Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 325
Li Chengsi felt that something was wrong, "Prime Minister, if he promised to support on the surface, but secretly came to mobilize people, wouldn't we be under the enemy?"

"So, Your Majesty! Now, no matter what, we can't use troops against Xiao Tarase, and what we say is just talk. Against Xiao Tarase, we will only take a defensive position. Instead, we will encourage Zhao Dezhao to fight Duan Xuequan, no matter who wins or loses." , we are all temporarily invincible."

Li Chengsi nodded heavily, "The Prime Minister is right. I'll go and talk to Han Feng right away. Ask him to leave for Song Dynasty tomorrow."

"Your Majesty! I think we need to send another envoy to persuade Xiao Tarase. For example, some time ago, when Prime Minister Cao sent troops to Xiliang, Duan Xuequan came to us several times and wanted to send troops with us. Of course, we declined to attack Prime Minister Cao's rear, but please be careful, Prime Minister Cao!"

Li Chengsi was overjoyed, "Prime Minister! That's a good idea. Push the matter to Duan Xue's whole body, and we should be like Xiao Tarase. If we are trying to persuade Zhao Dezhao to use troops against Dali, we, who seem to be the most dangerous, are instead The safest, but Duan Xuequan is out of luck."

You Xian smiled and said, "I will draft this letter, and then the king will just copy it with his own hands."

So the next day, Han Feng set off with a gift and came to Song Dynasty to meet Zhao Dezhao and congratulate him on winning the Northern Han Dynasty.

Then you wrote a letter first, and Li Chengsi copied it by hand, and sent Sun Qian to send it to Xiao Ta Lai.

This is called two stones, one bird. Even if you can't beat Duan Xuequan, at least you are safe.

So three days later, Han Feng came to Song Dynasty after a long journey with gifts.

Zhao Dezhao, who personally went to the Northern Han Dynasty, also just returned to the Song Dynasty.

Hearing that Han Feng came to congratulate, he received him immediately.

"Han Feng has worked hard! How is the situation recently?"

"My lord! Xiao Tarase is powerful! Some time ago when he was attacking Xiliang, we planned to attack him secretly, but at this time Duan Xuequan sent an envoy to ask if we are willing to join forces with them to attack Song Dynasty."

Zhao Dezhao was startled, "Duan Xuequan wants to join forces with you to attack me?"

"Exactly!" Han Feng nodded solemnly.

"At that time, the Great Song Dynasty was attacking the Northern Han Dynasty, and there was no time for him to take care of him. The king of my family was worried that you would be attacked by surprise, so he had to put aside the matter of going northward, and focused on monitoring Duan Xuequan, lest he would be harmful to you."

Zhao Dezhao nodded, probably not believing it, but not completely.

After all, the interests between countries outweigh everything else.

No matter what Li Chengsi said or Duan Xuequan said, you can only listen to one of them and not believe them all.

Zhao Dezhao and Han Feng talked cordially for a long time, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Seeing that it was getting late, Zhao Dezhao asked Han Feng to go to the post house to rest.Then sit down and meditate by yourself.

After this period of vassals fighting for the world, the situation has gradually become clear.

The fall of the Southern Han Dynasty, Northern Han Dynasty, and Southern Tang Dynasty left only a few large and small countries in the current Central Plains.

That is the Great Song Dynasty who occupies the southwest and the south, Duan Xuequan who occupies the southwest, and Xiao Dalai who occupies most of the north, these three big princes, and Li Chengsi, Uighur and other three small princes.

In terms of the population of the occupied area, of course Xiao Da Lai in the north has the largest number, and in terms of wealth, Jiangdong, which is rich in products, ranks first.

But in terms of the size of the territory, it is Zhao Dezhao who is a rising star.

This time, Xiqiang was destroyed by Xiao Tarase, and the buffer zone in the middle was gone, so Xiliang was connected with Tong Qinghui in Hanzhong.

Li Chengsi and Tong Qinghui have some territorial connections.

If these three families merged into one family, they would be able to compete with Zhao Dezhao, Xiao Dalai, and Duan Xuequan. Unfortunately, given the benefits, it was impossible.

At present, Zhao Dezhao and Li Chengsi are allies, and the relationship with Khitan is not bad. Although Zhao Dezhao, as the Song Dynasty, has no great connection with Duan Xuequan, who is also young, the relationship with him in private is quite good.

So now Zhao Dezhao is going to fight Li Chengsi and Duan Xuequan. They are a little bit embarrassed, and they are a little far away from Xiao Daase, so Zhao Dezhao plans to use troops against Tong Qinghui from Yizhou.

However, he felt that Li Chengsi couldn't be idle, if he kept occupying Xixia, he would become a stumbling block in his success in conquering the world in the future.

So the next day, he invited Han Feng again and told him that I, Da Song, can support one hundred thousand shi of grain and one thousand war horses, please move around, whether it is north or east, I, Zhao Dezhao, want to attack Hanzhong, we all work together.

Han Feng was both happy and sad when he heard it. He was happy that Da Song was not only willing to maintain the alliance, but even lent horses and rations. It was really a steel alliance.

What is worrying is that Duan Xuequan, Xiao Daset, is not easy to provoke, and his own strength is really a little bit reluctant.

Bringing Zhao Dezhao's gift, Han Feng returned to Xixia. Li Chengsi and Mie heard about Zhao Dezhao's request, and they felt helpless.

One hundred thousand shi of grain and one thousand war horses are really great support.Most importantly, Zhao Dezhao didn't mention when or what to pay back.

Li Chengsi glanced at him first, thinking that the alliance with Da Song was still unbreakable, and there was no question of a sneak attack from behind.

The two discussed for a while, and felt that since Zhao Dezhao had said that they should make a move, they had to be serious. Comparing the two, it was better to play Dali, and he started by himself, so as an alliance, the Song Dynasty would And Jiangdong, naturally became a hostile relationship.

After setting the tone, Li Chengsi immediately wrote a letter to Zhao Dezhao eloquently, to the effect that he would like to thank Da Song for his support. I decided to use troops to Dali. Although we are talking about good and bad, let's all work together!

Zhao Dezhao once thought about whether to give Dali a message and let them pay attention.

But finally held back, let them fight in the east of the Song Dynasty, and go to the north of Yizhou by themselves, the world is far away, and no one will help.Fair enough.

No matter who they lose or who wins, they will consume their strength.This is what Zhao Dezhao would like to see.

Because there had been no wars in Yizhou for years, the Yizhou army was almost becoming a master army. Zhao Dezhao switched them with the Taiyuan army and asked them to come to Taiyuan to suffer.

And the Zhenwu Army, who followed him through life and death for more than half a year, was transferred to Xichuan to confront Tong Qinghui.

The Song army is the main force, defending against Xiao Dalai in the north and occupying Dali in the south, it is better not to move.

Zhao Yuanzuo has grown into a general who can take charge on his own. Zhao Dezhao is very satisfied. He let Gao Huaide take over Taiyuan in an all-round way, and let Zhao Yuanzuo cooperate with Gao Huaide to manage the rear.

The others followed him and went to Hanzhong to fight against Tong Qinghui.

This time Zhao Dezhao did not bring more troops, but only brought 3 horses, of which [-] horse troops.Appoint Jiang An as the vanguard, Fang Zhengqi as the left wing, Wang Zixing as the right wing, and Shi Yuanliang follow him in the central army.

The army set out immediately, left Yizhou, and entered Yangping Pass in the north.

(End of this chapter)