War is actually just a political means, and the people who set out to go to war are often not military but political, and even personal grievances and preferences!

The Liao Dynasty's war against the Western Xia is largely related to Yelu Zongzhen's personal thoughts, in fact, the Western Xia is just inciting the rebellion of the Liao Dynasty's party department, as long as the Liao Dynasty reasonably suppresses it and appeases those party tribes who are instigated, but the Liao Emperor Yelu Zong really feels that this is his own shame, and he must be washed away by the blood of the party members, and even by the blood of Li Yuanhao.

Yelu Zongzhen's idea is very simple, the Great Song Emperor can attack Western Xia and take the land of the two prefectures, and the party people dare not commit it, why should he Emperor Daliao appease the rebellion?

It is not the first time that Li Yuanhao has saved the face of Da Liao, as early as the beginning of Yelu Zongzhen's accession to the throne, he married his sister Princess Xingping to Li Yuanhao, in order to get along with the Qin and Jin dynasties of the two countries.

But obviously this political marriage was politically successful, but emotionally it was a failure, and the relationship between Yuan Hao and his wife has always been not harmonious, and it is completely the coldness and alienation brought about by the political marriage. Later, Princess Xingping was seriously ill, and Yuan Hao still hugged other beauties and carnivaled, ignoring the princess.

It was not until the princess died of illness that Yuan Hao reported the matter to the Liao State. Liao Xingzong was furious when he heard the news, and sent someone to hold an edict to blame Yuan Hao, who was busy dealing with the threat of the Song Dynasty, so he could only bow his head and pretend to be his grandson, and offer a treasure to please Yelu Zongzhen.

Li Yuanhao offered treasure to curry favor with the Liao Dynasty, how could he not get more? The subsequent rebellion of the Liao Dangxiang tribe was the interest he recovered, when did he Li Yuanhao make a loss-making deal? !

Since you have to pay the price, the rift between the two countries of Liaoxia is getting bigger and bigger, the Liao people supported the Western Xia in order to balance the Great Song Dynasty, but now they suddenly found that the jackal dog they supported back then has become a hidden danger that threatens the Great Liao, and the people of insight in the Liao Dynasty can certainly see that there is something wrong, which is why Yelu Zong really drove the Western Xia expedition and no one stopped him.

Up and down the Liao Dynasty, there was a kind of self-confidence among the monarchs and ministers, in their opinion, the Western Xia was just a jackal dog hiding behind the Great Liao, and the conquest of the Western Regions actually gave him the confidence he didn't deserve, and he dared to show his backlash in the face of the crusade of the Great Liao?!

Could a Western Xia who could even capture the land of the two provinces in the Great Song Dynasty be the opponent of the Great Liao? The Liao people habitually use the strength of the Great Song Dynasty to measure the Western Xia, and the simple standard is the most effective in their opinion, Liao is better than the Song, the Song is better than the Xia, and the Liao will definitely be better than the Western Xia!

Time flies, and the anger of the Liao Dynasty has become more and more intense in three months, but Li Yuanhao doesn't seem to care at all, without a trace of worry and fear, but strengthens his armaments, which makes the Liao people feel that he is arrogant.

During this time, Zhao Zhen intended to let the courtiers who stayed in Tokyo release the news of the Western Xia envoys, and hyped the contents, Li Yuanhao of the Western Xia respected the Great Song Emperor Zhao Zhen as his father, so the Great Song Dynasty asked him to apologize to the Liao Dynasty, so as not to encounter the disaster of the soldiers.

But anyone can see that this is impossible, how could Li Yuanhao of Western Xia ask the Liao Dynasty for guilt?

In the Liao Dynasty Capital Pavilion in Tokyo City, Yelu Zongzheng sat at the top of the flower hall and was angry: "Li Yuanhao dog thief dares to do this!" Song Ren'an dares to do this! ”

Yeluja sneered and said, "Hmph, the Song people just occupy a neutral place, so they think they can stay out of the matter and reap the benefits?" It's a big deal, just drag it into the water! ”

Yelu Zongzheng shook his head and said: "No, the more the Great Song Dynasty does not interfere at this time, the better, if the Great Song Dynasty intervenes, my Great Liao will be in trouble, in case the Great Song Emperor and the Western Xia reach an agreement to rescue the Western Xia and send troops to Yan Yun, my Great Liao will lose more than it gains, even if it defeats the Western Xia, you won't not understand the importance of Yan Yun to my Great Liao, right?" ”

Yelujia was slightly startled, touched the goatee on his chin and said, "Song people won't be like this, right?" Aren't you afraid that my Da Liao will devote all his resources to the south again?! ”

Yelu Zongzheng looked around and lowered his voice to Yelu Jia: "Hmph, the Song people are like this, and the profit of the fisherman is what they want, don't forget the news from our secret spies before, the red line in Li Garlic's shop next to the Fengqiu military camp has been broken......"

"The red rope was pulled off, which meant that there was an urgent message, but our people did not find the message, and Li Garlic had disappeared, I am afraid that it had been ...... Could it be that he knew what the conspiracy of Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty was? ”

Yelu Zongzheng shook his head and said: "No, his disappearance was long before the envoy of Western Xia, and it was also before the military exercise of the Great Song Dynasty, maybe he got some news that the Great Song Dynasty had new equipment." ”

"So what should I do now? You can't do nothing, can you? ”

Yelu Zongzheng sighed and said: "What can we do, the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is not in Tokyo City, how can you and I trespass on the Great Song Dynasty military exercise without His Majesty's state letter?" Now I can only inquire about the news. ”

Yeluja said helplessly: "It's useless to collect anything, and now the entire city of Tokyo is heavily guarded because of the emperor's personal patrol, and it is even more difficult for foreign ministers to enter and exit from inside and outside." I can only hope that the Great Song Dynasty will not make any moves, and I also hope that the war will not break out suddenly. ”

Contrary to his wishes, in October, Yelu Zong was really angry, and sent out a three-way army, a total of 100,000 elite soldiers, crossed the Yellow River, and went straight to the territory of Western Xia. The army marched day and night for four hundred miles without encountering any resistance.

All the party tribes encountered by the Liao army along the way were all wiped out, and for a time the smoke of gunpowder rose suddenly in the territory of Western Xia, and the original picturesque grassland became a purgatory on earth, and many party clan tents were wiped out in an instant, corpses were all over the field, and blood flowed and pestle......

The easy victory made the momentum of the Liao army rise in vain, and the army advanced all the way to Helan Mountain!

Yelu Zongzhen grabbed the reins, the horse neighed and raised his front hooves, and looked at the party clan account that had turned into powder, and laughed happily: "This is the end of going against my Da Liao!" ”

Zhang Jian and Xiao Hui looked at the original elegant emperor into this passionate appearance and immediately felt relieved, the first emperor once said that only through the baptism of war can your majesty grow up, in order to combine the war spirit with the Confucianism in your majesty's heart, the main thing is to let your majesty see what the foundation of Da Liao is, not relying on Confucianism.

But Zhang Jian and Xiao Hui have forgotten the truth of overreach, Yelu Zongzhen, who is in adolescence, discovered the thrill of war and conquest at this time, and the army is around, at this time there are not only the guards of Huluduo, but also the elite leather room army left by Yelu Longxu!

These strong soldiers were compiled by Yelu Zongzhen as the royal tent army of this western expedition, responsible for protecting their own safety, but this is exactly contrary to the original intention of the leather room army, the leather room army and Huluduo are the Liao Dynasty's sharp knives to break the enemy, they should take the lead under the leadership of the Liao Emperor, and it is their fate to break the enemy and make meritorious contributions!

But at this time, no one dared to have any criticism of Yeluzong's true practice, the emperor's power is like the sky, and the soldiers are invincing, no one can beat him, who thinks that his life is long to talk to the emperor about this?

As soon as he rode a flying horse to report, the knight rushed to the royal tent and turned over and dismounted: "Your Majesty! Exploring the Malay newspaper, Li Yuanhao's department gathered in the grassland at the northern foot of Helan Mountain! ”

Yelu Zong really shouted: "Okay! Xiao Hui sent the order down, the army reorganized and cooked, killed the sheep and sacrificed to the queen of the sky, and crusaded against Yuan Hao, who was not a subordinate! ”

The surrounding royal tent soldiers shouted again and again: "Your Majesty is mighty, Your Majesty is mighty!" ”

Xiao Hui looked at all this in front of him with confidence, the army pressed the border to make the party people flee in despair, and the momentum accumulated by the Liao army was as high as a rainbow, how could it be reasonable to be invincible to Yuan Hao?

The Liao army in the entire military camp is full of confidence, but Zhang Jian doesn't think so, in his opinion, Li Yuanhao is so cunning, he will not sacrifice these clan accounts in vain, there must be his conspiracy, but at this time Zhang Jian has no evidence, he can only obey His Majesty's arrangement, take a step and see a step.