Yan'an Mansion, also known as Yanzhou, as the place of road governance of the Yongxing Military Road, is located in the Loess Plateau, Yan'an Mansion has always been the political, economic, cultural and military center of northern Shaanxi. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo\\qb5//

Yan'an City is located in the location of the three mountains of Baota Mountain, Qingliang Mountain and Phoenix Mountain, and the confluence of the Yan River and the Fenchuan River.

When Zhao Lei took Su Xun, Ou Xifan, Pang Bai, Xiao Ruoruo and a cadre of guards to the north to arrive at Yan'an Mansion, it was the buffer period between the Song and Xia armies, and the Western Xia army retreated to Jinmingzhai conquered by Yuan Hao, and the Song army also gathered in Yan'an Mansion, Qingzhou and other key places to reorganize the army and prevent the Western Xia Yuanhao from attacking again.

The Great Song Dynasty Yan'an City was built in the Sui Dynasty, the ancient city of the Qin Dynasty has long been annihilated in the historical smoke of gunpowder, the Great Song Dynasty, the Yan'an City in the Tang Dynasty is still an inconspicuous small city, to the chaos of the five dynasties before being valued by the soldiers, after several constructions, and finally became the Great Song Dynasty to resist the invasion of the Western Xia frontier fortress.

The city wall of Yan'an City, which is located between three mountains and two rivers, is as high as seven zhang, and the moat water of five zhang wide leads directly to the Yanhe River, and the Yan'an City with a circumference of 18 miles is inhabited by nearly 700,000 frontier people.

Fan Zhongyan, the prefect of Yan'an, was not notified, Zhao Lei and others secretly entered Yan'an City, and now Yan'an City is heavily guarded, in order to prevent Western Xia spies, almost everyone will be searched and interrogated.

Su Xun skillfully interrogated the guards of the city, and Zhao Lei and others led their respective horses and walked into this ancient city of Sui along the south gate of Yan'an City.

"That's a lot of people! How do you feel more than the people of Bianjing! Xiao Ruoruo looked at the narrow and crowded streets of Yan'an City. After seeing that from time to time people rushed to the team of Zhao Lei and others and were driven away, he complained to Zhao Lei.

After Yuan Hao succeeded to the throne of Western Xia, he continued to invade the Great Song Dynasty, and the Yongxing military route was the main route of the Western Xia invasion. I heard that after Fan Yong served as the prefect of Yan'an, he once diverted the people in Yan'an City to four forts, but this time the Western Xia army invaded and captured no less than 100 forts, since those forts are not safe, it is estimated that more people will pour into Yan'an Mansion to avoid the Western Xia army, and there will be more people at that time! Su Xun had made preparations for a long time before coming to Yan'an Mansion, and he was very familiar with these things, so he immediately answered Xiao Ruoruo for Zhao Lei.

"Although the terrain of those fortresses is steep, it is difficult to defend them. But the scale is too small, and there are not many troops to accommodate, if the Western Xia invades on a small scale, it can definitely be stopped, but as long as it encounters an army of tens of thousands of people. It is only a matter of time before it falls, and if you want to divert the people here, I'm afraid you have to build a big city! When Zhao Lei heard Su Xun's words, he looked at the border people around him, and his heart moved. It was determined to build two acropolises for Yan'an to defend against the invasion of Western Xia.

In the midst of chatting, Zhao Lei and the others came to the Yan'an Mansion Yamen, which is located in the center of Yan'an City.

As the Yamen of Yan'an Mansion all the way to Yongxing Military Road. The compound of the provincial party committee, which is equivalent to that of later generations, is more than ten times larger than Zhao Lei's transfer in Hangzhou, and it is very magnificent.

As soon as Zhao Lei and the others came to the gate of the mansion, they saw the suspicious and vigilant eyes of the four officials with knives in front of the mansion.

"General Pingbei and Yongxing Military Road Jie Du envoy Zhao Lei Zhao asks to see Lord Fan, the prefect of Yan'an!" Seeing Zhao Lei's eyes, Ou Xifan took out a document and handed it to the yamen who guarded the door of the government and said.

When several officials heard Ou Xifan's words, they looked at Zhao Lei and his party in astonishment, and immediately an older official asked a young one to go to the yamen to report the news, and it didn't take long to see Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi and more than a dozen literati officials walking out of the yamen.

"Sure enough, it's Lord Zhao! Adults are coming so fast! It was not long before we received the Privy Council. The adults are here, just right, Xixia Yuanhao temporarily retreated to Jinming Village, and most of the generals on the Yongxing Military Road gathered here in Fan Zhifu to discuss the strategy of retreating from the enemy, my lord go and meet them! Han Qi, as Zhao Lei's old subordinate who was promoted to the new army, said very happily and cordially when he saw Zhao Lei.

"General Zhao came really in time, now the situation in Yan'an Mansion is very bad, our army is losing and retreating, morale is low, if there is no good news, I am afraid that there will be deserters in the army." Fan Zhongyan looked at Zhao Lei and smiled slightly, but there were many outsiders around him, although he had the heart to explain to Zhao Lei about the weapons of the new army, but after all, it was not the time, so he said politely to Zhao Lei.

Zhao Lei, Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi are all old acquaintances, not very polite, and after seeing the ceremony, they asked the several literati behind them, "Who are these adults?" ”

"Xu Huaide, the governor of Yan'an Mansion, has seen Lord Zhao!" A tall and weathered forty-year scribe came out and said respectfully to Zhao Lei.

"Crossing Yanshui at night, attacking the back road of the Western Xia army at night, burning the military assets of the Western Xia, and forcing Yuan Hao to retreat from Xu Huaide in Jinmingzhai!" Zhao Lei looked at the forty-year-old scribe in front of him and said in surprise.

"It's Xiaguan!" Xu Huaide heard Zhao Lei's praise, he was not arrogant at all, and replied to Zhao Lei modestly and calmly.

It's a character! Seeing that Xu Huaide was not arrogant or impatient, Zhao Lei thought even more highly in his heart.

This Xu Huaide is not an ordinary character, among the thousands of Song generals in the current Song and Xia battles, Xu Huaide is one of the few Confucian generals that Zhao Lei admires, it is he who crossed Yanshui east at night two months ago, crossed the front army of Western Xia, and then attacked the rear army of Western Xia, burning a large number of grain and grass materials in Western Xia, so that Yuan Hao of Western Xia had to retreat to Jinming Village to wait for the materials in the rear.

You must know that the Great Song Dynasty has regulations that the army must not cross the border, otherwise it is the crime of rebellion, and crossing Yanshui, which is the boundary of Hedong Road, although many northern generals know that crossing Yanshui can hide from the Western Xia army to sneak attack the Western Xia army, but it is inevitable that the court is suspicious, many people see it but dare not do it, and Xu Huaide is obviously a member of the Confucian general who ignores the rules, knowing that although he can repel the Western Xia, but he must take the future, he actually crossed the river to attack the enemy without notifying anyone, and finally although he won, he did not get any reward, More ministers in the court thought that Xu Huaide had overstepped and demanded that he be punished, which shows how pedantic the Great Song Dynasty was, and the reason why the war in the north was invincible.

"After this official took over as the envoy of the Yongxing Military Road Festival, he has already asked for credit for Lord Xu, presumably the official document of the three provinces will be issued soon, first congratulations to Lord Xu for making this great contribution." Zhao Lei knew that if he wanted to change the situation of the war in the north, he first had to change the idea that the northern generals were afraid of the tail and worried about the suspicion of the imperial court, so he had discussed many things with the princess of Shengguo before he came, including the matter of asking for merit for Xu Huaide, so when he saw Xu Huaide, he immediately brought out this matter.

"Really! Thank you, Lord Zhao! Zhao Lei's words made Xu Huaide slightly stunned, he is also a smart person, why don't you understand that this is Zhao Lei's means to sweep away the fear in the hearts of the northern generals, knowing that Zhao Lei came to the north to repel the Western Xia, and at the same time understands that following Zhao Lei, in this battle of Song and Xia, he will definitely be able to make a lot of contributions, and at the same time he is not afraid of the suspicion of the court, anyway, there is Zhao Lei in front of him, thinking of this, Xu Huaide said to Zhao Lei with excitement and ecstasy.

"Zhu Guan, the capital supervisor of Xiaguan Lin Mansion, thank you Lord Zhao for speaking up!" A slightly chubby civil official stood up and thanked Zhao Lei and said, it seems that he also wants to understand the changes behind Xu Huaide's reward.

Then several other civil officials introduced themselves to Zhao Lei and said, these people include Sang Yi, Liu Jizong, Li Wei, Wang Bing, the capital supervisor of Jingyuan Road, Wang Qi, Liu Shiqing, Liu Zheng, and Wu Ying, Geng Fu, Wang Xian, and Sun Ji, the capital supervisor of Jingzhou City.

After greeting these eunuchs, Zhao Lei was secretly shocked in his heart The status and strength of the northern commanders, you must know that the main force of the Northern Song Dynasty to unify the military with literature is these eunuchs, and the army of more than 5,000 soldiers and horses has set up the post of eunuch, which shows that every eunuch standing here has several generals and at least 5,000 soldiers and horses, these people are gathered together, and there are at least 100,000 troops under his command, and Zhao Lei came to these eunuchs to greet him, and the generals in the army did not appear one, It can also be seen from this that the Great Song Dynasty warriors are at the bottom of their status in the army.

whispered a few words to Fan Zhongyan, and in Fan Zhongyan's stunned eyes, Pang Bai followed Fan Zhongyan's officials towards the side hall, while Zhao Lei took Su Xun, Ou Xifan and Xiao Ruoruo to follow Fan Zhongyan into the yamen hall where the discussion was taking place.

Walking into the conference hall, Zhao Lei saw more than a dozen generals in iron armor discussing something enthusiastically, and when he saw Zhao Lei come in, the hall that had been discussing immediately became quiet.

Zhao Lei walked into the conference hall and saw that there was only one Taishi chair in the middle of the hall, as the envoy of Yongxing Military Road, he was now the highest military and political chief of Yongxing Military Road, so he sat unceremoniously on the only Taishi chair, and Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi and others also consciously stood quietly under Zhao Lei.

"Generals! This is the Yongxing Military Road Jie Du Envoy, Pingbei General Zhao Lei Zhao! Fan Zhongyan knew that most people here didn't know Zhao Lei, and when Zhao Lei sat down, he immediately introduced to the generals.

"This official Zhao Lei, by the holy order to spend the Yongxing Military Road, to resist the Western Xia, I hope that all adults can work together to resist foreign enemies!" Zhao Lei got up slightly at this time, bowed down and said to the civil and military officials below.

"Willing to die!" Below, the civil and military officials clasped their fists together and gave a military salute, and said impassionedly and loudly.

Zhao Lei's eyes swept away, many of the people in the current hall were acquaintances, Yang Wenguang, the commander of Qingzhou, Di Qing, the commander of Weizhou, Yang Zun, Gao Zunping, the generals of the New Army, and Zhu Dali, the Hebei Haojie who stayed in the New Army, and Fan Quan and Zhao Ming, the Qiang generals who were brought to the New Army from Qingzhou, were all listed.

Odd! This meeting should be that only generals above the command level are qualified to enter, and army generals with more than 5,000 troops can be regarded as having the official position of commander envoy.

Although Zhao Lei felt strange, it was important to know the generals here first, and when he had time for other things, he would say hello privately, thinking of this, Zhao Lei began to ask Fan Zhongyan to introduce those generals he didn't know.

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