In June, Yang Yanqing was deployed in the camp to the east of the river, wearing a military robe, standing on a boulder at the head of the city, looking into the distance, the north and south are reckless grasslands, and the Liao army attacked, but this city has no shelter. However, the city of Yunzhou was besieged by the Xia and Song kingdoms, and each section of the city wall was covered with chisel marks and arrow marks, and the walls were soaked in blood, and occasionally loose clods of earth fell. If you don't repair it well, I'm afraid it won't be able to withstand another attack.

At this moment, Yunzhou City has become a huge construction site, and countless ragged people are flowing like ants. Transporting earth and stones, pounding mortar, repairing walls, digging trenches, and erecting trenches...... Therefore, regardless of the local people's grievances, the Hedong camp requisitioned almost all the nearby strong men and women to build the city, and even many Song soldiers temporarily took off their armor and joined the ranks of repairing the city.

"The fool of the Southern Dynasty." Qiu 18 held a spear and looked at the Hedong soldiers who were carrying soil and stones with their bare backs under the hillside. He was beaming with pride. If you don't join the army, you will have to be arrested and build a city, how can you live happily now. The Yisheng Army is the "righteous man" recognized by the Song Dynasty, and the officers in the camp said that now the Hedong soldiers are only temporarily occupying the place, just waiting for the Liao army to be defeated, and this Yunzhou is the world of the Yisheng Army. By that time, the women in the fields had a lot of money. Han'er's brain is lively and clever, which is a hundred times better than that of the Khitans, and it is not understood by these Southern Dynasty people who are full of loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness.

"His grandmother's, why did you let us build the city wall, while those bastards are having fun in the camp?" Liu Chang carried the stone on his back and muttered, "Lao Tzu just doesn't accept it." "He was shirtless, sweating profusely, and his shoulders were bleeding." Shut up! Team Zheng Wei Zhong's eyes widened, and he shouted, "Are you dissatisfied with the big handsome?" Liu Chang lowered his head indignantly, gritted his teeth and whispered: "Lao Tzu would rather have a knife fight with Liaogou." ”

Wei Zhong glared at him again and did not speak. In fact, even Wei Zhong did not have no ideas in his heart, the forbidden army of the Hedong Xingying Camp has been a soldier for many generations, and even regards the generals of the two Yang families as their main fathers. However, this time the attack on the Liao State of Shanhou Kyushu, although the troops were mainly sent by the Hedong Xing Battalion, the imperial court surrendered the Xuande army, which was dominated by the Han people of the Liao State. This army first descended to the summer and then to the Song Dynasty, and there were a lot of criticisms about it in the Hedong camp, but the imperial court actually attached great importance to it, not only gave the name "Yisheng Army", appointed Liu Qutong, the former commander of the Xuande Army, as the commander of the Yisheng Army, but also provided him with separate food and salary, so that Liu Qutong expanded his subordinates in Yun, Ying, Shuo, Huan, and Wei five states, nominally the Yisheng Army was to assist the Hedong Xingying Army to control the place, but in fact, Liu Qutong violated Yang Yanqing's military order, because the imperial court faintly supported the Yisheng Army behind it, The Hedong camp was deployed, and Yang Yanqing had no way to take him for a while.

"Marshal, the scout sentry has detected that the cavalry of the Liao army is recruiting and signing troops nearby," Senator Gao Juyuan said with a worried face, "I am afraid that the last general will send troops to attack the city soon." "There are 100,000 people in the Northern Expedition of the Hedong Camp, and Yang Yanqing's detachment will lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to guard Ying, Shuo, Huan, and Wei Prefectures, and another deputy general will lead 10,000 troops to garrison Yanmen Pass as the rear of the army. A battalion of 70,000 people with heavy grain and grass was stationed in Yunzhou City, waiting for a decisive battle with the Liao army from afar. Under Liu Qutong's desperate expansion, the Yisheng army has reached more than 20,000 people, but they are all rabble, and they are not able to fight at all.

Yang Yanqing muttered, "The Liao army replenishes grain and grass by beating grass and grain, and Kyushu is vast and sparsely populated behind this mountain, and it can't support it for long. As long as we can hold on to this year, we will slowly restore the Outer Great Wall and the walled fort in front of us, and this side will be solid. ”

Yunzhou City is located between the inner and outer Great Wall, is the Central Plains forces deeply embedded in the grassland of a nail, since the Liao State captured the Youyun Sixteen Prefectures, the Great Song Dynasty with the Yanmen Pass and the Inner Great Wall defense, while the Outer Great Wall is gradually barren and decadent. Therefore, after the Song army recaptured Yunzhou, there was no other barrier north of Yunzhou. And here has always been a place where soldiers must fight, starting from the Warring States Zhao Wuling King Hufu cavalry shooting, the famous generals of the Central Plains, Zhao Li Mu, Qin general Meng Tian, Han Shifei general Li Guang, Tang Li Jing and Xue Rengui, have used soldiers here. If the Great Song Dynasty garrisoned here, it could connect the Yellow River in the west and control the desert in the north. If the Liao State gets Yunzhou, it will choke the throat of the Song army going north, and then threaten Hedong and Hebei. After the Hedong Xingying captured Yunzhou, the offensive and defensive momentum of Song Liaojian suddenly changed. In the long run, the Song State seized five of the Kyushu states in the back of the mountain, especially Yunzhou, and the attack on the Liao State had already occupied a geographical advantage. The entire Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom was under the threat of the Song army, and as long as this area was consolidated, it could go north into the grassland desert in the future. But in the short term, the Song army was on the defensive. Yang Yanqing had to make every effort to consolidate the newly acquired five prefectures of Shanhou, especially the badly damaged city of Yunzhou, in order to cope with the subsequent counterattack of the Liao army.

"However, the imperial court ......" Gao Juyuan looked angry, and he stopped talking. Although the imperial court ordered the Hedong camp to go north and garrison the five states behind the mountain, it was unwilling to completely fall into the hands of Hedong, so on the one hand, it recruited local Han'er to support the Yisheng army, and on the other hand, it controlled the food and salary of the Hedong camp more strictly than before.

"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while." Yang Yanqing interrupted his words, looking at the soldiers and civilians working like ants under the city walls, "If you can't keep this square inch of land for the country, why waste the fat and ointment of the people of the world and raise more than 100,000 people in my Hedong camp." He paused, looked at the camp of the righteous victorious army outside the city, and said coldly, "Although the Hedong camp is self-contained, it is not like that of a person who forgets his righteousness and has no faith. ”

"The last general understands," Gao Juyuan said in a low voice, "I've been watching this bush of wall grass from below. ”

Yang Yanqing nodded slightly and did not speak again. The imperial court praised and attached importance to the righteous victory army, on the one hand, it did not make the Hedong army dominate in the clouds, and on the other hand, it seemed that the hearts of the Han people here were towards the Great Song Dynasty, and the civil officials in the court were singing praises of virtue, as if it was not so, it could not show that the benevolence and righteousness of the Great Song Dynasty were higher than the Khitan. Therefore, at this juncture, there is no practical handle, even if the Yisheng Army is a little unruly, it is inconvenient for Yang Yanqing to punish him, lest the DPRK impeach the Hedong Battalion and cut off dissidents.

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In June, the grasslands are full of wildflowers, and the green meadows are faintly water-colored, with both the vast and majestic prairies and the bright and beautiful south. The meadow north of Yunzhou is like a paradise. The people who had migrated with the army were all rejoicing, and some of the old men even knelt down to thank Changshengtian and muttered thanks to the Great Khan of Bosheng for guiding them to such a fertile pastureland. This group of steppe tribes numbered more than 60,000 people, led by the commander of ten thousand people, Temuge, who went south to divide the pastures and camps while each thousand-man team, and Temuge personally took his retinue to meet the only son of the Great Khan, Tachi Murbo. Although Yelu Dashi gave him the surname Xiao, here in the grassland tribe, this "Xiao" surname is no different from an official position. Everyone calls Bo Sheng the Great Khan, but it is impossible to call the Great Khan the Northwest Envoy.

"No wonder as soon as the Liao people mentioned handing over Yunzhou to us, the Great Khan ordered us to come over quickly and help Tachi take this place." Temuge pointed at the grassland as far as his eye could see with his horsewhip, and he took a deep breath, the cool breeze full of moisture carried the smell of fresh grass. Brother Tiemu has always been calm, but at this time, he sighed to the commander Huo Tuo beside him with regret, "It's too humid here, and the climate will be better if it's a little drier." ”

Huo Tuo grinned and said, "If the king dislikes it for being damp, this pasture will reward me with a team of thousands of Nilun." "Good idea?" Brother Temu grinned, raised his horsewhip, struck in the air, and sighed: "The grassland in the south is boundless, I don't know how fat, I left the Niren Thousand Men here, you will regret it in the future." "Unlike other rude generals, Brother Temu is a person around Bo Shengkuo who rarely understands the general trend of the world, so Bo Shengkuo specially sent him to lead his troops south first.

Brother Temu suddenly narrowed his eyes, looking into the distance, on the horizon, hundreds of horses slowly galloped, the formation seemed neat and tight, and when he saw the people and horses here, he rushed over at a faster speed than he saw the men and horses here. Temuge raised his hand, and the thousand-man team around him also spread out to both sides, and the cavalry drew their bows and arrows. Huo Tuo fired an arrow first, just before the horses on the opposite side were a few feet away, warning them not to come any closer. The horsemen on the opposite side reined in their horses and seemed to consult with each other, when a voice shouted, "I am Tachi Murb." Opposite is Brother Temu? ”

"It's me!" Temu agreed loudly. The people on the grassland are always careful, he asked Huo T to continue to wait with a thousand people, he led a few guards to slowly ride forward, and saw a person surrounded by several horsemen on the opposite side, who seemed to be in his twenties, but his demeanor was older than that of ordinary teenagers, with black hair, blue eyes, and a face that was somewhat similar to that of Bo Sheng Huo Khan, which was exactly the appearance of Tachi Murbo described by others, Temu Ge only let go of half of his vigilance, put his right hand on his chest, and greeted with a smile: "Tachi, Bo Sheng Huo Khan asked me to take him to say hello!" ”

"You're okay too!" Tachi placed his right hand on his chest and bowed slightly on his horse. The four guards of the White Eagle Battalion behind him also saluted at the same time, they were all Mlb, Tachi had heard that there were four great captains under the command of the Great Khan, and he also had special respect for Temuge. The neat movements of the four guards made Brother Tiemu slightly moved, and he said secretly: "It took a lot of thought for the Great Khan to train the tribesmen and horses to fight neatly, but I look at the guards around Tachi, and it seems that they have even made an appointment. I couldn't help but glance at Ta Chigao in my heart, and said with a slight smile: "This time I brought 10,000 warriors, and there are more than 40,000 people, Bo Sheng Huo Khan said, when you get to the south, as long as you drive away the Song people as soon as possible, and turn Xijing Road into our pasture, everything is at your disposal." ”