It is not to blame Yelu Dashi for looking down on the army of the Song Dynasty, the army of the Song Dynasty has been deteriorating since the death of the god of war Di Qing, not good at cavalry and archery, not good at field warfare, does not know how to raid and detour, compared with other countries, the only skillful strength of the Song army is to defend the city. Except for civil wars, the armies created by the agrarian people would only defend the city.

If you go out of the city, the Song army can't beat the Liao State, the second can't beat the Western Xia, and of course it can't beat the later Jin State and Mongolia, only Yue Fei's Yue family army is a special existence, but it was disbanded by Zhao Gou.

The record in recent decades has been lackluster, not to mention that what Yelu Dashi witnessed last year happened to be 50,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people selected by Gao Yu from the forbidden army?

Gao Yu's original intention was to work with Tong Guan to pit Huangshang, but he didn't expect to increase the ambition of the Liao people in disguise.

At this time, at the head of Yanjing, Yelu Dashi belittled the Song army, just to change the topic, but unexpectedly, Ouyang Muye put forward a different opinion on this topic: "Since the Song army is so weak, how did the big victory over Western Xia come about a few days ago?"

This question is really acute for Yelu Dashi, and it has the taste of which pot is not opened, but who asked him to talk about the weakness of the Song army first?

Just as after the later generations of the United States fought a Gulf War, the military experts of China have been studied, as the senior military head of the Liao State, it is impossible for Yelu Dashi not to make a detailed assessment of the Battle of Song and Xia, but after some investigation and research, he found that the result of the Battle of Song and Xia had nothing to do with the Great Song Army.

Facts show that the Battle of Song and Xia was almost a one-man war from beginning to end, and it was also a great victory for one person. This person who won the victory was precisely the last thing he wanted to mention, and this person was Bai Sheng.

The reason why he turned his face with Fa Xiao Xiaolong was actually for Bai Sheng. Because Xiao Long was an official of the Northern Privy Council of the Liao State, and was also studying the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides of the Song-Xia War, Xiao Long was the first person who did not open which pot to mention, and when he returned from the Xizhou Uighurs, Xiao Long's first question was, do you know why the Western Xia lost to the Song State?

Of course, Yelu Dashi knew why Western Xia lost to the Song Kingdom, but he didn't want to say, why are you? Don't you want to be my Yelu Dashi's brother-in-law, but use your brother-in-law to show off with me?

Of course, he is also ashamed to say this, so he can only suppress this sourness in his heart, and at the same time stay away from this chattering hair, out of sight and out of mind, when he sees Xiao Long, he will think of Bai Sheng's hatred of snatching love with a knife, and at this moment of national crisis, he is more concerned about where the way out of the Khitan clan is, and he can't take care of his children's affection.

So when his master Ouyang Muye also didn't open any pot and which pot to mention, he was silent, can he say that Xixia is weaker than the Great Song Dynasty? If he really said that, I'm afraid that even a three-year-old child can't be deceived, let alone Master Ouyang Muye?

Of course, he also knew that Ouyang Muye and Xiao Long were different, and the two of them must have different starting points for asking this question.

Ouyang Muye has always been unwilling to do things for the Liao State in person because of his father Ouyang Chun, so he doesn't know much about the wars between these countries, and it's only because the defeat of Western Xia by the Great Song Dynasty is already known to everyone at this moment, so he has this question. Of course, he didn't know what the inside story of the Battle of Song and Xia was.

Seeing that the apprentice didn't answer, Ouyang Muye thought that he had said the apprentice's mistake, so he said more seriously: "So, we can't underestimate any country and nation, the Great Song Dynasty has the shortcomings of the Great Song Dynasty, but he must have his strengths, if you blindly despise them, there will be a time when you will suffer in the future." ”

Yelu Dashi couldn't argue, so he could only silently accept the master's teachings, not to mention that the master was saying a universal truth, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Ouyang Muye supported the harmony of Song and Liao, which was also because of his father Ouyang Chun, when his father and Nanxia Zhanzhao and the five rats of the Trap Island were good friends who did not fight or make deals, although they lived in different countries, but after all, there was the righteousness of friends, and the war between Song and Liao was something they did not want to see.

Ouyang Chun's attitude even affected his eldest apprentice Xiao Yuanshan, if Xiao Yuanshan hadn't treated the relationship between Song and Liao with such an attitude, he would not have been ambushed by Shaolin Xuanci and others outside Yanmen Pass in the early days. If he used a killing move against the Great Song martial arts master as soon as he came up, Xiao Feng would not have died fuckingly.

Even Xiao Yuanshan, who was born in the descendants of the Liao Kingdom, was influenced by Ouyang Chun, not to mention Ouyang Muye, Ouyang Chun's youngest son? Ouyang Muye really didn't want to see Yelu Dashi and the Song people hostile, so he would implicitly help the Song State say such a sentence.

It's just that even if he is Yelu Dashi's master, it is not good to say too much, after all, the apprentice is already an adult, and he is in such a high position as the king of the Southern Courtyard, so he can only talk as a master.

"Alright, it's almost dawn, let's go back and rest. ”

As the party defending the city, it is very important to prevent the Jin soldiers from touching the city at night, so Yelu Dashi will abide by his duties and personally patrol the city every night to prevent the Jin State from sending martial arts figures to launch a sneak attack.

In contrast, it will be fine during the day, if the golden soldiers want to attack the city during the day, as long as they carry the ladder or other siege equipment from the camp, they will have already seen it on the head of the city, it is a real offensive and defensive battle, and there is no opportunism at all.

At dawn, the master and apprentice went down to the city, Ouyang Muye went home to rest, but Yelu Dashi could not go back to his southern courtyard, he had to go to the early court to rest.

Speaking of the early dynasty system of the Liao State, it was once more formal than the Song State, because the Liao State was founded more than 50 years earlier than the Song State and was willing to absorb Confucian culture.

But today, the early dynasty system of the Liao State has been basically abolished. Now that the 400,000 troops of the Jin State are approaching the city, the courtiers in the court and the central government have long been panicked, and most of them are busy transferring their property, and some are already considering entrusting the relationship to go to the door to the magnates of the Jin State, so as to be able to survive the destruction of the Liao State.

From ancient times to the present, most of the people in the power of countries that are about to perish have been like this.

Of course, Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi also knew what these courtiers thought, but he couldn't care about restraining these people at the moment, and he only needed to do one thing now, that is, to defend Yanjing and the surrounding Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. Even the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun can not be defended, but Yanjing must be defended, and once Yanjing is broken, the Liao State will die.

In this case, he doesn't need these literati and writers who have filled their pockets to go to the court, these people come except for crying and waiting for the retreat with a sad face, which does not help the current situation at all.

Therefore, the current early dynasty only requires the military chief to participate routinely. Yelu Dashi was also among the must-attend, and after Ouyang Muye left, Yelu Dashi led more than a dozen guards to the palace.

The imperial palace of the Liao State was originally located in the capital, and it was in Linhuang Mansion in Beijing. Yanjing, also known as Nanjing, was one of the four capitals of the Liao State, and there was no imperial palace built here, and there was only a temporary palace here.

When I arrived outside the palace, I heard that Emperor Tianzuo inside was furious, "Wu Yanguang, it hasn't been a short time since I handed over the military power to you, haven't you?"