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Su Jin said: "The two Yeli kings left the barracks with only a dozen entourages, this situation is not difficult to guess; In view of the fact that your army suffered huge losses in the first battle under the city of Weizhou, and the two kings left after this battle, it is likely that they lost the first battle. ”

Yeli Duanyun said: "Impossible, the two uncles have experienced a hundred battles, and they have not been defeated, victory and defeat are commonplace for them, how can they leave in anger because of this?" ”

Su Jin said: "What if someone deliberately provokes the two kings? And how? ”

Yeli Duanyun said: "How do you say this? ”

Su Jin said: "As far as you know, what is the prestige of the two kings in the army and in the military and civilian courts of your country?" ”

Yeli Duanyun said proudly: "My two uncles are people admired by thousands of people in my Great Xia country, no matter who hears their names, they will praise them, and the popularity of the two uncles is also very good, and they can be called the mainstay of my Great Xia Kingdom......

Su Jin sighed and said, "This is the problem. ”

Yeli Duanyun was surprised: "I don't understand what you said at all. ”

Su Jindao: "I only ask you, in Li Yuanhao's eyes, what is the status of the two kings?" ”

Yeli Duanyun said: "Your Majesty? The emperor's eyes are naturally respectful to the two uncles, the emperor can ascend to the great treasure My two uncles have made great contributions, for so many years, it is the warriors of my Yeli tribe who have fought for the emperor in the east and the west, and the emperor should be grateful. ”

Su Jin looked at Yeli Duanyun fixedly and said: "Miss Yeli, you don't want to hear it, I guess that the death of the two kings this time is mostly related to Li Yuanhao, what you just said has strengthened my judgment." ”

Yeli Duanyun was completely confused, looking at Su Jin with two big eyes, and he didn't understand the basis for what Su Jin said at all.

"What are you doing? Want to take the opportunity to stir up trouble? I feel more and more that you're not a good person. ”

Su Jin smiled bitterly: "I knew you would think so, you are a boudoir woman, naturally you don't understand the psychology of men, and you don't understand the cruelty of the court's tilting and the struggle for power, your Yeli tribe has a very high status in Daxia, and the two kings have hundreds of thousands of brave and fearless warriors in their hands, and they will naturally rely on the power of the Yeli tribe to ascend to the throne when Li Yuanhao's climate is not successful, but have you thought about it, who is willing to have two tigers lying next to him after becoming the emperor?" If my guess is correct, the two kings must also restrain Li Yuanhao's behavior on weekdays, if you are the emperor, there are two people around you who are more powerful than yourself, and your words and deeds must be based on the eyes of these two people, will you be happy? ”

Yeli Duanyun seems to have been struck by lightning, if what Su Jin said is all speculation, it's a pity, it's a pity that Su Jin's words are to the point, and he has heard the two uncles inadvertently talk about what the emperor did, and the words seem to be quite dissatisfied with the emperor, and the emperor is arrogant and extravagant. Yi is short-tempered and impermanent, and often does some outrageous things, and the ministers of the DPRK and China are also arbitrarily killed and promoted, not like a benevolent monarch at all, and the two uncles have also said privately that it is a mistake to promote Li Yuanhao to the throne.

And as far as he knows, the two uncles have also stopped Li Yuanhao's out-of-line trips many times, is the emperor holding a grudge because of this? Yeli Duanyun didn't dare to think about it.

Su Jin said: "Miss Yeli, the cruelty of the struggle for power in the court is unimaginable, I don't know if you have ever understood the history of the previous dynasty, since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the emperor will allow the prestige and strength of the courtiers around him to be greater than his own, even if he is a hero who followed them to conquer the country in the south and the north, he will inevitably die in the end." In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a famous minister named Fan Li, who once said, 'The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackey cooks; The high bird is exhausted, and the good bow is hidden. It is to see through this; In the Han Dynasty, there was a word side by side with the king Han Xin, who made immortal contributions to the Han Dynasty, and was finally given death by Han Gaozu. ”

Yeli Duanyun was silent, although she was a party woman, she was not an ignorant Bai Ding, she was also literate on weekdays, and she naturally knew something about these famous figures, Su Jin's words made her fall into a deep panic.

"The process of the matter can be roughly judged as follows, the two kings lost the first battle, and they must have been vigorously attacked by Li Yuanhao and his henchmen, the two kings may be angry, or they may be coerced, so they proposed to no longer command the battle and return to the tribe to retire; Li Yuanhao agreed to the invitation of the two kings, but he was worried that after the two kings left in a bad mood, the warriors of the Yeli tribe would not be bound by him, so he simply gave up a hundred and sent someone to disguise our Song army to intercept and kill halfway, so that the warriors of the tribe at night could only transfer their hatred to my Song people; For Li Yuanhao, in addition to the two kings who are in the way, he can also take the military power of the tribe at night in his hands, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. ”

Yeli Duanyun muttered, "Impossible...... It is impossible. You are talking nonsense, you are trying to provoke the relationship between my Great Xia monarch and ministers, and my Great Xia is in civil strife, so you can take the opportunity to attack Great Xia and achieve your dirty purpose. ”

Su Jin sighed: "I also hope that it is nonsense, the two countries of Song and Xia are about to start peace talks in the near future, do you believe it or not?" This time, the two countries have been exhausted from fighting for several years, and neither of them can destroy the other, even if I want to provoke the contradictions between your Great Xia monarchs and ministers and cause civil strife, my Great Song Dynasty is not capable of attacking your country; If you do not believe me, go to a reasonable and trustworthy person and tell me what I say, and let them judge and judge. There have long been secret exchanges between the envoys between the two countries in Song and Xia, and Li Yuanhao's attack on Weizhou this time, as far as I can see, is just to add a weight to the peace talks, as for whether he planned to use this opportunity to remove the two kings from the beginning, I dare not say anything. ”

Yeli Duanyun wept silently, she didn't know what she should do, she didn't want to believe Su Jin's words, but she couldn't deny them all, and her own poor life experience couldn't judge the truth of things; However, Yeli Duanyun is a woman of the Yeli family after all, and she soon thought of a way, she wants to tell this to a person, and that person will definitely judge the truth of the matter, and that person is her aunt Queen Yeli.

After seeing Yeli Duanyun leave, Su Jin fell into deep thought, logically speaking, Li Yuanhao is very likely to be the leader who killed the Yeli King, but Su Jin didn't know what kind of effect it would have after telling Yeli Duanyun, Yeli Duanyun would definitely tell his father and brother and others that if the matter was confirmed, there would be chaos in the Western Xia Kingdom, and it might set off another bloody storm; Of course, all this seems to be beneficial to Da Song, but from Su Jin's standpoint, he doesn't want to see the scene of a river of blood, but all this seems inevitable.

A day later, the emperor of the Xia State Li Yuanhao returned to Huizhou City ahead of schedule, and the accompanying officials were dejected, and in the six days between Su Jin's departure from Weizhou and the news of the burning of grain and grass reached the front line, Li Yuanhao launched a total of five sieges.

When the news of the burning of grain and grass came, Li Yuanhao concealed the news, and drove the hungry soldiers to do the last siege of the city, this time once broke through the west city gate, but the Song soldiers were as if they were beaten with chicken blood, and the people in the city participated in the battle, they bit with their teeth, picked with their hands, and even did not hesitate to jump off the city head with the Xia army who attacked the city head to die together, and finally the Xia soldiers were driven off the city wall.

Li Yuanhao was helpless, more than half of the 120,000 troops had been killed and wounded, although there were not many defenders left in Weizhou City, but the army was already out of food, and the hungry soldiers could not break through the city defense of Weizhou no matter what, so he could only choose to retreat.

Li Yuanhao's teeth itched with hatred, this battle was a shame for his life, there were more than 100,000 troops, in the east of the Jianing army to contain the Yan Yan, Yanqing Road Fan Zhongyan army, in the case of blocking all the road of reinforcements that Weizhou might come to help, but someone secretly ran to Huizhou to end the nest, the food that had been accumulated was destroyed in one fell swoop, and the victory in hand was also in vain.

Li Yuanhao has prepared for the worst, even if the conditions of the Song people are harsh, as long as it does not hurt the national body, he is ready to agree, stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, as long as he can stabilize the domestic situation, after a few years of recuperation, he must find this field no matter what, but what he has to do now is to maintain his status and strength and ensure domestic stability.

Of course, this battle is not useless, the Western Xia army gradually understood how to carry out siege operations, Li Yuanhao also gradually realized that relying on the bravery on horseback is not enough to dominate the world, he has already thought about it, in the future, the Song State will buy a batch of craftsmen who manufacture siege equipment to train a large number of craftsmen for Daxia, and the siege equipment is too important.

And the other most important harvest is that Yeli Wangrong and Yeli Yuqi, the two old guys who are in the way, were successfully cleared by themselves, and aroused the hatred of the Yeli tribe against the Song people.

On the evening of Li Yuanhao's return to Huizhou, several uninvited guests came to the small courtyard where Su Jin was recuperating from his injuries in Chenxing Building.