The Legend of Western Liao
by He Yunchao
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In the twelfth century AD, the Liao Dynasty established by the Khitans came to the edge of decline. The Jurchen tribe rose in the Northeast, and the Wanyan Aguda family established the Jin Kingdom. Yelu Dashi, a descendant of the Khitan royal family, accidentally met Li Tiansheng, a Han young man who came to Liao to steal the ancestral military manual. Emperor Yelu Yanxi was defeated in the attack on Jin and fled to Jiashan. Yelu Dashi supported Yelu Chun as the throne in Nanjing... Yelu Dashi went to the Jin Kingdom and was captured. He met Li Tiansheng again in the Jin Kingdom Camp and suspected that Li Tiansheng was a spy, but Li Tiansheng managed to rescue him. When Wanyan Aguda died of illness, Yelu Dashi fled to Jiashan to join Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Liao Dynasty. Unable to convince the emperor, he resolutely took two hundred relatives with him to the desert... After the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Liao Dynasty, it quickly launched a war to destroy the Song Dynasty. Li Tiansheng went to the Song Dynasty to form an alliance and handed over the ancestral military book to the veteran general Zongze. After returning to Mobei, Yelu Dashi's Eastern Expedition failed. Forced by the situation, the Khitans embarked on a journey of thousands of miles westward...
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