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Chapter 81 Rain and fog

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On May 28th, at noon, Baishuilu.

Heavy rain poured.

At noon, all the Jin army retreated past Baishuilu and marched rapidly towards Yuanyanglu.

An hour later, Dong Xiaochou, Mao Jun and other generals rushed to Baishuilu Camp to pay homage to Li Hu.

When the two sides met, they smiled happily. Li Hu held a banquet to entertain the generals and rewarded the soldiers of each army.

Li Hu called Yue Fei to the commander's tent. Many military commanders have seen him. When they see him again after the war, they feel a little different about him. Yue Fei grew up too fast, and the murderous aura that hit people has to admit that the brother of the Tiger King is a natural war general and a genius born for war. It was the first time that Yelu Ma Ge, Li Liangfu and a group of Liao Xia generals heard that the Tiger King had a brother. Seeing Yue Fei's majestic aura, especially seeing his bloody battle robe and scars on his body, these people couldn't help but be shocked and had a deep impression of him.\Li Hu was already scary. His brother was also a brave and powerful general for a while. These two people might be nightmares for the north in the future.

Li Hu didn't look good because he was too tired or because of the weather. After drinking with a group of generals, he walked to the curtain with his glasses, looked at the white rain and fog outside the tent, listened to the rustling sound of rain, and slowly fell into deep thought.

Yue Fei quietly walked to him and asked with concern: "Brother, are you too tired?"

Li Hu shook his head, "Drink less and rest early. How about the wound?"

"It's all minor injuries, and it's better to have ten or half a month of cultivation." Yue Fei didn't care, "Brother, when will you attack the Jin army?"

"I still want to fight?" Li Hu smiled, "Aren't you tired?"

"Defend the country, die without regrets, die as your place."

Yue Fei's expression was very sincere and his tone was very firm. This made Li Hu's calm heart suddenly ripples and tremble. A feeling that had long been forgotten suddenly blew into his heart in the cool wind, making him suddenly think of his father and the deep hatred of the Li family. In this life, can I face the world as openly as Yue Fei and face the Song Dynasty?

Dong Xiaohou came over and asked with a smile: "What did the general coach see in the rain?"

"Bianjing." Li Hu smiled slightly, "I was thinking, when Bianjing heard that I had defeated the Jurchens in the Song, Liao and Xia army, what was the first feeling of Bianjing?"

Threat, threatening powerfully. Dong Xiaochou did not say it, not because Yue Fei was standing beside the two of them. It was his tacit understanding with Li Hu. After this battle, the local affairs of Youyan became more difficult to resolve, and Dai Bei's situation became more confusing. Li Hu and Hu Lie's army also became more difficult to survive. Datong was surrounded by numerous sieges, where was the way to break through?

"What is Luo Shuai doing in Bianjing at this moment?" Li Hu stopped for a moment and asked casually.

"He is very busy, but his mood may be like the rainy season of the grassland. It is hazy and melancholy." Dong Xiaohou said, "But when the news of the Great Victory of Xijing reached Bianjing, he might be able to see a trace of sunshine."

Perhaps? Li Hu chewed these two words and looked at the green grass outside the tent, and his mood became heavier.

"The Jin army is going to Qingpi Road today." Dong Xiaochou changed the subject and roughly explained Li Gang's plan. "Li Gang's meaning is very obvious. He wants to ensure the safety of Fengshengzhou, completely destroy the fantasy of controlling the northern war situation, and then drive the Jurchens back to the northeast." Dong Xiaochou turned to look at Li Hu, "What do you think of this idea?"

"This idea is very good." Li Hu smiled, "It's a pity that Li Gang is not from Liaodong, nor is he bullied by the Khitans for generations. He did not understand the Jurchens' desire to unify the north and become the heroic lord of the north. The Jurchens now need not the Youyan, but the Daibei. What they want to do is to be the heroic lord of the north, and stand with the Song Dynasty."

"The Jurchens are very clever. They quickly withdrew Yuanyanglu and attacked Fengshengzhou with their main force, with the purpose of attracting our main force to Fengshengzhou and thus forcing the coalition forces to disband." Dong Xiaohou's expression became very serious, "When the war burned to Fengshengzhou, the Liaoxia coalition forces temporarily got rid of the threat, they would not participate in the war, but would sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight."

Li Hu shook the wine glass in his hand a few times, staring at the sweet and mellow shaking in the wine glass, and smiled bitterly. "As soon as the Liao and Xia coalition forces retreated, the Song Dynasty reinforcements were about to leave to ensure the safety of the border defense." Dong Xiaochou continued, "Our military advantage was instantly lost, and the Jin army could make a comeback." Dong Xiaochou stroked his long beard and pondered for a little while, and then said, "The problem now is that the Jin army has not fully understood the matter of the Song Dynasty reinforcements, and he dared not attack rashly, but one thing is certain that they will use this battle example to tell Liao and Xia that the Jurchens were defeated in Daibei, and the next one will be the Liao and Xia armies. After the Song people occupied Youyan, they will surely sweep the entire north, and Western Xia will be the brunt of it, and secondly, it will be the turn of the Desert Boats. This defeat gave the Jurchens the best excuse to form an alliance with Liao and Xia and the Desert Boats."

"That's how things in the world are." Li Hu sighed, "Whoever has the greatest strength will have the greatest threat, and in the end others have to form an alliance to fight, and then it will continue. Wars are always year after year, and there is no ending period."

Yue Fei felt a little troubled, as if he understood, but he seemed not. He hesitated for a long time and asked in a low voice: "Do we allow the Jin army to capture Fengshengzhou?"

"Of course not." Li Hu said, "Fengshengzhou is our weakness. The Jin army has always wanted to occupy it and take the initiative to control the entire northern war situation, but they did not succeed, so Fengshengzhou became the bait in my hands. I used the Jin army's mentality of wanting to occupy Fengshengzhou to lure them to divide the troops, and then I found that the Jin army was killing the tiger's mouth and severely damaged the Jin army. The Jin army was defeated, and the main force was still there. They still had more than 200,000 people, and they were attacking Fengshengzhou. It was precisely because of this that the situation of the Northern War evolved into a decisive battle between me and the Jin army, and into a war between the Song and Jin. Liaoxia had no reason to participate in the war.\"

"My relationship with the Song Dynasty is a relationship between the vassal states. The interests of the Song Dynasty are not only in Yanyun, but also in the entire north. Once the Song Dynasty gets Yanyun, it will be a threat to the entire north. My vassal state itself is part of the north. For my own existence, of course, I have to consider my interests in the north first. The situation has developed to the present, and the conflict of interest between the Song and Jin Dynasties is inevitable, and the conflict of interest between me and the Jurchens is even more intense. But there is also a sharp conflict of interest between me, the vassal state of the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, so I can sit down and have a good talk now."

Yue Fei's face changed slightly. Li Hu's words were very complicated. He, a native of Song Dynasty who had never been exposed to national conflicts of interest, could not understand the meaning of it at all. However, he knew that Li Hu was going to negotiate with the Jurchens.\The result of the negotiation was obviously beneficial to Li Hu and was not conducive to the Song Dynasty.

"Are you going to negotiate with the Jurchens?" Yue Fei lowered his voice and asked in surprise. Who is the truth? He can't accept it. Now the two sides are still fighting, but Li Hu is going to negotiate. This is simply an unimaginable thing for him. So what is the value of the dead people in this battle? Is the value of their deaths just to let the two sides sit down to negotiate and divide the interests of the North? What should I do about the interests of the Song Dynasty? "You must understand one thing." Li Hu said. "I don't have the strength to attack the Jin army back to the Northeast. Moreover, if the Jin army retreats to the Northeast, they will attack Youyan immediately, and I have no way to stop the Jin army from going south at the moment. As for the Song army in Hebei, there is no way to stop the Jin army from occupying Yanjing, so the only thing I can do at the moment is to drag the Jin army to the Northeast, but not let the Jin army attack my Datong."

"Datong became a bait. At this time, the Jin army wanted to replace the north and unify the north, but could not defeat me and occupy Xijing.\In order to conquer Xijing, they could go south and capture Youyan first, but attack Youyan would have to face the head-on decisive with the Song army. The Song Dynasty was strong, and the Jurchens did not dare to anger the Song Dynasty for the time being, so they were in a dilemma, and they were swaying in strategy and could not make any choices. This immediately won valuable time for the Song army to have a second Northern Expedition."

Li Hu looked at Yue Fei and asked with a smile: "Do you understand now?"

Yue Fei understood that although there were still many things he could not understand, he knew that Li Hu did this for the Song Dynasty and that the Song Dynasty could successfully recover Yan Yun. He looked at Li Hu and suddenly felt a little sad. His senior brother was too tired and even when he was sleeping, he was considering the situation in the world, and he worked hard. The Han King did it too hard.

Dong Xiaochou looked at Yue Fei carefully. No matter how he looked, he felt that he and Li Hu had nowhere to imagine.\Dong Xiaochou knew Li Hu well. Since he met Li Hu, it was the first time he had seen Li Hu treat someone so sincerely. Maybe they were really brothers. So, the Jin army arrived in Changqing City last night, and it was probably a time to arrive at Qingpi Road tonight. Hu Lie Mansion asked Dong Xiaochou to immediately dispatch reinforcements to Datong, because Li Gang and Wang Yao rushed to Guihua Prefecture, and the troops guarding Datong were seriously insufficient.

"Mrs. I always do something amazing." Dong Xiaochou Xin couldn't help laughing, "If she wasn't pregnant, she would probably have gone to the front line to fight."

Li Hu smiled and shook his head, and he was becoming more and more respectful to the wife. Suddenly, he remembered one thing, that was, marriage with the Zhe family. Yuanye was in a hurry to handle this matter, and in order to deliberately conceal the support of the Zhe family army to the north, the alliance signed by Yuanye and Zhe Keqiu did not inform Hulie's Mansion.

"I want to tell you about the Zhe family first." Li Hu then explained in detail the matter of Wu Siming representing the Zhe family, and the fact that Yuanye went to Ningwu Pass and Zhe Ke personally agreed on the alliance, "What do you think about this?"

Dong Xiaochou really didn't know about this. After he went to the Zhenchuan Fort battlefield, Luo Sinan was fully responsible for the Hulie Mansion. He thought that the Song army went north to support him was done by Li Gang, Liu and others. He didn't know that there were so many twists and turns in the middle, and there was a Zhe family.

"You are the vassal king of the Song Dynasty. The Zhe family is just a town-guarding family in the northwest. What qualifications does he have to negotiate with you?" Dong Xiaochou became more and more strange the more he thought about it. "Although we arrived in Datong and had conflicts of interest with these town-guarding families in the northwest, the Zhe family seemed to have no need to threaten us with the safety of Datong? This behavior should not be the style of a general family that has been around for more than 400 years."

Li Hu frowned and said nothing.

"I think there is a reputation here." Dong Xiaochou said, "Why did the Zhe family use your power to change the national policy of the Song Dynasty? This kind of thing is actually interfering in the national affairs. What does the vassal states interfering in the national affairs mean to the Song Dynasty?"

Li Hu hesitated for a long time and asked, "Do you still need a marriage?"

"Of course." Dong Xiaohou smiled, "The Zhe family wants to give you a woman, why don't you?"
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