It's not that the Bianliang people haven't seen the army, and the older generation of Bianliang people have even seen the forbidden army in the Later Zhou Dynasty, but in their opinion, whether it is the Later Zhou Dynasty or the forbidden army that repeatedly went to the Liao State before the Great Song Dynasty, it can't be compared with the current army in terms of military appearance and military mao.

Ruddy faces, head held high, neat steps, eyes ahead, following the commander's command, as for the rest, it seems that none of them are in their eyes, not only that, but the people of Bianliang also see things they have never seen before in the eyes of this group of troops that they have never seen before.

The eyes they looked at the common people were no longer fierce, and they even looked at the common people with a smile, this strange affinity was something that the previous army had never had.

"One-two-one, one-two-one, one-two-three-four!"

Following the officers' orders, the Praetorian Guards soldiers, as they usually trained, replied loudly, "One, two, three, four!"

"Listen to me and get started... Let's go!"

With the commander's order, the Praetorian Guard, who was originally running slowly, immediately switched from running to walking, and this kind of switching between movement and stillness made the onlookers smack their tongues.

It also made Yelu Gaoba's face change.

Yelu Gaoba is the Liao clan, his father is the famous Liao general Yelu Xiuge, with the death of Yelu Xiuge, Yelu Gaoba as the eldest son also had to take on the responsibility of the family, he does not have his father's outstanding military talent, so he can only develop to the civilian government.

In the twenty-seventh year of the Great Liao Dynasty (1009), on December 11 of the second year of the Great Song Dynasty, Xiao Xuan, the Empress Dowager of the Liao State, who had been the regent of the Linzhao Dynasty for 27 years, died, and the Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu officially began to govern in person, that is, from that year, Yelu Gaoba requested to be stationed in the Song State as the ambassador of the Song and Liao countries.

In this era, the diplomatic institutions of the Song Dynasty were under the control of the Privy Council, and they were subordinate to the Privy Council, which was responsible for handling the diplomatic affairs of the Song and Liao countries.

Yelu Gaoba came to Bianliang in the spring of the third year of Dazhong Xiangfu, almost three years have passed, except for the first two years he often reported some things to the high-level of the Liao State, such as the East and West Worship of Zhenzong, such as a series of personnel changes on the Song side.

Gradually, as the news became more and more barren, the letters written by Yelu Gaoba in the direction of Liao became less and less, and basically became daily official greetings.

But with the return of Song Fu, Yelu Gaoba keenly discovered that a series of changes began to take place in the high-level of the Song State, such as the Guilty Edict, the Military Intelligence Department, the Supervision Yuan and the Praetorian Guard, plus the hot air balloon that caused a sensation in Bianliang during this time, all of which made Yelu Gaoba vaguely feel that something was wrong.

Yelu Gaoba himself had boarded a hot air balloon, and that condescending sense of fear and excitement still made him have an endless memory, and then Yelu Gaoba thought of another question, what if Song Guo used the hot air balloon as a means in the war?

This is not Yelu Gaoba's delusion, as the minister of the Liao State who has just ended a twenty-five year all-out war with the Song State, plus his father Yelu Hugo is also a famous general, the commander of the Liao State in the Battle of the Gaoliang River is Yelu Huge.

Yelu Gaoba also heard his father say that the war at that time was steep and the Song army was difficult, as an army that had just finished the war of annihilation and had not yet repaired, in the case of the Liao State waiting for work, the Song army still defeated the Liao army.

Before the battle of the Gaoliang River, the Liao army did not defeat the Song army once, and every counterattack was blocked by the Song army, not to mention, it was also assaulted by the Song army all the way to the bottom of Yanjing City, and several cities even fell to the wind, the situation at that time could be extremely bad for the Liao State, and the slightest carelessness would be driven out of Yanyun.

Even in the Battle of the Gaoliang River, when the Song army faced the Liao army from both sides, its combat effectiveness still shocked Yelu Huge, and he himself was beaten by the Song army at that time.

In the end, he was carried by the soldiers to pursue the Song army.

Afterwards, Yelu Hugo summed up his experience and sighed: If it weren't for the fact that the Song army was attacked from both sides and had no fresh army, and the emperor was the first to flee when he saw that the situation was not good, it is uncertain whether the winner of the Battle of the Gaoliang River was the Liao army, but if the emperor of the Song State was replaced by Emperor Taizu, who had extremely strong combat experience, or Zhao Er

Responding calmly and reorganizing the army to counterattack, the Song army may not have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

"Fortunately, God bless Da Liao!"

This sentence is the sentence that Yelu Gaoba said most often when he heard his father summarize the battle of the Gaoliang River.

But now, Yelu Gaoba, who was in Bianliang, noticed the changes in the Song Kingdom, and when he knew that this change was brought by the prince Zhao Zhen, who had disappeared for fifteen years, he began to increase the collection of information on Song Fu, but unfortunately, Song Fu was busy all day without saying anything, and he didn't get into the house at every turn.

This made Yelu Gao unable to find any way to get close to Song Chun.

But now, Song Guo actually released the mysterious Praetorian Guard by himself, and in front of the entire Bianliang. Yelu Gaoba was secretly happy in his heart.

He decided to take advantage of the opportunity to take a good look at this army, which had recently become talked about by the people of Bianliang.

But when Yelu Gaoba saw the Praetorian Guard, he was a little dumbfounded, as a high-level of the Liao State, he had not seen the elite leather room army of the Liao Emperor, the elite of the empire that crisscrossed the north and south, and shocked the grassland and the Great Song Dynasty.

But the Praetorian Guards in front of him, who were striding towards the imperial city, showed a military appearance that made Yelu Gaoba stunned in his heart!

The neat steps, the vigorous posture, the strange-looking clothes on the body, and the stick-like weapons on the chest all make this already mysterious army even more mysterious!

What kind of weapon is that?

What about the spear?

What about shields?

What about bows and arrows?

What about armor?

What about cavalry?

Or even a catapult?

Why is there nothing?

Wouldn't this Praetorian Guard just think about fighting on two legs? Song Guo wouldn't just think about recovering Yanyun with this kind of army, right?

Wouldn't it, wouldn't it?

The top of the Song Kingdom can't be so stupid, right?

Thinking of this, Yelu Gaoba's first reaction was that this was Song Guo playing tricks, just like the so-called Heavenly Book Feng Zen a few years ago, fooling the people...

Yelu Gaoba sneered, turned around and left, Emperor Song State, it is really not as good as one generation!

In fact, not only Yelu Gaoba had this idea, but even the ministers, well, except for Wang Dan and Kou Zhun and a few other people, all looked at this army that was striding under the imperial city with their heads held high.

Finally, someone couldn't bear it anymore: "Kou Xiang, dare to ask what the weapons of the Praetorian Guards are? What do they carry around their waists?"

Kou Zhun glanced at the man and said calmly, "These are all military secrets, and it hasn't been long since the secrecy law was promulgated, is it possible for Your Excellency?"

The man's face changed and he quickly retreated.

If it was in the past, he would have asked and asked, as for what secrecy? What is that? Does my Da Song have this thing?

Of course, Song Zhen knew how miserable the secrecy methods of various countries were at this time, and he also knew that in the struggle between the great powers, secrecy methods have always been extremely important, so some time ago, Song Chun put forward relevant opinions and ideas to Zhenzong.

Zhenzong passed it after a little consideration, and for Song Zhen, the better thing about this era is that the emperor exported the constitution, and the promulgation of the law did not even need the discussion of the ministers, in Diao Guangdou's words.

The so-called royal law is the royal law!

When the Great Song Empire's secrecy law was just promulgated, the ministers didn't care about anything, what secrecy? What's that? My Da Song has never been offended for his words!

But soon, Song Zhen gave them a taste of what is called the iron fist of feudalism!

Directly ordered the Criminal Division to arrest a few people who were not covered and put them in prison for violating the law of secrecy, which had caused a shock to the ministers before, but when the emperor sat with the prime ministers, it didn't matter what the ministers said.

At the same time, in order to paralyze the surrounding countries, mainly the Liao State, Song Chu made great efforts to play a cognitive war with the Liao ministers in Bianliang, and he also set up a special department for this purpose, called the War Sudden Bureau

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In order to disrupt or even eliminate the Liao State's collection and collation of intelligence on the Great Song Dynasty, of course it is correct intelligence!

Look, we are still so good with the Song Dynasty, the newly formed army can't afford to use all the armor, it's too shabby, this is not an army at all, it's obviously just the plaything of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention what kind of Liao leather room army to fight, they can't even beat the Dingyan army!

This time the Praetorian Guards appeared, in addition to really wanting the people of Bianliang to meet, it was more about having a good time with the Liao State to play cognitive warfare, so that their original understanding of the Great Song Dynasty would not change, and even deepen it a little.

As the so-called dispute between the two countries, in Song Fu's view, as long as the other party can be defeated or even eliminated, any means can be used, for the Great Song Dynasty, the dead Liao State is a good Liao State.

Therefore, Song Zhen was not polite, and all means were used by the Liao State to paralyze the Liao subjects in Bianliang, the more they looked down on the Great Song Dynasty, the more conducive it was to the Song and Liao wars later, and the Liao State misjudged the intelligence of the Great Song Dynasty.

Once there is a mistake in the intelligence issue, it will be too difficult for the Liao State not to suffer losses on the battlefield with real swords and real guns.

This is what Song Zhen wants, he wants to do everything possible to weaken the strength of the Liao State before the war between the Song and Liao countries, after all, the Liao State is at its peak, the emperor is fierce, the ministers are fierce, and the army under his command is also fierce!

Song Zhen looked at the information about Yelu Gaoba in his hand, and sneered: "Be happy, it won't be long before the Liao Kingdom is destroyed!"

"Because of the war, it's already begun!"

Of course, Zhenzong knew Song Zhen's plan, he looked at the Praetorian Guards with their heads held high in the audience, and couldn't help but say, "Hello soldiers!"

When the Praetorian Guards heard this, they immediately replied loudly, "Long live Your Majesty!"

"The soldiers have worked hard!"

"Long live the Great Song Empire!"