readx; The last cold rain in late autumn finally evolved into a tiger for Yun Zheng's march, out of Wutai Mountain, and the light rain fell all day, in this day, Yun Zheng's army traveled only eighty miles. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After a large number of cavalry, mules and horses, as well as heavy baggage convoys drove by, the road turned into a quagmire, if it wasn't for Yun Zheng's foresight to let the gun carriage go first, those thousands of pounds of Hongyi cannons must have become iron lumps in the mud now.

Watching the hooves of the big green horse sink into the mud again, Yun Zheng missed the cement roads of later generations.

In ancient times, it was a common thing to miss a schedule, and sometimes a rain or snow, a small mudslide, a landslide and other changes could cause such serious military mistakes.

There is a rule in the army that the defaulter will be killed, in fact, this military discipline is rarely chosen by the commander, if everyone is serious, the generals under his command, without fighting, are likely to have been killed by the commander.

Yun Zheng has become accustomed to the similar, probably, irresponsible way of handing over orders in the Great Song Army.

Fortunately, this kind of irreversible factor of manpower is fair to both warring parties, otherwise, Yun Zheng would never tolerate this kind of fatal reluctance.

The only thing that could satisfy Yun Zheng on the march was those ≡ Great Song soldiers, watching them continue to march barefoot in the cold mud, which made Yun Zheng's heart warm, and even the lead-gray clouds were not so annoying.

The majestic Heng Mountain, along the northern border of Dai County, stretches. The inner Great Wall winding on the top of the mountain is like a jade belt connecting beads, connecting Yanmen Mountain, Mantou Mountain, and Caoduo Mountain into one. It is bordered by the Yanbei Plateau in the north and the Xinding Basin in the south. The famous Yanmen Gusai is built on the steep Yanmen Mountain Ridge.

Yanmen Mountain, known as Goozhu Mountain in ancient times. The peaks here are tall and the terrain is dangerous. After the construction of Yanmen Pass, there is more "one husband as a pass." 10,000 people don't open".

It "strengthens the same domain guard on the outside, and strengthens the lock and key of the original on the inside, the root is against the pass, and the throat is all Jin."

Legend has it that every spring, the southern geese fly north, and the mouth is covered with reed leaves. Fly to the Yanmen Gate and hover for a long time until the leaves fall to pass the customs. Therefore, there is a saying that "those who are in Yanmen Mountain, geese fly out of it".

Xiongguan Yanmen, ranking first in the "Nine Stops in the World", this is the praise of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period. Since King Wuling of Zhao during the Warring States Period, all dynasties have regarded this place as a strategic location. Zhao placed Yanmen County, and since then, Yanmen has been established and defended as a county and county. The name of Yanmen Pass began in the early Tang Dynasty. Due to the rise of the northern Turks, there were repeated internal crimes, and the Tang garrison was stationed in Yanmen Mountain. Set up a closed city at the commanding heights of the iron gate, and defend it with soldiers.

Every time he sees Yanmen Pass, Yun Zheng will sigh with emotion, this is a blessed place given by God to the Song Kingdom, if there is no Xiongguan, the ambitious Empress Xiao will not know how many times he has broken through the Great Song Dynasty.

The human brains of the war in Hebei came out, and Di Qing's army was blocked by Xiao Ruowang, the king of the left courtyard of the Liao State, on the line of the Sanggan River in Zhuoshui and could not advance an inch, and the military newspaper said that the two armies of Song and Liao were fighting. So much so that the Sanggan River turned red, but Yun Zheng walked leisurely on it. According to the current itinerary, there are two more days to reach Yanmen Pass.

Chen Lin's anxious appearance Yun Zheng looked at it but didn't care, a eunuch wants to do national affairs, he is born with a trace of weirdness, and the sentence that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics is not only for the harem concubines, but also a ban on the eunuchs.

Di Qing fought hard in Hebei. When he was making the plan, Di Qing said that he wanted to attract the Khitan people from all over the world to Hebei, and finally go to the sea to feed the fish.

Yun Zheng didn't understand why Di Qing did this, he seemed to dislike the Khitans very much. This dislike is still expressed in the bones, not in the ordinary sense of dislike.

I wanted to ask, but seeing Pang Ji, Han Qi and the others had such an expression, in order to show that he was not an idiot, Yun Zheng had to keep his mouth shut and not ask, anyway, it was not very likely that Di Qing would attract all the Khitans to Hebei.

There is his own man-eating tiger has not yet been dispatched, giving Yelu Hongji a thousand guts, and he does not dare to raise the army of the country to deal with Di Qing, not to mention, the Khitan people know the truth of the weak and the strong, and they don't hide that Pang bites people It is a piece of meat, this guy never drinks blood, only eats meat.

With him as a neighbor in the west of the Khitans, if he didn't take precautions, sooner or later the things at home would be brought back to his house by the unhidden pang.

Because of this strange reason, the army of the Liao State is now clearly divided into blocks, the largest piece is in Hebei to fight Di Qing, most of the soldiers in this part are Han soldiers, supplemented by some of the most courageous leather room troops of the Khitans, their task is what the Song army had to do five years ago - to block it with all its might, as long as the Song army can be blocked on the front line of the Sanggan River, it is a great victory.

Yanmen Pass outside a horse Pingchuan, the most suitable for cavalry galloping, because of Yun Zheng's notoriety, the Khitan people deployed a large number of mobile cavalry here, the Liao State does not seem to expect these cavalry to stick to the city, but to deploy them all in the field, even if the weather is gradually getting colder, they are just close to the city camped to find support, there is no sense to enter the city to hide from the wind and rain.

The Liao people have built a large number of city passes in the Black Mountain Pass over the years, and the two military defeats in the Black Mountain Pass have made the Khitans full of doubts about whether they can defeat Wu Zang Pang in the field. Even the Pi Mujun himself admitted that as long as the Liao people got on the war horse, they were no match for the Western Xia people at all.

Yun Zheng hated the Liao people for putting the military camp outside the city, which made his original plan a very big flaw.

In the past five years, Yun Zheng has completely figured out the situation of the defense around Xijing by relying on those bandits who traveled in the mountains, and if the Liao people did not indiscriminately command and put the cavalry outside the city, Yun Zheng thought that he could kill the Khitans in Xijing of the Liao State in the shortest possible time, and the newly developed fire oil bomb would have been impatient for a long time.

Now, the wealthy Song Dynasty has used seventy percent of the country's finances to improve the army's equipment, and with such huge financial support, the Song army finally has a trace of iron and blood, although the current iron and blood meaning is only superficial, Yun Zheng believes that as long as he experiences this war, those soldiers who are armed with armor and high-quality blades will definitely have real changes.

I actually came to Yanmen Pass a little early, although it was already the time when the geese called the frost and the moon outside the Yanmen Pass, but the heavy snow had not fallen, and it was not a suitable day for the Song army to march.

It is said that the Hu people are resistant to bitter cold, this is simply a bullshit, everyone is flesh and blood, the body temperature is sixteen or seventeen, and the Hu people cannot hold on longer than the Song soldiers in the ice and snow, on the contrary, the probability of them freezing to death is higher.

Li Chang has experimented with this, this guy hasn't done much good in Yanmen Pass, and often makes himself do all kinds of experiments like the Japanese.

At the beginning, Yun Zheng said that winter is the best time to enter Xijing, and Li Chang immediately took it to heart

Only at that time, the land will be frozen hard, the swamp will disappear, a large number of carriages of the Song army will be galloping on the flat grassland, at that time the grass and trees will wither, the Liao people can't find many suitable places to hide the shadow, there are only a few pastures in winter, Yun Zheng doesn't believe that the Liao people dare to give up those pastures and go to other places to spend the winter, if they do that, there is no need for the Great Song army to go to the expedition, and they will all be starved to death the next year.

Li Chang is a rigorous person, in the spirit of rigorous governance, to confirm the advantages of those winter attacks on the grassland that Yun Zheng said, and after more than a year of confirmation, he put a feasible label on Yun Zheng's suggestion. and wrote a long letter to the court to explain.

I don't know which bastard said after seeing the twists and turns that the northerners are cold-tolerant, and the Song army is not cold-tolerant and the winter battle is not conducive to the Great Song Dynasty, such nonsense, after Li Chang knew, in order to prove the truth of this sentence, he asked the young army to capture dozens of Liao cavalry, and got dozens of heinous death row prisoners from the original mansion, and then he started his heinous frostbite test at Yanmen Pass.

His approach is simple and rude, the first is one-on-one, that is, a Hu man, a death row prisoner, tied to a wooden stake to freeze, and then see who lasts longer, as a result, the first to freeze to death is a death row prisoner, after getting this data, he began a large-scale test, so ten Hu people, ten death row prisoners were tied to the pillar together, this time the result surprised him, among the people who survived, the Song people were the majority!

Then there was another large-scale test, which was carried out in four sets, and the final conclusion was very unexpected, and the Song and Hu people were tied in terms of cold tolerance.

When Li Chang informed the court of his own data, and sent a special letter to the mouthy bastard to explain the matter, Li Chang's reputation was ruined, and the reputation of human slaughter spread far and wide, and the mouthy guy didn't dare to look at Li Changzheng from then on.

During that time, don't say that others were afraid of Li Chang, Yun Zheng himself was afraid, he had seen a lot of dead bodies, and he had never seen a polite taxi inspect the dead bodies tied to the pillars one by one on a dripping morning with ice, those dead bodies had completely turned cyan, with a weird smile on their faces, how weird they looked. (The person who froze to death is a smiley face)

But Li Chang didn't dislike it at all, and after testing these hard corpses with feathers and indeed out of breath, he began to ask his own soldiers, when did these people freeze to death last night.

His behavior of looking at corpses as if he were crops had suddenly increased his popularity in the army.

Since then, Yun Zheng no longer agrees with the sentence that Shi's heart is softer.

Being able to see Li Chang outside Yanmen Pass, Yun Zheng was somewhat surprised, this guy is the prefect of Tangzhou, and coming to Yanmen Pass is purely a violation, and crossing the border to visit this is something that the laws of the Great Song Dynasty cannot tolerate. (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter one