When I was about to return to Xiongzhou, I heard a string of horses' hooves behind me.

The three of them couldn't help but look back in surprise, it was too fast.

In the blink of an eye, there was one.

The man on the horse jumped to the ground and arched his hand: "I've seen the crown prince, General Dong, and General Hua." ”

The person who came was red-haired and yellow-bearded, but it was the golden retriever Duan Jingzhu. The horses were covered in snow-white, without a single stray hair, and were one foot long from head to tail, and eight feet high from their hooves to their ridges.

Chao Yong also jumped off the horse and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you doing lately?" ”

Duan Jingzhu was also a little flattered when he saw Chao Yong dismount and speak, and hurriedly said: "The villain walks in the north all the year round, and there is no danger in traveling between the two countries. ”

Chao Yong looked at Duan Jingzhu [***], and said with a smile: "You are swimming across the river, get on the horse, let's go back and talk about it." ”

Duan Jingzhu nodded and said, "The Liao people around the pontoon bridge are watching closely, so they can only come from other places. The prince rode this horse, which I specially snatched and dedicated to the prince. It was originally the mount of the emperor of Liao, and the attendants went out of the camp to release the horses, and I snatched them. This horse is a Western domain horse, which can travel thousands of miles, because the long hair near the neck is the same as that of a male lion, so it is called the jade lion horse of the night. ”

Chao Yong's eyes were already hot, and when he heard this, he also smiled: "Then I'm welcome." ”

When the night jade lion horse was young, his surname was violent, but when he grew up, he would be driven out of the herd, and his surname would be much more tame. However, Chao Yong suddenly turned over and got on the horse, but he still jumped up and backwards restlessly, trying to throw Chao Yong down.

Chao Yong didn't know how many fierce horses he had ridden over the years, and with a clamp between his legs, the jade lion horse would be in pain and settle down.

Duan Jingzhu saw that the prince used violence to tame horses again, and couldn't help but shake his head secretly, he was good at horses and horses, and he was naturally a horse lover, and he liked this jade lion very much, but he also knew that this horse was more useful to the prince, so he couldn't bear to cut his love.

Riding on the jade lion horse of Zhaoye, he was obviously a head taller than Dong Ping.

Chao Yong also wanted to try this horse, so he gently kicked the horse's belly and said, "Drive." ”

The night jade lion horse understood, and immediately spread its hooves and ran, and when he saw that his master did not stop him, he kept accelerating.

At first, Dong Ping, Hua Rong, and Duan Jingzhu could still follow behind, but soon there was no trace of the prince.

The wind is galloping, Chao Yong only has this one feeling.

Although the wind blew his eyes a little bit, he still let the night jade lion horse gallop to his heart's content, this is the real BMW.

In just a moment, Chao Yong came to the outside of Xiongzhou City.

When the soldiers on the city wall saw a white horse coming quickly, and were still thinking about whether to warn them, the war horse had stopped at the gate of the city.

The soldiers at the gate of the city saw that it was the prince, and they all stood up and saluted, but the rest of the eyes were all glancing at the night jade lion horse under Chao Yong's crotch.

Chao Yong was not in a hurry to enter the city, and waited for Dong Ping and the three of them to come up before coming to the barracks together.

Hua Rong and Dong Ping looked at the jade lion under Chao Yong's crotch with envy, for military generals, BMWs, armor, and weapons are always what they pursue.

However, Chao Yong couldn't help with this, and he finally got such a BMW, so he naturally wouldn't let it out.

Chao Yong remembered where the horse came from and asked, "The Emperor of Liao has gone south?" ”

Duan Jingzhu nodded and said: "The emperor of the Liao State wants to personally conquer, and he has brought five thousand iron horsemen to the south, and he should arrive at the Baigou River camp in a day or two." ”

Dong Ping heard that the Emperor of Liao was coming, and couldn't help but move: "Prince, if we raid and kill the Emperor of Liao, won't we be able to defeat Liao easily." ”

Although Dong Ping can't do the legendary million-dollar army to take the head of the general, but he is also a good hand at charging into battle, if he forms a sharp knife led by himself, it is likely to be directly inserted into the Liao [***] array to kill the emperor of Liao.

Chao Yong thought for a while, shook his head and said: "The Liao State is already called Bo Xishan, and the Jin State is quite a bit of an autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, if we kill the Emperor of the Liao State, we are afraid of causing civil strife in Liao, and let the Jin State reap the benefits of the fisherman." The Jin people are tyrannical, and we still need the Liao people to help us resist the Jin country for the time being. ”

Dong Ping said: "Could it be that we really want to fight a decisive battle with the Liao army?" ”

Chao Yong shook his head and said, "No, the cost of a decisive battle with the Liao people is too great, we just need to beat them into fear." We went back to the camp and said. ”

Speaking of the Baigou River camp in Liao, Yelu had to pull out the weeds along the way early, and then sprinkle water to prevent the dust from flying.

The younger brother King Yelu Dezhong sent his four sons to greet the emperor Yelu Yanxi early, and when he heard that the emperor's war horse was snatched away, he didn't dare to slack off, and took the generals in the camp out of the camp for ten miles to greet him.

Yelu Yanxi really has a black face, he likes to hunt, and there are several horses, but the night jade lion horse is still his favorite one, so he has to let the guards release the horse every day and let the horse gallop freely for a while. Unexpectedly, it was robbed in the territory of Liao, which was undoubtedly a great shame for him, and the emperor's horse was actually snatched away in China. Helplessly, the night jade lion horse ran too fast, and the guards couldn't catch up if they wanted to. However, I heard the guards say that the horse snatchers went all the way south, thinking that they had fled to the Central Plains, but it was the same as his destination in the south.

Therefore, after Yelu Yanxi entered the military camp, he couldn't wait: "Can the army go south?" ”

Yelu nodded and said, "The emperor gives an order, and the army can cross the river." ”

Yelu Yanxi nodded with satisfaction and said, "Is there any movement from the southerners?" ”

Yelu had to think about it again, but he still didn't dare to hide it, and said: "After Chao Yong, the prince of Liang State, went north, he led his troops to recapture Xiongzhou, and yesterday he brought two people to check the Baigou River and shot several of my generals. Then the southerners set camp five miles away on the other side of the Baigou River, and did not destroy the pontoon bridge, apparently they were going to fight us in a decisive battle on the other side of the Baigou River. ”

Yelu Yanxi Qi said: "How many soldiers and horses do the southerners have?" ”

"It should be about 50,000 people, and the number is about the same as ours."

Xiao Fengxian, a close minister, said: "This Liang country is just a gang of grass cowards in the Central Plains, presumably a rabble, how dare you fight a decisive battle with us, isn't it a fraud?" ”

Yelu Dashi explained: "The Central Plains is now in turmoil, Hedong Tianhu and Huaixi Wang Qing are fighting for territory with the Liang State, and I heard that the Western Xia has also sent troops. I judged that Liang Guo probably wanted to fight us as soon as possible, determine the winner, and then withdraw south to seize the territory. ”

Yelu Yanxi nodded and said, "Li Qianshun of Western Xia has sent someone to inform and invite our Great Liao to send troops together to capture the Central Plains. ”

Emperor Li Qianshun of the Western Xia Dynasty succeeded to the throne at the age of three, the Empress Dowager controlled the government at the beginning, and after more than ten years, the Emperor of Liao gave the Empress Dowager to death, and Li Qianshun took over the military and political power, so Li Qianshun was very in awe of the Liao State, and asked for the daughter of the Liao State Yelu Nanxian to be the queen, and Ping said that he was also careful to serve the Liao State.

(To be continued)