"General Yu, the Liao army is camped in Yehuling, fifteen miles to the north."

"Zhilu Dao, you go down."

"Yes."

Li Jilong also ordered to set up camp. However, they were much more comfortable than the Liao army, with food and tents, and charcoal fires were still burning in the tents.

"Dashuai, why don't you continue to chase and kill?" Wu Boli, the general from the Rokutani Division, asked.

"Don't use it, the enemy will still fight the trapped beasts, and there is a condescending momentum, once they are forcibly chased and killed, it will inevitably provoke them to counterattack, and it will be too expensive to annihilate them. Anyway, it's a fish in the net, so why rush. Li Jilong said.

And that's not all.

There is already a great victory in sight, so there is no need to hurry, but to win at the lowest cost, otherwise the high pension is far more than the reward, and every soldier who dies means that the family is broken. Although Li Jilong has not been interested in politics for a long time, he still understands the simple truth, and after this battle has been fought, rewards, pensions, and reconstruction, I don't know how much it will cost.

Moreover, it is necessary to recover Yanyun and attack the north...... It is necessary to preserve strength.

Stop, not disconnect too far from the infantry, and keep the entire set of legions forward, then there will be more pieces available in hand. Especially the grain and grass, the further north you go, the more the grain and grass of the Liao State will be in crisis, and most of the Song army will also need a lot of grain and grass, so the speed of the march cannot be too fast.

It was beneficial for the Song army to drag it down, the Song army slept in tents, covered with quilts, and the Liao army slept in the field, covered with dry grass, and they were consumed to death.

The Liao army needed to rest, and the Song army also needed to rest.

And also......

He summoned the generals: "Yang Yanzhao, Qin Han." You each led 5,000 Xianping troops, made a detour to the east side, tried to stay away from Yehuling, did not alarm the Liao army, and galloped to Gaoyang Pass day and night, waiting for Wang Xian's order. ”

"Whoa."

The two of them went down to order the generals.

"Wei Neng, Zhang Ning, each of you will lead five thousand ordinary cavalry to Gaoyang Pass and wait for your life."

"Whoa."

"If there are no accidents, the Liao army will want to leave the Daimyo Mansion as quickly as possible for the time being, and then it will evacuate from the plain area east of the Daimyofu. Jing Si. Tian Min. You lead 5,000 Beiwei troops, Ma Zhijie, you lead 5,000 Xianping troops, and rush to the old town first. Then take a break immediately. Wait until the enemy arrives. You ambush in advance. Send scouts to watch again. If the enemy diverts the march to the west of the Daimyo's Mansion, you must also immediately rush to the Daimyo's Mansion and cooperate with our army. Attack from the flanks. ”

"Whoa."

"Send someone to inform the prince of the Daimyo Mansion again, it's better to do this, Sun Quanzhao, you immediately go to the Daimyo Mansion, recruit all the elite soldiers in the city, and cooperate with General Jing Tian and General Ma to prepare for battle."

"Whoa."

"The rest of the department will rest immediately."

At this moment, Song Jiu sent a quick letter.

Li Jilong opened it and said with a smile: "Clever plan." ”

Relying on Song Jiu alone, without Li Jilong and Cao Wei in command, it is impossible to complete such a great victory. But relying on Li Jilong and Cao Wei, without Song Jiu's support and political sense of smell, it is impossible for Li Cao and Cao to make this contribution.

After a night's rest, several soldiers and horses were moving.

The Liao army continued to flee northeast.

Li Jilong did not hurry to order the army to set up camp.

The infantry and the grain and grass and heavy soldiers also followed.

The last is Zhao Heng with a large group of soldiers and horses.

Song Jiu persuaded Zhao Heng to go to the north, and Zhao Heng had some agreement, but some ministers objected. Song Jiu said that since ancient times, there have been five towns and mountains, Yishan in the east, Huiji Mountain in the south, Wushan in the west, Yiwulu Mountain in the north town, and Huoshan in the middle town. However, after the decline of the Tang Dynasty, even Yanyun became the place of the Hu people, and even the Heng Mountain of Wuyue became the scope of the Liao State, not to mention the Yiwu Lu Mountain. This time, His Majesty will go north, and he will worship the doctor Wulu Mountain, which is the symbol of the unification of the Central Plains and the unity of the world. Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to thwart Your Majesty from such a grand event? ”

Zhao Heng's eyes immediately turned green.

Song Jiu hit the lifeblood of all the scholars at once.

Zhang Qixian and Kou Zhun grind their palms.

As for the other ministers, it is no better.

What is the Shengshi Dynasty, the world is not mixed with the unification, at least the territory of China before the unification, otherwise what is the Shengshi Dynasty.

Yiwu Lu Mountain, also known as Lu Mountain, is on the boundary of Jinzhou in Yingzhou.

So there was no objection and the royal expedition to the north.

What to worship the five towns, Song Jiuzhen is not interested, but when Zhao Heng goes to the north, he will show respect for the north, which is conducive to the rapid integration of this vast area. Moreover, after one thing and one wisdom, people's thoughts will change with life experience. After this, Zhao Heng and the ministers will become open-minded and enterprising, otherwise the north will be lost.

If it is lost, what is the point of using troops in the north, it is better to keep the Liao State, contain other nomads, and only run Yanyun.

In addition, the appearance of cotton could expand the scope of the Song army's activities in the north.

Moreover, the development of physical discipline also gave Song Jiu confidence. For example, the steam engine began to be used in large-scale agricultural irrigation, initially appeared in textiles, and some people even studied how to use it for mining, built a narrow-gauge railway in a large mine, and then used a simple steam train to transport the ore out. As long as the technology keeps up, the cost will not be too high, then the mining efficiency will be greatly improved, and even the current mine output can be more than doubled.

If one day the iron output of the entire Song Dynasty reached more than 100,000 tons, perhaps the age of steel would gradually come.

This is the confidence to manage the north.

If it is well managed, the world is stable, at least now except for the north, no country will be harmful to the Song Dynasty, I believe that even a figure like Zhao Ji, with the current system of the Song Dynasty, there will be no possibility of losing the country from the inside.

If the management is not good, the north will have a headache, even if you get Yanyun.

And overseas also gave Song Jiu confidence.

There are still not many immigrants who have migrated overseas, but 100,000 households, mainly the people of Fujian Road, where there are many mountains and little land, and the population is still relatively large due to less war and chaos in the five dynasties, plus where the people believe in Buddhism, resulting in a relatively high occupation of land by temples and temples, which further causes a shortage of arable land. From now on, many families cannot afford to raise more children, and their children are drowned after birth.

Therefore, as the overseas islands were slowly colonized, many people moved their families to wherever they were.

Moreover, Song Jiu has always painted those islands on the map of the Song Dynasty. This is also very fond of the doctor who loves fame. Even a small number of officials are stationed to collect some taxes, which are relatively small, only tens of thousands of dollars a year, but although the lice are small, they are also meat. Moreover, with the increase of the number of people, the area of development increased, the proportion of taxes also slowly increased, and there were many interests of the powerful. Therefore, the doctors turned a blind eye to it. Overseas anyway. It is one that can fish one. In addition, the income of overseas development is not in the open sea, but in the city, and all kinds of invisible taxes.

And so all these years. Nearly 100,000 households have migrated from overseas. Some people even went as far as the eastern coastline of Oceania. The local natives were expelled from the land and animal husbandry began. Sheepskin has a profit, leather has a profit. Meat is also profitable after curing. As well as spices, corals, hawksbill turtles, jade, and even many uninhabited fertile areas, the discovery of gold mines and various large pits, coupled with low taxes, were such that the number of people who went to sea to pan for gold gradually increased, despite the strong sense of vernacularity in China. In order to live, I had to leave my home.

Song Jiu did not expect that in the future, the Song Dynasty's territory would include the South China Sea Islands and Oceania, and even if it did develop to that day, it would inevitably split into a number of new Han states, but in these few hundred years, the problems caused by population density would be solved.

Basically, his youthful dreams are gradually being realized.

In a few hundred years, a new Middle-earth dynasty will stand at the top of the world.

……

This is the future, and now we must eat this Liao army and catch the emperor.

A new battle begins.

As Li Jilong expected, in order to seize speed, the Liao army really fled north from the old town road east of the Daimyo's Mansion.

Jing Si came out, Tian Min came out.

Although there are not many 5,000 Beiwei troops, their cold heavy equipment is like a tank, and it is like no one in the nearly 100,000 Liao army. The Liao army fought and fled. Ma Zhijie took 5,000 Xianping troops to wander in all directions, dragging the Liao army here.

Then Li Jilong led the main cavalry to kill.

It should be said that because Li Jilong divided his troops, the number of troops at this time was not much more than that of the Liao army. However, God knows when the huge infantry corps behind them will keep up, this is the realm of the Daimyo's Mansion, not far from the main battlefield.

And at this time, the morale of the Liao army, which was finally aroused by Xiao Yanyan, gradually declined.

Xiao Guanyin was brave and left snipers, but don't forget that this is a plain area. The next day, when he got the information, Li Jilong laughed and ordered a detour, only letting Tian Shaobin take a thousand cavalry to the north of Yehuling, hold their Liao army, and then chase them to the old town. At this time, when the battle was engaged, most of the infantry of the Song army also arrived at Yehuling, and Tian Shaobin sent someone to shout, surrender and not kill. Xiao Guanyinnu also wanted to resist stubbornly, and with the artillery bombardment of the historical records, Xiao Guanyinnu was immediately captured by his subordinates and beheaded, and surrendered to the Song army.

Xiao Guanyin is loyal, but how many of these people want to be substitutes for the dead.

Besides, watching the arrival of large troops of the Song Dynasty one after another, coupled with that sharp killing weapon, the Liao soldiers were all frightened, and what courage did they have to continue fighting? In particular, this is a team of allied tribes.

Li Jilong led most of the cavalry into the battlefield.

Wang Qinruo and Sun Quanzhao arrived with the army of the Daimyo's Mansion again.

The Liao army was immediately overwhelmed.

Seeing that the rout had begun, Xiao Tzu Rin immediately ordered: "Retreat to the north." ”

Flee again.

At dusk, when they fled to the western boundary of Guantao, the Liao army was less than 70,000 horsemen. The rest of the people were not killed by the Song army, but most of them were scattered.

Li Jilong continued to lead the army to follow behind, camping more than twenty miles away from them.

Then he continued to order: "Sun Quanzhao, you take 10,000 cavalry to Linshi to intercept, if the enemy does not flee from the eastern front, then rush to Beizhou, if the enemy does not escape from the eastern front, march to Jizhou, and then wait for the order." ”

"Whoa."

"General Cao, according to Song Gongzhi's suggestion, one more thing to trouble you, the army has prepared skates as a precaution, you go to the rear, and the soldiers who skate will gather, and with the help of the frozen rivers and rivers, they will slide towards Gaoyang Pass with tens of thousands of soldiers, otherwise Wang Xianggong's side is still a little insufficient, and then tell Wang Xianggong the detailed battle situation before, and assist him in directing the transfer arrangement. There is also a secret edict under His Majesty, if the prince is cowardly, or if the command is improper, the king can replace him. ”

"Whoa."

"Li Jixuan, Liu Yong, you take 5,000 cavalry to Julu quickly, if the enemy does not flee from the eastern front, he will pass through Julu. It was about evening, and I would send light cavalry to catch up, and you would go out from the giant deer, and hold the enemy back until the bulk of our cavalry came up. ”

"Whoa."

Li Jilong rotated the soldiers to conserve his strength, and then caught cats with the Liao army.

But also, the next day, Xiao Tzu Lin rushed to the camp to advance, although there were fewer and fewer soldiers and horses, but it was getting closer and closer to the northern front.

Li Chongzhi rushed over with a light cavalry and shouted in front of the Liao army: "Inform the emperor of your country that the empress dowager of your country has entered the palace, and His Majesty has issued an edict to prepare to transport it to your country for a grand burial." Please ask the emperor of your country to surrender quickly, and His Majesty will worship the king of Liao, open the palace with the three divisions, and make up for the peace of the three divisions, and enjoy the actual seal of 10,000 households forever. ”

broke the bottom limit of all the official systems of the Song Dynasty, worshiped the king and added a first-class official, and in addition, he could make up for the income of this prince and ten thousand households from generation to generation.

However, Xiao Tzu Rin stood on the high post and asked: "You general, let me ask you, where is Zhou Chai Rong in the future?" Where is Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty? Where is Liu Jiyuan of the Northern Han Dynasty? Where is Meng Chang in Shu? Where is Liu Gang in the Southern Han Dynasty? Where is Wu Zhao Qianshu? ”

These people also spoke very well in the Song Dynasty back then, but most of them died unclear, and they did not see any generational grace.

Li Chongzhi sighed and said: "In this case, I have to convey another edict under His Majesty, the Liao army in front of you listen to it, whoever can catch the emperor of Liao, reward 100,000 yuan, catch it at any time and reward it at any time (we are not like your queen mother's edict of 100,000 taels of gold, don't play false), that is, worship the first-class prince, the third duke, if you kill the emperor of Liao, the reward will be a penny." (To be continued......)