Liu Baoxun was anxious and said: "Duke Song, you have great political achievements, and you must stay in the capital." ”

Bashu was destroyed, the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed, the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed, Jinghu was taken, Wu Yue and Min surrendered, only Jin Yan was gone, everyone in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun didn't have any ideas for the time being, but the credit was the Northern Han Dynasty, and it was the royal conquest, this is a great opportunity for meritorious service, can Liu Baoxun not be in a hurry?

And Song Jiu has done enough, this matter has nothing to do with you, so why bother to join in the fun.

Song Jiu said: "Liu Langzhong, His Majesty's personal expedition, hundreds of thousands of troops, countless people, logistics is particularly important, if there is a mistake, the consequences are unimaginable, so I ask for it, not to invite credit." ”

Liu Baoxun was speechless.

Song Jiu is not as great as the people think in the eyes of the people, but in the eyes of everyone, he is also an all-round civil and military officer, not only served as a transfer envoy when Zhao Kuangyin personally conquered Taiyuan, but also won a great victory at Shiling Pass with He Jiyun, although He Jiyun was the leader in that battle, but Song Jiu offered useful strategies, not to mention Guangnan and Jiaozhi.

If you want to have experience, you want to have military merits, you want to have status, and you want to have status, what can Liu Baoxun fight for.

Moreover, Song Jiu admired Liu Baoxun very much, saying that he was a pure and good official, and it was probably Song Jiu who mentioned it, so the emperor asked him to serve as a transit envoy.

He thought for a while, and said to Zhao Kuangyi: "Your Majesty has personally conquered Taiyuan, but the capital is the foundation, and it is inseparable from Song Gong. ”

"Your Majesty, there is Xue Gong in the capital, Shen Gong is here, there is no need to worry, since Shizong and the first emperor have repeatedly conquered Taiyuan to no avail, this trip can no longer be fruitless, Guchen please accompany him."

In fact, Song Jiu really didn't want to fight for this credit.

Now Zhao Kuangyi definitely did not have the idea of recovering Youzhou.

Xue Juzheng is against it, not because he is conservative, or has the same idea as Zhao Pu. Even if he has the same idea as Zhao Pu, he is first south and then north. Now that the south side is solved, isn't it north? Mainly once reactive. An army of more than 100,000 accompanied it, and after a few months, even if it is not defeated, it will use up a lot of money.

However, Zhao Kuangyi will not think like this, he is weak and I am strong, and he can use soldiers. And Zhao Kuangyi is very eager to prove himself.

Chai Rong did not take Taiyuan, Zhao Kuangyin did not take Taiyuan, but he took Taiyuan in the hands of Zhao Kuangyi, does it mean that Zhao Kuangyi is better than his eldest brother.

But take Taiyuan. Will Zhao Kuangyi have other ideas, Chai Rong and his eldest brother only won Sanguan and part of the southeast of Yizhou, and he will take Youzhou again, whether he will surpass the eldest brother in an all-round way, if so, no matter how the eldest brother died, the subjects of the whole country will be convinced.

Therefore, once Taiyuan is taken, Zhao Kuangyi will personally conquer Youzhou.

However, then the Song army would be defeated.

Now Song Jiu said that nothing would work, and it was not easy to say. Could it be that Zhao Kuangyi said to Your Majesty, you can't do martial arts. Even if he can persuade tactfully, he must let Zhao Kuangyi taste the bitterness before he can persuade him.

Song Jiu wanted to ask for help, because he wanted to see if there was a way to reduce the loss of failure. At the same time, try to see if you can learn some lessons. Come up with a way to reverse it.

Now that Song Jiu has the power in his hands, he can do a lot of things, but he must be practical. There are many ideas, and it is better to destroy the Wa Kingdom. But is it possible. It would be better to take back the Uighurs, Liaodong, and even Tibet together with Outer Mongolia, so as to achieve true unification ahead of schedule. But is it possible?

First of all, the inconvenience of management caused by backward transportation makes this idea unrealistic. If the study of physical characteristics develops to the point of improving the backward situation of transportation, then not to mention Outer Mongolia, can extend the army to the west of the Green Ridge, reach the river again, and control the river!

So Song Jiu's first thought was the battle of Song Liao, and the Song Dynasty gradually gained the upper hand, forcing that Xiao Yanyan to release Yuping back.

The second idea is to take down the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

As long as it is won, there will be no crisis in the Northern Song Dynasty. Hundreds of years from now, who would have thought a few hundred years from now?

But for the time being, the first idea cannot be realized, but if you want to realize it, you must think carefully and observe carefully.

Therefore, Song Jiu had to go in person.

Zhao Kuangyi couldn't think of Song Jiu's inner thoughts, and smiled and said: "Liu Qing, you don't have to fight, so let's take Song Jiu as the transit envoy, and you and Gao Qing are both deputy envoys." ”

That's okay, Liu Baoxun said: "The minister obeys the order." ”

The edict was re-edicted, and the prime minister Shen Lun was ordered to stay in Tokyo and judge the affairs of Kaifeng, and the Xuanhui North Court made Wang Renzhen deploy for the inner capital, and the privy council undertook Chen Congxin to deputy.

This edict is quite meaningful, it is not Xue Juzheng who stays behind, but Shen Yilun, in fact, the reason is very simple, Xue Juzheng has a friendly relationship with Zhao Pu, in addition to Zhao Kuangyi, there are also Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Tingmei, God knows what kind of demon moth Zhao Pu who stays in the capital.

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi was more at ease with Shen Yilun, who had been framed by Zhao Pu.

As for Wang Renzhen and Chen Congxin, not to mention.

Originally, Zhao Guangyi wanted to use Zhao Tingmei to stay in Tokyo, but he wanted to think that Zhao Tingmei believed that it was true before the edict was issued, but Lu Duan, the judge of Kaifeng Mansion who was kind to him, admonished him, and the lord was in the wind and rain, and he was hanged by Shen.

If Zhao Kuangyi really wanted to use Zhao Tingmei as the guard in Tokyo, the edict would have been issued a long time ago, this is fake benevolence and false righteousness, and it is done for others to see, you can't take it seriously. Zhao Tingmei woke up, please do it, and if it was true, Zhao Kuangyi immediately agreed to his request.

However, Zhao Kuangyi was still not at ease with the capital, and signed the Privy Council with his henchman Shi Xizai, and then issued an edict to Hou Zhi, the transfer envoy of Hebei, and Lei Dexiang, the transfer envoy of the North Shaanxi Road, to share the transfer of the east and west roads of Taiyuan.

The army rumbled.

Before Zhao Kuangyi set off, he summoned Pan Meizhu and his ministers to the Changchun Palace for a banquet, and Liu Gang and Huaihai Wang Jiao, Wuning Jiedu envoy Chen Hongjin and others were all present.

Liu Gang stepped forward and said: "The imperial court is far away, and the four sides are the lords of the four directions, and they are all sitting today." In Taiyuan, Liu Jiyuan arrived, and the ministers took the lead in coming to the court, and they were willing to take charge and descend to the king for the countries. ”

Zhao Kuangyi smiled.

Lu Duosun shook his head: "The second An Le Gongye." ”

"An Le Gong is very smart." Song Jiu said in a low voice.

Liu Gang is as shameless as Liu Chan, but this is a wise move, Li Yu is smart, but where is he now?

The car departs.

The Khitan was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly sent Yelu to drag Meili as an envoy and hurriedly came to the Song Dynasty. bumped into Zhao Kuangyi in Lincheng County and asked Zhao Kuangyi: "What is the name of the Han?" ”

They let Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin cover their heads. At this time, I have not yet found self-confidence, so I am dissatisfied. Just asking.

Zhao Kuangyi replied: "Hedong rebelled, so it should be questioned, if the Northern Dynasty does not help, the peace agreement will be the same, otherwise, there is only war!" ”

Zhao Er was so murderous that he scared Yelu and stabbed Meili and fled back to Khitan.

Song Jiu happened to sit at the bottom and saw that Zhao Kuangyi was full of confidence. Looks weird.

Zhao Kuangyi asked, "Song Qing, what do you want to say?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that strategically he can despise the enemy, but tactically he must attach importance to the enemy."

Song Jiu thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure out how to save it, and he was very afraid of Yelu Xiuge in his heart, thinking about it, there was only one way, after taking Taiyuan. learned of Zhao Kuangyi's next military plan, and then discussed with Pan Mei.

The army crossed the river, and some officials called to the side, saying that they were sealed. Zhao Kuangyi ordered Huangmen to take it over, it was Bo Songjie, the lord of the river, and he dared to love him and wanted to learn from Zhang Qixian. Since Zhao Kuangyi, Mao recommended himself and promoted himself. It's a mess of things. But Zhao Kuangyi saw his name, Song Jie. Very happy, good sign.

This is like Zhao Kuangyin seeing Song Jiu's name, Song Jiu, Song Jiu. Song Jie, isn't it a great victory for the Song army? Immediately conferred the post of Taifu Temple. This is a funny scene halfway, but Zhao Kuangyi continued to deploy troops, with Liu Baoxun as the northern transfer envoy, Xie Hui and Zhe Yanyun attacked Longzhou. I also heard that the Northern Han Dynasty built a city according to the danger, and then ordered Yin Xun to attack Longzhou and besiege the enemy on three sides. and then transferred Qi Yanchen and Hou Mei to attack Meng County.

All the way, all the way without stopping to increase the number of troops.

Another big war has begun.

Before the army was launched, Zhao Kuangyi ordered Guo Jin and Tian Qinzuo to lead the army to Shiling Pass first.

From this point of view, Zhao Kuangyi is not as good as Zhao Kuangyin.

If the Song Dynasty wanted to attack Taiyuan, the Khitan would inevitably send troops to help, and Zhao Kuangyin waited until the Khitan army arrived before sending He Jiyun to counterattack. But now that the army has not yet been launched, Zhao Kuangyi first sent a lone army deep into Shiling Pass.

The difference between this is like Brazil playing the national football team, will it send someone to watch the video, fist to box, foot to kick, but the national football team to play Brazil, you must watch the video first, first send troops to deploy. It was precisely because he was not sure that Zhao Kuangyi transferred troops to Shiling Pass first.

If it is not in the midst of strategizing, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, Zhao Kuangyin has done it, Zhao Kuangyi wants to learn, but he must not learn well. But Zhao Kuangyin planned the strategy, which was also to deal with the Bashu Southern Han, and he did not dare to use it on the Khitans.

The art of war says that water is impermanent, soldiers are impermanent, the same moon formation, it has only been used once in history, the same backwater battle, Han Xin is a big victory, if Zhao Kuangyi uses it, it will be all three armies.

This kind of early dispatch will immediately make Zhao Kuangyi and Song Zhenzong suffer a big loss.

However, this time Zhao Kuangyi hit by mistake, but he was right.

It happened that the Northern Han Dynasty compressed its forces in a few key places, Guo Jin came to Shiling Pass almost unimpeded, where the Northern Han set up a large battalion, after Guo Jin arrived, he immediately ordered an attack, killing countless enemies, and more than 1,000 prisoners of war were captured.

But it can't be called a big war, as soon as the Northern Han soldiers came out of Taiyuan, it was nothing.

However, Guo Jin didn't expect the Khitan to send troops so quickly this time, the front got Shiling Pass, and then heard that the Khitan sent Yelu Sha, the prime minister of the Southern Courtyard, as the main commander, and the Ji King Yelu Enemy Lie as the supervising army, and sent the King of the Southern Courtyard Yelu Oblique as the side response, Zuo Qianniu General Han Zhen, Datong Jie Du made Yelu Shan to supplement the southern aid of the road army, and the huge soldiers and horses of the three roads were better than the number of Khitan troops rescued when Zhao Kuangyin came to attack Taiyuan, and they assisted each other and advanced to Taiyuan layer by layer.

Guo Jin thought about it and asked Tian Qinzuo to stay at Shiling Pass, and he took the initiative to lead the army out of Shiling Pass all the way to the northeast. Coming to the foot of Bailong Mountain, more than 100 miles northeast of Shiling Pass, this is the junction of Hu and Han, and collided with the Khitan army.

The two armies looked at each other across a large stream, and Yerusha observed that this Song army was in a neat formation and had a murderous awe, and vaguely felt that it was difficult to deal with. So hesitated, this is the clear approach, wait a little longer, another cunning general Yelu obliquely comes, and the war may be a different trend. However, the overseer Jerod was so arrogant that he urged Jerusha to attack, and he took the lead in rushing to the great stream.

That's belligerent.

This is the moment that I was waiting for.

Guo Jin waited until the Khitans were halfway across and launched an attack. Just a moment, the Khitan army collapsed.

Tens of thousands of deserters were scattered all over the mountains, and Guo Jin chased after him. Fortunately, Yelu caught up, opened a few gaps in the army, let the defeated army withdraw to the rear, and organized soldiers to release arrows on the front line, so as not to let the Song army enter with a great victory.

Guo Jin hesitated for a moment, and then ordered the withdrawal of the army to go back.

Once the three armies collapse, the miserable situation is unimaginable, if it were others, let the deserters disperse the formation, and that kind of consequence may make Guo Jin eat all the tens of thousands of Khitan soldiers and horses. But the general in front of him not only did not let the defeated army scatter the formation, but also organized the defense in time, which was not simple.

Jerod oblique...... Guo Jin remembered, however, he didn't bring the news back after the last day...... And then tragedy struck.

In this battle, the Song army killed more than 10,000 real Khitan soldiers, including Yelu Lielie, the son of Yelu Sha, and several generals.

Guo Jin slowly withdrew, but as soon as he returned to Shiling Pass, he heard some bad news, Guo Jin attacked, the Northern Han Dynasty also came to counterattack Shiling Pass, Tian Qinzuo closed the village and defended himself, not daring to fight. Then the Khitan was defeated, and the Northern Han soldiers also retreated in a hurry, but Tian Qinzuo still did not dare to pursue. This can also use the small number of troops in Tian Qinzuo's hands as an excuse, but instead of thinking about fighting, Tian Qinzuo used the soldiers' salaries and military rations to make profits.

The great victory was reported to Zhao Kuangyi, and Zhao Kuangyi was overjoyed. At the same time, he also reported Tian Qinzuo's practice to Zhao Kuangyi, and Zhao Kuangyi degraded Tian Qinzuo as the training envoy of the Muzhou regiment, but continued to let him be a protector.

Song Jiu faintly felt that there was something wrong with this punishment, but he didn't care too much.

The Song army began to attack the city of Taiyuan. (To be continued......)