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Chapter 725: The Song Dynasty has always valued benevolence and righteousness

"The Liao general is Xiao Qu Lu. This man is a fierce general of the Liao army, very brave and good at fighting."

"This time I was ordered to lead [-] Liao cavalry into Zhuolun Village. Ningbian Prefecture also brought in [-] infantry to help. It seems that the attackers are not good."

"The person who came here is not good, and what he did must be for the sake of our territory of the Song Dynasty."

Gao Zhang stood in front of the specially made sand table and spoke slowly and leisurely.

At this moment, his tent has been moved to Hengyang Fort in the north of Linzhou, which can be regarded as the stronghold of Linzhou. In the past, it has experienced countless conquests by Xixia soldiers and horses.

Even though it is being repaired every year, the Xixia soldiers and horses take a chance on it from time to time.

So much so that when Gao Zhang moved here, he could still see the brown blood stains on the city wall in the autumn of this year, as well as the marks of knives and axes.

The military geographical location of the entire Linzhou is very important.Xixia attacked eastward from Xiazhou (now Baichengzi, Jingbian County), and this area bore the brunt.

By controlling Linzhou, not only can we resist Xixia in the west, Khitan in the east, and protect the East River Road in the south, but once Xixia invades south, Linzhou can also send troops directly to the rear of Xixia, forcing them not to dare to advance far.

Therefore, the battle for Linzhou became a focus of the wars between Song, Liao and Xixia.

This is the key place that the Yang family has guarded for generations. It was the frontier soldiers of the Song Dynasty who withstood the violent attack of the Xixia barbarians with countless lives and blood.

It can be regarded as saving the slightest bit of dignity of this so-called iron-blooded coward.

"But now that they are here, if I, the Tiger King of the Song Dynasty, really allow a mere [-] soldiers of the Liao Dynasty to run amok in my territory of the Song Dynasty, what face will we have to go to the princes of the court and dare to talk about returning to the old land?"

"The Liao Kingdom used Xixia to stir up troubles for hundreds of years and ruined the Song Dynasty's restoration of its old land. It must be repaid now."

Looking at this handsome, elegant, calm and handsome young man, listening to his gentle words with a hint of chill.

Yang Zongmin and Yang Zhen, father and son of the Yang family who had guarded Linzhou for generations, bowed down to Gao Zhang with tears streaming down their faces.

All the generals of the Song Dynasty also prostrated themselves.

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Three days later, Zhuolun Village was surrounded by several Song legionnaires. Xiao Qu Lu led his cavalry out of the city, but was unexpectedly seriously injured on the spot by a flying thunder cannon fired by the Song army.

The Liao soldiers were so frightened that they retreated back to Zhuolun Stronghold. The Song army directly blew down all the gates of Zhuolun Stronghold, trapping the remaining Xixia soldiers and Liao soldiers to death in Zhuolun Stronghold.

Three to five times a day, thunder and artillery attacks hit the city, making the people in Zhuolun Village panic and the soldiers frightened.

Five days later, due to insufficient supplies in Zhuolun Village, the Liao army began to clash with the remaining soldiers of Xixia.

To Li Xiongshen, the commander of the Xixia Xiangyou Army who had defected to the Liao Kingdom, he gritted his teeth and decided to change his mind again.

He ordered people to sneak out of Zhuolun Village at night and ask the Song general to surrender. However, he had some misguided ideas. When the messenger left the city, he was captured by the Liao army.

As a result, the remnant troops of Xixia and the Liao army had a fierce conflict at Zhuolun Village. After a whole night, the Liao army, which suffered even greater losses, surrendered and surrendered, ending the battle.

The injured Xiongshen finally led the remaining soldiers and came out of the city holding the head of the Liao general Xiao Qulu to surrender.

Gao Zhang reined in the horse's head and looked at the ferocious-looking human head. He raised his head and looked at Xiongshen, who was in his forties and whose clothes were covered in blood.

"I remember that there were more than [-] people in the Liao Kingdom. Why is there only one head?"

Xiongshen Xiongshen's eyelids twitched wildly, he raised his head and looked at Gao Zhang.

Miao Lu stood up beside him, and the old general smiled sinisterly.

"Going to Li Xiongshen, do you still need the commander-in-chief to speak frankly?" "You refused to surrender before and left, intending to go to the Liao Dynasty, but now you have abandoned the Liao Dynasty and returned to the Song Dynasty."

"Such repetition makes the commander dare not trust you easily."

"Since you now intend to obey the destiny and surrender to the Song Dynasty, how can you be kind to the Liao soldiers in the city who invade the territory of the Song Dynasty?"

"The guilty minister understands that I will sacrifice all the heads of Liao dogs to atone for my sin..."

In Zhuolun Village, the bloody storm broke out again, but Gao Zhang just sighed quietly at such a dog-eating-dog scene.

"Li Xiongshen is also a decisive person. In this case, the next important task of attacking Ningbian Prefecture, Heqing Army, and Jin Su Army will be left to the remaining soldiers of Xixia."

Don't they Xixia like to use prisoners of war to win first?I also want you to have a taste.

Of course, the art of language will definitely not be so straightforward. Gao Zhang continued to speak to these people around him with high emotional intelligence.

"After all, we, the Song Dynasty, have always valued benevolence and righteousness. If we and the border troops rashly raise troops to attack Liao, I am afraid that the princes in the court will be in trouble."

"But what if the remnants of Xixia want to settle down and take Liao land..."

"Since the Liao Kingdom lost its territory to Xixia, these territories can no longer be counted as Liao territory. I, the Song Dynasty, took them, and others can't fault them..."

"It's just that the wording needs to be right. In addition, there needs to be a buffer between the time when the remnant troops of the Western Xia invaded the Liao Dynasty and the time when the Song Dynasty captured the three states..."

Looking at Gao Zhang, who was still speaking politely in front of him.

Liang Shicheng, the supervisor of the army, nodded frequently while listening. He understood, he understood very well.

On the side, the heads of Imperial City Secretary Zhao Yaban, Cai Laoliu, son of Cai Jing, and Tong Zhisheng, son of Tong Guan, all moved up and down.

Further away, a group of generals from the Song Dynasty saw Gao Zhang muttering something not far away, but the sight of his head shaking up and down had long been accustomed to them.

Although Cai Laoliu was a powerless civil servant, he served as the fuse for igniting the thunder cannon no less than ten times. Gao Zhang had graciously given Cai Laoliu the credit for injuring the Liao general. Six's body.

Nowadays, Cai Laoliu already owns a thousand acres of farmland in the recovered old land just by virtue of his military exploits.

As for Tong Zhisheng, who went to fight in person, he also obtained more than [-] acres of land due to his military exploits.

Although their achievements have a lot of water content, and they fall off as soon as they are squeezed.

But the problem is, Gao Zhang has personally seen it, the supervisory army has approved it, and the generals have approved it, then Shui Na has become real.

Anyway, Cai Laoliu has been quite honest since he joined the army, mainly because he is surrounded by a bunch of vulgar warriors who kill a lot.

When his eyes are red and his neck is rough, he will use a big knife like that.Cai Laoliu, who considers himself a gentleman, naturally cannot deal with those people.

Following Gao Zhang all day long, I became more and more aware of what a geomantic treasure the old land of Xixia was.

Think about it, the Song Dynasty and Xixia were already hostile, but why Xixia was willing to do business with the trading companies of the Song Dynasty and grow cotton.

Not only because of the benefits, they were definitely dozens of times more profitable than growing grains, so great that even the well-informed Cai Laoliu drooled.

Nowadays, he frequently writes letters to his family, telling his old father to take a longer view and look this way.

(End of this chapter)