Zhao Kuangyin's eyes were a little eager to try.

Not only Song Jiu, Cao Bin and other generals also suggested going to war, although Yelu Wuzhen brought many soldiers and horses, but when he came, the morale was very weak, because He Jiyun guarded Shiling Pass, and won a big victory in Shiling Pass, deliberately detoured from Baima Ridge in the east, and did not dare to storm Shiling Pass. Then it went around to the northwest of Taiyuan, and for no other reason, the northwest is a plain.

If you calculate it properly, you can basically eat most of the Khitan army.

Zhao Pu shouted: "Where do you see where it is?" ”

"What's there?"

"Plains, if there is a mistake, all the strong troops of my dynasty are here, and then the matter of Tang will repeat itself, can you be responsible?"

Song Jiu looked at Zhao Kuangyin, but Zhao Kuangyin did not make a sound.

It was Zhao Pu.

The strategy of first south and then north was formulated by Zhao Pu, and he didn't like Zhao Kuangyin's troops this time, and he silently opposed it, but he opposed it at the family banquet. Everyone doesn't know what to do. Wei Renpu openly objected, and looked at Wei Renpu, Wang Pu, and their relationship with Zhao Pu. Zhao Wei let Zhao Pu suppress in the dark, so he sued Zhao Pu for illegal business, Zhao Kuangyin hesitated, so he asked Wang Pu, I don't know what he said, and since then sit back and watch Zhao Pu continue to suppress Zhao Wei, until Lao Zhao is forced to automatically step down and leave the third division.

But he couldn't persuade Zhao Kuangyin, and he couldn't persuade him.

The army set off, Zhao Feng made a mess of the logistics, Zhao Pu was the prime minister, and he was accompanying the army, isn't it clear. Until Zhao Kuangyin was furious, the paper couldn't hold the fire, and he almost killed Zhao Feng, can he kill it, it was his cronies. Only then did Wang and Song transfer them to the army for emergency relief. Not only Shi Hanqing, but also because of Zhao Feng, Zhao Pu showed strong hostility in the camp.

The generals persuaded Zhao Kuangyin to send troops. Zhao Pu persuaded Zhao Kuangyin not to move, anyway, the Khitans would not bring it. In case of failure, the consequences are unimaginable. Now that the Song Dynasty is dominating the world, there is no need to take this risk.

This persuasion is the eternal hatred.

If Zhao Kuangyin listened to the advice of Cao Bin and others, sniped at Baimaling, with his command ability, and his elite soldiers, coupled with the situation in the Khitan country, Yelu Wuzhen's incompetence, a brilliant victory would inevitably be staged. Jeruwuzhen was defeated. There is also Guo Wuwei, a surrender faction in Taiyuan City, who pushes the boat down the river, and everything is completely different. Even then got the news of the Khitan, while the Khitan was unstable, Yelu Xiuge had not grown up, and without the rule of Liao Jingzong and Xiao Yanyan, Zhao Kuangyin and Han Tong had won three levels, and they were more familiar with the sixteen states of Youyun, so history would be rewritten. As for the two masters of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty, why should they be in a hurry. It will be easier to clean up in another twenty years, and maybe they will be in chaos before they are beaten.

But a stalemate is not bad.

There is still plenty of food and grass in the barracks, and if you stay up for a while, there will be miracles. That's the city wall! Soon after the Song army withdrew, the embankment built by the Song people was broken, and the city wall was exposed. Bang Bang a few times and all of them fell. Han Zhifan, the Khitan envoy, said that the Song people led the water to flood the city. I don't know the other, if you soak it first and then dry it. There is no one left. Could it be that the Song people knew one but didn't know the other, or he knew one and didn't know the other, and he could really be sunburned when he was exposed to the sun? Could it be that the pressure of water several meters deep, or even ten meters deep, is not enough to dry up in the sun? Instead, the water bubbles softened, and when it came time to collapse, if you continued to soak in the water, it might pour even faster!

Who dares to mess with Zhao Pu?

Zhao Pu, who Zhao Kuangyi can't even bewilder, don't talk about Song Jiu.

Song Jiu Ha Lu Ha Yile: "Zhao Xianggong, yes, I didn't think about it. ”

So the Khitans continued to beat drums from time to time in the northwest direction, and our army did not dare to approach, at least to give you some support in terms of sound.

But it was the arrival of the Khitans that finally summoned up the courage of the already desperate Northern Han people and continued to resist stubbornly.

Liu Jiyuan didn't dare to send troops out of the city again, he thought that Zhao Zan was bullying, but he didn't think it was not. That night Zhao Zan was very cruel, Yang Ye's first attack not only lost his face, but also made him suffer an arrow in the foot, so far he has recovered from his injuries, from Confucian Shuai to a demon, biting away 10,000 people in the Northern Han Dynasty, a quarter of the total army!

It's absolutely no fun to go out of the city, but they have a way to tease Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin came down from Longshan, and when he was sleeping in a daze that night, he suddenly heard someone shouting outside that the Northern Han Lord had surrendered.

He immediately put on his clothes and got up, Zhao Pu said that the army could not afford to lose, Zhao Kuangyin may not agree, the main force is contained under the city of Taiyuan, if the city of Taiyuan falls, the nature is different, leave one to surrender, the army attacked, not to mention the sixteen states of Youyun, at least ten percent sure of defeating Yelu Wuzhen.

When he heard it again, sure enough, someone was shouting at the head of the city, and immediately ordered the camp gate to be opened and prepare for the surrender ceremony.

In the middle of the night, the middle camp of the Song army was restless because of the surrender, and only one person was sober, Zhao Pu said suspiciously, Your Majesty, since ancient times, it has been surrendered like an enemy, and the third watch in the middle of the night has been surrendered, I am afraid it is not so formal.

A basin of cold water was poured down.

Zhao Kuangyin also sent someone to ask with a fluke mentality, but sure enough, no news came.

The teasing made all the Song soldiers angry, and the next day, the Song army launched a fierce attack, or the south city gate, and the result was the same, the main attack general Li Huaizhong attacked angrily, and was carried back with a dying breath, almost killed, and the rest was shot back by the Northern Han people at the head of the city with arrows. His good friend Zhao Yanhan was in a hurry, and led the guards of all classes to kowtow, willing to attack first, at this time, the kowtow is only for parents, even the emperor can't enjoy this kind of gift. Zhao Kuangyin said: "You Cao are all trained by me, all of them are one hundred, we are closely related, I would rather not get Taiyuan than you send to death." ”

When these soldiers heard that Zhao Kuangyin regarded them as more important than Taiyuan City, they all cried and shouted long live.

Song Jiu looked at him coldly, he didn't take it seriously, because there was one person, Zhang Qiong!

Dr. Taichang Li Guangzan wrote, the country is noble and quiet, the way of heaven is evil, a lot of truths, in fact, it is four words, harmony is precious!

If harmony can really be precious, Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty not only sends gold and silver every year, but also advises Liu Gang not to be an enemy of the Song Dynasty, is this peace not enough? But it was this note that was sent to Zhao Kuangyin. You must know what Dr. Taichang is in Lu Dao, that is, the official position held by Zhang Yan and the others. There are so many bigwigs' folds, but a little Dr. Taichang's folds are placed on Zhao Kuangyin's desk.

But it's not strange, Dr. Taichang is also a state official, and he can be justified. Here comes another note. is just the strategy of an ordinary person in Qizhou, called Xue Huaguang. His notebook actually appeared in Zhao Kuangyin's hands.

Where felling, remove the branches and leaves first. Later take the root. Now there is the help of the Khitan outside the east of the river, and there are people inside, and it is suitable to build a walled city in Shiling Mountain, Beishiling Mountain, Taiyuan, and Jingyang Village, Leping Town, Huang Zeguan, and Baijing Society in the west of Hebei Province, to stifle the Khitan reinforcements; From the people in his ministry to Xijing, Xiangdeng and Tang Ruzhou, to the idle fields to make self-cultivation, no supply. In this way, in a few years, it can be calmed down.

Zhao Kuangyin adopted half of it.

Since the withdrawal of troops. How can you build a walled city in Shiling Mountain and other places, that is, a lonely city, there is Taiyuan in the south, and there is Khitan in the north, not to build a walled city, but to send it to death. It is the relocation that is adopted. More than 10,000 households in Taiyuan and other places were given grain, and moved to Henan, Shandong and other prefectures and counties. But this trick is also very vicious, maybe it can't be done in the Song Dynasty with more than 10,000 households, and Song Jiu's Hezhou is full of alleys. Later, there were more than 10,000 households. But it was fatal in the Northern Han Dynasty, and this relocation resulted in only 30,000 households in the Northern Han Dynasty.

What do 30,000 households do, but also do a horizontal comparison. Chen Hongjin only had two prefectures in Zhangquan, and there were still more than 150,000 households when he surrendered later. The population of the Song Dynasty is not very large, but there are at least 30 or more large states with more than 30,000 households. That is to say, if a large country is not as populated as a Shangzhou in the Song Dynasty. But such a small population must feed an army of 30,000......

The people began to move. Song Jiu saw the Song army fleeing in a hurry in a novel, and the people didn't know how to move the road. Actually, no, the Khitans still watch from the wall. The people gradually went south. Arrived at Zhenlu Erzhou and sent troops to defend. What happened last year can't be allowed to happen again. The army began to retreat.

Song Jiu looked at Taiyuan City, which continued to soak in the water, and sighed.

It wasn't until a few months later that he learned the news of the Taiyuan City Wall and the news of Liao Muzong's death, and slowly pondered to understand all of it. All hit this one, Zhao Kuangyin's military ability, the prestige of the royal expedition, and the food and grass in the army are very sufficient, Zhao Kuangyin is not willing to retreat. But Zhao Pu repeatedly tinkered in it, and Zhao Kuangyin made this pain after the last moment, and perhaps he also regretted the decision.

This made him more prejudiced against Zhao Pu.

The army is retreating, the rear army is finally a little hasty, the Northern Han people have nothing to do, after all, the Khitans are not far away, and they are all fast cavalry. So some grain and grass were also thrown away, and some tea silk was also gone. It just happened to save the Taiyuan crisis.

Seeing that there were few Song troops behind, behind him were tens of thousands of elite soldiers of Khitan friends, and the Northern Han sent troops to besiege hundreds of Song troops behind the palace. Zhao Kuangyin was furious, turned his head and looked, Kong Shouzheng was fierce in the battle of Shiling Pass, and asked him to lead the army to rescue.

Kong Shouzheng returned with the cavalry, fought hard, and defeated the Northern Han people, and out of the city, the Northern Han people were nothing. But in Taiyuan City, he was even more fierce than Zhang Xun Xu Yuan's subordinates, which made Song Jiu very puzzled.

The Northern Han was defeated again, and Kong Shouzheng brought back hundreds of Song troops.

There was no joy of victory in the city of Taiyuan, on the contrary, it was even more gloomy, and the officers and soldiers were looting from house to house, even if every copper coin had to be handed over. Because the Khitans came. The Song army withdrew, and the Khitan came to show the merit, and the merit was meaningful. Even more and more Khitan troops continued to come, first the king of the north Yelu Wuzhen who watched from the wall, and then the king of the south Yelu slanted. Liu Jiyuan had no choice but to come up with money and send these Khitans away.

Yang Ye persuaded covertly.

Your Majesty, this is a great opportunity. The Khitans came to loot without any defense. If you are prepared, you can rape them all in one fell swoop, use their heads and tens of thousands of war horses to make contributions, and defect to the Central Plains. It was still the surrender of the Song Dynasty, but it was different from Guo Wuwei's surrender. That is the fear of greed for merit and surrender, I will now defend Taiyuan, and then come to surrender, this is a weighty dedication. is even different from Meng Chang, he is stubborn and stubborn, defeated and forced to surrender.

It can't even talk about surrender, it can only be called submission, like his brother Yang Chongxun, like his uncle Zhen Yuxun.

However, Liu Jiyuan did not listen.

Yang Ye is not Guo Wuwei, he just said what he thought in his heart, Liu Jiyuan didn't listen, then he would take the emperor's will as the center and continue to be the enemy of the Song Dynasty.

Maybe Liu Jiyuan will regret it in a few years......

Zhao Kuangyin set off to the capital one after another, rewarding him all the way. This battle must not have taken Taiyuan City, but it also grew a breath, and the Northern Han Dynasty was greatly injured since then, and it can no longer be harmed. Including Song Jiu, they were also promoted to knighthood and became captains of the court. It didn't move for a year last year, and this year it jumped two levels in a row, and it became an official position on the sixth grade. If you go further, you will soon become a doctor.

But it is very strange that Han Chongyun, the first hero of Dingzhou's victory with the most outstanding performance in this battle, only praised him and did not get anything. Think about what would happen if there was no old Han guarding Hebei?

There are a lot of things in it, and all of this has nothing to do with Song Jiu, including his promotion, because he doesn't care, what does it matter if he is promoted or not, now Song Jiu is prancing on the white jade bridge, and his home is in sight. (To be continued......)