Then, the scene suddenly changed, time went back, and he returned to the Bianliang Palace, still the son of heaven who was dressed in brocade clothes and jade food, was lamenting that it was just a dream of Nan Ke just now, and suddenly the killing sound outside shook the sky, Shi Shouxin, who was already dead, and Liu Yan, who was still alive, surrounded by Zhang Yongde, who was dressed in a yellow robe, rushed into the palace under the support of arrogant soldiers, and there were panicked palace maids and eunuchs everywhere, and the chaotic soldiers outside were everywhere, listening to the sounds, some were setting fires, some were looting, and more were shouting noisily: "Check and be the Son of Heaven!" Check and be the Son of Heaven!" Liu Yan let the fierce face be revealed, forced forward with a sharp blade in his hand, and shouted: "Avenge my eldest brother today!" A straight sword stabbed straight in the heart.

Zhao Jiong covered his heart, as if there was really a wound bleeding there. Qiguangou was defeated, he was frightened, and he was forced to appoint Zhang Yongde, Liu Yanrang, and other generals who had been idle for a long time to go out of the north of the town, but this hidden worry has not gone, the Khitan people are a big trouble, this group of unruly but can be used to fighting the generals are even more troublesome, under the bright moonlight, the official's eyebrows are deeply locked, meditating hard, for the sake of today's plan, only ......

Liu Yanrang transferred to Yingzhou, ordered him to invite the Khitan to self-efficacy, He Lingtu returned to Zhenxiongzhou, and the guards and horses were waiting for Cai Jilong to leave the town and deploy the soldiers and horses of Cangzhou. Zhao Jiong said expressionlessly, asking Liu Yan to let the veteran and the old troops who followed him go to waste their strength with the Khitans, and the confidant general He Lingtu was watching, and the uncle Cai Jilong went out of Cangzhou, on the one hand, he divided the military power of Zhang Yongde, who originally went out of Cangzhou, and on the other hand, when Liu Yan sent troops to the Khitan, let Cai Jilong lead the troops behind him to prevent him from making chaos like the Wuqiao Mutiny back then. Yang Ye is dead, Pan Meinai, the commander of the soldiers in charge of the north, is a national relative, although he is a little uneasy, Zhao Jiong sighed, it was still too early to kill Yang Ye, he said coldly: "Yang Ye died in battle, the boss had, Pan Mei sat on the third rank, and was responsible for inspecting the school Taibao." ”

Two days later, in the Xiongzhou forbidden army camp, the official decree arrived, Liu Yanrang respectfully accepted the order and thanked him, and after the eunuch got the reward and left happily, only the henchmen and generals were left in the tent, so he spat and scolded viciously: "His grandmother is a ball!"

"If you want the general to lead the army to go out in December and invite the Liao army in January, isn't this sending meat to the Khitans?" Zhang Sijun, the commander of the Dragon Tiger Guard, complained. "It was the time when the dripping water turned into ice, and the Khitan cavalry became colder and stronger, and most of the bows and crossbows in our army could not be opened. The two armies intersected, didn't this make me wait to die? When I left Yingzhou in December, I was afraid that I would be eaten by the Liao army before I left the Junzi Pavilion. General Sanzan also said indignantly.

Liu Yan let his henchmen and generals complain to each other, thinking in his heart about the plan that Wang Yu had already passed on, and the situation is like this, it seems that this deal will have to be done if it is not done. After all the generals were quiet and waited for him to make an idea, Liu Yan asked Fang to say in a deep voice: "In the middle of winter, invite the Liao army, nine deaths, and if you have meritorious service, you will be given to Cai Jilong's nepotistic official, and there is another way now, but there is a certainty of six or seven points, once you succeed, everyone will be extremely rich." Emperor Taizu's eldest son Zhao Dezhao, benevolent and generous, the battle of Taiyuan was willing to be blamed for our reward, speaking of which, the emperor's throne should have been inherited by Dezhao, Zhao Guangyi killed his brother to seize the throne, and now he is perverse, and we are sent to death, it is better to simply return to the army Bianliang and support Dezhao to take the throne. I don't know if you dare to do this big thing?"

His tiger eyes swept over the generals under his tent, for a general like Zhang Sijun who entered the Song Dynasty from Zhou, this kind of thing was not unfamiliar, and he looked at each other left and right for a moment, and finally, under the leadership of Liu Yanrang's henchmen who knew in advance, the generals shouted: "The last general is willing to follow Lord Liu and conspire to do great things!" "Willing to die for the adult!" "Kill into Bianliang!" "Support the bloodline of Taizu and set things right!"

Ten days later, the new town of Cangzhou deployed Cai Jilong quite complacent, he arrived in Cangzhou, he took Zhang Yongde's military power with a holy decree, Zhang Yongde is still the stepping stone-like mediocre general, no wonder he was in a high position in front of the palace, and he pulled Taizu with one hand, and he was put on a piece and stepped on him to ascend the throne. Cai Jilong's favor is no longer under Cao Bin and Pan Mei, he has tens of thousands of elites in Cangzhou's army, and he is also responsible for monitoring more than 100,000 troops in Yingzhou, Xiongzhou, and Gaoyangguan on the front line.

However, this Liu Yanrang also knew the matter, and took the initiative to attack the Khitan in the future, and Liu Yan let himself lead the front of the 100,000 people to attack, and asked Cai Jilong to select elite battalions from his battalion to form the rear of the palace as a backup. Cai Jilong is also a veteran general who is accustomed to warfare, and he knows that Liu Yanrang is clearly showing favor to him, fighting tough battles in the forward formation, and taking credit in the back of the palace, which is already a tacit rule, not to mention, Liu Yanrang also gave up to the elite of the whole army.

Escorted by hundreds of personal soldiers, Cai Jilong strode into Liu Yanrang's military camp in Yingzhou, and the surrounding soldiers did not dare to look up, the only regret was that Liu Yan let this old man rely on the old and sell the old, since he was determined to show goodwill, but he wanted to put on a shelf, relying on his high official position, he didn't know how to be flexible, and he didn't meet him at the gate of the camp.

"Hehehe, Old General Liu. Although he was slandered, Cai Jilong still smiled when he saw Liu Yanrang. He squeezed out a smile that made Liu Yan's right eyelid jump, somehow, as soon as he saw Cai Jilong, he had a feeling of disgust in his heart that he would definitely be put on a table by him, originally because he was the confidant uncle valued by the official family, but at the moment, it seems that this is not important.

Liu Yanrang smiled coldly, waved his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Take it for me!"

Cai Jilong didn't expect that the world had been unified for many years, and there were still rebel generals who dared to rebel, and in an instant, the blood in his whole body was cold, his face was pale, and he shouted angrily: "Liu Yanrang, you dare to defect to the Khitans and betray the imperial court!" shouted while struggling. The soldier next to him knocked him to the ground with three punches and two kicks, and tied him with a rope lance.

Liu Yanrang sneered: "Khitan, I'm sorry, your grandfather and I are protecting the true dragon emperor," he paused, he looked at the shocked Cai Jilong, exhaled, and said in a loud voice: "Emperor Taizu died, and Dezhao should have taken the throne, but Zhao Guangyi killed his brother and seized the throne, and then messed up my brothers and other brothers, reused you and other villains, and humiliated the country with Liao and lost the teacher, tossing enough, in this world, it should also be replaced by Dezhao's nephew!" Cai Jilong was startled, and immediately gritted his teeth and scolded: "It turned out to be Zhao Dezhao!" Liu Yanrang was afraid that he would scold some foul language, so the soldiers under his command would gag his mouth with stinky cloths.

The generals' plan has been decided, and the general Zhang Sijun will stay in Yingzhou, not only to prevent the Khitans from entering the Kou, but also to prevent Tian Chongjin in the direction of Gaoyang Pass from copying the back road. Liu Yanrang personally led the army out of Xiongzhou, and Zhongdao and Dingzhou Zhang Yongde and Mi Xin led the Dingzhou Garrison Forbidden Army together, first beheaded Zhao Jiong's uncle Cai Jilong to sacrifice the flag and swear the army, and played the banner of supporting Zhao Dezhao, the eldest son of Song Taizu, and nearly 100,000 forbidden troops marched to Bianliang. "Liu Jiedu, aren't you going to cross the sea to attack the Khitan?" Zhang Yongde joked while camping.

"This", Liu Yanrang was a little embarrassed, and explained: "This is all written blindly by the poor people hired in the army, in the past hundred and ten years, who really crossed the sea to become a teacher, and who wanted to get Zhao Guangyi to take it seriously." ”

In Yanmen Pass, after Yang Ye was passed to the head of the border pass by the Liao soldiers, the Hedong soldiers in the army were immediately in an uproar, and some were frightened, claiming that if Yang Ye's courage and invincibility were still inevitable to be killed by the Liao, then everyone should flee as soon as possible, and some legends said that Yang Ye was killed by Pan Mei's jealousy. Compared with the infantry of this era, the Central Plains army, which was dominated by infantry, was extremely important compared with the Saiwai barbarians, who were good at fighting on horseback. One of the most common practices is that a daring army is in the front, fighting with the enemy's cavalry, limiting the space for the cavalry to gallop, fighting to a certain time, pressing on the rear formation, giving full play to the advantages of bows and crossbows and melee to defeat the enemy. This kind of tactics makes the trust between the front army and the rear army particularly important, Pan Mei will not save him when he sees death this time, and his reputation in the Daibei Army has been ruined for decades.

Therefore, the soldiers of the border village fled to the Japanese, but Pan Mei was helpless. In recent days, the border army has also fled in formation, and Pan Mei can only draw soldiers and horses from the camp to replenish them.

More than half of these escaped soldiers gathered in a cottage in the Taihang Mountains in the south of Taiyuan like a trickle of water into a big river. Outsiders just think that this is a bandit village, but in fact, this place is a garrison base operated by the Yang family in the northwest for decades, and it was originally used just in case. This time, Zhao Jiong borrowed Pan Mei's hand to cut off the head of the Yang family, and the traces were too obvious, and the side branches of the Yang family were all cold and sad, so they gave acquiescence and secret support to Yang Yanzhao's actions. In addition to the horses, food, and ordnance originally stored in the camp, Wang Yu also sent a batch of food, ordnance, arrows and other things some time ago, as well as the will of Zhao Dezhao's handwriting.

On this morning, Yang Ye's eldest son, Yang Yanzhao, gathered all the troops and prepared to go south to Bianliang.

"The one who killed the old general, Pan Mei, Liu Wenyu, and Hou Mowu used it as just minions, and the real mastermind was the brute who killed his brother and seized the throne in Bianliang!" Wang Gui, the deputy general of Yang Ye who was lucky to not die, stood beside Yang Yanzhao and said in a loud voice, "The so-called good and evil will be rewarded in the end, Zhang Yongde, the general of the left guard, and Liu Yanrang, the general of the right Xiaowei, have led the 100,000 troops stationed in Tundingzhou and Xiongzhou to support Zhao Dezhao, the eldest son of Emperor Taizu, and now the new emperor understands the grievances of the old Linggong, and asks General Yang to take us into Bianliang, not only to avenge the old general, but also to make meritorious service from the dragon!" ”

Five thousand Hedong athletes with white hemp in their arms, everyone had a sad and excited look on their faces, Yang Yanzhao's face was cold, he turned over the saddle and got on the horse, raised the big gun in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Send troops!"