Since things have happened, they can no longer be changed, Yelu Yue proposed that Xixia send troops to help Yelu Hongji recover his homeland, in exchange for the eastern grassland, to be honest, in Li Liangzuo's view, this is indeed a loss-making deal, compared to the Liao State's Zhongjing, Nanjing, Tokyo three provinces, the eastern grassland can be said to be very barren, but after thinking about it, Li Liangzuo still decided to send troops to help Yelu Hongji recover the lost land.
This is not because Li Liangzuo has any good intentions, but the result of Li Liangzuo's careful consideration, since he has decided to help Yelu Hongji recover the lost territory, the specific situation will have to be talked about again, and as the top leaders of Western Xia and Northern Liao, Li Liangzuo and Yelu Hongji naturally want to talk about this issue in person.
In a big tent at the foot of Yong'an Mountain, Li Liangzuo and Yelu Hongji each brought their own civil and military generals to gather here; The whole tent was bounded by the center line, with Yelu Hongji's territory to the east and Li Liangzuo's free activity area to the west, and the two sat down together under a square square table, which was the first time the two met in the real sense.
After the two sat down, Li Liangzuo asked Yelu Hongji very politely, "Son-in-law to meet my father-in-law." ” "Emperor Xia doesn't have to be polite."
Yelu Hongji said unceremoniously.
Li Liangzuo smiled and didn't say anything, and then Li Liangzuo said bluntly to Yelu Hongji: "I am a person who speaks more straightforwardly, and likes to open the skylight to speak brightly, and Emperor Liao also understands what you and I are meeting this time for; I don't have much to say nonsense, it's not impossible for me to send troops to help the Liao Emperor recover the lost territory, but I have a few conditions that I hope the Liao Emperor can agree. ” Yelu Hongji frowned and said, "If you have any conditions, you can say it, as long as it is not too much, I will answer you." ” "Okay."
Li Liangzuo said with a smile: "Actually, my conditions are very simple, first: my Western Xia sent troops to help your country recover the three provinces of Zhongjing, Nanjing, and Tokyo, and in return, your country needs to send all the land west of Yong'an Mountain to my Western Xia as military expenses for sending troops. ” "There's no problem with that, I can promise you now."
Yelu Hongji said to Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo then continued: "Second, the city that our Xia army has breached; All the property and population in the city belong to my Great Xia, and only the land of the city will be returned to your country. ” Yelu Hongji thought about it and finally said to Li Liangzuo: "Okay, I will also promise you this." ” Although in the eyes of modern people, this is simply a loss of power and humiliation of the country, and the behavior of the Xia army is a banditry, but in which era, all the armies are like this, they have no concept of nation and country, once the army breaks through the city, the situation will get out of control at the beginning, and the soldiers who have killed the red-eyed can be said to burn, kill, loot, and do all kinds of evil; This is a common problem of all armies in this era, and the reason why everyone is willing to come out to be a soldier is because in the process of fighting, in addition to obtaining military merit titles, you can also get a large amount of large trophies, which often make a poor soldier rich overnight.
"Article 3."
Li Langzuo continued: "The two countries have redrawn their borders. ” Then Li Yi and others spread a huge map on the ground, the map marked in detail the entire Liao State and the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Liangzuo walked to the map and pointed and said: "Xia and Liao redraw the border along this line, the north is bounded by the Great Xianbei Mountain, that is, the Great Xing'an Mountains, the east of the Great Xianbei Mountain belongs to the Liao State, and the west of the Great Xianbei Mountain belongs to the Western Xia; In the south, the two sides are subject to the boundary between the original Xijing Road and Nanjing Road and Zhongjing Road, and the entire Xijing Road is owned by our Great Xia Kingdom. ” Although Yelu Hongji had long expected that Li Liangzuo would put forward this condition, but when the border between the two countries was really redrawn, Yelu Hongji was also heartbroken, according to Li Liangzuo's plan, the entire Liao State would lose more than half of its territory, especially the Xijing Road was extremely important to the Liao State, and the loss of Xijing Road was equivalent to losing the barrier to defend against Xixia in the west, and at the same time lost an important passage to the Central Plains in the south.
Hearing Li Liangzuo's plan to redraw the border, the generals under Yelu Hongji were all resentful, and everyone clenched their fists, but everyone chose to be silent, because they are all smart people, and now the Northern Liao Army does not have the strength to confront the Xia Army, everyone must endure, and the situation will not be easy to say after the Northern Liao Army regains its strength.
"Okay, I agree."
Yelu Hongji gritted his teeth and said.
As soon as Yelu Hongji's words fell, Yelu Yixin said to Li Liangzuo: "Emperor Xia, the foreign minister has a reluctant request. ” Li Liangzuo waved his hand and said, "If the king of the North Courtyard has anything to say, just say it." ” Yelu Yixin said to Li Liangzuo: "Emperor Xia, in the area west of Daxianbei Mountain, especially in the area west of the Great Mother Ancient City, Jingbian City, and the area of the Gela River, as well as the Khitan tribe of my Daliao, I hope that the Xia Emperor will allow them to move to the east of the Great Xianbei Mountain. ” Li Liangzuo weighed the pros and cons and said, "Okay, I agree." ” Under the coercion and temptation of Li Liangzuo, Yelu Hongji's Liao State suffered heavy losses, while Li Liangzuo's Western Xia gained a lot, especially this time Li Liangzuo obtained the western states of the sixteen states of Yanyun centered on Datong, that is, Xijing Dao; This place is a very important strategic place for the Western Xia, the Great Liao or the Great Song Dynasty, and now this strategic place falls into the hands of Li Liangzuo, which is equivalent to adding an important passage for Li Liangzuo to enter the Central Plains in the future.
After the negotiation was completed, the Western Xia once again formed an alliance with the Northern Liao, and a crisis was temporarily resolved, and a life-and-death battle was triumphantly resolved; The formation of a military alliance between Western Xia and Northern Liao is not good news for Southern Liao and the Great Song Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Xia army is already strong, and now with the addition of a Northern Liao army whose strength should not be underestimated, it is simply a fool's dream to resist the alliance between the two of them.
Since the two sides have decided to form a coalition army, then the next thing is the problem of coordinated operations, although the Xia army is a guest army, but the combat effectiveness is strong and the number is large, so the Western Xia and Northern Liao coalition forces are still mainly based on the Xia army, supplemented by the Northern Liao army, but there is a big problem in this, if the Northern Liao army captures most of the cities of the Liao country, it will inevitably cause a large loss of wealth and a large reduction in the population of the Liao State, which is beyond doubt, after all, there is an agreement between the two sides, the city land belongs to the Northern Liao, and the population and wealth belong to the Xia army, Therefore, now the Northern Liao Army can not have any slackness, in the eyes of many generals of the Northern Liao Army, it is better to have important cities to take by themselves.
As for the decisive battle between the two armies, it is best to be in the field, with the Xia army as the main force and the Southern Liao army fighting for attrition; But Li Liangzuo is not a fool, and it is impossible to waste his troops in vain, so although Western Xia and Northern Liao have reached an alliance, this alliance can be said to be very fragile, and both sides are playing their own small calculations.
For Li Liangzuo, a unified Liao State is a threat to himself, relying on independent geographical conditions, and a huge population base, once the Liao State is reunified, it will soon recover its national strength, and then the Liao State will once again become a threat to the Western Xia, which Li Langzuo absolutely does not allow to exist, so when the alliance has just ended, Li Liangzuo has already begun to arrange the next move.
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