Time has passed unconsciously two months, the Seljuk Empire and the Black Khan Dynasty have fought between the Termaze City and the Jihun River, the two sides have won and lost each other after several battles, and now both countries are drawing troops and horses from the country to reinforce the front line, in addition, the Black Khan Dynasty and the Khorezm country formed an alliance to contain the forces of the Seljuk Empire from the flank, for Li Liangzuo, the fighter plane has appeared, but until now Li Liangzuo is not ready to attack.
In the imperial study of the summer palace, Yang Shousu, deputy military envoy, Li Chahan, general of Anbei, Li Xiaoren, general of Hehuang, Liang Gewei, general of Hetao, and Xili Qianbu, general of Datong, as well as generals at all levels of the Imperial Forest Legion, Li Yue, Li Bingchang, Li Wu, Jila Yong'er, Sun Zhen, Feng Frame, Zhu Xu, Li Yanze and others were all there; Li Liangzuo sat on the dragon chair and said to everyone: "Although the Western Expedition is not fully prepared, but now that the fighter plane has appeared, I don't want to miss this opportunity, so I have decided to send troops to the Western Regions." ” "Your Majesty's Divine Wisdom" "Yang Aiqing, tell the generals about the preparations for the Western Expedition," Li Liangzuo said to Yang Shousu.
"Your Majesty, generals, after more than two months of preparation, Weichen has prepared a month's supplies for an army of 600,000 for you in Gaochang City, including medicinal materials, weapons, clothing, grain and grass, and so on."
"One month, this is too little, as soon as the war starts, these war materials are bound to consume a huge amount, and they are adding unexpected losses, and a month's worth of supplies is simply not enough, and it will take at least three months."
Richard said with a frown.
"General Li, Gaochang City is thousands of miles away from here, and it is not easy to gather this month's supplies in more than two months, Your Majesty Weichen has really done his best."
Yang Shousu confided in Li Liangzuo.
"I know the difficulty of this, it is not easy to be able to gather enough supplies for a month in such a short time, Yang Aiqing has worked hard."
Li Liangzuo then got up from the dragon chair, walked to the generals and said; "I see that you are used to the comfortable life in the past few years, and the fat heads and big ears who eat have long forgotten how to fight, this campaign also prepared a month's supplies for you, when I followed me to the Liao country, I remember that each person brought seven days of rations, and now I feel wronged to give you a month's grain and grass."
Li Liangzuo's face became more and more ugly, Li Liangzuo walked up to Li Chahan and roared: "There will be no war without logistics supplies, complain, what do you have to complain about, when will my soldiers become as delicate as a rich son?"
Li Liangzuo pointed to all the generals and said, "I tell you that no one is allowed to move these materials without my military order. ” "Ministers obey Your Majesty's Shengyu" Li Liangzuo returned to the dragon chair and sat down to give a military order: "Listen to the order, most of the Anbei Army will march west to the Zhaisangbo area from now on to assemble, the whole army of Hetao and the main force of the Datong Army will all be transferred north to Zhaisangbo, and all the troops of the Beiting Army will also be assembled in Zhaisangbo, and the troops of the Gelulu Department will be dispatched to cooperate with the battle, and the above troops will form a total of 200,000 troops of the North Route Army of the Western Expedition, with Li Wu, the king of Qin, as the commander of the North Road Camp, and Li Chahan as the deputy commander, and all the departments will go secretly, and the army will assemble in Zhaisangbo and stand by; From now on, all units of the Imperial Forest Corps will secretly go to Heluochuan north of Suzhou to stand by, and the defense of the southeast border will be garrisoned by the Hehuang Army. ” "Ministers obey Your Majesty's Shengyu" The soldiers and horses of the Xia army are now too scattered, and it takes a lot of time for all the departments to assemble secretly, and Li Liangzuo is not idle during this time; After the generals left, Li Liangzuo left Yang Shousu behind and said, "Yang Aiqing, I will give you a task to redo your old job." ” "Your Majesty means" "I asked you to bring people to envoy to Song and Liao, and to meet with the emperors of the two countries, and said that I want to make an alliance with them."
Li Liangzuo said with a wicked smile on his face.
"Your Majesty, this matter is very important, and you must consider it carefully."
"I have carefully considered that it is necessary for the Three Kingdoms Alliance, and I must stabilize the Song and Liao during the Western Expedition."
"Then where does Your Majesty plan to ally with the emperors of Song and Liao?"
"Yang Aiqing, come and see."
Li Liangzuo took Yang Shousu to a map and said; "I plan to hold an alliance in Rongcheng, which is located at the junction of the three kingdoms of Xia, Song and Liao, close to Song and Liao, and far away from my Great Xia.
In addition to the Song and Liao countries, I will also issue an order to let the vassal states under the rule of the Andong Protectorate come together. ” "Wei Chen dared to ask, does His Majesty want to use this meeting alliance to serve as the leader of the Triple Alliance" "Hahaha," Li Liangzuo said with a few laughs; "Aiqing can handle it, I have my own plans."
"Yes, Wechen Command" Due to the urgency of the matter, Yang Shousu only took ten days to come to the capital of the Great Song Dynasty Bianliang, because the Great Song Dynasty has undergone Wang Anshi's changes, the Great Song Dynasty at this time is more prosperous than a few years ago, at this time it is the honeymoon period of Song and Xia, so for the arrival of Yang Shousu, the Chongzheng Hall of Song Shenzong received Yang Shousu with a national gift.
Yang Shousu walked into the Chongzheng Hall with the festival in his hand, bowed to Song Shenzong and said, "Yang Shousu, the envoy of Great Xia, pays a visit to His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty. ” "Envoy Yang has worked hard from afar, I don't know what is the matter with being so anxious to meet me," Song Shenzong asked Yang Shousu.
Yang Shousu took out the national letter and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, my Majesty the Emperor of Great Xia intends to make an alliance with the emperors of the Song and Liao provinces in Rongcheng, and my lord specially ordered the foreign ministers to send the letter of state and invitations. ” An internal envoy presented Yang Shousu's letter of state to Song Shenzong, who read the letter of state, looked at the invitation card and said: "On the fifteenth day of next month, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up in such a short time."
"Your Majesty the Emperor is too worried, today is the 20th, and there are still fifteen days to the fifteenth of next month, which is enough for His Majesty the Emperor to rush from Bianliang to Rongcheng, and His Majesty my family is afraid that His Majesty the Emperor will not be able to come in time, so the special ministers brought ten good horses, and they are all good horses that travel thousands of miles a day."
Yang Shousu said with a smile.
"Go to Rongcheng Huimeng, at this time the stakes are important, the summer envoy will go back to the post house to rest first, and Rong Zhen will discuss it with the ministers."
Song Shenzong said to Yang Shousu.
After Yang Shousu left, the entire Great Song Dynasty exploded, it was nothing more than two opinions, one was to go, the other was not to go, the ministers were arguing, but this final idea still needed to be taken by Song Shenzong himself; Looking at the noisy ministers, Song Shenzong had no choice but to issue an order to withdraw from the court, and called several important ministers in the court to the imperial study to discuss.
"The old general thinks that I should go to the alliance this time," Song Shenzong asked Wang Shao.
At this time, Wang Shao was already old, but his body was still healthy, Wang Shao said to Song Shenzong: "Your Majesty should go" "Why" is actually reluctant to go in Song Shenzong's heart, after all, Rongcheng is located on the frontier, and a slight accident may even lose his life.
"At this time, there is only one reason why Emperor Xia wants to hold an alliance, that is, the Xia army is going to the west, and this time the Great Xia Kingdom must be a westward expedition of the country, so the Xia Emperor needs to stabilize our Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, and His Majesty going to the alliance can just paralyze the Xia Emperor":