Like Zhong Fu, he was the king of Jin who had not slept for a day or two nights, but he did not feel the slightest sleepiness at this time. He was accompanying the elderly Yeluyute to stand at the head of the city of Qinwangchuan, looking at the Song army camp that had been surrounded by the Western Xia-Great Liao Alliance Legion in front of him.

In yesterday's battle, although the casualties of the Western Xia army were not light, more than 2,000 casualties were lost in the supporting army, and more than 1,000 people were killed or seriously injured in the Iron Harrier and the garrison. But the results of the battle were also quite outstanding, and the Song army that had killed, captured, and wounded was about 10,000 people.

Such a record can be said to be unprecedented for Brother Cha, and with such a victory, his position as the commander of the army is also solid.

And after the war yesterday, at least 40,000 Song troops were surrounded!

That's 40,000 people! It is said that it is the Hexi Army, but in fact it is the main force of Xihe Road. If they can be eaten, Western Xia will immediately be able to gain the advantage on the Western Front. Although it is impossible to recover Lanzhou, Zhuoluo City, Kaluochuan, Renduoshan City, Qizi Mountain, and even Huangzhou, Shanzhou, and Kuozhou can all be controlled......

In this way, the retreat to the west is also very solid!

"Good! The bargaining chips for peace talks are finally there. Jerumutra spoke Chinese.

Neither he nor Brother Cha understood each other's native language, but they both spoke fluent Chinese, so they talked to each other in Chinese.

"Peace talks?" Tsargo looked at Jerumut.

"Great king," said Xiao Heda, who was following behind Yeluyutera and Chago, "to mix with the old county king (Yeluyutera's title) means to use the lives of forty or fifty thousand Song soldiers here as bargaining chips to negotiate with the Song people." ”

Peace talks? That's fine...... Brother Cha thought to himself: The Khitans must not want to completely tear their faces with the Great Song Dynasty, they showed up when they fought yesterday and did not fight, this should be what it means, right?

Brother Cha thought for a while, and then asked: "Old county king, can we go back to a few states on the side of the Wuding River?" ”

"Can you hold it if you want to come back?" Yeluoite glanced at Brother Cha, "Gao Yu on Shuofang Road is not Gao Yongnian on Hexi Road!" If you had met a high army yesterday, would you have been able to win a great victory? ”

Definitely not!

How powerful Gao Yu is! Brother Cha said in his heart: My own family was defeated in Tongwan City, which is called a miserable! I almost lost all my old money......

"Let's take back a salt state," said Yeluyutra, "so that there will always be green salt to sell, and it will also cover the two states of Xingling." ”

Yinzhou, Xiazhou, and Youzhou on the banks of the Wuding River are actually one. Yanzhou, on the other hand, is not in the Wuding River Valley, but a large oasis in the Hanhai Desert. Not only is there an abundant water source, but there are also salt ponds that produce green salt. It is an important source of wealth for Western Xia!

And compared to Yinzhou, Xiazhou, and Youzhou, Yanzhou, which is hidden in the desert, is also easier to guard.

Brother Cha thought for a while, and arched his hand at Yelu, "Then ask the old county king to mediate from it, if it can be done, the old county king will be kind to my state and rebuild the country." ”

Yeluate touched his white beard, nodded and said, "It's on the old man." ”

While Jeruutra was talking to Chago, his envoys had already divided into two routes, and went to Shuibo City and the Mandarin Duck where Yelu Yanxi was located.

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"Persuasion? Are you Liao people here to persuade you? ”

Zhong Fu looked at the Liao envoy in front of him, Wei Wuzi named Xiao Gan, and he was really a little crying and laughing.

30,000 Liao troops, 5 or 6,000 armored cavalry appeared on the battlefield of the Song and Xia battles, and obviously stood on the side of the Western thieves.

Xiao Gan said with a smile: "This war is indeed the fault of the party members!" They should not step on two boats, proclaim themselves to your country on the one hand, and to our great liao on the other, and from time to time intrude on your borders...... Therefore, the Son of Heaven of my family sent the king of mixed counties to lead the troops to persuade peace.

The meaning of mixing with the king of the county is that the state of Bang Ni will cede the three states of Yin, Xia, and You to your country. At the same time, it is recognized that the three prefectures of Huang, Shan, and Kuo belong to your country. In the future, Bang Ni Dingguo will only be a vassal to our Great Liao, but a vassal of Great Liao, and my Great Liao will deploy troops to ensure that Bang Ni Dingguo will never violate the borders of your country...... As long as your country agrees, your country's army in Qin Wangchuan will be able to leave immediately. ”

When Zhong Fu heard Xiao Gan's conditions, he almost didn't lose his breath.

The Liao people's calculations are too shrewd. Not only did they want the Great Song Dynasty to spit out the salt and Shuo Erzhou that they had eaten in their mouths, but they also wanted the Western Thieves to be their vassals - the Western Xia was originally a vassal of the Great Liao, but the Song Dynasty did not admit it, and the Song Dynasty thought that they were the masters of the Western Xia, so they kept attacking the Western Xia.

If it is recognized that the Western Xia is owned by the Great Liao, then the Great Song will have no way to attack the Western Xia in the future. Unless there is a war with Da Liao at the same time!

Moreover, listening to the meaning of this Liao envoy, Da Liao will garrison troops in Xingling in the future. This is clearly to prevent Da Song from continuing to attack......

How could Da Song agree to such a condition for peace talks?

But the Great Song Dynasty didn't agree, what should Qin Wangchuan's 40,000 army do?

Zhong Fu's regret in his heart!

If Gao Yu, Zhang Shuye, and Tong Guan hadn't stopped him from beating Qin Wangchuan that day, Qin Wangchuan would have won it for a year.

If he didn't insist on fighting to the end in Qin Wangchuan and Western Xia, there would have been a truce now. Although I don't have any credit, I still have a lot of hard work. The position of the pacification envoy in Hexi should be kept......

But now, no matter whether the peace talks are successful or not, I'm afraid I won't fall behind, right? I don't know what tricks Cai Xianggong can have?

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Cai Jing didn't know the battle situation of Qin Wangchuan at this time, but he already knew that the Khitan army was likely to enter Western Xia!

On the Chongzheng Palace, the atmosphere was rarely gloomy to the extreme.

Although the Western Xia pursued the line of uniting Liao to resist the Song Dynasty in the past, it did not give up its independence at the same time. I don't want to become a vassal state that has been garrisoned by Da Liao for a long time. And this time, they are facing the crisis of losing their country, will they change their previous policy and invite the Khitan army to enter the country for a long time?

Once the Great Liao garrison prospered, would the Great Song still have a chance to perish or force the Western thieves to move west?

In addition, will the Liao army that entered the territory of Western Xia go to the Qinwangchuan battlefield?

If the Khitan entered Qinwangchuan, would the Song army be defeated there?

The more you think about it, the more terrifying it gets!

Not only was Zhao Ji on the throne a little messy, but even Zuo Xiang was a little dumbfounded.

Although Cai Jing hoped that the starting point of the conflict between Song and Liao would be in order to give Su Zhe a charge of angering the Liao State. But he didn't want the Liao army to enter Qinwangchuan!

The battle of Qin Wangchuan was fought by him, and once it ended in a fiasco, he would not be impeached and lose his phase?

"Your Majesty, it is not the most dangerous for the Khitan to enter the territory of the Western Thieves to garrison troops, the most dangerous is Qin Wangchuan!"

Zhang Kangguo, who knew the Privy Council, also thought of Qin Wangchuan.

"Please Your Majesty immediately send an edict to Hexi Road to collect troops." Zhang Kangguo said, "As long as Gao Yongnian's whole division is safe, the situation in Hexi will not collapse, and other things can be found slowly." ”

Gao Yongnian's entire army has 50,000 people, but there is no room for failure. Otherwise, it is not the problem of Hexi Road, but the possibility of the collapse of the entire western front.

"It's probably too late!"

It was Wu Haogu who spoke, he was now wearing a court robe with wide sleeves and a high hat, with a square heart curved collar, white silk socks and black leather shoes on his feet, a silverfish bag hanging on his belt, and an ivory wat board in his hand, and he was also standing in the Chongzheng Palace.

His official position is not low now, and the official is the Yunzhou Defense Envoy, the fifth official in the military attache rank of the Great Song Dynasty, and the official is even more of a control envoy. Although this coastal city has a bit of water and no land territory (Jiehe Commercial City is not the territory of the Division), the level is still there. It is about equivalent to a separate path to pacify the envoy, which is similar to the current Zhong Fu.

However, he is still not qualified to participate in the Chongzheng Palace, unless there is a special purpose. Today, he was specially summoned to the Chongzheng Hall of Qionglin Palace to participate in the summoning that only the chief ministers could attend.

And the content of today's call is the entry of the Khitan army into Western Xia!

Although it was just a guess by Gao Yu, Zhao Ji and the Manchu Dynasty did not dare to take it lightly. Therefore, Wu Haogu, who was preparing to go to Jiehe, was summoned to the Chongzheng Palace-after all, he came back from the Shuofang front, and he was also an "expert on Khitan issues".

Wu Haogu said: "Your Majesty, Gao Yu and Tong Guan's recitals were issued more than ten days ago, and it is only more than 600 miles from the Hetao Hebei grassland to Qinwangchuan, and for the Khitan cavalry, it can be reached in ten days at most. ”

Zhao Ji frowned, "Wu Qing, are you saying that the Khitan is likely to have started a war with our dynasty?" ”

It's kind of scary!

The ministers in the Chongzheng Hall all had a little numb scalps.

"War may not have started, but we still have to prepare for the worst." Wu Haogu paused, "If the Khitans want to fight, they don't have to go so far, they can fight directly in Hebei, Hedong, and Shuofang." They are now reluctant to stay close and far, apparently just to save the Western Thieves, and perhaps to return the several states and counties of Shuofang Road to the Western Thieves. ”

Zhao Ji's brows furrowed even tighter. The states and counties of Shuofang Road were all won by bloody battles, and thousands of houses were taken out to reward the meritorious soldiers, if the land was returned to the West Thieves in this way, then not only the blood of the soldiers was shed in vain, but the houses in Kaifeng Mansion were also given away in vain, which was worth tens of millions of real estate, which was really a loss.

"If Your Majesty is unwilling to return the land to the Western Thieves," Wu Haogu paused, as if he was making a great determination, and said after a while, "I ask Your Majesty to appoint Gao Yu as the ambassador of Xingling Xuanfu and the commander-in-chief Shuofang, Yanyan, Huanqing, Jingyuan, Xihe, and Hexi Zhulu armies, and grant the power to dispose of them cheaply, so that they can deal with the thieves." ”

"Xuanfu disposes of the ambassador?" Zhao Ji smacked his lips, "The six-way army is far apart, do you need to set up a commander-in-chief?" And I have no intention of destroying Xingling this year, is it necessary to set up an ambassador for Xingling Xuanfu to dispose of? ”