The iron cavalry rolled, and the army heading north was endless, day and night, and at this moment there was a group of men and horses, more than 5,000 people, all of them were cavalry, all of them were bright armor, swords and guns were shining, and they were still three points better than ordinary teams.

Although the number of this army is huge, but it looks like the situation is only the vanguard force, because they have not long passed, it is a mixed brigade of men and horses in the middle of the night, the army is always in the open, and when it is dawn, the flat-headed people who have been squatting at home all night open the door, and look out with courage, only to see that the team that has been marching since late at night has not yet finished, and when the probe looks ahead, it is a team of foot soldiers, without armor, and there are no weapons in their hands, it seems really strange, behind them, It was an ox cart, and I didn't know what it was carrying.

Followed by a team of cavalry, also not wearing armor, a cloth robe, the crotch horses are tall and strong, far higher than the Central Plains war horses more than a head of big food BMW, slow and leisurely, as if not to fight, but to go to the youth to enjoy the spring, behind them, the same ox carts, full of loads, and covered with coarse arrowroot cloth, straw curtains, I don't know what it is.

After all, these ordinary people just feel a little strange, but they don't know that these two teams of old soldiers are Duan Mingyu's world-famous heavy armored iron cavalry and Tang knife team, under the suppression of the old aristocratic forces not represented by Kong Wei, Zhang Jun and others, these two troops have suffered from vicissitudes, gone through ups and downs, and have been suppressed and calculated, and now it is finally time to see the light of day, show their might, and revive the former majesty. Since Duan Mingyu was determined to go on the Northern Expedition, how could he not bring this weapon of great destruction that was better than them.

The people of Yandi have been living far away from the central control of the Tang State for many years, and the common people, who give them a stable life and let their wives live in peace, they will support whom, what Yiqiu's debate and national concept, and they can't be eaten, let alone bring them any benefits, they don't care if the emperor is Li or surnamed Yelu, maybe some scholars will say what their hometown Yueming will say when they are chanting the wind and making the moon, but if they want to throw their heads and spill their blood, they can't find a few people. Now the Khitan State is not bad for them, politically enlightened, the status of the Han people is gradually improving, the same imperial examination, the same entry into the court as an official, the law also strictly prohibits all kinds of bad habits that discriminate against the Han people, what are they not satisfied with?

In history, Duan Mingyu advanced the Northern Expedition to the Khitan Liao State for seventy or eighty years, at that time the Khitan was victorious, Song Taizong Zhao Kuangyi defeated the Gaoliang River, Xiao Xuanxiao Empress Dowager immediately rewarded according to merit, there was a punishment, the reward and punishment were clear, and the means were sharp, and then he took advantage of the victory to pursue, personally took the young emperor to sit in Youzhou, Nanjing, supervised the money and grain, and handed over the former enemy to the greater than Yue Yelu Huge, and put on an oath to avenge the invasion of the Song people, and even went south in a big way. It's a pity that Zhao Kuangyi got the wrong position, and suffered a big defeat, since then, there has been no further north, and the Han army and horses have never been able to recover the sixteen states of Youyun, until a Huai right cloth, starting between the micro ends, unveiling the rod and rising, driving away the ethnic minorities, the children of the Han family regained control of the world, majestic, and the four Yi came to the dynasty, which made the Yan land that had fallen for hundreds of years return to the hands of the Han people, this person is called Zhu Yuanzhang.

At this moment, as for the Khitan State Shangjing, after several years of governance and bloody purges, and when the Khitan sent troops to help the Liang State win a great victory in Zhenzhou, defeated Wei Zhaodu, and the prestige of the royal family soared, Yelu Abaoji couldn't imagine what else would happen inside, and what problems would there be? Haven't you killed enough people in recent years? Who still has the guts to still take risks? So all his energy was put in front, on Yanjing Youzhou, on the Zhenzhou of Liang State, and on Cangzhou.

The previous Yelu Deguang is also invigorated, go all out, the husband has made meritorious contributions and shined in history, is today, how not to seize this opportunity? Unexpectedly, Liang Guo's faint tricks came out one after another, first the general Kang Huaizhen pretentiously entered the city to assassinate Xu Wen, but was killed, and then Zhu Wen was angry to death again, and the three armies were in chaos and withdrew in a panic. Zhu Wen's sons are also you can't get used to me, I can't get used to you, they don't know the news that Zhu Wen is dead, taking advantage of the absence of their father is stumbling each other, fighting, as a result, Li Cunqiao, who has already been gearing up in Hedong, finally sent a thunderous blow, and attacked Zhenzhou brazenly when the army attacking Weizhou in the south had not yet retreated and rushed back to the nest, and Li Cunxiao, the first general of the late Tang Dynasty, only took one day to lay down the city of Zhenzhou, when the Liang army of Zhenzhou in the south scolded and returned to Zhenzhou, the banner of the Tang Dynasty had been planted on the city. The three armies were suddenly shocked, and the already leaderless departments were even more chaotic, and Li Cunqiao, the king of Jin, personally led the army out of the city and defeated the Liang army. Seeing that the general trend was no longer over, Yelu Abaoji, the prince of the Khitan, returned to Yandi with his intact 30,000 Khitan iron horses.

When Duan Mingyu was heading north with great fanfare, he didn't expect that the three armies who were preparing for a vicious battle were shocked to hear the news that Zhu Wen was dead, and then looked at the banner of Li Cunqing, the king of the Tang and Jin Dynasty at the head of Zhenzhou City, so he had to enter Zhenzhou City stupidly.

When the news came back to Luoyang, Emperor Li Ye was overjoyed and ordered the three armies to rest for a month, and then invade the Khitan in the north in the first summer of July to recover the sixteen states of Youyun. But during this period of time, the imperial court was not idle, Li Ye allocated five million taels of silver from his inner treasury, which was originally used to build the palace, and now Li Ye used it to repair mortars and crossbows, and the craftsmen of the ordnance department of the military department immediately started to complete this batch of munitions as soon as possible in two shifts, so that the Northern Expedition had one more chance of winning, and these craftsmen received instructions to be sure to repair within 20 days, and make 1,000 mortars, 100,000 crossbows, and 2 million crossbow arrows. The last 10,000 remaining troops in Luoyang City were all used by the military department to repair mortars and crossbows, you won't? It doesn't matter, we have a master to teach you by hand, it won't be too complicated, assembly line work, you just need to learn to make a component.

Since the capture of Zhenzhou, the defenders of Cangzhou City have also surrendered one after another, Duan Mingyu moved the forward headquarters from Weizhou to Zhenzhou, and the army was not idle, Duan Mingyu convened the generals in the army, and began to discuss the offensive strategy again and again.