Xiao Ming has been dragging his feet, Emperor Tianzuo has urged him to send troops several times, he has delayed with the excuse that the military preparations are not completed, he is waiting, he is waiting for the results of the sale of war debts, within this time, the Western Xia Kingdom and the Great Song Kingdom have all known the news that the Liao army is going to attack the Western Xia, and all parties have different reactions!

The Western Xia royal court looked very angry! Emperor Tianzuo angrily denounced the Great Xia Dynasty as despicable and shameless, appointed traitors, and tried in vain to assassinate the Great Liao Emperor and split the land of the Great Liao Kingdom! and told the world that they should immediately withdraw from the Altay region, and at the same time hand over the Bana Tieji.

In this regard, the Western Xia State chose to remain silent, and at the same time reorganized the army to fight, deployed heavy troops on the Xialiao border, and the general Helian Tielie led 150,000 troops to garrison the Zhongwei Mansion in Weizhou.

At the same time, Li Qianshun, the emperor of the Western Xia state, also sent an envoy to borrow troops from the Western Uighurs in Gaochang, and on the other hand, they began to have frequent contact with the Jin Jurchens, and were discussing plans to attack the Liao state from the east and west, and they were cautious and friendly to the Great Song Dynasty, because they did not understand the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty towards this matter!

The attitude of the Great Song Dynasty is quite interesting! The ministers of the court and the central government had a wait-and-see attitude, and the scholar of the Xuanhe Palace, and the royal history of the Cheng Wang Huang re-mentioned Zhao Lianghe's plan to attack Liao with Jin, which was opposed by the Taishi Liang Shicheng, and only Tong Guan supported it among the ministers! Wang Hao explained to Huizong.

"Although I have been connected with the north and south of Daliao for a hundred years, since the tiring dynasty, there are many people who are slow to me. Both weak and weak, the good scriptures of martial arts. Now Fufu, the Jurchen will be strong, and the Central Plains will no longer be mine. "Although the emperor said to him, he took the soldiers as his subordinates, and ordered to protect the people and watch the provocation as the best policy."

He also said: "Today, Liao is weak, and Xia is at odds, and there are Jurchens in the north, it is the time of internal and external hardship, at this time, if you don't take Yan and Jin, when will you stay?" ”

Song Huizong frowned and said: "I have just signed the "Regulations on Land Leasing and Trade" with Da Liao, and the two countries have opened ports for trade, and now they have just benefited from it, so they will break the contract, isn't it good?" ”

Tong Guan said: "My Great Song Dynasty currently has a lot of war horses, but the cavalry training is not easy, Liao is weak and I want to get benefits, but Daxia has the heart to kill me, and tens of thousands of fertile land in my northwest throat are all in Xia's hands, which is really a big trouble!" Although the national strength of the Great Liao State is declining, it has recently improved, and the elite is still there, so it is better to take summer from Liao! ”

One wants to attack Liao with gold, and the other wants to break the summer with Liao! This makes Huizong a little embarrassed! To tell the truth, Song Huizong is currently very satisfied with the current national situation, basically without much effort, he has nominally recovered the six states of Yanyundong, and since the trade with Daliao, the industrial and commercial taxes have increased significantly, and the domestic market that is declining has been unprecedentedly prosperous.

The rent of the six eastern states of the Liao State opened one million taels of silver per state, and then sold for four and a half million taels, which is a drop in the bucket for the Great Song Dynasty, with the dependence of the Great Liao State on the industrial and commercial products of the Song Dynasty, the actual profit of the Great Song Dynasty is far higher than expected, and the four states of the Jin Dynasty and the six states of the West are just around the corner!

The idea of being able to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun and become the first emperor of the ages is extremely tempting to Huizong, but unfortunately there is no martial arts, relying on the strong economic strength of the Great Song Dynasty! Huizong was always a little awkward in his heart, so he had some thoughts about Wang Hao and Tong Guan's proposals.

Liu Zhengfu, the new Dazai young master, said: "Lian Jin may not be able to attack Liao, the Jurchen people are greedy and cunning and have a great appetite, and my Great Song Dynasty's current benefits and Great Liao are not subject to the country, so there is no longer a Sui Gong to say, the Tanyuan Covenant is no longer counted, and my Great Song Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty took back the Eastern Six Prefectures completely related to the mediation of the Chengxuan envoy beside the Liao Emperor, how can we ignore him?" ”

Emperor Huizong immediately realized that at this stage, leaving Xiao Ming by the side of Emperor Liao could still seek greater benefits for the Great Song Dynasty, so he could not make enemies with the Liao State now, and as for whether to assist the Liao army in taking military action against Western Xia, it remains to be discussed.

So the entire Great Song Dynasty court actually maintained an astonishing silence on the matter of the Liao State against the summer, neither taking any action nor expressing any opinions, but these Song Dynasty scholars and doctors were not stupid, they knew the truth of profiting from it, so the Great Song Dynasty began to frequently take various means to raise the strength of the whole country to make war and foreign wealth!

From Hunan and Hubei in the southeast, from Bianjing to Shudi, a large number of merchants and businessmen began to emerge, and there were even hundreds of thousands of people who made profits from border trade, and there were also merchants from Liangguang, Fujian, and other places who ran to the border of Songliao and Songxia to do business.

I don't know what they got from there, saying that to do business with Liao, you must have a relationship with the "Taiping", otherwise it is difficult to get permission, and Richanglong has a good communication and sales channel in the Western Xia royal court with its strong power, and it is a dock that must be worshiped to do business with the Western Xia!

Regardless of the Taiping and Ri Changlong's anxiety to deal with these people, and the caravans of carriages and horses transporting various materials and goods on the border of the three countries are lined up in a long line! Including grain, tea, salt, medicinal materials, cloth, farm tools, timber, silk and linen and other materials were continuously transported to the Liao State and the Western Xia Kingdom.

Compared to the Liao State, which was only short of iron products and textiles, the Western Xia Kingdom wanted everything, and he was not as self-sufficient as the Liao State Liunanfu, the Western Xia Kingdom was basically insufficient in productivity, in addition to the self-sufficiency of grain, many things needed to be imported by trade, so a lot of silver was earned by the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty!

This kind of trade has been going on for quite a long time, it has been on the rise since March and April, and by June and July, it has almost reached an unprecedented level.

But the Western Xia State does not think like this, although the state of the Liao State is not as good as before, but it still has a strong potential, let go of the Liao State to unscrupulously obtain war materials ready to deal with themselves, it is simply a kind of suicide, so against the Great Song merchants who are constantly doing business with the Liao State, the Western Xia people took action!

On this day, Yang Qizhong led the shopkeeper of the Taiping Iron Factory in Nanjing to meet Xiao Ming, who knew that Xiao Ming was the boss behind the Taiping Iron Factory, and he complained to Xiao Ming about several serious incidents in which the convoy of the Taiping was attacked and the goods were robbed!

Xiao Ming was furious when he heard this! The Tianping is currently the largest merchant in the largest trade with the Liao State, almost unimpeded in the Liao Territory, many caravans are attached to the Taiping under the banner to follow, and now they are robbed, which proves that someone began to do something to Xiao Ming, but Xiao Ming does not believe that it happened in the Liao Border at this time, so it will be too faceless.

After inquiry, as Xiao Ming expected, these robberies all occurred in Song Jing, away from the Song-Liao border area, where the terrain is steep and inaccessible, and it is not only the caravan of the Taiping that was robbed, but also the caravan of other merchants had the experience of being robbed!

These robbers and gangsters don't seem to care much about the goods, and they don't cause too much human injury, unless the guards of the team resist desperately, generally speaking, they only treat the goods and not people, but on a few occasions they do not take the goods, but burn the goods, as if the purpose is to attack the caravans, so that they are afraid of the difficulties of the trade routes and give up their trade with Liao.

Xiao Ming, in the name of the king of the Southern Court of the Great Liao Kingdom, made solemn representations to the Great Song Dynasty Daimyo Mansion Jiande Army Jiedu Envoy Seed Master Dao, and reprimanded him for such an incident in his defense area, your officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty do not protect the people of the Great Song Dynasty, do you want my Great Liao army to protect them? They were asked to immediately intensify their patrols on the trade routes, protect the caravans, and track down the robbers who had been captured.

At the same time, he used the flying kite to send a message, ordering the Hangzhou Huwei Camp and the Huwei Training Base in Weihai, Shandong Province to quickly send personnel to Xuzhou, and the caravans that protected and guarded the Taiping along the way were divided into two batches from the main trade routes, and the guard merchant group was formally established, with Luo Wen personally in charge.

Receiving Xiao Ming's negotiation, the seed master Dao was very flustered, Xiao Ming's tone was very harsh, and the Song army did not do anything to protect the trade routes, then he would send the Liao army to Song Jing to protect the trade routes, this kind of thing would immediately escalate into a political crisis between countries, and he did not dare to slack off at the moment, and immediately sent soldiers and horses to inspect an important trade route on the Song-Liao border, and offered a reward for the arrest of bandits.

Luo Wen Luo Dingbang is a little blessed now, the reason is that his days in Hangzhou are too comfortable, in addition to going to the training ground every day is to drink tea, he participated in the selection of talents for the Tiger Guard, and also participated in the formulation of the new Tiger Guard training code, now he is the supreme commander, called by the Tiger Guard: "General!" ”

Now the Hangzhou Tiger Guard Battalion has expanded to nearly 2,000 people, Hangzhou is the main training base, followed by the Tiger Guard training base in Weihai, the Tiger Guards in the two places adopt the method of rotation training, most of the Tiger Guards have taken a boat to the cave base, which is a more practical way of actual combat training, and there are also Tiger Guards in charge.

The training mode of the entire Tiger Guard continues the training method adopted by Xiao Ming in Xiuzhou, that is, the whole day is busy, the daily training and living arrangements are still very full, and gradually begins to carry out professional inheritance, that is, to continuously increase the sense of honor of the Tiger Guards, but it is difficult to have a sense of honor without the team that has been baptized by the founding of the country, which is also the purpose of Xiao Ming's arrangement for 800 Tiger Guards to enter the Liao State by escorting the Taiping caravan.

And this measure against the Western Xia to crack down on the Song and Liao trade, soon received results, Luo Wen arranged two batches of escort tasks this time, and successively escorted the caravan of two merchant groups into the Liao State, the first team due to the size of the caravan, Luo Wen arranged three hundred tiger guards to escort, and the size of the second caravan has thousands of cars and horses into the Liao State, Luo Wen then led five hundred tiger guards to escort in person.

When passing through Zhuozhou, everyone was still very nervous, because this is the place where robberies often occur, but nothing happened, and then go down to the place where the Great Wall of Gubeikou is passed, which is the place where the Song Dynasty officials and soldiers sent by the master to patrol frequently, and everyone felt safe, so people gradually relaxed their vigilance.

But here, when the caravan was camping and resting in the evening, they suddenly heard the messy and violent sound of horses' hooves, which was obviously not the cavalry of the official army passing by, and everyone immediately realized that it was broken! The robbers are still coming!

The Tiger Guard Battalion, which responded quickly, according to the usual practice, did not need Rowan to give orders, they had already made a defensive posture, and quickly arranged a defensive circle, Rowin was very worried that the robbers would rob when the caravan was walking during the day, in that case, the number of robbers was large, and then the use of cavalry, the Tiger Guards were likely to suffer, but the other party actually chose to attack when the caravan was camped, then it was not afraid.

Because the tiger guards have fought such battles several times, it is very easy to deal with them, they put down the vehicles in a circle, and arranged three layers of blocking positions, the merchants and the chauffeurs and others are in the innermost circle, and the tiger guards are distributed in the outer layer, but waiting for the arrival of the robbers.

The number of robbers was not too small, nearly a thousand robbers, all riding fierce horses, brandishing swords and bows and arrows, screamed and rushed to the defensive position arranged by the tiger guard, but they were soon hit by the first wave of arrows, such crossbow arrows were fired intensively, and the accuracy of the head was extremely high, and the horse eyes of the rider who rushed in front were immediately blinded, and the horse neighed and fell to the ground and threw the rider off the horse, and at the same time blocked the fierce horse that was charging behind.

This is followed by a second wave of arrows, the target is the throat and eyes of the rider, even if you dodge on the horse or lie on the horse, it is useless, your horse will be immediately blinded, and the rider will constantly fall off the horse, even if you rush outside the defensive circle, you will be killed by a strange bullet on the periphery.

In fact, the battle did not last long, and it ended quickly, when the tiger guards pulled out a small clay pot from their bodies and threw it at the robbers, there was immediately a violent explosion, and the explosion and fire mixed with broken pottery shards and iron filings immediately shattered the fighting spirit of the robbers, and the tiger guards sent by Rowan were surrounded in a semicircular manner, and surrendered on their knees!

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