Chapter 845: The Dragon Army Strikes in All Directions
Out of this thought, Bao Zheng's questions are one by one, he is just to tell everyone that there is no benefit in sending troops.
Faced with Bao Zheng's aggressive question, Wen Yanbo really wanted to throw his sleeves away, but he knew that this was above the court, and he couldn't do it. Everyone, including the officials, is still waiting for his answer.
"Bao Xianggong, Liao Guo promised to return Yanyun Liuzhou first, as for the rest, it can be discussed." Answering in a voice that was not very loud, from this point of view, Wen Yanbo was already somewhat weak-hearted.
"What? Only six states? What about the other ten states?" Bao Zheng looked surprised.
It's not pretending, it's really surprising.
Originally, I thought that if the Liao State wanted food and reinforcements, it must have paid a lot. But now it seems that this is not the case at all, just taking out the land of Liuzhou, and wanting Da Song to follow them to fight with Su Shi?
This, this is simply whimsical.
When they heard the words of Liuzhou, the faces of the other courtiers also changed suddenly, and no one thought that this would be the result before.
It's a shame that they used to think about taking credit from it, but now it seems that this is a pit at all, and whoever jumps into it will be infamy.
Once the matter is really done, the benefits will be shared by Wen Yanbo alone, and the rest of the mess will be handed over to the other courtiers to clean up.
At this moment, many people looked at Wen Yanbo's eyes full of indignation.
Seeing everyone's somewhat unkind gazes, Wen Yanbo was a little flustered, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, and my colleagues, there are some things we can discuss with the Liao people. If the six states can't work, we will have ten states, and if it is not good, we will return to the entire sixteen states, and the current Liao country needs our assistance, so it may not be impossible to talk about it."
"Alright."
This time, before Wen Yanbo finished speaking, Bao Zheng had already spoken: "It turns out that the Liao State has no sincerity at all, even if this is the case, what else is there to talk about."
After saying this, Bao Zheng clenched his fists and said to Zhao Zhen in the Jinluan Palace: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the Liao State clearly wants to use our Great Song Dynasty, even if this is the case, we don't have to pay attention to them at all, it is better to let them fight with Su Shi, so that we can reap the benefits." If the Liao Kingdom is severely damaged because of this, at that time, we can take it by ourselves in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and it will be the right way."
Is it another mountain to watch the tiger fight?
Zhao Zhen on the dragon chair obviously didn't quite agree with this statement. Things happened, but he didn't do anything, and he always felt that he was at a loss. In the face of Bao Zheng's proposal like this, Zhao Zhen did not speak immediately.
Wang Deyong, who was standing below, seemed to see Zhao Zhen's thoughts, and immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister's foolish opinion is that the Liao State is short of grain, and we can sell grain to them, and we must sell it to them at a high price. In this way, we will be able to earn more gold and silver."
"The minister agrees with Wang Xianggong's words, the Liao army will have food, and they will fight with Su Shi to the end, and then we will get greater benefits." The third envoy, Song Qi, quickly stood up as well.
It can sell high-priced grain and can fill the treasury, and at this point, Song Qi absolutely supports it. Not to mention, doing so can also make the battle between the Liao army and the dragon army more exciting, this is a way to weaken the enemy, why not.
"Huh? Hmm." Zhao Zhen didn't speak immediately, but he made two humming sounds to show his attitude.
With this Longliao War, although the Great Song Dynasty could not immediately take back the lost territory. But once they are allowed to fight with anger, their strength will inevitably weaken, and at that time, they may not have the opportunity to use force to take the lost ground.
Zhao Zhen seemed to have a choice, and Wen Yanbo was anxious when he saw this scene. Seeing that the great merit was about to be swept away from his own walk, he was unwilling, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the disaster of Su Shi is not less than that of the Liao State, this time the Liao State is in the front, and our Great Song Dynasty is just sending troops to assist, so we can eliminate this scourge, and in the long run, this will be beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty." On the contrary, if the Liao State is defeated by the Dragon Army, I am afraid that sooner or later it will endanger the Great Song Dynasty, Your Majesty please think twice."
No
No matter what kind of thoughts Wen Yanbo had in mind to say such a thing, not to mention that he was really beaten by him.
It's just a pity that no one really takes Su Shi seriously among the high-ranking Song ministers.
Less than a year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it still occupies a remote place in Goryeo, and if such a small country can threaten the security of the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that no one will believe it.
At this meeting, Wen Yanbo said such a thing, which would only make everyone think that he was looking for a reason for the Song army to send troops to help Liao. And this reason is still so lame in everyone's opinion. It's just a complete loss of ground.
There were even more people who laughed out loud directly, all of this made Wen Yanbo's heart cold, he knew that judging from the attitudes of these people, everyone was going to misunderstand him.
Wen Yanbo's face was ugly, and Bao Zheng's mood was not much better, he didn't want to be an enemy of Su Shi, and he didn't want Zhao Song to give Liao any support, but before he could say this, Wang Deyong proposed to sell high-priced grain to Liao.
In his opinion, it doesn't matter how high or low the price of grain is, as long as Zhao Song sells grain to Liao, it is equivalent to giving help, which is tantamount to making Su Shi evil. With the psychology that the other party will take revenge, I am afraid that it will be difficult for Zhao Song and the Dragon Empire to get along peacefully in the future.
Wang Deyong put forward suggestions, Song Yi gave support, and more importantly, he was praised by Zhao Zhen.
You can make a lot of money by starting wars from other countries, and no emperor will refuse it. In this way, the congratulatory words prepared by the ministers were useless, and the final resolution was according to what Wang Deyong said, and Zhao Zhen handed over the matter of negotiation with the Liao envoy to Wang Deyong and Song Qi in front of the courtiers.
After arranging these things, Zhao Zhen was a little tired, and he didn't take back the land of Yanyun, which made his mood not as excited as before. Seeing that the big thing was over, he nodded his head to Zhang Mao on the side, and said as he got up slowly, "I'm tired, if there is anything else to discuss with the queen."
Zhao Zhen's body is a little better than before, but it is also limited. There is no problem in working in a short time, but after a long time, it is a little unbearable, so in the eyes of everyone, he left the vertical arch hall.
Empress Cao got up to see Zhao Zhen off, and then returned to the golden dragon chair and sat down, and when she looked at the courtiers below, she said with a somewhat high-spirited look: "If there is something wrong with the Aiqing, just play it."
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In the post house, Zhang Jian did not wait for the good news, and waited for Wang Deyong and Song Qi to arrive.
This made Zhang Jian very disappointed, if it was normal, he would have to get angry, this move was invincible for Zhao Song. Often as long as they do this, Zhao Song will be scared and will reconsider the suggestions they put forward.
But now that the Liao State wants to fight with Su Shi, it can't take care of it, where does it come from to ask Zhao Song Xingshi for his guilt?
The situation has changed, Zhang Jian is really not strong, when facing Wang Deyong and the two, his attitude has become much more humble, and in the next discussion, he also restrained his temper and accepted the fact that Zhao Song sold high-priced grain to them.
But at the same time, Zhang Jian also proposed that Zhao and Song could not send troops, and they could also make a fortune on the issue of grain prices, but the Song soldiers must not take the opportunity to enter and send troops to the north, otherwise, even if the Liao State bowed its head and negotiated peace with Su Shi and made concessions, it would first turn back and clean up Zhao Song.
Regarding this, Wang De agreed with the two of them.
What are you kidding, they didn't want to take the opportunity to send troops in the first place. Isn't it good to watch the Liao Kingdom and the Dragon Empire fight to the death?
Dispatch troops? It takes money and food, and it will kill people.
For so many years, there have always been more defeats and fewer victories, so that Zhao Song's generals have no confidence. How could they take the initiative to provoke a war?
Seeing that the two agreed, Zhang Jian was also relieved. What he was worried about was that Zhao Song would take advantage of the situation, and with the current situation in Liao, if there was a war on two fronts, the pressure would be too great.
Fortunately, these people in the Song Dynasty were accustomed to comfort and enjoyment, and they were not active and warlike people, that is, the southern border of the Liao State was not in danger, and they could mobilize more troops to go to the north to fight to the death with Su Shi.
Zhang Jian was still thinking about how to destroy Su Shi, and he would hit the other party hard, but he didn't know that just yesterday, on the twenty-first day of the truce negotiated between Liao and the Dragon Empire, the Dragon Army launched a full-scale attack in advance.
1. The three dragoon brigades attacked Suizhou Shanhe City.
The 1st Division of the People's Army attacked Liaozhou.
The 2nd Division of the People's Army attacked Yinzhou.
The 3rd KPA Division attacked the Huibu in the northeast.
With the cooperation of hundreds of thousands of auxiliary soldiers, peasant soldiers and auxiliary peasant soldiers, the dragon army took the initiative at the beginning of the war, putting great pressure on the cities of Liao, and the cities were also in danger, and the carrier pigeons asking for help flew all over the sky.
In Liaoyang Mansion, Tokyo, after learning that the Dragon Army had launched an operation ten days in advance, Wen Xing, the envoy of the Liao State in the city, Wen Xing, the secretary of the Honglu Temple of the Liao State, wanted to ask Su Shi for an explanation.
Where could the angry Wen Xing find Su Shi's shadow, but Zhang Ao took the initiative to appear and stopped him in front of him.
"Lord Zhang, didn't we say that we would renegotiate the situation in front of us in thirty days, and whether to send troops or not would have to be decided at that time? Why do you take the initiative to provoke a war without believing in your word?"
As soon as they met, Wen Xing said with a look of being reasonable.
But he forgot a very important sentence - a weak country has no diplomacy.
Only when the strength is inferior to others, the so-called envoys will reason. The real strong people don't follow any rules, because they are the ones who make the rules in the first place.
Facing Wen Xing with an angry face, Zhang Ao laughed and said, "Oh, I'm really embarrassed. We have already investigated, and it was the generals below who did not listen to the order and took the initiative to attack, and for this matter, our Majesty has personally gone to the front line to investigate this matter, and I believe that there will be a result soon."