"What!" Yelu Yanxi couldn't believe his ears, "Fengxian, what did you say?"

"Your Majesty, we are trapped by Zhao Ji!" Xiao Fengxian stomped his feet, "He didn't want to negotiate peace with us at all. He was blinding us and also took the opportunity to seize Yanjing City!"

“Is the news reliable?”

"Reliable! If I ask myself, there is also a memorial written by Xiao Delis, the king of the South Court stationed in Dingzhou. Please read it!"

Yelu Yanxi took the memorial with her hands tremblingly and read it. It was absolutely true! It was Xiao Delis's hand-shaped calligraphy.

"Yanjing, Yanjing..." Yelu Yanxi's eyes turned dark, his throat became sweet, and he almost spit out an old mouthful of blood.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you must hold on!" Seeing Yelu Yanxi's body shaking, Xiao Fengxian hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

Yelu Yanxi had a good body, gritted her teeth and stabilized her body. After a while of silence, she suddenly burst into laughter, which scared Xiao Fengxian. She thought Yelu Yanxi could not bear the stimulation and went crazy!

"What a Zhao Ji!" Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth, "He really willingly spent five million to set up a trap!"

In fact, Zhao Ji still doesn't know that he has completed the great cause of regaining Yan land... However, Yelu Yanxi thought he was deceived by Zhao Ji, and the anger in his heart could not be suppressed.

"Your Majesty...what should we do?" Xiao Fengxian was almost crying. Half an hour ago he thought the peace and prosperity of the Great Liao Kingdom was right in front of him.

But now, I suddenly fell into an ice hole.

Yanjing is gone, the Great Khitan is on the grassland, and its prestige among the white mountains and black waters will be immediately wiped out.

The heroes from all walks of life are about to rise up!

"Fengxian, do you know about this?" Yelu Yanxi suddenly asked.

"Only me and a few confidants know," Xiao Fengxian pointed to the two dead people, "I killed them to silence me!"

"Well done!" Yelu Yanxi said almost word by word. "This time... I have fought with them!"

"Fight? Who do you want?"

Yelu Yanxi shouted: "Of course it's Gao Qiu!

You hurry up and summon all the generals, I will arrange a decisive battle! The entire army will be dispatched tomorrow morning and fight to the death with Gao Qiu!"

"Your Majesty, do you really want to beat Gao Qiu?" Xiao Fengxian took a breath.

Gao Qiu is the number one coach in the Song Dynasty!

"It's Gao Qiu!" Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth, "If you don't defeat Gao Qiu, I'm afraid that even Shanbei will not be able to go back!"

Yelu Yanxi really wanted to fight to the death. He had no idea that it was Wu Haogu, a traitor in the Song Dynasty, who used "truth" to blow up the city of Xijinfu. He thought that Emperor Genghis Zhao Ji was setting up everything and setting up a trap that could destroy the Great Liao Kingdom in one fell swoop!

Now that Yanjing has been lost, Gao Qiu has commanded tens of thousands of troops to establish Qishui. In Yelu Yanxi's view, if he did not try his best to defeat Gao Qiu, he was entangled by Gao Qiu on the west road by the river, then when the news of the fall of Yan land spread throughout the army, he might not even be able to go back home.

...

On October 28, the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, early morning.

At this time, in the Liyang camp, the Emperor of the Daliao was trying his best to reward the three armies! If he lost, he would be dead. The Daliao Kingdom would definitely be destroyed. What's the use of money? Of course, he had to give more money to reward the soldiers. Millions of money, silk, gold and silver were taken out, and everyone who followed Yelu Yanxi's southern expedition had a share. The most valuable Han army, Jingzhou soldiers, also got two copper coins.

This is a reward that has never been received before! One hundred thousand soldiers in the southern expedition were naturally cheering, and the sound of long live the mountain was heard all the way to the Qishui camp of the Song army twenty miles away.

At this time, the Song camp where Qishui Village was standing was still quiet, without the tension of the battle immediately.

The 40,000 army led by Gao Qiu had been stationed in the Qishui River for a while, but it did not approach the Liao people's camp in Liyang to seek war, but it was just a confrontation from afar.

At the beginning, everyone was ready to fight to the death with the Liao people. However, Gao Qiu, who was in charge of the army, had no intention of seeking a battle. He didn't even let the Ranger's hard probe go too far, but just covered the camp around.

After a while, the news of peace talks between Song and Liao dynasties spread wildly in the army. What did you say you would pay 5 million yuan, and you would double the annual monies to 1 million yuan! It was so popular that you had a nose and eyes. At first, everyone didn't believe it. How could you easily argue for peace when Zi was the lord of the king today?

Moreover, the Liao master Yelu Yanxi was clearly in the deep army. There were tens of thousands of troops of Wu Jie, the commander of the East Road of Hebei, threatening Yanjing. How could he stay by the Yellow River for a long time?

As for crossing the river and threatening Kaifeng Prefecture after the Yellow River is frozen, it sounds nonsense among the Lingzhou Army officers with rich combat experience.

Although there are only 40,000 people in the Qihe Camp, there is also a new army in the three castles of Liyang, Linhe and Neihuang. They are all model new army of Kaifeng with great combat effectiveness. The total number of soldiers and horses everywhere is as many as 66,700.

Not to mention fighting in formation, even following the Liao army all the way is enough for them.

There is also a new army and an old imperial guard in Kaifeng Prefecture City. Although it cannot go out of the city to fight to the decisive battle, there is no problem in protecting the Kaifeng city.

If the Liao army really crossed the river, then Taiwei Gao could gather an army of 66,700 people and follow them all the way. Don’t think that the Liao people were all cavalry and could dump the Song army, which was mainly infantry. The 60,000 people in Gao Qiu’s hands were either new troops or Xiangzhou regiments, and they were all young and strong and capable. As long as you don’t spend too much time building a tough camp, it is not impossible to walk sixty or seventy miles a day.

On the other hand, although the Liao army was mainly cavalry, it is not the time when horses are fat in autumn, but the season when horses are thin and long in winter. It is difficult to find enough food for horses during the march. The good thing of having horses run and not eating grass does not exist. If you don’t pay attention to saving horsepower, Yelu Yanxi’s cavalry will soon become infantry!

So everyone originally did not believe in peacekeeping. It was not until a large number of gold, silver, copper, coins and silk were transported to Gao Qiu's Qishui camp and then sent to the Khitan camp in Liyang. Only then did everyone know that the court really asked the Liao people for peace.

Now the originally high morale plummeted, and no one was preparing for the war seriously and carefully deployed defenses. Even the cavalry that was originally used to protect the camp were taken back and threw it into the camp on the west bank of the Qi River. What should we do if we send so many hard-hitting stalkers? Who would it be if we accidentally injured the Khitan?

The magistrate of Xiangzhou and the magistrate of Xiangzhou were practicing affairs. Chaosanlang Zongze had a little insomnia these days. He got up before dawn and took a few people to patrol the Xiangjun camp on the east bank of the Qi River. While patrolling, he couldn't help but sigh.

Compared with the Lingzhou army on the east bank, the prime ministers who were established on the east bank of the Qi River were trained in regiments, and after learning about the peace talks, people's hearts were even more volatile. The soldiers of the Lingzhou army were all granted land, and there were dozens to 200 acres of land in Lingzhou (if you take paddy fields, it would only be sixty or seventy acres, and 200 acres of dry land). Moreover, there was no need to pay two taxes and exemption money. This time, you could get additional rewards when sending troops to the Central Plains, which was always good.

The Xiangzhou Army was trained in the regiments, and there was no land distribution, so it was not a certain amount of money to get. Before, the military situation was urgent, Ji Yi, the Hebei Transport Author, spent money generously, and he had a lot of soldiers who trained in the regiments, and he had the strength to train the marching. But now that peace talks have been completed, the court does not need the Prime Minister, so will he still send money to everyone?

In the previous Huanshui War, men in Xiangzhou suffered heavy casualties and had not yet been paid, so I wonder if they would be liable for their debts?

In addition, because of training and combat, everyone's family's farming work was delayed. The winter wheat was not sown much, and there would be no harvest next spring. If the group training was disbanded and everyone would not get any money, how would they live next spring and summer?

Also, can land rent and summer tax be exempted? Can the usury owed to the landlord be relieved?

When everyone is serving in the army for the Han family in Xiangzhou, they naturally don’t have to worry about the two taxes, land rent, and usury. They are holding swords, guns, and crossbows in their hands, and are still afraid of exploitation by the landlords? But once the regiment training is disbanded, everything will probably have to be restored to its original state, right?

After patrolling the camp for a while, Zong Ze also felt his morale was sluggish. The soldiers standing guard were either sleeping or sighing, and they had no previous energy at all.

Zong Ze, who had been with these soldiers in the regiment training, knew what they were thinking, but he couldn't help... In fact, the regiment training in the Xiangzhou regiment was still good, and the military salary was quite high.

In contrast, it is even more difficult for those soldiers who served five years of service to exchange for one life-long exemption from labor service.

When there were places in the Biyong Academy to change the quota of the government soldiers, the local wealthy families would have some subsidies, coaxing their own tenants to get a "Taishou" for their children. However, this treatment was cancelled not long after Su Dongpo's death, and recruiting the government soldiers became a task for the local government.

For these soldiers who did not grant land, they only spent five years in vain. If they could not receive the reward, they would not be able to see a big son. As for the benefits of exemption from labor, God knows whether it can be put into practice?

Even if it can be put into practice, an ordinary farming family will have to rely on a debt to survive for five years without a strong labor force.

I don’t know if the amount of money for exemption from service was enough to pay interest? So after the news of peace talks came, the auxiliary soldiers assigned to the Lingzhou Army (the main soldiers of the Lingzhou Army all gave land, while the auxiliary soldiers were the domestic soldiers who did not give land) were all like a soul-destroying...

The distant horizon began to shine. At this time, it was also the time when the soldiers on duty all night were most tired. For some reason, Zong Ze suddenly felt that the ground began to shake, and at first he felt that it was his own hallucination. He calmed down and looked down, and found that the small stones and sand under the light were trembling gently.
Chapter completed!