The next day, the army marched south.

Chao Yong put Lu Junyi in charge of the whole army, and he came to Tokyo alone.

Speeding all the way, Chao Yong actually entered Tokyo before the city gate closed.

This way came, there were thousands of miles, and when he went, Chao Yong kept changing horses, and it took three days of effort. The mount was changed to a jade lion horse, but after a few kung fu, he really traveled thousands of miles and returned to Tokyo.

In the city that Chao Yongjin entered, it was still a little unbelievable, but the jade lion and horse were tired enough, as if they had just been fished out of the water.

Entering the city, Chao Yong turned over and dismounted, patted the sweaty Jade Lion and said, "Good man, let someone give you more food tonight." ”

The jade lion nodded up and down as if he understood.

In front of the palace, Xu Ning, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, had just left the palace and was about to go home.

Suddenly, a white horse with a head and tail and a height of eight feet appeared on the street.

When Xu Ning saw this horse, his eyes immediately straightened, he had also seen many good horses raised in the palace, but none of them had this divine horse.

There are indeed some good horses in the palace, they are tall and look like horses. But these horses are only in the shape of a thousand miles of horses, and they are not a thousand miles of horses, so they are stronger than the good war horses of the Liao State, and their endurance is not as good as the war horses of the Liao State.

These horses are the descendants of the thousands of horses collected by the previous emperors, a physique, and a good horse, but without the tempering of the wild environment. These Maximas can be said to be pampered, and the flowers in the greenhouse, although the congenital conditions are very good, are no longer Maxima.

"Hey, how does the man who leads the horse look like the prince."

The prince has just been in Hebei for seven days, and I am afraid it will take seven days to come and go, and he is definitely not the prince.

Xu Ning shook his head and denied his thoughts. But when the person got closer and closer, Xu Ning couldn't help but rub his eyes, and then opened his eyes wide to see that he was really the prince.

Xu Ning hurriedly walked up and reached out to lead the horse.

The jade lion snorted and opened his mouth to bite.

Chao Yong took a picture of the night jade lion, and the night jade lion settled down, and let Xu Ning take the reins of the horse.

Xu Ningqi said: "The prince came back from the Hebei front? ”

Chao Yong smiled: "Could it be that I went to hide somewhere else for a few days?" ”

Xu Ning said with a smile: "If the prince doesn't dare to go to the battlefield, then no one in this world dares to go to the battlefield." It's just that the prince has only been in Hebei for seven days, why did he come back so soon, could it be that he has already defeated the Liao State? ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "Well, yesterday I won a great victory over the Liao soldiers, captured thousands of Liao soldiers, and asked for 15,000 war horses from the Liao State. This morning, I will come back first, let the emperor prepare to reward the three armies, and then go to the northwest. ”

Defeating the Liao army, Xu Ning was not very surprised, after all, the prince led the troops and had not been defeated, and the Liao State was no longer the powerful Liao State it used to be. It's just that I won so quickly, and I was a little surprised. But what surprised him was the latter sentence.

Xu Ning was dumbfounded and said, "The prince only set off from the front line this morning?" ”

Chao Yong touched the jade lion and said with a smile: "Thanks to it, this is a real horse." ”

It is said that he travels thousands of miles, and he travels eight hundred at night.

This is the thousand-mile horse recorded in the history books, but Xu Ning has never seen it, and now he can hear that the horse in front of him is a thousand-mile horse, and he can't help but look at it with burning eyes.

The jade lion who was not afraid of tigers and leopards snorted uneasily.

Chao Yong smiled and said: "You have to see, I will leave the war horse here, I will go into the palace to say hello to the emperor and queen, and I will talk to you again tomorrow, I ran for a thousand miles, and the jade lion is fine at night, but my bones are a little scattered." ”

Xu Ning looked at the jade lion in the night obsessively, and said, "The prince please, the emperor has just returned to the harem, and I will take a look at the horses here." ”

Chao Yong watched Xu Ning caressing the jade lion inch by inch, as if he saw his beloved woman, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and walked quickly to the palace.

He also loves horses, but is not so obsessed.

Chao Gai was having dinner with the He family in the harem, and when he heard that the prince was back, he hurriedly let Chao Yong in.

Chao Yong bent down and said, "Erchen has seen his father and mother. ”

Chao Gai smiled: "Today, I just received the battle report from the front, and you are back." Could it be that you are also traveling overnight? ”

Chao Yong shook his head and said, "No, Erchen pulled out the camp with the army this morning." Duan Jingzhu took me a thousand-mile horse of the Emperor of Liao, but I didn't expect that I could really travel thousands of miles. I departed from Oshu this morning, and now I'm in Tokyo. ”

Chao Gai heard that he was really a thousand miles away, and his eyes lit up, and he said, "Are you outside?" I'll take a look. ”

Chao Yong smiled: "Outside the palace, I just met Xu Ning, he wanted to see the horse, so I stayed there." ”

Chao Gai nodded and said, "Then I'll change it and look at it again, how did you arrange the Hebei soldiers and horses?" ”

Chao Gai received good news, but it was only the results of the battle, and he did not mention anything else.

Chao Yong said: "I left Zhang Kai 10,000 people to guard Hebei, and I should be the defense envoy of Hebei, in charge of Hebei soldiers and horses, and gave him 10,000 war horses, so that he could train a cavalry out." In total, more than 20,000 horses were captured, and some of the armies were replenished. The remaining 10,000 horses have been sent to Tokyo, and Tokyo can also train a cavalry to come out. Lu Junyi, Dong Ping, Guan Sheng, and Han Cunbao 40,000 people have already set camp and headed south, and I am going to take them to help the old man. ”

"Okay, I'll make an order."

Chao Gai first responded to Chao Yong's promise, and then said: "The soldiers and horses of the Liao State have retreated? ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "Yesterday, after the defeat of the Liao army, the emperor of the Liao State ransomed the captured soldiers and went to Haoli. It is the place where the Liao Emperor Xia made a bowl, and it is also the place where Yelu Yanxi took refuge in the summer and hunted. The soldiers and horses of the Liao State also returned to their respective territories. It should not be in the short term, and in a while, I am afraid that they will not be able to go south. ”

Chao Gai nodded and said, "In this way, it is enough to leave 10,000 soldiers and horses." I'm afraid the situation in the northwest is not good, I didn't expect that the little Western Xia could actually dispatch 400,000 soldiers and horses, and the Western Army has already arrived at Qinfeng Road one after another. The old people were slightly fair, and they were persuaded to submit to our dynasty, and some of them were Tong Guan's henchmen and were ready to take refuge in the Southern Song Dynasty. However, the soldiers under their command are all citizens of the northwestern states, some of the state capitals have fallen into the hands of the Western Xia, and the rest are also in danger. Only our Daliang can send troops to help them, so the possibility of the old breed convincing them is still very large. Even those generals wanted to take refuge in Tong Guan, and they couldn't take much of the Western Army with them. However, these western armies marched more than 1,000 miles in a hurry, and after a long battle with Manichaeism in front, they were already exhausted and had no combat strength. It can only recuperate in Weizhou and restore combat strength. The state capital west of Weizhou still had to give up. ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "Father, rest assured, after the army goes south, I will lead the troops to the northwest for a while, but I must ask my father to reward the three armies and boost morale, otherwise the soldiers will also complain about running thousands of miles in a row." ”

"Okay, when they go south, I'll personally go and reward the three armies."

(To be continued)