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Chapter 369 The Battle of Xiazhou (Part 2)

Three days had arrived and the messenger could not come back. Zhao Kuangyin already knew the result, so he began to order the three armies.

"Brothers, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, we have been invincible and invincible. The world is so big that no one is our opponent.

In recent years, you have been guarding the northwest. Although the environment is harsh, life is not hard at all. The court has sent a lot of supplies every year to let you eat and wear well. The purpose is to keep you healthy and go to battle and kill the enemy!

Although you are on the border, your family is living a good life. They have a house to live, clothes and food to eat. These are all given by Your Majesty, and the purpose is to reassure you!

Today, the Li family in Xiazhou rebelled and joined forces with Dangxiang and Khitan rebelled. These nomadic peoples have always invaded our Han people. Today we finally have the opportunity to teach them a lesson!

So we want to teach them a lesson, do you think so?"

"mighty!"

"mighty!"

"mighty!"

"Okay, since everyone is very confident, I won't say much. You have trained a lot on weekdays. It's time to test the truth. Make achievements today. Let's set off!"

With the order of Zhao Kuangyin, 50,000 troops set out, 30,000 regular troops were in front and 20,000 reserve troops were in the back.

From Shizhou to the west, enter the Yinzhou field, Yinzhou manages four counties including Rulin, Funing, Zhenxiang, and Congguang.

The Song army headed westward, divided its troops to two groups, heading straight to Rulin and Funing counties, and headed straight into Xiazhou!

Faced with the attack of the Song army, Li Guangrui personally led an army and joined forces with Dangxiang reinforcements to defend in Funing. The Khitan army on the other side of Funing was the Khitan army, and the main general was Yelu Xian!

Zhao Kuangyin knew that the Khitan army was difficult to deal with, so he only brought 10,000 troops and planned to feint attack Rulin to create opportunities for Yang Guangyi's Funing.

The two armies arrived outside the city almost at the same time. Yelu Xian couldn't help but admire the neat army outside the city.

"The Emperor of Song is really amazing. Look at these Song army soldiers who traveled dozens of miles and could still maintain such neat military appearance. There is indeed a general who leads his troops."

Yelu Xian sincerely praised him, but Li Jiyun, who followed him, didn't care.

"It's all infantry, and it's incomparable to your Liao cavalry. Once you really fight, the military appearance will probably not be so beautiful!"

Yelu Xian nodded. He thought so too, but this time he did not intend to take the initiative. After all, their purpose was to repel the Song army.

"By the way, you saw Chuo'er outside Bianliang City? Is she okay?"

Li Jijun nodded and said diligently: "I saw you. My father and I were there at that time. Miss Xiao is in good condition, so don't worry.

Wearing a veil at that time, but we were still shocking. If Miss Xiao hadn't appeared, our Li family might have become a prisoner now!"

At this time, Li Jijun did not forget to slander Guo Hao. Guo Hao asked their Li family to move inward to settle them in his life.

To this day, Guo Hao has destroyed several countries. Except for those who are unable to think about suicide, Guo Hao is not bad for the king who has destroyed his country, let alone the Li family is not a country.

"Haha, the little prince is too polite. Now that our court has appointed General Li as King of Xia, you will not be able to see Song Ting's eyes in the future. If you want to say that the Dangxiang tribe is not weak, you can take this opportunity to unify the tribe."

"If my husband can help us, I will be grateful. If I become the king in the future, I will definitely not forget my husband's great kindness!"

Li Jijun's flattering appearance made Yelu Xian a little disgusted. If he hadn't wanted to ask Xiao Chuo about his situation, Yelu Xian wouldn't need him at all.

In the Song army camp, Zhao Kuangyin took a telescope to observe the figures on the city wall. Two specially dressed generals attracted his attention.

These two people are Liao and Han. The Liao generals look not old and have a weak and morbid appearance, but he dare not underestimate each other.

Because according to the Malay newspaper, the general of the Liao army this time was named Yelu Xian, who was the second son of Yelu Ruan and the nephew of the current Liao emperor Yelu Jing.

He was weak and sick since childhood, but his uncle did not pity him at all. He asked him to do all kinds of chores, which was obviously just to exhaust him.

But Yelu Xian was quite destined to be quite successful. He went on war many times and came back safely. This time, after Dingyou's air conditioning, his health was much better than before.

Therefore, Yelu Xian pretended to be sick on his appearance. The reason why he was asked to come to the northwest was that the road here was long, and the other was that Yelu Xian didn't want to disappoint Xiao Chuo.

After roughly understanding the situation of the enemy generals, Zhao Kuangyin quickly made arrangements. Since the Liao army had no intention of leaving the city, they would correct the situation one day and attack the city tomorrow.

...

The war in the northwest was about to break out, and the city of Bianliang was not peaceful. Undercurrents were surging under the calm surface, Qiunan was looking for a detailed work.

"Xiang Niang, according to the news sent back from various strongholds, no abnormalities have been found in the capital. During his time in Beijing, Dingnan Jieduo, he did not contact the officials."

When Qiunan heard his subordinates' report, he waved his hand to ask him to retreat, turned around and looked at Guo Hao, who was thinking about this matter.

The Liao Kingdom was moving too fast, as if there were premeditations. In this era when news spread slowly, unless someone predicted it.

But this is impossible, so it is only when someone makes the deployment as soon as possible after getting the message, and others act according to the deployment, so they will react so quickly.

"There must be aristocrats of the Liao Kingdom in Bianliang City, and their status is very high, so they represent the connection between the Liao Kingdom and the father and son of the Li family, otherwise all this would not make sense.

Now the war in the northwest should have begun. If the Liao Kingdom is determined not to let us do it, Zhao Kuangyin may return in vain."

"Returned without success? Isn't there any cannons in the northwest? It shouldn't be a problem with him siegeing the city!"

Qiunan didn't think so much, and felt that with Zhao Kuangyin's ability, it was not the first time he had dealt with the Khitan. Even if he added a Dangxiang, he would not necessarily lose.

"Although the cannon attacks the city is powerful, the Liao army's advantage is not to defend the city. If they are willing to give up the city and take the initiative to attack our army, then the advantage of the cannon will be heard!

The northwest region has a vast terrain and is full of grasslands. The Liao cavalry has a great advantage, which is very unfavorable to our army!”

At this time, soil erosion on the Loess Plateau is not as serious as in later generations, so it is a smooth road from the plateau to the hills to the grasslands.

The cavalry galloped on this terrain, and the Song army had no choice but to do anything to them unless Guo Hao sent cavalry to block the attack or to send a musket battalion that was being trained.

However, Guo Hao didn't want to go there at these two steps because he felt that it was not appropriate to expose his trump card too early before the decisive battle with Liao Kingdom.

Moreover, there are detailed works of the Liao Kingdom in the capital. If the imperial guards are used here, the Liao Kingdom will definitely get a warning. If this spy is not captured, Guo Hao always feels that he is always staring at him.

After thinking about it, Guo Hao felt that the best way was to lure the snake out of the hole. He decided to go to the northwest secretly and expose this matter, use himself as bait to lure the fine work out.

So Guo Hao found Guo Jing and Guo Zhiyao, and instructed the seven ministers of the cabinet that during the period when he left the palace, King Jing would be in charge of Kaifeng Prefecture and preside over the matters in the capital.

Guo Zhiyao was in charge of the palace and listened to political affairs on his behalf, pretending to be the illusion that Guo Hao was still in the palace.

As soon as this plan was made, Wang Pu was the first to object: "Your Majesty, you are a body of gold, how can you be in danger? If an assassin really assassination, your Majesty will be in danger!"

After Wang Pu said that, Xue Juzheng and Lu Qingyu also disagreed. They both felt that taking such a big risk for a meticulous work was not worth it.

But Guo Hao insisted on doing this. He always felt that he had to find this detailed work and let him stay in Bianliang sooner or later something big would happen!

"I have decided, you don't need to say much. The matter in the Northwest is not a joke. You don't understand it now, and you will understand my painstaking efforts in the future.

If the assassin can be successfully drawn out this time, I don’t have to go to the northwest. I just went out this time and had no intention of being the emperor personally!"

The matters that Guo Hao decided were unable to change, so the matter of escort was left to Li Hui, but the ministers had to cooperate and spread the matter.

For a time, officials from all over the capital were talking about this matter, and the unified statement was said by the eunuchs in the palace. Guo Hao was worried about the war in the northwest, so he secretly left the palace and planned to go to the northwest to take a look.

Xiao Chuo often went to and from the Imperial Hospital during this period and was very familiar with the officials of the Imperial Hospital. On this day, he came to ask about the next treatment plan and happened to hear about this.
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