When the Hedong Army sends troops, whether to go north from Yunzhou or from the east of Niangzi Pass, there is a sequence issue, which is related to whether the expected battle can be successful...

"Officials, how can we prevent the news of Yunzhou's troops from reaching the battlefield? Once the news of Yunzhou's troops comes, even if Beiliao intends to attack, he will give up and even send Yanyun off respectfully and retreat three hundred miles from Yanshan."

If the effective forces of Bei Liao cannot be effectively destroyed, even if Bei Liao retreats three hundred miles north of Yanshan, it will still be a hidden danger.

The original plan of the imperial court was to gradually include the grasslands into the territory of the Song Dynasty, instead of retaining the effective strength of the Northern Liao Dynasty and giving the Northern Liao Dynasty a chance to make a comeback.

Moreover, Bei Liao's retreat of 300 miles from Yanshan would only make the Song Dynasty's border uneasy and lead to continuous wars.

The national policy of the Song Dynasty was to be strong internally and weak externally. If the battles in the Yanshan area continued and Bianliang was too far from the border, it would be necessary to retain the combat power to defend the Yanshan area.

Originally, the Western Army in Guochao was the strongest, and formed the Western Army in Guochao.

After the defeat of the Northern Liao Dynasty, the border between the Kingdom and North Korea will be further lengthened. Even if the army of the Kingdom and North Korea is rotated, it will be difficult to avoid the final result of the border army becoming powerful.

This is what the entire Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers did not want to see.

Therefore, this battle must really effectively annihilate the effective forces of the Northern Liao Dynasty, and then use economic means to make the grassland depend on the Song Dynasty for survival.

If sending troops to Hedong will lead to the leakage of news, and eventually Beiliao gives up resistance and even retreats to the north of Yanshan in advance, it will definitely become a future trouble.

If that's the case, it would be better to advance step by step and use cannibalization to eliminate as much of Bei Liao's combat power as possible.

Although the imperial cavalry now has the ability to go deep into the grasslands to fight. However, if they are not from my race, they must have different intentions. The imperial court does not dare to let the cavalry go to the grasslands... It is very likely that they will become kites with broken strings.

Wang Anshi still couldn't change his mind and was still wary of generals, let alone cavalry.

Zhao Xi looked at Wang Anshi and couldn't say anything, and it was hard to say anything.

"Officials, at the beginning of the war, in order to level the entire front and ensure the supply of supplies, Yunzhou had sent 20,000 troops to break through Yuzhou and Lingzhou."

"If the Yuzhou Army is ordered to go north, the information communication between Xijing and Nanjing Road in Bei Liao will be cut off first... Of course, the veteran also knows that it is impossible to completely cut off the communication. As long as the commonly used, timely and fast channels in Bei Liao are cut off and the information transmission is delayed,

It’s totally possible to make a time difference.”

"As long as Beiliao really sends troops, as long as the battle begins and they are entangled with each other, even if Beiliao knows the information, it will be difficult to leave the battlefield. At that time, Beiliao's retreat will only make the battlefield defeat faster."

Di Qing expressed his opinion. He was simply talking about tactics and did not have any other meaning like Wang Anshi.

Regardless of whether it was to alert military generals or not, the imperial court's purpose was the same, which was to annihilate the effective forces of the Northern Liao Dynasty as much as possible.

In fact, Zhao Xi never thought about annihilating Beiliao.

The Khitan people grew up on war horses, and the imperial cavalry had a certain fighting strength, but the number was too small.

As for the auxiliary cavalry and the cavalry recruited later, Zhao Xi is really worried.

They are all those who have breasts and are mothers, and they are obsessed with the grassland. There is too much uncertainty in letting them go.

If they really have to be released, only when Bei Liao is completely impossible to gain momentum can they be prevented from turning around and attacking the Song Dynasty.

"Just follow Dishuai's tactics and issue an edict together!"

What Di Qing said is indeed a good solution.

The imperial court arranged more cavalry than chariot troops in Hedong. Almost 80% of the cavalry recruited in the later period were sent to Hedong. The purpose was that if encirclement and suppression fighters appeared, they could quickly fly around from Hedong...

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The war between Song and Liao suddenly stopped during this period, and the battlefield really entered a short period of calm.

The exchanges between envoys from the two countries have become quite frequent, and it seems that an armistice contract will be signed under such circumstances.

"Return the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun unconditionally? Is it possible that we have hundreds of thousands of troops, and Northern Liao can just give Yanyun?"

"I heard that the return of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is just a basic treaty. The imperial court requested that the three hundred miles north of Yanshan should also be returned to the Song Dynasty."

"I've also heard that it seems that three hundred miles north of Yanshan will serve as a cavalry team to assist the cavalry and other cavalry, and will be rewarded with pasture..."

"Three hundred miles north of Yanshan? That includes the ancestral land of Bei Liao. Will the Bei Liao court agree? Even if the Bei Liao emperor agrees, the old and young of the Khitan tribe will not agree."

"Of course I won't agree. Isn't this just sending envoys back and forth all the time? We're just talking about this."

"Let me tell you, what are we talking about? Just fight it, and it will be the territory of our Song Dynasty. When the time comes, let alone the brothers of the cavalry team, maybe I, Lao Ding, can also reward me with a piece of grassland.

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"Put me down! Do you know how to herd sheep or shear sheep? I guess you can't even ride a horse. What do you want to do with the pasture?"

"What a big deal! As long as the battle is over, not all the prisoners in Bei Liao will be bought by the workshop owners of Guochao? Just take a few prisoners and let them herd."

"That's right! We should call him!"

"What are you talking about? The imperial court decided to negotiate, but you are just talking nonsense!"

"I think we can't negotiate. Maybe we'll start fighting tomorrow. What we can think of can't be thought of by the cabinet ministers? What can't be thought of by the officials?"

"That's right. Whenever the government has ever suffered a loss, it has never been defeated. Not to mention that everyone in the current cabinet knows the ways of merchants..."

The war ceased across the entire front, and everyone in the camps was discussing the situation, not knowing where it would develop.

The commanders from all walks of life also heard some discussions.

"Commander, are we really negotiating? We have been busy for so many years and it is over without killing a few people? Is the war going to end?"

"Commander, the general just came up from the north and south of the Yangtze River. He has only been fighting for two months. He has not gained much credit, and his journey was in vain..."

"Commander, do you want to fight or not? It's almost ten days since the ceasefire. I'm so panic-stricken that I always want to fire off two cannons to be happy...~"

This is not the first time. Every time he patrols the camp, he will be stopped and questioned by generals who are familiar with him but not familiar with him.

I imagine other armies will be like this too.

After all, from the beginning of the war, the imperial court's slogan was to invade the grasslands, carve up the grasslands, annihilate the Khitans, and restore the glory of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The soldiers really hope to go to the grassland, and really hope that the wool in the future will not have to go to the market...~

"Everyone, take a rest and keep your spirits up. There is still fighting to be done!"

Zhe Keke knows the strategy, so this must not demoralize the soldiers. The soldiers must maintain their energy to face the real war.

"Commander, isn't it? The scouts from the general's battalion guessed that Beiliao's troops seemed to be withdrawing, but they were not withdrawing completely. They seemed to be decreasing and gradually withdrawing!"

Huh? Such news stunned Zhe Keke for a moment.

"Are you sure you are withdrawing your troops? Why don't you report it?"

"Commander, I'm not sure. The scouts haven't confirmed it yet, they're just guessing based on the sound of horses honking every day when they approach Beiliao's camp."

"Commander, the scouts in this battalion were originally slaves of the Xixia nobles and were responsible for raising horses. Because they raised several horses to death, they were afraid of being executed, so they fled to the Song Dynasty."

"Later, when the imperial dynasty recruited new troops, they joined the army. They showed their riding skills in the new army camp and were trained to become scouts. They were Han Chinese!"

"They told me that he could hear the sound of so many horses. The general would not believe it. In the past few days, he has been nagging that there is no more fighting and that he will withdraw his troops."

"The general punished him for shaking the morale of the army, so he said this to the general."

How many horses can you hear? It's not surprising that there are such strange people.

In the early years in Lin Mansion, I heard about many Xixia people's abilities in war horses, and there are some even more rare than this.

But, does Beiliao really want to withdraw its troops?

According to the court's judgment, the Northern Liao envoy negotiation was a smoke-laying act to cover up the upcoming big action.

Even a truce between the two sides is an excuse.

The imperial court's strategy was to launch a certain degree of encirclement and suppression by other units of the entire defense line, including chariot troops, infantry and cavalry, when they attacked a certain point in Northern Liao.

Now there is actually intelligence showing that Bei Liao has withdrawn its troops?

"Bring this person to the commander's tent!"

Zhe Xingke no longer bothered to patrol the camp, and returned to the commander's tent with his soldiers.

Whether it was his civil servants, military supervisors, or deputy generals, everyone who knew the imperial strategy was confused by this information.

Is it possible that the officials made a mistake in their judgment?

If this is the case, and if the Northern Liao Dynasty fully accepts the Song Dynasty's request, the war may really stop.

Yanyun will recover, but the imperial court's long-planned plan to conquer Liao completely came to nothing...

"Commander, I have raised horses since I was a child and am very sensitive to the sound of horses."

"Since the armistice, Xiao Shuai's headquarters has been a scout responsible for monitoring the Bei Liao Camp. Since it is impossible to get close and it is difficult to sneak past from the north, Xiao Xiao has been lurking outside the Bei Liao Camp every day."

"Beiliao now lets the war horses recuperate, and when the war horses are recuperating, they will neigh regularly every day. Since I was familiar with the war horses, I focused on the neighing of the war horses."

"After many days of summary, the Bei Liao camp has lost three to five hundred war horses every day, for more than ten days in a row, and it has never exceeded a thousand horses. Moreover, the time when the Bei Liao war horses leave the camp is not at the same time.

He left at different times.”

The scout was chattering, but Zhe Xing understood it clearly.

"Are you sure it's decreasing every day, or not at the same time?"

"Commander, I am sure! The neighing of war horses and war horses is different! As of yesterday, the withdrawal of the Beiliao camp has almost been completed."

Hearing this, Zhe Keke, Wen Zuoguan and others looked at each other, with uncontrollable joy in their eyes!

This battle is definitely going to happen.

When I first heard about the withdrawal, I thought Beiliao was really withdrawing its troops in batches.
To be continued...