Strictly speaking, the "Three Passes" were not the ideal place for the Song Dynasty monarchs to build cities, as they came from the North China Plain, with no mountains to rely on and no rivers to defend.

However, Emperor Shi Jingjiao gave the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Liao State, which not only greatly increased the land area of the Liao State, but also allowed them to have a good piece of farmland, and began to transform from the original nomadic people to a semi-agricultural society. At the same time, the Central Plains also lost the natural and artificial defense line between the nomads in the north, and the Song State had to choose three hills on this plain to build the "Three Passes".

For this reason, all generations of monarchs and ministers of the Song State also took great pains, especially after Song Zhenzong and Liao Shengzong signed the Lanyuan Agreement, the two countries were not allowed to deploy heavy troops on the border, nor were they allowed to build war fortifications, so as to show the permanent peace and friendship between the two countries!

On the surface, this statement seems to be high-sounding, but it is also very beautiful.

But as long as you are not a fool, you can see that the Liao State does not have any good intentions, as long as the Song State does not build a defense line, then the entire Central Plains will always face the threat of Yanyun Iron Cavalry, and have to make concessions in some things, such as increasing the New Year's currency many times, all thanks to it.

The civil officials of the Song State are not good at fighting, but they are definitely not stupid, and they definitely don't want to put themselves in a defenseless situation with their urine nature. However, because of the restrictions of the agreement, it was impossible for them to build cities on a large scale, which seemed to have given the Song State a dead end.

The Liao people also thought so at the beginning!

However, it didn't take long for the Song ministers to teach them a lesson.

Since the agreement stipulates that we can't build war fortifications, then we won't build cities or walls, but I'll dig more fields there and plant rice, so it's not against the law!

Then the Liao people are about to come and ask, you Song people can't control that kind of field agreement, but can you tell me why you have to dig so deep in farming? Did your rice grow in the lake?

The officials of the Song Dynasty are not good at playing tricks, our people in the Great Song Dynasty are so hard-working, they still like to plant deep fields, what's the matter!

Only then did the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State understand that there was still a bug in this world, and the ministers of the Song Dynasty were even more masters of exploiting loopholes! And this "powerful" problem seems to have been inherited so much that future generations will be infected with this vice thousands of years from now!

However, at the time, people did not regard it as a vice, but felt that they had made a clever move.

The consequence of this is that although there are no mountains or rivers around the "Three Passes", there are even more annoying artificial swamps. If you want to launch a full-scale siege, you will inevitably fall into these "fields" and become a live target, which is one of the reasons why Xiao Xunbu did not choose to bloom on all sides at the beginning.

However, after suffering a little loss on the first day, he changed his attention, and slightly changed the suggestion of his staff Qian Fuyu, changing the frontal feint attack to a strong attack, and placing the feint in several other directions. Whether it was a hill or a paddy field, as long as the soldiers could reach it, he arranged manpower, and he must crush the Song army's inner defense line in terms of momentum. As for the 20,000 cavalry, their role is more to block reinforcements.

What a trick to encircle the point to help!

It's a pity that he didn't do a good job of intelligence work beforehand!

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The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, and the silt pass is the "cicada", and the "praying mantis" is needless to say, and this "yellow finch" is Ding Zhaolan and his party who have fled to the back of the Liao army.

They also watched from a distance during the daytime battle, and felt that the hundreds of people who were huddled together did not stop. Therefore, Ding Zhaolan decided to take the brothers to continue to go behind enemy lines tomorrow to find fighters. As they searched for a camping spot, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the silent night sky.

Ding Zhaohui became excited, took Ding Zhaolan's hand and said, "Brother, listen! There shouldn't be two people in this horse's hoof, let's go touch them, right? ”

Ding Zhaolan listened attentively, and felt that there were indeed few horses' hooves, so he said: "You take a few people with you, pay attention to safety!" ”

"Great!" Ding Zhaohui happily responded, then pointed to the team next to him and said, "Team 1, follow me!" ”

And the group of horseback riders was Xiao Xunbu who sent a herald, and was hurrying to the baggage troops in the rear, never expecting that someone was ambushing here.

"Leave the first two behind, and kill all of them!" Ding Zhaohui saw that the other party was only about a dozen people, and decisively gave the order to attack: "Shoot!" ”

After a while, after Ding Zhaolan tortured the information, he also disposed of the remaining two.

He went back to report to Ding Zhaolan this time: "Big brother, we just touched that group of people to be the heralds of the Liao State, I heard that they meant that because the battle did not go well during the day, they went to urge the baggage troops behind, do you think we should eat their baggage troops as well?" ”

Ding Zhaolan was also a little tempted by this proposal, after all, when they were training, sabotage was a special project, so he asked: "Then do they have a situation about the baggage troops?" ”

"Anyway, I'm not stupid, such important information must be asked!" Ding Zhaohui said unashamedly: "According to what they said, the baggage troops escorted grain and grass and siege weapons, and the siege weapons were mainly trebuchets, as well as a small number of old man's wells and rushing cars, escorting an infantry team of 1,000 people, and some Han people's husbands, probably like this." ”

"A thousand-man team? Seems like a lot! Ding Zhaolan pondered: "But if you don't eat the meat that comes to your mouth, you will be punished by God!" Gotta think of it! ”

Ding Zhaohui: "Brother, what's there to think about, let's go up and kill them, won't it be over!" ”

"No, no, no, you're doing this too low-end, it's not the style of our Royal Forces!" Ding Zhaolan hurriedly denied it.

Ding Zhaohui: "Then what style are we?" I don't know! ”

Ding Zhaolan: "Well, this is the style that the captain has just established, that is, to carry forward the obscene style of the saint, and the positive things are still handed over to those field soldiers to do, we have to work quietly and make a lot of money in silence." ”

Ding Zhaohui: "Then what do you say?" ”

"Let me ponder!" After Ding Zhaolan finished speaking, he picked up a pen and paper and planned it.

After a quarter of an hour, when Ding Zhaohui urged for the third time, Ding Zhaolan finally happily announced: "I have come up with it, let's give him a Li Dai Taozhuang!" ”

Ding Zhaohui: "What do you mean?" ”

Ding Zhaolan: "Didn't you just say that the Liao State sent more than a dozen heralds!" Let's send people to change into their equipment, pretend to be their heralds and mix in with the baggage troops, and then wait for the opportunity to give them some food...... Hahaha, I'm such a genius! ”

"Genius fart!" Ding Zhaohui also gave her twin brother face at all: "Where are we going to get poison in the barren mountains and mountains?" ”

Ding Zhaolan didn't care: "Who said that they want poison, give them some croton is enough for them, I estimate that this generation can still find a little croton, let everyone go out and find it." ”

Ding Zhaohui: "This sounds a little more reliable!" ”

Ding Zhaolan: "Don't forget to bring back the skins of those Liao people." ”

"Yes, it's verbose!" Ding Zhaohui didn't look back, so he waved his arm twice at his brother.

Ding Zhaolan directly ignored his brother's rudeness, and secretly pondered: "You have to take some time to say to the saint, and give us some poison on our bodies, you can't come to the local material every time!" ”

The next morning, before breakfast was eaten, Ding Zhaohui led a team to change into the clothes of the Liao army, rode other people's war horses, and rushed towards the baggage troops, ready to eat at them.

Wanyan Gulu, the unlucky child, is the commander in charge of escorting the baggage, he is from the Jurchen tribe, his brain is relatively straight, his mouth is relatively stupid, and he can't do anything, which is very unpopular with Xiao Xunbu. So when Xiao Xunbu took the other younger brothers to go to the Song Kingdom to eat fragrant and spicy food, he was afraid that he would be left behind, and let him do this thankless hard work.

At this time, the escort baggage was not a fat difference, it was a serious drudgery, the road condition was not good, the wooden wheels were not smooth, and it had to rely on manpower along the way. This is not the key, the coolies and those people do it, what makes him most depressed is that Xiao Xunbu and those people don't wait for themselves, and they have to be scolded if they can't keep up.

Therefore, when he saw Ding Zhaohui and others pretending to be heralds with sealed letters to urge, he didn't bother to see them in person, which made it easier for Ding Zhaohui and their actions.

Ding Zhaohui glanced at the soldiers next to him, and several of them carried spices and walked around the guys, either doing homely work or climbing fellow villagers......

In short, their "third hand" added all the hard-collected croton juice to the Liao army's meals without a trace.

After a meal, the whole marching party becomes an open pit, which is the real stinking. At this time, no matter how stupid Wanyan Gulu is, he knows that something is wrong, and it doesn't matter if he has diarrhea one or two, most of the people in this Nima are having diarrhea, so it doesn't make sense, it makes it clear that someone is making it bad again!

Wan Yan Gulu was lucky, he ate a small stove, which was prepared by his personal guards, so he and his hundred personal guards, as well as some soldiers with better physical fitness, became the survivors of this uncovered conference.

Seeing this, he immediately ordered all the men to be dragged out, and after some torture, he finally found a trace of clues. But when he went to look for those suspects, he had already prepared Ding Zhaohui and his party to get on their horses and gallop away.

For this kind of naked provocation, Wanyan couldn't bear it, and immediately ordered his 100 guards to chase after him. It's not that he underestimated Ding Zhaohui and the others, it's just that because he is leading an infantry team, this hundred guards are still the cavalry given to him by his father, and they are his only mobile force.

Ding Zhaohui glanced behind and saw that this group of cavalry had followed, and said with a smile: "The bait is hooked, send a signal to the captain!" ”

"Understood!" A soldier beside him immediately took out a ringing arrow and shot it into the sky.

Ding Zhaolan has been observing the situation in the Liao army camp with clairvoyance, and seeing that you are not emitting smoke as he expected, she can't help but feel a little anxious in her heart, and she also has a trace of doubt about your plan.

At this time, he saw Ding Zhaolan and the others rushing out of the camp on horseback, followed by a group of cavalry, thinking that his plan should have failed, so he hurriedly led people to meet them.

The hundred cavalry that chased out, under the ambush of Ding Zhaolan and others, did not set off too many waves and fell silent. Wan Yan Gulu was still angry, and he was still waiting for his guards to arrest those guys who didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and they were cramping and skinning, but they didn't know that his own guards went to Huangquan to report first.

After Ding Zhaolan and Ding Zhaohui converged, they asked, "What's the situation with you?" Why didn't they burn their baggage? ”

Ding Zhaohui took a sip of water before saying: "We have miscalculated a little, the amount of croton is not well controlled, some of them are pulled off, and some of them are fine." And the commander's personal guard is the group that chased us out, and Nima also opened a small stove, so we didn't find a chance to start. As soon as I thought about it, since I didn't have a chance to burn them, I would simply lure their cavalry out, and as long as we killed their cavalry, there would be only two or three hundred infantry left with diarrhea and no shortage of our opponents. ”

"That makes sense!" Ding Zhaolan nodded: "Then let's ride their war horses now, fly their kites, and burn their grain and grass!" Go, brethren! ”

"Yes, Captain!"

A group of them, after collecting the war horses left by Yan Gulu's personal guards, rushed towards the camp of the Liao army, and were about to stage a big drama of breaking through the enemy camp with a hundred horses...... (To be continued.) )