The crowd came out to congratulate everyone, carrying the setting sun on their backs, and walked towards the barracks' garrison.

After walking a few steps, he was drunk and his whole body was hot. Wang Liang opened his robe and said to Liu Huai: "Commander, that girl is willing, and she is very happy to see Fan Xuejiao drinking. This matter seems to have been done. In a few months, if you marry in, you will be a family!"

Liu Huai said: "Why are they careless about their lifelong affairs? I think we will come to inquire about me in the next few days before we can decide."

Zhou Su said: "You are being promoted and the coach valued it. You are the commander of the first battalion. Who doesn't know your benefits? After inquiring, you will be hired early!"

While joking, several people walked towards the military camp with big strides. After the arrival of the Yingtianxiang Army, there were more men and few women in the past few years. There were quite a few people in the army who were still 20 or 30 years old. Even the commander of Liu Huai level, many people had not yet got married. In the past two years, there have been more new people from other places. The locals' impression of the Yingtianxiang business has improved, and local girls have begun to marry one after another.

As soon as I returned to the military camp, I found that unlike the past, everyone was very busy.

Liu Huai said goodbye to Wang Liang and hurried back to his camp with Zhou Su. Before he could reach the commander's tent, he saw the deputy commander coming hurriedly and said to Liu Huai: "Take the imperial edict, the court ordered our camp Tianxiang army to go north to rescue Tanglong Town! The military order has been brought down, and our cavalry and artillery will go first."

Liu Huai was surprised: "If you didn't go south to Pingnong Zhigao, why did you go north?"

Deputy Commander Zheng Lian said: "We sent the edicts from each army, saying that it was the Crown brother of the Khitan, Yelu Chongyuan, who led a large army to surround Tanglong Town of this dynasty. The matter was very critical, and we were just ready to go out and transferred."

Liu Huai nodded and roughly understood what was going on. Yelu Chongyuan was the younger brother of the Khitan king Yelu Zongzhen. When the empress dowager was in power, he deliberately deposed the eldest son and established the youngest son, and used Yelu Chongyuan to depose the eldest son. Yelu Chongyuan won the coup and imprisoned the Khitan queen mother, but did not punish Yelu Chongyuan, but instead appointed him as the crown prince. He once verbally promised that he would be in his place a hundred years later, and his brother would be in the end. However, as Yelu Zongzhen's eldest son Yelu Hongji became an adult, he was afraid that he would just talk verbally. Just before the Khitan attacked Dangxiang this year, Yelu Hongji knew the hidden things with the great marshal of the world's troops.

Although the Khitan country has been established for a hundred years, its political system is very chaotic and has not yet taken shape, and coups often occur. The Yelu Zong is really a turning point now. He has shown signs of clearly learning the political system of the Song Dynasty when he took office. He quelled the rebellion of the empress dowager and his father passed on his son to be widely accepted by the Khitan nobles. The heir to the throne of the Khitan generally holds several important official positions. One is the affairs of the Prime Minister, the North and South Privy Council, and the other is the Marshal of the Military and Horses. Yelu Hongji served as the Marshal of the Military and Horses this year, and actually established the position of crown prince.

However, the Khitan is different from the Central Plains dynasty. The nobles each have their own clan tents and their own sphere of influence. In addition, the powerful Xiao family of the Later tribe made the throne not so attractive. Although it is inevitable to fight, once it fails, it will rarely kill and confirm its status. If we look at it from the perspective of the Han Dynasty, Yelu Chongyuan had a major threat to Yelu Hongji's succession, and Yelu Zongzhen should deal with it as soon as possible. But in the Khitan, Yelu Zongzhen and Yelu Chongyuan had a deep brotherly relationship and were very good to him, and always allowed him to take charge of the military and horse power.

Liu Huai was an important cavalry general. He knew a little about the surrounding military situation and the general situation of the Khitan.

This time the Khitan attacked Dangxiang, Yelu Chongyuan originally led a large army to station in Datong Prefecture, defending the Song army on the one hand, and serving as a rear support. After Dasheng, he led his troops back to Datong from his original garrison Dongshengzhou and captured Tanglong Town by the way.

The departure time decided by the army was very urgent. Liu Huai did not care about other matters, gathered troops, cleaned up his supplies, and prepared to go to Fancheng Railway Station.

Before Du Zhongxiao left Beijing, he received the imperial edict for the government to send troops. With Tianzhang Pavilion, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, the deputy envoy of the Hedong Road Strategy, and the deputy deployment, he also managed the Gouhuoshan Army, the Ninghua Army, Xianzhou, Lanzhou and Baode troops, led the Yingtianxiang Army and the supplementary army into the imperial guards, and saved Tanglong Town. Because it was too urgent, he promised to act cheaply and gave the Emperor Sword.

The dispatch basically shows his mission and authority this time. The six states listed, whether they are the imperial guards or the wing troops, are under their jurisdiction, whether they are local imperial guards or garrisoned imperial guards. In addition to the troops they brought, the troops of these six states also obey the command. These six states are just sandwiched between the most important Bing Dai Road and Linfu Road. They are mostly mountainous areas, with few troops and horses, and in fact they cannot be transferred out many troops.

Xu Bianyi is more important than the Emperor's Sword, and gives great power to deal with things at the moment. The situation ahead is ever-changing, and it is impossible to submit an order one by one, so you can make a decision immediately. The Emperor's Sword is not a sword of Shangfang, nor can anyone be killed if you dislike anyone. It is mainly for the constraints of military officials who are temporarily under Du Zhongxiao, and they can be killed without asking for an order according to law. Each person gives a sword differently. Du Zhongxiao can only kill the generals below the commander, and must report it immediately. The above deployment is at most temporary detention and the court will be asked to be interrogated by the court.

In addition to the commander-in-chief of Yingtianxiang Army, Liu Ji also led the six states to deploy and capture envoys, and some other important generals served as military positions.

Military positions refer to the position of the army, and military positions refer to the position of leading troops in the local area, not only the headquarters, but also the local area.

After returning to the place and hurriedly packing up, Du Zhongxiao took important officials and entourage to board the train heading north. This time it was not a special car, but a special train. Military situation was urgent, and all stations along the road had to ensure unobstructed access.

In the carriage, Du Zhongxiao looked at the map borrowed from the Privy Council and frowned. This was the one he made when he was an expert in the Volcano Army, and there has not been much change over the years. It can be seen that the subsequent officials did not pay attention to this matter.

After looking for a while, Du Zhongxiao said to Liu Ji: "Military leader, Yelu Chongyuan went south from Dongshengzhou to Tanglong Town. He had to go to Bitouzhai before the Chenjiagukou could return to Shuozhou. If he had walked this trip, the military camp built with Taiwei Zhang when I was aware of the Volcano Army, all the places he occupied would be closed."

Liu Jidao: "That's true. Since he led the army southward, he could not occupy Tanglong Town and then go back to Dongshengzhou. He could only go back south in a long circle. In addition to Tanglong Town, Chenjiagukou is the most important thing, just as the North and South Avenue was occupied by the Khitan, the army could go south from here and break the danger of Yanmen Pass. This time he could not stop him, so he had to bow to someone for hundreds of miles."

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Tanglong Town has always had more than a thousand troops stationed, with a back of the prefectures and prefectures, and there are still 10,000 or 20,000 troops. Bingzhou and Daizhou are both places where large troops are stationed, and they are not far away. As long as they are dragged for a few days, our dynasty will definitely rescue him. Yelu Chongyuan is so stubborn and thinks that he can capture there in a short time? Although the two countries have not fought for decades, our dynasty is ugly in fighting Dangxiang, and the Khitan is also not good-looking, so why dare to attack?"

Liu Jidao: "I forgot to stop, the Khitans also learned to make artillery. Some of the powerful weapons of siege are not uncommon to have this delusion."

Du Zhongxiao thought about it and shook his head: "I always think things are not so simple. Although Yelu Chongyuan was born in wealth and honor, he was familiar with the military since he was a child. He should not be able to make such a decision. Moreover, tens of thousands of soldiers must be the will of the Khitan king. What made the Khitans feel that they could quickly conquer Tanglong Town, and that this dynasty would not have time to rescue him?"

Liu Ji was shocked: "When the system means that there are traitors in Tanglong Town?"

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "I think so. When I built Tanglong Town, many prosperous areas were outside the city and shared with senior Khitan officials and nobles. The Khitans knew the prosperity there. If the garrisons participated in this matter privately, it would be difficult to ensure that they would not collude with each other."

Liu Ji suddenly stood up, looked at the map, and said, "According to the documents of the Privy Council, the garrison of Tanglong Town is now the chief of the army, Jianzhi Town, and has been there for more than three years. A few days ago, the Privy Council changed its generals, and before the new official arrived, it was surrounded there."

Du Zhongxiao closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "It's urgent and important. We cannot arrange the possibility of collusion between inside and outside. We must be fast, the faster the better. Now the train is the fastest, and we are already on the train, and there is no time to go to Baodezhou. Now there is no time to inform the place. The artillery will inevitably drag down the speed. You draw a military order and order the remaining distance to let the cavalry go first and the artillery be behind."

Liu Ji hesitated and said, "Then we?"

"We walked with the cavalry. After arriving in Bingzhou, we met General Han. If you change a car and wait for artillery, I will go with the cavalry."

Shisanlang's cavalry would add 3,000 new taxes in Kaifeng Prefecture, including 1,000 iron armor, and its strength was very different from before. Liu Ji thought for a while, and felt that there was no danger, so he nodded and agreed.

If Tang Long's guards really colluded with the enemy this time, it would be hard to say that they could defend for a long time. Reinforcements arrived one day earlier, which could boost the morale of the military and civilians in the city. Even if there were a few words of generals surrender, the city might be able to be saved.

Although the Xiang army had powerful artillery troops, if the city was occupied by the Khitan, it would be more troublesome to attack again. A prosperous city might be destroyed by war. The difference between attack and defense is too big.

Liu Ji asked about the arrangements of the entire army now and drafted a military order. Du Zhongxiao used a seal and sent it to several division leaders.

Because they were ready to go south, the nearby train department had already prepared the train. However, they originally planned to take the train from Xiangzhou to Jiangling Prefecture, but the front of the train was seriously insufficient, so they had to temporarily recruit many from the railway supervisor, and even the front of the coal transport was transferred, and they were barely enough. The railways along the way had been stopped except for particularly important trains, and they had to wait for the train from the army to go north to resume traffic.

Although Di Qing's army took this route a few months ago, and there were more people, they were relatively scattered, not as tight as the Yingtianxiang Army this time. It was also a test for the railway.

What's even more troublesome is that the Yellow River is frozen at this time. Although the floating bridge in Baimajin in Huazhou is still there, it will be affected by the freezing and it will not be smooth across the river. Because the floating bridge has to be demolished every year and built every year, it is not convenient and time-consuming and labor-intensive. Yandu, the new magistrate of Huazhou, intends to build a permanent bridge, but it has just been surveyed. Yandu is the son of a famous painter and scientist Yan Su at this time. He inherited his father's business. With the help of countless technical strength and sufficient manpower and material resources in recent years, he intends to do such a thing to build the first bridge on the Yellow River.
Chapter completed!