Fan Kui's actions couldn't be concealed at all, and King Zhao Kai discussed with Zong Ze, and Zong Ze smiled: "We need to contact Yang Zhi and let Deng Zhan come over." ”

Yang Shi and Deng Zhan both went to Taiyuan in the name of study tours, Yang Shi is a famous Confucian who moves the world, Zhao Kai really does not have the ability to arrange a suitable official position; Deng Zhan is a person who Song Huizong pointed out that he is not allowed to use, it doesn't matter if he interacts, there is no other thing at all, now I look at it, it is not a bad thing, at least Deng Zhan runs around It doesn't matter, and it is the most suitable person to go to Xiongzhou to talk. Zhao Kai and Deng Zhan said that Deng Zhan had no problem, he was not like Li Jinyi to be an official, Deng Zhan had the world in his heart, and set off directly to Xiongzhou.

Yang Zhi and the people of the Canglang Camp will be in Dige City, Dige City is a deserted old city, and now it can only be regarded as a large village at most, which is the boundary between Jizhou and Shenzhou, to the east is Jizhou on Hebei East Road, and to the west is Shenzhou on Hebei West Road, so Canglang Camp is camped in this broken city, and no local government has come to ask. Digecheng to Xiongzhou is less than 300 miles, the Canglang camp has been corrected for a few days, the marching speed is extremely fast, and on the fourth day it reached the boundary of Xiongzhou, becoming the first Northern Expeditionary force to arrive.

For the Great Song Dynasty, Xiongzhou is Waqiaoguan, located in the lower reaches of the Jiuhe River, in the north of Yishui, south of the Juma River, low-lying, full of rivers and lakes saline-alkali ground. Further ahead is the Baigou River on the boundary between Song and Liao, north of the Baigou River is Guiyi County in Zhuozhou of Liao, and south of Baigou River is Guixin County of Great Song Xiongzhou.

In that year, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, with the ambition of pacifying the world, Xiande six years, personally led the army to attack Liao, recovered Ying, Mo Erzhou and Yijin Pass, Waqiao Pass, and Sikou Pass in the sixteen states of Yanyun, and changed Waqiao Pass to Xiongzhou, and changed Yijin Pass to Bazhou; it is a pity that the national strength of the Northern Song Dynasty was not strong, and it could only take a defensive position on the national border in this area, and the three passes such as Waqiao became the northern frontier of the Northern Song Dynasty.

During the time of Song Zhenzong, the six houses stationed in Waqiaoguan made He Chengju open Yishui Pukou in the west of Anshun Village, and blocked the Xu, Bao, Sha, Tang and other rivers in the nine rivers, and made use of the low-lying terrain in the area of Baiyangdian and Wen'anwa, after several years of operation, opened up many ponds, connected some rivers with Dianbo, formed a defense line from Shenyuanbo in the northwest of Baozhou, and ended in the east of Cangzhou Nigu Haikou, 800 miles of twists and turns along the stream, and the width reached 60 miles, and the depth could not be traveled by boat, and the shallow could not be waded in vain.

The Great Song Dynasty set up 28 villages, 125 military shops, more than 3,000 soldiers, and deployed 100 ships to patrol the police to prevent the Liao cavalry from rushing through. Yang Zhi could only look at the mighty water and smile bitterly, it was inconvenient for the Liao army to go south, but the recent Northern Expedition of the Song Army was also inconvenient, and the 60 miles of waterway were transported by boat, and 10,000 people could not be sent in a day; even if the 100,000 army reached the Jiuhe area, plus materials and ordnance, it would not be able to send Xiongzhou for half a month, and once the army arrived in Xiongzhou, it would be a battle against the water.

Fortunately, in the spring, when the troops were dispatched, the river had thawed, the locust trees showed a little green leaf tips, patches of grass could be seen on the land on the bank, wild ducks swam and fluttered on the water in the distance, and Zhang Heng of the boat was fishing with more than 20 soldiers; Gongsun Sheng walked back quietly and said to Yang Zhi in a low voice: "The nearby prefectures and counties are all transporting grain and grass to Xiongzhou, and I heard that Tong Guan has also requisitioned grain from Zhendingfu, Jinanfu, Damingfu and other places. ”

Song Huizong Zhao Ji has agreed to transfer reserves, Tong Guan is still transferring grain in various parts of Hebei, nothing more than to fill his own pockets, such a big move, even if Tong Guan is the commander of the Taiwei and the army, he can't complete it alone, Cai You, Xuanfu, Liu Yanqing, and even the generals below. Yang Zhi didn't want to care about such a bad thing, and said to Gongsun Sheng and Lu Zhishen: "Our army will cross the water immediately, as long as Xiongzhou guarantees our food supply, don't care about anything else." ”

The two boats that came from the north docked, the first small boat came down was Zhu Wu and Liang Juewu who were sent to Xiongzhou to negotiate, and the second big boat came down with more than a dozen people. Yang Zhi and Lu Zhishen saw it, and hurriedly led people to meet them quickly, and the two of them took their generals to see them, and the planter smiled and asked everyone to be polite and said: "Yang Zhi, Luda, you can lead the army so far, the old man has some confidence in his heart." ”

Yang Zhi said with a smile: "I didn't expect the control to come so quickly, I thought the Canglang Camp was the first to arrive." ”

The seed master said with a smile: "You are the first to arrive, my troops are still on the way, and the division and Lu Yihao are leading the army behind, at least there are ten days left." I was anxious to meet your heroes from the Canglang Camp, so I came to take a look. ”

Yang Zhi understood that the seed family had been a famous general for generations, and the seed master Dao was known as the "big species" and "small species" with his uncle in the northwest, which was far from being comparable to people like himself, so Yang Zhi immediately took the seed master road to the back barracks. Preparing to cross the river today, 700 infantry and 300 cavalry were already lined up outside the camp, led by Yue Fei, Lu Fang, and Kong Yanwei in the rear, and the whole army was lined up in an orderly manner.

In broad daylight, there were many sentry posts at each gate of the camp, and the patrolling cavalry troops were still patrolling step by step, and Han Tao, who had come up, was nodding with satisfaction when he learned that the range released by the cavalry scouts was twenty to thirty miles. The seed master went to the big tent and sat down, motioned for everyone to take a seat together, and said, "Yang Zhi, you have fought with the Jin people and Liao soldiers in Nandao Mountain, tell me your views on this battle. ”

Yang Zhi shook his head and said, "General, don't embarrass me." ”

Seed Master Dao Zhengse said: "Yang Zhi, it's not me who embarrass you, I can see that the combat effectiveness of the Canglang Battalion is amazing, even if you go deep alone, in the current situation of the Liao State, you may retreat with your whole body." However, state affairs come first, and you can't stop saying what you should say because you are afraid of offending people. ”

Yang Zhi also said solemnly: "General Chong, you saw the young general who was about to cross the river just now, his name is Yue Fei, he has been out to do things for less than a year, and he actually has the feeling of 'military generals are not afraid of death, civil officials do not love money, and the world is peaceful'." I don't say it's useless, I can only say that the Canglang battalion is ready to fight a hard battle, but it will not let its soldiers die in vain; I hope that the general will remember that national affairs are important, and in order to stay on the front line and let the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty die less, sometimes they should endure or endure, and they should be flexible or flexible. ”

The seed master looked at Yang Zhi for a moment, and said bitterly: "It seems that you, like me, are not optimistic about the prospects of this battle, and even guessed what I am going to do." Since you have such baggage, I will play with you once, come here, spread out the map, Wang Jin, you first talk about the battle situation on the Liao side. ”

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