In the Youyan borderland, located in the southeast of the Yandi Plain, close to the vast land of Cangzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, it is also the same as the original Cangzhou, which is a relatively remote place. This site included about half of Tianjin and half of Tangshan in later generations. There are always more than 15,000 square kilometers! In such a big place, there are only two counties now, Wuqing and Yutian.

The reason why these two counties are sparsely populated is not because of poor land or inconvenient transportation, but because of the need to prepare for war. Both of these places are close to the Great Song Dynasty, and there is no danger to defend. If it is too prosperous, when the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty is over, won't it be able to defeat the enemy because of food? So all along, the court of the Khitans has been deliberately controlling the population of Yutian County and Wuqing County.

However, the local rule of the Khitan people is not strict, and the various tribes in Shanbei and the Han people in Yandi actually have a lot of power. For example, how much land, tribes, and castles the Yutian Han family has in Yutian County has been confused for more than a hundred years. No one knew, and no one dared to investigate. Maybe Yutian County could have been upgraded to a state a long time ago, but it was just evading taxes in the name of a county.

Wuqing County is really deserted, at least before the rise of Jiehe Shang City, there was not much population in this area. It is only in the last ten years that it has gained a little popularity because of the drive of the Jiehe Commercial Market. However, the popularity is not very prosperous, but there are some castles along the Sanggan River, such as Majiabao, Hanjiabao, Liujiabao, Zhaojiabao, and Xiaojiabao, all of which are commercial and trading bases built by Yanyun Haoqiang or Khitan magnates.

At a distance from the Sanggan River, there are some manor dock walls, usually a chain of four or five manor dock walls - this pattern is similar to the knight's manor and knight's fort south of the boundary river. It is a few small local tyrants who form a village to defend themselves. On the side of the Song Dynasty, because the knight was equivalent to the small military minister of the official army, he could do this. In Yandi of Liao, because every winter, the tribes of the Khitan tribe will drive cattle and sheep to cross Yanshan, which often causes disputes in Yandi. That is, to plunder or something...... What the Great Liao nation did, even the people in power in the Liao Dynasty, were not easy to manage.

Therefore, they turned a blind eye to the matter of Yandi's strong self-defense. Otherwise, the tribes who went south to graze for the winter would have to rob the swallow land into white land! Where else does the Great Liao Imperial Court go to collect taxes? Over time, the local tyrants of Yandi also had fortress dock walls, and military traditions were passed down from generation to generation. The history continued until the early Mongol and Yuan dynasties. Many Hanhou in the north are all from Youzhou Haoqiang!

And the essence of these big and small heroes is also a bit like the knights of Europe and the samurai of Japan. Based on the land, they are all soil emperors on their respective territories, and they are attached layer by layer upward, if they meet the masters with weak control ability, they are the grass on the wall, and the wind on which side will fall to which side.

Compared with them, the knights of Cangzhou are much more reliable, their share of land is only 1,500 acres, and they can only support two or three knights at most, which is not enough to form a separatist force, and they are not soil emperors. Moreover, they are heavily dependent on Jiehe Commercial Market economically, and the children of their families are educated in Jiehe Commercial Market. It might be more appropriate to say that they were citizens of Jiehe Shang City, who owned the estate.

And the big and small tyrants of Yandi are the real separatist forces! That local tyrant doesn't have tens of thousands of acres of land and dozens of tenants? If necessary, anyone can pull out hundreds of combat power!

Gaining the support of these feudal lords, large and small, was a necessary condition for the Great Song Dynasty to seize the Yan land and establish and consolidate its rule.

Of course, after the rule is consolidated, how to transform or eliminate this kind of feudal lords is another matter.

But in the process of the Northern Expedition, it is necessary to get their support!

And Wu Haogu's purpose in sending troops to Majiabao was not for a castle that had been burned down, but to take down the three or four hundred small tyrants who had attached to Majiabao in the past.

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The sound of trumpets whined on the wall of Majiapu, and the orchestra beat gongs and drums from nowhere.

Outside the trench of Majiabao, on both sides of the official road, the Yandi warriors in disorganized clothes, headed by their respective patriarchs, lined up on both sides, respectfully greeted the "Northern Expeditionary Army" of Wuhaogu, and some tenant tribes, leading cattle and sheep, holding altars and jars full of food and wine, which were probably dedicated to the "Great Song Dynasty Liberation Army".

And Wu Haogu's "Northern Expeditionary Army" is actually not very "big", there are no 108,000, only less than 20,000 foot cavalry. Among them were 6,000 cavalry, half of which were auxiliary soldiers. The soldiers were all half-armoured, the horses were on their shoulders, and the queue was in a strict formation, and they came in a mighty way. There are more than 10,000 infantry soldiers, about the appearance of a half-general, and the infantry soldiers are also half-armored, all of them are half-armored, carrying spears, swords and shields and crossbows of the Jiehe River, and they are also lined up in a neat queue.

Seeing such a "Great Song Heavenly Soldier", a group of local tyrants in Yandi were all shocked.

Not long ago, they also welcomed the male soldiers of the Great Liao Emperor, and they also donated a lot of grain and grass! At that time, when I saw the Liao soldiers, I also felt very powerful, and some people were also tempted to participate in the battle against Jieheshang City. It's just that he didn't wait to go to the army to answer Mao, Yelu Yanxi led his troops to retreat to Wuqing County, and he left in a hurry, and he didn't even have time to take away the grain that the big guys sent to Majiabao, and they were all burned.

The big guy was a little puzzled before, what did this Khitan want to do? What the hell did they see in the Jiehe Merchant City? How do you run as fast as a rabbit?

But now, the mystery has finally been revealed!

The elite soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are like this, and it is no wonder that Yelu Yanxi ran fast.

It seems that it is time for this Yandi to return to the embrace of the Han family......

In the queue on both sides, the heads of a group of small local tyrants all made a calculation to turn their backs on the Song Dynasty, and at the same time looked forward to the mighty army.

A group of knights who appeared in a loose queue appeared in everyone's sight, dozens of knights, surrounded by one person, thirty years old, medium talent, also a mad armor, wearing a helmet, and there were knights behind them holding seven or eight red flags, one of which was embroidered with the big words "Hebei Xuanfu Envoy".

It turns out that this thirty-year-old knight is the martial artist at the end of the four marshals of the Great Song Dynasty!

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Wu Haogu, who had just captured Majiabao, looked at the local tyrants and inferior gentry lined up on both sides of the official road, but there was no joy in his heart.

Because before leaving Jiehe Shang City, he had just gotten bad news - the Liao army had attacked the Guangxin Army and the Ansu Army on Dingzhou Road!

Since the Liao people's Yuanzhu Zima completely controlled the four fields of the Guangxin Army and the Ansu Army, no one knows now whether the two military cities have been breached? Although before the invasion of the Liao, the Dingzhou Road pacification envoy had already transferred two generals to Suicheng, the administrative office of the Guangxin Army, and Ansu, the administrative office of the Ansu Army. But only God knows how much combat effectiveness the new army changed from the Hebei Forbidden Army can have?

Maybe both military cities were broken by the Liao! Now it's a big deal.

And for Wu Haogu, the empty Xuanshuai, can the black cauldron still run? Maybe after the news reaches Kaifeng Mansion, the impeachment will fly like snowflakes!

At this time, Wu Haogu really sympathized with the military attaché of the Great Song Dynasty. It's really not easy! On the one hand, you have to listen to the blind command from above, and on the other hand, you have to be ready to carry the black pot at all times...... And Xuanshuai like himself looks quite big, but he can't command the pacification envoy and Zhizhou below! Even the Cangzhou general judgment of the power to take Cangzhou affairs, a Jinshi who has been Yuan Fu for three years, Wu Haogu can't command it.

The Xuanfu Division wanted to mobilize some supplies and people from Cangzhou, and had to let the daimyo Ji Yi give an order.

"Xuan Shuai, it seems that we have to take Wuqing County!"

Talking to Wu Haogu is Tan Zhi of the Hebei Army, this eggless prison army is also a master of the black pot! If the Guangxin Army and the Ansu Army are broken, he and Wuhao Gu will be unlucky.

And Wu Haogu has some strength, although he will not be able to fight against the Great Song Dynasty, but he will definitely make Hebei Xuanfu make no one dare to accept this dispatch, so that he can at least wear the guilt and make meritorious service on the seat!

But what does Tan Zhen have? Nothing! Thinking about Li Xian's fate, he still doesn't want to make up for it?

Losing the pot of the Guangxin Army and the Ansu Army, he and Wu Haogu probably have to carry a little bit, but if they can drive Yelu Yanxi away from Wuqing County, this credit is enough to compensate for the mistakes, right?

In addition, although Wuqing is only a county, it is only 170 miles away from the city of Xijinfu, and there is still a flat river in the middle...... Yelu Yanxi will not really ignore the safety of Xijin Mansion City, right? He will most likely withdraw the main force from the direction of Dingzhou Road, so that the Guangxin Army and the Ansu Army will not be able to recover?

"The county seat of Wuqing is forty miles away!" Wu Haogu said lightly, "It's still across the Sanggan River, and we don't know the situation there...... It's not easy to take it. Let's subdue the Yandi Haoqiang around Majiabao first, looking at their appearance, they should be able to provide a thousand scouts. This is what we desperately need! ”

Since most of the dummy knights of Wu Haogu were incorporated into two cavalry generals and became armored cavalry, he did not have any good light cavalry to use.

Without light cavalry, there would be no eyes and ears on the battlefield. Therefore, Wu Haogu does not know the situation north of Majiabao now.

When the two were talking, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came from behind Wu Haogu's ears, Wu Haogu turned his head to look, and found that the person who came turned out to be Zhang Zhifeng, the head of the military command room of the general army engine room!

Wu Haogu hurriedly beckoned to Zhang Zhifeng and motioned for him to step forward and speak. Zhang Zhifeng understood, rode his horse to Wu Haogu, and said in a low voice: "Xuan Shuai, Deng Jiyi (Deng Zhiyuan)'s urgency, the horse capture shop has fallen!" The Liao army broke through from the north of Dingzhou, and it may be about to attack Dingzhou City in a few days! In addition, he is worried that Dingzhou may fall! ”