Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 170 Fish Pond Bureau

Liu Ling was holding a letter in his hand. Han Fang next to him knew the content of the letter, so he was rare and not so serious. Instead, he seemed to want to laugh.

There were several staff and civil servants standing next to them. If you look carefully, you can see that under their respectful expressions, the corners of their mouths are also twitching.

News came from Yandi that Tong Guan's army during the Northern Expedition to Yandi had completely entered the dead zone. Yanjing guard Han Shizhong led the Yongqing Army and Luanzhou Army Yelu Dashi and other troops to first cut off all the Song Army's food routes and On the way back, both Yunzhong and Xia Kingdom began to send troops. A rough estimate is that the number of their own troops in Yanyun currently exceeds 80,000.

Under the banner of Princess Liao, Han Shizhong surrendered 15,000 Liao troops who had withdrawn from Kedun City, as well as a large number of old Liao officials.

Empress Dowager Yelu led the Xia army to the south of Yunzhong and lit a series of beacon fires in the northwest region of the Song Dynasty. Then she entered Yan in a high-profile manner, expressing her identity as an ally and joining forces with the army that had nominally returned to Liao. The soldiers and horses "dispatched" by the princess of the country gathered together.

A princess of Liao Kingdom and a queen mother of Xia Kingdom, the two women must have met each other.

"Women are trouble."

Liu Ling put down the letter and let out an insincere sigh.

To be fair, he was not averse to starting a harem at first. After all, men are all big pigs.

There were not many small fish and shrimps in Liu Ling's fish pond, and almost all of them were not good crops. Even the Princess of Han was just a civilian girl at the beginning, but after a few years of being exposed to it, she had already begun to raise a dignified city.

If Tong Guan really brought his elite men to fight with this Xia army, it would actually have a crushing effect. However, when he heard the number of Xia army, he instinctively ignored the option of frontal combat and chose to take risks instead.

But what he didn't know was that Empress Dowager Yelu of the Xia Kingdom was not a fool with a pure love mind; what's more, before the death of Lord Xia, she and Lord Xia were still in love, and their child also died in the hands of Han Shizhong. Liu Ling naturally cannot have any "love".

But due to political and profit needs, she had to lead troops to respond to Yan Yun, so she led tens of thousands of the most ordinary Xia soldiers this time.

Han Fang spoke, interrupting Liu Ling's thoughts.

Yes, they were the ordinary Xia soldiers without armor and little training that Liu Ling had crushed before.

Princess Wan Yanquan of the Kingdom of Jin at least has a real mother country behind her. When Liu Ling and the Kingdom of Jin have problems with each other, she will definitely have to be the middleman.

"Tong Guan knew that tens of thousands of Xia people had arrived to support them, so he had no intention of confronting the Xia people head-on from the beginning. Instead, he chose to attack Yanjing."

As for Yelu Yuliyan, she is now even more of a heavyweight shark. She has nominal military power in her hands, and her female power overwhelms the others.

After all, fights between women are sometimes more vicious than fights between men.

But he also didn't know that although the Jin man whom he regarded as his rightful helper had honestly accepted some of the sweet benefits he had given him, the entire Jin army stationed in the Juyongguan area where Wanyan Zongwang was stationed had a huge relationship with Liu Ling. Interest relationship.

When the sentinels and maps told him that there was only one small road, what the Prince of Guangyang was thinking was that if I brought tens of thousands of elites along the small road, the magic troops would surely descend from the sky, and the city of Yanjing would not be able to stop it.

In fact, overall, Tong Guan's decision cannot be said to be wrong, but he had a serious miscalculation of the terrain of Yan and the combat effectiveness of his Song army.

Even Wanyan Zongwang himself, although he knew that from the current situation, he should indeed unite with the Song people to kill the Han king who was still rising. But if Liu Ling is destroyed, Wanyan Zongwang will be liquidated in the Jin Kingdom. Where will he find such a good ally?

Therefore, Wanyan Zongwang warmly received the envoys from the Song Dynasty, and immediately sent someone to Yan to deliver a letter to convey the Song people's request to Han Shizhong.

But anyway, after the Song army waited foolishly for two days at Qingbaikou, the envoy Tong Guan sent to the north to look for the Jin army also came back and reported that he had not seen any Jin army at all. Tong Guan had to reluctantly admit it The Jin man treated him as a traitor again. Then, when nearly 100,000 coalition troops led by Han Shizhong blocked the Song army's retreat from both sides, the news spread to the latter's camp, and tens of thousands of Song troops collapsed as a matter of course.

Liu Ling has long been aware of the weakness of the Song army, so he has always maintained high standards and strict requirements when cultivating his own army, especially the three main forces currently on hand. He can give the best treatment, but if it really happens If you disobey military orders and cause trouble, you will only be killed. You will never show mercy.

Previously, Liang Zhe also led the main force of the Victory Army to follow Liu Ling south, but after he disobeyed orders and attacked without permission, Liu Ling relinquished his military power without hesitation, and then arranged for General Yelu Yanshan to lead the front Victory Army. , the latter can also achieve normal command without problems.

Fundamentally speaking, whether it is the Zhenyuan Army, the Yongqing Army or the Shengjie Army, they all clearly know that they are the army of the King of Han. What they look at is not a commander or general, but the Tiger Talisman awarded by the King of Han!

Liu Ling stood up and stretched, but Han Fang and the civil servants in front of him immediately stopped the smiles on their faces and became serious.

"Send the order and tell the soldiers that this year's battle is over. You guys can go home and have a good New Year."

Everyone bowed and saluted together, then said goodbye and left.

Liu Ling sat down again and after reading the paperwork for a while, he couldn't help but think about how to solve the problem of two big sharks appearing in the fish pond.

The two women named Yelu also had soldiers and horses.

Tsk.

Liu Ling stretched, walked out of his handsome tent, and was about to go to his tent to rest. Then the soldiers waiting outside came over and whispered a few words to him.

King Han's expression suddenly changed. After a moment's hesitation, he had no choice but to signal for others to continue leading the way.

After a while, he stood outside his tent and sighed, then stretched out his hand to open the tent curtain, his tone pretending to be calm.

"Oh, you came just in time."

Historically, when the Jin people went south for the first time, the distribution of political power in the Song Dynasty would undergo major changes. But for Liu Ling, he doesn't have such a big appetite right now, and he doesn't plan to eat himself to death in one go.

Therefore, he planned to keep the Song Dynasty Hall as it is.

The land of the seven states north of Hejian Prefecture, plus the money and food from the Song Dynasty and Hebei Province will all belong to him. When passing through Hebei, he can also get some more money, such as craftsmen, population and technology, etc. As long as it is not excessive, the Song Dynasty court will just treat it as ignorant.

The Zhao Guan family had not yet taken advantage of this opportunity to reorganize the whole country.

But one is that the upper limit of his own ability is there. When Zhao Guanjia came to power, he would "work hard to govern", but after many years of failure, he no longer knew how to be an iron-blooded emperor, and it was very likely that he would become more and more The worse it gets.

Two, the court was still in full swing. Liu Ling also specifically asked Zhao Guan's family to carry up Cai Jing, who had been dismissed from office. Before leaving, he raised Qin Hui in his hand.

Cai Jing's political life had come to an end, but this time he gained power again, and the connections he had in the court would soon be put to use. And from this moment on, his interests have been linked to Liu Ling.

Qin Hui is actually similar.

About ten days after the three emperors and concubines entered the enemy camp, the officials of the Song Dynasty issued an order to confer Liu Ling the title of King of Han and the concubine of the emperor, and rewarded them with fiefs, money, food and property.

In addition, today we also sent a large army to "gift" the Han army out of the country!

(End of this chapter)