As Guo Wuwei expected, after Liu Jien was dismissed and grounded, Liu Jiyuan naturally became the Yin of Taiyuan Mansion, and the hundred officials also saw a political signal from here, and the position of the emperor after a hundred years must be the new Taiyuan Mansion Yin Liu Jiyuan.

The hundreds of officials in the court also began to take their seats.

Since Liu Jiyuan became the Yin of Taiyuan Mansion, during this period of time, Liu Jiyuan has been respectful and promising in terms of behavior and governance and with hundreds of officials, and he has gotten along harmoniously, and Liu Jiyuan has also set up a very good example in the hearts of hundreds of officials.

At present, Jinyang City looks very peaceful and peaceful on the surface, and Emperor Liu Jun is also recuperating in his body, the expression of the second son makes him feel very happy, and his condition is almost better.

And in the secluded place of the imperial city, on Liu Jien's mansion in the south of the city, several jujube trees outside the house are all bare, the courtyard is also full of dust, and the servants of the mansion have also been dismissed a lot, and it is much more deserted here than in the past.

In the silent room at this moment, dressed in silk and white, it was no longer possible to distinguish the pure color, and at this moment it was disheveled, and the man's black hair was scattered over his shoulders, loose and fluffy, and his head was sometimes raised, sometimes leaning against a wooden stool, shaking his head, delirious, and not knowing what he was doing.

This person is Liu Jiyuan, since he did not kill his father that day, his spirit collapsed all of a sudden, I saw his eyes glazed, his hands hanging down behind his back, more ugly than an old monk meditating, and shouted nonsense in his mouth: "Flat, haha, get up." ”

"Haha, I'm the emperor."

"Hahaha, the throne is mine—"

Outside the house, the sound of footsteps was already approaching the house, and when it was close to the house, the footsteps had stopped.

This person is Liu Jiyuan, I saw that he was passing by the fence outside the house, and a soldier guarding Liu Jien saw Taiyuan Mansion Yin coming in civilian clothes, he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "The last general has seen Taiyuan Yin." ”

"Get up, Your Majesty has asked you to guard this place, is it safe here recently?"

The soldier raised his hand and continued: "Taiyuan Yin, this place is safe, even if he pretends to be crazy and stupid, he can't escape from this place." After the soldier finished speaking, he glanced up at Liu Jiyuan.

Liu Jiyuan said slowly: "So good? Looking at his appearance, he probably broke his head, so I am also relieved, you continue to monitor here, if there is any trouble, go to my house to inform him. ”

Liu Jiyuan only looked outside the house for a while, and the bleak wind outside the house blew, making Liu Jien's mansion look a little secluded, and he saw that there was nothing unusual about Liu Jien inside, and he turned around after standing for a while.

The night was like paint, in the secret room of Guo Wuwei's mansion, Guo Wuwei and the eighth child were already here, and Guo Wuwei's doubts were also solved through the eighth child.

Guo Wuwei said: "Hmph, it turned out to be them." ”

"They, their lives are also in the hands of my Changchun Hall." Lao Bahu Kangxi said, "Now that my Great Song Dynasty has sent troops to the north, and it will cross the Yellow River soon, this northern land will return to the embrace of my Great Song Dynasty sooner or later." ”

Guo Wuwei on the side said: "Eighth Master, if we want to attack Jinyang, we can use the technique of digging tunnels, and then divert water or bury explosives in the tunnels; If you want to divert water, you should divert water to this point, soak the city for a few days, and then let the city wall dry for a few days, so that after the wind and sun, the city wall will collapse. And only I can get acquainted with this wall. ”

Guo Qiyun said: "Daddy, don't forget, with explosives, the city wall will be destroyed in an instant, and the Great Song Forbidden Army can enter directly." ”

Lao Badao: "Guo Xianggong should know that Jinyang City is a strong city, and if you want to forcibly attack the city, my Great Song Dynasty will have to work hard." And Brother Yun has already said the key to this problem, and now that my Great Song army has gunpowder, it is natural to give full play to the power of gunpowder. ”

Guo Wuwei nodded, "This old man almost forgot." ”

Many days later, at the ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River, since the eighth day of the first month, Zhao Kuangyin led the forbidden army out of Kaifeng City, at this moment the forbidden army has crossed the Yellow River, and the 50,000 troops behind them are fully armed, they escorted a lot of grain and grass, and the road for transporting grain is also made of cement.

Moreover, among the grains they escorted this time, there was also a canned cured meat made of air-dried meat, all of which were encapsulated in a bamboo tube, and some air-dried cabbage, potato chips, sweet potato chips, etc., were mixed in these grains to ensure that these soldiers received enough nutrition.

And the soldiers also carried a backpack on their backs when they went north, which was a newly designed military backpack, because of the urgency of time, not every soldier carried such a backpack.

The Song army looked at the frozen Yellow River behind them, at the southern end of the Yellow River was the Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, and two hundred miles north of the Song army was the Liao army.

According to the scouts in front, the Liao army in the north now mainly comes from Youzhou, and the number is about 30,000, most of which are under Xiao Siwen.

For Xiao Siwen's opponent, Zhao Kuangyin still knows a little, Zhou Shizong's Northern Expedition repelled Xiao Siwen's army, if Zhou Shizong was not seriously ill, it is estimated that the north and south of Youzhou would have been in the hands of the Zhou army long ago.

At this moment, Zhao Kuangyin said to Cao Bin and Pan Meizhu generals beside him: "In this battle, my Great Song can only repel Xiao Siwen's army, as for the purpose of this time, it is not to deal with the Liao army, we just need to cut off the supply of the Liao army to the Han army, and then it will be the battle of Jinyang." ”

Speaking of the battle of Jinyang, most of the veterans who attacked Jinyang were a little excited, and even the emperor Zhao Kuangyin recalled the battle of Jinyang, he was also a little excited, when Zhou Shizong led his Zhao Kuangyin and other generals, in the battle of Jinyang, faced the tall Jinyang city and returned, and now the Song army has embarked on the road to attack Jinyang and Jinyang.

There are also some veterans in the battle of Jinyang, such as Zhang Yongde and other generals, and now they see that the strength of the Song army is stronger than the strength of the Zhou army back then, and they also have some longing in their hearts, as if the army has been placed under the city of Jinyang at this moment.

Zhao Kuangyin synthesized the strength of the Great Song army, he referred to the current situation, and then said: "The whole army is speeding up, and tonight we must cross the high slope ten miles away." ”

In the north in January, the weather was a little milder, and Zhao Kuangyin and the soldiers went to the fixed stationing place together.

The place here is uneven, but overall it is flat enough.

The stars are scarce at night, and the black magpie flies south.

The Song army began to form a formation in this place, and all the large army camp tents were spread out in a zigzag shape.

In the camp, the soldiers also began to raise fires to make food, and the entire camp tent was surrounded by smoke.

Emperor Zhao Kuangyin, dressed in a round-necked robe, had already sat up in the tent of the Chinese army, and Cao Bin and other generals beside him also stood aside, looking at the huge military sand table assembled by the huge pieces of the Chinese army.

The sand table encompasses all the terrain of Hedong and Hebei, and the sand table also marks the dynamics of the two sides in real time.

Cao Bin took the scout's report and said with some sorrow: "The Khitans have arrived in Yizhou, Ningzhou, Yingzhou, Mozhou and other border states, and these states are much more harassed by the Khitans because they are close to Youzhou. ”

"The Khitan people are really hateful, hurting my people and taking away my people's property, it's really hateful!"

"Don't be angry, now the first priority of our army going north is to shoot out the Khitans, and we still have to deal with the puppet Han State first."

"I don't know how to discuss?"

This soldier is talking about the tactics used by the Zhou army to attack Waqiao Pass that year, "The last general thinks that it is better to pass through Duliukou, and then advance westward against the army, and my Great Song Dynasty can ban the army at Yijin Pass and repel the enemy army." ”

"The last general feels that Duliukou is a little difficult here, although the number of defenders is sufficient, but it is also passive, and the Khitans will not repeat the mistakes of the past and make a second mistake."

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This war has a huge impact on the early confrontation of the Great Song army against the Han State and the end of the secession of the northern region, if the war in the north is to end as soon as possible, the Great Song side must be fully prepared, and defeating the Liao army is the first step now.

In the middle of the night, the whimpering horn had already sounded under the night sky, and the camp on the Song army's side was also on guard

On the edge of a river not far from Yizhou City, here is the camp of the Liao army.

The moon and stars are scarce, and the camp tent by the river is very lively, and many Liao soldiers are carrying some objects.

These are all baggage from Yizhou and other places, such as grain, cattle and sheep, cloth, etc., these trophies are all snatched from those innocent villagers, and are now being loaded into boxes and transported to the north by horse-drawn carts.

Xiao Siwen and the other Liao troops have already arrived here, and now they have no choice but to go south in the grass valley, if it were not for the widespread famine this winter, and countless cattle and sheep froze to death, Xiao Siwen would not be very in favor of this way of plundering the people.

Since ancient times, those who win the hearts of the people have been in the world, but in order to survive, Xiao Siwen has to do this.

The wheels of the carriage that set off from outside the city of Yizhou pressed out a criss-cross mark on the ground.

Xiao Siwen came out of the tent and saw the elated faces of the soldiers of the Liao army, he didn't know whether he was happy or sad in his heart, and then he ordered the generals to let all the generals go to the tent of the Chinese army camp to discuss military affairs.

At this moment, in the big tent of the Chinese army on the march of the Liao army, Xiao Siwen sat in the camp tent wearing a suit of armor, and he said earnestly: "This time, my Khitan people are going south in the grass valley, and we must retreat back in time, otherwise when the Song army goes north, if we want to withdraw to Youdu Mansion, I am afraid it will take a lot of trouble." ”

At this moment, suddenly a scout came from outside the military tent, and as soon as he entered, he announced: "Report, the Song army has set off from Kaifeng. The Yellow River has now been crossed. ”

As soon as Xiao Siwen and the other generals heard this, they immediately understood the meaning of this scout's words.

Siu Siwen asked, "What?" The Song army went north, who was the leader of the troops? ”

The scout raised his voice and said, "The emperor of the Song Kingdom personally went out on the expedition. ”

"Zhao Kuangyin." When Xiao Siwen heard this, he gasped, he also saw the power of Zhao Kuangyin, the general of the Song Army back then, in that battle, "From a general to a high-ranking emperor, I don't know how this person is now, if he meets again, I don't know if he is his opponent." ”

The person who spoke was a woman, and he said: "General Xiao, what about him Zhao Kuangyin, this time why don't we arrest Zhao Kuangyin, and then force Song Guo to be a minister." Just like Shi Jingjiao back then. ”

"Shi Jingjin is Shi Jingjiao, Zhao Kuangyin is Zhao Kuangyin!" Xiao Siwen looked up at the woman, for the girl, Xiao Siwen had a natural disgust, he felt that this person was a brave and unscrupulous person, "Unless we really capture that Zhao Kuangyin, but we didn't have the upper hand in this battle, so let's transport the loot back to Youzhou first and then discuss." ”

The woman has found that Xiao Siwen is a little afraid to deal with things these days, he feels that Xiao Siwen is a weak person, because he has some contempt for Xiao Siwen, at this moment he asked: "Are you afraid of staying behind?" It's just a mere Zhao Kuangyin. Even if Zhao Kuangyin came in person, our army began to cowardly the enemy before the battle, is it underestimating the strength of our army? ”

Xiao Siwen smiled bitterly when he heard this, he shook his head, he didn't want to say anything more for the time being, now that he is in the army enough, even if the women have any complaints, they will follow their suggestions.

Seeing that Xiao Siwen didn't say anything, Nuli looked at the other generals around him for help.

At this moment, suddenly a person came from outside the military tent, Xiao Siwen turned his head, and the other generals also looked at him.