The news that the Liaodong Corps had captured Huining Mansion was sent back to Zhongdu on the seventh day of December.
After learning the news, Su Yonglin was very happy.
After the fall of the Jin Kingdom in May, Su Jue led the Liaodong Corps to launch three consecutive attacks within half a year and won three consecutive victories. Little by little, he ate up Wan Yanyong and the remaining Jin Kingdom forces in Liaodong, but he was not allowed to survive. the second year.
The successful conclusion of the Battle of Huining Mansion means that there is basically no force in Liaodong that can threaten the Liberation Army.
The large-scale military operation in Liaodong can come to an end, and then it will be a small fight at the level of public security warfare to eliminate the small tribes in the virgin forest.
And Su Yonglin can confidently and boldly build Liaodong, turn Liaodong into the second revolutionary base, gradually develop this fertile black land, and at the same time accumulate enough military and economic strength, start to set his sights westward.
To the west, the Liberation Army regime has already bordered Xixia by occupying the Xijing Road area of Jin Kingdom and the Hedong area. Through the Henan area, it also completely confronted the Jin Army in Guanzhong, directly threatening Tongguan, the gateway to Guanzhong.
It is unclear how many total troops Su Yonglin has in Xixia, but there are at least about 100,000 organized Jin troops in Guanzhong.
Currently, the Hebei Corps under Han Jinggui is responsible for defending against Xixia, and Zhang Yuejing's Henan Corps is responsible for defending against the Jin Army in Guanzhong. Su Haisheng leads the Qilu Corps to assist in the defense of these two regiments. If there is any difficulty, help directly.
More than 200,000 troops from three corps formed a solid western defense line, confronting the remnants of the Jin Army in Guanzhong across the Yellow River and high mountains.
This is how the Western Front of the Liberation Army regime was arranged.
With such an arrangement, Su Yonglin was not worried that the Guanzhong Jin Army or the Xixia Army might cause any trouble.
Moreover, now the Jin Army in Guanzhong is also a lost dog, and the Xixia Army is no longer as strong and good at fighting as it was during Li Yuanhao's time. Unless both parties cooperate sincerely and unanimously to fight against him, it will cause him some trouble.
But can they really join forces to fight against the Liberation Army?
Can the so-called sincere cooperation really be achieved if the two have evil intentions?
I am afraid that the degree of this alliance is not even as good as the friendly agreement between the Liberation Army and the Southern Song Dynasty, and it will break down in minutes.
But viewed separately, they all have certain strengths.
Su Yonglin found out that the current leader of the Jin Army in Guanzhong was Tu Dan Hexi, a famous general from the Jin Kingdom. This man was very good at fighting and had repeatedly repelled counterattacks in the Guanzhong area from the Sichuan War Zone in the Southern Song Dynasty. Wu Lin, a famous Song general, had suffered a lot at his hands. After all, 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 status is very stable, and there is no major turmoil in the country. This shows that this person is at least not an incompetent person. .
As for the Southern Song Dynasty, the famous general Wu Lin led the Sichuan front army and was eyeing it, posing a strong threat to Shaanxi.
Su Yonglin knew much more about Wu Lin than Li Renxiao. He knew that he had strong military capabilities, was good at defense, and was a master of defense.
So simply looking at the current three-party forces in the Guanzhong region, we find that each of them is not simple.
As a fourth-party force, Su Yonglin is certainly not simple, and he has a strange feeling that he is the one who is doing bad things.
Having said that, the situation in Guanzhong is still quite strange. When the battle in the eastern battlefield is in full swing, Guanzhong does not move.
While the battle in Liaodong was in full swing, Guanzhong still did not move.
When the Kingdom of Jin was basically declared destroyed, Guanzhong remained still.
Tu Dan Hexi controlled the Jin Guanzhong Front Army of about 100,000 people, as if he was completely out of touch with the world, and had no intention of intervening in the war in the east. It was not until Su Yonglin sent troops to try to capture Tongguan that he encountered a resolute counterattack.
Thinking about it now, the fact that Tongguan was not captured probably had something to do with Tu Dan Hexi.
But Tu Dan Hexi is now like a wild wolf whose hands and feet are bound. There are Xixia in the north and Southern Song in the south. In every sense, he cannot fight against the Liberation Army in the east with all his strength unless he obtains the Southern Song and Southern Song Dynasties at the same time. Xixia’s guarantee.
But what is the difference between this kind of guarantee and waste paper?
I'm afraid if he hadn't just started fighting with the Liberation Army, the Southern Song Dynasty and Xixia over there would have sent troops to Guanzhong to poke holes in his chrysanthemums.
Su Yonglin felt that Tu Dan Hexi had not dared to take the initiative so far. He must be worried about this, so he only dared to defend and wait for the situation to change.
But how will the situation change?
In Su Yonglin's view, it was impossible for Tu Dan Hexi to achieve any cooperation with the Southern Song Dynasty. He would not believe Wu Lin, and Wu Lin would not believe him. As long as Wu Lin lived, he would not be able to relax his military defense against the Southern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, if he wanted to get any breakthrough in diplomacy, he could only reach an agreement with Xixia.
Compared with the Song State, the relationship between the Jin State and Xixia seems to be better.
But that's only relatively speaking.
Su Yonglin is confident in this aspect.
Because on the ninth day of December, Su Yonglin received news from Su Haisheng, commander of the Qilu Corps, saying that Emperor Xixia Li Renxiao secretly sent an envoy to try to come to Zhongdu, hoping to meet Su Yonglin.
Interestingly, Su Yonglin has not yet set his sights on Xixia, but Xixia has come to set his sights.
Su Yonglin wanted to know what Xixia's thoughts were, so he allowed the Xixia envoy to come to Zhongdu, and he would keep it secret and protect it.
On December 23, the Xixia envoys arrived in Zhongdu. Su Yonglin sent Tian Guizi to greet them, brought the Xixia envoys into Zhongdu, let them stay in the post house, and received the Xixia envoys on December 25th. The regimental envoy Ren Chunzhong and the deputy envoy Ao Daochong.
Because this trip was a secret interview, Su Yonglin did not announce the news to the outside world. He also met Ren Chunzhong and Ao Daochong in his private study, not in the main hall.
Ren Chunzhong and Ao Daochong also expressed their understanding and had no objections.
But when they saw Su Yonglin, they were obviously stunned.
"What? Do I look weird?"
Su Yonglin asked with a smile.
"No, no, I just didn't expect His Majesty the General to be so young and brave."
Ren Chunzhong quickly made amends, trying to cover up his impoliteness.
Su Yonglin waved his hand to express that he didn't care, so Ren Chunzhong stepped forward and handed Su Yonglin the secret letter from Xixia Emperor Li Renxiao he was carrying.
Su Yonglin opened the secret letter and took a look and found that there was another secret letter inside the secret letter, which was a letter within a letter.
One of the letters was a letter written by Li Renxiao to Su Yonglin, and the other was a letter written by 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, expressed that he greatly admired Su Yonglin's courage to raise troops to overthrow the brutal Jin Kingdom, and then told the past of being humble to the Jin Kingdom since he became emperor, which was extremely sad.
Then the conversation changed, and he said that Xixia had no choice but to respect the Jin Kingdom as its superior state, and it was not because of any disputes with the Jin Kingdom. Li Renxiao himself also expressed his admiration for Su Yonglin and hoped that Su Yonglin would not because of the former vassal relationship between Xixia and the Jin Kingdom. And feel unhappy.
This is all forced.
Finally, Li Renxiao said that he was willing to present a letter written by Shan Hexi, the apostle of the Shaanxi unified army of the Jin State, to him, hoping to join forces with him to attack Su Yonglin, to prove his attitude of breaking off with the Jin State.
He also said that if Su Yonglin wanted to attack the Jin Army in Shaanxi, Xixia was willing to send troops to help and join forces with the Guangfu Army to destroy the Jin Kingdom and expel these barbarians.
Then Li Renxiao also hoped that Su Yonglin could open a border market as soon as possible to facilitate mutual trade between Xixia merchants and the Liberation Army.
Finally, this modest and prudent letter was signed "Li Renxiao, Lord of Great Xia" without the word emperor in it.
