"Zhang Qing, is there any news of Gao Yu?"

"Back to Your Majesty's words, yesterday Ji Yi, who was the envoy of Hebei Xuanfu (General Xu refused to take the Xuanfu matter after Gao Yu came out of the battle, he could only let Ji Yiquan, the transfer envoy) reported that the Liao army had retreated from the vicinity of Liyang and was heading north along the Yongji Canal. It seems that the defense of the Yellow River is no longer in serious trouble, please rest assured Your Majesty......"

"I'm asking Gao Yu!" Zhao Ji interrupted Uncle Zhang's routine report.

He had heard the same report about an hour ago.

After learning the news of Wu Haogu's attack on Yanjing, he already knew that there would be no danger in the Yellow River defense line - at least the danger would not come from the Liao soldiers! But Gao Yu's situation made it difficult for him to sleep.

Because Wu Haogu's attack on Yanjing's Lubu Feijie was too slow, he reported to Kaifeng Mansion eight days later. Kaifeng and Yanjing are only 1,500 miles apart, and the transportation lines are east of the Yellow River, so they will not be cut off by the Liao soldiers at all. At the speed of six hundred miles, it should be there in three days. Even if the bridges on the rivers were cut off in various parts of Hebei because of the preparations for war, the six-hundred-mile rush turned into a three-hundred-mile rush, and it should have arrived in five days. But it took eight days for this news to be delivered to Kaifeng Mansion!

For this reason, Zhao Ji also personally asked the officials of the Jinju Academy, and the answer was that Wu Haogu did not send someone to report the victory immediately after the capture of Yanjing, but waited for three days, and waited for Yang Jian, who had been in charge of military affairs, to go north to the Hejian camp before he jointly reported the victory to Kaifeng Prefecture, so that there were only five days left for the post post. Moreover, the route from Yanjing City to Jiehe is very difficult to walk, and there are small groups of Liao soldiers, so it has been delayed.

There are indeed some minor problems in the procedure, but there is a great merit in overcoming Yanjing, and these are not a problem. The only problem is that Gao Yu is in danger.

If Yelu Yanxi learned that Yanjing had missed, then the peace agreement reached before would naturally be null and void. Yanjing is a treasure land that the Great Song Dynasty has thought about for more than a hundred years, and now it has finally been defeated, how can it be returned to the Khitans? And the Liao State could not give up Yanjing easily, so the war between the two countries must continue.

Of course, it is impossible for Yelu Yanxi to stay on the north bank of the Yellow River when the back road is about to be cut off by Wu Haogu. The news that Yanjing was breached is too terrible, once it spreads among Yelu Yanxi's army, there is no need to fight, and the people's hearts will be scattered!

And because Yandi was occupied by Wu Haogu, there would also be problems in the communication between Yelu Yanxi and the rear, and maybe there would be another new king.

So Yelu Yanxi will definitely go!

But before leaving, it is possible to finally fight Gao Yu to the death - because according to Zhao Ji's will, Gao Yu is going to lead his troops to "escort" Yelu Yanxi to the north.

After Yelu Yanxi learned that Yanjing had been breached and the Song-Liao War could not end, how could Yelu Yanxi tolerate Gao Yu following behind his ass?

Therefore, after Zhao Ji got Wu Haogu's Lubu Feijie, he immediately began to worry about Gao Yu's safety.

Moreover, now the report of the Daimyo Mansion on Yelu Yanxi's northern retreat has reached Kaifeng Mansion, but the report of Gao Yu's department, which should be closer to Kaifeng Mansion, has not yet arrived.

This made Zhao Ji feel very ominous.

Uncle Zhang, who was summoned to face the saint, left the Chongzheng Hall at night, leaving only a restless Zhao Ji waiting anxiously in the empty hall.

Uncle Zhang also knew that Gao Yu was more than lucky! Some time ago, there was a daily correspondence between Gao Yu's Qihe battalion and the capital military aircraft department of Kaifeng Prefecture.

However, the messenger from the Qihe battalion did not arrive on time three days ago, and the day before yesterday, the messenger sent by the Military Machinery Department of the capital returned because of the obstruction of the Liao people.

Today, an even more ominous situation has emerged, the Liao army is heading north, and Gao Yu is still missing!

Gao Yu, don't let Yelu Yanxi be defeated! Of course, Zhang Shuye knew how important the seven thousand Lingzhou elites in Gao Yu's hands were to the current Great Song Dynasty.

Wu Haogu, who broke through Yanjing, and the imperial court are always a little detached, and they may not necessarily pull the flag and rebel, but they can no longer be regarded as the force of the heart of the imperial court.

In this way, the elite that the imperial court can really grasp in hand is Tong Guan's Shuofang soldiers, Gao Yu's Lingzhou soldiers and the model new army of the four generals. Among them, the Shuofang soldiers are not in front of them, only the Lingzhou soldiers and model soldiers are at hand, and the model new army has no cavalry. After all, it is not easy to get together some cavalry that will not fall when riding and running in Kaifeng Mansion. Without cavalry, there can be no field battles, and the Kaifeng Model New Army of the four generals can only be reduced to a force guarding the city and guarding the house.

What if there was a what-if?

With a full stomach, Uncle Zhang returned to the military aircraft department on the edge of Qionglin Palace at night, and as soon as he entered the inner hall, he bumped into a person head-on, and it turned out to be Wang Yu who went out with his head covered.

"Zhengchen, you are ......"

Uncle Zhang looked up and saw that from Wang Yu's black face, he felt that something was wrong.

"Ji Zhong, I just received an urgent report from the general army room of the Hebei Xuanfu Division, Gao ...... Captain Gao was defeated in Qihe, lost thousands of Lingzhou elites, and his whereabouts are unknown! ”

"You, what did you say!?" When Uncle Zhang heard this, the Venus in front of him was also rising, as if he had smashed a stick.

Wang Yu said anxiously and quickly: "Captain Gao was defeated in Qihe, losing more than 10,000 elites in Lingzhou, and his whereabouts are unknown!" The Xiangzhou regiment led by Han Yifu was also defeated at the same time, losing thousands of people, and has now returned to the territory! ”

"How could it be ......"

"Brother Ji Zhong, see for yourself! This is a document jointly signed by Ji Yizhi and Gao Shixuan (Hebei Road General Military Aircraft)! ”

As Wang Yu spoke, he handed the document he had just received to Uncle Zhang. When Wu Haogu presided over the military aircraft department of the capital, he established a set of his own military order transmission system, although it was also attached to the post station system to a certain extent, but the efficiency was higher.

Under normal circumstances, the military intelligence officer received by the military aircraft department of the capital should be one or two days earlier than the time when the guards reported it through the marching officer. Of course, there are exceptions, for example, the news of Wu Haogu's attack on Yanjing was obtained first by the Jinjuyuan.

Uncle Zhang unfolded the document and read it carefully, that's right! Gao Yu was indeed defeated. After Yelu Yanxi retreated, the Hebei Xuanfu Division immediately sent cavalry to search the battlefield between Qihe and Yongji Canal, and not only found a large number of corpses, but also collected many officers and soldiers of Gao Yu's subordinates who were scattered. From their mouths, I roughly figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that the Liao people were "treacherous", and after receiving the indemnity and making a guarantee to withdraw the troops, they suddenly launched an extremely crazy attack. And made a roundabout action to surround the Qihe camp, because he didn't know that Yanjing had been broken by Wu Haogu, so Gao Yu was afraid that the troops would be besieged for a long time, so he led the troops to attack. As a result, on the bank of the Qi River, he fought a decisive battle with the army led by the Liao lord Yelu Yanxi. Because Gao Yu's troops were small and there were not enough cavalry, the communication with the Qihe camp was cut off by the Liao soldiers. In the early morning of the next day, it was found that the Qihe camp was on fire. Gao Yu had no choice but to lead his troops to break through to the west, but because the army's morale had been weakened, he scrambled to flee for his life on the way to break through and was scattered by the Liao army!

Uncle Zhang stomped his feet at night, "Gao Shiyan, the world's number one marshal, is also confused, how can he train and divide troops with the Xiangzhou regiment?" Otherwise, the whole army is nearly 40,000, and the battalion can go to Liyang Prison step by step. ”

Wang Yu smiled bitterly: "Who is he a famous man...... In the Qingtang game, Tong Guan was in charge, and he was responsible for dividing the house! In the Pingxia scene, it was all a group of military planes planning it, and the senior teacher nodded strictly. However, most of those military aircraft have now been promoted and left office, and only Li Yongqi is still by Gao Yu's side to give advice. The ones that were added in the back were mostly the students we sent out from the Bujun Academy, which is a lot worse! ”

Gao Yu did not fight well this time, and an important reason is, of course, that the level of military agility that assisted him has declined. The original batch of people who were trained by Murong Wangwu are now all high-ranking officers. And the people who replaced them as military aircraft were all high-quality knight academy students in the system of Wu Haogu. In Gao Yu's team, there are students of the infantry army academy with low quality - originally the two schools used the same curriculum, but after Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu presided over the military aircraft department, they adopted a "simplified and quick" way to train officers. As a result, the quality of the officers was much worse than before, and they were basically unable to master and apply cavalry tactics, let alone infantry and cavalry coordination.

Uncle Zhang sighed, "The good situation is actually half broken...... Alas, let's go and meet the official's house! Let's see if we can transfer 2000 cavalry from Wu Chongdao? ”

Wang Yu just shook his head, and followed Uncle Zhang towards Qionglin Palace. Both of them are qualified to enter the Chongzheng Hall directly, and the road is naturally unimpeded. When I arrived outside the Chongzheng Palace, I was waiting for the announcement of the door, but I heard Zhao Ji's scolding voice!

"What a scheming Wulu Mountain! It's a shame that I treat him like this, he actually wants to be the envoy of Youzhou Town, and he also wants to take Tianjin Mansion for himself! I, I ...... When Gao Yu returns, I will order him to go to crusade against the traitor! ”

Gao Yu is back?

Can Gao Yu come back?

The two people outside the Chongzheng Hall sighed at the same time. What the officials inside were scolding, the two of them could figure it out with their heels, it must be something disobedient to Wu Haogu...... Most of them were sent to Tianjin to bear back.

After a while, Xuanzan came out of the hall and brought Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu into the empty Chongzheng Palace. There was a person kneeling in the center of the main hall, and when he got closer, it turned out to be Yang Jian, Yang Duzhi.

"You two came just in time!" Zhao Ji seemed to be angry, "Wu Haogu wants to be the envoy of the Youzhou Festival!" What should the court do? ”

"Your Majesty...... Wu Haogu was originally the envoy of the Youzhou Festival? Uncle Zhang reminded in a low voice.

Zhao Ji waved his hand, "He's going to be a real festival now!" ”

"Then, let him be the one for a while......"

"What!?" Zhao Ji was so angry by Uncle Zhang's words that he was happy, "Uncle Zhang, are you from the same party as Wu Haogu?" ”

Uncle Zhang cried and said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, the minister is not a martial artist. It's just that the minister has just gotten the document of the Hebei Xuanfu Division, and Gao Yu's department was defeated by Yelu Yanxi along the Qi River, and the elite of more than 10,000 Lingzhou soldiers in the department was almost wiped out, and Gao Yu himself was nowhere to be found, and it is likely that he has been martyred! ”