Li Qian rushed out of the door, returned to the hall, couldn't help but take out the box of golden sand, opened it, only to see the golden light, couldn't help but smile.

He led the guards back to the palace, immediately summoned Li Tianhao, and said to him: "I have an important matter for you to handle, this matter is related to the survival and continuation of our Great Xia, you have to be careful!" Li Tianhao thought that Dao Chong was going to send himself to negotiate with the Tubo people, but he only felt that he was afraid of it even if he was broken for the sake of Daxia, so he bowed down and said: "What is the king's send, even if he orders, the ministers will go to Tang to step on the fire!" If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent! ”

Hearing what he said, he couldn't help but be moved, walked up to Li Tianhao, patted him on the shoulder, and said with emotion: "If the civil and military ministers of Great Xia are like adults, why would we be like this in Great Xia!" Li Tianhao couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

He said, "I want you to be the envoy of the Great Xia to Tianjing New City!" ……”

Li Tianhao was very surprised and asked, "Envoy to Tianjing New City?" Isn't it an envoy to the Tibetan military camp? Dao Chong shook his head with a smile, looking very unpredictable, and said, "What is the envoy to the Tubo military camp doing?" The Tubo people are now too busy to take care of themselves, what we have to do is to stabilize Yanyun and buy enough time for our Great Xia Nirvana rebirth! ”

Li Tianhao didn't quite understand. Dao Chong smiled and said, "You may not know that the Snow Mountain Fortress was attacked by the Yan Yun Army not long ago," Li Tianhao was overjoyed when he suddenly heard the news, and asked urgently: "The Snow Mountain Fortress was broken by the Yan Yun Army?!" Yu Daochong nodded and said, "Not only was the Snow Mountain Fortress attacked, but the Tubo people lost 500,000 loads of grain and grass and many soldiers and horses!" Hmph, the Tubo people have been robbed of their grain and grass, and they are facing the threat of Yan Yunjun, and they are still coming to scare us, how can I be so easily fooled! Li Tianhao pondered: "If you say this, the ultimatum of the Tubo people is nothing more than a lie and intimidation!" He glanced up at Dao Chong and said, "Let's ignore them!" ”

Yu Daochong nodded and said, "The most important thing now is to stabilize Yan Yun. With the grain and grass seized from the Snow Mountain Fortress, the Yanyun army can mobilize the army, and the big battle between Yanyun and Tubo is inevitable! I estimate that Yan Yun will be able to win in the end, so for the safety of our Great Xia, there must be someone who will send an envoy to Tianjing New City to try to stabilize Yan Yun, so that the Yan King thinks that we are going to surrender, and then do not use troops against us, as long as it drags on for a while, the grain and grass that Yan Yun seized from the Tubo people will be exhausted, and even if Yan Yun discovers the truth, it doesn't matter. If Yan Yun wants to use troops against our Great Xia, at least after the beginning of spring next year! At that time, our preparations were sufficient, even if Yanyun's army invaded, after all, we were on an expedition, and we were not afraid of him! At that time, there will be a decisive battle to see who will kill the deer! ”

Hu Dao Chong said arrogantly, Li Tianhao couldn't help but feel agitated, nodded, looked at Hu Dao Chong, and said with admiration: "The king has no last resort, and the lower officials admire it!" ”

Dao Chong smiled, and then said with a solemn expression: "You have to remember, you have to do everything you can to make the other party believe us!" For this, you can say anything, you can do anything. In addition, in order to win the trust of King Yan, I will select ten royal beauties and hand them over to you to dedicate to King Yan. ”

Li Tianhao frowned, sighed, and said helplessly: "For the sake of Great Xia, such a sacrifice is also a last resort!" Dao Chong patted Li Tianhao on the shoulder and said, "If you don't have any doubts, go down and prepare, and I will send someone to inform you later." Li Tianhao bowed and retreated.

After thinking about it, he called a close guard, and ordered: "Go and invite me immediately to bring me generals such as Brother Hugh, Li Dingkun, and Li Fenglong, I have something important to discuss with them!" The guard said yes and ran down.

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After Songhe's ultimatum, he anxiously awaited a response from the Tangut side. However, to their surprise, the response of the Tangut people was to arrest the envoy he had sent, but to release Yanyun's envoy. Songhyuk was furious, and even though he wanted to attack the city, he was stopped by Duo Sang: "General, don't be impulsive!" Now that the Yanyun army is on the side, if our army storms the city, the Yanyun army is very likely to attack the rear of our army, and then our army will be attacked by the enemy on the back, but it will be very bad! ”

Song He was shocked, calmed down, and after a moment of silence, he ordered: "Order all armies, stop the attack, and immediately withdraw to the Snow Mountain Fortress!" At this moment, a dusty herald rushed in, knelt down and said, "General Qiyu, Yanyun War Cavalry came to attack the Snow Mountain Fortress not long ago," Song He was startled and asked urgently, "How is the situation?" The herald said: "General Busang defended strictly according to the instructions of the general, and the Yanyun army has no chance to take advantage of it, and has been repelled by our army!" Songhe and the others breathed a sigh of relief, and Songhe said to the herald: "Go back and tell Busang that he has done a good job, and I will ask for credit for him in front of His Majesty." Let him continue to guard against stubbornness and not be negligent and slack! The herald said yes and ran down.

Song He was worried that the back road would be cut off by Yan Yunjun, so he hurriedly said to the generals: "Order all the armies, pull out the camp overnight, and retreat to the Snow Mountain Fortress!" The generals agreed in unison. After the generals left, Songhyuk hesitated for a moment, called a personal soldier, and ordered: "You, immediately rush back to the Holy Capital, report the situation here to Your Majesty, and ask Your Majesty to mobilize a large army from all over the country to come to support!" Then he handed him an arrow, and his own soldiers took it, bowed to Songhe, and hurried away.

Song He looked at the night outside the big tent with his hands behind his back, with a fierce look on his face, and muttered: "After all, the soldiers and horses that can be mobilized by 500,000 loads of grain and grass are limited, so I don't believe that our Great Tubo can't defeat your little soldiers and horses with the strength of the whole country!" ”

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Yang Peng was discussing the current situation in Western Xia with Ye Yu Guanyin and Yang Qi in the hall, Fan Long and Yang Gui hurriedly came in, hugged their fists and said, "King Yan!" Several people turned their heads to look at the two, and when Yang Peng saw that Yang Gui was back, he knew that he led the army to raid the Snow Mountain Fortress again without success. Yang Gui said with a look of shame: "The last general failed to capture the Snow Mountain Fortress!" Then he knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty: "Please ask King Yan to punish the crime!" ”

Yang Peng stood up, walked to Yang Gui's side, and patted him on the shoulder: "Get up." Although Yang Gui had the heart to plead guilty, Yang Gui's words contained an irresistible majesty, so Yang Gui couldn't help but stand up.

Yang Peng looked at the blue sky outside the hall with his hands behind his back, and said lightly: "This raid is a fluke. He turned around, glanced at Yang Gui, and said with a smile: "The Snow Mountain Fortress was attacked by us once, but any general who is not too bad will also quickly send troops to strengthen the defense." You failed to capture the Snow Mountain Fortress, that's a matter of reason, don't blame yourself. Yang Guiying said: "Yes." ”

Yang Peng exchanged a look with Ya Yu Guanyin and said, "Now wait for General Yang to lead the army to arrive!" As soon as the army arrives, we can launch an attack on Xiliangfu! All the generals showed eagerness, and Yang Gui said worriedly: "I'm afraid that the Tubo people will be unwilling to come and make trouble!" Yang Peng nodded and said, "This is something you can't prevent!" After a pause, he continued: "And I'm worried that the Tubo people will come to fight me with all the troops of the whole country!" Hehe, let's put them together, they're just afraid that they're already annoyed and angry! ”

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There was a mess in the main hall of the Tubo Imperial Palace, and everyone was angrily scolding, scolding Yan Yun for being despicable and shameless, scolding Yang Peng for being untrustworthy, and it was messy, even more chaotic than the vegetable market.

The shouting and scolding gradually quieted down, and the Tubo Emperor said with great resentment: "Yan Yun teased us like this, if we stop here, who will take us Tubo seriously in the future!" "All the civil and military forces shouted again, shouting and shouting and killing, it can be said that the crowd is excited! After a moment, there was silence. The Tibetan Emperor couldn't help but regret a little when he thought of Zambala's advice, but now it was useless to regret it, and the resourceful and proficient prime minister Zambala had already turned into loess.

Emperor Tubo said: "Yan Yun wants to annex Western Xia, that is a fantasy, I will never let them succeed!" The land west of Xiliangfu belongs to our Great Tibet! The ministers chimed in.

The Tubo Emperor ordered: "Order the armies from all over the country to gather in Qingtang, obey Song He's order to fight to the death with the Yanyun army, and seize Western Xia!" The ministers agreed in unison.

After the dissolution, the emperor went to the Potala Palace under the escort of the guards, hoping to receive the guidance and blessing of the Great Living Buddha. Tibet is a Buddhist country, the monarchs and the people are devout Buddhists, their belief in Buddhism is reflected in all aspects, as far as the Tibetan emperor is concerned, any major decision-making, will ask for the guidance and blessing of the great living Buddha, only in this way, the Tibetan emperor and the subjects will feel the bottom of their hearts. The current Tibetan emperor is named Dezan, and he is especially a believer in Buddhism and living Buddha.

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Yang Peng received a report from Yang Qi that the scouts had found a Western Xia team in the wilderness dozens of miles north of Zhuoluo City, and judging by the composition of the team and their costumes, it should be an embassy.

Yang Peng felt a little strange and muttered, "What does it mean that the Western Xia people sent an envoy at this time?" Ya Kannon said: "Could it be that they have discovered our intentions and want to come and sue for peace?" Yang Peng nodded and said, "There is this possibility!" Then he felt that it was not good for him to meet the Western Xia delegation here, so he said to Yang Qi: "Yang Qi, you go to receive them, find out their intentions, and don't say that Guanyin and I are here." Yang Qi clenched his fists and promised.

Soon after, the Western Xia delegation arrived outside the northern gate of Zhuoluo City, and Li Tianhao sent an accompanying officer to deliver a credential to indicate the identity of his mission. The letter of state was quickly transferred to Yang Peng's hands, Yang Peng opened the letter of state and looked at it, and saw that the letter of state was stamped with the jade seal of the emperor of the Western Xia, and the other party was indeed a delegation sent by the Western Xia. After thinking for a moment, he said to Yang Qi: "Just do what we agreed before!" He then returned the credentials to Yang Qi.

Yang Qi answered and ran down.

Li Tianhao and his entourage were waiting outside the city, and suddenly saw the city gate open, and a Yanyun officer led a team of Yanyun troops out of the city gate, and said loudly: "The general has an order, and the envoys of Western Xia will meet in the camp!" Li Tianhao raised his voice and said, "Thank you, General!" Then he led his retinue into the city gate in a number of carriages. The gates were shut. Li Tianhao followed the Yanyun officer to the top of the camp hall, only to see a heroic and extraordinary general sitting on the head, knowing that it must be the commander of the Yanyun army here, he bowed slightly and pressed his chest, and said: "Li Tianhao, the envoy of Western Xia, has seen the general!" ”

Yang Qi glanced at him and said lightly: "Your envoy doesn't have to be polite. At the same time, on the back of the screen behind Yang Qi, there were two people sitting, it was Yang Peng and Ya Yu Guanyin, who were listening to the speech in the hall.

Li Tianhao said: "On behalf of His Majesty the Emperor of our country, this envoy sent an envoy to Tianjing New City to meet King Yan, and I also ask the general to make it convenient!" ”

Yang Qi said: "It's good to say, your envoy is a Western Xia envoy, and this general will naturally not be difficult to be a noble envoy." But I don't know why you came here? Li Tianhao said: "This envoy's trip is to discuss with King Yan on behalf of the regent and His Majesty the Emperor of our country to discuss the attached matters!" As soon as these words came out, not only Yang Qi in the hall was surprised, but even Yang Peng and Ya Yu Guanyin behind the screen were also very surprised, the two originally thought that the other party was here to sue for peace, but they didn't expect that the other party was actually here to surrender, it was like a big pie suddenly falling from the sky.

Yang Qi said: "I heard me right, your envoy said that Xixia intends to surrender to me Yanyun?" ”

Li Tianhao sighed and said: "Now that Yanyun is like the sky, King Yan is a great hero who is not born in the world, the destiny of heaven returns, if my party and family want to survive, they can only conform to the will of heaven, how can they go against the sky!" Ye Yu Guanyin glanced at Yang Peng, smiled lightly, Yang Peng couldn't help but smile, and reached out to hold Ye Yu Guanyin's slender hand.

Yang Qi said: "If Xixia really knows the destiny of heaven and moves the clan to vote, King Yan will definitely be very pleased, and he will never treat your party members badly, under the rule of Yanyun, everyone will be treated equally!" However, if Western Xia wants to play any tricks, hmph, you should know very well that with Yan Yun's current strength, it is easy to destroy Western Xia, and any tricks are useless! ”

Li Tianhao nodded and said, "What the general said is extremely true!" General rest assured, our party members are not stupid and know what to do! Then he asked curiously: "The general talks extraordinary, I don't know what to call it?" Yang Qi said: "This general Yang Qi belongs to General Yang of the Volcano Army directly under the legion. ”

Li Tianhao had heard of Yang Qi's name a long time ago, and knew that he was the most important general under the Yang family's army before, and now he was a general who was quite valued by King Yan, so he said in surprise: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect General Yang to come here!" When he said this, his heart was shocked, and his face couldn't help but show it.

Yang Qi said: "General Ben was ordered to raid the Snow Mountain Fortress. If it weren't for General Ben's raid on the Snow Mountain Fortress, the Tubo army would not have retreated so easily! When Li Tianhao heard this, he thought of what he had said before, and the doubts in his heart disappeared immediately, and he saluted with a smile: "The lower officials want to thank the general for the hundreds of thousands of people in Western Xia!" If it weren't for the general who led the army to raid the Snow Mountain Fortress, I don't know how many people would have died at the hands of the Tubo people! ”

Yang Qi said: "Your envoy doesn't have to be polite. Do you plan to stay here for one night, or do you want to leave immediately? ”

Li Tianhao was worried about the long nights and dreams, and said, "The envoy wants to leave for Tianjing New City immediately!" Yang Qi nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send a team of sergeants to escort the adults and their party to Tianjing New Town!" "Thank you, General!" Yang Qi turned his head to the officer standing on the side and said, "Take your envoy down to rest!" The officer clenched his fists in agreement. Yang Qi said to Li Tianhao: "Your envoy will rest first, my side is ready, and I will send someone to inform your envoy!" Li Tianhao bowed and said, "There is General Lao!" Then he followed the officer down.

Yang Peng and Ya Yu Guanyin turned out from behind the screen. Yang Qi hugged his fists at the two and said, "King Yan, Niangniang." ”

Yang Peng asked Yang Qi: "What do you think?" Yang Qi thought for a while, hugged his fists and said: "The last general thinks that it is natural for the Xixia people to surrender," Yang Peng walked to a chair and sat down, and said to Yang Qi: "You continue." Yang Qi replied and continued; Western Xia lost the most fertile land, and the army and civilians as well as many years of reserves were lost! Not to mention resisting our Yanyun, it is also very difficult to resist Tubo, if it weren't for our army's action, I believe it won't be long before Western Xia will be annexed by Tubo! ……”

Yang Peng smiled bitterly: "I really overestimated the Western Xia before, thinking that although their strength was greatly damaged, it should not be a big problem to resist Tubo for a year and a half. But I didn't expect that in such a short period of time, Western Xia was on the verge of extinction, which was very different from our previous estimates, and my strategy of competing with the fishermen for profit was really self-defeating! Ye Yu Guanyin said: "People are not as good as heaven, although the plan is set, but many times things will not develop according to their expectations!" ”

Yang Peng nodded, looked at Yang Qi, and said, "Do you think that Western Xia is cornered, but I, Yanyun, are in full swing, so Western Xia has no choice but to surrender to us?" Yang Qi hugged his fists and said: "Yan Wang Mingjian, that's what his subordinates think!" ”

Yang Peng looked at Ye Yu Guanyin, and Ye Yu Guanyin said angrily: "Can you not be so suspicious!" The current situation in Western Xia, apart from surrendering to our Yanyun, is there any other way out? Unless they want to die for the Western Xia and live and die with the Western Xia, this is very admirable, but I don't believe that there are few people who can have such courage! ”

Yang Peng nodded with a smile and said, "You're right, but we also have to be completely prepared." He said to Yang Qi: "The guards and horses lead the mission from the southern line, don't run into Yang Yanzhao's army." Yang Qi clenched his fists and promised. Yang Peng thought about it, walked to the back of the bookcase, Ye Yu Guanyin understood, immediately walked to the bookcase, spread a blank letter paper in front of Chen Xiao, and then poured a little water into the inkstone, grinding the ink, Yang Peng sat on the seat and thought.

Yang Peng thought about it almost, and Yang Peng's ink was also polished. Yang Peng picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, and wrote quickly on the letterhead, the speed was very fast, but it was very sonorous and powerful, which was definitely Yang Peng's characteristic, which no one could imitate.

Yang Peng wrote the letter, dried the ink, folded it, took an envelope, put it in, handed it to Yang Qi, and instructed: "Send the herald to hand it over to Han Bing's hands as quickly as possible!" Yang Qi clenched his fists in agreement, stepped forward, took the letter with both hands, and turned around and ran.

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Although Dao Chong judged that Yan Yun would definitely be in the middle of the plan, but Li Tianhao's news had not yet come back, he did not dare to be careless, so the guards of the city gates of Xiliang Mansion were still very tight, and Hu Dao Chong had to go to the four gates every morning and evening to inspect one. The atmosphere in the city is not as tense as before, but everyone is still worried, there are few pedestrians on the streets, and the few pedestrians I occasionally see are in a hurry.

In the big tent of the Iron Harrier Army barracks, several generals such as Brother Wei came to the big tent at the invitation of Li Dingkun, the general of the Iron Harriers. After a few pleasantries, the two sides sat down. Meat and alcohol were placed in front of everyone. Li Dingkun withdrew his own soldiers, frowned and said to the generals: "Don't hide it from your brothers, I have been going up and down in my heart!" Although the regent said that he would not surrender to Yan Yun, it was difficult to say whether this was true or false! ”

When the generals heard him say this, they couldn't help but look at each other, some disagreed, and some showed worry. Li Fenglong said: "The general is too worried! Why should the regent deceive us about such a thing? Several generals nodded in agreement.

Li Dingkun snorted coldly and said, "He naturally has a reason to lie to me!" Everyone knows that we, the warriors of Western Xia, are unwilling to surrender and be slaves of the country, and we are always worthy of our ancestors and ancestors if we die on the battlefield! But those civil officials and aristocrats are different, they think differently from us, they only care about whether they can continue to live their good life, they don't have any integrity at all, and the regent is also a civil official, is it different from them? I don't think it's much worse! ”

The generals couldn't help frowning, and those generals who originally believed in the Dao Chong couldn't help but waver. Brother Wei Ming Xiu frowned and said, "But if we don't agree, he has reached an agreement with Yan Yun, what can he do?" Li Fenglong echoed: "Not bad! This is unreasonable, the regent is so resourceful, how could he do such a useless thing? I believe in the Regent! "When Brother Wei Mingxiu saw what Li Dingkun wanted to say, he immediately intercepted his words and said;" The general is loyal to the country, and we admire him very much! However, I have a word of persuasion, and I ask the general not to be surprised! What the general said just now cannot be said to be completely unreasonable, but it is a guess out of thin air, and there is no evidence at all, this kind of remark can only shake the morale of the army, and will not do any good, and please don't say it again in the future! ”

Li Dingkun snorted coldly and said, "The regent has entrusted the general with a heavy responsibility, and it is not surprising that the general speaks like this!" Brother Wei shook his head and said, "I'm here for Great Xia, not for the regent, and this heart can be seen every day!" What my brother Hugh has been doing all the time must also be obvious to all, what is the intention of Brother Hugh, there is no need to justify! The generals have always known that he is loyal and righteous, and seeing that he is righteous and awe-inspiring, they can't help but feel that he is indeed for Great Xia, and he does not have the slightest selfishness.

Brother Wei said to Li Dingkun: "The general doesn't believe in the regent, and this is also a helpless thing!" It's just that I want to ask the general to put the overall situation first, and don't provoke disputes, otherwise there will be civil strife, and our Great Xia will really be doomed! At that time, what will the great general face to meet the ancestors and ancestors? ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.