Chapter 717: Privy Envoy of the Great Liaobei Court
Liu Yanqing said: "Of course, this deployment is the best for our department, but the biggest problem is that if our department does not come to Xiping Mansion from the right flank, the small Gao Xianggong will form a lone army, and he is the attacker, and he is not good at the defensive tactics of the master's road." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 At that time, Gao Fangping was facing a long battle line and had no pillboxes to defend, in that case, if the military division of Baima Qiangzhen relied on the cavalry advantage to go south, then the small Gao Xianggong would be in danger. ”
The herald said: "This is exactly the second order of Xiao Gao Xianggong: your department only surrounds Xiangyou and Jianing Military Division, and does not let them divide their troops to harass the logistics line of Xiao Gao Xianggong's department." Xiao Gao Xiang's justice is that he needs to use the form of a lone army to attract the right wing Chaoshun Military Division and the Baima Qiang Town Military Division to go south to fight a decisive battle in the field. ”
Liu Yanqing and Liu Guangshi have changed color!
This is really an extremely bold decision, I can't imagine that Gao Fangping would do this.
It's too risky. However, once it succeeds, it will also take a big advantage, because the important town of Xiping Mansion will definitely be difficult to bite, and fighting that kind of city will really hurt the enemy by one thousand and lose eight hundred. If before the last two ace legions of Western Xia, the White Horse Military Division and the Right Wing Military Division, went south, Gao Fangpingbu was first dragged into a tired army by Xiping Mansion, it would be very passive.
On the contrary, if they can take advantage of the situation to attract them to take the initiative to attack and fight another dominant field battle, then the breath of the dead country will really hang over Western Xia. In that case, the morale will be victorious, whether it is Liu Yanqing's Xiazhou attack or Gao Fangping's Xiping Mansion attack, it will be much smoother.
Otherwise, let's not talk about the two mobile ace legions, the White Horse Military Division and the Right Wing Military Division, only Xiping Mansion, Jingzhou, Gyeongju, Huaizhou, and Xingqing Mansion, which are almost concentrated in the Jiancheng of the first district, and the big dragon that is connected from end to end on the chessboard, if you bite these places, it is estimated that there are 300,000 elites who are not enough to die.
Looking at each other with a wry smile, Lao Liu's father and son said together: "We will obey the order." ”
Now there is no choice but to besiege Xiazhou strategically, waiting to see if the tactics of that mad gambler are successful. Of course, there are risks, of course, everyone is still confident now, because after the victory at Shilongguan, Gao Fangping is known as invincible in the field, and it is not certain that he can really create another miracle.
One thing everyone knows is that Xiao Gao may of course lose tactically, but with his obscene style of counting dead grass, and then he has a cavalry advantage, in that case, even if he loses partially, it is not a big problem, the defeat is just a loss, no one believes that anyone has the ability to completely annihilate Gao Fang's flat division, it is really impossible to have ......
The privy envoy of the Northern Court of the Great Liao, Xiao, finally arrived in Bianjing with the envoy group at this time.
Zhao Ji, who was relatively weak and kind, saw the strength of the Liao State and wanted to greet him in person, but Zhang Shuye rejected the proposal and said: "Diplomacy has its own rules, although the Liao State is strong, it is not the suzerainty of my Great Song Dynasty, only an ally. Officials should not lower their own value and raise others, they have bad intentions here. Being able to greet and treat Taishi Cai has already given Liao enough face. ”
Zhao Ji may not be afraid of Western Xia, but he is really afraid of Liao, because if Xixia can send 400,000 troops, Liao will definitely be millions of people once they make a mistake.
So Zhao Ji said worriedly in the inner court: "Although Zhang Qing is reasonable, but to be more serious, I am also the nephew of the current Liao Emperor, and if I neglect the Liao State too much, will it cause unnecessary harm to my Great Song Dynasty." ”
"There is no such thing, if the Liao Emperor does not come, there is no need for His Majesty to greet him." Lao Zhang stubbornly insisted.
So Zhao Ji's idea was only to do it.
Zhao Ji didn't talk nonsense, because of some things that lost power and humiliated the country in the past, to be counted, Zhao Ji is really the "nephew" of the current Liao Emperor. But Uncle Zhang doesn't want to admit these things now.
Theoretically speaking, Xiao's inner bottom came to envoy the Song State, and it was the correct diplomatic etiquette to let the Ministry of Rites Shangshu and Tao Jiefu receive them according to the specifications, and it was already beyond the standard to let the current Taishi Cai Jing come out to greet him, which already represented the weakness of the Great Song Dynasty......
Ten miles outside Bianjing City, there are martial law escorts of the Japanese army all the way. Cai Jing waited with many officials related to the Ministry of Rites.
After the arrival of the Liao Kingdom Season, Cai Jing solemnly bowed with a fist and said: "The Great Liao Privy Envoy has worked hard from afar, and for the Song Dynasty, the Great Liao has worked tirelessly several times and participated in mediation, and the whole country is grateful." ”
A beautiful woman opened the curtain, she sat in the arms of a noble man from the Liao Kingdom, looking at the old man Cai Jing and grinning. This is an arrogant and brainless woman who has never seen the world.
The middle-aged man in the car was extravagant, and he looked excessively drunk, and he was officially the king of Lanling County, Bei Linya, and the privy secretary of the Zhibei Yuan in Liao State, almost below one person and above ten thousand people.
The chariot guard of honor shows the atmosphere of authority and extravagance everywhere.
In the past, whenever an envoy of the Song State went to the Liao State to talk about things, after it was over, there would usually be a Liao State diplomat who said to the Great Song Dynasty that "the Song envoy is rude".
There's nothing wrong with this, it's just a kind of diplomatic tone of a strong country against a weak country, and nothing really happens, it's just the meaning of "knock knock".
This time it was really rude, Xiao sat in the car, squinted his eyes and looked at the white-haired Cai Jing Shaoqing, a little unhappy, why wasn't the Emperor of the Song Kingdom out to greet him?
But seeing that Cai Jingli was quite thoughtful, his old Cai, as the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, also bowed to the privy envoy of the Liao State who was half a level lower, so Xiao didn't say anything more, and said with a smile: "The envoy is tired from afar, and Cai Xiang has a heart, so he will enter the city and discuss foreign affairs on a certain day." ”
After that, under the guidance of Cai Jing, the group drove to the most prosperous city in the world.
In general, the sinicization of the Liao State is very serious, they imitate the Han system in everything, including the establishment of the official system, and they also have their own "Kaifeng Privy Council" and so on.
However, they are divided into the North and South House systems.
In the last battle of Song and Xia, after seeing that the Song State had the upper hand, the Liao State came to pull the bias, and at that time it was Niu Wenshu, the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, who came. Niu Wenshu is a Han Chinese, and the Southern Yuan of Liao State is to manage the Han people. Generally, normal communication with the Song Kingdom is also carried out by the Southern Courtyard, which is basically Han Chinese, and understands all the customs of the Great Song Dynasty better, and it is more convenient to speak.
But the real noble family, the place where you have the final say is the North Courtyard. The North Courtyard is the headquarters of the Khitans. According to the different degrees of importance, it was the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan who mediated in the last Song-Xia War. However, this time it was the privy envoy Xiao of the Northern Court, which was enough to see how much attention the Liao State attached to this Song and Xia peace.
It is because of this that Cai Jing, who presided over the peace meeting this time, is under great pressure. Because the two hawks in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang Shuye and Tao Jiefu, dragged it like 2580,000 under the premise that Gao Fangping could fight, and it is estimated that this diplomatic tug of war will make Cai Jing very embarrassed.
The most terrible thing is that at the moment when the Liao State informed in advance and wanted to mediate the contradictions between Song and Xia as a "world policeman", Gao Fangping was still stuck in time to start an army to attack Xia, and now Liu Yanqing's anti-bone boy has been pushed to the Xiazhou generation, and Gao Fangping has already taken Yaode City, looking north to Xiping Mansion, an important town in Western Xia!
Lao Cai is difficult, is it easy for me to be caught in the middle?
Lao Cai also tried to remotely control the current Liu Yanqing like he did when he remotely controlled Tao Jiefu. But Liu Yanqing, the anti-bone boy, was not surprised by his urine, and he was anti-water again, if he didn't respond, he definitely didn't dare to provoke Gao Fangping.
There are many moths in the past, and now that Cai Jing's reputation has been crippled by Gao Fangping, no one listens to Cai Jing, which is really normal.
So Cai Jing tried to persuade Tao Jiefu to restrain Gao Fangping's advance and not to put too much pressure on Liao's diplomacy. But Tao Jiefu spread his hands and said, "He holds the sword of the Son of Heaven, Xianggong, how can you let me control it?" ”
Then these problems all became political embarrassment, and it fell on Cai Jing, and Lao Cai needed to preside over the peace negotiations under these pressures and receive the envoys of the Great Liao State with teeth and claws.
After arriving at the place where the envoy was received and checked in with a national gift, Xiao asked lazily: "Cai Xiang, in fact, the envoy has always wondered, what do you Song Guo think now, why did he suddenly use a little-known young man Gao Fangping, but he was really lucky and achieved the results." In the past, you Song State suffered a lot of losses, why did your court let him Gao Fangping and enter the Western Xia again? ”
Cai Jing thought about it and sat down, smiled and hugged his fists and said, "Do you think Gao Fangping is really just lucky?" ”
Xiao's disdainful look snorted: "A yellow-haired child in his twenties, no matter how capable he is, will he go to heaven again?" Of course, it was luck, and this time it was just a fatal mistake made by Chago. But luck doesn't always be good. Your Song court is too faceless, and when the envoy has already worked tirelessly on the road, he still let Gao Fangping march into Western Xia, what do you mean? ”
Cai Jing hugged his fists and said: "You also said that he is lucky and happy, so he will inevitably misbehave." You know better than anyone else that he has a reason to send troops now that Song Xia has not yet officially ceased war, and it is inconvenient for the old man to intervene. Besides, he was young and frivolous, and he had achieved great victories, and now that his morale is like a rainbow, you are counting on a rampant doll to settle down, it seems that ......"
Cai Jing didn't finish speaking, with an embarrassed look.
The few Song officials who followed around him were sad, Shilong Pass, and even the entire Song and Xia battlefields were piled up like a mountain, and many places were reduced to ghosts, and the later results were all the result of Gao Fangpingshuai's several military lines, with hundreds of thousands of lives and flesh and blood. But these things, in the eyes of the Daliao bureaucrats, are just a "yellow-haired boy's willfulness and luck", without the slightest sense of awe.
Uncle Zhang is sometimes right, and he is full of tears when he talks too much.
Many of the people who followed Cai Jing to receive him were usually anti-Gao Fangping, but now they are a little bit accepting of Gao Fangping, no matter what, Gao Fangping provoked Xiao of the North Courtyard to wipe his ass this time, this is a bad thing to say, but it sounds good: it is face and dignity.
Cai Jing couldn't say anything, so he simply remained silent again. Now that Gao Fangping has sent troops, shouting can't call him back, so everything has to wait. Zhao Ji meant to let the Liao people go, but now that Gao Fangping has won the war, there are many such people in the country's angry youth and fanatical party and official ranks, how can Lao Cai dare to blindly give in? That must be an excuse to be poked in the back in the future.