Due to the bitter cold in the north and the sea, after hundreds of thousands of Han soldiers moved north, they could not make a living by relying on crops alone, so the Shuai Fu formulated a survival strategy of making use of their strengths and avoiding weaknesses and facing the sea with their backs to the mountains. Relying on Nanshan City and a small number of elite soldiers on land, the Liao cavalry went north to plunder, and the Shuaifu invested most of the manpower and material resources on the water division. Just after the Battle of Nanshan, the Han army salvaged the sunken iron cannons of the fourth battalion of Chengying, and imitated several ships according to the style of the sunken ship, and lined them with iron keels and ribs to make the warships extremely strong.

Liaodong is rich in good wood necessary for shipbuilding, and the Han army itself has a sailor, and the Xia State is doing timber business, so this strategy of backing the mountains and facing the sea must be down, and the expansion speed of the sailor division is extremely fast. In addition to trading with Dongying, Goryeo and the Song Kingdom, he encountered unsuspecting merchant ships at sea, and occasionally did some plundering, and even captured people and goods. Originally, Han's trading house had a seagoing ship business, and over the years, seagoing ships sailed as far as the South Seas, and the trade became bigger and bigger, and gradually became a situation where the land was light and the sea was heavy.

After the Han uprising, the Han people in Tokyo Province either died or fled, leaving behind either the Khitans, the Bohai people, and the Jurchens. In addition to the bitter cold area of the northern border, the original Han village was ten rooms and nine empty. Some people in the Han army marshal's mansion even suggested that in the future, the Liao army would attack on a large scale, except for a few strong fortresses like Nanshan City, hundreds of thousands of old and weak people could all move to small islands on the sea for temporary refuge, and then return after the Liao army retreated, and even move to the southern islands by boat in the future. Naval divisions and maritime interests became increasingly important to the Han army. This trip to aid Ezhou, on the one hand, was to inherit Zhao Xingde's favor, and on the other hand, the Han army also hoped to deal well with the Guangzhou City Bosi.

"I heard that Jiangzhou won a big victory," Zhou Guangzong asked, "Liaogou was beaten to the ground?" "At the beginning, Zhou Guangzong was not in Nanshan, but he was very appreciated by Jin Changtai in the extreme north. Later, the Han army moved to the north in a big way, and with the logging, iron smelting and trade of Dongmuxing as a link, the 8th Battalion of Chengying and the Han army cooperated and blended, and Zhou Guangzong was promoted to centurion. After the Han army succeeded in imitating the gunboat, he was transferred to the gunboat. The rank of the gunboat was one level higher than that of ordinary people, so Zhou Guangzong could be regarded as an officer of the first level of command. He is an old sailor, and he has the trust of Tong Yunjie, and if a new ship is launched in the future, he may lead a warship alone.

"Yes." Tong Yunjie nodded, "It's the same as Nanshan City." Jiangzhou killed more than 10,000 people, and General Han Shizhong attacked Shuzhou again. His face lit up, knowing that Zhao Xingde was Zhao De, and he was happy to be different from others.

"Then dare to be kind, after this battle, the Liao thief should be finished." Zhou Guangzong said with a smile, "The last general also bought a lot of land deeds." ”

"Liaogou is almost dead in the south, let's copy his Liaoyang nest again." Tong Yunjie looked around, the bilge was very dark, very stuffy, sweating profusely after a little work, the gunners and sailors were all barebacked, busy scrubbing the iron cannons, carrying ammunition, and really nothing to do was also scrubbing the deck. The secret of the water master is that he can't let people be idle for a moment, otherwise there will be chaos, and Zhou Guangzong is deeply aware of the three flavors.

Tong Yunjie asked, "The heat in the south is very poisonous, the brothers have no complaints, right?" ”

"It's fine." Zhou Guangzong frowned and said, "There are several rashes on the body, but we are better than Liao dogs." He paused, and said with a smile, "It's just that I've been holding back in the cabin for too long, and when this battle is over, the adults and brothers will go ashore to play and make sure that they are all alive,..... That, the dragon is alive, you don't need to take medicine, and you can get rid of any disease. I can't keep the money in my pocket, I don't know if I can collect Dongmu tickets here? ”

"Let's talk about winning the battle," Tong Yunjie didn't think it was angry, and said meaningfully, "After winning the battle, maybe there will be great things." ”

"A great thing?" Zhou Guangzong was amazed. Among the generals of the Shuaifu, Tong Yunjie has always been unsmiling, and even fewer have such dumb riddles with his subordinates, he said that it was a "great thing", and Zhou Guangzong was blind and could see it, it was really a great thing.

"That's right," Tong Yunjie patted him on the shoulder, showing affection, and said with a smile, "You'll know when the time comes." After speaking, he walked to the cannon window with his wooden legs, stretched out his hand and touched it, his thumb was not stained, Tong Yunjie nodded with satisfaction, and praised, "Not bad!" "But I thought in my heart, these rabbit cubs don't scold their skin for three days, and next time they take a white cloth to check it?

............

"General Wu!" Changshi Gao Gongmao said loudly, "Yelu Dashi has sent troops!" ”

"Really?" Wu Jie raised his head and said in a deep voice, "This time is a good choice, Cao Di sent troops ten days ago, and now even if he wants to raise troops to help, it will be too late." What's more, he also had to risk a field battle with the Liao cavalry. Hehe," Wu Jie's eyes flickered slightly, and he returned to the marching map, he nodded Ezhou with the end of the pencil, and said with a smile, "In front is the 'empty' Ezhou, and in the back is the wolf-like Liao soldiers, Cao Di is fighting against the water this time, and he must take Ezhou." ”

"So, when are we going to send troops?" Gao Gongmao asked, as a marching commander, once the day of sending troops was decided, he had a myriad of military affairs to prepare. At the same time, tens of thousands of soldiers have been holding back in the land of Fangzhou for a long time, and they are already like tigers in a cage, and they can't help but be eager to try their minions.

Wu Jie's eyes were slightly cold, and he said slowly: "Don't worry, don't worry, wait a little longer......" He closed his eyes slightly and stopped talking. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, there have been almost no dynasties that have succeeded in dominating the world without bloodshed. The difference between a wise man and a tyrant is only that who will shed blood? How much blood is shed? The strategy of the Eastern Crusade to defeat the two tigers has been planned for a long time, and I don't know how many people, how much painstaking efforts, and how many years it took to arrange. Fangzhou's ambush is just one of them. If Yelu Dashi captured all the Song Dynasty clans in Bianliang, the Song Dynasty would have no owner in the world, and maybe he would have sent troops long ago. Now that he has waited for so much time, he has watched so much blood shed in Kanto, so he will not hesitate to wait a little longer, and when the pillars of the Song family are destroyed and the imperial system is cut off, he will launch undercurrents everywhere at the same time. After unifying the Kanto region at the minimum cost, there are many aftermaths inside and outside.

Gao Gongmao only vaguely guessed a little, thinking of the young long history with a good impression, and felt a little regretful in his heart. He hesitated for a moment and reminded: "Since the Xiangyang and Liao armies have been launched one after another, should you notify Zhao Dujian first and let him prepare early?" Zhao Dujian held a heavy army in the Song Dynasty, and his popularity was high, if he could raise troops and I would hunt the chieftains of the northern captives between Xiangyang and Ezhou, wouldn't it be good? "Gao Gongmao is also an old man, he has a lot of status in Anton and the Marching Division, and he is the same generation as Wu Jie.

Wu Jie shook his head and said, "Gongmao, if it is for the sake of the country, it is better to let him stay out of the matter at this time." He was silent for a moment, his eyes became a little dark, "I think that at the beginning, after Di Qing was captured, Emperor Weiyuan confined him in the Bachelor's Mansion in order to break his arrogance, and he had to change his court, but this person was not used by our dynasty for the rest of his life, which is a lesson." If you love him generals, why bother to say it, just send someone to send Di Wuxiang to Anxi or Anbei, give him a thousand hussars, and have a large number of Hu people's heads for him to behead, and later, we can't tell each other. Wu Jie sighed, "I heard that Emperor Weiyuan later also had remorse, but he became a tiger, and the Kwantung Imperial Court dealt with it properly, Song Mingzong not only did not suspect this, but sent envoys to greet him every year, and rewarded the descendants of the Di family even more. If a person is not a sage, who can be ruthless. I want to rule the world with the heroes of the world, sometimes, it doesn't necessarily have to be people to make choices, and sometimes, it's not good to make it too clear. So it's hard to get confused ,......,. ”

Gao Gongmao was stunned for a moment, thinking of this past, and couldn't help sighing: "Emperor Weiyuan established the country with strength, and those who offend me in Daxia will be punished even if they are far away, how can they tolerate such a confused practice, these two monarchs and ministers, alas-"

Zhao Xingde's reputation in the Kanto, in this Liao southern invasion of the war of the generals, has greatly attracted the attention of the marching division, according to Wu Jie, probably in the future this person can for the Xia State to appease the Guandong, he will stay in the Kanto, if not, he will be transferred to Anxi, to fight with the endless western barbarian countries, it just so happens that he is also in the Lumei country, can be justifiably placed in the Anxi military division, and will not delay the accumulation of military merits, promotion to knighthood. Transferred to Anxi together, there are probably some other newly emerging Kwantung famous generals and elite soldiers, hoping that in the future, the world will be peaceful, and the people's hearts will no longer think of Song, and they will be able to return to their homeland. The general died in a hundred battles, and the strong man returned in ten years, which may be a better ending for soldiers.

Gao Gongmao was old in the military government, and Wu Jie's little leakage of some heavenly opportunities, he guessed eight or nine points, and while he was slightly sorry in his heart, he no longer persuaded him. The northern captives have been a disaster for the Central Plains for a long time, and the most important thing now is to take advantage of the deep invasion of the south, completely bloodlet the Khitans, and it is best to make them not return, the vitality of the Liao State is greatly damaged, and the Xia State takes advantage of the situation to collect the Kanto Jiangshan, and then the northern expedition to destroy the Liao is just around the corner.

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On the official road of Huangzhou, more than 1,000 riders are in the dust. After a long journey, the war horses were already crumbling, and from time to time horses fell on the side of the road, foaming at the mouth and dying, and they could not live. And the cavalry was also staggering on their horses, as if they were dozing off at any moment. With the sun blazing on their heads, everyone was sweating profusely, as if they had taken a bath in the water. The cavalry surrounded the middle man, his robe covered with mud spots, the collar of the robe turned out of the hood and covered the bun, and it was tightly covered from head to toe.

"It's a hot day, isn't it hot for General Zhao to wear this?" Yang Zaixing asked.

"I'm used to it," Zhao Xingde said with a smile, "This kind of robe is most suitable for marching in the scorching sun, don't you believe you can try it?" ”

This thousand cavalry is the vanguard army, and the other 6,000 foot soldiers are riding boats up the river, and this side is all the troops who came to aid Ezhou from the west. The rest of the people, under the leadership of Yue Fei, defeated the fleeing Liao army of Brother Tiemu with Han Shizhong. From Jiangzhou to Shuzhou, the south is the surging water of the river, which has been blocked by Han Shizhong's water division, and the north is the Dabie Mountains, which is extremely unfavorable to cavalry action.