Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 487: Countries with different agendas

After several days of preparation, the Pingxia Message drafted by Zhezong himself spread quickly throughout the country at an accelerated speed of 800 miles.

Among them, the proclamation strictly describes the capriciousness of Xixia. And it emphasized Li Yuanhao's perverse behavior.

It is said that the people of Dangxiang were originally orphans of the former Tang Dynasty, and they should be converted to Sinicization. For his own selfish desires, Li Yuanhao de-Chinese and became a Hu, and secretly usurped the imperial title. This is what brings war to the people of Dangxiang.

Later, he wrote about the frictions in the Xixia Kingdom over the past few years, in which he denounced the fickleness of the Xixia Kingdom.

The final ending is that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty couldn't bear to see the people of Xixia suffer, so he launched an army to attack Xixia. Wherever the Song Dynasty travels along the way, if there are naturalized people, they can be regarded as citizens of the Song Dynasty.

Soon this message also spread to the Liao Kingdom. The Liao officials, including Yelu Yanxiu, all called the Song Dynasty shameless after reading it. He actually chose such a far-fetched reason for starting a war.

But now that the Song Dynasty's appeal has been sent out, the Liao Kingdom will naturally not sit back and wait. The Liao Kingdom made two preparations.

The first-hand preparation is to "prepare for war". If Xixia and Song Dynasty go to war, they must help to make it happen.

And this second-hand preparation is to "mediate peace talks", and the Liao Kingdom is no better than the Song Dynasty. Today's Liao Kingdom has long been a powerful country on the outside and a cadre on the inside. After years of trade, the internal treasury of the Liao Kingdom was no longer enough to support him to fight against the Song Dynasty. Without an economic foundation, there is no way to effectively expand arms and prepare for war.

The reason for the strict prohibition is even simpler. The Liao State was afraid that Zhao Mu would use this as an excuse to launch a full-scale war against the Liao State. After all, the Song Dynasty's reason for attacking Xixia was simply too far-fetched compared to crossing the border to hit the grass valley.

The Liao Kingdom didn't know how to use such an army to resist the elite divisions of the Song Dynasty that had refined their troops and streamlined their administration.

The reason is very simple. They didn't dare to come because the Han people stood up. Not only did they dare to fight back, but they not only dared to fight back, they even dared to take up arms and kill the invaders. The barbarians are afraid of power but not moral. Your fist is stronger than theirs, so of course they are afraid of you.

Today's Liao soldiers are as frightened when they hear the names of "Zhao Mu" and "King Qi" as the Huns soldiers are when they hear Huo Qubing, the children of Jiangdong hear Zhang Liao, and the Qiang people are afraid when they hear the names of Ma Chao.

At present, the morale of the Liao army can be regarded as extremely low. Even if such troops are taken up, they will be a rabble without any fighting spirit. Because of the fear of Zhao Mu and the Song Dynasty, the Liao soldiers now no longer dare to cross the border between the two countries to harvest grass and valleys.

Moreover, in the original Battle of Xiongzhou, the Song army led by Zhao Mu killed hundreds of thousands of people from the Liao Kingdom. And some of them are elite soldiers from the South Campus. The Liao Kingdom's standing troops were only 340,000. Zhao Mu directly ate up half of the Liao State's defense strength in this battle, and the Song Army's losses in that war were even negligible.

Therefore, until the Liao Kingdom recovers its vitality, peace is still the most important thing.

On the one hand, they don’t dare to come. On the other hand, the Liao court strictly prohibited it.

The Liao Kingdom has not yet recovered from this disastrous defeat. The losses of soldiers and horses are still secondary. The most troublesome thing for the Liao Kingdom is that the current Liao soldiers are generally afraid of the Song Dynasty. Especially after Xiao Yuanshan, the leader of the Shan Army, was killed by Zhao Mu in Xixia Kingdom.

The envoy responsible for the envoy to the Song Dynasty this time was still the Princess of Zhao, Yelu Yanxiu. Because Yelu Yanxiu was ready to contact the Song Dynasty at any time, she did not return to Beijing, but stayed in Nanjing.

After getting the news of the envoy, she rushed to Bianjing at high speed to meet Zhao Mu and Emperor Zhezong, trying to explain the interests and risks before the war between the Song Dynasty and Xixia started, and to nip the war in the bud. .

Not only did the Liao Kingdom get the news that the Song Dynasty was going to war against the Xixia Kingdom. Xixia, Tubo, and Dali all got the news. And all parties were not idle, and also took action on their own.

The Xixia Kingdom began its own preparations to expand its army, began to hoard food and grass, recruit soldiers, and strengthen the city walls. Be prepared for a comprehensive invasion by the Song Dynasty.

The same goes for the Tubo Kingdom. In accordance with the alliance they signed with Xixia before, they mobilized their troops to the Qingtang area, preparing to support Xixia in time when Xixia cannot withstand it anymore.

However, the Tubo side was also prepared with both hands. The order given to them by Tubo Zanpu was that if the Xixia Kingdom really could not withstand it anymore, then the Tubo army would immediately defect and take the opportunity to occupy the Xixia Kingdom's land and plunder the Xixia Kingdom's territory. city, and then sent envoys to contact the Song Dynasty. It expressed that Tubo was willing to surrender to the Song Dynasty and jointly attack Xixia.

As for the Dali Kingdom, Dao Baifeng and Gao Mei were there, and everything was going according to Zhao Mu's previous plan. Dali was ready to invade Tibet. Gao Shengtai's son had even prepared the dragon robe and crown used by his father to ascend the throne.

These things were originally used to make Gao Shengtai the leader of Dali, but now they can be used for other purposes.

Now Dali's army has been placed on the border with Tubo.

Seeing the Dali Kingdom so mobilized its troops, they were at war with each other. The Tubo Kingdom once sent envoys to try to communicate, but the Dali Kingdom did not contact their envoys and did not give them a chance to meet Duan Zhengchun.

However, the other party only stared at them with eager eyes, but did not show aggressive hostility. This made the chieftains on the Tubo border very confused, and they didn't know what the Dali country was saying.

But it is worth mentioning that Zhong Ling has now become Duan Yu's concubine. As for Gao Mei, although she is still the princess, she no longer cares about Duan Yu's affairs.

Although Zhao Mu has confessed to Duan Yu about his relationship with Gao Mei. But Duan Yu did not make any announcement about this matter. He and Gao Mei both knew about it tacitly. As for the relationship between the two, it has never been good, and it is not that bad now.

And on the contrary, after the two tacitly talked about it, their relationship even became a little closer, and the two of them now get along as friends. Rather than a couple who dislike each other.

But they are not a strange couple. Because there was a Duan couple in later generations who were more bizarre than them. That is Duan Yu's grandson Master Yideng and his imperial concubine Yinggu. Compared to Master Yideng and his wife, Duan Yu and Gao Mei look more like normal people.

After all, the two of them never loved each other, it was just a political marriage based on interests. I have never loved, so naturally I don’t hate you. Now that there is no difference in interests, both of them feel a lot more relaxed.

And now all parties are waiting to see this "War between Song and Xia", which is enough to change the situation in the world.

As for the Song Dynasty, it was also the last calm before the storm.

Zhao Mu was enjoying Hongluan's singing and dancing today. Cong Long Xuan hurriedly ran in.

Seeing Cong Longxuan's anxious look, Zhao Mu asked: "Master Xuan, what's going on? Could it be that the Xixia or Liao people came over first before we took action?"

(End of this chapter)