Zhao Pu and Lu Duoxun are very busy, stabilizing the court and the locality, reinstating the officials and restoring governance, allocating money and grain, sending people and auxiliary soldiers, all of them, busy like a top, but leaving the phase, the power has been down for so long, and they are busy again, and the two of them feel very good, although they are busy and can't even go home, but the two of them are willing.

After a period of temptation, because the Song State was busy with internal affairs and had no time to take care of it, Jiaozhi thought that the Central Plains had fallen into the chaotic situation of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period again, and there was no spare strength to control them, so Li Huan had the courage to announce that he would break away from the Song State and stand on his own in the south.

In order to escape the army of the Qin Empire, Shu Pan led the people to the area of present-day Vietnam, established the Ou Yu Kingdom, and called himself the King of Anyang. Later, Qin Shi Huang unified the Sixteen Kingdoms, sent a large army to cross Lingnan, conquered this area, and immigrated in large numbers, and established three counties in Beryllium.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Central Plains war, the Qin State Nanhai Wei Zhao Tuo established himself as the Nanyue Wu Emperor, the Han Wu Emperor was destroyed by the Central Plains, and the three counties were re-established.

At present, the Song State can't take care of it, but the stupidity of the king of Jiaozhi can't be left unexpressed, Yang Hao drove the expedition in person, and this matter fell on the heads of the two of them, and finally the two discussed, written by Lu Duoxun, wrote a sternly worded letter of state, and sent someone to send it to Yang Hao, Yang Hao will pass the edict after Yang Hao's approval, as for the use of soldiers, I am afraid that it is impossible for the time being, but in this ink lawsuit, it is impossible to recognize the dúlì of Jiaozhi, so that in the future, the army will be sent to crusade to be considered famous.

Ding Chengzong seems to be much more leisurely than Zhao Lu, but in fact, his busyness is not below Zhao Lu's second-phase at all, but he is busy in the dark and is easily unnoticed. In fact, in his mansion, the secret spies who fly feathers with the wind go in and out every time, even in the middle of the night, there is no pause.

Yang Hao has put all the main forces of the flying feather with the wind in the territory of the Song State, the people's sentiments and hearts in various places, the attitude of the local officials to the new dynasty and the new policy, the front line and the factions and backgrounds of the generals stationed in various places, which should be used, which should be dealt with, which must be put aside now, which must be monitored from time to time, the officials of the Song State who have been received by a brain are uneven, and the loyalty is difficult to distinguish, Yang Hao is generous, and the work that should be put in the background still has to be done, otherwise this country is easy to come by, and the loss will be very fast, these disgraceful things, Naturally, only the eldest brother who handed it over to him can rest assured.

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However, although Ding Chengzong is busy, he is also very happy, his brother is the master of the world, and now there is another great joy from Xingzhou, Princess Yan gave birth, and she gave birth to a son. Not long ago, the doll and Miao Miao have been produced one after another, the baby gave birth to a girl, Miao Miao gave birth to a boy, Yang Hao added Ding imported, happy events, and now Princess Yan has given birth to a son, Yang Hao already has three sons, in this era, the infant death rate is too high, even the emperor's family is no exception, and now he has added three sons, Ding Chengzong is finally relieved.

He has always wanted to have a step-son come over, but Yang Hao does not have many heirs, and he is not easy to speak, and when his brother has a few more heirs, he plans to ask his brother for a child to come over, as a person of that era, even if he can see and think about more things, there is no son to support the old age, and the anniversary sacrifice is always a heart disease.

After a great joy, Ding Chengzong personally wrote a book, sent someone to Yang Hao to report the good news, and asked people to send a message to the Tang family, so that the Tang family went to Xingzhou to visit, and after finishing these things, just sat down, before the cup of tea was finished, Ma Gong hurriedly walked in and presented a stack of secret documents that had just been received to Ding Chengzong.

Look—

Ding Chengzong hurriedly put down the teacup and checked the fire paint seal in turn, and then opened it one by one and read it carefully.

"Well, as expected by the officials, this Wang Xiaobo has quite an idea, the official family has won the world, he

swaying in Shu and refusing to return, I am afraid that he also has the heart of self-reliance.

Hehe, there is only one Ke Feedevil sitting in Guanzhong, who can't deter him. Now that Ai Yihai is waving his army, Wang Xiaobo can't hold back. Well, since he has accepted the court's recruitment, Zhao Xiang and Lu Xiang will handle the official affairs, and they will definitely do it very properly, and we can secretly monitor his manpower can be withdrawn, and now there is a shortage of people.

"Yes."

"Danyang Zhixian?"

Ding Chengzong's brows frowned: "So many court officials have been loyal to the official family, he is just a county parent, he dares to make a big deal about the matter of Zen, hum, every rì or drinking absurd, or crying, gathering three or five confidants, scolding, laughing and scolding, like crazy......

Mayu! He said, "My lord, do you want to send someone to ...... him

Ding Chengzong thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Don't care about him, don't worry about anything unless it's urgent." This is just a madness, let him make trouble, you just watch and listen, try not to make any moves, let them all come out, we will know in our hearts. This person, I believe that Zhao Xiang and Lu Xiang will be properly handled. ”

Ding Chengzong touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "However, it can also be seen from this that this country is not a Suidang." Longyou, it was our quick knife to cut through the chaos and fight it down in one go, "The situation there is complicated, there are many races, how to strengthen the rule and pacify the locality, it is not an overnight thing, it needs long-term governance. The thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of the Song Kingdom were received by the official family in the name of the King of Qi, and the situation was even more complicated, and I am afraid that it would take a few years to slowly straighten out the situation at the earliest. Therefore, this war in the north should not be protracted, you first collect information from all over the country, and when the official family turns back to Bianliang, we will start to deal with it. ”

Mayu! Said: "Yes, I just don't know the uncle...... When will the Northern Expedition stop? ”

Her eyes lit up, and she suddenly said excitedly, "Why don't you ...... I'm also going to Sanguan to help my uncle

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Ding Chengzong smiled: "Nonsense, you are a girl's house, what's the use of getting there?" Do you want to lead the troops and charge into battle? Feiyu's operation is inseparable from you, the better you do here, the easier it will be for your Uncle Yang, and you will do him a great favor, which is much more useful than you going to Sanguan. As for the ...... of the North"

Ding Chengzong smiled deeply: "Don't worry, when it's time to stop, the official family will naturally stop!"

"Oh 111111"

, Ma Yi's little face fell, and he was stunned. She has become accustomed to staying by Yang Hao's side, Yang Hao handles official business and meets personnel, she hides in the shadows, silently watching him do this and that, saying this and that. You don't need to pay too much attention, as long as you see his figure and hear his voice, your heart is very peaceful, like a kitten "crouching in an inconspicuous corner beside its master, and the master is busy with this and that, and it lies there quietly, as if it is not paying attention at all, but as soon as he gets up and leaves, it will jump up and follow it busily."

She can't do without him anymore, just like a fish can't do without water, and a melon can't do without seedlings.

The last time she lurked in Bianliang with Jie Ziyu, Ding Yuluo, and Zhu Yun, she didn't have such a strong feeling, and when she came, it was because of Bianliang City, which was the city that never sleeped when she was young, and she had been looking forward to going there to see it. Second, maybe she is still young and likes to be lively, and she has the most talkative sister Zhuyun.

But now, she is the only one left, Sister Zhuyun married her uncle as a lady, and she is still her, the inconspicuous puppy......

Yelu Huge's urgent report reached Youzhou, and Xiao Xuan was shocked when he heard the news.

The Song army was defeated from Youzhou and fled all the way south, losing more than one force. After nearly 100,000 people, the first battle of Junziguan and 30,000 people, the rest of the casualties in the big and small battles do not matter, only these two victories, the Song army lost 130,000 troops, the Liao army can basically be equal to the Song army in terms of strength, not to think about the battle of the Xiaotang River, the main cavalry of the 80,000 Liao army suffered a heavy setback, and less than 10,000 people fled back. And the emperor of the Song State let the rivers and mountains, originally arranged in the Guanzhong area to prevent a large number of soldiers and horses in the Western Xia can be transferred north, at the same time, the Western Xia soldiers and horses also made a way with them, the Song army only from the strength of the army, is much farther than the Liao army, not to mention the Song ** team with a combination of foot and cavalry can be attacked, retreat can be defended, who can plunder its front?

The situation is grim.

Empress Xiao's jade face was also grim, and even the prison that was playing beside her saw that her mother's face was unhappy, so she cleverly took Nǎi's mother's hand and fled.

"......, okay, do it like this, and at the same time, the order is to tell the flying chariot Han army to ride 80,000 and reinforce it

Rich Hugh. ”

Xiao Xuan lightly raised his jade finger and dotted on the map: "The occupied Song land can be abandoned, but the territory of my Liao State must not be lost." The west road is bounded by Yanmen Pass, and the south road is bounded by Waqiao Pass, so the Song people must not step further!"

"Yes!" His Majesty hurriedly obeyed the order.

This Wu Beifei is also a fierce general of the Liao State, and he is a martial champion in the period of the Great Liao Shizong, the soldiers and horses under his command are all Han troops, 50,000 foot soldiers, 30,000 cavalry, and the combat power is not under the brave and warlike Liao Palace Guards and clan tent army.

The Han people in the north have long been integrated into the living environment of the Liao State, under the influence of the ears and eyes, the Han people in the Youyun area, and the warriors of the Khitan tribe are as fierce and martial, this force was originally stationed in Shenshengzhou, that is, the place where the two emperors of Yan and Huang Zhuolu fought the battle, in Zhangjiakou City, east of the river, in the upper reaches of the Yongding River. Liao State implements one country, two systems, the Khitan army still maintains the traditional wartime recruitment, peacetime for the people's system, and the Han army is a standing army, the previous Zhao Guangyi Northern Expedition, when he took Youzhou, because the offensive was too strong, the Liao State sent a complete cavalry establishment, Wu Xufei's Han army was the third batch of reinforcements, before it arrived, Yelu Hugo was a successful battle, and the Song army retreated three passes.

This group of men and horses who arrived later stayed in Youzhou, one for the queen mother, the emperor and the army, and the other was once the three passes were conquered, and there was always a need for foot soldiers to garrison the place and establish zhèngfǔ, at that time Wu Xufei's army had its own great use, they were not only mainly Bufeng, but also Han people, and the Han people in the occupied area were also easy to communicate, and now the situation is critical, this force has to pull the front line as soon as possible.

After pondering for a while, Xiao Xuan made another will, sternly reprimanding Yelu Hugh for his arrogance and carelessness, so that he was taken advantage of by the enemy, and the situation of victory and defeat was changed from then on, and finally he gave a few words of encouragement, telling him to try his best to reverse the decline and form a stalemate at least according to the three levels.

Ordered someone to pass on the decree, Xiao Sui sat down slowly on the brocade pier, and put a white stove in his hand, the palm of the white jade was very delicate, but there was not much warmth, even if it was a pocket stove.

Yang Hao, he ...... turned out to be the son of Song Guo, and the distance between me and him is getting farther and farther away

Finish.

Xiao Xuan sighed, raised his eyebrows lightly, but the fragile and tired look on his face swept away the rain. The personal feelings of her children were quickly cleaned up by her, and what was revealed in her eyes was a kind of ruthlessness that was hard to regret and hard to please. In a sense, she and Aguli are the same kind of people. The daughter's house on the grassland is like a camel's thorn in the desert, tough and tenacious.

Love is like water, when love comes to them, they will let go of themselves to love, without considering whether the other party accepts it, and does not consider whether this seed has the possibility of growth.

When the "water" leaves her, she can close herself, face the desolate and lonely desert alone, and live tenaciously for a long, long time. Laughing loudly, indulging in crying, tender like chūn water when they love deeply, cold as ice and snow when they break up, in their bones, they are the same as the men on the grassland, heroic and resolute, love and hate.

The Great Liao West Route Army was marching towards Yanmen Pass, at this time they did not know about the fiasco on the southern front, and the messenger of Nancheng was galloping on horseback, frantically chasing after the West Route Army, and wanted to tell them the fatal news: Song and Xia had been united.

The West Route Army of the Liao State used the soldiers and horses of the Sixth Courtyard Department of Diera, as well as the tribal army, the Han army, and the Jingzhou army

and genus**.

The military service system is still the traditional integration of soldiers and people, and all the men of the tribe are active and reserve soldiers. Prepare all the armor for guarding and fighting, mainly including horses, iron armor, long and short spears, bows and arrows, axes, fire knives, horse ropes, etc. Among the other soldiers, only the Han army was paid and fed, so the number of troops was not very large. The largest number of Jingzhou soldiers, most of whom were Ding Zhuang who had transferred from the Han Dynasty, maintained local law and order in peacetime, and could also be called to accompany the army in wartime, and their xìng quality was somewhat like the militia in the Central Plains. In the seven counties, 17 armies, prefectures, prefectures, and cities under the Datong Prefecture in Xijing, Liao, the total number of soldiers in Jingzhou has reached more than 200,000

The army is not just pulling out a team, it can be called jīng sharp. Therefore, the * state army dispatched this time was only 80,000.

Zhang ** Jie Du envoy, concubine, Xiao Du Li, Ma Bujun are all commanding Li Chongzhi is the vanguard of the West Route Army of Liao, with an army of 100,000 under his command, and he attacked Yanmen Pass like lightning. Because they moved too fast, Yelu Huge's messenger did not catch up in time, and the reckless Li and Li Chongzhi led an army of 100,000 to kill Benyanmen Pass.

The Song army has increased a large number of troops in the direction of Yanmen Pass, and a large number of Western Xia iron cavalry have been supplemented, and Cao Bin has taken over the defense of the pass. Sensing the movements of the Liao army, Cao Bin immediately drew up a battle plan: take the initiative to attack and keep the enemy out of the country.

In the past, in the face of a strong enemy, the Song army rarely adopted such a strategy, the northerners are good at riding and fighting, and the southerners are good at the city, it is not a shameful thing to say, each other's strengths are due to the long-term formation of each other's environment, just like the soldiers in the Jiangnan region, you have to let him practice cavalry warfare, the waterways of Shao are like Qianmo, don't say that he can't practice, even if he practiced, why don't you ride a war horse and run a few steps to change boats to cross the river, and then run a few steps and then change boats to cross the river?

You are good at galloping and riding, that is your ability, I am good at city defense, that is my ability. When it comes to my turf, hand hit the update! I have to follow my rules, the Han people are in the city, this is a combat method that has gradually become a farming society for thousands of years, and it is not that I have to abandon my strengths, run out of the pass and fight hard with you to be heroic.

The Liao army was also accustomed to this style of play of the Song army, because the Western Route Army was better prepared than the Southern Route Army that pursued the defeated troops of the Song State, and it also seemed to pull many completed siege weapons to kill the Yanmen Pass in all directions.

And this time, the defenders of Yanmen Pass poured out and abandoned the danger pass and took the initiative to seek a decisive battle.

Luo Ke led the main infantry of the Song army to meet in a large formation at the north entrance of Yanmen, and Zhang Chongwei led Jīng cavalry to outflank the enemy's rear from the path, using a strategy similar to that of Pan Mei in the first battle on the southern front, and it is still a classic example of mixed infantry and cavalry troops restraining cavalry.

Xiao Xuan Li and Li Chongzhi led the army to kill Yanmen Pass, and hit the Song army that had set up a large array, which was also amazing, but the Liao army that was in full swing did not put the Song army in its eyes, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the large array of the Luo Ke enemy, the two sides fought a battle, and gradually showed a stalemate situation, the cavalry of the Liao army and the infantry of the Song army were mixed together, and when the maneuver space was lost, Zhang Chongwei came out of nowhere and suddenly attacked from the enemy's flank, and the Song army infantry in front also shook the god and counterattacked with all his might.

The Liao army was first cut by the Song army that rushed up from the left and right flanks, and was broken into a pile, and then the main force of the infantry launched a tamares, devouring the Liao cavalry that was cut off piece by piece, and the outcome of this battle was decided from the time when the Song cavalry suddenly came out.

In front of the Liao army, there was an infantry phalanx like a bulldozer that was unstoppable, and there were cavalry on the left and right that clashed back and forth like a cutting machine, and it simply became a wheat field that could be harvested. The Liao army had fallen into a chaotic scene of fighting on its own, and no one consciously stopped it at all, and he actually killed the Chinese army.

Zhang Suowei was luckier than Yelu Hugo when he broke into the Song camp of the 200,000 army to chase and kill Zhao Guangyi, for a while it was night, and it was more difficult to break into the Song army, and secondly, Zhao Guangyi saw that the opportunity was not good and had been dragged away by the attendants. But Xiao Duli, the chief general of the Liao State, can't go, if he leaves, what will happen to the 100,000 army?

Zhang Chongwei rushed to the Liao camp of the Chinese army, fought more than ten times, and cut off the head of the envoy of the Zhang** Jiedu, the horse, and Xiao Duli in the service with a knife, at this time he didn't know what kind of official this was, if he couldn't catch a Liao army and ask clearly, he would never know. Because sometimes Han historians like to hide and praise their merits, the Liao people are more serious in this regard, and they often write a few strokes for failed battles, and they will never go down in history for high-ranking officials who are killed or wounded and captured.

Zhang Chongwei chopped the horse Xiao Lu Li with a knife, and made the third princess of Liao, Yelu, embroider a widow "Ma Bujun all pointed out that Li Chongzhi saw the rì Xuan yù crack from a distance, but the chaotic army was turbulent, like the ups and downs of the waves, he couldn't help himself, he could only fight and walk in the direction of the flow of the army, and he couldn't take care of Xiao Lu Li at all.

As soon as Xiao Lu Li died, the Liao army was even more chaotic, and was killed by the Song army, Li Chongzhi led the remnants of the army and fought and retreated, and led the commander of the palace of the Chinese army, Yelu Zhen, who heard the news, urgently led the troops to help, and then took the forward men and horses down, checked the losses, and more than half of the casualties were allowed.

After all, Yelu Xianzhen was a famous general of the Liao State, and he had rich experience in battle formations, and when he heard him say that there were a large number of cavalry of the Song army, he suddenly felt strange, and immediately leaned on the danger and set up camp, and sent scouts to scout horses, grasp the "tongue", and probe the enemy's situation, and did not dare to act rashly before the truth was known.

The only strategic policy of the Liao army on the southern route at the moment was to try to block the Song army south of Sanguan and determine the distribution of forces on both sides according to the traditional Song-Liao border defense line. After retreating from Baozhou, Yelu Hugo quickly harassed the Liao army of various departments, reorganized and reorganized, "took the initiative to give up some cities that were not conducive to defense, and redeployed defense.

Yelu Huge's vision is still very poisonous, he soon found that although the Song State is now strong and strong, but a large number of troops arrived in a hurry, especially the Western Xia Army and the Song State Forbidden Army have their own establishments and subordinates, and the run-in in the unified command and deployment is not enough, which is a favorable condition, so he fought a big movement war in the defense, gathered jīng sharp cavalry and came and went suddenly, and successively fought with the Song State fierce general Long Madness Deputy Commander Jing Si, Xiongzhou Thorn Shi Zhang Shi, Heyang Sancheng Jiedu Envoy Cui Yanjin, and the Guards Ma Jun Commander Mi Xin and others. And during the battle with Xiongzhou Thorn-A Zhang Shi, he personally led hundreds of guards to break into the formation and beheaded Zhang Shi under his horse!

But soon, Yelu Hugo felt uneasy, he didn't find anything, just the intuition of a battle-hardened general told him that something was wrong: the tacit understanding of the various departments of the Song army was indeed not enough, this is a fact. But with the new victory, the Song army definitely has the strength to launch a large-scale attack, taking advantage of its new defeat and gaining a foothold, to recapture all the Song territory occupied by the Liao State along the border pass in one fell swoop, but Yang Hao did not do this, what is he waiting for?