"Dashuai, it really doesn't matter?!"

Chong Jianzhong is not questioning, but cooperating with Chong Ge to elicit his explanation.

He glanced at his nephew with satisfaction and said, "In winter, the water is dry, and whether there is water or not is still two words." Even if there is water, it will not be able to flood here. Where did the water go last summer? Now the weather is cold, once the river water flows to the plain, it will soon freeze, and now the river embankment is dug, and it can be frozen tomorrow, and you can still run horses, what are you afraid of? ”

The words of the planting were immediately spread out, and the soldiers in the battalion settled down a little.

Chong Jianzhong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but his mood was still gloomy.

It's not that I haven't considered the possibility of the Liao people digging the embankment in advance, otherwise they wouldn't have found a high ground to camp far away. But now that I really found that the Liao people were going to dig up the embankment, I still wouldn't be in a good mood after all.

As usual, he walked around the campfires with his wine bowls, but the atmosphere in the camp was far less warm than before.

Slowly walking past the piles of bonfires, Chong Ge asked Chong Jianzhong: "Nineteen, when do you think the Liao people will break the embankment and release water?" ”

"The official army began to attack the city...... "Chong Jianzhong thought about it, "or when he went to seize the embankment." ”

When the embankment breaks and releases water, it is always necessary to choose a good time, so that the Song army can be flooded in together for a big victory, and it is impossible to start digging the embankment when you hear the slightest wind.

He nodded, "That's it. ”

"But the Liao people should find out that we know that they are preparing to break the embankment." In such a situation, as long as there is a little wind and grass, the Liao people will immediately start to burst the embankment. Chong Jianzhong asked Chong Ge in a low voice, "Fifth uncle, what should I do?" ”

"Let's take a detour tomorrow and head southwest first. After getting up to the embankment, go northwest. Chasing behind Yeluyuli, it is impossible to be drowned over there. ”

There are also several guides who are very familiar with the geography of Xingling, some who took refuge after the fall of the Western Xia Kingdom, some who were abandoned by Yelu Yuli under Pule City, and spies who came to Xingling to investigate as merchants in the past. The geography of Xingling is generally understood.

Chasing Yelu Yuli closely, he will be able to catch up with the decisive battle between him and the party members. Even if there is some accident - there is no need to go back from the Lingzhou River, there is no human population for hundreds of miles - go back from Qingtongxia, and you can even collect grain on the spot.

However, he has no plans to think about failure now, and under the night sky on Chinese New Year's Eve, he laughed loudly: "I still want to be a fisherman." ”

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After running back for six or seven hundred miles in one go, Yelu Yuli knew that the soldiers under his command were about to be unable to support him, but he knew that the most dangerous time had passed.

Tens of thousands of accounts of the various clans who moved to Xingling, although this time they brought a lot of soldiers to the south, but in fact, it was only three Ding who sent out one soldier, and there were many Ding Zhuang left. It is true that the party members were caught off guard, and it did make the party members destroy a lot of clan accounts, but Anhua Prefecture - that is, Xingqing Mansion - still gathered the people in the state in time and recruited them into the city to wait for help. Until Yelu Yuli came back to help, Anhua Prefecture was still safe and sound.

The party members were twenty miles away. Now that the army is outside, the heavy army is inside, and they are almost trapped. As long as the inside and outside are surrounded, the slightest counterattack after the remnants of Western Xia will come to naught.

"Let's rest for two days." In a walled fort that had just been broken by the party members, Yelu Yuli gave the order in a loud voice, "When you regain your strength, you will go to see Ren Duo Ling Ding and Ye Xiaoma!" Let them see the courage of my big Liao man!! ”

Dachangji shouted loudly and angrily joined the generals in the bullfight, but when he came out of the tent and looked at the night sky where he couldn't see the moon, he asked his father in a low voice: "I don't know where the water is in Xiping Mansion [Lingzhou]?" ”

"It's enough to trap the planters. If it drags on for three or five days, it will be enough for us to kill all this group of party members! Dagong Ding's tone was as cold as the wind. The capital of Western Xia was the territory of his clan, and it was attacked by the party, and I don't know how many people died, let alone how many livestock were lost.

The ice in the canal was so thick that he wasn't sure how much water would be released by digging up the section of the embankment that had just been repaired. But when the levee was repaired this year, Dagongding saw with his own eyes that the riverbed was higher than the ground outside the embankment, and as long as there was water under the ice, it was sure that it could be released, and it was just a matter of how much.

Dachangsi asked hesitantly: "But the seeds have all caught up, will Zhao Long of Mingsha City follow ......?"

"Whether we come or not, we must first win over the thieves in front of us." Dagong Ding looked at the night sky, and his voice was cold, "There is only one, there are two." ”

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Under the same gloomy sky, Rindo Zero Ding also looked at the night sky.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, he said without looking back: "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, is this considered a year?" ”

The Western Xia used the calendar of the Song people, and during the New Year, they still had to be reunited and kept the New Year, which was the same as the Han people. But Ye Xiaoma didn't have a good mood, "It's already a desperate bet, what year is it going to be?" ”

Ren Duo Lingding turned around and chuckled, "Still worried? ”

"Can you not be worried?" Ye Poma asked rhetorically.

At the beginning of the breakthrough through the Bronze Gorge, the fight went smoothly. The Liao people were scattered and completely defenseless, unable to resist and force the army to the north. However, after the Liao people reacted, the resistance became fierce. Xingqing Mansion has not been taken yet. To be precise, Renduo Lingding did not plan to attack Xingqing Mansion at all, but after a trial, he began to wait for the Liao army to return to the division.

Yelu Yuli came back in a mess, and he didn't have a good rest for six or seven hundred miles, his morale was low, and his horsepower was also greatly consumed. But don't look at the old soldiers of the division now, but as long as they rest for a few days and get back to their senses, it will be another 10,000 elites.

Ren Duo Ling Ding was calm, but before the decisive battle of life and death, he couldn't see the slightest confusion, "Do you know where Yelu Yuli is stationed?" ”

Ye Xiaoma paused for a while before sighing, "...... Of course, I know the way. ”

"What's there to worry about?" Ren Duo Ling Ding smiled and asked, "Isn't it as expected?" ”

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Lu Huiqing is in Xiazhou.

The sumptuous but rough Chinese New Year's Eve dinner did not suit his appetite, but after eating a few pieces of barbecue and drinking some wine, the current Shaanxi Xuanfu envoy returned to the back hall to rest.

Leaning over to look at the giant sand table spread on the table, Lu Huiqing's mood was as deep as the night.

What to do? In front of Lu Huiqing is a dilemma.

Is it an endorsement for the seed to go alone? Or do you admit that you failed to control this mad dog?

A choice had to be made - who let the seed go after Xingling? It's no longer possible to chase it back.

When he heard that he was leading his troops north, Lu Huiqing had the intention of cutting people. If the seed is in front of him now, Lu Huiqing will never hesitate.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary Wenchen, this is completely an opportunity to gain fame. Leave the angry Yelu Yixin to the Son of Heaven, the Empress, and the Zaisuke in Tokyo to deal with, and he only needs to enjoy the credit of seizing the Xingling.

But Lu Huiqing can't do that. Since his goal is the prime minister, he must consider the problem from the perspective of the prime minister. The power to act cheaply also comes with a corresponding responsibility.

With his hands propped up on the sand table, Lu Huiqing silently looked at the desert and mountains on the sand table. The sound of firecrackers outside the window was deaf.

On this Chinese New Year's Eve, he had to make a choice!

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When Lu Dalin and You Xing pushed the door in, Xie Liangzuo was sitting at the table.

"Why haven't you slept yet?"

You Xing asked. At the banquet just now, Xie Liangzuo left the table first because he was too strong to drink.

Xie Liangzuo raised his head: "I can't sleep." ”

"So you ask the good luck?" Lu Dalin looked at the yarrow spread on the table, and shook his head disapprenously, "If you really want divination, it's better to burn turtle shells, isn't it fashionable lately?" ”

"It's also idle." Xie Liangzuo said suddenly.

Lu Dalin frowned and said: "Shao Kangjie wanted to teach Mr. Bochun the study of mathematics in the past, but Mr. did not accept it. Do you want to learn from the Kang Festival? ”

"It's not that I can't accept it, Mr. said that if you want to know how to do it, you have to work for twenty years, how can you get as much time?!" You Xing corrected, "The younger brother once heard Mr. Zheng Shu say that it was in the early years of Xining. ”

"In the early years of Xining, how old is Mr. Bochun?" Add me a few years, fifty years to learn, you can be no bigger'. The heart of the gentleman is in the change of the saint, is it in the number of techniques? ”

At the end of the year, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi returned to Luoyang. More than a dozen disciples also went to Luoyang with them. Now they all live in a small temple in Luoyang City, which is very close to Ercheng's mansion. On Chinese New Year's Eve, we gathered together for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. After the New Year, they were ready to go to Beijing with Cheng Hao.

Xie Liangzuo is one of them. He was about to go to the capital, but he always felt that there was chaos ahead. I couldn't help but take the yarrow and wanted to take advantage of a hexagram and ask about the good luck.

However, the art of divination has never been valued by the disciples of Chengmen, and even despised it, hearing Lu Dalin say this, Xie Liangzuo raised his hand and wanted to brush away the hexagram that had been occupied.

"Wait!" You Xing took a step forward, looked at the hexagram composed of yarrow on the table, his face changed, and he changed his face, and he exchanged it with Shangxun, "This is not the Zhongfu hexagram?!" There is a wind on the sawa. The gentleman was sentenced to death in prison. This hexagram is not good! ”

Xie Liangzuo's hand stopped, and he sighed lightly: "It's 'Hanyin ascending to the sky'......"

You Xing's face was even more ugly.

The upper ninety-one of the Zhongfu hexagram - 'Hanyin ascends to the sky', and the hexagram is 'chastity and fierceness', as if it says, 'How can it be long?' Speaking of which, Cheng Hao is the prince's teacher, and he talks about Zishantang, isn't it literal 'Hanyin ascends to the sky?' There is no need to mention the annotations.

"What about Zhongfu? It's just that 'the will has not changed'. Li Shi Dachuan, Li Zhen. Lu Dalin scoffed, "That is, the cloud 'has it but not Yan', and it is enough to be single-minded." The ancestors have clouds, 'people are impermanent, and they cannot be witch doctors.' But if there is perseverance, why do you need to be a witch doctor? ”

Waving his sleeves and messing up the yarrow on the table, Lu Dalin said resolutely: "Don't occupy it!" ”

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Wang Anshi had just fallen asleep, and he didn't care about the vigil or anything. Now it's about going to bed and waking up on time. Although he was worried about the situation in the northwest, even if the Liao invaded on a large scale, Wang Anshi did not think that he could win the Great Song Dynasty, which was in full swing. The only hope is that if only the Son of Heaven could recover.

Cai did sit with his wife and concubines and children, and he was already the prime minister, and he was not dissatisfied. The rest is how to keep the position of power for a long time. Looking at the words from the torture and forgiveness, the old party in Luoyang is already a dead tiger, and they are honest one by one, and it is estimated that the queen scared them. The real opponent is the colleague who can be seen every day when you look up.

Zhang Dan drank leisurely. The war in the northwest did not disturb his interest, on the contrary, it put him in a good mood. After becoming a Xuanfu envoy, it is difficult for Lu Huiqing to continue to serve as a privy envoy whether he fails or succeeds, and next year's Xifu will naturally have the final say. As for the Liao people, he didn't worry about it at all, didn't he just fight a battle, Zhang Dian didn't think he would lose!

Zeng Buxin had recently arrived in Beijing and had not yet obtained his official residence. In the south of the city, sitting alone under the lamp, looking at the transcripts, the notebooks and the copies of the old files. In the two months after the suburbs, internal and external turmoil, and changes in the state and politics made outsiders scratch their heads. Zeng Bu knew that he had to grasp the movements inside and outside the court as soon as possible, and his peers were all big worms that ate people and didn't spit out bones, and they couldn't be negligent at all.

Su Song looked at the starry sky, and the newly made telescope he commissioned was about to be built, and it would be delivered to him in a few days, and when the time came, he would be able to immerse himself in the endless sea of stars. However, the most important thing next year is Nature, Han Gang wants to promote Qi science, but what Su Song wants to do most is to use this journal to communicate with his peers.

Han Jiang, Zhang Qi, and Xue Xiang each have their own thoughts, but they are looking forward to the new year.

But on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the deep palace was as cold as ice.

Zhao Ji, who was seriously ill and dying, showed no signs of recovery at all, and naturally no one had the heart to spend the New Year. Empress Xiang took all the concubines and a pair of children, toasted the emperor on the sickbed, and sent them all back to their respective residences, and she was the only one who stayed.

The night was getting darker, and Queen Xiang, who had no intention of festivity, also fell asleep.

Yang Jian in the Funing Hall was on duty, half-asleep and half-awake by the bed. Open it for a while, close it for a while, and seize all the time to rest. But when he closed his eyes again, they suddenly opened them, and he seemed to see something.

It wasn't an illusion, Yang Jian rubbed his eyes and stared intently at Zhao Ji's fingers. After a moment, his eyes widened, "Official...... The official family can move!! ”

He jumped up and shouted, "The official family can move!" The official family can move!! ”

Empress Xiang woke up suddenly, only a little dazed, and threw herself on the side of the bed, looking at the emperor who had suddenly recovered a little, she couldn't help herself excitedly: "Hurry up and announce Master Han!" Hurry up and announce the imperial doctor! ”