After listening to Mochihe's regretful and regretful telling of the whole story, the King of Yue temporarily fell into silence. He really couldn't tell whether the other party's behavior was sincere. Did he let Sun Qianli go on purpose, or did he really give Sun Qianli a chance because of his negligence.
However, it is useless to care about these matters now. After all, the two sides have already cooperated and formed an alliance. It is a relationship in which both prosper and suffer losses. There is no need to pursue such details anymore. After pondering for a while, the King of Yue finally said: "Now that the matter has come to this, the search in the city can only be stopped. Sun Qianli must have escaped from Xingzhou City a few days ago. This is not easy to find!"
"There must be someone behind this person, but it shouldn't be some force in the capital." Mo Xihe also recovered at this time and expressed his guess: "In this way, this person actually affects our plan. It’s not too big. Our top priority is to stabilize the situation between North Korea and China and prepare to deal with the next opposition. As for him, we can send a few teams of troops out of the city to search for his traces. After all, there is heavy snow outside the city and he and his party are blocked. It’s not that easy for people to leave easily.”
The King of Yue also nodded in approval. Now that they had just seized power, there were still too many things to do. Naturally, it was impossible to focus on a guy who had obviously left the city. So the two made up their minds on the spot and sent five hundred cavalrymen in five teams to search for the whereabouts of the team that had left the city a few days ago. Once they found the target, they would kill them without mercy!
Their decision was undoubtedly quite accurate, because just a few days later, the real challenges and variables arrived. Although the two of them almost controlled the entire Xingqing Mansion, they were unable to control the entire Xixia Kingdom in their own hands. They were also unable to block news in the capital for a long time. Once the city was opened to allow people to come in and out, all the changes that happened between these two people would spread quickly.
King Cao's people, the prince's people, and other forces in the Xia Kingdom who believed that King Yue and Mo Xiahe had launched a coup to seize power issued documents to denounce them. Their troops and horses were even gathered in some places, and it seemed that it might happen at any time. Use troops against Xingzhou to have a justifiable battle between King Qin and King Qin.
At the same time, the envoys of Song and Liao who had been detained by them finally stopped cooperating and proposed to leave Xia one after another. Obviously, they have noticed the changes that are going to happen in Xixia. They no longer care about which side Xia Guo is on, they just want to bring this important news back and make meritorious service.
Faced with such internal and external troubles, the King of Yue and Mo Chihe were also worried for a while. They either issued edicts in the name of the emperor to appease, or sent troops in a certain direction as a threat, in order to delay the time and avoid the terrible scene of chaos in the country. As for the envoys from Song and Liao, they really had no choice this time.
These envoys would never dare to kill, otherwise they would openly start a war with the two powerful countries, and the Xia Kingdom would be destroyed by then. But they were really unwilling to let them go, so in the end they could only continue to delay them for various reasons. As for whether they had secretly sent people to bring the changes back to the country, the two of them couldn't handle it now.
This winter is really turbulent for the Xia Kingdom, especially the ordinary people. Every time a piece of news comes out, it can scare them for a while, for fear that a war will break out in the country, which will lead to conflicts between Liao and Song Dynasties. Massive invasion.
At this critical moment, the Xifeng clan finally stood up. While other forces were still hesitating whether to send troops to serve the king, Xifenye Chang personally led an army to the capital and put up a banner to support the regency of the king of Yue.
With the current strength of the Xifeng clan in the Xia Kingdom, plus
The elite cavalry such as Tie Yaozi, who originally belonged to the capital, immediately suppressed the people from all sides who were ready to move. It was only then that everyone was convinced that the King of Yue had indeed united with the Xifeng clan for a long time, and at the same time, he had given up the intention of causing rebellion.
However, this does not mean that the Xia Kingdom will regain stability. Now the forces outside are only temporarily dormant, just waiting for a suitable opportunity to counterattack. Therefore, Xixia will probably not dare to take any action in the next few years. Not to mention wanting to benefit from the Song-Liao conflict, they are even a little vague about defending their own country's defense line.
It can be said that Sun Tu ventured into Xixia from the Liao Kingdom and finally achieved his goal after doing many things. The damage he caused to Xixia was incomparable to the 100,000 Song troops in several border battles between the two countries. .
Of course, it is impossible for the Song Dynasty court to recognize such achievements. Even in the Xia Kingdom, no one knew that the person who caused all this was actually a Song Dynasty military attache named Sun Tu. In their opinion, the name of the culprit was His name is Sun Qianli, he is most likely a Liao spy!
Regardless of whether others know that he did all this, the most important thing for Sun Tu at this time is to find a way to return to the Song Dynasty safely. However, with so many wanted and manhunts under his belt, can he really escape smoothly
In fact, what no one knew was that Sun Tu had actually stayed in Xingzhou City in the past few months. When the King of Yue and Mo Chihe sent a large number of troops out of the city to find his whereabouts, he was hiding safely in a cellar of Chengtian Temple in the city!
In fact, he also knew that he would be exposed to everyone after doing those things, so he had thought of ways to protect himself and escape early in the morning. On the one hand, he left the gold medal to Wu Asheng and others, so that they could use it to escape Xingzhou when the chaos broke out. This not only gave them a chance to survive, but also attracted the attention of the Xia government and prevented them from searching too deeply in the city. - On the other hand, after Sun Tu left the Prince's Mansion and posted cipher messages on the street that he couldn't understand at all, he sneaked into Chengtian Temple before anything happened and met Yu who had just returned from the palace. Mulberry wax valerian.
When he saw Sun Tu suddenly appearing in front of him, Yuesang Wali immediately understood everything: "Donor Sun, you have caused a lot of evil in my country of Xia again..."
"What the master said is right or wrong. In fact, I am just following the trend. There are already many contradictions in the Xia Dynasty. Even if I don't take action, the troubles that should be caused will still be caused. Maybe more people will die than this time. ." Sun Tu had his own explanation: "I came here today just to ask the master to save me because he has helped you before, so that I can avoid the pursuit of those people."
After being silent for a long time, Jiesang Wali finally nodded and agreed to his request, and hid Sun Tu in a cellar somewhere in his monastery that few people knew about.
It was precisely because of the protection of Yue Sangxu that Sun Tu finally avoided repeated searches by the King of Yue and others. For the sake of safety, he was not in a hurry to leave. He simply stayed in the temple temporarily for two or three months. It was not until winter turned to spring that the civil strife in Xia Kingdom was about to subside. The thought of leaving.
At this time, Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Xia Kingdom, had long returned to its former glory. Although there was still a portrait of the wanted criminal Sun Qianli posted at the city gate, almost everyone had given up any hope.
Because not long ago, the cavalry sent out last year to search and track Sun Qianli and others had brought back the bodies of several suspicious people who had lost their way in the snow - those people found themselves surrounded by Xia soldiers and could not escape. After that, they all died one after another
They fought hard, but in the end they couldn't even bring back a single person alive. However, from the items they brought with them, it was found that this group of people was the same people who had left the city with Mo Xianhe's gold medal before, but Sun Tu was not among them.
But their identities remain a mystery. Although they all look like Han people, there are many Han people in the three countries now. No one can tell whether these Han people are from the Song Dynasty or the Liao Dynasty, or from other countries with ulterior motives, such as Tubo or the south. Dali…
At this point, all clues have been cut off, and King Yue and the others have given up any intention of continuing to pursue Sun Qianli.
It was after learning this news that Sun Tu decided to leave Xingzhou at this time.
At noon on February 27, the second year of Xuanhe and the sixth year of Xia Yongning in the Song Dynasty, Yuesang Wali, who had lived in Xingqing Mansion for several months, finally set off again to promote Buddhism elsewhere.
At this time, the interrogation at the city gate has not been abandoned due to the passage of time. Ordinary people who want to leave the capital not only have to be carefully verified, but also have to be searched, which is extremely strict.
Of course, this is only for ordinary people. If powerful people want to leave the city, it is not that troublesome. But when Yuesang Waval and the others wanted to go out, the situation changed again. When he led several disciples to the south gate that allowed the nobles to pass through, they were stopped by the defenders. down.
"Master Jie Sang, please forgive me. We have received orders earlier. As long as you want to go out of town, you must carefully check the relevant people!" The gatekeeper general saluted apologetically and waved. Let the men around you step forward to check on the disciples who are following Jiesang Wali. They must even take off the hoods they wear on their heads, and then check them carefully one by one.
This kind of behavior made Jie Sangwali frown greatly. He didn't expect that King Yue and the others would be so cautious at this time, and they even targeted him. Did he really suspect that he and Sun Qianli were in collusion
However, this time the search by the defenders was in vain, because those who followed Master Jie Sang were all genuine monks and disciples, and Sun Tu did not get involved at all.
While the defenders' attention was focused on this side, at the city gate where ordinary people could pass through, a man wearing a bamboo hat was quickly trying to pass through the city gate. Just when the city guards wanted to block his way and asked him to take off his bamboo hat to check his appearance, he showed an iron token from his hand: "Iron Harrier has been ordered to leave the city, you dare to stop me?"
Just this sentence frightened this person so much that he hurriedly got out of the way.
If the guard was free at this time, he would definitely come forward to obstruct him, but at this time, his attention has been attracted by Yue Sangwa and others, so it is naturally impossible to pay attention to an ordinary person.
So, under the eyes of these people, Sun Tu, who was wanted by them, walked out of Xingzhou City in a swagger. He also didn't expect that the iron kite token he obtained on the way to Xixia would be a big help to him at this last moment!
After stepping out of the Xingzhou City Gate and looking at the green world, Sun Tu finally let out a long sigh of relief. Once this is gone, the dragon enters the sea and the tiger returns to the mountain, and the flying bird disappears without a trace!
(End of this volume)