After two days of marching, the holy car arrived in Pingzhou, at this time Zhao Lian had completely controlled Pingzhou and smashed the counterattack of the Jin army, annihilated thousands of enemies, and then arrived with the cooperation of the wolf generals who captured Wangdu, Anxi, Yifeng and other counties east of the Weishui River. Seeing that there was no hope of recapturing Pingzhou, he didn't know whether Lu Dao was afraid or ashamed, maybe it was both, he drew his sword and killed himself in grief and anger, and the leaderless Jin army retreated to Luanzhou in a panic, set up a fortress along the water to arrange a defensive line, and sent people to send letters to Wanyan Zongfu and Wushu respectively.

As the companion capital of the Jin Kingdom, Nanjing was an important town to communicate with the inside and outside of the Great Wall, and it was also the base for attacking the Song Dynasty. After Zhao Ta ascended the throne, he stopped the field, blocked the border, cut off economic exchanges with Jin, and constantly sent troops to harass the border, resulting in an economic crisis in Jin. The Youyan region was rich and was an important tax place in the Liao period, so it became the cash cow of the Jin State.

Not to mention that Zhao Ta is hated, at this time, the autumn taxes from all over the country have just been sent to Pingzhou for storage, and they have not yet been transferred to Shangjing, so he chose this time to send troops can be described as deliberate. Due to the suddenness of the Song army, the materials in the city, not to mention the transfer out of the city, did not even have time to put the fire, and all of them were left to the Song army, as if they were specially prepared for them. After Zhao Lian entered the city, he immediately sent people to guard and count, the warehouse counted millions of stones, there were tens of thousands of pairs of armor in the arsenal, swords, guns, bows and arrows, and saddles could not be counted, and the size of the warehouse was enough to arm 50,000 troops, but the sad thing was that most of the weapons still had the mark of the Great Song Dynasty Weapons Supervisor.

What is even more palpitating is that the Yifeng Jin Army outside Pingzhou City set up the 'Qianjinye', which is similar to the ordnance supervisor of the Great Song Dynasty, specializing in making weapons. Armor, bows, crossbows. And the craftsman among them is the Song Dynasty, which is not only the Jin State that changed the situation of weapons relying on seizure. Moreover, he mastered the advanced weapons and siege ordnance making skills of the Great Song Dynasty, and the level of equipment was improved by several generations, which was not a good news for the Great Song Dynasty, which relied on the city to block the enemy army.

The most worrying thing is that a gunpowder workshop was found in Qianjinye, the Song Dynasty set up an ordnance supervisor in Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo, and gunpowder was one of them, mastering the formula of black powder, which could produce firearms such as poison smoke balls, artillery, rockets, tribulus terrestris fireballs, and had been able to organize the mass production of gunpowder weapons. In order to keep the production of gunpowder and other products secret, it is strictly forbidden to spread the skills of making gunpowder. In the production process, each process has a certain process specification, and craftsmen and others must memorize it, but it is forbidden to pass it on.

However, the Liao people still obtained this technology, and they were able to produce a small amount of gunpowder for military use. The Song Dynasty had to regard sulfur and other important strategic materials as important strategic materials, and ordered to prohibit the private purchase of sulfur and flame salt. Fortunately, after the Jurchens conquered Bianjing, they wantonly demanded to kidnap all kinds of craftsmen, not only did they get the recipe and even cut the roots, but now they can produce firearms in batches.

Although there was still a gap between the gunpowder formula and production process mastered by the ordnance supervisors of the Jin State and the Song Dynasty compared with the gunpowder formula of Zhao Ta, the power and application skills were also at a low stage. But the power is much greater than that of cold weapons. Therefore, after receiving the information that the Jin army had been equipped with firearms, Zhao Ta issued a special instruction, requiring all units to be vigilant and pay attention to precautions when fighting the Jin army in the future, and organize firepower to resolutely destroy them in time after they were discovered.

Due to the long distance fast run. The Leopard General lost a lot of horses in the 1st and 2nd Brigades, and this area of Pingzhou was not suitable for horse grazing, and only more than 2,000 horses were captured here. But there are many Jurchens in the city. These nomadic men have not forgotten their roots, and they all have horses at home. It just so happened that they didn't need to spend a penny to become the trophies of the Song army, although they were not as good as their trained war horses. It can be used as a side horse.

After so many years of continuous practice and summarization, Zhao Ta has developed a set of mature strategies from establishing political power, collecting taxes, replenishing supplies, eliminating remnants of the enemy, consolidating political power, and so on, and has cultivated a group of staff members with rich experience.

Long before the troops were dispatched, Zhao Ta dispatched some 'old birds' from various armies to formulate relevant measures according to the local public and political conditions. The most important thing is to divide the local people into three groups:

One is the dominant Jurchens and their Khitan, Bohai and Xi people, who have completely fallen to them, these people are diehards and must be suppressed; Then there are those Youyan Han people, their status is not high, they are the grass on the wall, whoever is powerful will follow whom, but after all, they are still Han people, and they are inextricably linked with the Great Song Dynasty, and they are the objects of exploitation; And those people in the Central Plains who were taken captive here for a short time lived at the bottom, and now they are the objects they can rely on, and they will form local governments headed by them and train their arms in the newly occupied lands.

However, there are priorities, and the top priority now is to take advantage of the sudden attack of the Jin army and the emptiness of the rear of the army in a state of panic and disorder, not to give them a chance to breathe and adjust, and to advance westward as soon as possible before the Jin army brigade returns to help, and directly penetrate into Yanjing.

After Zhao Lian was instructed, he immediately ordered the leopard general to replenish ammunition and supplies, with the third and fourth brigades as the vanguard, the fifth and sixth brigades to protect the left and right wings, and the first and second brigades and the direct team as the central army.

In order to gain time, almost all of the troops of the remaining two generals participated in the attack, and only two heavy brigades remained in Pingzhou, and they not only had to undertake the task of protecting and transporting supplies, but also had to protect the emperor in the city.

Zhao Ta is no longer the prince who can lead the troops to charge into battle in the past, but the king of a country, and he was strongly opposed by everyone at the beginning, and now he can't let him risk the danger and go into battle again, but now he is only protected by an internal guard brigade of more than 500 people from the Guards, not to mention in the enemy country, even if he travels in Beijing.

Zhao Ta didn't care about this, he was bright and dark, and he didn't know how many dangers he encountered, even if there was only one person around him at this moment, he was confident that he could protect himself, but as the main general in charge of a battlefield, Zhao Lian didn't dare to have a trace of carelessness, if the emperor was wrong, it would really be a hundred deaths. Therefore, before leaving, he insisted on transferring an elite battalion and an artillery battalion from each of the marines, leopard generals, and tiger generals, and temporarily organized them into an army to protect the holy car, and they were ordered to protect the emperor's safety even if they all died in battle. and repeatedly told Zhao Xin that once the situation changed, he would immediately take the emperor to leave and go to Yingzhou to board the naval warships left there and evacuate the battlefield...

Pingzhou was an important town in the Jin Kingdom, and of course it was also a key target of the Intelligence Department's operation, and there was a special liaison station here, equipped with carrier pigeons, which now became a tool for Zhao Ta to communicate with Jingzhong and the other two armies, so that he could obtain detailed information from various places.

"Qingyang, there is news in Beijing!" Now the palace of Pingzhou City has become Zhao Ta's palace, and the handsome tent of Wushu has also become his office.

"Your Majesty, the news from Jingzhong has arrived!" Qing Yang stepped forward to report that he was the eldest grandson of Lei Mai, the old man of the Intelligence Department, and was entrusted to the emperor by Lei Mai when he was conquering Western Xia. Zhao Ta saw that he was smart and clever, and he also wanted to leave a root for his subordinates, so he stayed in his own guard after he finished military training to engage in staff work, and later entered the intelligence department to study for a period of time, and after entering Beijing, he was responsible for the intelligence work in the Youyan area.

"What did you say?" Zhao Ta nodded and asked.

"The 'Holy Driver' who went south has returned to Beijing, and Concubine Shu has returned to the palace safely!" Qingyang said.

"Well, that's all? What was the situation in Beijing after the war? Zhao Ta took a sip of tea and asked, but a stone also fell in his heart, Zhe Meiluan was pregnant when he drove south, otherwise he would have to come here.

"After the release of the text, Li Xiang sent a message to the emperor of the world to personally conquer, and the whole country entered a wartime state, he sat in the capital to dispatch all parties, strictly controlled the road, and everything was under control!" Qingyang said, "Now the Privy Council has sent Master Zong to the Hebei front line to command the battle, and the Privy Council is presided over by Lord Zhao Ren. ”

"The other two battle reports have also been delivered!" Zhao Ta nodded, he had been away from Beijing for a few months, and it was hard enough for Li Gang to preside over the government alone. Although Zong Ze's heart to serve the country is still old, he also went to the front in person, it seems that he insisted on using the two of them at the beginning.

"Yes!" Qingyang agreed, and hurriedly presented it.

"Read it!" Zhao Ta waved his hand, walked to the map and said.

"Wushu led the army to save Juyong Pass, the western road commander Zhao Yan retreated while fighting, all the way to the strong wall Chiye retreated to Yongxing City, and now sent a detour from Ulzhou back to the Huailai line, the army is ambushed in the Ming Mountain, and after the Jin army crosses the Sanggan River, it will launch an attack and annihilate the enemy in Fengshengzhou!" Qingyang said.

"Where is the Jin Army?" Zhao Ta asked, Qing Yang pointed to the line of Lishan on the map, "Oh, Wushu wants to take advantage of the situation to take Datong, but he has to turn back when he gets the news of the loss of Pingzhou, I am afraid that he can't, but he can also bite him hard, and buy us time!" ”

"The Northern Route Army has now crossed the boundary river, and the capital commander Zhao Yong has discharged the long snake formation with the dragon general and the tiger as the sharp arrow, and the Hebei Gaoyang Road and Zhongshan Road Zhou Army have pushed the two wings and one line, and want to fight a decisive battle with the Wanyan Sect Auxiliary Department in Zhuozhou, severely damage the Jin army, and lay a pressure to capture Yanjing City!" Qingyang said.

"Okay, shoot three arrows at once, see if he can still dodge with his vultures!" Zhao Ta sneered and said... (To be continued......)