At the end of November of Shaoxi's fourth year, Ye Qing rushed to the energy-consuming retreat even more than the war, and finally withdrew the last army from Yanzhou, that is, the flower planting army led by Ye Qing. And the 3,000 battalions were also led by Xu Han to the direction of Longcheng.

It's just that Ye Heng hasn't figured out since the day Ye Qing negotiated peace with Yan Jing, whether Ye Qing's peace with Yan Jing is just peace, or is it that in the next few peaceful days, Beidi will join forces with the Jin people to deal with the Mongols?

Whether it is Ye Heng or other officials of the Song court, especially the Lin'an court and Han Yanxuan and Shi Miyuan, who have arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, no matter how terrible and strong the Mongols are, there should be no Jin people's actions back then that made the Song people grit their teeth with hatred, right?

With the retreat of more than 40,000 and less than 50,000 troops one after another, the Jin camp also began to withdraw troops back to the camp, when the endless Yellow River embankment, only three or four thousand people left in the flower planting army, the Jin side also increased the pace of withdrawal, and the camp tents all over the mountains began to gradually disappear like the green in the summer.

At that time, after entering the wax moon, the entire line of Yanzhou, with the successive withdrawal of the Song and Jin armies, became extremely desolate and empty for a while, and the countless tents and soldiers, as well as the neighing reputation of war horses, and the many ferries on the river bank, actually gave people a feeling of being at a loss and empty.

As far as the eye can see, the loess land where people go to the empty earth is a mess, and the various wrecks and other items left behind after the departure of the army look even more messy and chaotic than the tragic battlefield after the war.

The uneven potholes, especially after the departure of the logistics army, make it hard to believe that there was once a well-trained army stationed here.

In less than two months, the battalion stationed in the Zhuangding battalion is more messy and chaotic, compared with the large army camp stationed in front of the battalions, although there is a little more breath of life, but the desolation after people go to the empty building is also particularly melancholy.

The army of the flower planters was still patrolling around the entire camp as usual, and in the camp where the lonely one still supported the camp tent, Ye Qing and the last remaining Ye Heng walked out of the tent, and on the opposite bank of the river, the begging Shilie gods and slaves and others were also looking at the Yellow River after Yan Jing left.

As a smaller ferry stopped on the shore, the begging stone lie god slaves who had finally stayed behind to retreat finally stepped on the ferry and walked towards the embankment where Ye Qing and Ye Heng were.

The begging stone spirits and gods who faced the cold wind finally stood on the embankment that the Song army had been sticking to, looking at this endless desolate land, and occasionally saw the Song army's cavalry running back and forth between the embankment and the camp, and countless emotions instantly rose in my heart.

Originally, he thought that it would not take much time to take the front line of Yanzhou, but he did not expect that it would become an insurmountable moat for him, and in the course of half a year, several large-scale battles, both sides were exhausted to the end, whether they were soldiers or generals, but the clan would be at an important juncture, and the Song army would suddenly beat the golden soldiers of the begging gods and slaves back to the other side of the Yellow River again.

"I don't know how many lives are buried in this muddy river, and I don't know how many blood donations have been soaked in this river." The begging stone martyrs looked at the much shorter mound in front of them with some emotion, the most worrying thing did not happen in the end, but the Song people also paid more lives that should not have been paid because of this.

"Isn't that what war is all about?" Ye Qing smiled slightly at the wind, leaving Ye Heng to stand alone in place, walking side by side along the embankment with the begging stone lie gods and slaves.

"Lord Ye really didn't think about using that firearm?" In the eyes of the begging stone martyrs, Ye Qing should be a person who will do whatever it takes to win.

Over the years, his deeds and the various achievements that have been shown in front of them are enough to show that Ye Qing can do anything for the great cause of the Northland.

There were still some things that I didn't understand at the beginning, but with the end of this battle, the gods and slaves of Qishilie finally understood that the death of the Liao State was not so much in the hands of the Mongols, but in the hands of Ye Qing.

The so-called luring the wolf into the house, now it seems that it is not only the introduction of one's own home that is called the introduction of the wolf into the house, but the wolf enters the home of others with goodwill, and finally allows the wolf to destroy the home of others, so as to reduce the pressure on his side.

Nominally to help Liao, but in reality? The begging stone lie gods and slaves have been thinking about why Ye Qing was able to do so in just half a year, without even having to go to the front line in person, as long as he stuck to the front line of Yanzhou and confronted them Dajin, he could easily let his soldiers win most of the territory of the Xia Realm.

At the beginning, uniting the Mongols, their Jin people, and even the Xia people to help Liao was obviously the most important part of Ye Qing.

Passing back and forth through the Xia Kingdom, not only did the Qishilie Gods and Slaves and Temujin see clearly the cities and armaments in the Xia Kingdom, but also allowed Ye Qing to see everything in the Xia Kingdom clearly.

For the Jin State, it was already weak to conquer Xia, and coupled with the loss of the Northland, Wan Yanjing had no intention of conquering Xia at all, and his only thought was to maintain the territory of Emperor Sejong when he was alive and regain the territory that was recaptured by the Song people.

And it is precisely because the Jin State did not have the intention of conquering the Xia, even if Temujin established the country on the grassland, but after all, he lacked the war equipment to conquer the city, so that among the Mongols, Jin people, and Song people who crossed the entire Xia Kingdom and kept everything in their hearts, only the Song people would benefit from crossing the border of the Xia Kingdom.

In order to prevent himself from clashing with the Mongols in Xia during the summer expedition, in fact, Ye Qing even counted the Liao State that he had been showing favor, and it was called Zhu Liao, but in fact, it was ...... Yes, it pointed out a way for the Mongols who helped the Liao and plundered most of their wealth, and used the Liao as a bait to lure the Mongols' greedy ambitions and thirst for wealth and territory to look far west, not to the rich territory of the eastern soil.

In this way, Ye Qing only needs to guard against the Jin State and not step into their defense line, and then he can take advantage of the opportunity of the Mongols to conquer Liao, naturally, with Ye Qing's current power in the north, it is impossible to completely take down the entire powerful Xia Kingdom, but fortunately, there are greedy Mongols on the side to conquer Xia, so when the Xia Kingdom falls into internal and external troubles, it will definitely not give up the coveting of the territory of the Xia Kingdom, thus reducing the pressure and burden on the Song army and occupying almost all the cities in the Xia Kingdom. It's just that the vast and fat playground was left to the Mongols.

"Lord Ye, all your means are actually to attract the attention of the Mongols to the wider world in the west? The reason why you are doing this is so that you can one day regain all the territory for the Song court, or ...... So that one day you can ascend to the throne of God? "Although the Begging Stone Lie Divine Slave was defeated extremely completely this time, the Begging Stone Lie Divine Slave at this moment is more calm and restrained and wise than at the beginning.

If there is any slightest gain from this battle for the entire Jin Kingdom, or for Wan Yan Jing, then they have begun to have a handsome talent who can make a difference!

"Have you thought about it? What if your Dajin Kingdom was conquered by the Mongols? Ye Qing didn't deny or admit it, after all, after Ye Lu Yue had arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, after he finished talking to Yan Jing, he was a little afraid to go back to Jing Zhao Mansion to face Ye Lu Yue in his heart.

"Lives are ruined, families are ruined. Maybe...... It will be even more miserable than what happened to the Song Dynasty clan back then. But it doesn't matter to me. The begging stone martyr looked at Ye Qing's somewhat puzzled gaze, smiled and sighed: "If that day really comes, I think I have already died in battle, who would worry about what he can't see?" ”

Looking at the begging stone martyrs who had been tempered by the war for half a year, and already had the style of a general, Ye Qing also smiled silently and said, "What you said is right, if there is really that day, you will indeed be killed in battle." The wealth, prosperity and civilization of the Song Dynasty and so on, far from being within the reach of Jin, Xia, Mongolia, and Liao, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, if you do not advance, you will retreat, and the border wars have never stopped, and you have always lived a life of reluctance and peace, and the Liao State has bullied the Song Court, and the Xia State has also bullied the Song Court, and you Jin people do not need to say more. What was the reason for bullying Song Ting? ”

The begging stone lie gods and slaves listened quietly, he knew that he didn't need to answer at this time, Ye Qing would give him the answer, so he continued.

"Whether it is Liao or Xia, or Song, even if it is Mongolian, you all covet all kinds of wealth of the rich Song court without exception. But some wealth, in your eyes, is not wealth, but in the eyes of the people of the Song Dynasty and even future generations, it is a priceless treasure, far more than the real money that can be seen with those eyes. If the Song court fell, it would not only be the sorrow of the Song court, but the elegy of the Chinese nation, the regression of the times and the decay of civilization. I don't want to tear the earth and become a king, let alone establish myself as an emperor, all I want to do is to keep the Central Plains civilization from being trampled on or even destroyed by barbarian peoples. Kaifeng, Luoyang, Chang'an and Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty, and Chang'an in the Han Dynasty were so magnificent, and now Chang'an is just a Tucheng, Kaifeng and Luoyang are not worse than Chang'an, where is there still a little bit of the glory and majesty when you took away at the beginning? Yanjing is the most prosperous capital of your Dajin Kingdom, but how can it be compared with Yangzhou, Jiankang, Lin'an and other places in the Song Dynasty? Chang'an, Luoyang, and Kaifeng have all fallen to the point of misery in your hands, can you imagine that if these treasure cities fall into the hands of the Mongols, who even you dislike and feel like barbarians, will they prosper forever? ”

"So Lord Ye would rather move Jiangdong to the trouble for the sake of the Song Court from being disturbed by the war, and even let Princess Chengli hate you? Even at the expense of letting the Holy Reverence for you turn into hatred? The begging stone martyr god slave stopped, facing the cold wind on the river, and looked at Ye Qing seriously and said.

"Even if there is no wolf lure in from my Ye Qing, will Temujin give up the expedition to Liao? You and I and Temujin once went in and out of the Liao Kingdom together, pointing directly at the Khorezmian people further west, don't you know that compared to the courage of the Xia people, the tenacity of the Song people, and the residual power of your Jin State, the Liao State is the most vulnerable? After Temujin unified the various tribes of the steppe and established a state, if he wanted the other tribes to submit to him with sincerity, he had to continue to expand. A new kingdom was born, and he had to rely on war to establish his authority, to satisfy the ambitions of many within him, and to consolidate his own prestige as Great Khan. Among the Jin, Xia, and Liao, only the Liao State was the most suitable for the nascent Mongols to conquer, which was a fact, and it was a matter of time. I...... It's just speeding up the pace, but the ending won't change even without me. Ye Qing was not so much explaining to the begging gods and slaves, but rather explaining the guilt he felt for Yeluyue in his heart.

"Yes...... Lord Ye, your hostility towards my Dajin has never weakened, you once said to the Holy Lord in person that your greatest ideal in this life is to regain the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures of my Dajin Kingdom, is this still the case now? The Qishilie Divine Slave sighed slightly and asked, "Even if we have negotiated peace now, but in the near future, when most of the territory of the Xia Kingdom is straightened out by you and stabilized in your hands, you ...... Will it still target my Dajin, will it target the saint? So you're still going to wage war against my Daikin? The begging stone martyr frowned slightly, if he had a choice, he really didn't want to be an enemy of Ye Qing, this person's gaze was simply very unimaginable, when the grassland was still a barbarian who drank blood, he foresaw that the Mongols would become stronger than anyone else.

And he did not live up to his long-term vision, and from the very beginning he was planning against the Mongols, seeking benefits for himself and the Song court.

"There are many kinds of wars, and it is not called war only when fighting on the battlefield." Ye Qing continued to move forward, and after being slightly stunned for a moment, the begging stone lie gods and slaves took two quick steps to keep up with Ye Qing's pace: "I know Jing'er's worries now, he is afraid that after I become stronger and stronger in the northland, I will cut gold together with Temujin, there is an indissoluble deep hatred between the Song court and you, and the Mongols also have an unsolvable hatred between you." As the so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend, not to mention that the enemies of the Song court and the Mongols are all ...... of your Jin people. ”

"So Lord Ye, you still break your covenant with the Holy One?" The beggar god slave asked.

"Go back and tell Jing'er to work hard for the people. As for the alliance with Temujin to cut gold, in my lifetime, the Northland would never do so. Unless the northern land is no longer under my control, or I am no longer in this world, then everything in this world has nothing to do with me Ye Qing. Ye Qing patted the shoulder of the begging stone lie god slave, and Yan Jing left without any nostalgia, but in the end, he still left the begging stone lie god slave to confirm his firmness.

"Is Lord Ye serious?" The beggar stone martyr god slave was shocked, this was definitely good news for him.

"A gentleman's words are hard to chase, although I, Ye Qing, have breached the contract countless times, but this time I am serious." There was a hint of self-deprecating smile on the corner of Ye Qing's mouth, and this self-deprecating smile still had a strong conspiracy flavor in the eyes of the begging stone lie gods and slaves.

Intuition told him that Ye Qing's serious adherence to the covenant this time was by no means as simple as he said, and there must be an ulterior purpose that he couldn't figure out.