After capturing these three cities, the Song army began to send a large number of troops to garrison after all, relying on the closest to the Great Song Dynasty, and after about ten days of rectification, the Song army moved again, but this time it did not take the idea of Ulzhou, but set its sights on Zhuozhou, which was very close to the border of the Song Dynasty.

Because of the three cities of Gaocheng, Licheng and Rongcheng as the rear, when capturing Zhuozhou, the Liao army in Ulzhou will be pinned.

If you want to support Zhuozhou, the nearest is Youzhou.

If you send troops to contain the reinforcements in the direction of Mozhou, it will be much easier to take Zhuozhou.

Once you've decided on your strategy, the next step is to implement it.

First of all, 20,000 troops were added to the border near Mozhou, and the first to cut off the connection between Zhuozhou and Mozhou.

Then 40,000 soldiers and horses were sent from Gaocheng to march for two days, and rushed to the road between Zhuozhou and Youzhou to block the task.

These 40,000 soldiers and horses are considered to be deep into the hinterland, and if Zhuozhou cannot be captured as planned, these 40,000 soldiers and horses will be very dangerous.

As soon as these 40,000 soldiers and horses arrived at the designated position, the Song army launched an attack on Zhuozhou.

There were 20,000 defenders in Zhuozhou, and the 50,000 Song troops who were attacking the city head-on were not panicked at first. But the Song army attacked fiercely at the end of the day. In the evening, Xiao Ke, the defender of Zhuozhou, still asked for help in the direction of Youzhou.

However, the waves sent out were intercepted by the Song army.

By the time Xiao Ke reacted, it was already dawn the next day.

The Song army launched an attack again, today is more fierce than yesterday, and with the 40,000 Song troops coming out of Gaocheng attacking from the north and south, Xiao Ke can only send people for help again.

This time, the soldiers sent out were all very good at concealment, and finally transmitted the news back to Youzhou on the evening of the second day.

"You said there was a Song army outside the city of Beicheng to block it?"

The soldier who reported the news nodded: "Yes, there are about 40,000, General Xiao Ke guesses that it should be the Song army from Gaocheng."

Xiao Bo was a little hesitant when he heard this.

If there were only 50,000 Song troops on the front, he wouldn't worry too much.

But now that Gaocheng has fallen, the 60,000 defenders of Youzhou City, once half of the troops rush to the aid of Zhuozhou, I don't know that the Song army will not attack the east and the west, and attack him in Youzhou.

After thinking about it, Xiao Bo decided to send only 20,000 soldiers and horses to the rescue. Just now I heard a report from the soldiers that Xiao Ke also sent people to Mozhou for help, and Mozhou also has 50,000 soldiers and horses, and they can also divide 20,000 troops.

In this way, it can also relieve the position of Zhuozhou, and it will not put Youzhou City in danger.

Xiao Bo guessed that the Song army would definitely send troops to block the reinforcements in the direction of Mozhou when it attacked Zhuozhou, just like the 40,000 Song troops.

But these 40,000 Song troops are because they are in deep danger, so they will send so many troops.

Mo Zhou is different.

They will only send troops to block it, and there must not be so many troops.

Five years ago, there were indeed not many sergeants in the Song Dynasty, but after the military reform, the strength of the Great Song Dynasty nearly doubled.

Retired sergeants are recalled in wartime, and after two years of training, these retired sergeants can go into battle as long as they take up arms.

Reinforcements from Youzhou and Mozhou could not arrive in time, and the city of Zhuozhou was broken three days later.

After capturing Gaocheng and other three cities half a month ago, this was the first time that the Song army had bagged the first state of the sixteen states.

This is a great victory.

The results of this battle were transmitted back to the Great Song Dynasty, and the court reinvented the hall newspaper, and the people knew that such a big result was spontaneously celebrated, and the liveliness was even more lively than the recent Mid-Autumn Festival.

And Empress Cao, who was in the palace, also received a private letter from Zhao Zhen.

Looking at the content of the letter, Cao Yuyan blinked vigorously so that she didn't shed tears.

Empress Xincao did not avoid Mother Rong, she read all the contents of the letter, so looking at the queen's expression, the shrewd Mother Rong asked in a rare puzzlement: "Queen Mother, the official family can share the situation of the border war with you, how can you pay it back?"

Rong's mother thought that the queen mother should not have this expression.

The one in the Imperial Hall is dead.

The Miao family was promoted to the throne because of the eldest princess, and because of the murder of the four princes, the fate of the childhood sweetheart of the official family was exhausted.

Other concubines, that really didn't have anything to do with the mother

Qualifications to contend with.

The situation is very good.

In addition, the official family intends to get close to Niangniang, and Niangniang should take this opportunity to make up for the estrangement with His Majesty for so many years.

"Mom, you don't understand!"

Life is so long, and she was full of joy in the first ten years.

But His Majesty doted on the Zhang family regardless of the face of the queen of the middle palace, so that she could almost compete with the middle palace.

Later, he came to Qingshou Palace for more and more time, and it was also because Zhang's ambitions were inflated, contacting courtiers, and doing things to touch the bottom line of the official family, in order to beat the Zhang family.

I didn't really find her good.

Maybe later, the official family also felt a little guilty about her, and he knew that he didn't have the mind of the queen mother, so he gradually talked to her more.

If it's two or three years, her heart is not dead.

But for more than ten years, her heart has been much harder than when she first entered the palace.

She can cooperate with the official family to play the emperor and queen in harmony, but she can't do it if she has to pay true feelings.

Rong's mother really doesn't understand.

The first half of her life was in Cao Mansion, and the second half of her life was in the palace, and she had never tasted the love between men and women, so she really didn't understand.

But the mother is willing to cooperate, and it is not bad to play a play of harmony between husband and wife.

The fifth prince is gradually growing up, his body has been good since he was a child, and he is the only normal prince in the official family at present, there is no need to have any doubts, there must be five princes behind the throne.

As long as the mother is stable, there will be a great creation behind!

By the end of October, Mozhou and Yingzhou were recovered by the Song army, and the three states were taken in three months.

At the end of October, the north was already covered with heavy snow.

Further north, the Song Dynasty soldiers were not used to the cold weather, but the Liao army might find a way to recapture the lost three cities during Zhao Zhen's return to the dynasty.

But these three cities, behind which is the border of the Song Dynasty, after the recovery of the Song Dynasty is also very fast, the Song Dynasty also moved quickly to send troops to rectify, and the Liao army wants to recapture it, the price it needs to pay is too great.

There are Di Qing and Pang Jia's army on the border, as well as a few rising stars stationed at the border, which is completely sufficient.

This is also the reason why Zhao Zhen can return to the dynasty with peace of mind.

At this time, Gu Qingxi and Gu Qingming, who had returned from the demon clan, had already followed the other disciples of the sect to the secret realm of Yunshan.

This was their first time in the secret realm.

This time, the leader of the Wuji Sect is the newly promoted Ninth Elder Fan Yunxuan, Qingyu: The Sect directly asked Gao Ge and Li Zhengzhen to lead the team, although the husband and wife are not elders, but the seniority of the two is very high in the sect, and their cultivation is also excellent, and the disciples who led the team into the secret realm are very happy.

Su Yixin is in Kyoto with her two children.

I wanted to be with the two babies for a while, but Gu Qingjue was resting, and the family of four, who had finally got the opportunity, wanted to wander on the street, and they encountered something.

There was a death in the restaurant where he ate.

And right next door to their box, at first they heard the quarrel, and then they moved.

At that time, I didn't expect it to be so serious, but I actually killed someone!