"Shangguan?" Tian Gu smiled, he looked left and right, leaned over and whispered, "The military master has more than me." He let go of his voice and said, "The loss of war horses in the army is already large, the horses in my camp are better than those of other families, and there are fewer deaths in a few years, but when I return to Bianliang, I have to pay more money to raise horses, where is the reason?"

Liang Yuan smiled bitterly, he couldn't understand Tian Gu's logic, didn't he understand that more horses could save lives on the battlefield?

Tian Gu seemed to see his doubts, and said with a smile: "Brother Liang, you Xia people, there is nothing to say about fighting, but you lack heart and eyes, even if I bring these war horses back, so that they can be born and raised, before going into battle, review the whole army, and the generals see that the horses in your camp are overnumbered, and a general will order to come, and the war horses will not know where to return to the nepotist grandson." It's better to exchange some money, buy a house in the capital, and buy two acres of land. ”

Tian Gu said frankly, but Liang Yuan was embarrassed, and he said to Tian Gu: "The Khitan people are fierce, Brother Tian is here, take care." Tian Gu grinned and said: "Thank you Brother Liang, to the Khitans, not our blowing, under the observation of King Fu Wei, Shi Jiedu, and Cao, that time I didn't kill them, by the way, at the time of the Gaoliang River, I also followed your Xia King Wu Jiedu after the break." He was quite embarrassed, I heard that Zhu Dao, who was born in Guannan, was already the military commander of the town in the Xia Kingdom, and he seemed to be a captain until he died, and before he died on the battlefield, he would accumulate more land and money for his family.

Stationed in the northwest Yanqing Huanjing Prefectures, Long Jiejun and Xia Guo Baiyu, the Lu two armies do not fight and do not know each other, there are a lot of friendships during the period, after finishing the business, after saying goodbye, Liang Yuan and the sergeants watched them leave, under the reflection of the sunset, it is a blood-like sunset, the west wind blows strongly, the military flag of the Long Jie Army hunts and flies, more than 400 horses go east, and the back of the vicissitudes of life gradually disappears behind the endless yellow sand dunes.

In the first month of the third year of Yongxi, under the hint of Zhao Jiong, Zhixiong Prefecture He Lingtu, Wensi envoy Xue Jizhao, military envoy Liu Wenyu, Chongyi deputy envoy Hou Mowu and others spoke one after another. Called the Khitan lord and the young mother is strong, the chicken in the middle of the court is Si Chen, Han De makes the favor of the fortunate to use things, the powerful people in the country have different intentions, Youyan Hanmin looks forward to Wang Shi, please take the official family to provoke the thistle. Zhao Jiong thought so, convened the ministers, and once again discussed the matter of the pro-conquest of Youyan, Prime Minister Zhao Pu, and the governor Cai Zhi and others strongly persuaded the officials to dispel the idea of pro-conquest, and the Zhao family issued a formation map, and the main force of the forbidden army sent troops in three ways.

The commander of the East Route Army was Cao Bin, the envoy of the Tianping Army, Cui Yanjin was the deputy of the Heyang Sancheng Jiedu, Guo Shouwen was the capital supervisor of the Neike Province, the guard Ma Jundu and the Changhua Army were deployed by Mi Xin for the camp of the Northwest Road of Youzhou, and Du Yangui was the deputy of the Fenzhou Observer. More than 200,000 forbidden troops were stationed in Xiongzhou, and according to the plan, they should advance slowly and march north along the flat road with great fanfare to contain the main force of the Liao army.

The commander of the Middle Route Army was the commander of the guards and infantry troops, Tian Chong, the commander of the Jingyan Army, Wu Yuanfu, the general of the right guard, and Yuan Jizhong, the envoy of the West Shanghemen, as the capital eunuchs.

The commander of the Western Route Army was Pan Mei, the envoy of the Zhongwu Army, Yang Ye was the deputy of the Yunzhou Observation Envoy, Hou Mowu was the deputy envoy of Chongyi, and Liu Wenyu, the envoy of the armory and the Shunzhou regimental training envoy, was the capital supervisor.

"Zhao Jiong's intention was to lead the regular army with Cao Bin, who was heavy with soldiers, and the 200,000 army was advancing slowly, firmly sticking the main Khitan force near Youzhou, and he could not divide his troops to save other Youyunzhou counties. And Pan Mei, Yang Ye, and Tian Chongjin all used troops to plagiarize, they attacked the states behind the mountains, and after the overall situation was determined, they and Cao Bin jointly attacked Youzhou. Zhang Zhongyao pointed to the route of the three-way march on the map with admiration, "Eat a trench and grow a wisdom, compared with the last hasty northern expedition, this time not only the east and the west, according to the news of the Military Intelligence Department, Zhao Jiong also issued an edict, calling on the Youyan Han people to attack and kill the Khitan leaders and loot horses, and also sent envoys to Goryeo, hoping to jointly attack Liao, and even planned to send sailors to land in western Liao. He paused, with a look of regret on his face, and sighed, "In order to recover Yanyun, Zhao Jiong can be said to have exhausted himself. "The army is about to enter the pass, he led the Flower Hat Army, the Zhige Army, and the Heng Array Army back to participate in the battle, and the Anxi Military Division in Hezhong was temporarily commanded by the Relief Army to make Mi Di sign on behalf of the Army.

Xiao Jiu said: "Youzhou is the heart of Yanyun, get Youzhou, Liao talent can not be based on the land of Yanyun, forced to withdraw, can not get Youzhou, it is difficult to block the Khitan reinforcements outside the pass, divided into three ways, in the end it is still to fight with the enemy under the city of Youzhou, if you lose, or give up your previous efforts." He pointed to the map and said, "From Zhuozhou to Youzhou, there are mostly plains, which is conducive to cavalry galloping, so it is better to follow the mountain road all the way from Yizhou." ”

Cai Lang's eyes were fixed on the north of Youzhou, the throat of the Western Liaoning Corridor, Pingzhou, and looked at Cangzhou, which was across the sea from Pingzhou, and sighed: "If the sailor is used, a strong army will come out of Cangzhou, cross the sea to attack Pingzhou, seize Yuguan, and cut off the road for the Liao people to aid Youzhou." ”

Wu Yingying smiled and said nothing, and the spectators will plan in front of the map, some say how the Song army should pass through Youyan, and some say how Liao should fight back. Because Xia Guo has been discussing the strategy plan of Guanzhong for many years, at this moment, the generals gathered together, but they paid more attention to the Song Liao War. Under the influence of Wu Yingying, all the generals generally knew that maintaining a balanced hostile state between Song and Liao was the most beneficial to the Xia State, and the worst result was that the Song Dynasty destroyed the Liao, or the Liao Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, and at that time, any country would immediately launch a war against the Xia State with the strength of the world, although the generals were not afraid of war, but for the Xia State, the situation would be much more difficult than that of the Song and Liao conflicts.

After discussing the military strategy, the generals took their leave and left. It has not been a day to plan to enter the pass, all kinds of preparations have been prepared, and now that the war is imminent, the generals and the marching and baggage divisions have been idle. In addition to the battalions on duty, all the battalions of the armed forces also allowed the non-commissioned officers to take leave and seize the time to reunite with their families. Only the Military Intelligence Department is still nervously following the progress of the fighting on the Song-Liao front.

Wu Yingying returned to the inner courtyard, the neat flower furrow and turf were quite pleasing to the eye, walking on the courtyard path, seeing that there were faintly two small heads in the rose bush next to him, he smiled slightly, and raised his head as if nothing happened, suddenly, a fluttering bamboo arrow shot out of the flowers, and hit him with a bang, Wu Yingying covered his chest with his hands, and screamed "Ah", lying crookedly on the ground.