The Song army held a simple ceremony to enter the city, and the 80,000-strong army immediately entered the city.

Datong City looks much smaller than Youzhou City, with a population of about 200,000 and dense houses.

There were almost no pedestrians on the streets, every house was closed, shops were closed, and all the people in the city were nervous, wondering what fate the Song army would bring to them when they entered the city.

Fan Ning's horse whip pointed to the houses on both sides and asked Liu Zhidao: "I want to talk about the ugly things in front, the Song army has its own set of rules when entering the city, all the people in the city must be gathered outside the city, the Song army must search the city, and after confirming that there is no lurking Liao army, everyone can go home normally, in addition, all the weapons and troops in the city must be confiscated, let every household put their weapons in the courtyard, please Liu Zhifu to notify them door to door!" ”

Liu Zhi hesitated, "Do you have to do this?" ”

"This is the rule, this is what we do in Youzhou City, the Song army will not take the opportunity to loot the people's property, if you don't worry, the gold and silver can be carried with you."

In desperation, Liu Zhi had to hurry to arrange for the people to go out of the city, and Fan Ning came to the official warehouse with the army.

Liu Kui had already come to the warehouse first, and was leading people to count the materials in the warehouse.

"How? Is there plenty of supplies in the warehouse? Fanning asked with a smile.

Liu Kui hurriedly saluted, "Qi Yu Xianggong, the account shows that there are 150,000 stones of grain and 200,000 quintals of forage, although there is no actual inventory, but it is estimated that it is about the same, the armor and various materials are quite rich, but they are relatively old, and they are all old goods." ”

"What about the gold and silver?" Fanning continued.

"The account shows that there are 50,000 taels of silver, 10,000 taels of gold, and 100,000 taels of money, but I didn't see it in the warehouse.

"Why do you say it's basically credible?"

Fan Ning couldn't rub the sand in his eyes, he didn't want to listen to the conclusion, but asked Liu Kui to come up with a basis, how could he say that the money was taken away by the Khitan army, not the official in charge of the warehouse?

"Before entering the city, a scout cavalry caught several lone Khitan soldiers, and found three thousand taels of silver on them, and they confirmed that the silver on their bodies was taken from the official treasury."

Fan Ning frowned, "The Khitan soldiers didn't withdraw with the brigade, why were they left alone?" ”

"For the sake of money, the retreating Liao army couldn't get that much money for a while, so they buried the copper coins and some silver outside the city, and these soldiers were the people who participated in digging the pit and burying them, and they were blinded by the money, so they left the team without permission and came back to dig up money."

Fanning suddenly became interested, "Where is the buried money?" Did you find it? ”

"I have already gone to find it, according to the confession, the buried silver has been dug up by them, only three thousand taels, and the rest are copper coins, and it is likely that 100,000 copper coins are all there."

Fan Ning quickly estimated in his heart that 100,000 copper coins weighed 600,000 catties, and 5,000 retreating soldiers had to bring weapons and armor, enough dry food, and gold and silver.

Thinking of this, Fanning nodded and said, "If you continue to liquidate the treasury, you must make sure that the accounts are in line with the facts." ”

………..

At this time, the city of Datong was already boiling, more than 100 officials knocked on the door from door to door, shouted on the street, asking the people to go outside the city to concentrate, they coaxed the people, there was a Liao army hidden in the city, and a civil war might break out.

Hundreds of thousands of people left their homes and went out of the city, carrying parcels containing their gold and silver and copper coins too heavy to carry, so they hid them one after another, some dug cellars and buried them, and some put them in jars and sank into wells.

On the streets, groups of people dragged their families and staggered out of the city, with groups of soldiers maintaining order beside them, some of whom helped the infirm with their luggage.

This rule that all the people leave the city was formulated by Fanning, and was opposed by many ministers in the imperial court, many ministers thought that this was a labor of the people, which would make the people of Liao disgusted with the Song army, but Fanning insisted on doing so.

He believed that this was a kind of baptism, and that the people of Liao must be made aware that they were no longer subjects of Liao, but subjects of the Great Song Dynasty, and that expelling the people from the city for re-registration was a ritual that made them realize from their hearts that they had said goodbye to their past lives.

In one afternoon, more than 200,000 people all left the city, and in a wilderness outside the southern city, the people stood in a crowd of people, everyone was worried and scared, not knowing what their fate would be?

The Song army in the city began to search door to door, looking for Liao soldiers who might be hiding in the city, and at the time of the third watch, the search was completed, and a total of more than 140 Liao soldiers hidden in the city were found, most of them were hidden in monasteries or large households, and were searched out by the Song army.

At the same time, a long row of tables was set up outside the city, and the lights around it were as bright as day.

More than 200,000 people lined up in 30 queues and began to register one by one.

At this time, a troop of cavalry galloped up and shouted: "The privy envoy has an order, the old and weak women and children can return to the city first, and each household can leave one person to register." ”

When the news came out, there was a thunderous roar of joy, and groups of old and weak women and children left the team, holding their young children, holding the old man, and staggering towards the city.

………..

The news of the capture of Datong City reached the capital, and the newspapers published this good news on the front page, although the news of the recovery of Yunzhou was cheerful, but compared with the grand scene of the capital boiling when the city was recovering Youzhou, the recovery of Yunzhou still seemed much more prosaic.

This may be because the continuous good news and victories have made everyone a little numb, or maybe Yunzhou is far less influential than Youzhou.

On this morning, Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo and Wang Anshi were summoned to the imperial study.

Zhao Ji invited the three of them to sit down, and let them serve tea, and said with a smile: "The victory of Datong City is encouraging, do the three ministers have any ideas?" ”

Fu Bi smiled slightly: "Weichen's first thought was that the capital of hundreds of thousands of yuan was not invested in vain, and he finally had a profit. ”

Wen Yanbo also smiled, "The sixteen states of Youyun have finally recovered Qi, this is a gratifying and congratulatory event, Your Majesty should announce it to the world and celebrate with all the people in the world." ”

"What about Wang Xianggong's thoughts?" Zhao Ji's gaze turned to Wang Anshi again.

Wang Anshi pondered and said, "Your Majesty wants to ask if you want to continue to expand the results of the war and start attacking the Liao Kingdom!" ”

Zhao Ji nodded, "The prince knows me!" ”

Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo glanced at each other, and the Son of Heaven was really a little hot-headed.

Fu Bi persuaded: "Your Majesty, the current war between us and the Liao State is to regain lost territory, especially the battle of Datong Mansion, the Liao State does not have the determination to defend Datong Mansion, and the army stationed in Datong Mansion is not their main force, if we directly attack Liao State now, Weichen believes that the time is not yet ripe, and we are not fully prepared." ”

Wen Yanbo also persuaded: "We can understand Your Majesty's feelings, if you want to attack Liao, to be honest, Weichen also agrees, but the key is how to fight, the territory of Liao is thousands of miles, which direction should we start?" Weichen believed that if he wanted to attack Liao, he should first attack Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo.

But Tokyo Liaoyang Mansion is the homeland of the Liao State, is the source of their wealth, if the capture of Tokyo Liaoyang Mansion, the Liao State will be gone, I believe that Yelu Hongji also understands this, from the time he would rather give up Youzhou to protect Liaoyang Mansion, you can understand the determination of Liao State to protect Tokyo Liaoyang Mansion.

Your Majesty, the attack on Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo is a crucial battle, and we must be calm and fully prepared, and it can be said that the more well prepared, the greater the probability of our victory. ”

Although Wang Anshi and Fu Bi have always been at odds, but in the attack on Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, his thoughts are basically the same as Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo, he smiled and said: "The battle of Song Liao is a battle of national strength in the final analysis, and the minister Wen Yelu Hongji did not hesitate to plunder around in the Liao State in order to ensure military spending, but this kind of internal pressure cannot last, and the minister believes that it is more likely to win if he is ready to launch an attack after half a year." ”

Zhao Ji pondered for a moment and said, "Let me think about it again!" ”

Zhao Ji put this matter aside for the time being, and said to the three of them: "There is one more thing, that is, how to commend the soldiers who captured Datong Mansion this time, I am a little embarrassed, let's talk about it!" ”