Whether the sun is shining, the full moon is in the sky, or the wind, frost, snow and cold, you can see them leading people and horses, day and night on the road to Changyue, and the flags behind them are fluttering and flying. Their bodies must grow on horses unless the news arrives or they die. Yang Xuesheng at this moment is the same, he came out of Changyue under the escort of a team of cavalry, sandwiched all the way in the carriage, his body swayed and bumped with the carriage, once he couldn't fix his body, he would fall east and west, like a walnut in a shaking box. The carriage waded through the mud and water, and the wheels shook in the whirlwind, which always gave people the illusion that the gallop was too fast, the horse was divided into two sides, and the horse was frightened and defeated.

Between the distances, there is a time gap.

Not fast enough, but ......

Although there was a carrier pigeon arraignment, it could only be expressed in short cipherwords, which were not sufficient to explain the complex situation or to give major instructions.

Yang Xiong has taken the lead.

But Yang Xuesheng still has deep doubts.

He was worried that the war had already been fought and that even if he had the heart to hold peace talks, he could not stop the unwillingness to breed in order to gain the upper hand on the battlefield and gain the initiative in peace talks.

Qin Li met him privately, and in the name of asking him about the steps of the peace talks, he said a worrying sentence without a boundary: "The elder of the pavilion is entrusted with a lot of trust on this trip, although it is a top priority to negotiate peace, you might as well test the strength of Dongxia more, if hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Dongxia can't fight, there will be great worries in the future." ”

Yang Xuesheng knew that there were several layers of meaning behind this sentence.

The first level means that the war can not be stopped immediately, and the war can be fought until it cannot be won, and then peace talks; The second meaning is that the more you can't win, the more you should try to reduce the strength of Dongxia.

If it weren't for Qin Gang's face-to-face teaching, he would mistakenly think that the emperor meant unintentional peace talks, not even to promote peace, peace was to fight, and if he couldn't win, he would fight again in the future, because the emperor said it very straightforwardly, and he clearly felt that the emperor and the prince had serious differences on the Eastern Xia.

The emperor's thinking is very clear, fighting with Dongxia, winning is also losing, because you can't destroy him, at most you can fight him away, the key is that the court side has achieved the goal of closing the country, even if you want to fight, you should also circle the war into a certain area, no longer expand, and no full-scale war can break out...... The thinking was so clear that he could see that Dongxia did not go all out, and even had no intention of doing all his best for the time being, otherwise from Chenzhou to Beizhou, where could the cavalry of Dongxia not haunt and where could not be fired? What's more, the tripartite agreement is a big check and balance, which is enough to plot against the rest of the Tuoba clan in Chenzhou.

And the imperial court was the same, Dong's army stopped at the two states of Dingxia, and the courtiers were already calculating military spending, deficits, and making directional arrangements for disarmament.

The prince is still the prince. Yang Xuesheng doesn't have to disrupt his way of thinking about peace talks to cater to him, he only needs to make a clear judgment on Dongxia after the peace...... You won't be able to pull it out yourself.

Of course, you can't pull it out in the second.

He has been in charge of Beizhou for many years, and his understanding of Dongxia is deeper than that of Taokan.

Tao Kan only saw that the Eastern Xia was becoming more and more powerful militarily, but could not see the political system behind the support of the army, perhaps Tao Kan still thought that the military strength was only the result of the Eastern Xia King Dia Niao not relaxing his military training, while Yang Xuesheng saw that Dia Niao liberated the slaves by depriving the grassland nobles of the privileges of dominating the ethnic groups, and as a martial grassland country, it had the largest number of free knights on the mainland, and the Eastern Xia was different from the large and small grassland countries in the past, making up for the weakness of the grassland country's economy with agriculture and trade. There are conditions to forge sharp ordnance and support a long-trained army, which is still named after the military government, but in fact it is different from the original system of government soldiers that has lasted for many years, and is more specialized, not to mention that the progress of military ideology has led to a military revolution.

You must know that Jingkang faced the battle of Damian back then, and the military ideology was backward, and it took a long time for the army to keep up, but now the Eastern Xia has started the drill ceremony, surpassing the original integration of government soldiers and farming and warfare, and Jingkang will take a long time to keep up.

There has never been such a steppe empire in history.

The strength of the steppe empire is often after its own fighting and unification, because the grassland economy is weak, there is no internal plundering object, and it is forced to plunder outward...... Although the powerful king at that time was able to integrate an invincible army, and could feed the war with war, it swelled suddenly, and after not being able to feed the war with war, it would be quickly weakened, and the powerful empire would either be vented into the original or short-lived, but Dia Niao was different, Yang Xuesheng was sure that even if Dia Niao lost the Northern Plains, he would find another piece of land suitable for cultivation to make up for it, and he needed this way to supplement grazing to solve the problem that simple shepherding could not be used for savings, and it was difficult to face natural disasters and plagues. This model of the state has already appeared in Diao's father, and his father's advice to the court is still on file with the court. If he Dia Niao hadn't created a country with a grotesque form of government, giving people a feeling and expectation that would not last long, Dongxia would be invincible, but this also gave the original scholar an idea, the grassland could be governed in this way, and once it was successfully transported by Jingkang, it was equivalent to solving the problem that the original imperial court could not rule the grassland.

When he was about to arrive at the Daimyo's Mansion, Yang Xuesheng was lucky enough to meet the Red Feather Messenger who was heading to the capital.

Hearing that Gao Xian had joined forces with Dongxia, he could hardly believe his ears.

He was full of vigilance against the Eastern Xia to break the grassland system, and had pinned his hopes on the large and small grassland forces to form an alliance to resist and perish, but he did not expect that Dia Bird was diplomatic, inbreeding and attacking from afar, even vertical and horizontal, and he was not impatient or impatient, and defeated his opponents one by one, and now there is no force on the grassland that can threaten his life and death. Gao Xian has long been weaker than Dongxia, and the relationship between the two countries is complicated, because of this, Gao Xian is always in danger of being destroyed by Dongxia.

The two countries have such a relationship.

At this time, Gao Xian had already been gracious if he didn't stab him, how could he help him beat Jingkang in turn?

Must have been deceived by the rhetoric of Dia Bird.

Definitely, yes.

There are several people in the country who are good at diplomacy.

Can't let Gao Xian people participate in the war, if they participate in the war, the war is completely unbalanced, originally one Dongxia is enough for Jingkang to have a headache, and he has to take advantage of his weakness to stab him in the back to recapture the Northern Plain, what happened to the two of them joining forces? Before Yang Xuesheng arrived, he had already sent people to Gao Xian, and while he was heading all the way to the north, he asked the messenger he sent to persuade Gao Xian and ask how Dongxia coaxed them and what conditions they offered.

At this time, the war in the Yuyang River Valley was over.

Two days ago, the exchange of prisoners was only exchanged to the generals. Tao Kan did not continue to exchange, nor did he take the opportunity to cover up the killing, people said that the mourning soldiers will win, covering up the past has become a taboo in the art of war, and more importantly, the death of Zhang Tietou made the Jingkang army scramble, casting a shadow.

The general killed himself in front of the battle, this is a very poisonous topic, and no one in the barracks is not talking about it.

To talk about his death is to talk about the Dongxia Massacre, and to talk about the Dongxia Massacre is to talk about the Shanggu tragedy...... Who is right and who is wrong, who is good and who is bad, gossip, short and long, the soldiers do not know why they are fighting, and even discuss it, and the generals have repeatedly banned it.

It seemed that Taukan's army of tens of thousands still had the upper hand, but he felt that he could not withstand it and was eager to fight.

And when he marched in, Dia Bird withdrew.

This kind of retreat, a retreat of dozens of miles.

The Jingkang army, which still occupied a large proportion of the infantry, advanced up, tired and relaxed, and the smoke and dust on the opposite side were heavy, and the Dongxia cavalry came back.

After suffering several losses, the Jingkang army either took the camp step by step, or went fast, risked the Eastern Xia soldiers in front of them, turned around and ran. Seeing that he was fighting, fighting, and he was going to Yuyang, Tao Kan was not half happy, and if he continued to fight like this, Lu Longguan was already full of Gao Xian and Dongxia soldiers.

Your main force is in Yuyang, do you still want to be in Beizhou?

Tao Kan found out that Dia Bird intended not to fight him, so he simply dragged people back, but he didn't know what the cost of Dia Bird's borrowing of troops was, and he couldn't know, just borrowed to cheer, Gao Xian had Gao Xian's intentions.

He thought that Dia Bird would not fight, but Dia Bird suddenly took advantage of his retreat to attack.

The offensive that began in the middle of the night, after dawn, the front team when retreating returned, and the rear team was killed by the Eastern Xia. He did not dare to accept the generals' suggestion of an individual counterattack, because Lu Long had a large number of troops at the pass...... Since you can't have a quick decisive battle with Dia Bird, what are you spending with him? When he said to withdraw, he withdrew directly to the Northern Plains.

At this time, morale was low, and the impact of the huge casualties in front was also highlighted.

Tao Kanzheng had nothing to do, and when he heard that Yang Xuesheng had arrived near Weibo, he made military arrangements and rushed to Weibo overnight, wanting to get one or two instructions.

At this time, a dark cloud hung over hundreds of thousands of Jingkang troops.

In the areas under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Xia, the people who supported the governance of the Eastern Xia began to be active again, and they confronted the people who supported Jingkang, and even fought with weapons, and many villages with grievances did not have the slightest political views at all, and lost the suppression of the ethnic struggle in the Eastern Xia, purely to solve the old grievances for many years, randomly standing on the side of the forces, and then fighting in the barren mountains and mountains, grabbing mountains, forests, land and water.

Jingkang officials have not been able to receive them, who can take care of them?

No one cares.

Just let them fight, and then put pressure on the Jingkang government in turn, many small officials listened to these people mixed with the Dongxia soldiers, and the Dongxia people came back, and they didn't distinguish the truth from the fake, so they ran to Weibo.

When he arrived at Weibo, he brought fear to Weibo.

Zhao Guo has arrived around Wei Bo, Wei Bo has really felt the speed of Dongxia, and it is a large panic, you break through other people's northern plains, and know that others will not break you Wei Bo, the whole city is under martial law at night, and the government and the gentry jointly signed together during the day, asking Taokan to divide troops to guard Wei Bo, because I don't know if the joint request will work, standing on the high city tower and looking down, I can see that most of the rich families are moving, some are messing up and living in the countryside, and some are thinking about moving south, and set up a team of carriages and horses.

In this chaotic city, perhaps only a few households can be calm.

The Huayin Zhu family's mansion in the city did not move at all, and their shopkeepers probably pressed the bet that the Dongxia people could not enter the city, and began to buy and take over the industry.