Step by step, Zhao Long walked calmly onto the south gate of Xingqing Mansion.

Wisps of green smoke were still rising from all over the city, and the big drums of the seeds were already hunting and flying on the top of the city.

Walking higher and higher on the ladder, the whole picture of Xingqing Mansion is becoming more and more clear. There are not many buildings left in the city for nearly twenty miles that are still intact. Dozens of squares divided by wide streets are filled with white and black pillars of smoke rising into the air. There were no human voices, no more than a few figures, only the terrible sound of the wind blowing away the smoke from time to time.

The city is dead.

Zhao Long couldn't help but flash this sentence in his heart.

He did not catch up with the battle to capture Xingqing Mansion, let alone the previous battle in which the Planters United Party defeated the Liao army. But this doesn't mean that he doesn't know how Lu Dao Chongfu captured Xingqing Mansion.

Xingqing Mansion is a rare big city in the west, when the name of Yuan Hao set the capital at this time, for the face of the big white country to expand to Dali, enough to accommodate 300,000 soldiers and civilians in the city, only less than 200,000 people live, there are many places even for vegetable fields, fish ponds to fill, several barracks of the school field, the area can be about the same size as the square in front of the Zichen Palace. Dagong Ding led his people to migrate here, and the entire Bohai tribe only occupied a small part of the city.

Today, including all the people of all ethnic groups who fled into Xingqing Mansion, the total is only seventy or eighty thousand, accounting for less than half of the city. Although the party members in the city are dead and fleeing, there are still many hiding in the middle. Needless to say, they had a deep blood feud with the Liao, and when Chongge, Renduo Lingding, and Ye Poma began a decisive battle with the Liao, they managed to set fire to the city. First there were uninhabited neighborhoods, then temples with heavy buildings, then deep houses and compounds where people lived, and finally even the barangtun where grain and grass were hoarded was burned.

Most of the soldiers who could go into battle were taken away, and the remaining troops in the city could only hold the six gates and the palace. Relying only on the old and weak, women and children, how can they stop the party members who are determined to take revenge and know geography well? After the end, even the royal palace of Xingqing Mansion was burned to ruins.

Before the fire, the entire royal city was not destroyed. It's not that the Liao people deliberately kept it, but there was no time, before the Grand Duke Ding led the troops to enter, the Liao army occupying this place only disposed of the taboo things. After the arrival of the Grand Duke Ding, he directly blocked the entire royal city, and he lived in the house of Liang Yi, the former minister of Western Xia. However, the fire of the remnants of the party members turned the inside and outside of the royal city into ashes, and the last symbol of the Great White Kingdom no longer existed.

When the soldiers arrived at the city of Xingqing Mansion, the city was already in flames, and the Liao people in the city had already opened the north gate and fled. When I entered the city, I didn't even spend any effort.

Zhao Long, who was already standing on the top of the city wall, could not see any complete buildings except for the city walls and street bridges under his feet. It's just that for a Song person who was born in Kansai, how can he feel sorry for this city soaked in the shame of the Song people? In addition to the excitement, Zhao Long regretted that he was not able to participate in the battle to destroy the city.

When he received the military order from the Marshal's Mansion, the party members in Qingtongxia had already left for several days, and Zhao Long immediately went north without hesitation, but he still didn't have time to catch up with this battle.

Standing at the door of the enemy building, Zhao Long cleared his throat, and then said respectfully: "Zhao Long pays a visit to the captain." ”

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Lu Huiqing has already placed his handsome mansion in Pule City.

Qu Zhen, the general under his account, was still preparing to march north to Xingling, and the soldiers and horses mobilized from the Yongxing Army and Huanqing Road had only reached less than one-fifth, and they had already filled this small military city - as for the elite soldiers in the Yanyan Road, they went to support the empty Yinxia Road, so as not to be taken by the Liao army.

Now in the north of Hengshan, even the small soldiers who hold 600 Wenkou in a month know that the new privy envoy and Xuanfu envoy is the big backstage of the fifth lieutenant, and the general manager dares to go north to attack Liao with the permission of Lu Xianggong.

A few days earlier, Lu Xianggong sent someone to inform Zhao Long on Jingyuan Road, ordering him to lead his troops north, so that he could support the fifth lieutenant. This happened to be issued on the day when the news of the north exit of the Dangxiang people in the Qingtong Gorge was learned, and there was no delay at all - starting from the Lingzhou River, as long as you cross the Baili Mountain Trail to the west, you can reach Mingsha City at the southern end of the Qingtong Canyon. The path was difficult for the army to pass, but it was easy for a few messengers to get through.

In the past two days, all the troops that the Xuanfu Division can mobilize for a while have been mobilized, and they have put on a posture of taking all the Xingling.

This is revenge for the Liao people breaking the alliance, and they dare to tear up the agreement just signed to attack the border cities of the Emperor and Song Dynasty.

The soldiers of the Western Army, who had just destroyed the enemy of life and death, but fell short because of the cunning of the Liao people, admired Lu Huiqing's courage, and praised Lu Xianggong both inside and outside the words.

But the seed Pu and the seed master are worried, they know a lot more than the soldiers below, and naturally they will not be concealed by Lu Huiqing's gesture.

"I've already sent a letter to Tokyo City, so I don't know if Master Han can understand." Chongpu said to his cousin beside him. On the way to the Shuaifu, his face was as heavy as his footsteps.

His father committed a taboo that almost all scholars couldn't bear, and even if he was as close as Han Gang, it was not very likely that he would take action to protect his family.

The mood in the seed master relaxed a little: "Didn't the fifth uncle also say it? Now although the court is a faction that changes the law, the old party is eyeing it, as long as it wins this time, the princes in the court will have to be jealous if they want to deal with it strictly. When the war with the Liao people starts, don't you have to let the fifth uncle out of the mountain? ”

Chong Pu shook his head silently. This is to gamble, which is deeper between the gambler's fear of the martial artist and the dislike between the old and new parties.

But his father has always been a good gambler, but his gambling luck has always been bad. I lost again and again, but every time I saw an opportunity, I couldn't help but take risks and gamble.

It's just that there is such a father, what can a son do?

"Brother Seventeen, don't worry!" The seed master cheered for his cousin, "Lu Xianggong has already admitted the matter of sending troops to rejuvenate the spirit, and he is the first to block the charge." ”

Chong Pu tugged at the corners of his mouth and smiled. What the planter said is indeed true.

Transferring Zhao Long to the north is tantamount to sending him to support the planters. Even the actions of the planters, with this one thing, are equivalent to helping endorse.

Lu Huiqing can be said to take the whole thing over, regardless of merit or responsibility.

Chong Pu was naturally happy to see this, he was already ready to be affected by his father, and he could no longer lead the army, and even his uncles and brothers might be transferred to idle positions until many years later.

But now that Lu Huiqing endorses his father's actions, if the court wants to blame it, the board will hit Lu Huiqing, as for the charges of acting alone and raising troops in vain, although it can't be concealed from the court's Zaifu, it can be perfunctory on the surface.

But after all, it's only on the surface. There are many swords, guns, swords and halberds in the dark, and I don't know how many there will be in the future.

When they arrived, the two brothers were immediately passed in.

"Can Lubu Feijie, who just entered the city, see it?!" Lu Huiqing smiled heartily, "Master Wang has captured Xingqing Mansion!" ”

I've heard about it before. This good news was already predictable two days ago, after the news of the defeat of the Liao people in the decisive battle came.

They bowed in unison and saluted: "Congratulations on Xuanfu for this honor!" ”

"It's not my work, it's Ling Zun's work." Lu Huiqing shook her head and said to Chong Pu, the smile between the corners of her mouth was full of sarcasm.

Chong Pu said: "The whole trust Xuanfu is strategizing, and there is a merit in family strictness." ”

The sarcasm in Lu Huiqing's smile became heavier. After a few more words, he motioned for the two to stand down, and their faces immediately became gloomy.

For people like Lu Huiqing, the word incompetence makes him unacceptable than any crime. At this point, instead of admitting the responsibility of a royal majesty who is not strict and becoming a laughing stock among scholars, it is better to take risks and take all the responsibilities. Of course, the credit or crime for defeating the Liao people will also fall on him.

After coming to Pule City, Lu Huiqing made no secret of the importance he attached to the cultivation of Pu and the cultivation of teachers, and Li Qing, who was basically left aside, also praised him greatly.

Even though he was eager to dig out the graves of Chongfang and Chong Shiheng in Zhongnan Mountain, Lu Huiqing still had a gentle smile, and inspected the small Pule City on the first day of entering the city, and went to Yaode City not far away on the second day.

Now this arrangement has finally achieved some results, whether it is recognized or not, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the first case of regaining land from the hands of the Liao people was made by him Lu Huiqing.

It's just a nest in my heart, but I can't get rid of it.

'It's a big deal to go to the south and turn over as me in a few years. In the future, once I raise troops to attack Liao, who can stop me from returning to the dynasty...... Merit is merit! ’

Lu Huiqing comforted herself, but she still gritted her teeth in her heart.

"Privy." A staff member suddenly handed over a manuscript.

After just one glance at Lu Huiqing, he could see that this was the report that was sorted out a few days ago to record the process of defending the city. In order to achieve success on the surface, Lu Huiqing has been doing things with a smiling face these days, and she is so angry in her heart that she doesn't have the heart to listen to the children and nephews of the seed family boasting about themselves. He had received this record a few days ago, but he had only glanced at the casualty figures and the merits he had won, and he had not even glanced at the rest of the text.

But on the page that was turned over, a few words drawn by the staff immediately attracted Lu Huiqing's attention: "Rocket? Flying muskets? ”

As the founder of the Weapons Prison, Lu Huiqing has enough interest and curiosity about any new weapon.

"Where's the thing?" He asked his staff.