"Report to Your Majesty, Mr. Xiao has arrived."

"Prince!"

Hearing the accompanying eunuch informing Xiao Baoxian that he had arrived, Yelu Yanxi immediately summoned him to the imperial palace where he was.

Xiao Baoxian came in from outside in a dusty manner, bowed to Yelu Yanxi, and then reported quickly and urgently: "Your Majesty, the Song people built a building outside Zhaojia Fort! There are fences, trenches, and walls built behind sacks of soil... It looks very strong and the construction is very fast!"

"What's the way to play?" Yelu Yanxi frowned, "Would you like to confront each other for a long time?"

"Maybe!"

Yelu Yanxi asked again: "Why have you been there all day? Are you watching the Song people build a building?"

"If you go back to your Majesty, I will also go to Zhangjialianzhai, twenty miles southeast of the county."

"Zhangjia Lianzhai? What's wrong there?"

"We are also building a city!" Xiao Baoxian said, "There are still half-armored cavalry of the eight or nine hundred Song people who are covering it. They are very powerful. Our long-distance horses are not the opponent at all!"

"Oh." Yelu Yanxi seemed to have not understood what was going on, so she just responded softly.

Xiao Baoxian shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, there are five local tyrants in this Zhang family village, three or four hundred customers, and they can attract no less than 1,500 strong men... They all defect to the Song people!"

"What?" Yelu Yanxi was shocked when he heard this, "So many people have surrendered to the State of Song? They are not the people of our Great Liao, so how dare they treason and surrender to the enemy?"

Xiao Baoxian sighed: "Aren't it all Yelu Zhangnu defeated the battle? The Han people in Yan land were also like the trumpets on the grassland, the wizards of Liaodong Road, and the Bohai Sea. They were not my Khitan tribe, so they naturally fell to the other side because they were powerful. Besides, the Song people in the Southern Dynasties were of the same clan as them... In fact, this Zhangjia Lianzhai was not the first Lianzhai to fall to the Song people. In the southern part of Wuqing County, there were at least dozens of Lianzhai, and they had already defected to the Song people."

"Does of villages, wouldn't there be tens of thousands of strong men..." Yelu Yanxi couldn't sit still and suddenly stood up from the imperial throne. "I have been treating them well for more than a hundred years, so why are I not grateful at all?"

Treat kindly? Xiao Baoxian thought to himself: The four Yan families and more than a dozen other family members of the world may have been treated kindly. The others are just alive! How dare they say that they treat kindly? However, in the past ten years, because of the rise of Jiehe Commercial City, many powerful and brave Han heroes who were powerful and brave in Kong Wuqing County went to the southern part of Wuqing County to settle down, or simply went to the commercial city. Only then did they become more abundant! At least eight out of the ten local tyrants who settled their homes in Wuqing County were in contact with Jiehe Commercial City.

It would have been fine if Yelu Zhangnu had won a complete victory in Beicheng, Jiehe Shangshi that day, but he would have been defeated and left! Who would have no idea what the local snakes in Wuqing County would have been? Isn’t it obvious which side they would have turned to?

"Your Majesty," said Xiao Baoxian, "We have gained a lot on Dingzhou Road. Why don't you stop when you see it? If you let Wu Haogu continue to torture, half of Wuqing County will be gone."

Wu Haogu's approach to building fortresses in the southern part of Wuqing County was actually the method of later Tsarist Russia rectifying various Central Asian and Siberian Tartars. It used Cossack cavalry and fortress lines to continuously compress the Tartars' activity space to achieve the goal of strangling step by step.

The 6,000 cavalry in his hand is equivalent to the Cossacks, and he can also pull out thousands of infantry with great combat power. In addition, the ability of engineers to build fortresses and the unique skill of Jiehe Shangshi's bribery and control, it will not take long to use the fortress line to erode half of Wuqing County.

Don’t underestimate this "half-county" land. It actually has four or five thousand square kilometers, and it is all plains that can be reclaimed! The population is indeed not large, but it is also moderate. It can be just half-cultivated and semi-grassing, expand the breeding scale of Cangzhou horses and develop a new cavalry group.

If the population here is as dense as that in Kaifeng Prefecture, and if there is a little land to support people, there will be no cavalry group.

So if Wu Haogu is managed in half of Wuqing County, in a few years, the number of people in the Cangzhou Cavalry Group will not be 6,000, but 10,000 or 12,000!

"What do you think of?" Yelu Yanxi was also a little helpless.

It should be possible to block Wu Haogu's advancement in the north for the time being. Without a powerful light cavalry group, Wu Haogu could not quickly seize control of the battlefield. He could only use the method of fortress advancement to slowly compress the activity space of the Liao cavalry.

This process is likely to last for more than a year. Then it will launch an attack on Wuqing County!

However, it is not easy to push Wu Haogu's troops back to Jiehe Shang City. There are so many fortresses, even Yelu Yanxi can't chew half of them! Moreover, his light cavalry has advantages, but armored cavalry is not good. Knights are not as good as humans, war horses are not as good as humans, armored armor and armor are not as good as humans. What's even more hateful is that the Song people also have very powerful gunpowder weapons, and armored cavalry will blow you up before attacking!

If you really want to be beaten, you can only get beaten.

Although Yelu Yanxi has 20,000 regular soldiers in the hands of the palace, he can continue to mobilize if necessary. However, facing the impact of 6,000 armored cavalry, these regular soldiers of the palace will definitely not be able to withstand it... If he really wants to be defeated again, the Great Liao Kingdom will not be able to do anything.

Now this battle is not only a matter between the Song and Liao dynasties, but also arguing with Bu, Jurchen and Bohai.

If Wu Haogu destroyed Yelu Yanxi's main force, then these unstable factors in the Liao Kingdom would have a general outbreak.

"We have to negotiate peace!" Xiao Baoxian said, "Scheme peace by war. As long as Wu Haogu's soldiers retreat south of the Jiehe River, let's make peace with the Song people."

"How are they willing to retreat?" Yelu Yanxi looked at Xiao Baoxian.

"Your Majesty," Xiao Baoxian said, "We have the upper hand on Dingzhou Road! If we can seize Dingzhou City by taking advantage of the victory, we will lose Wuqing County, and the Song people will have to seek peace."

Yelu Yanxi was skeptical and lost Wuqing County, and Xijin Prefecture was right in front of him! The Song people were willing to seek peace?

"Your Majesty," Xiao Baoxian gritted his teeth, "There is really no way to go on the Eastern Front, so he can only move his troops to the Western Front! Your Majesty might as well lead the main force to meet with Fengxian and fight with the Song army in Dingzhou. I will stay in Wuqing and make a bluff, and I can always scare Wu Haogu."

"I'm moving my troops to Dingzhou?" Yelu Yanxi thought for a while, "Baoxian, how many people do you want to stay in Wuqing?"

"8,000 regular soldiers, guarding the paving soldiers and bassing Caogu soldiers are enough!" Xiao Baoxian said, "Your Majesty will take the rest to Dingzhou Road."

On the battlefield of Dingzhou Road, there are now 30,000 Khitan soldiers from Xiao Fengxian and 36,000 Han soldiers from Ma Renwang. If Yelu Yanxi brings another 30,000 Khitan soldiers, there will be 96,000 troops!

It is possible to capture Dingzhou City!

If Dingzhou loses, Hebei will probably be a big shock. At that time, Zhao Ji will probably be unable to hold back and ask for peace from the Khitan...

"Okay!" Yelu Yanxi gritted her teeth, "That's it!"

...

The new deputy envoy of Hebei Xuanfu, Dingzhou Road, Zhendingfu Road, and Zhong Fu traveled day and night in the middle of July of the third year of Daguan.

Zhong Fu, who has been in charge of soldiers for several years, has now seen a lot of vicissitudes of life. The elegance of the gentleness is so indifferent that it is full of martial spirit.

"The weak man came so fast!" Wang Ying, the appeaser of Zhendingfu Road, and Han Xiaozhou, the ambassador of Zhendingfu Road, welcomed him at the door of the Zhengsi Office.

"The war is urgent, I have to hurry up." Zhong Fu looked at Wang Qi and Han Xiaozhou, who had seen Li, took his right hand by Wang Qi who came forward and joined hands into the inner hall.

After the three of them took the seats, Wang Ying asked: "Wuweng, you are now deploying troops on Hebei West Road. Are you here to command the war on Hebei West Road?"

"this……"

Zhong Fu could only smile bitterly.

There is now a Propaganda Envoy, a Transport Envoy, a Military Supervisor, and four Pacifier Envoys (Wu Haogu and Quanshe Hailu Shuaisi). Now there are many more Hebei West Road deployments.

There are eight general officials in total, who commands who?

In addition, there are four general managers of the military commanders in Hebei (excluding Zhong Fu), and four military commanders in charge. In theory, they should be the commanders of the general or above.

As for these eight generals, eight senior generals who led the troops, there are only 18 "generals" in total. If the 6 generals directly commanded by Wu Haogu, there are 15 generals, the chief generals, and the chief commander is commanding 12 generals... It really means that there are more generals than generals, and more generals than soldiers.

"Oh, don't mention this!" Zhong Fu could only shake his head and smile bitterly, "This has always been like this. Are there six compassion envoys in Shaanxi in charge of each? The eight commanders here are all different, and we will work together to do our work for the court."

"But the military orders of the Hebei Xuanfu Envoy's envoy are always sent to us." Wang Ying smiled bitterly, "Wu Chongdao is now confronting the Liaozhu in Wuqing County in the territory of Liao. It is time when the outcome is not decided. We must be calm and calm, and use three generals to enter Quyang, Xinle, and Qizhou to support Dingzhou, but we cannot go out to fight in the city. The remaining general will be combined with the regiment and the expansion will be expanded to 30,000 to 50,000 people. We will train troops in Zhending Prefecture, waiting for the weapons and armor to be delivered."

It turned out that the Xuanfu Department of Wuhaogu was still performing its duties, constantly changing various responsibilities, and working hard to adjust the situation on the western front. Not only did Zhendingfu Road get the order, but Gaoyangguan Road also got new instructions to cross the Juma River and build a city on the land of Guiyi County, Liao Kingdom, to threaten the Liao army's retreat that broke into Dingzhou Road. At the same time, it also ordered all corpses to speed up recruitment and training and expand their strength.

"Don't pay attention to him." Zhong Fu said, "The official has already made an order to order a certain supervisor to lead the two generals from Dingfu Road to join Dingzhou, and then concentrate the elite troops of the five generals to fight the Northern Territory!"

Wang Ying and Han Xiaozhou looked at each other and thought to themselves: This is great, the government has come to command, it is getting more and more chaotic! I really don’t know what the battle will be like?

"Wife, there are two elite soldiers at present, and you can attack at any time." Wang Qing said, "How many days do you want to rest?"

"No need," Zhong Fu shook his head, "Rescue soldiers are like putting out fires. I will lead the troops to attack tomorrow!"
Chapter completed!