Very good, Dang Jin is a big boss. Since becoming a senior officer of the forbidden army, there is nothing to do, and Zhao Kuangyin will run into a military census "Old party, how many soldiers are there under you" Dang Jin can't remember and doesn't want to remember, holding up a piece of wood, "Boss, look at it yourself, my soldiers are all on it" Zhao Kuangyin was helpless, he was too illiterate and semi-illiterate, and he engaged in reading activities five times and again, but Xiucai could not be practiced in one day. I had no choice but to half-ask and half-ask to let these generals have time to flip through the books.

Very good, the party seems to have improved, he will drop his book bag, and before he is transferred to another place to guard the border, he should normally go to the emperor to express his determination or something. Dang Jin felt that this was a good opportunity to show his academic performance, so he asked the people below to write down their determination and recite it by themselves. But in front of Zhao Kuangyin, I don't remember all the words I memorized. The anxious party decided to play on the spot, and in a hurry, he wrote, "I heard that the style used to be concise, and I won't say much, I just wish the emperor to eat and drink well, sleep well, and be in good health (the minister smells the ancient style and is simple, and I wish the official family a good rest)" The whole court laughed, what is this word? Dang Jin explained his on-the-spot writing: "I see that those civil officials don't like to quote scriptures, and today I also show my hands to let them know that our family has also read books" Dang Jin should have read books, although only half a bucket of water. But the crooked fight is correct, and a truly literary letter of determination does not necessarily represent loyalty. Dang Jin's childlike congratulatory speech directly made Zhao Kuangyin squirt, feeling that this person was innocent and had no city government.

But is Dangjin really a simple person? Let's look at another thing when he was the captain of the Beijing City Management Brigade, at that time he often walked around the streets of the capital, and when he saw someone raising cages and birds, he got angry: these rich second generations have money and don't support their parents, but they play with these things. Angry Dang Jin took direct action, he rushed forward, snatched the bird cages, unshackled them, and let them all be released. Reading little but understanding the truth, just about to applaud him, a very disgraceful thing happened, that day the party captain went to inspect the streets, to see if there were any stalls and playing with birds, and he happened to find one, who carried a big eagle swaggering through the streets. The party lord is angry, bold! I don't know if I won't let you play with these things? He rushed forward and was about to be forcibly released. But the man said softly: This is the king of Jin. King Jin? Zhao Guangyi! The party master's hand retracted as if he was electrocuted, and the expression on his face was replaced by a smiling face like an electric shock, "Yo, it's the king of Jin, it's really good, it's a good one, it's a good eagle."

Get! It turns out that the old man and the rough party are also careful! In fact, the party is even more bold.

Liu Jiye is bold, he dared to ride hundreds of horses to attack people's camps, but he didn't expect the party to be bolder than him, the party dared to directly lead a few people to kill the past, and went straight to Liu Jiye! Liu Jiye turned his horse's head and fled, he knew that he had picked the wrong object this time and should not have come to Dongzhai. Only by preserving strength and fighting again in the future.

So when the party entered and killed the soldiers on the road, and wanted to find Liu Jiye one-on-one, he found that the other party's main general was gone. Where is the enemy general who was brave and invincible just now? Liu Jiye was shrinking in the trenches, he endured this shame, and watched the soldiers he led out of the outside being completely annihilated by the enemy.

Alas, this was an adventurous activity, and Liu Jiye didn't point to a successful blow, but at the moment, he didn't think that the dignified general would shrink into the ditch and steal his life. It's so faceless, Liu Jiye is bleeding inside, he almost wanted to kill Lu and die in battle, but in the end reason defeated impulse, at night, Song Bing retreated, and he quietly slipped back to Taiyuan. It was climbed back, because the city gate was closed, and the inside refused to open the city gate for this defeated general, so he had to climb the lifeline hanging down from it and climbed back to Taiyuan.

Liu Jiye failed, but the failure was not meaningless, he had already expressed his attitude to Zhao Kuangyin through sneak attacks again and again: Taiyuan people would rather die than surrender!

Zhao Kuangyin called in vain, he knew in his heart that there was something to be afraid of the people of Taiyuan who dared to resist so stubbornly, that is, the Khitan iron cavalry in the north. With the support of this internationalist fighter, the Northern Han was certainly unwilling to be captured. People don't shed tears when they don't see the coffin, and the Northern Han Dynasty doesn't die when they don't see Liao. This involves a sub-issue under the big problem of reunification: should we deal with the Northern Han or the Liao first? Before capturing the Northern Han Dynasty, it was necessary to attack the Liao State and take back the 16 states of Yanyun, which greatly damaged the strength of the Liao State and made it impossible to take care of the affairs of the Northern Han Dynasty. In this way, the Northern Han Dynasty surrendered without attacking. Chai Rong and Wang Pu's strategy was well thought out, they knew that the Zhou Dynasty had a deep blood feud with the Northern Han Dynasty, and the Liu family would fight to the end. And when it comes to Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin thinks that it is already the Great Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty are not too big of a holiday. The Northern Han Dynasty shouldn't be able to hold on to the last person, right? He didn't expect that the Northern Han Dynasty would rely on the support of the Liao State and directly transfer his hatred for the Zhou Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.

Well, Zhao Kuangyin was convinced by the tenacity of the Taiyuan people, and he also took the next step and took the Liao State. Taiyuan brothers, aren't you just waiting for reinforcements from Liao? I'm waiting, and when I show you their heads, you know what to do, right?

At this time, the cavalry of the Liao State was divided into two routes: all the way to Yangqu County, and all the way to Dingzhou.

A veteran named He Jiyun was sitting in front of Zhao Kuangyin at this time, and between them was a map, and Zhao Kuangyin pointed to a location: Shiling Pass. This is a dangerous place located in the north of Yangqu County, a place where soldiers must fight. To block the Liao soldiers who came to reinforce Taiyuan, this is undoubtedly a key location. A thousand years later, another group of extremely vicious invaders attacked Taiyuan from here. That's the Jap.

Zhao Kuangyin pointed out the strategy of retreating from the enemy to He Jiyun, he is an emperor who often plays the role of chief of staff, taking Jinghu Lake and recovering Houshu, he has all the plans, strategies and even tactics. This may be a good thing, the teacher has not made a plan, but it is not necessarily all a good thing, the above single-handedly, how to give full play to the creativity below? In other words: if Zhao Kuangyin dies, who can still give advice to the Great Song Dynasty military? This may seem like a distant question (but it's not far off. 10 years later, the Great Song Dynasty will have to pay the price of blood for this problem), we still solve the present.

Zhao Kuangyin gave He Jiyun thousands of elite soldiers, and the emperor's meaning was very clear: never let a single soldier of the Liao State come over, of course, if it is dead, the more the better.

He Jiyun was about to leave the barracks, but was suddenly stopped by Zhao Kuangyin. When he turned around, he saw Zhao Kuangyin holding a bowl of things in his hand. Sending off wine? He Jiyun drank it all, but what entered his throat was not wine, but hemp powder to get rid of the heat. It was cool and went straight into his abdomen, but He Jiyun's heart warmed up. This ordinary, ice-cold bowl of sesame pulp powder energizes a warrior more than any spirit. He Jiyun led the troops to resist the enemy, and he remembered the emperor's words: Tomorrow at noon, I will wait for your good news.

The next day, April 12, both inside and outside Taiyuan City were waiting for the news of the Battle of Shiling Pass. Zhao Kuangyin personally stood on the high platform in the north and looked north. Time passed little by little, and Zhao Kuangyin's sweat was dripping down. In the distance, it's silent......

Lucky Zhao Kuangyin, like the Greeks, waited for his own Phidipides. In his anxious eyes, a black dot finally appeared, getting closer and closer, and gradually becoming clear, it was a man and a horse. Zhao Kuangyin couldn't bear it anymore, he ordered to meet him and ask for the news immediately!

The person who came was He Jiyun's son He Chengrui, who brought a surprise to Zhao Kuangyin and all the Song army. The Song army won a great victory, captured Wang Yanfu, the assassin of Wuzhou in Liao, beheaded more than 1,000 people, and obtained a large number of war horses and armor.

On May 2, the reinforcements of the Liao army on the other route to Dingzhou were also defeated. This is a chess piece that Zhao Kuangyin has been ambushed a long time ago.

The meritorious one was Han Chongyun. This is a heavyweight in the Song Dynasty, and he is one of Zhao Kuangyin's 'Ten Brothers of the Righteous Society'. When Shi Shouxin, Gao Huaide, Wang Xianqi and others bought land, bought houses, and drank and had fun, he still fought on the front line of the unification of the Great Song Dynasty. Maybe this person is very honest, and he only committed a big taboo once, and Zhao Kuangyin wanted to cut off his head. Because I heard that he actually cultivated cronies among the pro-soldiers, this touched Zhao Kuangyin's most sensitive nerves, and he formed a faction in the army, which was the secret of Zhao Kuangyin's fortune. Whoever wants to learn means to rebel. Just when Han Chongyun was almost about to move his head, Zhao Pu said good things for him and saved him. Later, he was driven out of the capital and came to Xiangzhou as an envoy of the Zhangde Festival.

Xiangzhou is very close to Dingzhou. Zhao Kuangyin had expected the Liao State to march forward as early as before the pro-conquest, "The Khitan knew that I would personally conquer Taiyuan, and I would lead the people to help, and they must think that Zhenzhou and Dingzhou had no defense, and they would march by this road." You can lead my troops to ambush them and take them by surprise."

The Liao soldiers came, they had learned the news of the defeat of Shiling Pass, they only hoped that the Song army would forget to set up ambushes on this road, if they could take the two big states of Dingzhou and Zhen, it would be cost-effective to lose Taiyuan. The calculation is very fine, and the reality is cruel. When they arrived at Jiashan in Dingzhou, they found that many bright flags suddenly appeared on the road ahead, which they thought was a smooth road. There is an ambush! The Liao soldiers were taken aback, and immediately turned their horses' heads and wanted to slip away. But Han Chongyun refused to count it, He Jiyun had already made a war exploit in the front, if he only drove away the count, how could he go back to Bianliang to drink and brag with that group of people in the future? Urgently order his subordinates to attack quickly.

The two hearty victories proved that the Khitan Iron Cavalry was not invincible. Or it can be said: as long as you are strong-willed, all enemies are paper tigers!

Zhao Kuangyin believed that this victory could successfully hit the confidence of the Taiyuan people, and he held a head exhibition outside the city of Taiyuan with the heads of the Liao people who had cut them off, along with the exotic armor of the Khitan: You see, the reinforcements you look forward to the stars and the moon have been defeated by me. Please don't resist the people of the burden.

But there was silence in Taiyuan City for a while, and then countless arrows suddenly shot down from above. Taiyuan people have shown their determination with actions: they would rather die than surrender! I haven't seen Huangquan who doesn't give up, but I haven't seen anyone who doesn't shed tears when I see a coffin. Zhao Kuangyin even felt a little poor in the face of the tall Taiyuan City.

In fact, the Northern Han people were discouraged. But now there is a sharp whip in the city that is whipping them, cheering them on: Don't be afraid, this is just the vanguard of my Liao country, the army has not yet arrived, we will hold on for a while, as soon as the army arrives, we can annihilate the Song army outside Taiyuan City. This person is Han Zhifan, he should have come to do some tricks (on the order of Emperor Liao to canonize Liu Jiyuan), but at this time he took over the command of the Northern Han army, supervised day and night in the city, commanded and adhered to it, and boosted the morale of the Northern Han Dynasty again.

Zhao Kuangyin was angry, he thought of all methods, hoping to easily take the Northern Han, he didn't want to waste too much energy in Taiyuan City, in the south, in Yanyun, there are more places where troops need to be used. But today, all the calculations have failed, and the Northern Han Dynasty is still harder than a stone.

There's only one way left. Zhao Kuangyin summoned Chen Chengzhao: "When the city was besieged, you said that I had tens of millions of troops here. Now you can summon them all" On May 8, Zhao Kuangyin led the Fen River to besiege the city, and the emperor was like a dragon lord, using tens of millions of sailors. But the city of Taiyuan is thick, and it is estimated that it is stronger than the Three Gorges Dam, and the rolling Fen River has not washed away the city of Taiyuan, but it seems to have built a moat for the people of Taiyuan.

There are not enough tens of millions of sailors, so they have to send their own carefully trained forbidden army. On the 12th, Zhao Kuangyin personally went to the southeast of Taiyuan City to supervise the army. When Wang Tingyi saw that the emperor had come to be a cheerleader in person, his pride was instantly stimulated, and he took off his helmet and armor, jumped on the boat and rushed forward. But he shouldn't have taken off his helmet, for the city rained down on arrows, one of which shot him directly to the head. Wang Tingyi plunged headlong into the water of the Fen River. Died on the 14th. Wang Tingyi was not the only high-ranking officer of the forbidden army to die on the front line. On the 15th, Shi Hanqing was also shot by an indiscriminate arrow during an attack and fell into the water and drowned.

This position seems unfavorable, on the 21st, Zhao Kuangyin turned to the west gate, and the army stormed the west gate. But the Taiyuan people repelled their attacks again and again.

But the situation in Taiyuan City is still getting worse and worse, Guo Wuwei in the city can't sit still, when the city is broken, he has become a prisoner, what else to talk about the Song Dynasty heroes, Anguo Festival envoys? He suddenly turned from a right-leaning surrender faction to a staunch left-leaning death war faction, demanding that he personally lead the army out of the city to fight a decisive battle against the Song army. His earth-shattering change did not alarm Liu Jiyuan. Liu Jiyuan believed him, gave him thousands of elite soldiers, and sent Liu Jiye and Guo Shoubin, the most warlike generals in the city, to be his lieutenants. In Yanxiamen, he personally held a ceremony for him to leave the army.

What disappointed Liu Jiyuan was that Guo Wuwei went and came back without doing anything. This was originally a clever plan that Guo Wuwei had planned for a long time, a second plan after the failure to persuade the emperor to surrender. As long as he succeeds in luring the army in the city to surrender together, maybe Zhao Kuangyin will not be stingy with the position of the envoy of the Anguo Festival, right?

After walking out of the city, Guo Wuwei gradually realized that something was wrong, and the sky that was still clear just now suddenly became stormy. The wind is sluggish and the rain is cold, and Guo Wuwei's heart is even more cold to the freezing point. Because he found something wrong.

Guo Wuwei hurriedly urged the horse forward, and silently thought in his heart: It's good to get to Song Ying, maybe it may not be nice to have a beautiful wind and sun over Song Ying. Walking to the north bridge, he stopped and greeted the two lieutenant generals, yes, it's time for a showdown, explain to these two generals, indicate the future, maybe Guo Wuwei still has the edict of the Song Dynasty to surrender these two in his arms, they should be good birds, and they know how to choose trees and perch. But the reality is cruel: Liu Jiye has returned to the city. Someone reported that General Liu's horse had injured his foot and was unable to send troops. I didn't fight, why did this horse's foot hurt? But this is not the worst news, another general, Guo Shoubin, suddenly disappeared without any reason or explanation. Guo Wuwei shouted General Guo's name in the wind and rain, but no one answered, and he looked behind him again, there were only dozens of 1,000 elite soldiers left. Can Song Ying go again? Dozens of people don't have the capital to be important officials in the Song Dynasty at all, not to mention that if Zhao Kuangyin knows that he has secretly hidden more than 40 surrender letters but fails to plot against Liu Jiyuan, it will not be good. There is only one option left: go back to the city.

Guo Wuwei, who returned to Taiyuan City, became a surrender faction again, and he nagged in Liu Jiyuan's ear again without incident: Look, our reinforcements have been defeated, and the Khitan heads are still on display outside the city, or have they surrendered?

Liu Jiyuan nodded this time and made a decision: Guo Wuwei's head was displayed in Taiyuan City. Liu Jiyuan couldn't bear it anymore, he had let Guo Wuwei have a way out and let him surrender by himself, but he wanted to go back to the city to shake the army's heart, no wonder he didn't miss his old kindness. Besides, he can't keep this old man, this person's many strange actions are already known to passers-by, and the eunuch Wei Degui has come to complain. In order to preserve the last bit of morale of the Northern Han Dynasty, and to comfort the bloody soldiers on the front line, Guo Wu will die for you! Take your infinite yearning for your political career, your beautiful vision of a prosperous life in the Great Song Dynasty, and the letter of appointment of the envoy of the Anguo Festival! I just wonder if the underworld will need an envoy of the Anguo Festival in a chaotic country?