Song Jiu looked at the front line with wide eyes.

After the battle of Suicheng, Wang Xian asked Zhishi, Lao Wang is indeed old, and he is a person who runs to seven. The north is cold, and the body can't bear it, but it's not to retreat. So the imperial court replaced Lao Wang with his deputy Wang Chao.

Song Jiu faintly felt that something was wrong.

Although it stands to reason that Wang Chao is more capable of fighting than Lao Wang, but Lao Wang focuses on qualifications, if he can fight, there are not too many people who can fight among the generals in Hebei, and at least ten generals have defeated Wang Chao.

There are two more changes.

Because of Wei Neng's talent, Zhao Heng ordered Wei Neng to be transferred back to the Broken Army, and let Li Chonggui guard the Bauhinia Pass for him. This person is Wang Xianqi's grandson-in-law, and he can be regarded as a wise and brave general. There is nothing wrong with this candidate.

But the next person made Song Jiu a little worried.

Under Wang Xian, it is impossible for Wang Chao to be like Wang Xian, and concurrently deploy the three roads of Zhen, Ding, and Gaoyangguan, so that the generals may rebel under the anger of anger. Therefore, the position of Gaoyang Guandu was vacant, so Lü Mengzheng proposed to use Xuanhui as an envoy to take his position.

Two Xuanhui envoys, Zhou Ying and Wang Jiying.

Zhao Heng thought about it for a while, or Zhou Ying was a little familiar with the military, so he was deployed by the Yongqing army and Gaoyang Pass, and then the three-way platoon envoy.

It was this appointment that made Song Jiu suspicious, and he didn't know what the problem was.

I don't understand, but I still have to prepare.

In the winter, the imperial court selected 50,000 Ding Zhuang from Cao, Shan, Song, Bo, Chen, Cai, Ru, Ying, and other Gyeonggi roads and incorporated them into the forbidden army. This brought the number of forbidden troops to more than 510,000. Once selected, they were immediately sent to the northwest for drilling.

So much so that in the spring, Tian Xi wrote a book. Since last autumn, it has rained. The floods in various parts of are flooded, although they are for the examination of disaster injuries. It is a false name, that is, a loan, and it is not a real thing. In addition, the state prepared for the border of the Que army, so it selected the strong among Cao, Shan, Song, Bo, Chen, Cai, Ru, and Ying, and escorted them to the northwest. If the dishonesty is like this, the people will have no resentment! In ancient times, the people were the foundation of the state, and the food was the people's sky, and now the country takes the strong men as soldiers. has lost the state, to eat with disasters, rather than the people! 50,000 people left the acres of farmland, and after the disaster, if the robbers rise, it is enough to be the profit of foreign enemies

You can't blame Lao Tian.

Lao Tian didn't know the truth.

Not only did they go to the northwest to practice, but even the greening of the Nanhetao this year was gone, and the money saved was used to buy cattle, sheep and pork from various ethnic groups in Shaanxi and the northwest, and then pickled them. In addition, a large number of livestock were originally raised in the tuntian and fixed grazing captivity, so the soldiers ate and practiced, and after practicing eating, they almost ate meat. Eating meat is a good thing, but it can be eaten every day and not cooked carefully. So ninety percent of the soldiers ate so much that they vomited.

However, practice should be practiced, even because of actual combat training. As a result, dozens of people were killed or injured during training.

This in turn led to the impeachment of the ministers.

Yet make them feel strange, no matter what they say. Zhao Heng has always been indifferent, and Chen Shu, the third envoy in charge of finance, has never expressed his position. Although he was almost tired for the sake of financial management.

In the fifth year of Xianping, except for Song Jiu's crazy use of money, the border was also quiet.

Only the northwest moved, Cao Wei arrived in the northwest, and he now has no old friend Li Jiqian as his opponent. However, there were many Tibetans, Qiangs, and Dangxiang people living in the Weizhou area, some of whom began to express their allegiance to the Song Dynasty, and some of whom were indifferent, including the Huluchuan Road and Shimenxia Road, which were the most important roads from Weizhou to Lingzhou.

When he went to Song Jiu, he deliberately called him to Zhongshu, mainly to form Qin Weiling Yuanqing into a whole to facilitate defense.

Therefore, as soon as Cao Wei went to Weizhou, he took the initiative to write letters to the leaders of various tribes, knowing the benefits and disadvantages, and giving both grace and power. Most of the tribes still pledged their allegiance to the Song Dynasty.

But many tribes still ignore it.

It happened that Qin Han made meritorious service in Hebei and went to the northwest as a capital eunuch, so the two began to use troops and quickly wiped out many unruly tribes. In just one year, the northwest to Quwu Mountain, the southwest to Longshan, and the north to Killing Niu Ling, all the departments were convinced. But now it can't be said that it really has such a vast territory, but it can barely be said to form a whole with Lingzhou.

Compared with his father Cao Bin, many people reported that he was harsh in his use of soldiers. There is an example, Shandong celebrity Jia Tong went to the northwest to visit Cao Wei, and Cao Wei came to visit. Jia Tong was very strange, why he didn't bring a guard to my house. It wasn't until Cao Wei was sent out of the door that he found out that there were actually 3,000 ironclad troops deployed outside the door, but the 3,000 ironclad armours were silent from people to horses, as quiet as if no one was there.

However, after Song Jiu received this news, he praised it greatly.

As a military general, Mo learns Li Guang, and he doesn't know how to learn. Look at the famous generals in ancient and modern times, from Li Jingcheng in front of him to Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang in later generations, which general does not pay attention to military discipline?

It was precisely because of Cao Wei's fierce battle performance that Bale, the leader of the Liugu Tribe, sent officials to pay tribute and express his sincerity. Zhao Heng took Balejie as the envoy of Shuo Fangjie, and the west of Lingzhou was inspected. From then on, nominally Lanzhou and Liangzhou also belonged to the Song Dynasty.

It's not easy.

Historically, although Balekjie expressed sincerity, it was forced by Li Jiqian.

Now without Li Jiqian, if there is no performance of Cao Wei, maybe they can have unnecessary friction and hostility with the Song Dynasty.

So Zhao Heng reappointed Cao Wei as the governor of Qinzhou, and also the pacification envoy of Jing, Yuanyi, Wei, and Zhenrong. The country's number one enemy is now Liao, and the second enemy is still Liao. However, the northwest cannot be said to be fine, the north must continue to pacify, and the Liao people must be prevented from rebelling, and the Lingzhou side must not relax to prevent the Liao from suddenly attacking from behind Yinshan to Helan Mountain. But the most important thing is the southwest direction, where there is a piece of land called Hehuang, there is a group of people living on the river, called the Tubo people, and the amount of power is not small, it is said that the number of people has reached more than 500,000 households.

In April of the sixth year of Xianping, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the weather is gradually getting hotter, and the Liao army will not go south again.

Therefore, Xifu issued one order after another, the change of defense should be changed, and the whole should be rested.

In particular, many cavalry had no good pastures on the Hebei border, so they had to be replaced or go to the northwest for training. Or rest in the capital.

Of course, tree planting also stopped.

This tree planting also has a great confusing effect. If the Song Dynasty was enterprising, why did it spend so much money to carry trees in Hebei. The Nanhetao is still about the same, where there is desertification, it is necessary to consolidate the soil and settle the soil.

However, at this time, the Liao army moved south again.

It has nothing to do with Xiao Yanyan, but a general attack jointly launched by Xiao Darin, the commander of the Nanjing army, and Yelu Guanu, the prime minister of Nanfu.

When Wang Chao heard the news, he gathered 60,000 troops to wait in the Weilu Military City. However, Wang Chao was surprised again, and when the Liao army arrived at the mouth of the Great Wall, it suddenly took a detour and rushed to Wangdu along the west.

This made Wang Chao feel a little depressed, he didn't have many cavalry in his hands. Together to the northwest or in the capital to rest.

So he had to draw a pitiful 2,000 horsemen from the army and engage the Liao army first to prevent them from going south. He led a large army in formation and followed. But he still didn't feel at ease, just after the rotation, half of the army was recruits, even if they were not recruits, everyone was a little unfamiliar and it was not easy to cooperate. and his own tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are infantry, rushing from the broken military city to Wangdu. There will inevitably be some fatigue, the troops are not as good as the other side, and most of them are infantry, plus the tired army. The outlook is a bit bleak.

Therefore, he sent a distress to Gaoyang Guan Zhou Ying.

Song Jiu's worried question came, and Zhou Ying quickly replied, I must have an order from the Privy Council before I can lead the troops into battle.

Is he doing the right thing? Wrong. First of all, according to his official position, Wang Chao is his superior. has the right to transfer him. Moreover, since Zhao Kuangyi, Song Jiu initiated the reform of the military system. It clearly stipulates the right of front-line commanders to act in a hurry and act cheaply on a temporary basis.

When they got to the Privy Council, they discussed it again, and then they were sent to the front, and the daylily was cold.

However, Zhou Ying sold the old with the old, and Wang Chao had no choice but to fight alone.

The two armies fought on the outskirts of the northern part of Wangdu, and the Liao army wanted to attack when the Song army was slightly fatigued, but the two attacks were unsuccessful, and they were beheaded more than 2,000 ranks. Xiao Tzu Rin quickly led the main force attacking Wangdu to return to the rescue and contain the formation.

The next day the battle continued, but the Liao army was still unable to defeat the Song army. However, although Wang Chao can fight, he is not a wizard, and he is not as clever as Xiao Tzu Rin. Therefore, although the Liao army did not attack, Wang Chao led the relatively weak Song army, and he didn't know how Lu Dao took advantage of the situation to win.

But in general, Xiao Tzu Rin is a little smarter, and this diversion has made all of Wang Chao's arrangements wasted. Therefore, Wang Chao had to give an order to let the rear send grain and grass over. So Wang Chao had another leak, and there was nothing wrong with sending grain and grass, so many people had to eat. However, when he ordered the grain and grass to be sent, he did not order many soldiers to be sent to protect it. Therefore, Xiao Tzu Rin successfully robbed the grain and grass.

The 60,000 Song army, the camp was very long, and on the east side was Wang Jizhong, who was the first to get the news that the grain and grass had been robbed, and it was not very far away, so he led the men and horses to inspect it. Xiao Tzu Rin immediately saw that this was a fighter plane, and immediately sent Yelu Guanu to intercept it and surround Wang Jizhong. At this time, Wang Jizhong was out of touch with the main force of the Song army, so he had to break through to the West Mountain, trying to escape to the Broken Army, where there were still a few famous generals, as well as some soldiers and horses. However, the Liao army was surrounded to the death, Wang Jizhong had no choice but to fight and flee, and when he arrived in Xishan, Zhenzhou's deputy generals Li Fu and Li Sheng saw that the situation was not good, and took the lead in escaping, but Wang Jizhong was outnumbered, and was captured alive after exhaustion. Wang Chao saw that Wang Jizhong's army was defeated and the grain and grass were burned, so he had to retreat to Dingzhou. Xiao Tzu Rin took the opportunity to go south and plunder the states and counties. However, at this time, Wei Neng, Yang Yanzhao, Li Jixuan and other generals took the initiative to stand up and sent troops to respond, but Li Jixuan may not have figured out the situation, his army was stationed on the front line of the Xu River, not far away, but the march was slow, and he looked a little cowardly. Cowardice is impossible, maybe he is thinking about how to win in this situation, or whether he can win.

Therefore, when Wei Neng arrived, he became a lone soldier, but he was not afraid, and sent Wei Zheng and Liu Zhixun to outflank him from the path, and then attacked head-on. In this battle, the Liao army suffered heavy casualties, although the gap between the two sides was too large, and Wei Neng could not defeat the Liao army, but Xiao Tart-rin saw that Li Jixuan and other Song troops were coming over one after another, so he accepted it when he saw it and retreated.

When Xiao Tzulin's whole army withdrew to Liao, Zhou Ying arrived late with the edict.

Wang Chao definitely made a mistake in this battle, but he was not completely defeated like Cao Bin. As for the beginning of the beheading of more than 2,000 people, there were more than 2,000 people, such as the Battle of Sandu Valley, the Song army said that thousands of people were beheaded, and it was not until the battlefield was taken that tens of thousands of dead bodies in Tubo were counted. At that time, the battlefield was under the control of the Liao army, so this number was also reduced. Coupled with Wang Jizhong's bloody battle and Wei Neng's defeat, the Liao army also sacrificed nearly 10,000 people, of course, the Song army was even worse, with more than 15,000 troops sacrificed.

However, this battle greatly boosted the morale of the Liao State, and captured a senior general like Wang Jizhong...... It also gave Xiao Yanyan confidence and courage.

After the war, Zhao Heng sent people to inquire about the truth and demoted Li Fu and Wang Sheng to Lingnan, but did not ask Zhou Ying. Song Jiu didn't say anything else, but brought a financial statement, which marked the amount of money and silk used in the expansion of the army and training and preparation for war in the past few years, and then said: "Your Majesty, if you put these money and silk on the people, what will happen to the world?" ”

Zhao Heng was helpless and asked, "How to deal with Song Jiu." ”

"Transfer to Chuzhou."

Chuzhou is a good place, it has also prospered over the years, and it is no longer the ghost town that was slaughtered by Chai Rong before.

In fact, it is to keep this cowardly general away from the main battlefield in the future.

It is not a serious punishment, but after the edict was issued, Zhou Ying was reluctant.

Such frequent invasions are already very abnormal. So Song Jiu proposed again that a part of the money and silk should be used to build or expand the cities of Hebei, and then some money and silk should be used to reward the soldiers of the townships in Hedong and Hebei, as well as provide excellent standard weapons.

In fact, since Song Jiu reformed the military system in the hands of Zhao Kuangyi, the township soldiers are also considered auxiliary soldiers, and the treatment is not as good as that of the forbidden soldiers, but they are similar to the box soldiers, and the division of cultivated land for their families is also similar to that of the box soldiers. But the difference is that the village soldiers will enter the battlefield as auxiliary troops, and the box soldiers will provide labor.

However, this time it was different, and the imperial court issued a large subsidy, which was to strengthen their training, and train them how to evacuate the people to various cities or forts in time when the Liao invaded.

This time, the cost was more, not the subsidy of the village soldiers and the distribution of standard weapons, but the cost of building the city fort.

But on the surface, it's prevention.

But at this time, something happened to a person. (To be continued......)