According to Li Kui's thoughts, a heroic mercenary group is not enough to satisfy his bad taste.

He also pondered writing a bloody song for Chao Gai and them, which was called a good Han song.

Unfortunately, the next day, Li Kui got the news that Chao Gai ran away with someone overnight.

Cai Jing took Liang Shijie nervously to tell him, he was afraid that Chao Gai's bandit nature would be difficult to get rid of, and after getting the benefits of the Military Command Bureau, he returned to the cottage and did not admit it.

This kind of deception by thieves often happened among the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, so that the officialdom, especially the civil officials, did not want to believe that the thieves of Zhao'an sincerely took refuge in the imperial court.

"Bureau, will these people run away?"

The Military Command Bureau now has a big business, and if it loses some money and food, it will be earned back in a few days. The Great Song Dynasty may be very expensive, but the food is really cheap. This is also the reason why the wine-making industry in the Great Song Dynasty is so developed, there is too much grain to eat, and it can only be used to make wine.

In addition, the Military Command Bureau is still a yamen that makes money every day, and is not afraid of losing money.

But it's different to be embarrassed, since the establishment of the Military Command Bureau, it has only been a trapper, where has it ever been pitted?

Li Kui didn't care about this, and had a strange confidence: "Don't worry, although Liang Shan is a thief, the leader of these people is Chao Gai." Chao Gai is the most face-saving person, and if he says it, he will not fatten himself. The officer also thought about equipping them with a commanding artillery before going to sea to fight. Relying solely on Chao Gai and these horses to fight against the Liao army, there is absolutely no possibility of victory. ”

Cai Jing worried: "Bureau, will it be too preferential to them?" Artillery is a weapon of the country. ”

"Nothing, as long as they don't know how to make gunpowder. Choked the supply of ammunition for artillery, they could not make waves. But for Liaodong, I am bound to win. Li Kui said firmly, although Liaodong is now a barren land. But for the Great Song Dynasty, the resources of Liaodong are definitely the resources that the Great Song Dynasty needs the most.

Especially in the future, if the Great Song Dynasty wants to develop maritime hegemony, it will have to rely on the shipbuilding industry. The forest resources of Liaodong are simply the most desired raw material source for the shipbuilding industry. Once developed, Liaodong could even become the largest shipbuilding base in the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty and even in the entire Far East.

This foundation, Li Kui is going to decide.

"By the way, there is no news from Yanzhou yet?" Li Kui asked.

Cai Jing paused, frowned slightly, and said, "Still not." The Metropolitan Hall and the Privy Council thought that a big war would break out in Yanzhou, so the Privy Council transferred 10,000 soldiers and horses from the east and west of Beijing, and 5,000 soldiers and horses from Huainan, and there were always 30,000 soldiers and horses from all over the country who went to Zhending Mansion. Strangely, however, nothing came from Anton. ”

"There is no good news, and there is no bad news. It's worrying! Li Kui sighed.

Cai Jing smiled and said: "Bureau, An Dan doesn't know about military affairs, doesn't understand government affairs, and can only impeach officials, if these people weren't for Zhang Xiang's support, they would have no place in the court long ago." If you want me to say, the war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State, that is, the bureau can control it, and if you change someone else, it will be bad sooner or later. ”

"Don't complain, you and I can't decide this."

After Li Kui finished speaking, he stood up and left the yamen leisurely. Behind him, Cai Jing respectfully sent out of the yamen, and said loudly to Li Kui's back: "Congratulations to the bureau." ”

"Father-in-law, this Antun will be finished in Yanzhou sooner or later."

"Bastard, this matter is related to the center of the court, how can it be something you can discuss?" Hearing that his son-in-law was a little disrespectful, Cai Jing immediately reprimanded him with a straight face.

"Father-in-law, you don't understand, this waste is going to kill people sooner or later."

Liang Shijie is different from Cai Jing, he followed Li Kui to the army and experienced a circle. I have felt the bravery of the Liao army. If it weren't for the great power of the Praetorian Guard's weapons, the Liao State would not have been so defeated. As for Anton, in his eyes, he is just a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he can't even compare.

Now that the Praetorian Guards have left the battlefield on the Northern Front, the command of the Fei Lian Army has also been handed over to Gao Yu.

It can be said that there are no more people under Anton who can be used.

Of course, Nido seems to be quite capable of fighting.

There are only a few people in the Kerenduo tribe, and no matter how strong the combat effectiveness is, it is not as good as the Feilian Army. If you fight with the elite of the Liao army in the field, it is five or five. If you meet the leather room army of the Liao State, you won't even have this chance of winning.

It is obviously impossible to support the entire northern front with such an army.

But the strange thing is that after Li Kui came to the capital, the imperial court did not rush to send Li Kui back to Hedong Road to sit in the town. Instead, let Li Kui be in the capital.

The official rank has been upgraded by one level, and he is already a straight bachelor. But correspondingly, the military power was taken away.

This is obviously a battle between the Metropolitan Hall and the Privy Council, and Li Kui is just affected. Clear-eyed people have seen it, and I believe that Li Kui has also seen it clearly.

Fortunately, for the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty, it does not matter whether they have military power or not. Li Kui also didn't want to take over the military power, and became the person the emperor was most worried about, so he was happy to be pure. The reason why he cares about the northern front is because if Anton is really defeated, it will be him Li Kui who will clean up the mess at that time.

Since Li Kui returned to the capital, he has been waiting for news from Yanzhou.

But this place, as if forgotten, did not even have a small war.

Perhaps Yanzhou is not too important to the Great Song Dynasty, after all, it is more than a thousand miles away from Kaifeng. The Great Song Dynasty will not, and cannot keep its eyes on Yanzhou, the northern city.

This is true for the Great Song Dynasty, but it is different for the Liao State.

Yanzhou, that is, the Xijin Mansion of Liao, Nanjing City, is the most prosperous city among the five capitals of Liao. If this was taken away by the Great Song Dynasty, how could the Liao people give up?

If you don't give up, you can only see the truth on the battlefield.

But it's been almost a month, but the big war hasn't broken out for a long time. This made Li Kui feel incredible. Could it be that the Liao people were scared? Don't dare to go south to seize Yanzhou?

Losing a city may be bearable.

But the problem is that Yanzhou City has the most palaces in the Liao State, and many of the concubines of the Liao Emperor live in Yanzhou. There is also the concubine of the imperial grandson Yelu Yanxi, who is also in Yanzhou.

If you really endure this breath, where will the face of the Great Liao Royal be placed?

It's like a knife hanging over your head, and when it falls, it all depends on people's thoughts.

This is very uncomfortable for Li Kui.

But there is no way, who let Li Qingchen and Zhang Dian face again?

Zhang Tun wants to install a signed Privy Council member into the Privy Council, this official position sounds like a serious punch card, but in fact, this is the third in command of the Privy Council.

First, the Great Song Dynasty won victories in foreign wars, which was always a pain in his heart for Zhang Dian who could not control the Privy Council. On the other hand, Li Qingchen wanted to take a peek at the position of the prime minister of Zhang Dian after subduing the sixteen states of Yanyun. The two fought again, and no one would let go, which caused the current situation.

Li Kui is Li Qingchen's means of pressing the bottom of the box, and he is easy not to use.

As for Anton, Li Qingchen couldn't wait to see this guy unlucky. Anyway, it is Zhang Dan's cronies, no matter how many deaths he has, he will not feel distressed.

This is Li Kui's trouble.

Once again, he became the focus of Zhang Dian and Li Qingchen's struggle for military power, and this time, he was excluded from the core storm.

At the same time, it is also the reason why Li Kui insists on developing overseas fiefdoms. Let these two old men who add up to almost one hundred and thirty years old fight back and forth, and Da Song may really stop a lot.

Fortunately, whether it was Zhang Kui or Li Qingchen, they all knew that Li Kui was the object they had to woo, so they fully supported Li Kui's idea of overseas fiefdoms.

In their opinion, this kind of thankless work is what Li Kui is willing to do.

Don't look at the fact that overseas fiefdoms are hot now, they are profitable opportunities.

If there is really no benefit at all, it will inevitably be abandoned.

Yanzhou.

Anton gathered around the stove and watched the snowflakes fluttering outside, as if his whole person was sealed in an ice cave.

couldn't help but shudder, Wang Jin had already been defeated from Shunzhou.

What made An Dan ascend to heaven in anger was that this guy's defeat did not say that the army was defeated, but said: "The weather is too cold, and the soldiers have no clothes for the cold." ”

Is this human talk?

They are in the hinterland of Liao!

There is nothing else, a sheepskin jacket is in everyone's hand, and this thing is piled up in the treasury of the Liao State State, and it can't be used at all.

40,000 people, can't beat 5,000 people, shame!

But An Duan couldn't scold Wang Jin for being shameless, because there was no one available to him except Wang Jin.

Especially Liu Fa, who came from Ninghua Army, simply didn't take him seriously. didn't listen to An Dan's orders at all, didn't even care about the defense of Yanzhou, and took his soldiers to Zhuozhou to repair the city. If you don't listen to him, the key is to send people every day to ask for food and supplies.

Does he owe him?

Counted, it's true.

If Liu Fa hadn't been left behind by Anton, I'm afraid he would have been drinking wine and listening to small songs in the capital at this time, which would be very comfortable. Where is the need to suffer in such a bitter cold place?

"My lord, something is wrong!"

Wang Jin hurried over, shook off the wind and snow on his body, threw his cloak to his guards, and shouted as soon as he entered the house.

"Shut it, close the door."

Stirred by the cold wind, An Dan hurriedly ordered Wang Jin.

When the door was closed, An Dian felt a trace of temperature, sighed and said: "What are you afraid of, on such a cold day, we don't want to go out of the city, is it possible that the Liao people will attack us?" ”

"No, sir. South Korean capital has made it seem very wrong in recent days. The barracks he had become seemed to have doubled in size, and I always felt like something was going to happen. ”

Wang Jin said that it was strange that he had no talent for commanding wars.

But...... He has a keen sense of danger.

At this time, he told me that it was freezing cold, and the rout soldiers who had fled had returned. There aren't many people, just three or five thousand. ”

An Dan looked at Wang Jin with disdain, and sighed secretly in his heart: "If Lao Tzu has a military general who can fight, can he still use Wang Jin?" ”

While speaking, Wang Jin was already sitting opposite Anton, reaching out close to the stove to keep warm, and chattering: "My lord, you don't know, Han Zirang has been gathering the rout recently. But the subordinates have to be curious, on such a cold day, are there still routs in the wild? ”

"Isn't that new?" More than 100,000 horses were killed and scattered, and according to Anton's idea, they won't all die, right?

In fact, on the battlefield, half of the people killed in battle are already a terrible thing. What's more, the Liao army retreated in a hurry, and it did not collect the rout at all.

Anton asked: "How many people are there in the barracks of Han Zirang now?" ”

"It's almost 10,000 horses!"

This is where Wang Jin is worried.

His 40,000 horses are 30,000 horses in Yanzhou.

This bit of soldiers and horses, against 10,000 Liao troops, Wang Jin has no bottom in his heart!

Of course, he was a little waste. 30,000 people are worried that they can't see 10,000 people, this is not waste, what else can it be?

can't stand Wang Jin's loyalty!

Immediately said to An Dan: "My lord, if it is cold today, I am afraid that the Liao people will not attack before the beginning of spring." The adult has a golden body, and he has to be stationed at the side, and his subordinates are not happy. Didn't someone come a few days ago to say that the imperial court had rectified 30,000 soldiers and horses and stationed in Xiongzhou, it was better to ......"

"It's good!"

Anton did not want to believe that the Korean concession would defect, and he also felt that it was unlikely.

Because Yanzhou City was donated by Han Zirang, now if Han Zirang rebels and defects to Emperor Liao, I am afraid it is better to be an official in the Great Song Dynasty. In addition, Anton felt that he had made a lot of concessions to Korean capital, and the other party had no reason to betray him.

But Wang Jin has no other skills, but he is a good hand at escaping.

The main thing is that his sense of smell of danger is so strong that Anton is not willing to take risks, if not believing.

Thinking of this, An Duan patted Wang Jin on the shoulder and said with relief: "General Wang, you bother you to stay in Yanzhou City for a few more days, and wait for this official to urge the imperial court to let the Praetorian Guard and the Feilian Army come to Yanzhou as soon as possible to assemble." ”

？？？

Wang Jin was stunned, he originally wanted to return to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty with An Dan, and it was best to go to Zhending Mansion. There are all your own people around, and there are 30,000 more soldiers and horses, so there must be no problem at all in holding on.

On the contrary, in the city of Yanzhou, there are Liao people everywhere.

It made him uncomfortable.

But what I didn't expect was that Anton, a ruthless guy, came by himself and didn't take him. And let him give him His Highness, is this a man?

No one knew that Antun would leave Yanzhou in the army escorting supplies.

And in Han Zirang's mansion, a voice that made Han Zirang frightened urged him again and again.

"Brother Han, Your Majesty has already sent a messenger, and you must do it today."

"But, Xiao Yushi, don't you know? I only have 10,000 horses in the city, but the Song army has 30,000 horses. And our army is cavalry, more than half of them are still stationed in the city, brazenly launched an attack, if it fails, it will inevitably be counterattacked by the Song army, at that time, the Song army is angry and angry, burning the palace, you and I can hardly escape the blame. ”

"Besides, didn't you say that there was a great army to answer? What about the army? ”

"The five thousand soldiers and horses in the camp outside the city are. This is already the maximum number of soldiers and horses that His Majesty can give. Now that the situation in Zhongjing is unstable, His Majesty must win a victory and resolve the crisis that he is now distrusted. And retaking Yanzhou City is His Majesty's best breakthrough. General Han, if you want to return to Daliao, you have to do this. ”

Faced with the other party's aggressive tone, Han Zirang opened his mouth, and for a long time it seemed to be a punctured ball, deflated. Cursed in a low voice: "Okay, but just in case......"

"There is no case, the army is defeated, and you and I will die in the chaos."

encountered such a fateful master, and Han Zirang was also full of helplessness. As long as he nodded, he said: "Midnight three watches, I will lead people to the city gate and take you into the city." Raise the fire! ”

"Okay, raise the fire!"