Chapter 576: Peace
On the bank of the Bai Dadan River, Yeli Yuqi cut off the head of a Khitan prisoner of war with a knife, but he still seemed to be angry, and immediately cut off the heads of more than a dozen prisoners of war who knelt on the ground, and the surrounding party people applauded, firstly, Yeli Yuqi was the second person in the party after Li Yuanhao, and secondly, they had just defeated the attack of the Khitans, and these prisoners of war were originally to be executed.
More than a dozen human heads fell to the ground, and the blood sprayed was also drenched in Yeli Yuqi's body, but these blood also seemed to extinguish most of the anger in his chest, which made him finally calm down, and immediately walked to Li Yuanhao's big tent, only to see Li Yuanhao holding the military book and looking at it attentively, and it seemed that he didn't take this victory to heart at all.
"General, why did you agree to make peace with the Song State?" Ye Li Yu Qi strode forward and asked, although the anger in his chest had been suppressed by him, but the mention of this incident still made him feel angry, and even his voice was much louder.
Obviously fought a victory, but Yeli Yuqi was not happy, because just a few days ago, the Song State shamelessly sent people to negotiate peace with them, but did not give any sincerity to negotiate peace, but also asked them to give up the Black Mountain Military Division, and even strictly forbade them to step into the border of the Great Song Dynasty for half a step.
For this inexplicable peace negotiation of the Song State, Ye Li Yuqi thought that Li Yuanhao would never agree, but he didn't expect that after defeating the attacking Liao army today, Li Yuanhao suddenly agreed to negotiate peace, and the envoys of the peace negotiation have been sent, although they will not completely agree to the harsh conditions proposed by the Great Song Dynasty, but it also means that they will grovel to the Great Song Dynasty, which is also a great humiliation for the party members.
Seeing Yeli's angry appearance, Li Yuanhao was very calm, only to see him put down the book in his hand, then picked up the teapot next to him and poured him a cup of tea and said: "When you beg, you first extinguish the fire, this is a gift brought by the Song envoy, the new autumn tea produced in the Great Song Dynasty this year is indeed a little more fragrant than spring tea." ”
"How can I still be in the mood to drink tea, what do you think, general, why would you agree to negotiate peace with Song Guo and such a humiliating thing?" Ye Li Yu Qi took a few steps forward at this time, stared straight into Li Yuanhao's eyes and asked.
At the beginning, when Li Yuanhao was complacent, he was almost called the emperor within the party, so the people below also called him "emperor", but since he was defeated by the Song army, especially after being forced to attack the Liao State before, Li Yuanhao felt that the title of "emperor" was becoming more and more harsh, after all, he now did not even have a piece of safe land of his own, and Montenegro could face the attack of the Song and Liao countries at any time, so he ordered his subordinates to be called "general" to him.
I saw that Li Yuanhao was very calm at this time, as if he had expected that someone would come to ask him, so he calmly picked up the teacup and took a sip at this time, and then said: "What do you think of the Liao Army?" ”
"There is a false name, where the Khitan iron cavalry passed back then, no one dared to look at them, but now the Liao army is a group of mischief, a charge down they actually surrendered, it seems that the Liao country is already in the waning mountains, but in the past we were afraid of its prestige, did not dare to use troops against the Liao country, but now after trying it, we found that the Liao country is a paper tiger!" Ye Li Yuqi said arrogantly at this time, they have recently defeated the Liao army's attacks one after another, especially last year, which wiped out several large tribes around them, which greatly boosted the prestige of the party members, and almost no one in this grassland dared to disobey their orders anymore.
"You underestimate the Liao people too much, don't think that after defeating a few Liao army attacks, we can run rampant in the Liao country, the Liao State just didn't take us in our eyes before, plus the Liao country woman is in charge, so these few times the army sent cannot be regarded as the main force of the Liao army, if they transfer the iron cavalry stationed in Yanyun, do you think we can still be as easy as now?" When Li Yuanhao said the end, the expression on his face became more and more serious.
"What's so terrible about Yan Yun's iron cavalry, they haven't fought with the Song army for decades, and they are sent to death when they come!" Yeli Yuqi didn't care at this time, these few big victories over the Liao army have made the party people from the previous awe of the Liao people, to the current disdain, Yeli Yuqi is only a representative of many party people.
"I've already said, don't underestimate the Liao State, just like we don't underestimate the Song people, when my father was alive, didn't he also play with the Song people in applause, and even as long as our party members were short of supplies, they would directly lead the troops into the Song Realm to rob it, but what happened later, when the Song people paid attention to it, they beat us all over the ground to find teeth, and even Xingzhou City had to give up, do you think that the Liao State, which was regarded as a strong enemy by the Great Song Dynasty, was worse than the Song State?"
Li Yuanhao also showed an annoyed expression at the end, and now Ye Li Yuqi finally stopped talking, after all, the horror brought to him by the Song army was too great, and even now the party cavalry was unwilling to fight with the Song army, in contrast, the performance of the Liao army was extremely bad, so it was normal for them to be arrogant, but Li Yuanhao's words made him wake up, and they were still very weak against a big country like Song Liao.
Seeing that Yeli Yuqi stopped talking, Li Yuanhao said again in a serious tone: "Yuqi, the current situation makes us have no choice, and even the benefits of forming an alliance with the Great Song Dynasty are far beyond your imagination!" ”
In fact, since last year's risky sneak attack on the Liao army, Li Yuanhao has held a determination to die, because he knows that he has offended the two most powerful countries in the world, if they join forces, he may die at any time without a place to be buried, so since last year's sneak attack, his behavior has become more and more crazy, almost crazy looting without considering any consequences, in his opinion at that time, even if it is death, he must pull more people to bury him.
However, Li Yuanhao himself didn't expect that his luck was so good, although he defeated the Liao State, but now the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State is in charge, and her mind is all about the inside of the Liao State, and she doesn't care much about the border affairs, so although he made a big fuss on Bai Dadan's side, the reaction of the Liao State was very small, at most, he was entangled with some nearby garrisons to come to encircle and suppress, but unfortunately it was not his opponent at all.
However, compared to the Liao State, what worries Li Yuanhao the most is the Great Song Dynasty, which was once regarded as a granary by the party members, but suddenly showed its minions a few years ago, and suddenly beat their party members to flee north, if it weren't for the Great Song Dynasty, they would not have fallen to such a point.
It's just that Li Yuanhao never dreamed that the Great Song Dynasty would take the initiative to propose peace to them at this time, originally he suspected that this was the conspiracy of the Great Song Dynasty, but after thinking about it carefully, he understood the intentions of the Great Song Dynasty, of course, the other party had bad intentions, and the reason why he negotiated peace with them was actually to use himself to disturb the Liao State, after all, for the Great Song Dynasty, weakening the Liao State was to strengthen himself.
In other words, in the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty, now Li Yuanhao's threat is no longer big, but it still has use value, so it is normal for the Great Song Dynasty to send people to negotiate peace, but the price is not small, that is, Li Yuanhao must try his best to disturb the Liao State, if the Great Song Dynasty finds that he does not move after the peace negotiation, and even negotiates peace with the Liao State, then the Great Song Dynasty will definitely not hesitate to send troops again and directly exterminate their party.
Thinking about the above, it is not surprising that Li Yuanhao agreed to negotiate peace with the Great Song Dynasty, but these people like Yeli Yuqi are still a little unacceptable, after all, in their opinion, the Great Song Dynasty is their biggest enemy, and even the Liao State has to be ranked behind, but now they are negotiating peace with this biggest enemy, but they will continue to use troops against the Liao State, if this continues, when will they be able to kill back Xingzhou?
"General, but it's not a way to go on like this, the Great Song Dynasty uses us to disturb the Liao State, if it's like you said, wait until the Liao State reacts, won't we be a dead end?" Yeli is not stupid when he meets beggars, in fact, as Li Yuanhao's first deputy, he is also shrewd, but he couldn't accept it emotionally before.
"It's okay, let me ask you, why did the Great Song Dynasty use us to disturb the Liao Kingdom?" Li Yuanhao suddenly asked with a strange smile.
"General, didn't you just say that in order to weaken the strength of the Liao State?" Yeli Yuqi also asked a little strangely when he heard this.
"Then why did the Great Song Dynasty weaken the strength of the Liao State?" Li Yuanhao asked with a smile again.
"Is there any reason for this, although the two countries of Song and Liao are ostensibly allied, they both regard each other as great enemies, as long as the other party's strength is weak, they will be safer, and they may even send troops to destroy this great enemy." Yeli Yuqi also showed a puzzled expression at this time.
"Yes, you said that if Song and Liao fight, will it be a good thing or a bad thing for us?" Li Yuanhao asked again at the moment.
"It must be a good thing, only if they fight, can we take advantage of the chaos and even recapture Xingzhou!" Ye Li Yu immediately slapped his thigh and said excitedly.
"Don't just focus on Xingzhou, this world is very big, the Khitan people can change from a tribe raising horses to a big empire that now controls the entire grassland, why can't we party members?" Li Yuanhao suddenly said again ambitiously at this time, as the leader, his vision is much longer than that of Yeli Yuqi, and even he has smelled a little opportunity to make a comeback from the matter of the Great Song Dynasty negotiating peace with himself.
"But will the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom really fight?" Ye Li Yuqi asked again with some worry at this time.
"The Great Song Dynasty is no longer the original Great Song Dynasty, especially after Zhao Zhen, the emperor, ascended the throne, the Great Song Dynasty became more and more aggressive, before they could attack our party and seize Xingzhou and other places, then they may attack the Liao State in the future and recapture the land of Yanyun occupied by the Liao people, after all, there is no Yanyun, the Great Song Dynasty is like the fat in the mouth of the Liao State, and the Great Song Emperor may even have to open one eye when he sleeps, so I bet that there will be a battle between them, and we just need to hold on until they fight!" Li Yuanhao also raised his head to look at the south when he spoke, and his eyes were also full of hope.