Song Jiu knew that Xiao Yanyan would definitely start fighting, but he didn't know when Lu Dao would start.

But the Gang of Four made a big fuss about Kaifeng and gave Song Jiu a wake-up call.

For what is happening, if you analyze it carefully, there is a certain background. Like the Gang of Four......

It's not the Gang of Four, it's even better.

The first reason is that Zhao Kuangyi quickly hired newcomers, and the speed was so fast that even Song Jiu was a little hot. Zhao Pu and Li Chongju are not counted, they are the founding heroes. And then who has really climbed up over the years, the first Lu Duoxun, the second Song Jiu. Lu Duoxun also became a Hainanese, and only Song Jiu was the only seedling. Think about how much credit Song Jiu used to climb to this position. But what about Lu Mengzheng? This makes some people who have their own talents feel impetuous.

The second reason is Qi people.

So Hu Dan played a cold door, but is Hu Dan a cold door? No, he is the son of a petty eunuch, and he has nothing to do with the poor family at all.

Zhao Kuangyi implemented some policies to take care of the poor, and in fact, since Chai Rong, he began to promote some policies to take care of the poor, such as the main household paying taxes, which has nothing to do with tenants. Regardless of the results after implementation.

It's just that Zhao Kuangyi's implementation is a little more thorough.

Song Jiu took over the Third Division last year, and he didn't take care of any poor people, he just Qi Shang Tax. It doesn't matter who does business, it doesn't matter who is doing business, but all taxes must be paid. Of course, the results of the implementation cannot be asked.

After the Gang of Four incident, Song Jiu was thinking about this problem, but in fact, Zhao Kuangyi and Song Jiu didn't think too seriously about it before, but just relied on an intuition that doing so would reduce the many contradictions caused by the country's inequality between the rich and the poor.

But someone has noticed it in history. Such as Ouyang Xiu, big and small Su. They all received the preferential policy of the Song Dynasty and gradually ascended to the top. However, after ascending to power, a terrible truth was discovered. No matter what kind of policies this country implements, it is still controlled by the wealthy and powerful in its bones. I am a cold man, which means that the cold man is working against the powerful, which is looking for death. Therefore, he quickly defected and regarded himself as a new magnate. Some even became staunch opponents of Wang Anshi's reforms.

But Song Jiu is different.

After all, he had seen more systems.

Then think about it seriously, which country and system can be truly fair? Or can the children of the poor stand on a level playing field with the children of the powerful? As a result, when I thought about it, I was speechless, and no country did anything right, all of which were tricks to comfort the people. Then I'm afraid it's US imperialism. Are they really the people of the whole country, of all races, rich and poor, who treat each other fairly? No.

If there is, it can only be in the mind of a man named Thomas, or in a fantasy novel he wrote called "Utopia", fantasy, but not science fiction, but the realm of fantasy that is impossible to achieve.

But Hu Dan's business. It means that many people have noticed this problem of the poor family and the Qi people, and they are also trying to use it to get on the throne.

Therefore, Song Jiu and Zhao Kuangyi had a patient conversation.

Of course, if it were to equalize the rich and the poor, it would be terrible. However, after the historical feudal dynasty reached its peak, with the stability of the country, one powerful group after another was stable. Mergers will become more and more serious, and they will not only occupy the interests of poor people. It will even occupy national interests. The simplest example, the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was not rich, but what about the national income. Doesn't Chongzhen want to save the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi? However, will there be countless grain money in the treasury like the Song Dynasty?

Therefore, Song Jiu asked Zhao Kuangyi to deliberately meet with some good households, promote positive morality, and encourage large families to do more good deeds, such as relieving poor people, such as building bridges and paving roads, such as establishing a righteous school, or adopting widows and orphans.

The second is to carefully plan the tax on business, and prohibit the powerful businessmen from using their power to evade taxes.

The last is the clear edict stipulating that the powerful and powerful in various localities shall not do evil, and shall not annex the cultivated land, houses and other property of the common people in the fish and meat villages, or by some illegal means, and oppose usury, especially scholars and officials and generals shall not issue usury of any nature, otherwise they will be severely punished.

Of course, the result of the implementation is still the same thing.

However, if these clauses are placed in the Song Law, it will have a certain deterrent effect and will further reduce national contradictions.

Zhao Kuangyi agreed.

Then Zhao Pu was called to discuss, Zhao Pu was a little displeased, if that was the case, his family would be the first to bear the brunt. However, Zhao Kuangyi made it very clear that these articles were only explicitly stipulated in the edict law and issued to the world, but they would not be implemented immediately, and they would only be regarded as one of the guidelines for dealing with disputes after the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Pu couldn't object, so he could only agree.

Song Jiu didn't want to execute it immediately, his role was to open this window and wait for someone to walk in......

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Before Cao Bin fled from Zhuozhou, he asked Lu Bin to escort the people of Zhuozhou to lure the enemy, and Lu Bin had to be cannon fodder.

But Yelu Hugo was not fooled, he didn't care about his army, Lu Bin was not stupid, seeing the Liao army rushing to Qigou Pass together, he thought about it in his mind, and knew that Lu Dao must have been defeated. So regardless of the people of Zhuozhou, he fled back in a hurry.

Zhao Kuangyi interrogated, learned the truth, and did not blame him, and transferred him to Shaanxi Renyong Jujun and Huazhou to inspect and arrest the two leaders of the peasant rebel army, Hou Monk and Liu Wu, who gave Fan Gao a headache.

But there is still the Song army in Zhuozhou.

There were not many troops, and the Song Dynasty began to think that they were all annihilated. In fact, no, the Liao State has not been recovered, but it has not let the Song army in Zhuozhou report to the outside world. It's just blocked, where it is.

Because there were too many people who died, and even now the Song Dynasty still didn't know who was the leader in the city of Ludao, only that there were some people in Ludao, using the food and weapons left by Cao Bin, who were holding on for a long time, but everyone had no way to save them, so whether they were alive or not, they were all treated as martyrs.

But it's this surviving Song army!

In September, Xiao Yanyan came to Youzhou, and openly glad that Han Derang lived together, the two were inseparable, and there were thousands of guards, more than 300 Han female slaves and chefs, and let the minister enter Han Derang's big tent to share friends and enjoy themselves.

It is said that it was Xiao Yanyan and Han Derang who quietly performed the couple's ceremony that day, and then they happily called the minister into the big tent to play Shuanglu. Drink and have fun.

And after more than a year of rest and recuperation, the situation in Liao has also improved slightly. After all, Xiao Yanyan and Han Derang are also masters of governing the country. The rebellion on the side of the Obscuration was put down. There is one more place. But everyone automatically forgets, just like the Song Dynasty's attitude towards Jiaozhi. It is too far away to threaten the security of Liao. If possible, they will be eliminated, but the affairs of the Song Dynasty are unstable, and they really can't be distracted. Unless Wu Xuanming once again led his troops to attack Tongzhou and threaten the wealthy southern Liaoning region.

Xiao Yanyan married his eldest wife, Han Derang, a beautiful man, and was in a happy mood, it was when it was cold, so she could go south.

The army marched south.

The strongest Liao army. At one time, Xiao Yanyan, Liao Shengzong, and Han Derang all came to the front line in person, and Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xianzhen jointly commanded the expedition, with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses!

First is Zhuozhou City.

Shoot the silk book first to let the Song soldiers in the city surrender, okay, your small lone army has been guarding until now, worthy of your country, your emperor, so you can surrender.

The Song soldiers in the city did not listen.

So in early October, the army attacked the city on all sides.

But it was this lone soldier who resisted very stubbornly. Although the Liao army broke through the city after the last day, the casualties were very heavy, and the Taishi Xiao Tzu Rin and the concubine Xiao Qinde were both hit by arrows. Xiao Qinde was seriously injured, and the little emperor of Liao hurriedly sent him back to the hospital in an imperial car.

After taking Zhuozhou. Again captured the sand pile post, defeated the Song army at Wolf Mountain, and defeated the Song army at Yijin Pass. In just half a month, the Song army that haunted Guanbei was almost wiped out. The sixth day of the first month of winter. The Liao army attacked the mouth of the Great Wall, and Li Xing, the defender of Dingzhou, came to the rescue. Repulsed by Jeruxiugo. Yelu slanted to surrender, but the Song soldiers at the mouth of the Great Wall did not surrender, so they broke through the mouth of the Great Wall and killed all of them.

Zhao Kuangyi said to Song Jiu, you have changed.

It's changed, in the face of the murderous methods of the Liao State, how could Song Jiu not change. Or maybe that's what war is all about!

The next thing is what makes Xiao Yanyan happy.

Mancheng, which has always been regarded as a fierce place by the Liao army, was also conquered by the Liao army. Tears of joy flashed in Xiao Yanyan's eyes, her legitimate husband was infected with severe wind and cold because of the shame of the city, and after returning to China depressed, he indulged in hunting. Otherwise, why would she die young, and put the burden of the empire on her as a woman?

After breaking through the city, the Liao army that marched on multiple roads was still overwhelming, and first Qizhou was conquered by the Liao after more than a year. Plunder.

However, this time it was not as full as last time, and under the guidance of Song Jiu, most of the people migrated to the rear of the Hutuo River. For example, most of the people in the northern part of Qizhou migrated to Gucheng, but there were also some people who were unwilling to leave their homes, and the imperial court was not reluctant. In addition, some soldiers' fields, breeding, and soldiers' families were all destroyed this time. Then attack Yizhou again, Zhiyi Zhou Liu Qi held the city, and then the Song army came to the rescue. The strongest team of the Liao Empire, the Tielin Army, went into battle and drove the reinforcements away, and the siege was successful, and Liu Qi surrendered.

Although it was not a loss in the war, it was a very bad signal.

So far, there have been victories, defeats, and even the total annihilation, but no important person like Zhizhou has surrendered.

Then Xinle, Little Wolf Mountain and other forts fell into the hands of the Liao army one after another.

At this time, the advantages and disadvantages of the fort also came out together. In a sense, they can play a role in delaying the enemy's advance, and with the emergence of various new weapons, every time a fort is taken, as long as the defenders are not afraid of death, they will make the Liao State have a toothache.

There are also shortcomings, the troops are scattered, not the Great Wall, and if they are linked, they can play some joint defense roles, but the joint defense is not close.

If you build less, you can't stop the Liao army from moving south, and if you build more, the troops will be insufficient, so the forces will be more scattered.

Of course, now that Song Jiu finally realized the biggest drawback in Fan Zhongyan's fort tactics, how to improve it would make Song Jiu very nerve-wracking in the future.

The war continues.

Up to now, the casualties of the Song army are still not large, and the main force is camping in Dingzhou, with many people and more than 10,000 Song troops.

So Xiao Yanyan called Yelu Xiuge, the strongest general in Liao, and there were many soldiers and horses in the Song Dynasty, and Liao also wanted to give Yelu Xiuge more soldiers and horses.

It's not too much, it's only 80,000 soldiers......

And let Yelu Xiuge select 30,000 cavalry from the Liao Shengzong's Imperial Guards Pi Room Army, the Hulu Internal Army, Han Derang's Guards and the Liao State's proud heavy armored cavalry regiment - the Tielin Army, to form the most powerful 80,000 iron cavalry on the grassland, and rushed to Dingzhou like a thunderstorm.

In mid-November, 80,000 elite horsemen arrived on the north bank of the Tang River.

Li Jilong set up an ambush at the Tang River, but was soon discovered by the clever Yelu Huge, so he sent his generals Yelu Nugua and Yelu Molugu to lead 10,000 horses, forcing these ambushes to have nowhere to hide, and had to come out of the shadows and turn to the open to fight the Liao army.

Li Jilong stood on the north bank of the Tang River and saw that his men were in danger, so he sent a fierce general Jing Si to lead a cavalry to the rescue.

Killing alone among the enemy is Jing Hei's forte.

Tian Chongjin said it before, but Song Jiu didn't believe it. It wasn't until Li Jilong said it after the war that Song Jiu believed it, and couldn't help but say with emotion that the gods and horses Guan Yu and Zhang Yun were all floating clouds. It's almost said that even Yang Linggong is a floating cloud.

Jing Si led this cavalry to rush towards the encirclement of the Liao army, he was at the front, no one was his enemy, even Li Jilong was almost dumbfounded in the telescope. It only took a moment for the Liao army to make him kill a gap, and the two armies met. Keep killing, take this ambush army and kill outward. The Liao army was still unstoppable, and let him make a gap to rescue this ambush army.

But Jing Si is not stupid, this is the strongest Liao army of 80,000, and the strongest general Yelu Xiuge, just rescue people, let's withdraw.

Jeruhugo was annoyed, which undoubtedly hit the morale of his subordinates to a greater or lesser extent. So he personally commanded tens of thousands of Liao troops to chase after him. Jing Si fought and retreated, and actually led the Song army, which was less than 1,000 soldiers and horses together, to calmly withdraw from the Tang River Bridge to the south bank of the river.

Li Jilong also came to his senses, and immediately ordered to send reinforcements to respond, and then led these Song troops to retreat into Dingzhou City.

Yelu Hugo also went straight to the city of Dingzhou.

A snowflake-like military newspaper flew into the capital.

Zhao Kuangyi said that he couldn't understand, so many troops from Liao? Just like the Song Dynasty, many new forbidden soldiers have been recruited now, and even took the initiative to evacuate back with Song Jiu, and some of the township soldiers and militia who showed courage were converted into forbidden soldiers, but the total strength has not yet recovered to the 3440,000 at its peak, and even 300,000 is not enough.

Song Jiu explained, everyone in the Liao State is a soldier.

But it is not that Liao can have an army of millions, and if it is drawn to a certain point, the country will be in chaos.

In fact, until now, more than 100,000 soldiers in the Liao State have also been buried in the hands of the Song army. The people did not let the Song Dynasty spoil it, but they migrated a lot to the Song realm.

When the casualties reach a certain point, Xiao Yanyan still insists on fighting, and the Liao State will automatically collapse.

However, Zhao Kuangyi felt uncertain, so he learned the lesson of the tragedy of Junziguan, and issued an edict to let the soldiers of each battalion rely on the city to hold on, not to fight with the Liao army, the battle can be, the city is defended, and the resolute cannot go out of the city to engage in field battles with the Liao army.

Song Jiu was silent.

The main Liao army had too many troops, and Song Jiu was not very sure, so he acquiesced in Zhao Kuangyi's edict.

Lin Yanshou came to Dingzhou City with the edict, and it was when Yelu Xiuge's army came to Dingzhou City.

Li Jilong looked at the edict, there were two choices in front of him, one was to stick to Dingzhou, it was already a miracle for the Liao army to break through the city, if it was not for Liu Qi's fear of death and surrender, it would be bigger than the city, and it might not be able to break through. If you want to break through Dingzhou, it is even more impossible. I believe that after the war, the imperial court will not blame.

There is another option, and that is to defeat this Liao army.

Song Jiu said something to him, but he didn't make it clear, but the meaning Li Jilong understood, this was to cultivate him and make him the number one general of the Song Dynasty, but before he became the number one general of the Song Dynasty, he had to fight and even defeat Yelu Xiuge, the number one general of the Liao army, on the frontal battlefield.

However, this is about 10,000 people, and more than ninety percent are infantry, against the strongest cavalry of the 80,000 Liao Kingdom, how can you defeat them? (To be continued......)