As soon as Yang Yanzhao's voice fell, he saw Wang Qinruo happily waving the wat board in his hand up and down to make a move that wanted to jump.

But Wang Qinruo did not jump up, but knelt on the ground to salute the emperor, and shouted in his mouth: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

After Wang Qinruo shouted long live, he stood up and said, "Did Your Majesty hear that?" General Guangyang's Gaoyang Pass alone sent 5 copies of the Tang Newspaper, and the Tang Newspapers sent by the states and armies adjacent to Gaoyang Pass are probably dozens of copies! ”

As Wang Qinruo spoke, the gall of the Lang Pavilion sparkled in the morning sun.

Wang Qinruo habitually pressed his palm on the gall and said with an excited expression: "As far as the minister knows, Bazhou, Xiongzhou, Mozhou, Yingzhou, Qizhou, Shenzhou, Cangzhou, Dingzhou, and Daimyo Mansion on Hebei East Road have all been reported to the Beijing Political Affairs Hall, and Kou Zhun has all been detained; A glimpse of the thief's wolf ambition can be seen in the whole leopard, and the saint will die! ”

There was a "buzz" in the court, and Liu Chengqi hurriedly stepped forward and shook the Buddha dust in his hand and said: "Don't talk nonsense, that nonsense speech is intentional trouble!" Qianniuwei listened to the order and sent people to patrol the court; Whoever speaks loudly is immediately arrested! ”

Without waiting for Qianniuwei to dispatch, Zhang Di stepped forward and stood in front of Liu Chengqi and said, "Which family are you called Tianfa by the mole cricket?" Only officials of the seventh rank or above in the Great Song Dynasty can participate, and it is already a very high honor for Qianniuwei to patrol outside the main hall; What a system it becomes to enter the main hall! ”

shook the Buddha dust in his hand, put the horse's tail on his arm and said: "The court dispute is a common thing since my dynasty Taizu, and it also reflects the emperor's easy style; Liu Chengqi, you can't change the emperor's reputation if you want to! ”

Liu Chengqi didn't know what to say, he wanted to cheer for Wang Qinruo to stop the noise of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs; I didn't think that I was by the eunuch leader, and I stood aside with a red face and didn't say a word.

Wang Qinruo saw Zhang Di take Liu Chengqi back, glanced at the two of them, gritted his teeth and said: "The thieves detained the emergency report on the front line of the border pass and deceived the emperor, the emperor was kept in the dark and thought that the border pass was safe and sound, in fact, the small force of the Liao army has long been in the Taiping border pass of the world, but the small force of the Liao army has already appeared outside Bianliang City!" Your Majesty," Wang Qinruo suddenly said with tears in his eyes: "The thieves seized the pond and did not report it, and there was only one purpose; Wait for Empress Dowager Xiao's 200,000 troops to come and join forces with the outside and take my Great Song Dynasty! ”

"Alarmist! Nonsense! "Zheng Shuang originally wanted to maintain a neutral attitude and not protect Kou Zhun at the court meeting; However, Wang Qinruo's words were all treacherous words that fanned the flames and feared that the world would not be chaotic, and Kou Zhun strategically despised the enemy; tactically attaching importance to the enemy's strategy of completely denying it, and unnecessarily applying so many untruths, Zheng Shuang's idea of the golden mean was completely dispelled; stood up and scolded without hesitation.

After Zheng Shuang finished saying this, he clasped his hands into fists and waved at Emperor Zhenzong and said, "Holy Lord, you must be clear-headed, and you can't be swayed by Wang Qinruo's few words made out of nothing!" ”

Emperor Zhenzong was silent, but the expression on his face proved that he was worried; Just last night, Yang Yanzhao rushed to Yishu Garden with injuries to report the enemy situation to him; said that he broke through the siege from Gaoyang Pass with dozens of guards and rushed back to the capital to report for help, but encountered constant attacks by the Liao army along the way; Dozens of guards were all martyred, and only Yang Yanzhao broke through and returned to the capital, and Yang Yanzhao's personal experience was no different from what Wang Qinruo said; But Yang Yanzhao only finished saying that Gao Yangguan sent 5 Tang newspapers, and Wang Qinruo grabbed the conversation; Wang Qinruo said that the water does not leak, and Zheng Shuang has a participation; Song Zhenzong really wanted to hear what Zheng Shuang had to say.

When the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty saw Zheng Shuang say, "Listen to the alarmist!" Nonsense! They looked at each other even more.

Zheng Shuang looked around, moved his position a few steps towards Xian Liang and said: "The Liao army is besieging Gaoyang Pass, and the border pass is urgent!" ”

After Zheng Shuang said this, he paused for a moment, looked at Yang Yanzhao and said: "General Yang, you say be more specific, is Gaoyang Pass besieged by the Liao army, you sent troops back to Bianliang to report for help, or ......?"

"It's not Gaoyang Pass, it's Suicheng!" Yang Yanzhao corrected his rhetoric and said: "The last general is deployed by the deputy capital of Gaoyang Pass and the defense envoy of Baozhou, and Suicheng is within the defense range of the last general; It is generally said that Gaoyang Pass was besieged by the Liao army! ”

"That's right!" Zheng Shuangyang raised his arm and looked at Wang Qinruo and said: "Wang Xianggong, is it true that Bazhou, Xiongzhou, Mozhou, Yingzhou, Qizhou, Shenzhou, Cangzhou, Dingzhou, and Daimyo's mansions all have Tang reports sent to the Beijing Political Affairs Hall?" ”

"This ...... This ......" Wang Qinruo's mouth squeaked and he was speechless, and Kou Zhun answered: "Xiaguan received 5 reports from General Yang Yanzhao asking for help, in addition to Dingzhou and Zhendingfu. Several military states in Xiangzhou! ”

"It's been completely clarified!" Zheng Shuangqi walked around the court hall proudly, and Emperor Zhenzong, who was sitting on the dragon chair, and the hundreds of civil and military ministers standing in the vertical arch hall seemed to have all become his courtiers, listening to him talk about the upcoming Liao and Song wars.

"Don't the emperor and all the civil ministers and military generals know that there is a Great Wall of Water in the Great Song Dynasty?" Zheng Shuang said and looked at Qin Shi Huang and said: "The Great Wall built by Grandpa Qin back then blocked the horse team of the Xiongnu army, but unfortunately the area of the Great Wall of Qin in the sixteen states of Yanyun does not belong to the Song Dynasty now; But Song Taizong did a good thing! ”

Zheng Shuang wanted to say that Song Taizong did not do a few good things during his lifetime, only the Great Wall of Water; But when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back and only told the book behind him.

After all, Emperor Zhenzong is the son of Taizong, and there are so many old ministers of the Taizong Dynasty in the court; If Zheng Shuang attacks the late emperor, he can only bring trouble to his own detriment.

"Have you forgotten the good things that Song Taizong did?" Zheng Shuangyang raised his arm and glanced around, and said in a loud voice.

"How can you forget!" Xue Shisan suddenly spoke: "The Great Wall of Water from Baozhou to Jizhou was built under the auspices of Grandmaster Tai, and the old minister led the army to be the specific implementer!" ”

"Okay, grandpa!" Zheng Shuang shouted: "Why don't you talk about the construction of the Great Wall of Water back then......"

Xue Shisan took a long breath and told the story of the construction process of the Great Wall of Water in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Song Taizong made two vigorous expeditions to the northern part of Liao, but not only did not gnaw back the sixteen states of Youyun; On the contrary, it was defeated and lost, and the elite of the forbidden army built by the Great Song Dynasty with all its national strength was lost.

The relieved Liao State even gathered the ace cavalry corps Tielin Army to launch a continuous revenge on the border of the Great Song Dynasty!

The development of the situation was on the verge of extinction, and Song Taizong seemed to remember that Taizu wanted to move the capital to Chang'an; The four passes of the Guanzhong Plain are used to consolidate the roots and deep roots, and the country is strong and the people are rich.

But now that the capital has lost its golden age, consolidation is the best way; Song Taizong pondered that there was no Great Wall of Qin and the sixteen states of Yanyun as a barrier, and Hebei was a plain and open ground; For the main cavalry of the Khitans, don't even think of building the defense of the Great Wall, plus the elite troops are almost exhausted; Song Taizong had thoughts of suicide.

He regretted that he had snatched his brother's imperial power and ascended to the throne, but he didn't expect the emperor to be so difficult to face a strong enemy.

After the defeat of the Liao Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty unsurprisingly fell into a passive situation, a high-speed and dynamic Khitan cavalry army; When the grass and horses are fat, they roar every year, and the poor infantry-based Song army men can only resist desperately with flesh and blood; I can't stop it, but I can't run away, and the tragic battle has been fought a lot.

In 987 AD, He Chengju, the envoy of the six houses of the Northern Song Dynasty, suddenly put forward a brain-opening idea: "Your Majesty, don't worry, it is not difficult to block the Khitan iron cavalry; Without the Great Wall, we can dig a Great Wall out! ”

That's right, this is an ingenious defense line of the Northern Song Dynasty during the Song-Liao War - digging a river to dig out a great wall to resist the southward movement of the Liao State - the Great Wall of Water!

"Is the Great Wall of Water reliable?" Song Taizong asked as he stared at He Chengju suspiciously.

He Chengju said in a reverberating voice: "If the mouth of the Yi River is opened in the west of Shun'an Panxi, the water will be diverted to the east and injected into the sea; more than 300 miles from east to west, 500 miles from north to south; Ziqi slope ze, build embankments to store water for tuntian; It can stop the enemy's galloping! ”

That is to say, as long as the Yi River is used as the water source, a three-hundred-mile-long canal is opened; It can become a strong defense line in the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty, which is enough to dissipate the superior mobility of the Khitan iron cavalry.

Such a shocking plan made the officers of the Song Army shout that it was unreliable when they heard it.

But what about Song Taizong, who often makes unreliable commands? But it is a direct sentence of applause: hold on to the heavy and sharp, and frustrate the strong enemy. It's really implemented with great fanfare; Xue Shisan was ordered to quickly mobilize troops for the prison army to dig the river.

A group of elite infantry turned into river workers, and a large number of troops were mobilized to guard along the shore of the construction site; even posed as a pretense of Tuntian, and worked overtime to excavate under the noses of the Khitans......