The Liao army advanced to the entrance of the Great Wall again, and Zhang Bin suddenly led his subordinates to attack. The Liao army caught off guard, allowing Zhang Bin to successfully lead his subordinates to break through step by step, almost attacking under the eyes of Yelu Longqing, the central army of Liao Kingdom. However, the Liao army also quickly reacted and saw that the Song army did not have many troops, so they launched a counterattack. Zhang Bin saw that the indomitable assault momentum was curbed, and it would be unfavorable to continue fighting. He wisely stopped when he was about to get better and withdrew the Polu Army.

Yelu Longqing ordered the three armies to rest and then advance towards the Weihu Army. Both sides were not far away, less than forty miles. The scout came to report that the main force of the Song army was lined up in the west of the city. When Yelu Longqing heard this, he was very happy that the Song army was relying on the city wall to defend, and what was still worried about when he left the city. He immediately ordered to pounce on the west of the city.

At the beginning of the war, Jing Si was the main force, Qin Han and Zhang Ning covered the left and right wings, and Li Jixuan was the reserve team. If Wei had not been able to guard Zijing Pass and Tian Min went to the northwest, the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty would have been stronger in this battle. However, now the generals are also the top generals of the Song Dynasty.

When Jing Si saw the arrival of the Liao army, he immediately ordered an attack. Qin Han and Zhang Ning were in time. In just a few rounds, they defeated the Liao army and shot and killed the Liao army's chief general, Xianggong Tielin. Yelu Longqing saw that something was wrong and ordered a retreat.

When they arrived at the entrance of the Great Wall, Yang Yanzhao and Yang Si had some headaches. They didn't expect that the Liao Kingdom would fight as soon as it arrived and flee as soon as it hit. Is this still a powerful Liao army cavalry? There was no way. It turned out to be encircled, so now they had to forcefully intercept it.

The Liao army blocked the troops from front and back, and there were pursuers behind them. They suddenly became anxious and burst out with strong combat power. Although the Eryang was condescending in Yangshan, he was defeated by the Liao army because of his small force and was forced to leave the battlefield. Although their frontal sniping failed, they won time for the Song Dynasty pursuers behind.

Zhang Ning and Qin Han chased after him. Yelu Longqing had no choice but to order a counterattack and could not escape. Although the road ahead was opened, this escape was definitely a defeat. After a while, Li Jixuan led the main force to arrive. After a while, the Liao army was defeated again. The Song army suppressed the Liao army and fought from the southern foot of Yangshan to the ridge, and then to the northern foot.

Yelu Longqing had no choice but to escape again and cross Yishui, and it was dark at this time.

Just as he was about to order a camp to rest, a Song soldier came over.

Wei Neng came from Zijing Pass with a team of light cavalry and arrived just in time. He didn't have many soldiers, but there were countless Song cavalry across the river.

Yelu Longqing had to escape again, but fortunately, he was full of cavalry under his command, and he was very relieved after crossing the Juma River and coming to Qigou Pass.

In this battle, the Liao army lost commander Xianggong Tielin and more than 20 important generals, and was beheaded by the Song army. There were less than half of them who could escape back.

The Liao Kingdom refused to reconcile and invaded again and again, which made the whole country feel sad and angry. Therefore, nearly 30,000 heads of the generals were also placed at the border, building a capital temple, and showing their martial arts to the Liao Kingdom.

But the battle in Suicheng may be a beginning or an end. Because Xiao Yanyan personally led more Liao troops to arrive. This time, without Yelu Xizhen's advice, Xiao Yanyan sent a group of troops to forcibly attack Zijing Pass. As a result... she lost all the dead bodies on the ground and nothing was found.

Wang Xian followed He Chengju's advice. He used the method of surrounding Wei to save Zhao, and asked the navy to take a swordfish boat, enter the sea from the boundary river, landed in Pingzhou along the seaside, launched an attack, and attracted the main force of the Liao Kingdom to rescue him.

Xiao Yanyan didn't make any sense. The main force detoured the strongest Polu Army, but instead took the whole city to the west of the Polu Army. However, at this time, Wang Xian had already led more Song troops to the Tanghe River, and the two armies were facing each other from afar. However, the continuous rainy days at this time greatly affected the combat capability of the Liao army. In addition, so many soldiers and horses died, their morale was depressed. The Song army was prepared. Xiao Yanyan thought for a long time and finally ordered the withdrawal of the army.

After confirming that all the Liao army was back, Wang Xian offered a victory to Zhao Heng.

Moreover, he also took the initiative to admit his mistake. If his main force arrived in time during the Battle of Suicheng, the results would be greater, and the entire army of Yelu Longqing could be wiped out.

However, despite the mistakes, he can be said to be a good commander this time. Compared with Fu Qian, who is greedy for life and fears death, it is a world of difference.

Therefore, the court generously praised it.

Song Jiu was also very happy when he heard about it in the capital. Not only was there victory, but also generals.

At this time, the Song Dynasty did not lack civil officials who governed the country, too many, such as Li Weng, Lu Mengzheng, and even Zhang Qixian, Wang Qinruo, Xiang Minzhong and Kou Zhun, could be considered competent. However, if there were no generals, there were more generals, but few famous generals were few.

Qin Han appeared. No matter whether he was a eunuch or not, even if a woman was as brave as Mu Guiying, he would forcefully suggest Zhao Heng to use her.

In addition to the generals in the Battle of Suicheng, there are also generals such as Sun Quanzhao, Yang Qiong, Wang Chao, Hu Yanzan, Wang Hanzhong, Tian Min, Li Chonggui, Geng Quanbin, Gao Qiong, Wang Gao, etc. Basically, these people have grown up one after another.

No matter what the future is, you must have a general who can fight, otherwise you will still fail.

However, Zhao Heng was worried about Zhongzhong and invaded again, and some aspects seemed to verify Song Jiu's speculation.

Therefore, he agreed with Song Jiu's other suggestion.

Another army will be set up, but this army will be dispersed in the name of various commanders and distributed among the legions, which is the defeated cavalry.

Compared with infantry, cavalry is no less than tanks, but there have been many cases of infantry breaking cavalry in history. Not only Yue Fei later, but also Liu Yu's Yueyue formation, but also Lu Guang, the general under Fu Jian.

History says that he led 70,000 troops to pacify the Western Regions. There is another saying that he had an army of 100,000, but there were only 5,000 cavalry in this army, and the proportion of this cavalry was not as good as that of the Song Dynasty today.

When Lu Guang came to Kucha, no matter how many troops he had, it was estimated that less than two-thirds of his troops were in his hands at that time. The King of Kucha asked for help from the countries in the Western Regions. King Hu sent his brother Na Long and Hou Jiangkui to lead more than 200,000 cavalrymen, and also gathered more than 700,000 troops including Wen Su and Weitou to rescue Kucha. Lu Guang faced dozens of times the enemy, and was all powerful Western Region cavalry. He used the method of hook lock to fight at Qucz. He won in one battle, and all the thirty-six countries surrendered.

Therefore, Song Jiu built a new infantry army regiment.

The main thing is that three people cooperate, one person is engaged in hooks and guns, or chops horse axes, sabers, and specializes in cavalry's horse legs.

Each person holds a new type of gun. But it cannot be considered a gun. There is a long pole behind it. There is a sickle-like object in front, which specifically hooks the heads of cavalrymen.

There is another person. That is the short spear.

In ancient China, spears were still widely used, but later they gradually became auxiliary weapons, which was different from the ancient Roman army. This was a more advanced tactics. With the clumsy square formation of ancient Rome, if they ran to the Song Dynasty to fight, they still didn't know how they would die.

Although it was gradually replaced by a more powerful crossbow, it was still in use. For example, the short iron-handled spear in the Three Kingdoms period, which can be used for close combat, and a little farther away can be used for throwing. There was also a kind of iron thallium in the Song Dynasty. In fact, it was a short spear. In addition, there was a javelin in the army, which was a longer one, which was a middle spear. There was also a kind of shuttle gun among the southern ethnic minorities, which was a spear.

Song Jiu has picked it up once before.

The reason why I picked up a short spear is that although the bow and crossbow is powerful, once the enemy cavalry rushed in, the enemy would not give you time to draw the bow and shoot arrows when the short soldier was handed over. If you use weapons, one is on the horse and the other is on the horse, it will be a disadvantage. Therefore, configuring some short spears at this time will have unexpected benefits. Although it has a slow firing rate and a long range, its opponents are mainly from Liao. Their armor quality is relatively poor, most of them are leather armor. It is still okay to shoot one person within ten steps. And it is not very heavy. Installing a dozen short spears behind is not a big burden for soldiers.

One person cuts the horse's legs, one uses the moon-watching gun to hook the head, and the other uses a short spear to shoot. As long as the cooperation is done well, the advantage of the cavalry can be offset.

But if you want to cooperate well, you have to go through hard training.

Fortunately, this battle is a big victory, and the cost will not be very high if it wins. Even the Liao** team only went to the border, and no civilian was hurt.

Therefore, fiscal easing also gave the economic conditions for the establishment of the Pokémon Army.

Three special forces regiments, coupled with the previous military system reform, the Song Dynasty's army actually gradually became stronger invisibly.

Time has entered the fifth year of Xianping in a blink of an eye.

If it weren't for the pressure from the Liao Kingdom, the Song Dynasty would have gradually become richer and more prosperous.

Even though the cost of training increased last year, the three departments still generated some surplus. This was not caused by the harsh people, but by good tax policies and the economic increase brought about by the prosperous business. Although the increase in troops increased the cost, the reduction of officials on the other hand also saved costs.

It should be said that Song Jiu did a very good job as prime minister. But at this moment, someone said no to Song Jiu.

It has nothing to do with the north, but in the south.

When Wang Jun rebelled, Yang Huaizhong transferred some barbarian soldiers from Shi, Qian, Gao, Xi and other states to help. He did not see how much it played, but what he saw... After entering the plains, these people saw that the Han people were rich, so they attacked the prefectures and counties, plundered wealth and men and women to various rivers and caves, and became their slaves.

Sichuan officials have been unable to make a decision for a long time.

If we follow the ideas of Song Jiu and others, we would send Sichuan cavalry into various rivers and caves to sweep the rivers and caves. This is the purpose of establishing Sichuan cavalry.

However, Ding Wei wrote a letter to object and received the order himself.

Now Song Jiuyi was thinking about dealing with the Liao Kingdom. Of course, it would be better to have less trouble than to have more trouble. He agreed to go to Kuizhou as the deputy envoy of transshipment.

After Ding Wei went to Kuizhou, he only brought three or two servants to various rivers and caves.

The leader Tian Yanyi was very moved and came out to greet him in person, rewarding him with cow wine, and wishing to pay tribute for generations. Ding Wei asked them to visit Kuizhou City, and these leaders also learned from Ding Wei and only brought three or two servants to Kuizhou City. When he arrived at the inn, Ding Wei gave him brocade robe and silver silk to describe his misfortune and blessings, and said that he would not kill him. A few days later, they asked to go back, but Ding Wei made a hospitality statement and kept them not allowed to leave. He also sent his servants to secretly say to them, "Your Majesty wants to get the men and women you have plundered. If you agree to send these men and women back, you will be happy and will let you go home."

So the leaders made an appointment with Ding Wei, put one person back, gave him a piece of silk, and sent back more than 10,000 Han people in a few days. Then they cried and said goodbye, and sweared to carve it on the stone pillar.

Ding Wei made other moves, such as setting up camps in some dangerous places, setting up shops in the 30th miles, and thirty soldiers were placed at each shop, etc. He even led Tian Yanyi to defeat the even more backward and barbaric Shengman invasion in the mountains.

Only 10,000 yuan spent. If the army was used, even a small-scale battle would have to be calculated at 100,000 yuan. However, the matter was done...

But Song Jiu's comments in the Political Affairs Hall were exactly the opposite: "Although it is good, why are there only 10,000 Han people who have abducted by the barbarians?"

Just one sentence left everyone with nothing to say.

The redeemed Han people are naturally happy, but the unredeemed Han people means death is worse than death. Of course, the barbarians do not owe the Han people, but the Han people do not owe the barbarians either! At least they do not owe the barbarian leaders.

"As for how can it be useful to carve the oath on the stone pillar? Maybe we are temporarily at peace, so we can't see the Han people who are doing cows and horses in the stream cave, but in the future, the barbarians will become more and more courageous because of their weakness."

For example, the Nanbeijiang and Meishan barbarians were finally restored after Zhang Dun used troops to sanction the place, and the governance was truly restored.

"But it's good now. At least the entire country cannot change much at this time," Song Jiu said self-deprecatingly.

Then I have to let the South be solemn, and continue to let those barbarians act as a mighty man.

Then continue to plant trees in the north.

These trees make Xiao Yanyan feel disgusted.
Chapter completed!