Outside Jinyang City, in order to reduce unnecessary casualties, Zhao Jiong did not implement the tactics of strong attack and hard attack, but built a city along the periphery of Jinyang City, surrounded the city for a week, and cut off the connection between inside and outside the city, as a plan for a long siege. He also ordered people to build underground houses along the city, which was not only a shelter for the troops, but also a forward position for attacking the city and receiving the enemy.

Even in order to deal with the strong city defense of Jinyang, he once again ordered people to build a long causeway to divert the water of the Fen River to irrigate the city.

Of course, when besieging Jinyang City, he also implemented the technique of attacking the heart to further disintegrate the fighting spirit of the Northern Han army defending the city.

When Liu Jiyuan, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, learned that the Liao army commanded by Yelusha was defeated by the Song general Guo Jin at Baimaling, he sent envoys to the Liao State to beg for help. Who knew that even this envoy was captured by Guo Jin. Escorted to Jinyang City to behead the public, the soldiers in Jinyang City were all angry after seeing it! Liu Jiyuan knew that the reinforcement of the Liao army this time was really hopeless!

Within a few days, the Jiacheng in the southeast corner of Jinyang City had begun to collapse due to the immersion of the river for several days.

Zhao Jiong took advantage of the situation and personally came to the south of the city to supervise the siege of the city.

Seeing that the situation was poor, Liu Jiyuan had no choice but to refuse Yang Jiye's continued insistence, sent an envoy from the guest province to pay to Zhao Jiong, and personally led the civil and military ministers to open the door to greet him in plain clothes and gauze hats.

No matter how unwilling the people of the Yang Mansion were to surrender, they did not dare to disobey the emperor's will. They finally came to the Northern Han Dynasty for so many years, but they were also defeated by this loyal word!

At this point, the puppets of the Northern Han Dynasty under the protection of the egg wings of the Liao State perished 29 years after the founding of the country, and the 12 states to which they belonged. 41 counties, 35,220 households, and 3,000 troops are all owned by Zhao Jiong. Zhao Jiong also finally fulfilled the unfulfilled last wish of his brother Zhao Kuangyin, realized the unification of the Central Plains, and ended the situation of secession and dispute since the end of the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, for Zhao Jiong, the happiest thing is not only to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, but also to harvest the Yang family, a tiger general!

For an army, excellent generals are the soul! Although the Great Song Dynasty has a lot of talents in China, there is no shortage of people who can fight well. But like the Yang family, all of them are loyal tiger generals. It's really rare.

Although because of Yan'er's business. Zhao Jiong still has a lot of nostalgia for Yang Ningyu, but when he thinks that he can make contributions to himself in the future, he is also a lot relieved. After all, things have been "°Fdǐng" °Fdiǎn "°F small" °F said, .2≈3.o≤s_(); After so many years, if you become an emperor yourself. It controls the life and death of the entire Great Song Dynasty. He didn't have much of a need to deal with such a small role.

Meanwhile. Zhao Jiong decided to take advantage of the victory to advance eastward and regain the lost Yan land from the Liao State.

But when he announced his decision in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, he was unexpectedly opposed by many people.

"Your Majesty. The destruction of the Northern Han Dynasty has lasted for a long time, and the soldiers are extremely tired, and Weichen thinks that it is really not suitable to continue to advance eastward! General A said.

Weichen also thinks so. In addition to the reasons just mentioned, the most important thing is that our hundreds of thousands of troops have been conducting large-scale military operations for such a long time, which has made food, grass, horses, ordnance and strategic materials very scarce. If we continue to forcibly fight, I am afraid that the common people will be overwhelmed! Civil Officer B said.

"Wechen is against! Weichen believed that the destruction of the Northern Han Dynasty and the recovery of Yandi should belong to the same battle. Now our army has just destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, and the morale of the soldiers is flourishing. Moreover, after the Liao State was hit hard in Baimaling, it was impossible for it to make a comeback so soon. Now is the great time for our army to recover Yandi! Cui Han stepped forward and said.

Zhao Jiong was worried that no one would approve of his proposal, so Cui Han stood up and agreed, and immediately felt overjoyed.

"What Cui Aiqing said is the most heartfelt! Okay, according to Cui Aiqing. Cao Bin, you quickly go to the set of diǎn soldiers and horses. Tomorrow, we will march east and go straight to Nanjing! Zhao Jiong was very satisfied with Cui Han's opinion, and decided to send troops to attack Nanjing the next day.

After receiving the news that Yelusha's troops were defeated by the Song army at Baimaling, Yeluxian and Yan'er, who were thousands of miles away, were still commanded by Yelusha and marched west to aid Jinyang even though they mobilized a more elite army from the Tunrong army along the line of the Great Wall.

When Liu Jiyuan, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, opened the door to welcome the surrender, Lu Jun, the commander of the horses, took the opportunity to escape. He traveled all the way to Nanjing via Daizhou and reported to the Liao State that Jinyang had been captured by the Song army. This news made Yan'er feel very surprised. In her mind, even if Liu Jiyuan surrendered, the people of the Yang Mansion might not surrender. But this time, even the people of the Yang Mansion gave up so quickly, which had to surprise her. In fact, for so many years, although she has been in Liaoguo, what she has been thinking about in her heart has always been Jinyang, which is thousands of miles away. And it's not so much that she's thinking about Jinyang, it's better to say that she's still thinking about the person in Jinyang City!

Yan'er ordered the immediate cessation of reinforcements to the Northern Han and let the assembled army stay in the Nanjing area for the time being.

Zhao Jiong's army soon advanced into the territory of Nanking Road. In Nanjing, most of the military and political governors in Zhuzhou County were Han Chinese. When they saw the arrival of the Central Plains Emperor personally leading a large army, they opened the door to welcome the surrender. As for the small number of Khitan soldiers, they were forced to surrender to the Song army under pressure.

As a result, Zhao Jiong advanced to the city of Nanjing almost without encountering any fierce resistance. However, when passing through Zhuozhou, Zhao Jiong was intercepted by the army commanded by Yelu Xidi, the king of the Northern Court of Liao, Xiao Taogu, and Sahal. However, because of the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, the Liao army was crushed at the first touch. The Song army took advantage of the situation to complete the encirclement of Nanjing.

Subsequently, Zhao Jiong set up the command structure of the camp in Baoguang Temple in the south of Nanjing, and personally went to the city to command the siege operation. He ordered Dingguo Jiedu to make Song Wu attack the south of the city, Zhangxin Junjiedu to make Liu Yu attack the east of the city, Dingwu Jiedu to make Meng Xuanzhe attack the east of the city, and Heyang Junjiedu to make Cui Yanjin attack the north of the city. At this point, the Song army besieged the city of Nanjing, and the war was about to break out.

After many years, now he Zhao Jiong finally has the opportunity to set foot on this land again. Back then, he sneaked into the Liao Realm, just to see that person. Once upon a time, his enemies were too strong, so he had to give up. But now, he sits on the entire Great Song Dynasty, and he is fully qualified and capable to contend with his enemies! Therefore, this time he came to attack Nanjing regardless of his intentions, but he actually wanted to show off to his enemies, and at the same time show his strength to the person he loved.

It is said that the hero is sad to pass the beauty pass. Once upon a time, he wasn't much of a hero. But now, if he says that he is not a hero, then who in this world dares to call himself a hero? And in the heart of the hero, the only one who can't let go of his heart is that beauty!

(To be continued.) )