The thinker Emerson said, "If you believe you 'can,' you will conquer everything." ”

Napoleon said, "There is no impossibility in my dictionary." ”

Zhao Li looked at the Jurchens in the valley, thinking about the prince's orders, and listening to the prince's tone, it seemed that he didn't want to kill these people, but wanted to use them as a card for his own use. As for what to do, he couldn't guess, and he didn't have time to think about it for the time being.

Just as Zhao Li was thinking of a way to make the Jurchens desperate, the envoy sent by the Jurchens arrived, and he first expressed his attitude, that he had strayed into the Song realm and had no intention of invading the territory of the Great Song Dynasty; Moreover, now he needs to temporarily hide from the pursuit of the Khitans and Xia here, hoping to let them temporarily live here for refuge; The last request was for Da Song to provide food and medicine.

The Jurchens' requirements all involve relations between the two countries, and Zhao Li, as a soldier, can't manage this, and can't be the master, and those who can be the masters hide behind and don't show their heads, so that he can force these people to 'corner'. Zhao Li pondered for a moment, and now all he can do is 'you leave quickly, if you don't go, I'll drive you away', so his reply was still the same old tune, limiting them to withdraw from the Great Song Dynasty at sunset, otherwise they could only be treated as invaders.

Wan Yan Xian also became anxious as soon as he heard the envoy's report, didn't this Great Song Dynasty force himself to die, where did he have the appearance of an ally, so Wan Yan Xian also wrote a letter and sent it to him as a great person in the capacity of Dajin Guoguo Hu Lu Bo, asking to be treated with a national courtesy.

"What can I do?" Zhao Li saw that the letter was difficult, and he had the heart to ask the prince for advice, but he was worried about being scolded, so he didn't ask. It's really sad that I can't afford to take on such a big responsibility.

"Brother Li. What's going on? As soon as the curtain was lifted, Lu Xiaoyao walked in. Seeing Zhao Li, he asked with a worried brow.

"Master Lu, the prince asked me to treat those Jurchens, but they handed over the credentials, I don't know what to do!" Zhao Li sighed.

Now Lu Xiaoyao is enshrined in the palace, and after the establishment of the Military Intelligence Department, Lu Xiaoyao also serves as the deputy director to assist Jiang Fei in training intelligence personnel, but Jiang Fei is his apprentice, and Jiang Fei has been tired of it for a while, so please ask for instructions on everything. He is the vice! Don't ask for instructions, he is an apprentice, he is a master! Jiang Fei poured bitter water with him, Zhao Li could only mediate from it, and Lu Xiaoyao didn't have anything to do with him.

"Oh, tell me more, I'll help you read the details!" Lu Xiaoyao dragged a stool and sat down, and said excitedly.

"Master Lu, that's the case..."Zhao Li told the ins and outs of the matter.

"Well, I understand, the prince is trying to catch a big wrongdoer. Get some benefits from him, you really can't be reckless, how to deal with this matter still have to be pondered! Lu Xiaoyao prides himself on being a smart person, but he is really not as cheap as the Warring States in front of the prince for so many years. But he figured out the prince's temperament, and knew that he would not be untargeted, and let Zhao Li force him. Naturally, there is a use for him.

"I know the truth, but they let me... Let the Krup army give the defeated soldiers a general. Except for the clothes on his body, the horse under his ass. There's only one mouth left, how can you force it? You can't even rip off their clothes! Zhao Li said helplessly.

"Hmph, don't be sloppy with me, what kind of Kryu army? I'm really a fool, it's not the gang of people that Zhao Yong took away, didn't the prince show up for more than two months, didn't he just borrow their hands to put the Jurchens together, and bombarded us! Lu Xiaoyao was very dissatisfied with Zhao Li's 'dishonesty', and unceremoniously exposed his old bottom and sneered.

"Master Lu is worthy of being the senior of our loyal army intelligence department, and he can't hide anything from your eyes!" Zhao Li smiled awkwardly and said, secretly sighing in his heart that only a few of their high-level officials knew about the affairs of the Kryu Army, but Lu Xiaoyao, who had been wandering on the edge, could analyze the general outline of the matter from the clues, which could not help but be admired.

"Okay, you're not good at sycophancy, it's better for Zhao Zhong's kid to say it!" Lu Xiaoyao watched these children grow up, and has always treated them as his own sons and nephews, except for the prince, of course, he can't treat him as an ordinary person, he just didn't wear open crotch pants and gave himself to 'blind', "To get down to business, I think the prince asked you to force them, because he wanted to grind their temperament and make them lose their temper, and he would clean them up again." ”

"Well, what Master Lu said is reasonable, but how to force it, you can't pick off their pants!" Zhao Li thought deeply of Lu Xiaoyao's words, but he couldn't think of any good ideas.

"You are so stupid, what is the greatest shame for being a soldier?" Lu Xiaoyao is angry in his heart, the prince is better than a monkey, how can he be trained and how there are few clever ones.

"Of course I was a prisoner!" Zhao Li replied without thinking.

"Ah, you're not stupid, you're not stupid, you're going to make them prisoners!" Lu Xiaoyao said.

"Master Lu, this Wan Yan Xian is also the equivalent of the prime minister and privy envoy of our Great Song Dynasty in the Jin Kingdom, let's let him be a prisoner, how is it possible, besides, they talk about things with the courtesy of the two countries, and I don't have that power!" Zhao Li exclaimed as if someone had stepped on his tail.

"That's right, it's because of what kind of country he is that Hulubo is extremely fierce and the commander of both internal and external armies, I think the prince did this, if the official is smaller, I'm afraid the prince would have slaughtered him a long time ago, and he can still keep him alive until now!" Lu Xiaoyao smiled and said, "But then again, what he says he is is what he is?" We've heard of Wanyan Xian, but no one has seen it, who knows if it's true or false! Besides, even if he is true, and it involves two countries, we have no right to deal with it, so we have to report it to the imperial court step by step, and the imperial court will send people or entrust local officials to deal with it, and it will take four or five days from us to Beijing, and then discuss it for a few days, and then issue an order, how can it be a month smaller after tossing, during this period he is a rout in transit, you have the right to deal with it, right? ”

"Yes, yes, but the prince is in the camp, if I deal with it like this, will it implicate the prince!" Zhao Li thought for a while and said.

"Nonsense, the prince is now inspecting the border of the Hezhong region thousands of miles away, and the traffic over there is inconvenient, and the prince's whereabouts are uncertain and difficult to contact, you can only report to the Hedong Preparation Division, the Transshipment Division and other yamen after emergency disposal, and wait for the imperial court to deal with it!" Lu Xiaoyao was anxious when he heard it, and pointed at him with hatred.

"Alas, how did I forget this, the prince is not in Hedong at all, where do you know these things!" Zhao Li said in a dream, now he has been using this reason to meet the local officials of the prince and hide the whereabouts of the prince, but the prince suddenly came back and forgot about this stubble, thinking that the prince also threw this matter to him because of this inconvenience......

Waiting for the Great Song Dynasty to welcome his own Wanyan with a national gift, he also deliberately washed his face and changed his clothes, but after waiting for a long time, a guy who claimed to be a loyal soldier joined the army came, saying that they couldn't distinguish his identity, so he couldn't receive it according to the national ceremony.

Because there are often stragglers crossing the border and robbing in the border areas, for the sake of friendship between the two countries, first, let them leave the country on their own after compensating for their losses, and they will no longer pursue their mistakes in entering the Song realm; The second is that they did not follow the first article, they can only deal with them as routs, that is, they are disarmed and sent to the hard labor camp for screening, leaving them for a limit of three days, and they will be offended when they expire.

He didn't agree to either of them, and asked to meet with the highest local officials to explain the situation, and once again let them provide shelter, food, grass and medicine to ensure the safety of their lives, otherwise they would reconsider the alliance and relationship with the Great Song Dynasty.

But no matter how Yan Yan jumped, this soldier was not moved at all, telling him where his authority was, and he could not meet with their superiors at their request, so he could only report and wait for a response, and besides, it was impossible for them to provide food and grass and other conveniences to an unidentified foreign transit army, but if they laid down their weapons, they could not only ensure their safety, but also provide food and medicine.

What is Wan Yan Xian's identity, how can he accept these harsh conditions, the two sides are very unpleasant, of course they will not provide them with what they need, and they have sent additional troops to surround their camps, demarcate areas, and shoot resolutely as long as they take a step. Wan Yan Xian also had nothing to do about it, feeling that he had become a fish and had fallen into an invisible net.

………

Zhao Ta took a bath, ate a hot meal, and lay in his big tent, he chased Wan Yan Xian for more than ten days, and he was tired enough to attack the city and plunder the land, but he felt that it was very worthwhile. Although Dongshengzhou lent it to Western Xia, he actually didn't suffer a loss, not only tied them to his chariot, but also had an extra shield, a watchdog, which is a good thing to kill three birds with one stone, if you add that Xixia princess, it is four!

After this war, the corridor between the Great Song Dynasty and Texas was successfully opened, and military supplies and personnel could enter and exit freely, and it was no longer an isolated enclave. What made Zhao Tan even happier was that he controlled Shuozhou, not only because he had recaptured one of the sixteen states of Yanyun, but also because the geographical location of Shuozhou was very important.

Shuozhou is located on the Loess Plateau in the western part of the North China Plain, which is a loess-covered mountainous plateau, which is a transition zone between the humid region in the east and the arid region in the west. The overall geomorphological outline is surrounded by mountains in the north, west and south, the mountain is high, the middle is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, it belongs to the alluvial plain of the Sanggan River Basin, which is relatively low, and the overall height is also V-shaped.

It is located between the Great Wall inside and outside the Yanmen Pass, connecting Inner Mongolia in the north, controlling the Yanmen, the partial pass, and the Ningwu three passes in the south, and there is the way to reach the counties of Xin, Dai and Yuanping, and it is the fortress of the border in ancient times, which can not only respond to Datong, but also resist the whole Jin, and is the place where the soldiers of the past dynasties must fight. It is also a relatively independent and closed geographical unit centered on the Datong Basin, surrounded by mountains, so it can attack Datong and return to the Great Song Dynasty to be invincible. (To be continued.) )