When Li Jilong arrived in Xiazhou, the situation was actually much better than he imagined, although more than 30,000 people were killed by Li Jiqian, but because the deputy general Tian Renlang dealt with it in time, with the help of equipment and the city, the situation was still stabilized.

At this time, the soldiers led by Li Jilong were the only former Zhenzhou soldiers who gained self-confidence in the Yongxi Northern Expedition, as well as their direct commanders, Li Jiguang and Hu Yanzan.

Another thing that made Li Jilong happy was that the northwest produced horses, and the Northwest Army was the unit with the highest cavalry equipment rate.

After arriving in Xiazhou, the first thing Li Jilong did was to find Tian Renlang and consult the current situation in detail.

Now the northwest is probably in such a situation, Li Jiqian led the party to oppose the Song Dynasty and then surrendered and plotted to seize Yinzhou, and then attacked part of Xiazhou. However, due to the attachment of Li Jiqian's elder brother Li Jisheng before, a large part of the party nobles were forced to move to the Central Plains, so the strength of the party was actually not so terrifying.

And the backer behind the party item, Liao Guo, actually can't give the party much help, because Liao Guo also needs to recover.

"The last general thinks that we should lead Li Jiqian to attack, and then ambush him." After learning about the situation in the northwest, Li Jiguang took the lead in making suggestions to Li Jilong.

"Yuan Jing's suggestion is good, but how can we lure Li Jiqian to Xiazhou City?"

"I think we can use a suspicious tactic against Li Jiqian."

"Oh, how?"

"We can continue to release true and false news to Li Jiqian through different channels, so that Li Jiqian's judgment is confused. Through General Tian's introduction, I think Li Jiqian has a gambler's mentality, as long as we operate the information well, we will definitely be able to lure him over. ”

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you."

In fact, this idea was not completely thought up by Li Jiguang alone, before being transferred to Xiazhou, Zhao Weiji gave Li Jiguang a detailed description of Li Jiqian. Among them, a point of view is emphatically expressed, Li Jiqian has the mentality of a gambler. Whether it is colluding with the party departments to oppose the Song Dynasty, or fraudulently surrendering and plotting to seize Yinzhou, many times Li Jiqian is taking risks.

So Li Jiguang thought of using true and false information to lure Li Jiqian into being fooled.

……

Just after Li Jiguang began to implement this strategy, Li Jiqian received countless pieces of information about Xiazhou through different channels.

Some of them are the new Xiazhou general Li Jilong has already arrived and began to reorganize the army for war. There is also a fact that Xia Zhou still has no chief general to take office. Or maybe Xiazhou is now short of soldiers, and the soldiers in the Central Plains have been pulled to relieve the disaster because of the locust plague. In short, it is a mess and it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false, and there is too much contradictory information.

"What do you think?" Li Jiqian, who had already been troubled by this information, began to ask his staff for advice.

But it's okay not to ask, but it's even more confusing to ask. Different staff members analyzed and came up with different opinions.

Although the staff members also quarreled non-stop, there was one person's remarks that reached Li Jiqian's heart.

"Could it be that the Song army is short of troops and deliberately released so much true and false information to contain us?"

Why did this piece of information, which was diametrically opposed to the actual situation of the Song army, say to Li Jiqian's heart, this is because Li Jiqian has now begun to breed complacency in his heart. The last two battles against Song have been very successful, so he is unconsciously a little proud.

Such emotions prompted Li Jiqian to selectively think in the direction of his favor. As a result, this kind of judgment that the Song army was afraid of us to release countless pieces of information with different truths and falsehoods to delay the pace of our party's offensive occupied his mind.

And this is exactly the effect that Song Jun hopes to have, because once this idea occupies Li Jiqian's mind, he will definitely send troops to attack, and it will be with all his might. Because in the eyes of gamblers, a winning situation must be wagered heavily.

In this way, Li Jiqian staked all his chips and prepared to attack the entire territory of Xiazhou.

……

"Li Jiqian really came out."

"So let's get started."

Knowing that Li Jiqian came out to attack Xiazhou, the Song army began to take action. Since he was fighting on the Loess Plateau, Li Jilong decided to use one of the methods used by the Khitan, that is, to use ravines.

This method of combat was learned from Yang Yanzhao, because on the way to the Northern Expedition, Yang Yanzhao had encountered such a march.

The Song army's ambush men and horses were armed with night raids, and the horses were picked up with bells, and the horses' hooves were wrapped in cloth, and then secretly ambushed in the ravines, preparing to go around to Li Jiqian's rear.

And here in Xiazhou City, there is an empty city plan, and the army is ambushed in the city, and only a few old and weak soldiers are placed on the city tower. Although the city gate is not wide open, it seems that the defense is weak.

And Li Jiqian was arrogantly marching towards Xiazhou, and the team only did basic reconnaissance, and did not consider whether there would be an ambush at the bottom of the ditch. In this way, they fell into the trap of the Song army.

When Li Jiqian led his troops to the city of the Song army, he saw that there were only some old and weak soldiers in the city, Li Jiqian immediately smiled: "They thought that they could scare us by setting up an empty city plan, and this city was an empty city at all." Let the brothers begin to attack the city with all their might. ”

With Li Jiqian's order, the party soldiers began to attack the city.

But at the same time that the Dangxiang soldiers began to attack the city, Li Jiguang and Hu Yanzan also led the troops around the back of the Dangxiang army.

"Report to the Khan, a Song army unit suddenly appeared behind our army and began to launch a fierce attack on us." Just when the Dang Xiang Front Army was happily attacking the city, a soldier reported the bad news to Li Jiqian.

"Oh no, it's a trick." Li Jiqian, who heard the bad news, immediately reacted that something was not good, but before he was allowed to respond, the gate of Xiazhou was opened, and countless Song soldiers rushed out of the city gate to kill the party troops.

Knowing that the defeat was decided, Li Jiqian did not hesitate, immediately abandoned the troops, and broke away from the battlefield with the guards before the Song army formed a siege.

Soon, the Song army surrounded the party troops, killed more than 5,000 people, and the rest of the soldiers surrendered.

Immediately afterwards, the Song army took advantage of the situation to recover the rest of Xiazhou captured by Li Jiqian, and the army approached Yinzhou.

After learning that the Song army had arrived at the city of Yinzhou, Li Jiqian knew that it would be useless for him to return to Yinzhou, because when he set out on the expedition, he took almost all his family with him. Therefore, Yinzhou no longer has many troops to defend at this time.

So Li Jiqian simply gave up Yinzhou and fled directly to his old nest, Jinze.

The Song army, which attacked Yinzhou in the overall situation, successively recovered Sanzhai in Hexi, and broke the remnants of the party defenders in Xixingziping, eastern Turlun Chuan, and Tutou Chuanxi.

At this point, Yinzhou no longer had the ability to resist, and the whole territory was recovered.

……

In fact, when Li Jiqian sent out his troops, Yelumo also obtained all the information released by the Song army, and Yelumo came to a conclusion diametrically opposed to Li Jiqian, that the Song army was going to lead Li Jiqian to attack.

But before Yelumo could inform Li Jiqian, he had already been fooled and fled.

"Li Jiqian, Li Jiqian, I hope you can learn this lesson and make a comeback, instead of slumping."

Although the northwest temporarily lost the containment of the Song Dynasty, Yelumo and the high-level leaders of the Liao State did not feel pity. After all, Yanyun is the main battlefield between Song and Liao.

……

The Great Song court learned that Li Jilong had won a complete victory and recovered Yinxia. The entire court was boiling, and after the destruction of the Northern Han Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty had not achieved such a big victory for a long time.

As a result, Li Jilong was promoted to guard the horse army and lead the defense envoy of Xiazhou. And Li Jiguang, who also made great contributions, was also promoted to the training envoy of the Yinzhou regiment.

……

Li Jiqian, who was defeated, returned to Dijinze in a gloomy manner, cleaned up the remnants, and prepared to plot again. But he didn't expect that in the future, these two people with names like his brothers would become his nemesis one after another.

In this way, the first confrontation between the three "Li family, successors" came to an end.

……

And at the end of the Yinxia battle, Zhao Weiji's mansion in Huating County was also completed.

So he moved to Huating with his big-bellied wife.

As soon as he arrived in Huating County, Zhao Weiji was like a dragon swimming in the sea, freed from the shackles.

So the first thing he had to do was to build a seaport.

But his trouble also came, Huating County is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, so it is constantly silting up, how to find a deep-water port is a difficult problem.

Just when Zhao Weiji was worried, suddenly someone asked to see him outside his mansion, saying that he could help find a suitable port.

Zhao Weiji, who was suffering from the lack of talents in this area around him, didn't think much about it, so he asked his subordinates to lead that person into the mansion.

"Under Wang Dayuan, the word Huanzhang. I heard that the county king was going to build a seaport, and I came here to hope that it would help the county king. ”

I don't know how talented this person is in navigation, so Zhao Weiji raised a few questions: "I don't know what conditions are needed to establish a port in Huanzhang's view?" ”

"The vast water and land area, the necessary berth water depth, and the fact that it can shelter from the wind."

From his answer, Zhao Weiji seemed to feel that this person had some knowledge in this area, so he asked again: "I don't know if there is such a place near Huating County." ”

With Zhao Weiji's question, Wang Dayuan completely opened the conversation, and all the characteristics of the sea area near Huating County were all aside. In the end, he proposed a place, and Zhao Weiji, who had lived in the Demon Capital, immediately reacted to where it was. In later generations, that place was a great port.

From this, Zhao Weiji can conclude that he has picked up the treasure.

Through Wang Dayuan's guidance, Zhao Weiji successfully found that place, and then began the construction of the port.

The construction of the port, Zhao Weiji, was handed over to Wang Dayuan and Jiangyu.

Because at this time, he can't take care of this anymore, because he is going to be a father.