In the afternoon of Beijing, the weather is still hot like a furnace, and the lively alleys become sparse in the early morning, just a few hours of time, the whole Bianjing seems to have changed its face, calm and quiet, only the Bianhe River, the Cai River, the Wuzhang River, the Jinshui River, the four rivers of Bianjing next to the willows, piled up to enjoy the cool crowd, but no one walked out of the shade of the trees. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info. qВ5//

In the Zichen Hall of the Bianjing Imperial Palace, although the official Zhao Zhen was only wearing a silk shirt, and the two palace maids behind him kept playing the palace fan, but the slightest breeze could not blow away the anger in his heart, although his face was calm as usual, but his heart was full of irritability and anger.

In the Zichen Palace, although it was the hottest time, the civil and military officials of the imperial court were all braving the scorching heat, crowded in the hall like a pile, although their queues were still scattered and irregular, but today they were standing faintly dragged out of the center point of the hall, and their eyes were not on the dragon chair of the official Zhao Zhen, but all looked at the small center point.

On the small central point, a messenger dressed as a Liao official stood there with a smile on his face, and said to the surrounding Song Dynasty civil and military without being arrogant or humble: "The ten counties of Guannan were originally the land of my Liao country, but Chai Shizong took it away by despicable means, and now the Song State has occupied the ten counties of Guannan for a hundred years, and it is time to return the land of the ten counties." ”

The words of the envoy of the Liao State made the Great Song Wenwu of the DPRK scolded angrily in his heart, you must know that Chai Shizong conquered the ten counties of Guannan, it was the sixth year of the Later Zhou Xiande, and it has been nearly eighty years since today, and it is also the matter of the Later Zhou Sheng, but now he is asking for it from the Great Song Dynasty, don't you understand that it is taking advantage of the Xia and Song Dynasty to fight and rob while the fire is burning!

But there is a saying in officialdom that says well, weak countries have no diplomacy. Although the current Great Song Dynasty cannot be regarded as a weak country, the defeat of the confrontation with the Western Xia has seriously affected the prestige of the country, resulting in the Great Song Dynasty being labeled as a weak country, which makes the envoys of the Liao State so arrogant.

The official Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair, looking at the arrogant envoys of the Liao State and the submissive Great Song Baiguan, he was very indignant, he knew why the Great Song Baiguan was so cowardly. Because all this is out of his will, the most important thing for the imperial court now is to stabilize the envoys of the Liao State, use every means to delay the negotiation time, delay the pace of the Liao cavalry to the south, and win time for Zhao Lei, who went out to the north, so the official Zhao Zhen endured the arrogance of the Liao envoys, and secretly ordered the hundred officials not to provoke the Liao envoys, negotiate slowly, and negotiate as carefully as possible, and the Liao envoys are estimated to have been instructed by the Liao Emperor not to start the war easily. knew that Song Guo was delaying time, but he stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling person. The envoy of the Liao State faced the smiling faces of the hundred officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and said all the sarcastic and threatening words, but the Great Song Dynasty court was slowly grinding time, and following the trajectory of history and the Liao envoy to talk about the ownership of the ten counties in Guannan, it was not to come to a final conclusion.

"How can the ten counties of Guannan be said to be the land of Liao, you must know that the ten counties of Guannan have always belonged to Middle Earth during the Han and Tang dynasties. Although it was later returned to the Liao State, its root is still in the Central Plains, since my Great Song Dynasty inherited the unification of the Middle Earth, this land of Guannan. It should be the Great Song! Prime Minister Zhang Shixun did not explicitly say that the ten counties in Guannan were barbarously plundered by the Liao State, but between the words, he said indifferently with this meaning.

"The Song State is not ready to return the land of the ten counties in Guannan. You must know that Song Liao is a friendly country, don't ruin the friendship between the two countries for the sake of just ten counties in Guannan! The envoy of the Liao State began to threaten again, and his face immediately became fierce and said.

This level of threat can be seen by the Song Baiguan every day, so he was not surprised, and waited for Zhang Shixun's rebuttal with a smile.

At this moment, a sharp voice from the inner servant Huangmen came from outside the main hall: "The official's house! The Privy Council is a huge person asking to see! ”

"Xuan!" The official Zhao Zhen thought to himself that Pang Ji came over at this time, could it be that there was news from Yongxing Military Road, was it good or bad!

The official Zhao Zhen guessed well, Pang Ji was dressed in an official robe, and ran into the Zichen Hall with a sweaty trot on a hot day, and as soon as he entered the hall, he bowed excitedly and said loudly: "Good Shuichuan victory, Weizhou victory!" Qiqi official's house, a war report came from the north, Lord Zhao twice hit the Western Xia army in Weizhou and Haoshuichuan, and now Yuan Hao has returned to Xiping Mansion. ”

Pang Ji's excited words made the Great Song Junchen feel happy, and his face suddenly danced, and the envoy of the Liao State who was originally the focus in the hall changed his face at this time, but no one paid attention to him anymore.

"Bring it up and let me see it!" Zhao Zhen, an overjoyed official, excitedly said to Gan Ling, the servant next to him.

After the excited official Zhao Zhen looked at the battle report sent by Zhao Lei to Bianjing, he breathed a sigh of relief even more, and after handing the battle report to Gan Ling beside him, he sneered and looked at the already dark face of the Liao envoy.

Zhao Lei's battle report was very long, from his arrival in Yan'an Mansion to the Battle of Haoshuichuan, which was tens of thousands of words, but many places were swept away by the Chinese Wu of the Palace, and they were most concerned about the final results, the losses of Western Xia and the gains of the Great Song Dynasty.

"The minister infiltrated Weizhou with ambush soldiers and lured Yuan

In eight days and eight nights, more than half of the 80,000 troops of Western Xia suffered casualties; The minister conquered Weijiazhai, 15,000 elite soldiers in Pingfu, and captured more than 3,000 people, forcing the Western Xia general Renduo Baoren to abandon the village and flee; Western Xia Yuanhao ambushed the pursuing soldiers, and the ministers also ambushed the good Shuichuan, ambushed the Western Xia ambush soldiers, the battle of the good Shuichuan, the Western Xia lost 20,000 soldiers and horses, the Western Xia fierce general Ren Duo Baoren, Wei Ming Duoduo and other more than a dozen generals died, and now the Western Xia Yuanhao has led less than 50,000 remnants of the army to retreat to Xiping Mansion Yu Chen held against the White Leopard City! After Yan Shu read it, he did not continue to pass it on, but chose a few sentences and read it out loud, and after reading it, he glanced at the envoy of the Liao State who stayed there.

Yan Shu's behavior, the meaning of provocation is very obvious, the Liao envoy who watched it was secretly annoyed, and he didn't have time to get angry but began to ponder the changes in the situation after the victory of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Liao State now dares to threaten the same to the Great Song Dynasty to ask for the ten counties in Guannan, one is because the Great Song Dynasty was defeated in the war against Xia, the Liao State thinks that the Great Song Dynasty is weak, has lived up to its former prestige, and it is a good time to take advantage of the fire to rob, and the second is that the Liao State is now full of contradictions, although Yelu Zong really exiled the rebellious Queen Mother, but the fierce domestic interest struggle is becoming more and more intense, with the disappearance of the Queen Mother's faction, the power of the Liao kings began to rise, and the confrontation between the north and the south is more obvious, in this case, The Liao Emperor Yelu Zongzhen is ready to use the means of war to transfer and alleviate the domestic contradictions, but the goal of the war has not been selected now, whether to send troops to the Western Xia or the Liao State, and now it has been the focus of internal controversy in the Liao State, and the North and South courts have also argued endlessly, but there is a very consistent goal within the Liao State, that is, the defeated country of the war, the Song State has already shown defeat, so the Liao State envoy will come to Bianjing to wait for the final results of the Song Xia, and the Great Song Dynasty officials, Unexpectedly, now Xixia Yuanhao actually returned with a fiasco, and 100,000 soldiers and horses were eaten by the Great Song Dynasty.

100,000 soldiers and horses, this number for the Western Xia and the Song Kingdom, the meaning is very different, the Great Song Dynasty has a population of more than 100 million, even if the domestic army of one million is wiped out, it is only a matter of time to pull up another million army, but the population of the Western Xia is only one-tenth of the Great Song Dynasty, 500,000 troops are already the limit of the Western Xia, and now they are eaten by the Great Song Dynasty 100,000 at once, this kind of loss wants to recover, and it cannot be done in ten years.

Maybe! It's time for the Liao State to consider changing the direction, although the Great Song Dynasty can't attack the city and grab the land, but the ability to defend the city is first-class, a Weizhou city can make the Western Xia cavalry lose tens of thousands, think about the Great Song Dynasty has hundreds of Weizhou kind of cities, if the Liao State goes to attack one by one, the whole country is piled up, I'm afraid it will be difficult to take it! The Liao envoy's heart was turning with a secret thought.

"Your Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, since there is a war report in the north, the Great Song Dynasty must have important matters to discuss, and the foreign ministers will not delay the affairs of the imperial court, and the foreign ministers will retire!" The envoy of the Liao State laughed dryly, retreated and left, he wanted to spread the news of Yuan Hao's defeat to the Liao State as soon as possible, so that the upper echelons of the Liao State could choose contingency measures.

After the official Zhao Zhen waved off the envoy of the Liao State, seeing the back of the Liao envoy disappearing, the originally excited expression immediately became a little worried, and turned his head to the other prime minister Li Ruogu and asked: "Yuan Hao is really not ready to withdraw to Xingqing Mansion, and is ready to stay in Xiping Mansion and continue to wait for the opportunity to invade the south?" ”

"Yuan Hao's invasion of the south this time has lost his troops, and he didn't get what he wanted, if he withdraws to Xingqing Mansion like this, what will Yuan Hao do to deter those tribes in the country in the future, I'm afraid that Western Xia will be uneven from now on, so Yuan Hao must not withdraw, he urgently needs a victory to restore his prestige, and then negotiate peace with the imperial court!" Li Ruogu pondered for a while, and respectfully explained to the official Zhao Zhen.

"Yuan Hao did not withdraw, and although Lord Zhao won two victories in Weizhou and Haoshuichuan, he also suffered heavy losses, and now the Yongxing military road can fight less than 140,000 soldiers, if Yuan Hao mobilizes the 100,000 troops of Xingqing Mansion, I am afraid that Lord Zhao's troops are insufficient! Although Lord Zhao did not ask for reinforcements, it was better for the official family to send reinforcements! The new privy envoy, who is sixty years old and known for his steadiness and rigor, stood up and said loudly to the official Zhao Zhen at this time.

"Lord Zhao asks the imperial court to unite with Hui Yu and the Gang to attack Western Xia again, and the reinforcements must also be sent, under the leadership of Lord Zhao, the northern army will definitely be able to defeat Yuan Hao again, and make every effort to eliminate the threat, and completely defeat the northwest wolf of Western Xia!" Zhang Shixun also agreed with Zhang Dexiang's statement, and stood up and said loudly to the official Zhao Zhen.

"In that case! Who wants to send an envoy to return to the Bird and the Greetings? The official Zhao Zhen asked indifferently.

Remembering the last time I sent someone to join forces, the hundred officials of the imperial court couldn't shirk one by one, and the angry official Zhao Zhen sent the envoy hard, because everyone knew that the envoy would not send troops because of the defeat of the Great Song Dynasty, but this time the mission was very simple, after all, the Great Song Dynasty had just won a big victory, and the task that was easy to complete could also accumulate merits, who didn't want to do this kind of thing, so the officials who were willing to be envoys to Hui Yu and the officials began to recommend themselves.

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