"What!" Yelu Yanxi couldn't believe his ears, "Fengxian, what did you say?" ”

"Your Majesty, we have fallen into Zhao Ji's trap!" Xiao Feng stomped his feet first, "He didn't want to negotiate peace with us at all, he was blinding us, and he also took the opportunity to seize Yanjing City!" ”

"Is the information reliable?"

"Reliable! If the minister himself asked. There is also a chapter written by Xiao Dris, the king of the Southern Courtyard stationed in Dingzhou, please take a look at it! ”

Yelu Yanxi shook his hand and took the piece and read it again. It's true! It's really Shawris's calligraphy.

"Yanjing, Yanjing......" Yelu Yanxi's eyes darkened, his throat was sweet, and he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have to hold on!" Seeing Yelu Yanxi's body shaking, Xiao Fengxian hurriedly stepped forward to help.

Yelu Yanxi has a good body in the end, gritted his teeth and stabilized his body, was silent for a while, and suddenly laughed again, which startled Xiao Fengxian. I thought Yelu Yanxi couldn't stand the stimulation and went crazy!

"What a Zhao Ji!" Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth and said, "He spent five million to set up a trap, and he is really willing!" ”

In fact, Zhao Ji still didn't know that he had completed the great cause of recovering Yandi...... However, Yelu Yanxi thought that he was deceived by Zhao Ji, and the anger in his heart couldn't be suppressed.

"Your Majesty...... What shall we do? Xiao Fengxian was about to cry, half an hour ago he thought that the peaceful and prosperous era of the Great Liao Kingdom was just around the corner.

But now, all of a sudden, I fell into the ice hole.

Yanjing is gone, and the prestige of the Great Khitan in the grassland, between the white mountains and black waters, will be swept away immediately.

Heroes from all walks of life, but they are about to rise up!

"Feng Xian, does anyone else know about this?" Yelu Yanxi suddenly asked.

"Only the minister and a few henchmen know," Xiao Fengxian pointed to the two dead people, "The minister killed them just to kill them!" ”

"Well done!" Yelu Yanxi is almost word for word. "This time...... I'm fighting with them! ”

"Fight? And with whom? ”

Yelu Yanxi roared: "Of course it's Gao Yu!

Hurry up and gather the generals, I will arrange a decisive battle!" Tomorrow morning, the whole army will be dispatched to fight to the death with Gao Yu! ”

"Your Majesty, do you really want to fight Gao Yu?" Xiao Feng took a breath first.

Gao Yu is the first handsome man in the Great Song Dynasty!

"It's Gao Yu!" Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth, "If you don't defeat Gao Yu, I'm afraid that I won't even be able to go back to Shanbei!" ”

Yelu Yanxi is really going to be desperate. He didn't know that it was Wu Haogu, a rebellious minister and thief of the Great Song Dynasty, who used the "truth" to blast away the city of Xijin Mansion, and thought that Emperor Genghis Zhao Ji was arranging everything and setting a trap that could destroy the Great Liao Kingdom in one fell swoop!

Now that Yanjing has been lost, Gao Yu has commanded tens of thousands of troops to set up Qishui. In Yelu Yanxi's opinion, if he didn't do his best to defeat Gao Yu, but was entangled by Gao Yu on the west road by the river, then when the news of the fall of Yandi spread throughout the army, I am afraid that he would really not be able to go home.

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October 28, the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, in the early morning.

At this time, in the Liyang camp, the emperor of Da Liao was rewarding the three armies - desperately! If you lose, you will die, and the Great Liao Kingdom will definitely perish, so what's the use of asking for money? Naturally, I want to take more out to reward the soldiers. Millions of taels of money, silk, gold and silver were taken out, and everyone who followed Yelu Yanxi's southern expedition had a share, and the most worthless Han army Jingzhou soldiers also had two copper coins in their hands.

This is a reward that has never been seen before! 100,000 soldiers of the Southern Expedition, naturally everyone was jubilant, and the sound of the mountain shouting long live was transmitted to the Song Army Qishui camp twenty miles away.

At this time, in the Song camp with Qishui in the village, it was still quiet, and there was no tension at the time when the war was imminent.

The 40,000 troops led by Gao Yu had been stationed in Qishui for a period of time, but they did not approach the Liao people's camp in Liyang to fight, but only confronted each other from afar.

At the beginning, everyone was gearing up and preparing to fight to the death with the Liao. However, the high level of the unified army did not have the slightest intention of seeking war. Even the ranger detectives didn't go too far, just covered around the camp.

After another period of time, the news of Song Liao's peace agreement spread in the army. Say that you have to pay 5 million yuan, and double the annual coins to 1 million yuan! It is said that there is a nose and an eye. At first, the big guy didn't believe it, but when today's son is the male lord and holy monarch, how can he easily negotiate peace?

Moreover, the Liao lord Yelu Yanxi is clearly a lone army, and there are tens of thousands of troops of Wu Jieshuai on the side of Hebei East Road threatening Yanjing, how can he stay on the side of the Yellow River for a long time?

As for those who want to cross the river to threaten Kaifeng Fuyunyun after the Yellow River freezes, it sounds nonsense to the officers of the Lingzhou Army, who are experienced in combat.

Although there are only 40,000 people on the Qihe camp. However, there is also a new army in each of the three castles of Liyang, Linhe and Neihuang, and they are all Kaifeng model new troops with good combat effectiveness. The total number of soldiers and horses in the four places was 66,700.

Not to mention fighting in formation, even following the Liao army all the way is enough for them.

And there is also a new army and more than 100,000 old forbidden troops in the city of Kaifeng. Although you can't go out of the city for a decisive battle, there is no problem in keeping the Kaifeng city.

If the Liao army really crossed the river, then Gao Taiwei would be able to gather an army of 66,700 people and follow it all the way. Don't think that the Liao people are all cavalry, so they can throw off the Song army, which is mainly infantry. The 60,000 people in Gao Yu's hands are either the new army or the Xiangzhou regimental training, all of whom are young and strong and can walk. As long as it doesn't take too much time to build a hard village, it is not impossible to walk sixty or seventy miles a day.

On the other hand, although the Liao army is dominated by cavalry, it is not the time for horses to be fat and strong in autumn, but the season for horses to be thin and hairy in winter. It is difficult to find enough food for the horses on the march, and there is no such thing as a good thing to ask the horses to run and not to graze. If you don't pay attention to saving horsepower, Yelu Yanxi's cavalry will soon become infantry!

Therefore, everyone did not believe in the meeting and peace, until a large number of gold, silver, copper, coins, silk and silk were transported to Gao Yu's Qishui camp. and then sent to the Khitan camp in Liyang, and then everyone knew that the imperial court had really sued the Liao people for peace.

At this time, the originally high morale plummeted, and no one seriously prepared for the battle, carefully arranged, and even the cavalry that was originally used to cover the battalion was collected and thrown into the camp on the west bank of the Qi River - peace has already been negotiated, what are so many ranger detectives to do? Who is it if you accidentally hurt Uncle Khitan?

Xiangzhou Tongju, Tongzhi Xiangzhou regiment practice, Chao Sanlang Zongze, these days a little insomnia, get up before dawn, with a few relatives in the east bank of the Qi River in the Xiangjun camp patrol. While patrolling, I couldn't help but sigh.

Compared with the Lingzhou Army on the east bank, the Xiangjun army camped on the east bank of the Qi River was a regimental training, and after learning the news of the peace conference, people's hearts fluctuated even more. The soldiers of the Lingzhou Army are all soldiers of the Tianfu Army, and they have dozens to 200 acres of land in Lingzhou (if you take the paddy field, it is only 60 or 70 acres, and if you take the dry field, you have 200 acres), and there is no need to pay two taxes and exemption money.

And the Xiangzhou army is all regimental training, there is no division of fields, and there is no fixed number of how much money to get. Before the military situation was urgent, Ji Yi was also generous in spending money on Hebei transfer, and the soldiers of the regimental training army took a lot, and the training and marching were also powerful. But now that the peace negotiation has been completed, the court doesn't need to be armed, will it still send money to the big guys?

In the previous Huanshui War, the Xiangzhou boy suffered heavy casualties, and the pension has not been issued yet, and I don't know if it will be repaid?

In addition, because of the training and operation, the farming work of the big guy's family has been delayed. Winter wheat has not been sown much, and there will be no harvest next spring. If the group training is disbanded and everyone can't get money, how will they live in the spring and summer next year?

And can land rent and summer tax be exempted? Can the usury owed to the landlord be slowed down?

When everyone served as a soldier for the Han family in Xiangzhou, they naturally didn't have to worry about two taxes, land rent, and usury, they were armed with knives and guns in their hands, and they were afraid of exploitation by the landlords? But once the group training is disbanded, I'm afraid everything will have to return to the way it was, right?

After inspecting the camp for a while, Zong Ze also felt that his morale was low, and the soldiers standing guard were either dozing off or sighing, and they didn't have the spirit they had before.

Zong Ze, who had been with these regimental training soldiers for a few days, also knew what they were thinking, but he couldn't help them...... In fact, the Xiangzhou regimental training is still good, and the military salary is still quite a lot.

In contrast, it is even more difficult for those government soldiers who have served five years of service for a lifetime exemption from conscription.

Originally, when there was a quota for the Biyong School Palace to change the government soldiers, the local wealthy families would make up a little bit and coax their tenants to come out, so that they could change their children to a "too student". However, this treatment was canceled not long after Su Dongpo's death, and the recruitment of government soldiers became a task of the local government.

For these government soldiers who do not grant land, they sweat in vain for five years, and if they don't get a reward, they won't see a single eldest son. As for the benefits of being exempt from forced labor, God knows if it can be implemented?

Even if it can be implemented, the ordinary farming family will lose a strong labor force for five years, and I am afraid it will inevitably have to go into debt to get by, right?

The little money saved from military service, I don't know if it's enough to repay the interest? Therefore, after the news of the peace negotiation came, the auxiliary soldiers assigned to the Lingzhou Army (the regular soldiers of the Lingzhou Army were all granted fields, and the auxiliary soldiers were the government soldiers who did not grant fields) were all like losing their souls......

In the distance, the sky was already gray and began to glow. At this time, it was also the time when the soldiers who had been on duty all night were most tired. I don't know why, Zong Ze suddenly felt that the ground began to shake, and at first he thought it was his hallucination. Calm your mind and look down, you can see that the pebbles and sand are trembling gently under the lamplight.

What's going on? Where is an earthquake in the distance? But the Liao army brigade came to the camp? Impossible, right? Five million have been given, is it too little? It's too little to talk about, and the official family is not unwilling to give more......