"General Sun, what do you think?" Li Jilong asked Sun Quanshao.

"Yelu Xiu Ge is not idle, he must be prepared. However, our army launched a sudden attack and the winning rate was more than 70%. However, if we change prisoners of war, we suddenly change our minds and eventually lose our righteousness, which is inappropriate."

Yelu Xiu Ge was defeated twice, and he was no longer a god of war, so Sun Quanzhao commented that he was just a special person. But he could not be underestimated!

Because this person has always been in Youzhou, even Li Jilong dared not invade Youzhou innocently.

But if the fight starts, Sun Quanzhao's 70% chance of winning is not an exaggeration. Most of the famous generals and elite soldiers in Hebei were brought here this time, including Jing Si, Jingsai Army, Tian Min, Yang Yanzhao and Wei Neng from Cangzhou.

However, it is righteousness.

For example, Zhao Kuangyi attacked Youzhou, it cannot be said that Yanyun has been China's territory since ancient times, and the Khitan is still known as China.

It cannot be said that it is the gateway of our Song Dynasty and must be taken back. Although the actual fist is the one whose fist is the one, it cannot be said such a slogan equivalent to a robber. Therefore, before the two Northern Expeditions, the imperial edict issued documents, the people of Yanyun, I came to rescue you, and the fight for justice is the most important thing. It may be very illusory, but it will indeed affect morale.

Jing Si said angrily: "General Sun, what did you say? Yizhou belongs to our Song Dynasty!"

Li Jilong held him down and said, "If you are not convinced, just train troops for the country in Cangzhou."

In fact, the cavalry transferred to Hebei are not many of them for the first time, and there are still a large number of new recruits in Hebei, most of which are in Cangzhou and Yingzhou for training, so that they will integrate into the battlefield atmosphere as soon as possible.

Li Jilong said again: "General Sun, you must be prepared. The court will ask you to go to Dengzhou to train that naval army."

"Ah." Sun Quanzhao said dissatisfied. Last time Gao Qiong brought the navy to Pingzhou, Liao Kingdom, and turned it into a soy sauce. Wasn't this demoted for no reason?

Li Jilong smiled and said, "The specific reason is that you will know when you go back this time and meet Your Majesty."

Song Jiu went to Taiyuan, and Li Jilong questioned. Zhao Kuangyi sent Wang Huaji to discuss peace, Li Jilong protested. Zhao Kuangyi made this brother-in-law helpless and simply summoned him to the capital to discuss his job and revealed the truth. Anyway, he would know sooner or later.

But there was another manpower that was not arranged. That was, there must be a general who could fight in Dengzhou. Zhao Kuangyi asked Li Jilong to recommend him. Li Jilong's first thought was Yang Yanzhao. However, if the plan was really launched, the Liao Kingdom would inevitably retaliate wildly, and Hebei would be the first to be hit. At that time, Liangmen in Suicheng was the most important, and Yang Yanzhao could not leave. Therefore, Li Jilong did not give a reply on the spot, and this candidate was a bit difficult. To be able to fight, to be able to rule the three armies, you must have a certain amount of wisdom.

Looking at the expressions of the generals today, Sun Quanzhao made Li Jilong very satisfied. He simply asked Sun Quanzhao to go to Beijing. The head general who went to Dengzhou must know the entire plan in advance, otherwise he would be inadequately prepared.

Wei Neng came up curiously and asked, "General Li, is it that the court plans to fight the Northern Expedition again?"

"I don't know, withdraw."

The three armies slowly retreated, and Yelu Xiu Ge was relieved. This section of Yishui was not wide. Just now, he clearly saw that several generals of the Song Dynasty on the other side of the river seemed to have a dispute. If they really fought, it would be hard to say that the outcome would be great. Two failures made Yelu Xiu Ge feel a little disappointed.

The Song army also withdrew slowly.

This group of prisoners of war was exchanged for the reunion of thousands of families, which was a benevolent government, but there were also many problems.

Some prisoners of war were seriously declining due to excessive torture and could no longer serve as bans. Some prisoners of war family thought they had sacrificed, some wives remarried, and some parents died in grief. After these soldiers returned, the court would definitely have comforting measures, but they would be severely hit. Some soldiers were doing well and actually got married and had children in foreign lands. This time, in order to make up for the number of people, Xiao Yanyan forced their wives and children to separate. However, they did not have the treatment of Song Jiu, so they exchanged their concubines for Han Dewei. Even if they returned home, they would be worried.

But it was not what Li Jilong wanted to deal with. He sent people to send these prisoners of war to the capital city and let the capital city officials handle it.

All divisions were also going to disband back, but Li Jilong suddenly gathered the three armies and said, "Everyone, Yelu Xiu Ge just said, if you have the ability, don't beg for peace, please remember today's shame!"

"The country humiliated the lord and the ministers will die!" Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers shouted in unison.

Yang Yanzhao had some suspicion in his eyes, and the emperor was the one who asked to get along.

Then he shook his head again, no one dared to say it, but Li Jilong said what else was afraid of? He was the national uncle!

He slowly came to Yuping and said, "I have met Aunt Yu."

"Who are you……"

"I am Panpan's husband." Yang Yanzhao said respectfully.

When Yuping left, Panpan was still very young and I didn’t remember Yuping’s affairs very clearly, but I often heard from her mother, so when I came this time, I repeatedly told Yang Yanzhao that no matter what, I must bring Yuping back safely.

Yuping was not surprised by the age difference between Yang Yanzhao and Panpan. In terms of the gap, Kou Zhun and Queen Xiao Song's sister were even bigger. She played the role of a slave and a teacher in Khitan. It was impossible for her to hear important information, but she heard some of them, including Yang Yanzhao, and said: "Are you Erlang of the Yang family?"

"Liu Lang (calculated based on the ranking of Yang Chongxun and Yang Ye's two brothers)."

"Liulang, is Panpan also in Hebei?"

"In Suicheng, she is preparing to welcome Aunt Yu at home."

Yuping's eyes were a little confused. It would be better if she came back, but some things seemed to be different from others.

Yang Yanzhao saw it and said, "Mr. Song has always been thinking about Aunt Yu very much, and his uncle has also started a family and started a business. He is also appreciated by His Majesty. He is promoted to the magistrate of Lingzhou and is deeply loved by the people in Lingzhou."

After the battle of Qigou Pass, Xiao Yanyan was very strict with Yuping because of resentment. Yuping had not received a letter from Song Jiu through a merchant in Liao Kingdom for a long time, so she asked, "Has he got married?"

"I've got married. I'm the little lady of Zhang Xueshu's family. Last year, I gave birth to a fat boy in Lingzhou."

"Master Zhang?"

"Aunt Yu should know him. Zhang Quhua, the deputy director of the academy, was now appreciated by His Majesty and promoted to the Hanlin Bachelor."

Yuping thought carefully and found that when Zhang Juhua left, she had a baby girl with a very pretty look, but she was even younger at that time and didn't know how she grew up.

Xiao Su congratulated: "Miss Yu, congratulations on holding your grandson."

Yang Yanzhao said: "But they are still in the northwest. Is Aunt Yu going back to the capital or to Taiyuan?"

"Taiyuan?"

"Mr. Song Gong is in Taiyuan. If you go to Taiyuan, you must go from Jingxing Pass to Hedong. If you return to the capital, there are many roads. I can send someone to arrange where Aunt Yu wants to go."

"Then it's too far."

...

More than 10,000 prisoners of war also arrived in the capital.

But their return made the people even more angry.

These people were originally captured by the Liao Kingdom as slaves. The two words "slaves and tribes" basically disappeared in the Song Dynasty, at least except for the Bashu and Kuixia areas. As for the treatment of Liao prisoners of war in the Song Dynasty, who can see it!

More and more people wrote letters to demand severe punishment of the Liao Kingdom.

But how to punish it, is it the Northern Expedition?

Then punish it severely.

Forced by public opinion, the Song Dynasty's "Northern Expedition" began.

It's indeed the back of the mountain!

Yang Qiong and Zhang Ningbing went out to Zhenwu.

Since Han Delang's defeat, the Liao Kingdom has successively sent some troops to Fengzhou, but now the Song and Liao countries are despised by the entire Hedong area below Jiashan. Moreover, the Liao army is not good at attacking and is also not good at defense. Especially in the southwest region, there are not many troops stationed in Fengzhou. Fengzhou has troops stationed, but they dare not rescue them. Although Zhenwu City has city defense, the city is not large, not Youzhou City. There are not enough troops stationed in a thousand people. The Song army was prepared and brought countless powerful siege weapons to capture Zhenwu City.

Yin Xian and Wang Chengmei joined forces to cross the Yellow River directly and attack Dongshengzhou of the Liao Kingdom. This city was not as good as Zhenwu City, and was immediately conquered by two armies.

After the two armies swept away some small Liao fortresses in Hedong again, Yu Zhen met and divided his troops again. They attacked Fengzhou of Liao, and followed the southwest road to approach Datong of Liao, Xijing of Liao.

At this moment, the Hedong army also came out.

Yang Si and Yin Jilun's troops went west and headed straight to Shuozhou.

Yang Ye and Gao Qiong led countless soldiers, village soldiers and civilians, divided into two groups, pointing to Panguanzhai in the west and to Chenjiagukou in the east, which was the building of a village.

When it comes to Guanzhai, the Jin Dynasty believed that Guanzhai in the world was led by Lu Long, Feihu and Gouzhu.

Lu Long didn't think about it anymore. Youzhou was not taken down in the northeast of Youzhou. Besides, Lu Long Feihu Pass is equally important. If you raise troops from Datong, you can quickly reach Zijingling from Feihu Pass and then reach Hebei. Therefore, Pan Mei once wanted to send troops to defend Feihu Pass, but Tian Chongjin ran fast. He sent a side army to support him, but his troops were insufficient and he was defeated by Yelu Xizhen, and even the section from Feihu Pass to Zijingling was lost. In this way, the east and west surrounded Yizhou and became an enclave. The Song Dynasty later had to give up Yizhou. And the bad thing was that the troops in the Liao Kingdom could be interconnected.

Finally, there is this Gouzhu. Gouzhu Mountain is Yanmen Mountain, but Gouzhu is divided into two passes. Xixing Pass is on Yanmen Mountain. The east and west mountains are steep and steep, with a circling road in the middle and a Xiong Pass on the narrow sense. This is the Yanmen Pass in the narrow sense. There is also thirty miles south of Daizhou. Gao Xiuyan, the general of An Lushan, was retreating in Taiyuan, Datong. In order to break the Dongxing Pass opened by the thief, Guo Ziyi is also very important. He reaches Yunzhou and controls Mayi at the bottom. In addition, the surrounding mountains are leaning against, so it becomes the iron wall of the Khitan.

However, the entire Hedong is Yanmen...

This is also the result of the terrain.

There is not much to do with the east side of Yanmen Guan. There are Yanmen Mountain, Wushan Mountain, and the southwest foot of Hengshan Mountain. To the east is Taihang Mountain, which itself is a natural danger.

However, it is weaker west of Yanmen Pass.

In name, the south side of the branch of the ancient Great Wall in the southwest of Shuozhou was once under the jurisdiction of the Northern Han Dynasty. If the ancient Great Wall was in a natural danger, how many are there left in the Great Wall now? The Great Wall seen by Song Jiu in later generations was a product of the Ming Dynasty's repair.

There was an ancient Great Wall in the Song Dynasty, but it could not be a powerful tool to stop the nomadic peoples in the north.

As a result, this period was gradually embezzled by the Liao Kingdom, including the Pianguan Kingdom, and became the jurisdiction of the Liao Kingdom, although it was also labeled as an idle field.

However, the Liao Kingdom is not strong in defense, only a few camps and forts, which are neither tall nor strong, and there are not many left-behind troops.

However, it does not mean that the Song Dynasty could reoccupy.

If the northwest of the Song Dynasty continued to be a mess without the protection of Hexi, even if the Song Dynasty occupied it, it might not be able to defend it. The nature is the same as that of Yizhou.

But now it is different. After the battle of Zihe Ban, all the tribes in Hexi returned to their hearts. The court also intends to start operating Shengzhou. Shengzhou can echo each other with the future Pianguan, and Yanmen Pass can also echo the future Shenwu City, and Shenwu City can echo the Pianguan. If possible, some important ancient Great Wall will be repaired. At least this land (the five villages and three counties of the Panguan Shenchi) can truly belong to the Song Dynasty. The small pit in the east and west of the river form a whole.

This is different from the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty also valued this place. The so-called outer three passes were Yanmen, Ningwu, and Panguan. However, the Ming Dynasty defended the nomadic peoples in Hexi. Now the Song Dynasty defended the Yunzhou in Shanhou. The Ming Dynasty could get the support of the military force in Shanhou, and the Song Dynasty could get the support of the military force in Hexi at this time, and the advantages and disadvantages were almost the same.

There were even fewer Liao soldiers here, and they fled long before the Song Dynasty dispatched a large army.

Then we started to build a city, and a large number of civilian soldiers brought countless cement and gunpowder, as well as various tools.

In order to speed up, not only did many baggage trucks be used, but also let the civilians carry their hands on their shoulders and deliver all kinds of supplies to the front line as soon as possible.

The first one to start construction was Panguan City, which leaned against the special terrain here to build a dangerous pass. The second is Shenwu City.

Zhongyi Fort was built on the Yellow River twenty miles west of Pianguan. It echoed the northwest, and then built Zhongwei Fort at the foot of Yajiao Mountain 80 miles northeast of Pianguan, Zhongdan Fort at the Hongshuigou 60 miles east, and Pianguanying at the Dahuigou 20 miles northeast.

Zhongyong Fort was built twenty miles southwest of Shenwu City, and Hu Guozhai was built thirty miles northeast of Caocheng River.

Not too much, there is not so much manpower and material resources. Time cannot be seized, and in the future, it will inevitably lead to excessive division of troops.

In fact, it is similar to the current Hebei policy. It is led by major forts and forts, and some military garrison shops are built around it. The military garrison shops are not to prevent most of the Liao army from invading. One is to prevent the Liao scouts, the second is to prevent the small part of the Liao Kingdom from coming to the Song Dynasty to build grass valleys, and the third is to warn each other.

The troops stationed in the army were all cavalry. Once most of them invaded, they would quickly retreat to the major forts and forts nearby.
To be continued...