According to the regulations of the Great Song Dynasty on foreign affairs, the prefectures and counties where local and foreign tribute envoys enter the country should set up pavilions and post posts to settle the envoys, and the local military and political governors should be responsible for receiving them, and report their country names, names, numbers, and years to the Honglu Temple of the Ministry of Rites, and the itinerary of the envoys, as well as the reception and supply along the way, should also be recorded and reported together.

Xuanfu envoy Zhao Tan did not return from patrolling the border, and the matter of dealing with the entry of the 'envoys' of the Jin State temporarily fell on the head of Xu Jingheng, the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, which made him embarrassed. Because the foreign policy of the early Song Dynasty was to 'lose money and make money', the system of reciprocal gifts was adopted for the tributary countries, which allowed some countries to see business opportunities, and the missions they sent could be turned into tributary missions from the political aspect, and they could be directly called 'caravanserais' from an economic point of view.

These tributary envoys were happy, but the Song Dynasty government was unhappy, the number of tributary envoys was too large, one was to give a large number of rewards to the mission, and the other was that the large-scale commodity trade of the mission caused a large outflow of silver, silk and silk, etc., which had an impact on the economy. At this point, regulations began to be made on the number of envoys, the period of tribute, the reward, and the length of stay, and the envoys had to carry a seal and be allowed to enter the country.

But these Jurchens who entered the country did not talk about the stamps, there were no tributes, but they brought a bunch of knives and guns, so Xu Jingheng reported the situation truthfully, and suggested that they should be dealt with as trespassers and expel them, which is already considering the relationship between the two countries is now an ally, otherwise they will all have to be sent to a hard labor camp for labor reform. The imperial court quickly rejected his suggestion, believing that it was not suitable for hostile relations and that it should be considered as taking refuge in our country.

The problem arises again. Since it is an evacuum, the Jurchens should be asked to write an application for approval, but Wan Yan Xian is willing to be a refugee. I resolutely did not write it, but hoped to enter the country as an envoy. At least it looks good! So I had to report it again, and at the same time ask my superiors to send someone to verify my identity, this Wan Yan Xian has only heard of it, no one knows it, and there is no national certificate, in case it is just some rogues pretending, it will not become an international joke.

It's been a long time, first the Jin Embassy in the Great Song Dynasty sent someone to verify, and this person is not bad and knows Yan Xianye. While hurriedly returning to the country, he explained the situation to the Great Song Dynasty, and confirmed that it was the Dajin State that was extremely strong, both inside and outside the army, and the royal brother Wanyan Xianye, but it was an indisputable fact that he led the troops into the country, otherwise how to explain the more than 3,000 soldiers around him, this is even more troublesome. The nature of the incident has changed, an important minister of a country leading troops to trespass into another country without authorization and mistakenly enter the border is aggression, what else do you want to do, let's make this matter clear!

The envoy of the Jin State could only ask the country for instructions on how to deal with it. Da Song also needs a reasonable explanation here. But at this juncture, Wu Qimai is not in charge, he is just looking after the house, which makes it difficult for Yan Xian and Xu Jingheng. They can only spend it here, and it will be cold on this day, and then a big thing happens. Let the impasse turn around...

On June 24 this year, Yanjing's puppet emperor Yeluchun died. His wife, Xiao Shi, was called the queen mother. Concubine Xiao Defei cut down the entire family of Li Chuwen, the prime minister of the Han dynasty. The reason is that it is difficult to make a fortune by using power for personal gain. After the Yanyun chaos, the Han people, the Xi people, and the Bohai people were in danger, Yelu and the Xiao family were at odds, they were in trouble both internally and externally, and people's hearts were unstable.

In July, Zhao Ji, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, at the request of Tong Guan and his courtiers, decided to march to Yanjing again while the dragons of Yanjing were leaderless. Because the veteran breeder Dao has always disagreed with the Liao War, and has written many times, Tong Guan was made a scapegoat after the failure of the first Liao War, and he was demoted and demoted. So the Zhulu army of 200,000, with Liu Yanqing as the capital, divided the troops into two routes and drove to Yanjing. Liu Yanqing's army was stationed in the ancient city, and Liu Guangshi's army was stationed in Guangxin.

Soon, Gao Feng, the defender of Yizhou in Liao, and Guo Yaoshi, the defender of Zhuozhou, took the initiative to surrender to the Song Dynasty, which made Tong Guan see hope, thinking that the Liao State was finished and Yanjing was within reach, so he ordered to start an attack. The Western Army gathered 100,000 troops, and Liu Yanqing personally went into battle and killed Youzhou City. On the night of October 23, with 1,000 of Guo Yaoshi's Changsheng army as guides, and 6,000 soldiers such as Yang Keshi and Gao Shixuan, they unloaded their coins and rushed to Yanjing in the middle of the night.

On the morning of October 24, the Song soldiers crossed the Lugou River early and arrived at the foot of Yanjing City. Guo Yaoshi led 50 people with Zhen Wuchen and others, mixed with the people in the suburbs, entered Yanjing City, captured the Yingchun Gate, and let the Song soldiers enter. As a result, the two sides in the city fought, the Song soldiers killed the Khitans, seized the door and entered, Guo Yaoshi and others quickly occupied various key points in the city, and approached the palace of the Empress Dowager Xiao.

However, the accident happened again, Liu Guangshi, who was the backup that day, did not appear in Youzhou City, and he and those new forces who had agreed to Lu did not know where to go. The resentful army was trapped in Youzhou City, and they had to tie a rope to the city and go down one by one. Those who barely escaped from the city alive were only a few hundred men, and all of them had no horses. They escaped on foot and returned to the camp by the trail. The Song soldiers were defeated out of Yanjing City, Guo Yaoshi, Yang Keshi and others fled in embarrassment, Gao Shixuan and other generals died in the city, and only a few hundred of the 6,000 elite soldiers remained. Guo Yaoshi's military strategy to attack Yanjing City can be described as a surprise to the enemy, which is a high move in the war. However, the Song soldiers were undisciplined, did not understand the policy of national pacification, and there were many contradictions between the generals, and the commander Liu Yanqing was incompetent, which led to the failure of the surprise attack.

After this battle, the Song army was said to have just not taken advantage of it, and the losses were not large. But Xiao Gan, the defender of the Liao army, began to move, and he implemented a very absurd and almost boring plan, commanding the Liao army to sneak attack the Song army's transport team, and falsely claimed that the Liao army of 100,000 had arrived in Yanjing, and carried out an attack at night, which frightened Liu Yanqing.

Retreat, retreat immediately! Liu Yanqing gave the order to retreat with the most severe military order, ordering the whole army to flee as quickly as possible regardless of everything and throwing everything away, and all kinds of strategic war preparation materials that he had no time to bring were burned on the spot. The night was full of fire, and most of them were lit by the Song Dynasty themselves. In this fire, it was not just tents, equipment and other things that were burned, but all the family funds accumulated by the Song Dynasty since the Xining Reform, the most important of which was military rations.

Liu Yanqing can't control this, in his heart, his life is the most important. He ran desperately, drove the soldiers to run with him, and finally withdrew to Baigou after the night. At this point, he breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the danger had finally passed, and the border was ahead, and it would be safe to cross the river. But at this moment, he discovered a greater danger - the Liao army had arrived.

In fact, Xiao Gan only had 3,000 people in his hands, and due to the disparity in strength, he never made a move, but bluffed behind the Song army, and did not launch an attack until the Song army ran all night and was exhausted. At this time, there was the Baigou Jiehe River in front of it, and then the Liao army rode iron, and the 100,000 Song troops fled overnight, and the situation was so bad that it could not be worse. As a result, needless to say, everyone also understood, the Song army threw down countless corpses before crossing the white ditch and escaping back to the Song realm, and the second Northern Expedition ended in such a tiger.

This time the Song army was defeated to the point of misery, don't say anything about morale and glory, every soldier is depressed to death, the defeat is really their mistake, they are really cowardly, is the Western army so vulnerable? At this time, everyone knew that the generals were incompetent and exhausted the three armies, and they were not defeated by the Liao people at all, they were defeated by themselves!

After this battle, the supplies were gone, the military lost its morale to the extreme, and it was impossible to fight again, and this was only its own loss. A group of people in the DPRK and China tried to take advantage of the fire to rob and make a big profit, but as a result, stealing chickens and rice did not lead to a negative erosion, not only suffering heavy casualties, but also losing the military grain and grass that Wang Anshi had accumulated since the reform of the law. If they retreat at this time, it is not such a thing, then it is not a wise move, in that way, they can't hear what future generations say, at least they don't have to lose their heads in this life, hang themselves, and eat snow!

First of all, Tong Guan is not reconciled, his dream has not yet been realized, the prince has not yet arrived, and comrades still need to work hard. So he kept tossing. He pondered that if the class teacher returned to the dynasty like this, Wang Hao, Liang Shicheng and others, maybe they would have to add Cai Jing, an old immortal, they would take the opportunity to make a big fuss, the emperor had lost his original favor to himself, and now he can only sit on the cold bench after going back so grayly, and the family wealth saved by years of hard work, most of his life's hard work will not be in vain, how can this be right!

Unwilling is unwilling, but now let Tong Guan fight with the Khitan people again, he doesn't have the guts, but people are afraid to use their brains, as long as they want to, there must be a way. Tong Guan pondered, my Great Song Dynasty can't beat you Khitans, doesn't it mean that you are invincible in the world, aren't you all beaten by the Jurchens, losing the city and losing the land, and even your own country is occupied by the family.

Thinking about it, Tong Guan has an idea, mother, we can't beat you, our buddies are amazing, I'll call someone to go and let them clean you up. So Tong Guan returned to Beijing again and reported his thoughts to the emperor, but he didn't expect Zhao Ji to agree without thinking about it, so he sent Zhao Liangsi as an envoy to visit Jin Guo again to discuss the recovery of Yanyun...

Since there is a request for others, the people in the court and the central government will think of the supreme commander of the Dajin Kingdom in Hedong, which is still holding people, isn't this too rude! The invaders and anything can not be mentioned, and the treatment must be improved quickly, according to the hospitality of the Prince of the Great Song Dynasty. According to the practice of reciprocal diplomacy, the Great Song Dynasty also had to send a prince to receive it, and it happened to be handed over to Prince Yan.

But they don't know that Zhao Ta and Zhao Ta will know such a thing after 800 years, he has already 'patrolled the border', and rushed to the Volcano Army in the dust, when they were busy preparing the holy decree, Zhao Ta had already drunk a little wine with Wan Yan Xian, and was calling him a brother! (To be continued.) )