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After capturing these three cities, the Song Army relied on the city closest to the Song Dynasty and began to station a large number of troops. About ten days after the reorganization, the Song Army took action again. This time, it did not have the idea of ​​​​taking Weizhou, but set its sights on Weizhou. In Zhuozhou, which is very close to the border of the Song Dynasty.

Because there are three cities of Gaocheng, Licheng and Rongcheng as the rear area, the Liao army in Yuzhou will be contained when they attack Zhuozhou.

If you want to support Zhuozhou, the closest one is Youzhou.

If we send troops to contain the reinforcements in the direction of Mozhou, it will be much easier to capture Zhuozhou.

After setting the strategy, the next step is the specific implementation plan.

First, 20,000 troops were added near the Mozhou border to take the lead in cutting off the connection between Zhuozhou and Mozhou.

Then 40,000 soldiers and horses were sent from Gaocheng to march for two days to rush to the final road between Zhuozhou and Youzhou to carry out the task of blocking.

These 40,000 soldiers and horses are considered to be deep into the hinterland. If Zhuozhou cannot be captured as planned, these 40,000 soldiers and horses will be very dangerous.

As soon as these 40,000 soldiers and horses arrived at the designated position, the Song army launched an attack on Zhuozhou.

There were 20,000 defenders in Zhuozhou. Facing the 50,000 Song army attacking the city from the front, they did not panic at first. But the Song army's offensive was fierce throughout the day. At night, Zhuozhou defender Xiao Ke still asked for help from Youzhou.

However, the several waves sent out were intercepted by the blocking Song army.

By the time Xiao Ke reacted, it was already dawn the next day.

The Song army launched another attack, more fierce today than yesterday. With the 40,000 Song troops coming out of Gaocheng attacking from the north and south, Xiao Ke could only send people for help again.

The soldiers sent out this time were all very good at hiding, and they finally spread the news back to Youzhou on the evening of the second day.

"You said there was a Song army blocking the attack outside Beicheng?"

The soldier who reported the news nodded: "Yes, there are about 40,000. General Xiao Ke guessed that they should be the Song army coming from Gaocheng."

Xiao Bo hesitated when he heard this.

If there were only 50,000 Song troops in front, he wouldn't worry too much.

But now Gaocheng has fallen, and Youzhou City has 60,000 defenders. Once half of the troops rush to support Zhuozhou, who knows that the Song Army will not attack Youzhou from the east to the west.

After much deliberation, Xiao Bo decided to send only 20,000 troops for rescue. The soldiers who heard the news just now said that Xiao Ke also sent people to Mozhou to ask for help. Mozhou also has 50,000 soldiers and horses, and they can also allocate 20,000 troops.

In this way, the danger in Zhuozhou can be solved without putting Youzhou City in danger.

Xiao Bo guessed that when the Song army attacked Zhuozhou, they would definitely send troops to block reinforcements from the direction of Mozhou, just like the 40,000 Song army.

But these 40,000 Song troops sent so many troops because they were in deep danger.

Mozhou is different.

They will only send troops to stop it, but they must not have that many troops.

Five years ago, the Song Dynasty did not have many sergeants, but after the military reform, the Song Dynasty's military strength nearly doubled.

Retired sergeants will be recalled during wartime. After two years of training, these retired sergeants can go to the battlefield as long as they pick up weapons.

The reinforcements from Youzhou and Mozhou could not arrive in time, and Zhuozhou city was defeated three days later.

After capturing Gaocheng and three other cities half a month ago, this was the first time that the Song army captured the first of the sixteen states.

This is a great victory.

The results of this victory were reported back to the Great Song Dynasty, and the court created another newspaper. When the people knew about such a great result, they all celebrated spontaneously. The excitement was even more lively than the Mid-Autumn Festival not long ago.

Queen Cao, who was in the palace, also received a private letter from Zhao Zhen.

Looking at the contents of the letter, Cao Yuyan blinked hard to stop crying.

Queen Xincao did not avoid Mother Rong. She read all the contents of the letter. So looking at the Queen's expression, the shrewd Mother Rong asked with rare confusion: "Empress, the officials can share with you the situation of the border war. How do you pay it back?"

Rong's mother thought that the Empress should not have this expression. The one from Huangyi Palace is dead.

Miao was promoted to the throne because of the eldest princess, but due to the murder of the fourth prince, her relationship with the official's childhood sweetheart was exhausted.

The other concubines really have no qualifications to compete with the empress.

The situation is very good.

In addition, the official family intends to get close to the empress, so the empress should take advantage of this opportunity to make up for the estrangement between her and your majesty for so many years.

"Mom, you don't understand!"

Life is so long, and she waited happily for the first ten years.

But His Majesty favored Mrs. Zhang regardless of her reputation as the queen in the middle palace, making her almost able to compete with the middle palace.

Later, he came to the Qingshou Palace more and more time, also because of Zhang's ambitions, contacting courtiers, and doing things that touched the bottom line of the officialdom. This was done in order to defeat Zhang.

It's not like I really found her good.

Maybe later on, the officials felt a little guilty towards her, and knowing that they didn't have the care of the Queen Mother, they gradually started to talk to her more.

If it had been two or three years, her heart would not have died.

But after more than ten years, her heart has become much harder than when she first entered the palace.

She can cooperate with the officials and play the role of emperor and empress in harmony, but she can no longer do this when it comes to giving her true feelings.

Rong’s mother really doesn’t understand.

She spent the first half of her life in Cao Mansion and the second half of her life in the palace. She had never experienced the love between men and women, so she really didn't understand.

But the empress is willing to cooperate and act out a harmonious show of husband and wife, which is also good.

The fifth prince has grown up gradually. He has been in good health since he was a child, and he is the only normal prince in the official family. There is no need to have any doubts, the throne must belong to the fifth prince.

As long as the empress can hold on, there will be great fortune ahead!

By the end of October, the two prefectures of Mozhou and Yingzhou were recaptured by the Song army, and the three prefectures were captured in three months. Zhao Zhen was overjoyed and returned to the court with a high profile.

At the end of October, the north was already covered with heavy snow.

Further north, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were not used to the cold weather, but the Liao army might find a way to recapture the three lost cities during Zhao Zhen's return to the court.

But behind these three cities was the border of the Song Dynasty. After they were recovered, the Song Dynasty quickly sent troops to settle in and rectify them. If the Liao army wanted to take them back, the price they had to pay was too high.

There are Di Qing, Pang family troops and a few rising stars stationed at the border, which is completely sufficient.

This is also the reason why Zhao Zhen can return to the court with peace of mind.

At this time, Gu Qingxi and Gu Qingming, who had returned from the Monster Clan, had followed the other disciples of the sect to the Yunshan Secret Realm.

This is their first time entering the secret realm.

This time, the leader of the Wuji Sect is always the newly promoted ninth elder Fan Yunxuan. Qingyu: Zong directly asked Gao Ge and Li Zhengzhen to lead the team. Although the couple are not elders, they have high seniority in the sect and their cultivation is also very good. , the disciples they led into the secret realm for training were very happy.

Su Yixin is in Kyoto with her two children.

I wanted to spend some time with my two children in peace and contentment, but Gu Qingjue Xiu Mu, who finally got the chance, and the family of four wanted to go wandering on the street, ran into trouble.

There was a fatality in the restaurant where we ate.

And right next to their box, I heard the quarrel at first, and then took action.

I didn't expect it to be so serious at the time, and someone was actually beaten to death!

(End of this chapter)