Yelu Dashi 'accepted' Yelu Shuxue's suggestion to negotiate peace with Song. As a pioneering monarch, he naturally had a clear mind, quick thinking, knew how to take and take, and understood that the benefits of cooperating with Song were obviously greater. Far from it, the 20,000 troops trapped in Gaochang were of decisive significance to the population-precious Western Liao at this moment, and with them they had a few more chances of victory in the battle against the Seljuks.

After convincing the ministers, Yelu Dashi immediately sent Yelu Shuxue as an envoy to Gaochang to negotiate with the Song army. They thought that with the Song army in the upper hand, the negotiations would be very difficult, but the result was smooth for them to believe. The Song army promised to coordinate with the Xia army to let the Western Liao army return to China and guarantee that it would not be attacked along the way; The Western Liao had to recognize the fact that Gaochang was already owned by the Song, and allow the Song and the caravans to and from the Song Dynasty to cross the border and ensure their safety and interests; He proposed that the Great Song Dynasty and Liaoben were brotherly countries, and they were still willing to restore friendly relations with them.

Song Jun's demands were reasonable and reasonable, and there were no excessive demands, and Xiliao had no reason to refuse, so he agreed to them all. At the time of parting, the commander of the Song army, Gao Chong, said that they already knew that there was going to be a war between the Western Liao and the Seljuks, and said that if necessary, they could send troops to assist the Western Liao to resist the invading enemy, after all, the two countries were still in-laws. Moreover, the Seljuks' occupation of trade routes and robbery and squeezing the caravans from the Great Song Sea had already aroused the emperor's wrath, and hinted that his Song naval army had reached the waters of the Persian Gulf and was ready to punish the Seljuks, and if necessary, they could also help the Western Liao.

Subsequently, the Song army sent people to the Xia army camp to inform them that Gaochang had surrendered, and that the Song and Liao countries had reached an armistice agreement, and they could occupy the territory of Gaochang east of the Qaidam River according to the previous agreement. The war is over. Pingbai got a big bargain, what is Xixia not happy about. The attack was immediately abandoned, and the Western Liao army was able to escape. Returned under the escort of the Song army. The people of Western Liao felt embarrassed at this time, and sent people back some grain, cattle and sheep to express their gratitude.

The Song people once again generously released the Western Liao army that invaded Gaochang regardless of their previous suspicions, so that Yelu Dashi and the ministers of the Western Liao personally felt the sincerity of the peace of the Great Song Dynasty. They were also shocked by the news that the Great Song Dynasty had reached the Persian Gulf, which showed that the Great Song not only had the strength to expedition on the road, but could also do it at sea, as long as the Great Song Dynasty was willing to conquer Western Asia, including Western Liao, by advancing by land and water.

Yelu Dashi's re-recognition of the strength of the Song Dynasty surprised him. Shocked by the strength of the Song dynasty, their desire to restore the kingdom became unattainable, even though the Song dynasty claimed that they had a common enemy. However, he understood that the Song would not let him regain the majesty of the Great Liao Kingdom in the past, and their march to Gaochang and Mobei was to warn him not to return to the Central Plains again; The good news is that the Song Dynasty did not regard itself as an enemy, otherwise it would have defeated the Western Liao with its troops and combat power. Now their gestures can be regarded as 'saluting first and then soldiers', and if they don't know how to lift again, it is likely that they will meet each other.

After figuring out the joints, the Great Song Dynasty also gave the steps, Yelu Dashi could no longer ignore the good and the bad, and ordered to send a messenger to the Song Dynasty in the name of visiting the princess of Shu Kingdom, and rebuild the old friendship with the Great Song Dynasty to become a brotherly country. Acquiescing to the occupation of Mobei and Gaochang by the Great Song Dynasty, he established a trade exchange with the Changchang area, and hoped to send troops to resist the invasion of the Seljuks when necessary, and reopen the ancient silk road.

Got a response from Xiliao. Gao Pet has relaxed a lot, and now that they are short of ammunition, although they will not lose if they fight again, they will definitely fight very hard. He reported the situation to Zhao Li, who was in Gaochang City. He also reported to the emperor that the imperial court would send someone to take over the newly occupied land, and sent troops to escort the Liao envoy to Tokyo. The task of the Western Expeditionary Army also shifted from preparing for battle to clearing out the remnants of the resistance. Takeover, establish local power, appease the people and resume production.

And at the same time as a peace agreement was reached with the Song. Western Liao was able to deal with the Seljuks with all his might, but just as they were preparing for a battle, the situation eased - the Seljuk vassal state of Khorezm was going to become independent, and Sanjar had to deal with this unexpected event first.

In the middle of the 11th century, a slave-born personal guard in the court named Anu lost his personal guard was favored by Sultan Malikshah because of his loyalty and reliability, and his dexterity, like all favored subjects, soon rose to prominence and became a prominent member of the court, from a slave to a dazzling political star.

Later, Anush was appointed governor of Khorezm by the Sultan. His son, Khududdin, continued to serve the Sultan with respect, retaining his inherited realm and earning the title of "Sha" (king). After Khududdin died thirty years after ruling Khorezm, his son Ajisi, who was ambitious and not content to exist as a vassal of the Sultan of Seljuk, betrayed Sultan Sanjar and refused to pay tribute. He tried to build an independent and powerful state at all costs, and Sultan Sanjar lost his temper and became anxious......

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When Gaochang was destroyed by the Western Expeditionary Army, the Song fleet also entered the Persian Gulf in May after half a year of arduous sailing, and their knowledge of their future opponents was limited to the words of the merchants, and they did not meet each other, and they did not know anything about their combat methods, except that they had fought a beautiful naval battle hundreds of years ago and annihilated the once powerful Persian navy.

Along the way, the Song Navy only had contact with some pirates on sailboats, but when they saw the tall and majestic warships of the Song Army, they avoided it far away, and did not dare to come forward to engage in battle. Having entered the Arabian Seas, in order to conceal their true purpose, they docked their fleet at the port of Suder on the west coast. It flourished in the 7th century as an important trading port, but the city was destroyed by an earthquake a hundred years ago and left in ruins, and today there is only one village left, and it is full of poor people who have nowhere to go, so that it can be controlled and kept secret.

When it first set out on the expedition, it was claimed that a thousand warships were dispatched, but in fact there were not so many, and the navy used five three-story test ships, ten god-class warships, and 20 Yongzi-class warships, and then there were more than 200 large transport ships and supply ships carrying infantry cavalry, which were mixed with merchant ships to go to sea together. Although the city is abandoned, the port is still there, and it is hidden in it. Cheng Xishou followed the merchant ship and went to the 'Jishi Kingdom' hundreds of miles away to reconnoiter the enemy......

In fact, the history of Arabian navigation is shorter than that of the Central Plains, and even if they sailed in the early days, they only did business or acted as pirates, and their ships were only piloted by Greeks or Copts, and the Arabs themselves never sailed and fought. Even those who settled in the Arabian Peninsula were far inferior to the Persians in their seafaring and shipbuilding skills in the early days of the Muslim Empire's conquest and domination of the Persian Gulf region.

However, after nearly a century of practice and progress, by the time the Abbasid Arabs had inherited the seafaring traditions and experience of the early Persians, using Persian sailors who had subjugated the Arab Empire and converted to Islam to sail, they began to rise and occupy an important position in the maritime trade with China.

Ji Shiguo is the name of the Central Plains, in fact, it is located on the east coast of the Persian Gulf is a small island about 30 miles long from east to west, about 15 miles wide from north to south, and separated from the mainland by a strait about 123 miles wide. Cheng Xishou can be said to be an old trader, and he has gained insight after many years of traveling south and north at sea, but his eyes still can't help but light up after he goes to the island with the caravan. It was home to a large number of merchant ships from the East and Arabia, and was known as the most prosperous envoy in the Persian Gulf.

On the one hand, merchants from the Great Song Dynasty, Iraq, Yemen, and Persia imported all kinds of silk, purple cotton cloth, flax, cotton fabrics, linen, wheat, barley, millet, rye, and other grains and dried fruits into the island for mutual trading; On the one hand, Indian merchants imported large quantities of various spices.

The island's inhabitants made a living as intermediary merchants who profited from merchants on both sides, and the government levied heavy taxes or bought goods farther afield to Europe for a huge profit. In addition to normal goods, there was also a center of the slave trade, and pirates often traveled to the coast of Zanzibar in East Africa to plunder blacks and transport them back to the Persian Gulf as slaves to sell to various countries.

Cheng Xishou sighed at the development of commerce here, and finally reluctantly withdrew his gaze, finally not forgetting that he had another task, and re-examined the island's defense measures. The Arabs built a walled city on the shore of the island, near the port, with a small wall and a tall watchtower. He visually measured the distance, and if the ship was close to the port, the ship's guns could enter the city.

On one side of the harbor are dozens of huge sailing ships, as if built of a single giant wooden carving, the hull is narrower and more slender than the warships in the East, with two layers of oars on both sides, about ten zhang long, and a huge angle of attack in the bow. After Cheng Xishou took a closer look, he had a bottom in his heart, judging from the size and equipment of these warships, they belonged to galleys, which could carry about 200 soldiers, and more than 300 people with sailors. The ship was not equipped with a trebuch, let alone artillery, and the primitive tactics of ramming the enemy ship and jumping to board the enemy ship should still be adopted...... (To be continued......)