"General Sun, what do you think?" Li Jilong asked Sun Quanzhao.

"Brother Yelu Hugh is not idle, he must be prepared, but our army launched a surprise attack, and the victory rate is more than seventy percent, but we came to exchange prisoners of war, suddenly changed our minds, and finally lost our righteousness, which is a little inappropriate."

Yelu Hugo was defeated twice, and he is not the god of war anymore, so Sun Quanzhao's evaluation is only an extraordinary one. But don't underestimate him!

Just because this person has been sitting in Youzhou, even Li Jilong did not dare to invade Youzhou innocently.

But if the fight starts, Sun Quanzhao is not an exaggeration to say that the odds of winning seventy percent are not exaggerated, most of the famous generals and elite soldiers in the entire Hebei have almost brought over this time, including Jing Si of Cangzhou, Jingsaijun and Tian Min, Yang Yanzhao Wei Neng and other famous generals.

But it is righteousness.

For example, Zhao Kuangyi's attack on Youzhou, it cannot be said that Yanyun has been China's territory since ancient times, and Khitan is still known as China.

It can't be said that it is the gateway of our Great Song Dynasty and must be taken back, although in fact whoever has the biggest fist is whoever's, but this kind of slogan equivalent to a bandit cannot be said. Therefore, before the two Northern Expeditions, a document was issued, the people of Yanyun, I have come to rescue you, and what I am fighting for is righteousness. It may be ethereal, but it does affect morale.

Jing Si said angrily: "General Sun, what are you talking about, Yizhou belongs to our Great Song Dynasty!" ”

Li Jilong held him down and said, "If you are not convinced, you can train the army for the country in Cangzhou." ”

In addition to the cavalry that was actually transferred to Hebei for the first time, there were not many who were transferred for the second time, and there were still a large number of recruits in Hebei, most of whom were trained in Cangzhou and Yingzhou, so that they could integrate into the battlefield atmosphere as soon as possible.

Li Jilong said again: "General Sun, you have to be ready. The imperial court will let you go to Dengzhou to train that sailor. ”

"Ahh Sun Quanzhao said dissatisfied. Last time, Gao Qiong landed in Pingzhou, Liaoguo, with a sailor, and he made soy sauce. Isn't this belittled for no reason?

Li Jilong smiled and said, "For specific reasons, you will go to the capital immediately after you go back this time." When you meet Your Majesty, you will know the way. ”

Song Jiu went to Taiyuan, Li Jilong questioned, Zhao Kuangyi sent Wang Huaji to negotiate peace, Li Jilong protested, Zhao Kuangyi made this brother-in-law helpless, and simply summoned him to the capital to take up his post and reveal the truth, anyway, sooner or later he would let him know.

But there is still one manpower that has not been arranged. That is, there must be a general who can fight in Dengzhou, Zhao Kuangyi asked Li Jilong to recommend, Li Jilong's first thought was Yang Yanzhao, but if it was really that plan was launched, Liao would inevitably retaliate frantically, Hebei bore the brunt, at that time, Suicheng Liangmen was the most important, and Yang Yanzhao could not leave. Therefore, Li Jilong did not give an answer on the spot, and this person was a little difficult to choose. To be able to fight, to be able to command the three armies, to have a certain amount of wisdom.

Looking at the expressions of the generals today, Sun Quanzhao made Li Jilong very satisfied. Simply let Sun Quanzhao enter Beijing, and the chief general who went to Dengzhou must know the entire plan in advance, otherwise he will be underprepared at that time.

Wei Neng curiously leaned up and asked, "General Li." Could it be that the imperial court plans to go on a northern expedition again? ”

"I don't know what to do, withdraw."

The three armies slowly withdrew. Yelu Hugo also breathed a sigh of relief, this section of Yishui is not wide. Just now he clearly saw that several generals of the Song Dynasty on the other side of the river seemed to be arguing, and if there was a fight, it would be difficult to say whether the outcome would be won or lost. The two failures somewhat chilled Yeluxiugo's heart.

The Song army also slowly withdrew.

This group of prisoners of war was exchanged for a return and the family was reunited, which was benevolent, but there were also many problems.

Some prisoners of war suffered from excessive torture and serious physical deterioration, and could no longer be banned from the army. Some of the families of the prisoners of war thought they were sacrificed, some wives remarried, and some parents died of grief. There are also a small number of soldiers who mix well, and they actually marry wives and have children in a foreign country, this time Xiao Yanyan forced their wives to break up in order to make up the number, they didn't have Song Jiu's treatment, and they exchanged Han Dewei for the concubine. Even if you go home, you have to worry about it.

But it was not for Li Jilong to deal with, he sent people to slowly send these prisoners of war to the capital, and the officials in the capital would deal with them.

The various ministries were also about to be disbanded and returned, but Li Jilong suddenly gathered the three armies and said: "Everyone, Brother Yelu Xiu just said, don't beg for peace if you have the ability, remember today's shame!" ”

"The country humiliates the lord and humiliates the minister, and he deserves death!" Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers shouted in unison.

Yang Yanzhao was a little suspicious in his eyes, but it was the emperor who asked for peace.

Then he shook his head again, others didn't dare to say it, what was Li Jilong afraid of? He is the uncle of the country!

He slowly walked up to Yuping and said, "I've seen Aunt Yu." ”

"You ......"

"I am Panpan's husband." Yang Yanzhao said respectfully.

When Yuping left, Panpan was still very young, and she didn't remember much about Yuping, but she often heard her mother mention it, so when she came this time, she repeatedly told Yang Yanzhao that no matter what, she must bring Yuping back safely.

Yuping was not surprised by the age gap between Yang Yanzhao and Panpan, if the gap is concerned, the gap between Kou Zhun and the sister of Empress Xiao Song is even greater. She was in the Khitan, playing the perspective of a slave and a teacher, and it was impossible for her to hear important information, but she heard some, including Yang Yanzhao, and said, "You are the Erlang of the Yang family?" ”

"Liulang (based on the ranking of Yang Chongxun and Yang Ye's two brothers)."

"Liulang, is Panpan also in Hebei?"

"She is in Suicheng, and she is preparing to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Aunt Yu at home."

Yuping's eyes were a little dazed, it was good to be back, but there were some things that looked like people.

Yang Yanzhao saw it and said: "Song Gong has always been very worried about Aunt Yu, and his uncle and brother have also started a family, and he has been appreciated by His Majesty, and he has been promoted to Lingzhou General Judgment, and he is deeply loved by the people in Lingzhou. ”

After the battle of Qigou Pass, Xiao Yanyan was very strict with Yuping because of resentment, and Yuping had not received a letter from Song Jiu through a Liao merchant for a long time, so she asked, "Is he married?" ”

"I got married, I was the little lady of Mr. Zhang's family, and I gave birth to a fat boy in Lingzhou last year."

"Bachelor Zhang?"

"Aunt Yu should know that he is the deputy head of the academy, Zhang Quhua, who is now appreciated by His Majesty and promoted to a bachelor of Hanlin."

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that Zhang Quhua's family had a baby girl who was very handsome, but she was even younger at that time. I don't know how Lu Dao grew up.

Xiao Su congratulated: "Jade lady, congratulations on hugging your grandson." ”

Yang Yanzhao said: "But they are still in the northwest. Is Aunt Yu planning to go back to the capital, or to Taiyuan? ”

"Taiyuan?"

"Duke Song is in Taiyuan. If you want to go to Taiyuan, you must go to Hedong from Jingcheng Pass. If you go back to the capital, there are a lot of roads, and I will send someone to arrange where Aunt Yu wants to go. ”

"Then Taiyuan."

……

More than 10,000 prisoners of war also arrived in the capital.

But when they returned, they made the people even angrier.

These people were originally captured to the Liao State as slaves, and the words slave and trilogy basically disappeared in the Song Dynasty, at least except for the Bashu and Kuixia regions. As for the treatment of Liao prisoners of war in the Song Dynasty. Who can see it!

More and more people wrote to demand that the Liao State be severely punished.

But how to punish it, is it the Northern Expedition?

Then punish it severely.

Forced by public opinion, the "Northern Expedition" of the Song Dynasty began.

Sure enough, it's the back of the mountain!

Yang Qiong and Zhang Ningbing went out to Zhenwu.

Since the defeat of Han Derang's army, the Liao State has successively sent some garrisons to Fengzhou, but now the entire Jiashan is near Hedong, and the Song and Liao countries are relatively contemptuous, and the Liao army is not good at attacking, and it is also not good at defense. Especially in the southwest, so there are not many troops stationed. There is a garrison in Toyoshu. However, they did not dare to rescue, although Zhenwu City had a city defense, the city was not big, it was not Youzhou City. The garrison of 1,000 people was insufficient, and the Song army was prepared and brought countless siege weapons. Zhenwu City was taken.

Yin Xian joined forces with Wang Chengmei and crossed the Yellow River directly. Attacking the Dongshengzhou of the Liao State, this city is not as good as Zhenwu City. It was then conquered by two armies.

After the two armies swept away some small Liao forts in the east of the river again, they met in Zhenwu City, divided their troops again, and attacked Fengzhou of Liao all the way, and followed the southwest road all the way to Datong, Xijing, Liao.

At this moment, the Hedong army also came out.

Yang Si and Yin Jilun went out of the west, and the soldiers pointed directly at Shuozhou.

Yang Ye and Gao Qiong took countless soldiers, township soldiers, and people, and the soldiers were divided into two roads, pointing to the partial pass village in the west and Chenjia Gukou in the east, which was to build the village.

If you talk about Guan Qi, the Jin Dynasty thought that the Guan Qi in the world was headed by Lu Long, Flying Fox and Gouzhu.

Lu Long didn't want to, in the northeast of Youzhou, Youzhou hadn't been taken down, and Lu Long. The Flying Fox Pass is equally important, if the army is raised from Datong, it can quickly reach the Bauhinia Ridge from the Flying Fox Pass, and then reach Hebei. Therefore, Pan Mei once wanted to send troops to defend the Flying Fox Pass, but Tian Chongjin ran fast, he sent a partial division to help, but the troops were insufficient, and he was defeated by Yelu Xian, so that the section from the Flying Fox Pass to the Bauhinia Ridge was lost. This encirclement on both sides made Yizhou an enclave, and the Song Dynasty later had to abandon Yizhou. And what's worse is that the Liao forces behind the mountain and in front of the mountain can be connected to each other.

The most lull is this hook, the hook note mountain is Yanmen Mountain, but the hook note is divided into east and west two gates, the west pass is on the Yanmen Mountain, the east and west mountains are steep and steep, there is a circling road, there is a Xiongguan, this is the Yanmen Pass in the narrow sense. There are also thirty miles south of Daizhou, where An Lushan will Gao Xiuyan retreat according to Datong Taiyuan, and Guo Ziyi opened the Dongcheng Pass in order to break the thief. This checkpoint is equally important, up to Yunzhou, down to control Mayi. In addition, the surrounding mountains are leaning on, so it has become an iron wall of the Khitan.

However, the whole east of the river is Yanmen......

This is also a result of the terrain.

The east of Yanmen Pass does not have much to do with it, there are Yanmen Mountain, House Mountain, the southwest foot of Heng Mountain, and then to the east is Taihang Mountain, which itself is a natural natural risk.

However, the west of Yanmen Pass is weaker.

Nominally, the south side of the branch of the ancient Great Wall in the southwest of Shuozhou used to belong to the jurisdiction of the Northern Han Dynasty. The Great Wall seen by Song Jiu in later generations was a product of the Ming Dynasty after repair.

In the Song Dynasty, there was an ancient Great Wall, which could be continued from section to section and could not become a weapon to block the northern nomads.

As a result, this section was gradually encroached upon by the Liao State, including the partial pass, and became the scope of the Liao State's jurisdiction, although it was also beaten into idle fields.

However, the defense of the Liao State here is not strong, and there are only a small number of forts, which are neither tall nor strong, and there are not many troops left.

However, this does not mean that the Song Dynasty can reoccupy it.

If the northwest of the Song Dynasty continues to be a mess, without the hidden protection of Hexi, even if the Song Dynasty occupies it, it may not be able to defend it, and the nature is the same as Yizhou.

But now it is different, after the first battle of Zihexia, all ethnic groups in Hexi returned to their hearts, and the imperial court also intended to start operating Shengzhou, so that Shengzhou could echo with the future partial pass, and Yanmen Pass could also echo with the future Shenwu City, and Shenwu City could echo with the partial pass. If possible, some of the most important ancient Great Wall will be repaired. At least this land (within the scope of Wuzhai and three counties in Shenchi) can really belong to the Song Dynasty. The small pit in the north-west of the river forms a whole.

This is different from the Ming Dynasty, which also valued this place. The so-called outer three passes are Yanmen, Ningwu, and partial passes. However, the Ming Dynasty defended the Hexi nomads, and now the Song Dynasty defended Yunzhou behind the mountains. The Ming Dynasty was able to get the support of the troops behind the mountain, and the Song Dynasty was able to get the support of the Hexi Fanqiang troops at this time, and the advantages and disadvantages were almost the same.

There were fewer Liao soldiers here, and they fled long before the Song Dynasty sent out a large army.

Then the construction of the walled city began, and a large number of soldiers brought countless cement and gunpowder. as well as a variety of tools.

In order to speed up, not only many baggage trucks were used, but also people were asked to carry various materials to the front line as soon as possible.

The first to start construction was the Partial Pass City, relying on the special terrain here to build a dangerous pass. The second is Shenwu City.

Twenty miles west of the Yellow River to build Zhongyi Fort, echoing with the northwest, and then in the northeast eighty miles of the Yajiao Mountain to build Zhongwei Fort, in the east sixty miles of Hongshuigou to build Zhongdan Fort. Twenty miles northeast of the big gray ditch to build a partial camp,

Twenty miles southwest of Shenwu City built Zhongyong Fort, and thirty miles northeast of Caocheng River was built to protect the country.

It's not too much, it's too much, and there aren't so many manpower and material resources. Time will not be able to catch up, and the future will inevitably lead to an overweight division of forces.

In fact, it is similar to the current Hebei policy, that is, it is headed by the major forts. Some more soldiers were built around the area, and the soldiers were not to prevent the invasion of most of the Liao army. One is to prevent the Liao State scouts, and the other is to prevent the Liao State from coming to the Song Realm to fight the grass valley. The third is to warn each other.

The garrisons were all cavalry, and once most of them invaded, they quickly withdrew to the major forts.

It's a bit of a dehydration, but it can't be said that it doesn't work.

If Wu Zetian invaded the Turks and reached Shenzhou, do you dare to go south like Xiao Yanyan and extend the troops to Dezhou? Or like Xiao Yanyan's last invasion in history, she went straight to the Daimyo's Mansion and the city of Shanzhou.

As long as these forts are not all breached, once they go too deep, these forts will become layers of ropes, tied up one by one, and it is likely that the Turks will not return. Compared to Wu Zetian, the Song Dynasty still had a clear advantage, although they now encountered the strongest Liao Dynasty monarchs. The first is the conscription system, which is not as slow as the recruitment of government soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, and the government army system gradually collapsed in the time of Wu Zetian.

The front line has become an idle field, and if the Liao State wants to make some gains, it must go deeper.

Wu Zetian killed many famous generals one by one, and Wang Xiaojie, a second-rate general in his hands, was about to become Wu Zetian's reliance, if it weren't for Xue Rengui's luck to be alive, Wu Zetian's foreign war would be even more miserable. However, although the Song Dynasty is now rare and can compete with Xue Rengui's famous generals, the famous generals who may have been fought have been preserved one by one, without harm, and even under the attention of Song Jiu, they were promoted to the top one by one.

There were major flaws in the military system of the Song Dynasty, and they still exist, but Song Jiu corrected them a lot.

The new fort tactics have improved the defects of the previous fort tactics of copycat Fan Zhongyan.

Therefore, it may be difficult to take the mountain back, but this tactic can at least make this section of the area south of the ancient Great Wall really reclaimed.

If you really want to take back this area, it doesn't matter if you want to take back this area.

Do you still expect something to be gained here and in Yizhou? They can only be battlefields, one moment yours and the next mine.

Not really.

Wang Chengmei continued to launch an onslaught on Fengzhou, Yin Xian and Yang Qiong continued to lead their troops to Yunzhou, and Yang Si continued to storm Shuozhou.

This is only behind the mountain, Sun Quanzhao just arrived in the capital not long ago, immediately rushed to Dengzhou, led the army to cross the sea, and attacked the Liaodong Peninsula. Li Jilong and other generals led the army to attack Yizhou again.

For a time, the Liao State had no way to judge the intentions of the Song Dynasty.

Li Jilong and Sun Quanzhao's two armies must be in response, mainly behind the mountain, and last year the Liao State was speculating that the Song Dynasty had the idea of annexing the mountain. This time the peace negotiation failed, the three armies were sad and angry, and their morale was available, and even Xiao Yanyan doubted that Zhao Kuangyi's so-called peace was also a strategy? To boost morale? The real intention was that when Song Jiu arrived in Taiyuan last year, he wanted to attack the back of the mountain. However, she also couldn't understand, since the Song Dynasty wanted to occupy the mountain queen, why did it rush to repair the partial pass and Shenwu City?

The soldiers will block, the Liao State is not afraid, as early as after the peace was not reached, the Liao State was ready to defend, Yelu Xianzhen led 50,000 Liao troops, slowly rushed to Yunzhou, Yelu Huge was on defense in Youzhou, Xiao Tzu Rin went to the Liaodong Peninsula to defend the Song army landing.

However, the opposition of the Song Dynasty was not small.

It was not against the Northern Expedition.

The True Northern Expedition has begun, and many ministers regret it in their hearts, and how similar this time is the use of troops to the last time, it is a division of troops, and a distant division of troops, from the northwest to Hedong to Hebei and then to the sea!

Zhao Kuangyi looked at Li Fang and said unhappily: "If this is the case, can I just sit back and watch the hundreds of thousands of people in Yanyun fall into the enemy forever?" ”

From Guo Wei, to Chai Rong, to Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyi, more and more attention is paid to people's livelihood, although most of them are dramatic, but people's livelihood has at least become the slogan of the Northern Song Dynasty, including Sima Guang's attack on Wang Anshi, and also use the happiness of the people to make a fuss. God knows what kind of people his heart is.

However, Li Fang was thinking in his heart, although Yan Yun is mostly Han households, are they your people?

But he finally came up, and Zhao Kuangyi was not happy, so he consciously closed his mouth. But his luck is really good, as soon as Zhao Pu came to power, disasters were repeated, and he was on the top, although there were locust plagues and local disasters this year, the impact was not great, and other areas, especially the southeast wind and rain, were smooth, and grain prices fell sharply. The imperial court was afraid that the grain would hurt the peasants, so it had to use a sum of money to store grain. But at this point, Zhao Kuangyi also found one thing, if he really wants to go on the Northern Expedition, he really can't think of any good strategy!

Unless Song Jiu's shallow attack attrition tactics.

But this is not easy, Song Jiu will usher in a strong enemy after the mountain, Yelu obliquely, Song Jiu has to cross this pass before he can have the next move. Otherwise, the wind still won't blow.

Zhao Kuangyi is also worried about one thing, people always have desires, Song Jiu's desires are almost satisfied, to be rich and rich, to be expensive and expensive, this Zhao Kuangyi never doubted. The only regret is that his concubine is in the hands of the Liao. Now that the concubine is back and will go to Hedong for a reunion immediately, what else can't Song Jiu be satisfied with in his heart? Will he lose motivation because of this, at least Song Jiu has squeezed out a small half, and most of his talent has not been squeezed out. Since Zhao Pu, the country has also lacked important ministers to sit in charge, which requires Song Jiu even more.

Thinking of this, he said to the yellow gate beside him: "You go to Luoyang and invite Zhao Pu to the capital." ”

It's not really the Northern Expedition, but there will be a lot of things happening in the future, so that Zhao Pu can stay in the capital, without going to Zhongshu, and can be an important staff officer in internal affairs.

The yellow door went down, but it brought very bad news.

……

"Zhao Pu is dead?" Song Jiu said in surprise.

But there was no sadness in his eyes, on the contrary, a slight overflow of joy.

The servants of the Zhao Pu family also saw it and were very unhappy, but they still faithfully carried out Zhao Chengzong's instructions and said: "Duke Song, before his death, Duke Zhao entrusted Dalang to send you a letter. ”

Song Jiu opened the letter, and the letter was Zhao Pu's last words, and he asked in the letter, can I be loyal to Taizu? Can I be loyal to Your Majesty?

According to reason, Zhao Pu is an unfaithful and unrighteous person, Zhao Kuangyin is so good to Zhao Pu, Zhao Pu also made a golden alliance, is this still loyalty? Or that he is good to Zhao Kuangyi, if this is the case, Zhao Kuangyi was almost put into the pit by Zhao Pu and can't hold his head up for the rest of his life, is this still loyalty?

Zhao Pu asked this question in the letter.

Song Jiu was at a loss at first, and then after thinking about it, he found a strange thing, he was really loyal to Zhao Kuangyin, he was really loyal to Zhao Kuangyi! (To be continued......)