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At the end of August, Liu Yanqing led the problematic army to Hejian Mansion with great difficulty.

Here, Liu Yanqing met with Tong Guan and Cai You.

Tong Guan is Liu Yanqing's old superior, so he didn't say anything polite to Liu Yanqing, and directly introduced the enemy situation to Liu Yanqing, saying: "At present, the main force of the Khitan still exists, and the combat effectiveness is still very strong, so you can't easily fight with it. ”

In fact, Tong Guan also wanted to fight Yanjing with the Jurchens, so as to ensure that Yanjing would be defeated in a battle.

After all, Tong Guan has led more than 20 years of soldiers, and he knows better than anyone else that he has an army of four or five hundred thousand on his side, but in fact, only the Western Army, which is already less than 100,000, can be defeated, and the other armies are completely decorations, no, it should be said that it is a burden.

However, Tong Guan couldn't say it explicitly, because he didn't want to take this responsibility.

Liu Yanqing was also very uncertain about fighting the Liao army, especially after he came all the way with this problematic army, he said: "The Khitan is not Fangla, the Khitan is a golden iron horse, and it is not easy to deal with." ”

Cai You briefly explained to Liu Yanqing the situation of the army's stationing: "Now that the army has basically been assembled, the troops are divided into two routes, one is stationed in the ancient city, and the other is stationed in the Guangxin army, Uncle Ping (Liu Guangshi) has already gone to the Guangxin army, and General Liu will go to the ancient city." ”

At this time, the staff officer Liu Ju said worriedly: "Yanjing is not easy to take, and it is not easy to defend it, so we still have to plan early." ”

Since Liu Ju was wronged for the seed master, Tong Guan has become more and more disdainful of Liu Ju, especially after Liu Ju did not recruit Liu Ziyu back, therefore, Tong Guan felt that Liu Ju's words were very harsh, and immediately made up his mind to transfer Liu Ju from the Xuanfu Division.

Tong Guan wrote a letter to Wang Hao, requesting that Liu Wei be transferred away and Yuwen Xuzhong transferred to the Xuanfu Division as a staff officer.

Wang Hao believes that Liu Tao is also a rare military talent, when the Western Xia invaded, the Western Army general Liu Fa unfortunately died, Liu Tao had acted as the commander, carefully organized a counterattack, defeated the enemy of the Western Xia invasion in one fell swoop, and shocked the border pass, and now the war to recover Yanjing is about to start, Liu Ju is better to stay in Hebei.

As a result, Wang Hao transferred Liu Yi to the post of Zhending Mansion Road Pacification Envoy and Zhizhen Dingfu - this position is actually more powerful than being a staff officer in the Xuanfu Division.

After Liu Ju took office in Zhending Mansion, he immediately recruited dare soldiers (i.e., death squads) and formed local armed forces to cooperate with the Northern Expedition of the army - now it was not Li Yanjie who took the lead, and Yue Fei, who was only twenty years old, came to apply, and then after selection, he was appointed as a squad leader by Liu Ju, and then began his military career.

Yu Wenxuzhong, who succeeded Liu Ju, immediately set off after receiving the appointment, and inspected the armament situation of the prefectures and counties along the way.

After arriving at the Xuanfu Division in Xiongzhou, Yuwen Xuzhong went to Guangsheng Army and Gucheng respectively to actually inspect the situation of the army.

After returning to the Xuanfu Division, Yuwen Xuzhong said to Tong Guan: "The armament situation is not optimistic, and there are serious problems in material reserves, siege equipment, morale in the army, etc. ”

In fact, Tong Guan knew all these situations, and they all reported them to Zhao Ji - there has been no war in Hebei for nearly a hundred years, and the long-term years of peace, as well as corruption from top to bottom, have made the combat effectiveness of the Hebei army so low that it has not been offline.

This is also the main reason why Tong Guan hopes and the Jin army are caught in Yanjing.

Tong Guan said to Yuwen Xuzhong: "Do your best, listen to the destiny of heaven." ”

Yu Wenxuzhong felt that since he was the marching staff officer, he had to seek his own government in his position and fulfill his duties.

So, Yu Wenxu wrote a piece of "On the Interests of Recovering Yanshan" overnight:

Today, according to the wise calculation, if you want to recover Yanshan or make the land, you will be a soldier, if you take the years, you can also cause it, but you are born to destroy it, you can not destroy it, you know your own self, and you should try to complete the strategy...... (There are too many contents, so I won't say them one by one), in short, the meaning of Yuwen Xuzhong is actually to say that for the sake of the country, it is necessary to seek permanent comfort, and to get along with the Khitan is the best policy once and for all.

Wang Hao was furious after reading the recital in Yuwen Xuzhong!

He believes that Yuwen Xuzhong is a scholar, who does not understand politics or military affairs, and only knows how to talk about soldiers on paper, and he began to shake the morale of the army as soon as he went to Hebei, how can such a person be a marching staff officer?

Wang Hao planned to impeach Yuwen Xuzhong to Zhao Ji and punish Yuwen Xuzhong heavily.

However, Wang Huang then received a letter from Tong Guan - Tong Guan interceded for Yu Wenxu in the letter.

For the sake of Tong Guan's face, Wang Hao withheld the chapter of Yuwen Xuzhong and did not report it to Zhao Ji, but only demoted Yuwen Xuzhong to the Jiying Palace, and let him continue to stay in the Xuanfu Division as a marching staff officer.

Yuwen Xuzhong is a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, and he has three brothers, the elder brother is called Yuwen Cuizhong, and the younger brother is called Yuwen Shizhong, all of whom were officials in the Song Dynasty.

Yuwen Xu's original name was actually Yuwen Huangzhong, and Zhao Ji renamed him Yuwen Xuzhong - Zhao Ji seems to have a penchant for changing people's names, and he has changed his name to Seed Master Dao, and he has also changed his name to Wang Huang.

In fact, Li Yan also has this problem.

Yuwen Xuzhong did not retreat because of the demotion, he continued to write some chapters analyzing the Northern Expedition, and successively "built eleven policies and twelve discussions", but they were all suppressed by Tong Guan and did not report.

Tong Guan did this, in fact, to protect Yuwen Xuzhong.

Tong Guan likes Yuwen Xuzhong very much (in the following years, Yuwen Xuzhong has been following Tong Guan and serving as a staff officer until the year when Tong Guan fled back to Beijing from Taiyuan in embarrassment), so he has been protecting Yuwen Xuzhong, otherwise Yuwen Xuzhong would have followed in the footsteps of Song Zhao and was exiled by Zhao Ji and Wang Hao, who were bent on recovering Yanjing.

Yuwen Xuzhong's series of questions, countermeasures and suggestions about the Northern Expedition were all detained by Tong Guan in the Xuanfu Division, so it seemed that it had no impact on either the imperial court or the generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

On this day, Liu Yanqing, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, left the ancient city and went north to Baigou River to observe the enemy's situation.

I saw that the Liao country on the other side of the river was very quiet, and only occasionally I could see the Liao army sentries walking back and forth.

Liu Yanqing preliminarily judged that the main force of the Liao army had retreated, and he planned to send troops across the river to test it.

At dawn the next day, Liu Yanqing sent Zheng Jianxiong, Li Shao and other generals to take advantage of the dense fog on the river as a cover to lead troops across the river and capture dozens of Liao soldiers stationed in the bridgehead in one fell swoop.

After interrogation, Liu Yanqing learned that due to the lack of police information at the Baigou River boundary for several months, the main force of the Liao army had indeed retreated, leaving only a small part of the troops stationed in Xincheng.

Liu Yanqing was very happy about this, which proved that his judgment was correct.

In fact, Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi had already returned to Yanjing when Yeluchun was seriously ill.

Later, Yelu Chun died, and Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi were busy "conspiring to establish Xiao Hou, and they didn't have time to come to Baigou".

At present, the one who undertakes the defensive task on the Song-Liao border line is Xiao Jilu, the deputy commander of the Southwest Road, and his troops are very limited.

Xiao Jilu was stationed in Xincheng, and he had not yet discovered the Song army in the area of the ancient city on the south bank of the Baigou River, he only knew that the Guangxin Army had already been stationed by the Song army—due to the lack of troops, he organized the local Xi and Khitan villagers to constantly harass the Song army in the area of the Guangxin army.

Liu Guangshi is only 34 years old this year, young and vigorous, and he is far from Liu Ranran, who will be smoothed out by the years in the future.

Seeing that the enemy was empty, Liu Guangshi decisively ordered the generals Ji Jing, Zhao Ming, Ren Ming, etc., to lead their troops out of the city to meet the battle, and won a complete victory.

Tong Guan was very happy when he learned this, and immediately went to the court to ask for credit to Liu Guangshi.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed when he heard the news, and issued an edict to promote Liu Guangshi to be the envoy of the mighty army - the envoy was a military attaché, only one level lower than the envoy of the festival, and he already belonged to the sequence of senior military attachés.

It can be seen that Zhao Ji is "very fond of Liu Guangshi".

Maybe Tong Guan was a little uneasy, so he handed over the army to Liu Yanqing and Liu Guangshi's father and son to command.

Soon, Tong Guan transferred Yang Keshi, the Huazhou observation envoy, to the Xuanfu Division to listen to the envoy.

A few days later, Tong Guan arranged for Yang Keshi to garrison the Ansu army.

At this time, the Han people in Yandi generally believed that the Liao State was about to fall, and Li Yan or the Jurchens would soon come over, so they all had the intention of returning south to the Song Dynasty.

In the battle of Baigou River, although the Song army was defeated, Yang Keshi's bravery was still remembered by the Han people in Yandi.

Therefore, when I heard that Yang Keshi was back, the people of Yandi, who had no way out, defected to the Ansu army one after another.

This caused Liu Guangshi's jealousy and dissatisfaction.

In fact, this is only one of the reasons, and the main reason is that Yang Keshi is here to divide the power of their father and son.

But Liu Guangshi also knew that Yang Keshi was Tong Guan's descendant, so although he was dissatisfied, he was helpless.

But—

The seeds of resentment have been planted, and resentment will sprout sooner or later......

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