Moreover, the Song army had already piled up a large number of city defense equipment in advance in Huanzhou City this time. Bows and arrows, in particular, are too numerous to count.

These 8,000 elites of the forbidden army used these sophisticated weapons made by the ordnance supervisor to defend the city, and repelled countless attacks of the Western Xia Kingdom in half a month.

Because the defensive effect of the protective tools manufactured by the Ordnance Supervisor is also beyond the imagination of the soldiers of the forbidden army. As a result, in this battle for the defense of Huanzhou City, the Song army only lost no more than 100 soldiers.

The vast majority of those wounded soldiers suffered minor injuries.

Just the battle of Huanzhou City killed more than 20,000 troops of the Western Xia Kingdom.

And the other state cities on the Huanzhou Road, plus the capture of the 8,000 cavalry on the flat land, are only in the early 10,000s.

After this battle, Zhang Ji not only recovered the ceded Hongde City, as well as several surrounding forts, but also took the opportunity to approach the battle line step by step towards Hengshan, the lifeline of the Western Xia Kingdom.

However, under the brilliant record, it still can't hide the incompetence of some civilian officials. Liu Zhi, the newly appointed governor of Yanzhou Prefecture, kept the advice of his subordinates, and missed the opportunity to regain the few bunkers that were given by Wen Yanbo.

Therefore, Zhao Xu punished several crimes and demoted Liu Zhi and Liang Tao to the captains of Panbao under the rule of Yan'an Prefecture, still following the precedent of Hong Decheng and not sending a single soldier. Liu Zhi and Liang Tao's families were used to guard the Songxia border.

Hong Decheng was ceded from Liu Zhi and Liang Tao, two chief and deputy ambassadors.

The result?

The Western Xia Kingdom took over the city of Hongde, but did not abide by the peace treaty. Without any excesses, the Song army brazenly launched the Second Battle of Hongdecheng.

If Liu Zhi had been smarter at that time, no matter who had the idea, he would have just taken back the four stockades that Wen Yanbo had ceded out. Perhaps, Zhao Xu will not be in his favor.

However, Liu Zhi, as the pacification envoy of Yan Yanlu and the military and political power along the way, missed the opportunity. How could Zhao Xu spare him.

It was in this context that Cai Bian left Beijing again to serve as the prefect of Yan'an Prefecture, and Yan Yanlu pacified the envoy.

At this point, no minister inside or outside the court dared to speak to Zhao Xu and continued to negotiate peace with the Western Xia State. The Peace faction also completely lost its foothold in the imperial court. The conservative Shuo Party has also suffered a heavy blow, and the two generals have lost their posts and resigned, and they may encounter a catastrophe like Hong Decheng at any time.

But no one in the world felt that these two ministers were innocent and pitiful.

In the south, because the commander of the border army of the Great Yue State was assassinated by his subordinates, the distant nephew of Li Gande, who was temporarily established as the national army, began to compete with the new army in other cities in the country for the imperial power of the Great Yue Kingdom when he returned to the northern border pass of the Yue Kingdom.

Nowadays, even in the rainy season, the entire country of Da Viet is inevitably plunged into civil war.

After the Cham country and the Zhenla country left Cai Dao, they saw that this was the case in the Dayue country, and quickly sent troops to occupy the land of the Dayue country and a state.

In short, in recent years, it is very unlikely that the Great Yue Kingdom will gather troops to invade the border of the Great Song Kingdom.

After Guo Zhongxiao returned to Beijing, Zhao Xu rewarded him with a big reward, and ate the Yulu of the general of Guide from the third grade, however, Zhao Xu did not give him any real job, but only made up for one of his sons as Wen Linlang, although he was from the ninth grade, but he was a civilian Jilu official, and he could be regarded as following his wish to follow the text.

And his two nephews, Guo Shuyong and Guo Shukang, have been reused.

Guo Shuyong first led 20,000 elite forbidden troops to infiltrate Tianjin Mansion with Cao Hu and completed that task, and then Guo Shuyong led half of the forbidden army to send 30,000 Dayue pigs to Hedong Road, and was finally left by Zong Ze by his side.

And Guo Shu dared to lose his soldiers because of Yao Pingzhong's lies, so he did not get the corresponding reward, but he was recruited by Uncle Zhang to his command.

Zhao Xu did not treat the deputy marshal Di An badly, and now he has also eaten the Yulu of General Ning Yuan, the official of Jilu Zheng, Wupin, and his actual position is to promote Yanfu Palace from Wupin. However, from another aspect, it is very likely that Dean will not continue to lead troops in the future.

The Zhe family has won in the northern and southern battlefields, but Zhao Xu did not reward the fold and the fold of the merit for the fold Kerou. This made people who knew the details of the southern expedition unable to figure it out. Among them, Zhi Kerou's exploits are the highest among the generals, if it weren't for her personally leading the weak troops, she would have repelled the Praetorian Guards led by Li Gande.

It is very likely that the Song army of the southern expedition will not be able to catch the two most important targets, Li Qiande and Li Changjie.

On the contrary, it can be said that Cao Bao, who has not made an inch, has received a good reward, and Uncle Cao Guo wanted to refuse this reward, but in the end he couldn't bear the persuasion of the people in his family. He is now old, and he is powerless for some things.

Zhao Xu wanted to reward Pan Xiong well, but as soon as this kid returned to Beijing, he heard that the official family wanted to reward him, so he fled to the nursery overnight. That night, he became a monk and became a disciple of Cai Dao.

As for Cai Dao, who already had some merit, he suddenly faded out of everyone's field of vision after the nursery incident.

Zhao Xu rewarded him so wantonly, he thought he had a plan, but he didn't want to chill the hearts of the generals.

Especially the generals of the Northwest.

Because of his son, Yao Gu directly took a plea for sin, and without waiting for the emperor's approval, he hung up his crown and left. He said on this one, "Lose the south to collect the body of his son."

In fact, Yao Gu had already said what Cai Dao had taught them from the guards who participated in the southern expedition with Yao Pingzhong, so Yao Gu became the pioneer of the Yao family's exploration of islands in the South China Sea.

Soon after, in a battle with the Tanguts, Yao Gu's brother Yao Xiong and his uncle Yao Lin's second son Yao Meng were also suddenly killed.

It was only a small battle, but it lost two generals in a row, and after the Western Xia Kingdom knew this information, it was widely publicized, and the Yao family seemed to acquiesce in this matter.

However, Zhang Qi and Cai Bian were very skeptical of the authenticity of this matter.

However, after receiving the news, Yao Lin, a veteran in Beijing, cried in front of Zhao Xu, so even if he received the recital from Zhang Qi and Cai Bian, he could only acquiesce to this fact.

Not only that, but Chong Pu, who had been staying in Leizhou to supervise the affairs of Tuntian, also suddenly came with bad news. The son of the seed suddenly fell ill and died in Leizhou. According to his last words, his body was buried in Leizhou and was not transported back to his hometown.

Zhao Xu felt very strange every time he thought about it, how could all the generals who had made meritorious contributions in the Southern Expedition either died of illness or died in battle.

You must know that Zhao Xu's reward for Chongpu is not low!

Didn't the Ori family produce a moth?