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On the eighth day of the sixth month, Yelu Mage received an imperial edict from the Emperor of the Great Liao. Considering that the situation of the Northern War in Dai was basically settled and the rebellion of the desert was still continuing, the emperor asked Mage to lead his army to the desert to stabilize the situation in the desert first and allow the Khitans to defend this place of life.

The Khitans are now in a downturn and bullying, and in order to survive, they have to grit their teeth and persevere. Yelu Mage takes the imperial edict and says goodbye to Li Hu.

Li Hu understood the difficulties of the Khitans. Originally, the Khitans had Xijing and Yanjing, and they could still fight with the Jurchens, but they grabbed Xijing and drove the Khitans to Yinshan. After that, the Khitans were completely out of place. First, they split, and then the deserts took advantage of the momentum to rebel, causing the country to be destroyed and the family to be destroyed. Now if they want to turn around, they will be difficult to ascend to the sky if they want to make a comeback.

Li Hu sent Yelu Ma Ge away. The two men turned from enemies to allies, from allies to friends, and the process happened to witness the defeat of the Liao Dynasty.

In the wind and rain, Yelu Ma Ge's long hair draped over his shoulders, and his thin back was lonely and desolate, making people feel sad.

Li Hu looked at him silently, and his sad eyes always appeared in front of him, as well as his bitter and painful smile. Yelu Ma Ge didn't say a word, and didn't even say a later period. Li Hu knew why he left resolutely, leaving him with a desperate figure, because, this farewell, goodbye is the enemy. He said, "The rain is getting heavier and heavier."

Li Hu did not move, and still stood on the top of the mountain, looking at Brother Ma's back gradually disappearing into the mist.

"The Khitan Emperor asked him to go to the desert, but he just brought his troops back and fought with the Xixia people." Yuanye could not understand how Li Hu could have established deep friendships with his former enemies. "When we met him again, we were enemies again."

The enemy? Li Hu smiled bitterly. He let the rain hit his face and the chill invade his body. Like Brother Ma, he was also very desperate. He didn't know where the future was? He didn't know how to move towards the future? He lost his way in this desolate rainy season.

"Go back." Yuanye urged again when he saw that Yelu Mage and the Liao army had completely disappeared.

Li Hu did not respond, his thoughts slowly spread with the continuous drizzle. He wandered in a daze deep in his heart.

Gao Qingren's speculation on the situation in Xijing was completely correct. As the situation in the north developed, Li Hu and the rebel army were in a more and more difficult situation. Li Hu cursed the destiny more than once in his heart. The rebel army kept winning battles, breaking through, and even fought thousands of miles from western Liaoning to Xijing. He thought he had finally broken through this siege, but he had not been happy for a few days and was surrounded again. And it was a more dangerous siege.

Li Hu just couldn't understand, they were all rebels and rebels. They were also powerful nations in the north. Why did the Jurchens expand their territory and develop their strength by winning battles. Instead, they could not expand their territory and expand their territory when winning battles. Instead, they were surrounded and crises again and again. Why? Is there any reason for this? Since God does not give the Han people a chance, why did the Han people repeatedly defeat the enemy and break out of the siege at critical moments? Is this the so-called great responsibility given to this person by the earth and heaven, they must first work hard, starve their bodies, and suffer their minds...?

Today's battle situation in Xijing has evolved into a dead end. If the rebels want to break through, where is the way? Where is the place where the rebels survive?

Yelu Mage and the Liao army left, Li Liangfu and Li Yancheng immediately took the Xia army away, and they went to Yunnei to meet with the Khitan Emperor and help the Khitan Emperor guard Yunnei.

On June 12th, Zhe Kecun and the Song army also left Baishuilu and quickly returned to Hedong.

Liu was originally planning to return to the Xuanfu Division of the Lianghe Rivers, but Bianjing sent an imperial edict and agreed to Li Hu's request to let Yuwen Xuzhong serve as the right Sima of the Han Palace. Li Hu immediately tried to keep Liu and wrote to Tong Guan, asking Liu to replace Yuwen Xuzhong to stay in Datong as a contact between the Han Palace and the Xuanfu Division of the Lianghe Rivers.

Luo Qinghan also delivered letters from Datong with the imperial edict.

Luo Qinghan and the Great Liao envoy arrived in Bianjing in May. The Emperor of the Song Dynasty summoned Luo Qinghan and accepted the suggestion of King Li Hudi of Han, and was willing to renegotiate with the Great Liao.

The Song Dynasty obviously did not have the sincerity to discuss the Great Liao. While they were negotiating, the imperial guards from the capital, Jingdong, Jingdong and Jianghuai, and the wing troops traveled day and night to Hebei. At the same time, the people recruited from all over the country were also transporting food, grass and weapons to Hebei day and night. On the surface of the Yellow River, on the canal waterway, and on the road of Hebei, the army, civilians and convoys were like long rows of rows, stretching endlessly. In order to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the patriotic enthusiasm of the Song people who had suppressed for more than a hundred years was suddenly aroused. They were full of enthusiasm and longed for the success of the Northern Expedition. Under this situation, the second Northern Expedition became the general trend, and no one could stop it.

At the same time as the Song Dynasty negotiated with the Liao Kingdom, Zhang Bangchang, deputy minister and secretary of the Central Secretariat, also began negotiations with Luo Qinghan.

As early as western Liaoning, Huang She went to Bianjing as a special envoy of the rebel army to surrender to the Song Dynasty, and the two sides only established a relationship between the monarch and the ministers; Li Hu occupied Xijing, and Ma Kuo went to Datong twice as the special envoy of the Song Dynasty, and the two sides established a relationship between the vassal states; this time Luo Qinghan went to Datong as the special envoy of the Han Palace, and the two sides would discuss a series of details such as military, politics, finance and economics.

Before Luo Qinghan left Datong, Hu Lie Mansion had already formulated relevant negotiation details, but just as the negotiations in Bianjing began, Zhang Bangchang came up with a specific plan, which completely deviated from the principles of vassal states agreed earlier in Datong between the two sides, which directly led to the stalemate of the negotiations.

Luo Qinghan's book told Li Hu that if the Battle of Xijing was lost, he could only be slaughtered by Bian Jing, but if he won, the situation would reverse. However, considering that the Song army used 200,000 troops in the second Northern Expedition, coupled with the tacit cooperation of Li Chuwen, the prime minister of the Southern Prefecture of Yanjing and the tacit cooperation of the Han officials of Youyan, the Song army may have a very high chance of capturing Yanjing. Once the Song army recovered Youyan, the situation would be extremely unfavorable to Hulie's Mansion.

Li Hu locked himself in the military tent and thought hard. Sometimes he was holding the map alone and staring blankly. Sometimes he rode his horse in the heavy rain with his iron guards. After two or three days, he became haggard and as if he had suffered a serious illness.

Dong Xiaochou, Mao Jun, Yuan Ye and others were all worried, but they didn't know how to persuade them.

They remember that when they were in western Liaoning, Li Hu locked himself in his house for three days and three nights without food or drink. Later, he came out and told everyone that he was going to attack Xijing thousands of miles away. As a result, he succeeded and brought the rebels out of the heavy siege. This time the rebels were surrounded again. Can Li Hu lead the rebels out of the siege again?

Zhe Ke asked for a letter and asked Li Hu to send someone to the prefecture to discuss the marriage. In fact, he agreed to the marriage and had to handle it in detail. Zhe Ke Qiu's attitude made Dong Xiaochou even more suspicious of the Zhe family's motives. Why is the Zhe family so anxious to marry their daughter?

Li Hu was in a state of madness and didn't ask anything. As the deputy commander-in-chief of the rebel army, Dong Xiaochou was fully responsible. He entrusted Yuwen Xuzhong and Yuanye to rush to the prefectures and states to discuss marriages in detail. At the same time, he asked Yuwen Xuzhong to go to Taiyuan Prefecture to express his gratitude to the commander-in-chief Zhang Xiaochun and the other three commanders and gave him a generous gift.

Dong Xiaohou was anxious to return to the front line. Before leaving, he went to the military tent to say goodbye. He said that Li Hu seemed to have ignored him and had no reaction at all.

Suddenly, Li Hu asked, "Zhe Kexu's letter is

Dong Xiaochou found the letter from the desk and handed it to Li Hu. Li Hu glanced at it and shook his head, "It's not this one."

Dong Xiaochou looked for him again, and after searching for a long time, he found the first letter that Zhe Keqiu wrote to Li Hu. Li Hu read the letter again and again, and a smile gradually appeared on his face. Dong Xiaochou looked at him worriedly and asked in a low voice: "General Manager, what did you see in the letter?"

"This is a gift from the Zhe family, a real gift." Li Hu smiled, "If we break through the siege, we must thank the Zhe family."

Dong Xiaochou was puzzled. He read the content of this letter many times, but it was just to persuade Li Hu to interfere in the state affairs of the Song Dynasty. How would this help the rebels get rid of the current predicament?

"Tell Zonghan, I want to see him."

Zong Han exhausted his talents and finally came up with a solution, a way to break the dead end.

The Jurchens took too fast to unify the north, just because of the current strength of the Jin Kingdom and the situation in the entire north. It would be difficult for the Jurchens to unify the north in the short term. In Youyan, there were people from the Song Dynasty; in Daibei, there were people from Li Hu and Xixia; in the desert, there were people from the Khitans and the desert, and they were unwilling to see the Jurchens replace the Khitans and become the new overlords in the north. Therefore, no matter where the Jurchens fight, a group of big and small bosses must join forces to block them.

So, who is the biggest opponent that hinders the Jurchens from unifying the north? The Song Dynasty and the Xia Kingdom.

If the Jin Kingdom and Xixia form an alliance to rebuild the three-legged tripod pattern, the Xixia people will definitely take the opportunity to expand their territory. They will take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get rid of the passive situation for decades. In other words, the north is facing Jinxia, ​​east-west confrontation. If the north cannot be unified, the Song Dynasty will be able to regain control and take the initiative. Even if it fights on both sides, it can connect one and fight one in the three-legged tripod pattern to ensure the safety of the frontier.
Chapter completed!