After Zhang Jian finished reading the recital, he handed it over to the ministers present to circulate it, and soon all the important ministers finished reading the recitoire.

At this time, in the palace tent of Emperor Liao, there was a strange silence, and at this time, Zhang Jian and Liu Shenxing exchanged glances, and their faces showed a little color;

And Zheng Hongjie and Xiao Bidi quietly glanced at each other a few times, and then the two of them showed a little worry on their faces, but it quickly flashed.

Among them, let's talk about the situation of Zheng Hongjie:

Zheng Hongjie was dismissed from his post in Nanjing by Yelu Longxu due to the abduction of Yelu Yanni in Nanjing;

However, under his pleading, he was reinstated and appointed as Linhuang Shaoyin, who listened to it in the palace.

He was associated with ministers such as Yang Youxuan, Xiao Pidi and Xiao Xiaoxian, and had always had a close relationship with the prince's biological mother, Concubine Xiao Yunjin.

At this time, I saw Zhang Jian come out of the column and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that your palace is not suitable to go south, after all, my Da Liao has already started a war without permission, first of all, the Wuding Army of Shengzhou did not respect the strict order of the imperial court, and went to the Song Realm to fight the grass valley in private, but unexpectedly, the Song army was waiting for the battle, which led to the loss of the Wuding army and heavy losses;

This time, it was the leather room army that entered the Song realm without authorization and massacred the border people of the Great Song Dynasty, which caused a strong counterattack by the Song army, causing 3,000 Wuding troops and 1,000 skin room army officers and soldiers to suffer casualties;

Moreover, the great Song Dynasty general Chong Shiheng led the army and the Western Xia in the northwest border for a long time, and the army under his command has been on the battlefield for a long time, and the combat power is strong, and he is now transferred to Hebei Road as a defense envoy, fully responsible for the defense of the Song-Liao border, and he has greatly increased the border.

Even if we add 30,000 palace divisions now, although there are already 30,000 leather room troops and 20,000 box troops on the front line, it is only a mere 80,000 army, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to force the Great Song Dynasty to submit to it.

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At this time, Liu Shenxing said: "Your Majesty, Weichen implores Your Majesty to move back to Nanjing, don't go south again, this is pure futility; Here, Weichen wanted to impeach the Ministry of Shangshu, the Governor and the Privy Envoy Yang Youxuan and the Imperial Palace, all deployed Xiao to rival the two, and these two people bewitched the emperor to provoke a war with the Great Song Dynasty without authorization, so that the Great Liao would lose the national strength, let the Great Liao border army die in vain in the war, and let the border pass be miserable. ”

At this time, Xiao Xiaoxian, who stayed in Beijing, also entered the palace tent at this time, and he also happened to hear Liu Shenxing's impeachment words, first asked the Liao Emperor for peace, and then retreated to the side, looking like an old monk was settled.

Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu also had a big head for a while, since the Great Liao and the Great Song Dynasty after the battle of Lanyuan, although the Song-Liao border has not ignited the flames of war for 21 years, but the Great Song Dynasty has been in a passive defensive position, and the strategic initiative has been in the hands of the Great Liao.

Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu is also a British lord and a Ming monarch, and after he was completely pro-government, he still handled national affairs very well. It not only suppressed the rebellion of the Quartet, conquered Linjiang, and expanded its own power. At the same time, the rule of peace was also realized, bringing the Liao State into its heyday.

And at this time he is already old and old, but he is still a manifestation of martial arts ambition, in his heart over the years of cultural and martial arts far ahead of several ancestors, which makes him a little fluttering, the ambition in his heart has become more and more inflated in recent years, he repeatedly raised troops to crusade against Goryeo, and fought for ten years in the first war, forcing Goryeo and Da Liao to sign an alliance under the city, that is, Goryeo pays tribute to Liao Ting every year.

And there is still a thorn in his heart, that is, the land of the ten counties of Guannan that now belongs to the Great Song Dynasty, which originally belonged to the sixteen states of Youyun, and was dedicated to the Khitan by Shi Jingjiao, which was originally the land of Daliao.

In 959 A.D., Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong, who was a strategic man, personally conquered the Northern Expedition to the Khitan.

In April of this year, Chai Rong set up both land and water armies. Due to Chai Rongwei's fame, the Khitan people were terrified, and the guards in various Khitan places either surrendered or fled.

Soon, the Zhou army recovered Yijin Pass, Waqiao Pass, Juzhou, Yingzhou and other places, a total of 17 counties in three prefectures.

Since then, in the geographical nomenclature of the Liao Dynasty, there is an additional noun, called "Guannan".

Guannan, from the perspective of the Liao Dynasty, is based on the territory south of Waqiao Pass, which was ruled by the Liao Dynasty but was taken away by Zhou Shizong.

He always wanted to recapture the ten counties in the south of the country in his lifetime, so he counted this old account on the head of the Song Dynasty.

The Liao Dynasty must recapture Guannan, otherwise Nanjing (now Beijing) will be in no danger to defend, who knows when the Song Dynasty will have a Zhou Shizong Chai Rong such an eloquent and strategic hero, copy the guy to the door.

But he found it very difficult to fulfill this wish, this is not the first confrontation between the front line and the Great Song Dynasty, even the defeat, the loss of the army, he heard the exhortation of the prime minister Zhang Jian and the Liaoxing army envoy Liu Shenxing, and he hesitated for a while.

At this time, Xiao Xiaoxian said:

"Your Majesty, Weichen thought that my country's mission was about to arrive in Bianliang, Tokyo at this time, and let the envoy negotiate with the Great Song Dynasty to make a decision; Now our spy personnel in Tokyo have sent information, saying that the voice of the Song court is now the main peace, that is, the Song Emperor Zhao Zhen is vigorously fighting the main battle, during which there are Xia Zhu, the governor of the political affairs, Kou Zhun and Meng Ming, and those noble families, as well as Xue Kui and Zhang Wanxiang of the Privy Council, who are waving their flags and shouting;

The clan represented by Lu Yijian, the governor of Tongping, Qian Weiyan, and Zhao Yunrang, the defense envoy of Ruzhou, advocated peace.

Moreover, the Empress Dowager Liu E, who was still listening to the government, did not express her opinion, but she had the right of veto on the emperor's decision and could do her work. ”

At this time, the palace deployed Xiao Pi and said at this time: "Your Majesty, now Da Liao is ready to send arrows, but we can be safe, restrain the border army in advance, and prevent it from starting a war;

Then formulate a strict and effective battle plan, look for fighters, wait for the opportunity to annihilate the Song army, and win back the initiative on the battlefield;

Weichen knew that many people in the Great Song Dynasty were already depressed, afraid of the Great Liao like a tiger, and they didn't have the courage to fight the Khitan again. ”

And Zheng Hongjie said at this moment: "Your Majesty, on the battlefield, you can't care about a momentary victory or defeat, these Liao army defeats are caused by a light enemy, as long as our Liao army learns a lesson, regroup, it is not difficult to defeat the Song army." Moreover, we can send people to unite with Western Xia, unite them and attack the Great Song Dynasty at the same time, so that the Great Song Dynasty cannot take care of the beginning and the end. ”

At this time, Yelu Longxu also called Yelu Heshi, the chief general of the palace army, and several generals of the Liao army: Yelu Dagu, Lin Yahuage, Zhilu Gon and others, and raised the account together.

These military bigwigs all supported a surprise attack on the Great Song border at an appropriate time, in order to eat one of them, but they did not continue to let the conflict expand and escalate, so that the war could remain within a controllable range, and the Song army would be hurt and frightened, so that the Great Liao envoys would have the initiative in the negotiations in Tokyo.

At this time, Yelu Longxu, as the initiator of the war, of course did not want to end the war like this, and the war was launched in the first place to show martial arts and recapture the land of Guannan, how could it end in such a gloomy way? For the sake of face, it is necessary to hold on.

At this time, he appointed Yelu Zhilu Gon on the spot to lead 22,000 palace divisions to meet with Yelu Honggu, with Yelu Honggu as the main commander, he as the deputy commander, and Neligu was still the supervising army, waiting for the opportunity to engage the Great Song border army, and looking for an opportunity to annihilate the Song army, and strive for weight for the Liao envoy to negotiate.

He also sent envoys to Western Xia and invited them to jointly attack the Great Song Dynasty, and the national policy of uniting the party to resist the Song Dynasty was officially formed.

At this time, Meng Mingzuo asked Zhao Zhen to allow the transfer of 6,000 people from the border army to achieve the full strength of 12,000 people in the new army, and then transported more than 10,000 muskets and millions of rounds of ammunition through the rear steam ship; In addition, there were sixty howitzers with three thousand shells.

At this time, the new army led by Meng Ming and Yang Wenguang was named "the first division of the Great Song National Defense Army" by Zhao Zhen.

At this time, the division commander Yang Wenguang and the political commissar Meng Ming readjusted and appointed the subordinate officers:

The commander of the first brigade is Di Qing, which consists of three regiments and one battalion (artillery), with 4,000 people, including Gao Wenhuan, the commander of the first regiment, Wang Kexu, the commander of the second regiment, Murong Yanzhao, the commander of the third regiment, and Li Chunshan, the commander of the artillery battalion;

The commander of the second brigade is Li Zhaoliang, which consists of three regiments and one battalion, with 4,000 people, including Cao Ning, the commander of the first regiment, Liang Shuhai, the commander of the second regiment, Chong Huichang, the commander of the third regiment, and Lian Jihai, the commander of the artillery battalion;

The commander of the third brigade is Guo Zun, with three regiments and one battalion, with 4,000 people, including Shi Yanbin, the commander of the first regiment, Tang Linqian, the commander of the second regiment, Li Guangxiu, the commander of the third regiment, and Ke Yunzhe, the commander of the artillery battalion;

Yang Wenguang began to train the soldiers of the First Division, and because the border troops transferred to him were all elite, it took only one month to master the training subjects and combat skills of the new army.

What Meng Ming is doing now is to cut off all the ruffian aura of these border troops, and in the devilish training of the new army for more than a month, these border troops are also bitter about Meng Ming's strict military regulations and military discipline;

Among them, many thorns were repaired by Meng Ming like sheep, and what they were most afraid of was being locked up, and they would rather be beaten with a military staff than bear the torment of this confinement.

At first, there were a few ruffians and old oilmen in the border army, but they refused to obey discipline, and most of these people had military merits, and they were all arrogant soldiers, so they often fought and brawled in the army, gathered crowds to make trouble, drank too much to make trouble, threatened their superiors or others with weapons, disobeyed orders, and had a bad record, which had seriously disrupted the normal order.

One of the ruffians is called Liang Erbao, this person is burly, one meter eight tall, he has excellent combat power, and Yiwu soldier Wu Heiniu is on par, this person is arrogant, often gathers people to make trouble, Meng Ming punished him many times, but with little effect, Yang Wenguang is ready to expel him from the first division.

But Meng Ming didn't agree, he saw that this Liang Erbao was not bad in nature, but he was upright and righteous, and he always liked to show off his strength, so Meng Ming decided to tame this fierce horse.