Shenzhou, the county seat of Jing'an.

The spacious and dilapidated Great Song Dynasty Office that knew the affairs of Shenzhou had already risen at this time to symbolize the Great Liao Emperor.

In the center of the small state city, on a street running north-south, there were only Liao soldiers from the brigade, Jingzhou soldiers from Nanjing Road on foot, elite soldiers of the Four Jie Army mobilized from Xijing Road, heavy vehicles pulled by mules and horses, and Khitan elites with one person and two horses. Rumbling through the streets, they marched south under the watchful eyes of the people of the Song Kingdom who were forced to carry pots and jars full of food to each other. From officers to soldiers, all of them were in high spirits, as if they soon hit Kaifeng Mansion and pulled Zhao Ji off the throne.

The black marching procession stretched from the official road outside the north gate of the city to the official road outside the south gate, as if there was no end.

Yelu Yanxi, the son of the Great Liao, was also dressed in military uniform at this time, standing on a high ground on the bank of the north-flowing Yellow River more than ten miles outside Shenzhou Prefecture. Holding a telescope captured from Zhong Fu, who died in battle, he looked across the Yellow River. The course of the Yellow River is wide, the current is still gentle, and there is a group of boats passing on the river, because it is a boat against the current, so the speed is very slow. One of the ships was a troop transport, and the deck was full of Song Dynasty officers and soldiers in military uniforms, all of whom watched in amazement at the large force of Liao soldiers heading south along the official road on the west bank of the Yellow River.

Yelu Yanxi put down the telescope, turned his head and smiled at the Khitan generals who followed left and right: "If Lord Song knew that my army had drunk the Great River, I am afraid that he would be so scared that he would have nightmares every night, right?" ”

"Lord Song has always been weak, I heard that His Majesty's heavenly soldiers are on the Yellow River, and most of them fled to Jiangnan, right?"

"Haha, if Lord Song runs away, the Huahua World in the Central Plains will be our Khitan!"

"Then the great cause that Emperor Taizu failed to achieve will be realized in the hands of His Majesty!"

The Khitan generals around him all skillfully patted Yelu Yanxi's sycophants. However, what they said was not impossible to achieve, if the Khitan army really crossed the river near the Gyeonggi Road in the Great Song Dynasty and headed south. It's really hard to say whether Zhao Ji will be scared away.

But for now, they are just standing on the bank of the Yellow River, which flows north, and the other side of the Yellow River is only the eastern part of Jizhou. If the Liao army crosses the river and goes north, it will soon be able to enter the territory of Cangzhou and copy the back road of Wuhaogu!

But it's a bit scary, and no one dares to think about it. Jiehe Shang City is a fortified city built of red bricks, and it is estimated that all the Khitan warriors together will not be enough to fill it.

And there are hundreds of brick and stone castles south of Jiehe Merchant City! Each one has to be filled with the lives of the Khitans!

As for the siege of Jiehe Commercial Market, it is even more impossible. Jiehe Shang City has the largest navy in the whole world, and it is impossible to encircle and blockade it from land.

Besides, the iron cavalry of other people is very powerful, and if they really fight in the field, they may not lose to the Liao soldiers.

Therefore, it is impossible to go north to copy the Jiehe Commercial Market.

If you cross the river and head south, you will soon reach the castle of the Daimyo's house.

However, the Daimyo Mansion is the Beijing of the Great Song Dynasty, the city is tall and strong, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in the city, but I am afraid that it is not comparable to cities like Shenzhou, Dingzhou, and Qizhou.

In addition, everyone knows that there is a large inland river warship fleet on the Jiehe River, with dozens of large and small warships, including more than a dozen hydro ships. Although it cannot be compared with the Song warfleet at sea, it can still run rampant on the surface of the Jiehe River and the Yellow River. At least the Khitans had no way to take them before the Yellow River froze.

Therefore, it is impossible to cross the Yellow River now, and you can only cross the river from the ice after the Yellow River freezes in winter.

However, the Khitan army approaching the Yellow River can still exert great psychological pressure on the Song State!

This war has been fought until now, except for Wu Haogu, about no one really thought of the word "annihilation", and both sides are playing with heartbeats.

Whoever can't kneel first will suffer heavy losses.

The Great Song Dynasty is naturally a land reparation, and the annual coin has to be paid more than one million yuan a year! Zhao Ji's "Emperor Genghis" will also become the laughing stock of the world, and don't expect the Northern Expedition Yanyun in this life.

If the Liao State is soft first, the consequences will be even more terrible! Even if you don't cut an inch of land and don't lose a penny, the prestige of the Khitan Empire will be gone.

As soon as the prestige is lost, the obstruction on the grassland, the female straight between the white mountains and black waters, and the Bohai bitter slaves in Liaodong Province will all rise up. And the Song State, which won one game, will definitely be full of confidence and take advantage of the civil strife in Liao to make another northern expedition.

At that time, it would be impossible for Da Liao not to hurt his muscles and bones.

Therefore, Yelu Yanxi is now a swollen face and a fat man, ignoring the Hejian camp placed by Wu Haogu under the city of Xijin Mansion, and marching south with his head covered. It was to exert the greatest pressure on Zhao Ji to force him to accept the peace conditions of the Khitans.

A royal tent pro-army Hou Langjun rode a horse and galloped over, and after dismounting, he reported loudly to Yelu Yanxi: "Your Majesty, I have just intercepted the report sent by the Song Imperial Court to Hejian Mansion. ”

As he spoke, he handed over a box containing the newspaper to Xiao Baoxian, who was following Yelu Yanxi. Xiao Bao took out the newspaper first, read it carefully, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

"Your Majesty," his voice trembled a little as he spoke, "Zhao Ji announced that the Imperial Commander has been recruited!" ”

"Humph!" Yelu Yanxi snorted coldly, "He came just in time!" Lest my Khitan army go to Kaifeng Mansion and capture it alive in Hebei! ”

"It's not Hebei, it's Yandi!" Xiao Bao said first, "The Di newspaper said that Zhao Ji announced that he was going to personally conquer Tianjin Mansion, and upgraded Jiezhou to Tianjin Mansion as his Northern Expedition station......

"What!?" Yelu Yanxi's face was also pale at this time, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

If Kaifeng Mansion, which has no danger to defend except for the Yellow River that will be frozen in winter, is the death hole of the Great Song Dynasty, then the Xijin Mansion that has now been brought to the city by the Song army is the death hole of the Great Liao.

If Kaifeng Mansion is lost, the Great Song Dynasty will not necessarily perish. But once the Xijin Mansion is lost, Da Liao will be in a catastrophe.

Therefore, the idea of returning to Shijin Mansion immediately rose in Yelu Yanxi's mind, but then he suppressed it again.

Because when you return to Shijin Mansion, you must attack the camp in Hejian!

Otherwise, the dignified Liao Tianzi led so many troops, but turned a blind eye to a camp of the Song army not far from his palace, what would Yan Di Haoqiang think? The Son of Da Liao is so cowardly, is he another master?

But can the camp between the rivers be defeated? Zhong Fu, with more than 10,000 weak soldiers and hastily constructed a camp, caused heavy losses to Yelu Yanxi's army of 80,000. Now that it is replaced by the city building master Wu Haogu, who has spent so long and carefully constructed the camp between the rivers, how many people will have to die to defeat it?

Of course, it is more likely that many people died, and in the end the camp between the rivers was not captured. When Zhao Ji arrives, Yandi Haoqiang will not be able to return to the wind?

"Your Majesty, the Song Lord has taken the royal conquest in person, are we ......?"

Xiao Baoxian handed over the report to Yelu Yanxi and whispered a suggestion. He originally wanted to suggest that Yelu Yanxi return to Shijin Mansion, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that it was inappropriate, so he was stuck.

Yelu Yanxi glanced at Song Guogang's boat that was slowing down and difficult, gritted his teeth and said: "Go south to Hengshui along the Yellow River, and then go west along the Hulu River, cross the Hulu River in Xinhe Town, and continue south along the west course of the Yellow River!"

The Hulu River is a tributary of the Yellow River flowing north, the upstream originates in the Taihang Mountains, and its downstream has a section that connects the two rivers of the Yellow River in the north - the shallow town in the boundary of the Yellow River in the north is divided into two rivers, the East River is the main trunk, and the West River flows into the Hulu River, and then merges with the East River in Hengshui County, Jizhou.

Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth fiercely, "I will come to the Kaide Mansion boundary of the Song Kingdom before the Yellow River freezes, and when the river freezes, I will go straight to Kaifeng Mansion!"

In addition, the grassland was ordered to mobilize 10,000 regular soldiers from the South Wangfu, the North Wangfu, and the Yifu Wangfu to go south, and they were limited to Dingzhou within 50 days to obey the order! ”

The so-called Southern Palace, North Palace, and B Palace, like Xi Wangfu, are all yamen that manage the Khitan tribe and are directly subordinate to the Khitan court. The tribal soldiers provided by the three major royal palaces are also the most powerful force of the Khitan in recent decades. However, these tribes have also been seriously weakened because of the Khitan people's "palace guard system", and now the three major palaces can only dispatch more than 30,000 regular soldiers at most.

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Wu Haogu is busy with a lot of things at this time. I don't know if it's a fixed number in the dark or something else, the Jiehe Commercial Market, which has been in operation for more than ten years, is now officially renamed Tianjin!

And the boundary state, which has just been established and has not even been properly divided with Cangzhou, has now become Tianjin Prefecture.

Moreover, the defense of this Tianjin Prefecture is not under the jurisdiction of the Gaoyangguan Road or Hailu City Ship Control Division, but under the jurisdiction of the newly established Yanshan Road Jingluo Pacification Mission.

In other words, Tianjin Mansion is now the capital of Yanshan Road. It was customary in the Song Dynasty that the capital of the road was the largest and most prosperous city along the way.

In addition, in order to highlight the status of Tianjin Prefecture and Zhao Ji's determination to go north to Yanyun. In addition to Tianjin and Jiehe County (the prefect of Tianjin Prefecture is located in Jiehe County), a Wuqing County has also been added to the jurisdiction of Tianjin Prefecture!

And the first judge of Tianjin government affairs, needless to say, is of course Wu Haogu, who is also the commander of Yanshan Road.

Tianjin Mansion was the capital of Yanshan Road, and according to the practice of the Song Dynasty, the prefect was naturally concurrently served by the commander.

At the same time, the deployment of the Yanshan Road Capital of Wu Haogu has also become a formal Yanshan Road Transit Slightly Pacification Envoy, and a palace governor has been added to the dispatch to indicate that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty will be stationed in Tianjin.

And the dispatch of the sea route city envoy has not been taken away for the time being, and of course no one dares to take it...... went to Liaoguo to grab 3 million stones of grain, it's scary to think about!

In short, a lot of government and military affairs were all pressed on Wu Haogu's shoulders, and in addition, he had to be busy dealing with Yang Jian, who was sent by Zhao Ji to manage military affairs, and Wang Huang, who was sentenced to Tianjin Mansion. It's a bit busy!