In August of the first year of Qinghui, the Liao lord Yelu Zongzhen met with Fu Bi and Lu Gongzhu in his Nanjing Xijin Mansion. In order to intimidate, the Liao lord even used his palace tent guards as guards and displayed them on both sides of the road.

However, Fu Bi and Lu Gong did not change their faces, faced the Liao State Iron Cavalry, and even talked eloquently in front of Yelu Zongzhen, rejecting all the claims put forward by the Liao monarchs and ministers.

The Liao people were at a loss for reason, so they had no choice but to increase the military threat.

As a result, Yelu Zongzhen ordered his Han army in Nanjing to move south.

In just half a month, the soldiers and horses of the Liao State outside Waqiao Pass have reached 50,000.

The border pressure of the Great Song Dynasty increased suddenly, and the gentry fled from the Daimyo's mansion, which was the front line.

As usual, this kind of intimidation by the Liao people is extremely effective.

Because, the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty were afraid and afraid of the Liao cavalry going south, and they were even more afraid of the destruction caused by the war.

However, now, there is one more Zhao Xin.

Although the king of the Great Song and Tang Dynasty is only more than two years old, he has already established his prestige and team.

The political hall and the cardinal mansion, under the threat of Zhao Xin, withstood Zhao Zhen's eagerness to reach an agreement - the Great Song Dynasty did not kill the scholars, but the Great Song Dynasty Emperor had the ability and power, and did not need some courtiers.

The courtiers must think about their children.

After all, the final palace examination of the imperial examination is the place where the emperor decides with a word.

At the same time, Li Di is a virtuous minister, this subordinate has a strong influence on Zhao Zhen, and he is the main battle faction, after Li Di came forward, Zhao Zhen's attitude also turned tough.

Therefore, he summoned the Liao envoys Xiao Ying and Liu Liufu, severely reprimanded the unrighteous actions of the Liao State, and even claimed: If your lord really ignores the alliance between the two countries, insists on going his own way, and breaks the covenant of brothers, then I will move the capital to the Daimyo's Mansion, the Son of Heaven will guard the country, and the king will die Sheji, and you will fight for life and death with your lord on the bank of the Yellow River!

Therefore, he issued an edict to promote the Daimyo Mansion to Beijing, and sent Cheng Lin, the governor of the government, to Beijing to sit in the town.

The Gongsheng Army of the former division of the Changing Order Hall was assigned five commanders, and the Tianwu Army of the Guards Pro-Army Infantry Army was dispatched to seven commanders and headed for the Daimyo's Mansion.

For a time, the Song and Liao countries were on the border, setting up heavy troops.

The Great Song Forbidden Army even pulled a bed crossbow on the city wall and posed - you have a kind of come, brother shot you.

The Liao State is not false at all, the cavalry approached Waqiao Pass, and then walked along the river, making a pair: I'm here, you shoot it! stance.

This made the Yuan Hao regime in the northwest overjoyed, and quickly sent a delegation to Yelu Zongzhen to send gifts - dozens of party beauties, and many treasures of the party people.

It's a pity that Yuan Hao's envoy has not yet reached Nanjing, Liao State.

Lord Liao's attitude suddenly changed.

First of all, in August (22), Yelu Zongzhen ordered to withdraw the palace tent army commanded by the emperor's younger brother Yelu Zongyuan.

Immediately afterwards, on the 27th of August, he ordered the gradual withdrawal of the Han troops sent to the border.

He also personally held a banquet in the palace of Xijin Mansion to entertain the Great Song Dynasty mission, releasing enough goodwill.

So, in response, the Great Song Dynasty sent the forbidden army to the Daimyo, and all of them stayed in Shanzhou.

So, when Yuan Hao's envoy saw Yelu Zongzhen, the border armies of Song and Liao had already disengaged.

During this period, both countries exercised restraint.

The Song army did not fire a single arrow, and the hooves of the Liao army never stepped into the Song realm.

This made Ye Li Wangrong, the envoy sent by Yuan Hao, indignant, and he said to Xiao Hui, the minister of the Liao State who came to receive him: "Your Majesty, I am sincere and sincere, and I serve the Son of Heaven of Da Liao as Zhengshuo, is this how Da Liao repays my lord?" ”

Xiao Hui heard this and sneered: "Does your country really really serve my Great Liao Emperor?" ”

"Back then, I sent an envoy to Emperor Shengzong, the first emperor, to make your lord the king of Xia, and marry the princess as his wife......"

"How did your lord repay Emperor Shengzong's great kindness?"

"Build your own country, call yourself the Great White High Country, call yourself a vulture......"

"Is this what a courtier can do?"

Yeli Wangrong listened, and he couldn't answer, so he had to say: "If our country is wiped out by the Song Court, what benefit can your country have?" ”

"If our country exists, your country can no longer worry about the Northern Expedition of the Song people, and our country can help your country contain the power of the Song court......"

Xiao Hui laughed when he heard this: "I am a big Liao iron horseman, powerful in the world, unparalleled in the world, why do I need your country's help?" One finger can scare the Song people! ”

"What's more, now Emperor Song has agreed to make a new alliance with our country, reaffirm the goodness of brothers, and defend the land of China's ancestors together!"

"If your lord is acquainted, it is better to abandon his weapons and surrender as soon as possible, maybe the emperor of Da Liao can intercede for your lord, and still guard Lingzhou for the ministers of Song and Liao!"

Since a few days ago, Yelu Zongzhen entertained the Song envoy Fubi in the palace.

The Song-Liao talks have already entered the stage of substantive consultations.

The ministers of the two countries began to bite the words of Wenjue and entered a period of refinement of one word and one discussion.

Often, this also means that the two countries are one step away from reaching a final agreement.

Originally, according to the design of the upper echelons of the Liao State, the progress would not be so fast.

At the very least, the Liao State also plans to knock out a sum of floating wealth and military expenses from the Song Court, and then turn around and go east.

However, half a month ago, Xiao Gulu, who was left behind in Liaodong, sent someone to report that the Goryeo people colluded with the Jurchen Five Kingdoms Pu Nie Jiedu to make Ba Yimen and the Shixian tribe capture Baozhou City, an important town of the Liao State on the Yalu River.

This was because the Goryeo people learned of the Song-Liao League, and the Song Dynasty had recognized the Liao's ownership of the Bohai Sea and Goguryeo.

In order to prevent the Liao State from raising troops again, Wang Heng, the current king of Goryeo, resolutely ordered his troops and horses on the northwest route to make Jin Zhongheng wait for the opportunity.

Kim Jung-heng was the man of the late Goryeo Prime Minister Wang Kedao, a die-hard anti-Liao element and a die-hard believer in the ideas of the Great Goguryeo.

So, he immediately contacted the Shengjurchen tribes who had been in contact with him for a long time, and in mid-August, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the Liao defenders, he raided Baozhou and took down this nail of the Liao State.

For Yelu Zongzhen, this is the best excuse and reason for war.

So, now, the Liao State can't wait to reach an agreement with the Song, and then move eastward to solve the problem in one fell swoop The Goryeo barbarians who have been abducting those innocent Bohai remnants and Jurchens in the back garden of his house since the time of Yelu Abaoji began.

This time, Yelu Sect is really going to never suffer in the future!

Therefore, he had already ordered his palace tent army to go to Tokyo to stand by, and ordered Xiao Dilie, the Liao privy envoy who stayed in Zhongjing, to personally lead 50,000 cavalry to arrive in Tokyo before winter.

At the same time, the grain, grass and baggage of the Liao State also began to gather in the Bohai Sea.

The army has already sharpened its knives, and it is waiting for the beginning of spring next year, so that the Goryeo people will know what it means to be high and thick.

So, in this case, Yuan Hao didn't say to send his sister.

Even if he stripped all his sisters naked and sent them to Yelu Zongzhen's bed, he wouldn't have looked at them.

This great Liao emperor is already immersed in the dream of fulfilling his father's ambition and flattening Goryeo.