Qiming 1158

Chapter 552
The news that the Liaodong Corps had conquered Huining Prefecture was sent back to the Central Capital on the seventh day of December.

After learning the news, Su Yonglin was very happy.

Since the fall of the Jin Kingdom in May, Su Jue led the Liaodong Corps to attack three times in a row within half a year and won three consecutive victories, eating up Wanyan Yong and the remaining Jin Kingdom forces in Liaodong little by little. the second year.

The victory of the Battle of Huining House means that there is basically no power to threaten the Restoration Army in the whole of Liaodong.

The large-scale military operations in Liaodong can come to an end, and then there will be small fights at the level of public security warfare, ending the small tribes in the virgin forest.

And Su Yonglin can build Liaodong with confidence and boldness, make Liaodong a second revolutionary base, gradually develop this fertile black land, and at the same time accumulate enough military and economic strength, and start to look westward.

To the west, the Restoration Army regime had already bordered Xixia by occupying the Xijing Road area of ​​the Jin Kingdom and the Hedong area, and through the Henan area, it had also completely confronted the Guanzhong Jin Army, directly threatening the gateway of Guanzhong—Tongguan.

Su Yonglin doesn't know the total strength of the Xixia side, but there are at least about 10 Jin troops in the Guanzhong area.

At present, the Hebei Corps under Han Jinggui is responsible for guarding against Xixia, and the Zhang Yuejing Henan Corps is guarding against the Guanzhong Jin Army. Su Haisheng leads the Qilu Corps to help defend these two corps. Whoever is in trouble will directly help.

The more than 20 troops of the three corps formed a solid western defense line, confronting the remnants of the Jin Army in Guanzhong across the Yellow River and mountains.

This is how the Western Front of the Restoration Army was arranged.

With such an arrangement, Su Yonglin was not worried about what could happen to the Guanzhong Jin Army or the Xixia Army.

And now the Guanzhong Jin Army is also a lost dog, and the Xixia Army is no longer as strong and good at fighting as Li Yuanhao was. Unless the two sides cooperate sincerely to fight against him, it will bring him a little trouble.

But can they really join forces against the Restoration Army?

Can they really achieve the so-called sincere cooperation with each other?
I am afraid that the level of this kind of alliance is not as good as the friendly agreement between the Liberation Army and the Southern Song Dynasty, and it will break down in minutes.

But separately, they all have a certain amount of strength.

Su Yonglin found out that the current leader of the Jin Army in Guanzhong is Tu Shan Hexi, a famous general of the Jin Kingdom. Can't beat him.

The emperor of Xixia is called Li Renxiao. Although Su Yonglin is not familiar with this person, he is an emperor who has successfully ruled Xixia for decades. His position is very stable, and there is no major turmoil in the country. It can be seen that this person is at least not a mediocre and incompetent generation. .

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Lin, a famous general, led the Sichuan Army, eyeing tigers, and had a strong threat to the land of Shaanxi.

For Wu Lin, Su Yonglin knew much more than Li Renxiao. He knew that he had strong military ability, was good at defense, and was a master of defense.

Therefore, simply looking at the current three-party forces in the Guanzhong region, it is found that each of them is not simple.

And as a fourth-party force, Su Yonglin is of course even more complicated, and there is a strange feeling that he is the bad guy.

Having said that, the situation in Guanzhong is still quite strange. When the eastern battlefield is in full swing, Guanzhong does not move.

When the Liaodong battlefield was in full swing, Guanzhong remained motionless.

When the Kingdom of Jin had basically been declared destroyed, Guanzhong remained motionless.

Tu Dan Hexi controlled the Jin Guoguan Central Army of about [-] people and seemed to be completely out of the world, and had no intention of interfering in the eastern war. It was not until Su Yonglin sent troops to try to capture Tongguan that he was resolutely counterattacked.

Thinking about it now, Tongguan has not been beaten down, and it is estimated that it is inseparable from Tudan Hexi.

But Tudan Hexi is now like a wild wolf bound by his hands and feet, with the Western Xia in the north and the Southern Song Dynasty in the south. Xixia's guarantee.

But what is the difference between this guarantee and waste paper?

I'm afraid it wasn't because he had just fought the Restoration Army, and the Southern Song Dynasty and Xixia would send troops to pass and stab his chrysanthemum.

Su Yonglin felt that Tudan Hexi had not dared to take the initiative so far, and he must have been worried about this, so he only dared to defend and wait for the situation to change.

But how will the times change?
In Su Yonglin's opinion, Tudan Hexi couldn't have reached any cooperation with the Southern Song Dynasty. He would not believe Wu Lin, and Wu Lin would not believe him. Wu Lin would not be able to relax his military defenses against the Southern Song Dynasty if he lived for a day.

So if he wants to achieve any breakthrough in diplomacy, he can only reach an agreement with Xixia.

Compared with Song State, Jin State and Xixia seem to have a better relationship.

But only in relative terms.

In this regard, Su Yonglin is sure.

Because on the ninth day of December, Su Yonglin received a message from Su Haisheng, the commander of the Qilu Corps, saying that the Western Xia Emperor Li Renxiao secretly sent an envoy to try to come to the Central Capital, hoping to meet Su Yonglin.

Interesting, Su Yonglin hasn't hit Xixia yet, but Xixia has come to hit him.

Su Yonglin wanted to know what Xixia had in mind, so he allowed the Xixia envoy to come to the Central Capital, and he would keep it secret and protected.

On December 23, when the Xixia Mission arrived in Zhongdu, Su Yonglin sent Tian Guizi to meet him, brought the Xixia Mission into Zhongdu, and let them stay in the post house. On December 25, he received the Xixia Mission. Chunzhong and Deputy Envoy Wu Daochong.

Because this trip was a secret meeting, Su Yonglin did not announce the news to the public, and the meeting with Ren Chunzhong and Yu Daochong was also in his private study, not in the main hall.

Ren Chunzhong and Wu Daochong also expressed their understanding and had no opinion.

However, they were obviously stunned when they saw Su Yonglin.

"What? Do I look weird?"

Su Yonglin asked with a smile.

"No, no, I just didn't expect His Excellency the Great General to be so young and heroic."

Ren Chunzhong quickly remedied, trying to cover up his rudeness.

Su Yonglin waved his hand to indicate that he didn't care, so Ren Chunzhong stepped forward and handed over the secret letter of the Xixia Emperor Li Renxiao he was carrying to Su Yonglin.

Su Yonglin opened the secret letter and found that there was another secret letter in the secret letter, it was a letter within a letter.

One of the letters is a letter from Li Renxiao to Su Yonglin, and the other is a letter from Tu Dan Hexi to Li Renxiao.

Su Yonglin first read the letter Li Renxiao wrote to himself.

In the letter, Li Renxiao expressed his admiration for Su Yonglin's illustrious martial arts, expressing his admiration for Su Yonglin's courage to raise an army to overthrow the brutal Jin Kingdom, and then recounted his servile past to the Jin Kingdom since he became an emperor, and he was extremely sad.

After that, the conversation changed. He said that Xixia had no choice but to respect Jin Guo as the upper country, not because of any entanglement with Jin Guo. Li Renxiao himself also expressed admiration for Su Yonglin, hoping that Su Yonglin would not be because of the relationship between Xixia and Jin Guo. and feel unhappy.

This is all forced.

In the end, Li Renxiao said that he was willing to present a letter from Shan Hexi, the apostle of the unified army of the Jin Kingdom in Shaanxi, to him, hoping to join forces with him to attack Su Yonglin, in order to prove his attitude of breaking with the Jin Kingdom.

He also said that if Su Yonglin wanted to attack the Jin Army in Shaanxi, Xixia would be willing to send troops to help, join forces with the Restoration Army to destroy the Jin Kingdom and expel the barbarians.

Then Li Renxiao also hoped that Su Yonglin could open a border market as soon as possible to facilitate the mutual market between Xixia merchants and the Restoration Army.

Finally, the inscription of this modestly and prudently worded letter reads [Li Renxiao, the King of the Great Xia], without the word emperor.

(End of this chapter)