Chapter 717: The Privy Envoy of the Northern Academy of Liaoning Province
Liu Yanqing was stunned and said, "This deployment is of course the best for our troops, but the biggest problem is that our troops have not been on the right wing to Xiping Prefecture, so the Xiao Gao Xianggong Department formed an isolated army. He is also the attacking party and is not good at defensive tactics of the masters. The important town of Xiping Prefecture is very important, so the Xixia court must protect it. At that time, Gao Fangping faced an excessively long front line and had no bunkers to defend. In that case, if the Baima Qiang Town Army Headquarters relies on the advantage of cavalry, the Xiao Gao Xianggong Department would be in danger."
The commander said: "This is the order of Xiao Gao Gonggong 2: Your unit will only surround Xianghe Jianing Military Office to death, and will not let it divide its troops to harass Xiao Gao Gonggonggong's logistics line. Xiao Gao Gonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggonggong
Liu Yanqing and Liu Guangshi were all terrified!
This was really an extremely bold decision. I didn't expect Gao Fangping to do this.
This is too risky. However, once it succeeds, it will take a big advantage, because the important city of Xiping Prefecture will definitely be difficult to chew. If you fight a city like that, you will really hurt the enemy by 1,000 and you will suffer 800. If Gao Fangping's troops were dragged into a tired soldier by Xiping Prefecture before the last two ace legions of Xixia, the White Horse Army and the Right Fang Army, heading south, and Gao Fangping's troops were dragged into exhausted soldiers by Xiping Prefecture, then you would be very passive.
On the contrary, if the situation can be used to attract them to take the initiative and fight another dominant field battle, the aura of the destruction of the country will really cover the sky above Xixia. In that case, morale will be greatly won, no matter whether Liu Yanqing's Xiazhou attack or Gao Fangping's Xiping Prefecture attack, it will be much smoother.
Otherwise, let’s not talk about the two mobile ace legions, the White Horse Army and the Right Xiang Army. We will only talk about Xiping Prefecture, Jingzhou, Qingzhou, Huaizhou, and Xingqing Prefecture, which are almost concentrated in a strong city in the first and last areas. On the chessboard, the big dragon connected to the ends. If we forcefully chewing these places, it is estimated that 300,000 elite soldiers will not be enough to die.
Looking at each other and smiling bitterly, Old Liu and his son said together, "We will obey the order."
There is nothing to do now, so I can only strategically siege Xiazhou, waiting to see if the crazy gambler's tactics are successful. Of course, there are risks, of course, everyone is still confident now, because after the Shilong Pass victory, Gao Fangping claimed to be invincible in the field, and maybe he can really create another miracle.
What everyone knows is that of course Xiao Gao may fail tactically, but with his wretched style, his troops have the advantage of cavalry. In that case, even if he fails partially, it is not a big problem. The loss is just a failure. No one believes that anyone has the ability to wipe out Gao Fangping's troops. It is really impossible to have...
Xiao Dedi, the Privy Councilor of the Northern Court of the Great Liao Dynasty, finally brought his envoys to Bianjing at this time.
Zhao Ji, who was relatively weak and kind, wanted to go out to greet him personally because of the strength of the Liao Kingdom, but Zhang Shuye rejected the proposal and said: "Diplomatic affairs have their own rules. Although the Liao Kingdom is powerful, it is not the rule of my great Song sect, but only an allied country. The officials should not lower their own value and raising others. They are not meant to be kind to him. Being able to greet Grandma Cai is already giving enough face to the Liao Kingdom."
Zhao Ji may not be afraid of Xixia, but he is really afraid of the Liao Kingdom. If Xixia can send 400,000 troops, once the Liao Kingdom is in trouble, it will definitely be a million people.
So Zhao Ji said in the inner court with concern: "Although Zhang Qing makes sense, I have to be serious. I am also the nephew of the current Liao emperor. If I am too neglected to the Liao Kingdom, will it cause unnecessary harm to our Song Dynasty?"
"If this is not the case, if the Emperor of Liao does not come, His Majesty will not need to come out to greet him." Lao Zhang insisted stubbornly.
So Zhao Ji had no choice but to give up.
Zhao Ji did not say anything randomly, because of some things that lost power and humiliated the country in the past. To count it, Zhao Ji was really the "nephew" of the current Liao emperor. But Zhang Shuye didn't want to admit these things now.
Theoretically, Xiao Lidi came to serve in the State of Song, and the correct diplomatic etiquette was to let the Minister of Rites and Tao Jiefu receive him according to the specifications. It was already beyond the standard for the current Grand Tutor Cai Jing to welcome him, and it already represents the weakness of the Song Dynasty...
Ten miles outside the city of Bianjing, there were Japanese troops who were carrying martial law to protect the movement. Cai Jing and many relevant officials of the Ministry of Rites were waiting.
After the Liao Dynasty season group arrived, Cai Jing bowed with the national courtesy and said, "The Privy Councilor of the Great Liao Dynasty has come from afar and has worked hard for the Song Dynasty. For the sake of the Song Dynasty, the Great Liao Dynasty worked tirelessly and participated in the mediation. Everyone in the country is grateful."
A beautiful woman opened the curtain, and she sat in the arms of a noble man from Liao Kingdom, looking at the old man Cai Jing and laughing. This is an arrogant and brainless woman who has never seen the world before.
The middle-aged man in the car was very noble and looked overly sweet. He was officially the king of Lanling, Liao Kingdom, and the Privy Council of the Northern Court. He was almost as low as one person and above ten thousand people.
The atmosphere of authority and extravagance is everywhere in the car and etiquette.
In the past, whenever an envoy went to the Liao Kingdom to talk about things, after the end, the Liao Kingdom would usually say to the Song court that "the Song envoy was rude."
There is nothing wrong with this, it is a diplomatic caliber of a strong country against a weak country. Nothing really happens, it just means "beating and knocking".
But this time, Xiao was really rude. She sat in the car with her inner bottom, squinted her eyes and looked at the white-haired Cai Jing Shaoqing, and was a little unhappy. Why wasn't the Emperor of Song coming out to greet her?
But seeing that Cai Jing's etiquette is quite thoughtful, as the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, he also bowed to the Privy Councilor of the Liao Kingdom, which was half a level lower. So Xiao's Lidi didn't say anything more, and smiled and said, "I am tired from afar, but Cai Xiang is determined, so he enters the city and chooses a date to discuss foreign affairs."
Later, under the guidance of Cai Jing, the group drove towards the most prosperous city of the world.
Overall, the Liao Kingdom was very serious in the sinicization. They imitated the Han system, including the establishment of the official system, and they also had their own "Kaifeng Prefecture Privy Council" and so on.
However, they are divided into the North and South Court system.
In the last battle between Song and Xia, after seeing that Song State had gained the upper hand, Liao State came to stumble. At that time, Niu Wenshu, the Privy Councilor of the Southern Court. Niu Wenshu was a Han Chinese. To put it bluntly, the Southern Court of Liao was a management of the Han people. Generally, communication with Song State was carried out by the Southern Court. The Southern Court was basically Han Chinese, and he knew all the customs of the Song Dynasty and was more convenient to speak.
However, the real noble department has the final say in the North Court. The North Court is the headquarters of the Khitans. Depending on the importance, the last battle of Song and Xia was the Privy Council envoy of the South Court. However, this time it was Xiao's Privy Council envoy of the North Court, which was enough to show the importance of the Liao Kingdom to discuss peace talks in this Song and Xia.
It is because of this that Cai Jing, who presided over the peace talks, was under great pressure. Because the two hawks Zhang Shuye and Tao Jiefu in the Song Dynasty court were ashamed to be 20,000 or 50,000 under the premise that Gao Fangping could fight, it is estimated that this diplomatic tug-of-war would make Cai Jing very embarrassed.
The worst thing is that when the Liao Kingdom informed in advance that it was necessary to mediate the conflict between Song and Xia as a "world policeman", Gao Fangping still stuck at the time to attack Xia. At present, Liu Yanqing's rebellious boy was pushed to the Xiazhou generation, and Gao Fangping had already taken Yaode City and looked north to Xiping Prefecture, an important city in Xixia!
Lao Cai is so difficult, is it easy for me to get stuck in the middle?
Lao Cai also tried to remotely control Liu Yanqing like the way Tao Jiefu was back then. However, Liu Yanqing, a rebellious boy, had no surprises in his urination, and he had turned against him again. If he didn't respond, he would definitely not dare to mess with Gao Fangping.
There have been many troubles ahead. Now that Cai Jing’s reputation has been crippled by Gao Fangping, no one listens to Cai Jing, it is really normal.
So Cai Jing tried to persuade Tao Jiefu to control Gao Fangping's advance and not to put too much pressure on Liao diplomacy. But Tao Jiefu spread his hands and said, "He holds the Emperor's Sword, how do you let me control it?"
Then all these problems became political embarrassment and fell on Cai Jing. Lao Cai needed to preside over peace talks under these pressures and receive the envoys of the Great Liao Kingdom who were dancing in their teeth.
After arriving at the place where the envoy was received, Xiao asked lazily: "Cai Xiang, in fact, I have always been puzzled. What do you think of Song State now? Why did you suddenly use an unknown young man named Gao Fangping, but you are so lucky and achieved the results. The great achievements of the past have caused you Song State to suffer a lot of losses. Why did your court let him go to Xixia again?"
Cai Jing thought about it and sat down, smiled and clasped his fists and said, "Your country thinks Gao Fangping is really just lucky?"
Xiao Lidi snorted with contempt: "Will he go to the sky again if he is a child in his twenties? Of course it is luck. This time, Brother Cha made a fatal mistake. But luck will not be good forever. Your Song Dynasty court is too disgraceful. When I set off for a long journey, I still let Gao Fangping advance to Xixia. What do you mean?"
Cai Jing clasped his fists and said, "You also said that he is lucky and happy to be successful, so he will inevitably do misconduct. You know better than anyone else that when Song Xia has not yet officially ceased to fight, he has reason to send troops, but I am not convenient for me to intervene. Besides, he is young and frivolous, and has achieved great victory. Now, when he is so motivated, you expect a rampant baby to be at peace, it seems..."
Cai Jing didn't finish speaking, with an awkward look.
The officials of the Song State who followed him were sad. Shilong Pass and even the entire Song Xia battlefield were filled with corpses, and many places became ghosts. The results were the result of Gao Fangping's military corpses who spent more than 100,000 lives and flesh. However, these things, in the eyes of the Liao bureaucrats, were just a "yellow-haired boy's willfulness and luck" without any awe.
Sometimes Zhang Shuye is right, and he will cry if he says too much.
Many of the people who followed Cai Jing to receive were those who usually opposed Gao Fangping, but now they are a little bit accustomed to Gao Fangping. No matter what, Gao Fangping caused Xiao’s inner bottom in the North Courtyard to wipe his butt. This is ugly to say, it is a disaster, but to put it nicely: it is face and dignity.
Cai Jing couldn't say anything, so he simply remained silent again. Now that Gao Fangping had sent troops, he couldn't shout back to him, so he had to wait. Zhao Ji's intention was to give in to the Liao people, but now that Gao Fangping won, there were many such people in the country, the angry young people and fanatical party, and the official team. How could Lao Cai dare to give in to each other? That must be an excuse for being stabbed in the future.
Chapter completed!