In May of the sixth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, Tong Guande was the generalissimo of Liao and the Xuanfu envoy of Hedong in Hebei, and won 100,000 soldiers and horses in the west of the south of the Lejiang River, and 100,000 troops and horses in Hebei and other military states, totaling 200,000 troops, known as 400,000 troops in the northern expedition to Liao.

At the same time, the Song court appointed Baojing Junjiedu as the commander of the capital, Wang Yu, the envoy of the Wutai Army, Yang Keshi, the Huazhou observation envoy, as the deputy, Cai You as the military supervisor, Zhao Liangsi, the Guanglu doctor, as the military senator, and Wen Huanzhang, who had been promoted to the general council doctor, as the army to join the army, and led the army with Tong Guan.

Speaking of Cai Youlai, the envoy of the prison army, with the consistent lust of the literati of the Great Song Dynasty, he yelled at his own generals, but he was afraid of the generals of the enemy country. Cai You was originally inspired by Cai Jing to come here to recover the immortal achievements of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun mixed with a share of the credit, but this Cai Yu has always been timid and lustful, and was tempered by Tong Guan, and after Tong Guan arranged for him to be accompanied by many beautiful concubines, he stayed in the Daimyo's Mansion and did not take a step forward after the army arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion.

Shandong Road, the list of commanders and generals of the Song Dynasty army has already been placed on Sanniang's desk, after seeing the names of Cai You, Zhao Liangsi and others, Sanniang smiled and smiled at the generals: "Except for Wen Huanzhang, the rest of the people are all bad people." The generals of the Liangshan army all laughed when they heard this, and Huang Wenbing said: "Let's see how my Great Song Qiang army fights the Liao army." "At present, the army and horses of Shandong Road are not ready for war, and many horses are sent to investigate the battle situation.

On May 23, Tong Guan, who had escaped from the prison army, went to the boundary of Gaoyang Guanlu, and the Xuanfu Division unveiled the list to the public in the territory of Liao.

Tong Guanbang has a cloud: "Youyan's side was originally my realm, once it fell into a few hundred years. Compared with the Han Dynasty, the internal and external chaos has become chaotic, the old master has not been destroyed, and the new monarch is in chaos. Mourning the devastation of this good people, when the division obeyed the wise order, commanded the heavy army, and was close to the border.

Asking for the guilt, the matter is to save the people, not to kill, and everyone should work hard to get to the plan as soon as possible. Those who have officials will return to the old times, and those who have land will resume their businesses as before. If you can lead the heroic heroes to stand up for the effect, that is, you should be excellent and official, and you will be given a generous gold silk; If you can return from one state or one county, you can use your state or county; If there is a heroic man to Yanjing to offer, regardless of the army and the people, although the official has not been ordered to make an envoy with the festival, give 100,000 yuan, and the mansion is a district. However, in the hard work, with one heart, the joy of returning to the Han Yongbao and honor, and the Khitan Zhufan returning to obedience is also the same as the Han people.

Soldiers who have been given a precept are not allowed to kill a husband, or if they are unconscious, they should have other measures. All the restraints of the Khitan should be removed. Although the soldiers entered the border, the price of all the necessary grain and grass and carts and cattle did not make the Yan people prepared, and they were still exempted from taxes for two years. ”

A good sprinkled text of the Liao Dynasty, which said that the Liao Emperor was not dead, and the sixteen states of Yanyun were usurped by appointing the King of Jin as the emperor, hoping that the Northern Expedition of the Song Army could hold the righteousness, but Tong Guan never thought that the people of Yandi had established the King of Jin as the emperor for several years, and they had resisted the Liao army together for several years. Moreover, the land of Yanyun has been separated for 200 years, and there is very little sense of identity with the Central Plains, simply put, the Song family has no grace in Yanyun!

Perhaps Zhao Liangsi, who wrote this list, felt that as soon as this list came out, there was no need to use a knife or a gun, as long as the 200,000 troops were put away inside and outside the three passes, the Yan people would obediently return to it. In short, whether it is above the temple of the Song Dynasty, or Tong Guan and others in front of the army, they are too light on the enemy.

However, there are also sober generals in the army, such as Seed Master Dao and Wen Huanzhang. When Tong Guan's army arrived at the front line in Hebei, 100,000 military horses from Zhulu Military Prefecture in Hebei came to join the division.

So after seeing the Hebei Army, Wen Huanzhang, who commanded the former army, sent a letter to Tong Guan, which was written like this: The last general and others were ordered to come to the north, and they went to Gaoyang Pass on May 20 to prepare for the march. It was seen that the generals of Heshuo were arrogant and lazy, and did not train the enemy army, so they had no use. For example, although the military rations are said: Seeing that they are too coarse to eat, they must spin and spin only half of them. More in the distance, will lose the effort. The armament is very short, although it is in Taiyuan, Daimyo, and Kaide, the sealing Chun is insufficient, or not applicable, and the tools for building the land and the things for the city to defend are all unprepared. Gai Heshuo has not tried to talk about the army for 200 years, and the Daimyo Mansion was attacked by Liangshan in the past year, and the elite weapons were all damaged. The army and horses of this department are embarrassed to be of great use, and they should be reinstated to defend Hebei, thinking that they will be used as a reserve and will not be used before.

The meaning of the letter is very clear in the letter of the master and Wen Huanzhang, the generals of Heshuo are arrogant and lazy, do not train the enemy army, and there is nothing to ask for military supplies, of which the military rations are only half of the books at best. In short, Heshuo has not fought for more than 100 years, and the previous Daimyo Mansion was defeated by the Liangshan army, the original military horses were lost, and the newly recruited army and horses were promoted to the army, relying on such an army to fight.

After getting the letter from the two, Tong Guan was like pouring a bucket of cold water on his head, after all, he had led the army for more than 20 years, and the master Dao and Wen Huanzhang were both veterans and celebrities, so they would not prevaricate, and the letters of the two made him can't help but be cautious. But soon Tong Guan was persuaded by Zhao Liangsi, Zhao Liangsi felt that the elite of the Yan Liao army were all in Yandu, and the rest of the places were stragglers.

So, Tong Guan made a stupid move, and after arriving at Hejian Mansion, he ordered 100,000 Hebei troops to be evenly integrated into the Western Army, in order to balance the strength and weakness of the troops and horses, and a total of 200,000 troops gathered in Hejian Mansion. In this way, it has become that no military horse is the strongest, and there is no military horse that is the weakest, which seems to be good-looking, but it is difficult to concentrate elite forces everywhere. Then Tong Guan made another stupid move, he divided the army in Hejian Province, and the 200,000 army was divided into two armies, east and west. Xiongzhou is the place where the East Route Army is stationed, and Guangxin Army is the place where the West Route Army is stationed.

He led the East Route soldiers with the commander of the Dao and stationed in Baigou. Wang Yu led the front army, Yang Weizhong, the general of the Western Fan, led the left army, the Fengning army led the right army, Wang Ping, the general of the Western Army, led the rear army, and the generals Zhao Ming and Zhao Zhi of the Hebei Army led the Xuanfeng army. The commander of the Eastern Route Army led the Chinese army.

The Xihe Army Chengxuan made Xin Xingzong lead the troops of the West Road, the Western Army General Huazhou Observation Envoy Yang Keshi and the Huangzhou General Wang Yuan led the front army, the Weisheng Army commanded Jiao'an Jie and led the left army, the Western Army generals Liu Guangguo and Ji Jing led the right army, Cookie and Wang Yu led the rear army, Wu Zihou and Liu Guangshi led the Xuan Feng Army, and listened to Xuanfudu to control Liu Yanqing's moderation.

A few days later, Tong Guan combined the Western Army with the Hebei Army, and put the news of the division of troops on Hejian Road on Sanniang's desk, Sanniang shook his head and smiled bitterly after seeing it: "Tong Shumi has used troops for more than 20 years, and I didn't expect to make such a stupid move in the end." It is necessary to know that when the soldiers and horses are strong and weak, how can they not distinguish between strong and weak? and divided the troops into two ways, which seemed to go hand in hand, but in fact they divided their strength. In addition, the formation of the Song army was changed from the five-army formation commonly used by the Western Army to the six-army formation, that is, the formation of the front and rear left and right Chinese armies and the selection of the front army, which was still difficult to penetrate, and it was difficult to resist the enemy for a while, and the defeat of the Song army was not far away. ”

Zhu Wu heard this: "Do you remind one or two through Taiwei Su?" Sanniang shook her head and said: "Taiwei Su is the political enemy of Cai Jing and Tong Guan, and Tong Guan will not listen to anything he says, and it will be even worse if he writes in my name." Moreover, his Chinese army, the master of the Dao, the seed teacher, and Wen Huanzhang are all capable of fighting and scheming, how can they not see it? Only the fruit of child's stubbornness and self-use. All the generals sighed, and it was a pity that the Western Army had 100,000 elite soldiers and horses.

Then the news came, Tong Guan was the last to arrive at Waqiao Pass in Xiongzhou, and at that time all the people had already arrived. Immediately, Tong Guan convened the generals to discuss the march into the army, and the division of the army was mixed, divided, and the army formation was changed from five formations to six formations, but Tong Guan said: "The Liao people are bold, how can they defeat my 200,000 army?" Dividing and attacking together is the common sense of the art of war, and although the six army formations are used for the first time, they are not unfamiliar with the drills of various units. You usually boast that you can defeat 10,000 people, you are bold, and you regard your dignified teacher as if you were devastating and decaying, but today you are just a coward. The planter was silent.

Tong Guan is to take He Xu as the deputy of the teacher, and Yang Keshi as the former military commander. At the same time, he ordered to recruit warriors to gallop back and forth on the border, and distributed the message of surrender, just waiting for the Yan people to surrender.

By May 28, Yang Keshi, the former commander of the army, heard that the Yan people had long been preparing to welcome the arrival of Wang Shi, and if Wang Shi entered, he would eat pot pulp to welcome him. So he led thousands of light horsemen, and wanted to take it. To Langoudian was killed by the Liao clan Yelu Wanol and returned defeated.

Thousands of cavalry in the front of Yang Keshi's Song army can be regarded as an elite army in the northwest, but the Liao army deeply hates the Song army's betrayal of the alliance, and the Liao army has already discovered the movements of the Song army, and concentrated more than 10,000 elite cavalry to cover and kill, although the cavalry of the Liao army is no match for the cavalry of the Jin army, but it still has some experience in the cavalry of the Song army, which is to defeat Yang Keshi's department.

Yang Keshi's cavalry was defeated, originally to give the Song army a wake-up call, but Tong Guan thought that it was an occasional ambush, and he still couldn't wake up, so he still ordered all troops and horses to advance step by step.

On May 29, the division road marched into Baigou, which was the Juma River, that is, sent the general Zhao Ming to lead the army to the border with the Huangbang banner to surrender, in fact, the front of the Song army led by Zhao Ming and the Liao army had become a confrontation across the river. Zhao Ming occupied the bridgehead and surrendered to the Liao army, and also sent people to send the Huangbang flag to the Liao army.

The general of the Liao army scolded after seeing it: "Don't talk nonsense, isn't it just death." Before the words were finished, arrows and stones rained down on the Song army, and the Song army was unprepared and suffered a lot of losses. The seed master Dao was furious when he heard the news, and he did not act according to the plan of surrender deployed by Tong Guan, and ordered the soldiers of the department to set up a formation near the river, and dispatched Zhao Ming's troops to fight back, and the Liao army waved the military flag across the river bank to command the army to fight, and the cavalry galloped west in the direction pointed by the flag.

The seed master said to the generals: "There must be a place to wade and cross the river downstream, and the troops must be divided." Then he met with Zhao De, the general of Jingyuan Road, who came to support, and ordered his troops to immediately go to meet the enemy. Before Zhao De could go, the Liao army had already crossed the water and galloped. Zhao De is a veteran, and he knows that the situation is not good, so he retreats again.

The seed master scolded angrily: "If the puppet does not advance but retreats, how can he protect the left flank?" So he only divided his troops to meet the Liao army who crossed the river downstream. Seeing this, the cavalry of the Liao State crossed the conflict forcefully, and soon rushed across the river, besieging the Song army on the left and right flanks, Zhao Ming's soldiers were defeated first, Zhao De was hit by an iron thistle arrow in the chest and abdomen, fortunately it was Houjia who did not die, and he was covered with injuries, so that his boots were full of blood, and two teeth were knocked out, and dozens of people were spared. After the army and horses gathered, there were no less than 10,000 soldiers. (To be continued.) )