Yelu Chongyuan talked to the emperor and his ancestors, and forced Yelu Zongzhen into a desperate situation, as the emperor, of course, he can't let people gossip, saying that he is afraid of the enemy, if he says that he can't live with the emperor and can't live with his ancestors, it is a matter of whether he is competent or not.

"Well, the emperor's words are also reasonable, I decided to proceed according to the original plan, and the target is still Xingqing Mansion, the summer capital, but because the situation has changed, I need to be cautious; From now on, the army on the left road southward led by Yelu Chongyuan immediately moved closer to the Chinese army, concentrating superior forces to form a heavy fist, so that the Xia army had no hope of meeting and harassing; Secondly, Xiao Hui, the privy envoy of the Northern Yuan, immediately returned to China to mobilize 100,000 reinforcements and then followed up. In addition, please ask Shang's father Zhang Jian to immediately send someone to investigate the reason for the sudden increase in Xia Jun, if it is a dereliction of duty in the previous investigation, the person concerned should be severely punished; Or...... Or maybe there is something hidden, in short, I want a clear result, and I want to know clearly how many Xia troops will block the way from here to Xingqing Mansion. ”

Yelu Zongzhen ordered, everyone acted immediately, Yelu Chongyuan also wanted to argue that the emperor could let him lead the headquarters as a vanguard to advance rapidly, but Yelu Zongzhen refused; After Yelu Zongzhen withdrew from the tent, the ministers also dispersed in a hurry, and the remaining Yelu Chongyuan stood alone in the big tent and shouted: They are all cowards.

In a few days, hundreds of scout teams were sent out in the Daliao military camp to penetrate deep into the hinterland of the Xia Kingdom, and the farthest ones were hundreds of miles away from the central Xia Kingdom.

The herdsmen of Dangxiang, who were near the left of the two official roads leading to the north, inadvertently revealed the news that the Xia army stationed in the southern cities more than ten days ago had traveled north along the way. The analytical courtiers immediately drew astonishing inferences from this information.

First of all, it is obvious that when the Great Liao Three-Way Iron Cavalry had not yet entered the territory of the Xia Kingdom, the Xia people made targeted deployments, which was obviously a leak of secrets; The news of the Xia State's use of troops is a secret operation, even before the start, the ministers of the DPRK and China only knew very little, and it has to be said that it is puzzling that the Xia people could know in advance.

It may be that there is a traitor in the court, and he is in the center and understands the whole story; This speculation made Yelu Zong's hair stand on end, but he soon ruled out this possibility, the people who knew about it were several old ministers in the court, looking at their past, none of them had anything to do with the Xia people, on the contrary, they were all the most hated mortal enemies of the Xia Kingdom, and they also made a lot of ruthless moves to make the Xia Kingdom grit their teeth in Xia affairs; What's more, in the past dealings with Xia Guo, there has never been any news that has been revealed, so this point can be ruled out.

Then it is possible that there are the eyes and ears of the Xia State in the country, and it is not ruled out that when the army is assembled, the Xia State in the Liao State guessed the military intentions of the Liao people through the large-scale assembly of the army, so as to issue a warning like the Xia State, so that the Xia people have a response.

However, this point is a bit far-fetched, even if Xia Guo can guess the intention through the assembly of the army, Xia Guo will not so resolutely mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to cooperate with this speculation, the cost is inevitably too great; If there is a mistake in judgment, won't it be a waste of financial and material resources to mobilize the people? For Xia Guo's current situation of lacking everything, it is tantamount to adding insult to injury.

When Zhang Jian and others put forward this hypothesis, Yelu Zong really asked himself whether he would do this as a national decision-maker, and the answer was undoubtedly no.

There is only one last possibility left, it is not only the Liao people who know the news, but also the Song people, and they have not leaked the exact news on their side, will the Song people reveal the news that the two countries will jointly attack Xia?

But the problem is, even if the news of the joint attack of the two countries is known, the Xia people sent the troops of the southern cities to the north to defend against the enemy, which is obviously a practice of demolishing the east wall to make up the west wall and blocking the Liao people, what should the Song army in the south do? Could it be that the hatred of the party members for the Liao people is far greater than that of the Song people? Would you rather die than drag Da Liao to die together?

It is true that the thoughts of the party members are impossible to figure out, but Xiao Hui's words made everyone faintly feel an undying unease.

"Since the main force of the Xia people has been transferred to the north, the southern cities should already be weak, and with the strength of the 200,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty, they should soon break through the defense lines of Huizhou and Youzhou; The news from the front of the flying pigeon came only two days, and now the war has been going on for more than ten days, why yesterday's war report also said that the Song army and the Xia army were in full swing in Youzhou Huizhou, and also said that the casualties were very large, and the Xia army was tenacious in defense and there were many people, is there something greasy here? ”

Xiao Hui's words are like a big hand that clears the fog in the sky, and the truth revealed is so unacceptable that it makes people want to vomit disgustingly.

"No, the Song people won't be so despicable, there is an inextricable mustard between the Song people and the party members, what reason is there to help the party members deal with my Da Liao?" Someone questioned.

Xiao Hui sneered: "Why is it impossible? Isn't it also for the benefit of the Great Liao that I united with the Song people to attack Xia? It is entirely possible that the Song people are fully aware of this, the Song capital Bianliang relies on the northwest as a buffer, and the Xia State was originally a threat, but now it is not a threat at all, and it is just used to protect the Xia State as a buffer against my Great Liao; We can think of this, the Song people are not as stupid as pigs and dogs, is no one seeing through it? ”

Liao Xingzong Yelu Zongzhen's eyelids were jumping, his palms were full of sweat, and he frowned and said: "If this is the case, we will fall for the Song people, the Song people are actually making a play at all, and the main force of the Xia army has been mobilized to the north, and the number is not 150,000, nor 200,000, but 300,000." ”

The ministers were silent for a moment, staring at each other with blank eyes, and it was simply not a taste in their hearts, calculating and calculating, it was originally an excellent plan to kill two birds with one stone, which could destroy the Xia Kingdom and occupy a large area of land, and could directly threaten the northwest capital of the Song Kingdom.

"Your Majesty, don't jump to conclusions too early, confirm our judgment; The first thing to do now is to find out the true situation of the Song and Xia battlefields in the south, and it is best to send people to infiltrate the two cities of Youzhou and Huizhou to see if there is the main force of the Xia army defending the city in the city.

Yelu Zong Zhendao: "That's right, immediately order someone to find out the exact news, and report it to me as soon as possible." ”

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In the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, the battlefield of Huizhou and Youzhou is still in full swing, every morning and afternoon, the Song army thunder can not be shaken by a stone throwing, by a rain of arrows baptism, followed by the infantry charge to set up a ladder to attack the city, and finally defeated the battle to die down, and the next day to re-rehearse these procedures.

It seemed that the battle was very lively and fierce, and the Xia army at the head of the city also fell in rows every day, but when the attack was on the second day, there were always rows of Xia troops standing at the head of the city again, waiting to be knocked down by trebuchets, and everyone knew that they were all dummies in armor; The people in the city were all concentrated in a certain area, which was an area that the Song army would never attack, and their daily task was to eat and sleep with strawmen, and then eat and sleep with strawmen.

Su Jin's life is very boring, he has to vomit after watching the same drills every day for more than ten days, and he can't bring his wife and concubine to the army, and even the only entertainment in this year has been lost, and he can go around during the day, gag with the soldiers, or manipulate the trebuchet to throw stones onto the city, and at night everyone is tired enough to choke and sleep one by one, Su Jin is boring and boring double boring.

Two days ago, Su Jin got the good news that Xiao Hui's forward army was completely annihilated, Su Jin was overjoyed, the plan worked, the wolf bit a piece of meat from the tiger, what will the tiger do next? Running away with your tail between your legs? No, that's a dog; The Liao people are full of confidence, all arrogant, this time they have to bite back, the show is off, but unfortunately they can't go to see the tigers and wolves bite each other in person, so they can only continue to be bored here.

Su Jin also understood that the main force of the Xia army would definitely arouse the suspicion of the Liao army, maybe his boring siege drama would not be able to play for a few days, but Su Jin was by no means afraid of being exposed, because this matter would not become a permanent secret at all, and sooner or later it would be discovered by the Liao people; And what he has to do is to make the Liaoxia two countries fight after the Liao people find out, and they must not let the Liao people retreat.

For this reason, Su Jin spent several nights lying in bed thinking about countermeasures, and finally he got rid of several euphemistic methods and settled on a direct and crude plan.