It's colder in the far northeast.

Now the capital of the Liao Kingdom is also shrouded in dark clouds, and it is terrifyingly silent for a while.

It's a hallucination. Even if he was Kou Lao Xi'er, who had personally operated the Lanyuan Alliance, he didn't dare to say that he was not afraid of the Liao State Iron Horse. Unexpectedly, after Sima Guang's joint statement, there was no follow-up, and the Song army was slow to withdraw from the Hehuang area?

This is not to give face to the Great Liao Country! The last time there was such a faceless thing, it was the old man Fubi who refused to marry Emperor Fukang to the Liao clan.

But just when the Liao court was filled with righteous indignation and threatened to respond to the two-faced and three-sworded Song State, from the far west, the divine achievements of the Song Volunteer Army came again: Wang Yan used a mere 2,500 Funing Army, sandwiched the black technology fire dragon, defeated the remnants of the Tile Thorn Corps in the Minhe area, and completely annihilated the Nantong Secret Corps in the Tonghuang area.

And they unexpectedly "frightened" the Zhuo Luolan Department to retreat seventy miles, and successfully joined forces with the guerrillas who were chattering, and successfully joined forces with the 20,000-strong Jishi Army.

Seeing that the Song Kingdom was basically not going to lose this war, there was news that Xining Prefecture was washed with blood. The Liao State was shocked that his pig teammate made such a stupid mistake and pulled the hatred of the world.

This is tantamount to a slap in the face, giving the Song army enough reason to continue its military presence in Hehuang, and at the same time, it also makes the Liao State no longer have a reason to ask the Song State to withdraw its troops.

At that time, Sima Guang of the Song State and Xixia ate themselves more, and the tripartite meeting of Xiao Hui, the governor of the Liao State, affirmed that it became a piece of nonsense.

Above the dynasty, Yelu Hongji's face was ugly, although he also claimed to be righteous Hongji, but after all, he was the ruler of a country, and he had to plan for the interests of Liao, and once the Song army fully occupied Hehuang, the strength and depth of the Song State were greatly strengthened, although it was not a nightmare for the Liao State, it was definitely an event that affected the interests and national character.

"After all, in response, you can't let Song Guo easily occupy Hehuang's interests."

Yelu Hongji got up and issued his first holy decree since he ascended the throne: "Xiao Hui, who participated in the politics of the Northern Mansion, immediately visited the Song Kingdom to convey my will. In addition, Xiao Yanshan's right division of the Shuai Shan army drove out of Beijing, and after the Zhongjing Road, he crossed the ancient Great Wall and was stationed in Nanjing, China, to wait and see what happened. ”

Xiao Yanshan changed color slightly: "Your Majesty...... Nanjing is only one river away from the Song-Liao buffer zone, and only a few days away from Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion, which are important border towns of the Song State......

Yeluhongji interrupted: "I didn't say that I wanted to go to war, but I still took the diplomatic line. The right division of the Shan army is deployed in Nanjing, this is just an adjustment of the internal defense of our Liao State, and outsiders have no right to make irresponsible remarks, how to understand it is a matter of the Song State. ”

Xiao Yanshan said: "Even if the guard is adjusted, it will generally bypass the severe cold of winter, and there will be a diplomatic document to inform it, unless His Majesty's big tent inspects Nanjing, there is generally no precedent for the Shan army to change the border of Song and Liao, which is a tacit understanding formed after the alliance of the Yuanyuan." If many of the above tacit understandings are easily subverted, the minister is worried that it will arouse the suspicion and taboo of the Song Kingdom. ”

"That's what I'm for! In addition, the research and development of my own flintlock pistol in Daliao must be carried out as soon as possible, and the thinking and remarks of the government and the opposition that it is better to buy must be suppressed! ”

After Yelu Hongji finished speaking, he left on his own and dispersed the court.

The reserved Liao Chen couldn't help but look at each other.

Xiao Hui, the governor of the political affairs, cautiously approached Yelu Chongyuan and said: "I thought it was a joke at first to make my own gun, but after trying it, I realized that it was very difficult, I couldn't figure it out, it was expensive and inefficient, and some finished products could come out at any cost, but I worked hard for two months but got nothing." Is it really good to make your own? ”

Yelu Chongyuan said in a low voice: "You just listen to him blow, of course, it's better to build than to buy, it's best to rent." In the early flintlock pistol transaction, Xiao Yanshan's turtle son didn't know how many kickbacks he had eaten from Song Guo, and the guns he bought were of good quality and cheap, convenient and fast, and there were good rebates. You must do your best to maintain the trade between our Great Liao and the Song State and sign more orders. Believe me, Song Liao can't fight. At most, you can blackmail a sum of money, and the Liao State is no longer the Liao State of the past, and now few people are willing to follow and go to war with the Song people. ”

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On 20 December, this moment of ushering in the New Year was not festive at all, and the military newspapers that came one after another from the two roads in Hebei were tantamount to sounding the alarm bell to the government and opposition of the Song State, and it was reported that as early as the beginning of December, the right division of the Shan Army, one of the elites of the Liao State, had gone out of Beijing under the leadership of Xiao Yanshan, who was known as the first warrior of the Liao State, and was deployed to the south.

This is the kind of information collected by several intelligence outlets in the Song Kingdom, and no one knows what this army plans to do when it moves south.

In any case, this is certainly not a good thing, at least it is a display of Liao's military muscles.

The Liao State is known as having more than one million soldiers, but as we all know, the rest of the tribes are always the second echelon, and only the Shan army from the Shulu clan and the Yelu clan are about 400,000 iron cavalry, which is the real family of the Liao State.

Shulu later changed his surname to Xiao. The Leather Room Army and the Shan Army, that is, the clan guards of the real royal family and the descendants.

The movement of 100,000 Shan troops out of Beijing and south in this severe cold that was not suitable for marching was by no means an ordinary deployment, and it was by no means an ordinary change of defense.

There are too many places that can make people guess, which is enough to cause the whole country of the Great Song Dynasty to be shocked!

Zhao Zhen, who has a phobia of Liao, was so frightened that his blood almost clotted during his illness. However, Prime Minister Fu Bi and Privy Envoy Han Qi also failed to make a good judgment on Liao's move.

As for whether the Liao State came here this time to blackmail the Song State to withdraw its troops from Hehuang, or whether it really wanted to have some plot against the rising Song State, I really can't see it now.

Han Qi said that it was useless to worry, and he waited and waited. Because at the same time, there was also news that the Liao State also sent Xiao Hui, the governor of the Northern Prefecture, as an envoy, who was on the way to Bianjing and planned to negotiate.

Regarding Xiao Hui's diplomacy, Fu Bi's interpretation is not as optimistic as Han Qi's, Fu Bi said to the emperor in person in the Shangqing Palace: "Xiao Hui's attributes are unknown now, but in the early days, he was obviously with Yelu Chongyuan, and if he didn't deal with Xiao Xiaomu, it would be equivalent to not dealing with Yelu Hongji." Now that Yelu Hongji has ascended the throne, it is untenable to say that Yelu Hongji trusts Xiao Hui. In this case, the 100,000 Shan army had already sent out the news of diplomacy, and the people sent were people who the Liao Emperor did not trust. So the minister thought that diplomacy was a cover, which meant that the Liao Emperor had no sincerity to talk at all. I'm afraid they really have a plot against our border areas. ”

In this way, Lao Zhao was even more frightened, and Fu Bi's interpretation made some sense.

If it is replaced by his henchman Xiao Yanshan presiding over diplomacy and the famous general Xiao Hui leading the army, then on the other hand, it is equivalent to the Liao Emperor's main desire to scare and blackmail, diplomatic means are real, and military is false.

But in this Shangqing Palace, did they respond to the request of the Liao State: to immediately withdraw troops from Hehuang to appease the anger of the Liao hegemony? Han Qi was still not angry about this.

The visible interests of Hehuang are not far away, and now the heavy snow blockade is not conducive to combat, but now that the Zhuo Luolan Department has withdrawn in advance, Wang Yan's strength has been expanded, and the real dominance should be in the spring of next year, at most summer.

"At this time, if you put pressure on the volunteers and ask them to withdraw their troops, it will not only mean that my Da Song waist can't stand up, but it will also make my allies feel cold." Han Qi suggested: "After the tragic incident of inhumanity committed in Xining Prefecture, if my Great Song Dynasty withdraws at this time, there will be no justice at all, and this is not the act of a responsible big country." ”

What Han Qi said was indeed what Zhao Zhen thought in his heart.

For decades, Zhao Zhen finally felt a glimmer of hope for the rise of a great power, and felt the joy of success, and the concept of a weak Song Dynasty was disappearing. Therefore, at this time, if you are really afraid of the coercion of the Liao State and recall the military formation that is about to win the war, then the victories and efforts you have made in the past will be in vain.

This is equivalent to a person who is kneeling on the ground, and when he is halfway up from the ground, he is pressed down by an external force. It's worse than not being able to get up.

Lao Zhao did not express his position in time, and listened to Han Qi's advice to continue to wait and see, and had only one urgent thought in his heart: I hope that the prodigy will rise up again, and he must completely win the Hehuang War before the Liao State further attacks.

If this can be done, the coercion of the Liao State will be self-defeating.

But if the war can't be ended quickly and a long-term tug of war is formed with Manba, then take advantage of this gap and wait for the Liao State to enter the border when the weather warms, and the Great Song Dynasty will be a pill......