Before Zhao Zhen knew, Li Zhang was often worried and scared, but now that the incident happened, he calmed down, anyway, things are already like this, whether he killed or killed him, he confessed, and Miao Yuan also gently grabbed his arm at this time and leaned against Li Zhang, showing his heart with his own movements.

Looking at the two people in front of him, one was his most trusted minister, and at the same time his only friend and brother, and the other was his sister who had been favored since childhood, which made Zhao Zhen also show a painful and tangled expression, if Li Zhang was replaced by another person, maybe he would have personally slashed the other party with a knife at this time.

But at this moment, suddenly only one of the attendants who was left outside by Zhao Zhen rushed over, and shouted with a look of affection: "Your Majesty, Yanyun has a great victory!" ”

"What?" When Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang, who were looking at each other, heard the words 'Yanyun Great Victory', they all looked at the servant who reported the news in shock, and as for the personal grievances just now, they were all forgotten, after all, the state affairs are now important.

"Swallow...... Yanyun won a great victory, General Liu conquered the city of Xijinfu, captured the defender Han Nanwang and his son alive, and now the army has begun to capture other state capitals around! The chamberlain shouted excitedly again at this time, if it wasn't for such important news, he wouldn't dare to break in so recklessly.

After confirming that he had heard it correctly, Zhao Zhen also slapped it excitedly, and then said to Li Zhang: "Put the others aside in advance, and follow me back to the palace to discuss matters!" ”

"Good!" Li Zhang also immediately agreed, and then left here quickly with Zhao Zhen, and Miao Yuan looked at the two of them who were like fighting cocks just now, but now they left excitedly as if they were fighting chickens, which made her a little funny, but as a princess, she still knew the importance of Yan Yun to Da Song, so she could understand the excitement of Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang.

At that moment, Li Zhang and Zhao Zhen returned to the palace as quickly as possible, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others also rushed over from the political hall at this time, and Zhao Zhen led the ministers to the vertical arch hall, Lu Yijian also immediately sent Liu Ping's good news, and Zhao Zhen also handed it to Li Zhang next to him after reading it.

Li Zhang also immediately read the good news carefully, this good news was sent back by Liu Ping after the city of Xijin Mansion was defeated, according to the good news, Liu Ping and they used artillery to open the gate of Xijin Mansion and kill into the city, and were met with stubborn resistance of the Liao army, the two sides launched a cruel battle in the city, and finally fought for three days and three nights, which completely crossed the Liao army.

It is worth mentioning that Han Nanwang, the defender of Xijin Mansion, and his son Han Feifei would rather die than surrender in the end, and still wanted to resist stubbornly under the siege of Liu Ping's troops, but they didn't expect that the Liao army around them had someone behind them to take their father and son to invite merit to the Great Song Dynasty, which made Han Nanwang and his son become the prisoners of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although he is an enemy, Liu Ping admires Han Nanwang very much, and the Han family has been left behind in Nanjing for generations and has great prestige in the southern part of Liao, so Liu Ping also suggested on the good news that Han Nanwang and his son should be recruited, as long as the other party is willing to be used by the Great Song Dynasty, then it will be much easier to control the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future.

After the fall of Xijin Mansion, although there are still many cities in the south of Liao, such as Zhuozhou, Ruzhou, Huailai and other big cities, they also belong to the sixteen states of Yanyun, but the strength of these cities has been drawn more than half of the troops in each city, and the defenders of each city are more than 3,000 people, and there may be only 1,000 people at the least, and it is impossible to resist the offensive of the Song army.

So in this case, Liu Ping suggested seizing the rest of the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and finally attacking another hard bone of the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, that is, Xijing Datong Mansion, as a fortified city comparable to Xijin Mansion, Datong Mansion is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Song army also paid small casualties in the defeat of Xijin Mansion, and it also needed a period of rest.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Liu Ping's army has already conquered Xijin Mansion and is expanding to the surrounding state capitals, what do you think?" Zhao Zhen walked back and forth excitedly at this time, and finally asked Lu Yijian and the others.

"Your Majesty, the so-called momentum, now that General Liu has defeated the Xijin Mansion, why don't you directly transfer the army and go straight to the Datong Mansion? Wouldn't it be easier to conquer Datong with the might of a great victory? At this time, a minister stood up and asked.

"No, Liu Ping has already said on the good news, attacking Xijin Mansion will also make our army pay a lot of price, and Xijin Mansion is not close to Datong Mansion, this way needs to pass through Huailai and Zhulu two cities, and there are Wuzhou, Ulzhou, Shanyin and other places around, if these places are not defeated, the Liao army can kill from the city at any time to copy the back road of our army, so for the sake of safety, it is better to advance layer by layer!" Lu Yijian immediately objected at this time.

"What Lu Xiang said is that Liu Ping once considered dividing the troops into two routes, in addition to the current army on this road, there is also one way from Yanmen Pass, through Shanyin to Datong Mansion, but later considering that the two routes will disperse the troops, and the two marching routes are also more likely to be contained by the Liao army, so in the end it was decided to merge into one road, and concentrate the troops to defeat the Xijin Mansion first." Zhao Zhen also nodded again and again when he heard Lu Yijian's words.

"Your Majesty, now that the army is progressing smoothly, Datong Mansion is almost in the pocket of my Great Song Dynasty, so the minister thinks that he can consider sending officials to settle in the cities that have been defeated to educate the local people in Hue Great Song!" At this time, I saw Wang Zeng also stepped forward and spoke.

Wang Zeng's suggestion was almost not opposed by anyone, and everyone unanimously passed it, while Li Zhang next to him smiled faintly, because he knew that the reason why Wang Zeng was in a hurry to send officials to take over those newly beaten cities was nothing more than that he didn't want the military and political power of these cities to fall into the military generals, of course, in the eyes of Wang Zeng's officials, the military generals did not know how to govern the local government at all, and only when they went to the local places could these state capitals be surrendered as soon as possible.

Zhao Zhen also knew the plans of Wang Zeng, a civil official, but he still accepted Wang Zeng's suggestion, after all, as an emperor, he would not let the generals who led the troops have too much power, otherwise he would not be able to sleep well at night.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing that needs to be put on the agenda!" At this moment, Li Zhang, who had not spoken, finally stood up and said.

"What?" Zhao Zhen immediately asked.

"After the Khitans occupied the sixteen states of Yanyun, many of the Great Walls have fallen into disrepair, or even directly abandoned, if Yanyun is recovered, then these Great Walls will definitely need to be repaired again, and a lot of manpower, material and financial resources will definitely be needed at that time, so please prepare Your Majesty as soon as possible!" Li Zhang immediately said, in fact, when he proposed to build the Great Wall, he already had a general idea in his heart.

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