[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them":3,"chapter-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-308":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Transmigrated to the Northern Song with Them",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2319198,4535,"Chapter 308","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-308",308,"\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because preparations had been made with great thoroughness, and because Yelu Aoluan’s succession to the throne of Liao, replacing Yelu Yanxi, best served Liao’s interests, he ascended as emperor of Liao with Zhao Yu’s assistance, finally\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the matter was far from simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never mind that Liao was suffering repeated defeats on the front and urgently needed reinforcements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Yu went to such great lengths to aid Liao not because he was kind-hearted or handsome, but because he sought to reclaim Yan Di Wuzhou, Ping Luan Yingsanzhou, Juyong Pass, and other strategic passes—to recover the Yan-Ping region and complete the great unification.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the core interest of the Zhao Song dynasty; only if Liao satisfied Zhao Song’s core interest would Zhao Song truly help Liao restore its state. Otherwise, Zhao Song would destroy Liao before Jin even laid a hand on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, immediately after Yelu Ao’s ascension, Xiao Pu Xian Nü and Xiao Se Se convened the court ministers to deliberate on strategies to counter Jin’s invasion and cede the Yan-Ping region to Zhao Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the issue of resisting Jin’s invasion, Liao’s leadership was unanimous: they must stabilize their defensive lines now, or the war against Jin would become unwinnable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Specifically, they would establish an “active recovery” defense line across southern Mongolian Plateau, Liaoxi Grassland, and the Xilamulun River basin—abandoning the mindset of static fortification, and instead leveraging grasslands, mountains, and rivers, combined with Liao’s remaining cavalry advantage and control over nomadic tribes, to build a dynamic defense system centered on mobility, reliant on tribal alliances, and oriented toward counteroffensives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its core logic: no fixed defensive lines, but rather pillars of “forward bases + cavalry clusters + tribal alliances,” proactively advancing to the edges of Jin-controlled territory, using harassment, diversion, and concentrated strikes to gradually compress Jin’s operational space, waiting for the chance to reclaim Zhongjing and lands north of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not all Liao people were useless; Yelu Chun, Xiao Gan, Yelu Dashi, and others were among the greatest generals of their age, intimately familiar with Liao’s terrain, so their strategies were highly targeted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Liao’s army was severely depleted, especially around Yanjing—its actual strength was only about fifty thousand, and even with the troops from Ping, Luan, and Yingsanzhou, it did not exceed eighty thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Liao defended Yan-Ping, it could not spare enough troops to reinforce the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And without effective reinforcement, the front’s collapse would become far more likely—a prospect Liao could not afford.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this problem had a simple solution: follow Zhao Song’s proposal and cede the entire Yan-Ping region to Zhao Song, while Yelu Chun and others led the Liao troops stationed in Yan-Ping to reinforce the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, Liao’s front was not without troops—there were still hundreds of thousands of Liao soldiers there—but without unified command, they fought independently; coupled with the emperor’s disappearance, the lack of a reliable leader, and the treachery of Yelu Yudu—who knew Liao’s tactics and helped Jin recruit defectors—this caused Liao’s continuous defeats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that Liao’s emperor had changed from Yelu Yanxi to the widely desired Yelu Ao, and Zhao Song was willing to ally with Liao against Jin, with some reinforcements and proper organization, the front could still fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But some people, greedy as snakes swallowing elephants, were reluctant to hand over Yan-Ping to Zhao Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, such thoughts among these Liao people were understandable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Zhongjing fell to Jin, Yanjing became the political heart of Liao’s remaining forces—not only the operational center of its bureaucracy, but also the symbolic vessel through which Liao’s survival was communicated to all regions (especially those still unoccupied by Jin), sustaining the legitimacy of Liao’s rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, Yanjing lay at the southern foot of the Yanshan Mountains, bordered by Jundu Mountain to the north and Mount Taixing to the west, forming a natural barrier against Jin’s southward advance into the Central Plains. The Liao stationed the Yanjing Command in the city, commanding elite Han and Xi troops, and built defenses centered on Juyong Pass and Gubeikou. For the Liao at this moment, Yanjing’s defensive role directly determined the survival of their remaining territories—if Yanjing fell, Jin could march directly into the North China Plain, cutting off all links between Liao and the Central Plains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yanjing was also one of the Liao Dynasty’s most agriculturally developed regions, relying on the alluvial plains of the Yongding and Chaobai Rivers, producing abundant grain, mulberry, and hemp with a dense population; as the Liao’s central hub for trade with Zhao Song, its commercial taxes and handicraft revenues (textiles, iron smelting) accounted for nearly thirty percent of the Liao state’s finances; after Zhongjing’s fall, the Jin destroyed the Liao’s pastoral economy on the steppes, making Yanjing’s agricultural and commercial revenues the core financial lifeline sustaining the Liao’s army and bureaucracy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ping, Luan, and Yingsanzhou lay east of Yanjing, along the western shore of the Bohai Bay, serving as the critical link between Yanjing and Liaodong, their value centered on defensive buffering and resource connectivity:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pingzhou was the core of the three states, historically the eastern gateway of Youyan, bordered by the Yanshan to the north and the sea to the east, with formidable terrain. Liao established the Pingzhou Military Governor’s Office here, stationing tens of thousands of troops as Yanjing’s eastern shield—if Jin advanced from Liaodong, Ping, Luan, and Yingsanzhou could use the Luan River, Qinglong River, and other waterways to delay enemy forces and prevent Yanjing from being attacked from two sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Historically, when Jin attacked Pingzhou, the defender Zhang Jue had fiercely resisted using the terrain of the three states, buying Yanjing several months of preparation time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ping, Luan, and Yingsanzhou also controlled two vital corridors: the land route “Yuguan Road” (from Pingzhou through Shanhaiguan to Liaodong), and the sea route (from Yingzhou Port to the Liaodong Peninsula). After Zhongjing’s fall, Liao’s remaining forces in Liaodong relied entirely on these two corridors to maintain contact with Yanjing. The existence of the three states allowed Yanjing to receive limited reinforcements and horses from Liaodong, while transporting strategic materials like salt and iron via sea routes, sustaining its war potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ping, Luan, and Yingsanzhou were also the “land of fish and salt” along the Bohai Bay—Pingzhou’s salt industry, Luanzhou’s iron mines, and Yingzhou’s fisheries were all highly developed, their output filling critical resource gaps in Yanjing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, since the late Tang, Ping, Luan, and Yingsanzhou had been Han-populated regions, with a population of about two hundred thousand—serving not only as agricultural laborers but also as the primary source for recruiting soldiers (especially Han troops), crucial to offsetting population losses after Zhongjing’s fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Di Wuzhou and Ping, Luan, Yingsanzhou were not isolated; they formed a dual-core defensive system: Yanjing as the “main fortress,” bearing political and core defensive functions; Ping, Luan, Yingsanzhou as the “flank barrier,” securing eastern safety and resource corridors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This synergistic relationship allowed Liao to resist for nearly two years after Zhongjing’s fall—until Yanjing was captured and Ping, Luan, Yingsanzhou surrendered to Jin, at which point Liao’s remnants lost their last foothold and ultimately perished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, for Liao at this moment, Yanjing was the “soul of survival,” Ping, Luan, Yingsanzhou the “sinews of survival,” together forming its final “territory of survival.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder many Liao people were reluctant to hand over Yan-Ping to Zhao Song—without it, they would be rootless floating weeds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Pu Xian Nü had long anticipated that some Liao officials would waver, so immediately after Yelu Ao’s ascension, she invoked the urgency of the front and ordered Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan each to lead twenty thousand troops to reinforce the front immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Se Se knew Xiao Pu Xian Nü was executing a “divert the tiger from the mountain” strategy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, in truth, everyone knew Xiao Pu Xian Nü was executing a “divert the tiger from the mountain” strategy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Jin’s forces continued their southward charge, nearing the collapse of Liao’s defensive lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This news threw Liao’s court officials into panic—they knew they could no longer avoid sending troops to reinforce the front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Xiao Pu Xian Nü placed all Liao troops in Yanjing—roughly two hundred thousand—under Xiao Gan’s command and ordered him to march north immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Xiao Pu Xian Nü opened Yanjing’s state treasury, recruited another twenty thousand troops, and entrusted them to Yelu Dashi to lead northward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi knew full well that by taking all of Yanjing’s troops, they were clearing the way for Song forces—when they returned, Yanjing would have changed hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi, having served Zhao Yu as advisors for nearly a decade, understood perfectly that Zhao Yu was determined to seize Yan-Ping—especially as Jin grew stronger and Liao weaker.\u003C\u002Fp>",1455,"2026-06-20T15:06:50.687Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e5cf15c542bfdde5897e7d76df871eddeaa74e429a49120c9b645c890fe386cd","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-309","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-307",348,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-cover.jpg"]