The Liao army advanced to the mouth of the Great Wall again, Zhang Bin suddenly led his subordinates to kill, and the Liao army was caught off guard, so that Zhang Bin successfully led his subordinates to break through one after another, and almost attacked the Liao Chinese army Yelu Longqing's nose. However, the Liao army also reacted quickly, and saw that the Song army did not have many soldiers and horses, so they launched a counterattack. Zhang Bin saw that the indomitable assault momentum was contained, and it would be disadvantageous to continue fighting, so he wisely accepted it when it was good and withdrew the captive army.

Yelu Longqing ordered the three armies to rest and recuperate, and then advanced on the Weilu army, which was not far away, less than forty miles. The scout came to report that the main force of the Song army was lined up in the west of the city. When Yelu Longqing heard the great joy, what he was afraid of was that the Song army relied on the city wall for defense, and what did he worry about when he left the city. Immediately ordered to pounce to the west of the city.

At the beginning of the war, Jing Si was the main force, Qin Han and Zhang Ning covered the left and right wings, and Li Jixuan was the reserve. If it weren't for Wei Neng guarding the Bauhinia Pass and Tian Min going to the northwest, the Song Dynasty would have been stronger in this battle. But now the generals are also the top generals of the Song Dynasty.

When Jing Si saw the arrival of the Liao army, he immediately ordered an attack. Qin Han and Zhang Ning intervened in time, and in just a few rounds, they defeated the Liao army, and shot the Liao army's main general, Tie Lin Xianggong. Yelu Longqing saw that it was not good, and ordered a retreat.

Arriving at the mouth of the Great Wall, Yang Yanzhao and Yang Si had a headache, they didn't think that the Liao State would fight as soon as it arrived, and flee as soon as it was fought, is this still a powerful Liao army iron cavalry? There was no way, it turned out to be outflanked, and now it has to be forcibly intercepted.

The Liao army blocked the front and rear troops, and there were chasing soldiers behind, and they were in a hurry all of a sudden, bursting out with strong combat effectiveness. Although Er Yang was condescending in Yangshan, he was repelled by the Liao army because of his small number of troops. Forced to leave the battlefield. Although they failed to snipe head-on, they gave the Song Dynasty pursuers behind them time to win.

Zhang Ning and Qin Han caught up. Yelu Longqing had no choice but to order a counterattack, and he couldn't escape. Although the road ahead was opened, this escape was a rout. After fighting for a while, Li Jixuan led the main force to arrive. After a while, the Liao army was defeated again, and the Song army pressed the Liao army to fight, killing from the southern foot of Yangshan to the ridge, and then to the northern foothills.

Yelu Longqing had no choice but to flee again and cross the Yishui, and it was also dark at this time.

Just as he was about to give the order to set up camp and rest, a Song soldier touched him.

Wei Neng led a team of light horsemen to kill from Bauhinia Pass. Just in time. He didn't have many soldiers and horses, but there were countless Song horsemen on the other side of the deadly river.

Yelu Longqing had no choice but to flee again, but fortunately, his men were all cavalry, and the speed was fast, and he crossed the Juma River and came to Qigou Pass, only to breathe a sigh of relief.

In this battle, the Liao army lost the commander Tie Lin Xianggong, as well as more than 20 heavy generals, and was beheaded by the Song army nearly 30,000 people. Of the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses led by Yelu Longqing, less than half of them were able to escape.

Liao's refusal to make peace again and again, and the repeated invasions also made the whole country feel sad and indignant. Therefore, nearly 30,000 heads of the generals were also placed at the border, building a view of Beijing, and showing martial arts to the Liao State.

But the Battle of Suicheng may have been a start. It could also be the end of the day. Because Xiao Yanyan personally led more Liao troops to arrive. This time, there was no persuasion from Yelu, and Xiao Yanyan sent a group of soldiers and horses to forcibly attack Bauhinia Pass. Outcome...... Except for the dead bodies, nothing was found.

Wang Xian followed He Chengju's advice. Using the method of encircling Wei to save Zhao, let the navy take a swordfish boat, enter the sea from the boundary river, land in Pingzhou along the sea, launch an attack, and attract the main force of the Liao State to come to the rescue.

Xiao Yanyan didn't pay attention, the main force detoured to the strongest Broken Army, but took the Mancheng to the west of the Broken Army, but at this time, Wang Xian had already led more Song troops to the Tang River, and the two armies were far away. But at this time, the continuous rainy days greatly affected the fighting ability of the Liao army, coupled with the death of so many soldiers and horses, the morale was depressed, and the Song army was prepared, Xiao Yanyan thought for a long time, and then ordered the withdrawal of the army.

After confirming that all the Liao troops had returned, Wang Xian offered victory to Zhao Heng.

And he also took the initiative to admit his mistake, if his main force arrived in time during the Battle of Suicheng, then the result would be even greater, and Yelu Longqing's soldiers and horses would be annihilated.

However, although there are mistakes, this time he can also be called decent, compared with Fu Qian, who is greedy for life and afraid of death, it is simply a world of difference.

Therefore, the imperial court generously gave praise.

Song Jiu was also very happy when he heard it in the capital, not only the victory, but also the general.

At this time, the Song Dynasty did not lack civil servants who governed the country, there were too many, such as Li Xin, Lu Mengzheng, even Zhang Qixian, Wang Qinruo, Xiang Minzhong and Kou Zhun and other people can be regarded as competent. But there is a lack of generals, there are many generals, but there are few famous generals.

Qin Han appeared, regardless of whether he was a eunuch or not, even if it was a woman as heroic as Mu Guiying, he would forcibly suggest that Zhao Heng use her.

In addition to the generals in the Battle of Suicheng, there are also such as Sun Quanzhao, Yang Qiong, Wang Chao, Hu Yanzan, Wang Hanzhong, Tian Min, Li Chonggui, Geng Quanbin, Gao Qiong, Wang Gao, etc., basically these people have grown up one after another.

No matter what the future holds, you must have a big general in your hands, otherwise you will still fail.

However, Zhao Heng was worried about Zhong Zhong and invaded again, and in some respects it seemed to verify Song Jiu's guess.

Therefore, he agreed to another suggestion from Song Jiu.

There will be another army, but this army will be broken up in the name of each commander in the future, and it will be distributed among the legions, that is, the broken cavalry army.

Compared with infantry, cavalry is no less than tanks, but there have been many examples of infantry breaking cavalry in history. is not only the later Yue Fei, as well as Liu Yu's Moon Formation, but also Lu Guang, the general under Fu Jian.

History says that he led an army of 70,000 to level the Western Regions, and there is a saying that he has an army of 100,000, but there are only 5,000 cavalry in this army, and the proportion of cavalry composition is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty today.

Lü Guang killed Qiuci, no matter how many troops, it is estimated that he had less than two-thirds of the troops in his hands at that time, the king of Qiuci asked for help from the countries of the Western Regions, and the king of Qiuhu sent his younger brother Na Long and Hou General Kui to lead more than 200,000 cavalry, and concentrated more than 700,000 troops such as Wensu and Weitou to rescue Qiuci. Lü Guang faced dozens of times the enemy, and they were all powerful cavalry in the Western Regions, and he used the method of hook and lock to fight at Quci. The battle was won, and all thirty-six kingdoms surrendered.

Therefore, Song Jiu built a new infantry corps.

The main thing is the cooperation of three people, one person wielding a hook gun, or chopping axe, chopping saber, specializing in the horse legs of cavalry.

One person carries a new type of gun. But it can't be exactly a gun, with a long pole in the back. In front there was a scythe-like object that specifically hooked the head of the cavalry.

And one more. That's the short spear.

In ancient China, the spear was still commonly used, but it was gradually reduced to an auxiliary weapon, unlike the ancient Roman army. This is a manifestation of more advanced tactics, with the clumsy phalanx of ancient Rome, if it runs to the Song Dynasty to fight, I don't know how Lu Dao will die.

Although it was gradually replaced by a more powerful bow and crossbow, it was still in use. For example, the iron-handled short spear of the Three Kingdoms can be used to stab in close combat, and can be used to throw it a little farther away. There was also a type of iron thallium in the Song Dynasty. It's actually a short spear. In addition, there is a javelin in the army, which is a little longer, and it is the middle spear. There is also a kind of shuttle gun among the southern minorities, and that is the spear.

Song Jiu had picked it up once before.

The reason why you pick up the short spear is that although the bow and crossbow are powerful, once the enemy cavalry rushes in, under the handover of short soldiers, the enemy cannot give you time to draw the bow and release the arrows, if you use weapons. One is on the horse, the other is under the horse, and they are at a disadvantage. Therefore, at this time, it will have unexpected benefits to configure some short spears. Despite its slow rate of fire and its short range, its opponents were mainly Liao. Their armor is of poor quality, mostly leather. Within ten steps, it's still okay to shoot one person. And it's not very heavy. With a dozen short spears mounted on the back, it was not a big burden for the soldiers.

One sharpens the horse's legs, one hooks the head with a Mochizuki spear, and one shoots with a short spear, as long as they are well coordinated, they can offset the advantage of the cavalry.

But if you want to cooperate well, you have to go through hard training.

Well, this battle is a big victory, and the cost of winning will not be very high, and even the Liao army only reached the border, and not a single civilian was harmed.

Therefore, the financial easing also gave the economic conditions for the establishment of the Broken Cavalry Army.

The three special regiments, coupled with the previous military system reform, the army of the Song Dynasty actually gradually became stronger invisibly.

Time has entered Xianping for five years in a blink of an eye.

If it weren't for the pressure of the Liao State, the Song Dynasty would have gradually become richer and more prosperous.

Even though the expenses were increasing last year due to the training and increase of troops, the Third Division still generated some surpluses. This was not the result of harsh people, but a good tax policy and an increase in the economy brought about by prosperous commerce, although the increase in troops increased the cost, and on the other hand, the reduction of officials also saved money.

It should be said that Song Jiu has done a very good job as prime minister. But at this moment, someone said no to Song Jiu.

Not about the North, but in the South.

When Wang Jun rebelled, Yang Huaizhong transferred some barbarian soldiers from Shi, Guizhou, Gao, Xi and other prefectures to help. How much does it play that I didn't see, what I saw...... It was these people who entered the plains and saw that the Han people were rich, so they attacked Zhou County, plundered wealth and men and women to various streams and mountains, and became their slaves.

Sichuan officials have been undecided for a long time.

According to the ideas of Song Jiu and others, they would send Sichuan cavalry into various streams and mountains to sweep. This is the original intention of the Sichuan Cavalry.

However, Ding Wei wrote against it and received the order himself.

Now Song Jiuyi is thinking about dealing with Liao, of course, more is better than less, and agreed that he went to Kuizhou as a deputy envoy.

After Ding Wei went to Kuizhou, he only took three or two servants and went deep into the streams.

Its leader, Tian Yanyi, was very moved, and personally came out to greet him, rewarded him with cow wine, and was willing to pay tribute from generation to generation. Ding Wei asked them to go to Kuizhou City as guests, and these leaders also learned from Ding Wei, and only took three or two servants to Kuizhou City. When he arrived at the post house, Ding Wei gave him a brocade robe and silver silk, which was a blessing and a curse, and said that he would not be killed. A few days later, they asked to go back, but Ding said that he was polite and did not allow them to leave. He also sent his servants to tell them secretly, "The prince wants to get the Han men and women you have plundered, and if you agree to send these Han men and women back, the prince will be happy, and he will let you go home."

So these leaders made an appointment with Ding Wei, let one person go back, gave a silk horse, and sent back more than 10,000 Han people a few days later. Then he wept goodbye and took an oath and engraved it on the stone pillar.

Ding Wei had other moves, such as setting up a village in some dangerous places, setting up shops for 30 miles, and placing 30 soldiers in each shop, and so on. even led Tian Yanyi to defeat a more backward and barbaric barbarian invasion in the mountains.

It only cost 10,000 yuan, and if the army is used, even if it is a small-scale battle, it will be calculated as 100,000 yuan. But it got done......

But Song Jiu's evaluation in the political hall was just the opposite: "Although it is good, but how can there be only 10,000 Han people taken away by the barbarians?" ”

Just one sentence leaves everyone with nothing to say.

The redeemed Han people are naturally happy, but the Han people who have not redeemed it means that death is better than death. Of course, the barbarians don't owe the Han people, but the Han people don't owe the barbarians either! At least not to those barbarian leaders.

"As for whether the oath engraved on the stone pillar will work? Maybe now that it is temporarily settled, we should not see the Han people who are cattle and horses in the stream, but in the future, because of their weakness, the barbarians will become more and more bold. ”

For example, Nanbeijiang and Meishanman, in the end, it was Zhang Dian who used troops to wipe out this place, and then the governance was really restored.

"But it's okay for now, at least the whole country can't change much at this time," Song Jiu laughed at himself.

Then the south has no choice but to take care of it, and continue to let those barbarian leaders be powerful.

Then continue to plant trees in the north.

These trees were planted to make Xiao Yanyan disgusted.

It is conceivable that once all these forests with a thickness of dozens of miles have grown, and the Song people have carried many thorns in them, how will the Liao army move south? Do you dismount together and take an axe to cut down trees and thorns? So Song Jun really grew up jealous, and he didn't know how to ambush in the forest? (To be continued......)