Li Yanghuan was a little surprised. An emergency military report came from the front?

Zhang Boyan and Liu Tanqing didn't react either.

There is no war now. What urgent military report is coming from the front?

Li Yanghuan said: "Come in!"

"Report! Your Majesty, there is an urgent military report from Langzhou. Song Army...Song Army is coming!"

Li Yanghuan suddenly stood up from his chair: "What! Say it again!"

"Military report!" The chamberlain held a document in his hand, "It's the person from the front!"

Li Yanghuan walked down, took the document, quickly opened it and looked at it, his expression suddenly froze.

"This is impossible!"

"Your Majesty, what happened?"

"The Song army raided Langzhou!" Li Yanghuan said in shock.

"This is absolutely impossible!" Zhang Boyu said, "How could the Song army suddenly send troops? There was no warning! Was it a mistake?"

"Where is the person who sent this military report?"

"Just outside the palace."

"Pass it in quickly."

Not long after, a young man walked in. He was a very ordinary young man.

"The grassroots are the third inspector of Langzhou."

Inspection inspections are local officials who maintain law and order, just like the inspection inspections in the Song Dynasty.

"Did you write this military report?"

"Written by me, a commoner."

"Song Jun is really coming?"

"It's absolutely true!" Wang San became excited, "Many people died in Langzhou City! The common people saw it with their own eyes!"

Zhang Boyu immediately asked: "Where is my son Zhang Lingcheng?"

Wang San shook his head in confusion: "The grassroots people don't know. The grassroots people only know that the Song army came and killed many people. The grassroots people also took advantage of the chaos to escape, so they came north to report the news."

Li Yanghuan looked pale, and Prime Minister Liu Tanqing said: "Your Majesty, there must be a misunderstanding here. Send an envoy quickly to discuss with the Song army to avoid a bigger war."

Zhang Boyu seemed to have gone crazy. He grabbed Wang San by the collar and said angrily: "My son is in Langzhou, and there is no way that Langzhou will be lost! You are talking nonsense!"

"Privy Zhang, now is not the time to be angry!"

"His Majesty!"

"Liu Qing said that he would send someone to discuss it quickly. What does Privy Zhang think?"

Zhang Boyu calmed down and said: "It's feasible. It's best to hold off the Song army while negotiating, and at the same time rectify our army. It's impossible for the Song army to come with too many people. We can totally pretend to surrender and ask the Song army what they want.

Satisfy them as long as you can hold them back!"

Liu Tanqing also nodded and said, "That's true."

Liu Tanqing was not originally the main war faction, but now that the matter has come to this, he should indeed delay the Song army while recruiting a large army.

Li Yanghuan immediately summoned Wang Qian, the Minister of Rites, and briefly explained what had happened.

He continued: "Wang Qing, you take people to Langzhou now. You must meet with the commander of the Song Army and have a good discussion. You can agree to any conditions to hold them back."

Wang Qian was naturally unwilling to go, but he had no choice but to respond to the assigned task: "Yes!"

After Wang Qian left, Li Yanghuan was in a very bad mood.

"Why did the Song army suddenly send troops to our country?" He couldn't figure it out. "Didn't they also set up a trading center before?"

Zhang Boyu said: "This must be Song Jun's deception!"

"You mean that the Song army has already started plotting against this dynasty?"

"It is indeed possible!" Zhang Boyan said.

"Why?" Li Yanghuan couldn't figure it out. "This dynasty has not invaded the Song Dynasty. There is trade between the two countries. Why did the Song army send troops to us?"

The monarchs and ministers of the Jiaozhi Kingdom couldn't figure it out. Zhang Boyan said: "Could it be about the seizure of the city and the seizure of Song Dynasty merchants?"

"Impossible, it means that a few businessmen were detained, and the Song Dynasty mobilized troops to attack us?" Li Yanghuan definitely did not believe that this was the reason.

Unless His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty is crazy.

Who would raise an army to conquer the country for a few businessmen?

Do you know how much consumption it cost to fight a war in ancient times?

This is no joke!

Moreover, the Song Dynasty failed the first two times in the Jiaozhi campaign.

The second time, hundreds of thousands of troops were mobilized, and as a result, they entered Jiaozhi territory and countless people died of illness.

The two expeditions south ended in failure, which undoubtedly made the kings and ministers of Jiaozhi think that it was impossible for the Song army to attack them again.

The emperor of the Song Dynasty should also know very well how stupid it is to fight for a few businessmen.

War costs real money, money from the treasury is used, and more people die.

"Of course it's impossible for a few businessmen." Liu Tanqing said, "I think I might want to avenge the past!"

"Back then?" Li Yanghuan was stunned for a moment.

Back then, Jiaozhi massacred 300,000 civilians in the Song Dynasty!

Later, although Guo Kui defeated the Jiaozhi army and Jiaozhi was forced to surrender, he was not punished as he should have been.

And in the following decades, Jiaozhi continued to send people to pretend to be thieves, carry out small-scale robberies at the border, and also had people arrested and sold within the Song Dynasty.

Zhang Boyu said: "I also thought that the Song Dynasty might be seeking revenge, but the most they could do was reach Langzhou, and further to Fuliang River. It was absolutely impossible to enter Jiaozhou (Hanoi). The Song army wanted to negotiate, and this newcomer

The manager of Guangnan West Road may just want to establish his own prestige on Guangnan West Road!"

When Zhang Boyu said this, Li Yanghuan nodded in agreement.

"So, instead of holding back the Song Army now, it is better to lure them south, and then severely kill the Song Army's majesty. When the time comes, the situation will be reversed. We will make conditions!"

While the monarchs and ministers were discussing, another voice came from outside.

"Report! An urgent military report came from the front!"

It's that voice again!

Li Yanghuan's heart skipped a beat.

The chamberlain hurriedly walked in: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! It's not good!"

"What happened again!"

"Urgent report from the front, a large number of Song troops have been found to have crossed the Furiang River a few days ago!"

"What!"

At this time, the emperor and his ministers were completely stunned.

The news of the Song Army's bloodbath in Langzhou just came, and then there was news that the Song Army crossed the Fuliang River?

The Fuliang River is very close to the Red River.

It can be said to be a line of defense north of the Red River.

Now the Song Army has directly crossed this line of defense!

At this time, Li Yanghuan and his ministers were completely panicked.

The analysis just now is basically nonsense.

"Quick! Quick!" Li Yanghuan shouted loudly, "Recruit all the forbidden troops immediately for defense!"

Obviously, everything is too late.

On the first day of April, the Song army had entered the Red River Plain.

As soon as the main force of the Song Army entered the Red River Plain, it began to attack the counties and villages here.

Especially with Zhang Lingcheng as the "leading party", it couldn't be more accurate.

This allowed the Song army, which had not brought much baggage to begin with, to immediately receive a large amount of military rations.

Moreover, Wu Lin, who had rich war experience, sent out countless scouts.

They also used the temporarily formed cavalry with Dali horses to quickly attack on the Red River Plain.

Although Dali horses are not as good as northwest horses, they are still better than nothing.

There were still a lot of Jiaozhi Imperial Guards stationed north of the Red River, but they did not expect that the Song army would suddenly attack and cause chaos.

The Song army was simply in a deserted state.
Chapter completed!