Great Zhou Empress

Under the tree, Xue Zhijing leaned against the tree trunk, spread his clothes on the ground, and held Xiao Liege in his arms.

Because he was a little tired from the "exercise" just now, Xiao Liege leaned softly against Xue Zhijing, not wanting to say anything.

Xue Zhijing touched her loose hair again and again, and kissed her forehead sideways.

Xue Zhijing raised his head, looked at the starry sky, and said with a smile, "I really want to watch the stars with you every day?"

Xiao Liege said sullenly in her arms, "Yes, come to Liao Kingdom, I will watch the stars with you every day."

Xue Zhijing shook his head, touched her, and didn't feel annoyed, "Baby, there are some ways, once you go, you can't turn back."

Xiao Liege: "Nonsense, it's just your choice."

Xue Zhijing: "That's right, I chose the path, I can't let go of everything, just be with you, then it's not me."

"Then how did you do it before?"

"I'm just suppressing myself in a place you don't know, telling myself that love is also very important in life."

Xiao Liege slowly got up from Xue Zhijing's arms, and looked at Xue Zhijing's face.

She has good night vision and can see Xue Zhijing looking at her gently as usual.

"Have you been suppressing yourself?" Xiao Liege's voice trembled slightly.

Xue Zhijing smiled, stretched out his hand, and gently stroked Xiao Liege's cheek, "You know, people are always looking for a meaning for their life in their entire lives. I am a person. Comfortable. Just like now, I always want to do something. I can't see my friends suffering, I can't see the people suffering, and I can't see poverty, war and hunger. I can't put everything down just to be with you easily .”

"Are you blaming me?" Xiao Liege asked hastily, "Blame me for trapping you by my side back then, giving you nothing and not allowing you to participate in anything. But you know, I also I don’t have enough power to give you everything, and I, too, am afraid that you will leave me.”

At the end of the conversation, Xiao Liege's voice began to gradually decrease, and she seemed to feel a little embarrassed, what was she thinking back then.

Why, I want to trap Xue Zhijing by my side so selfishly.

Every year, the Liao Kingdom asks the tribes in the east to hunt for them a kind of raptor that cannot be bred domestically. It is called Haidongqing. Live, can only be used as a hunting tool.

Has Xue Zhijing ever been that "Costin" by her side?

Xue Zhijing was still smiling, "I know all about it."

"You know?" Xiao Liege suddenly felt a little cramped.

"Although my baby is the regent princess of the country, the actual king of the country, outsiders think you are cruel, cunning, and arrogant, but I know it is not like this. Your heart is very simple, your thoughts are very simple, I I've been with you for so long, how can I not know why you want me to be around. I just don't want to talk about this topic with you, because that kind of life is very leisurely, and I don't want to destroy it. "

Xiao Liege's lips moved, but he didn't speak.

Xue Zhijing thought, maybe it is because her psychological age is much older, and the experience of the whole life is there, so she will not look at her relationship with Xiao Liege from the simple point of view of "you are right and I am wrong", she loves Xiao Lie The clarity in Ge's eyes is also protective.

"I always feel that you still have hatred for me in your heart, so I want to explain to you more. I was really unwilling to leave you at that time. After all, leisure sometimes also means boredom and a sense of incompetence towards oneself. Dacheng encountered civil strife , became an opportunity for me to change, and I left."

Xiao Liege is no longer a child, she can still feel Xue Zhijing's feelings, especially after Xue Zhijing dismantled her in such detail.

She leaned in Xue Zhijing, wrapped her arms around her neck, brought their bodies closer together, rubbed her chin and said, "I'm sorry."

"Don't tell me you're sorry, you just need to know that no matter what happens, I love you."

After returning to the camp at night, Xue Zhijing did not go to Xiao Liege's tent.

It was also on this night that they each received the news.

Xiao Liege learned that the strength of the Marine Corps is not that amazing, and the number is far lower than expected.

The Shiwei tribe in the east has rebelled and has occupied more than a dozen cities.

A group of Dacheng's army entered the hinterland of Liao and fled around.

At night, the camp was brightly lit, and all the nobles gathered in Xiao Liege's tent to discuss urgently.

The transmission of information in this era only relies on letters, and the content depicted in the text is often exaggerated or missing information, so what Xiao Liege and the nobles learned and understood is that the hinterland of their Liao Kingdom is already in chaos.

The most elite troops of the Liao Kingdom are now in this big camp. They penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains and destroyed the armed forces of various cities in the Northern Central Plains with lightning speed, and destroyed the administrative structure of the Dacheng Dynasty in most of the cities. Now, the backyard is unstable.

This is like a family, the elites all go out to do business, but the competitors send people to their hometowns, break into their houses to wreak havoc and robbery, the old and weak at home are helpless, these elites What should we do.

"We have to come back."

"I think half of the troops should be on the front line of the Huaihe River, and the remaining half should return to aid."

"Now there is turmoil in the east and west. The Shiwei tribe in the east and the Dacheng army in the west. Half of the troops are not enough."

"Half of the troops stay on the front line of the Huaihe River, and the Dacheng Forbidden Army on the other side can wipe us out at any time."

After discussing for a long time, everyone failed to come up with an ending.

Someone said angrily, "It must be Xue Zhijing's plan that has delayed us for so long, but it's just for this time, the Shiwei tribe must be the weapon they funded, otherwise just those people, our eastern defenders are enough to clean up. "

"I think it's better to kill her."

"No, if you threaten Dacheng with her, I don't believe that old lady Dacheng would not want to save the lives of her precious servants."

"enough!"

Xiao Liege said coldly from a high position.

Then everyone fell silent.

"Our Liao Kingdom is a state of etiquette. If we don't kill envoys, we don't need to mention this matter. The return of aid is certain. How to return aid, when to return aid, and how to negotiate peace with Dacheng are the topics we want to talk about."

A young nobleman below muttered, "Isn't it because she is your lover that you don't kill her?"

At this time the tent was very quiet, Xiao Liege naturally heard his muttering, and asked, "What did you say?"

The noble raised his chin and said, "I said, Princess Raging Fire, you don't want to kill Xue Zhijing because she is your lover. Your Liao Kingdom alone is the Liao Kingdom of our entire Khitan people."

Xiao Liege's fists were tightly clenched, she paused every word, and said coldly, "I don't agree to kill her because the two countries are at war, and if you don't kill her, you also grew up reading the teachings of Confucius and Mencius. I don't believe you don't know this basic truth."

She slowed down and continued, "I am the regent princess of Daliao, and the fate of Daliao is my destiny. I will not easily give up my interests in Daliao for just one person."

The young nobleman stopped talking, and the mature nobles naturally wouldn't talk about this matter, and they believed that Xiao Liege's interests were tied to the Liao Kingdom, saying that she would harm the Liao Kingdom's interests because of a woman , it is really unreasonable, not to mention they know that Xiao Liege is a rational monarch.

After discussing for a long time, I finally came up with a preliminary plan.

Early the next morning, Xue Zhijing was called to have a peace talk.

This time the atmosphere was not so good. Xue Zhijing also learned during the peace talk that the paper tiger marines were still exposed by them.However, the Marine Corps still completed its mission. It stopped the advance of the Liao Kingdom, promoted the peace talks in the Liao Kingdom, and bought time for other arrangements.

The peace talks on this trip went from morning to night, and no agreement has been reached yet.

At most, the Liao Kingdom only agreed to use the Yellow River as the boundary, and Xue Zhijing demanded that it must return to the border line that the two countries have always had.

The Liao Kingdom asked Dacheng to compensate them with 20 guan copper coins every year. Xue Zhijing only agreed to fully open the border and increase the trade volume between the two countries.

These two points are the main points of contradiction, and the rest are small agreements, and these two parts are always at odds with each other.

Xue Zhijing sipped the milk tea and said, "This invasion of your country is not a just war, and our request is reasonable. If you don't agree, we can continue to spend here, but it is said that the hinterland of your country is in civil strife at this time. I don't know if you Can you afford to wait?"

This passage finally managed to draw a bunch of glaring glances at each other.

Talking about the late night, when the peace talks were suspended, Xue Zhijing went back to rest in his tent, waiting for tomorrow's peace talks.

At this time, she was only surrounded by some veterans in the military who had come to participate in the military Olympics.

It's just that she didn't expect that when she was in a deep sleep, suddenly the movement of swords came from outside the tent, she suddenly woke up, and then quickly picked up the dagger that was close to her body.

At this time, someone lifted the door curtain, and a long knife came straight at her.

Xue Zhijing wrestled with the opponent for a while, relying on the layout of the tent to move back and forth, the corners of his clothes were cut off, some of his hair was shaved off, and his arms were still scratched. Finally, he escaped with the help of several veterans in the army. go out.

A few people were helpless, so they had to leave the Liao camp as soon as possible.

There was no boat on the water, so they jumped into the water and swam back.

After crossing the river, I saw torches everywhere on the other side. I wondered if I wanted to cross the river and fight over.

Xue Zhijing doesn't have much information now, so he doesn't know what happened in the camp of the Liao Kingdom.

A soldier said angrily, "Didn't you say that the two countries were fighting each other, and they didn't kill them? What's the matter with the princess of the Liao Kingdom, who wanted to assassinate in the middle of the night?"

Xue Zhijing frowned. She didn't believe that Xiao Liege was going to kill her, but she didn't have any evidence at this time. After all, this time, her arrangements had a profound impact on the Liao Kingdom. We talked all day yesterday. In other words, it should also be bleeding.

"Okay, let's go back to camp quickly and let the generals get ready."

As Xue Zhijing said, he ran back to Dacheng's barracks with a few soldiers, and had to discuss countermeasures when he went back. If the Liao Kingdom came here, they might suffer heavy casualties.

Liao State camp.

Xiao Liege smashed several teacups, the faces of the nobles sank like water.

The impulsive young nobleman who decided to kill Xue Zhijing knelt in the middle of the tent, the teacup hit the ground, and a piece of flying ceramic shards scratched his face, which still hurt a little.

"Who told you to make up your own mind?" Xiao Liege's voice was stern, making people tremble unconsciously.

The young nobleman raised his head and said righteously, "Princess Raging Fire, there is no one in Dacheng, all these schemes were designed by this Xue Zhijing. Before she made a move, our Liao Kingdom was overwhelmingly powerful and directly occupied the North Central Plains." They are in civil strife in Dacheng, and they see themselves being split into two halves. Don’t we just take advantage of this time to destroy Dacheng? The vast land of the Central Plains belongs to our Liao Kingdom. But this Xue Zhijing fled from our country After we went back, it didn’t take long before Dacheng became our formidable enemy. First, a legion made of straw men forced us to negotiate peace, and then funded weapons for the tribes we ruled, and even sent legions directly to invade the hinterland of our country. People, if you don’t kill them, it will cause great trouble.”

Xiao Liege took a deep breath, and had to say that the logic of this young nobleman was correct to a certain extent.Xiao Liege suppressed his anger, his back teeth were grinding, no matter how much Xue Zhijing tripped her up, she was still her woman, she would not allow anyone to hurt her, but she could not expose her in front of the nobles The degree of affection for Xue Zhijing can only be said in a high-sounding manner.

"But have you ever thought about it? She is a powerful minister of Dacheng and the most powerful deputy of the queen mother of Dacheng. She is not dead now. If she dies in your hands, the anger of the queen mother will be spread on the head of our Liao country. Dacheng will attack us on the third front, will you be able to bear it or will we all be able to bear it? Send your personal guards to the front to die, okay?"

In her heart, she had already sentenced that nobleman to death, but Xiao Liege couldn't show it on her face. She sat down, took a while, and then said in a calm tone, "You must have a brain when doing things, and don't yell and beat me at every turn." Call to kill, have you read more than ten years of books for nothing?"

After pondering for a moment, Xiao Liege said, "Cross the river, fight a battle for me, and then talk about peace, we have to hurry back to help."

Even if you want to talk about peace, you have to give yourself some bargaining chips, and you must make another fist to make Dacheng feel the pain.

At dawn, before the soldiers of the Liao Kingdom had assembled, they saw the voices of people on the other side.

Xiao Liege and all the nobles climbed up to look, and saw the Dacheng Legion on the opposite bank carrying piles of logs and bamboo rafts to the water surface and tied them together.

Is this going to build a "pontoon bridge"?

It turned out that Xue Zhijing had the same idea as her, to fight a battle first, and talk after the fight.

The sergeants of the Liao Kingdom urgently assembled to prepare for the battle.

The Dacheng soldiers on the opposite bank quickly crossed the river under the protection of rows of dense arrow rain, and the two sides were caught off guard and fought hand-to-hand.

The battle lasted until the afternoon before the two sides withdrew their troops, and it was considered a tie.

The Liao Kingdom accepted the move suddenly, and the entire camp was in a slump due to the turmoil in the hinterland. At this time, there was no wide area for them to run long distances to increase their impact. Dacheng also used various high-tech weapons, so there was no Play enough force value.

For Dacheng, such a tie is a win, after all, this is the first time they have taken the initiative recently.

After cleaning the battlefield, Xue Zhijing and Yuan Jin led the generals on horseback and met Xiao Liege and the others in the middle of the battlefield.

At this time, in front of everyone, Xue Zhijing and Xiao Liege really looked like the leaders of the two camps, and their words were all high-sounding.

The two of them don't need to act, Xue Zhijing was assassinated just last night, and he doesn't know who did it, so his expression is a little indifferent.Xiao Liege was caught off guard all of a sudden, and with the fact that Xue Zhijing planned to intrude into the hinterland of their Liao Kingdom, Xiao Liege's expression was also very cold.

In the middle of the battlefield, set up a tent, and talk about peace here.

It was a while of verbal confrontation, but at dawn they finally got a preliminary agreement.

The Liao Kingdom retreated to the long-standing border between the two countries, the outer border of Xiongzhou.

Dacheng's harassment army withdrew from the Liao Kingdom and was not allowed to provide weapons to the Shiwei tribe.