Finally, pulling out the sea, he rode alone through the open space between the two armies, and came to the front of Luo Youtong, the commander of the galloping hunting army, Luo Youtong strangled the horse, and the healthy horse was quite irritated and scraped the gravel under his feet. Luo Youtong looked at the tribal leader who had been crisscrossing the west of the river for most of his life with great amusement, only to see him kneeling on one knee and begging for mercy: "The Bahai tribe is willing to surrender, and there are 15,400 men, women and children, and they obey the fate of the Anxi Army." ”

The same scene took place in the northern and southern grasslands, Gobi and valleys centered on the Hexi Corridor, where one nomadic tribe after another was captured by the Anxi armies with sharp minions, and the selected warriors from the tribes in turn strengthened the cavalry in the Anxi army. Not only was the cavalry strength greatly strengthened, but the infantry army gradually overcame the fear of cavalry clusters in the long-distance attack, and the commander of the Jiaorong army even boasted that now the Jiaorong army was besieged by superior cavalry when it went out of the fortress alone, and it could also be like the elite under the command of Cai Ling of the Han army. In fact, the Jiao Rong army often used its own hussar battalion as the eyes and ears of the army, and drove hundreds of miles north to sweep away the steppe tribes north of the corridor.

The cold and summer came and went, and the armies fought countless battles, but under the deliberate cover-up, the imperial court only felt that the Anxi army's strategy for Hexi was not stable, and the barbarian tribes on all sides were resisting, which can be known from the snowflakes of the Anxi army's report to Wu Yingying.

"Prime Minister, it seems that the barbarians in the west have been a little unstable recently. Zhao Jiong slapped the Anxi military newspaper sorted out by the military department, and sighed, "The northwest barbarians are just coveting the silk tea of the Central Plains, and then they just want to sell more green salt. Zhao Jiong wasn't very worried about the northwest, after all, the barbarians there were still scattered sand, which was completely different from the Liao State in the northeast, which was already a behemoth.

Zhao Pu had already read the content of this excerpt, and when he heard Zhao Pu's question, his slightly closed eyes opened, revealing a ray of cold light, stroked his beard, and said in a deep voice: "The generals of the Anxi Army are all unruly and unruly, repeatedly driving out the officials appointed by the imperial court, and the upper and lower levels are self-dedicated, and the people are served. Let them suffer a little from the barbarians. "Over the past year, the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War have repeatedly appointed civil and military officials to Hexi, asking for the inspection of soldiers and horses, who knows that the generals of Anxi do not sell their accounts at all, and those who are educated such as Lian Ruijun, the new official will be presented with a pair of white bi on the day of his arrival, and he will politely ask him to return home. Unceremonious, such as the hussars, drove directly to the outside of the fortress to crusade against the barbarians, leaving an empty walled city, on the second day of the expedition, there were steppe tribes to attack, and the Great Song officials who stayed in the walled city were headed. Although he knew that Xin Gu was killing people with a knife, Lingzhou was far away in the Hanhai Sea, and the imperial court forces were all in the Heshuo area, so he had to pinch his nose and admit it when he was waiting to attack Taiyuan.

The Shanghui asked Wu Yingying why he controlled the generals of Hexi, and Wu Yingxing replied, but he was bound by kindness and righteousness. It seems to be true," Zhao Jiong handed another piece of the fold to Zhao Pu to see, it was still a military report sent to Wu Hero by Hexi, the Anxi Army has fought frequently this year, and there have been many officer losses, and it is clearly written on the fold that all the vacancies of generals and generals are elected from below, but it is only reported to Wu Hero.

"This Anxi army is simply a group of arrogant soldiers who do not obey Wang Hua, not only Wu Yingying can't control the armies, but the commanders of the armies can't control the departments, you see, even the vacancy of the captain is pushed by the centurion in the battalion, and the army owner can't even intervene. It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous. Zhao Jiong was originally a little jealous of Wu Yingying, but he knew that in addition to a few generals in the Anxi army, all the officers under him were elected by the sergeants, which was almost a copy of the five generations of soldiers, and this Wu Yingying seemed to be so weak in his control over his subordinates, and it was not difficult to understand why he was willing to go to Bianliang as a hostage when the families of the whole army were trapped in Lanzhou, because if he didn't come, the soldiers who were in chaos at the bottom would cut them into meat sauce, and the commanders and generals who could not meet the requirements of their subordinates often died miserably, which was a common scene in the five dynasties.

"Your Majesty, another spy reported that Wu Yingying was highly regarded in Hexi, and even the ordinary soldiers and ordinary people were loyal to him, and he would be called "lord" when he opened his mouth, and hoped that he would return as soon as possible. Zhao Pu said slowly, in fact, his thoughts were not far from Zhao Jiong. The soldiers and commanders left a very deep impression on the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, cutting the feudal towns and collecting the right to collect troops are all in order to get rid of this drawback, if Wu Yingying lets go of these arrogant soldiers to do whatever he wants, while maintaining a high degree of control over the army, then he is not a person, but a god. However, as a prime minister, you can't say that the emperor is right, and you always have to fill in the gaps.

"This is just a superficial effort. Zhao Jiong handed over all the twists and turns about Anxi in his hand to Zhao Pu, and said in a deep voice, "The former dynasty and the feudal town were not loyal to the imperial court, what was the result?" Speaking of later, Zhao Jiong also gritted his teeth a little, the hatred of the Great Song Dynasty Zhao clan for the feudal town was deeper than that of the Khitan, and now the Hexi domain town is simply the culmination of the world's proud soldiers, and the layers are all promoted from below, which simply turns the heavenly principles over.

"However, today I beheaded Wu Yingying in Bianliang, and according to the habits of the generals in Hexi, I am afraid that a coach will be elected tomorrow. It is better to leave him in Bianliang, use his kindness to the old department, stabilize Hexi, and wait for the east to do so, and I will drive the expedition to level this arrogant general. ”

The hearts of the people are separated from the belly, and it is really difficult to find out how the prestige of Wu Yingying in the Anxi army is, if it is only according to the secret report, the loyalty of the state government officials to the officials of the current dynasty is the same, it can be said that it is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea, even if the Khitans kill them, there is no problem for these officials to kill their families and reward the soldiers for defending the city, but in fact?

"However, the official family has said one thing, even if he kills Wu Yingying now, it will not be beneficial to subdue Hexi, these arrogant soldiers will elect a boss the next day, maybe more tyrannical than Wu Yingying, maybe turn around and take refuge in the Khitan. Zhao Pu sighed lightly and agreed. Because of the unruliness of his subordinates and saving his life, this Wu hero is really a good life.

The two of them agreed on the disposal of Wu Yingying, after this winter, pacify Taiyuan, subdue Yanyun, and the large-scale Northern Expedition will kick off.

As soon as the first month arrived, Zhao Jiong would dispatch generals to attack Longzhou, Yuzhou, Fenzhou, Qinzhou and other Hedong prefectures, cutting off the Northern Han army and isolating Taiyuan. Cui Yanjin, the envoy of the Heyang Jiedu, Cai Hanqiong of the Zhangde Jiedu, Cao Han of the Guizhou Observation Envoy, and Liu Yu of the Zhangxin Jiedu made the four-way army march together, led by Cao Bin, and surrounded Taiyuan. The Yunzhou Observer made Guo Jin hold the Shiling Pass and block the Liao army that rescued the Northern Han from the north. Meng Xuanzhe was under the jurisdiction of Zhenzhou to garrison soldiers and horses, blocking the east and east sides to rescue the Liao army of the Northern Han Dynasty.

This is like a hunt, where the generals of all walks of life led their troops and surrounded the Northern Han Dynasty, a male deer that had been competing with the Central Plains for many years, tripped and fell to the ground, held down its head and neck, and locked its limbs so that it could not resist.

At this time, the most glorious moment will be left to Zhao Jiong himself, who will personally drive the expedition like Tang Taizong did back then, and personally lead the main force of the forbidden army to Taiyuan. Give this century-old enemy of the Central Plains court the final fatal blow and dominate the world. Although the Northern Han soldiers were tough and strong, the total number was only 50,000 or 60,000, and the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops of the Great Song Dynasty would collapse with a full blow.