Powerful power is always feared, and at the same time, it is also terrifying.

The strength of the Great Song Dynasty is a huge potential threat in the eyes of the Liao Dynasty, and they have already suffered a lot of losses at the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, and the change of ownership in the land of Yanyun is the most unacceptable to them, followed by the real death of Yelu Sect.

Zhao Zhen's imperial expedition left an indelible impression on the Liao people, of course, they knew the strength of the Great Song army, but they did not think that there was no power in a war, in fact, the Song and Liao had not experienced a real decisive battle at all, and the Great Song Dynasty attacked Yanyun that year, mostly with powerful gunpowder and artillery to attack the city.

As a result, the Yanyun defenders did not resist the pressure of the Great Song Dynasty and were defeated, otherwise once they reached a stalemate, the situation of the Great Song Dynasty would be precarious, and the Northern Expedition to Yanyun would not necessarily be successful.

In this way, he will not use surprise attacks to achieve unexpected results, but will die next to the mandarin duck.

All this made the Liao people unconvinced, of course, with the impulse of the Liao people would have taken revenge on the Great Song Dynasty early, but all this was controlled by a woman, Xiao Tzuli hung the curtain to listen to the political assistant Yelu Hongji repeatedly restrained the Liao Dynasty court during this time, temporarily gave up the revenge on the Great Song Dynasty, and focused on recuperation and recuperation, mainly to restore national strength.

Some courtiers couldn't understand this kind of thinking, but Zhao Zhen, who was far away in the Great Song Dynasty, had to admire her political acumen.

It is not impossible for the Liao Dynasty, which lost Yanyun, to go south to fight back against the Great Song Dynasty, but they are no longer facing the Guanzhong Plain of Pingchuan, but the passes with dangerous places, these passes are all built by the Great Song Dynasty relying on the Taihang Mountains and rugged terrain, and most of the passes are quite dangerous.

If the Liao people tried to enter the Beiping Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty directly from Zhongjing Road, it would be as difficult as climbing to the sky! They could only target Fengsheng Prefecture in Pingchuan, but there were few cities here, and a large area of grassland was used as a pasture for horses by the Great Song Dynasty, and here were stationed the cavalry Qianniuwei, who had always been strong and battle-hardened.

Although Qianniuwei is also one of the sixteen guards, it is not under the jurisdiction of the sixteen guards, but directly obeys Zhao Zhen's dispatch, and is responsible for the guards who are in charge of the imperial sword.

The Great Song Dynasty's pro-health division is different from other military divisions, they are directly under the jurisdiction and transfer of the emperor, and after retiring, they are not directly sent back to the people, these veterans are all professional soldiers raised by the government of the Great Song Dynasty, even if they retire from the pro-health division, they have not lost their status as soldiers, but have become Qianniuwei.

And Qianniuwei has been running on the grassland of Fengshengzhou, and their existence is to improve themselves to the greatest extent, study the tactics of the Liao people, and use military habits, and become a whetstone that sharpens the Great Song army, they are equivalent to the blue army troops of later generations, constantly polishing the "sharp sword" and "minions" of the Great Song Dynasty.

Today's Qianniuwei has a scale of 30,000 people, each of whom is a hundred warriors of the Great Song Dynasty, and they have also begun to absorb veterans who have retreated from the back and the second army of Tabai, only in this way can they achieve such a scale, otherwise the pro-health division alone will not be able to give them enough manpower, and the general of Qianniuwei is Zhao Zhen's most trusted Zhao Li.

Compared with Peng Qi and Li Jiu, Zhao Zhen trusts Zhao Li more, first of all, Zhao Li's surname is given by himself, it can be said that Zhao Li is equivalent to half of the Zhao family, as long as Zhao Zhen is willing, he can be written into the genealogy of the Tianshui Zhao family at any time, and Zhao Zhen also did this, in order to make Zhao Li his central henchman, the result is obvious, Zhao Li did not live up to him, and he is the most loyal among the three.

When the Liao Dynasty was marching towards the land of the Houtao, Qianniuwei's servants and spies got the news that Qianniuwei was the only army in the Great Song Dynasty that trained its own secret agents, which was also instructed by Zhao Zhen.

A strong army can do without its own intelligence, it is not enough to rely on black hands, and the Imperial City Division is now in charge of the intelligence of Western Xia.

The movement of the Liao people is very clear, that is, they are going to the land of Houtao, they are very cautious to avoid Yangcheng and Yangcheng Luo, but they still did not escape the eyes of Qianniu Wei's secret spies.

Peng Qi's plan to ask Zhao Zhen to cut off the back road of the Liao people was rejected by Zhao Zhen, for the Great Song Dynasty, which was conquest of the party in the west, it was best to avoid the conflict with the Liao Dynasty, as long as the Liao people did not set foot on the land of the Great Song Dynasty, there was no need to start a war.

Therefore, the Liao people arrived in Dongshengzhou very smoothly, and used it as a base to advance to the back set, and finally won the entire back set, and the Liao Dynasty, which was complacent about taking advantage, found that the Great Song Dynasty was already going to take the entire Western Xia.

For a time, the public opinion of the Liao Dynasty was in an uproar, no one expected Zhao Zhen to act so quickly, and the siege of the city had been pressed to the door of Xingqing Mansion, the capital of the Western Xia Kingdom, for several months, and the Emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty died under the knife of his own son, Xiangguo usurped power, and the Queen Mother listened to the government.

The Liao Dynasty was stunned by a series of changes, so that the entire Western Xia was in the bag of the Great Song Dynasty, and some time ago, the secret spies they were ambushed in the Western Xia heard the exciting news that the Empress Dowager of the Western Xia did not plan to take the Western Xia to join the Great Song Dynasty, and the Liao Dynasty couldn't bear it for a while.

If the Western Xia became a part of the Great Song Dynasty, the threat to the Liao Dynasty would be even greater, and they bothered to take the back set at the time of the Song-Xia War, and in the blink of an eye, it became the mouth food of the Great Song Dynasty, wouldn't it be a vain hard work?

And the Liao Empress Xiao Tart saw it more clearly, if the Western Xia was gone, the Great Song Dynasty would only have the only enemy of the Liao Dynasty, and from then on the Great Song Dynasty no longer had to worry about the northwest land, and obtained a huge land of horse grazing, and the land of the fat Hetao was within his reach!

The value of the Hetao to the Great Song Dynasty is the clearest in Xiao Tart, "the orchard under Helan Mountain is completed, and the old name of Saibei and Jiangnan is famous" is that the land of Hetao is suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry, on the one hand, you can plant a large number of agricultural products in the Central Plains, and on the other hand, you can herd horses and train soldiers without delay!

At this time, Xiao Tzuli, the Liao Empress who had been advocating recuperation in the Liao Dynasty, but decisively ordered the 80,000 iron horsemen who were ready to go south in the Houtao, and their target was Xingqing Mansion, and the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji personally led 30,000 reinforcements to arrive in Houtao.

This is a big gamble of the Liao Dynasty, Xiao Tzuli must not watch the marriage between the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, and finally become a part of the Great Song Dynasty, so that the Liao Dynasty will face a huge threat, in Xiao Tzuli's view, at least the Western Xia can not be successfully attached to the Great Song Dynasty under the leadership of the black cloud, but to fight with the Great Song Dynasty, which makes the Great Song Dynasty suffer heavy losses, and is unable to deal with the Liao Dynasty's back.

All this is taken for granted by the Liao Dynasty, when the Liao Dynasty army passed through Dingzhou, the gate of Dingzhou was closed, and the soldiers on the city wall were like forests, obviously to prevent the Liao people from attacking, and the Liao people were also relieved, they did not want to entangle with the Western Xia army outside the city of Dingzhou, and they wanted to rush to Xingqing Mansion to stop the marriage between the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty and the Empress Dowager of Western Xia.

But Yelu Hongji didn't know that a powerful Song Xiao cavalry like a fierce beast had been following them like a ghost in hanging boots, and Qianniuwei was silent all the way, still and orderly, patiently like an old hunter who had been hunting for a long time......