Among the Song army, the first to arrive at the front line in Xiongzhou were the logistics personnel of the Western Army Command.

Subsequently, that is, in early March, as the selection of the Western Army, 15,000 Jingyuan troops led by Yang Keshi also arrived in Xiongzhou.

A few days later, the main force of Qin Feng's army led by the seed division also arrived in Xiongzhou as scheduled.

The Huanqing Army and the Yan Yan Army led by Liu Yanqing were two days later than Qin Feng's army, and they barely arrived in Xiongzhou within the specified time.

After that, more and more people came to Xiongju.

Although Tong Guan and Tong Guan's head of staff continued to stay in Beijing, the Xuanfu Division, which was composed of Li Zongzhen, Li Ziqi, Yu Jing and other "Lilike", took the lead in planting the headquarters of the Dao of the Teacher, and officially hung up the signboard of the "Xuanfu Division" in Xiongzhou City - they grabbed the best house in Xiongzhou City, that is, the residence that used to receive Liao envoys, as the office of the Xuanfu Division and their lodging place.

Immediately afterwards, Zhan Du, the Hebei transfer judge, Lu Yihao, Li Ye and others also followed.

As for the front army that was supposed to arrive with the Xuanfeng Army, that is, the Shengjie Army, it was more than half a month late.

There is a reason why the Shengjie army arrived so late.

The seed master ordered Liu Guangshi to take his warrant and go to the Shengjie army to go on the expedition.

Liu Guangshi arrived at Huaining Mansion as scheduled and read out the order of the Seed Master Dao, that is, the Commander's Headquarters.

But immediately afterwards, the Xuanfu Division also sent the text machine Yi Wang Lin and Jia Ping to mobilize the victorious army to go on the expedition.

As far as the tasks received by Liu Guangshi, Wang Lin and Jia Ping are concerned, they are actually the same, they are all to transfer the victorious army to "go north to Xiongzhou and stand by".

But when Wang Lin and Jia Ping learned that the Command Department had given an order to Jieshengjun one step ahead of their Xuanfu Division, they immediately called Liu Guangshi to criticize him, and ordered Liu Guangshi to withdraw the order, and they would give another order on behalf of the Xuanfu Division.

Some people may be puzzled, isn't this a superfluous move to take off your pants and fart?

In fact, otherwise, this involves the ownership of the Shengjie Army - Tong Guan finally separated the Shengjie Army from the Western Army, how could it be possible for the people of the Western Army to get involved in the Shengjie Army again?

This also involves the power struggle between the High Command and the Fuxuan Division.

Normally, the General Headquarters is the department that directs the army to fight wars, but does not have the right to transfer troops, while the Xuanfu Department is the department that controls the General Headquarters and does not have the right to command troops.

Take Shengjie Army as an example.

It should be normal that the Xuanfu Division is in charge of the Command, and the Command Department is in charge of the Shengjie Army.

Take, for example, the transfer of the victorious army.

The normal procedure should be that the Xuanfu Division gives orders to the Command, and the Command then gives orders to the Shengjie Army.

If Zhao Ji is added.

It should be, Zhao Ji gave an order to the Xuanfu Division, the Xuanfu Division gave an order to the Command, and the Command Department gave an order to Shengjiejun.

As a result, Zhao Ji was too anxious to directly order the Seed Master Dao to order the Seed Master Dao to set up a headquarters for the capital to mobilize all the Western Army to assemble in the north, and the Xuanfu Division didn't want to plant the Master Dao, well...... It should be said that the people who don't want the Western Army (no matter who is the commander of the Western Army, the result is the same) will get involved in the Shengjie Army again, and they are afraid that the Planter Dao will not listen to the orders of the Xuanfu Division to prevent the Planter Dao everywhere, so there is this matter of taking off his pants and farting.

To put it bluntly, the emperor does not believe in the general of the army, and the department of troop transfer does not believe in the department of commanding troops, and the general of the army does not believe in the emperor and the department of troop transfer who are constantly making small moves, and they are wary of each other.

In addition, the troop transfer department and the troop command department competed for military power.

In short, the upper echelons of the Song army were full of contradictions.

Moreover, not only the upper echelons, but also the lower echelons of the Song army also had problems, especially the Shengjie army, which was pinned on by Tong Guan.

After a trip to the rich Jiangnan, the Shengjie army made a fortune from top to bottom.

In addition, Zhao Ji and Tong Guan gave extremely rich rewards to the soldiers of the Shengjie Army in order to encircle the Shengjie Army.

As a result, the soldiers of the Shengjie Army, who were poor in the past, are now all rich.

It's good to die, and Zhao Ji also let Shengjie's army be stationed in the prosperous Huaining Mansion before.

As a result, the soldiers of the Shengjie Army either began to do business in Huaining Mansion, or they became a family in Huaining Mansion, or they spent all day drinking in the restaurants, brothels, and gambling houses in Huaining Mansion to squander their wealth.

All in all, the soldiers of the Shengjie army were extremely reluctant to leave the prosperous Huaining Mansion to fight in the north.

The military order was changed again and again (under the pressure of Wang Lin and Jia Ping, Liu Guangshi finally withdrew the order of the headquarters in public, and Wang Lin and Jia Ping issued the same order on behalf of the Xuanfu Division).

In addition, Wang Lin and Jia Ping, who wanted to highlight the Xuanfu Division, made blind promises and could not fulfill them.

In addition, later, seeing that all the Shengjie troops were unwilling to go out on the order, Wang Lin and Jia Ping were furious, and then found Liu Guangguo and Xin Yongzong, and asked them to immediately behead several thorny officers on the spot.

As a result, the Shengjie army mutinied, almost killed Wang Lin and Jia Ping, and burned down the pavilion - in fact, the thorns of the Shengjie army were also to scare and scare Wang Lin and Jia Ping who were holding chicken feathers as swords, and the ultimate goal was not to leave Huaining Mansion to go north to fight.

Later, Liu Guangshi saw that things were not good, so he rode alone to find a cavalry from the seed division to suppress the mutiny, and then escorted the Shengjie army north to Xiongzhou to participate in the war.

It was the Xihe Army led by Yao Pingzhong who arrived in Xiongzhou after the Shengjie Army, they were only a few days behind the Shengjie Army, ahead of the headquarters and the rest of the Jingyuan Army that should have arrived earlier than the Xihe Army - there was no mistake in the Seed Master Dao, but Yao Pingzhong, who was competitive in everything, deliberately marched in a hurry and surpassed the Seed Master Dao.

On the evening of March 29, the deadline for the imperial court to stipulate that the Western Army must arrive at the Xiongzhou front, Chongshidao rushed to Xiongzhou with the headquarters and the Jingyuan army.

At this point, the Western Army all reached the Xiongzhou front.

At the beginning of April, Tong Guan set off for the north.

Before leaving, Zhao Ji deliberately called Tong Guan to his side to teach three strategies for patrolling the border: if the Yan people are happy, they will take it because of the restoration of the old territory; Yelu Chunna is called a vassal, and the second is also; The Yan people have not recovered, patrolling the border according to the soldiers, and going down.

It is not difficult to see from Zhao Ji's three strategies for patrolling the border to Tong Guan that Zhao Ji actually does not want to use the means of war to recover Yanjing, he wants to recover Yanjing peacefully through politics, diplomacy and other means.

Subsequently, Zhao Ji appointed Cai You as a deputy envoy to lead the army with Tong Guan.

Cai You soon left Bianliang City, Tokyo, with a team of people and headed north.

But—

As soon as Cai You and his party walked to Chenqiaoyi, something happened that made Cai You very unpleasant.

At dusk that day, two flag-bearers suddenly ran away, and the two banners with the words "Young Master, Jiedu Envoy" and "Xuanfu Deputy Envoy" were also abducted by these two flag-bearers.

The officers and men talked in private, saying that this was a bad omen.

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Just when Cai You ordered the pursuit of the two deserters who made him feel blocked at Chen Qiaoyi, Cai still gathered Yue Fei, Wu Jue and others, and began to expand his army.

However, this expansion of the army, unlike the previous expansion, Cai still did not increase the independent army, but expanded the front army of the Jin Army, the Jinwu Middle Army, the Jinwu Left Army, the Jinwu Right Army, the Jinwu Rear Army, as well as the Xuanfeng Army, the Tabai Army, the Beiwei Army, and the Trap Army from 5,000 to 10,000.

In other words, Cai Ying's number of people has increased from 50,000 or 60,000 to 100,000 all of a sudden.

Not only that, Cai still ordered Bing Cao to recruit another 50,000 recruits in his own territory, and stepped up education and training to prepare for the next army expansion.

After that, Cai still rebuilt his own turf.

In fact, because of the hurry to take Huanzhou and Liaoxijing, other areas have not changed much for the time being, the main change is that Cai still appointed Wu Jie as the defense envoy of Yundong, and led the 30,000 troops of the Jinwu Front Army, the Jinwu Left Army, and the Jinwu Right Army to garrison the Guguiling-Wuzhou-Xinzhou-Ulzhou-Feigu line, in other words, Cai still handed over all the military affairs of the entire Yundong to Wu Jue.

After this, Cai still personally led the remaining army to Huanzhou.

In Cai still wants to come, Shuo, Ying, Wei, Xin, and Wu have all been occupied, Huanzhou and Liaoxijing have been surrounded by themselves, and the key is that he still has the trump card of Yelu Yanxi in his hand, and he should open the city and surrender as soon as his army arrives, and even Liaoxi Kyoto should be like this.

And yet—

What Cai still didn't expect was that Yelu Azhan, the guard general of Huancheng, ignored Yelu Yanxi's orders, and scolded Yelu Yanxi for being a sinner in Liao and an unfilial descendant of the Khitan, and then led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Huancheng to resist to the death.

Faced with such a situation, Cai still knew that he had to capture Huancheng with the power of thunder, otherwise, he would be in trouble in the future.

As a result, Cai still ordered Yue Fei to lead the headquarters to attack the city from the left, and Han Shizhong to lead the headquarters to attack the city from the right, and strictly ordered them to only give them half a day.

After Yue Fei and Han Shizhong received the order, they dispatched troops and sent generals, each showing their magical powers, and in only two hours, Yue Fei attacked Huanzhou City in half a step ahead of Han Shizhong, so that Yelu Yanxi, who had been watching the battle by Cai Yanzhong's side, was shocked and extinguished the idea of looking for Cai Ying to take revenge in the future.

As soon as he entered the city, he sent all the men of the Yelu Azhan family to be executed, and all the women of the Yelu Azhan family were put into a sin camp, either to reward them to the meritorious soldiers of the Jinwu army or to marry them to the Han Chinese.

After conquering Huanzhou, Cai still appointed Zhang Kejian as the governor of Huanzhou, and ordered Niu Gao to lead the Jinwu Chinese army to be stationed in Huanzhou, and at the same time be ready to support Shuozhou and Yingzhou at any time.

After this, Cai still led the remaining army to attack Liaoxijing.

Yelu Yanxi, who had lost face in Huanzhou, was eager to show his own value in front of Cai Ying.

Based on this, Yelu Yanxi discussed with Cai Ying and asked him to send someone to Xijing City to recruit surrender.

Cai still agreed to Yelu Yanxi's request.

Yelu Yanxi then sent Hu Luwa, the eldest son of Liao, Yelu Xinilie, the eldest son of Zhao, Xiao Gai, a close minister, and Yelu Dilie, a trusted general, into the city to persuade him to surrender.

After Huluwa and others entered the city, Xiaozhi persuaded Liaoxijing to stay in Xiaocha to open the city and surrender, and told Xiao Cha about Yelu Yanxi's grand plan.

Xiao Chala saw that the general trend had gone, and there was a big cake painted by Yelu Yanxi, so he had to open the city and surrender.

So far, seven of Yundi Kyushu have been pocketed by Cai......

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