Song Guo is indeed determined to win Youyan. Because the Song Dynasty won the world, congenital insufficiency, the Song Dynasty was not as good as the Han and Tang dynasties, the Han and Tang dynasties inherited the territory of the Qin and Sui dynasties, the northern Xinjiang and the Western Regions were in the hands, and before the Song Dynasty won the world, the Tang Dynasty had been destroyed for more than a hundred years, and the Central Plains princes were fighting, and when the Song Dynasty unified the Central Plains, the Western Regions and the North had been foreign. It has been mastered and ruled for many years, and it already has a solid foundation in the local area.

Occupying the north is the Liao Empire, which owns the strategic position of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. Condescending, you can ride south at any time and ride a horse in the Central Plains. And there is still hope for the Northwest Benlei to recover, the problem is that the rulers of the Liao Empire are not mediocre people, they know. Once the Song Kingdom has it. The Western Regions will be like a tiger with wings, and it is inevitable to attack Youyan again at that time.

Once the Liao State lost the land of Youyan, it was not only a matter of losing a large territory, but also the initiative of war and peace in the hands of the Song people. In order to keep Youyan, Soka must first protect the Western Regions. In order to contain Song Gu, he could not devote himself to the Northern Expedition.

The Song Kingdom also saw this very clearly, so at the beginning of the founding of the country, it set the policy of first the south and then the north, and unified the world. Zhao Kuangyin built a sealed pile warehouse to reserve military funds, and only said to the outside world that one day he would use money to redeem Youyan, so as to confuse the northern country, and by the time of Zhao Guangyi, the south had been completely pacified, and occasional rebellions could no longer shake the foundation of the Song State.

Therefore, when Zhao Guangyi ascended to the throne, he had already taken over the preparations of the imperial brother, and continued to prepare for the Northern Expedition from all aspects, setting up granaries and armories along the northern route, and stepping up the training of the army.

Now, it seems that the opportunity has arrived.

Jurchen and Murwei respectively sent secret envoys to declare themselves vassals to the Song State, and begged the Song State to send troops to "crusade against the Dao State."

Jurchen and Murowei are the subordinates of the Liao State, they turned their backs on the Liao to the Song State, which was a proud affair for the Song State, you must know that the current vassal states of the Song Dynasty are far less than the Liao State, and now the Liao State has a clan to surrender, isn't it the light of the submission of the Siyi. Of course, Zhao Guangyi was happy, but this obedience came at a price, that is, the Song State wanted to send troops to crusade against the Liao State in order to relieve the siege of the Jurchens and Murowei, for this reason, Zhao Guangyi immediately summoned his confidants and important ministers to discuss the ⊙ of the matter

At this time, the Fusong court, after a big purge, has been completely replaced by Zhao Guangyi's people, Pan Mei, Cao Bin and other military pillars, and now they are all at home and recuperating for a long time. In terms of Xi Wenchen, it is even more new, except for Zhang Xun who is a wall grass, almost all of them are Zhao Guangyi. The old people at the time of the Kaifeng Mansion, such as Cheng Yu, Jia Lou, Song Qi and others.

Although the current civil and military ministers are all Zhao Guangyi's mouthful, the ministers still have different opinions and stalemate on whether to conquer Liao, how large-scale war to launch, and what strategic goals to achieve. Regarding the war in the northeastern part of the Liao Kingdom, the Chinese military forces of the DPRK believed that they should be used, but they had different opinions on how to help them, whether to send troops, and what purpose to achieve.

Luo Kedi ranked first in the military general sequence before, although the privy envoy Cao Bin was still in power, but he had been seriously ill and idle at home, only hanging an empty title, Luo Kedi is currently the number one person who holds real power in the army. This is the first war he encountered after taking charge of military power, and the opponent is the powerful Liao State, Luo Ke is not without caution, after some careful thinking, he came out of the class to play ""Shengshang, the minister thinks that the Liao State is now a well-deserved king of the north, a tiger dominating the grassland. And the tribes of the north are all jackals compared to them. Fighting a tiger with a wolf is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, but if a group of wolves fights a tiger, the tiger is fierce, but it is also impossible to care about each other, and the result is bound to be a defeat for both sides.

Therefore, the rebellion of Jurchen and Murofeng is an opportunity for our Song State, we should not let go of the opinion of the ministers, the power of Jurchen and Murowei is not enough to shake the foundation of the Liao Dynasty, if we want to take advantage of this opportunity. It can give support to the Jurchen and Murwei in terms of wealth and japonica rice ordnance to help them survive. At the same time, it can follow the Song Dynasty's strategy of attacking the Western Xia Liao State and sending troops to contain it. Mobilize all the troops and horses to the Northern Expedition, contain its main force, make it unwilling to fight on both sides, and end the conquest of the Jurchens and Murwei as soon as possible. ”

When Zhao Guangyi heard this, he said with some displeasure: "Luo Qing doesn't know my intentions, what is the benefit of doing this with my Song Kingdom?"

Of course there are benefits.

Luo Kedi had already thought clearly, and said eloquently: "As far as the minister knows, the Liao Dynasty has oppressed and exploited its vassals very heavily, and all the subordinate forces are angry and dare not speak, if the Jurchen and Murwei survive the difficulties and survive and grow, they will definitely encourage other grassland tribes. The wolves are all different, and the Liao country is in a dilemma everywhere, and the Liao country envoy wants to take care of one and lose the other, and the national strength will inevitably be weakened. At the same time, the tiger wolf is a tiger wolf after all, whether it is a tiger or a wolf, it is not a good kind, it can only be used, not a confidant, please think twice about this

Zhao Guangyi was a little anxious when he heard this, or according to Luo Kedi's idea, if he wanted to support and cultivate these vassals who had a heart for the Liao State, he had to take a good measure, and he could not achieve it overnight, but he had to gradually infiltrate, and in the process of supporting, he gradually controlled them, and I am afraid that it would take one or two decades for this step alone to achieve results.

And what about the Liao State, the emaciated camel is still bigger than the horse, not to mention that the current Liao State is far from being comparable to the thin camel, and now the Liao State Lord Shaoguo is suspicious, orphans and widows, such a good opportunity is not used, it will take advantage of it until one or two decades later, when the young emperor has become in his prime, can he be so easy to deal with? The most important thing is ......\'At that time, who will the credit for recovering Yanyun belong?' The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade. Although it is not his own son or his grandson who returns to make great achievements, it is not as happy as this glory to be added to one's own body. It's not a practical plan.

Zhao Guangyi saw his uncle Li Jilong in a blink of an eye, Yan Sè softened again, and hurriedly asked, "Batu, what do you think?" ”

Li Jilong, the word Batu, his ancestral home is the party, and his father is Li Chuyun, the founder of the Great Song Dynasty. Li Jilong's sister was married to Zhao Guangyi by Zhao Kuangyin, and she is the current Empress Li, because Li Jilong's father Li Chuyun and Zhao Kuangyin's sworn brother Murong Yan are not in harmony, so although Li Jilong is full of strategy, he is affected by his father and has always been suppressed.

Such a person will naturally not be Zhao Kuangyin's sworn friend, after Zhao Guangyi takes the throne. Because he said that everything must follow the old system of the first emperor, there was no big action at that time, and it was not until this time that he took the opportunity to purge the old ministers of the former dynasty that Li Jilong was promoted, and now Li Jilong is the Marquis of Yu, the guard of the horse army, and he is also a powerful figure in the army.

Li Jilong pondered for a moment and said cautiously: "Shengshang, the minister thinks that the Liao Empire today is far from being comparable to the tribal alliances of the Xiongnu and Turks in the past, and the strength of the Dao Kingdom is ten times stronger than that of the Shan Yu Khan who was in the Central Plains before

In the face of a strong enemy, we should not be greedy for merit and act rashly. The minister thinks that what Lord Luo is discussing is very reasonable.

When Zhao Guangyi heard that his uncle said the same, he couldn't help but be disappointed, there was a general in the military general class, and it was Cui Han, the marquis of Yu in front of the palace. Cui Han, the word Shenwen, Jingzhao Wannian. Few great ambitions, great demeanor, once from Zhou Shizong to Huainan, Pingshou chūn, take Guannan, to make up for the military envoys. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, he moved to the direct deputy commander of the imperial horse, and his wife was the assassin of Duanzhou. He is a veteran of the former dynasty, because he has been serving in the local government in recent years, so he has not been affected by the Great Purge, and the military generals of the DPRK and China have promoted too many newcomers, and there must be a few veterans to press the formation. This Cui Han is quite good at leading the troops, and Zhao Guangyi transferred him back to Jingshi to serve as the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace, which is considered a position in the cardinal department.

Cui Han saw that Cao Bin, Pan Mei and other veterans were standing aside one by one, holding the attitude of protecting themselves, he was very careful in dealing with people, and he also paid special attention to the intentions of the saints. Those who cannot be lost are also timely. Taking advantage of this momentum is very easy to take.

Now that the Jurchens and Murwei have abandoned Liao to vote, they are the vassals of our Song Kingdom, and the Liao people have invaded our vassals. Jurchen and Murowei live in the east and north of Liao, and with them to contain Liaolai, our Song State will take the opportunity to send troops, and the Liao State will have to suffer from the enemy on its back, and it will be difficult to support it. Therefore, the minister thought that he should take this opportunity to launch a large-scale northern expedition and recover Youyan, and the opportunity must not be lost, and it will not come again. ”

When Zhao Guangyi heard the dragon's belly, he turned his head and asked the civil officials. Although Zhang Bo's character is poor, he is indeed talented, and he is not only well-versed in the past and the present, good at civil affairs, and is not a layman for the military. The imperial court handled it accordingly, and it achieved great results. He thought about it carefully, and also felt that with the strong strength of the Song State at this time, and the Liao Dynasty happened to have internal troubles, if it was well prepared and properly commanded, the Northern Expedition might not be unsuccessful, so he also echoed it.

However, the opinions of Jia Qi, Song Yan, Meat Yu and others are not unanimous, they are all people who sincerely assist Zhao Guangyi, and they are also people with real talents and hard work, but these three people say that it is good to be cautious, and it is not good to say, that is, there is more than enough to keep it, and it is not enough to enterprising, the three of them have thought about it for a long time, and always feel that it is a bit risky to send troops to the Northern Expedition, although victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers, but in addition to the Liao and Song Dynasty when they fought the Han State, they took advantage of the Han State's small beginnings to learn from each other, and the two countries have never directly declared war on each other.

Victory over the saint is the icing on the cake, once defeated, will not the gain outweigh the loss? With this in mind, the views expressed by the three are more conservative. Zhao Guangyi still attached great importance to their opinions, and seeing that they were also a little hesitant, his eagerness faded a little.

After discussing the two annihilations, there was no result, and the people sent back by Wang Ke from the Liao Dynasty sent the secret letter to Zhao Guangyi's imperial case. Don't ask, it can be known, Empress Dowager Xiao will inevitably take it as a strange commodity to live in, once the interior is pacified, after the soldiers and horses are strong, she will sacrifice the magic weapon of Princess Yongqing, and wave the army south.

Wang Kexin also said that this matter still needs to be carefully inquired, and it is not yet very certain, but it is ...... How could this kind of thing wait for him to find out? It is better to believe that it has than to believe that it is not, combined with the stalemate of war and peace against Liao in front of us. Hand beating because of the sealed letter, everything is solved.

The Northern Expedition is not only his eldest brother Zhao Kuangyin's long-cherished wish, but also his long-cherished wish, because the success and success of the Northern War represents the supreme glory, what else does the emperor want? Isn't it just a brilliant achievement?

And for him, there is another layer of purpose, he needs this great merit to embellish his mistakes. With the abduction of Empress Song's mother and son and their mysterious death, all kinds of rumors about the death of the first emperor began to be loud again, and they were brought up again. Don't look at these invisible forces, but that kind of invisible pressure can also make people feel restless, especially worrying about the name behind them.

If he can recapture Youyan, then he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. He is the second emperor of the Song Kingdom, and his future nickname must be Taizong, and his Song Taizong's fate will be like that of Tang Taizong.

For the Confucian people, they have been preaching the fourth dimension of the country, and they are righteous and honest.

The Zhuang factory of the country is decorated with four dimensions, and the four dimensions are not open, and the country is destroyed. If a king has an indelible stain on him, his virtue is greatly degraded. But he can make immortal achievements, but the world is a country and a country under his governance, so how to explain it to the world?

Therefore, heroes must be equated with saints, and those who have merit must have virtues.

And now, he has a third reason: Yongqing!

The first to strike, the last rider to suffer!

Zhao Guangyi took the case and said sharply: "Gu Ruoli, immediately announce that the two classes of important ministers of Wenwu will go to the Imperial Palace to wait for the driver}"

Seeing that his face was terrifying, he didn't dare to ask more, so he hurriedly agreed and hurriedly retreated.

Zhao Guangyi put his hands on the case, and then glanced at the secret letter spread out on the bookcase, and there was a chestnut glint in his eyes: "Northern Expedition, you must immediately Northern Expedition} Take advantage of your illness and kill you, kill three birds with one stone, and end it together!"

The ministers were summoned to see him, and found that the saint, who had been a little wavering in his attitude, suddenly became extremely resolute, and he no longer asked the ministers whether they should go on the Northern Expedition, but ordered the ministers to immediately draw up a detailed plan for the Northern Expedition, which was about to arrive in June.

Zhao Guangyi's holy edict, the entire Song Kingdom's huge war machine began to move, preparing grain, grass, ordnance, military salaries, assembling and dispatching troops, mobilizing state and county workers, requisitioning horses and vehicles, and the scholars of the Hanlin Academy were not idle, chewing words to make a crusade against the Liao State. Its content is nothing more than to first count the historical ownership of the sixteen states of Youyun, and then talk about how the Han people of the sixteen states of Youyun are in dire straits. Let's talk about the bad deeds of the Liao tribe in fighting Zhuogu and plundering Qibian over the years, and finally mention the Jurchen and Murwei Qianli to vote, and Rong pilgrimage to the benevolence and righteousness of the Son of Heaven.

Under the urging of Zhao Guangyi, the full cooperation of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and the preliminary preparations for the Northern Expedition that had already begun for so many years, all the preparations were completed in just one month. The mighty went straight to Liaogu.

Zhao Guangyi's idea was established, so he summoned the ministers to discuss it properly, the geography of the sixteen states of Youyun, Youyun, Ji, Ying, Mo, Zhuo, Chu, and Shun are located in the southeast of the northern branch of Taihang, and the rest of the Kyushu are in the northwest of the mountain. Youzhou is in the middle, the most dangerous, his idea is to wave the army north, take Youzhou directly, capture this point, you can expand to the two wings, the east and the Jurchen connection, and then through the Jurchen and Kunwei communication, forming a whale swallowing the jaws of the Great Liao.

When the Liao Dynasty Wenchen learned that the Song State had raised a large army to the Northern Expedition, he couldn't help but be frightened, and the news spread to the palace in a hurry. Xiao Xuan couldn't help but be furious when he heard the news.

She immediately convened the civil and military forces to discuss countermeasures, and the civil and military officials discussed half of the edicts in the palace.

Xiao Xuan ordered Han Ruo, Yelu Shanbu, Yelu Lu and other troops to send to Gu'an and Zhuozhou, and ordered Yelu Xida, the king of the North Courtyard, and Saha, the king of Yishi, to lead troops to defend Yandi, and the Han soldiers stationed in Youzhou were transferred to Shenwu, Konghe, Yulin, Xiaowu and other armies under the command of the king of the North Courtyard; There are also Khitan, Nine Women, Xi, North and South. The tent army of the leather room is all at the mercy of it. At the same time, troops and horses were mobilized from Cunjing (Liaoyang Prefecture) and Zhongjing (Dading Prefecture) non-stop, and the total strength of Yingji could reach 250,000.

In military arrangement, the battle was also to be fought, and the literati of the Liao State tried their best to concoct a crusade against the Song State, and also said from history that nearly fifty years after the death of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan had already established a state, and there was no Song State in the world at that time. Emperor Shi Jingjiao of the Jin Dynasty cut off the "Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun" from the Khitan, and in law and in fact, the land had become Khitan territory, and at this time the Zhou and Song Dynasty had not yet been established. Whether it was Zhou Shizong's Northern Expedition or Zhao Guangyi's Northern Expedition, it was actually an invasion of the Khitan.

The text also said that at the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, the country was small and weak, so it made good friends with the Khitan, Kaibao took the initiative to send an envoy to Liao in seven years, signed a peace treaty with Liao, the two countries were friendly and did not invade each other, and now they unified the Central Plains, immediately destroyed the peace treaty, raised troops to invade, rebelled, and lost the demeanor of a great country......

Zhao Guangyi personally led the army into the Liao State, and when he saw this article of the Liao people, he couldn't see a word about Yongqing throughout the article, and his heart was a little at ease. He had already made the worst plan, ready to once the Liao State sacrificed the Yongqing princess, he would forcibly plant the charge of Song Niangniang's mother and son being abducted to the Liao people, Princess Yongqing was in the hands of the enemy, what to say naturally can't help his own intentions, this is the territory of the Liao State, the soldiers and horses under his command and the Liao people can not have any contact except on the battlefield, he can completely control the situation, now the Liao people do not mention Yongqing, he naturally will not be bored, only sneered, abandoned the text, drew his sword to the north, waved the army and assaulted......

"Go, tie the rope to the tree."

Yang Jia handed the rope to the monkey, and the monkey took the rope, looked around in a ghostly manner, jumped up the tree, and quickly tied the rope according to Yang Jia's gesture. Yang Jiabai laughed with his hand, the other end was also tied, and there was a board under the rope, and a swing was ready. Yang Jia sat on the board, grabbed the mushroom rope with both hands, and excitedly relaxed to Yahuan; "Quick, quick, push me, a little higher."

"Yang Jia, have you forgotten about the last time you fell a butt?"

Yang Shan leads a small white dog. He walked past Chūn like a little adult and reprimanded his brother very seriously. Brother, "If you fall miserably again, see who wipes your nose, go, play something else." "

Yang Jia got off the swing in a daze. Yang Tan's eyes flashed, and he suddenly flashed behind him, sat on the swing with his buttocks, and laughed: "Mine, the swing is mine, hahahaha^"

"You...... Bully! Yang Jia barked angrily, Yang Shan shook her head and smiled at him: "I'm not convinced, you, dog, drive him away for me." ”

"Wang! Barking! The puppy barked loudly, although the dog was not big, but the grinning appearance was very fierce, Yang Jia turned around and ran, Yang Shan was overjoyed, laughed forward and backwards, and laughed with tears: "The courage is so small. It's so unproductive, the puppies are afraid, hahahaha......

Mu was only proud for a moment, and then heard the eldest sister Ma Xue shouting: "Xiao Jia, are you taking Xiao Baixuan there?" "

At the end of the tail, Yang Jia ran back triumphantly, and the little dog jumped up and barked when he saw it, and then only snorted twice, Yang Jia stretched out his hand and shouted, "Give me a bite of it!"

"Huh^~" A wolf howled, and a snow-white, huge giant wolf burst out from behind Yang Jia, with sharpened ears like knives, snow-white and sharp teeth, and two fierce eyes emitting a faint light.

The little dog whimpered, lay on the ground, and didn't even dare to move, Yang Jia smiled proudly when she saw the big belly. Yang Shan, who felt sorry for her little wolf, jumped off the swing, ran to him, and snapped her fingers in her mouth, and flicked it his head.

"Ouch!" Yang Jia then opened the bag and called out with tears in her eyes: "Eldest sister, I am young, second, sister beat me......

Yang Xue walked out of the flowers on the side, Yang Xue has become a little girl with apricot eyes and peach cheeks, skin like Wo Xue, cool Xiao Nai Mu Luo Dong'er, she is wearing a samurai short dress with a red jacket, deerskin gripping boots under her feet, a white phoenix helmet with pheasant feathers on her head, a Roman style waist knife with arsenic swallowing mouth inlaid with gems on her waist, and a small bow made of body on the back of her shoulder, ho! Although she is not yet ten years old, she already has the charm of a little beauty.

"Xiaoshan, you bully your brother again.?

The eldest sister's head is the eldest sister's head-, Yang Xue glared at Yang Shan, then touched Yang Jia's head and coaxed him: "Good girl, you are a man, don't make people laugh." Daddy said, wait for you to be two years older, and send you to the Tianshan Eagle Peak to learn martial arts for a few years with the silent master. When you have great skills, how many times the second woman plays you, you will bounce back. "

Yang Jia laughed when she heard this, stretched out her fingers and began to count: "One, two, three......"

Yang Shan rolled her eyes and snorted: "Dare to hit me, I told the eldest mother, and the eldest mother said that men are not allowed to beat women." ”

Yang Xue glared at her and said, "You are allowed to bully your younger brother?" Let's go, Erniang wants to hunt, you and I will join Jia, practice riding shè. ”

"I don't want it." Yang Shan turned around and ran: "I just remembered that my mother asked me to practice picking words!"

After writing, Rong is going to write, eldest sister, go yourself. ”

Yang Shan said and ran away in a puff of smoke.

Not far away, on the rockery pavilion built by the mound, Yang Hao watched the children's play with a smile, and listened to Xiao Yi's report: "Dingguo Jiedu has made Song Qi have been transferred back to Bianliang from Fuzhou and set out with the car, and the Song court sent another commander Kong Shouzheng to garrison Hengshan, and brought 20,000 soldiers and horses to supplement the troops of Bangfu and the two states. Hand fighting, at the same time..."\'Longyou Shangbo Qian has sent people to negotiate peace with Ye Luosu and Rodin. The two sides agreed to take Huiningguan and Baishishan as the line, and each based on the east and west and truce. As a result, Tong Yu, Barcelona, Di Haijing and others returned, increased their troops in Xiao Pass, and strengthened the attack on our Xiao Pass defenders. ”

Yang Hao smiled: "This ending must be the result of the Song Ting coming forward to reconcile" Linfu increased its troops and waited for it, Xiao Guan urged Shang Boqian to strengthen the offensive, Zhao Guangyi was afraid that I would pull him back, hehehe, let him go, we will have a good fight with Shang Boqian, and let him go north, but ...... If it had been overdone, it would have been an accident..."\'"