Yelu Dashi fled to the Western Regions, and his purpose was to accumulate strength and revive the Khitan majesty, so that one day he could defeat the Jurchens and restore the country. Of course, the treachery of the Great Song Dynasty back then secretly colluded with the Jin State and stabbed them in the back, which also made him haunted all the time, and the Song Dynasty was also his enemy in his heart. The competition for Gaochang was to curb its meddling in the affairs of the Western Regions, but they still chased it here thousands of miles away.

At first, Yelu Dashi was not afraid of the Great Song Dynasty, after all, he had broken the Song army of 200,000 with more than 10,000 remnants, killing their corpses all over the field, if it were not for the situation at the time, maybe he would be able to wipe them out. But with the opening of the trade route in recent years, the news of the Central Plains has also continued to come, and the Song Dynasty suddenly rose up when the country was broken, and the Yan King, who had been famous for a while and returned to silence, suddenly rose to the top, not only repelled the Jurchens who came to the city, but also sat on the throne and married the princess of Daliao.

In the following years, under his leadership, the Great Song gradually eased up, and fought several battles with the Jin State in the Central Plains and Northwest China, not only recovering the homeland, but also occupying the Khitan homeland, occupying four of the five capitals of the Liao State, and compressing the Jurchen power to Liaodong and Mobei. Among them, the rumors about the new emperor of the Song Dynasty are endless, saying that he is the reincarnation of a god, who can call the wind and rain, and is like a god, and the Song army uses all the artifacts he brought from heaven, which is extremely powerful.

For all kinds of rumors, Yelu Dashi still disagreed, as a party overlord, of course he understood that many of them were just made up by people for the sake of creating momentum, and he had not engaged in any deception of God's royal power in order to prove that it was the orthodoxy of the Liao State! He was very interested in the sudden increase in the combat effectiveness of the Song army, after all, he had also fought with the Jurchens for many years. As a result, he was repeatedly defeated and even captured. Although there are reasons of their own, he still knows the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens.

However, the Song Dynasty's manufacture and use of new weapons were semi-open. The details have been kept secret, and the Jurchens, who have 'benefited' the most, are even more silent about it. Therefore, outsiders cannot understand the details of it, and the specific data of the new weapons of the Song army are mostly from the descriptions of bystanders. This made Yelu Dashi think that the secret of the Song army's undefeated was nothing more than the nonsense and exaggeration of passers-by, but he no longer took the improvement of the Song army's combat strength lightly, and regarded it as a potential opponent. For this reason, he also launched an expedition, trying to create a fait accompli when the Song forces entered Mobei, but he returned in vain.

For some time, Song and Western Liao did not border. They are far away, and individuals live their own lives, and they can be said to be peaceful. It was not until Gaochang formed an alliance with the Song Dynasty that it asked to send troops to help drive the Liao, which led the Song-Xia coalition army to enter Gaochang for the first time, because the Western Liao was unprepared for this, and the result was a dumb loss. Because he was marching westward at that time, Yelu Dashi did not use troops and horses to recapture, but used a counter-plot to send people to secretly lobby Bilgor, so that his confidence was bursting. Thus making enemies with Song.

Brother Bile is a person who has the courage to cause trouble, but he has no courage to resist, and sure enough, as soon as the Song Dynasty released the words that he would send troops to punish him, he immediately coaxed. Hurriedly sent gifts to Yelu Dashi for help, so that the Western Liao soldiers regained control of Gaochang without bloodshed, and obtained more benefits. Song Xia was busy, which was equivalent to making a wedding dress for Xiliao. However, Yelu Dashi did not believe that the Song Dynasty would really have troops in Gaochang, and the road was far and difficult, and it was difficult to replenish. The Western Liao army, which was able to fight well, had to give up in the end, and he concluded that the expedition was an impossible task for the 'pampered' Song army.

But Song Jun soon gave Yelu Dashi a surprise. Not only did they come, but they also conquered the city all the way, defeated the two great tribes of Zhubu and Naiman, who had been entrenched in Mobei for hundreds of years, and crossed the Altai Mountains into Gaochang in winter. When he wanted to take advantage of his exhaustion to send troops to annihilate them all, the Song army gave him a resounding slap in the face, and only used some baggage and miscellaneous troops to defeat his 30,000 iron cavalry......

At this moment, the news of the surrender of the city of Bilge, the king of Gaochang, has reached the Western Liao, and the Song army has divided its troops to collect the city of Yanqi and is marching towards Qiuzi, which is less than three hundred miles away from the border of the Western Liao. What is infuriating is that the other Western Liao army is still fighting fiercely around the Tarim River, when the two countries first sent troops, the two countries had an agreement that their needs would be supplied by the Gaochang army, and now in order to curry favor with the Song people, he ordered to cut off all military supplies of the Western Liao army at the same time as he abdicated, and once the Song army occupied Qiuzi and detoured south, it cut off their return, so as to put them to death.

For the Song army to settle the Western Liao with the letter of the princess of Shu, and after the victory, more than 20,000 soldiers under Xiao Hanli were released, and all their captured swords, guns and horses were returned, fully expressing their goodwill. But Yelu Dashi didn't see it that way, how could he forget that what the Song people liked to do the most was to call them brothers and sisters on the surface and secretly stab, so he thought that the Song army was just using a delaying tactic, so as to avoid fighting on both sides and buy time for himself to successfully capture Gaochang, everything was forced by the situation. It turns out that the Song army has succeeded, and now it's time for them to strike!

"Order all the troops of Gaochang to withdraw to the country at once, and closely monitor the Song army to see if it has any intention of attacking us!" Yelu Dashi understood that he was now in a crisis that he had never seen before, and he said to Xiao Hanri.

"Great Khan, now that the Xia army and our army are entangled together, once they evacuate rashly, they will definitely suffer huge losses, and they should send troops to respond!" Xiao Hanli thought for a while and said.

"We are now under attack on three sides, and we need to draw troops from the army that is defending against the Seljuks, and at this moment the war is about to break out, if Sanjar takes the opportunity to attack or the Song army invades, we will have no troops available!" Without waiting for Yelu Dashi to speak, the privy deputy envoy Xiao Cha Raa was inconvenient to oppose sending troops into Gaochang again.

"Then do we have to watch them being chased and killed by the Xia army and losing all their losses, that's an army of 20,000!" Xiao Hanli said with some annoyance, retreating is the most difficult, especially when the opponent's strength is still there, it is difficult for the retreating side to retreat with all his body.

"King, forgive your subordinates, it's not that your subordinates intend to give up their robes, but even if we send troops to respond, and the Song army has already reached Yanqi, once they suddenly send troops to cut off our retreat after the reinforcements arrive, they may not be able to withdraw a single soldier, and they will have to catch reinforcements!" Xiao Cha Raa said without saluting him.

"This ......" Xiao Hanli muttered, he knew that what he said could happen, but he was unwilling to give up like this, "Great Khan, they have no reinforcements outside, and they have no chance of breaking through the siege alone when they are cut off from food and grass, can we ...... with the Song army?"

"Negotiate with Song?" Yelu Dashi frowned and said, he knew the current situation very well in his heart, if he single-handedly resisted the attack of the two great powers, he would definitely lose; Even if the Song army did not help each other when they fought with Seljuk and sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, they would inevitably be very injured, and if the Song army made another attack at this moment, they would definitely be defeated. Then there is only one way to solve the problem of being attacked on both sides, to form an alliance with Song or Seljuk, to avoid the threat of being attacked by the enemy in the back with two to one, and to face the enemy with peace of mind. It is a difficult choice who to form an alliance with, otherwise not only will the crisis not be resolved, but it may also lead the wolf into the house and threaten the fundamental interests of Western Liao.

"Great Khan, the minister thinks that this is exactly the case, there is no better way!" Xiao Hanli said.

"Is the king scared by the Song army, and actually wants to negotiate with our enemies, have you forgotten his villainous behavior of betraying the hundred-year covenant back then, and will repeat the mistakes of the past and then do the thing of seeking skin with the tiger!" Yelu Yanshan, the king of the Southern Courtyard, listened to it and sneered angrily.

"Great Khan, the minister is not afraid of the Song army, but the strength of the two armies is very different, and they can't resist each other at all!" Xiao Hanlira did not pay attention to Yelu Yanshan's evil words, but once again expressed his thoughts to Yelu Dashi.

"Hmm!" Yelu Dashi looked at Xiao Hanli and snorted, he knew that he was a human being, since he ran away, he followed him to fight east and west, brave and good at fighting, and made great contributions to the founding of the country, he was by no means greedy for life and afraid of death, and he was able to say such frustrating words out of helplessness.

"Great Khan, the minister thinks it is feasible to negotiate with Song!" Tongzhi Privy Council envoy Yelu Shuxue said at this time.

"Oh, tell me why!" Yelu Dashi turned his eyes to him and said, although his expression remained unchanged, he was secretly happy in his heart, in fact, he had already made a decision in his heart, but he was worried that it would be inconvenient for the ministers to oppose it and say it directly, and it was certainly in line with someone to stand up.

"Great Khan, the Seljuks are cruel and tyrannical, Sanjar is greedy and arrogant, he considers himself the head of Islam, and he is bent on treating our country as a heretic, and if he allied with him, he will not treat us equally, and he will force us to convert to his religion and return the newly occupied lands, and it will be difficult for the two countries to coexist, and sooner or later war will break out." Yelu Shuxue said, "The Song Dynasty is different, we are in the same Central Plains, we have lived peacefully for a hundred years, and we have common enemies. After his new monarch ascended the throne, he has been treating my Khitan people well and marrying the princess of Shu as a concubine, which shows that his lord is not hostile to us. And although he fought with us for the matter of Gaochang, he took the initiative to retreat, and after the battle, he left his hands everywhere, showing great kindness to me, showing that he did not want to be our enemy! ”

"Well, that's a good analysis, you go on!" Yelu Dashi smiled and motioned for him to continue.

"Great Khan, the minister thinks that the Song army's westward expedition to Gaochang is not intended to open up the trade routes of the Western Regions, and the Central Plains is too barren compared to here, if we fight against it, it is necessary to maintain a large army stationed here, and the grain, grass and weapons need to be solved by the mainland, this is not a long-term solution, so they must also be willing to ally with us, instead of the Seljuks who often plunder the Great Song caravans and collect heavy taxes!" Yelushu Xue Yan said...... (To be continued......)