After seeing the place where Yelu Zong was really killed, everyone went to the side of the heavy artillery in the valley that was ready to be fired, and they all admired.

Zeng Gongliang said: "I didn't expect there to be such an artifact in the world, a round of cannons will destroy the world!" With such an artifact and such a military exploit, the imperial court should rebuild the military book. If it is not rebuilt, "The Seven Essentials of the Martial Arts" will become a joke in the eyes of the world. ”

Wang Qi said: "If Neihan is interested, then choose someone to rebuild." ”

Zeng Gongliang shook his head: "How to make it?" If you are not a person in the army, it is difficult to know the essence of it. ”

The crowd gathered around more than two dozen heavy guns, and they couldn't see enough. They have all seen artillery, but the artillery that killed the Khitan lord is naturally different.

Wang Qi said: "I heard that we are leaving, and we want to go to Dongshengzhou to personally command the battle of Hequ. You and I are the same year, and I am honored to have made this great achievement. Last night, Tang Chen picked up a poem and sent it to be made. ”

Du Zhongxiao took a piece of paper handed over by Wang Qi, and saw that it was a poem by Chen Ziang: Suddenly heard that the heavenly general was rampant. Returned to Loulan and returned to Shuofang City. Golden-outfitted war horses, white-feathered warriors. The stars and the moon open the heavens, and the mountains and rivers are camped. The evening breeze blows the painting corner, and the spring color is shining. Ning Zhi Ban Dingyuan is still a scholar.

After reading it, Du Zhongxiao hurriedly thanked him. Wang Jue is good at writing and calligraphy, although it is a record of other people's poems, the words are vibrant. The Khitan River Qushu Prefecture that he is about to go to is the land of Shuofang County, and this poem is also appropriate.

In that year, Wang Anshi lost the champion because of the words "son and friend", and the second place was Wang Qi, but he and Han Jiang were both officials because of Enyin, and finally the fourth Yang Ning replaced the champion. After ascending to the throne, Wang Jue has been serving as an important Qing official, although the official position at this time is not as good as Du Zhongxiao, but his status is not much worse. After going back, he is about to become the governor of the system, and he has risen to the top.

After seeing the heavy artillery, everyone left contentedly and took the train back to the capital to the Baode army. The report was sent to the capital, and the news spread, and the people of the capital were celebrating. The giant Khitan, whose shadow shrouded the Song Dynasty for decades, was finally swept away.

The new news that Yelu Chongyuan has been supported by Xiao Ge and proclaimed himself emperor in Datong Mansion in Xijing. Yelu Hongji was supported by important ministers and proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing Xijin Mansion. The Khitan was tense for a while.

Faced with this situation, Yelu Renxian finally sent a letter to Han Qi and Du Zhongxiao, willing to lead a large army to abandon Fengzhou. However, for his younger brother Yelu Yixian, he clearly refused to let Song Jun back. His thoughts, Han Qi and Du Zhongxiao, understood that they gave up Fengzhou and returned to Beijing to support Yelu Hongji and for official business. And if you put back your younger brother Yelu Yixian, it will be suspected of a private matter. In extraordinary times, he would rather his younger brother be a prisoner and talk about it later.

Yelu Jiao first followed the envoys who came, and returned to the capital together. With his brother, the Song Dynasty did not treat him harshly, and he was not even regarded as a prisoner, he was good at eating and drinking, and there were people to serve him. According to Han Qi and Du Zhongxiao's suggestion, after returning to Beijing, he will be given an official position and raised well.

Seeing everyone away, Du Zhongxiao cleaned up a little, and prepared to take heavy artillery and the rest of the soldiers and horses to send troops to Dongshengzhou.

Han sent out of the city and instructed his subordinates to bring wine to see Du Zhongxiao off. Raised his glass and said: "A scholar to be made, training in the west of Beijing, once ordered to fight, he will make immortal achievements." There is no great war here, but you should take possession of the cities, and guard the place. The rarest thing in the world is the hearts of the people, so to the north, since the late Tang Dynasty, the people have not seen the court soldiers and horses for two hundred years. When the system is properly appeased, the place is occupied, and the people are happy. ”

Du Zhongxiao took the wine, drank it all, turned over on the horse, and bowed his hand to Han Qi: "Take care of the minister." Yelu Chongyuan has been proclaimed emperor, and there should be no crime in the south of the Song Dynasty within a few years. Hedong Road is the foundation of Hequ Prefecture in the north, and there is no external trouble for a while, so it can be vigorously rectified. ”

Han Qi said: "I will stay in the Volcano Army for a few days, supervise the locality, and build the railway from the Baode Army." Hopefully, in a few months, there will be a train to Dongshengju. As long as the railroad is opened, those places will no longer be worry-free, and they will not be afraid of foreign attacks. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded and bowed to Han Qi: "The official has gone, and the resignation of the prime minister!" ”

After speaking, together with Shi Quanbin, he went north. Zheng Lian, the deputy commander of the artillery, commanded the soldiers and horses, and escorted the 20 Guang to Fengzhou, Dou Shunqing was in Yunneizhou, and Zhao Zi and Zhao Zi were in Dongshengzhou. The Khitan has given up this area, Fengzhou and Zhenwu County do not need to arrange heavy troops, and what matters now is to be afraid that the party will come to grab it. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "There are many party clans in the prefectures and counties in this area, and this matter has to be guarded against. ”

Liu Jidao: "The Heqing and Jinsu armies in the west were both built by the Khitan in recent years. When the city was founded, there were 500 households in each city, most of whom were Han Chinese. The Khitan army left, and these Han people are still there, which saves us a lot of effort. There are more than 30,000 people in our army, and how to arrange it is still waiting to be instructed. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "The most important thing now is the Tiande Army. Immediately ordered Zhao Zi to take the department to occupy it. The area around Chen Shengzhou was temporarily handed over to the cavalry garrison. As soon as the Khitan army left, the small tribes here were no big threat, and the order was not to harass them. ”

Liu Ji promised to immediately order someone to inform Zhao Zi, who was in the Heqing army, to take his troops to the Tiande army.

If Du Zhongxiao remembers well, this area is the middle part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the later generations, the section from Hohhot to Baotou. This area is suitable for both agriculture and animal husbandry, with the Yellow River flowing through it, and can be developed into an important agricultural area. For the civilization of the Central Plains, a variety of land, planting good land, is the foundation for civilization to persevere. If this area is developed, it will have the capital to prevent the grassland peoples from moving southward and expanding westward to the east.

During the Tang Dynasty, it was built here for several years to settle various ethnic groups who moved inward. In addition to the party, there are also Tuyuhun, Turkic, and Tatar tribes. After five generations of war, the agricultural population here has almost completely disappeared and has become a pastoral area. Now that the railway has been opened, it is no longer difficult for the Han people in the interior to move in, and there are conditions for large-scale development. Du Zhongxiao's means of camping field affairs are still there, and they should be able to develop.

The army is based on the people, only the army, there is no development, and it will be the same as the previous dynasties in the future, the Central Plains is in chaos, and it has become a happy plain for the nomads, and it has become a springboard for them to enter the Central Plains. The long-term way is to develop agriculture, support the armed forces, and complement each other between the military and the people.

At the foot of the Yin Mountain, by the Yellow River, is a springboard for the nomads from the northern steppe and the nomads from the northwest, and the Khitan ones are not here at all. The fundamental land of the Khitan is centered on Shangjing and Zhongjing, and the place occupied by the Khitan and Xi ethnic groups, that is, the Hulunbuir grassland and Liaodong land in later generations. It is precisely because of this that Yeluren was willing to give up and led his troops to seize Beijing.

A few days later, the Song army took over Fengzhou, Yunnei, Dongshengzhou, Jinsu, Heqing, Tiande, and their counties, and took over the Khitan territory in Hequ. This area is vast, but the population is very sparse, not as large as a large state in the interior, less than 10,000 households.

It was also at this time that Du Zhongxiao's new official position came down to reward military exploits. The Ministry of Rites Lang Zhongchao moved to the right to advise the doctor, and was knighted as the founding prince of Xuchang County. The founding prince is the highest title that an official can obtain without being a prime minister, and then it belongs to the privilege of the governor. Xuchang County is the name of Du Zhongxiao's hometown Xuzhou, which is a special honor, and he is the hometown.

The dispatch was changed to the Hequ Road and the strategic envoy and the capital deployment, and the envoy to set up the camp field. The newly established Hequ Road is a military road, which is under the east road of the river.

Although he is still under Han Qi on Hedong Road, from this time on, Du Zhongxiao has really become the commander of the aspect, monopolizing the military and political power, and allowing him to act cheaply. After Shi Quanbin was promoted to the festival by the regimental training, he was still Du Zhongxiao's deputy, and he was only one step away from the establishment of the festival.

All the officers of the Yingtianxiang Army took the former fake regent as their actual appointment, ranging from three to eleven seniors, and were super-relocated and awarded.

Liu Ji went straight through the rampant, was appointed as the regimental training envoy, and deployed the military post with the river meandering road, and the military position was still the commander of the battalion Tianxiang army.

Thirteen Lang and Yao Shouxin were directly promoted to Zhuang Mansion Envoy and Sixth Mansion Envoy to Yao County by the fake Zuo Servant, and the number of orders they promoted could not be calculated.

Yang Wenguang and Zhao Ziwen thought of the envoy to Yaojun, Dou Shunqing Luoyuan envoy to Yaojun, and the rest of the envoys were innumerable.

This is an unprecedented promotion, if it weren't for Du Zhongxiao's previous official position being too low, Shi Quanbin would have directly built a festival. Du Zhongxiao was only Lang Zhong before, and it was really impossible to be promoted to the sixth minister, and Shi Quanbin was a bit too much to be the deputy of the festival.

The soldiers below the officers were full of envoys, and the artillery, except for a few logisticians, had no effect on the combatants. In the current battalion field, there are no ordinary soldiers in the whole battalion, and it is not uncommon for all of them to be envoys. This army is already overflowing with officers and scarce soldiers.

Du Zhongxiao was worried that this situation would arise, and the reward system for sealing officials was unreasonable, resulting in a flood of officers. Everyone in the army is an officer, what kind of war can there be without soldiers? The difference between officers and soldiers should be positions and different duties, and should not be used as a substitute for waiting for officers.