In December, Yelu Xiuge and Liu Tingrang fought fiercely at the Junzi Pavilion. Liu Tingrang's great-grandfather was Liu Rengong, the last governor of Youzhou in the late Tang Dynasty, and his grandfather was Liu Shouguang, the Emperor Jieyan. When the Song Dynasty attacked Houshu, he was the commander of the Eastern Army. At that time, he was Liu Guangyi. When Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, he changed to Liu Tingrang.

Liu Tingrang made an appointment with Li Jilong, I will come forward to meet the enemy, and you will lead the elite troops behind, and you must quickly support me. Li Jilong agreed.

Liu Tingrang and Li Jingyuan fought bloody battles with the Liao army at the Junzi Pavilion. Damn weather! It was surprisingly cold in the winter of 986. The only magic weapon for the Song army to deal with the Liao cavalry - the crossbow, could not be pulled open! So there was only a hand-to-hand fight between swords and guns. Li Jingyuan died in battle, and Liu Tingrang began to despair. He knew that behind Yelu Xiuge was the Great Khitan Emperor, and there were so many reinforcements. But where was Li Jilong? I also needed reinforcements!

At this time, Li Jilong retreated to Leshou and left the battlefield and the enemy far away... So Liu Ting ordered the entire army to be wiped out, and the commander was spared only.

Next was the governor of Xiongzhou, He Lingtu, the leader of Yongxi's Northern Expedition. Yelu Xiuge played a trick and claimed that he had committed a crime in the Liao Dynasty and wanted to surrender to the Song Dynasty. He Xin thought it was true, so he brought thousands of cavalry and wanted to capture Yelu Xiuge. As a result, he was tied up by Xiuge. Yang Chongjin died in battle...

Xiu Ge took advantage of the victory and advanced to the army. He captured Xingzhou on the 22nd, conquered Shenzhou on the 23rd, and led his troops to plunder.

When the war god Yelu Xiuge was winning one after another, the Liao army at Yanmen Pass could no longer hold back. They went straight to the city of Daizhou to open up a second battlefield.

At this time, the highest military commander of the Song army here was Pan Mei. Daizhou was the top priority, and his deputy Lu Hanjun was in charge. Lu sent Ma Zheng to fight. Ma was lined up against the city outside the south gate to compete with the Liao army. However, he was outnumbered and he was defeated. So Lu Hanjun "protected the wall and consolidated himself" and competed with the Khitans on the city wall. But the governor Zhang Qixian refused. He sent someone to secretly go out of the city to contact Pan Mei, and agreed to cooperate inside and outside to repel the Liao army. However, the envoy was caught by the Liao army on his way back.

The secret leaked. What Zhang Qixian is afraid of is not that the plan cannot be implemented again, but that once Pan Mei comes as promised, she will fall into great danger... What should I do?

There is no way out. Pan Mei's envoy arrived, which brought Zhang Qixian a very "bad" news. He said that he had already led his army to Baijing, but suddenly received a secret edict from the Kaifeng Emperor. He said that Liu Tingrang was defeated on the east side and the emperor did not allow Shanxi to suffer any further losses. Pan Mei had to withdraw his troops. He asked Zhang Qixian to be careful, but he did not have to be afraid. Shanxi was not the main attack direction of the Liao army, and his strength would not be too strong. Zhang Qixian let out a long sigh, and then he realized two key issues: 1 His envoy was captured by the Liao army; 2 The Liao army in front of him was limited in strength...

So a bold plan formed in Zhang Qixian's mind. He went to find Lu Hanjun and Lu Li to ignore it. No regular army? None of them! So Zhang Qixian had to mobilize 2,000 people in Daizhou City (the remaining ones of the imperial guards, who usually only do some errands) and sent 200 people first, each carrying a flag and carrying a bundle of weeds, and leaving the city at night. In Taiyuan, Pan Mei's army came to light the grass and raised the flags, and the bigger the momentum, the better. So the Liao army saw the flames rising and the flags were waving. Their first intuition was that they remembered the captured messenger - Pan Mei's reinforcements arrived!

The first brave general became famous in his army, but he still had a reputation among the enemies! Especially the just-concluded Yongxi Northern Expedition, the Western Route Army was invincible and invincible! The Liao army immediately retreated. In Tudengzhai, the 2,000-box army that Zhang Qixian had already ambushed suddenly came out! This battle was a complete victory! On the 25th, Zhang Qixian reported the victory to the emperor in the name of Lu Hanyun.

At the same time as this battle, Li Jiqian, who was beaten by the king, could only ask for marriage to the Great Khitan as his former Dangxiang nobleman. Perhaps Empress Dowager Xiao saw Li Jiqian's inner ambition, ability, determination and the grandfather of the founding monarch of the future Western Xia Dynasty in Li Jiqian, and agreed to grant the daughter of the royal family Yelu Xiang to Princess Yicheng and betroth him. Li Jiqian became the son-in-law of the Great Khitan...

On January 2, 987, the Liao army continued to capture Shucheng County. On the 4th, the Liao army captured Wen'an. However, due to the failure of the Western Route Army, they had to withdraw their troops. They returned to Youzhou on the 15th.

In March, Li Jiqian defeated An Shouzhong at Wangting and began to rekindle...

In May, Pan Mei, Tian Chongjin and others entered the court under the imperial edict. On the 29th, they were fortunate to see a miracle in the history of ancient and modern wars - the Pingrong Wanquan Formation! The military history of the Song Dynasty was inseparable from formations and formation maps. This formation is the origin and great success of everything. It comes from the big bitch full of military romantic minds. It is known that the first formation of the Song Dynasty, which is known to be the one who tests all the spirits and wins the Rong! The big bitch requires all generals to study it carefully and implement it immediately. It is equipped with a spiritual education textbook - "5 to 10 passes" to be distributed together.

Please see - "Pingrong Wanquan Formation" consists of a vanguard, rear of the hall, central army, left wing and right wing. The total force is more than 140,000. Among them, the main force's central army has 110,000.

Central Army: Three square formations are arranged side by side, each formation is 1 general, each side is 5 miles in circumference, with a total of 7,200 steps. The three formations are separated by 1 mile. The formations are 17 miles wide. In the formations, 1 chariot is set up for every 500 steps, and each car is equipped with 22 "dividing troops". Each formation has 1,440 chariots, and there are 5,000 "dividing troops without ground". A total of 3 formations of the central army are equipped with 4,320 chariots and 110,040 soldiers. The soldiers are equipped with horse-resisting horses, long spears, bed crossbows (large continuous crossbow machines), foot crossbows, step bows, swords, shields and other weapons and equipment. There are 8 "dividing vehicles" (movable lookout towers). Each building has 8 "dividing soldiers".

With the central army as the point, the front and rear wings are 2 armies, and the left and right wings are arranged in a balanced manner. They are all composed of cavalry, including light cavalry and cavalry that use cavalry rifles, gudos and regiment cards.

The left and right wings have 10,000 cavalry per formation, totaling 20,000. The front and rear wings have been reduced by half, each of which is 5,000, totaling 10,000 cavalry. There are also different types of horses, including 40 cavalry and nearly 650 cavalry.

To sum up, it can be said that this is a perfect formation that is comprehensive and attacking and defense. Zhao Guangyi is very proud. I wonder what Pan Mei and others feel when they see these things... I heard the truth in the morning and died in the evening. Everyone fought for life, and became the emperor's student in the old age.

Zhao Pu, the first man in the Song Dynasty, was just beginning at the beginning of the Northern Expedition of Yongxi and the Song army was winning streak, and the famous "Memorial on the Northern Expedition of Yongxi" or "Memorial on the Panshi" was in Dengzhou. When he saw the advantages but not the disadvantages, he warned the emperor that the time for dispatching troops was wrong, and he should withdraw his troops immediately, and immediately strengthen border alerts to be careful of the revenge of the Khitans. What happened later confirmed that Zhao Pu was right in every sentence. He almost 100% predicted the direction of the war between Song and Liao.

What is strength? People all over the world have re-thought a fact that this head that once created the world for the Song Dynasty would never make any mistakes. In December, the anxious Zhao Guangyi summoned Zhao Pu to Kaifeng again...

On February 13, the first year of Duangong (988), Li Fang was dismissed from prime minister. Zhao Pu became prime minister for the third time. Lu Meng, the top scholar in the "Long Fei List" 11 years ago, was promoted to the right after being a deputy to the magistrate for more than four years and served as prime minister with Zhao Pu. Although he was not a single prime minister, Zhao Pu still had a prosperous career.

In fact, the founding prime ministers of all dynasties, such as Zhao Pu, Li Si, and Xiao He, were not appointed, they were a natural choice and robbed!

Zhao Pu did the first thing he did after taking office for one month: overwhelmed the Privy Council and the three envoys!

The Privy Council, together with the Secretariat, was called the "Two Prefectures" in charge of the military; the Third Division, the third important department in the Song Dynasty, was in charge of finance. In name, they could be compared with the Secretariat, which was in charge of politics. Of course, in order to ensure that the political commissar in the army was greater than the commander, the Privy Council and the Three Divisions were still half a level lower than the Pingzhangshi of the same Secretariat.

But during the Northern Expedition of Yongxi, things were reversed. The Privy Council was powerful and the whole country had to make way for the war. So the Secretariat was thrown aside, and the level of reaching was shocking - "One day to six summons, the Secretariat did not report it." That is, in one day, six national decrees were issued, but the prime minister did not know at all! Of course, there were also reasons why Li Fang, who was known as the "Great Good Man", was too cowardly in his daily life. The mess was finally formed, and someone had to clean up.

As the only remaining veteran in the founding of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Pu deposed all the Privy Councillor Zhao Changyan, deputy envoy of the Salt and Iron Commission Chen Xiangyu, deputy envoy of Duzhi Dong Yan, and Hu Dan who satirized him in "Heping Song" that year!

The second thing is that Zhao Pu wants to kill someone. This man’s surname is Hou Mochen and his name is Yi. He is not very strong and has no background in the court. But to move him, even Zhao Pu has to use all his strength and almost failed in the end. This man has a very special ability - illusion. When he grew up, he went to Kaifeng City to make a living, and the result was very successful. He was fooled by all Kaifeng. Moreover, he had a wide business and even sold medicine part-time.

In this way, he was recommended to the emperor by Chen Congxin, the Privy Councilor at that time. On that day, the emperor tried his magic, which was quite effective. So he was immediately appointed as an official and was promoted quickly. Before the incident, he was the fifth rank of the Zhengzhou Tuanjian envoy. At this time, there was a person in the Song Dynasty who was in charge of this official position. If you compare it, you might have a concept - Yang Yanzhao, the son of Yang Ye. With his achievements in the border battles, he was just a Tuanjian envoy!

Hou Mochen used this liar in the market to do everything evil, but everyone dared not even say anything. Until Zhao Pu came to power for the third time, Zhao Pu collected evidence and handed it over to Zhao Guangyi. The emperor was very hesitant - it was really guilty... But he should not kill anyone. He was exiled to Shangzhou and raid his home. But he immediately issued an order to stop raiding it.

What are you doing? Everyone knows that this person will make a comeback soon. Zhao Pu continues to work hard, and this time he is targeted. Some of the big bitch is absolutely unbearable to the cage... Zhao Guangyi is angry, he is going to usurp the throne! Come on! Slash him! But Zhao Guangyi immediately regrets it again. He sends people to chase him and says don't kill him. Unfortunately, the person behind ran too fast and his horse's legs twisted. When the horse was replaced, Hou Mochen was chopped up in Shangzhou...

The killing was thrilling and suspenseful, but why did the big bitch have to keep the scammer's life? Looking back at the time when this man became famous, it was the day when Zhao Tingmei and Lu Duosun were unlucky. During that time, Zhao Guangyi was in a safe and unsuccessful life. This liar's favor was because of his "illusion" and folk remedies that the gentlemen of the Song Dynasty did not understand. Of course, the big bitch had to tolerate him again and again for his own life.

But Zhao Pu didn't think so. He wanted to eliminate evil and reorganize the mountains and rivers for the Song Dynasty. The empire needed a future even more. A young man was approaching him - Zhao Guangyi's second son, Qun***, Kaifeng Yin, and Xu Wang Zhao Yuanxi.

Before, he had been living in the shadow of his elder brother Zhao Yuanzuo. Although he had been the Kaifeng Yin for more than a year, his roots were far from developing in all corners of the court, let alone any personal prestige. Moreover, all signs showed that my father would miss his imprisoned elder brother from time to time. And behind him, those younger brothers also grew up. There were wolves in front and tigers in the back, and they had to be eliminated! They had to be honest and open, serving the country and the people. Yuan Xi was a smart man, and he took the initiative to find Zhao Pu, who reappeared for the third time...

Zhao Yuanxi fully supports the work of the old comrades. When Zhao Pu worked hard for the country, he tried his best to participate in everything and cooperated with him. In this way, when achievements appeared, his image became tall and solemn. And there is another advantage in doing so, that is, the relationship between Zhao Pu and his elder brother Yuan Zuo. Zhao Pu became powerful and would never let go of his mortal enemy who had dismissed him. Praise Zhao Pu is to suppress Yuan Zuo, which is amazing!

On May 5, Zhao Guangyi built a secret pavilion in Chongwen Courtyard, treasured more than 10,000 volumes of books, and told the newly appointed secretary Li Zhi, "The monarch should be indifferent and have no desires. In this way, there will be no treacherous and slandered to the emperor's preferences. I have no other hobbies, I just like reading."

On August 24, the birthday of Qian Chu, the former King of Wu Yue, the current governor of Wusheng, and the King of Deng. Like Li Yu, Qian Chu also died at home in an unknown way on his birthday. Big bitch, do you have the hobby of giving special gifts on other people’s birthday?

On September 1, Zhao Guangyi appointed his brother-in-law, Li Jilong, the coward in the Battle of Junzi Pavilion, to deploy for the capital of Dingzhou, preparing to welcome the second battle of revenge for the Great Khitan.

Zhuozhou, one of the 16 prefectures in Yanyun. During the Northern Expedition of Yongxi, he was obtained by Cao Bin's Eastern Army. On the 26th, the Liao master Yelu Longxu personally went to the city of Zhuozhou and asked the Song army to surrender in the city, but refused to follow. On October 2, the Liao army attacked the city from all sides, and Zhuozhou was broken. The Song army fled south and sent Yelu Xizhen to pursue and defeat the Song army. On the 28th, King Xi of King Chouning defeated the Song army at Yijin Pass (Chai Rong renamed Bazhou after the northern expedition). On the 30th, the Liao army marched into the mouth of the Great Wall. Li Xing, the garrison commander of Dingzhou of the Great Song Dynasty, was defeated by Yelu Xiuge in field battle. On November 7th, Yelu Longxu personally supervised the battle at the Great Wall. The entire Song army was wiped out. On the 11th, the whole city fell. On the 15th, Qizhou fell. On the 17th, the Liao army came to Hebei, Tang.

This time, Li Jilong showed both Song and Liao countries who could really lead troops.

The Khitans first attacked Yizhou. There was an elite cavalry of the Song army in Yizhou City, and their wives and children were all in the city, so they defended the country and protected the family. This made this army's combat effectiveness unprecedentedly strong. But Li Jilong had other plans. He transferred the cavalry unit to his Dingzhou city before the Khitans attacked. The army supervisor Yuan Jien said no. Li Jilong smiled slightly, did not explain, and did not take back the order. So Yizhou was captured without any suspense, and all the families of the cavalry were stolen by the Khitans.

Next, the Khitans took advantage of the victory and went straight to his Dingzhou. How to deal with it? There were two completely opposite attitudes in the city. The eunuchs sent from Kaifeng took the emperor's strict orders to not be allowed to fight and demanded to defend the city to the death. The army supervisor Yuan Jien stood up and demanded to fight and lead the way. It was not until this time that Li Jilong stated that "the matter in the army should be controlled by the soldiers! The reason why I did not die in the Junzi Pavilion last year was to repay the country today."

Then the entire army left the city and fought against the Liao army in Tanghe! They fought for their own wife, children, and their lives! The cavalry in Yizhou rushed towards their enemies desperately. The Liao army was defeated and was chased by Li Jilong all the way to Caohe.
Chapter completed!