When Song Jiu was recalled from Suzhou, he thought on the road that the battle in Yingzhou was not that important. The reason for his defeat was that the Song army was not good, but that the commander was too incompetent.

The chaos in Bashu was unpopular, and they didn't take it seriously. Therefore, the first priority was the Yellow River.

However, he was not Song Jiu of the past, and he thought of the Battle of Chanyuan again on the way.

The process is not important, the key is why Xiao Yanyan launched the Battle of Chanyuan? It is impossible for Li Jiqian. It is not okay for Li Jiqian to be Xiao Yanyan's son, so is it necessary to take such a great danger?

It is impossible to force a peace with war, that is even more nonsense. The problem now is that the Song Dynasty wants to make peace, but Xiao Yanyan is not in harmony.

But there must be a reason for this battle.

Then when he arrived in Yunzhou, he saw the disaster relief situation in the court, and suddenly realized that one was Han Derang, and the other was underestimated Emperor Zhenzong of Song. He did not see what Zhao Heng became in the later period, but now Zhao Heng can be said to have reached the peak of his inner rule. I am afraid that the legendary Wen and Jing rule was not as good as Zhao Heng during the Xianping rule.

Since this is the reason, Xiao Yanyan may launch a more fierce attack, even because there is no Northwest restraint, it has more troops than in history.

But this is a guess, and it depends on the national financial situation. After reading the account book, we started to strengthen the army. However, we were afraid that we would not be able to guess accurately at first, but we started to train the Beiwei Army again, and then placed the people of Hebei and the victims of disaster, increasing some troops and the Xianping Army. Even if these measures were not guessed correctly, they were necessary.

The Liao Kingdom then invaded continuously, verifying his ideas.

So this plan came into being.

Wars should pay attention to the right time, place, and people. It would be fine if it violates normally. If it invades on a large scale as Song Jiu guessed, it would be better to lead the Liao army to the inner abdomen of the Song Dynasty to attack.

If you plan to be tragic, you will be tragic here. Once this happens, many people will suffer.

But if it succeeds, it would be worth it. A battle will determine the universe. Even if Xiao Yanyan and the Emperor of Liao cannot be caught and annihilated the main force of the Liao army, the Song Dynasty still had more than 100,000 cavalry, so if it took advantage of the situation to go north, it might be able to destroy the Liao Kingdom. Even if it is not destroyed, the Liao Kingdom would have been severely damaged and divided into pieces. The Song Dynasty calmly obtained the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

For this reason, he came up with various arrangements, including carrying trees on the front line, sending envoys to seek peace, actively tempting Xiao Yanyan to invade, and then frequently mobilizing troops, preventing the Liao Kingdom from realizing that the elite troops have been staying in the northwest and training.

And keep it a secret, let’s look at the generals of the Lalian Beiwei Army and the Xianping Army, which were always Yang Qiong and Tian Min. The mobilization was not started until this year.

It just so happens that many places in Nanhetao are uninhabited, which makes it difficult for the spies of Liao Kingdom to go deep into Nanhetao to spy on useful information.

But it is still not enough. There is a key premise for this series of plans. That is intelligence. If the information cannot be obtained in advance, it may be extravagant, which will make the capital dangerous.

A eunuch happened to be transferred back to the capital, Li Shenyou.

This person is rigorous by nature, strict in his mouth, and a little bit more versus military. Zhao Hengche drove to Daming Mansion. He was the chief supervisor of Tianxiong Army. Once he brought a secret order to pass on all generals. Hundreds of Liao cavalry suddenly arrived, and Li Shenyou called out by Zhou's command. If he summoned an ambush, he would scare the enemy away. This means that this person's IQ is also very high.

So let this person preside over the leadership.

He also selected dozens of the top and reliable scouts from the Hebei army and began to be under his jurisdiction. Of course, the generals on the front line did not dare to ask Zhao Heng where my scouts were gone.

Zhao Heng allocated funds from the inner warehouse to let these scouts sneak into the Liao Kingdom with a lot of money. Under the actions of these scouts and heavy money, several senior officials of the Liao Kingdom were bribed, and even a Han eunuch around Xiao Yanyan was bribed. Of course, the money spent was quite considerable. If it was a little bit, it would be impossible for these people to treason. More than two million yuan was invested. However, the accounts were allocated from the inner warehouse, and the ministers did not know.

It was this operation that made the court learn about Xiao Yanyan's going south in March, so Li Ying said those words that everyone could not understand before his death.

Also, such as generals, the four generals of the Song Dynasty, Cao Bin Pan Mei, Li Jilong, and Cao Wei. In fact, Cao Bin is a real famous general, and even his vision is first-class, such as his evaluation of Li Yuanhao. This is a coach with both wisdom and courage, not a general, but a handsome man.

However, although Cao Wei went to the battlefield at this time, he lacked the training of individual command. Therefore, Song Jiu put him in Weizhou and asked him to start fighting, which was to hone in advance. There was another intention... that is, the mobilization of officers and soldiers this year.

For example, Song Jiu did not object to Zhao Heng's formation, and he even expected that Wang Chao would not go to fight. If Wang Chao dared to fight, the chief minister around him would come up with a secret order to prevent him from going to fight. However, if it were the latter, Song Jiu might appreciate it.

The reason is simple. Let Xiao Yanyan come in, preserve her strength in the rear, and finally fight to the final decisive battle.

As well as some other arrangements, such as training village soldiers, not only the village soldiers have now led the people to take refuge in the city and reduce casualties, but also the village soldiers are now actively leading everyone to resist. After the war, these village soldiers have been organized and have excellent standard weapons. They even cooperate with the people for a period of time and have a mass base, and can lead everyone to kill the fleeing Liao soldiers.

There are others.

Li Jilong and Cao Wei changed defenses, not only the two main generals, but also many troops. Now the main force is no longer in Nanhetao, so it is not too close to Liao Kingdom. But the edict does not say that, and there will be no one standing on the side of the road, counting one by one, only saying that some troops were mobilized to increase the thickness of Qin and Wei. After all, the Tubo people were quite powerful. The Song Dynasty advanced westward, and sooner or later there would be serious conflicts with Tubo.

But now, regardless of Nanhetao or Qinwei's troops, as well as several heavy generals, they are no longer in Nanhetao and Qinwei.

In the name of disaster preparation, we even prepared a large amount of food and grass in relevant prefectures in advance to save the speed of transportation of food and grass.

There is another arrangement, that is, a weapon... but it is also under the control of Li Shenyou. Cooperating with this weapon to train soldiers is Pan Weizheng, who has been studying in the academy for several years. It is not a welfare. The brothers of the Pan family and Pan Wei, under the leadership of Song Jiu, have learned a lot of knowledge about matters and learning, and gradually grew into a good official. This is the pride of the old Pan family.

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"General Pan. The Wei River is ahead, so we have to find the boat together."

"That's good. Let's do it." Pan Wei was looking at the three thousand officers and soldiers, and the five thousand civilians said loudly.

In order to seize the time, he once said on the way that he arrived at the Weishui River in advance and each person rewarded twenty Jiaozi. Because Jiaozi is issued less and is convenient to use, it can be exchanged for one thousand and one hundred copper coins on the black market.

But the money was not paid by the court, but by his own pocket.

However, the Pan family's wealth has reached an astonishing number now, and Zhao Heng's suspicion is not that strong. Compared to the contribution of arriving in Chanzhou in advance, it is worth spending a little money.

A lot of sex is sent.

Then eight thousand soldiers and civilians cheered and quickly pushed the baggage cart to the bank of the Weishui River, where dozens of ships lined up.

“Move onto the boat.”

"Here."

Everyone worked together to bring many weird things onto the ship.

Pan Weizheng calculated the time and breathed a sigh of relief. He finally rushed over from the Gobi Desert in Nanhetao.

A small school ran over and asked, "General Pan, I heard that His Majesty will personally conquer Chanzhou?"

"Who said that such rumors cannot be promoted, but if you fight well this time, you will have great contributions."

"Here." Everyone laughed and went down.

Suddenly, a large cloud of smoke and dust rose from afar, almost covering the sky and the sun.

After a while, teams of people rushed over and then disappeared into the sky.

"Beiwei Army."

"There is General Jing Si in front of him."

"Xianping Army."

"That's General Yang Qiong."

"Hey, so many Beiwei Army and Xianping Army, why don't they put them on the front line? It's just now?"

"Look, that's the 30,000 defeated cavalry, and General Ma Zhijie."

These three branches of the army were secret weapons of the Song Dynasty. They were probably the strongest corps. Pan Lianzhi's subordinates had trained with them. The soldiers of the three corps were terrible to eat meat, but they were so greedy that they were drooling.

But I tried hard to eat meat and train hard, and I don’t know what hindrance to long-term health, but now these three troops have become stronger and stronger after several years of changes.

Moreover, the military discipline was strict, so many soldiers walked over and were silent on the avenue.

The subsequent army was slightly worse.

There were cavalry, infantry, and the cavalry who came to the various foreign tribes in Shaanxi, as well as the three thousand Tubo cavalry supported by the Liugu tribe.

Teams of troops followed, and soon the central army arrived, and they were Li Jilong, Qin Han, Gao Qiong, Shi Baoji, and Geng Quanbin.

Li Jilong also learned about the court's plan. In order to keep the plan confidential, not many people knew about it and had nothing to do with the Western Prefecture. The main reason was that the military talents of the Western Prefecture were very poor at that time. Therefore, it was formulated by the Secretariat. The only people involved were Song Jiu, Li Han, Zhang Qixian, Xiang Minzhong, Wang Huaji and Zhao Heng. To be precise, these five people knew the truth. Because Li Han died.

However, some relevant members may vaguely guess a small part, but there are only a dozen or twenty people.

It was not until a few months ago that Cao Wei and Li Jilong learned the truth, as well as specific plans and secret decrees.

Now there are more people who know about it, but the Liao army has already attacked Yizhou and is about to attack Daming Prefecture.

Li Jilong smiled and said hello: "Sanlang, so fast."

"It's okay if you don't have to hurry."

"It's okay, it's too late, but be careful on the road and don't have to worry about something."

Then he continued to head east with countless officers and soldiers.

There are two more routes, but the northernmost route has the least soldiers. Only Cao Bin and a group of guards hurried from Shengzhou to Feihu Pass. This location is extremely important. In history, because Feihu Pass is in the hands of the Liao people, he had to transfer troops to Dingzhou from the Tumen Road further south.

It was also a mistaken dispatch of troops. The decisive battle was not in Dingzhou, and there were enough troops in Dingzhou.

He made a few remarks with Yang Yanyu, who was guarding Feihu Pass, and then used a secret order to give him the rights, and wrote an order to hand Yang Yanyu over to Hu Yanzan, who was guarding Zijing Pass, and then rushed to the Dingzhou camp.

However, there were many soldiers and horses in the middle, and Lei Yousheng, veteran Qian Shoujun, Li Chonghui, who were captured alive by Yang Ye, veteran Zhang Sijun, Zhou Renmei, Liu Yong, Li Qi, Tian Shaobin, Zhang Xu, Wei Zhaomin and other generals led their troops from Jingxing Pass in Taihang Mountain to Daming Prefecture.

Only a few generals of Wang Hanzhong and Gao Jixun were left behind in Hedong, while only Fiji and others were left in Hexi. However, Hexi was the safest. Just when Gao Qiong transferred the main troops of Hexi and Hedong to the south to develop, Zhe Weichang also launched an attack on the Liao army, killing nearly a thousand Liao troops.

After two major defeats, the Liao army behind the mountain did not dare to make any attempts to Hedong.

The battle was full of strength, and at least 80% of the generals that could be used were brought out! If it included nearly 20,000 Fanxiang cavalry transferred from Shaanxi, as well as the troops in Hebei and the troops that were about to be used in the capital, the number of soldiers mobilized reached 450,000.
Chapter completed!