Li Liangzuo received an urgent report from Bianliang, the level of secrecy was the highest level, Li Liangzuo did not dare to slack off and immediately opened and translated the secret report, but when Li Liangzuo saw the content of the letter, not only did he breathe a sigh of relief, but also smiled very happily, first of all, why Li Liangzuo sent a sigh of relief.
At present, the national strength of Western Xia is not very strong, if you want to destroy Liao, you must pour the strength of the whole country, Li Liangzuo is most worried that after his army sets off, someone will stab him in the back, and the Great Song Dynasty is the most unstable factor in this, although for the time being, the relationship between Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty is still relatively good, but who can guarantee that this relationship will last forever According to the information from the high-ranking spy who was undercover in the Bianliang Palace, Zhao Ji of Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi, the governor of the political council, recently had a secret conversation, and the content of the conversation was about taking advantage of the civil strife in Liao to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.
Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is the eternal pain of the Great Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty from the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin to the last emperor Song Huizong, all the time do not want to take back the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, today we may not be able to imagine how important the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are for the Great Sending My Dynasty that settled in the Central Plains, and the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun can be said to be related to the national fortune of the Great Song Dynasty.
Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is not only an important barrier for the Central Plains Dynasty to resist the southward movement of the northern grassland peoples, but also an important base for the Central Plains Dynasty to obtain war horses and cavalry.
Compared with other regions, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures have excellent conditions for the birth of cavalry, first, the people here are fierce, because they are at the junction of nomads and farming peoples, since ancient times, the small-scale wars here have never been broken, in the long-term confrontation with the nomads, the people here have all practiced a good skill, and it is an excellent place for soldiers; In addition, there is never a shortage of war horses on the verge of grassland, and many people living here are the descendants of the nomadic people who have been sinicized, and they are very familiar with war horses.
If the Great Song Dynasty really recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun, then the pattern of the whole world is afraid to change, with the strong financial resources of the Great Song Dynasty, the Song army can establish a cavalry force of hundreds of thousands of people in a short period of time, has got rid of the embarrassing situation dominated by infantry, the Song army's field combat capability will be greatly strengthened, and then the Song army will grow into an all-round army that can attack and defend, and then it will be no longer a problem to dominate the world.
If the Song army wants to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, it is first necessary to see whether the Liao army agrees or not, and secondly, it is necessary to see whether Li Liangzuo agrees or not, because Li Liangzuo has also coveted the sixteen states of Yanyun for a long time; Because the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were of great significance to the Great Song Dynasty, Western Xia and Liao, in the hands of the Liao State, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were a production area for obtaining grain and other important grains, and they were also the advance base for the Liao Iron Cavalry to plunder southward.
As mentioned earlier for the Great Song Dynasty, it was an important strategic point to resist the southward movement of the Liao army and obtain cavalry; For the Western Xia, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were an important part of Li Liangzuo's domination of the world, and once the Western Xia obtained the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, they could cut off the connection between the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State, and at the same time, they would also deter the Great Song Dynasty by force; In short, there are many benefits in one sentence.
Li Liangzuo threw the secret letter to the emperor's uncle, Wei Ge Ning Ling, and said: "Look at it, everyone is going to do it, but you are still here to fight with me." ” After reading the letter, Wei Ge Ningling saluted Li Liangzuo and said, "Since Your Majesty has made up your mind, the old minister swears to serve his life." ” "The ministers are willing to die and serve their lives."
The other five people also saluted Li Liangzuo.
"Uncle Huang's ambition is commendable, I have thanked Uncle Huang here, and I have thanked you."
Li Liangzuo saluted everyone.
Then Wei Ge Ning Ling saluted Li Liangzuo and said, "How does Your Majesty plan to attack Liao?"
Li Liangzuo's eyes were deep and he said: "The soldiers are divided into two routes, one way to the grassland, and one to the sixteen states of Yanyun; It is necessary to take the sixteen states of Yanyun before the Song army and cut off the possibility of the Song army going north. ” "Your Majesty Shengming" everyone began to pat their ass.
Let's aim at the steppe again, because Yelu Hongji has been defeated again and again in the confrontation with the Southern Liao, and now he has basically lost control of the various tribes of the steppe, and now the relatively large tribes on the steppe include the enemy Lie tribe, the Wugu tribe, the predecessor of the Mongolian tribe, the Meili urgent tribe, the Northern Blocking Bu tribe, the Naiman tribe and other small tribes.
Due to the vacuum of supreme power on the grassland, these relatively large tribal leaders have thought of a boss addiction, so like the Central Plains troubled times, there is also chaos on the grassland, different from the Central Plains troubled times, the tribal wars on the grassland are mainly for the fight for pasture, cattle and sheep and women, these are the foundation of a tribe's growth on the grassland.
Now the most powerful tribe in the grassland is the Northern Divination Division, which occupies the upper grassland of the Ulugu River, and its leader Mogusi was named the King of Divination by the Liao State, occupying the palace of the Great King of Divination, controlling the most fertile pastures in the entire grassland area, and has 80,000 people under his command; The reason why the Liao court was able to allow the Northern Tribes to have so many troops was because of the long-term marriage between the two sides, which was also an important force for the Liao to control the grasslands.
In the core area of the grassland, that is, the area of the Ulugu River and the Tuwura River, where the water and grass are abundant, in order to control the grassland for a long time, the Liao State not only tried its best to win over the Northern Blockade Department, but also established four strong cities here, namely Zhaozhou, Victoria, Zhenzhou, Fangzhou, and formed the Northwest Road Recruitment Division by the four fortified cities, with Zhenzhou as the governing office, specifically responsible for the management of grassland affairs.
However, with the fragmentation of the Liao State, Yelu Hongji transferred a large number of soldiers and horses from the Northwest Road Recruitment Division in order to suppress the rebellion, and now there are only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses guarding the four states, and they cannot effectively control the various departments of the grassland, only on defense.
For Mogus, the occupation of these four states not only pulls out a fish bone in his throat, but also obtains a large amount of precious grain, property, cattle, sheep and horses.
Yelu Jin, who is an envoy to the northwest, has already noticed the actions of Mogus, and Yelu Jin has written to Yelu Hongji many times, but due to the long distance, Yelu Hongji is about to be unable to save himself, let alone send troops to rescue Yelu Jin; Although Ye Lujin is a Liao royal family, he has lived in the grassland since he was a child, and he is also a relatively distant side branch of the royal family, and because he has been in the grassland for a long time and is basically in a state of autonomy, the more than 30,000 Liao troops guarding here do not have much sense of belonging to the Great Liao court.
Since Li Liangzuo has decided to send troops, he will naturally pay attention to the affairs on the grassland, and the actions between Mogusi and Yelu Jin naturally can't hide from Yipintang's eyes; In the southern part of the grassland, at the station of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Renxiao had received Li Liangzuo's holy decree, and the entire Anbei army was sharpening its swords, and a major war was about to break out.
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