After a long time, Zhang Jian was also accustomed to the appearance of the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty, Datong Mansion is located in the northwest, the road here is far less than the road of Xijin Mansion to walk, the closer to Fengshengzhou, the more rugged the road, and there are many passes.

But the dialogue between the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty made Zhang Jian very strange, and the leading colonel said to everyone after passing by Aiyangchuan: "Everyone is lucky, after passing the Broken Cloud Ridge, you will enter the Wende realm, and then there will be a flat road!" ”

For the cognition of the highway Zhang Jian still has a little, the officials of the Great Liao Pavilion Station in Tokyo City have mentioned a kind of thing called the cement road, it is said that walking on it is like walking on the clouds, not to mention that it can also gallop day and night, even the speed of the car is a few points faster, it is said that the people of the Great Song Dynasty usually go out to take a kind of four-wheeled or eight-wheeled carriage, which originally took three or five days to travel now only one or two days to arrive.

Zhang Jian really wanted to see the so-called cement road, and now that the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty mentioned the highway, maybe it was just a thing.

This is also something that can't be helped, the Great Song Dynasty is far away from the Liao Dynasty, and the cement road is easy to ignore, and the secret agents of the Liao Dynasty are basically cleaned up by the Great Song Dynasty, and it is understandable that Zhang Jian does not know that the road is a cement road.

The cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty cheered in unison when they heard the words of the little colonel, and Zhang Jian, who was sitting in the carriage, really didn't understand why these people were so happy, didn't the road get better? What is there to cheer loudly and celebrate?

When Zhang Jian finally knew the reason at noon, three meals a day is the most common eating habit of the Song people today, because of the increase in grain production and the convenience of transportation, even poor families can have enough food to satisfy their stomachs, at least two meals can be guaranteed, and slightly wealthy families will have three meals to eat.

A meal in the morning, noon and evening is the most common, but once it is a habit, it is difficult to get rid of it, and when it comes to the point, he is hungry, Zhang Jian thought that these Great Song Dynasty soldiers were eating three meals a day to take care of scholars like him, but now Zhang Jian found that he was wrong.

Every three meals, the Song people always take out the dry food they carry with them and start boiling water to cook, the method of eating is also very simple, that is, boiling hot water in the pot, and putting the dry food carried by the horses into a small bowl to add hot water, a fragrant wheat fragrance will rush out, add some candied dried fruits and other things, it really makes people's appetite move, appetite.

But apparently the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty didn't think so, when they saw the bowl of paste in front of them, it was as if they were facing a powerful enemy, almost pinching their noses and drinking it, and some people even complained to the colonel: "Dutou, didn't we take any other dry food from the grain and grass official Hou San when we came out?" I remember that Prime Minister Zuo, who escorted the Liao Dynasty, was also a bad guy, and he couldn't even exchange a few catties of dried meat?! ”

The three big and five thick colonels were actually asked by the cavalry under his command, and finally rubbed his hands and said: "Of course, Prime Minister Zuo who escorted the Liao Dynasty is considered to be on a bad level, and he also has dried meat to receive, but ...... But I forgot ......"

"What?!" A group of soldiers wailed bitterly, but they didn't expect that their own heads had forgotten to receive dried meat from the grain and grass officer. A few people who had a good relationship even rushed up to laugh, and Zhang Jian, who watched it, was very surprised.

Pick up a bowl of fried flour and boil it with hot water, and after adding a small amount of dried fruits, the sweet taste is accompanied by the meat aroma of lard and the salty taste of salt, which is simply a good meal, but the Song soldiers actually think this thing is unpalatable?!

A guard who followed Zhang Jian's side and never left him smiled: "Prime Minister Zuo is slow, and the small one will go to the head of the capital to ask for some dried meat for you." ”

Zhang Jian waved his hand again and again and said: "The general is polite, it is excellent to have this bowl of mush, but why are the soldiers of your army not happy?" ”

The guard didn't dare to call Zhang Jian, and said with a smile: "When my Great Song soldiers go out, the dry food they carry is this kind of fried noodles, although it tastes good and can satisfy the stomach, but over time I will get bored, and I want to eat something good to make up for it." ”

Zhang Jian was silent on the surface, but his heart was full of horror, he didn't expect that the Song people were even tired of eating this bowl of delicious paste in their hands, and the gap between the two countries was already so big?

From the point to the surface, from the instrument to the road, Zhang Jian found the gap between the Great Liao and the Great Song Dynasty from these small details, no wonder the Great Song Emperor dared to say to Yelu Zongzhen in front of the two armies that the gap between the two countries has become bigger and bigger, and the Great Liao has no hope of victory at all.

Now it seems that this is the case, a little lamenting, Zhang Jian feels that there is no loss in giving up Datong Mansion, after all, Da Liao is no longer the opponent of the Great Song Dynasty, and there is no hope of defeating the Great Song Dynasty in terms of national strength.

Others don't know him Zhang Jian but he knows that the Great Song Dynasty is gradually overshadowing the Great Liao with an invisible and intangible means, and many people still think that the Great Liao is a behemoth when it comes to the Liao Dynasty, and it still has millions of soldiers, but the Great Liao that lost Yanyun does not have the terrain of a horse and a flat river at all, even if there are millions of soldiers, what is the use?

Besides, the so-called million soldiers also include the old, weak, sick and disabled, and even peasants who have never been on the battlefield at all, what about such an army of one million? Not a straggler who is about to collapse? There is no unity before the real elite soldiers.

From these details, Zhang Jian saw the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, the soldiers armed to the teeth, the dry food that was very convenient to supply, and the powerful gunpowder bullets, all of which the Great Liao did not have.

Now the emperor died in battle and the mandarin duck bo, it is said that it was personally stabbed by the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, which can be described as a huge blow to the morale of the Great Liao, and there is Yelu Chongyuan in the capital to eyeing the throne, this kind of news must spread very quickly, I am afraid that it will reach the ears of the Song people in the near future, and even the Song people know it, and the Liao Dynasty has not spread it all over?

Such a country, such a court, such a situation, how can you still fight with the Song people? The momentum of the army is afraid to be completely discharged, thinking of Yelu Chongyuan Zhang Jian hated the root of his teeth, if it weren't for him, the army could still defend Datong Mansion to prepare for the future soldiers out of Yanyun, now it is good that Datong Mansion is lost, and Daliao will no longer have a chance to cross the sky and wave his troops south!

Now Zhang Jian is not worried about anything else, he is afraid that the news will reach the ears of the Great Song Emperor, as long as this is the case, he will never take advantage of Daliao to let the 100,000 defenders of Datong Mansion return to Shangjing smoothly! Zhang Jian not only wanted to borrow the way, but more importantly, to preserve the strength of Daliao.

If you defend Datong, the Great Song Dynasty only needs to besiege but not attack to consume these 100,000 people, and Yelu Chongyuan in the capital will definitely take this opportunity to rebel, once this happens, the chaotic court will still have the energy to take care of them, the 100,000 people who stubbornly defend Datong?

It's too late to deal with Yelu Chongyuan, how to support Datong Mansion?! This is the most terrible thing, Zhang Jian is anxious, he wants to see the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty as quickly as possible, otherwise the Great Liao will be in danger!