

The reason for this is that the emperor of the Liao State did not know when he also began to learn from the Great Song Dynasty officials and began to strengthen the centralization of power. And the strengthening of centralized power will of course weaken the autonomous tribes. There are three main ways to weaken the tribes, one is to build palace guards - because the main source of palace households is each tribe, every time a palace is built, some strong households and land must be cut out from each tribe, and palace guards are only established, and few are dissolved. In the history of the Liao State, only the palace guards of Yelu Hongji's imperial uncle Yelu Chongyuan were disbanded due to rebellion, but the palace households owned by him were not returned to the tribes, but were distributed to other palace guards.

Therefore, every time a new palace guard is established, it is a weakening of the strength of the Liao tribe. Although the degree of a single weakening is not large, it cannot be sustained and added up. By the time of Yelu Hongji of Liao Daozong, the Liao State had successively established the palace guards of eleven palaces and one mansion, and the total number of palace households reached 183,000. At least 80,000 of them were taken from various tribes loyal to the Khitan royal family.

Don't underestimate these 80,000 households, this is not a peasant household in the Central Plains, but a herdsman household on the grassland. In history, when Genghis Khan unified the Mongolian tribes, he only commanded 95 thousand households, that is, 95,000 households!

While cutting off 80,000 subordinate tribes and a large number of pastures, the Liao State adopted the method of analyzing the tribes, splitting the tribes under its command, and constantly establishing new tribes, so as to achieve the goal of weakening the strength of the tribes. Among the more than 30 tribes loyal to the Liao State, at least a dozen were established by "analyzing the tribes" by drawing people from other tribes and cutting land.

The third way to weaken the tribe is to frequently recruit the clan army to garrison the frontier and conquest. Although the number of palace divisions in the Liao State is increasing, and the strength of the tribes is getting weaker and weaker, the garrison and conquest tasks of the tribes have not been reduced in the slightest. The four borders of the Liao State, with the exception of the borders of Nanjing Road and Xijing Road with the Song Dynasty, were almost all guarded by tribal armies. And every time there is an expedition, the main force that charges into battle is also a tribal army. Over time, the tribal army of the Liao State faced the dilemma of excessive consumption and inability to replenish it.

At the same time, the long war has caused serious divisions within these tribes. The upper echelons of the tribe were rewarded by war and plundered the spoils of war, while the lower echelons of the tribe were impoverished by the brutal attrition of war. As early as the reign of Liao Shengzong, the poor tribes loyal to the Great Liao reached the point where they needed relief from the imperial court to survive. Their ability to bear military service is naturally greatly reduced.

However, the large number of palace troops was very carefully preserved, and they rarely participated in bitter battles. Moreover, most of the territories of the palace guards are also in the core hinterland of the Liao Kingdom, with fertile water and grass, and there is no threat from enemies, so they live a comfortable and comfortable life. The combat effectiveness is gradually on par with the Great Song Forbidden Army.

The tribe became weaker and weaker the more they fought, and the palace became more and more useless, and the dignified Liao Kingdom became a paper tiger with teeth and claws.

Long before Yelu Hongji ascended the throne, his father Liao Xingzong Yelu Zongzhen was embarrassed in the two major battles against Western Xia. The two pro-expeditions were defeated by the Western Xia, and one of them took advantage of the mourning of the Xia lord Yuan Hao to raise the army, and the result was still defeated...... In the war with the Western Xia, the performance of the Liao army was not much stronger than that of the Song army.

In the late reign of Hongji, the Liao Daozong, a rebellion of the Northern Blockade people made the world see the weakness of the Great Liao. In order to suppress the Northern Blockade people, the Liao State not only mobilized a part of the army, but also did its best to transfer the tribal army, and even the tribal army that was originally deployed in the land of the birth daughter was also transferred to the battle of the Northern Blockade.

If Da Liao still wants to start a war against the Great Song Dynasty now, even if it is just a border conflict to exert pressure, there is some more than enough to do it.

On the way back to the Winter Bowl camp, Yelu Hongji was like a tent man, repeatedly calculating in his mind the army that could be used to scare Zhao Xu, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

There is no way for the tribal army to be transferred anymore, except for the 20,000 tribal troops of the Zhenzhou Jian'an Army who "must not be withdrawn if there is a battle", all the elite troops have been used to recruit Mogus.

The palace army and the leather room army can draw out fifty or sixty thousand people, but the combat effectiveness of these armies is very suspicious. If the Song army transfers the elite western army from the front line of Hengshan, I am afraid that they will be able to destroy the palace division army in the field battle......

If this situation really happens, it will undoubtedly be the catastrophe of the Liao Kingdom!

The palace division army is not very capable of fighting, and the eighth battalion of the Han army's guards is also a unit that has not fought much for almost decades.

If you encounter the Great Song Dynasty Hebei Forbidden Army, which has not fought for a long time, you don't have to worry, if you encounter the Great Song Dynasty Western Army that fights with the Xixia people every day, it will definitely be hanged and beaten.

In addition, the Han peasants in Nanjing Province and Xijing Road are now very miserable, and if it were not suppressed by the Han Forbidden Army of the Eighth Battalion, they might have risen up......

As for the Bohai Sea, it can be fought, but Tokyo Road is relatively chaotic, and the conflicts have not stopped.

But after all, there are only a few thousand people...... Moreover, if they are transferred from Tokyo Province, the strength of Tokyo Province will be too empty, and if there is a change in the number of women in life, Tokyo Province will have to become a pot of porridge.

As for the Han and Bohai villagers, there are quite a few soldiers, and occasionally they can scare the Song people - Yelu Hongji has already ordered the Jingzhou soldiers of Nanjing Province and Xijing Road to be mobilized.

But it is impossible to let them go to the battlefield, and the problem of food and equipment after leaving the hometown is an impossible problem to solve.

"Your Majesty, the woman in this picture is indeed the Empress Dowager Liang of the Xia Kingdom!"

At this time, Yelu Hongji and Yelu Yanxi's ancestors and grandsons had returned to the winter bowl camp, entered the palace tent, and convened the Privy Council of the Great Liao Zhinan Yelu Yan and the Northern Privy Council Envoy Yelu Asi and the Prime Minister of the Northern Mansion Xiao Wuna to discuss the matter.

The first dice throwing master in Daliao, Yelu Yan, the Privy Council of Zhinan (he was originally a Han Chinese, surnamed Li, given the surname Yelu, and his Zhinan Privy Council was won by rolling dice) had been to Western Xia many times, and recognized the mad woman of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, so it was quickly confirmed that the woman on the picture was Liang.

"Your Majesty, the Liang clan's surrender to the Song Dynasty was forced by the situation, if our dynasty can force the Song dynasty to withdraw its troops and horses, it will definitely be able to prevent the Liang clan from returning to the Song Dynasty."

Xiao Wuna, the prime minister of Beifu, who was the first to give advice, was Yelu Yanxi's teacher, and was very trusted by Yelu Hongji, and was also able to offer some insightful opinions, saying: "If you can't force the Song State to withdraw its troops, then you must try to get rid of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, and at the same time support the Xia lord Qianshun pro-government." ”

"Teacher," Yelu Yanxi didn't like the teacher who had tried his best to protect himself from being harmed by Yelu Yixin, and always liked to disagree with the teacher, and this time was no exception, "If the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang is removed, who else in the Xia Kingdom can confront the Song Dynasty?" ”

"Nope." Xiao Wuna shook his head and said, "The Liang clan has been fighting with the Song State for thirteen years, and it has already made the Xia people poor, even if it is not for her, the Xia Kingdom will no longer be able to fight against the Song Dynasty. ”

The reason why Xiao Wuna advocated this was not because he was confused, but because he had always regarded Divination and Nuzhi as a big problem for Da Liao. In his opinion, it is impossible for the Liao State to be destroyed by the Song State, and it is only possible to die in the hands of Nuzhi and Zubu!

So I'd rather give up Western Xia than ignore the threat of obstruction and female straightness!

Ye Luyan, a master of rolling dice, also echoed: "King, now that the war in the north has been postponed, and the birth of a daughter is straight and ready to move, my Da Liao will not be able to fight with the Song State for a long time." If you help Xia and Song, the country may fall into a catastrophe. If you persecute the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, you can eliminate the disaster of Xia Guotou Song in the shortest possible time, which is really the only choice. ”

He is a native of Yanjing, his family industry is in Yanyun, and he is a Han Chinese, so he naturally does not want the Liao and Song Dynasty to go to war. And he also knew that the Nanjing Dao of the Liao State had become increasingly serious due to land annexation over the years, and it had reached the point where it was difficult for the small people to make a living, and it was simply not enough to support a long-term war against the Great Song Dynasty.

Yelu Hongji asked, "But how do you get rid of the Liang family?" ”

In fact, the Great Liao Emperor had already made a decision, he had always been pro-Song, and he was very old, so he was especially reluctant to provoke a war that could not end in his lifetime.

"Your Majesty, the old minister can lead tens of thousands of troops to go to Xingqing Mansion in the name of aiding Xia."

The one who asked for the order was the envoy of the Northern Privy Council, Yelu Asi, who was Yelu Hongji's most trusted minister, and was older than Yelu Hongji, who was over seventy this year, but he was still very good at harmony.