Just as the envoys of the Song and Liao sides were coming and going at the negotiation table in Dading Prefecture, a long-planned accident occurred - in the Baigouyi and Jumahe areas of Xiongzhou on the Song and Liao borders, a serious military conflict occurred between the Song and Liao armies. The Liao army finally started a fuss in the army due to supply and military pay issues. However, the Liao army was not yet at the point of indifference to launching a mutiny, but turned its attention to the Song Dynasty in the south.

In the past, the expenses of the Liao Kingdom that could support the border defense forces could not meet the needs of the border guards. As the country with the most powerful force in this era, the Liao court believed that it was normal for border guards to plunder in groups from top to bottom. This action was called "Caogu". However, with the continuous development of the Song Dynasty and the increasingly tough military attitude, the Song State strengthened its resistance to the Liao army that came to capture Caogu. Especially after the Xia War, after the Dingxi Army wiped out the Tiande army of Liao and 50,000 reinforcements in the first battle, all the states and troops in Hebei bordered the Liao Kingdom to mobilize to resolutely resist the Liao army's campaign of Caogu. Due to the firm attitude and ruthless means of the Song army greatly shocked the Liao army, which made the Liao army stationed on the border guards no longer dare to attack Caogu.

After the Liao army was unable to use Dacaogu to maintain the military expenses and supplies of the soldiers guarding the border, the situation of the Liao army on the opposite side became worse, especially after the Liao Kingdom increased 50,000 troops to the Song-Liao border, it even brought a small burden to the border military expenses. The former Liao army stationed in Dacaogu naturally did not dare to go to the Song-Liao territory to hit Caogu, but it did not mean that these elite soldiers from the heart of the Liao Kingdom did not dare to. After a few days of hardship, the Liao army that had increased its troops began to hit Caogu.

Han Qi, the highest military leader of Hebei, was extremely angry when he learned that the Liao army had begun to resume the hunting of Caogu, but he faintly longed for the Liao army to be able to hunt Caogu again, so that he could have open reasons to attack the Liao army. So Han Qi and his military staff began to set up traps, preparing to give the Liao army the opposite.

The Song army intentionally indulged the Liao army, causing the young man on the opposite side to relax. After several smooth "big harvests", the Liao army began to look at the Song army and even joked that the original Liao army guarding the border was as timid as a mouse, but he didn't know that Han Qi and the Song army were setting up their pockets and waiting for them to jump into the trap.

Han Qi also made up his mind this time. He knew the inside story of the border confrontation between the Song and Liao, but he believed that he had much more aces than the Liao army opposite. Han Qi was a cautious person. He knew that it would be fine if he had a rash action. If it failed, it would put Su Song, who was negotiating in the Dading Prefecture, in a very unfavorable situation. However, after he carefully weighed the pros and cons, the possibility of his failure was almost zero, so he was determined to make a vote. The reason why Han Qi bet on his political life was not only in addition to the strength he had in his hands, but also because Fu Bi was a hero of destroying Xia, which was a big and small stimulation for him. Han Qi also knew that the day when the war broke out between the Song and Liao countries had begun to enter the countdown, but his increasingly poor physical condition made him doubt whether he could wait until that day. In order not to be weaker than Fu Bi in this regard, he was determined to teach the Liao Kingdom an unforgettable lesson.

After careful calculation, Han Qi's military aides decided to set the battlefield on the front line of Xiongzhou where the Liao army was most rampant. After formulating a military plan, Han Qi handed it over to Han Qi for review. After reading it, Han Qi just threw their plan on the table and said, "You are far from being Nirvana. If he is here, you can give it a try!"

Han Qi's military aides felt a little dissatisfied when they heard this, but they were not unfamiliar with the "Nirvana" that Han Qi said. A year ago, Nirvana was a great way to be a counselor, but in military terms, they thought that this counselor was still far from it. Han Qi was very dissatisfied with the plan formulated by his aide-his aide-his aide-his aide was too stingy, and he just wanted to suppress the arrogance of the Liao army and eliminate all the Liao army that dared to cross the border and rob. He admitted that Nirvana was not as good as his subordinates in military terms, but he was much stronger than his subordinates in terms of courage and situation. He used his political life and his reputation to bet, and how could he have only such a little achievement in his goal?!

"Let's think about it again!" Han Qi pointed to a small city with blue flags on the sand table and said. After that, he walked out of the court without looking back. Han Qi still wanted Nirvana to continue with his side. Unfortunately, the prince-consor in Biandu was a bit too much in Xixia, and almost robbed all the military achievements of the old Western Army, making it necessary to clamp up his tail. The relationship between Yi Nirvana and the prince-consort had to leave Hebei and return to Kaifeng, Biandu, to report to Kaifeng, Biandu. However, he knew that an important figure from the Song Dynasty Intelligence Bureau in the heart of the northern Liao Kingdom was in charge of intelligence work. The first person he thought of was Nirvana.

Han Qi's instructions made several staff members stare at each other. The city they were referring to was shocked by the Liao Kingdom New City opposite Xiongzhou. This was a very bold action. The Song Dynasty did not actively attack the Liao Kingdom for 90 years. No matter what the result of this battle, it would make the Song and Liao sides more slanted towards the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

Han Qi didn't care about how his staff formulated military plans. He believed that his subordinates could do these things. Unfortunately, he did not have a strategic adviser around him who could compare with Nirvana. He was more confident when this could make him shine for the last time. After he returned to his house, he immediately wrote a secret note. In his letter to Emperor Zhao Xu, Han Qi suggested that Yang Chongyue, the general stationed in the Western Army, who was stationed in the Western Xia, be transferred back to Hebei!

When the court suddenly appointed Yang Chongyue to go to the northwest for Zhong Yan's dispatch, Han Qi realized that this task was extremely unusual. Finally, through the channel, he learned that Yang Chongyue was originally a descendant of Yang Jiye and a descendant of Tianbo Mansion. The most eye-catching thing was that Yang Chongyue was transferred to the Western Army to serve was recommended by his son-in-law Wang Jinghui. From that time on, Han Qi knew what the young man who recognized himself as his adoptive father was thinking in his heart - Liao Kingdom, at least the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!

If the Song Dynasty wanted to recover Yan Yun and even destroy Liao, the first step was to kill Xixia first. Han Qi had a very deep understanding of this. Moreover, he also presided over military affairs in the northwest and was not unfamiliar with Xixia. It can even be said that he was one of the few people in the court who knew Xixia affairs. As expected, Xixia was destroyed by the Song Dynasty in a very short time, and Yang Chongyue made great achievements in it. From that time on, Han Qi knew that Yang Chongyue was the best candidate for Wang Jinghui to use it on the Liao Kingdom, which must have been acquiesced by the emperor. In particular, the son-in-law also wrote a novel about the story of the Yang family fighting against the Liao Kingdom in the past dynasties. How could Han Qi not read other meaningful information from it?!

Han Qi knew that his memorial would definitely be approved by the emperor, because according to his estimate, the war of revenge against the Liao Kingdom by the Song Dynasty would not exceed ten years at the latest. In fact, the top leaders of the Song Dynasty's court ruler were more eager to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun than him, and had already begun to prepare for it. However, Han Qi was far away from the center of the court and had not paid attention to what happened on Jingdong East Road. Moreover, large-scale cross-sea landing operations were an unprecedented way of combat, and he did not think so deeply.

Two thousand elite cavalry of Liao Kingdom wade through the Juma River, which is not deep. Although they are a little alert, this is not the first time they have come to the south of Juma River. Less than fifty miles across Juma River is the Baigou Post of the Song Dynasty. This team of elite cavalry of Liao Kingdom had long inquired that Baigou Post was an area where merchants of the Song Dynasty gathered. The defense was not strong, but they had a lot of wealth. These were all the sounds of deliberately released by Han Qi's aides. At this time, the cavalry of Liao Kingdom had pulled out the sabers from their waists and quickly advanced towards Baigou Post. During these days, they had always robbed some small villages of the Song Dynasty. They were already very brave. However, although these small villages had no oil and water and could not fill their greed, they did not know that when they were still gathering on the other side of the Juma River, the spies of the Song Dynasty had already discovered them and quickly reported to the Song army that was ambushing not far from here.

The result of the battle was no surprise. Han Qi and his men had made sufficient preparations for this ambush. There was no suspense to use 10,000 ambushers to deal with the bold Liao army. When the various bombs fired by the Song army with crossbows exploded one after another in the formation of the Liao army's cavalry, the final fate of this greedy cavalry was already destined.

After easily dealing with this elite cavalry of the Liao Kingdom, the Song army immediately passed the message by firing arrows. The Guangxin Army, Baozhou, Xiongzhou, Ansu Army and Baoding Army of Hebei of the Song Dynasty advanced northward across the Song-Liao border and advanced towards the Liao Kingdom. At this time, Han Qi sealed the seal and handed the message to the messenger quickly to Kaifeng, Bian. Of course, the earlier pigeons had been released, and the content conveyed by the messenger was just a detailed introduction.

Han Qi spent a lot of money on this raid, and he did not really eat a fat man and drive the Liao people out of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. After all, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are the Liao Kingdom's money bags, and no one will give up. Even if the Liao Kingdom is poor, the Song Dynasty will not allow the Song Dynasty to take over the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Han Qi's combat targets are the three cities of Xincheng, Yizhou and Yongqing. These 100,000 people are the most elite troops he can control, and he is to achieve his combat goals while the Liao people's slack mentality has not yet reacted.

The Song army's attack was too sudden. When the Liao army on the opposite side didn't know what was going on, the Song army had already reached the doorstep of his house. What was so bad was that the Song army's attack vanguards were all the Song cavalry in Liao army uniforms. From a distance, they thought it was their own troops returning to the camp. When the cavalry drove closer, the Liao army camp felt something was wrong, but they had already rushed into their own camp and killed everyone they saw, and threw small bombs into the tents of the Liao army camp from time to time.

For a time, the Liao army suffered heavy casualties. The 20,000 vanguards of the Liao army stationed less than 30 miles on the north bank of the Juma River were instantly killed by the 3,000 Song cavalry. Finally, they suppressed the position. The Song cavalry behind them continued to kill in along the bloody paths opened by the vanguard. In less than an hour, they wiped out the 20,000 Liao army. Sadly, these 20,000 Liao army were originally elite cavalry, but they didn't even have the chance to get on the horse.

Xincheng, forty miles away, was naturally alarmed by the sudden attack of the Song army, but their Song army had only more than 10,000. After the generals guarding the city sent out two thousand people but did not come back for a long time, the troops immediately decided to put away the suspension bridge and waited for the battle. Although the Liao army in Xincheng had time to prepare, it was a pity that it was too late now. Moreover, the soldiers guarding the city were seriously insufficient. After the Song army pulled the crossbows with horses, they fought fiercely and took the Xincheng for three hours.

After occupying the new city, the Song army sent dozens of cavalry to attack everywhere and forcibly migrated all the food, livestock and population of the surrounding villages to the new city, all the Song army collected civilians and men from the new city to correct the fortifications of the city wall. After the Song army's baggage troops caught up, the city walls such as catapults, crossbows, beds and crossbows were installed on the city walls in the shortest time, and all the people took away were the original residents of the new city. They would be arranged to Hebei Road and make specific arrangements after the war.

Compared with Xincheng, Yongqing and Yizhou City did not have so many troubles. Cavalry in Liao military uniforms rushed into the city directly, and after a short period of fierce battle, the two cities were taken down. Speaking of which, the Hebei Song Army was still learned from the Western Army in the War to Destroy Xia - this was also the result of Nirvana indoctrination. Han Qi did not have such a good life as Fu Bi. At that time, the Song Dynasty actually sent special forces that had never appeared on the battlefield in the northwest, and made great achievements. There were no special forces in all the Hebei territories, but they could still do the tricks of the Liao army. Moreover, the total strength of the Song army was as large as 100,000, and various war preparations were very sufficient. It was difficult not to win this battle.

The raid was progressing smoothly. Originally, Han Qi and the others thought it would take two days to achieve their goals, but they completed the initial combat goal the morning after launching the raid, which really made Han Qi and others overjoyed. However, Han Qi's biggest advantage was his steadiness and caution. He immediately ordered the renovation on the spot, and stepped up the repair of the original city defense fortifications, waiting for the Liao army's revenge at any time. Then he immediately wrote a memorial to report the matter in detail to the Biandu.

"Haha, it seems that Han Qi is also a person who is unwilling to be lonely!" Wang Jinghui said with a smile after hearing Yan Sheng's report on the current situation in Hebei in the son-in-law's mansion.

The routes in Hebei are relatively close to Biandu. The pigeon passed the letter to the palace in one night. The detailed military newspapers arrived one day later, and the delivery was very fast. Han Qi's memorial said that it was just to eliminate the Liao army that dared to invade the Song Dynasty and launched a retaliation operation. However, this so-called "retaliation operation" was a bit too big - it pushed the border between the Song and Liao dynasties north for two hundred miles and could still get Yizhou, which occupied half of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. This was not a revenge, it was purely a long-planned attack!

When Wang Jinghui heard Han Qi attacking the Liao Kingdom, he almost jumped up in surprise. However, when he heard Han Qi step up fortifications on the spot after capturing the three cities, he was preparing to deal with the Liao army. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up. Han Qi is worthy of being an old minister who has been standing tall for three dynasties. If he doesn't take action, he will be thunderous and will never leak water. This skill is something that Wang Anshi can't learn.

"It's a pity that the time for launching the raid was not very good. If the navy on Jingdong East Road was fully trained, it would be enough for the Liao Kingdom to lose the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!" Yansheng said with a smile.

"It's already rare. Han Qi is also a very sensible person. If he still fights forward, he will definitely take Zhuozhou. Not to mention that the Khitans have already prepared by that time, even the surrounding cities guarding the city are full, with a total of 30,000. Han Qi cannot afford Zhuozhou. The northerly, the stronger the Liao army will be. Maybe even he will fall into it. Then Han Qi naturally saw the danger and forced his subordinates to prepare actively!" Wang Jinghui said.

Yan Sheng nodded and said, "Han Qi is preparing to move the border northward to make room to deal with the challenges of Liao Kingdom, otherwise the big families in Hebei will be frightened! Han Qi's battle was very worthwhile, at least the hearts of the people in Hebei have been relatively stable!"

"Good, good, but Han Qi is really a big bet! I think it's very rare for such a person who cherishes his feathers to do this. Let's talk about the future. I guess the Liao Kingdom will not be like this raid. At most, Su Song is a little more uncomfortable. After all, the Liao Kingdom is very empty now, as long as it is not too much. After all, it's not ten years ago. With the lessons of the Tiande Army, the Khitans are still very tactful. Besides, the Song Dynasty is playing fake increase in troops, so is the same as the Liao Kingdom? However, this time Han Qi took the initiative to attack and provoke the cowhide of the Liao Kingdom, which further strengthened the credibility of the top leaders of the Liao Kingdom's rule for the increase in troops on the border, making them even less daring to act rashly!" Wang Jinghui said with a smile.
Chapter completed!