When Zhao Bufan's Northern Expedition was launched quietly, the Privy Council also continued to spread the news of Liao to northern Xinjiang.

From this information, Zhao Bufan gradually felt that the once invincible Liao State had fallen into the dilemma of sunset, and the rising Jurchens had overwhelmed them, while the Liao State was still entangled in internal strife.

The famous general of the Liao State, Yelu Yujian, even conspired with the Liao Concubine Xiao Sesei a few months ago, intending to depose the emperor Yelu Yanxi and make him the emperor, and instead support the son of Concubine Wen Xiao Sese, the Jin King Yelu Ao Lu Hu, as the emperor, did not think that the matter would be revealed, Yelu Yanxi decisively ordered the killing of the Wen Concubine Xiao Se Se and the ministers who participated with him, and detained the Jin King Yelu Ao Lu Hu.

At the time of the incident, Yelu Yu happened to be in the army, and after learning the news, he unexpectedly chose to lead his henchmen to reduce the gold and escaped, and the king of Jin, Yelu Ao Lu Hu, did not seem to be involved in this incident, so he was finally saved.

Now that the Jurchens and the Great Song Dynasty have formed a maritime alliance and can't wait to take the lead in launching an attack on the Liao State, it is really a great irony for Yelu Yu to see this former Liao State anti-Jin famous general as a pioneer......

This information made Zhao Bufan see the chaos of the core center of the Liao State, and he was very sure that the defeat of the Liao State was only a matter of time, and this huge empire that had once overwhelmed the Great Song Dynasty had come to an end.

However, this did not mean that he could relax, on the contrary, his mood became heavier.

Because the decline and fall of the Liao State is not only due to its own corruption, but more importantly, it comes from the terrible state of Jin, judging from the current situation, this Northern Expedition is not only to attack the Liao country, but also to compete with the Jin country for time.

If the Jin State takes the lead in capturing the Zhongjing of the Liao State, then it will definitely take advantage of the situation to go south and seize the rich Nanjing and Xijing of the Liao State, that is, the sixteen states of Youyun in the Song Dynasty.

This situation made Zhao Bufan more and more anxious, and successively sent people to urge the imperial court to complete the dispatch of armor materials as soon as possible, and even on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he was still writing secret letters to Cai Jing and Emperor Zhao You, hoping to send more people to supervise the work.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of Xuanhe, when the people of Dongxiangang were still cheering for the Lantern Festival, the drums and fleas and Shenxing Taibao Dai Zong arrived in Dongxiangang and secretly came to the seaview mansion.

Zhao Bufan learned from Feifengwei that the two of them were back, he was overjoyed, and directly put down his rice bowl to greet him, after a brief politeness, he hurriedly took the two to the study, and without waiting for them to sit down, he was already impatient to ask: "How is it? Is it smooth to go to Liaoguo?"

Shi Qian and Dai Zong looked at each other and smiled, and nodded.

Shi Qian took out a thick stack of paper from his baggage, grinned: "Brother General, all the information you want is here, the content of the information is detailed to how many villages along the way, how many people are in each village, this can always satisfy Brother General, right?"

Zhao Bufan didn't care to say much, turned around and walked to the table and sat down, quickly flipping through the thick stack of information.

After a while, while he looked at the information, a smile appeared on his face: "Yes, very good, very detailed, enough to come in handy, if the Northern Expedition is successful, each of you must make a great credit, and everyone will suffer losses?"

Shi Qian thief smiled and shook his head: "No, the Liao State didn't pay much attention to that area at all, we pretended to be the Han people of the Liao State, and acted separately, without letting the other party notice at all, not to mention that the land over there was originally vast and sparsely populated, and the brothers were very safe to lurk, and I encountered some trouble when Dai Zong and I came back to report the news, and we almost failed to leave the Liao Realm, but we did a good job and escaped over the mountains and mountains." ”

Shi Qian said it easily, but Zhao Bufan knew in his heart that it was so easy to lurk in the enemy country, even if Shi Qian and they were used to being good men in the green forest on the rivers and lakes, and they had a lot of means, it must be extremely dangerous, but they didn't mention it.

He weighed it slightly in his heart, and immediately promised: "You and Dai Zong will go to Liao again, and this time I will tell the brothers that after coming back, each of them will be rewarded with 5,000 yuan, and the past crimes will not be blamed, if it is successful, I will reward you for your merits." ”

Shi Qian and Dai Zong instantly showed joy, almost in unison.

"Is that true?"

Zhao Bufan suddenly rolled his eyes, and scolded angrily: "I'm not a thief's den here, a dignified Song general, can you still regret the reward you said? You are serving the country, this time you are fighting the Liao State, if we win, you can also leave a name in history, glorify your ancestors, understand?"

Dai Zong's eyes lit up instantly, and his mood was obviously very excited.

Shi Qian was even more happy: "What else does the general's brother want us to do?"

Zhao Bufan said solemnly: "You immediately copy a copy of this information, and then quickly take my secret letter and intelligence to Hedong Road, find Zhiyan who is requisitioning Tian Hu, teach him both things, and don't worry about the rest, and then you go to Liao to join the brothers in the intelligence battalion, if there is a court army passing by in the future, you will assist them along the way, and act according to the order."

If there are no soldiers and horses passing by, then you can choose according to the situation of the Northern Expedition, you can come to me, or you can return directly to Dongxian Harbor, in short, remember one thing, don't force everything, you can do your best, if you can't achieve it, withdraw in time, be sure to let the brothers be cautious, I can still wait for you to come back and drink the celebration wine together, no one is missing!"

"Brother general, don't worry, we are just listening to information, and we are not fighting head-on, the brothers are all very clever, and there is no way to go wrong!"

Shi Qian patted his chest and made a guarantee, then pulled Dai Zong to the table and quickly transcribed the information.

Zhao Bufan didn't bother them, he waited by the side until the two of them finished transcribing, then he took out the secret letter that had been prepared long ago from his arms and handed it over to Shi Qian very solemnly.

"This sealed letter must not be dropped, it must be handed over to Orihiko in person, and no one is allowed to read it except him!"

Shi Qian carefully put it close to his body, grinned nonsense and said: "Brother General, don't worry, as long as Dai Zong and I are not dead, this letter will definitely be delivered!"

Dai Zong also nodded: "Don't worry, the prince will hand it over to the two of me, it is a matter of the death of the Great Song Dynasty, although we are not heroes, but we are also men who lick blood with a knife, how could we mistake the major national events, and never let the Liao people take advantage!"

Zhao Bufan looked at the two of them deeply and didn't say anything more.

"Be careful all the way!"

"Farewell!"

Shi Qian and Dai Zong bowed and resolutely turned to leave.

............

The next morning, the morning sun of spring shone into the house through the window, and gradually shone on the sleeping Zhu Lian on the bed, adding a colorful luster to that beautiful face.

This sleeping beauty seemed to feel unwell quickly, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, she slowly opened her hazy sleepy eyes, and vaguely found that Zhao Bufan was not by her side, so she couldn't help rubbing her eyes at the moment, and sat up sharply to look.

At this time, Zhao Bufan was standing in the corner of the room, motionless and staring at the white tiger swallowing cloud armor hanging on the shelf.

Zhu Lian was very surprised, grabbed the clothes scattered on the ground, and asked in a daze while putting them on: "Bufan, what are you doing looking at your suit of armor so early in the morning?

"I saw that you slept soundly, so I never called you!"

Zhao Bufan responded casually, but his eyes were still fixed on the armor in front of him.

Zhu Lian quickly put on his underwear, simply straightened his long hair that was scattered, then got up from the bed and walked to him, looked at the White Tiger Swallowing Cloud Armor suspiciously, and then looked at Zhao Bufan's face suspiciously.

"I said, what are you always staring at this White Tiger Devouring Cloud Armor?

Zhao Bufan smiled lightly: "I'm thinking, when will I stop wearing this suit of armor and take you to see thousands of rivers and mountains freely!"

"Aren't you wearing it now, what are you doing here early in the morning?"

Zhu Lian, who had just woken up from a big dream, didn't understand what he meant, rolled her eyes, her eyes were full of charm, but seeing that Zhao Bufan didn't say anything, she thought about it carefully, and seemed to understand a little, her eyes gradually enlarged, and her eyes gradually became full of worry.

"You're on your way?"

"Hmm!" Zhao Bufan nodded slightly.

got a positive answer, Zhu Lian's beautiful face was completely occupied by sorrow.

"When exactly are you leaving?"

"Now!"

“......”

Zhu Lian was silent for a long time, and suddenly hugged Zhao Bufan from behind, his pretty face was tightly attached to his broad shoulders, and he didn't say anything, just hugged him tightly.

Zhao Bufan felt Zhu Lian's worry, smiled and patted her hand holding him: "I will come back alive!"

"I want to go with you!" Zhu Lian choked.

Zhao Bufan shook his head with a smile, gently left her embrace, turned around to support Zhu Lian's shoulders, and smiled comfortingly: "This family can't do without, if you go with me, then who will take care of the family's affairs?

"I ......"

Zhu Lian opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything when the words came to his mouth.

She took into account the overall situation, forcibly suppressed her emotions with reason, and said leisurely: "For more than 100 years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, every Northern Expedition has ended in failure, and there have been partial victories, but there has never been a comprehensive victory, and the consequence of each failure is that a large number of soldiers are buried in the battlefield...... It's extraordinary, I'm actually really scared, I really don't have any bottom in my heart.

Can the Northern Expedition really succeed? Can we really recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun? Can we really do what Emperor Taizu failed to do?

I'm so scared, I'm afraid that you won't return, I'm afraid that you will also hate Northern Xinjiang like the famous generals of the past dynasties, how many Great Song Dynasty men have died on this road, even if our Great Song Dynasty was the strongest, they were all defeated, not to mention that at this time, I am really scared!!"

Zhu Lian cried!

Crying so much!

She suddenly hugged Zhao Bufan and refused to let go.

Zhao Bufan sighed deeply.

He knew in his heart that the entire Great Song Dynasty was afraid of the Liao State from the bottom of his heart, from the emperor's relatives to the peddlers' pawns, everyone was afraid!

The Liao State left too many shadows on the Great Song Dynasty, and no one could change this dilemma for more than 100 years, and peace talks were necessary to win the battle, and even the people who lost the war had to bow down and be called a minister, and even reached the point where the people who resisted the Liao were heroes, and those who dared to fight the Liao were heroes, which was not a loss of confidence and a collapse of dignity.

At this moment, Zhu Lian's state made the will in his heart even firmer, and his tone was full of determination.

"Lian'er, believe me, I will win this battle, so that the Song people will never have to surrender again, never be afraid again, wait for me to come back at home!"