Monument Yangmen

Chapter 686
"Oh!"

After reading Xiao Zhuo's letter, Yang Qi slapped the table angrily, "That bitch Xiao Zhuo threatened me again."

Yang Qi was happy to be threatened by a beautiful young woman in her 30s, but Yang Qi would not be happy if this beautiful young woman assumed the identity of the Empress Dowager of the Liao Kingdom.

The previous battle of Tongtaiguan had nothing to do with the overall situation. Xiao Zhuo wrote a letter to threaten Yang Qi, and he recognized it with a pinch of his nose.

But this time the battle of Yongxi's Northern Expedition is related to the situation in the next hundred years.

Yang Qi has been planning for many years, if he gives up because of Xiao Zhuo's threat, then Yang Qi will not have to mess around.

Just take the whole family and hide in the southern country to become the toubob.

An exasperated Yang Qi wrote a handwritten letter, threw it to Peng Pai, and said angrily, "Send it to Xiao Zhuo, that stinky bitch, and tell her that there is no way for me to stay out of this battle between Song and Liao. "

Facing the furious Yang Qi, Peng Pai naturally didn't dare to ask any more questions, and after taking Yang Qi's handwriting, he ordered someone to send it to Xiao Zhuo quickly.

After rejecting Xiao Zhuo's threat, Yang Qi put the matter behind him and began to patiently prepare for the war.

The war is about to begin.

Military transfers in the northwest and northeast are frequent.

Yanmen Pass has lost its meaning to Song Dynasty.

Now in December, Li Jilong, who was stationed in Yanmen Pass, received a military order from Zhao Guangyi through Zhao Defang, withdrew from Yanmen Pass and rushed to Zhending Mansion.

Zhao Guangyi's temporary residence is located in Zhending Mansion.

Looking at the posture, Zhao Guangyi wanted to gather the soldiers and horses under his command and dispatch them in a unified manner.

As soon as Li Jilong withdrew, Yang Qi was ordered to take over the defense of Yanmen Pass.

Because it is necessary to guard the two important passes of Fuxing Pass and Yanmen Pass at the same time.

The remaining soldiers and horses in Yang Qi's hands were somewhat stretched.

For the sake of the stability of the four prefectures in the northwest, and to prevent Zhao Guangyi from messing around, Yang Qi secretly sent people to Zhejia, borrowed [-] Zhejia troops from Zhejia, and went to Fuxing Pass to replace some of the soldiers of the Jin army.

In this Northern Expedition, Zhao Guangyi originally wanted to use the power of the Zheyang family to serve as the left army.

However, Zhe Yuxun refused because the Zhe family needed to defend against the rebellion of the tribes in the northwest.

Therefore, the troops under the Zhe family are still kept in their hands.

It is not difficult to second Yang Qi's [-] troops.

After the thousands of troops from all walks of life prepared everything, Zhao Guangyi led 60 forbidden troops from Bianjing City to Zhending Mansion.

60 imperial troops marched, far faster than expected.

The infantry armor of the imperial army was already heavy, and a large amount of ordnance had to be escorted, so it took Zhao Guangyi a full two months to travel from Bianjing City to Zhending Mansion.

Two months later, the time has come to the beginning of February.

The common people couldn't see the scene of the dragon raising its head, but the common people could clearly see the turbulent and majestic scene.

This turbulent and majestic dragon is Zhao Guangyi.

An army of 60 marched into Zhending Mansion.

Zhao Guangyi's guard of honor alone was more than three miles long, and with the addition of 60 troops and civilian men who escorted the luggage, it stretched for nearly a hundred miles.

After Zhao Guangyi settled down in the temporary camp in Zhending Mansion, the army hadn't all entered the city yet, and the civilian men escorting the luggage were still floating by the river.

It was not until seven days later that the army and the civilian husbands who escorted the luggage all rushed to Zhending Mansion.

Zhao Guangyi and a group of important ministers rested in the Xingyuan inside Zhending Mansion. More than half of the 60 imperial troops camped in the open space outside Zhending Mansion, and the peasants camped in the outermost periphery.

Suddenly, the number of people in Zhending Mansion exceeded 300 million.

The largest number of people are the peasants.

For this war, Zhao Guangyi recruited as many as 200 million civilian husbands.

The battle involving nearly 300 million people can be said to be a gamble, a shocking gamble.

Whether it was Yang Qi from the four prefectures in the Northwest or Yeluxiu from the Liao Kingdom, they were all deeply shocked by Zhao Guangyi's big handwriting.

When the Song Dynasty's army entered the Zhending Mansion.

The soldiers and horses of Daliao also entered Jiayuguan.

As the side that defends between offense and defense, Brother Yeluxiu arranged the distribution of troops and strategic deployment after the army arrived at Jiayuguan.

In terms of troop deployment, Brother Yeluxiu did not listen to the decisions made by the court to distribute troops.

Yelu Xiezhen, the commander of the right army, has increased the strength of his troops to 20.

Hande, the coach of the left army, increased the strength of Yeluxiu to 30.

However, the force he commanded himself dropped from the originally agreed 30 to [-].

Brother Yeluxiu's idea is very simple. The soldiers and horses of the right army Yelu Xiezhen's department are going to deal with the soldiers and horses of Yang Qi's department.

Yang Qi's methods came out endlessly, and he even had gunpowder in his hands, so to be on the safe side, Yelu Xiezhen's troops must be more powerful than Yang Qi's.

Only in this way can we firmly defend the land of Daliao under Yang Qi's onslaught.

The soldiers and horses of Han Derang, the left army, had to deal with the elite forbidden army of the Song Dynasty. They couldn't fight recklessly, but with 30 troops, they could still hold back the 60 troops under Zhao Guangyi's command.

From the beginning to the end, Brother Yeluxiu didn't seem to pin his hope of victory on head-to-head.

He seems to prefer to use ingenuity to win.

……

Yeluxiu, the great king of the Southern Academy of Daliao, was nervously deploying his troops, but Zhao Guangyi, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, was not in a hurry. He was still scrambling to summon the generals of the various armies in the northwest and northeast.

I don't know if it's for inspiration or for other purposes.

All in all, after Zhao Guangyi arrived at Zhending Mansion, he did not step up the deployment of troops, but held a meeting with generals from all walks of life.

When meeting with the generals of the Ansu Army, Zhao Guangyi gave him a high praise, and personally promised a series of official titles.

It is probably a reward for the blood and death that the Ansu Army showed in the Battle of Tongtaiguan before.

And Yang Qi, as the head coach of the Left Route Army, was naturally included in the summons.

The edict summoning Yang Qi was sent to Datong Prefecture in mid-February.

At that time, Yang Qi was instructing Kou Zhun on the government affairs of the four northwestern prefectures, and at the same time, he was also appointing Yang Da as the deputy commander of the left army of the Northern Expedition.

In the study, when Yang Qi was telling Kou Zhun and Yang Da to work closely, Peng Pai hurried into the study.

"Young master, Zhao Guangyi sent someone over to tell you to go to Zhending Mansion to have an audience."

Yang Qi stopped exhorting Kou Zhun and Yang Da, shook his head and sighed: "The one who should come can't escape, I knew that Zhao Guangyi would definitely call me to meet him when he arrived in the northwest, but I didn't expect to come so soon .”

Kou Zhun frowned and said, "Master Hou, this is a Hongmen banquet. Once you go, Zhao Guangyi will most likely take the opportunity to make trouble."

Yang Da nodded, agreeing with Kou Zhun's statement, "We have to guard against it."

(End of this chapter)