The northern land was covered in a cold layer of snow and ice, but it could not stop the gallop of the horses' hooves, and the emperor's orders were even more terrible than the might of heaven and earth.

The soldiers and horses of the Liao people advanced on this land covered in silver, and the horses of the Liao Dynasty did not need to be supplied by the imperial court, almost all of them had horses to travel, the speed was very fast, and the supplies were also placed on horseback to save manpower and time.

The snow that the horse's hooves had trampled on became muddy, and the black snow water turned into black muddy water after repeated trampling, leaving a dirty trail on the ground and leaving scars on this originally white and shiny land of ice and snow.

The army of the Liao Dynasty did not go directly south to Xijin Province, but divided into three routes, bypassing Miyun City and entering Nanjing Road from Ruzhou, where there was the last stronghold controlled by the Liao Dynasty, Juyong Pass.

Yelu Zongzhen and Zhang Jian didn't understand why the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty didn't take this Xiongguan.

Lower Nanjing Road is a piece of iron bucket, and it will be extremely difficult to pry it, and what surprises them even is that even Changping, a land of flat rivers, is a place of great Song Dynasty.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, Yelu Zongzhen cautiously sent a horse to Juyong Pass to investigate, and the result was that there was no trace of the Song army near Juyong Pass and Changping, and it had not appeared in the two places since the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty.

In this case, send more scouts that once the Great Song Dynasty really has no soldiers to commit Juyong Pass, then this will become an important stronghold of the army.

The heavy snow soon became less softening in the extremely cold weather, and the speed of the chariots and horses slowly slowed down, and the hellish weather caused a huge obstacle to the march, but no one dared to complain, the eighteen beheadings announced by His Majesty were strictly implemented by the Khitan overseers, and the number of puff soldiers killed along the way has exceeded 100 puffers.

The soldiers of the Liao army could only march hard in the snow against the bitter cold wind, and this kind of torture was not only physical, but also mental! Although it has already started spring, it is still frozen everywhere in the land of Yanyun, and there have been many soldiers with frostbite along the way, especially the mature women and Bohai people in the army, who have the worst equipment and the most frostbitten people who have froze to death.

The march of the army is different from that of ordinary people, with a large number of supplies and baggage, even if the Liao Dynasty does not need too much, but for the army of 200,000 is also a lot, the most dangerous in the snow is the pit such as the cow's hoof pit, in case of encountering a deep hole such as a vole hole is covered with ice and snow, the horse's hooves are likely to be overturned by the horse's back.

Therefore, the speed of the Liao army slowed down, but fortunately, the soldiers who gave the order ran in the ranks and gave the order: "When the speed catches up, the army will arrive at Juyong Pass, and Changping City will be able to rest!" ”

The words of the herald made many people breathe a sigh of relief, they thought that the army would start fighting after entering Nanjing Road, who knew that this Juyong Pass was still in the hands of Da Liao, this Xiongguan Jiancheng is the only place to rest, and Changping is not to mention, it is an important town connecting Xijin Mansion and Ruzhou, which can be regarded as one of the few prosperous cities in Nanjing Road.

The 200,000 troops were divided into three routes in Nanjing, and there were not many of them, the 50,000 people in the front army were led by Yelu Zongxin, who escaped from the Flying Fox Ridge, the 100,000 people in the Chinese army were personally led by the Liao Emperor Yelu Zongzhen, and the 50,000 troops in the rear army were led by Xiao Hui, the king of the Southern Courtyard who failed in the Western Expedition.

Everyone knows that Xiao Hui is alienated by His Majesty, even if Zhang Jian is on the side to say that he is only on an errand to lead the rear army, the seemingly safe position is the place where the Khitan people are most reluctant to go, and the rear army on the battlefield is basically useless.

It was originally only two days of effort from Dadingfu in Zhongjing to Ruzhou, but now it took three days, and the Liao army was camped in the field where the water turned into ice, basically frozen into dogs, and it was impossible to eat and sleep in the cold winter, and the march along the way was like a huge torture.

Every morning when you wake up, you can see the carts pushing the corpses being transported out of the barracks, needless to say that these people must have frozen to death last night, and most of them are Jurchens and Bohai people, looking at the strange smiles on their faces, many people shudder, and began to worry about whether this expedition would repeat the mistakes of the western expedition.

There will never be a Khitan or a Han among these dead people, and the Khitan can have a much higher status than the others, while the Han ...... Born to be good at protecting one's own people......

The Han army of the Liao Dynasty was mainly recruited from Wujing Township Ding or the Han army left behind in the land where Shi Jingjiao presented Yanyun.

Of course, the integration of the Central Plains army has always been valued by the Liao Dynasty, in the earlier Liao and Song wars, some of the captured Song troops were incorporated into the armies, and some were independent battalions, forming an army of their own, such as the Guisheng Army, the Xuanli Army, the Sijie Army, etc. The Liao Dynasty also continued to recruit Song soldiers to come north, and incorporated them into the Han army system, saying that they had joined the southern army.

But now that the Southern Army has existed in name only, there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the entire system, and since the Tanyuan Alliance of the Zhenzong Dynasty, basically no one has gone north except for the prisoners who came to flee for their lives......

Especially when the Liao army passed by the city of Ruzhou, he was the most resentful, and he couldn't enter the city to rest when he saw that the city was in front of him, who was not uncomfortable? During this time, it was not even possible to wash the face with hot water, and His Majesty also ordered the army to continue to advance towards Shimen Pass, and no rest was allowed along the way.

The tired Liao army can only take a tired step again, although there are horses to walk, but the speed is still not fast, the bumps on the horseback are not off the horse march, at least it can be warmer, but the military order is like a mountain, it is difficult to keep up with the pace of the army after dismounting, once the team will definitely die.

It took six days for the army to reach Juyong Pass, and the former army continued to march towards Changping under the leadership of Yelu Zongxin, while the 100,000 Chinese army stayed at Juyong Pass to rectify and rest, and there was no way that this road was too tiring for the 100,000 Chinese army.

Zhang Jian was unwilling to be arranged in the rear army by Xiao Hui, he knew Xiao Hui's ability and level, and he was no worse than Yelu Zongxin in breaking the formation and killing the enemy, and he was very steady, and it was really overkill in the rear army.

But His Majesty's rejection of Xiao Hui made Zhang Jian not dare to intercede for him too obviously, after all, the emperor's face still has to be taken care of, and the ministers in the court also take a blind attitude towards Xiao Hui, especially the royal family is even more ignorant of Xiao Hui, the Western Xia War made dozens of royal families captured by Li Yuanhao, and now the notice to redeem them is still posted in the turbidity wheel village on the border of Liaoxia, how can the Khitan royal family intercede for Xiao Hui?

The whole Juyong Pass fell into a busy situation, the army could finally get a rest, even the better equipped Khitans could not stand the long journey in the ice and snow, Juyong Pass had a large amount of food and military supplies.

This is also thanks to Yelu Zongxin, it was when he escaped from Flying Fox City that His Majesty wanted to defend Juyong Pass no matter what, so the guards of Juyong Pass collected a large amount of food and military supplies before the arrival of the army and stored them here for emergencies, which can be regarded as his Yelu Zongxin taking precautions.