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Among the Song army, the first one to arrive at the Xiongzhou front was the logistics personnel of the Western Army Command.

Then, in early March, as the selection of the Western Army, 15,000 Jingyuan Army led by Yang Keshi also arrived in Xiongzhou.

A few days later, the main force of Qin Feng's army led by Zhong Shizhong also arrived in Xiongzhou on schedule.

The Huanqing Army and the Fuyan Army led by Liu Yanqing were two days later than the Qin Feng Army and arrived in Xiongzhou within the prescribed time.

After that, more and more people came to Xiongzhou.

Although Tong Guan and Tong Guan's head of the staff team continued to stay in the capital, the Xuanfu Department, composed of Li Zongzhen, Li Ziqi, Yu Jing and other "Lilikes", took the lead in the command of Zhong Shidao's command and officially hung the "Xuanfu Department" sign in Xiongzhou City - they snatched the best house in Xiongzhou City, which was the former residence that received the Liao envoys, as the Xuanfu Department's office and their boarding place.

Immediately afterwards, Hebei Transportation Commander Zhan Du, Hebei Transportation Commander Lu Yihao, Li Ye and others also followed one after another.

As for the front army, which should have arrived with the front army, the Shengjie army, it was more than half a month late.

There is a reason why the Shengjie Army arrived so late.

Zhong Shidao ordered Liu Guangshi to take his warrant to order the Shengjie army to go to war.

Liu Guangshi arrived at Huaining Prefecture as scheduled and read out the orders of Master Zhong, which is the command of the commander.

But then the Xuanfu Department also sent a text message to Wang Lin and Jia Ping to win the Jie army.

As for the tasks received by Liu Guangshi, Wang Lin and Jia Ping, they were actually the same, and they both summoned the Czech army to "success the Japanese and head north to Xiongzhou and stand by."

But when Wang Lin and Jia Ping learned that the commander actually ordered the Jiesheng Army first, they immediately called Liu Guangshi to criticize him and ordered Liu Guangshi to take back the order, and they would represent the Xuanfu Department to order another order.

Some people may be puzzled. Isn’t this a waste of farting if you take off your pants?

In fact, this involves the ownership of the Shengjie Army - Tong Guan finally separated the Shengjie Army from the Western Army. How could the Western Army's people be involved in the Shengjie Army again?

This also involves the power dispute between the Commander and the Fuxuan Department.

Normally, the command department is the department that leads the army to fight, but does not have the right to dispatch troops, while the Xuanfu Department is the department that controls the command department and does not have the right to command troops.

Take the Victory Army as an example.

Normally, the Xuanfu Department manages the command headquarters, and the command headquarters manages the Jet Army.

Take the winning of the Jet Army as an example.

The normal procedure should be that the Xuanfu Department will order the commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief will order the Victory Jie Army.

If Zhao Ji is added.

It should be that Zhao Ji gave an order to the Xuanfu Department, the Xuanfu Department gave orders to the Commander's Office, and the Commander's Office gave orders to the Shengjie Army.

As a result, Zhao Ji was too anxious and ordered Zhong Shidao to set up a command headquarters for the commander-in-chief. All the Western Army went north to gather together, but Xuanfu Department did not want Zhong Shidao. Well... it should be said that people who did not want the Western Army (no matter who came to be the commander of the Western Army, the result would be the same) were involved in the victory of the Jie Army again, and they were afraid that Zhong Shidao would not obey Xuanfu Department's orders to prevent Zhong Shidao everywhere, so they were so farted.

To put it bluntly, the emperor does not believe in the commanding general, and the commanding department does not believe in the commanding department. The commanding general does not believe in the commanding department, and the commanding general does not believe in the emperor and the commanding department, who are constantly making small moves, and they are guarding against each other.

In addition, the dispatching department competes for military power with the commanding department.

In short, the upper class of the Song army was full of contradictions.

Moreover, not only the upper class, but also the lower class of the Song army, especially the Shengjie army, which was highly expected by Tong Guan.

After walking in the wealthy Jiangnan, Shengjie Army made a big splash from top to bottom.

In addition, in order to win over the Shengjie Army, Zhao Ji and Tong Guan gave the Shengjie Army soldiers extremely generous rewards.

So much so that the former poor soldiers of the Shengjie Army are now all rich.

It was so good that Zhao Ji asked the Shengjie Army to station in the prosperous Huaining Prefecture before.

This led to the fact that the soldiers of the Shengjie Army either started to trade in Huaining Mansion, got married in Huaining Mansion, or lingered in the restaurants, brothels, and gambling houses of Huaining Mansion to squander their wealth.

In short, the soldiers of the Shengjie Army were extremely reluctant to leave the prosperous Huaining Prefecture and head north to fight.

The military orders were changed every day (under the pressure of Wang Lin and Jia Ping, Liu Guangshi finally took back the command from the commander in public, and Wang Lin and Jia Ping re-issue the same order on behalf of the Xuanfu Department).

In addition, Wang Lin and Jia Ping, who wanted to show off the Xuanfu Department, had their blind promises but could not be fulfilled.

In addition, when the Shengjie Army was unwilling to go to war, Wang Lin and Jia Ping were furious and then came to Liu Guangguo and Xin Yongzong, asking them to immediately behead several thorn-headed officers on the spot, and ordered the gate to play with police. They wanted to use the thorn-headed heads to perform the power of the Xuanfu Division.

As a result, the Shengjie Army mutiny almost killed Wang Lin and Jia Ping, and burned the temple. In fact, the Shengjie Army's thorns were just to scare Wang Lin and Jia Ping who were holding chicken feathers as swords. The ultimate goal was to leave Huaining Prefecture and go north to fight.

Later, when Liu Guangshi saw that things were not good, he rode alone to find Zhong Shizhong to borrow a cavalry to suppress the mutiny, and then escorted Shengjie Army to Xiongzhou to participate in the war.

After the Shengjie Army arrived in Xihe Army, the Xihe Army led by Yao Pingzhong. They were only a few days later than the Shengjie Army, and they were not wrong before the commander-in-chief and the remaining troops of the Jingyuan Army, Zhong Shidao, who should have arrived earlier than the Xihe Army, but Yao Pingzhong, who was competitive in everything, deliberately marched urgently and surpassed Zhong Shidao.

At the dusk on March 29, which was the deadline for the imperial court to stipulate that the Western Army must arrive at the Xiongzhou front line, Zhong Shidao led the commander and the Jingyuan army to Xiongzhou.

At this point, all the Western Army arrived at the Xiongzhou front line.

In early April, Tong Guan set out north.

Before leaving, Zhao Ji specially called Tong Guan to his side to teach three strategies for patroling the border: if the Yan people were happy and took them, they restored their old territory; Yelu Chun took the money to call him a vassal, which was the second; if the Yan people did not return, they would patrol the border, which was the second.

It is not difficult to see from the three border patrols that Zhao Ji gave to Tong Guan that Zhao Ji actually did not want to use war to recover Yanjing. He wanted to peacefully recover Yanjing through political and diplomatic channels. If things really were impossible, he would just keep his troops in motion. In other words, Zhao Ji did not want to fight, he just needed to make a profit.

Subsequently, Zhao Ji appointed Cai You as the deputy envoy and led the army with Tong Guan.

Cai You soon left Tokyo Bianliang City with a team of men and headed north.

but--

As soon as Cai You and his party arrived at Chenqiaoyi, something unpleasant happened to Cai You.

At dusk that day, two flag soldiers suddenly ran away, with two large flags with the words "Shao Division, Jiedushi" and "President Xuanfu Deputy Envoy" written on them, and were actually abducted by these two flag soldiers.

The officers and soldiers were talking in private, saying that this was an ominous sign.

...

Just when Cai You ordered the pursuit of the two deserters who were hampering his heart at Chenqiaoyi, Cai still gathered Yue Fei, Wu Jie and others and began to expand his army.

However, this expansion of the army was different from the previous ones. Cai still did not increase his independent army, but expanded the front army of the Jin army, the central army of the Jinwu, the left army of the Jinwu, the right army of the Jinwu, the rear army of the Jinwu, the selection army of the front army, the white army, the Beiwei army, and the army of the army of the army of the Jinwu were all expanded from 5,000 to 10,000.

In other words, Cai Shen's troops suddenly increased from 50,000 to 60,000.

Not only that, Cai still ordered the soldiers to recruit another 50,000 new soldiers in his own territory, and intensify education and training to prepare for the next expansion of the army.

After that, Cai still re-dressed his territory.

In fact, because of the rush to capture Huanzhou and Liaoxijing, other regions have not changed much for the time being. The main change is that Cai still appointed Wu Jie as the Yundong defense envoy, leading the Jinwu Front Army, the Jinwu Left Army, and the Jinwu Right Army 30,000 troops stationed at Guguiling-Wuzhou-Xinzhou-Weizhou-Feigu Line. In other words, Cai still handed over all the military affairs of Yundong to Wu Jie.

After that, Cai still led the remaining army to Huanzhou.

Cai still thought that Shuo, Ying, Wei, Xin, Wu, and Wu had all occupied them, Huanzhou and Liaoxijing were surrounded by them. The key was that he had the ace of Yelu Yanxi in his hands. As soon as his army arrived, Huancheng would open the city to surrender, and even Liaoxijing should be like this.

However--

What Cai Jian never expected was that Yelu Azhan, the garrison commander of Huancheng, ignored Yelu Yanxi's orders and scolded Yelu Yanxi as a sinner of the Liao Kingdom and an unfilial descendant of the Khitan, and then led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Huancheng to resist dyingly.

Faced with such a situation, Cai still knew that he had to conquer Huancheng with thunder, otherwise he would be in trouble in the future.

So, Cai still ordered Yue Fei to lead his troops to attack the city from the left, and ordered Han Shizhong to lead his troops to attack the city from the right, and ordered them to be given half a day.

After receiving the order, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong dispatched troops and each showed their magical powers. In just two hours, Yue Fei attacked Huanzhou City half a step ahead of Han Shizhong, making Yelu Yanxi, who had been watching the battle with Cai Shen, feel frightened and extinguished the idea of ​​seeking Cai Shen to take revenge in the future.

Because Yelu Azhan led the people of the whole city to resist, Cai still had no reason to show mercy. As soon as he entered the city, he sent people to execute all the men from Yelu Azhan's family and incorporated all the women from Yelu Azhan's family into a crime camp. In the future, they may be rewarded to the soldiers of the Jinwu army who were rewarded, or married to Han people.

After conquering Huanzhou, Cai still appointed Zhang Kejian as the governor, and ordered Niu Gao to lead the Jinwu Central Army to station in Huanzhou, and at the same time, he was ready to support Shuozhou and Yingzhou at any time.

After that, Cai still led the remaining troops to attack Liaoxijing.

Yelu Yanxi, who had lost face in Huanzhou, was eager to show his own value in front of Cai Gan.

Based on this, Yelu Yanxi and Cai Shen discussed with him and asked him to send someone to Xijing City to be surrendered.

Cai still agreed to Yelu Yanxi's request.

Yelu Yanxi then sent Liao Taishu Huluwa, his eldest son, Yelu Xinilie, the confidant minister Xiao Gai, and his confidant general Yelu Dilie to the city to persuade him to surrender.

After Huluwa and others entered the city, Xiaozhi persuaded Xiao Chala, the capital of Liaoxi, to persuade Xiao Chala to surrender with emotion, and told Xiao Chala about Yelu Yanxi's grand plan.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Xiao Chala had to open the city and surrender.

At this point, seven of the nine provinces in Yundi have been taken into account by Cai...

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Chapter completed!