Yelu Hongji is an adolescent child after all, and his rebellious character is inevitable, and it is also contradictory, and he felt that the Great Song Dynasty was nothing great yesterday, but the soldiers were stronger and the horses were stronger, and the Khitan warriors in his hands were also quite good.

But early this morning, after receiving the news of the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, he panicked......

Since Yeluzong Zhen died in battle for so many years, there has been almost no friction between Song and Liao, and the Great Song Dynasty's thoughts have been placed elsewhere, either in Western Xia, or in the Wa Kingdom, or in the development of the South China Sea.

There was no substantive conflict with the Liao Dynasty, but there was constant friction on the Song-Liao border, which had reached the point that the two countries were accustomed to it.

At most, when the Great Song Dynasty was attacking Western Xia, Yelu Hongji wanted to emulate the first emperor's personal expedition, but in the end, he didn't dare to touch the edge of the Great Song Dynasty, and he didn't pay attention to the matter of snatching the black clouds, after all, the Great Liao occupied the back of the land, and it was not a loss.

Now, the Great Song Dynasty raised troops to the north, with a full army of 400,000, this is not a joke, the slightest carelessness will be in danger of destroying the country, but what makes the courtiers happy is that even if the emperor panics, even if he is frightened, there is Empress Dowager Xiao to preside over the overall situation.

How so? It's also a blessing in the misfortune of Da Liao, right?

In the Xuanzheng Hall of the Liao Dynasty, almost all the courtiers in the court have arrived, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a critical juncture for the life and death of the Liao Dynasty, and the Song people waved 400,000 tigers and wolves to the north, and the momentum is comparable to the two northern expeditions of Emperor Taizong of the Great Song Dynasty.

Back then, Emperor Taizong only led an army of 200,000 to the Northern Expedition, and when he came to Zhao Zhen, the number of people actually doubled!

The 400,000 army is really a lot for the Liao people who have lost the land of Yanyun, and the palace tent army and the tribal army are the main force of the Liao army, and the regular number is only about 300,000, sometimes even less than 300,000.

In addition, a part of the troops were divided by Liaodong, and the number of troops that the Great Liao can mobilize at present is only more than 200,000 people, even if the whole country is mobilized with a conscription order, it can only gather 400,000 troops at most, but the reserve force of the Great Song Dynasty does not know how much.

These 400,000 people are not all the strength of the Song army, and the Liaochen Yelujia, who is familiar with the Great Song Dynasty, talked eloquently in the Xuanzheng Palace: "The army of the Great Song Dynasty is not as it appears on the surface, I don't know how many people there are, and most of them hide soldiers and civilians, and it is impossible to know if it is not a big war!" ”

His words convinced some people, after all, he Yelujia was a permanent envoy to the Great Song Dynasty, but because the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty was withdrawn from Shangjing City, he was also recalled from the Great Song Dynasty.

Otherwise, he Yelujia is afraid that he is still in the Beijing city of the Great Song Dynasty!

The identity of the Song envoy for more than ten years has made him know everything about the Great Song Dynasty better than the Liao people, if there is no restriction on bloodline, it can be said that he is an authentic Song man even with an accent!

But some people scoffed at his words, such as Yelu Hongji on the main hall, who was afraid of the Great Song Dynasty in his heart, but he wanted to deliberately show his strength and disdain: "Ridiculous, the Great Song Dynasty has reduced its soldiers every year, since Zhao Zhen became the emperor, not to mention the reduction of the Xiang army, even the number of forbidden troops is controlled at about 600,000, which is less than the number of people in the Zhenzong Dynasty, except for the army defending the city, he Zhao Zhen can only mobilize 400,000 troops at most!" ”

Everyone thinks about it, the emperor's words are not speculation, but an orderly analysis, it seems that the young emperor has matured a lot and understands the affairs of the Song Dynasty.

The 400,000 army is also all the troops sent by the Great Song Dynasty this time, but this is also much more than the 300,000 troops of the Great Liao, but the Liao Dynasty occupies a huge advantage, the Liao people are more familiar with their own land in the terrain, and the number of people can mobilize the country's strong labor to prepare for war to resist the invasion of the Song Dynasty.

As for the etiquette, Da Liao also stood at the highest point, Song and Liao were originally brothers, and they should have been at peace with each other, but now the Song Dynasty not only seized the land of Yanyun in Da Liao, but also sent troops to the Northern Expedition, intending to die in Liao!

In the eyes of the Liao people, the time and place are favorable, and they are all occupied, but Yelujia doesn't think so, he has lived in the Great Song Dynasty for many years, he frowned slightly, I don't know why the monarchs and ministers of the dynasty and other dynasties maintain such an optimistic attitude towards this war?

looked at the bead curtain, and finally Yelujia turned his head to look at Zhang Jian and said slowly: "Prime Minister Zuo, please allow Yelujia to elaborate." ”

Zhang Jian is the important minister who presided over this court meeting, because there is not only the emperor in the main hall, but also the queen mother who listens to the government, out of respect for the two, the court meeting should be presided over by the important ministers of the court.

This is the golden rule summed up by the Liao Dynasty when the Empress Dowager was hanging the curtain for many years, and sometimes the best way is to delegate power to people who are not the most respectable.

Zhang Jian naturally won't make much trouble for Yelujia, for this envoy who has been in the Great Song Dynasty for many years, his intelligence is even much more important than the intelligence of some secret spies, and Yelujia is an extremely smart person, otherwise he would not have been in the Great Song Dynasty for many years without being caught with any handles.

"Yelujia, as an envoy to the Song Dynasty, has lived in the Song Dynasty for a long time, and his knowledge is naturally not comparable to us, so let's talk about what is wrong with the Song people?"

Yelu Jia nodded slightly, turned to the head of Yelu Hongji and the Empress Dowager Xiao and saluted: "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, the army of the Song people is different from my Great Liao, it is recruited every three years, and discharged every three years. ”

This is known to many Liao ministers, and it is not a secret, Yelujia immediately spoke: "Now that decades have passed, how many veterans of the Great Song Dynasty have retired from the army?" How many veterans are hiding in the private sector to farm? They have bronze medals issued by the imperial court to verify their true bodies, and when the order of the Great Song Dynasty is issued, these people put on armor and pick up horizontal swords and crossbow arrows are a combatable soldier! ”

Everyone in the Xuanzheng Hall took a breath of cool air, Grandpa Tian! If it is calculated in this way, the reserve army of the Great Song Dynasty does not know how much it is?!

Yelujia spoke again: "These are only the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, if they are others, they will far surpass my Great Liao, the roads are all cement paved roads, and there are also cement roads in the capital, but compared to the Great Song Dynasty, there are very few, the cement roads of the Great Song Dynasty extend in all directions, connecting the states, the government, the accompanying capital, the Beijing division, and even the subordinate counties. ”

After saying so many Yelujia's words, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military in the Xuanzheng Hall were chilled, and Xiao Hui frowned and said, "When you say this, don't you let me sit and wait for Da Liao to die!?" ”

Yelujia shook his head and said, "King Han, don't worry, this matter won't end here!" Yelujia thinks that the Song people are bluffing, using the might of 400,000 troops to solve the chaos in eastern Liao, in order to let my Daliao transfer the 80,000 troops of Huanglongfu back to the southern front! ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone sneered disdainfully, how could it be possible that an army of 400,000 was covering for 100,000 people in Liaodong? You must know that 400,000 people marched into Daliao, and the amount required was a huge number of dollars per day, not to mention the news that Luanhe City had fallen, and Bei'anzhou and Zezhou were in danger.

Zhongjing Dading Mansion sent envoys to Shangjing for help one after another, if the Song people were not the Northern Expedition, wouldn't it be a big joke, he Zhao Zhenmo was not a fool? !

But it's a pity that the only one who sees through the truth is Yeluja, and even Zhang Jian doesn't believe what he says, because all this is just inference............

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