Li Liangzuo received an urgent report from Bianliang. The confidentiality level was the highest. Li Liangzuo did not dare to neglect and immediately opened and translated the secret report. However, when Li Liangzuo saw the content of the letter, he not only gave him a breath, but also smiled happily, and first talked about why Li Liangzuo gave him a breath.

At present, the national strength of Xixia is not very strong. If you want to destroy Liao, you will have to devote all the efforts of the whole country. What Li Liangzuo is most worried about is that after his army sets off, someone will stab him in the back. The Song Dynasty is the most unstable factor. Although the relationship between Xixia and Song Dynasty is still relatively good, who can guarantee that this relationship will last forever!

After receiving this investigation, Li Liangzuo dispelled all his concerns. According to the information released by the undercover senior spy in the Bianliang Palace, Song Shenzong Zhao Xu and the deputy governor Wang Anshi recently had a secret conversation. The content of the conversation was about taking back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun while the Liao Dynasty was in chaos.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are eternal pains for the Song Dynasty. From the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin to the last emperor Song Huizong, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are always thinking about taking back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Today, we may not be able to imagine how important the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are for the Great Despatching dynasty that settled in the Central Plains. The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun can be said to be related to the national destiny of the Song Dynasty.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are not only an important barrier for the Central Plains dynasty to resist the southernward movement of the northern grassland peoples, but also an important base for the Central Plains dynasty to obtain war horses and cavalry. Since the results of the battle, the Central Plains dynasty has used cavalry to resist the southernward movement of the northern nomadic peoples. King Wuling of Zhao's Hu clothing, cavalry and shooting and the Youzhou iron cavalry during the Three Kingdoms period are even more unique in the world.

Compared with the Sixteen Prefectures in Yanyun in other regions, there are excellent conditions for the birth of cavalry. First, the people here are strong in customs. Because they are at the junction of nomadic peoples and farming peoples, small-scale wars have never stopped since ancient times. In the long-term confrontation with nomadic peoples, the people here have developed good skills and are an excellent place for soldiers to be born. In addition, there is never a shortage of war horses here on the verge of grasslands. Many people living here are descendants of the nomadic peoples who have been sinicized, and they are very familiar with war horses.

If the Song Dynasty really recaptured the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the pattern of the whole world might change. With the strong financial resources of the Song Dynasty, the Song army could establish a cavalry unit of hundreds of thousands in a short period of time. It has escaped from the embarrassing situation of infantry as the main body. The Song army's field capabilities will be greatly enhanced, and the Song army will then grow into an all-round army that can attack and defend, and it will be no longer a problem to unify the world.

If the Song army wanted to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the first thing to do was to see whether the Liao army agreed or not. Secondly, it was to see whether Li Liangzuo agreed or not, because Li Liangzuo had been coveting the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun for a long time; because the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are of great significance to the Song Dynasty, Xixia and Liao, in the hands of the Liao Kingdom, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is a place of origin for obtaining important grains such as grain, and it is also a base for the Liao cavalry to rob the south.

As mentioned earlier in the Song Dynasty, it is an important strategic location for resisting the Liao army's southward advance and obtaining cavalry; and for the Western Xia, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun were an important part of Li Liangzuo's unification of the world. Once the Western Xia obtained the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, it could cut off the connection between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, and at the same time it would also impose a force deterrence on the Song Dynasty; in short, it was just a saying, "There are many benefits."

Li Liangzuo threw the secret letter to the emperor's uncle, Brother Ning Ling, and said, "Look at it! Everyone is going to take action, but you are still arguing with me here."

After reading the letter, Vergiling Ling bowed to Li Liangzuo and said, "Since Your Majesty has made up his mind, the old minister swears to serve his life to the death."

"I am willing to serve my life to the death." The other five people also politely said to Li Liangzuo.

"The emperor's ambition is commendable. I have thanked the emperor's uncle here and thanked you all." Li Liangzuo saluted everyone.

Then the polite Ge Ning Ling bowed to Li Liangzuo and said, "How does Your Majesty plan to attack Liao?"

Li Liangzuo said with deep eyes: "The troops were divided into two groups, one by one, one by the grassland, and one by the sixteen states of Yanyun; we must seize the sixteen states of Yanyun before the Song army, and cut off the possibility of the Song army heading north."

"Your Majesty's wise..." Everyone began to flatter.

Let us turn our target to the grassland again. Since Yelu Hongji was defeated again and again in the confrontation between Southern Liao, he has basically lost control of the grassland tribes. Now the larger tribes on the grassland include the Di Lie tribe, the Wugu tribe, the Mengwu tribe, the Meiliji tribe, the Beizhubu tribe, the Naiman tribe and other small tribes.

As the supreme power on the grassland appeared in a vacuum, these larger tribal leaders had a big addiction, so just like the chaotic times in the Central Plains, there were also chaotic situations on the grassland. Unlike the chaotic times in the Central Plains, tribal wars on the grassland were mainly for the battle for grasslands, cattle, sheep and women. These are the fundamental reason why a tribe grew on the grassland.

The most powerful tribe on the grassland is the Beishubu tribe. The Beishubu tribe occupies the upper grassland of the Ulugu River. Its leader Mogus was named King Shubu by the Liao Kingdom, occupied the palace of the Shubu King, and controlled the most plump pasture in the entire grassland area. It has 80,000 people who control strings. The reason why the Liao court allowed the Beishubu tribe 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 Kingdom to control the grassland.

In the core area of ​​the grassland, namely the Ulugu River and the Tuwula River, there are abundant water and grass. In order to control the grassland for a long time, the Liao Kingdom not only tried its best to win over the Beizhubu tribe, but also established four solid cities here, namely Zhaozhou, Victoria, Zhenzhou, and Fangzhou. The Northwest Road Zhaotai Department was established with four tough cities, with Zhenzhou as the capital, which was responsible for managing grassland affairs.

However, with the splitting of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Hongji drew a large number of troops from the Northwest Road Recruitment Office in order to suppress the rebellion. Now there are only more than 30,000 soldiers guarding the four states, and they cannot effectively control the grassland divisions and can only defend. Now Mogus is salivating about these four states. For Mogus, occupying these four states not only draws out a fish bone on his throat, but also obtains a large amount of precious food, property, cattle and sheep and war horses.

Yelu Jin, who was the Northwest Recruitment Envoy, had already noticed Mogus' actions. Yelu Jin had written to Yelu Hongji many times, but because of the long journey, Yelu Hongji could not even save himself, let alone sending troops to rescue Yelu Jin. Although Yelu Jin was a royal family in the Liao Kingdom, he lived on the grassland since he was a child and was also a relatively remote branch among the royal family. Moreover, because he was in the grassland for a long time, he was basically in an autonomous state, and the more than 30,000 Liao troops guarding here did not have much sense of belonging to the Great Liao court.

Since Li Liangzuo had decided to send troops, he would naturally pay attention to the matter on the grassland, and the actions between Mogus and Yelu Jin could not be hidden from Yipintang; at the base of the Anbei Protectorate in the southern part of the grassland, Li Renxiao had received the imperial edict from Li Liangzuo, and the entire Anbei army sharpened its swords and a war was about to break out.
Chapter completed!