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Chapter 60 The inevitable battle

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Chage finally chose to return to Pingxia Road and the southern prefectures and counties in the south. The vassal state of the Song Dynasty. The king of Xixia proclaimed himself king and gave up the emperor's title. The two countries established a permanent peace and covenant.

In fact, the Song Dynasty never recognized the title of Emperor of the King of Xixia. The country accepted the title of Emperor of Xixia as the emperor in order to provide assistance to Xixia at a critical moment. Wu Qimai of the Jin Kingdom became the emperor. In order to form an alliance with Xia, the country recognized the title of Emperor of Xixia early.

Brother Richard took out the conditions for alliance to Taiyuan at this moment, which clearly meant to alienate the northwest and Bianjing, disrupt the situation of the Song Dynasty, and triggered a civil war in the Song Dynasty. It was said that he had ulterior motives.

The next day, Li Hu accompanied Li Cha to visit Prince Yun.

Prince Yun has faced the reality in Tong Guan's persuasion. His strategy is to rely on Li Hu to occupy the northwest at this stage and do his best to work closely together. When he enters Bian Jing and becomes the emperor, Li Hu is powerless. Because governing such a huge empire not only requires Li Hu's military power, but also requires civil officials who are proficient in political affairs. Military generals fight with officials. Although it is bloody, Prince Yun can get all the best and gradually cultivate his own strength. It won't take long before Li Hu will lose control of authority. However, Prince Yun can get back authority. This is a long-term struggle. It requires patience. But as long as you persist, the final winner will definitely be Prince Yun.

After a conversation, Cha Zhi found out Li Hu’s thoughts.

Obviously, Li Hu's goal is to have a great national reign. It is normal for people like Li Hu to have such ambitions. But Li Hu is a Han native in the north and has limited strength. He has no foundation in the Song Dynasty. It is too difficult for him to reach the sky in one step. The best way is to first support a puppet emperor to actually control the power of the Song Dynasty until he gained a firm foothold in the Song Dynasty. Then replace it. This way of seeking the country and establishing a royal industry is the main model of historical change. Brother Richard understood it at a glance.

Li Cha was secretly happy. The civil strife in the Song Dynasty developed from hunger and riots to the struggle for the imperial rule. At this time, as long as you fully support Li Hu, you will be able to promote the division of the Song Dynasty. The division of the Song Dynasty will no longer be able to deal with the Western Xia. The division of the Song Dynasty will inevitably lead to the decline of the Song Dynasty. The decline of the Song Dynasty. Not only did the Jurchens have the opportunity to expand south, and the Dangxiang people also had a chance to breathe. If the opportunity was good enough, the Dangxiang people also took advantage of the fire to rob and get a piece of the pie in the grand banquet of the Song Dynasty.

With this new understanding of the Song Dynasty, Brother Li immediately restructured the conditions for alliance and quickly promoted the division of the Song Dynasty by meeting Li Hu's requirements as much as possible.

Prince Yun and the Lord of the Prince Yun were responsible for negotiations with the Western Xia. Li Hu and the Northwest Marshal's Mansion were responsible for managing the Northwest.

If you want to stay in the northwest at this moment, you must first control Shaanxi through the Northwest General Gate. This matter is operated by Zhihe Northwest General Gate led by the Zhe family. However, the arrival of Qian Gai Fan Zhixu and the five strategic envoys gave Li Hu a headache. If you keep these for a long time in Chang, Bian Jing would inevitably react. This is not conducive to the upcoming Hebei War. Li Hu and the people in the Northwest did not want to turn against Bian Jing immediately because of this matter. Tong Guan suggested that the Western Marshal's Office forced Bian Jing to grant the Northwest Marshal's Office military and political power on the condition of participating in the Hebei War. They were fully responsible for the Northwest Military and Political Affairs.

Bian Jing would obviously agree to this request. But if Bian Jing wanted to recover the bad influence brought about by the ceding of the three towns, the little emperor and the Bian Jing court wanted to rebuild their power, they would carefully weigh the pros and cons and not agree. No, once the war in Hebei failed, the Jin army took advantage of the situation to attack the little emperor and the court of Bian Jing for a second time.

"I'm afraid Bianjing won't think so." Li Hu and Bianjing's monarchs and ministers did not have hope for Bianjing, power and interests are always the first priority. They would rather cede land and pay compensation to the enemy than give up their interests and delegate power to the Bianjing's gangs are just a group of madmen.

"What we need is buffering time." Of course, Tong would not expect Bianjing to agree. But he knew that even if the Hebei War was participated by the Tiger and Martyrs, it would definitely fail. He saw the specific attack method sent by Bianjing. At this critical moment, Bianjing actually took back the command of the battlefield and undermined the Zhong Shidao. It was simply a way to die.

Tong Guan was very clear about the drawbacks of the Great Song military system. When he was in charge of military affairs in the northwest, he had the power to take action first and then report. So many times he handed over the command of the battlefield to the front line commander. But he had a deep conflict with the people in the northwest. Both sides wanted to use the victory or defeat of the battle to fight against opposition. Therefore, Tong Guan's record in the northwest was and ideals sometimes deliberately deceived the old emperor in order to cover up the blame. Now Bian Jing has a battle of war and a battle of war. The main war faction occupied the upper hand. In this case, the power struggle in Bian Jing was very fierce. The main war faction must use the Hebei War to attack the opponent. The abolition of the head teacher was obviously one of the ways for the main war faction to drag the back. But the main war faction was not only satisfied with dragging the back. Their ultimate goal was to drive the main war ministers out of the center and even drive out of Bian Jing. Therefore, the Hebei War would undoubtedly be defeated.

"Do you think Bianjing can win this battle?" Guan sneered, "Do you think the Tiger Lie Army participated in the Hebei War. You will defeat the Jin army?"

Of course, Li Hu was not so naive. But he did not have an intuitive and clear understanding of the bloody level of the power struggle in Bianjing. In his opinion, the Song Dynasty had reached this point. Even if the power struggle in Bianjing was fierce, it would not lose its rationality. However, Tong Guan's words made him feel scared. Could it be that the monarch and ministers of Bianjing were crazy? It was so crazy that they had to fight for power and profit regardless of the country's safety?

"General Commander. When Tong Shuai was in charge of the Northern Expedition, Zhong Shidao and Liu Yanqing served as the front-line commander. However, they were defeated in two battles and two battles with absolute advantage. Why?" Yuwen Xuzhong saw Li Hu's hesitant expression and immediately reminded him. "There is only one real reason for defeat. That is, the power struggle in Bianjing has reached a point of madness..."

Yuwen Xuzhong looked at Tong Guan with sharp eyes and extremely angry expressions. That was the craziest time when Tong Guan and Cai Jing were fighting with Wang Fu Liang Cheng and others. The king and ministers fought each other, the powerful ministers fought each other, and the eunuchs fought each other. The powerful ministers and eunuchs fought each other. This completely lost his mind led to the defeat of the Northern Expedition. In the end, he did not spend money to buy Yanjing back to save face.

"The Hebei War was won. The Tiger Army's strength expanded again. This is definitely not a good thing for Bian Jing."

"Are Bianjing willing to lose?" Although Li Hu agreed with Tong Guan and Yuzhong's views, he did not believe that the madmen in Bianjing were willing to dig their own graves.

"Of course, Bianjing doesn't want to fight." Tong said. "Bianjing hopes to defeat the Jurchens with its own strength. This will curb you and alleviate your threat to Bianjing. But Zhong Shidao, Yao Gu and others obviously do not have such confidence. What's more serious is that Bianjing will not hand over military power to Zhong Shidao and Yao Gu at all. They do not believe in Zhong Shidao and Yao Gu. They have to command themselves. This is simply a joke about the Song Kingdom of Great China."

"If Bian Jing commands this battle, even if all the troops are thrown into the Hebei battlefield, there will be defeats but no victory." Yu Zhong smiled bitterly. "In my opinion, it is better to slow down."

Tong Guan said that the time to buffer Yuwen Xuzhong was slowing down. Li Hu didn't think about the situation again.

Dong Xiaochou Huang She, Zhang Chaiyun, Fan Zhichang and others didn't say anything. It would be too dangerous to slow down. Once the Song army on the battlefield in Hebei is defeated, the entire army is wiped out. The tiger and bribery army may not have blocked the Jin army.

The Northwest Marshal's Office was to receive the imperial edict from Bian Jing, and the earliest plan was to gather the Datong army to counterattack Fengshengzhou and use Zonghan's Western Route Army to build Zonghan.

In fact, only the army of Datong can move in the northwest. Bianjing does not allow the Tiger Lieutenant Army to enter Hebei from the direction of Taiyuan. The Tai army cannot move. The Northwest Army now guards the border and some guards Guanzhong. It is impossible to enter the Hebei battlefield at all. The Hedong Army fought hard in Datong for several months and suffered heavy losses. Now return to Hedong. On one side - replenish the army. On the other side, it goes south and enters the Hezhong Prefecture area and stations on both sides of the Yellow River. This deployment of the Hedong Army is a good thing for Taiyuan and Bianjing. Taiyuan can cut off the connection between the two places at any time. Bianjing can use this to block the Tiger Lieutenant Army from going south.

Just calling the army of Datong. The Hulie Mansion could also bear the money, food and weapons required for the war. However, after Li Gang's letter was delivered to Taiyuan, the situation of the Grand Marshal's Office was completely clear about the situation of Bian Jing. The situation in the Song Dynasty was completely changed with the old emperor being placed under house arrest. At this time, the importance of the Hebei War came out. This was a war related to the life and death of the Song Dynasty. There was also a reason for Bian Jing's personal command. But the consequences of Bian Jing's personal command were ignored except for the little emperor and the central ministers who were obsessed with power. Everyone else knew that. So Li Gang begged Li Hu in his letter. It was necessary to give strong support to the Hebei battlefield.

If this letter was written by someone else in Bianjing, Li Hu could ignore it. But he would not take it.

Li Gang knew Li Hu's true identity. He had agreed with Li Hu to revive the Song Dynasty. Although Li Gang later arrived in Bianjing and was now in charge of the Western Prefecture Privy Council, Li Gang's ideal of revive the Song Dynasty would not change. The letter was full of despair. This despair affected Li Hu. Since Li Gang was so pessimistic about the future of the Song Dynasty, how confident is he to be true to his ultimate goal?

For this reason, Li Hu accepted Li Gang's suggestion and planned to assemble the army from Taiyuan to enter Hebei for combat. However, Tong Guan and Yuwen Zhong firmly opposed it.
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