After the end of this court meeting, Guo Fen issued two or three orders:

The first is to announce that the whole territory of Yanjing, the eastern part of Hebei, and the 24 coastal states of Shandong have entered a period of war, and the clans in various places guard the townships, the townships bravely guard the counties, and the caravans guard the roads.

The second way, deprived An Chongrong and Li Shouzhen of their titles, and went to Yanjing with their original official products, and the Huaibei soldiers and horses retreated across the board.

Third, Yang Yi was appointed as a scholar of Hallym Academy.

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When the news came out, there was another uproar in Youzhou City, but after this uproar, everyone was awe-inspiring. These three orders are full of offensive posture in defense externally, and extremely tough on the inside, not giving any room for imagination to the remaining two feudal towns in the Central Plains, and this kind of tough posture that is not afraid of the rebellion of the two feudal domains is full of domineering and confidence! If Zhang Mai was still in Yanjing, it would not be surprising that such an order would be issued, but now that Zhang Mai is touring the west, he really didn't expect the center to still have such a strong attitude.

As for the appointment of Yang Yi as a scholar, according to the system, the Hanlin Academy is the think tank of the Son of Heaven, and the scholar is the general adviser of the Son of Heaven, so it can be directly appointed by the Son of Heaven.

After this day, the trend of public opinion in the Yanzhao area changed rapidly, and the arguments of the main battle, the main attack, and the main strength quickly became the mainstream, and all kinds of miscellaneous voices quickly converged.

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I have to say that Feng Dao's sense of politics is very keen. At the beginning, he prophesied that if the position of a scholar was not believed, it would be just a decoration, and if he won the trust of the Son of Heaven. It is not a problem to be the son of heaven and the prime minister.

Guo Fen has great faith in Yang Yi, especially in the current war period, Yang Yi's suggestions on military affairs are almost obedient to his words, and Zheng Wei is also willing to cooperate, as for Cao Yuanzhong and Lu Jialing in the Privy Council, they can't say a word of refutation in front of Yang Yi. Therefore, the rhythm of the Tang army's actions suddenly became smooth.

Yang Yi arranged a complete military layout, the Privy Council dispatched troops according to the bureau, the Tang army had abundant horsepower, and the roads were smooth, so the military action was extremely fast, and all the troops in the Great Yanjing area should be assembled in just two days, and those who should be in place should be in place.

According to Yang Yi's plan, the combat force was roughly arranged as eight to meet and two to defend - the frontal troops were assembled near Xianghe County, a hundred miles east of Youzhou, and the guarding troops were to cooperate with infantry, auxiliary, and work. The four counties of Yuyang, Zunhua, Anci and Wuqing were increased, and the rest of the places were abandoned and not guarded.

Yuyang is in the northeast of Youzhou, Zunhua is in the northeast of Yuyang, Anci is in the southeast of Youzhou, Wuqing is in the southeast of Anci, and the four counties plus Youzhou form a reverse goose-shaped structure, and the head of the goose is Youzhou. The north wing is Yuyang Zunhua, and the south wing is Anci Wuqing.

In addition, they each stationed in Zunhua and Wuqing with a cavalry. It was the elite light cavalry stationed in Zunhua, and the heavy cavalry stationed in Wuqing. The main army that met them head-on consisted of cavalry from 20 provinces, infantry from 20 provinces, and fortifications from 8 provinces.

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By this time, Yelu Lihu's Chinese army had reached Yuguan, and Xiao Shili continued to advance westward after capturing Shicheng County, capturing Yutian County, which was not an important stronghold, and became an empty city with only defenders after the Khitan moved eastward to the Yanmin. But the next city is also a morale boost for the Khitan. Li Yan received Yang Yi's order to retreat to Zunhua before the defeat and retreat.

Yutian County is located at the southern foot of the Yanshan Mountain Range - geographically speaking, it is located in the southwest of Zunhua County, Li Yan retreated to Zunhua, if Xiao Shili continued to advance westward regardless of Zunhua, then the cavalry of the Tang army could go south at any time to cut off its rear route, but if it was to attack Zunhua first, it would inevitably affect the speed of westward advance.

When Xiao Shili was hesitating, Du Chongwei in the south was also facing a dilemma.

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After the surprise attack on the town. Relying on the speed of the army, Du Chongwei soon forced to the edge of the Haihe River, only a water away from Tianjin. At that time, he thought that crossing the Haihe River and conquering Tianjin was just around the corner, but he didn't expect that the Haihe River had become a gap that he could not cross!

The Tianjin garrison has only one town, but Du Chongwei's 20,000 troops can not advance an inch, and what is more troublesome is that the inland river cruise warships of the Haihe River patrol up and down the Haihe River, and some of the coastal sea divisions cooperate with the operation - Han Deshu is right, Tianjin's navy is indeed empty, but there is still a minimum of garrison defense ports, in addition, as one of the two most important ports of Tiance Datang, Tianjin also has many sailors, under the mobilization of the Tianjin Government Affairs Department, more than 2,000 sailors joined the team to assist the guard, and dozens of commercial ships were temporarily converted into river patrol ships, sectional patrols are on duty day and night, guarding a sea and river without any flaws.

As for the harassment troops sent by Du Chongwei, their role quickly decreased after the intimidation effect of the early rise, and after the political situation in Youzhou stabilized, the people of Yanzhao also came out of the initial panic and tried to enter the harassment troops in Hebei.

Du Chongwei set out from the town, looted Tianjin, the grain and grass was not enough to support the long-term battle, just when he was considering whether to give up Tianjin, and instead attack Hejin, located in the northwest of Tianjin Wuqing direction out of a cavalry, this cavalry is fully armored, the weapon is a steel sword heavy sword, the horse's head is wrapped in copper, the horse's hooves are wrapped in black iron, the horse's body is wrapped in leather armor, from Wuqing after the direct south, straight to the Haihe River, at night on the river camped by the river, the river has its own ships to provide supplies, this heavy cavalry is not fast, only a day only thirty miles, But when he rode and rode and rode and broke his steps, he marched east along the Haihe River, and ran over in a straight line all the way - the destination was obviously Du Chongwei!

When Du Chongwei heard the news, he didn't dare to stay anymore, and retreated north overnight, wanting to go north to join forces with Xiao Shili.

The Tang army did not rush to pursue, but gradually regained the lost territory, and the Tianjin military town sent an infantry to cross the river to fight together, and easily uprooted the tumor of the town.

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Seeing Du Chongwei rushing to join him, Xiao Shili smelled that the smell ahead seemed to have changed. The current situation of the Tang army has obviously officially launched a counterattack. Thinking of the fiasco on the frontal battlefield of Linhuang Mansion, the high-ranking generals had no bottom in their hearts.

Du Chongwei said to Xiao Shili: "The most important thing in today's shape is not to let the Tang people cut off our back road. Yutian is too small to defend, and the cavalry of Zunhua can go south at any time to cut off our supplies, so it is better to retreat to Shicheng and Luanzhou with their backs, and then they can advance or retreat. ”

Xiao Zhili said: "You and I join forces." In addition, there were no less than 30,000 follow-up people, so they retreated without a fight? ”

Du Chongwei said: "What about 30,000 horses! This is the den of the Tang people! At the beginning, they were caught off guard, but now they have reacted, even if we have 100,000 horses, we don't necessarily have a chance of winning! ”

At this moment, a group of soldiers and horses fled from the west, and Xiao Shili went to the city to take a look, but it was Yelu Hugo who fled back - there were only about thirty horsemen left, all of them with gray heads and dirt faces, and their bodies were red, black, green, and yellow. The green is swollen, the red is blood, the yellow is the picture, and the black is the smoke!

As soon as Yelu Hugo entered the city, the whole person couldn't support him and fell off the horse, Xiao Shili stepped forward to help him, and before Xiao Shili asked, Yelu Hugo grabbed his hand and said, "Go quickly!" Come on! Go back to Liaodong! ”

Xiao Shili said: "What? The Tang army has gathered? ”

Yelu Hugo said: "The Tang army is assembled in the west. It's about 350,000 people. ”

Xiao Shili snorted: "Thirty or fifty thousand people are just that, it may not be able to let me run away." ”

Jeruxiugo's face twitched suddenly. While the Tang army was massively massing in the eastern part of Youzhou, it also cleared all possible places where the enemy could be hidden, and Yelu Hugo was forced to show up, and in order to try his best to obtain information for the main force, he launched a tentative attack before leaving, but before he could reach the battle, he heard several loud rumbling sounds. Dozens of fireballs rained down from the sky, followed by a rain of arrows, a spear infantry marched in line, and two cavalry touched the left and right to outflank, that battle was a nightmare that Jeruxiugo did not want to remember in this life!

There are many enemy soldiers. It was not a pity to be defeated because of his small number of soldiers, but what made Jeruxiugo feel unacceptable was that his men were powerless to fight back in that battle, and anyone who could not escape was killed in a moment as soon as they fell into the spear infantry formation.

As soon as he remembered the scene he saw before he escaped and came back, Yelu Xiuge couldn't calm down, the size of the army of thirty or fifty thousand people was really not much, but the rigorous and domineering formation of the Tang army when it was divided into camps and marching forward step by step gave him a huge shock.

With his extraordinary military intuition, he sensed that this was not a gap in the number of soldiers, but a gap in comprehensive combat strength!

Seeing that formation, Yelu Hugo knew that the Tang people did not plan to use any roundabout schemes, but were ready to fight a head-on battle with the Liao army - strong and strong! Hit hard!

"I can't beat it!" Brother Yelu Hugh grabbed Xiao Shili's hand, tried to stay calm, lowered his voice and said, "Don't talk about you, the follow-up army can't be defeated!" Hurry back to Yuguan! After saying this, he fainted due to the overdraft.

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The news brought by Yelu Hugo made Xiao Shili extremely irritated, but he knew that a person like this who dared to use three hundred cavalry to surprise attack Yanjing, if he hadn't suffered heavy stimulation, he would never have said such a depressing word!

After weighing it for a long time, Xiao Shili finally ordered to withdraw from Yutian County, and the whole army pulled out the camp and retreated to Shicheng County.

Yelu Lihu's army had just driven out of Yuguan and had not yet arrived in Luanzhou, when he heard that Xiao Shili had retreated on the way, he was furious and said: "What do you say that the enemy army is strong, and the other party is only 350,000 people, and he himself has 30,000 people?" As a pioneer and retreat without a fight, it will hurt the morale of our army! It's time to chop! ”

The deputy commander of the Western Expedition, Sacha, hurriedly persuaded: "The jurisdiction is not a cowardly person, there must be a reason for this, he dared to cross the sea and attack is proof, and he also took Luanzhou and Shicheng, and he has just made a great contribution, and it is ominous to kill the general in battle, please give him a chance." ”

Han Deshu said: "Luanzhou and Shicheng are not far apart, it is better to wait until you enter Luanzhou, and then ask carefully." ”

Yelu Li snorted: "If I go to Luanzhou, he can't give me an explanation, and no one can protect him!" ”

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Jinzhou.

A smile appeared on his lips as he heard his men report their names one by one.

This series of names are all the names of dissidents who have just been purged in Liaoyang Mansion recently, among which there are many officials of the Southern faction, but there are also some important people of the reconciliation faction, and even some people who are in the Lu Ping!

After the invasion of Yelu Lihuxi. Entrusting the rear to him, Yelu Cha took the evidence presented by Han Yanhui and wantonly opened a knife inside and outside the court, in the name of catching corruption, uprooting a string of southern officials, pulling up radishes and bringing out the mud. The officials of the Southern faction were corrupt, and the people of the conciliatory faction had always been close to the Southern faction, and it was inevitable that they would be implicated, and they were even dragged into the water in class. Because these people were corrupt and perverted the law, Yelu Chachai wanted to attack, and even Shu Luping lost the righteousness of intervening.

For a while, the people in the entire southern Liaoning region were panicked, and Yelu Cha took the opportunity to insert people and arranged for his cronies and people who had taken refuge in him to various key departments, and some officials could not evade it on the surface. I had no choice but to secretly bribe Yelu Cha and show his loyalty, but Ye Lu Cha was only to take advantage of others, and let go of anyone who was useful and sure to control Zhanì. In just over half a month, the entire Liaodong wind has changed greatly, and the power has gradually fallen into the hands of Cha Che.

Dragged to the side and said: "The country is a qiēshun lì, but the army of the Western Expedition is blocked. I heard that the Tang people used Yang Yi again. Du Chongwei's capture of Tianjin failed, and Xiao Shili had retreated to Shicheng. Obviously, the Tang people are already counterattacking - no matter how powerful Li Hu is. I'm afraid I can't fight Yang Yi! ”

Yelucha said with a smile: "The failure of Vatang was expected. That is, Li Hu's brain will be heated by a little surprise attack, and he really goes west, all he thinks about is to overpower the first emperor, and he doesn't want to think that Linhuang Mansion can't beat Tiance with all the strength of the whole clan, how can Li Hu's ability turn things around! ”

He paused, and then said, "Now we have even taken the handle in class. secretly took refuge in us, and when Li Hu is defeated, his reputation will definitely plummet when he returns to China! There will be no one in the army or in the clan to obey him, and then it will be time for us to overthrow Li Hu and control Daliao. ”

"Even so, you have to be careful. Don't let the Tang people kill them in one go. "He is not a reckless man like Tuo Duo Kuo, and he is also a little scheming.

"What are you afraid of!" Yelu Cha said: "Xiao Shili's operation in Yuguan for several years has already made it look like iron. If the field battle is defeated, it will be defeated, as long as you retreat into Yuguan, your vitality will not be hurt, and there will be me. Li Hu is the best puppet for us to master Da Liao, we can cut him, but we can't let him collapse, Ben Shuai will give him the aftermath. ”

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11th year of Tiance, June.

Zhang Maizheng was riding a horse with Guo Luo and Xue Fu on the southern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, and received a letter from the East, and after opening it, he nodded slightly, Guo Luo asked, "How is the Yanjing-shaped shì?" ”

Zhang Mai said: "Some things are worse than I imagined, some things are better than I expected, in general, the situation is not out of control, probably I don't need to go back to deal with the aftermath." ”

Guo Luo sighed: "It's a pity! I have never had the opportunity to participate in such a grand event, thinking that I am not only ashamed of my ancestors, but also of myself. In the future, I can't say that I am comparable to Ah Yi, even if it is Xi Sheng and Prince Xue, I am far from being able to compare. ”

Zhang Mai smiled: "You also care about this?" Haha, there is still a chance, this world is not only a big country in Khitan! In the past ten years, you have always been my rear, and in the next ten years, it is better to let me be your rear! How is it? ”

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Bohai Sea, the end of the island.

This is not an island on the existing sea trade routes, a huge fleet in this era stays between the end of the island and the island of Woohoo, tens of thousands of horses do not dare to camp under strict orders, do not dare to make fires, sleep in the dug caves at night, holding back the fire in their stomachs.

"Aren't you going on an expedition to Japan? Why stay so long on this broken island! ”

"Yes, to fight a mere Japanese country, it also needs to be so mysterious?"

On this day, a fishing boat broke through the waves, and a fisherman dressed as an adult docked and galloped into one of the largest natural caves on the island.

In the cave, there are more than a dozen generals of the Tiance Tang Army. Gao Xingzhou, Zhao Zan, Yang Xin, and Zhi Congshi were among them, the letter flew in, Yang Xin took it and opened it, followed it to the generals to circulate, and the generals who saw the letter were all happy to open their faces, and finally got the young general Gao Huaide glanced at it and laughed: "Okay, okay!" It's finally our turn! It's really suffocating me these days! ”

Yang Xin said to Gao Xingzhou: "Please give orders to Gao Shuai." ”

Gao Xingzhou hurriedly said: "Don't dare." ”

Yang Xin said: "The marshal has an order, in this operation, the naval division is led by General Zhao, and the army is headed by the three of us. ”

"In that case, it is transgressed." Gao Xingzhou said: "Liaonanhai's defense is empty, and the Liaojin city defense layout map is also in hand, so General Zhao will control the shipping schedule, as long as the weather permits, act immediately, go straight to Liaodong, and occupy Liaojin in the shortest time." After the occupation of Liaojin, the army was divided into two routes, and all the warships that could enter the inland river went up, besieged Liaoyang Mansion with sailors and marines, and the army marched westward to wait for the Khitan to return for reinforcements. ”

The generals received the order at the same time, Gao Huaide was extremely excited, and said: "Is this considered a closed door and a dog?" ”

Zhi Congshi sighed and said: "The terrain of the Western Liaoning Corridor is long and narrow, as long as the east and west ends are switched, the Khitans will either jump into the sea or climb the mountain. ”

Yang Xin said with a smile: "If hundreds of thousands of Khitans jump into the sea together, the scene will be spectacular." ”

The generals in the cave laughed together when they heard this.

There is only a blonde young man with a murderous face, he is Xi Sheng's adopted son Xi Zhong, his face is mixed-race, but he was raised by Xi Sheng since he was a child, Xi Sheng treats him like his own son, Zhang Mai treats him like a nephew, he is limited to physical conditions and can't practice Mo Dao, after the battle of Huanma Heights, Zhang Mai let him enter the engineering corps, promising to give him a chance to avenge his revenge one day.

Yang Xin patted him on the shoulder and said: "The opportunity for revenge is almost here, but the state affairs are greater than the family feud, the more you are about to fight, the more you must be calm!" ”

"Brother Yang, don't worry!" Xi Zhong said: "I will not disappoint the marshal, let alone the spirit of my ancestor in the sky!" ”

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