Returning to Yuguan, Muttel reported to Wang Kunjun, Qian Yuanshan, and others about the Battle of Gushankou and the way in which he had taken it upon himself to win Haiyang City, and expressed his disagreement with the eagerness to transfer him back - the telegram for his quick return was only a small number, and the reason for his transfer was not stated. However, after listening to Qian Yuanshan's briefing on the current situation, Muttel also understood the urgency of the battlefield situation and retracted the different opinions he had just raised.

Now that he knew the development of the enemy's situation, Muttel naturally knew the importance of his cavalry unit in the battle below. Therefore, after returning to his camp, he ordered the troops to seize the time to rest, and on the other hand, he called a meeting of his commanders at all levels, explained to them the current battle situation, and asked everyone to go all out, not afraid of fatigue, not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice, and must complete the tasks assigned to him by the committee. When all the subordinates heard this, they naturally agreed to the promise, and they all had quite a lot of self-confidence.

After the assignment of tasks, the battle was carried out for most of the day, and then galloped hundreds of miles, the main force of the cavalry regiment and the soldiers of the "Ranger Battalion" who shuttled back and forth between Haiyang City and Yuguan only rested for a while, and slept for two or three hours, and after replenishing enough supplies, weapons and ammunition, and adding horses to reach one person and three horses, led by Muttel to leave Yuguan in the north early in the morning of the 15th morning of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, along the Great Wall of nearly 1,000 miles, to search and advance in the direction of Juyong Pass, to find the missing Khitan army division.

After sending off Mutel and his cavalry, Wang Kunjun, Qian Yuanshan, Wang Feng and others returned to the Guanya Hall, ready to discuss what the next move of the crossing team in Yuguan should be - whether to stay still and wait for news from Mutel and Xu Shao'an's side in Yuguan; It was better to leave some men and horses to guard the pass, and the others, mainly artillerymen, returned to the division and marched westward to Juyong Pass to support Xu Shao'an's troops in the previous battle with Yelu Tartlie, so as to make up for the lack of number and power of artillery in Xu Shao'an's hands, and to take this opportunity to go to the Ganzhou County from Youzhou City to Yuguan that had been put aside before, so that everyone could figure out who was fighting against the Khitans during this time; Or take advantage of the aftermath of the Yuguan-Gushankou victory, go north out of the pass, recover the prefectures and counties around Yuguan, and continue to expand the results -- the success of Muter's "taking Haiyang from a horse" shows that the Khitans are not strong in the defense of the coastal states and counties.

It's just that Wang Kunjun and the others just sat down and didn't say a few words, when the guards outside the door came in to report, saying that Lao Junzheng had sent Zhao Kuangyin to see their three brothers. Although he secretly complained in his heart that Zhao Kuangyin came at the wrong time, he disturbed the three brothers to talk about business. But the other party was a messenger sent by Chai Rong, and he was a historical figure who might one day become the emperor, so the three brothers had to put their own affairs aside for the time being and ordered the guards to invite each other in.

When Zhao Kuangyin walked into the house, the brothers found out that he was not alone, and the brother Zhao Kuangyi who was still following him behind him. However, unlike the arrogant and disapproving look when they first met the day before, today's Zhao Kuangyi's eyes were less contemptuous and more awe--in fact, because the day before was mainly communicating with Zhao Kuangyin, and Zhao Kuangyi only said a few polite words when introducing each other, Wang Kunjun and Qian Yuanshan did not have too deep an impression of the second child of the Zhao family. Regarding the situation that Zhao Kuangyi was arrogant and did not take the "Qingyuan" brothers very seriously, he still went out to greet Zhao Kuangyin and his party, and Wang Feng, who had had more exchanges with Zhao Kuangyi on the way back, said that he knew Wang Kunjun and Qian Yuanshan after returning.

In this regard, Wang Kunjun and Qian Yuanshan did not care very much. In their opinion, Zhao Kuangyi's performance is actually human nature. As a young man who was born in a family of eunuchs, his father and brother were both important ministers of the imperial court, he was arrogant and had no one in his eyes, and it was normal for him to look down on the "Qingyuan" brothers from the people—even if the "Qingyuan" brothers now have official status. And after yesterday's battle, when Zhao Kuangyi saw the amazing combat power of the so-called "Qingyuan" private soldiers, he understood that the reason why these people and their brothers, who he didn't value very much before, were able to get the attention of today's sons was not because of the nepotism of the virtuous concubine, nor by providing a large amount of grain, grass and silver money for the imperial court, nor by offering a few scarce or unprecedentedly rare treasures and instruments to the imperial court, but because they did have real talent and learning, and indeed had extremely strong strength, so that the officials had to pay attention to it. So much so that he had to send important court officials like his brother to reward and condole. …,

Zhao Kuangyi realized the strength of the "Qingyuan" brothers and lowered his stature, and Wang Kunjun and others were naturally much happier than the day before. When everyone meets and salutes each other, after sitting down, they have to say a few words of greeting and say something that is not nutritious. And Zhao Kuangyin also said some praise words such as "'Qingyuan' private soldiers have excellent strength, can fight habitually, and are the strongest army in the world", and attracted the humility of Wang Kunjun and others, and said bluntly, "Lord Zhao praised it falsely." The polite words were almost over, and Zhao Kuangyin changed the conversation and said: "Yesterday's battle opened the eyes of this official. Not only have I seen the sharpness of your army's firearms, but also the wisdom and courage of the generals, who can fight well. General Wang dispatched in the center, General Qian and General Xiao Wang commanded the defenders of the city to annihilate the Khitan army and shell its camp, and General Mu led his cavalry to run for more than 20 miles, setting up an ambush on the road where the Khitan army retreated, and turned the lonely mountain pass into an iron wall that the Khitan army could not break through. Not only did they kill tens of thousands of Khitan troops, but they also captured more than 15,000 people, which is really admirable. It's a pity that General Mu came back late last night, and it was inconvenient for the official to disturb his rest, so he couldn't see him. Today, this official came here, in addition to saying to the generals the joy of the complete victory in the battle of 'Yuguan-Gushankou', he also wanted to see General Mu, and I wonder if General Wang can introduce him. ”

Although Wang Kunjun and the others did not believe that the cavalry regiment and the "ranger battalion" had gathered in the morning and were ready to set off, Zhao Kuangyin, who lived in the Guan Ya next to the assembly area, would sleep so hard that he did not notice that he was deploying troops. However, knowing that you know, Wang Kunjun and others had to pretend not to hear that Zhao Kuangyin was talking nonsense with his eyes open there. Therefore, Wang Kunjun hugged his fist to Zhao Kuangyin and said, "My lord is too famous." The thirty-fifth brother has admired the adult for a long time, and the adult wants to see him, but he can't ask for it. It's a pity that now he is not in Guanli, and he can't come to meet the adults. ”

"What? General Mu is not in Guanli? Zhao Kuangyin asked knowingly.

"Not bad." Wang Kunjun replied, "Because our army has not yet discovered the location of a partial division of more than 20,000 people of the Khitan Army, in order to prevent this partial division of the Khitan Army from sneaking up on the small pass between Yuguan and Juyong Pass, early this morning, I sent my 35th brother to lead the cavalry out of the north gate of Yuguan and march west along the line of the Great Wall to search for this partial division of the Khitan Army. As soon as they found the enemy, they bit it and tried their best to destroy it. ”

"General Mu led his army out of the Great Wall?" Zhao Kuangyin really didn't understand this time, "I think that although there are 20,000 people in the Khitan army, it is nearly a thousand miles away from Yuguan to Juyong Pass, and it is not easy to find." From this official's point of view, instead of letting General Mu search for this Khitan division aimlessly outside the Great Wall, it is better to place it in a certain state and county south of the Great Wall, between Yuguan and Juyong Pass, and wait for the Khitan division to really break through a certain pass on the Great Wall, determine its possible marching route, and then order General Mu and other large armies to encircle, suppress, and annihilate. In this way, it not only saves the pain of the cavalry under General Mu's running back and forth, but also comes to catch turtles in an urn, so that the Khitan partial division has no return.

Moreover, General Mu's army is bound to be inconvenient to communicate with abroad. If the Khitan army really attacked a certain pass, even if the pass could use the beacon fire to transmit the enemy's information, it could only spread the news to the passes along the Great Wall. If you want to inform General Mu's headquarters, it is difficult, after all, the position of General Mu and his soldiers is uncertain, and the difficulty of finding General Mu is more difficult than General Mu to find the Khitan army. ”

Wang Kunjun first nodded when he heard this, then shook his head, and said: "What Lord Zhao said is a good policy, our brothers had planned to do so before, but after some trade-offs, they finally decided to give up, and instead sent Lao 35 to lead the army out of the customs to find and annihilate the Khitan army. The reason why our brothers made this decision was that whenever the Khitan people went out to fight, their soldiers did not bring food and grass, and relied on the enemy's land to 'fight grass valleys' to provide the needs of the army. If our brothers let this Khitan army into the Great Wall and then annihilate it, the places it passed before they were annihilated would surely be plundered, causing misery to the lives and suffering of the people. Thinking that my Youzhou Righteous Army's move was to expel the Khitan barbarians and give the people of Youyun a peaceful life, how could they put the Khitan Army in the Great Wall in order to run less and suffer less. If our brothers really did this, even if they completely annihilated the Khitan army, they would be complained by the local people.

As for the method of transmitting information during this period, our brothers have already made arrangements. At that time, the various passes will be transmitted to the enemy by beacon fire, and the communication between the passes and the old thirty-five will be carried out by messengers riding fast horses. After each pass receives the enemy's information, its messengers only search for the old 35 men and horses within a certain area around the pass and according to the pre-agreed route. In this way, no matter where the enemy situation appears, the old thirty-five will quickly get the news and rush to reinforcements. ”

Although it is uncertain whether the messaging method mentioned by Wang Kunjun is really as effective as he said, since the other party is full of confidence, it is not easy for Zhao Kuangyin to dwell too much on this issue - after all, his current identity is a labor envoy rather than a supervising military envoy, and he does not have the power to put his beak on the issue of the tactics of the "Qingyuan" private soldiers.