The autumn breeze is sluggish, the cattle and sheep are fattening, in the past, the herdsmen on the grassland are also working day and night to store pasture grass to prepare for the coming winter, but now the grassland is empty, half a person high pasture can not see half a sheep, even the steppe wolf seems to sense the danger, early escape from this grassland.

With the sound of hurried horses' hooves, I saw a cavalry galloping from the west, shaking the grassland and the land was also trembling, Di Qing rode on the horse while hurrying while issuing orders, constantly having horses being sent, and at the same time constantly having horses come back to report, they are like the eyes and ears of the army, they can see the surrounding environment clearly.

"Report~, the station of the Bubu Gaoshan Department ten miles ahead is empty, and no enemy information has been found around!" I saw a scout horse galloping over, and then reported to Di Qing with a fist on the horse.

"Revisit! Again! Di Qing ordered very calmly, and after hearing this, the horse agreed, and then changed horses and galloped away again.

Looking at the empty grassland in front of him, Di Qing also showed a contemplative look on his face, this was originally the territory of the Bu Ministry, and the Bu Department had originally surrendered to Li Yuanhao before, and then Li Yuanhao fled, and the Bu Department switched to their old boss Liaoguo, but the Bu Department was too close to Zhenzhou, so they were usually unclear with the Great Song Dynasty, this time Di Qing sent troops, and the Bu Department also mentioned the news in advance, and now Di Qing ran east for hundreds of miles, but he has not even seen a person from the Bu Department.

"These treacherous devils are running pretty fast!" Di Qing sighed at the end, and then urged the army to speed up again, because there was another enemy in front of them, that was the Eight Enemy Lies, compared to the wall grass like the Bu Tribe, the Eight Enemy Martyrs were the first enemy they faced.

Three days later, Di Qing and the others finally reached the territory of the Eight Divisions of the Enemy Lie, which was quite far away from Zhenzhou, and although the Eight Divisions of the Enemy Martyrs had heard some rumors before, they did not know the date of the Great Song Dynasty's troops, and the news of the grassland was blocked, so they could only speculate on the activities of the Great Song Dynasty from the abnormal behavior of the Bu people.

This time, the various tribes of the Bu tribe suddenly withdrew from their original territory, as their old opponents, the enemy Lie Babu naturally got the news, and even they speculated that the Song army might have sent troops, but this is only speculation, and now is the busiest season in the grassland, they want to seize this time to let the cattle and sheep stick to the fat, and also have to store forage, so some short-sighted tribes are not willing to gather their clansmen at all.

However, after all, the enemy Lie Eight Department was still prepared, so when Di Qing's cavalry arrived, they immediately sent a cavalry of tens of thousands of people to meet the enemy, but whether it was quantity or quality, Di Qing's cavalry was in a crushing advantage, especially Di Qing had already studied the tactics of the grassland people thoroughly, so just one charge, the cavalry of the enemy Lie Eight was rushed to pieces.

With the fiasco of the enemy's cavalry, the Great Song cavalry also entered the enemy's martyrdom under the command of Di Qing, and for a time the enemy's eight divisions were also caught in a war, Di Qing didn't bring too many supplies this time, because he had already formulated a strategy to eat the enemy, in other words, all the materials needed to be grabbed by them from the grassland people.

Although it seems that Di Qing's plan is very cruel, but this is the cruel side of the war, the champion Hou Huo went deep into Mobei to annihilate the main force of the Huns, and the logistics could not keep up at all, so the army under his command was also "eating the enemy", behind these short four words, it was endless blood, but this was also the retribution of the grassland people, because in the eyes of the grassland people, the Central Plains was also their granary, and now Di Qing just recovered a little interest from them.

The biggest advantage of the cavalry is speed, before the mechanical power of later generations appeared, the cavalry was the world's earliest mobile force, and Di Qing gave full play to the advantages of the cavalry, in just five days, he completely annihilated the eight enemy martyrs, and the remaining enemy martyrs tribes also fled, and could no longer pose a threat to the Great Song Dynasty.

After destroying the eight divisions of the enemy, Di Qing immediately waved his army to Shangjing of Liao, and at this time, Liao had already learned the news of Di Qing's troops, and they also arranged several defense lines around Shangjing, but if they did not increase their troops, I am afraid that these defense lines would be difficult to block Di Qing's cavalry.

In the Great Liao Palace in Zhongjing City, Yelu Zongzhen sat on the dragon chair, and the civil and military officials below were also lined up, but now the atmosphere of the entire hall was also very depressing, the Song army had already killed, and it was about to threaten Shangjing, although Shangjing was not as important as Zhongjing, but after all, it was the origin of the Khitan people, and if it was lost there, it would cause an extremely heavy blow to the Liao State.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Di Qingbu is just an auxiliary, and the real goal of the other party is definitely not to go to Beijing, and now we should concentrate more troops on the front line of Anle City to prevent the Song army from killing out of Gubeikou!" In the end, I saw a gray-haired minister stand up and break the silence in the hall and said, this person is Yelu Renxian, and in just a few years, he is getting older and older.

"But what if Di Qingbu really attacks Shangjing, if Shangjing is lost, then where will I put my Khitan face?" At this time, someone stood up and objected, the person who spoke was a young man in his twenties, this person was Yelu Zongzhen's younger brother Yelu Chongyuan, Xiao Yunjin wanted to abolish Yelu Zongzhen and establish Yelu Chongyuan as the emperor, but Yelu Chongyuan and Yelu Zongzhen have always had a deep relationship, so after Xiao Yunjin was demoted, Yelu Chongyuan was not affected, but was very trusted by Yelu Zongzhen.

Yelu Chongyuan's words also represent the views of many Khitan nobles, for the Khitan people, Shangjing has a very special meaning for them, so they must not be lost, and Di Qing's army is menacing, but there are only 20,000 defenders in Shangjing, which makes them have no confidence to stop Di Qing, so they are now also discussing whether to increase troops in Shangjing?

"But my Da Liao's troops are limited, if we increase troops to Shangjing, the Song army in Gubeikou will definitely quickly attack Anle City, and Anle City is the gateway to Zhongjing, if Anle City is lost, the Song army will directly kill Zhongjing City, and then my Da Liao will face the danger of destroying the country!" Yelu Renxian said again with some pain at this time.

Anle City is located in the north of Gubeikou, the distance between the two sides is not far, since the Great Song Dynasty defeated Yanyun, Anle City has become the forefront of the Liao resistance to the Song army, there is also the main army of the Liao army, if you want to increase troops in Shangjing, you can only transfer troops from Anle City, and Cao Mata on the opposite side will definitely not let go of this opportunity.