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    On the twelfth day.  It¡¯s New Year¡¯s Eve in five days.  Suddenly, the Song army brought a large amount of fire oil, poured it on the wet water, and then lit it.  Xiao Talin suddenly burst into tears.  "He will not be raised as a pig, but pretends to be a pig This is to delay time and wait for the wet water to freeze a little thicker. Then the soldiers will dismount, pull the horse into the wet water, and rush through the wet water with all their strength."  However, this fire burned all his hopes.  In fact, it was Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Kingdom who won this battle, and it was also Yelu Longxu who defeated him. After the battle of Chanzhou, the morale was at its strongest when Xiao Yanyan committed suicide. Unfortunately, Li Jilong and Cao Wei were keenly aware of it, and decisively opened the passage to let  passed.  If there was a war on the border at that time, even if the Song army sent a million troops to encircle them, they would still escape.  But it was too far away from the border. However, because of Yelu Longxu's cohesion, no matter how hard Li Jilong killed behind, the main force of the Liao army never collapsed, but the defeat was due to this. If the Liao army really fled in all directions, their troops and horses at that time  There are still a lot of them, and the Song army will not be able to annihilate them, and many Liao troops will be able to escape successfully.  However, the main force has been surrounding Yelu Longxu. Li Jilong only needs to hold on to this army and hand over the remaining deserters to the garrison troops in various states and counties and the rural soldiers.  But Song Jun also made some moves.  Li Jilong asked his soldiers to escort thousands of Khitan prisoners of war to the front, and shouted to the Liao army: "I am the pacification and recruitment envoy of the Three Routes of Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi in the Song Dynasty and the general deployment of the troops and horses of the Three Routes." There was no way, the official positions in the Song Dynasty were like  Mother Wang's foot-binding cloth is long and smelly. If Li Jilong had listed all his official positions.  There are also six or seven official names to mention.  He was actually the general offensive marshal of the Song Dynasty.  He was not afraid of the Liao army firing arrows, and the reason was equally simple.  If the Liao army did this, they would have to consider what would happen if the entire army was wiped out.  The fate of Yelu Longxu, Xiao Ta and others.  "Please listen carefully. If you have not massacred my people, please come over quickly. We will send you back unconditionally and go home, just like them." Li Jilong pointed at the thousands of Liao soldiers surrendering behind him.  .  Now the Liao Kingdom¡¯s 300,000-strong army is marching south under the pretense of a 500,000-strong army. However, how many of them and how many Liao soldiers fled back have not yet been clarified.  In fact, if this Liao army is annihilated.  The number will further increase for two reasons. The first reason is that after some prefectures and counties were conquered, the Song army surrendered. Song Jiu hated surrender and cowardice the most, so these people could never expect a good end. They would be killed.  Kill.  Another part is the record in Hedong. These Liao troops are not included in the 300,000 Liao troops.  Moreover, the armies from Hedong and Hexi also launched a general attack on the back of the mountain.  There will be very few soldiers who can escape back to the Liao army.  So the final number must be more than 300,000.  But the approximate figures are out.  Regardless of the Hedong side, more than 160,000 Liao troops were killed in Hebei alone. Among them, nearly 40,000 Liao troops were killed by state and county garrison troops, government officials, rural soldiers, and Xiang soldiers.  There are still more than 60,000 surrendered prisoners.  This number needs to be enlarged, after all, the big manhunt has just begun.  The common people don¡¯t care.  If caught, they will be beaten to death with sticks, but officers and soldiers cannot do that.  Therefore, further screening was carried out, and some massacred the people.  Some did not massacre the people, or some massacred the people.  However, he didn't ask.  Those who asked were sent to the mines for labor reform.  Song Jiu actually made a suggestion on the way.  Mining in the Song Dynasty expanded. Except for a few slaves captured from foreign countries, most of the real people were engaged in this dangerous profession.  For criminals, it is still the same as before in Song Dynasty. The first one is whipping with the cane, the second one is exile, and the third one is death penalty.  It is precisely because of this system that some people do not regret their death, and the exile is considered too light. Maybe after a general amnesty, they are released to harm others, so they are also sentenced to death.  Or most of them are just mismatched due to Zhao Heng's relaxed sentencing. This system is still imperfect.  Therefore, the Song Dynasty suggested that some recidivist criminals, as well as some criminals whose circumstances were too bad not to be sentenced to death, should be implemented into a three- to ten-year labor reform system and sent to government-run mines for mining and reform. There would be no amnesty, but if they behaved well, their sentences could be reduced.  In addition, during the transformation process, the safe living conditions are the same as those of ordinary miners, and some monthly salary is paid to them for their own expenses or to be sent to their families.  If the mine supervisor does something wrong, he can appeal.  Including the Liao soldiers who invaded this time, some Liao soldiers were very ferocious. However, if they surrendered and were still killed, it would not be very beneficial to the future governance of the north, so this system was also implemented.  After they have been rehabilitated and released, their families can still be reunited, and the people of Hebei can vent their resentment.  If someone dies due to a cave-in, the state will pay a pension to his or her family just like it does for miners.  Song Jiu¡¯s proposal was agreed by everyone.  This prison mining system is fundamentally different from the prison mining system of the Tang Dynasty.?It is still based on benevolence, and the mining industry is growing, which kills many ordinary craftsmen every year, and the risk even exceeds the risk of going to sea.  Why sit back and watch good people die, but not watch criminals die?  Then the rest will be sent to the north.  Why do you do this?  The first is to win over.  Release some soldiers and go back, we Song Dynasty will be benevolent and righteous.  The second is publicity.  These people are scared out of their wits. Once they go back, they will spread the word and make the northern ministries afraid to fight.  The third is righteousness.  Don¡¯t ask why those people are mining, why are they massacring civilians?  Just like the scouts who sneaked into the Liao border to spread the word, the emperor of the Song Dynasty loved the people and was a good emperor.  "Go home" I don't know how many Liao soldiers were almost in tears. This word was too shocking to them.  "It's still a hundred miles from here to Yishui. If we walk fast, we will reach the north of the Juma River tomorrow morning. After passing the Juma River, let them bring the smoke and light the smoke. Do you think this is the case?  I believe you can visually determine the approximate distance." After Li Jilong finished speaking, he escorted the prisoners down.  Where the Liao army camped, there were several small mounds. Although they were not high, they were enough to lift them far enough away from human sight.  The Liao army also built several small towers on it to watch the Song army's movements, and even cut down the trees on the mountain.  Fences were made.  Sure enough, in the morning of the next day, a large cloud of thick smoke came from the direction of Yizhou.  If you walk, you have to walk more than a hundred miles.  There are some woods and some lakes along the way.  But it's a straight line. It's only sixty or seventy miles away from the Juma River. You can't see people, but you can still see the smoke.  Otherwise, ancient people would not have spent a lot of money to build beacon towers.  It is impossible that all the Liao army will surrender because of this.  Li Jilong didn't deliberately try to persuade him to surrender. Just hold on, and His Majesty will arrive soon.  "Moreover, Xiao Taolin spread rumors, saying that thousands of surrendered prisoners had actually been massacred by the Song army, and that the beacon fire was set by the Song army.  But no matter what he said.  The morale of the army was further divided.  This time when they went south, the Liao army had a large number of troops. In order to reduce the harm to the people, the Song Dynasty strengthened the walls and cleared the country in advance. Not all the Liao soldiers killed the people of the Song Dynasty. It was not that they didn't want to, but they didn't give them a chance. At least this time they were not the executioners of the people.  And they accounted for a large proportion, and these soldiers gradually became shaken.  They also have parents.  He also had a wife and children, and he was homesick and wanted to go home Li Jilong left the military camp without caring whether they believed it or not.  Went to meet him.  On the fifteenth day, two days before New Year¡¯s Eve, Zhao Heng led a large force to the military camp.  At this moment.  There are at least 300,000 troops gathered on the Hebei front line, and the number of troops in this area alone is close to 200,000.  There are more at the back.  They cooperated with the civilians and moved towards the front line with a large amount of supplies.  The Yellow River water flow is quite strong this year.  Bi Shi'an spent a lot of money and finally completed Wang Ming's river control project, which played a partial role. At least there was no river dam last year, but waterlogging was unavoidable.  Therefore, before the Liao army launched its attack, under the slogan of stabilizing grain prices, a lot of grain and grass was transported to various states and counties in Hebei. However, the southern area of ??Hebei Road has nothing to do with the north, including Damingfu, Chanzhou, Beizhou, and Bozhou.  , Texas and other places.  At that time, Kou Zhun was still strongly opposed and had a small conflict with Song Jiu. He welcomed the disaster relief. There was too much food to transport, so this was probably too much.  Don¡¯t forget that although the victims of the disaster in Hebei were saved, the food and grass were still collected from the people.  This is somewhat wrong. Although the water in the Yellow River is not small this year, the country has generally had a bumper harvest of grain in the past two years.  Especially in the southeast, under the leadership of Song and Jiu, many polder fields were reclaimed. The increase in income from these high-yielding fields resulted in low food prices across the country.  Therefore, the massive purchase of grain in the summer is also an adjustment of grain prices, which actually saves national expenses.  If there is a nationwide grain requisition at this time, look at how high food prices will rise!  We can¡¯t blame Kou Zhun. Kou Zhun was also in the valley at that time.  So now it works.  Although the use of money made the officials of the third department feel chilled, but there is no need for money at this time, so what is the money used for?  Feng Chan and worship the gods!  Zhao Heng had a rest that day.  And the troops are gradually arriving, and the target is no longer the current two to thirty thousand Liao troops, but Yanyun, or even further north.  Therefore, it is necessary to reorganize and formulate detailed plans.     pitiful.  Even Song Jiu¡¯s plan at that time was just to take advantage of Xiao Yanyan¡¯s mentality and take advantage of the situation to let the Liao army penetrate deep into the heart of Chanzhou and then encircle and annihilate it.  As for what to do next, Song Jiu didn't dare to think about it.  This must be worked out now.    The next day, Zhao Heng came to the front line in person, and Qin Han went to the front of the Liao army camp and shouted: "Your Majesty, listen up, our Majesty wants to meet you." After saying that, he retreated, there were not many people.  , only the prime ministers Song Jiu, Zhang Qixian, and a few brave generals such as Jing Si were with them to protect him.  This time, almost all the ministers opposed it, but Song Jiu asked: "Xiao Yanyan and the Emperor of Liao have personally invaded our dynasty many times. Why do you not dare to meet their emperor in front of the army?" The situation is not good, immediately  Just withdraw it.  The significance is not whether Zhao Heng meets or not, nor is it to show a little respect, which can help force Yelu Longxu to surrender, but to make Zhao Heng's mentality more positive and his thinking more enterprising.  In this way, the policies of the Song Dynasty will become less conservative.  ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡­  Or you can see that the Chanyuan Alliance brought breathing time to the Song Dynasty and allowed the people to live and work in peace and contentment.  But they didn¡¯t see how restrained China had become since then, and even the Manchu Qing Dynasty was invaded by this kind of thinking.  "Perhaps because of a great victory and Yan Yun's recovery in sight, surpassing the achievements of the two former emperors, Zhao Heng actually chose Song Jiu's opinion and agreed.  He agreed, and the ministers of the Song Dynasty had nothing to do. Moreover, if the negotiation went well, the first step of the battle would be over immediately.  Then I arrived at Youzhou with peace of mind.  Even the emperors of the Song Dynasty dared to do this. Yelu Longxu had no choice but to bring the same personnel to the open space in front of the two armies.  However, everyone in the two armies opened their eyes wide and were ready to "rescue" their respective emperors at any time.  Song Jiu nodded, and Qin Han moved two chairs from behind.  The two emperors sat down.  Zhao Heng said calmly: "I heard that you are knowledgeable and talented, and you should also know the history of the Khitan tribe. The reason why you exist is that you rely on various big countries to exist and grow." The Khitan tribe originated from the Yuwen family and Kumoxi of Xianbei.  But one of them, during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Donghu tribes paid tribute to Emperor Wencheng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Khitan tribe could only be at the bottom of the Donghu tribes.  As a result, he resented his humiliation and absorbed the advanced culture of the Central Plains.  Later, Goguryeo and Rouran wanted to divide the Khitan, and the Khitan asked the Northern Wei Dynasty to annex them. The Northern Wei Dynasty placed them in Bailangshui. At that time, the whole family had only more than 10,000 people.  Later, the Central Plains kingdoms were in chaos again, and the Khitans took the opportunity to annex various tribes, and then invaded the Central Plains. Even Gao Yang personally went on an expedition and captured more than 100,000 people, but the Khitans were not wiped out.  During the Tang Dynasty, when the Turks were powerful, the Khitan asked Li Shimin to surrender in exchange for Li Shimin's protection.  However, during Wu Zetian's time, Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong rebelled again. Some people criticized Wu Zetian's ethnic policy. That was wrong. Why should there be people who were not members of our tribe? They would have different intentions. No matter which tribe in the grassland became stronger, they would launch an attack on the Central Plains.  It was not the Khitan clan who did this, no matter how much favor the Central Plains dynasty had done to them.  During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Uighurs grew stronger, and the Khitan once again asked Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty to surrender in exchange for the support of the Tang Dynasty.  Then until the Five Dynasties, to Abaoji "The reason why Taizu Taizong of your country succeeded was because of the civil strife in China. Once the Central Plains were unified, if you look through the history books, which northern nomadic tribe could destroy China? Even in the Tang Dynasty, there were  The great enemies of the Turks and Tibet, you Khitan still have more defeats than victory, let alone the military control of the capital of China. Besides, I have settled in the northwest, and there is no serious harm. Do you, the Khitan, want to destroy China in ancient and modern times?  Which nomadic people could achieve this goal? Even if the Eastern Jin Dynasty huddled in the south of the Yangtze River, they could not annihilate China. Oh, I remembered that the Sui Dynasty unified the south of the Yangtze River, but was Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty a Hu? Were most of his troops a Hu?  ?" Yelu Longxu remained silent.  The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. What's the use of saying this? Let's make some conditions.  "I want to say one more thing. Look at this express report." Zhao Heng handed the express report to Yelu Longxu, which was just delivered last night.  When Yelu Longqing heard that his eldest brother was in danger, instead of sending troops to rescue him, he instead became emperor in Zhongjing.  This is what Song Jiu said, power is poison, save me, my eldest brother should die early and be reincarnated.  "I rule the world with virtue, so I have sent envoys to negotiate peace with you many times, but you have always developed unbearable conditions to block it, and you have also marched to the Yellow River with the intention of annihilating our Song Dynasty. You are unjust, so you can't blame me.  Bu Ren is behind. I believe there are many tribes in the prairie who want to take their place. If I lead hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers from the Song Dynasty and set certain conditions, will all your Khitan tribes be wiped out? Don¡¯t think that I dare not do this.  At that time, I deliberately walked around the moral Qing military city. At that time, I wanted to have the three armies order to imitate Xue Rengui and massacre all your Khitan soldiers and civilians! " "I sent Li Chongjie to issue an order to you, not for the purpose of surrendering to our court!  For yourself, but for the sake of your entire Khitan tribe. Only if you submit to our government will we leave you as a tribe when the army goes north.You can't stand it, but now can you stand it?  " "I'm waiting for your good news. These soldiers who fled here are believed to be loyal men to you. I don't think you want them all to be buried with you.  Now that you surrender, I will still agree to that condition.  And I will not care about your subordinates, except those who have done many evil things and massacred many people, and will release them all.  Even for those executioners, I only let them mine for a few years as a warning. After a few years of punishment, I will promise to let them go back.  " "Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and the day after tomorrow is New Year's Day. I hope that when the New Year comes, it will give your subordinates a glimmer of hope and the whole Khitan clan a glimmer of hope."  "(To be continued)
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