Before Zhao Zhen knew about it, Li Zhang was often worried and afraid, but now that the incident happened, he calmed down. Anyway, everything was like this, and he admitted whether to kill or cut. At this time, Miaoyuan gently grabbed his arm and leaned against Li Zhang, expressing his feelings with his own actions.

Looking at the two people in front of him, one was his most trusted minister and his only friend and brother, while the other was his sister who had been spoiled since childhood, which made Zhao Zhen look painful and entangled. If Li Zhang was replaced by another person, he might have already picked up the knife and slashed the other party.

But at this moment, suddenly, only an eunuch who was left outside by Zhao Zhen rushed over and shouted with a look of love: "Your Majesty, Yan Yun's victory!"

"What?" When Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang were looking at each other, they all looked at the eunuch who reported the news in shock when they heard the words "Yanyun Victory". As for the personal grudges just now, they were all left behind. After all, state affairs are important now.

"Yan... Yanyun's victory, General Liu conquered the city of Xijin Prefecture and captured Han Nanwang, the defender in the city alive. Now the army has begun to capture other prefectures around him!" The eunuch shouted again excitedly. If it weren't for such important news, he wouldn't dare to break in so rashly.

After confirming that he had heard it right just now, Zhao Zhen also slapped his face excitedly, and then said to Li Zhang: "Please put the rest aside in advance and follow me to the palace to discuss matters!"

"Okay!" Li Zhang agreed immediately, and then quickly left here with Zhao Zhen. Miao Yuan looked at the two people who were like cockfighting, but now he left excitedly as if he was injected with chicken blood. This made her a little funny. However, as a princess, she still knew the importance of Yan Yun to the Song Dynasty, so she could understand the excitement of Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang.

At that moment, Li Zhang and Zhao Zhen returned to the palace as fast as possible. Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others rushed over from the Political Affairs Hall. Zhao Zhen led the ministers to the Chuigong Hall. Lu Yijian immediately reported Liu Ping's victory. After Zhao Zhen saw it, he handed it to Li Zhang next to him.

At this time, Li Zhang immediately read the good news carefully. The good news was sent back by Liu Ping after capturing the city of Xijin Prefecture. According to the good news, Liu Ping and his friends used artillery to bombard the gate of Xijin Prefecture and rushed into the city. They were stubbornly resisted by the Liao army. The two sides fought fiercely in the city. In the end, they fought for three days and three nights before they completely broke through the Liao army.

It is worth mentioning that Han Nanwang, the defender of Xijin Prefecture, and his son Han Feifan, would rather die than surrender in the end. They still wanted to resist stubbornly while being besieged by Liu Ping's troops. However, they did not expect that the Liao army around them would take down their father and son and seek credit from the Song Dynasty, which made Han Nanwang and his son become prisoners of the Song Dynasty.

Although it was an enemy, Liu Ping admired Han Nanwang very much. Moreover, the Han family has been left behind in Nanjing for generations and has great reputation in the southern part of the Liao Kingdom. Therefore, Liu Ping also suggested in the good news that Han Nanwang and his son were surrendered. As long as the other party was willing to be used by the Song Dynasty, it would be much easier to control the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in the future.

The end of the good news was Liu Ping's next march plan. After the fall of Xijin Prefecture, although there were still many cities in the southern part of the Liao Kingdom, such as Zhuozhou, Ruzhou, Huailai and other major cities, which also belonged to the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, most of the troops of these cities had been withdrawn before, with the largest number of defenders in each city ranging from three thousand people, and at least one thousand people, and it was impossible to resist the offensive of the Song army.

So in this case, Liu Ping suggested seizing other parts of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and finally attacking another hard bone in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, that is, the Datong Prefecture in Xijing. As a strong city comparable to the Xijin Prefecture, Datong Prefecture is also easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Song army also suffered minor casualties in the capture of the Xijin Prefecture, and it also took some time to rest.

"Dear friends, Liu Ping's army has captured the Xijin Prefecture and is expanding to the surrounding prefectures. What do you think?" Zhao Zhen walked back and forth excitedly at this time, and finally asked Lu Yijian and others.

"Report to Your Majesty, as the saying goes, since General Liu has captured the Xijin Mansion, why don't he directly transfer the army to attack Datong Mansion? Wouldn't it be easier to conquer Datong with the power of great victory?" At this time, a minister stood up and asked.

"No, Liu Ping has already said in the good news that attacking the Xijin Prefecture will also cost our army a considerable price. Moreover, the Xijin Prefecture is not close to Datong Prefecture. It requires passing through Huailai and Zhulu City. There are Wuzhou, Weizhou, Shanyin and other places around it. If these places are not captured, the Liao army can break out of the city at any time, so for the sake of stability, it is better to advance layer by layer!" Lu Yijian immediately spoke out and opposed.

"Lu Xiang said the most is that Liu Ping had considered splitting troops from two groups at the beginning. In addition to the current large army, there was also a route that set out from Yanmen Pass and rushed straight to Datong Prefecture through Shanyin. However, later, considering that the two routes would disperse their troops, and the two marching routes were more susceptible to the restraint of the Liao army, he finally decided to join the same route and concentrate his troops to capture the Xijin Prefecture first." Zhao Zhen nodded repeatedly when he heard Lu Yijian's words.

"Your Majesty, the army is progressing smoothly now, and Datong Prefecture is almost the treasure of our Song Dynasty. So I think I can consider sending officials to the cities captured to educate the local people to the Shun Song Dynasty!" At this time, Wang Zeng also stepped forward and spoke.

Almost no one objected to Wang Zeng's suggestion, and everyone agreed to pass it unanimously, while Li Zhang next to him smiled faintly because he knew that the reason why Wang Zeng was anxious to send officials to take over the newly built cities was nothing more than that he did not want the military and political power of these cities to fall into the military generals. Of course, in the eyes of officials such as Wang Zeng, the military generals did not know how to govern the local area at all. Only when they went to the local area could these prefectures surrender as soon as possible.

Zhao Zhen also knew the plans of civil servants such as Wang Zeng, but he still accepted Wang Zeng's suggestions. After all, as the emperor, he would not let the generals leading the troops take too much power, otherwise he would not sleep well at night.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing that needs to be put on the agenda!" At this moment, Li Zhang, who had not spoken, finally stood up and said.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Zhen asked immediately.

"After the Khitans occupied the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, many Great Walls had been disrepaired for a long time and were even abandoned directly. If Yanyun was taken back, these Great Walls would definitely need to be renovated. At that time, a large amount of manpower, material resources and financial resources would definitely be needed, so please prepare early!" Li Zhang said immediately. In fact, when he proposed the matter of building the Great Wall, he already had a general idea in his mind.
Chapter completed!