"Your Majesty, Xiao Shumi has arrived."

"Xuan!"

Hearing that the attendants who accompanied him informed that Xiao Bao had arrived first, Yelu Yanxi immediately summoned him into the palace where he was.

Xiao Bao came in from the outside first, and when he saw Yelu Yanxi, he saluted, and then reported quickly and urgently: "Your Majesty, the Song people have built a fortress outside Zhaojiabao!" There were fences, and ditches, and walls of the camp after sacks of earth...... It looks very sturdy and the construction is extremely fast! ”

"What is this called?" Yelu Yanxi frowned, "Isn't it going to be a long-term confrontation?" ”

"Perhaps!"

Yelu Yanxi asked again, "Why have you been there all day?" Are you all watching the Song people build a fortress? ”

"If you go back to Your Majesty, the minister also went to Zhangjialian Village, twenty miles southeast of the county seat."

"Zhangjialianzhai? What's going on over there? ”

"The city is also being built!" Xiao Bao said first, "There are also eight or nine hundred Song people's half-armored cavalry covering, which is very powerful, our distant horses have touched them, and they are not opponents at all!" ”

"Oh." Yelu Yanxi didn't seem to understand what was going on, so she just answered in a low voice.

Xiao Baoxian shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, there are five local tyrants and three or four hundred customers in this Zhangjialian Village, and no less than 1,500 strong men can be pulled...... All of them have taken refuge in the Song people! ”

"What?" Yelu Yanxi was shocked when he heard this, "So many people voted for the Song Kingdom? They are not the people of my Great Liao, how can they dare to commit treason to the enemy? ”

Xiao Baoxian sighed: "Isn't it all Yelu Zhangnu who lost the battle? The Han people in this Yan land are also the same as the obstruction on the grassland, the female straight and Bohai in Liaodong Province, and they are not my Khitan nationality, so naturally they will fall to that side when the situation is big. Moreover, the Song people of the Southern Dynasty were still of the same clan as them...... In fact, this Zhangjia Lianzhai is not the first Lianzhai to fall to the Song people, in the south of Wuqing County, there are at least dozens of Lianzhai, all of which have taken refuge in the Song people. ”

"Dozens of Lianzhai, isn't there tens of thousands of strong men...... Yelu Yanxi couldn't sit still, and suddenly stood up from the throne, "I have been kind to them for more than a hundred years, how can I not be grateful at all?" ”

Be kind? Xiao Bao said in his heart: The Yan Si family and more than a dozen other World Chosen Families may have been treated well. Others are just alive! How dare you say kindness? However, in the past ten years, because of the rise of the Jiehe commercial market, many powerful and courageous Han heroes went to the south of Wuqing County to settle down, or simply went to the commercial market. That's when I got rich! At least eight out of ten of the small local tyrants who settled down in Wuqing County were connected to Jiehe Commercial City.

If Yelu Zhangnu had won a big victory in the north city of Jiehe Shang City that day, it would have been enough, but he would have been defeated and left! Who in Wuqing County doesn't know the situation? Isn't it clear which side they will fall?

"Your Majesty," Xiao Bao said first, "we have gained a lot on Dingzhou Road, so let's take it when we see it!" If you let Wuhao Gu go on tossing, half of Wuqing County will be gone. ”

Wu Haogu's practice of constantly building forts in the south of Wuqing County and winning over the powerful was actually the method of later Tsarist Russia to rectify all kinds of Central Asian and Siberian Tatars. With the Cossack cavalry and the fortress line, the space for the Tartars to move was constantly compressed to achieve the purpose of strangulation step by step.

The 6,000 iron cavalry in his hand is equivalent to a Cossack, and he can also pull out thousands of infantry troops with good combat strength, plus the ability of sappers to build fortresses, as well as the purchase and control of Jiehe Commercial Market, it won't take long to use the fortress line to eat away half of Wuqing County.

Don't underestimate this "half-county" land, in fact, there are four or five thousand square kilometers, and they are all plains that can be reclaimed! The population is indeed small, but it is also moderate, and it is just right to expand the breeding scale of Cangzhou horses and develop a new cavalry group.

If the population here is as dense as that of Kaifeng Prefecture, and a little land is used to support people, there will be no cavalry group.

Therefore, if half of Wuqing County is managed by Wuhaogu, in a few years, the number of Cangzhou cavalry groups will not be 6,000, but 10,000 or 12,000!

"What do you say?" Yelu Yanxi was also a little helpless.

It should be possible to block the pace of Wuhaogu's northward advance for the time being, Wuhaogu does not have a powerful light cavalry group, so he cannot quickly seize control of the battlefield, and can only use the method of fortress advancement to slowly compress the activity space of the Liao cavalry.

This process is likely to last more than a year. Then we will launch an attack on Wuqing County!

However, it is not easy to press Wu Haogu's soldiers and horses back to Jiehe Commercial City. There are so many fortresses that even the village, half of Yelu Yanxi can't gnaw on it! And his light cavalry has an advantage, but he can't ride with armor. Knights are inferior to men, war horses are inferior to men, and armor and equipment are also inferior to men. What's even more hateful is that the Song people also have very powerful gunpowder weapons, and they will blow you up dizzy before the armored cavalry impacts!

If you really want to fight, you will only be beaten.

Don't look at Yelu Yanxi's 20,000 palace division troops in his hands, and he can continue to mobilize if necessary. But in the face of the impact of 6,000 armored cavalry, these palace soldiers will definitely not be able to withstand it...... If you really want to lose again, the Great Liao Kingdom will not be finished.

Now this battle is not only a matter between Song and Liao, but also Zhu Bu, Jurchen, and Bohai, but they are all staring and watching.

If Wu Haogu is allowed to destroy Yelu Yanxi's main force, then these unstable factors in the Liao State will erupt in general.

"Negotiable peace!" Xiao Bao said first, "Seek peace with war, as long as the soldiers of Wu Haogu retreat to the south of the Jiehe River, let's make peace with the Song people." ”

"How can they retreat?" Yelu Yanxi looked at Xiao Baoxian.

"Your Majesty," Xiao Bao said first, "we have the upper hand on Dingzhou Road!" If they can take advantage of the victory to capture Dingzhou City, they will lose Wuqing County, and the Song people can only sue for peace. ”

Yelu Yanxi will be suspicious, and if he loses Wuqing County, Xijin Mansion is in front of him! Are the Song people still willing to sue for peace?

"Your Majesty," Xiao Bao gritted his teeth first, "There is really no way on the eastern front but to move the troops to the western front!" Your Majesty might as well lead the main force to join Fengxian and fight with the Song army in Dingzhou. The ministers stayed in Wuqing to bluff, and they could always bluff Wu Haogu. ”

"I moved to Dingzhou?" Yelu Yanxi thought for a while, "Baoxian, how many people do you want to stay in Wuqing?" ”

"8,000 regular soldiers plus the guards and grass valley soldiers are enough!" Xiao Bao said first, "The rest will be taken to Dingzhou Road by His Majesty." ”

On the battlefield of Dingzhou Road, there are now 30,000 Khitan soldiers under Xiao Fengxian and 36,000 Han troops under Ma Renwang, and if Yelu Yanxi brings another 30,000 Khitan soldiers, there will be 96,000 troops!

Capturing Dingzhou City will make it possible!

If Dingzhou is lost, I am afraid that Hebei will be shaken. At that time, Zhao Ji will most likely not be able to hold back and ask the Khitan for peace......

"It's good!" Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth, "That's it!" ”

……

The newly appointed deputy envoy of Hebei Xuanfu, the general manager of Dingzhou Road and Zhendingfu Road, and the soldiers and horses of Hebei West Road deployed Zhong Fu day and night, and finally arrived at Zhendingfu City, the seat of Zhendingfu Road, in the middle of July of the third year of Daguan.

Zhong Fu, who has led soldiers for several years, now looks at the vicissitudes of life, and the elegant style is no longer visible, and Zhou's body is full of martial energy.

"The weak man came so fast!" The pacification of Zhendingfu Road made Wang Yang and Han Xiaoxuan, the ambassador of Zhendingfu Road, greet each other at the door of the Shuai Si Office.

"The war is urgent, so we have to hurry up." Zhong Fu saluted Wang Yang and Han Xiaoxuan, and was taken by Wang Yang, who stepped forward, with his right hand, and entered the inner hall hand in hand.

After the three of them sat down, Wang Yang asked: "Weak man, you are now deployed on the Hebei West Road, are you in command of the war on the Hebei West Road?" ”

"This ......"

Zhong Fu could only smile bitterly.

Hebei now has a Xuanfu envoy, a transport envoy, a supervising army, and four pacification envoys (Wu Haogu returned the right to take the sea road commander), and now there is more of him, and the Hebei West Road is deployed.

There are a total of eight marshals, who is in command of whom?

In addition, Hebei also has four soldiers and horses in charge (excluding Zhong Fu) and four soldiers and horses are under the jurisdiction of the general, which should theoretically be the commander above the general.

And the "generals" under the command of these eight marshals and eight high-ranking generals who led the troops were only 18 in total. If you deduct the 6 generals directly commanded by Wu Haogu, it means that 15 commanders, governors, and commanders are in command of 12 generals...... There is really a bit of a sense that there are more handsome than generals, and there are more generals than soldiers.

"Alas, don't mention this!" Zhong Fu could only shake his head and smile bitterly, "This dynasty has always been like this, isn't Shaanxi also a place for six pacification envoys?" The eight marshals on our side don't have any size, just work together to do things for the court. ”

"But the military order of the Hebei Xuanfu Envoy has always been sent to us." Wang Yang smiled bitterly, "Wu Chongdao is now confronting the Liao lord in Wuqing County in the territory of Liao, and it is the time when the victory or defeat is not decided. The remaining one will be combined with the group training to expand to 30,000 to 50,000 people. and trained in Zhending Mansion, waiting for the delivery of weapons and armor. ”

It turned out that Wu Haogu's Xuanfu Division was still performing its duties, constantly moving from all directions, and striving to adjust the situation on the Western Front. Not only Zhendingfu Road was ordered, but Gaoyangguan Road also received a new order to cross the Juma River with a group of troops to build a city on the land of Guiyi County of the Liao State to threaten the rear road of the Liao army that broke through to Dingzhou Road. At the same time, he also ordered all walks of life to speed up the recruitment of regimental training and expand their strength.

"Don't bother him." Zhong Fu said, "The official family has already made a will, so that a certain governor will lead the two generals of Zhendingfu Road to aid Dingzhou, and then concentrate the five elite soldiers to fight a decisive battle with the northern captives!" ”

Wang Yang and Han Xiaoxuan looked at each other, and said in their hearts: This is good, the official family has also come to command, it is really getting more and more chaotic! I really don't know what this battle is going to be?

"Weak, the two generals have the elite soldiers right now, and they can attack at any time." Wang Yang said, "How many days do you want to rest?" ”

"No need," Zhong Fu shook his head, "Saving soldiers is like fighting fire, let's lead troops to attack tomorrow!" ”

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