In February of the third year of Shaosheng in the Song Dynasty, the Song army, after a brief rest, finally started to launch again. After Yang Huaiyu and the old general Guhe met with the Western Route Army, they left to integrate all the cavalry. After all, the cavalry was the main force on the grassland battlefield, and a part of the firearms troops were also concentrated. Then the army immediately rushed to the newly established Western Liao on the grassland. As for the remaining troops, they were left near Huanglong Mansion, which deterred the Jin Kingdom from acting rashly.︽,

Originally, Yang Huaiyu wanted to serve as the commander of the attack on the Western Liao Dynasty. After all, Gu He was a little older, but Gu He didn't think so. Because he felt that Yang Huaiyu was not familiar with the grassland and had never fought with nomadic people on the grassland, Gu He was not at ease with him, worried that Yang Huaiyu would accidentally lose the reputation of the Yang family, so he insisted on serving as the commander himself. Yang Huaiyu was a junior of Gu He and could not compete with him in the end, so he had no choice but to make concessions. However, he arranged all his most capable students, such as Hu Yanqing and others, to Gu He's subordinates, hoping to reduce Gu He's pressure.

Yelu Chun was also paying attention to the movements of the Song Dynasty. As soon as the Guhe army entered the grassland, he immediately responded, but instead of sending troops to fight, he sent envoys to seek peace from the Song Dynasty, showing that he did not have the intention of being an enemy of the Song Dynasty. He even wanted to give up the throne and regarded himself as the King of Liao. In addition, he would pay tribute to the Song Dynasty every year. It can be said that he was extremely lowly, as if he was willing to give up anything in exchange for the retreat of the Song Dynasty.

However, after listening to Zhao Yan's analysis, Zhao Xu had already become extremely wary of the grassland, so he naturally was unwilling to let Yelu Chun accumulate strength on the grassland. Therefore, the Song Dynasty refused to consider Yelu Chun's request for peace, and the Guhe army continued to move towards the Western Liao.

In March, Guhe's army finally reached the border of Xiliao. Faced with this situation, Yelu Chun had no choice but to gather all his troops, nearly 80,000 troops to fight. In order to boost morale, he even led his troops in person. Unfortunately, the gap in strength could not be made up by him personally. The cavalry of Western Liao and the army of Song were defeated in three battles and three defeats, and the 80,000 Western Liao army was killed by Guhe and fled in all directions. Yelu Chun was almost captured alive by Guhe's army. For a time, the newly established Western Liao fell into storms.

Faced with this extremely unfavorable situation, Yelu Chun even wanted to surrender to the Song Dynasty again, but Yelu Dashi persuaded him to surrender. After all, the Song Dynasty was not stupid and would never believe the sincerity of a person who surrendered and rebelled again. Therefore, even if the Song Dynasty allowed them to surrender, they would probably receive very harsh treatment from the Song Dynasty in the end. Since that is the case, it would be better to resist to the end, even if they could not defeat them, they could escape. Even if they became a group of horse thieves in the end, it would be much better than staying in the Song Dynasty and being controlled everywhere.

After hearing this, Yelu Chun also felt that it made sense, so after gathering the remnants of Western Liao, he immediately retreated to the West. However, this time, the ancient general of Guhe was really angry. Because Yelu Chun had sneaked into his food and grass from behind, not only did he lose a lot of his subordinates and supplies, but also ruined the entire plan to attack the Jin Kingdom, so he hated Yelu Chun to the core. This time he was determined to capture the other party to the Song Dynasty alive.

It is precisely because of this that Yelu Chun fled westward, but the old general Guhe led the Song cavalry to pursue the enemy behind, and the two armies continued to fight along the way. However, most of them ended with Yelu Chun's defeat. In the end, in order to get rid of the pursuit of the Song army, he had to abandon a lot of heavy supplies, and constantly sent suspicious soldiers to escape in other directions to distract the Song army. However, the number of Song troops in the rear was relatively large. Even if they couldn't tell which of the real enemy troops was, they could still disperse the pursuit, and their strength was still above Yelu Chun, which forced him to speed up and run away.

After more than a month of pursuit, Yelu Chun finally escaped to the western end of the grassland. Due to soil erosion, there were large areas of deserts and Gobi everywhere. Some deserts were very active, and even experienced caravans dared to enter easily. After Yelu Chun escaped here, in order to get rid of the pursuers in the rear, he had no choice but to plunge into the desert and Gobi.

When the ancient general saw Yelu Chun fleeing into the desert and Gobi Desert, he couldn't help but hesitate because he had been in the northwest for many years, he naturally knew that the terrible, heat, water shortage, etc. of the desert and Gobi Desert were minor problems. In addition, there were terrible black storms. This black storm came without a trace, and sometimes there would be no sign at all. Moreover, sand and stones flew when the black storm came. Sometimes a caravan would be completely destroyed when encountering a black storm, and even the body could not be found after death. Although the army's combat power was very strong, it was absolutely impossible to compete with this power of heaven and earth.

It is precisely because of this that the ancient general led the army to hesitate on the edge of the desert for three days and finally decided to withdraw his troops. After all, Yelu Chun had escaped from the grassland, and the newly established Western Liao was destroyed. There was no need for them to take this risk. Not to mention whether Yelu Chun could walk out of this desert alive. Even if he was lucky enough to go out, he had already left the grassland and reached the wider Western Regions. Although the Song Dynasty had a small influence on the Western Regions, it was impossible to send a large army to pursue Yelu Chun's defeated army.

Zhao Xu also agreed with the ancient general's decision to withdraw his troops. The reason why he decided to attack Yelu Chun was mainly because he was worried that he would grow up with the help of the grassland and threaten the Song Dynasty. Now that the other party has escaped, the grassland is nominally the Song Dynasty. Then the next step is to manage the grassland and completely eliminate the possible threats brought by the grassland, so a mere Yelu Chun doesn't have to care at all.

Just as the Western Liao Dynasty was destroyed, Zhao Jia, who was far away in the Bohai area, also received a letter from Zhao Yan, the capital city. However, the content of the letter was very strange. He actually asked him to take Agnes back to Beijing. It is said that Agnes is just his concubine and Yang Yan is his wife, so even if he wants to take him, he still has to take his wife back. Why did his father insist on bringing Agnes back?
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