At this moment, in a forbidden army camp in the northern suburbs of Bianliang, Wu Yingying was wrapped tightly in the middle of a bearskin coat, stomping his feet, and snorting into his palms, cursing Zhao Jiong in his heart.

Before the expedition to Taiyuan, the forbidden army of each ministry allocated the area of Taiyuan to attack the city in advance, Heyang Jiedu made Cui Yan attack the east city wall, Yande Jiedu made Cai Hanqiong attack the south city wall, Guizhou Observation Room made Cao Han attack the west city wall, and Zhangxin Jiedu made Liu Yu attack the north city wall. There were only 300 people in the Anxi army who followed Wu Yingying, but they picked up a bargain and only served as a subordinate in the forbidden army camp led by Zhao Jiong himself, and in fact, there were no combat missions.

Although the Great Song Dynasty has a number of military horses to the front of the east of the river, although the main force of the forbidden army that is ready to follow the Hu Imperial Expedition has not moved, but Wu Yingying and the three hundred Anxi guards were sent to a vacant military camp in the northern suburbs of Bianliang by a holy decree, and this military camp is surrounded by the elite of the Longjie Army and the Hujie Army led by Cao Han, and the three hundred Anxi Army are stationed in the middle, like a guard, the weather is cold, although the military resources have never been short, but they always have to run to the south of Bianliang City to receive, there are nearly 100 miles in one trip, so there are many rules for tossing the soldiers, and the Anxi Army has always been how convenient and how to come to complain。

Since being forcibly stationed in the forbidden army barracks, Wu Yingying has almost completely cut off contact with the outside world, and the only pastime every day is to read the military reports of the forbidden army's Northern Expedition to Hedong.

According to Wu Yingying's observation, the forbidden army at this time was neatly marched, but there was still a lack of bravery, and the grassroots were not as brave as the Anxi army, and they paid more attention to shameful military discipline, and the forbidden army did not flaunt a white-bladed victory. The crossbow is the most important weapon in the forbidden army, Wu Yingying watched the crossbow array of the Hujie army, an order, ten thousand strings sounded in unison, the arrows in the sky were like flying locusts, covering the sky and the sun, and the heavy armor used as a target in the distance was often penetrated by the crossbow again and again, becoming a hedgehog.

The forbidden army mainly uses short soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, although each command is equipped with a small number of pikemen, but most of the soldiers practice on weekdays are big swords, waist knives, and even some soldiers have purchased heavy short soldiers such as hammers and maces as self-defense weapons.

However, the army originally advocated the courage of a puppet to destroy the enemy's courage, fight the enemy's formation, and sweep thousands of troops, under the deliberate guidance of the imperial court, the status of personal martial arts in the forbidden army has been greatly inferior to before, a large number of strict and law-abiding officers have been promoted, and the forbidden army is full of experts who will arrange a large number of soldiers and horses in a uniform manner, and advance and retreat freely. The forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty was gradually transforming into an army that relied on an organizational system and rigorous formations rather than individual heroism to achieve victory.

At a time when the lower ranks of the army are more and more regarded serving as a soldier and eating food as a normal occupation, the upper echelons of the forbidden army still maintain the tradition of offensive operations left over from the five generations, and in the daily exercises, defense only accounts for a small part, and the Long Jie Army and the Tiger Jie Army are all conducting drills under the condition of preset field victory. At the same time, the concept of following the formation was extremely popular in the army, and in the Anxi army, if an officer could exchange the least casualties for the greatest results and distribute them fairly, he would gain the support of the sergeants. However, in the forbidden army, a recognized good general must be proficient in formation, and have the courage to discipline the soldiers to skillfully perform the exercises, and a large number of promotions are determined by drills rather than battles, which are to some extent similar to the imperial examinations of the literati, while the actual battles are mixed with too many unpredictable factors such as factions, luck, and the strength of the enemy.

The military reports on the front line are one a day, and they are all news of the victories of the imperial army. Even the people in the market have spread the word of mouth, and the forbidden army of the imperial court has won successive battles in Hedong, and the momentum is like a bamboo, and the entire Kaifeng government and the opposition are filled with an atmosphere of excitement and festivity. Only Zhao Pu and a few other people who knew that the official family would immediately raise troops against Youyan after capturing Taiyuan were worried.

At the same time, when the news of the beating of the envoys reached Shangjing, the entire Daliao government and opposition were so shocked that they couldn't react for a while. However, until the tart horse Changshou unassumingly left Bianjing in a carriage and returned to the Liao State dozens of days later, the tense garrison of the forbidden army in the Heshuo area did not suffer the expected retaliation of the Liao people, for a time, the optimistic atmosphere filled the Bianliang government and the opposition, and the atmosphere of the Liao State was just the opposite, although the imperial court did not want to have a large-scale conflict with the Southern Dynasty in the Youyan area, but the Song people soon spread the rumors of the Northern Expedition to recover Yanyun among the Han people, and even the Khitan people who settled here began to be uneasy.

"It's just confused!" Xiao Zhen angrily threw the letter of state sent by the imperial court to the Southern Dynasty to denounce the matter to several cases, and in the letter of state, he only used a routine tone to protest against the insult suffered by the Great Liao envoy in Bianliang, and declared that if the Song State did not properly handle the matter, it would greatly damage the image of the Great Song Dynasty as a ceremonial state and the overall situation of friendly relations between Song and Liao.

As a Khitan, especially a Khitan who had lived in the Youyan area for a long time and was familiar with the situation in the south, Xiao Zhen almost wondered if the heads of the imperial princes and nobles in Shangjing had been kicked in the head by donkeys, "Can't they see that this is the move of the Southern Dynasty to test our country? At this time, the more they tolerate, the more unscrupulous Bianliang's conquest of Taiyuan will be, and it will even stimulate their ambition to directly attack Youzhou!" Xiao Zhen said indignantly, not only him, but after the envoy was humiliated, many Han people in the Youyun area began to secretly communicate with the south, and even the Khitan people thought that the dynasty had plans to abandon Youyan, and some Khitan nobles who came to make money had even begun to look for ways to return to the north.

"Hmph," Seeing that his henchmen looked so indignant, Han Derang coughed, and the wild Khitan people who had not been eliminated privately fought in the grass valley were taught several times by the forbidden army stationed in the south with a net, and they had already accumulated a lot of resentment, and now, the Khitans, who were stimulated by the humiliation of the envoys, came and went to the mansion left behind in Nanjing every day, demanding that troops be sent to the south immediately to retaliate, "Don't they know that the interests of the Great Liao and the interests of the magnates in Shangjing are not completely consistent?" Han Derang sighed in a low voice, looking at the magnificent color of the glass glass wine in the sun quite playfully, since the founding of the Great Liao, these Khitan nobles have not learned anything else, and the ability to intrigue for personal gain has been on a par with the bureaucrats of the Southern Dynasties, because of this, the people of insight in the Great Liao Dynasty and the field, such as Emperor Yeluxian, Empress Xiao, Yelu Huge, As well as Han Derang and others, they were anxious to end the war with the Southern Dynasties, freed their hands, and took advantage of the fact that the elite soldiers of the central generals were still there, and the blood of the Khitan people had not been completely exhausted, and they swept away the strong enemies of the barbarian tribes such as Goryeo, Jurchen, and Murowei in the north one by one, leaving no trouble. In the end of the Great Liao Dynasty, the use of troops in the north was always a more important direction than in the south.