"Yeah?"

Is this the twelve gold medals to summon Yue Fei?

However, the person who came to deliver the letter was not a gold medal, but a eunuch. And he, Han Gang, was not a military general, but a civil servant.

"In the battle between Wangzhuang and Wang, the Liao army suffered more than 10,000 casualties. This is a great victory that Hebei and Shaanxi cannot compare to."

"The Liao bandits are defeated in a new era and have no intention of sticking to Daizhou. As long as they wait a little longer, the official army will be able to retake Daizhou. At this time, the enemy will be sad and the enemy will be happy."

In the pursuit at night, nearly three thousand heads were captured, and they were unable to escape, and more than a thousand surrendered.

The Song army, which was mainly infantry, lost one-fifth of its military strength, and the number of war horses and weapons was abandoned. The Liao army's losses were damaged and it would be difficult to recover its vitality within a few years. If it weren't for not seeing many of the Liao army as the core Gong Bianjun and Pishi Army, Han Gang would have dared to attack Daizhou City with great fanfare.

Zhang Yu, Huang Shang, Zhe Keda, many staff members, both civil and military, were furious. They were worried that the court would drag their backs, but they never saw an imperial edict coming, so they felt relieved. Now they are about to win a great victory, but unexpectedly, they are coming to pull backs.

How much credit is this to recapture the two states of Xin Dynasty? Zhou Shizong was only in three states and seventeen counties.

Jiang Rong, who was stared at by a roomful of tigers and wolves, was almost crying, and his body was trembling: "The villain just came to the army, how dare he do things in the army? If the Privy Council is a secret person, he can hear the news."

"Where is the imperial edict?" Han Gang let him go.

This Jiang Rong was not qualified to pronounce the edict, and there was another person who came with the edict.

The envoy who was very familiar with Han Gang but had been violating for a long time was carrying a decree wrapped in a yellow silk, "Supreme, this is a secret decree. Please arrange irrelevant people."

Jiang Rong was stunned when he heard this, stared at his companion with wide eyes, and Han Gang immediately bowed his head to take the order.

Several staff members in the account exchanged glances and left the account one after another. The personal soldiers set up the incense case and retreated, leaving only Han Gang.

Han Gang walked to the two eunuchs, turned his back to the tent, and faced the eunuchs, "please ask the angel to summon him."

"Don't dare." The envoy of the Imperial Decree bowed to Han Gang, "Before the villain came out, the saint only knew that Privy Council was building the road, and did not know that there was such a great victory."

Hangang has been slowly building the track for a while, and the confrontation with the Liao thieves seems to be endless. The patience of the imperial court has almost been exhausted.

"If the Privy Councillor really entrusts the will and fails in Hedong's military affairs, it will not be what the saint wishes to see. This edict is actually the same as not being passed on."

"Is that true?" Han Gang was surprised. It is rare for eunuchs with such courage. No wonder they have such great fame and status. No matter their character, their courage is beyond ordinary people. However, it is his responsibility to refuse the imperial edict, and there is no need for others to interfere in: "Since Tongge Gate, since it is ordered to pass the imperial edict, don't delay it."

Tong Guan hesitated for a moment, and when Han Gang was determined, he could only sigh helplessly. He finally returned to the capital, but finally got the job, but he couldn't get it as he wished.

Nodding, he unveiled the edict and read it out.

Han Gang listened to the Hadith, finally got up and took the imperial edict with both hands.

The edict lacks details and does not explain the matter very clearly. However, the peace talks are about to be completed, and the order to quit the army is certain.

So Han Gang was even more surprised.

How could the Western Prefecture agree to the motion of both sides to stop the army? At least at present, the Song Dynasty's advantages in Hedong are becoming more and more obvious day by day, and the credit is close to us. Neither Zhang Dun nor Xue Xiang will be willing to give up.

In addition, they were not afraid of Lu Huiqing's opposition. How could Lu Huiqing, the Privy Councilor, watch as the revenge of Xingling, watch him be returned to the Liao people?

"There must be a reason for the sudden withdrawal of troops. Why did the court stop the troops?"

Hangang has not received a letter from Beijing. Both governments are unwilling to accept the terms of the peace talks before, but now they suddenly agree that it must be the Liao people who offer some undeniable conditions.

"Report to the Privy Council." Tong Guan replied: "It was the Liao people who changed the terms of peace talks."

“What terms?”

"Most of it is the terms of the Privy Council." Jiang Rong interrupted, and Han Gang's request was the one he brought back last time. "The annual quota will not increase, but Xingling bought it for one million pieces of silver and silk, and from then on he returned to the Song Dynasty."

"Silver silk is 500,000 each?"

“That’s right.”

"I said before 30,000 to 50,000 yuan, but now it's a hundred times more." Han Gang's words turned cold: "Why do you slander me for this matter? I'm saying less, don't exceed 300,000 yuan, you will be killed if you miss it?"

This is a warning that Kou Zhun specifically said before Cao used to sign the Chanyuan Alliance. "Although there is an order, you will not be allowed to go there. If you exceed 300,000, please do not come to see Zhun if you exceed 300,000, and the brigade general will behead you."

When Han Gang changed his face, Jiang Rong was almost scared to death. How could he, the little yellow sect, afford the prime minister's wrath?

"Please calm down. This million silver silk is not an annual monies, but a shortage. Just like buying and selling land and houses in the world, selling land and houses is a higher price than selling. Compared to the future, a million is not much."

Five hundred thousand pieces of silk and five hundred thousand taels of silver are equivalent to twice the annual monies. However, this is not annual monies, but a one-time buyout.

The 30,000 to 50,000 guan mentioned before is indeed too little, but the purchase fee of this million guan is too much. The current silver price is one, one,800 guan, which is equivalent to two and a half guan. The average price of silk for the Liao people as an essay is also around two and a half guan. More than two million guan of cash is unknown in which year the taxes in Xingling Land will be recovered. However, as Tong Guan said, after getting Xingling, there is no need to know how much military expenditure is saved.

In addition to the high cost of buying out Xingling, it is essentially the same as Han Gang's request. The more than two million yuan of wealth is also a real benefit given by taking care of Yelu Yixin's face.

Han Gang was not very annoyed. Compared with the annual monies, this one-time buyout is indeed not a loss. No wonder the court is not afraid of Lu Huiqing opposing the peace talks. Isn’t what he is fighting for Xingling?

"In addition, there is a new situation in the northern border of Cangzhou. The governor of Jiezhou will be a permanent residence."

This is indeed Han Gang's request. He was planning to sell Yelu Yixin well and at the same time buy the wealthy families in Beijing. As for the governor of Jiezhou, he was the queen's cousin.

"Where is Wuzhou?"

"The Liao people were willing to exchange it for the passes of the prefectures and passes. They could even return the land that was ceased to the northeastern border of the Hebei region in the eighth year of Xining."

He is really creative, Han Gang really wants to slap Yelu Yixin's imagination, "...what does the queen think?"

"The saint and Wang Pingzhang disagree."

It is indeed impossible to agree. If Emperor Zhao Xu knew about it, no one could tell whether he was happy or embarrassed.

"I wonder what you mean by Privy Council?"

"Do you think we should agree now?"

Han Gang brought people out of the tent, and the corpses of the Liao army were gathered and burned in the wild, and thick smoke was particularly conspicuous under the clear blue sky.

"Fejie's report has already been to Beijing. Please report to His Highness to the Queen after you go back. It is okay to have peace talks, but Wuzhou will never return it."

Han Gang looked at the Hutuo River in the south, "There is a good time, place, and people, are you still afraid that the Liao thieves will succeed?"

The Hutuo River originates from Taixi Mountain near Pingxing Village, Fanzhi County. After leaving the mountain, it flows all the way to the southwest. It passes through Yanmen County, Daizhou, and arrives at Xinkou Village. Then it turns southeast at Xinkou Village, crosses Taihang Mountain and enters Hebei.

The Hutuo River crosses the Taihang Mountains with a huge drop, and it cannot be used to communicate with Hedong and Hebei. However, the runoff of the Hutuo River in Hedong is mostly in the strip basin of Xinzhou and Daizhou. The water flow is gentle and the river surface is wide. Since ancient times, water transportation has been navigated. In "Mozi", when Dayu controls the flood, there is a saying of "The Dou of Huchi, sprinkled as the base pillar... to benefit Yan, Dai, Hu, He and the people of Xihe". This Huchi is the Hutuo River.

It was just late spring before, and the peach blossom flood season when the melting snow on the hills and the spring rainwater converged, and the water level of the Hutuo River dropped sharply. The water depth that could barely be able to sail for more than three feet has become less deep, and the shallows at the bottom of the river are exposed, so the entire waterway is completely unavailable. Perhaps in another month, when the summer flood comes, this river channel will be able to come in handy again, but at that time it was almost difficult to drink horses.

In fact, the engineering and technical means of dams raising the water level are used in Lingtuo, and it is also feasible to use it on the Hutuo River. However, to make up for the gap from Daizhou to Xinkouzhai, in the section where the river surface width can reach seventy or eighty zhang, a flood dam with a height of at least one zhang is needed. The amount of this project is much larger than a simple track, and labor, materials and time are not affordable to Hangang.

After learning about hydrological geography through local indigenous peoples, Hangang decided to give up water transportation and build tracks. The Liao army, who was not good at water transportation, could only sigh at the river.

Now, the situation has changed. From Xiaowangzhuang to Daizhou City, the construction of a simple track forty or fifty miles requires a lot of working hours and materials. However, as time goes by, the rain in Wutai Mountain is gradually increasing. The rise in water levels in Hutuo River has made Han Gang's original choice, which he had given up, re-entered his vision. Compared with the excessively consumed track,

When two riverboats carrying more than a hundred stone of grain arrived smoothly on the prepared wharf under the city of Daizhou under the pull of several horses, the supply line of the government army also became a complex of water transportation and rail transportation.

This is a help from time to time.

There was a lot of rain in the mountains, but it didn't rain much in the Daizhou Basin. This allowed the Song army, who were gradually advancing to the city of Daizhou, to prepare for the attack. No matter from the perspective, God helped a lot.

In addition to the time, people are also becoming more and more dominant.

In the direction of Shenwu County, the Linfu Army had already controlled the front line of the ancient Great Wall before, completely controlled Wuzhou, and faced the enemy in Shuozhou. With the defeat of the Liao army in Wangzhuang, the morale of the Shuozhou defenders fell sharply, and Zhe Kexing took advantage of the momentum to cross the ancient Great Wall.

This also means the beginning of the Song army's full offensive.

A day later, the cavalry of the Song army appeared outside Shuozhou Prefecture City and fought several times with the Liao army retreating here.

The cavalry from Hewai was not weak, but the number was not as large as that of the Liao army in Shuozhou, with only a thousand cavalry. After a war, he saw that there were more and more Liao army, so he chose to retreat.

More than two thousand Liao cavalry chased after him and chased him for more than twenty miles in one breath until they reached the mountain, and were introduced into the ambush circle placed under Zhe Kexing.

It’s a pity that the Liao army was familiar with geography and the leading officers were smart. The ambush by the Linfu Army only bit more than 200 people down.

But this battle also destroyed the last bit of confidence of the Liao army in Shuozhou. Faced with the pressing of the Song army, no one was willing to risk away from the protection of Shuozhou City.

So the next day, when the first infantry arrived outside the city, they successfully set up camp.

The Linfu army crossed the ancient Great Wall from Shenwu County and arrived in Shuozhou for more than 5,000, and suppressed the defenders in the city.

The Liao army, which was still in the territory of the Song Dynasty, was already facing the danger of cutting off the rear. To the north of Shuozhou, it was Datong Prefecture, the capital of Xijing Road.

This strategic location cannot be missed.

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