Zhao Anren left, after accepting Zhao Zhen's personal reception and reward, Zhao Anren chose to go home to send his mother to the end, and when he left, Li Zhang also went to see him off in person, and in addition to him, Zhao Anren had no other friends, so Li Zhang kept sending him out of the city, until the carriage disappeared in the officialdom, he did not return to the city.

However, when Zhao Anren left, he was still telling Li Zhang that if the Great Song Dynasty wanted to use troops against the Liao State one day, please be sure to inform himself, after all, Zhao Anren is very familiar with the Liao State, even if he is a guide, he can play some use, of course, his main purpose is not to help the Great Song Dynasty, but to welcome back Xiao Yunjin.

For Zhao Anren's request, Li Zhang also agreed, in fact, he didn't have a good impression of Xiao Yunjin, but this woman messed up the Liao Kingdom, which can be regarded as indirectly helping the Great Song Dynasty, and after she lost her power, she was just an ordinary woman, and she was insignificant at all.

The weather is getting colder day by day, Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang are also paying close attention to the movements of the Liao State, Yelu Zongzhen will definitely send troops before winter comes, and the Liao State is much colder than the Great Song Dynasty, if he does not send troops again, I am afraid he will have to wait until next year.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that the news of the troops sent by the Liao State did not wait, but waited for the news that the party item Li Yuanhao sent troops, but Li Yuanhao did not send troops to the Great Song Dynasty, but launched a fierce attack on the Liao State again.

I have to say that Li Yuanhao is indeed a good at seizing the opportunity of the hero, after learning of the civil strife in Liao, and the news that the Great Song Dynasty sent troops to Yanyun, he was very decisive to send troops to the Liao State Shangjing Road, Shangjing Road is the largest area of the Liao State, including almost the entire Inner Mongolia region in later generations.

According to the news from the northwest, Li Yuanhao first sent troops from Bai Dadan's department, defeated another major tribe of Liao with lightning speed, occupied the Bu Dawang Mansion, and then went all the way north to kill the northwest Zhao Division of Liao.

Originally, the Northwest Recruitment Division was stationed with heavy troops from the Liao State to guard the entire grassland, but when Yelu Zongzhen and Xiao Yunjin were in civil strife before, most of the army of the Northwest Recruitment Division was also transferred, and the rest of the troops could not stop the iron cavalry of the party members at all, and in just ten days, the Northwest Recruitment Division fell into the hands of the party.

With the fall of the Northwest Recruitment Division, the entire Shangjing Road was cut off by Li Yuanhao into east and west, and the east was the core area of the Liao State, where the Five Kyotos were, and it was also the birthplace of the Khitans, and more than eighty percent of the population of the entire Liao State was there.

Li Yuanhao was very smart, knowing that with his own strength, if he fought eastward, he would be destroyed by the Khitans sooner or later, and the Great Song Dynasty had conquered the sixteen states of Yanyun, and he would not be allowed to get involved in the eastern region, so he turned around very decisively and went west, and began to compete with another large part of the Liao State, that is, the Sticky Bage Department, in the western part of Shangjing Road.

It is worth mentioning that the Murwei people are the ancestors of the Mongolian people in later generations, but now the Murwei people are just scattered sand, and the various tribes are fighting endlessly, such as the Sticky Bage tribe, which is nominally a large tribe, but it is divided into countless large and small tribes inside, and they are also constantly fighting with each other, and they cannot concentrate on resisting Li Yuanhao's attack.

"Li Yuanhao's turn to the west, will it threaten our plans in the Western Regions?" In the vertical arch hall, Zhao Zhen took the latest information of the party item and asked Li Zhang.

Since the defeat of Gyeongju, almost all the land originally controlled by the party fell into the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, which also allowed the Great Song Dynasty to open up the passage of the Western Regions again, although the Great Song Dynasty has recently mainly used troops against the Liao State, and at the same time has to prevent Li Yuanhao from killing back, but has not forgotten the Western Regions, which has been slowly and firmly infiltrating the Western Regions in recent years, and now Li Yuanhao is also marching to the west, and it is likely to conflict with the interests of the Great Song Dynasty in the future.

"It is very likely that after opening up the Western Regions, the original blocked Silk Road has also regained its vitality, and in recent years, I have heard that many merchants have taken the risk of retaking this trade route, which has brought a lot of benefits to our Great Song Dynasty, and as time goes by, this trade route will become more and more important, so I think we also have to pay more attention to the Western Regions!" Li Zhang also said in a deep voice at this time.

In later generations, Qinghai and Xinjiang and other regions were now mostly out of the control of the Great Song Dynasty, which made Li Zhang feel a little uncomfortable, after all, it was also the territory of the Tang Dynasty before, so Li Zhang always wanted to bring the Western Regions into the jurisdiction of the Great Song Dynasty.

"But the Western Regions are too far away, and we really can't reach it!" Zhao Zhen showed a look of embarrassment at this time, although the territory of the Great Song Dynasty was far inferior to that of the Tang Dynasty, it was not small, and few of the empires of the same era were larger than the Great Song Dynasty, mainly because the various conditions of feudal society were too backward, such as transportation and communication, resulting in the empire also having its own ruling limits.

As for the Tang Dynasty's ruling territory, although it is very large, the Tang Dynasty does not actually rule the border, but subdues various ethnic minorities and gives ethnic leaders as officials, when the Tang Dynasty is strong, these tribes are naturally dependent on the Tang Dynasty, but when the Tang Dynasty weakens, these tribes will bite back, which is also one of the sources of border chaos after the Tang Dynasty.

Li Zhang also sighed when he heard Zhao Zhen's words, because Zhao Zhen was telling the truth, although he wanted to control the Western Regions, but transportation and communication were an unsolvable problem, unless he could get the train and the radio out.

"Li Yuanhao is not removed, it is still a hidden danger in our Great Song Dynasty, but this guy has also learned to be smart, it seems that he wants to focus on the western grassland in the future, and now neither we nor the Liao State have the energy to pay attention to him, I have to say that the timing of his dispatch is really good." Li Zhang also sighed again at the moment.

"However, after Li Yuanhao sent troops, the Black Mountain Military Division was abandoned by him, I have already let people occupy there, Montenegro and the Xijing Road of the Liao State are adjacent to each other, and it will be a good place to send troops to the Liao State in the future." Zhao Zhen said again.

Li Zhang nodded after hearing this, Li Yuanhao didn't have the energy to take care of him for the time being, and the most important thing now was Liaoguo, so he asked again: "What happened to Yelu Zongzhen's side, if he wants to send troops, there should be news now, right?" ”

"A few days ago, there was news that various state capitals in the south of Liao Kingdom were gathering grain and grass, which seemed to be a precursor to sending troops, but then there was no movement, and Liu Ping also sent countless secret agents, but no news has been found for the time being." Zhao Zhen also had a headache at this time.

"Liu Ping gathered the army at Gubeikou, what if Yelu Zong really went south from other directions?" Li Zhang suddenly thought of a question at this time, and immediately asked Zhao Zhen.

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