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The negotiations were very difficult, and Zong Han expressed his sincerity.

After Li Hu destroyed Xixia, the balance pattern of the three-part in China and Earth was difficult to maintain, and it affected the situation in the desert. Facing the increasingly powerful Li Hu, the desert had to unite to ensure their survival and development. Therefore, the desert would never let Li Hu and the Jurchens form an alliance. The alliance between the two could free up the Jurchens to deal with the desert, which was inevitable. Therefore, the desert was also willing to form an alliance with Li Hu, thereby preventing the Jurchens from attacking the desert.

As a result, the Jurchens fell into a dilemma of being attacked from both sides, forcing Huanglong Mansion to make a choice and re-implement the unified strategy of "first north and then south". At present, if Huanglong Mansion wants to unify the north, it must first solve the threat from Li Hu. The solution is to let Li Hu fight with the Southeast Song court. Only when the two fights, the Jin Kingdom has the opportunity to attack the desert and unify the entire north first.

For this reason, Huanglongfu did not hesitate to exchange land for peace and Shandong to win an alliance with Li Hu. Unexpectedly, Li Hu's desire was far greater than they imagined. Li Hu not only wanted Hedong, but also Hebei, otherwise he would not form an alliance. This made Zong Han very angry. However, in the decisive battle a year ago, Li Hu won the victory on the battlefield, which led to the Jurchens' lack of confidence in the negotiations.

Seeing that the negotiations could not continue, Zong Han was anxious. At this moment, Gao Qingyi came up with an idea to bring the Khitans into the negotiations.

"The Khitans want to restore the country, but the Khitans have no emperor, and their royal family is in our hands." Gao Qingyi said to Zonghan, "Li Hu promised the Khitans to help them restore the country, and promised to return their royal family from us, so that they can get the emperor and rebuild the great Liao Dynasty. Now the negotiations are in a deadlock, what can Li Hu use to fulfill his promise?"

"What do you mean is to incite the Khitans. Put heavy pressure on Li Hu and force Li Hu to give in?" Zong Han frowned, and immediately thought of a more serious problem. "Once the Khitans restored their country, they will definitely join forces with the desert, so our strategy of conquering the desert as soon as possible will be even more difficult to achieve."

"Do you think Li Hu really hopes that Khitan people will restore their country?" Gao Qingyi asked back, "Do you think Li Hu is really willing to rescue the Khitan royal family from Huanglong Mansion and give the Khitans an emperor?"

Zong Han pondered and said nothing.

"I think this strategy is feasible." Yang Pu supported Gao. Qingyi's idea. "The restoration of the Khitans poses a great threat to us, but it also poses a threat to Li Hu. In addition, are the Desert fans willing to see the Khitans restore the country? After the Khitans restore the country, if they want to attack Liaodong, their own strength is definitely not enough, and Li Hu will not help them. Li Hu's purpose is to watch the tiger fight in the mountains, so they can only ask for help from the Desert fans, but are the Desert fans willing to help the Khitans? I think it is impossible. The Desert fans' ideas are the same as Li Hu, and they are also watching the tiger fight in the mountains. For them, the least they are unwilling to see the strong rise. There are too many strong people in the north, which is a disaster for the Desert fans, so they are neither willing to surrender to the Dajin nor the Khitans rise again."

When Yang Pu said this, Zong Han understood it. In fact, no one is willing to see the Khitans rise again now, but for all parties, for the needs of the situation, they have to make the Khitans rise. But everyone will try to curb the Khitans, and the Khitans will do their best to preserve their strength. In this way, the Khitans may not attack the Jurchens in the short term. If the Khitans do not attack the Jurchens or engage in any Eastern Expedition, then Li Hu's trouble will come, and the deserts will be careful. The conflicts between the three parties will become increasingly greater, and finally the division will become inevitable. The division of these three parties is a great news for the Jurchens.

Zong Han carefully weighed the pros and cons, then visited Yelu Mage, and wrote a letter to Huanglong Mansion to report his new negotiation ideas in detail.

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Li Hu received a letter from Yue Fei and learned about Yue Fei's overall concept of the war in the Central Plains.

This concept itself is very good, but in terms of the comparison of the three-way troops in the Central Plains battlefield, it is a bit unrealistic.

Li Hu invited Luo Qinghan, Tieying and Wu Xiong to discuss together.

"The letter from Chang'an said that the Southeast rebels had more than 100,000 troops in Yingtian Prefecture, and the entire Jianghuai defense line had at least 200,000 troops." Luo Qinghan leaned over and pointed to the map and said, "The combined forces of Wanyan Talan and Liu Yu in Shandong were more than 100,000. In the Hebei direction, the combined forces of Zong Fu, Zong Bi and Qian Dinggong also had about 100,000 troops. After the war in the Central Plains began, the Jin army in Shandong, Hebei, and the Southeast rebels in Jianghuai would jointly fight, and at least 300,000 to 400,000 troops were invested, while our troops on the battlefield in the Central Plains were only 140,000. Even if we urgently transferred troops south from Chang'an and Hedong, it would not exceed 200,000."

"In addition to Kaifeng Wang Yuan's local army, the total strength will not exceed 250,000." Zhu Xia added, "It is not very difficult for Yue Shuai to encircle and annihilate the Shandong Jin army in Kaifeng, but it is almost impossible, unless a miracle happens."

"Don't expect miracles." Tieying sneered, "We and the Jurchens and the Southeast rebels fought repeatedly in the Central Plains, and we know each other's true nature. If we want to defeat them, we must at least be on par with them in terms of military strength, otherwise the chance of victory will be really not great."

Li Hu also felt that it was very mysterious. It was not easy to defeat the more with less.

"Master, in my opinion, if we want Yue Fei to create a miracle, we must make some substantial concessions in this negotiation, such as agreeing to the Jurchens to exchange the collapsed ridges in Shandong to paralyze the Jurchens and let the Jurchens think that the two sides have the possibility of alliance, so that we have the opportunity to quietly transfer more Hedong troops into the Central Plains battlefield."

Before Luo Qinghan could finish his words, he was interrupted by Wu Xiong.

"Supervisor Luo, Shandong is a prosperous place. The Jurchens and the Southeast rebels rely on this to connect and support each other. How could they give up? If you were Wanyan Zonghan, would you use Shandong to exchange for the barren and desolate barren land of the collapsed ridge?"

"In my opinion, Zonghan does have sincerity to argue for peace, and we can take advantage of this."

"This is the problem," said Wu Xiong. "Zong Han may indeed be sincere, but what about Huanglong Mansion? Wu Qimai and Wanyan Gao also agreed with Zong Han's peace talks?"

"Huanglong Mansion will not agree to exchange land for peace." Tieying agreed with Wu Xiong's view, "The Jurchens still have considerable advantages. We have just destroyed Xixia, and the army was exhausted during the expedition, and the national strength was also consumed. In their opinion, the Tiger Lie Army was unable to attack the Southeast rebels in the short term, so Zong Han came to negotiate, trying to deceive us and give them time to adjust their troops deployment. Once the Jin army completes the assembly preparations and attacks the north with the main force, the situation in the entire north will inevitably reverse. At that time, not to mention that the Khitans are in no time to restore the country, even the desert is unwilling to form an alliance with us."

"Since Zonghan and Huanglongfu have major differences on the specific conditions for peace talks and alliances, we can make full use of it." Luo Qinghan smiled, "We meet some of Zonghan's conditions, but if Huanglongfu firmly refuses it, it is equivalent to inspiring internal conflicts among the Jurchens, which is obviously beneficial to our war in the Central Plains."

Just when Li Hu and others were arguing, Zhu Xia came and reported urgently, and Zong Han ran to the Khitan Palace to visit Yelu Ma Ge.

The situation still changed. Li Hu and everyone did not expect that Zong Han would actually go to find Yelu Mage. What was Zong Han's purpose? He changed his mind and wanted to help the Khitans restore the country? If Zong Han made a big fuss about the Khitans' restoration, then Li Hu's intentional peace talks would inevitably lead to the dissatisfaction of the Khitans, and Li Hu became passive.

Li Hu and the others discussed for a long time and finally decided to make some concessions to test the reaction of Huanglong Mansion.

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Zonghan mainly invited Yelu Mage to negotiate and discuss the return of the Khitan royal family, so as to threaten Li Hu.

Yelu Mage immediately found Li Hu and begged Li Hu to break the deadlock in peace talks as soon as possible and try to redeem the Khitan royal family. He took a step back and said that even if Yelu Xinilie was brought back alone, it would be fine.

Li Hu sat with Zong Han again, and this time the two sides found a common point, that is, the Jin Kingdom did not oppose the Khitans' reconstruction of the Great Liao, while Li Hu asked the Jurchens to return the Khitan royal family.

"I can promise you," said Zonghan, "but you must convince the Khitans to hand over the collapsed ridge to us."

"You first withdraw the main army of Shandong across the Jingdong Ancient Road, and I will let the Khitans give you the collapsed ridge." Li Hu refused to give in.

"I can agree to this condition," said Zong Han. "Same thing, you must also withdraw the Khitan army to the area south of Yinshan."

"You have to know that the collapsed ridge was not captured by me, but by Yelu Mage and the Khitans, so if I want to convince them, it is rare, unless you meet my small conditions."

"What conditions?" Zong Han finally waited until Li Hu let out. He didn't want to miss this rare opportunity and asked hurriedly.

"You give me King Yelu Xinilie of Zhao first, and I will hand him over to the Khitans." Li Hu said, "If you want to win the trust of the Khitans and make them believe that you are indeed sincere, you must do something."

Zong Han immediately understood Li Hu's intention. King Xi Nilie of Zhao was not an ordinary person. Although this royal prince was the eldest son of Yelu Yanxi, at this time of crisis, Yelu Mage and the Khitans would no longer pursue Xi Nilie's identity as a illegitimate person. The Khitans are now in urgent need of an emperor. No matter what the emperor had in the past, as long as he met the conditions for becoming an emperor, Xi Nilie was obviously the most suitable candidate.

Zonghan hesitated.
Chapter completed!