He can't do that.
Even though the country has become a little richer in recent years, the country has 100,000 soldiers and horses to feed, and the young and strong people do not go back to graze. If this continues, the country's strength will inevitably decline.
Therefore, Li Yuanhao had no choice but to follow Zhang Yuan's advice and immediately sent envoys to the Liao Kingdom for help.
But distant water cannot quench a nearby fire.
What's more, the power of the Firearm Battalion has been demonstrated. Unless the Liao Kingdom is stupid, it will not intervene. At most, it can only help mediate.
So at this time Li Yuanhao was in a difficult situation.
The main reason is that I can't figure out the attitude of the Song Dynasty court.
Let’s talk about fighting.
The other side did not seem to have mobilized a large army to station troops on the border.
Say no to fighting.
But there was no intention of retreating.
Don't communicate with him either.
This made Li Yuanhao uneasy and he didn't know what to do.
As a last resort, he could only continue to send people to communicate with Yang Xie, with his words becoming more humble each time.
From the very beginning, I just said it was a misunderstanding and hoped that the Song Dynasty would not take it to heart.
Until now, there is even a hint of humility in the meaning of apologizing.
Unfortunately, Yang Xie always maintained the attitude of ignoring, not refusing, not agreeing, not communicating, and not meeting, and did not give Li Yuanhao any face at all.
Now the offense and defense have changed.
In the past, the Song Dynasty had to win over the Western Xia to balance the power of the Liao Dynasty.
Therefore, in the early days, both Song Zhenzong and Zhao Zhen had to be friendly to the Western Xia, for fear that they would collude with the Liao Kingdom.
Now the whole Song Dynasty has discovered that, not to mention a small Xixia like you, even the Liao Kingdom would have to cede land and pay compensation to the military god of the Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan, and would not dare to claim to be the hegemon.
Coupled with the publicity in newspapers and official gazettes, the Song Dynasty's lost self-confidence was gradually restored since the Battle of Chanzhou.
Both the people and the officials were very confident and eager to fight.
After several years of recuperation, many people believed that the Song Dynasty was now strong enough to easily deal with the Western Xia and Liao dynasties, and calls for war to destroy the Liao and Western Xia became increasingly popular.
If Zhao Jun had not planned to wait until the army was thoroughly reformed and its combat effectiveness was greatly improved before launching the wars to destroy Xia and Liao, he would probably have followed public opinion and started a war.
Therefore, when the Northwest Army faced the Western Xia, its attitude was quite arrogant. Yang Xie did not take Li Yuanhao seriously at all and continued to follow the court's will and left Li Yuanhao out in the cold.
This situation continued until two months later, in December of the fourth year of the Qingli period, when after another military meeting, Li Yuanhao had to begin considering a plan to formally apologize to Zhao Zhen.
Because at this military meeting, generals from various departments such as Fang Dang and Fei Ting complained to him.
These generals said they were generals, but in fact they were all chiefs of various tribes. For example, Fangdang Qiuhu was the chief of the Dangxiang Fangdang tribe, and Fei Ting Guxi was the chief of the Feiting tribe.
The so-called army of Li Yuanhao was actually a military action led by his Dangxiang Weiming tribe to burn, kill and loot.
If the war goes well, these tribes will naturally obey Li Yuanhao's orders and follow his leadership.
If things don't go smoothly, then naturally everyone will have different intentions.
So this time, although it was a complaint, it was actually an attempt to put pressure on him.
After all, the leader of the Dangxiang tribe was no longer willing to fight with the Song Dynasty after being defeated several times.
This time I came out thinking that I was only going to fight Qingtang.
Now that the Song Dynasty is involved, coupled with a long-term confrontation, it will only cause serious internal friction. They cannot afford to compete with the Song Dynasty's national strength, and the cattle and sheep of each tribe still have to be sold to the Song Dynasty.
If the Song Dynasty got angry and cut off trade, the tribes would be left with nothing this year. Therefore, everyone hoped for a ceasefire and did not want to continue fighting.
Li Yuanhao was already in a difficult situation, and now that things had come to this, he could no longer hold on. He had no choice but to give up the initiative and directly sent someone to express his hope to communicate with Zhao Zhen to Yang Xie.
He also expressed his hope to have sincere communication with the Song Dynasty court.
I had something to do out of town and took more than 6 hours to drive, so the update is late. I will code more tonight and hope to finish my work early tomorrow and go back early. It's a pity.
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