Zhao Kuangyi first let the soldiers dance with swords.

Although Song Jiu admired the hundreds of sword-dancing soldiers, this thing was really skillful, and if one accidentally didn't catch the sword, he would die on the spot.

Then the siege of the city was ordered.

In order to show that his martial arts are no worse than his eldest brother, Zhao Kuangyi personally wore armor and braved the rain of arrows to command on the front line. ”

In any case, let him toss this way, all the soldiers are bubbling with blood in their heads, and they will attack the city without their lives.

At the same time, tens of thousands of arrows rained down into the city.

The logistics belonged to Song Jiu's management, and the iron production of the class had steadily increased over the years, which was an astonishing number compared to the amount of iron in the early Song Dynasty. The abundance of steel, as well as a good economy, led to the manufacture of countless armor weapons over the years.

When Song Jiu followed Zhao Kuangyi to attack Taiyuan, half of the soldiers continued to wear various cloth armor, leather armor and paper armor, but now more than ninety percent of them are iron armor, and seventy percent have been replaced with new armor. The weapons brought by this trip are also amazing, tens of millions of arrows, millions of strong crossbows specially used for ambush crossbows, and thousands of tiger cannons, so Zhao Kuangyi waved his hand and issued millions of arrows for each attack, but these millions of arrows were shot in the blink of an eye.

Even gunpowder was used.

However, under the insistence of the Northern Han Dynasty, Taiyuan City still held on. On the contrary, the Song army that withdrew from the city brought a few prisoners, and got one thing from their mouths, Liu Jiyuan paid ten yuan for an arrow in the city, and he had collected millions of arrows.

Zhao Kuangyi smiled and said, "It's stored by me." ”

After breaking through Taiyuan City, these arrows are still from the Song Dynasty, but who made them? Before the capture of Taiyuan. Can these arrows be used to kill and injure the Song army?

Just when the two armies were fighting bloodily, there was bad news. Tian Qinzuo was demoted to a protector. But there is still a part of the power of supervising the army, and they continue to treacherously seek profits. Guo Jin didn't listen to him, and in turn humiliated Guo Jin. Guo Jin hanged himself in a fit of rage.

Tian Qinzuo first said that Guo Jin died of illness, but this news must not be hidden.

Song Jiu was shocked.

In the hands of Zhao Kuangyin, there were not many battles with the Khitan, one was the cooperation of Cao Bin, Li Jixun and other generals, and defeated the Khitan army of 60,000 in Pingjin, but that time could not be regarded as a real war between the two countries, although it was 60,000 soldiers and horses, most of them were from the Northern Han. Moreover, it belongs to the southeast of the river, and there is a city to rely on, and there is a lot of water.

Tian Qinzuo fought 3,000 and 60,000, but he only dragged the Khitan army south, and failed to really defeat it.

The other is He Jiyun's Shiling Pass victory.

However, with the power of Zhao Kuangyin's planning in the middle, it cannot be regarded as He Jiyun's truly independent battle.

The last is that the historians of the Song Dynasty may not want to record the capture of Ma Renyu, who took the initiative to attack. The Khitan can hit the grass valley. Our Song Dynasty can also fight your Khitan grass valley. Calling back and forth, there were very few people on the border of the Song Dynasty, and there was a huge Central Plains behind, but Youzhou often came to fight the grass valley because of the Song Dynasty. If the people are not allowed to farm, then something will happen.

It was this jealousy that made the Khitan tacitly ignore the Song Dynasty and unify Jiangnan. Don't dare to go south.

Later, no one noticed, and after several major defeats. only dared to defend passively, so the Khitan came to fight the grass valley. Western Xia came to fight the grass valley. It wasn't until Fan Zhongyan put forward a similar idea, and it was finally realized in Zhang Ji's hands, that is, Zhang Ji's famous shallow attack tactics, which once almost destroyed Western Xia.

But this time it can't be considered a head-to-head battle.

Only Guo Jin is a real general battle this time, winning more with less, all Khitan soldiers, field battles, great victories, and independent command.

If you put it in a few months, such a big victory is a super victory. In the face of the Khitan army, there will be no more than three generals in the entire Song army who can do this. Even Song Jiu suspected that his father-in-law might not be able to do it.

However, he died like this, and committed suicide because of the injustice of the mausoleum, which made Song Jiu very confused, that is, Tian Qinzuo was the prison army, and his power was not higher than Guo Jin, and just a few words could force Guo Jin to commit suicide?

Song Jiu looked at Zhao Kuangyi and suddenly realized that Guo Jin was going to die.

Regardless of whether he makes meritorious service or not, he will die, otherwise after Tian Qinzuo makes a mistake, he will still be a protector if he is not transferred.

This made him think of another person, Zhang Qiong.

These two guys......

Song Jiu couldn't help but sigh.

There is a dark side and a light side. The next thing that happened made Song Jiu still appreciate Zhao Kuangyi.

After more than a month of bloody fighting, Taiyuan City fell. For more than a month, under the stimulation of Zhao Kuangyi, the Song army attacked lifelessly, killing countless brothers and partners, all of whom were red-eyed. Hearing that the city was broken, the three armies climbed to the top of the city desperately, and at that moment the murderous spirit was soaring, and almost the entire sky over Taiyuan City was covered with blood.

Zhao Kuangyi shouted: "The three armies retreated slightly. ”

"Your Majesty, why?" Cui Han asked.

"The three armies are angry, and I am afraid that if I enter the city now, even I will not be able to restrain it, and Taiyuan City will be slaughtered."

Song Jun stood outside the city for a while, and when he saw that everyone had calmed down together, Zhao Kuangyi ordered to enter the city.

Liu Jiyuan led his ministers to surrender.

But at this time, Zhao Kuangyi, Song Jiu and others couldn't help but look up at the southeast direction, the Song army entered the city, no one in the Northern Han Dynasty resisted, and it was quiet in all directions, except for the sound of fighting in the southeast direction. Zhao Kuangyi said to a small yellow door beside him: "You go and take a look." ”

After a while, Xiao Huangmen rode back to report, and it turned out that Liu Jiye and his two sons with their men continued to fight alone in the streets.

"Liu Jiye ......" Zhao Kuangyi smiled and asked Liu Jiyuan to send someone over to shout. Only then did Yang Jiye stop resisting, looked at the north and cried again, and came to see Zhao Kuangyi.

At this time, Liu Jiye had not yet freshened up, although he had undressed his armor, his body was covered with blood, there was his, but more of them were from the Song army, and I don't know how many Song soldiers he killed. This made Song Jiu very worried.

However, to everyone's surprise, Zhao Kuangyi did not kill Liu Jiye, but comforted him with kind words, and gave Liu Jiye a dismissal post as a general of the left army, and asked him to return his surname to Yang, but the middle succession word was exempted, so that he could not forget his godson identity and directly left a business. Zhao Kuangyi appreciated Yang Yefei's military ability, but Yang Ye's performance was not outstanding at this time, and he was defeated by Li Jixun. Defeated by the hands of the party and defeated by Tian Qinzuo. In addition to being fearless of death. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a famous general.

The reason why I like it is because of Yang Ye's general knowledge.

The Northern Han Dynasty was forced by the Song Dynasty. With 30,000 or 40,000 households raising tens of thousands of troops, coupled with the fact that the Khitan became a loyal watchdog of the Khitan despite the Northern Han Dynasty, and also came to fight the autumn wind from time to time, which made Yang Ye very angry and hateful, so he persuaded Liu Jiyuan to be a party of the people and take the initiative to surrender to the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, Yang Ye also took a fancy to his loyalty, Yang Ye was disgusted with the Khitan, but not with the Song Dynasty, but the Song army entered the city. Because he didn't get Liu Jiyuan's warrant, he was still fighting alone, not afraid of sacrifice, how many people can do this?

Therefore he who must die does not have to die, and he who does not have to die must die.

Song Jiu looked at Yang Ye curiously.

He was a governor and had no right to intervene in the affairs of the Privy Council, so he did not know much about the generals at the front. It wasn't until I came to Taiyuan that I learned that there was really a person named Hu Yanzan in Lu Dao, but he was not a general of the Northern Han Dynasty. It was a general of the Song Dynasty, who had followed Wang Quanbin into Shu to make military exploits, and was promoted to deputy commander, and this time he came to Taiyuan City as a commander. Because he bravely climbed to the top of the city and was summoned by Zhao Kuangyi, Song Jiu knew that he was this person. Otherwise, this time there are hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of commanders. Song Jiu didn't know what to do.

There is another person, Wang Gui. His status is a little higher, and he has independently attacked Qinzhou as a assassin. And these two people are both from Taiyuan.

Yang Jiajiang. can't let Yang Ye die in the Valley of Wolf's Teeth anymore, otherwise when compiling the book in the next generation, not only Pan Mei will be sad, but he may also be sad.

So after everything was settled, he called a Northern Han soldier and said, "Take me to Yang Yefu." ”

The little soldier didn't know that Yang Ye had changed his name, and he was scared, so he asked in a trembling voice: "Song Xianggong, that person is Yang Ye." ”

"Liu Jiye."

"General Liu, I know the way."

The soldiers brought Song Jiu to Yang Ye's mansion.

Strictly speaking, Yang Ye can also be regarded as the prince of the Northern Han Dynasty, and he is a heavy general, but because of the economic difficulties of the Northern Han Dynasty, the mansion is not luxurious, just a few simple courtyards.

In terms of status, the two are worlds apart, Song Jiu is the deputy minister of the imperial court, Yang Ye is only a general, and even his great general is nothing in the eyes of the Song Dynasty. However, although Yang Ye came out, he was not honestly afraid.

Song Jiu sighed.

To be a man is to be proud, can you become a famous general without backbone?

But maybe this backbone later led to a conflict between him and Pan Mei, then there was only one result, death.

Song Jiu sat down, Yang Ye's expression was flat, with a slight sadness, but his wife was a little related. It's not that the Zhe family is spineless, but she is afraid that Song Jiu will come to the door to find trouble, but she used a sword to directly put it on Song Jiu's neck.

Song Jiu said: "Zhe Niangzi, don't worry, your Zhe family is loyal to the imperial court, the two countries are at war, each is its master, and the past is over." ”

The reason why I came to the door was not revenge, first, I was curious, and second, I wanted to pull the relationship and save the Wolf Tooth Valley incident from being staged again.

"Song Gong has a large number of ......"

"I don't know what advice Gong Song has when he comes to the door?"

"I have heard that you have a number of sons, and they are all good at fighting......"

"I have seven sons."

"True Seventh Son......" Song Jiu muttered in his heart.

Yang Ye continued: "However, the other sons are still young, and only the eldest son and the second son can go to the battlefield a little. ”

"Can you let me see you?"

Yang Ye was inexplicable, but he still called his sons and introduced them one by one, the eldest son Yang Yanlang (later renamed Yanyu because of avoidance), the second son Yang Yanzhao, Yanpu, Yanxun, Yangui, Yangui, Yanbin. Yang Yanzhao was only twenty-one years old, and the rest were in their teens, how old were they, so Yang Ye was very puzzled when he heard Song Jiu say that everyone could fight well.

Song Jiu is also inexplicable, Yang Yanzhao is the second, why did he later become Yang Liulang.

No wonder in the previous life it was said that the Yang family would act promiscuous and incest, obviously Mu Guiying was Yang Wenguang's wife, but she became Yang Wenguang's mother.

But at this time, Song Jiu misunderstood, Yang Liulang was indeed ranked sixth, and the reason why he was so ranked was that he also had a few cousins, that is, the children of his uncle Yang Chongxun.

Song Jiu suddenly had an idea and asked, "Which of them can lead the troops to fight alone?" ”

Yang Ye hesitated and said, "The eldest son, Yan Lang, can force it. ”

"What about him?" Song Jiu pointed at Yang Yanzhao and asked.

"Yan Zhao can be a general, but I am afraid that he can't lead the troops alone."

"That's ......"

"I don't know why Song Gong asked?"

"Let me think about it," Song Jiu said. He just had an idea, the Northern Han Dynasty has won, and the upcoming battle of Song Liao is coming, and there is that demon Yelu Xiuge, and he probably can't think of a way to crack it with his half of the vinegar.

But tactically can't, strategically can, after all, I still have a little bit of a golden finger. How much influence did Western Xia have on the Song Dynasty? Therefore, he continued to focus on Liaodong and the country of Wushe. Although a batch of weapons began to be shipped to the country of Wushe, Song Jiu still thought that the strength was not enough, and for no other reason, Yan Po and the others were not able to do their military ability.

However, when selecting generals from the country, those who have the ability will not pass, those who are willing to go will not pass, and they are unfamiliar with the Khitans. Therefore, he thought of the Yang family general. The real Yang family's famous generals Yang Ye, Yang Liulang, but now Yang Ye says that Yang Liulang is young, and only Yang Yanlang is good, but Song Jiu doesn't know what Yang Yanlang has done in history.

And that Yang family general also made Song Jiu worried, if it was because of himself, Yang Yanlang died, it would be a big mistake. (To be continued......)