"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the construction of the walled city on the border cannot be stopped, and the defense needs to be further strengthened. However, the armies of the Western Army still had to suspend their offensive first. Now that we have occupied the Yokoyama Heaven, it is important to hold on to the fruits of these victories. Moreover, there are many newly acquired territories and populations that have yet to be digested. As for the forbidden army that has been transferred to the northwest, there is no need to recruit them back.

As for the changes in the army of the Liao State, His Majesty did not need to pay attention to it at all. If they wanted to fight, they wouldn't have waited until today. Even if I don't return to the cities that have been occupied, what can I do? Liao Daozong is just worried that my Great Song Dynasty will destroy the Western Xia Kingdom, thus threatening himself. It was Zeng Zhao who stood up.

"Your Majesty, by all means, Zeng Zhao, if the Emperor of Liao really has to send troops to attack the Great Song Dynasty, what should he do?" Some people were not satisfied with Zeng Zhao's rhetoric and were very afraid of Liao.

"Your Majesty, if such a thing really happens, the minister will have no face in a high position, fighting in Bianliang City, and the minister is willing to take dozens of people from the gate to any county in Hebei to order for Your Majesty, for my Great Song Dynasty design, for my Great Song Dynasty people, to guard the frontier." At this time, Zeng Zhao naturally would not retreat.

After his resounding words came out, Zhao Xu, who was originally a little discouraged by the pessimism of the important ministers, also immediately recovered his spirits, and without waiting for others to continue to speak, he said arbitrarily: "Okay, just according to what Zeng Aiqing said." ”

Zhang Dian frowned, looked at Zeng Zhao, and then looked at Yang Wei, who had been bowing his head and being silent, and thought: It seems that he wants to be in charge of the government alone, and now he has another strong opponent. Compared with Yang Wei, a villain who is good at using intrigues and tricks, Zhang Dun knows that it is not difficult to drive him away from Zhao Xu's side. However, Zeng Zhao, a nerd, has such a sacred heart, and the threat to himself is actually the greatest.

Zeng Zhao and Yang Wei didn't notice Zhang Dan's unkind look towards them.

Zeng Zhao has never paid attention to the attitude of other ministers towards him, and in the position of the secretary of the ministry, it is actually good to be a lonely minister, so he is not because of official business. Otherwise, after the next dynasty, he didn't even have a private relationship with his two elder brothers and Zeng Bu.

Such an attitude undoubtedly made Zhao Xu, who had always used the Imperial City Division to detect the minister's movements, greatly satisfied.

Yang Wei was thinking about another thing, otherwise, with his shrewdness, he would definitely be able to detect Zhang Dian's attitude towards him in advance.

Maybe, no one has discovered that this Zeng Zhao has continuously spoken out and interfered in government affairs that have little to do with him, and this time it is just a reversal. In recommending the one who captured Lanzhou City, it is obvious that there are some suspicions of overstepping the bounds. But now that he said it, Zeng Zhao actually recommended meritorious service.

For this reason, Zhao Xu had to complain a little about Zeng Zhao, since he knew that the seed was good, presumably, he should have known before that the seed master who attacked the two cities of Hengshan in the eastern part of Western Xia was also a person with outstanding ability. Let Zeng Zhao not have any scruples when recommending people in the future.

This has already made Sun Lu, the trusted secretary of the military department, and more than a dozen deputy privy envoys a little jealous.

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So, after receiving the order, the five men and horses of the Western Army immediately stopped further military operations, and Zhao Xu took this opportunity to give Yelu Hongji a face. However, when the envoy sent by the Song Dynasty saw Yelu Hongji again, he did not mention anything about the return of the land of the Western Xia Kingdom.

This cold attitude towards the Song Dynasty naturally made Yelu Hongji very angry, but he also knew that with the military strength of the Great Liao State today, it was impossible to really attack the Great Song Dynasty, and the request for help from the Western Xia Kingdom could only stop at Yu Times, and the others were powerless.

He himself knew that in the early days of the war, because of the problem of horses, the two roads of the Great Song Kingdom and Hebei would only be fortified and cleared, and the infant city would defend itself, and the Liao army might take advantage of it. But what about after that?

For the past two years, the Song Dynasty has used the dangerous dikes along the Yellow River in Hebei Province as flood outlets, leaving the entire area muddy with muddy roads and dense with lakes and woods. Moreover, at this time, it is the spring ploughing season, and the people of Liao also need to eat grain.

Plunder alone could not meet the losses caused by the war, and the Yellow River, which had been thawed, had become a moat at this time, and even if the Liao army could reach the Yellow River, it might not be able to pass this obstacle smoothly.

As a result, during the entire Shaosheng period, the wars of the Great Song Kingdom against the Western Xia Kingdom were all victorious and successfully ended. Compared with the original time and space, Zhang Qi and other envoys took the entire Hengshan, a strong front to defend against the Western Xia Kingdom, a few years earlier.

As the Western Army of the Great Song Kingdom as a whole entered the stage of consolidating defense, the abnormal behavior of the Liao State border army really became an ordinary military movement.

And after the autumn harvest of the following year, Cai Xuan will also lead the troops to the battle.

Compared with the southern expedition to the Great Yue Kingdom, it is naturally not as convenient as Cai Dao to attack Thang Long City from the sea, but the speed of Cai Xuan's army is unexpectedly fast. There are hundreds of ethnic groups in Dali, and the so-called popularity of the Gao family is only relative to the Duan clan, the royal family of Dali.

When he heard that the commander of the rebel army this time was actually the brother of Cai Dao, a fortune boy, the chiefs of all tribes along the march route of the army brought their soldiers and horses and came to join Cai Xuan.

When he arrived at the first Dali city that needed to be captured, Cai Xuan was stunned to find that the Song army he led could not catch up with the barbarians who came to join him.

It made him laugh and cry.

Along the way, all the cities controlled by the Gao family have been resisting desperately at the beginning.

There is no Cai Dao, and there is no big barrel of divine thunder, and the Song army is still the best at siege warfare in the world.

What's more, without firearms, Cai Dao gave full play to the advantages of ancient Chinese siege weapons.

For example, the catapult, after the improvement of the craftsmen of the Ordnance Supervisor, the new catapult made is amazingly capable and quick to build.

The soldiers at the head of Dali City were numb after seeing the dense catapults.

Naturally, the border towns can't resist these things.

And although the walls and gates of the city were strong, they could not resist the attacks of the well railings and ladders.

The well fence is not a ladder, to be precise, it is a wooden archery platform with wheels at the bottom.

After the catapult clears most of the ranged defenses in the hostile city, the Blade and Shield Men will push the well fence closer to the wall. At the top of the fence was a large wooden platform, and when the fence approached the wall, the archers would immediately climb up the ladder to the top. It must be noted here that you must not push the well fence close to the city gate, so as to defend the city general, the dog jumps over the wall, and the city gate is open at a heavy price, but also to destroy the well fence by a desperate assault.