Zhending House.

Inside the city.

Zhao Guangyi was temporarily in charge, a temporary command post for a million-strong army.

Zhao Guangyi was losing his temper, and several civil servants who were on staff and military affairs lowered their heads and were silent.

"A bunch of rubbish!"

"What do you eat for?"

"Will Huyanzan fight?"

"Is Cao Bin too old to fight?"

“……”

The ministers were scolding the generals of the Chinese army, and Zhao Pu, Zhao Defang, and Yang Qi sat in the corner on the east side as mud bodhisattvas.

From Yang Da conquering the first city in Daliao Shuozhou and firing the first shot of the Northern Expedition, it has been six days until now.

In six days, the vanguard of the left army, led the rangers, and swept away all the Liao soldiers in the countryside in Shuozhou. Yang Wu led the Iron Cavalry Army and cooperated with Yang Dawei to send reinforcements, repelling sixteen enemy reinforcements.

And Yang Da, with the cooperation of Yang Wu and Yan Tianzi, attacked the city all the way and successively seized six cities in Shuozhou.

Now, in the entire Shuozhou, only the main city of Shuocheng has not been conquered, and the rest has been incorporated into Yang Qi's territory.

Compared with the left army, the right army is also triumphant.

Shi Shouxin led the soldiers and horses of the right army, transferred to Cangzhou, and entered Daliao.

The first battle of the right army to open the Great Liao ended before it began.

The Liao general, who guarded the road that the right army must pass, was a Han man with a Han family in his heart.

Seeing that the soldiers of the right army were pressing the border and recovering Yanyun, he didn't say a word, and killed the Liao official who supervised the battle, when Shi Shouxin's army was approaching the city.

The Liao general, who had the Han family in mind, led the soldiers and horses under his command and voted decisively.

Shi Shouxin broke through the door of Da Liao so easily.

Immediately afterwards, for three days, with the help of the Liao generals who had already surrendered, Shi Shouxin's Ministry persuaded the guards of the three cities to surrender, and took the three cities without spending a single soldier.

His soldiers and horses not only did not decrease because of the fighting, but gradually increased.

Four Liao generals with Han hearts surrendered, and Shi Shouxin harvested nearly 90,000 Liao soldiers.

His soldiers and horses have a faint tendency to exceed 400,000.

Shi Shouxin took nearly 400,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and pounced on the fifth city in black pressure.

With an absolute superiority in troops, Shi Shouxin's soldiers and horses easily won the fifth city.

Both armies on the left and right are marching all the way.

On the other hand, the Chinese army, which was sent by Zhao Guangyi with heavy troops and high hopes, was a little stagnant.

Cao Bin led the Chinese soldiers out of Waqiao Pass, swept all the way, and arrived at Tongtai Pass in only two days.

However, Tongtaiguan is like Cao Bin's nemesis.

Tongtaiguan is like a nail, blocking Cao Bin's inevitable path, firmly rooted there.

Once in Yang Wu's hands, the vulnerable Tongtai Pass, after the reconstruction, it became an impregnable wall, and with 100,000 troops, it was guarded from a dangerous distance, and it stubbornly blocked Cao Bin's footsteps.

These 100,000 Liao troops are not the most elite soldiers in Da Liao, not even the Liao people.

They are just Han Derang's private army in Youzhou.

Many of them used to be Han Chinese, and later followed Han Derang as pseudo-Liao.

It was such a group of private troops that dragged Cao Bin's hundreds of thousands of troops for nearly five days.

This is also why Zhao Guangyi will curse people in the temporary command post.

The left army, which had the smallest number of people, was like a bamboo, and the right army's luck was almost like picking up turf.

The Chinese army, which he had high hopes for, seemed to be dragging its feet.

Zhao Guangyi can not be angry.

"Send an order to Cao Bin and tell him that he can't take Tongtai Pass within a day, and I don't mind changing to a commander of the Chinese army."

For an emperor who only looks at the result, not the process, the result is the most important.

As for how much hardship and helplessness there was in the process, he didn't care.

Zhao Guangyi gave Cao Bin a one-day order.

Yang Qi frowned slightly when he heard this order, but he didn't speak.

From the perspective of war, Zhao Guangyi's one-day order is inevitably a little quick to achieve quick success.

As the mainstay of the battlefield, the Chinese army must be stable, and it must be stable again and again.

As long as it does not waver, the soldiers and horses on the left and right wings will not be able to determine the overall situation of the battlefield regardless of victory or defeat.

However, once the Chinese army is eager for quick success, it will inevitably waver, and its military strength will be rapidly depleted.

In the long run, once the Chinese army is weakened, the overall situation will be unstable.

……

Zhao Guangyi's one-day order was delivered to Cao Bin in only one day.

After getting Zhao Guangyi's one-day order, Cao Bin was a little dazed and a little helpless.

The art of war has clouds, ten are to surround it, five are to attack it, and multiple is to fight.

The army led by Cao Bin has not yet reached ten times the number of the enemy.

But in terms of combat effectiveness, it is definitely ten times more than the enemy.

Cao Bin dealt with Tongtai Pass, and used the strategy of encircling and feintting to attack it.

Through the siege, put pressure on the enemy, and through feints, constantly wear down the enemy's fighting spirit.

It's not that Cao Bin can't take Tongtai Pass in one fell swoop, but because if he attacks strongly, it will cause great loss of troops.

It is a bit uneconomical to wear troops to knock on Tongtai Pass.

As a commander-in-chief on the battlefield, he pays more attention to the overall situation of the entire battlefield.

The Chinese army is asking to conquer more than just Tongtai Pass.

There are Youzhou, Shunzhou and other places in the back, as well as the last Gubeikou, which confronts the main army of the Liao State head-on.

From the very beginning, the purpose of the Chinese army's war was not to attack the city, but to continuously consume the main army of the Liao State, and in the final battlefield, to conquer the Liao army in one fell swoop.

At the very beginning, how many cities in the Liao State were occupied, that was secondary.

If you can't defeat the main army of Liao, no matter how many cities you occupy, you have to return them.

Only by defeating the main army of the Liao State can the Great Song Dynasty easily plant the flag on the sixteen states of Yanyun and occupy territory.

This is the difference between a commander and a general.

The general only saw the gains and losses of one city and one place.

And the commander sees the big picture.

Obviously, Zhao Guangyi doesn't want the overall situation, he prefers to occupy more territory at the beginning.

Cao Bin pinched Zhao Guangyi's order, glanced at the forbidden army camp that stretched for miles behind him, and sighed.

"The left and right are the soldiers and horses of your Zhao family, you really want to toss like this, what qualifications do I, a courtier, have to refuse? Fight for war. It's really going to shake the overall situation, it's not for me Cao Bin to be guilty......"

After sighing in a low voice, Cao Bin turned his head and instructed the Cao family man behind him, "Go and give the order, assemble the army, and storm Tongtai Pass." Before sunset, take Tongtai Pass at all costs. ”

The Cao family received the order, went down to give the order to the drummer, and beat the drum to gather the generals.

The heavy drumbeat sounded, and the soldiers of the forbidden army, wearing foot armor, gathered on the school field in unison.