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At the end of August, Liu Yanqing led the problematic army to arrive at Hejian Prefecture.

Here, Liu Yanqing met with Tong Guan and Cai You.

Tong Guan is Liu Yanqing's old superior, so he didn't be polite to Liu Yanqing, so he directly introduced the enemy situation to Liu Yanqing and said: "At present, the main force of the Khitan still exists and has strong combat power. You should not fight easily. You must preserve your strength and fight steadily."

In fact, Tong Guan also wanted to attack Yanjing with the Jurchens, so as to ensure a battle to go to Yanjing.

After all, Tong Guan has been in charge of more than 20 years of soldiers, and he knows better than anyone else. Although they have 400,000 or 500,000 troops on their side, in fact, the only ones that can be fought are the Western Army, which is less than 100,000. Other troops are completely decorations, no, it should be said to be a burden.

However, Tong Guan could not say it clearly because he did not want to take the responsibility.

Liu Yanqing was also very unsure about fighting with the Liao army, especially after he walked along with this problematic army, he said: "The Khitan is not Fang La, the Khitan is a golden sword and an iron horse, which is not easy to deal with."

Cai You briefly explained the situation of the army's garrison to Liu Yanqing: "Now the army has basically gathered, and the troops have been divided into two groups, one in the ancient city and the other in the Guangxin army. Ping Shu (Liu Guangshi) has already gone to the Guangxin army, so General Liu will go to the ancient city."

At this time, the staff officer Liu Sheng said worriedly: "It is not easy to acquire Yanjing, and it is not easy to defend if it is taken. We should plan earlier."

Since Liu Fei became accused of Master Zhong, Tong Guan has become increasingly disrespectful to Liu Fei, especially after Liu Fei failed to surrender Liu Ziyu back. Therefore, Tong Guan felt that Liu Fei's words were very harsh, so he made up his mind to transfer Liu Fei away from Xuanfusi.

Tong Guan wrote a letter to Wang Fu, asking Liu Fu to be transferred and Yuwen Xuzhong was transferred to Xuanfu Office as a staff officer.

Wang Fu believed that Liu Fu was also a rare military talent. When the Western Xia invaded, the Western Army General Liu Fa was unfortunately killed. Liu Fu once acted as a commander and carefully organized a counterattack. He defeated the invading enemy of the Western Xia in one fell swoop and shocked the border. Now the war to recover Yanjing is about to begin, so it is better for Liu Fu to stay in Hebei.

Therefore, Wang Fu transferred Liu Wei to the position of Zhendingfu Road Pacification Envoy and Zhizhendingfu. The position of Zhendingfu is actually more powerful than being a staff officer in the Xuanfu Department.

After Liu Fei took office in Zhending Mansion, he immediately recruited brave soldiers (i.e., suicide squads) and formed local armed forces to cooperate with the army's northern expedition. Now, Li Yan won the first step. General Yue Fei, who was only 20 years old, came to apply for the recruitment. After selection, he was appointed as a team leader by Liu Fei, and then began his military career.

Yuwen Xuzhong, who succeeded Liu Sheng, set off immediately after receiving the appointment and inspected the military status of the prefectures and counties along the way.

After arriving at the Xuanfu Department of Xiongzhou, Yuwen Xuzhong went to Guangsheng Army and Gucheng respectively, and actually inspected the military situation.

After returning to the Xuanfu Department, Yuwen Xuzhong said to Tong Guan: "The military situation is not optimistic, and there are serious problems with material reserves, siege equipment, morale among the army, etc.."

In fact, Tong Guan knew about these situations and reported them to Zhao Ji that there was no war in Hebei for nearly a hundred years. The long period of peace and the combat effectiveness of the Hebei army was so low that it was not offline.

This is also the main reason why Tong Guansheng and the Jin army attacked Yanjing.

Tong Guan said to Yuwen Xuzhong: "Do your best and leave your destiny."

Yuwen Xuzhong felt that since he was a marching officer, he had to do his job in his position and do his duty.

So, Yuwen Xuzhong wrote a memorial "On the Pros and Cons of Recovering Yanshan" overnight:

Now, I follow the wisdom calculation and want to restore Yanshan Mountain or use the land to collect land. If you are a soldier, it can be achieved by the years. However, I am born with barbarians and cannot be destroyed. If you know your opponent and yourself, you should plan a complete plan... (I won’t talk about it one by one). In short, Yuwen Xuzhong’s meaning is actually saying that for the sake of the country, you must seek permanent comfort, and sharing the Khitan is a top strategy once and for all.

Wang Fu was furious after reading Yuwen Xuzhong's memorial!

He believed that Yuwen Xuzhong was a scholar who did not understand politics or military affairs. He only knew how to talk about military affairs on paper. He began to shake the morale of the army as soon as he went to Hebei. How could such a person become a marching staff officer?

Wang Fu intends to impeach Yuwen Xuxuzhong to Zhao Ji.

However, Wang Fu then received a letter from Tong Guan and Tong Guan talked about love in the truth.

For Tong Guan's sake, Wang Fu detained Yuwen Xuzhong's memorial and did not submit it to Zhao Ji. He just demoted Yuwen Xuzhong to Jiying Palace and asked him to continue to stay in Xuanfu Department as a marching officer.

Yuwen Xuzhong is from Chengdu, Sichuan. His three brothers, and his brother was named Yuwen Cui Shizhong, and they all served as officials in the Song Dynasty.

In Yuwen Xu, Zhao Ji seemed to have the hobby of changing his name to others, and changed his name to Mr. Zhong and Wang Fu.

In fact, Li Yan also has this problem.

Yuwen Xuzhong did not retreat because of his demotion. He continued to write some memorials to analyze the Northern Expedition, and successively "established eleven policies and discussed twelve issues", but they were all suppressed by Tong Guan and did not report them.

Tong Guan did this in fact to protect Yuwen Xu.

Tong Guan liked Yuwen Xuxuzhong very much and followed Tong Guan as a staff officer until the year when Tong Guan fled back to the capital in a panic from Taiyuan), so he kept protecting Yuwen Xuxuzhong and was exiled by Zhao Ji and Wang Fu, who were determined to regain Yanjing.

Yuwen Xuzhong's series of doubts, countermeasures and suggestions on the Northern Expedition were detained by Tong Guan in the Xuanfu Division. Therefore, it seemed that there was no impact on the court or the generals of the Northern Expedition Army.

On this day, Liu Yanqing, the commander of the Northern Expedition Army, left the ancient city and went north to Baigou River to observe the enemy situation.

The Liao Kingdom on the other side of the river was very quiet, but occasionally I could see the Liao army sentries walking back and forth.

Liu Yanqing made a preliminary judgment that the main force of the Liao army had retreated, and he planned to send troops across the river to test it.

At dawn the next day, Liu Yanqing sent Zheng Jianxiong, Li Shao and other generals to take advantage of the thick fog on the river as a cover to lead troops across the river and capture dozens of Liao soldiers stationed in the bridgehead.

After interrogation, Liu Yanqing learned that due to the lack of police in the Baigou River boundary for several consecutive months, the main force of the Liao army had indeed retreated, leaving only a small part of the troops stationed in Xincheng.

Liu Yanqing was very happy about this, which proved that his judgment was correct.

In fact, Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi had already returned to Yanjing when Yelu Chun was seriously ill.

Later, when Yelu Chun passed away, Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi were busy "making plans to establish Empress Xiao, and they had no time to come to Baigou."

At present, Xiao Elu, the deputy commander of the Southwest Road, is responsible for defensive tasks on the Song-Liao border line. His troops are very limited.

Xiao Elu was stationed in Xincheng. He had not discovered the Song army in the ancient city on the south bank of the Baigou River. He only knew that the Song army had already arrived in the Guangxin Army. Due to insufficient troops, he organized the local Xi and Khitan villagers to continue to harass the Song army in the Guangxin Army.

Liu Guangshi is only 34 years old this year, young and energetic. He is far from Liu Paopu, who has been smoothed out by time in the future.

Seeing that the enemy was empty, Liu Guangshi decisively ordered the generals Ji Jing, Zhao Ming, Ren Ming and others to lead their troops out of the city to fight, and won a complete victory, "the first to destroy the thieves' attacks."

Tong Guan was very happy to learn that he immediately submitted a memorial to the court to ask Liu Guangshi for his merits.

When Zhao Ji heard the news, he was overjoyed and issued an edict to promote Liu Guangshi to the powerful army Chengxuan envoy Chengxuan as a military officer, which was only one level lower than the Jiedushi, and was already a senior military officer.

From this we can see that Zhao Ji was "popular with Liu Guangshi very much."

Perhaps Tong Guan was a little worried about handing over the entire army to command by Liu Yanqing and Liu Guangshi and his son.

Soon, Tong Guan transferred Yang Keshi, the Huazhou Observer, to the Xuanfu Department to wait for the mission.

A few days later, Tong Guan arranged for Yang Keshi to garrison Ansu's army.

At this time, the Han people in Yan generally believed that the Liao Kingdom was about to perish, and Li Yan or the Jurchens would soon come, so they all meant to return to the Song Dynasty in the south.

Although the Song army was defeated in the Battle of Baigou River, Yang Keshi's bravery was still seen and remembered by the Han people in Yan.

Therefore, I heard that Yang Keshi was back, and the people of Yan, who were suffering from the lack of a way out, fled to An Su's army one after another.

This aroused Liu Guangshi's jealousy and dissatisfaction.

In fact, this is just one of the reasons, and the more important thing is that Yang Keshi is here to divide the power of their father and son.

But Liu Guangshi also knew that Yang Keshi was Tong Guan's direct descendant, so although he was dissatisfied, he had no choice but to do anything about it.

but

The seeds of dissatisfaction have been planted, and resentment will sooner or later germinate...
Chapter completed!