At dusk, the Liao army camp was in the central army's tent.

Fan Wu was reporting the journey of his mission to the Song army camp. Yelu Dashi in front of him frowned slightly until he finished speaking, and said, "Are you saying that you didn't see Tong Guan, you just met several generals, and at the same time they agreed to the request for a truce?"

"That's true, it's not like they look fake." Fan Wu recalled the situation at that time and said with a serious expression.

"It seems that the Song army suffered great casualties this time, and we dare not use troops to us for the time being. Dashi, do you think if we take this opportunity to launch a surprise attack, can we defeat the enemy in one fell swoop?" Yelu Xiongge immediately raised his own thoughts. The previous battle really made him feel uncomfortable, and he was thinking about winning back a city.

Yelu Dashi hurriedly said to him: "You must not be, maybe this will hit the Song people's thoughts! The Song people are good at guarding. Once this is their strategy to show weakness to lead us to attack hastily, our damage will only be greater."

"Huh?" Yelu Xiongge was stunned. He didn't think so deeply, but at the same time he was a little confused. Yelu Dashi did not attach so much importance to the Song army before, but now he looks more cautious. Could it be that the previous setbacks made him change?

Yelu Dashi glanced at him and asked Fan Wu again: "Those Song generals only said that Tong Guan was sick and could not see guests, so they didn't mention anything else? Also, when you mentioned the Song general who led troops to fight as I said, what did they do?"

"No, they just said that they could be fully responsible for the affairs of the military. As for the other people when they mentioned that general, although they were a little strange, they could not see any excitement or anger, as if they didn't take this matter seriously at all."

"Can they see through Lin Ya's strategy?" Yelu Chen asked curiously.

As the eyes of several people in the tent looked at each other, Yelu Dashi sighed softly: "It should be that, and if I expected it, the consequences should be even more serious! Let me ask you, who is the one who is the master of the Song army's tent today? Are they two veterans of that caste?"

"No, he is a general in his thirties. Although he sat down at the bottom, many words were spoken by him, and the others were naturally acting according to his expression." Fan Wu could still have this vision.

"That's it. The Song army had indeed undergone a mutiny, and it was completely successful without bloodshed. If I guessed correctly, the youngest general was the commander of the mutiny, that is, the Song general named Sun Tu!" In the end, Yelu Dashi almost gritted his teeth and said Sun Tu's name.

Yelu Xiongge also had a tight brow. As a person with close relationship with Yelu Dashi, he certainly had heard of Sun Tu's name from him, and he had many times: "Is Sun Tu? This person really, as you said, will be our enemy? Also, I always feel that this matter is a bit taken for granted. He is a young guy with little foundation in the army. He can really pull Tong Guan off so easily and let himself replace him?"

"This is what Sun Tu is so terrible. To be honest, if I hadn't mastered these clues, I wouldn't dare to make such inferences. But apart from this, I really can't explain why the Song army had these changes. King, you have been dealing with Tong Guan for many years, how could you not know his character? If he still had military power, how could he let the day before yesterday happen? Also, whether it is age or temperament, the Song general Fan Wu saw is 70% or 80% consistent with Sun Tu, whom I am familiar with, and from the previous secret reports, we can be sure that he has come to the Song army camp. As for how he did all this, it is indeed a bit confusing, but if there is anyone in the Song Kingdom who can seize military power in hundreds of thousands of troops, in my opinion, he is the only one who is Sun Tu!"

After Yelu Dashi said this, everyone in the tent moved again. Because this statement brought Sun Tu to a very high position, this is a high point that Yelu Dashi had never looked down upon anyone in the past, which was enough to make everyone feel wary of Sun Tu.

"Is Lin Ya thinking that the person who commanded the Song army now has changed to Sun Tu, so she doesn't let us send troops again?" Yelu Chen thought of the topic just now and asked hurriedly.

"This is only one aspect. If it were just Tong Guan, we could certainly seize this opportunity, but Sun Tu, who is the best at risking and making plans - over the years, I have been observing the various actions of this matter in the State of Song, and he is more difficult to deal with than before. Therefore, the problems presented by the Song army are all illusions, in order to lead us to take the initiative to attack.

"On the other hand, it is more important, that is, we can no longer bear too much casualties. The chaos in the north is getting worse. If we make another mistake, we will lose our troops and lose our generals. Then, let alone rescue the court, we will ask the court for help."

The next few words were considered to be the key point, which immediately extinguished everyone's desire to fight. Yes, now that Liao is worried about foreign troubles at home and abroad, the situation will only be worse than that of Song State. They really cannot afford to fail again. So even if they have 80% chance of winning, as long as there is a little variable hidden in it, it makes people dare not take risks.

"But even if we are willing to stop the army, the Song army will not give up. Their purpose has always been clear, which is to seize more than ten important cities including Nanjing, the Great Liao Dynasty. And we will never give up all these important cities, otherwise..." Yelu Xiongge said with annoyance.

Yelu Dashi nodded deeply: "Yes, we are indeed in an extremely difficult position at the moment. We cannot advance or retreat."

"And it can't be delayed. Our food and grass will not be supported for too long. Even if the food in Nanjing is stored, it will be enough for two or three months. The north will not be able to rely on it at all. Once the food is out of stock, the army will inevitably collapse..." Yelu Chen mentioned this fatal issue even more worriedly.

The tent was getting deeper and deeper. To be honest, since the rise of the Khitan clan, they had never encountered such a dilemma and such a cowardly situation.

"Then let's discuss peace with the Song people first to see if we can get some benefits from it. For example, we can change the city to eat and overcome the current dilemma first." After thinking about it, Yelu Dashi suddenly proposed such a strategy. As soon as he said this, everyone changed color again: "Lin Ya, you are crazy... Not to mention whether the Song people would agree, the court alone would not allow us to do such a thing as destroying the Great Wall!"

Whether the Song people or Liao people, they actually knew very well how great the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun were for the Central Plains dynasty. These cities represent not only many people and territory, but also related to the overall pattern of the forces between the north and the south.

Why has the Song Dynasty been suppressed by the Liao Kingdom in the north for a hundred years and never had a chance to breathe? It was not only because of their military policy mistakes, but also because they lost this large buffer zone and a place where they could raise horses. Once they were really returned to the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to Song, even if they were asked to exchange for it, the Song Dynasty would make a profit, because it won't take long to take it up and use the army and the swords and guns in their hands to regain everything they had paid.

Seeing the panic and discolored look of the few people, Yelu Dashi laughed: "Of course I know that the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun must not be returned to the Song people. This is just a temporary solution to delay. It would be even better if I could get some benefits from the Song people."

"Didn't it mean that dragging on is very bad for us?" Fan Wu was a little confused.

"If we do nothing, it will naturally be a big harm to us if we drag it down. But if we can bring a surprise soldier during this period and launch a surprise attack on the Song army from the side, the situation will be very different. So what I want is to paralyze the Song army and drag our plan until our success."

Yelu Dashi's words made people stunned again: "Shock soldiers? Are there any available troops in the south?" Even Yelu Xiongge was a little vague.

"Why, even the king forgot that in this radius of hundreds of miles, is there actually a third force besides our Liao and Song armies?" As Yelu Dashi asked this slowly, Yelu Xiongge and others suddenly thought of something, and their faces became a little strange again.

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"The third force?" There was also a group of Song generals who were also a little vague about this question. When they heard this from Sun Tu, many people were stunned on the spot. However, the two elders of the Zhong family responded quickly and immediately understood: "Are you referring to the Changsheng Army in the east?"

This made everyone suddenly realize that to be honest, they really completely ignored the troops. Because for the Song and Liao sides, which often had hundreds of thousands of troops fighting, a defeated army with only a few 20,000 or 30,000 was really inconspicuous. Even though Tong Guan and the others had really wanted to recruit them before, as the war broke out, everyone was thrown behind them.

But Sun Tu attached great importance to this force, not only because he had just mastered hundreds of thousands of troops, so he was interested in tens of thousands of remnants, but also because he had already tasted the threat of this third-party force. On that day, Xiao Yanping was most likely to appear behind the army and threaten the Song army's food route. This was the news he received from Qin Gan and others, and it seemed that it was a possibility.

Because hundreds of miles away from the battlefield where the Song and Liao confrontation were there, there was a city controlled by the Changsheng Army. Xiao Yanping and his team probably used it as a springboard, first broke the whole and then crossed the Great Song Army's camp and appeared in the rear.

It can be said that although there were not many soldiers on this journey, because they occupied a position between the two armies and were outside the battlefield, they became the one who could control the war. What Sun Tu thought of at this moment was to win this power for his own use.
Chapter completed!