On the twelfth day.

There are five days left on New Year's Eve.

Suddenly, the Song army transported a large amount of hot tincture oil, poured it on the wet water, and then ignited it.

Xiao Talin suddenly burst into tears.

He would not be raised as a pig, pretended to be raised as a pig... This is to delay time, wait for the Ice of Rushui to become thicker, and then the soldiers dismounted, pulled the horse into Rushui, and rushed past Rushui desperately.

However, this fire burned all his hopes.

In fact, this battle was achieved by the Liao emperor Yelu Longxu, and his defeat was also Yelu Longxu. After the Battle of Chanzhou, the morale was the most prosperous when Xiao Yanyan committed suicide. Unfortunately, Li Jilong and Cao Wei were keenly aware of it, and decisively opened up the passage and gave up.

If the war started at the border at that time, even if the Song army sent one million troops to encircle, they would have fled. However, because of Yelu Longxu's cohesion, no matter how Li Jilong killed him behind, the main force of the Liao army had not been dispersed, but the defeat was this. If the Liao army really fled from all directions, there would be a lot of troops and horses at that time, and the Song army would not be able to gather and annihilate them, which would have allowed many Liao troops to escape successfully.

However, the main force has always been around Yelu Longxu. Li Jilong just bite the army and handed over the remaining deserters to the garrisons and township soldiers of each prefecture and county.

But the Song army also made some noise.

Li Jilong asked the soldiers to escort thousands of Khitan prisoners of war to the front and shouted to the Liao army: "I am the scrupulous recruitment envoy of the Three Routes of Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, and the deployment of the three Routes of troops."

There is no way, the official positions of the Song Dynasty are like Wang's foot binding cloth, which is long and smelly. If Li Jilong had all his official positions, he would have to mention six or seven official names. In fact, it would be the General Attack of the Song Dynasty.

He was not afraid of the Liao army firing arrows, because the reason was also simple. If the Liao army did this, they would have to consider the consequences of Yelu Longxu, Xiao Ta and others after the entire army was wiped out.

"Please listen. If you have not slaughtered me to the people, please come quickly. We will send you back home unconditionally, just like them."

Li Jilong pointed his hand at the thousands of Liao troops surrendered prisoners behind him.

Now the 300,000 Liao army is under the banner of 500,000 troops going south, but it has not been clear how many people and how many Liao soldiers fled back. In fact, if the Liao army is annihilated, the number will be further expanded. There are two reasons. The first reason is that after some prefectures and counties are captured, the Song army surrendered. Song Jiu hated the surrender and cowardly battles the most. Therefore, these people can't think of a good ending and are mostly killed. Another part is the record of Hedong, which is not included in the 300,000 Liao army. Moreover, the two armies of Hedong and Hexi have also launched a battle to attack the mountain behind. There will be very few soldiers who can escape back to the Liao army. So the final number must be more than 300,000.

But the figures came out. Regardless of Hedong, more than 160,000 Liao troops were killed in Hebei alone, including nearly 40,000 Liao troops stationed in various prefectures and counties, yamen runners, township soldiers, and fang soldiers.

There are more than 60,000 prisoners surrendered.

This number needs to be enlarged, after all, the search has just begun.

The people don’t care. If they catch it, they will beat them to death with sticks, but the officers and soldiers cannot do that.

Therefore, further identification was made, some slaughtered the people, some did not slaughter the people, or some slaughtered the people. However, they did not ask. Those who asked were sent to the mine for labor reform. In fact, Song Jiu made a suggestion on the way.

The mining industry in the Song Dynasty was expanding. Except for the few slaves captured by foreign countries, most of the real people were engaging in this dangerous profession. For criminals, the previous Song Dynasty was still the Song Dynasty, one was torture, the second was to be free and the third was to be tortured.

It is precisely because of this system that some people are not willing to die, and the impartiality is too light. Maybe one amnesty is released and released to harm people, so they are sentenced to death. Or most of them are because Zhao Heng's sentencing is relaxed and only impartiality is that this system is still incomplete. Therefore, the Song Dynasty suggested that a three- to ten-year labor reform system be implemented for some habitual criminals who have not been corrected and some criminals who are in a bad situation but are not sentenced to death. They will be sent to the official mining workshop for mining and renovation. There will be no amnesty, but if they perform well, they can be reduced. In addition, the safe living benefits during the transformation process are equivalent to ordinary miners, and some compensation will be paid to them every month, or sent to their families. If the mining supervisor does evil, you can appeal.

Including the Liao soldiers who invaded this time, some of them were very cruel, but if they surrendered, they would still be killed, which would not be very beneficial to the future governance of the north. So this system was also implemented. If they were transformed, they could still reunite their families and vent their anger. If they died due to collapse, the country would also pay a pension to their families like miners.

Song Jiu's proposal was agreed upon by everyone. This type of prisoner mining system is essentially different from the prisoner mining system of the Tang Dynasty. It is mainly merciful, and the mining pit industry has grown, so many civilian craftsmen will die every year, and the danger is even greater than the risk of going to sea.

Why can’t people die when they watch the death of good people?

Then the rest were planned to be sent to the north.

Why do this?

First, win over.

When some soldiers were released, we were benevolent and righteous in the Song Dynasty.

The second is publicity.

These people were scared to death. Once they went back, they would promote it, which would make the northern divisions afraid to respond.

The third is righteousness.

Don’t ask why those people were mining and why they massacred civilians? Just like scouts sneaking into Liao territory to promote, the emperor of the Song Dynasty loved the people and was a good emperor.

"Go home..." I don't know how many Liao soldiers were almost in tears. This word was too shocking for them.

"There are still a hundred miles from here to Yishui. If you walk fast, you will reach the north of the Juma River tomorrow morning. After crossing the Juma River, let them bring wolf smoke and light the wolf smoke. Do you think this is the case? I believe that you can see the approximate distance."

After Li Jilong finished speaking, he escorted the prisoners of war down.

The Liao army camped in a few small mounds, which were not high, but were enough to raise the distance of human sight. The Liao army also built several small towers on it to watch the movements of the Song army, and even the trees on the dirt mountain were cut down and fences were made.

Sure enough, at the morning of the next day, a large cloud of smoke came from Yizhou.

If you walk, you have to walk more than a hundred miles. There are some woods and lakes along the way. But it is pulled into a straight line. It is only sixty or seventy miles away from the Juma River. You can't see people, but it's still okay to see wolf smoke. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a lot of money to build beacon towers in ancient times.

It is impossible for the entire Liao army to surrender because of this. Li Jilong did not deliberately persuade the surrender. Everyone, let's drag it on, and Your Majesty will arrive soon.

Moreover, Xiao Talin spread rumors that thousands of prisoners were actually massacred by the Song army, and the beacon fire was burned by the Song army.

But no matter what he said, the army's morale became separated and separated.

This time, the Liao army had a large number of troops. In order to reduce the harm of the people in advance, the Song Dynasty strengthened the walls and cleared the fields. Not all the Liao soldiers killed the people of the Song Dynasty. It was not that they did not want to, but that they did not give them a chance. At least this time they were not the executioners of the people. And they accounted for a large proportion, and these soldiers gradually became shaken.

They also have parents, wives and children, they also miss home, and they also want to go home...

Li Jilong left the military camp without caring about whether they believed it or not. He went to welcome the horse.

On the fifteenth day, two days before New Year's Eve, Zhao Heng brought a large army to the military camp.

At this moment, there are at least 300,000 troops gathering on the front line of Hebei, and the troops in this area alone are almost approaching 200,000.

There was also behind them. They cooperated with the civilians and escorted a large amount of supplies and were approaching the front line.

The water level of the Yellow River this year is quite high. Bi Shi'an spent a lot of money and finally completed Wang Ming's river management project, which played a part of the role. At least there was no river break last year, but flooding was inevitable.

Therefore, before the Liao army launched an attack, it transported a lot of grain and grass with the slogan of stabilizing grain prices and transferred it to various prefectures and counties in Hebei. However, the southern part of Hebei Road had nothing to do with the north, including Daming Prefecture, Chanzhou, Beizhou, Bozhou, Dezhou and other places.

At that time, Kou Zhun tried his best to oppose it, and had a small conflict with Song Jiu, and welcomed disaster relief, but there was too much food to transport, so it could be too much to save it. Don’t forget that although the victims in Hebei were saved, the food and grass were still collected from the people.

This is a bit wrong. Although the Yellow River water is not small this year, the country's grain has generally been a bumper harvest year in the past two years. Especially in the southeast, under the leadership of Song Jiu, many polder fields have been reclaimed. The increase in income of these high-yield fields has resulted in low grain prices across the country.

Therefore, the large-scale purchase of grain in summer is also a regulation of grain prices, which actually saves national expenses. If the national grain is collected at this time, see how much grain prices will rise!

We can't blame Kou Zhun, who was also in the valley at that time.

So now it plays a role.

Although the money is used to make the officials of the Sansi feel heartbroken, they don’t need money at this time, so what is the money used for? Fengshan, worship the gods!

Zhao Heng rested that day.

Moreover, the army gradually arrived, and the target was no longer the 20,000 to 30,000 Liao troops at the moment, but Yan Yun, or even further north. Therefore, it is necessary to reorganize and formulate detailed plans.

Poor.

Even Song Jiu formulated the plan at that time just to take advantage of Xiao Yanyan's mentality and follow the trend, allowing the Liao army to penetrate deep into the heart of Chanzhou and then encircle and annihilate it. As for what to do later, Song Jiu dared not think about it.

This must be formulated now.

The next day, Zhao Heng came to the front line in person, and Qin Han went to the front of the Liao army camp and shouted: "Your emperor is here, your Majesty will meet you."

As he said that, he stepped back, there were not many people, only Song Jiu, Zhang Qixian and several brave generals, including Jing Si, to protect him.

Almost all the ministers opposed it together this time, but Song Jiu asked back: "Xiao Yanyan and the Emperor of Liao have personally invaded our dynasty many times. Why did His Majesty dare not meet their emperor in front of the army?"

If the situation is not good, just withdraw it immediately.

The meaning is not whether Zhao Heng meets, nor is it to show a little respect, which can help force Yelu Longxu to surrender, but to make Zhao Heng's mentality more positive and his thoughts more enterprising.

In this way, the Song Dynasty's policies would become less conservative.

Everyone only sees the shame under the city brought by the Chanyuan Alliance, and as for the little money and money, they really can't worry about it. Or they see the Chanyuan Alliance, which brings the respite and the peace and prosperity of the people.

But I didn't see how restrained China has since become, and even the Qing Dynasty was invaded by this kind of thought.

Perhaps because of a super victory, Yan Yun's recovery was in sight, exceeding the achievements of the two late emperors, Zhao Heng actually chose Song Jiu's opinion and agreed. He agreed, and the ministers of the Song Dynasty had no choice. Besides, if the negotiations were well, the first battle would end soon. Then we can rest assured to come to Youzhou.

The emperors of the Song Dynasty dared to do this, but Yelu Longxu had no choice but to bring the same personnel to the open space in front of the two armies.

However, everyone in the two armies opened their eyes wide and prepared to "rescue" their respective emperors at any time.

Song Jiu nodded and Qin Han brought two chairs from behind.

Two emperors sat down.

Zhao Heng said calmly: "I heard that you are knowledgeable and talented, and you should also know the history of the Khitans. The reason why you exist is that you can exist and grow by relying on various major powers."

The Khitan tribe originated from the Xianbei Yuwen clan and Kumoxi, but one of theirs, during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Eastern Hu tribes tributed to Emperor Wencheng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Khitan tribes could only be located at the last seat of the Donghu tribes. Therefore, they were hated and humiliated, and absorbed the advanced culture of the Central Plains. Later, Goguryeo and Rouran wanted to divide the Khitan, and the Khitan asked the Northern Wei to support them. The Northern Wei arranged them in the Bailang River, and at that time there were only more than 10,000 clans. Later, the Central Plains countries were in chaos again, and the Khitan took the opportunity to annex the tribes and invaded the Central Plains. So Gao Yang went to war in person, captured more than 10,000 people, but did not destroy the Khitan tribes.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Turks were strong, and the Khitan asked Li Shimin to surrender in exchange for Li Shimin's protection. However, during the Wu Zetian period, Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong rebelled again. Some people criticized Wu Zetian's ethnic policy, which was wrong. Why are there any non-one tribes in our tribe? Their hearts will be different. No matter which tribe in the grassland grows, they will attack the Central Plains. If it is not the Khitan tribe who does this, no matter how much kindness the Central Plains dynasty adds to them.

During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Tang, the Uighurs grew stronger, and the Khitan asked Emperor Wuzong of Tang to surrender again in exchange for the support of the Tang Dynasty. Then it was until the Five Dynasties, and to Abaoji...

"The reason why Taizu of your country was successful was that China's civil strife. Once the Central Plains were unified, if you go through history, could the northern nomadic tribe destroy China? Even in the Tang Dynasty, there were great enemies between the Turks and Tubo, your Khitans would still be defeated more and win less, not to mention that they were targeting the Chinese king capital. Besides, my northwest was stable and there was no major harm. Do you want to destroy China by your Khitan alone? From ancient times to the present, there was a nomadic tribe able to achieve this goal, even if the Eastern Jin Dynasty retreated to Jiangnan, it would not be able to annihilate China. Oh, I remembered that the Sui Dynasty unified Jiangnan, but was Emperor Wen of Sui a Hu? Is most of his army Hu?"

Yelu Longxu said nothing.

The winner is the king, and the loser is the enemy. What is the use of saying these? Let’s set the conditions.

"I'll say one more thing, read this news."

Zhao Heng handed over a quick message to Yelu Longxu, who had just delivered it last night. Yelu Longqing heard that his elder brother was in danger, not only did he not send troops to rescue him, but instead became the emperor in Zhongjing.

This is what Song Jiu said, power is poison, save one's life, let's die early and be reborn early.

"I rule the world with virtue, so I sent envoys to discuss peace with you many times, but you always develop unbearable conditions to block it, and the troops are facing the Yellow River, intending to annihilate our Song Dynasty. If you are unrighteous, you cannot blame me for being unkind later. I believe that there are many tribes on the grassland who want to replace them. If I lead hundreds of thousands of elite troops of the Song Dynasty to go north and offer several conditions, will your Khitan be destroyed? Don't think that I dare not do this. When I go north, I deliberately took a look at Daode Qing Military City. At that time, I wanted the three armies to order Xue Rengui to learn from you and slaughter all the soldiers and civilians of your Khitan!"

"I sent Li Chonghui to you to surrender to our dynasty, not for yourself, but for your entire Khitan tribe. Only when you surrender to our dynasty will our dynasty keep you Khitan tribe when the army heads north. You couldn't listen at that time, but can you listen now?"

"I'm waiting for good news. These soldiers fled here. I believe they are all loyal subordinates. I don't think you will want them to accompany you to bury them. Now that you surrender, I will still agree to that condition. And for your subordinates, except for doing many evil deeds and massacres many people, I will not care about them and release them all back. Even those executioners, I will only ask them to dig a few years of mine to show warning and punish them for a few years. "
Chapter completed!