Li Jilong went to Hedong, and Yelu Xiuge's pressure was light, but Yelu's head was painful.

Li Jilong took his army to the north of Shenwu City to the Buckwheat River and Xiaodaowu in contempt, strictly speaking, this is the middle of Shenwu City and Lanzhou, and Yelu Xianzhen and Xiao Paiji retreated to Shuozhou from this road after the counterattack on Shenwu City and Biguan failed. It is eighty miles away from Shenwu City, but only sixty miles away from Shuozhou.

Song Jiu also wanted to set up a fortress here, considering that it has a very large Pingchuan area, a large fort can not form an effective defense, and several sub-forts must cooperate with each other in order to defend the middle road of Shenwu City. Regardless of the cost, it also requires a lot of manpower, and it is too late to build a fort, and it will also cause a serious division of troops in the future. So he simply gave up the middle lane and directly placed the battlefield under Shenwu City.

Tens of thousands of Song Dynasty troops swaggered and drilled here.

Jerod had a headache.

Li Jilong's meaning is obvious, come and fight, fight me.

But what a hit...... God knows what this son wants to do?

The six gods of Jerod are unowned.

If it was last winter, when he had an army of more than 100,000 in his hands, then he would fight a dozen.

Although the mountain is now fully guarded, it is impossible to gather more than 100,000 troops behind the mountain to defend with the strength of the Liao state. He hadn't seen through Li Jilong's intentions for the time being, and if he couldn't see through it, he wouldn't dare to use the pitiful force in his hands.

However, Li Jilong rubbed his nose and face.

The officials of the examination institute said that Hedong was the first.

Hedong Road's political achievements are the first!

Before the battle, Song Jiu handed over the military affairs to the front-line generals, mainly to inquire about intelligence and train the army. The construction of the castle, coupled with the layout of the former Panmei. He didn't have to get involved.

So he ran around east of the river.

There is a way to be an official, and that is amazing intelligence. For example, Lu Yijian, Li Xin, Fang Du, people stay at home and know what is going on in the world. There is a kind of official, such as Yao Chong, who only takes care of the big things, and the world is naturally calm. There is a kind of official, such as Wei Zheng Xiaokou Song Jing, who dares to say and do, and officials in the world dare not inquire about private affairs. As soon as the officialdom is good, the affairs will be handled.

But there is another way to be an official, such as Zhuge Liang or Song Jiu.

They are very modest, so they have to bow down to everything, which is very tiring, but their small talents make up for the lack of intelligence, the good ones are better, and the bad ones will become better.

Song Jiu likes to run around.

Quang Nam. Jiangzhou, and now Hedong.

The whole Hedong officials were frightened, but fortunately, it was really not good. After negotiating with Song Jiu, Song Jiu liked it instead, but it was too much. Sorry then, let's go home. Song Jiu ran a few times, and dismissed nearly ten officials because of his performance. But if you do a good job, you will immediately recommend it to Zhao Kuangyi and promote it to the top position. Heaven on one side and hell on the other, heaven is a little bitter, but it is beautiful, how to choose?

He ran once in Hedong officialdom, and the atmosphere was better.

This is also irreproducible, and if others don't have that prestige, Zhao Kuangyi may not believe it.

The atmosphere of officialdom has improved, and in fact, most of the problems have been solved in this era.

Then he discussed water conservancy, planting and breeding, commercial workshops, especially water conservancy, and brought in many people, and with the people and water conservancy, the flooding in Hedong this year was not serious. So in two years, Hedong was under great governance, the five grains were abundant, and even the entire Hedong grain surplus appeared.

It's easy to do with food.

Song Jiu followed his thinking about military affairs, and actually discovered a very strange thing, even if he took Youzhou, there were many border problems in the Song Dynasty. Not to mention the back of the mountain, of course, the back of the mountain is not as important as Youzhou, but if you take Youzhou, if you don't pay attention to the back of the mountain, the enemy can attack Youzhou from behind the mountain at any time, and further threaten the Central Plains. But if you want to protect Shanhou, as well as the Hetao and Shaanxi in the south, you must also operate the North Hetao and take Yinshan as the Great Wall.

This force cannot be reduced.

However, with the increase in population, if the number of troops is not increased to the terrifying 800,000 forbidden army, not more than 400,000, plus the cost of raising troops has decreased, then with the financial revenue of the Song Dynasty, it is still acceptable.

This is a bit far away, even now, it is necessary to increase troops.

As a result, the number of forbidden soldiers has been increased to 3.89 million in recent years.

While the number of troops has increased, so has the proportion of new recruits.

Just because of the disaster, the price of grain was a little expensive, and after the autumn harvest, the imperial court dispatched 80,000 forbidden soldiers to Taiyuan. Basically, they are recruits, and they have the right to go to Taiyuan to eat, in addition to handing them in, the rest of the food they get can be taken out by their families and sold, increasing their family's income.

80,000 forbidden soldiers slowly arrived in Taiyuan, and brought a large amount of grain and grass from Taiyuan City to Shenwu City, and from Shenwu City to Buckwheat River, where they practiced on this flat river at the junction of Song and Liao.

Practicing and practicing, Li Jilong saw Yelu oblique turtle shrinking in Yunzhou, and couldn't hold his breath. So he led 110,000 forbidden soldiers out of the mouth of the ancient Great Wall and entered the Liao realm. did not go deeper, but along the border, all the forts built by the Liao State were destroyed, and then returned to Shenwu City from the Wild Boar Ridge River to sit and watch the movements of the Liao State.

The army of Hedong has just stopped, and the west side of Hexi began to toss again, the two families of the king, as well as 50,000 or 60,000 officers and soldiers stationed in the northwest, and 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers of various ethnic groups, all gathered in Pingchuan, Hexi, and the strength is almost close to 100,000 soldiers and horses.

But they did not leave and are still on the border of Shengzhou.

may attack the back of the mountain again, Mo said that the weather is cold, at least these soldiers in the northwest will not be afraid of the cold.

Looking at the two places again, if possible, tens of thousands of Hedong officers and soldiers can be added to reinforce them, and the number of soldiers has long exceeded the strength of the Song Army's East Route Army in the Battle of Qigou Pass.

Will also be the first-class famous generals of the Song Dynasty, Li Jilong, Yin Jilun, Yang Ye, Yang Si, Yang Qiong, Yin Xian...... There are also two party killers, Zhen Yuqing and Wang Chengmei.

Shuai was the strongest prime minister in the Song Dynasty, and when someone persuaded Xiao Yanyan to release Yuping, Xiao Yanyan commented that Song Jiu should be worth 500,000 troops, not because Song Jiu would fight, but because of his knowledge and ability to be an official. After Song Jiu escaped from Qigou Pass, Xiao Yanyan still remembered it and said, if this person returns to our dynasty. Even if the second Yu Yue is awarded, what does it matter.

Can it be said that the Song Dynasty did not want to run the mountain queen?

It can only be said that the Song Dynasty, under the leadership of Song Jiu, became very careful. But who believes that the Song Dynasty did not have an idea about the mountain queen?

Yelu had no choice but to force the order. Anyway, the people on the border don't want to leave the Liao State, so they move to the depths behind the mountains, and half of the people left behind them continue to want to flee to the Song Dynasty under the influence of the Song Dynasty's demagogic policy.

This also forced the Song army to place the battlefield deep behind the mountain, once the depth was reached, the location was favorable and it was on their side. Even if the famous generals of the Song Dynasty were like clouds, Yelu Xianzhen dared to fight.

It is the advantage of Yelu's oblique line, there are few loopholes in the marching battle, but it is too stable, and it has not yet been fought, and the first thing to think about is to be invincible, so that the Song army has taken advantage of the loopholes and let the border deteriorate step by step.

Then Yelu obliquely reported the situation to Xiao Yanyan.

……

"I am so proud of you who fought so the front lines. Only then did the rear be stable, and thousands of families lived a happy life. ”

"I am proud of you, it is you who chant the slogan of humiliating the king and humiliating the ministers to death, and cast the glory of the Great Song Dynasty with blood. Your Majesty's dignity. ”

"I am proud of you, it is you who have switched from the South China Sea to the desert, from Pingchuan in Hebei to the hills and mountains of Hedong. It rewrites the greatness and self-esteem of the Chinese character. ”

Song Jiu said word by word.

The herald conveyed his words.

The 100,000 troops cheered in unison: "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live the Great Song Dynasty, long live." ”

In fact, Song Jiu can't say that he doesn't understand military affairs at all. However, it is better to leave it to the person who knows best to decide on the assistance.

It's not useless, as long as he stays in the army. It is known that he will live and die with the three armies, and his morale will be high, and it was he who stood under the banner last year and made Yelu return in vain.

Song Jiu shouted, "Let's go." ”

What Jerod had feared had finally happened.

Regardless of the cold weather, the Song army gathered at Xigoukou and marched out of Ma'an Mountain, and the 100,000-strong army quickly arrived at the city of Shuozhou.

After Yelu regained Shuozhou, he repaired the Shuozhou city wall.

But it is not Youzhou City, Taiyuan City.

After 100,000 Song troops took turns to attack for four days, Shuozhou City was breached again. Although the defender of the city, Yelu Guannu, was brave but outnumbered, and after killing several Song soldiers, he fled to Huanzhou with his men in embarrassment.

The Song army was divided to stay in Shuozhou, and the city was not destroyed at this time, so the city wall was blown down with gunpowder, and even the city wall was not left for the Liao State.

The rest continued to follow Yelugunu to Huanzhou.

Yelu obliquely in Yunzhou Datong, there are soldiers in his hands, but he does not know how to mobilize this soldier, the reason is very simple, as the Song army broke through Shuozhou City again, the Hexi army slowly crossed the Yellow River, and the soldiers wanted to point to Yunzhou again.

Yelu had no choice but to order the Huanzhou guards to fight to the death. It can't be lost any longer, this time it is lost again and again, the soldiers are frustrated, the soldiers and civilians are not safe, and eventually they will all defect to the Song Dynasty, that is the most terrible.

So he moved the rescue troops to Xiao Yanyan.

In fact, Song Jiu asked Zhao Kuangyi to ask for peace, but Zhao Kuangyi was very reluctant for a while.

Now the effect is seen, first of all, morale and grief.

The second is to ask for peace after the big victory, and the request is not too much, I don't want to take back Yanyun, you Liao State will at least return Yizhou to us, but Xiao Yanyan did not agree, and asked for ten counties in Guannan. This made the ministers of the DPRK and China, who valued peace, shut their mouths.

If the top and bottom are not unified, how can the front-line soldiers fight?

There is also a role, which is also gradually showing up. The Song Dynasty still disagreed, but at least no one dared to openly say that peace was precious.

However, the opinions of the Liao State began to be unified.

This is the strongest monarch of the Liao State, Xiao Yanyan and Han Derang will definitely be far better than Zhao Kuangyi and Song Jiu's alliance if they don't have a golden finger.

Otherwise, if Song Jiu was consumed like this, if it was in the hands of the sleeping king of Liao, it would have been torn apart long ago. However, in the hands of the two, the Liao State was also unbearable. finally quieted for two years, ready to destroy the Bohai Kingdom, and the Song Dynasty did it again.

Yuping said that the little emperor of Liao loves peace, it is not that he really loves peace, but because of the war, the miserable life of the people of Liao is unbearable, and he can't bear to fight like this. He is the emperor of Liao, and he has such thoughts, not to mention some nobles of Liao. If the Song Dynasty does not propose peace, then let's fight. But the Song Dynasty proposed peace, why did it have to fight battles with no chance of winning?

In fact, with several defeats, even most of the tribes did not agree to continue fighting. Especially this year, after Xiao Yanyan saw the serious losses suffered by Shanhou last year, she was furious and prepared to gather an army to retaliate against the Song Dynasty.

It was because of these objections that Xiao Yanyan stopped.

Now the situation behind the mountain is tense again, and the anti-war voice is even louder. This is terrible, if the country does not support it, this war will not be easy to fight, and Sun Tzu deliberately said it in the Art of War.

But no matter what, let's get through the current difficulties.

Xiao Yanyan detached part of his troops from Youzhou and transferred them to the back of the mountain.

Zhang Qixian's coming to Dingzhou is both a good thing and a bad thing, and the good thing is to solve Li Jilong. The bad thing is that Zhang Qixian is in Dingzhou, and the Liao State can rest assured that he can boldly divide his troops behind the mountain.

Isn't it?

For now, definitely.

However, the Song army behind the mountain is too strong, they are stronger than the Eastern Route Army in the Battle of Qigou Pass, especially the ability of the commander, I believe that Song Jiu is definitely not Cao Bin and the like.

So Xiao Yanyan transferred tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the rear and went to the back of the mountain.

However, at this point, Xiao Yanyan couldn't help but have a headache, and the current rhythm was not in the hands of the Liao State, but in the hands of the Song Dynasty. Dancing with your opponents, that's the scariest thing.

Youzhou's army desperately ran behind the mountain.

After five days of hard defense, Huanzhou was once again broken by the Song army.

However, the Song army made a puzzling move this time, and did not attack Yingzhou with a big victory, but on the contrary, slowly withdrew to Shuozhou City.

Shuozhou City is now only half of the city wall, and the Song army doesn't care, just stick to the ruins of Shuozhou, come on, let's let you fight.

Yelu smiled bitterly in Yunzhou.

The Song army's lack of greed made it difficult for him to do, if he was greedy for merit, he would use troops to respond to the state, and the forces of the east and west would be further and further apart, and there might not be no chance to break it. However, the Song army withdrew to Shuozhou again, echoing the large army in Hexi, how to fight?

If you don't fight, the poor people in Shuozhou also let the Song army send to the south. If the border becomes idle land, it will be fine, and the entire Shuozhou will become idle field, how can the Liao country afford it. The Liao State is not the Song Dynasty, and there is a richer south as a powerful rear, and Yanyun is the treasure of the Liao State everywhere.

Suddenly, at this time, he looked at the northeast direction, and thought to himself, should he send a few shrewd scouts to see the business model of the Bohai Kingdom, so that the vast southern Liaoning can become a powerful production base. Then let the front line become a battlefield. (To be continued......)