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Chapter 75: China's calamity has not rested

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Luo Qinghan and Tieying lay on the map for a long time.

They believed in Li Hu's judgment. After all, the Song Dynasty was very strong. Although there were only one hundred thousand troops, it would be possible to gather more troops in Hebei immediately. The Northern Expedition was inevitable. The Jurchens' strength was not enough to compete with the Song Dynasty, and there was also the agreement of the maritime alliance. Wanyan Aguda had no need to turn against the Song Dynasty early in order to seize Yanjing. They turned against the Jurchens because there were Liao army and Li Hu in the desert. If the two weak opponents joined forces to fight against the Jin Dynasty, and the Song people were eyeing each other, the Jurchens obviously could not handle it.

If the Jurchens immediately moved the battlefield and transferred the main army to the desert, they would have to have a head-on conflict with the rebels. At the beginning, Li Hu and the Jurchens agreed that both sides fought each other and whoever captured the territory would belong to whom, but the two sides actually had a tacit understanding. Li Hu took Yan Yun and Jurchens took the desert. However, the situation was developing too fast, and the Jurchens definitely did not expect that Li Hu not only took over Xijing, but also wanted to fight the desert in the north, and survived and developed based on replacing the north. The interests of the two immediately formed a serious conflict, and war was inevitable.

The rebel army currently has 150,000 troops, and this force is incomparable to the Jin army. The number of troops surrendered to the Jin army this time is half of that of the Rebel army. From this, we can imagine the difference in the military strength between the two. Conservative estimates are that the total force of the Jin army is about 400,000 to 500,000, of which the horse army has at least 100,000, while the elite horse army of the Rebel army has only more than 30,000, which is no match for the Jurchens at all.

Therefore, Luo Qinghan and others gave up and no longer thought about replacing the North. The situation changed and their thinking changed. They turned back to the old path and thought about gaining a foothold in Yanyun, so that there would be no conflict with the Jin army. On the contrary, they could also use the alliance between the two sides to join forces to deal with the people of the Song Dynasty.

Li Hu wandered around the room, back and forth, tireless.

Luo Qinghan and others deliberately made the voice loud so that Li Hu could hear it, so that Li Hu could face the reality and immediately change his strategy. With the current state of Yanjing, if the rebel army launches a surprise attack, more than 100,000 troops will rush forward. Yanjing is within reach.

"Have you ever thought about it? If Yelu Chun couldn't hold on, Yanjing would take it away from the Song Dynasty, and Xijing would become the next target. The rebel army would be attacked by the Jurchens and the Song Dynasty. Yelu Chun had just been defeated, so I followed in the footsteps and died." Li Hu suddenly walked to the side of the case and pointed to Datong on the map and said. "You can open your eyes and take a closer look."

"The goal of the Song people is to recover their hometown and Yan Yun. Since he took back Youyan, will he still give up Yun Shuo? Never."

"If the Jurchens were blocked north of Yanyun, their survival and development would be severely hindered. Wanyan Aguda could not establish the same achievements as Yelu Abaoji. Therefore, the Jurchens would have to fight Datong no matter what, and they would rob Xijing at any cost and occupy the Jiuzhou in the mountains. This is related to the survival of the Jurchens. Looking at history, all the powerful Northern Barbarians did not go south to plunder? Why did they go south to the Great Wall to attack the Central Plains? Not to survive or to live a better life? The Jurchens were also Northern Barbarians. Like the Khitans, the first thing they did to the powerful Houdi was to go south to attack the Central Plains. Therefore, after they captured Zhongjing, they gave up attacking Yanjing, and their real goal was not the desert. It was not the endless grassland and the Fan tribes on the grassland, but the Xijing Datong, but the future passage to the south."

Li Hu looked at the four people present and sneered, "Do you understand? Do you think you don't beat the Jurchens and don't turn against the Jurchens, and the Jurchens will be brothers and brothers to us? Fart and make your dream of spring and autumn. If you want to die, then you will go to fight Yanjing and turn against the Song people. If you want to live in Daibei. If you want to firmly control the Jiuzhou behind the mountain, then take out your courage. Fight against the Jurchens, drive the Jurchens out of Daibei, and tell the Jurchens with battle swords and blood that from the Yellow River to Yanshan, from Yinshan to Taihang Mountain, these are all our territory. If you want to take it away, step on our bodies."

Luo Qinghan, Dong Xiaochou, Tie Ying and Huang She were stunned. The four of them stared at Li Hu's ferocious face, with their murderous eyes speechless.

"So. What should I do if I do the local affairs in Yanjing? How to reply to Yelu Chun?" Huang She asked.

Since Li Hu decided to continue to implement the established strategy and continue to build a foothold in Daibei, then this year there will be hard and bloody battles to fight. He also needs to establish good relations with the Song Dynasty. He threatened the Emperor of the Song Dynasty with the security of the Jiuzhou behind the mountain. He received continuous assistance from the Song Dynasty. In this way, the rebel army would not be able to help Yelu Chun.

"Yelu Chun has not yet reached the end of the end. In the short term, he only has my promise, but he will not let my army enter Youyan." Li Hu said. "I won't hit him Yanjing. But he is afraid. He is afraid that I will take advantage of the situation to rob. So I just have to let the army station troops at the border pass and make support at any time. Besides, the Song army may not be able to..." Li Hu stopped at this point. He originally wanted to say that the Song army could not defeat Yanjing. But this kind of baseless speculation had no basis. In the eyes of Luo Qinghan and others, the strength of the Song army would definitely be unstoppable. If he said that the Song army would be defeated and returned later, he would really become a god.

"The Song Dynasty repeatedly asked me to cooperate with the Northern Expedition. They not only did not support the attack on me to the north, but also held a negative and alert attitude. If I transferred all the troops to the grassland, the Song Dynasty might restrict the return of Yi, especially the materials for the prohibited transactions might be completely cut off. Therefore, we stationed troops at border passes, and also met the requirements of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty asked us to send troops to threaten them, but we did not want us to enter Youyan. It coincided with Yelu Chundi's request."

Luo Qinghan and others nodded repeatedly and agreed with Li Hu's statement. The general of the army quickly arrived at Juyong Pass, Shimen Pass and Zijin Pass and other passes. He just waited for Yelu Chun to give orders and entered Youyan immediately. General Wei Fu brought Liao Xing's army back to Youyan immediately. As for the matter of sending troops to Taiyuan, Li Hu also agreed. Shuozhou is too far from Youyan. Whether the rebel army sent troops to threaten Taiyuan. Yanjing didn't know at all. If he could, he would cheat. However, Li Hu repeatedly warned Han. After returning, he must tell the King of Yan to be emperor as soon as possible. This is the top priority of whether the Liao Dynasty can protect the country's destiny.

Li Hu invited Dong Yun and told him about his military pass. He only waited for the Song army to fight in the northern expedition, and the rebels would definitely assist him, but he concealed the news that the Jin army captured Zhongjing. Dong Yun then said goodbye and rushed to the Hebei front.

Two days later, Li Hu summoned the generals of each army and the main officials of the General Office to discuss the matter. First, to inform the recent development of the situation in Liaodong, and second, to determine that the rebel army's goal this year is to replace the north. For this reason, the two military and political teams must come from now on, work together to overcome difficulties.

Li Hu ordered Zhang Gao'er, the commander of the King of Hell, to lead the army to Weizhou, and to be in the battle between Feihu Fortress and Zijin Pass, ready to enter Youyan at any time. Hou Gui, the commander of the Feiyun Army, to be in the front line of Khan Prefecture and Ruzhou, to be ready to support Yanjing at any time. Chen Bao, the left deputy commander of the Feiyun Army, led his army from Weizhou to Fengshengzhou, and to meet the main force of the Feiyun Army.

The commander of the Yunshuo Army, Ying Qin Chenbing, was on the front line of Ningwu Pass. His mission was to establish good relations with the border counties of the Song Dynasty to ensure the safety of the border and the road to return to the Yi.

The commander of the Wu Yong Army, Zhang Guanyu, and the commander of the Shenlong Army, Dugu Feng, led his army south to Shuozhou, and the soldiers were on the front line of Pianguan. Once he received the order, he crossed the Yellow River and attacked Dongshengzhou. Yanjing urgently reported that King Xi Xiao Xiamai was defeated, and the Liao army retreated to Gubeikou and Songting Pass. The Jin army then slowed down the attack speed. However, strangely, the Jin army did not take advantage of the victory to attack the Daling River line, and there was no war on Xingzhong Prefecture and Yizhou line. This is very strange. I don’t know what the intention of the Jin army is.

When Li Hu heard the news, he became more determined that the Jin army would turn around and fight the desert. He immediately ordered the tiger martyrs, the resentful army, the Heishan army, and the Bohai Army to kill Hukou and Zhenchuan Fort to prepare for north attack. At the same time, he asked Zhu Xia and Liu Zhicheng to find ways to find the main force of the Liao army so that the army could fight north. When the Jurchens arrived at the desert, the situation on the battlefield would be completely different.

In February, the envoy of the Song Dynasty arrived. This time, in addition to Ma Kuo, there was also a man named Yuwen Xuzhong, who was in his forties, with a gentle appearance and a Sichuan sound.

Li Gang met and hurriedly introduced to Li Hu. Yuwen Xuzhong was talented and upright, and was a little famous among scholars in Bianjing. He was from Chengdu, Sichuan, and was a Jinshi at the age of 30. He was later promoted to the court to serve as a servant, a editor of the national history, and a tribute judge. Later, he was promoted to the Secretariat. After the news that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty wanted to fight the Northern Expedition spread, Yuwen Xuzhong firmly opposed it. He believed that the Song and Liao countries were allies for a hundred years and were dependent on each other. If the Song and Jin formed an alliance and destroyed the Liao Kingdom, then the newly rising Jin Kingdom would definitely take advantage of the situation to go south to plunder the Central Plains, "with a hundred years of lazy soldiers, they should be a new enemy that is difficult to resist; with a few plans and a comfortable general, they will compete in the flesh and blood. I am afraid that the disaster in China will not be peaceful." Therefore, he suggested that the Song Dynasty assist the Liao Kingdom to defeat the Jurchens, maintain the 100-year alliance of Song and Liao, and maintain peace for generations.

Ma Kuo also introduced to Li Hu. At the end of last year, the Song army gathered in Hebei and the Northern Expedition entered the stage of implementation. Yuwen Xuzhong immediately wrote a letter again, advising the emperor to give up the Northern Expedition, believing that the strategy of attracting the Jurchens to attack Liao was to "admit insults and self-immolation" and cause trouble for himself. Prime Minister Wang Fu was furious and demoted Yuwen Xuzhong to the editor of Jiying Hall, and then drove him out of Bianjing, asking him to go to the Xuanfu Envoy of Lianghe, Shaanxi to serve as a record officer and serve as a military officer to Tong Guan.

Yuwen Xuzhong arrived in Hebei and learned more about the situation. He immediately submitted a series of memorials, offering eleven strategies and twenty proposals. As a result, the stones sank to the sea without any response.

Tong Guan didn't like him. One of them wanted to fight the Northern Expedition and the other opposed the Northern Expedition. Their opinions were left. Can they get along together? It happened that Ma Guang went through Hebei and said he wanted to go on a mission to Datong. Tong Guan took this opportunity to send Yuwen Xuzhong to Datong, asking him to stay by Li Hu's side and serve as a liaison officer between the two armies.
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