Chapter 40: Survival of the Fittest
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It will last until the early morning of the next day. Li Hu returned to the inner palace, t] noon, in a daze, he heard the cry of sadness. Li Hu suddenly woke up, and the scene in front of him made him helpless. Yelu Mingyue could not suppress the pain in his heart, and his parents died and the country's destiny was overturned. This blow was too great. Luo Sinan, Wanyan Xingxing and Zhe Keying were around her and accompanied her silently. No comfort at this moment was meaningless, and it could only make Yelu Mingyue even more painful.
Li Hu sat up slowly. When Yelu Mingyue saw that Li Hu had woken up, she couldn't help but rush forward, kneeled beside the couch and cried loudly. Luo Sinan made a gesture to Li Hu, signaling to comfort Yelu Mingyue, and then left the house with Wanyan Xingxing and Zhe Keying.
Li Hu stayed to hug Yelu Mingyue, gently stroked her back, and couldn't say a word of comfort. What could he say? He had to conquer Yanjing, destroy the palace tent of Yanjing, and force the Khitans in Yanjing to retreat to the desert. If the Song people or the Jurchens were allowed to conquer Yanjing first, the situation would be completely different. Li Hu had his own interests and the Hulie Mansion had his own goals. Some things had to be done, and even if it violated morality, it was necessary to do it. This was the need for survival. In this troubled world, the strong prey on the weak was either you or others would eat you. Whoever was the most cruel and vicious could survive. Speaking morality in front of survival was equivalent to self-defeating.
Yelu Mingyue watched the Liao Dynasty gradually approaching defeat. She gradually matured in blood and despair, learned to think in the defeat of the country, and learned to survive in thinking. If a princess of a devastated country wants to survive in this troubled world, it not only requires tenacious will, but also luck. Yelu Mingyue's father gave good luck to her beloved daughter at the last moment of leaving this world.
Yelu Mingyue could beg Li Hu to avenge her, but she couldn't do it. If Li Hu rushed to the desert, the last glimmer of hope would be gone.
Before her mother, Empress Dowager Xiao, wrote a farewell letter to her daughter. She knew that she would definitely die, but she would rather die under the Khitan knife than to let her rest her life be spent in pain and shame. She did not resent Li Hu in the letter, nor did she curse the Jurchens. She just bid farewell to her daughter, and she told her daughter to live well. In this world, people will always die, and dynasties will always perish, just like leaves, sprouting and growing in the spring breeze, falling in the autumn wind, and then turning into dust and returning to nature. People should have their own complete life like leaves, enjoy the sunshine and happiness, and welcome autumn with beauty and smile.
Empress Dowager Xiao loves her daughter, Daliao even more, and Yelu Mingyue also loves her mother, but like her mother, she loves her kingdom even more. For the sake of Daliao, she can sacrifice everything.
Yelu Mingyue used tears to vent the pain in her heart. Slowly, she calmed down. She broke free from Li Hu's hug, knelt at his feet, begging Li Hu to save Da Liao.
Li Hu didn't expect Yelu Mingyue to say this. He looked at Yelu Mingyue in surprise and solemnly swore that he would help the Khitans rebuild the Great Liao throughout his life. Thinking about how many years ago he swore to overthrow the Great Liao, but now he has turned around and has to work hard for the reconstruction of the Great Liao. Things in the world are impermanent, and it is really like a dream.
"Many subordinates of my father escaped from Yinshan." Yelu Mingyue learned from them that both of his parents died. "Lin Ya and his army were also retreating from Jinheshan. The Khitans need your assistance."
Li Hu nodded, thought for a while, and said, "You must know that the key to rebuilding the Great Liao is that the Khitans must work together, but now Yelu Yanxi is going to use the power of the Xixia people to restore the country, while Yelu Dashi wants to use my power, and some Khitans are completely desperate. They surrender to the Jurchens one after another. The Khitans are divided, resulting in the Liao army being unable to effectively control the desert. The desert is the opportunity to rebel and seek independence. Therefore, the entire desert becomes a piece of loose sand. In this case, it is difficult to climb to the sky if it wants to rebuild the Great Liao."
Yelu Mingyue burst into tears. "The first priority now is to let the Khitans gather together again. Let them see hope and restore their confidence. Otherwise, they will not be able to rebuild the Great Liao." Li Hu said. "So. I plan to go to Yunnei and talk to Yelu Yanxi in person. If he continues to make trouble, I will kill him and establish a new king."
On the night of the 16th, Li Hu summoned the civil and military officials to discuss the matter of the Western Expedition.
Hu Lie Mansion has formulated a detailed plan for the western expedition. This western expedition is divided into three steps. The first step is to take down Yunnei, take down Tiande Army, and station troops in Hongliuhai. (Hongliuhai, now Wuliangsuhai, Inner Mongolia.) The second step is to take down the front condom. The troops enter Langshan and destroy the Weifu Army of Heishan. The third step is to enter Helan Mountain and attack Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of Xixia.
There are several factors that cannot be determined in this plan so far. These factors have caused great controversy in the Hulie Prefecture's expedition on the Western Expedition.
First, it was the expedition of the west
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Whether it is the Song Dynasty or the Jin Kingdom, the purpose of supervising Li Hu to expedition the West was to consume and weaken Li Hu. From this goal, the Jin Kingdom would definitely inform the Xixia in detail of the situation in Youyan. In this way, the Xixia people would quickly adjust their troops deployment. It would be almost impossible for Hulie Mansion to severely damage Li Cha on the Yunnei battlefield.
If Hulie Mansion cannot severely damage Richard on the Yunnei battlefield, then the first step of the Western Expedition would require cooperation from the Northwest Army, forcing the Western Xia army to fall into the dilemma of fighting on both sides. However, the Song Dynasty did not order the Northwest Army to attack Xixia without obtaining Youyan, without establishing the Youyan Town Guard Army, and without eliminating the major hidden danger of Xiao Gan.
When will the Song Dynasty establish the Youyan Town Guard Army? When will it defeat Xiao Gan? No one knows.
This brings up a complex problem. In order to curb Li Hu and to minimize Li Hu's threat to the Song Dynasty, the number of garrison troops in Youyan Town would definitely be very large. If Hu Lie Mansion could not expedition the west quickly and gain an absolute advantage in the battle situation in the north of Dai, the rear would be under the threat of the Song Dynasty during the future expedition.
In order to concentrate troops to fight the desert north and for the safety of the Northeast Road, the Jin Kingdom must support Xiao Gan and Zhang Jue, and use the strength of Xiao Gan and Zhang Jue to firmly restrain the Youyan Town garrison army. In this way, Youyan was always in a war and war continued, which also seriously threatened the western expedition of Hulie Mansion.
The second is how likely it is to rebuild the Great Liao.
Yelu Yanxi was crazy. He was now like a evil wolf in the mountains. He had already gone crazy and lost his mind in order to survive. This emperor had to abandon him and establish a new king in order to quell the rebellion in the desert as soon as possible and gather the strength of the desert all over the world together, so as to prevent the Jurchens from conquering the desert in the shortest time.
If the Western Expedition was repeatedly delayed and the Khitans were unable to pacify the desert and gave the Jurchens plenty of time to sweep the desert, the subsequent situation was not only unfavorable to the Hulie Mansion, but also unfavorable to the Song Dynasty.
The third is Bian Jing. Bian Jing cannot be rebelled. Once Bian Jing is rebellious, there will be no western expedition. Even if the Northwest Army enters the battlefield, it will withdraw. In addition, Bian Jing will launch granite and Jiangnan again, and continue to impose bribes and levies. Will rebellions break out in Jiangnan and other places? If Song Jiang, Fang La and others are rising one after another, and Bian Jing will draw troops from the Northwest Army in order to quell the rebellion, then will the Western Expedition be fought? I will definitely not fight.
With this analysis, Hu Lie Mansion's plan to expedition in the west is in a dilemma and the prospects are not optimistic.
In the central Wenwu period, Huang She, Li Gang, Yuwen Xuzhong and others were pessimistic about the situation in Bian Jing and could not find a solution. What made them restless was the severity of Bian Jing. In their opinion, rebellions would definitely break out in the near future. People in the Song Dynasty were bullied the most and rebellions would occur wherever they were. This is foreseeable, because Bian Jing did not learn from the lessons of Song Jiang and Fang La's rebellion, but instead became more aggressive in exploiting the people, and rebellion would inevitably occur.
The central civil and military officials were almost one-sided in the reconstruction of the Great Liao. Only a few people cautiously believed that the Great Liao still had hope of reconstruction. If the Great Liao could not be rebuilt, there were two foreseeable results. One was that the Jurchens conquered the desert, and the other was that the strongest among the desert and the Bu people could unify the desert. No matter which one unified the desert, the army of the desert and the foreigners would have to go south to fight, which was too bad for the Hulie Mansion.
Judging from these two foreseeable results, Hu Lie Mansion must fight west as soon as possible. As soon as possible, it is likely that Hu Lie Mansion will fight alone. The victory or defeat will be unpredictable with its own strength and the Western Xia, which is far stronger than itself.
The controversy is here.
Some people believe that if they go west, they must fight in concert with the Northwest Army and attack from both sides to ensure victory. That is to say, take Yunnei first and gain a foothold in Daibei first. Don’t rush to the west and push Hulie Mansion into an unpredictable future.
One family believed that even without the cooperation of the Northwest Army, they would have to fight the west. At the time, Li Hu had a weak strength in the Dashan Alliance and faced two opponents of the Liao and Jin Kingdom at the same time, and was vulnerable. However, in a few years, the rebel army not only survived, but also occupied Daibei, becoming one of the heroes in the north and one of the important forces in the competition in the north. Hulie Mansion had the strength and confidence to launch the west expedition alone.
Li Hu tends to the latter view. From the beginning of his arrival in this world, he has struggled in survival. In order to survive, he does not care about the cost or use any means. The most important thing is the determination to move forward, which is the courage to be fearless, which is the primary law of survival. There is no place to shelter from the wind and rain in this world. If you want to live, you must fight to the death with the storm and storm. Whoever wins will survive.
Li Hu decided to launch an attack.
Chapter completed!