Xiao Feng waved his hand when he heard this: "What are you afraid of, tell Director Zhou the truth, can he not send a bigger plane over?" Not only the four of us, but also the three important fugitives in the bureau must also be arrested. By the way, Zhao, what are we going to do next? ”

Zheng Luya was confused: "What are you talking about?" What aircraft, what important fugitives? Does going back mean going back to opening? ”

Zhao Liang shook his head: "Don't ask yet, you won't understand it for the time being." Remember what I said last night? About crossing. ”

Zheng Luya nodded suspiciously, and then looked at Xiao Feng and Duan Yu: "You mean to say that the three of you are ...... Through? ”

"It's not the three of us," Zhao Liang said helplessly, "but the four of us." But you can't remember the previous events now, so it's useless for me to say anything, so I won't dwell on it yet. You just have to keep these things in mind. ”

He snapped his fingers and said, "First, the three of us are your colleagues in the future world, and we will only protect you, not hurt you." Second, if you don't fully remember your background, it's best not to have intimate relationships with anyone, so as not to regret it in the future. Third, we must not tell other people about our affairs, even if you can't understand and don't believe it for the time being, at least think about it for me and keep it a secret from the outside world. All right? ”

Zheng Luya stared at Zhao Liang thoughtfully, and said for a long time: "Are you really just my colleague?" ”

"Huh? yes, so what? Zhao Liang looked confused.

"No, it's nothing...... Xiao Ya suddenly lowered her head and said, "I remember everything you just said." Rest assured, I'll do what you ask me to do until things are completely clear. ”

Zhao Liang didn't think much about it, and said with his head bowed when he heard the words: "That's good." We are still under the monitoring of the Liao army, and we are unable to move, so we can't deal with Shangguan Xueming. I think it's better to wait patiently until Song Zhenzong agrees to peace talks. At that time, our identities will be very different, so that we can find an opportunity to catch those three key criminals. ”

"When will Song Zhenzong agree to peace talks?" Duan Yu said with concern.

Zhao Liang said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's clearly written in the history books, the emperor is more anxious about peace talks than us, so I guess it will be done tomorrow at the latest." ”

That being said, no one expected that Zhao Liang's confident judgment dragged on for five days.

Not only did they fail to expect a special envoy to negotiate, but they saw a murderous aura and a battalion full of wounded soldiers.

It turned out that after reading the letter written by Wang Jizhong for Zhao Liang, Empress Dowager Xiao did not rush to let Wang Jizhong send it to Song Zhenzong, but ordered the Liao army to spread out and arrive near Lanzhou to launch a fierce attack.

At this time, the Song Dynasty's Lanzhou defense line had gathered nearly 400,000 horses, and the army was prosperous and strong. In the face of the resurgence of the Liao soldiers, the generals of the Great Song Dynasty no longer only hid in the city and blindly held on to it as before, but were high-spirited and asked for battle, wanting to go out of the city to fight with the Khitans.

As a result, Song Zhenzong dispatched troops and sent 250,000 cavalry troops, organized into 16 giant phalanxes, and confronted 150,000 Liao iron cavalry outside the city of Lanzhou. The two sides opened their postures and showed their fangs, just like two giant beasts in the wilderness, fiercely pounced together.

The fierce battle lasted three days and three nights. At the beginning, the Song army, relying on the superiority of troops and the spirit of the newborn calf not afraid of tigers, went back and forth with the Liao army in the wilderness and wasteland, fighting repeatedly, and it was a draw.

But it didn't take long for the impact of the Khitan cavalry to show a stronger side. Among the sixteen large phalanxes of the Song army, five were torn apart by the fierce Liao soldiers one after another, and more than 20,000 soldiers sacrificed their lives on the battlefield. In addition, there were two phalanxes, which also withdrew from the battle ahead of schedule because of heavy losses, which made the entire Song army's defense line shaky.

At the critical moment, Prime Minister Kou Zhun admonished

Song Zhenzong crossed the river and personally climbed to the head of the city to supervise the battle, in order to boost the morale of the near collapse.

Zhao Heng didn't really want to go, but he couldn't stand a bunch of civil and military officials chanting in his ears, so in desperation, he had to put on his helmet and armor, hang a sword on his waist, and with an extremely complicated mood, he boarded the north gate of Lanzhou.

Unexpectedly, seeing the Song army array, which was about to collapse, suddenly saw the apricot yellow dragon flag erected on the city tower behind him, knowing that this was the emperor coming to the battlefield in person, and suddenly the morale was greatly boosted.

On the plains, the infantry charged the cavalry, with commendable courage, but with terrible results.

This is not to say how heavy the losses of the attacking side were, the main reason is that two legs can't catch up with four legs.

However, Rao is like this, the invincible Khitan people were still taken aback by the high fighting spirit of the Song army, and after a little contact, they found that these guys on the other side seemed to be crazy, and they only knew how to slash and kill without dying.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the Liao army commander hurriedly issued an order to retreat, and before the Song army was completely furious, he contracted the front in time, disengaged from contact, and temporarily avoided its edge. The Song Dynasty saw that the Khitans patted their butts and left, and they chased after each other. It's a pity that I have more than enough heart but not enough strength, and I really can't catch up with other people's fast horses. Moreover, the commander of the Song Dynasty was even more afraid of being lured deep by the other party and setting up an ambush, so he also accepted it when he saw it, which was regarded as a victory and returned to the camp.

After this general battle, the Liao army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, while the Song army lost nearly 30,000 people, and almost half of the cavalry troops of the Great Song Dynasty were killed by the Khitan.

Song Zhenzong held the report on the battle situation, his hands couldn't stop trembling, and he muttered silently in his heart: My mother, I look like a bird at the door of my house, what else do you say about waving the army to the Northern Expedition and recovering the lost land?

However, before he could finish sighing, the next day, the Khitans were killing again violently.

This time, the Liao army did not dispatch as many troops as last time, only about 50,000 came, but they were all elites such as the palace tent army and the leather room army, and the commander was personally led by the Liao emperor Yelu Longxu.

At Kou Zhun's suggestion, the Song army sent all the fresh troops who did not participate in the previous battle, a full 100,000 soldiers and horses, supervised by Song Zhenzong, to meet the Khitan army.

Although the size of the number of people on both sides has decreased, the intensity of the intensity is even greater than yesterday. The two sides are also elite, and the emperor is also here, how can there be any reason not to die?

From sunrise to sunset, a full six hours, a total of twelve hours, 50,000 Khitan main forces and 100,000 Song Xinrui fought fiercely, the sky was dark, the sun and the moon were dark.

Song Zhenzong had been watching the battle at the head of the city, and the soreness of standing on his legs was unbearable, so he finally had to order someone to move a chair and sit and watch. He pointed to the city and sighed to Kou Zhun and the others, he just stood and looked, they were all tired, those soldiers fought bravely all day, how difficult should it be at this time?

After the sky was completely dark, Yelu Longxu of the Liao Holy Sect finally issued an order for the Khitan army to withdraw.

Since they were the attacking side and completely occupied the initiative, they could retreat, and the soldiers of the Song army could only watch the opponent's buttocks, and there was nothing they could do in a hurry. Seeing this, Song Zhenzong felt sorry for the hard work of the soldiers, and hurriedly asked the army to quickly gather into the city, eat and rest.

It was not until midnight that the battle situation was finally counted, and the Song Dynasty suffered more than 17,000 casualties, while the enemy's losses were estimated to be only about 5,000.

Song Zhenzong looked at the battle report and couldn't help but want to cry without tears: in just four days, the Song army had lost nearly 50,000 troops, and the rest were exhausted and miserable. The cruelty of the war is far beyond his imagination, if it continues like this, let alone 400,000 troops, even another 400,000 troops will not be enough to fill the hole.

That night, Song Zhenzong issued an order to all the commanders of the army, asking them not to lead their troops out of the city to meet the battle in the future. If the enemy comes again, he must hold on to the city, wait for work, and use defensive means to consume the Liao army.

Sure enough,

Early the next morning, the Liao army reappeared in the field of vision of the Song Dynasty. This time, the other party was even more exaggerated, Empress Dowager Xiao personally commanded, and the Khitan soldiers and horses were almost dispatched, and they were all over the mountains and fields, overwhelmingly pressing towards Lanzhou.

With such a momentum, not to mention that Song Zhenzong had ordered it to be defended in advance, even if there was no such will, the generals would not dare to go out of the city easily and face it head-on.

The main force of nearly 300,000 people of the Song Dynasty was crowded in the main city of Lanzhou and the military fortifications on the left and right wings, silently watching the Liao army show off its might outside, and I was indescribably depressed. However, there is no way to do this, the first two battles have proved that although the Song army is very brave, in the plain field battle, compared with the people on horseback, there is still a big gap between them.

Like the Upper Fourth Army in the Forbidden Army, or Yang Yanzhao's Ningbian Army, they may be able to compete with the Khitan in terms of combat power, but unfortunately they are not many after all; The rest of the miscellaneous troops, especially the Xiang troops and regimental training in various places, were uneven in level, and they had an advantage in numbers and scale, but they could not pose a real threat to the Liao army.

In such a state, it should be more than enough to hold the defense line and kill the opponent, but if you want to counterattack on a large scale and even recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, I am afraid it will be a bit difficult.

The Liao army waited outside the city of Lanzhou for a whole morning, but never saw the Song army come out to meet the battle as before, and couldn't help but look a little disappointed. has the intention to move forward, but when the other party is in strict formation, there is no difference between attacking the city and sending it to death, so the Khitans do not dare to be tough.

So, everyone dragged on until the sun was west, and the Liao army turned its horse head and returned to the camp to rest.

As soon as she returned to the camp, Empress Dowager Xiao immediately issued an order: The time has come! Let Wang Jizhong go to deliver a letter to Song Zhenzong tonight.

It turned out that in the previous two fierce battles, the Liao State was actually more difficult than the Great Song Dynasty, and there was even a bit of gambling in it.

Don't look at the Khitans who have the upper hand every time, and today they even suppressed the Song army from daring to go out of the city, but they are already at the end of the crossbow, and if they continue to fight like this, I am afraid that they will collapse first.

But as the commander of the whole army, Empress Dowager Xiao can't help but gamble on this. First, only by daring to fight and being able to fight can we effectively curb the expanding Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers, and force them to recognize the reality and shake hands and make peace. Second, only by hurting Song Zhenzong can the next negotiation have enough bargaining chips, bargain with the other party, and strive to get more benefits.

But at the same time, this is also tantamount to betting on the national fortune of Liao.

In case the Song army sees through the reality of the Khitan and makes up its mind to fight a war of attrition, and at the same time sends messengers to contact the defenders in Hebei to cut off the Liao soldiers' food and grass and retreat, then it is difficult to say whether the Empress Dowager Xiao can return to her homeland safely with her sons.

Fortunately, as far as the current situation is concerned, the Song Dynasty has indeed tasted the bitterness, so much so that it is a little timid. It is precisely because of this that Empress Dowager Xiao felt that the time was ripe and hurriedly sent Wang Jizhong to release goodwill to Song Zhenzong.

It should be said that the creation of this situation and the grasp of the rhythm fully reflect Xiao Xuan's courage and courage as a politician, which is not easy.

Things were as Empress Dowager Xiao expected, Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng was sleepy, and the pillow was delivered.

As soon as he heard that the Liao State had sent a secret envoy and was an old acquaintance Wang Jizhong, Song Zhenzong immediately felt that there was a deep meaning in it, and summoned him overnight to secretly meet with this former courtier.

When Wang Jizhong saw Zhao Heng, his long-suppressed emotions finally broke out, and he suddenly cried so sadly that he almost killed himself on the spot. Fortunately, the surrounding guards came to the rescue in time, so as not to let Lord Wang cry to death.

Because it was a major event of peace between the two countries, Wang Jizhong did not dare to delay the major event, and after he kowtowed to Song Zhenzong again, he took out the letter written by him and signed by Zhao Liang, Marquis of Lin'an, from his arms.

(Zhao Liang said to all readers: I accidentally became a hostage, please get together some monthly tickets and redeem me!) ）