Be it Wuzhu or the others, they all just nodded their heads.
I have to say that Nianhan's handling of the matter was quite appropriate... When the Jurchens were in Liaodong, they really regarded Goryeo as a powerful enemy, and they also regarded the Goryeo Dynasty as a rich place. But later, after they swallowed up Liao and overthrew Song, and took control of fertile land like Hebei, they looked at Goryeo and felt too lazy to even move troops there.
And since there is no intention to destroy the other party, it is extremely necessary to use diplomatic means to intimidate them as much as possible.
Nianhan did not look at anyone else. When he saw Wuzhu nod, he no longer hesitated and nodded directly. Then he continued to speak to the audience: "That's settled. There is one more thing. Yelu Mawu sent a letter saying that Yelu Yudu has been behaving strangely these days... What do you think?"
Wuzhu and others looked at each other in bewilderment. What could they do about this mess?
A high-ranking surrendered general who was deprived of his military power, he was a Khitan who once served as the right military supervisor of the Marshal's Office in the Great Jin Dynasty. When Taizu was in power, this guy begged for children, wives and concubines in the army, which aroused the suspicion of Taizu Wanyan Aguda. Later, when the Jin army went south to destroy the Song Dynasty and created the Jingkang Incident, the Song emperor wrote a letter to lure him into surrender, which further aroused the suspicion of the Jin high-level officials, so that after Jingkang, he was gradually deprived of his military power. Now, Lou Shi died in the battle, and then the king suddenly had a stroke. You, Nianhan, have become Guolun Bojilie and the Marshal of the Capital, and Huo Nu is still making trouble with Balisu across the river. It would be strange if Yelu Yudu did not behave strangely in the west!
So how do you watch it? Sit down and watch it!
Anyway, we have no soldiers left, so what else can we do?
"What I mean is, let Balisu kill him." Nianhan thought for a moment and continued, "In case he runs to the other side of the river and shakes the morale of the army."
"That's true, but if Yelu Yudu is really killed, what will happen to Yelu Mawu and the rest of the Khitan troops in the East and West Armies?" Wuzhu said sternly. "Under the current situation, won't it still shake people's hearts?"
Nianhan shook his head repeatedly: "Of course I know that it will shake the morale of the army, but we have to look at the matter from another perspective. If he runs to the other side of the river, whether he surrenders to the Song people or the Western Xia, or goes to meet Yelu Dashi through Mengwu, no matter what banner he raises, the morale of the Khitan army will always be shaken. If we kill him, it will only shake the army temporarily. As the saying goes, a short pain is worse than a long pain. We can also take the opportunity to show our authority to the Khitan and Xi people in the army..."
Wuzhu immediately came to his senses and was about to nod.
At this time, Nianhan continued, "Besides, he has occupied this position in the Capital Marshal's Office for many years. Now that he is removed, it will be convenient for people like Balisu and Huonu to come up."
Everyone cheered up.
No matter what, the Great Jin Dynasty still had to respect military power...Yelü Yudu lost his military power, so he was treated like a pig and discussed how and when to kill him.
The military power of the Jin Dynasty can be roughly divided into three parts.
The field army was naturally the East and West armies, each of which had nearly 100,000 troops at its peak. In addition to the two armies, there were also a certain number of garrison troops and garrison troops, scattered in Yanjing, Huanglongfu, Liaoyangfu, Datong, etc., that is, all over the former Liao Kingdom. This number, if you add up the scattered troops from the east, west, south, and north, would be about 100,000.
Three hundred thousand was the peak during the heyday of the Jin Dynasty, that is, the year after the Jin Dynasty created the Jingkang Incident.
Of course, the garrison troops do not count. If the garrison troops were really pulled in, the Song Dynasty on the opposite side could now claim to have 500,000 or 600,000 troops. Even those present here know that it is impossible not to have troops in these places. At most, they serve as a transit point to select some elite troops to join the Eastern and Western armies.
Therefore, the key lies in the eastern and western armies.
But back to the present, even if we only talk about the Eastern and Western Armies, the situation seems a little strange.
First of all, the losses in the defeat at Yaoshan, including the deaths, injuries, and non-combat casualties, plus the losses in Fangzhou before, are similar to what the Song army guessed, and there are indeed more than 10,000 losses. And most of them, or even the vast majority, are core troops under the Meng'an Mouke system. In other words, the battle of Yaoshan directly changed the ratio of Meng'an Mouke and supplementary soldiers in the field army of the Jurchen side, and then the ratio of Jurchen soldiers to soldiers of other ethnic groups also changed... Just now, Wuzhu was worried that killing Yelu Yudu would cause the army to lose morale, and this was also the reason.
There is no way, this is the tragedy of the small number of main ethnic groups, and it is also the fundamental reason why the battle of Yaoshan only killed 10,000 or 20,000 people and shocked the entire Jin Dynasty, so that the king was so angry that his mouth was crooked. The loss of these troops and horses, plus the two Wanhu of the Eastern Army, is the collapse of the entire system, which cannot be compensated by simply filling in the numbers.
However, this is only the direct loss. Another serious problem at the moment is that the command power of the army has been divided after the war.
The Western Army was divided into two, with the main part on the east bank of the Yellow River, but a small number of core troops stayed in northern Shaanxi with Huo Nu; the Eastern Army also split, but this split was not caused by a battle, but rather by the fact that the Jin Dynasty's high-level officials were greatly shocked by the defeat at Yaoshan, and in order to protect themselves, Nianhan suddenly went south to Damingfu and seized the military power from Talan.
Not only that, at that time Wanyan Wushu was in Huguan and Wanyan Erlido was in Hezhong Prefecture. The two brothers certainly had no intention of handing over the troops in their hands. However, the two brothers were brothers after all, and they had always been relatively harmonious, so on the surface they could still be called a group.
But in fact, everyone knows that the Fourth Prince has been defeated in many battles, but his political status has risen again and again, especially his previous contribution in bringing Nianhan back to Yanjing. Now he is qualified to form an independent faction.
In other words, the main field force of the Jin army was artificially divided into five. The Western Army was divided into two. One was in Yan'an, controlled by Lou Shi's eldest son Huo Nu, with about 10,000 people; the other was in Taiyuan, controlled by Wanyan Balisu, with about 30,000 to 40,000 people; and the Eastern Army was also divided into three. Wuzhu held two complete Wanhu in Huguan and Henei areas; the three Wanhu in Daming Prefecture were originally held by Talan, the representative of the king Wuqimai, but were directly taken away by Nianhan who rode south alone; then there were three Wanhu, plus the original garrison troops of the Western Army in Hezhong Prefecture, and the 20,000 Haner reinforcements abandoned by Lou Shi after using the elite troops strategy, all of which were there.
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