Song Jiu thought about Li Jing and Li Ji, but even if Li Jing and Li Ji came to the Song Dynasty, they might not be able to fully exert their power.

In fact, during this period of the Song Dynasty, there were many generals who could still be obtained, including many people like Cao Guangshi who could be civil and martial, including Tian Renlang.

Song Jiu said seriously, Zhao Kuangyi didn't dare to bet, if it came true, the consequences would be very bad, not only did the efforts of more than two years have been wasted, the wool trade route has also lost its effect, and even a war horse base will be missing in the future.

Although the Song army was mainly based on soldiers, without cavalry, it was the nightmare that came.

After the end, I finally agreed.

The three armed forces took the lead.

Then Tian Chongjin was the main commander, Yang Ye was the forward, Zhang Qixian was the capital supervisor, and the generals, including Yang Yanzhao and others, were sent to the northwest.

Song Jiu used Tian to re-enter, everyone can understand, that is the founding veteran.

Song Jiu used Zhang Qixian, everyone can understand, and Zhao Kuangyi can understand even more, that is to let him go to the battlefield to hone and hone for the future prime minister of Xifu as the successor.

However, Song Jiu used Yang Ye, which made many people not understand. In the battle of Yanmen Pass, Yang Ye was very brave, but in fact he could only be said to be a tiger general, rather than playing the role of a famous commander.

But this old boy first got Zhao Kuangyi's attention, and then Song Jiu's attention, and Song Jiu deliberately cultivated Yang Ye's two sons, I don't know how many people were red.

60,000 soldiers and horses, more than a dozen tiger generals, the momentum is fierce to the northwest.

However, the Northwest Campaign had begun.

Before the army arrived, Zhao Kuangyi ordered Tian Renlang of Qinzhou, Wang Yu of Minmen, Dong Yuan, deputy envoy of Gongyuan, and Li Jilong, the envoy of Gongyuan, to pass on the suppression, and asked Lin, Fu, Xia and other prefectures, as well as Rili, Yueli and other tribes to cooperate in the battle.

When Tian Renlang led his troops to Suizhou, Li Jiqian was leading his troops to attack the Sanzu village in the west of Linzhou.

The three ethnic villages are small. The number of troops was smaller, and Li Jiqian promised a blank check from the Fengzhou Metropolitan Supervisor. Therefore, the owner of the three clans killed the Song Dynasty supervisor and surrendered.

Li Jiqian once again led the army to Funing Village.

Tian Renlang was overjoyed.

The reason is simple. Funing Village is also not big, but the terrain is treacherous, and when Song Jiu expanded the northwest fort, Funing Village was renovated again, although it was small, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Li Jiqian wanted to fight, so let him fight.

When he is tired, Lao Tzu will clean you up. Otherwise, it is not easy to do, and if you win, you will advance. If you are defeated, you will leave, and flee to the Nanhetao Desert, even if the imperial court sends 60,000 troops to help, it is not easy to capture. There are a lot of troops, including the Zhe family, the Wang family, and the tribes of the Sun and the Moon, almost reaching 110,000 soldiers and horses. But so many soldiers and horses scattered in the Nanhetao Desert, what is it?

So wait until he gets tired. First divide the ambush troops to cut off the back road, and when the army arrives in person, Li Jiqian will be captured alive. Even if it doesn't work, drag it out. Tian Chongjin's main army arrived, even though Li Jiqian fled, because of the rush of time. It's not easy to make arrangements, and the army will be killed later. It also reduces the difficulty of leveling.

Tell the stakes and deliberately pretend to be incompetent. drank and gambled all day long, deliberately let Li Jiqian hear it, and confuse Li Jiqian to continue to play with his life under Funing Village.

Seeing that Tian Renlang's plan was about to succeed, Wang Yu came out.

He played a fast song to Zhao Kuangyi, saying that Tian Renlang came to Suizhou, only cared about pleasure, feared the enemy, and tacitly ignored the loss of the three ethnic villages.

Don't talk about Zhao Kuangyi, even Song Jiu couldn't figure it out, so he was recalled to the capital to ask, fortunately, Song Jiu thought about it carefully and thought that Tian Renlang was reasonable, but at that time the battle had already started, so he had to transfer Tian Renlang to Hebei.

Maybe Tian Renlang's strategy will succeed, then Wang Yu is not as simple as killing Yang Ye, it can be said that Wang Yu killed the Northern Song Dynasty.

It may not work out, but it can't be proven in that plane.

Why did Wang Yu do this, the reason is simple, he is on the throne. But he's not a vegetarian either.

After replacing Tian Renlang, he immediately pounced on Li Jiqian.

As soon as Li Jiqian saw that the Song army was coming to Zhenge, he immediately retreated. However, Wang Yu did not pounce on Funing Village, but improved Tian Renlang's strategy, according to Tian Renlang's strategy, he fought a decisive battle under Funing Village, and ambushed the troops in the rear.

Wang Yu made a feint attack in the direction of Funing Village, but in fact he concentrated all his forces and copied the direction of Li Jiqian's retreat.

When the two armies met, Li Jiqian was defeated, which was later criticized by Song Jiu, with this combat effectiveness, why send more than 100,000 troops?

Li Jiqian lost more than 5,000 people, and his subordinates were either killed in battle, captured, or surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

Li Jiqian did not dare to return to Yinzhou, so he fled straight to the north of Xiazhou, and joined forces with Qijia, Luo Yi and other departments, and Wu Yi and Yue Yi. Wang Yu led his troops to attack and killed the "Daizhou Assassin History" Zhe Luoyu and his younger brother to bury the beggar. Then from the west of Kaiguang Valley to Xingziping, the leaders of the Baosi Temple and Baoxiang tribes were buried, and the two tribes of Baoxi were broken, 3,000 people were captured, and 55 tribes were reduced. More than 3,000 people from the Eight Tribes sent envoys to sacrifice horses to apologize. So many folds, yes, they do fold the children of the family, but they are not the direct children of the folded family.

Guo Shouwen broke the two clans again.

Li Jiqian was helpless and fled to the vast desert again.

At this time, he did something that made Song Jiu afraid and lucky, and he was defeated repeatedly, so that Li Jiqian finally came to his senses and sent an envoy to the Khitan to ask for surrender.

But at this moment, the main army of the Song Dynasty finally arrived.

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The Dali River flows eastward, and the clear water passes over the river stones, making a crisp sound of ding dong.

Before dawn, layers of fog rose up.

Not far from Hebei is the Yeli people.

In fact, the Song Dynasty has done so much, and after such a long time, it is clear whether it is a friend or an enemy. If this is the case, and you still don't surrender, then as Zhang Qixian said, unless it is offered in the Taimiao.

It's just that the Song Dynasty has been recruiting An, which has weakened the results of this policy.

Just like Zhao Pu and Song Jiudou, there will not be a few people who respond to Song Jiu, but there are many people who respond to Zhao Pu on the contrary, that is, Zhao Pu went down, Song Qi and Li Fang also followed Zhao Pu's purpose, and gave Song Jiu eye medicine from time to time. The strangest thing is that these two people have been beaten by Zhao Pu.

In the final analysis, this is the fate of convincing people with virtue.

It's a little sad, such as Song Jiu, Zhao Chengzong's political performance when he was the governor of Tanzhou was still good, and after Zhao Pu stepped down, Song Jiu still said very honestly. Zhao Chengzong can be regarded as a good official, so Zhao Chengzong's career has not been hindered.

And yet. There may not be many friends, but there are many enemies.

The same goes for the Northwest. Li Jiqian rebelled, and the imperial court issued high-ranking officials and Houjue Zhao'an several times, anyway, there is no difference between those who are loyal to the Song Dynasty and those who rebel against the Song Dynasty, why be loyal to the Song Dynasty, at least I can be the first to both ends.

Such is the case with the Wild Rites.

Yin Xian sent it back to the Yeli clan and signaled for her to remarry, but the Yeli clan did not listen.

They did not rebel, but they kept eyebrows with Li Jiqian, and Song Jiu's blacklist was in the morning. And although Song Jiu doesn't remember much history, he just remembered that this Yeli tribe produced the Yeli Queen, Yeli Renrong and other famous generals of the Western Xia, which became the most important driving force in the rise of the Western Xia.

Hence this operation.

A red line finally appeared on the horizon, and Yang Yanzhao, who was promoted as the training envoy of the Suizhou regiment, shouted: "Kill." ”

Six thousand Song soldiers came out of the mountains, crossed the Dali River, and rushed towards the Yeli tribe.

In just a few days, most of the Yeli tribe was wiped out, and Yang Yanzhao sent a part of the soldiers to escort the people. They were moved to Guanzhong, Hedong and other places in Henan. Then he ordered the surrounding tribes to cooperate with the Song army to sweep away the remnants of the Yeli tribe, but the wealth and people of the clan would be used as spoils of war. Divide it up among them.

Blood and flowers come together to earn loyalty.

If the great Yeli tribe is wiped out in the blink of an eye, the tribes will be terrified. have cooperated. In a few days, this branch of the Yeli tribe in Hengshan completely disappeared in the long river of history.

Larger military operations in the distance began.

After Yang Yanzhao destroyed the Yeli tribe. He led the army north and entered Baichi City from Youzhou. Then go north to the Camel River, Wang Yu and Li Jilong sent troops from Huangyangping to Jinze, and the Zhejia and Yin Xian from the two prefectures of Lin to the land of Jinze, Wang Chengmei and his wife also dispatched 8,000 iron horsemen to kill into the desert.

Tian Chongjin led his troops along the Heishui River and swept in the rear, leaving the rebellious tribes that did not follow Li Jiqian, as long as they were attached, even if they surrendered, they would move to the interior. As for the various tribes that are still resisting, they are all scattered after annihilation, first sent to the rear to repair forts and roads, and then sent to the rear, scattered south of Taiyuan to Henan and other areas.

This crackdown lasted nearly four months, killing more than 30,000 enemies and sending more than 40,000 prisoners to the rear.

So much so that Li Jiqian was forced to send an envoy to the Song Dynasty to ask for surrender on the way.

The letter was sent to the capital, but Song Jiu did not agree and resolutely suppressed it in order to deter the entire northwest.

Moreover, this time the means were extremely cruel, fighting outside the ancient Great Wall, and the supply was too difficult, so the Song army adopted Song Jiu's strategy and ate.

In the suppression of various departments, the people were first divided into men, women, old and young, women and children were sent to the rear first, the strong men stayed to repair the fort road, and the grain, cattle and sheep of each department were left together to make military food.

This policy caused a lot of opposition, and Song Jiu refuted it with the battle of Dafeichuan.

Xue Rengui didn't know how many people he had killed in his life, but he was confused in Dafeichuan, got the king's army, and transported the logistics from the rear together to appease the Tuguhun people in Dafeichuan. As a result, under the leadership of Non Qinling, Guo Beifeng was at odds with Xue Rengui, with grain and grass, and these Tuyuhun people who Xue Rengui wanted to appease, 50,000 Tang troops and 50,000 people were all lost, and a generation of famous generals fled back begging for mercy in shame.

The Western Han defeated the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu were very docile even in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but that was subdued.

This is also not true.

But it's been hit, and everyone is helpless.

At the beginning of September, under the repeated slaughter of the Song Dynasty's five-way army, especially the addition of the strongest Fengzhou Wang family and Fuzhou Zhejia, they were familiar with the terrain of Nanhetao, coupled with the defection of a few dissatisfied tribes on the Hetao, Li Jiqian finally couldn't stay in the desert. can stay, but his subordinates want to eat and drink, and now the Song army has almost made the entire area around Jinze nearly thousands of miles round and clear, and even the people are gone, where to eat and drink?

It happened that the Liao State sent Xiao Tri to hold the edict and entitle Li Jiqian as the envoy of the Dingyan Army, the envoy of Yinxia Suiyou and other states to observe and dispose of it, the special inspection school Taishi, and the governor of the military of Xiazhou, and Jichong as the deputy envoy.

Xiao Tri saw that something was wrong, and under his persuasion, Li Jiqian rushed to Hue with the rest of his troops, wanting to cross the Yellow River and flee from Yinshan to Khitan.

It happened that the scouts sent by Wang Chengmei learned that Wang Chengmei and Huang Luo, the great leader of Fengzhou, led an army to intercept him, and Li Jilong led two thousand light horsemen to kill him from the rear.

Li Jiqian's father and son, Zhang Pu, Li Daxin, and the ugly and heavy encounters were all captured alive, only Li Jichong and Xiao Tri broke out of the siege and fled to Liao.

Zhao Kuangyi listened to Song Jiu's suggestion and escorted Li Jiqian and others to Xiazhou, where he beheaded the public.

A series of edicts were sent down to the northwest, and because of the large number of prisoners of war, after the war, these forts and roads were all repaired. The methods are still very cruel, and under the custody of the soldiers, they rush to work almost day and night. At one point, there were three riots, which were suppressed one after the other.

Now that the construction is over, the imperial court has issued an edict to let all ethnic groups return to their hometowns, and the state will exempt them from forced labor for three years, plus the previous exemption from taxes, almost all taxes will be exempted together.

At the same time, encourage the Han and Han families, the ethnic system of the Northern Zhou Dynasty is not easy to copy, but there are also ways, if the local people of the Han and Han have relatives with each other, the state rewards five silk, five catties of cotton, five catties of tea, Song Jiu This is also a bit of a spoof, when the book is simply called the three-five system.

He also asked the covenants of various ethnic groups to formulate simple laws, not to deal with disputes and cases according to the laws of the Song Dynasty, after all, the situation is different, but to formulate a covenant law suitable for the northwest, and use it as a standard to judge cases. Then they divided the territory and ordered the tribes not to be vendettas.

Then Lanzhou, Shizhou, Xinzhou, Daizhou, Fulin, Weizhou, Yuanzhou, Huanqing, Yanzhou, and Danzhou were divided, and their green and white salt was allowed to be sold by the trade law, and the imperial court only levied a small amount of commercial tax.

But in this battle, hundreds of thousands of troops were mobilized, countless money was spent, and those civilians were resettled, not slaughtered, and the materials were left to the front-line soldiers together, and they were sent to the rear almost naked, and the resettlement costs were also very expensive.

It seems that Li Jiqian is so weak, Song Jiuxing's division moved the crowd, killed more than 5,000 soldiers, and spent astronomical sums of money, is it a little too much?

Fortunately, when Li Jiqian was caught, he found out the edict of the Liao State and gave it to Song Jiu to the bottom of the steps.

In addition, Song Jiu sent Zhang Qixian to the front in time to pacify, Zhang Qixian's life is very legendary, but his ability may not be very clever, but he is a privy deputy envoy to the front line, and he can calm everyone, although Zhang Qixian is far inferior to Lu Mengzheng, but he is definitely much more intelligent than ordinary ministers, and he is well pacified in the front. This also added points to Song Jiu.

However, there are many ministers who have been impeached.

Zhang Qixian did not come back from the front, and he stayed for at least a few years this time, but this is also a kind of grinding.

However, in the Privy Council, Song Jiu was not annoyed by the attacks of many ministers, on the contrary, he frowned and muttered: "History has finally opened a new chapter." (To be continued......)