That night, Sun Yue asked Han Chongxun to discuss his thoughts. Unexpectedly, Han Chongxun was thinking the same as he did.

So Sun Yue hurriedly went to find Cui Yanjin and Dangjin again. Both of them thought Sun Yue's words made sense, so they went to find Li Jixun, Shi Shouxin and others, but the result was similar, and they all thought that 8 or 100 years of Yelu Xiu Ge would come back.

Sun Yue said, since you also think Yelu Xiu Ge will come back, why not be careful? People say, I heard from the official family.

There was really no connection, but Sun Yue keenly felt that there was something wrong with this, or that there was an indescribable emotion, which had become the consensus of generals in the military.

After thinking about it, Sun Yue decided to go to Cao Bin. When Cao Bin saw Sun Yue coming to find him on his own initiative, he was overjoyed and quickly prepared food and served him.

"You'll also drink in war?"

"Drinking less and not getting drunk. The war has been fought until now, and you only need to delay it for a month to win, so the army is relatively relaxed."

"You don't care?"

"What do you care about?"

Sun Yue sighed and asked, "Do you think Yelu Xiu Ge will come back?"

"Yes, of course, I just don't know where he will come back, and it's useless to guess it."

"It's useless to guess for nothing?"

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just think it's not like what you should say."

The next morning, Yelu Sha led 20,000 cavalry to attack. Sun Yue ordered Han Chongxun to form an infantry formation to defend the enemy without asking for a counterattack. Sure enough, he returned without any success. Sun Yue suddenly pointed to a river beside him and asked Li Jilong curiously: "General Li, do you know what this river is called?"

"I heard that it seems to be called Gaoliang River."

"Gaolianghe... It turns out that this is Gaolianghe." After that, Sun Yue didn't say anything, so he simply went back to his tent and said to Li Jilong: "I'm sleepy, go back and sleep for a while. You can preside over this place."

Li Jilong nodded and said, "Okay."

Under Youzhou City, Zhao Guangyi was slowly commanding the army to attack the city, and it was a strategy of siege in all military history that only fools can use.

Has Zhao Guangyi reached this point of not knowing military tactics? Of course not. This guy clearly did it on purpose. I didn’t see that even Tian Qinzuo’s digging speed could not be faster.

The reason is very simple. Zhao Guangyi is now deliberately trying to delay. On the one hand, as long as he delays the Song army to the beginning of the spring, he will win steadily. On the other hand, hehe, the longer the war is delayed, the higher the prestige of the official who was the emperor in charge.

Before, because of Fu Yanqing and Zhao Guangyi's prestige had almost been lost. However, he was an official after all. Now that he has no war on both sides, this guy is a bit old and cute. Although he has not randomly arranged people in the army, his command has been renewed, and it is stipulated that any mobilization of more than 500 people must be followed by his orders.

Of course, whether to attack the city or attack four cities, his lack of military experience is no longer so obvious at this time. If Han Xin had changed, there would be no good moves, and the impact on the battle situation would not be great.

When he returned to the tent that day, his hardcore Cao Jun secretly sent a letter. Sun Yue asked in surprise where it came from. He said that it was written by Cui Yanjin for him. After opening it, there was no substantial content in it, just some scattered comments about Zhao Guangyi.

Sun Yue immediately understood what he meant and wrote him a reply letter. He also complained about Zhao Guangyi, so he ordered Cao Jun to secretly send it over again.

That night, Sun Yue received two more letters from Shi Shouxin and Li Jixun, and the content was similar to Cui Yanjin. Sun Yue also wrote a reply and wrote a letter to Dangjin, which was still some complaints.

In the following days, the commanders of the commander army wrote letters to each other every day, but when they met, they didn't say anything, just like nothing happened.

Five days later, Cui Yanjin, Dangjin, Sun Yue, Li Jixun, Pan Mei, Shi Shouxin and others wrote a letter to Cao Bin at the same time on the same day. After reading it, Cao Bin put the letter on the candlelight and lamented, then wrote reply letters to them one after another.

The moment when Sun Yue received Cao Bin's reply, it was basically certain that history was about to repeat itself.

The defeat of the Lianggu River!

Most people in later generations had a misunderstanding, that is, the elite Lions of the Song army, who were all wiped out in the Battle of Gaolianghe, but in fact, it was not. The elite Lions of the Song army were defeated during the Second Northern Expedition of Yongxi.

In the Battle of Gaoliang River, the elite forces of the Song army were basically intact. Only Zhao Guangyi was almost dead and survived. He fled back to Kaifeng in a donkey cart. Even from the perspective of the war loss ratio, the Song army could even be said to have a great victory.

Under what circumstances, the emperor who was in charge of the army almost died and was saved only by himself, leaving no guards around him, but the main force of the army did not suffer any serious damage?

Let’s think about the funeral after Zhao Guangyi’s life and death were unknown, or everyone thought that he was dead at that time, the first thing these generals in the north did was not to quickly return to Kaifeng, but to support Zhao Dezhao, who was accompanying the army, ascended the throne and became the new emperor.

Think about who saved Zhao Guangyi and Yang Ye! Yang Ye had just surrendered in history. No matter how Yang Wudi was, he must have been excluded from the circle by the top generals of the Song Dynasty. In other words, if those generals were to conspire for something, he should have been excluded from the circle and knew nothing.

After that, within a few days, Zhao Guangyi forced Zhao Dezhao to death and no longer trusted all the generals left by Zhao Kuangyin. In the subsequent Yongxi Northern Expedition, veterans such as Li Jixun almost did not participate much. Cao Bin and Pan Mei led the two northern expeditions respectively. Cao Bin showed his progress and retreat, and his speed and slowness. He was not worthy of the first good general. He had no military knowledge and was incomparable to Pan Mei's brave and radical Western Army. The defeat of Yongxi Northern Expedition was analyzed based on the obvious reasons. This guy would bear at least 90% of the responsibility. If he didn't kill, he would not be able to quell the public's anger.

But what? Cao Bin was just symbolically punished, and soon he became the Privy Councilor again, and was highly valued, and he was under the throne of Pan Mei, who performed a hundred times better than him all his life.

Although there is no clear evidence, it is basically certain that Cao Bin took the blame for Zhao Guangyi. All the speed and slowness of the times come from Zhao Guangyi's orders. You must know that Zhao Guangyi was originally a half-baked man in military affairs, and he was in charge of Kaifeng for remote command. If there is no problem, he would be a ghost.

The obedient coach was defeated, but he didn't say anything. He took all the sins for His Majesty's wisdom and magical martial arts. The disobedient coach was so beautiful that he fought very beautifully. Although he didn't say anything, no one understands what's going on.

It seems to be a bit off the beat.

In short, because of this strange defeat, although the main force of the Song army was not damaged, the subsequent Yongxi Northern Expedition and even the weak Song Dynasty for more than two hundred years later were related to this matter. Combined with the various strange aspects of this battle, Sun Yue almost figured out what was going on.
Chapter completed!