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When the central army passed through Hengshan area, did the Xixia court know?

Know.

The Xixia court actually knew at the first time that the central army was attacking the Hengshan area.

But in this regard, the Xixia court did not have any way to deal with Ren Dejing's rebels, and could not retreat at all. To take a step back, even if the Xia army did not compete with Ren Dejing's rebels, when Ren Dejing's rebels were about to reach the capital, the Xia army would not dare to take risks and retreat, because that meant a great defeat and might also smash the last hope of Xixia.

Therefore, the Xixia court could only watch a large number of central troops passing through the Hengshan area, and then completely isolated the connection between the Hengshan area and the Xixia area.

Hengshan’s unique geographical environment has led to it not only the territory dividing line between China and Xia, but also the “destiny dividing line” for mutual competition between the two countries.

Since Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty "given the Deming" of Hengshan and Lingxia two prefectures, Dangxiang talents truly have the foundation for establishing the country.

It can be said that without Hengshan, there would be no Xixia country.

On the other hand, the reason why the original Song Dynasty could not destroy Xixia was because the Hengshan area in Xixia was that the passiveness of the Song army without Hengshan area was extremely obvious. After losing Hengshan, the natural front-line supply base, the Song army could only rely on civilians to carry food to cross the 700-mile sea of ​​supplies when attacking Xixia. Once the logistics support was not provided, the Song army could only retreat without fighting.

Song Zhezong once said, "If you get Hengshan and Tiandu, it will be a very unparalleled merit. Those who are often trapped by Westerners when the court leaves the border and enter the desert. When they leave the border, they will go to Lingzhou for seven or eight times, and there are no water and grass, and there are no people. Before they see the enemy, our army is trapped. Although the Westerners have already been stained with sand, they are in their territory. They gather troops and food in Hengshan, and are trapped in the blockage. If they enter our territory, they will definitely gain something. This is why Westerners often make profits."

From the words of Song Zhezong, it is not difficult to see that the Western Xia, which has the Hengshan area, can be said to be basically invincible against the Song Dynasty.

Now, Dazhong has obtained the Hengshan area that the Song Dynasty had not been able to obtain for more than dozens of times without any effort, which completely lost the advantage of geographical advantages and strategic initiative in Xixia. Even the Central Army that can advance and attack and retreat can be defended can enter Xingqing Prefecture with just working harder.

But at this moment, the central army stopped moving forward and put on a posture of "sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight".

This made the Xia army and Ren Dejing rebels, who should have fought fiercely, slowly stopped the fierce battle.

Afterwards, Li Renxiao and Ren Dejing sent envoys to Hengshan area to see Wu Jie, wanting to see Wu Jie, to be precise, wanting to see what Li Yan behind Wu Jie means?

The first envoy was Li Renxiao, who sent his important minister Li Renli to visit Wu Jie.

Although Li Renli was a native of Dangxiang, he was proficient in the Chinese characters, talented and good at singing, and was like a famous scholar of the world.

Moreover, in the early years, when Li Renli was appointed as a military supervisor in Weizhou, he received money from officials and people and was punished by his brother Li Renzhong for his personal letters. He insisted on being honest and honest in the official position. Li Renli returned the property he received. Since then, he has never had any grain storage in his family.

This shows that Li Renli has a very high character.

Such people have always been in a positive way, in a positive way, and in a strong way to argue. The key is to not be afraid of life and death.

And he came here to argue with Wu Jie why Dazhong wanted to join the alliance and why he took advantage of the weak Xixia to attack Xixia?

Therefore, when he saw Wu Jie, Li Renli took out the affidavits of the two countries and said generously: "The Emperor of Dazhong wrote to his younger brother, Emperor Daxia: Let them follow the agreement and keep the Huan Alliance. He sent it to my brother to the land west of Hengshan Tiandu to my brother, and ordered the three officials to move it to Xingzhou for delivery. The border troops guarded the border, each guarded the two places, and the people and households were not allowed to invade or flee, and they were not allowed to take them in. As for the crops and crops in the north and south, they should not disturb each other. The two dynasties continued to guard the cities along the border, repaired the moats and repaired the blockades, and everything was normal, and they could not build another city god or dig the river. Beyond the affidavit, they had no choice but to work together, so that they would be together for a long time. From then on, the people were guarded, guarded the frontiers, and were entrusted with the gods of heaven and earth, and told the country to the ancestral temples and the country, and the descendants were guarded together, and they were passed on endlessly. With this alliance, they would not be able to enjoy the country, and they would be cleared by the heavens and the heavens and the heavens should be killed."

After reading it, Li Renli put away the affidavit and said, "The Emperor of Saint Wen of our country replied: Although I am not talented, I dare to follow this agreement. I should tell the descendants of heaven and earth that if there is this alliance, the gods will be killed. The Emperor of Saint Wen of the Later Kingdom sent Princess Yinchuan, Princess Xining, Princess Huining to each of 10,000 cattle and horses, 100,000 sheepskins, 100,000 porcelain, 100,000 jin of the best Helan stone, and other treasures of the Western Xia to thank His Majesty the great emperor for his kindness."

Seeing that Wu Jie was speechless by him, Li Renli raised his voice and said, "The two dynasties have said it well. In the past ten years, the noble dynasty suddenly broke through the alliance and came to the territory. Have you ever been afraid of heaven? Since ancient times, the country has not been long. Now our dynasty has rebelled everywhere, and His Majesty the Emperor of Our Country works day and night, and devotes his efforts. His Majesty the Emperor of Your dynasty is an elder. He should consider the feelings of his ancestors and the righteousness of his neighbors for a long time. He should use military forces to overcome great disasters together to achieve the style of a great country. But today, you are raising troops to the border and seize the people's land, what kind of constitution does it have?"

After listening to Li Renli's accusations quietly, Wu Jie took out the "handwritten letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan and pushed it in front of Li Renli, saying, "King Shu, look at this letter."

Li Renli picked up the "authorized letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan with some confusion and started reading it slowly.

The more I read, the more shocked Li In-li was!

Before he could finish reading, Li Renli pressed the letter to the table and said, "Fake it, how could my emperor write such a letter!"

Wu Jie said leisurely: "So, the handwriting on this letter is not from Lord Xia? The jade seal on it is not from Lord Xia's private seal?"

Li Renli's moral character is so high that he can't even tilt his mouth and refuse to admit that this is Li Renxiao's handwriting. He could only stammer: "It's like it, but it's not guaranteed..."

Wu Jie interrupted Li Renli and said, "What, would King Shu still think that this letter was forged by my emperor?"

This matter is big or small, and Li Renli dare not talk nonsense. He could only say tactfully: "Maybe...maybe it was the trick of Ren Dejing that traitor!"

Wu Jie said: "The Lord Li Zhizhong from your country is also fake? He handed this letter to my emperor himself."

Li Renli is a gentleman.

A gentleman is good at competing with reason, not comparing with hooligans without any bottom line.

Therefore, facing Li Yan's rogue methods, Li Renli couldn't help but lose his words and said: "Maybe...it may be that Li Zhizhong and Ren Dejing colluded, or it may be that Ren Dejing's people secretly transferred the bag..."

Wu Jie said leisurely: "Is it possible that this letter of request for help is what Lord Xia meant? After all, Lord Xia is only twelve years old. Faced with so many troubles that he was overwhelmed by, it was not impossible for him to give up Xixia and get rich for a lifetime."

"this……"

Now, Li In-li is not sure whether this "authorized letter" was written by Li In-hyo. After all, when Li In-hyo wrote this letter, Li In-hyo was not with Li In-hyo.

Li Renli could only say in the end: "Then please ask Marshal Wu to withdraw from the Hengshan area first. When our Daxia finds out the matter, we will definitely give your country an explanation."

Wu Jie said without even thinking about it: "I'm sorry, a soldier is a soldier, and the soldier's duty is to obey orders. The order received by a family was to destroy the rebels in the Hengshan area and then go west to take over Xixia. Without the orders of my emperor and the court, a family would even implement the previous orders to the end!"

"You guys don't want to..."

Li Renli wanted to say: "Don't bully people too much!"

Fortunately, Li Renli saw that Wu Jie was already as heavy as water and did not hide his murderous intent. Moreover, the deputy envoy also pulled Li Renli at the critical moment and whispered in Li Renli's ear: "This matter was decided by the Dazhong court. How dare Wu Jie, a general who was fighting on the front line, listen to our rash withdrawal of troops in Xixia? Therefore, this matter needs to be discussed for a long time."

Li Renli felt that the deputy envoy made sense, so he put down the word "goodbye" and left.

A day later, the envoy sent by Ren Dejing, that is, Ren Dejing's younger brother, Ren Decong, the former Xixia Grand Marshal, also arrived at Wu Jie.

After Ren Decong came, he said flatteringly: "Thank you for the court's support for our Ren family to recover the Western Xia, but... Our Ren family dare not bother the court's military and horses. Our Ren family can solve the matters of the Western Xia. After pacifying the Western Xia, our Ren family will submit to the court and bring all Xia to the court. Therefore, please ask the marshal to return to the court."

Wu Jie didn't say anything nonsense and directly showed Ren Decong the "handwritten letter" written by Li Renxiao to Li Yan.

After seeing it, Ren Decong was also shocked and said, "No...unlikely, right?"

Wu Jie glanced at Ren Decong and said, "Your Ren family is about to destroy the Li family. Is it strange that Lord Xia made such a decision?"

After hearing what Wu Jie said, Ren Decong was speechless!

Thinking about it, their Ren family has led an army of 300,000. Li Renxiao is about to become someone else's Xixia to exchange for the wealth of the Li family. This is normal.

After thinking about these things, Ren Decong said with some concern: "Then... what is the court going to do?"

Wu Jie looked stern and said, "How can you Ren family ask about the imperial court's plan?"

Ren Decong heard the words and hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes..."

While speaking, Ren Decong took out a gift list from his cuff, then spread it out and pushed it to Wu Jie, and said: "Of course, our Ren family has no courage to inquire about the imperial court's plan, but he also asked the marshal to give us some advice to the Ren family in view of everyone being Han people, so that our Ren family can avoid detours."

The first one on this gift list is the ten beautiful maids.

From this we can see that Ren Dejing and others were very clear about Wu Jie's interests and hobbies.

Below the ten beautiful maids, there are: Jin Qianting, Silver Qianting, Helan Shi Qianting, etc.

After taking a look at the long list of gifts, Wu Jie waved his hand, and except for a few of Wu Jie's confidants, everyone else left Wu Jie's central army tent.

After all the confidants who were not Wu Jie had left Wu Jie's central army tent, Wu Jie picked up the list of gifts given to him by Ren Decong and slowly looked at it. While looking, he said, "You are so polite to the Prime Minister Ren and the Taiwei Ren."

When he saw Wu Jie kicking out all the irrelevant people, he picked up the gift list and looked carefully. Seeing the greed on Wu Jie's face again, how could Ren Decong know that he had successfully bribed Wu Jie?

Ren Decong smiled and said, "The Marshal is the most powerful hero in the world. Our Ren family has always wanted to compete with the Marshal as a friend. These are just small gifts. We have a long way to go."

When Wu Jie heard this, he put down the gift list and said, "Since the Prime Minister Ren and Taiwei Ren are so sincere, then a certain family will make friends with the Ren family."

Ren Decong beat the snake and said with a stick, "I'll ask the marshal to give some advice to our Ren family."

This time Wu Jie changed his previous attitude and said, "Okay, what do you want to know?"

Ren Decong quickly asked, "What does the imperial court mean?"

Wu Jie hesitated for a moment and said, "The minimum strategic goal is to occupy the Hengshan area."

Ren Decong heard the words and said anxiously: "But Your Majesty has promised my eldest brother that Xixia will be handed over to my eldest brother!"

Wu Jie smiled slightly and said, "Oh? How did the official promise your eldest brother?"

"this……"

Ren Decong was a little speechless.

Dazhong supported Ren Dejing to rebel against Xixia. After the matter was completed, Ren Dejing led Xixia to surrender to Dazhong. Then the Ren family replaced Dazhong to guard Xixia for generations. All of them were proposed by Ren Dejing. Dazhong just did not object. In addition, Li Yan accepted Ren Dejing's daughter, appointed Ren Dejing's daughter as a concubine, and gave Ren Dejing a generous gift. If he was serious, Dazhong had never really agreed to Ren Dejing from beginning to end.

So, how did you ask Ren Decong to answer Wu Jie's question?

but

Ren Decong is not an incompetent person either.

He quickly said: "Yes, the court has not promised my elder brother anything, but he has not opposed the conditions proposed by my elder brother. His Majesty has appointed my elder brother's daughter as a concubine and rewarded my elder brother highly. These are enough to show that the court has acquiesced what my elder brother proposed. Of course, the court can also refuse to recognize these, the prestige accumulated by His Majesty over the past decades..."

Wu Jie scolded: "Bold!"

Wu Jie crawled out of the dead, and the murderous aura on his body was not adulterated at all. Therefore, his roar not only made Ren Decong swallow the words behind, but also made Ren Decong's heart tremble!

Ren Decong quickly calmed down and explained: "Marantor, don't blame me. I don't dare to slander Your Majesty with ten thousand courage. It's because our Ren family has bet on the lives of hundreds of people in the family for this matter. Therefore, I was a little anxious and said nothing."

After listening to Ren Decong's explanation, Wu Jie's expression improved a little, and then said, "In theory, a certain family is only responsible for war. I cannot speak for the affairs of the court and your Ren family. However, since we are friends, I will give you some advice to the Ren family."

Ren Decong hurriedly said, "Marantor, please tell me that the Ren family never forgot about kindness!"

Wu Jie was silent for a moment and said, "First of all, a certain family can tell you clearly that regardless of the nearby Hengshan area, the court will definitely take it back. If I don't tell you the reason, you will definitely understand it."

This is not difficult to figure out.

Only when Dazhong occupied Hengshan area could it threaten Xixia at any time, making Xixia dare not fight as before, if you want to fight, if you want to be harmonious, and if you want to be harmonious, you will not accept the control of the Heavenly Dynasty.

Let’s take a step back, even if the Ren family really lets the Ren family guard Xixia for generations, the Hengshan area will never be given to the Ren family. Otherwise, why should Dazhong support the Ren family’s rebellion? Wouldn’t it be enough to continue to support the Li family?

In fact, before Ren Decong came to meet Wu Jie, Ren Dejing and others had already analyzed this.

Furthermore, it is the most practical thing. When have you ever seen a jackal spit out the meat that has already been eaten into the stomach? Similarly, Dazhong finally managed to regain the crucial Hengshan area, how can it be possible to spit out the Hengshan area again?

Therefore, the purpose of Ren Decong's visit this time was not to return to Hengshan area, but to inquire about Dazhong's goal and whether Dazhong would fulfill his previous promise, that is, to let the Ren family defend Xixia?

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Chapter completed!