In history, the Song Dynasty and the Jurchens united to destroy the Liao Kingdom, but what the Song Dynasty did not expect was that when the Jurchens destroyed the Liao Kingdom, they also saw the military incompetence of the Song Dynasty. As a result, they just destroyed the Liao Kingdom, and destroyed the ally of the Northern Song Dynasty, creating the famous Jingkang shame in history.

Now Zhao Zhen’s plan is almost exactly the same as the Jurchens. Dangxiang, who was dealing with together, fled, and he immediately turned his attention to his ally Liao Kingdom. Although this approach is very moral, it is originally a matter of interests first for the country, and other morals, integrity and other things have no meaning at all.

However, in the end, Zhao Zhen was unable to make up his mind to let Cao Ma turn the direction to attack the Liao army. He was mainly concerned that there was no news about Li Yuanhao. If the other party just hid temporarily, if the Song and Liao armies fought at this time, Li Yuanhao would only seize the opportunity. At that time, the other party's fisherman would benefit, which would only cause the grand strategy formulated by the Song Dynasty to collapse completely.

Zhao Zhen was unwilling to take risks. After all, the current situation was beneficial to the Song Dynasty, and Li Zhang also thought of this. So after the two finally discussed, Zhao Zhen issued an order to order Cao Ma to temporarily station in Zhenzhou and send people to investigate the traces of the Dangxiang people. Although Li Yuanhao's escape was unexpected, so many Dangxiang people would definitely not be silent. It was just that no one thought about this before.

At the same time, the Liao Kingdom finally received a report from Yelu Zhirang. When he learned that Li Yuanhao fled without fighting, Yelu Zongzhen immediately summoned Yelu Renxian to discuss countermeasures.

"Li Yuanhao escapes. Do you think the Song army will take this opportunity to attack us?" Yelu Zongzhen frowned and asked Yelu Renxian. In his vision, it would be better to let Dangxiang and Song suffer both defeats, but he did not expect that Li Yuanhao would play cards according to common sense and escape without even playing. This was really beyond their expectations.

"Don't worry, your Majesty, Li Yuanhao's whereabouts are unknown. The Song army will definitely not dare to start a war with us at this time, but Zhenzhou City fell into the hands of the Song army. In this way, the Song Dynasty will definitely reach out to the grassland!" Yelu Renxian coughed lightly and said, "Compared to the previous mission to the Song Dynasty, he seemed to have a little older, especially his hair was nearly half white, and his health was not very good. He has been sick recently, which is one of the reasons why he did not lead his troops to fight in person.

"Zhi Rang's movements were too slow this time. We were obviously sending troops first. If we arrived in Zhenzhou earlier, there would be nothing for the Song people!" Yelu Zongzhen said a little annoyed when he heard this. If he could take back Zhenzhou, then they could restore the influence of the western grassland. The most important thing was to block the Song army from the grassland, but it was too late now.

"It's all my fault for this matter. It was me who asked Zhirang to delay the speed of the march. The main reason was to make the Song army fight Dangxiang first, but I didn't expect Li Yuanhao to do this!" Yelu Ren coughed again first, and then took the responsibility on himself.

"Forget it, just throw it away in Zhenzhou. Anyway, the grassland people can't count on it. And if the Song people really want to do it, they will definitely find that the grassland people are just a big mud pit. If they fall into it deeply, they will only consume their own strength!" Yelu Zongzhen did not blame him anymore, but suddenly smiled.

Although the Liao Kingdom ruled the grassland for so many years, their dominance over the grassland was actually very weak. At most, they kept marriage with some of the majority of the grassland and strengthened their rule over the grassland with the help of some cities built on the grassland. However, the grassland was too big, and the grassland tribes fought endlessly, so no matter how hard the Liao Kingdom tried, it still could not incorporate the entire grassland into effective rule. Instead, it consumed a lot of manpower and material resources.

"Your Majesty, although the Song Dynasty will not attack us for the time being, if Li Yuanhao has news or is found and eliminated by the Song army, then the Song Dynasty will definitely focus all its attention on us next. Then a national war will inevitably be inevitable. Either we destroy the Song Dynasty or the Song Dynasty will be destroyed. Of course, there is also a very small possibility that the two sides will tie it and then sign an alliance." Yelu Renxian said again at this time.

Hearing Yelu Renxian's analysis, Yelu Zongzhen also frowned. In fact, he thought of this. Moreover, Yelu Zongzhen said it nicely, as if the Song Dynasty and Liao Kingdom were evenly matched, but in fact, the Liao Kingdom was at an absolute disadvantage. The last defeat made them not recover until now. Now a large area of ​​grassland has been lost in the west, the Goryeo people in the east are also ready to move, the Jurchens in the north are even more unhonest, let alone the Song Dynasty has been sharpening its knives, it can be said that their Liao Kingdom is enemies on all sides, and the situation is extremely unfavorable to them.

"Renxian, what do you think we should do now?" Yelu Zongzhen pondered for a long time and finally asked again.

"Your Majesty, although the Song Dynasty is terrible, we have no energy to use troops to us for the time being, so we must seize this period of time and completely solve domestic problems. For those nobles who refuse to surrender, kill them and comfort them when they should. As long as the internal problems are solved, even if the Song Dynasty devotes the whole country to attack, we may not have no chance of victory!" Yelu Ren said this and coughed again. He worked day and night for the Liao Kingdom, which seriously damaged his health.

"That's right, but even if the Song Dynasty doesn't take action, the Jurchens and Goryeo have been dishonest recently. If they really raise an army, they may have to restrain a lot of our troops." Yelu Zongzhen frowned and said again.

"The Jurchens' problems are not really big. The key is that we used to exploit them too ruthlessly, which led to their resentment. As long as His Majesty is willing to appease them, they will definitely not be willing to really meet us!"

Yelu Renxian said at this time that although the Jurchens were weak, they lived between the white mountains and black waters, and the army was difficult to clear them. Therefore, Yelu Renxian suggested that the main focus should be on appeasement. In fact, the reason why the Jurchens rebelled in the past was indeed because the Liao Kingdom oppressed them too much, which also led to the extremely cruel revenge on the Liao Kingdom after the rise of the Jurchens, which directly led to the disappearance of the entire Khitan people in the long river of history.

"What about Goryeo? These Goryeo people are more aspiring to annex the land on the west side of the Yalu River. If they want to comfort them, they may have to cede the land!" Yelu Zongzhen also clenched his teeth when he mentioned Goryeo, and his face also showed an angry expression. Some time ago, Goryeo took away the area east of the Yalu River while they were weak, which made Yelu Zongzhen hate him. Now if he asked him to cede the land and comfort him, he would definitely not be able to accept it.
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