Wu Yingying said with a smile: "If you go outside, you must first settle inside, but it is not Zhao Pu's unique theory. Liao Emperor Yeluxian is weak and will die at any time, the relatives and nobles of Liao naturally want to firmly grasp the military power in their hands, and the hedgehog gathered in Beijing to seize the throne at any time, although Han Derang won the trust of the Liao Emperor and Empress Xiao, after all, he was only a Han man, how could the Khitan tribe listen to his orders. He paused, nodded with his hand at the seemingly raging forbidden army units on the map, and said in a playful tone: "No matter how bad the current layout of the Liao State is, after all, it has the advantage of cavalry moving quickly on the battlefield, and it can rush to the aid of Youzhou at any time." On the other hand, the imperial court forbade the army, and the various departments were controlled by Zhao Jiong, and the response was ineffective, one was defeated in Taiyuan, and then it was defeated in Youzhou. With this tired army, can you be a desperate blow to 100,000 iron horsemen?"

He doubted: "Besieging Taiyuan with hundreds of thousands of troops, there is a tendency to conquer, and then turning north, Youzhou is only 20,000 Han soldiers, can't it be conquered before the Liao cavalry arrives? The Northern Expedition of the Imperial Court was still a complete victory. ”

"Youzhou Xiongcheng, Han Derang is a world-famous general, and his roots are very deep among the Youyan Han people, and it is difficult for the forbidden army to capture Youzhou in a hurry. Wu Yingying shook his head and sighed: "Compared with the strength of the city, Taiyuan is on par with Youzhou, compared with the soldiers and horses guarding the imperial army, the Youyan Han army is not much worse than the Hedong soldiers, and there are always a few people in the Liao State who understand that Youzhou is the foundation of the country's prosperity, and they will do everything to rescue it, which is completely different from the hesitation when they rescued Taiyuan before." From Zhou Shizong to Emperor Taizu, there have been three attacks on Taiyuan, all of which can not be overcome, so they have to set the strategy of burning the village and relocating the people, slowly exhausting, and accumulating for more than ten years, so that there is now a winning trend. Since it is so difficult to attack Taiyuan, what reason is there to think that the attack on Youzhou will succeed in one fell swoop, and it will succeed in a very short period of time before the Liao army comes to help?"

After saying that, Wu Yingying pointed to the distance between Youzhou and Shangjing on the map, as if he saw the future battle of Youzhou, and said in a somewhat regretful tone: "Between Youzhou and Shangjing, the light cavalry can be reached in a few days, and the forbidden army must do whatever it takes to conquer Youzhou before the Liao reinforcements arrive, and achieve the momentum of victory, must do whatever it takes. ”

Hearing that he was very reasonable, Zhang Zhongyao couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and sighed in a low voice: "The strong crossbow is extreme, the arrow can't pierce Lu Min; In this case, there are many generals in the imperial court, Pan Mei and Cao Han are not vain people, how can they not see such a situation? Why is the imperial court so sure that Youzhou can go down every day? "Although the damage to the strength of the imperial court's forbidden army is beneficial to the Anxi army's operation of the Western Regions, Zhang Zhongyao and Wu Yingying are both Han Chinese, and they are faintly sad in their hearts when they see hundreds of thousands of good men dying in the dust, but they are powerless. "The prime minister doesn't need to say much, the sixteen states of Youyun are the homeland, and they have fallen into the dust for nearly a hundred years, and the father of Youyun is looking forward to the king's teacher, such as the baby looking forward to his parents, and looking forward to the rain for a long time, how can I bear to abandon it? I am facing the clouds, and I have the potential to take it. Third, the Liao Emperor is weak, according to the detailed report, the major affairs in the country are entrusted to the hands of the women, the fathers and nobles are suspicious, the Liao people in the land of clouds are empty, and the people have two hearts. All in all, the clouds will be taken, and this battle will be won!" Zhao Jiong was proud and conceited, and his eyes unconsciously glanced at Wang Yu who was standing beside him.

Zhao Pu knelt on the ground and desperately advised him not to easily provoke Qiang Liao after attacking Taiyuan, and even said that this was a warlike strategy to destroy the country. "The old horseman, actually relying on the old and selling the old, if it weren't for the fact that you still have a little popularity in the court, and the protégés and old officials are still available, do you really know that you can 'rule the world with half of the treatise'. He looked at Zhao Pu with disgust, and turned to Cao Bin, Pan Mei and Cao Han, although Zhao Jiong had other generals in the military center available, but most of those people had never seen a big war, attacking Taiyuan and Youzhou, and relying on the three generals left by Zhao Kuangyin in front of him.

After Cao Bin became a privy envoy, he became more and more detached from the vulgar military atmosphere, and became more majestic and self-respecting courtier. At this moment, he adhered to the way of "striking later" during the court discussion, although he was quite suspicious of Zhao Jiong's unexpectedly strong confidence in attacking Youzhou, but let the other two generals speak first. Sure enough, the grumpy Cao Han rushed out of the class and said: "Your Majesty, Youzhou is the former dynasty Lulong Town, the Han'er army is fierce and daring to fight, not under the east of the river, Youzhou City is high and deep, enough to hold on, if our army attacks Jiancheng and does not fight, the Khitan soldiers go south to rescue, and immediately the enemy will be attacked on the back of the abdomen, please think twice?"

"Oh?" Although Cao Han explained the situation of the storming Youzhou very seriously, Zhao Jiong said in a rather strange relaxed tone: "In this way, General Cao has a good plan?"

Cao Han had a rough temperament and was open-minded, he heard the banter in Zhao Jiong's tone, but he ignored it, and said in a deep voice: "The art of war is said to be a blow, with the strategy of the last general, if Your Majesty must take Youzhou, when the troops are very sharp, go straight to attack with all their might, and Taiyuan, Hedong, there are only 50,000 soldiers, and they are not able to rescue Youzhou, just send a general to lead a division to guard the guard." If you want to conquer Youzhou, when you use the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, the siege is fake, gather heavy troops and the valley north of Youzhou, meet the Liao reinforcements, the reinforcements are defeated, and Youzhou will become a bag. "The official family wants to seize Yan Yun's heart, and the important ministers in the court know it, like Pan Cao, a military general, naturally he is thinking about the strategy with all his might, and now he says it with all his mind, although it does not match the intentions of the official family, but with great confidence.

"General Cao's strategy is too dangerous," before Zhao Jiong could say anything, Wang Yu preemptively said, "According to General Cao, Youzhou is still behind our army, and we want to meet the Liao army, isn't it still a situation of suffering from the enemy on the back of the belly, in case the battle is unfavorable, and the army retreats and has no city to defend, what should we do?" Moreover, the Taiyuan army has 50,000 people, and the guards need to divide 50,000 forbidden troops, and the Youzhou Han'er army has 20,000, and they must also divide a forbidden army to guard against them.

"This," Cao Han ate his question, and felt a little annoyed, what qualifications did this Wang Yu, who had never been in charge alone, question his military strategy, and replied in a deep voice: " Taiyuan is too busy to take care of itself, and will never dare to easily attack the back road of our army, with one or two thousand soldiers on guard, the same is true of the Youzhou army, more than self-preservation, insufficient attack, the main force of the forbidden army and the Liao army decisive battle, these two enemy armies will never be troubled, as for the troops, although the Liao people do not know, but every time the previous dynasty came to attack, it was the Liao Emperor's personal conquest, and the soldiers and horses were only more than 100,000 at most, and the stone of the previous dynasty could be defeated, how could the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty not be able to break it in one fell swoop?" Whenever the Central Plains Dynasty flourished, the surrounding princes were able to win the battle, which added to the confidence of Cao Han, who had read a lot of military books.

"Snort-" Zhao Pu smiled disdainfully, "Dare to ask General Cao, what happened to Shi Chonggui?" This person was later captured by the Liao army, and the concubines were all occupied by the Liao. Since ancient times, the ugliness of the country is not as good as the emperor. Thousands of years later, what a shame, what a sad!" But at this time, neither Zhao Pu nor Cao Han could have imagined that there was an incomparably heavy Jingkang shame waiting for this dynasty that should have subdued Siyi.