Chapter 78 The first level in the world
Yanmen Pass has always been called the world's number one pass and is an important pass to defend the Song Dynasty. Although it has experienced countless wars, Yanmen Pass still stands tall. Only the traces left outside the city prove that it has experienced the stories it has experienced at all times.
Looking at the Liao soldiers who retreated like a tide and left only a corpse, Hua Yuelong's face showed a solemn look. Because according to a general around him, their attack today seemed to be even more fierce. Although they were repelled again and again, they were extremely persistent. They launched seven waves of attacks today, and the result was that tens of thousands of corpses were left to retreat.
In the Liao** tent
"Your Majesty, our food is already a little short of enough, and we can only last ten days at most."
Yelu Hongji was also having a headache when listening to the people below. His original intention was to fight the Qiufeng of the Song Dynasty, and to send all the soldiers who had betrayed him to the battlefield, and to take the opportunity to consume their power, which would be more conducive to his rule. It was originally a killing kill for two birds with one stone, but due to the economic war launched by Hua Yuelong, the domestic economy collapsed. The Liao Kingdom had not had its own unique culture and had always been learning from the Han people and had achieved some achievements. However, after an economic war, domestic business collapsed suddenly, and the domestic chaos was even more aroused dissatisfaction among the people in China.
Fortunately, there are still smart people in the country. They sent people to promote bad words from the Song Dynasty among the people to arouse their anger, and they also described the wealth of the Song people. They also asked them like those who participated in the Battle of Song and Liao before, and learned that the Song people were really rich and very weak. What does this mean? It means that there is a lot of wealth and beauties are waiting for them. Only they will have a harvest. People die for money and birds die for food. This made some nobles in Liao red eyes. Under their guidance, the conflict between the people and them in China was immediately transferred. But what they didn't expect was that the Song people's defense was so strong that after investing more than 100,000 lives, they were not even able to break through Yanmen Pass. At this time, these nobles were suddenly in a difficult position. They believed that if they retreated, they would definitely be torn to pieces by the angry people in the country.
Yelu Hongji did not dare to retreat. After a turmoil, his foundation was not as stable as before. If this failure was made, his result could be foreseeable.
In order to reduce losses, he specially pushed slaves to the battlefield as cannon fodder, and even sent people to Baishan Hei River to capture some ethnic minorities as cannon fodder, which temporarily stabilized the situation.
But now there is another problem. You should know that because the Khitans were just nomadic peoples in the past, although they had been founded for many years, their habits have not changed much. After all, they only had a small number of rice cultivation, so their food was in a hurry. Thinking of this, Yelu Hongji was also unwilling to accept it.
"Your Majesty, we can't hesitate. During this period, the Song people assassinated a large number of middle- and high-level officers to disrupt our position. Moreover, because a group of people from the Song Dynasty came to the Jianghu some days ago. Now we are both at disadvantages on both sides of the battlefield. The Han Dynasty has risen, so we should avoid the edge for the time being."
An older Khitan nobleman came out and said with the help of his maid.
As soon as this was said, Yelu Hongji was also shocked. He seemed to be back when he was a child. He vaguely remembered that his father had told him that there was a nation called the Han people in the south. They were sometimes weak and sometimes strong. When they were strong, the whole world belonged to them. When they were weak, they could also defend their own race. Moreover, his father also told him that if the Han people became really powerful and could not be restrained, then don’t provoke them, because history has proved that when they were strong, the foreign races that provoked them were either exterminated or became part of them.
"Is it really what the father said?"
Yelu Hongji closed his eyes and recalled what he had heard before, and slowly said something like this. The cowardice of the Song Dynasty has always made him forget this sentence. In his opinion, the Liao Kingdom is the most powerful country in the world, and no one can defeat them. When he first faced the Song Dynasty, it was Hua Yuelong who said that, but it was because of the intervention of the King of Chu and his son that the King of Chu was powerless to force the Song Dynasty. After he got rid of the King of Chu and his son and controlled the whole country, he tragically discovered that the Song Dynasty had grown up and was unable to defeat the Song Dynasty until the Three Kingdoms were unable to defeat the Song Dynasty.
"Please make a decision early."
This time all the nobles in the account stood up.
"Your Majesty, we have no choice but to do this situation, but we absolutely support you."
Everyone also expressed their opinions, knowing that if the two sides did not unite, they might not be able to escape after returning to the country. Yelu Hongji also knew that without the support of the nobles, his throne would be in danger.
In the end, Yelu Hongji agreed to their opinions, but if they wanted to withdraw their troops, they would have to pay a certain price. Moreover, the other party might not necessarily let you withdraw your troops safely. Now there is only peace talks. After a period of negotiation, a group of people finally decided to return the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun obtained from the Song Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. Because the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun was not as effective as the Great Song Dynasty for the Liao Kingdom, because they did not have the idea of unifying the world, although the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun gave them a great loss, they could go back safely. And they also knew that the Song Dynasty would never give up the opportunity to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. Now they do not have the ability to defend there, so they can only cede them.
The matter of how to retreat was solved, but how to maintain their status after retreating was another problem. In the end, they decided to find a group of scapegoats. Some of the nobles who followed the father and son of the King of Chu, were just right. Yelu Hongji was also very decisive. That night he ordered those people to be controlled and prepared to take the blame. He sent an envoy here to ask for peace from the Song Dynasty.
Like the Liao Kingdom, Tubo and Xixia could not hold on anymore. Xixia and Tubo were not rich, and they still had to buy food from the Song Dynasty every year. After a major disaster, their reserved grain had been almost consumed. They originally wanted to recover some losses, but they thought that under the situation of the three countries, the Song Dynasty was just a soft persimmon. Who knew that the soft persimmon had turned into a iron plate, which made them bleeding. However, the Xixia emperor was not in a bad mood at this time. Because of Li Qiushui's death, he took this opportunity to successfully send all Li Qiushui's forces in the court to the battlefield, and most of them were killed in battle. For him, this war was a profit for him personally.
In the end, he decided to send Li Qinglu, the princess of Yinchuan in Xixia to the Song Dynasty to marry, and planned to pay tribute like the Song Dynasty, so as to overcome this difficulty.
Tubo was even simpler. Because of the terrain, he was not afraid of the Song Dynasty and they. After discussion, they decided to give up part of the land in the plains and ceded it to the Song Dynasty. Then they planned to take the opportunity to transfer the battlefield to Dali to recover some of the losses.
"Your Majesty, the people from the Nine Heavens and Nine Tribes of Lingjiu Palace, the Thirty-Six Caves, and the Seventy-Two Islands have been arranged to go to three battlefields."
Dong Wei, who was standing by, said to Hua Yuelong after arranging everything.
After hearing this, Hua Yuelong also put down the martial arts secrets recorded by Dong Wei in his hand and looked at Dong Wei carefully. Dong Wei was also terrified by Hua Yuelong's gaze.
"You did a good job. I just made a plan. You are implementing it. Thank you for your hard work during this period."
Hua Yuelong still attaches great importance to Dong Wei, and Dong Wei also reported the matter to Hua Yuelong every once in a while. When he learned that Wu Xingyun taught Dong Wei's life and death talisman, he actually saw that he had hit 24 life and death talismans in his body, he suddenly felt a little pitiful to Dong Wei.
"Your Majesty is serious, it is my honor to serve you."
When Dong Wei heard Hua Yuelong's words, he was also happy and said quickly.
"Okay, what's our relationship? Are you so kind to use?"
Hua Yuelong stood up and patted Dong Wei on the shoulder and said.
"Come on, you must know that your Dong family seems to be a single lineage. We will strive to make your Dong family prosperous and make your father happy. When you leave the world, I will enthrone you."
Hua Yuelong said immediately.
Dong Wei was even more excited now. You should know that although Dong Wei is from Tianlong Guard, he also has his own dream. He is thinking of one day he can win his wife and children and shine on his family. Now that he has received Hua Yuelong's promise, how can he be unhappy?
In fact, the happiest thing at this time was Hua Yuelong. With the injection of a new force, the struggle in the world became a foregone conclusion. Moreover, after calculation, he knew that the Three Kingdoms were about to be unable to hold on. Although they did not use money to fight like the Song Dynasty, they dispatched more troops. How could they not collapse after nearly half a year? Now he can win the war as long as he keeps it.
Judging from the current situation, it is not a problem for the Song Dynasty to hold on for another few months.
"Bei Ming Divine Art", "Lingbo Weibu", "Little Wuxiang Gong"... Hua Yuelong was also happy when he saw these secrets copied by Dong Wei. Unexpectedly, there were so many martial arts on the martial arts murals in Lingjiu Palace. Even Hua Yuelong saw the Lingyubu martial arts technique behind him. The richness of martial arts murals in the martial arts murals is probably completely beyond the collections of Li Qiushui and Wuyazi.
There are also a lot of basic martial arts on it. This mural seems to record the history of martial arts development. From the initial basic skills, basic moves and then slowly practice it. If martial arts at this time are advanced mathematics in college, then the murals are the most basic mathematics in junior high school. With these foundations, you can better learn the advanced martial arts after learning. However, Hua Yuelong is not the advanced martial arts, but these basic martial arts. After getting these, Hua Yuelong also fell into obsession. Anyway, he only needs to defend these heroic barriers, so the Song Dynasty can be invincible.
Chapter completed!