Li Jilong went to Hedong. Yelu Xiuge's pressure was lighter, but Yelu Xizhen's head hurt.

Li Jilong took the army to Qiaomaichuan and Xiaodaowu in the north of Shenwu City. Strictly speaking, this is the key to the middle road between Shenwu City and Lanzhou. After Yelu Xizhen and Xiao Pai'ao counterattacked Shenwu City and Pianguan, he retreated from this road to Shuozhou. It was about 80 miles away from Shenwu City, but only 60 miles away from Shuozhou.

Song Jiu also wanted to set up a fortress here at the beginning. Considering that it had a large flat area and a large fort could not form an effective defense, several sub-forts must cooperate with each other to protect the middle road of Shenwu City. In this way, building a fortress would cost no matter how much it was, and it would take a lot of manpower. It would take too long to be too late, and it would cause serious divisions in the future. So he simply gave up the middle road and placed the battlefield directly under Shenwu City.

Tens of thousands of Song Dynasty troops were practicing here.

Yelu Xizhen had a headache.

Li Jilong's meaning is very obvious. Come and beat me.

But really... God knows what this guy wants to do?

Yelu Xizhen's six gods have no master.

If it was last winter, he had more than 100,000 troops in his hands, then he would fight.

Although the mountain is fully on guard, it is impossible for the Liao Kingdom to gather more than 100,000 troops behind the mountain to defend. He has not seen through Li Jilong's intentions yet, and he dared not use the pitiful troops in his hands if he can't see through.

However, Li Jilong rubbed his nose and put on his face.

Officials from the examination institute said that Hedong is the best.

Hedong Road is the first political achievement!

Before the fight, Song Jiu handed over military affairs to the generals on the front line, mainly to inquire about intelligence, train the army, build castles, and add Pan Mei's previous arrangements. He did not have to mix them in.

So he ran around Hedong.

There is a way to be an official, that is, it is amazing talent. For example, Lu Yijian, Li Feng, Fang Du, people know the affairs of the world when they stay at home. There is a kind of official, such as Yao Chong, who only takes care of major things, and the affairs of the world will naturally be pacified. There is a kind of official, such as Wei Zheng, Xiao Kou Song Jing, who dares to speak and do, and officials in the world dare not ask for personal inquiries. Once the official atmosphere is improved, affairs will be handled.

But there is also a way to become an official, such as Zhuge Liang or Song Jiu.

They are very humble, so they do everything themselves, which is very tiring. However, their young talents make up for the lack of talent. Good is better, and bad is better.

Song Jiu likes to run around.

Guangnan, Jiangzhou, now to Hedong.

The officials in Hedong ran so frightened, but fortunately, they did not do well. When they negotiated with Song Jiu, Song Jiu liked it, but it was too much. So sorry, go home. Song Jiu ran several times, and because he reported to dismiss nearly ten officials. But he did well, he immediately recommended it to Zhao Kuangyi and promoted him to the position. On one side is heaven and on the other side is hell. Although heaven is a little harder, it is very beautiful. How to choose?

He would be more popular in the officialdom of Hedong once.

This is also unreplicable. If someone else doesn’t have that prestige, Zhao Kuangyi may not believe it.

The official atmosphere has improved, but in fact, most of the problems have been solved in this era.

Then he discussed water conservancy, planting and breeding, commercial workshops, especially water conservancy, and many people were captured. With people and water conservancy, the flood disaster in Hedong this year was not serious. So after two years, Hedong was well managed, and grain harvests were abundant, and even the entire Hedong grain accumulation occurred.

It's easy to have food.

As Song Jiu thought about military affairs, he discovered something very strange. Even if he took Youzhou, there would be many border problems in the Song Dynasty. Not to mention the back of the mountain, of course, the back of the mountain is not as important as Youzhou, but if you take Youzhou, if you do not pay attention to the back of the mountain, the enemy can attack Youzhou from the back of the mountain and further threaten the Central Plains. However, if you want to protect the back of the mountain, as well as the Hetao and Shaanxi in the south, you must also manage the Beihetao and use Yinshan as the Great Wall.

This force cannot be reduced.

However, as the population increases, if the troops are not increased to the terrifying 800,000 imperial guards, no more than 400,000, and the cost of raising soldiers decreases, then the financial income of the Song Dynasty is still acceptable.

This is a bit far away, even now, we must increase our troops.

Therefore, in recent years, the number of imprisoned soldiers has been increased to 30 million.

Although the troops have increased, the proportion of new recruits has also increased.

It happened that the food price was a bit expensive because of the disaster. After the autumn harvest, the court transferred 80,000 banished soldiers to Taiyuan. Basically, they were recruited, and they were only given to Taiyuan for food. In addition to the exchange, the remaining food they earned could be sold by their families to increase their income.

Eighty thousand forbidden soldiers arrived in Taiyuan, and then came to Shenwu City with a large amount of food and grass from Taiyuan City, and then arrived at Qiaomaichuan from Shenwu City, and practiced on this plain river at the junction of Song and Liao.

As he practiced, Li Jilong saw Yelu Xizhen huddled in Yunzhou and couldn't hold back his energy. So he led 110,000 forbidden troops out of the ancient Great Wall and entered the Liao border. He did not go deeper, but followed the border to destroy all the forts built by the Liao Kingdom, and then returned to Shenwu City from the Wild Boar Lingchuan area to watch the movements of the Liao Kingdom.

The Hedong army had just stopped, and the Hexi region began to make trouble again. The two Zhewang families, as well as 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers stationed in the northwest, and 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers from all ethnic groups, all gathered in Pingchuan, Hexi, and almost nearly 100,000 soldiers. Yin Xian, Yang Qiong, Zhe Yuqing and Wang Chengmei practiced and crossed the river. After destroying the fortresses of the Liao Kingdom in Hedong, they returned to Hexi again.

But they did not leave and were still in Shengzhou.

They may attack the mountain back again. Not to mention that the weather is cold, at least these foreign soldiers in the northwest will not be afraid of the cold.

Looking at the two places, if possible, tens of thousands of Hedong officers and soldiers can increase the reinforcements. The number of soldiers has long exceeded the strength of the Song army's Eastern Route Army in the Battle of Qigou Pass.

The generals were also first-class generals of the Song Dynasty, including Li Jilong, Yin Jilun, Yang Ye, Yang Si, Yang Qiong, Yin Xian... and two Dangxiang Killing Stars, Zhe Yuqing and Wang Chengmei.

The commander was the strongest prime minister of the Song Dynasty. Someone advised Xiao Yanyan to release Yuping. Xiao Yanyan commented that Song Jiu should be able to reach a 500,000 army. It was not that Song Jiu would fight, but his knowledge and ability to be an official. Song Jiu escaped from the queen of the Qigou Pass, but Xiao Yanyan still missed him and said, "If this person surrenders to our dynasty, what's wrong with even being the second Yu Yue?"

Can you say that the Song Dynasty did not want to manage the mountain queen?

I can only say that the Song Dynasty became very careful under the leadership of Song Jiu. But who believes that the Song Dynasty did not have any thoughts about the mountain behind?

Yelu Xizhen had no choice but to force the people on the border to move back, and let the idle fields go. Anyway, the people on the border do not want to leave the Liao Kingdom, so they mostly move to the depths behind the mountain. Half of the people left behind continued to want to escape to the Song Dynasty and live the legendary paradise life under the influence of the Song Dynasty's delusion policy.

This also forced the Song army to put the battlefield deep in the back of the mountain. Once the depth was reached, the local people were on their own side. Even if there were many famous generals in the Song Dynasty, Yelu Xizhen dared to fight.

It is the advantage of Yelu Xizhen. There are few loopholes in marching operations, but they are too stable and have not yet fought. The first thing they think about is an invincible place, so the Song army took advantage of loopholes and made the border worse gradually.

Then Yelu Xizhen reported the situation to Xiao Yanyan.

...

"I am proud of you. It is you who fought bloody battles on the front line that have made the rear stable and thousands of families live a happy and reunited life."

"I am proud of you. It is you who shouted the slogan of the country and the king and the ministers to die, and used blood to forge the glory of the Song Dynasty and the dignity of Your Majesty."

"I am proud of you. It is you who have moved from the South China Sea to the desert, from Pingchuan, Hebei to the hills and mountains in Hedong. The greatness and self-esteem of the word "China" are re-written."

Song Jiu said word by word.

The messenger conveyed his words.

The 100,000 troops cheered in unison: "Long live Your Majesty, Long live the Song Dynasty."

In fact, Song Jiu cannot say that he does not understand military affairs at all. However, it is best to leave it to the person who understands the most to decide on the assistance.

Not to be useless. As long as he stays in the army, everyone knows that he will survive and perish with the three armies, his morale will be high. Last year, he was standing under the banner and let Yelu Xizhen return without success.

Song Jiu shouted loudly: "Go away."

What Yelu Xizhen was worried about finally happened.

Regardless of the cold weather, the Song army gathered at Xigoukou and left Ma'anshan. The 100,000 troops quickly arrived at the city of Shuozhou.

After Yelu Xizhen took back Shuozhou, he repaired the Shuozhou city wall.

But it is not Youzhou City Taiyuan City.

After 100,000 Song troops took turns to attack for four days, Shuozhou City was once again captured. Although Yelu Guanu, the lord defending city, was outnumbered. After killing several Song soldiers, he fled to Huanzhou in a panic.

The Song army divided up a unit to stay in Shuozhou, and the city was not destroyed at this time, so they used gunpowder to blow down the city wall, not even leaving the city wall for the Liao Kingdom.

The rest continued to follow Yelu Guanu to chase Huanzhou.

Yelu Xizhen was in Datong, Yunzhou, and had soldiers, but he didn't know how to mobilize his soldiers. The reason was very simple. As the Song army once again captured Shuozhou City, the Hexi army slowly crossed the Yellow River, and the troops were about to point to Yunzhou again.

Yelu Xizhen had no choice but to instruct the Huanzhou guards to fight to the death. They could not be lost any more. This time they were lost again and again, the soldiers were depressed, and the military and civilians could not get security, and they would eventually turn against the Song Dynasty. That was the most terrifying thing.

So he brought rescue troops to Xiao Yanyan again.

In fact, when Song Jiu asked Zhao Kuangyi to ask for peace, Zhao Kuangyi was very reluctant at first.

Now I see the effect, first of all, I feel sad and angry.

The second is to ask for peace after the victory, and the request was not excessive. I don’t want to take Yanyun back. You Liao Kingdom at least will return Yizhou to us. However, Xiao Yanyan refused to agree and asked for the ten counties in Guannan. This made the ministers in the court who valued peace as the most.

If the upper and lower levels are not unified, how can the frontline soldiers fight?

There is another function, which gradually showed. The opinions on the Song Dynasty were still not unified, but at least no one dared to publicly say that peace is the most important thing.

However, the opinions on the Liao Kingdom began to be disunited.

This is the strongest monarch and minister of the Liao Kingdom. Xiao Yanyan and Han Derang are definitely far better than Zhao Kuangyi and Song Jiu's joint efforts without golden fingers.

Otherwise, if Song Jiu was exhausted like this, it would have been dragged into pieces if it were the sleeping king of Liao. However, even in the hands of the two, Liao was also unable to bear it. After finally calming down for two years, he was about to destroy the Bohai Kingdom, and the Song Dynasty took action again.

Yu Ping said that the young emperor of Liao loved peace, but that was not that he really loved peace, but that he saw the miserable life of the people of Liao because of the war and could not bear to fight like this. He was the emperor of Liao, and all had such ideas. Besides, some nobles of Liao did not propose peace talks, so let's fight. But the Song Dynasty proposed peace talks, why did he have to fight one battle after another without a chance of victory?

In fact, with several failures, even most tribes did not agree to continue to fight. Especially this year, after seeing severe losses from behind the mountain last year, Xiao Yanyan was furious and prepared to summon a large army to retaliate against the Song Dynasty.

It was because of these opposition voices that Xiao Yanyan stopped.

Now the situation behind the mountain is tense again, and the anti-war voice is even louder. This is terrible. If the country does not support it, this war will not be easy to fight. Sun Tzu's Art of War even deliberately talked about it.

But no matter what, let’s get through the current difficulties.

Xiao Yanyan distributed some troops from Youzhou and transferred them to the back of the mountain.

It is a good thing and a bad thing when Zhang Qixian comes to Dingzhou. It is a good thing to solve Li Jilong. The bad thing is that Zhang Qixian is in Dingzhou, and the Liao Kingdom can be confident and boldly divided the troops in the mountain.

Yes or no?

It must be right now.

But the Song army behind the mountain was too powerful. They were stronger than the Eastern Route Army at the Battle of Qigou Pass, especially the ability of the commander. I believe Song Jiu was definitely not Cao Bin.

So Xiao Yanyan transferred tens of thousands of troops from the rear and went to the back of the mountain.

However, at this point, Xiao Yanyan couldn't help but feel a headache. The current rhythm was not controlled by the Liao Kingdom, but by the Song Dynasty. Dancing with her opponent was the most terrifying thing.

The army in Youzhou ran desperately behind the mountain.

After five days of hard work, Huanzhou was once again captured by the Song army.

However, the Song army made an incomprehensible move this time, and did not attack Yingzhou with the momentum of victory. Instead, they slowly withdrew back to Shuozhou City.

Shuozhou City is only half of the city walls now, and the Song army doesn’t care. Just stalk on the ruins of Shuozhou. Come on, let’s fight you.

Yelu Xizhen smiled bitterly in Yunzhou.

The Song army's lack of greed for merit makes it difficult for him to deal with it. If he is greedy for merit and uses troops in Yingzhou, the east and west forces may not be able to break it. However, the Song army retreated back to Shuozhou again, echoing the large army in Hexi. How to fight?

If we don’t fight, the poor people in Shuozhou will also send the Song army to the south. It would be fine if the border became an idle field, and the entire Shuozhou became an idle field, how could the Liao Kingdom bear it? The Liao Kingdom was not the Song Dynasty, and the richer south as a powerful rear. Yanyun was everywhere the treasure of the Liao Kingdom.
Chapter completed!