"Mo Heng? Checkmate? Cao Yi muttered to himself, then turned sideways and asked Liu Baiqing, "Baiqing, do you know him too?" ”

Liu Baiqing looked excited, sat back in the chair, and said excitedly: "General Mo, I was his personal soldier six years ago, when I was twenty-six years old, I was only a chief, he was only twenty years old, but he was already a Dingyuan general, the youngest Dingyuan general in the Great Yan Dynasty, and it was completely based on the military industry in the remote areas, which can be described as the most popular and promising young general in the Great Yan Dynasty at that time!" ”

"And now he?" Cao Yi looked at Wang Zhiyuan and found that he was still immersed in memories and seemed to be relatively lonely, so he continued to turn his head and ask Liu Baiqing.

"I don't really know much about him now, but at the beginning, things were quite vigorous...... Liu Baiqing said with emotion.

"In fact, the old Zhending Army of Mo Heng was a unit that all the young soldiers under General Cao wanted to enter at that time, because the commander of the general commanded Mo Heng made Mo Heng outstanding in battle, the army was well-organized, and the martial arts were strong, coupled with the proper command of the operation, so that the Mo Lin Army where I was at the beginning could easily get a lot of military merits. And since Mo Xun commanded the Mo Lin Army, he has been eating, living and sleeping with us, and there is no difference between the dignity and inferiority of the generals and soldiers, so he is also deeply loved by the soldiers, and everything is originally going in a good direction......" Liu Baiqing said here and talked about it.

"And then?" Cao Yi hurriedly asked.

"This story is a long story...... Liu Baiqing looked at Cao Yi with an inquiring expression, obviously to know if Cao Yi wanted to listen to it from beginning to end, Cao Yi, Red Sleeves and Raider all nodded, they are all people who love to listen to stories, and now that the important things of the Taibai Chamber of Commerce have been negotiated, it doesn't hurt to listen to it.

"Here's the thing, this has to start with Yongxi's defeat of the Northern Han Dynasty four years ago...... that is, six years ago," Liu Baiqing said.

Because General Cao led the troops to conquer the south of the Yangtze River, he was promoted to the privy envoy and the envoy of the loyal army, after the Southern Tang Dynasty was pacified, the south basically ended the situation of division and separation, and the conquest of the Northern Han Dynasty became the top priority of the country at that time. This Northern Han Dynasty was a secession regime supported by the Khitan Liao State, in order to prevent the establishment of a powerful dynasty in the Central Plains from posing a threat to itself, so it tried its best to prevent the unification of the Great Yan Dynasty. When he was still the Taizu of this dynasty, he had two expeditions to the Northern Han Dynasty, one was the Battle of Shiling Pass in Leping County, and the other was the Battle of Tuanbai Valley, but these two battles ended in the failure of our dynasty. Liu Baiqing said.

"Later, after Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he summoned the privy envoy General Cao and asked the general: 'Zhou Shizong and Taizu both personally conquered the Northern Han Dynasty, why did they not succeed?' General Cao replied: 'Sejong conquered the Northern Han Dynasty, Shi Yanchao was defeated at Shiling Pass, and the army's morale was disturbed, the people's hearts were uneven, and the army's morale was not strong, so the class teacher; Taizu was stationed in Tuanbai Valley, but the weather was very hot and rainy, and many soldiers fell ill, so the battle was suspended. ’

Later, Emperor Taizong asked: 'Now I want to go north, what do you think?' General Cao analyzed the state of the world at that time, and believed that the Northern Han Dynasty was weakened, and our dynasty had just recovered Houshu and Southern Tang, and the unification of the south was the time when morale was strong, and it also received a lot of resources from the south, so it was very easy to capture the north. After hearing this, Song Taizong made up his mind to conquer the Northern Han Dynasty.

Therefore, in the first month of the fourth year of Yongxi, Emperor Taizong decided to move his army north to attack the Northern Han Dynasty, and appointed Pan Mei, the envoy of the Southern Court of Xuanhui, as the envoy of the Northern Road Capital, and led Cui Yanjin, Li Hanqiong, Cao Han, Liu Yu and other armies to attack Taiyuan, the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty. Subsequently, General Cao was appointed to deploy the capital of Taiyuan Beishiling Pass to block the Liao army that would be reinforced from the north at that time. Ordered Tian Renlang and Liu Xu to be responsible for reconnoitering the entrenchments on all sides of Taiyuan City and inspecting all kinds of equipment for the siege, and named Meng Xuanpu as the capital of soldiers and horses, stationed in Zhenzhou, to block the Liao army reinforced from the east; He ordered Hou Shu, the Hebei transfer envoy, and Lei Dexiang, the transfer envoy of the North Shaanxi Road, to take charge of the transfer envoy of Taiyuan East and West Roads, and ordered Liu Baoxun, the transfer envoy, to concurrently serve as the transfer envoy to the north.

Then Emperor Taizong personally led the main forbidden army to attack Zhenzhou, and contained the Liao army in Youzhou to aid or go south on a large scale. In the middle of February of the fourth year of Yongxi, Emperor Taizong led his army from Kaifeng, Tokyo, and entered Zhenzhou in March, dividing his troops to attack Yuxian, Qinzhou, Fenzhou, Lanzhou and other peripheral prefectures and counties, in order to contain the reinforcements of the Northern Han army on Taiyuan in these areas. At this time, the army led by General Cao had advanced to Shiling Pass.

Liu Jiyuan, the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, heard that our Korean soldiers were pressing the border, and hurriedly sent an envoy to Liao to ask for support. The Liao Emperor then ordered Yelusha, the prime minister of Nanfu, to be the commander of the capital, and Ji Wang Enemy Lie to be the supervisor of the army. Lead troops to rescue the Northern Han.

By mid-March, Yerusha led the Liao army day and night to Baimaling, where he met our troops under the command of General Cao, who had been stationed there to prevent the Liao army from supporting, when the two armies faced each other across the river. The other party's main general, Yerusha, seemed to have planned to wait for the follow-up troops to arrive before fighting, but for some reason, Huoxue felt that it was advantageous to attack immediately, so he rushed to cross the stream to attack us. At that time, it was General Mo Xun who led our 2,500 Mo Lin Army as the main force, and united with other armies to jointly kill five Liao generals including Lie and kill more than 10,000 Liao troops, and the remaining remnants of the Liao army fled in a hurry.

If it weren't for the arrival of Yelu Xian, the king of the Northern Courtyard of Liao, who happened to lead his army and fired thousands of arrows, our army would have had to give up the pursuit, otherwise they would have all been left behind.

Later, the Northern Han sent people to ask for help from the Liao State again, but the envoy happened to be caught by General Mo Heng who was patrolling outside, and later the military advisor suggested that he should be killed in public under the city of Taiyuan, so as to reduce the morale of the other party and disturb the morale of the other party, so that they no longer have the confidence and hope that the Liao State would come to support. That night, the Northern Han secretly sent troops to attack secretly, but the military division expected it in advance, and ambushed them early and broke them one by one.

Our Great Yan Dynasty won the reinforcements, so we took advantage of the situation to attack on all fronts. By the middle of April of the fourth year of Yongxi, several other troops had captured Yuxian, Longzhou, Lanzhou and other places, and Emperor Taizong also led his army to Taiyuan, which was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops to surround Taiyuan, the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty. I remember that in late April, when Emperor Taizong visited the city to comfort the soldiers and sent a letter to Liu Jiyuan, the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, but he was refused. Later, Emperor Taizong personally went to Taiyuan City to supervise the battle in the army on all sides, and launched a rapid attack on all sides in early May, and later the Northern Han Xuanhui made Fan Chao, the Northern Han Dynasty Ma Bujun commanded Guo Wanchao and others to surrender one after another. Later, Emperor Taizong went to the south of the city, that is, in the army led by General Cao, and once again surrendered the Northern Han, and at the same time let General Cao send troops to attack the city fiercely, the battle was very tragic, even the most elite Molin army suffered heavy losses, 2,500 people were left at that time, only more than 1,800 people remained, but still did not break through the city gate. Later, the military division came out of the plan to irrigate Taiyuan City, so that Taiyuan City was a vast ocean, and the Northern Han Emperor had no reinforcements outside and no fighting spirit inside, so he went out of the city and surrendered.

At that time, before we attacked the Northern Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong had promised that as long as we attacked the Northern Han Dynasty, he would return to the dynasty to celebrate the merits and award rewards, I remember that after the destruction of the Northern Han Dynasty, all of us were already physically and mentally exhausted, and our morale had also dropped because of the end of the war, so we thought about going home immediately. At that time, many people in the army had already written home, saying that they had won the battle, and they could go home as soon as the emperor rewarded them for their meritorious deeds, after all, they had not seen their families for half a year from the first month of the year to May. General Mo Heng also wrote to his fiancée, who had been married since childhood, saying that he would soon return to his hometown with the emperor's reward to marry her.

Later, I don't know what happened, we suddenly received an order from Emperor Taizong to continue to go north to conquer Youzhou occupied by the Liao State, hoping to take back the sixteen states of Yanyun, saying that as long as we take Youzhou, we will give the previous reward together. This made all the armies at that time complain, feeling that since Jun had no jokes, how could he go back on his word, and they didn't think much about continuing to attack Liao before they got the reward for the Northern Han Dynasty. Even the military division and General Cao played to Emperor Taizong several times at this time, and the army was tired and no longer suitable for attacking Liao, but Emperor Taizong ignored the strong opposition and dissuasion of all the generals, insisted on the principle of making a big move, and instead refuted General Cao and the military division for delaying the fighters, and did not give us who were already exhausted any opportunity to rest and consolidate, so they turned to attack Liao.