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Chapter 2572 Secret Pavilion Plan!

Chapter 2572 Secret Pavilion Plan!

After several years of war, after Beiliang conquered the grassland countries in the west, its standing cavalry had reached more than 10, with an additional 1 female cavalry. Le Shan became the cavalry commander.

As a queen and the commander-in-chief this time, Zhao Jian took the initiative to dispatch female cavalry when Northern Liang conquered the Western Regions, and the female cavalry made great contributions.

This included a war with the Liao people near Jinshan, when the two sides were in a stalemate. Zhao Jian, as the commander of the central army, should not have taken risks. However, she was worried about the consequences, so she and Le Shan led 10,000 female cavalrymen, used crossbows to attack from the flank, and directly disrupted the enemy's formation.

At this time, the Liao army had just defeated the Tatars. Part of the Tatars continued to move westward and northward, while the other part surrendered to the Liao people.

The Northern Liang happened to accept some of the Tatars, and then learned that the Khitans had extended their tentacles to the vicinity of Jinshan, and the Liao people also learned that the Northern Liang had actually fought here. The two sides inevitably had a dispute over the ownership of Jinshan.

Originally, this battle was evenly matched because both sides were not well prepared.

The focus of the Liao Kingdom has always been in the east, and more of the Northern Liang’s troops are near the city of Suiye. It is very difficult for both sides to provide decisive support.

It was at this time that Zhao Jian led an army of 10,000 women and attacked from the south side of Jinshan, completely reversing the outcome of the war.

After the war, the Khitans retreated to Zhenzhou, and the Northern Liang's sphere of influence just reached the Altai Mountains, incorporating the Junggar Basin into its territory.

The Liao Kingdom and the Northern Liang fought each other on the southern foothills of the Altai Mountains and near the Yinshan Mountain.

The Western Xia's sphere of influence happened to be at the foot of the Yin Mountains, so this area was actually in a state of chaos among the Three Kingdoms.

After this war, the Beiliang female soldiers, who had been inconspicuous until now, were officially included in the Beiliang army's regular combat sequence.

Because Beiliang rewarded soldiers according to merit in a timely manner, female soldiers were rewarded in the same way as male soldiers. This immediately aroused the fighting spirit of a large number of women, and the number of people applying to join the female army skyrocketed.

If the screening of female soldiers had not been more stringent, eliminating 90% of women, the number of female soldiers would probably have exceeded that of male soldiers.

When the men saw that the women had made such great contributions and were being rewarded, they signed up enthusiastically one after another. Wang Yue happened to be able to afford so many soldiers, so the Beiliang army was expanded once again.

Just when Wang Yue expanded his army and thought he could take advantage of the opportunity to conquer Western Xia, Zhao Jian suddenly called Wang Yue over from Shouhua.

Shouhua is now raising the eldest princess Yuanyuan, and seems to be content with having a child. However, Wang Yue knows that Shouhua must be waiting for Zhao Jian to give birth to a legitimate son before she is ready to have another child.

Wang Yue didn't make any suggestions on this. After all, this was a little tacit understanding between him and his woman, and it was difficult for him to break it, so he could only spend more time with Shouhua.

Originally, this time was the time when Wang Yue was supposed to accompany Shouhua. Zhao Jian suddenly called him over. He was a little confused, but he still went over.

When Zhao Jian saw Wang Yue coming, he was worried that Wang Yue would think he was jealous, so he immediately said solemnly, "Your Highness, I just received a message from Dean Tang of the Secret Chamber. He wants to arrange for members of the Secret Chamber to assassinate Li Yuanhao. He also wants me to ask if we in Beiliang want to cooperate and kill Li Yuanhao together?"

Wang Yue didn't expect that when he was sleepy, someone would come and deliver a pillow to him. Jinan was more anxious to annex Xixia than Beiliang.

As long as Li Yuanhao died, Wang Yue could take advantage of this opportunity to destroy Western Xia directly without having to use too many cheating methods.

Wang Yue wondered if Dean Tang had something wrong with his brain. Wasn’t he helping Beiliang?

So Wang Yue smiled and asked, "How are you going to ask Beiliang for help? Is it a large army approaching?"

Of course, Zhao Jian also knew the strength of Beiliang. If he launched an attack on Xixia now, Xixia would definitely not be able to withstand it. However, in that case, there would be no buffer between Beiliang and the Song Dynasty. God knows what the situation would be like next?

So, logically speaking, Dean Tang shouldn't do this, which also made Zhao Jian a little uncertain.

So Zhao Jian directly expressed his concerns, "Your Highness, I am actually worried that with Xixia gone, will the relationship between Song and Beiliang change dramatically? Dean Tang should know whether there is a conspiracy."

Wang Yue looked at Zhao Jian's worried expression and could only say helplessly, "Have you never thought that the two countries can coexist peacefully? You have been fighting in the Western Regions for so long, and you should know that there are other countries in other directions of that land.

The world is so big, we don't necessarily have to fight to the death with the Song Dynasty! Isn't it good for us to develop together?"

Seeing Wang Yue say this, Zhao Jian said uncertainly, "That being said, others may not believe it."

Wang Yue heard Zhao Jian say this and thought to himself that he really had to keep the Liao Kingdom, otherwise the Song Dynasty would probably have trouble sleeping and eating.

Thinking about the battles between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty, which were actually not as many as those between the Song Dynasty and Western Xia, Wang Yue felt that after taking back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, he would just leave the Liao Dynasty on the northern grasslands.

However, Wang Yue did not tell Zhao Jian about this idea. He just smiled and said, "Since you are so worried, after destroying Xixia, I will help the Song Dynasty take over the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. What do you think?"

Zhao Jian was deeply moved to see Wang Yue make so many sacrifices. You know, the Song Dynasty didn't really care about the land in the northwest. As long as they felt that the Guanzhong Plain was still in their hands, everything would be fine.

For the general public, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are more important, because they are a knife hanging over the Song Dynasty. Once the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are in hand, there will be no more worries.

As for the area in the northern part of the Guanzhong Plain, because of the natural barrier of the Yellow River and the Luliang Mountains and Qinling Mountains, there is no need to worry about being able to attack.

This is just cowardice, an inherent characteristic. After the death of the founding emperor, there was no longer any desire to forge ahead.

Otherwise, no emperor would just think about defense.

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After the two of them had discussed it, the Song Dynasty quickly took action. What Wang Yue did not expect was that many people from the academy wanted to participate in this assassination, including Pei Jing.

After receiving the news, Zhao Jian immediately ordered his cavalry to head towards Beilanzhou. The reason for doing so was to increase pressure on Western Xia.

After Wang Yue heard about Zhao Jian's troop mobilization, he realized what had happened. He hurriedly called Zhao Jian back and asked Zhao Jian to lead the army with him towards Shuangcheng.

The area surrounding Shuangcheng was originally an endless desert, but after more than five years of wind and sand fixation, although there is still sand and dust from time to time, large tracts of land have been greened.

From the direction of Shuangcheng, Beiliang had already designed a road that could directly cross the desert and reach the Helan Mountains.

Because the army needed to move in secret, many scouts were sent out and the marching speed was very slow, while the Secret Chamber's actions were very fast.

The Secret Council first created a deification to make people believe that Li Yuanhao was the one destined by heaven, and then used Li Yuanhao to make the entire Dangxiang tribe believe in him.

Their next plan was to let the messenger of God die in public, and then the Dangxiang would fall apart.

By waiting until this time, and then arranging people to assassinate Li Yuanhao, people might have become disgusted with Li Yuanhao, and no one would stop the assassination.

But this plan was originally foolproof. Even if the assassination failed, at most a few young people would die.

There are many such patriotic young people in the Song Dynasty, so the Secret Council will not feel sorry at all.

But what no one expected was that Wang Yue directly crossed the desert at this time and headed straight towards Xixia.

Originally, when an ordinary small tribe encountered a sneak attack like this, they had no choice but to surrender.

However, ever since the Secret Cabinet of the Song Dynasty had done this, the centripetal force of Western Xia had been particularly strengthened. It was at this time when the centripetal force was the strongest that Wang Yue suddenly launched a surprise attack.

Therefore, none of the Dangxiang people they met along the way ran away. Regardless of women and children, as long as they had weapons, they came forward to stop the Beiliang troops, and then arranged for some people to ride westward at full speed to deliver the message.

Seeing this situation, Wang Yue of course sent a large number of cavalry to chase after them, but the problem was that these people were determined to report the news at the risk of their lives, resulting in some fish always slipping through the net.

Under such circumstances, when the Northern Liang army arrived at the plains north of the Helan Mountains, they were faced with the Western Xia army that was ready for battle.

Seeing that Western Xia was already prepared, Wang Yue was no longer in a hurry to attack. Instead, he waited for support from the grassland cavalry from Suiye City led by Wang Shiba.

Although Li Yuanhao was also a hero, he just thought that Wang Yue's sneak attack had failed, so he could only prepare engineering equipment.

Li Yuanhao felt that as long as they defended for a period of time, and when the Northern Liang army had almost used up their food and grass, they would be able to destroy the Northern Liang army without any effort.

But after Li Yuanhao waited for a few days, he found something wrong, because even the most difficult engineering equipment should have been built in these few days.

However, the Beiliang army did not cut down any trees at all, which clearly showed that they were not planning on manufacturing engineering equipment.

Therefore, Li Yuanhao instantly understood that the Beiliang army was probably waiting for reinforcements. He secretly cursed Wang Yue in his heart for being a coward for waiting for reinforcements when the two armies were almost one to one.

Therefore, he could not wait any longer and quickly mobilized a large number of cavalry from all over Xixia, preparing for a decisive battle with Wang Yue in advance.

Li Yuanhao felt that as long as he defeated this vanguard army of Beiliang, and then used the power of the great victory to defeat the second wave of Beiliang army.

(End of this chapter)