On the eighth day of the first month of the second year of Xuanhe, there are many things that are more appropriate on this day on the yellow calendar, such as: marriage, acceptance, alliance, opening of the market, trading, setting up coupons, hanging plaques, sacrifices, praying for blessings, opening the light, making cars, hanging plaques, traveling, entering the house, and migration. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As for the taboo things on this day, there are very few, only three things: visiting the sick, starting the foundation and making beams, so today is also an auspicious day, the only fly in the ointment is that the yellow calendar does not indicate whether it is suitable for war today or ...... It is not advisable to go to war.

Baigou, also known as Baigou River, originates in the Taihang Mountains, passes through the eastern part of Shanxi, Zhangjiakou, Baoding and other regions in Hebei, and finally flows into Baiyangdian, from Tanggu into the sea, the river system water vein was formed before the Tang Dynasty, and is the boundary river between the Song Dynasty and the Liao State today.

It's just that it is now the last nine (that is, the third nine to the sixth nine), and the surface of the Baigou River is still frozen tightly.

Therefore, Han Jinbao, who rushed to the south bank of Baigou to garrison before the New Year's Pass, was very annoyed, and the 38,000-strong troops needed to defend the frozen river section more than 100 miles long, which was simply an impossible task.

What's even worse is that the dignified imperial chariot army now doesn't even have a chariot that can be used for combat, and there are only more than 100 single-wheel ox carts used to transport grain and grass materials in Qingzhou City, which is really a big joke.

However, Han Jinbao is not the kind of master who can be suffocated by urine, when even if he directly requisitioned all the more than 100 ox carts and coachmen for the military, he did not make a joke about using ox carts to build a car formation, but pointed out 10,000 horses to drive ox carts to the mountains near Qingzhou City in the south to cut wood, and built four half-mile wide, two miles long, and twenty miles apart on the south bank of Baigou before the thirtieth day of the lunar month, which can be regarded as the task of blocking the Baigou Baili River section has been roughly completed.

It's just that Muzha City may be able to temporarily resist a burst of Liao army attacks, but it can't stop the cold wind. Because for more than 100 years, the Song-Liao border has implemented a complete policy of clearing the wilderness, so within a radius of 50 miles along both sides of Baigou, except for the dense wild meadows that can be seen in spring and summer, the rest of the time is basically bare and clean.

In the more than 100 years since the signing of the Lanyuan Alliance, although there has been no major battle between Song and Liao, small-scale and low-intensity activities of "fighting the grass valley" and "counter-fighting the grass valley" have been staged back and forth on both sides of this boundary river.

Because the climate of the whole north is still a cold climate, the Baigou River, and some other boundary rivers to the west, the Juma River, are almost frozen in ten years. Therefore, every year after winter, as long as the river is frozen, the Liao army will often send a small team to the south to plunder, and the people of the Song realm have long been prepared, as soon as the winter comes, they will move their families into the border city to take refuge, and then go out of the city to farm after the river freezes in the spring of the next year.

Naturally, over time, within fifty miles south of Baigou, it has become an artificially created military buffer zone, not to mention the wood that can ignite fire, even the small stones that can be used to build an offensive cannot be found, so Han Jinbao had to forcibly requisition ox carts to go to the vicinity of Qingzhou nearly 100 miles away to cut down wood and build a village.

Fortunately, during the whole training, Huang Jie also counted dim sum, and taught the combat methods and formation methods of the chariot troops in detail, so the wooden gate city built by Han Jinbao is also considered to have some rules: the fence wall is divided into two layers inside and outside, and the outer city is not a traditional wooden fence wall, but a rammed earth frame built with wood, and then filled with soil to create an earthen wall with a height of one zhang and six feet. The second layer is the wooden city wall built with wood, the height is one zhang eight feet, there is a watchtower and a female wall, and the outer layer is separated by six zhang, and the corner of the wall also digs a deep pit, the pit is full of wooden thorns, the inner and outer two layers of the wall are coordinated with the defense, which can naturally play a role in strengthening the defense.

It's just that everything else is okay, that is, there is too little fuel in the camp, and this time it is a hurried march, and the baggage carried is also seriously insufficient, not to mention the cowhide tent, even the sackcloth tent has not been fully configured, and it has only been a few days, and more than one percent of the people in the imperial chariot army have suffered from frostbite of various degrees.

However, Han Jinbao is not to blame for this, not even the Privy Council or Tong Guan, and even the Zhao Guanjia...... Who called this Jin Liao's war suddenly had a shocking reversal in an instant.

In the end, what happened under the city of Linhuang Mansion on the ninth day of the first month of November, the Great Song Dynasty still seems to know nothing, and the only thing that can be sure is that the Liao lord Yelu Yanxi was indeed captured by Jin Guosheng. Zhao Youkai, the Song envoy who was stranded by the side of the gold lord Wanyan Aguta, not only sent someone to send a handwritten letter as evidence, but also generously attached the Daxu battle flag of the Liao Emperor as a certificate.

Then, the left wing of the imperial chariot army, which was originally ordered to go to Xiongzhou to assist in the defense, was hurriedly sent to such an unfortunate errand, using only 38,000 men and horses to defend the narrow river section of more than 100 miles, and it was still on the frozen river.

"Haqiu!"

Lin Chong raised his head and sneezed with the boss, reached out to wipe his nose, and then poked the firewood in the brazier with a fire chopstick. Although I saw that the fire was still strong and the smoke was very smoky, the temperature of the rising flame was still extremely low, although the iron armor on the chest was a little hot, but sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army with wind on all sides, I still felt a chill down my spine.

Han Jinbao stretched out his hand to pick up the clay pot on the side of the brazier, took the bowl and poured out a turbid rice wine, handed it to Lin Chong and said, "Commander Lin, let's drink a cup to warm up!" ”

Lin Chong shook his head and said with a smile: "A certain family is on duty now, and they don't dare to drink, so they drink by themselves!" ”

Han Jinbao saw Lin Chong's resolute expression, so he didn't say anything, he drank it all by himself, and then put down the clay pot and rubbed his jaw and said: "Commander Lin, although Baigou is frozen now, I have to prevent the Liao people from going south, but this Linhuang Mansion is newly broken, and the Liao people are only afraid that they are powerless, so why should they be so cautious?" ”

Lin Chong thought about it, then he also clenched his fists and said to the south: "I'm afraid that the official family has no deep meaning, I heard that I have gone to the northwest to order the northwest, and I want to transfer the old breed to be the ruler of the capital!" ”

This is a temporary military attache position newly established by the Privy Council in order to unify the command of the various armies going out on the expedition, and it will be abolished at the end of the campaign, which is equivalent to the post of commander-in-chief of the campaign in later generations. And the old breed is naturally no one else, it is the elder brother of the seed master, and the current official position is the Qinzhou defense envoy (actual position), the Baojing Army Festival Envoy (fictitious position), and the deputy commander of the Wei Qin Army and the Horse Army (honorary position).

It's just that Han Jinbao listened, but he glared and said, "How can the northwest be separated from people?" I heard that Li Qianshun's gang not only built a city in Rouwolf Mountain, but also built a fort and a fortress on the Qingshui River. ”

When Lin Chong heard this, he also looked worried, and couldn't help asking: "If the old breed is really in charge of the capital, it will be safe to attack Liao...... I heard that General Liu Fa is well versed in the art of war, if he guards it, it shouldn't be bad, right? (To be continued.) )