On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, it was raining heavily. When Zhao Kuangyi saw heavy snow, he summoned his close minister to Yuhua Palace and said, "Since spring and summer, I have never drunk wine. Now I have received great snow. I comforted me and I think I am drunk with you."

Song Jiu was blaming himself, and Zhao Kuangyi was also troubled.

Hasn't you made a heavier mistake when you make a mistake?

But auspicious snow indicates a good harvest, which is a good thing. In this era when there were no pesticides, no fertilizers, and lack of irrigation machines, a heavy snow means that many pests are frozen to death and the snow water melts. The water resources will be relatively abundant in the coming year, especially this year, which has suffered from war trauma, and the harvest will be a festive event for the entire country.

However, heavy snow means the weather is colder, so Kaifeng, let alone the Hebei front line?

The defeat in Qigou Pass made Song Jiu clearly realize that he improved his armor, reformed the military system, gradually replaced urban soldiers with simple rural soldiers, and then appointed rural soldiers, as well as some other weapons, and even steel production surged, making them sufficient weapons. It can only be said that it has obvious effects in reducing the cost of raising troops, but on the battlefield, fighting against evenly matched enemies, although these have advantages, their advantages are not enough to subvert the situation. To defeat the enemy, the command ability of the main general is still required. Therefore, there are often many classic battle examples in history where there are few defeats more and weak defeats the strong.

But Xiao Yanyan and Yelu Xiuge's battle with Junziguan, and such a big struggle, showed that even if the Song army was defeated, the Liao army would not have obvious advantages.

And this battle is the end of a legend and the beginning of another legend.

Song Jiugao looked at Yelu Xiuge. Although he was powerful, he could never be compared with Han Xin, and he was not as good as another big man who had caused countless hardships in the Han army, Lun Qinling, the Tubo.

Gaoliang River, Qigou Pass, and Junzi Pavilion, the three battles brought Yelu Xiuge to the top, which also made Yelu Xiuge begin to be proud and complacent.

When Li Jixuan arrived from the city, Yelu Xiuge had already won a great victory in Wangdu.

But this is not the main purpose of the Liao Kingdom. The purpose of the Liao Kingdom is Yingzhou. If you draw a marching route map, you can see how cunning the Liao Kingdom was using troops this time.

The troops on the side were all over the city, and after the defeat, Xiangwanghuo was united. But the main force arrived at the Hutuo River in Tangxingzhai, and then advanced to the southwest of Wangdu, where they divided the troops into Tanghe Bridge and the northern part of Qizhou. Then they suddenly turned around and rushed towards Yingzhou!

Liu Tingrang sent reinforcements, Yang Chongjin came from Gaoyang Pass to help. He Lingtu came from Xiongzhou to help, and Li Jilong... and then there was Zhao Tingpu, Beizhou.

The Zhao Tingpu who also fled at Qigou Pass but was lucky enough to not pursue the matter afterwards!

It was Yelu Xiu Ge again, Zhao Tingpu was shamelessly cowardly.

Then I did something, and the Liao team came and went like lightning. Wu Da knew where he was. Liu Ting asked the Song army in Yingzhou to take out and march towards Junziguan. Yingzhou and Mozhou were empty. Let's guard. The Hebei border at that time was different from the Hebei border later. There were many lakes and low-lying terrain. Therefore, Zhao Tingpu used the Yingmo two states to be separated by a hundred miles apart. The land was full of water and terrain, and retreated to Yingmo and blocked the water and consolidated it.

Liu Tingrang, Li Jingyuan, and Yang Chongjin began to collide with Yelu Xiuge's tens of thousands of cavalry.

The battle between the Junzi Hall begins.

The veteran Liu Tingrang is a greedy person who is afraid of death, but he has not been in the military for a long time. Even in the military, he is still an enemy of Yelu Xiuge. The two armies met at the Junzi Pavilion and had not yet fought. Some of the dangerous terrain was occupied by Yelu Xiuge first.

In other words, it was clearly in the Song realm, but the advantage of geographical advantage was snatched by Yelu Xiu Ge.

At this time, the forces of the two armies were not much different. To be precise, the Liao army had the advantage, one was the ability of the commander Yelu Xiuge, and the other was that the Liao army was mostly cavalry. If Li Jilong arrived at this time, then the military might still have the advantage, and Li Jilong's military ability also well supplemented Liu Tingrang's shortcomings.

However, Li Jilong hurried to Cangzhou. He was not familiar with Cangzhou yet, and then gathered troops from Cangzhou and had to cross Bazhou and Mozhou, which was far away. When Li Jilong finally led 10,000 infantry soldiers in Cangzhou to the battlefield, Liu Tingrang was already in a very unfavorable position.

In fact, Li Jilong's situation was even worse. Cangzhou was not the main battlefield for the battle between Song and Liao countries. Later, Song Jiu launched the rural military system, and the soldiers of various villages and forts were gradually replaced by rural military troops. Moreover, Li Jilong did not dare to bring out all the troops in Cangzhou together. Therefore, the 10,000 infantry was almost a miscellaneous army, including rural military soldiers, imprisoned soldiers, and even a small number of brave and brave men who took the initiative to participate in the war.

Li Jilong and Yelu Xiu Ge take the little one seriously.

He only sent an ambush to attack, but the result disappointed him.

Li Jilong quickly defeated the ambush.

The two armies almost met.

Liu Tingrang was overjoyed and sent warriors to inform the army behind the palace to meet with Li Jilong.

It was not until this time that Yelu Xiu Ge began to face up to this seemingly messy reinforcement. What if Zhao Tingpu brought the army to the front line? It might not be impossible to win, and it might not be impossible to defeat Yelu Xiu Ge from the altar of god in advance!

But no if.

After all, although Li Jilong can fight, his combat power is too weak.

So under the arrangement of Yelu Xiuge, the Song army was once again divided into three parts. Liu Ting asked Yang Chong to join one part, and Yelu Xiuge continued to lead the main force to suppress the attack. Li Jilong's unit, and even Li Jilong's subordinates deployed Wang Gao, was forcibly cut out from Li Jilong's army by Yelu Xiuge and became an isolated army. Wang Gao's subordinates had the least force and picked up the few to fight first. Yelu Xiuge mobilized his troops and launched a crazy attack on Wang Gao. Soon, Wang Gao was gradually annihilated, and Wang Gao broke out of the encirclement alone and escaped.

But on the main battlefield, the two armies were still fighting hard, and it was difficult to distinguish, and Yelu Xiuge did not get any advantage.

At this moment, Xiao Yanyan brought the main force of the Liao army to kill him.

The scouts never found out how many soldiers and horses Xiao Yanyan brought. The Liao Kingdom wanted to show off, so the number was kept secret. But at this time, Li Jilong had 10,000 soldiers and horses, and Liu Tingrang had 20,000 soldiers and horses, and together they were 30,000 soldiers and horses, but after fighting, they were killed one after another, there were only 20,000 soldiers and horses. Xiao Yanyan was the empress dowager of the Liao Kingdom. She came in person, and the army might not have 100,000, but at least 60,000 or 70,000, which is several times that of the Song army. Moreover, the Song army was exhausted at this time, and the weather was cold and cold, which was conducive to the Liao army's battle, not the Song army.

So Sang Zan, the subordinate of Li Jilong, took the lead in running away.

Wang Gao's troops were destroyed, Sang Zan ran away again, and Li Jilong had no choice but to take the remaining subordinates to retreat to Leshou. Why is it Leshou? Yingzhou Mozhou already has Zhao Tingpu's army, so Leshou became a gap. This is to prevent the Liao army from going south after the defeat of Junziguan.

In the previous battlefield, Liu Tingrang was in front and Li Jilong was in back and Li Jilong retreated. Yelu Xiuge did not pursue him, but turned the rear army and surrounded Liu Tingrang at once.

At this time, Yelu Xiuge suddenly changed his style. He knew that He Lingtu was greedy for merit and had no plans. So he sent a spy to him, "I was guilty of the Khitan. I am willing to return to the court every day, and I have no way to surrender myself. I hope that the lord will take it in."

He Lingtu actually believed it.

It is also possible that the Song army was surrounded by countless Liao troops at this time, and the situation was extremely bad. If Yelu Xiuge, the number one god of war in the Liao army, would be rebelled, then a miracle would be staged. This was He Lingtu's desire for a chance, so he gambled. So he privately left Yelu Xiuge ten taels of brocade. Yelu Xiuge replied. I wish to see He Envoy He. He Lingtu brought dozens of cavalry to meet him, and was captured by the ambushed Liao soldiers. Yelu Xiuge cursed on Hu's bed: "You like to go through the border affairs, and finally came to die today."

Let the left and right push him out and kill him.

Then Yelu Xiuge ordered the general attack.

The weather was really cold on this day, so cold that the Song army could not lift the bow and arrow. The crossbow could not be held. How could the Song army, which was mainly infantry, be the opponent of the Liao army? Yang Chongjin was captured and refused to surrender. Li Jingyuan was killed in battle, and nearly 20,000 Song troops were all heroically sacrificed. Liu Tingrang only brought a few Song soldiers to break through. However, under the counterattack of the Song army, the Liao army suffered heavy casualties. The uncle of the country was carefully steadily Ta Liege, and the palace envoy Xiao Dali was all shot dead by the Song army in this battle. The Liao Kingdom was also very happy to be successful. How many Liao soldiers died in this battle? Because the Liao Kingdom was not counted, it is unknown, but the uncle was killed by the Song army, so he wanted to die so much.

Liu Tingbang's entire army was wiped out, and the opportunity of the Liao Kingdom came.

First of all, let’s talk about military strength. Unlike everyone in the Liao Kingdom, the real soldiers of the Song Dynasty only refer to the imperial soldiers, and also the wing soldiers, but when can we expect the wing soldiers to go to the battlefield to fight?

At this time, there were only 300,000 jailed soldiers in the Song Dynasty, some of them were stationed in Hedong and some of them were stationed in the northwest, as well as Bashu, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi, and those who were stationed in the Hebei border. Although there were a lot of troops stationed on the Hebei border, they were less than 100,000, including the township soldiers, only more than 100,000 points.

This is the original. After the defeat of Qigou Pass, many of the imperial guards and border township soldiers were not replenished in time, and the troops were even smaller. In other words, there were less than 100,000 troops stationed in Hebei. Liu Ting let 20,000 soldiers die, and a huge black hole came out.

But at this moment, the Liao Kingdom was still very rational. Zhao Tingpu's troops were in Yingmo, Li Jilong was in Leshou, so it would definitely not work to go east. It would be fine. If you attack strongly, the attack was not the director of the Liao army. If the sacrifice was heavy, the Song army would gather again in time, then there would be a change. Tian Chongjin's troops were in Dingzhou, and the losses were not great, which was also undesirable. So he concentrated his troops south to Qizhou. When the Song army heard that the front line was defeated, Liu Zhixin saw that his subordinates had few troops and were defeated by the Liao army, so he had to rely on the help of the villagers to defend the city. In fact, except for the lonely city of Qizhou, Qizhou was equally inclined to fall. Then he went south to Xingzhou, and the officers and soldiers of Xingzhou surrendered. When he went south to Shenzhou, the officers and soldiers of Shenzhou wanted to resist, but because they had few troops and did not defend the city, he killed the defenders and plundered them, which was to do what Cao Han did in Jiangzhou. He even once attacked Dezhou.

Another group of people was sent to capture Zhongdu Bridge and block Jingxing Pass, intending to stop the Song army from Hedong from helping, and ate Tian Chongjin's lonely army. Suo Xiang offered a plan, and the three armies formed a square formation and marched eastward, claiming to meet with most of the Song army left by Yang Chongjin at Gaoyang Pass. The Liao army would inevitably attack Pinglu City (the road that must be passed from Dingzhou to Gaoyang Pass) in the south of Gaoyang Pass. Then, taking advantage of his unpreparedness, the second round led his troops to suddenly go south and break the Liao army to the Houbao. Once the rear army was broken, the Liao army would inevitably retreat north in a hurry. However, the Liao people noticed that the Liao army from Jingxing Pass to Tanghe escaped. This plan did not succeed, but also made the Liao realize that this Song army was not easy to mess with. It was just a test, so they did not touch him again.

During this attack, only Ma Zhijie, the military supervisor of Bozhou, heard that Liu Tingrang was defeated, and was worried that the Liao people would take advantage of the victory to invade the south, so they urgently recruited the people to repair cities, manage equipment, gathered men and strong men, and gathered grain. The officials and people thought they had a bad reputation for making trouble. Fifteen days later, the Liao Kingdom arrived and saw that they were prepared, they had to retreat. So everyone was impressed.

We can't blame the Liao Kingdom for being cruel. The Wang family in Fengzhou and the Zhe family in Liaozhou were in Fengzhou, the Song Dynasty was in Yanyun, and Wu Xuanming was in Liaodong. We can only say that the Liao Kingdom did it more cruelly and decisively. It may also be that Xiao Yanyan, who was ruthless and ruthless, revenge on the Song Dynasty.

...

Song Jiu looked at memorials from all over the country.

If you don't understand at all, everyone has their own opinions, it's hard to see the truth.

However, the ministers in the Political Affairs Hall were talking about it.

Most ministers demanded severe punishment of Li Jilong. If Li Jilong did not escape, it would fail and cause Hebei to become corrupt.

However, some ministers were thinking hard about rescue strategies. Song Jiu entered the Political Affairs Hall, and the Liao team was raging in the Hebei prefectures. They had to find a way to retreat the Liao army.

Song Jiu put down the memorial and fell into deep thoughts. After a while, he ordered the clerk: "Come here with paper and pen."

The little official smiled and brought pen, ink, paper and inkstone. It seemed that Song Jiu was going back to the Western Palace again. Compared to the others, these clerks still welcomed Song Jiu, who was unpretentious, to return to the Western Palace to preside over the Western Palace.

Song Jiu carefully drew out the march routes of the generals of the two countries, and then repeated the process one by one.

This is very clear. Tian Chongjin performed well, but he was not as great as Tian Xi said. Although he was winning from beginning to end, he was led by Yelu Xiu Ge and Xiao Yanyan.

Li Jixuan is brave, but he is not a handsome man, but an excellent general.

Yang Chongjin died, and Song Jiu didn't want to say much, but he was also making a mistake. Take a look at the black-faced guest Yin Jilun, what did he do after he arrived in Xiongzhou. All the fort troops gathered and prepared to rescue Song Jiu. However, Yang Chongjin realized that the Liao Kingdom might want to eat Liu Tingrang's main force, but placed most of the troops in Gaoyang Pass. Even when Yelu Xiuge rushed over, even if Li Jilong helped, the troops had not gained an advantage. Now Gaoyang Pass seems to have not been lost, but Shenzhou. What about Xingzhou, Dezhou, and Qizhou? Compared with the few people on the front line, how many people are there in the rear?

Liu Tingrang is not cowardly. However, if he doesn't go to the battlefield for a long time, his talent is limited and he is not the opponent's opponent.

In fact, to put it in depth, it is extremely unscientific to use the Northern Song Dynasty to recover the Central Plains compared to the Song-Liao War. For example, Pan Mei took Lingnan with just one miscellaneous army, but can this miscellaneous army defeat the Liao Kingdom?

Some people laugh at Gao Lingtu, but in that case, doesn’t Gao Lingtu want to be alive?

In order to defend Mo Ying, Zhao Ting and Pu Ming actually showed the most cowardice among several armies. Song Jiu sighed: "Calling back to support his old age, or using General Zhao to deal with the southern barbarians, and then letting him station in the north will only harm more frontline soldiers."

This is the case with this analysis.

Zhao Kuangyi was silent.

Song Jiu said again: "Then General Cui Han. From the beginning, he sent Sun Quanzhao to support Tian Chongjin to attack Qigou Pass. Even though he had some troops in his hand, he disappeared. General Cui was fond of wealth and righteousness, but he fought on the front line, not accumulating virtue. Qin used Meng Mingshi and finally defeated Jin. According to the opinions of his ministers, it would be better to use Cui Yanjin. Give him a mechanism to repent, and maybe General Cui would surprise the court."

And Liu Zhixin.

This battle was made contributions, but he was not smart enough and was led by the Liao Kingdom. But in Song Jiu's idea, it would be better to use Liu Zhixin than to use Cui Han and Zhao Tingpu.

Finally, Song Jiucai commented on Li Jilong and said, "Everyone, the Liao Kingdom is raging the people of Hebei, why doesn't the court send troops?"

"The Liao Kingdom has a great power and a large military force. It is a victory and goes south. It is cold and cold again. Who can defeat them?" Zhang Hong said.

"Your Majesty, I have said before that although the prime minister of the Western Prefecture is not as important as the Eastern Prefecture, the selection of people is even more harsh. Zhang Gong is quiet and not good at military affairs. How can we choose Xifu? Zhang Gong, I ask you, now the Liao Kingdom divides troops and conquers the enemy, and the court feels embarrassed. When I was in the Junzi Pavilion, all the troops gathered, and Li Jilong had only 10,000 miscellaneous infantry in his hand. That's it. If Xiao Yanyan's army did not arrive, he would still fight with the Liao Kingdom's first brave general Yelu Xiuge. However, Xiao Yanyan's army arrived, and the troops were several times that of the Song army. The weather was cold, and our army could not be opened. Wang Gao's entire army was destroyed. Sang Xian led his subordinates to escape. What was Li Jilong their opponent? For example, when I was trapped in Qigou Pass, Yang Ye divided his troops to Jintaitun, and I led the army to retreat forcibly. Can Yang Ye kill him from Jintaitun to rescue him?"

Then Song Jiu said again: "Since the use of troops, Yelu Xiuge has killed our army and almost no one is his opponent. Li Jilong actually led a miscellaneous army, fighting with him, and he is the first person. In this way, Yang Ye was also recuperating in the capital, giving his ministers 30,000 troops, and sent an envoy to issue an edict to Leshou, asking Li Jilong to help me and expel the Liao army as soon as possible."

"Ah?" Everyone was stunned. After a long time of trouble, Li Jilong defeated him, but became the most capable general of the Song Dynasty in Song Jiu's heart.

Song Jiu sarcastically said, "Everyone, you said that harmony is the most important thing. I wonder what you think when you see the situation today?"

Li Fang immediately lowered his head.

Suddenly the eunuch outside shouted: "Report, Hedong Military Newspaper."
Chapter completed!