"Yin Jilun, you take 5,000 soldiers and horses to Shucheng immediately and annihilate that remnant army."

"Whoa." In the future, the black-faced face of the famous man will be ordered, but now, including Song Jiu, his military talent has not yet been discovered.

"General Yang, you take 5,000 subordinates to continue to clear out the deserters."

"Whoa."

After Song Jiu finished giving the order, Li Jilong also cleaned up the battlefield, walked over, and said in great surprise: "It also came in handy." ”

"Blame me," Song Jiu said sadly. During this time, he stayed at home, and if he hadn't gone to the academy's laboratory occasionally, he would have almost become an otaku, staying with his family every day, not thinking about anything, not wanting to do anything, and not asking about anything.

Otherwise, the people of Hebei may not have suffered this devastation.

But if it weren't for the Liao State going too far, dividing the troops to the south, and killing fewer people, Song Jiu might not have been able to think of it.

The battlefield was full of dead bodies of the Liao army, as well as nearly two thousand prisoners of war,

Li Jilong looked at these captives and said in disgust: "Duke Song, kill them." ”

"Kill, it's too cheap for them, send them to the rear to mine, and never forgive!" Song Jiu said angrily.

It is inevitable that there will be casualties and even the civilian population will be affected by the war between the two countries. Even Song Jiu clearly knew that the brutality of the nomads who had entered the Central Plains to massacre the Han people several times in the Dao Dao had really happened in front of him, which made him angry.

At least the two northern expeditions of the Song army did not attack the common people, and even Wu Xuanming went south to southern Liaoning, and did not attack the civilians much, at most some houses were burned.

"General Lee. I want to hand over the Deep State Liaokou to you, can you finish it? ”

"Okay." Li Jilong said loudly.

This psychology is the same as Cui Yanjin who went to Qizhou, after the defeat and escape of the Junzi Pavilion, Li Jilong also wanted to prove himself.

"I can only give you 10,000 soldiers and horses, and you must fight quickly, and then quickly arrive at the Yongning Army, waiting for my orders."

"The subordinates must live up to the trust of Song Gong." Li Jilong prepared to count the soldiers and horses.

"Don't worry, let's discuss first."

After breakfast, the three armies rested hastily, and with Li Jilong, his soldiers and horses were divided into two. One escorted the prisoners of war and the horses to the nearest south. One returned to Leshou to continue to defend the city. These are infantrymen, one can't ride a horse, the other can't skate, and they can't take them with them. The 10,000 soldiers and horses he brought were all forbidden soldiers from the capital. Song Jiu was afraid that he was not familiar with it. and asked him to wait for Yin Jilun to come back before leaving. However, they were not exactly skaters, and some of them were also cavalry, but they did not ride horses when they left the capital. It's all ice skating. Now there were horses, so they were divided into two thousand cavalry and eight thousand skaters. Tomorrow kill the Liao army to seek the Gulu department.

Or set off at night.

Before Liao Guo reacted, he had to eat Xiao Jiyuan.

More than 10,000 Song troops set off quietly, followed the Yongji Canal, then turned to the Hutuo River, and slid to the drum city of Qizhou.

At this time, Cui Yanjin also arrived in Gucheng and contacted Liu Zhixin. Liu Zhixin's remnants had not yet arrived, and when he saw Song Jiu coming, Cui Yanjin was pleasantly surprised: "Song Gong, it's solved over there." ”

"More than 3,700 people were killed, more than 2,000 were captured, and the rest fled," Song Jiu shook his head. This is the advantage of cavalry, even if you have skates, you can't do it, you can't do total annihilation. However, some of these escaped Liao soldiers will become water dogs who hate their people because they have escaped, and they will not completely escape back.

"It's a big deal."

"It's okay, fight again. What is the situation in the far side of Liao Kou Xiao Ji now? ”

"This is approximate information," Cui Yanjin handed over the message from the scout. Xiao Jiyuan had the most soldiers and horses, but after seeing the emptiness in the rear of the Song Dynasty, in order to improve the speed of plundering, he took the initiative to disperse his troops, part of which was in Zhaozhou and part of it was in Zhaozhou, but only in the northern region, which was close to the capital of the Song Dynasty, and there was also a Song army in the Daimyo's Mansion, so it was kept very close to the main force of Xingzhou. There is also one in the city of Qizhou, which is also divided into four parts.

Song Jiu read the information and said: "Send someone to inform Liu Zhixin and ask him not to rendezvous and drag the Liao army in Qizhou." Let's eat Xingzhou first. ”

The two discussed specific measures.

After a hasty rest again, the army went south, first divided the troops into five routes in Zhaozhou, and disabled the thousands of Liao troops who plundered Zhaozhou, and then the soldiers and horses of the five routes went straight down to Xingzhou along the water.

The two armies of Xingzhou met, Xiao Jiyuan was very fierce, but the troops in his hands were divided into more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, after two days of fierce fighting, Xiao Jiyuan was far from the enemy, and fled to the north with the remnants. Song Jiu left a group of men and horses to continue to clean up, and even had Liao soldiers under the pursuit of the Song army, fled from Fukou to Hedong, and was captured alive by Pan Mei's faction more than a month later.

But the one who played the best was Li Jilong.

In fact, in addition to some golden fingers, Song Jiu's military ability is really inferior to Li Jilong.

Li Jilong did not have many troops in his hands, but he used the terrain to be familiar with the people, and always maintained fighting more with less, plus Mougulu went too deep into the depths, 10,000 soldiers and horses were annihilated by Li Jilong Nearly 6,000 people, more than 2,000 people were captured alive, only more than 1,000 people escaped, in fact, the Liao soldiers who escaped after the most Lu were less than 500 people, and the rest were all caught with the help of the people of the Central Plains states and counties, and some were killed by the people on the spot.

At this time, Xiao Yanyan learned the news.

Some generals were still not convinced, but Xiao Yanyan wisely chose to retreat.

But they reaped too abundantly, and robbed not only a lot of cloth, gold, and silver, but also many people. This seriously slowed down the pace of the march.

At this time, Tian Chongjin received an order from Song Jiu.

Previously, Yizhou was completely lost.

Song Jiu asked Tian Chongjin to send troops again and take Dongyi Prefecture.

He also ordered Zhao Tingpu to send troops to snipe.

Zhao Tingpu was afraid, Song Jiu suddenly led the army to the city of Yingzhou, sent someone to arrest Zhao Tingpu, and asked: "The imperial court ordered Er to support Liu Tingrang, why did you shrink in Mozhou and Yingzhou?" ”

"Song Gong, I'm worried about the defeat of the army and the loss of Yingzhou."

"Okay, then let me ask you again, Liaokou attacked Shucheng, how far is Shucheng from Yingzhou?"

"But it's also close to the Junzi Pavilion, and the main army of the Liao State is in the Junzi Pavilion. I'm afraid I'm invincible. ”

"Then I'll ask you again, why did I let you send troops, but you still don't send troops."

"Song Gong, you have to be reasonable, I just have this little bit of soldiers and horses, how to send troops, that is not to send troops, but to send the soldiers to death. You say don't you? Zhao Tingpu continued to be cunning, and seeing that the situation was not good, he wanted to trick his subordinates into counterattacking Song Jiu together.

Song Jiu was bitter. He took out a decree from his bosom. said: "Zhao Tingpu, look at what is on it." ”

The situation in Hebei was serious, so Song Jiu asked Zhao Kuangyi for a holy decree before leaving, and this holy decree was to let Song Jiu deal with all military and political affairs in Hebei cheaply. There is even the right to enforce military law against any general on the front.

That is, Li Jilong. Cui Yanjin. Even if it's Tian Chongjin and Zhang Yongde, as long as they don't listen to orders. Or make a mistake, Song Jiu can act in full military law.

This is black and white, written clearly and clearly, but it is not the blank letter from Zhao Kuangyin to Cao Bin. But there is still a difference between the two, Cao Bin is a military general, he has been in the military for a long time at that time, Song Jiu is a civilian official, and his military career is very short, and Song Jiu has always been very "loyal" from beginning to end, and it seems that he has not had a strong desire for power, and he seems to have been Zhao Kuangyi's person before, so there is less taboo.

"Gong Song, I'm an observer." Zhao Yanpu was scared at this time.

"Drag it down, slash." Song Jiu shouted.

"Song Gong, Song Gong ......"

"It is you generals who are greedy for life and afraid of death, so many soldiers have died, how many people in Hebei have been killed, beheaded, beheaded, beheaded!"

Song Jiu detoured to Yingzhou, which was to kill Zhao Yanpu.

Zhao Yanpu slashed in front, and the whole Hebei shook in the back, Zhang Yongde and Song Wei were no longer qualified, and began to transfer troops from Bazhou and Cangzhou, and rushed to the front line for reinforcements. He Tian's army flanked the Liao army on the left and on the right.

Li Jilong led his soldiers and horses to harass and attack from the rear.

Xiao Yanyan was furious and killed more than 20,000 people on the banks of the Juma River.

However, most of the people were not sent to the north because of the timely rescue, and not only the people, but also most of the wealth captured by the Liao State had time to be taken away in the future.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Song Jiu came to the bank of the Juma River. It's another mountain of bones.

But this mountain of bones made him even more angry, and saw that the weather in the north was still very cold, so he issued an order, let Li Jixuan, Jing Si, Li Jilong, Yin Jilun, Yang Ye and other troops enter Gu'an Yongqing Wu Qing'anci, like the Liao army burned and plundered, Song Jiu still can't do it, and it is even more unrealistic to plunder the population, but let these brave generals enter the Liao realm, do only one thing, burn, and burn all the buildings and houses together. The people were left homeless one by one.

There is no way to live, come to the Song Dynasty by yourself, and the Song Dynasty will arrange you. If you don't want to come to the Song Dynasty and continue to be a good citizen of Liao, then find a way to live yourself. Li Jixuan and Li Jilong even burned all the way to Xianghe Miaoyin, not far from Youzhou. While using the flexibility of shoes to hide from the large army of Liao's encirclement and suppression, he continued to burn. It wasn't until spring gradually arrived and the glaciers thinned out that they retreated one after another.

At this time, Zhao Yanpu's family in the capital beat the drum and sued the emperor.

Some ministers impeached Song Jiu for killing the country's generals in vain.

Song Jiu didn't explain much, only handed back a set of data, since Xiao Yanyan invaded Hebei in the first month of the year, more than 37,000 soldiers and officials have been killed, and more than 89,000 people have also been killed, this is only a preliminary estimate, the actual number is more than this, and some hard-hit counties have almost become a ruin.

Can the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians be exchanged for Zhao Yanpu's life?

But there is no set of data from Song Jiu, and the controversy is not loud, on the contrary, many scholars and doctors applaud.

These incompetent generals should be killed, including Cao Bin.

Song Jiu's killing of Zhao Yanpu was a victory for civil officials.

After hearing the discussion in the capital in Hebei, Song Jiu smiled bitterly, what an ugly officialdom. But if you think about it carefully, not only was the officialdom of ancient China ugly and dirty, but also the Western countries that claimed to be democratic in later generations were not the same?

In fact, Hebei made the Liao invasion miserable this time.

Song Jiu listed a series of cold numbers, but it meant that at least 100,000 ordinary families were dismembered.

Coupled with the people who died in these two Northern Expeditions, the population of the Song Dynasty is not large now, and the whole country is only about 4 million households, how many people can there be in Hebei? Almost every family wears filial piety, and I hear crying all the way.

However, Song Jiu didn't think about it.

Xiao Yanyan killed the Song Dynasty miserably, and he also harmed the Liao State.

In this ice skate battle, Song Jiu took advantage of the Liao State's division of troops and unexpectedly, captured nearly 30,000 war horses before and after, and killed more than 23,000 Liao soldiers, some of whom were killed by the people. At the same time, there are more than 4,700 prisoners of war, and the proportion of prisoners of war is pitifully small, which shows the resentment of the people and soldiers against the Liao army. Although these prisoners of war were alive, their fate was even more miserable, and they stayed under the mines, and when they died, their bones would be seen. Maybe it will collapse and even the bones won't see the light of day.

Nearly half of the houses and properties in the six southeastern counties of Youzhou were burned.

There are really people who can't survive and fled to the Song Dynasty to find a way to survive.

These people Xiao Yanyan must also be appeased, but the Liao State has been fighting until now, and it is even poorer. Sadly, these shoes may continue to come every winter......

The beams on both sides are getting bigger and bigger.

Xiao Yanyan saw that the rivers were thin and frozen, and in a fit of anger, she prepared to gather more troops to invade the south.

Zhao Kuangyi looked at the data reported by Song Jiu, and thundered at the court meeting, preparing for the three Northern Expeditions, and preparing to personally go on the Northern Expedition again. Frightened, Song Jiu ignored the endgame in Hebei and hurriedly ran to the capital.

But for the time being, Hebei has settled down. (To be continued......)