"Sneeze, sneeze, sneeze...... Who is cursing this official behind his back! "Seven hundred miles north of the fleet, Hong Tao is squatting on the water's edge to write and draw on a wooden stake, just three words, Baiyangdian!

Three days ago, from Nangong County, 30,000 new troops escorted 900 box cars, divided into three groups of front, middle and rear stretching for dozens of miles, and rushed into Mozhou, after crossing the Hutuo River in Zhenzhen, a large swamp suddenly appeared on the left side of the post road.

The withered yellow reeds are as far as the eye can see, and the locals call this place the burning car lake. Legend has it that when Yang Liulang was guarding Xiongguan, he used a strategy to lead the soldiers and horses of the Liao State to the swamp, ignited the reeds, and burned the sky and the earth was dark.

But Hong Tao knew that this was all a legend, and even if the Liao general was a brain-dead, it was impossible for the cavalry to enter such a swamp where it was difficult for people to travel on their legs. The Liao ** team did not bring so many cars when they were fighting, but they had a lot of new army box cars.

So the name is unlucky and must be changed. What's it called? According to the map, this place is in the south of Xiongxian County, where there is really a body of water, called Baiyangdian.

The name Hong Tao is not good at plagiarism, and he plagiarizes one at a time. Since it has a name, why bother thinking about it, the only thing you need to do is to nail a stake and write three words.

"My lord, General Miao sent a fast horse to report that the front army had crossed the Nanyi River and was assembling in the depression thirty miles south of Baigou Station. The eldest sister also assembled thirty miles east of General Miao, and sent scouts to block the road to Baigou. Before the font was finished, Wang Twelve came over, first put on a thick coat for his adoptive father, and then reported the military situation ahead.

"How far are we from Bazhou?" The three characters of Baiyangdian seem to be not ordinarily large, and the foreign characters are a little small, Hong Tao wants to put on a circle outside it, but unfortunately he still does not control the penmanship, and it is a little big.

"Less than twenty miles, this place was originally called Baiyang ......, which is much better than burning Chedian."

Wang Twelve's ability to pat on the back is eight streets away from Wang Er and Wang Shi, and twelve streets away from Chen Niang, even if it is not far from Wang Dabi, who has always been known for his straightforwardness, there is a big gap, and it is a bit of a pot that does not open which pot to mention. If you don't know the simplified Chinese characters of Yodo, don't mention it, but don't say it.

"Scrape off the words on the stake and write it again, remember, it's called Baiyangdian, don't miss a stroke! Lao Jiu ordered the troops to cross the Yishui first and then set up camp. ”

Writing has always been an eternal pain in Hong Tao's heart, the pen words are not good, the pencil words are not good, you said that in ancient times, you wrote the brush words, and Nima was not spiritual.

And this thing is not inherited, the children of the children's group are all written neatly with a brush under the guidance of Xu Donglai, even if the most inferior Wang Da writes it, he can make himself a popular mold depiction. The words are not good, Hong Tao doesn't feel blushing, but if he is not good, he is very unbalanced.

Bazhou, one of the main military towns established by the Northern Song Dynasty on the south bank of the Baigou River, was a pair of guards with Xiongzhou City, guarding the entire eastern part of the Song-Liao border.

Don't look at the length of the border between Hebei Road and Liaoguo, there are 700 miles, but there are only two roads that can be used for large troops to go south, Dingzhou-Zhendingfu in the west, and between Xiongzhou and Bazhou in the east.

The east of Bazhou is full of rivers, lakes and swamps, which is called Tangdian District, and the west of Xiongzhou is Baiyangdian Lake that stretches for dozens of miles, there is no road at all, only there is a fairly flat and dry passage between Xiongzhou and Bazhou.

The Northern Song Dynasty court was not very relieved, and also built a military town in the middle, called the Baoding Army, which is likely to be the Baoding of later generations.

The three military towns were separated by more than ten miles, firmly locking the road to the south. In addition to this road, there are ponds all over the east and west, much like the shrimp ponds and salt ponds of later generations, one after another, and finally there is a piece of land that is also planted with elm and willow trees.

Hong Tao has seen this kind of scene from the intelligence for a long time, but the text cannot describe 100% of the realistic situation, when you see it with your own eyes and immerse yourself in the scene, the feeling is completely different.

Now Hong Tao completely understands why the Liao cavalry has not gone south on a large scale for so many years, is he really satisfied with the trivialities of Sui Gong? Impossible, people's ** is unlimited, who wants to stay in the ice and snow of the Northern Dynasty and watch the prosperity of the south not moved?

It is really difficult to go south, as long as the forbidden army of the Northern Song Dynasty does not degrade by itself, no one who comes will easily break through this area where water is connected to water and trees are next to trees.

Even if you break through at a great cost, raise your eyes and look south, damn! It is still hundreds of miles wide of woods and paddy fields, and there are only one or two roads in total that can pass the brigade, but they were blocked by the Song army's walled forts and military towns, and they still had to use human lives to fill in the past.

In terms of courage and fierceness, a northern nomad is stronger than the Central Plains farming people, but if it enters the state of fighting for the population, all the nomads will not be able to fight the Central Plains farming people.

Did the methods that the monarchs and ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty summed up from the lessons of countless failures work? It works, but it doesn't happen overnight.

In addition to time, it also needs to pay a huge amount of financial and material resources, and the Northern Song Dynasty, which has played with its life to develop trade, is also dragged down by this huge defense system and is on the verge of collapse.

But there's no other way than that, except to make technology leaps and bounds, so that infantry can compete with cavalry, such as the new army now. It's a pity that there were no traversers in the original history, and there could be no new army, and civilization was eventually swallowed up by barbarism.

"My lord, there is a group of forbidden troops coming from the direction of Bazhou City, about a hundred people!" When there were still five miles to go, the new army stopped advancing and began to camp in formation. Hong Tao was standing on the lookout platform of the box truck array, looking around at the scenery of the past and the present, and the shouts of Wang Twelve came from below.

"You bring someone over and tell them who we are and what we are going to do, and let them obediently go back to Bazhou City and don't get in the way, otherwise this official will use the holy decree to behead people."

It seems that this kid still hasn't learned a long lesson, and he was just about to brew a poem or something that was interrupted by him again. Since you're so willing to take care of things, go deal with the Forbidden Army.

This work was done by Jiang Erlang or Gang Li before, and I really miss them and Gan Lianglu. The prairie with mountains, water, and desert is much more beautiful and free than this swamp, and the sky is much higher.

When you are bored, you can ride a horse to hunt in the mountains, and when you are idle, you can go fishing in the river, even if you take the children to fill the rat hole with a bucket on the grassland, it is better than risking your life to drill into the enemy's pile.

"My lord, the other party said that it was Zhang Qi, the pacification envoy of Hebei Road, who had just arrived from General Miao, and he had to meet my lord......" After a while, Wang Twelve ran back again, and things still didn't work out neatly.

"Yo, why is he here...... Is there anything unusual nearby? "Zhang Qi can be regarded as an acquaintance, and he has been with Daimyofu Road for more than two years, and the relationship is lukewarm.

The news of his promotion had already been passed on by Wang Shi, so what were you doing when you didn't sit in the Daimyo's Mansion and send armaments and materials to the border? At this time, Hong Tao was covered with thorns, and the slightest wind and grass would blow up.

"There's nothing wrong with it, only Master Zhang is alone in front of the formation, and the rest of the forbidden army is a hundred paces away." Wang Twelve shook his head, and then looked at the special forces standing near the left, and really didn't think that a civilian official could pose any threat to his adoptive father.

"Go and invite Master Zhang into the camp to meet!" If you don't threaten it, you have to be careful, if you are killed by someone at this time, you will be unjustly killed. There is no problem for an old man like Pei Ying to kill himself one-on-one, who dares to guarantee that Zhang Ji will not have kung fu such as family heirloom stunts, and the heart of defense is indispensable.

"The prince said goodbye without saying goodbye, let the official wait here!" Soon Zhang Kai's bass voice came from outside the account, he is not only handsome, but his voice is also very magnetic, and he studies well, God is really unfair.

"I am under the trust of His Majesty, and I have no choice but to act cautiously, and I hope that the old man will forgive me. Are you going to ......" Hearing Zhang Qi's name for himself, Hong Tao calmed down a little, Gong and Zhang, both are honorific titles for people with status, and they will not be used perfunctory.

Since people are so polite to themselves, they have to be more friendly to themselves, and they are still courteous, but as soon as Zhang Qi appeared, Hong Tao felt that something was not right.

He actually wore a sword on his waist, and he was heroic, compared with his own camouflage uniform, just like the regular army and the people standing together, was he deliberately here to make himself embarrassed?

"I have heard about the affairs of the DPRK and China, so don't mention it. However, the use of troops against the Northern Dynasties is not child's play, and it is necessary to prepare prudently and think in the long run. Don't hide it from the prince, this official is here to ask for advice on the method of sending troops. ”

Zhang Qi reversed the calm style when he was Cao Si, as if clothes could really change a person, even his sitting posture had the air of a soldier, and he was straight to the point when he spoke.

“…… I don't know what Lord Zhang means by this? "Hong Tao is a little confused, we don't know each other very well, is it appropriate to ask such a confidential thing when you come up?

"The prince is not strange, he knows that the new army is brave and good at fighting, and it is not a problem to have 3,000 enemies and 100,000. However, the Northern Dynasty is not as good as the Xia Dynasty, and Xijin Mansion is not Liangzhou. There are not only Khitan cavalry but also Youzhou foot soldiers here, operating for decades, the fortified city built is not lost to this dynasty, and it is inappropriate to rush into the army alone. If you can hesitate for a few days, when the forbidden army of the three armies is ready to stop, you will have a better chance of winning if you move north together. ”

Zhang Qi did not put on the posture of Hebei Road Jingluo to appease the envoy since he entered the door, and his words were polite and discussed, and his posture could not be said to be very low, at least it was equal, and even the things within the right were taken out to solicit opinions, not an order.

"I wonder how long these days are?" Hong Tao felt that if there was a forbidden army to cooperate with the attack, it would not necessarily be a bad thing, there was no too close contact to fight each other, even if it couldn't help, it could contain a lot of Liao ** team, and it would not drag itself back, this matter was discussed.

"Uh...... It will take more than 20 years. This matter was too sudden, and horses, grain, grass, and people had to be arranged. This question was quite acute, which made Zhang Ji look stunned.