The Northern Han state was slightly shorter than the Great Zhou, and after Guo Wei marched into Tokyo, the Liu family was proclaimed emperor in Jinyang; But the years of Jinyang City are too long, including this complex as a palace, which was not built by the Northern Han Kingdom, they have no money, and the only national strength is all used in the military.

The old and mottled walls of the palace, even the paving bricks and stones on the ground are broken, and they have been repaired with some corner stones, and the color of the whole house is gray and black.

Only some silk fabrics and furnishings add a bit of brightness, and the clothes on the lord Liu Jun are more decent. Liu Jun walked around in the warm pavilion, and the ministers outside the door, Guo Yuan, the general Yang Ye, Feng Jinke, etc., all bent down and stood down, they couldn't look up or look at Liu Jun, they could only see the black figure on the broken brick floor shaking, and the shadow's hand was behind his back for a while, and then rubbed in front of him.

The Emperor of Zhou drove the expedition in person! Liu Jun was afraid in his heart at this time, feeling that Zhou Guo was going to make a real move this year; The ministers discussed the situation of the Zhou Dynasty at this time, and also judged that the Northern Han Kingdom should have become the main target of the Zhou Dynasty.

Liu Jun suddenly regretted a little at this moment, he regretted that under the opportunity of the second Li rebellion, he did not go all out to deal with the turbulent Zhou Dynasty at that time; Maybe it won't work out then, but at least I've fought for it...... Today, he truly realized that in the world of the jungle, the only way to protect himself is to let the enemy perish. People are like this, no matter how many times others preach the truth and speak a hundred times, it is in vain if they do not comprehend it.

In the past, he did not want to be aggressive because he had neither confidence nor motivation. After the Battle of Gaoping, Chai Rong of Zhou led his troops to besiege Jinyang for more than a month, and Liu Jun personally felt that it was difficult to defeat the Zhou army; Plus he doesn't have a biological son, so he just wants to protect himself. Now it is not easy to find that self-preservation.

At this moment, he walked out of the door and said, "The Han army can't retreat without a fight, so we have to send a large army to meet the Zhou army, and try to repel the incoming invaders outside Jinyang!" ”

Guo Yuan bowed and said: "The enemy soldiers are menacing, and I am afraid that the Han army will not be enough. ”

Liu Jun said: "Since ancient times, it is not necessarily who has more people on the battlefield, and whoever will definitely win." Otherwise, if you win or lose by comparing the number of people, why fight again? ”

Several ministers could not answer.

Liu Jun immediately ordered Yang Ye to be the chief commander and Feng Jinke to be the deputy commander, and sent another supervisor to ask them to mobilize the elite of the guard division to go south to resist the enemy.

…… Yang Ye led the order out of the palace city, and couldn't help but stop a little on the pedestal to look at the surrounding scene. The view is the scene of an ancient city, the sky is blue, but the ground is earthy and yellow, and the tall castle towers and the mountains below are shining. (At this time, Jinyang is not in Taiyuan City, but in the south of Taiyuan, south of Jinyang Lake, and the west side is against the mountain.) ）

This is the "Dragon City", because many emperors made their fortunes here after the fall of the Tang Dynasty. The prosperity of this city cannot be compared with the big cities in the Central Plains, but in Yang Ye's opinion, it is also a very densely populated city...... Compared with Linzhou, where he was born, it is really a vast place that can be displayed.

Yang Ye's thoughts seemed to return to his hometown of Linzhou, a small border town near the Great Wall. The loess ravines are full of eyes, the yellow sand is all over the sky, and the surrounding population is sparse. He is not from a low background, and his father is the history of Linzhou Thorn, but he has wanted to get out of that place since he was a child and looks forward to a bigger world. Jinyang, the dragon city, was once the land of dreams, and the weak crown went to Jinyang to defect to the Northern Han Dynasty; His outstanding military exploits allowed him to gain a foothold in Jinyang and win the trust of the Northern Han Emperor.

Yang Ye held back his mind, even if he went home to say goodbye to his wife and concubine, and prepared to lead the army to the battle.

The one who is most reluctant to be in love with his children is the concubine Hongying who has been with him for the shortest time. The red warbler's teary eyes were swaying, as if she was reluctant to say goodbye to life and death.

Yang Ye said kindly: "I am a military general, and it is my duty to go out to fight, so you don't have to worry." ”

Hongying wiped a handful of tears with a silk silk and choked up: "The people of the Northern Han Kingdom have taken refuge in the Khitan, they are not good people, Lang Jun doesn't have to work too hard, he must ...... dividends himself."

Yang Ye was stunned when he heard this, but after a while, he remembered that the red warbler had been killed by the Khitans, so it was understandable to say this, so he didn't think much about it.

A woman understands that collusion with Liao is not a big righteous, how can Yang Ye not know? Not only Yang Ye, but I am afraid that the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty and the vast majority of the Han people have no good impression of the Liao State, but how can the Northern Han Dynasty confront the central government without relying on the Liao State?

"We are not the same thing as Liao, this is a country-to-country exchange, and it is not clear in one or two sentences." Yang Ye said with relief.

The red warbler brought the rain with pear blossoms, and said gently: "With Langjun's name and ability, no matter who votes, he will be reused." ”

Yang Ye snorted, and he didn't want to talk to a woman anymore.

This woman said lightly, the voter can vote casually? People with ability, such as Zhao Kuangyin, can they get important in the Northern Han Kingdom? Yang Yeneng was the general of the Northern Han Dynasty, not only because he could fight well, but also because he followed the founding emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty with a weak crown.

From the perspective of righteousness, of course, the Northern Han Congress was criticized, and no one would think that it was righteous to collude with a foreign enemy country, after all, the Northern Han State was not a Liao State...... Compared with righteousness, Yang Ye felt that his personal loyalty to the monarch was more valued by the world. No matter which monarch it is, the first thing to look at is probably not whether a person is clear or not, but whether his loyalty is reliable. Now that Da Zhou is strong, if Yang Ye immediately "abandons the dark and turns to the light", he thinks it is not a good thing.

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Before the Northern Han army set out, Guo Shao had already learned that the main commander of the Northern Han army was going to come out to meet Yang Ye.

He handed over the paper in his hand to Jing Niang for safekeeping, looked back at the generals and ministers around him and said: "As soon as we enter the border of the Northern Han Dynasty, there will be a battle, and the person we will deal with in the first battle is Yang Ye." ”

Wang Pu immediately said: "This person has a good reputation, and he is known as 'Yang Invincible'. ”

Li Chuyun said with a smile: "A few years ago, there was not a famous No. 1 general Zhang Yuanhui in the Northern Han Kingdom, who was shot to death by an arrow from the official. Today there is another Yang Invincible, just to give the Great Zhou Army a war sacrifice flag! ”

Guo Shao was noncommittal, but he had extra attention to this Yang Ye in his heart...... Because of the Yang family! At this time, although Yang Ye was not small and claimed to be invincible, it was only because he could fight; In this war-torn world, there are many generals who can fight, and the current Yang Ye may not be as famous as future generations.

The image left by the Yang family to Guo Shao mainly comes from film and television, and he is the anti-Liao hero of the Song Dynasty. Anyway, Guo Shao didn't want to kill Yang Ye at all, in his impression...... Even people who are so vigilant and afraid of martial arts in Song Taizong can accept Yang Ye, why can't he do it?

"Continue to use Shi Yanchao as a striker to go north. Meet Yang Ye and start a decisive battle! Guo Shao said.

He looked up and saw that the men and horses in the valley were moving along the winding valley road like a black and oppressive torrent.

At this time, Zhang Guanghan's troops, which were originally stationed in Liaozhou, had joined the main force of Guo Shaojun's army, with a total strength of more than 50,000 troops, and were now marching near the border of the Northern Han Dynasty. It is surrounded by endless ravines and layers of loess low mountains, and the general orientation is hundreds of miles south of Jinyang; Probably located between the eastern section of Mount Taiyue and the eastern section of Taihang Mountain, it should belong to the remnants of Mount Taiyue, which is a continuous mountain area, but it is not so steep and steep in comparison.

The road is not very easy to walk, and the best way to take is the road along Fenshui on the west side of Taiyue Mountain. However, Guo Shao's early elite soldiers chose the Qinlu Plateau because the road was relatively close and he wanted to enter Jinyang as soon as possible. The road taken by the army was along a dry river valley. It was the route of the first emperor who took advantage of the victory to attack Jinyang after the victory in the Gaoping War, and Guo Shao walked through it...... Therefore, knowing that the water source of this road is also reliable, tens of thousands of troops marching, if there is no water source on the road, it is really a big problem.

There was a dull sound of horses' hooves and footsteps, and the team was crawling slowly, and Guo Shao rode his horse, talking to the people around him from time to time. On the road, riding on a frame is not as easy as riding a horse.

The natural conditions in this mountain are not as good as those in the Central Plains, the wind carries sand in the wind, it is very dry, and the scene is a valley except for the ravine. And the vegetation seems to be declining at this time, anyway, in February, the mountains are still a large area of bare loess, only sparse shrubs and artemisia. Sometimes you can see flowering trees on the side of the mountain, so you can feel the breath of spring a little, and often at this time the soldiers have to turn their heads to watch.

There was no resistance along the way, and it was a sight to see for days. Until one day he walked next to a large lake, Guo Shao recalled that he knew that the mountain area had come to an end.

In the afternoon, Guo Shao walked along the lakeside road through this lakeside, and the front suddenly opened up.

However, the terrain is still not plain, the east side is still a ravine-crisscrossed slope, and the front and west sides are relatively flat land, which is dry and rarely grows crops. It is necessary to go further north to reach the plain area in the south of Jinyang.

The Northern Han army is on the defensive, and Yang Ye should be in a relatively close place after leaving Jinyang, which may not be far away.

Guo Shao asked the military generals of the scout battalion to inquire, but still did not find a large force of the Northern Han army. That night, he sent someone to the front to deliver the decree and instructed the officials who wrote the military orders in the military palace: "Tell Shi Yanchao to send more rangers in front, first find out the place of the Northern Han army, and then don't rush in." Our army came from afar, and the men and horses were tired, so we first chose a place to be stationed and repaired, and waited for the follow-up army to follow up. ”

Guo Shao figured it out, Shi Yanchao is still quite obedient to the rules and military orders in the battle array, but he is really not a calm person; And this guy is even more difficult to control than Lin Renzhao, Lin Renzhao at least listens to Liu Renzhan, Shi Yanchao doesn't listen to anyone, only the emperor uses him.

Afraid that he would attack the enemy lightly, he was demoralized by Yang Ye first. Guo Shao was not very relieved, and asked Dong Zunzhi to lead the cavalry and cavalry infantry of the Third Army to deploy behind Shi Yanchao's right flank, and Zhang Guanghan to lead the cavalry of the Long Jie Army of the two armies to the left flank.