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After confirming that Ma Kuo had no intention of surrendering at all, Li Yan knew that his relationship with Ma Kuo's monarch and ministers had not yet arrived, so he asked Ma Kuo and several other people who were unwilling to stay in Yundi to drive back with a carriage full of heads.

After Ma Kuo and others drove the carriage back to Xiongzhou, they learned that Tong Guan and Cai You were no longer in Xiongzhou, but in Hejian Mansion.

It turned out that Cai You really didn't dare to stay on the front line in Xiongzhou, so he saved Tong Guan and retreated to the relatively safe Hejian Mansion.

Tong Guan considered that even if he went north for the second time, he would need to reorganize the army, so he agreed.

Ma Kuo and the others then drove the carriage to Hejian Mansion.

After Cai You saw these hundreds of heads, his face turned pale with fright, and he said, "Why is Li Yan so angry? ”

Tong Guan said: "No matter how angry Li Yan is, he won't rush at you Cai Gongfa, aren't you friends with him?" ”

Cai You said: "So what? Will Cai You abolish the public with private interests? ”

Recently, Tong Guan and Cai You have actually gotten along well.

In addition, Tong Guan's current situation is very bad, and he may not use the favored Cai You.

Therefore, Tong Guan smiled and said: "Cai Gong doesn't need to be like this, a certain family naturally knows that you will not abolish the public with private interests, a certain family just envy your friendship with Li Yan, speaking of which, Cai Gong, you are really good at dealing with people, Li Yan is so difficult to get along with, and he has to sell you three points of thin noodles." ”

Cai You was a little complacent, and said: "This interaction between people is expensive in a ......."

Cai You suddenly realized that Tong Guan's saying this might be a trap, so he immediately changed his words and said, "Actually, I don't know Li Yan that well. ”

Seeing that Cai You's vigilance was so strong, Tong Guan was a little stupid, so he no longer talked to Cai You, but looked at Ma Kuo and said, "Tell me what you saw and heard on this trip." ”

Ma Kuo didn't speak, but handed over the recital he had written on the road to Tong Guan - Ma Kuan hoped that Tong Guan could transfer this recital to Zhao Ji.

The first sentence of the opening sentence of the recital: Li Yan must be opposed!

The second sentence is: Li Yan has already called the official family and Taizu in the name of the official family and Taizu, and the anti-intention is obvious!

The third sentence is: The Liangshan army is united and invincible, so Li Yan must not be allowed to enter the pass!

Ma Kuo then said in the recital that the key to not allowing Li Yan to enter the pass is that the Great Song Dynasty army and horses should quickly go north, seize Yanjing before Li Yan, and then hoard heavy troops in Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass, Baoma Pass and other dangerous places, trap Li Yan in Yundi, and prevent him from coming out.

In addition, Ma Kuo asked the imperial court to remove him from his position as an envoy and let him lead 10,000 infantry cavalry to be the vanguard of pacifying Yanjing, and he would quickly take Yanjing to prevent Li Yan from "snooping".

After Tong Guan saw it, his body shook and said, "Liang Shanjun is really so strong? ”

Ma Kuo said in a deep voice: "The Liangshan army is definitely a first-class strong army in the world, I think the reason why the Liao, Western Xia, and Mongolian coalition armies lost to the Liangshan army is not because they are weak, but because the Liangshan army is strong, so our Great Song Dynasty should send troops as soon as possible." ”

Tong Guan was silent for a while, and said: "The official family has already called Liu Yanqing back to Beijing, and I believe that it won't be long before our Great Song Dynasty will raise troops to the north again." ”

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In mid-August, Zhao Ji issued an edict appointing Liu Yanqing, the commander of the inspection school, and Liu Yanqing, the commander of the Sancheng Jiedu of Heyang, as the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and Liu Guangshi, the envoy of Yaozhou Observation, and Yu Hou He Guan as the deputy commander, sent 200,000 troops to the north to recover Yanjing.

The imperial court decided to raise troops to the Northern Expedition again, so that the court was fried again - there were those who supported and those who were opposed, and everyone was gossiping and discussing.

In fact, since Zhao Liangsi offered advice, the high-level debate of the Song State on recovering Yanyun has not been interrupted.

Tong Guan, Cai Jing, Wang Hao and others are supporters, Deng Xunwu, Zheng Juzhong, Li Bangyan and others are oppositionists, and Zhao Ji is completely in his mood, it can be said that he wants to play one out and one out of the other, and as a result, the Song State always goes back and forth on the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Cai Jing's attitude towards recovering Yanyun suddenly changed and became very inactive.

And Zhao Ji became firm for various reasons.

So, Zhao Ji thought that Cai Jing was old, so he replaced Wang Huang, who knew him better, as the prime minister.

Now, the ministers have begun a heated debate again on the rights and wrongs of sending troops to the north.

In order to unify the thinking and avoid disturbing the morale of the army and the people, under Wang Hao's repeated requests, Zhao Ji issued a stern edict: Those who discuss this matter in vain will be punished without forgiveness!

Most of the ministers were intimidated and kept silent.

However, the relaxed political environment of the Song Dynasty still made some bold people jump out to oppose it.

Like Asan Lang Song Zhao.

He gave Zhao Ji a fiercely spoken note against the Northern Expedition.

In the recital, he said:

Since His Majesty ascended the throne, the art of the Imperial Rong is really the best policy, the Liao envoy came, the banquet was given, and the grace was exhausted.

Over the past three generations, I have been pleasing to the heart, sincere and sincere, and it is not today, and it is a grand event of peace and prosperity.

For example, Wang Hao and Tong Guanli led Li Liangsi and Dong Pang'er's disciples to become mad, vainly stirred up side affairs, caused annoyance, sent ministers to raise heavy troops, and Jiutun was plugged, the treasury of Cangli was empty, and countless officials and militia died.

If the money can be restored, how can the dead be resurrected?

Wang Huang and Tong Guan deceived the king, harmed the people, and the crime was unforgivable, and the ministers were willing to cut off these heads to thank the world, not only to comfort the hearts of the Yan people, so that they knew His Majesty's virtue, no more suspicion, and kept the alliance, but also made the rest of the traitors and thieves who were vain about the border affairs punished.

Li Liangsi and Dong Pang'er were both traitors to the Northern Court, and they had resentment, so they attached to the border ministers and wrote false words, wanting to fake the momentum of China and revenge their personal enemies.

Now the Jurchen is brave and good at fighting, sweeping the northern country, Li Yan thief, seizing the entire territory of Yundi, and defeating the cavalry of Liao, Western Xia, and Mongolia for ten years.

Destroying a weak country and becoming neighbors with two strong countries may not be China's blessing, but only Jurchen and Li Yan's li'er.

The minister also heard the alliance between the two countries, and the defeat of the alliance caused disaster to the nine clans, His Majesty took filial piety to the world, and he forbears the spirit of forgetting the saints in the sky?

Your Majesty covers the world with benevolence, and he endures the people of Hebei in the midst of misery and makes the liver and brain smeared?

After reading Song Zhao's recital, Zhao Ji was so angry that he got up: "Song Zhao, a crazy student, actually said disrespectful words, I just issued an order not to discuss it, he dared to go against the wind, it was really bold!" ”

Wang Hao gritted his teeth with even more hatred for Song Zhao, and he suggested to Zhao Ji: "Kill Song Zhao, kill a hundred examples, kill a chicken and show monkeys, see who dares to be so arrogant and disrespectful!" ”

Zhao Ji was angry, but his mind was still very calm, he said: "It's better not to kill, a scholar, it is useless to kill him, remove him from the list and make the magistrate strictly disciplined." ”

Soon, Song Zhao was dismissed from public office and escorted to Haizhou.

Zhao Ji's appointment of 55-year-old Liu Yanqing as the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army should be said to have some truth.

First, Liu Yanqing was born in a family of Jiangmen, and has many years of practical combat experience, fighting against Tubo and Western Xia several times in the northwest.

Second, Liu Yanqing had a very successful cooperation with Tong Guan, that is, to exterminate Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La, which was the capital commander appointed by Liu Yanqing.

But—

This is just Zhao Ji's unilateral idea.

In fact, Liu Yanqing had mixed feelings about being appointed as the commander of the capital this time.

On the one hand, he felt that this was an opportunity - if he could win this time by raising troops to the north, then his prestige in the army would surpass that of the Seed Master Dao and become the first commander of the Great Song Dynasty.

On the other hand, he felt that this was a test - as a battle-hardened general, he knew that the advantage of the Liao army was cavalry, and the Song army did not have strong cavalry, and it would be difficult to win by relying on the flesh and blood of infantry to fight against the Jin Ge Iron Horse. He felt that dealing with the Liao army was not as simple as dealing with Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La. Therefore, he warned himself that this time he sent troops north, he must be careful and careful. Especially after he saw the soldiers and horses that Zhao Ji gave him.

Some people may be puzzled, what kind of soldiers and horses did Zhao Ji give Liu Yanqing to make Liu Yanqing so worried?

It turned out that Zhao Ji felt that the troops going north were not enough, so he asked Gao Yu to draw 50,000 horses from the central forbidden army to Liu Yanqing.

But among the forbidden army, all the troops that can be beaten have all been taken by Gao Yu to attack Shuibo Liangshan, how can anyone give Liu Yanqing?

So, Gao Yu passed the buck to his deputy, Liang Fangping, the deputy commander of the former division of the palace, on the grounds that he was fighting on the front line at this time.

After Liang Fangping received this hot potato, he directly passed it to He Guan.

He Guan spent a lot of effort to screen out 20,000 barely able soldiers from the forbidden army, and temporarily recruited 20,000 new soldiers among the homeless (hooligan ruffians) in Beijing, and then joined hands from Gao Yu and below, or bought and sold, or relied on favors, and stuffed thousands of related households as officers.

Liu Yanqing really didn't dare to think, how could such an army fight?

In fact, none of the people in this army thought about fighting, they went to promote the Great Song Dynasty, and by the way, they made some military merits, so that they could find a good messenger in the future, and the war would go to the Western Army and other armies.

Zhao Ji didn't know what kind of army he gave Liu Yanqing to match, Zhao Ji only knew that he had allocated 50,000 troops to Liu Yanqing, in addition, Zhao Ji waved his hand and transferred all the Hebei troops to the north, and in a hurry, he gave Liu Yanqing 200,000 troops.

plus the hundreds of thousands of troops who were already on the border, as well as the township warriors of Zhao Xu (Dong Pang'er), Zhang Guanyu and other righteous troops.

This time, the Song army had a total of four or five hundred thousand people.

From the number of troops assigned to Liu Yanqing, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Ji has great hopes for Liu Yanqing, and it is not difficult to see that Zhao Ji is bound to win Yanjing.

On this day, Zhao Ji met Liu Yanqing in Yanfu Palace.

Zhao Ji said: "When pacifying Fangla, Liu Qing made great contributions as the commander of the capital. This time the Northern Expedition recovered Yanjing, and after careful consideration, I decided to appoint Liu Qing as the commander of the capital again, hoping that Liu Qing would make persistent efforts and make new contributions. ”

Zhao Ji gave Liu Yanqing a banner, a golden gun, a royal robe, and a colorful belt.

At the same time, Zhao Ji also gave Liu Yanqing "Seven Treasures".

The "Seven Treasures" are: gold, silver, glass (precious stones), pears (crystals), clams (sea shells), pearls (coral beads) and amber.

Liu Yanqing knelt on the ground to thank him, and said excitedly: "The minister bathed in the emperor's grace, sincerely remembered His Majesty's teachings, and must go to the soup to fight the fire, shatter his bones, and blood fertile Yanshan, and swear to plant the Great Song Dynasty flag on the head of Yanjing City!" ”

If it is said that when he sent troops for the first time in April this year, Zhao Ji did not want to really start a war with Liao, he hoped to win without a fight.

Then, this time to send troops, Zhao Ji's thoughts are very different from the last time - Zhao Ji hopes that this time the army will be real and use force to recover Yanjing.

Therefore, Zhao Ji did not interfere with the guiding ideology and specific military deployment of the operation - he hoped that Tong Guan and Liu Yanqing would see the opportunity to act and complete the recovery of Yanjing, a strategic concept that their Great Song Dynasty had been planning for many years.

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