Yelu Zongyuan's face changed several times, and he said with great joy: "Yes, that's exactly the truth. They are dissatisfied with me, but they never want to destroy the country, so they will be doomed. They can only support me. How could I have forgotten such a simple truth? In other words, they will fully support me, right? ”

Han Yanshou smiled and nodded: "Exactly, but the truth needs to be explained to them, so that they don't be confused." The old minister can do it for him. The old minister will leave tomorrow to go to the ministries to meet their leaders and explain this truth to them. As long as the major tribes continue to support the imperial court, the war horse personnel will not worry. The men of our Da Liao tribe can kill the enemy without even training, and if all goes well, within a month, I will have at least 400,000 more cavalry. ”

Yelu Zongyuan nodded with great joy and said, "That's right, that's right." Wake up the person in the dream with a word, the prime minister can really see it clearly, more clearly than me. Hahaha. ”

Han Yanshou waved his hand and said, "The emperor is just too worried and didn't think about it." With the wisdom of the emperor, sooner or later he will think of this. What the emperor has to do now is to resist the attack of the Jurchens, and the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the south will definitely besiege the Xijin Mansion, and the Xijin Mansion cannot be lost, and it must be defended to the death. The emperor can send 100,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce it. The remaining 350,000 soldiers and horses had to block the Jurchens east of Zhongjing. The situation must not deteriorate too quickly. When the old minister persuaded the subordinates to lead the army south, first exterminate the men and horses, and then save the Jurchen siege, this crisis will be eliminated. ”

Yelu Zongyuan nodded and said, "Exactly, what the prime minister said is the same as what I think." Hum. When I get through this crisis and look back, I will have to settle accounts with Da Zhou. I don't move them, they come and move us. As for the Jurchens, I will exterminate them. Such a lowly family must not be left behind, and there will be no future troubles. ”

Han Yanshou said in a deep voice: "That's a later story. The old minister had only one worry, and that was the capture of the prince. If the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty threatened the life of the prince, what would the emperor do? Prince Yelushi is the emperor's beloved son. ”

Yelu Zongyuan's heart stinged, Yelu Shi was his favorite son, Zhuozhou was captured and now in the hands of the Great Zhou people. I'm still thinking about how to rescue. If the Great Zhou people threatened each other with the life of the prince, what should they do?

Yelu Zongyuan frowned, his eyes swept over the faces of the ministers in front of him, and saw that everyone was waiting for his answer, so his heart hardened, and he said in a deep voice: "Yelu Shi was captured, and I am naturally worried. But the safety of the Great Liao Society is greater than anything else, and they tried to coerce me with Yelushi's life, which was a fantasy. I hereby decree that if the other party threatens you with the life of Jerod, I command you to kill Jerod, and you must not be coerced by the enemy. It's all about the big things. ”

Everyone was awe-inspiring in their hearts, and they promised in unison that the emperor was ready to give up the life of Prince Yelushi. It is no wonder that in this situation, if you are again restrained by the capture of Yelushi, it is obviously because of a small loss. Yelushi is the emperor's third son, although all indications indicate that Yelushi is deeply liked by the emperor and is intending to train him to be the successor to the throne of Daliao. But this matter can only be abandoned. After all, in addition to Yelushi, the emperor also has two sons, Yeluchun and Yelucai, although these two are gentle, they will not let the emperor have no successor.

"The emperor is eloquent and strategic, and the old minister is deeply admired. In this way, the old minister was ready, and he set out early tomorrow morning to persuade them. Han Yanshou arched his hand.

"No, the prime minister is working hard, can you leave now? Then I took my carriage and horse, and the road was more comfortable. I will order the guards to escort the Prime Minister there, and send the chamberlains to take care of you along the way. The prime minister has a heavy burden on his shoulders, and I hope that you will be able to reunite my Daliao on this trip, so that they can send troops to defend against foreign enemies. Yelu Zongyuan said in a deep voice.

Han Yanshou thought for a while and said, "The old minister obeys the order and leaves immediately." ”

Yelu Zongyuan arched his hand and said, "Thank you for your understanding. ”

Han Yanshou bowed and returned the salute, turned around and said to the civil and military officials: "Lords and generals, the safety of my Daliao depends on you." We must defend Xijin Mansion and Dading Mansion, if Nanjing Zhongjing is lost, it will be a big trend. ”

Everyone arched their hands and said: "Prime Minister Han rest assured, we will fight to the death and ensure that the two capitals are not lost." Han Weng is careful all the way, looking forward to your success. ”

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On the north bank of the Sanggan River, in the rolling hills and mountains south of Xijin Mansion, Lin Jue and his party were hiding their whereabouts and walking cautiously in the mountains.

In the middle of the night two days ago, Lin Jue and others crossed the Sanggan River to the north and came here, and the process could be described as very dangerous. That night, what Lin Jue was waiting for was not Yang Jun's gratitude, but the attack of thousands of Great Zhou cavalry who had sneaked up on them with ill-intentioned attempts. Instead of thanking Lin Jue for capturing Yelushi and occupying the ferry for him, Yang Jun sent soldiers and horses to attack the ferry. Of course, its intention is obvious, that is, to wipe out Lin Jue and his party.

Lin Jue's subordinates naturally scolded endlessly afterwards, angrily accusing Yang Jun of being ungrateful. But Lin Jue didn't think so. Because this was already expected by him.

When Yelushi was escorted to Zhuozhou, Lin Jue was ready for Yang Junhui to sneak attack him. Quite simply, Yelushi will expose his identity, and he is a thorn in the side of the court. Only led more than 100 people to go deep into the place where Liao and Zhou were fighting, which was originally an extremely dangerous thing. In addition, after his identity is exposed, Yang Jun is likely to take the opportunity to strangle himself. It's not Lin Jue boasting, if he can strangle himself, it will be more attractive to Yang Jun than taking Zhuozhou City, and it will make Guo Xu even happier.

But how could Lin Jue give him this opportunity. Who is Lin Jue? That's the people who crawled from the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood, the people who broke through all kinds of intrigues. How could he not take these things into account when he had already seen through the nature and face of these high-ranking people in the Great Zhou court, and had decided that he would never compromise with them and believed that they would change. Lin Jue doesn't go to pit others, so how can he let Yang Jun succeed?

When the cavalry sent by Yang Jun was quietly approaching a few miles away, the secret sentry sent a few miles away had already noticed it, and after galloping back to report it, Lin Jue and his party of more than 100 people had already boarded two big ships with people and horses and sailed away from the dock and crossed the river to the north.

When Bai Qi led thousands of Great Zhou soldiers and horses to the ferry dock, what they saw was the blurred black shadows of two large boats on the river.

However, the people under Lin Jue did not have such a good attitude as Lin Jue, and they were indignant on the boat, angrily scolding Yang Jun for being ungrateful. Lin Jue smiled and reassured them, what he did was not to make Yang Jun grateful to Dade, and Yang Jun would not be grateful to himself, so why be ungrateful? Lin Jue advised everyone to be calm, just make one thing clear, all actions are for the people of the Great Zhou, not for Yang Jun or the imperial court, then the mentality will be much more balanced. If you do things with the heart of the world, you don't care what kindness you reciprocate. If you don't look forward to it, you won't have a sense of gap. For a person like Yang Jun, do you still expect him to be grateful to you?

It is not a simple matter to cross the Sanggan River to the north, the south ferry of the Sanggan River has turned upside down, but the north ferry across the river is quiet as usual, and there is no special movement. The result of the daylight observation was that the north bank of the Sangan River was quiet, and there were no movements of men or ships, which was obviously unreasonable. The news of Zhuozhou's defeat should be known to them soon, and they should have made some responses. Their quietness, their normality, is actually a great anomaly.

Therefore, Lin Jue would not take the liberty of sailing directly to the north ferry to go ashore, which might fall into the net of the Liao. So, when they reached the center of the river, the two great ships drifted along the water all the way east, and at dawn they rushed through a rapids and ran aground on a shallow beach on the side of a steep cliff. Sun Dayong led people to find a slightly gentle slope, and opened a sheep's intestine path with dozens of guards, which made it difficult for the horses to go ashore and set foot in the hills and mountains north of the Sanggan River.

After Lin Jue and his entourage successfully set foot on the north bank of the Sanggan River, they had not yet taken a breath, but they immediately found themselves in a delicate and dangerous environment. To say subtle danger is to say that it does not seem to be a real danger. Because although this danger did not happen, it could make Lin Jue and the others fall to death at any time.

That's because Lin Jue and the others had just come down from the cliff on the bank of the river, and they quickly felt the danger around them. The scouts sent soon brought news that alerted Lin Jue, that is, among the hills and hills along the riverbank, seven or eight Liao soldiers and horses were found marching westward. The number of soldiers and horses in each Liao army is not much, only about 1,000 people, and the maximum is only 2,000 people. But once Lin Jue and the others were discovered by them and fighting, it would inevitably cause the Liao army to flock to them, and they would fall into a heavy siege.

Of course, Lin Jue didn't dare to move. The purpose of crossing the river to the north was to spy on the Liao, not to fight with the Liao. What's more, if you really want to fight with the Liao cavalry, you will not end well. Even if it is equipped with firearms, it will not be able to face the Liao people with as many as tens of thousands of people, which is absolutely stupid.

So Lin Jue immediately ordered everyone to hide their bodies and no longer take any action, so as not to be discovered by these soldiers and horses. At the same time, Lin Jue, Sun Dayong, Gao Muqing, Bai Bing and others also reached a consensus on this matter after a brief discussion.

Lin Jue and others believe that the Liao people are increasing their troops near the northern ferry and Xijin Prefecture, and these Liao soldiers and horses should have gathered there, but the reason why they scattered their actions may be due to two points, one is that these soldiers and horses do not belong to the same soldiers and horses, and according to the number of equipment, they should be the manpower of the local prefectures and tribes. The military system of the Liao State is similar to that of the Great Zhou, which should be similar to the local armed forces of the Great Zhou, which belong to the box soldiers or regimental training soldiers and horses. As soon as Zhuozhou was lost, the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty crossed the river and approached Nanjing Xijin Mansion, and the regular soldiers and horses of the Liao army guarding Xijin Mansion were afraid that the number was insufficient, so they recruited people and horses in these places to assemble.

Another reason is probably the need to keep his whereabouts secret. These soldiers and horses quietly reinforced the ferry between the mountains and fields, fearing that they would set up an ambush and sneak attack between the northern ferry and Xijin Province. This is only a troop build-up in one direction, and it seems that the number is not large, but the soldiers and horses in the east and west directions are all gathered in the direction of Xijin Province, and their number should be considerable.

Whether it is for that reason, or a combination of both, this shows that the Liao army is actively preparing for war and preparing to meet the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou. This is not optimistic.