Even Guangzhi's choice surprised both the emperor and Gan Zhaoji. "The minister Bao lifted Tao Lin, a person from Kaifeng, he will definitely be able to do this well."

"Who is this Tao Lin? What official position do you currently reside? ”

"Tao Lin is white. His family was originally a forbidden army, and Li Buqi was originally a personal guard, and now Dengzhou and other places are in charge of maritime trade. This person is strong in martial arts, and he has learned a lot of skills with Li Buqi, and he is in charge of maritime trade in Dengzhou, so he is familiar with the sea situation, and can directly use the fleet of maritime merchants to restrain pirates. There is no more suitable man than he is among the people he knows. And he is just a cloth cloth, and he doesn't like to show off, so if he goes to recruit pirates, he won't be caught by the Liao. ”

If before today, Lian Guangzhi proposed that Li Bu abandon his original personal guards to recruit pirates to attack the Liao State, the emperor might have considered whether there would be any harm in letting a courtier have an armed force that was not under his control as the emperor. But now Wen Yanbo, Pang Ji, Xia Wei and Han Qi all agree that Li Buqi basically has no hope of survival, Zhao Zhen will not suspect that Li Buqi has any disobedience at all, and naturally there is nothing uneasy about using Li Buqi's personal guards to recruit pirates.

Lian Guangzhi said that the Great Song Dynasty did not need to pay a penny for the time being, and did not have to take risks, but it could contain a large number of troops of the Liao State and consume a large amount of taxes of the Liao State, and these expected benefits deeply attracted the emperor. So Zhao Zhen immediately summoned Wen Yanbo, Pang Ji, Bao Zheng and others to discuss.

Bao Zheng believes that buying and selling human beings is harmful to the peace of nature, and he is not interested in this method. This is also why Lian Guangzhi bypassed Bao Zheng and came directly to the emperor. But Wen Yanbo and Pang Ji were not so pedantic, they thought about how to delay the pace of Liao's attack.

Although Lian Guangzhi said that it takes time to recruit pirates, it also depends on the weather, because at least after the sea ice has melted, the pirates can land on the coast of Liao. But if the Great Song Dynasty did not collapse in the end of this war, and the Liao people were exhausted and had to negotiate like forty years ago, the ministers hoped to increase their bargaining chips in the negotiations. In this way, it is also a good choice to attack pirates from the Liao State, not to mention that there is no need for the imperial court to pay a penny.

Under the domination of such thoughts, several ministers and privy councillors soon came to an agreement. And this matter must not be discussed in the court with great fanfare, and the best thing is that the court does not need to spend a penny, nor does it need to be discussed in the court. Therefore, with the rare efficiency of the Great Song Dynasty, before the palace gate was closed, the matter was basically decided in accordance with Lian Guangzhi's suggestion, and no one even objected to Tao Lin's appointment.

This efficiency shocked even Guangzhi's jaw. Although Li Buqi had expected that the imperial court would soon agree to the matter in order to grab an extra straw when discussing the matter with him, both of them were worried that the proposal to have Tao Lin preside over the recruitment of pirates would be frustrated. But today, no one seems to be worried about Tao Lin and Li Buqi's intimacy. This surprised him a little.

But after the meeting, when he left the palace gate, Pang Ji solved his doubts.

At this time, Pang Ji stopped Lian Guangzhi and asked suspiciously: "Hebei has just sent a war report, saying that Li Zhongzheng led 5,000 troops to cut off the grain route of the Liao people a few days ago, and there is no news so far. Do you know what plan Li Zhongzheng has to get out? ”

Lian Guangzhi naturally knew that Li Buqi had collected information on Yanyun's terrain and the Liao garrison through various channels, and had also had a plan to lead a strong army to attack Yanyun and deter the Liao people in a war. But Lian Guangzhi felt that this idea was too outrageous, and he wouldn't tell Pang Ji at this time, so he only said: "The officials don't know about this matter." ”

Pang Ji nodded silently, and said in a somewhat regretful tone: "Alas, it's a pity. No matter what Li Buqi's political views are, he is a rare talent. Alas......"

After Pang Ji finished speaking, he shook his head and left, leaving Lian Guangzhi alone standing in place in a daze.

He couldn't help but wonder how Pang Ji looked like Li Buqi was dead. According to his understanding of Li Buqi, Li Buqi will not work hard casually, and he will not take this risk if he is not sure. He remembered that Li Buqi had planned in detail the routes in and out of Liao, and couldn't help but shake his head and laugh - this is good, they all think that Li Buqi is dead, in such a short period of time, no one will say bad things about Li Buqi, should he take the opportunity to add some halo to Li Buqi's body, so that after Li Buqi comes back, it will be like sacred, and whoever wants to calculate Li Buqi will have to put more effort into it.

The Great Song Dynasty had few secrets, especially when Li Buqi was a celebrity, and after Li Buqi's "Absolute Stroke" was sent to Tokyo, the matter spread among the people immediately. In just a few days, Li Buqi was rumored to be a loyal and righteous figure in the folk, comparable to Guan Erye and Yang Lao Linggong.

At the same time that the capital was boiling, Li Buqi, who was planning how to escape for his life, rested in Yuhe County for nearly a day, and after nightfall, he had to send a large number of scouts to guard against the surprise attack of the Liao army.

This is Song Jun's shortcoming. Although Li Buqi demanded that the soldiers of the Zhenwu Army must learn to ride horses, and now there were enough horses to ride, these infantry were exhausted after traveling more than 300 miles on horseback, and the skin on the inner thighs was also worn out, so Li Buqi had to take precious time to let them rest. Fortunately, however, the Liao people obviously did not expect that Li Buqi did not return to the Great Song Dynasty, but ran to the edge of Xijin Mansion, so his scouts did not appear in Yuhe County until evening.

There are already mountains to rely on in this place of Yuhe, which is a good battlefield that Li Buqi expected, so he was not too worried when he was discovered by the Liao.

At the third watch in the morning, all the soldiers were called to bury the pot to make rice, and finally eat a hot meal, and also drove the captured Liao people to feed more than 20,000 horses, and then drove all the soldiers into the southwest into the mountains on the fourth watch. It's just that there are a large number of cattle and horses in the team now, so the movement is slow. Li Buqi let 2,000 infantry drive the horses first, and the rest drove the cattle before they walked out of more than ten miles, and sent people to report that the Liao army had raided Yuhe County with tens of thousands. Soon, Chong Ge ordered people to report again, probably because the Liao people were worried about the ambush, so they found that there was no further action for the time being after the Yuhe County swooped down, but only spread scouts, and Chong Ge was attracting the Liao army to follow.

When the sky was white, the Liao people finally determined that the Song army was moving in the direction of the northwest into the mountains, and Yixin led the army to chase down to the southwest. On the way, the messenger sent back by the front general reported that the Song cavalry had increased its speed, and Yixin, in order to bite the Song army as soon as possible, ordered the forward general to chase at full speed and must bite the Song army, so a fierce chase began.

Originally, if Ruo Ruoli followed the Song cavalry, Yelu Ru really ordered to blow the horn after receiving the order, and led a team of 1,000 people to gradually raise the speed of the horse to the highest, and rushed towards the Song people at full speed, and the sound of hooves was like thunder for a while.

The Song people obviously also noticed that the Liao army was speeding up, and immediately began to adjust the formation, and it seemed that there was a swallow wing formation in the faint white sky. But the Song army did not reflexively meet the battle, but still retreated at the original speed.

"What are Song people doing?" A question flashed in Yelu Ruzhen's mind, but he didn't have time to think about it, he saw that the Song people were getting closer and closer, and he had already entered the range of the bow and arrows, so he took off the bow, bent the bow and aimed at the Song people in front of him.

The night had not completely faded, and the gray cloak and black armor of the Song people blended in with the background, making it difficult to aim, but Yelu really knew that a rough shot at such a cluster target was enough.

When he shot the first arrow, Song Jun immediately shot back. For a while, Yeluru, who was in the lead, really felt that the feather arrows were shooting from all directions in front of him, and he couldn't guard against it. Just as he hesitated for a moment whether to reduce the speed of his horse and wait for the people behind him or continue to rush towards the Song people's ranks, suddenly the war horse under his crotch screamed and fell down. As an old rider, he immediately understood that his mount had been hit by an arrow, and hurriedly threw the bow and arrow in his hand, and pulled his foot out of the stirrup to prepare for the land. But before he could fall to the ground, he felt a pain in his chest and shoulder, and a feathered arrow broke through the fur that wore on the outside and the iron armor on the inside and plunged into the flesh.

Before he could utter a cry of pain, he felt a heavy blow to his heart, and the strength in his body seemed to be lost with the wind. He flew forward in a perfect parabola, and after landing on the ground, he rolled a few times before he was completely still, because he was full of unwillingness and did not close his eyes to see the cavalry behind him fall from their horses one by one.

His last thought was, "How is that possible?" Is this a Song person? ”

He didn't have time to figure it out. As soon as the thought came to him, a horse, the size of a horse, had lost its knight, and its hooves crushed his head.