When the mission reached the river, Yang Huairen ordered Yang Shihu to lead the Hu Benwei to garrison the security army and Baigou Post on two routes, while Long Wuwei, under the leadership of Huang Dayin, also stationed in Bazhou and the wolf city of the Xin'an army respectively to prepare for the response.

According to the diplomatic practice of the Song and Liao countries at that time, both sides could send a part of the army to protect the mission when they sent envoys to visit each other, but in terms of the number of people, according to the size of the mission, the level of the specification had an equal limit on each other.

Before bidding farewell to Yang Huairen, Yang Shihu felt that he only brought 200 people into the Liao Realm, and persuaded him to bring as many sergeants as possible just in case.

It's not that Yang Huairen doesn't want to do this, it's just that the rules are here, and there are too many people with him, but the easier it is to arouse the suspicion of the Khitans.

Later, it was Tianba's younger brother who came up with an idea to replace all the 300 horsemen who transported the New Year's coins with the elite of the forbidden army after the transformation, so that he could take about 500 soldiers across the border.

Yang Huairen said in his heart, let's go to the Khitans, what is the difference between 200 people and 500 people? If there is really any unexpected situation, let alone 500 people, even if the forbidden army of Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei all passes, it will be difficult to do anything in front of hundreds of thousands of Khitan iron horsemen.

However, under the persuasion of his brothers, Yang Huairen still followed their advice, just to give everyone peace of mind.

In this way, Yang Shihu selected three hundred of the most elite forbidden soldiers from Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei, most of whom were soldiers who had participated in the Battle of Huanzhou in the original Tongyuan Border Army, and changed their disguises as horsemen and servants to accompany Yang Huairen into Liao.

In this way, Yang Huairen's 200 guards and the newly joined 300 forbidden army, and the 500 heroes were almost all from the elite of the original border army and internal guards, plus more than 30 other accompanying officials and servants, and the size of the mission was finally fixed at more than 600 people.

What Yang Huairen cares about the most is actually the Fengshenwei who have accepted the changes hidden in the Liao State, they are not very numerous, but they have lived in the Liao State for a long time, living among the Khitans, and they are more familiar with the situation of the Liao State and the customs of the Khitan people.

When things really happened, these Fengshenwei hidden in the shadows were the key to making a big difference, and Lian Zigeng brought hundreds of Fengshenwei, turned them into pieces, pretended to be merchants, and entered the territory of Liao in advance as Yang Huairen's response, and at the same time contacted those Fengshenwei.

Everything was ready, and Yang Huairen's mission team crossed the border in Bazhou and entered Daliao.

On this day, Yang Huairen really encountered too many things that he had never thought of before, such as the place of Bazhou, according to the memory of his later generations, it is located in the Jizhong Plain, which should be a place with fertile land and dense population.

But when I really got here, I found that the gap between now and a thousand years later is too big, the terrain is very flat, but there is no imaginary fertile field, but an endless savanna.

The imperial court also took advantage of the geographical characteristics of Bazhou to build an official horse farm here, which was dedicated to captive and breeding the war horses used by the forbidden army.

And Bazhou City, like other border fortresses, there are not many ordinary people, more are full of border soldiers, because this is a commercial port between Song and Liao, so there are also a lot of shops and warehouses.

Walking on the streets of Bazhou, it gives people the feeling that although the city is lively, it always has a little nervous and solemn feeling.

And out of the city to the north to the Song Liaojie River Baigou River more than ten miles, it is another appearance, at a glance, a barren, flat ground overgrown with weeds, and the wide and neat official road to form a visual contrast, the impact caused to people is indescribable.

Lu Jinyi is also a local, and seeing Yang Huairen's puzzled expression, he explained to him the reason why these ten miles were barren.

After the Song-Liao Peace Conference in the first year of Jingde of the Zhenzong Dynasty, the two countries were bounded by the Baigou River according to the alliance of Lanyuan, but at that time, millions of Han people still lived north of the Baigou River.

These Song people could not bear the humiliation, so they waited for an opportunity to smuggle across the Baigou River and return to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. The Khitan people dominate Yanyun, not only for the land of these sixteen states, but also for the demographic dividend of the people, which they attach great importance to.

Therefore, after losing a large number of people, the Khitans put the responsibility for this matter on the head of the Great Song Dynasty, and in the third year of Jingde, the Song and Liao added the seconding of the contract, prohibiting the people of the two countries from crossing the border of the Baigou River at will.

At that time, the Great Song Dynasty had to follow the advice of the Khitans and forbid the people to live within ten miles on both sides of the Baigou River.

It was from this time that the ten miles on both sides of the Baigou River became a no-man's land, and the land was gradually barren and overgrown with weeds.

The Khitans also erected a fence wall hundreds of miles long on the north bank of the Baigou River, and sent troops to guard it, strictly prohibiting the Han people in the territory from crossing the border without authorization, and violators were immediately beheaded for the crime of defection.

Under the strict law, the Han people north of the Baigou River were gradually prevented from moving south, and these millions of Song people could only stay under the strict rule of the Khitans.

Yang Huairen began to feel uncomfortable in his heart after hearing this, and after the mission crossed the border into Liao, that feeling was anger.

The first county seat after entering Liao is Yongqing County, and the scale of the county seat is no different from an ordinary county town in the Great Song Dynasty, but after entering the city, walking on the street, it is a depressed scene.

Most of the shops on the street were opened by Khitans, and the Khitans always swaggered along the people walking around the streets, while the Han people walked briskly along the wall with their heads bowed and timidly.

Occasionally, a few dilapidated courtyards, at a glance, were crowded with ragged Han people named Huazi, who shivered in the cold wind, and relied on each other for warmth, and the situation was extremely pitiful.

For the first time, Yang Huairen felt that the people after the collapse of the country and the death of the family are really like candles in the wind, the day is precarious, life is thinner than paper, not to mention what dignity is there?

And those Khitan people who passed by, as if they were used to seeing them, looked at so many Han people who were suffering from hunger and cold, not only were they indifferent, but even showed a little contempt and ridicule.

Watching his compatriots live such an inhuman life is unbearable for a man. Brother Hei Niu and Brother Tianba were about to explode, their hands trembled and they watched all this, their eyes were red, and their eyeballs were about to burst out.

Ke Xiaochuan suddenly clenched the sharp blade on his waist and scolded, "He's a good woman, these Khitan people are really not a thing, let's fight with them!" ”

Xuanshen was always older, and immediately pressed his brother-in-law, "What do you fight?" Can you kill one or two, and have the ability to kill all the Khitans in this county and rescue these Song people?

Do you remember what we came to Liao for this time? It's all about the big things! ”