(In March of the third year of Yongxi, Cao Bin went from Henan to the north and sent the vanguard Li Jilong to seize Gu'an and attack Xincheng, and headed straight to Zhuozhou. The Khitan's garrison was named Hes, who had already been killed by Li Jilong; and the Khitan troops collapsed and gathered again, surrounding the 300 Mi Xin's troops who came from the east to support him. Mi Xin held a big sword and broke through the siege. Fortunately, Cao Bin personally led his troops to join forces inside and outside to defeat the enemy in the northeast of Xincheng, and then led Zhuozhou.

Tian Chongjin's men and horses marched south of Feihukou and encountered the enemy. The main general of the Khitan, named Dapengyi, was appointed as the "Southwest Recruitment Envoy" and led the troops to resist. Tian Chongjin himself arranged an array in the east and ordered his general Jing Si to detour to the west and take advantage of the dusk to attack the enemy's formation. The Khitan soldiers' positions were on a high ground and rushed down. After gaining a geographical advantage, the Song army suffered a great loss. They fought for several days and went to each other. Jing Si thought of a plan and sent two hundred people to set up flags along the road. At the same time, they led all their subordinates to quickly move towards the enemy's formation and scold and challenge.

Dapeng Yi set up troops on the mountain, and saw the continuous flags on the road from afar. He thought that the heavy troops on the back of the Song army had arrived; he was probably defeated and was ready to retreat. Tian Chongjin took advantage of his discouraged moment and rushed to attack. The Khitan fled and Dapeng Yi captured the Song army alive. So Feihukou and Lingqiu Khitan guards surrendered in the wind. Jing Si fought a very beautiful victory.

So Tian Chongjin took advantage of the victory and turned north of Feihukou, and made a lot of achievements; Pan Mei, on the fourth route, also fought very well, entering from Xixing in Gouzhu Mountain, crossing Yanmen Pass, breaking the enemy Huanzhou, and entering Weishuozhou. The Khitan garrisons in these two places surrendered the city. Then they conquered Yingzhou and Yunzhou, cutting off the Khitan's way of aid. Unfortunately, Cao Bin suffered a huge defeat with heavy losses.

Before Cao Bin and the generals went to war, they visited the emperor and said goodbye; the emperor had made clear instructions on his progressive strategy.

"Pan Mei and Yang Ye should march quickly and go straight to Yunshuo, but the action should be hidden. Cao Bin is going to be 100,000 soldiers, so he might as well make a big fuss and say that he will take Youzhou. Move slowly, and be scrupulous, and do not be allowed to advance lightly. In this way, the Khitan will use large troops to rescue Youyan, and they will not care about the states behind the mountain."

This is a strategy to attack the west. Cao Bin's mission is to lure the enemy into depth and cover Pan Mei and Yang Ye with elite troops to attack Huan, Shuo, Ying, Yunyun provinces behind Taihang Mountain. However, Cao Bin's subordinates did not understand the profound meaning of the emperor, especially the vanguard Li Jilong, who was quick to advance and defeated the enemy. When he arrived in Beijing for a victory, the emperor could not help but doubt, thinking that Cao Bin's advance was too fast, which violated his steadfast admonition and could not achieve the goal of luring the enemy.

When the troops arrived in Zhuozhou, they were about to form a close contact with Yelu Xiuge; if they were brave enough to move forward and go down in one fell swoop, it would be a good thing, but Cao Bin's troops were unable to advance.

The main reason is that he met a powerful opponent. Yelu Xiuge had not many troops and could only stand for help. He did not dare to fight during the day, but just bluffed. At night, he sent light cavalry to harass him everywhere. When he met the Song army who was patrolling, he could eat it. He was not polite to attack, and had a great influence on the morale of the Song army. The most ruthless move was to ambush the troops between the forest and the Mang, and to cut off the food route of the Song army. After ten days, Cao Bin's army would not continue his food and could no longer stay in Zhuozhou. He retreated along the Baigou River to Xiongxian south of Zhuozhou, waiting for food.

However, Cao Bin's subordinates saw that Pan Mei and Tian Chongjin won battles one after another and realized that they were heavy troops but could not do anything, which was a great humiliation. Therefore, they had to discuss plans, and they had to attack this and that one. Cao Bin discussed with Mi Xin, for fear that the suppression would be too great, and he would incite a mutiny, so he decided to advance to Zhuozhou again.

This time, everyone brought dry food. When they arrived at a place with wells and rivers, they sat on the ground and fed the water. Yelu Xiu Ge sent many small troops, 12 groups, to harass the Song army while they were eating.

This caused great trouble to the Song army, and they were exhausted to save themselves and ran away. In addition, the weather was hot and water-deficient, and the soldiers suffered a lot. After four days of traveling from Xiongxian to Zhuozhou, they had already made people hungry and difficult, and all their ambitions were thrown out of the sky.

On the contrary, the Khitan's combat effectiveness increased. Empress Dowager Xiao and her son Wenshunu personally led the army to the south to support, traveled southwest of Youzhou, crossed the Sanggan River, and arrived at Tuoluokou in the northeast of Zhuozhou. Cao Bin and Mi Xin knew they were defeated, so they had to go back and retreat to the southwest.

Yelu Xiuge could not let them go. The army led by Empress Dowager Xiao was the main soldiers, and the ones led by Yelu Xiuge were the strange soldiers; Qizheng was born together, and one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, Yelu Xiuge secretly chased him, and chased him forty miles southwest of Zhuozhou, and won a great victory in one battle. Cao Bin and Mi Xin could no longer join the camp, so they could only cross the Juma River overnight and planned to settle the camp in Yizhou.

When crossing the river, Yelu Xiuge naturally took advantage of the victory to chase after him. Innumerable Song army drowned in the Jima River. On the next day, when sunrise, the remnants of the defeated soldiers were rectified, they rested by the river. While sending troops to nearby villages to collect some rice and grain utensils and bury them into pots to make rice. Halfway through the meal, they received an alarm saying that Yelu Xiuge had crossed the river southward and was about to arrive. The Song army was shocked and defeated and no longer formed an army. Yelu Xiuge's cavalry came at lightning. The Song army was defeated again, abandoning armor like a mountain. The remains of corpses were blocked in the river, which was equivalent to annihilation of the entire army.

After this great cause, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty made a lasting arrangement; he re-entered the troops from Dingzhou west of Qingyuan; Pan Mei returned to Daizhou, and moved the officials and people of Yun, Ying, Shuo and Huan to Hedong and Guanzhong areas, thinking that it was a plan to strengthen the walls and clear the fields. The task of escorting the officials and people of the four states was to be the subject of Yang Ye.

Feihukou is a dangerous place in the east of the river. The two cliffs stand on the ground, with a slightly connected line, and a stretch of more than a hundred miles, becoming the silence of the Jiuzhou behind the mountain. However, this place is easy to defend but difficult to attack, or it can be used as a shortcut to marching, but it is not suitable for attack. Especially when the enemy is prepared, if you attack with Feihukou, you will be in danger. The tiger falls into the Pingyang, and the enemy can wait for the rabbit. Therefore, Pan Mei returned to the battle to rescue Weizhou, and was ambushed by Yelu Xizhen and retreated without support.

This time, not only did Weizhou fall, but Hunyuan and Yingzhou west of it were also shocked, and the defenders abandoned the city and walked. So Yelu Xizhen took advantage of the victory and advanced west along the north bank of the Sanggan River, conquering Huanzhou, southeast of Yingzhou, intending to cut off Yang Ye's way out.

Yang Ye was very burdened. The responsibility of escorting the officials and people of the four prefectures of Yunying, Huan and Shuo fell on his shoulders. At this time, his eldest son Yan Yu was assisted and led elite troops to the east of Yingzhou, south of Yunzhou, and west of Shuozhou, to command and cover the areas east of Yingzhou, south of Yunzhou, and west of Shuozhou. Now seeing Yelu Xizhen conquered Huanzhou, if he crossed west across Yanmen Pass and went straight to Shuozhou, the officials and people of the four prefectures would be as if they were in the bottom of the bag. The bag from Weizhou to the east to Shuozhou in the west was blocked by the Khitan, and millions of officials and people all became meat on the sacrificial table. This result was too serious.

Yang Ye was skilled in strategy, familiar with the terrain, and estimated the situation between the enemy and us, and proposed an excellent retreat plan. Yang Ye had already selected the retreat location at the foot of Cuifeng Mountain, 70 miles southwest of Shuozhou. This Shandong is connected to Shijie Valley and stretches for more than 200 miles. The terrain is flat and can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people temporarily hide.

The north of Shijie Valley connects Dashikou and is thirty miles south of Yingzhou. Yang Ye’s plan is to mobilize the reserve troops in Daizhou to reinforce them; on the other hand, let the officials and people of Yunzhou go south. At this time, Yelu Xizhen in Huanzhou must attack westward, and the officials and people of Yunzhou and the troops of Daizhou form a north-south line, creating a barrier to the west, so that the officials and people of Shuozhou will take advantage of this safe period to escape from Cuifeng Mountain into Shijie Valley.

So, Yang Ye discussed with Pan Mei and the two guards. At that time, one of the two guards was Wang Yi, who was the governor of Weizhou; the other was Liu Wenyu, who was originally a tutor in Shunzhou. Wang Yi was stubborn and always jealous of Yang Ye's reputation and military achievements. In addition, Weizhou was lost and he felt that he was blind, so he was even more in a bad mood. Yang Ye could not stand Wang Yi's cold words and resolutely accepted a trick to lure the enemy.

Pan Mei and Wang Mei also dispatched troops overnight to set up a battle at the entrance of Chenjiagu, south of Shuozhou, to prepare to make a great contribution. Yang Ye, Yang Yanyu and his son used bait to lead the other party to this encirclement that could turn defeat into victory. However, when Yang Ye and his son led Yelu Xizhen's troops to Chenjiakou, Pan Mei and Wang Mei's ambush were already missing, and Yang Yanyu died in the battle. Yang Ye was captured and died in the military tent of the Khitan on three days.)

After Yongxi's Northern Expedition, the Khitan and the Central Plains dynasty fought several more times, but the results were all unsatisfactory. The Central Plains dynasty could never recover the Yanyun area, and the Khitan could not destroy the Central Plains dynasty, so they could only fight against each other.

Xiao Chuo and the Khitan Emperor Yelu Longxu were both smart people. They found that the Khitan and the Central Plains dynasty had entered a new period of confrontation - no one could conquer anyone, and could only use the abundant time to start a protracted war.

However, if you conquer me today and I attack you tomorrow, the only result will be that both peoples will suffer serious disasters, the social economy and people's lives of both countries will suffer huge losses, and the national strength will naturally become weaker and weaker. Xiao Chuo knew that if this continues, the lives of people will be devastated and the people will suffer from misfortune.

Therefore, after the Khitan gradually took the initiative over the Wei Dynasty, Xiao Chuo began to adopt a policy of rest or rest intentionally or unintentionally, and at the same time reduce taxes, provide pensions to the orphans and widows, and strive to develop the economy. A relatively peaceful period between the Khitan and the Central Plains dynasty entered.

After a few years like this, Taizong Zhao Guangyi left and his son Zhenzong Zhao Heng inherited the throne.

After Xiao Chuo learned about it, he felt that the new emperor of the Central Plains dynasty had just come to power and had an unstable foundation, so he wanted to take the opportunity to go south and use force to intimidate the Central Plains dynasty. So he immediately mobilized a large army and went south with a grand momentum.

This battle took several years, and after several wars, neither side got any advantage. Seeing the signs of the war being delayed, Xiao Chuo was impatient and anxious.

At this moment, the Khitan army captured a key figure who played a decisive role in the future fate of the Khitan and the Central Plains dynasties.

This person is named Wang Jizhong. Wang Jizhong's father died when he was very young. Because of his father, he became a palace servant and had been with Zhenzong all day long. The two gradually became good friends who could talk about everything. After Zhenzong ascended the throne, Wang Jizhong began to rise to the top and became prosperous in the Central Plains dynasty.

At first, Xiao Chuo and Yelu Longxu just loved Wang Jizhong as a talent. Instead of killing him, they surrendered him and asked him to be the envoy of the Ministry of Revenue. They also married the daughter of the founding hero Kang Moji family of the Khitan. Later, Xiao Chuo learned that Wang Jizhong was the best friend of Zhenzong, and was immediately overjoyed. He immediately called Wang Jizhong and asked him about the Central Plains dynasty.

Although Wang Jizhong was forced to surrender to the Khitan, he was still thinking about his homeland. In addition, he saw with his own eyes that the people of the two countries were living in misery and their lives were in trouble during the war, and he was very touched. Therefore, when he heard Xiao Chuo ask him, he immediately decided to take the opportunity to persuade Xiao Chuo to stop the peace.

He told Xiao Chuo that the Khitan and the Central Plains dynasty have always regarded each other as enemies and met each other at every turn, which led to a riot in the two countries and the people were living in poverty. It was really no benefit. If this continues, not only will the two countries not be able to develop, but their national strength will also be greatly weakened. On the contrary, if the two countries are willing to stop the military and negotiate peace, rebuild the old, become allies, and let the people recuperate, both sides will make profits from it and prosper together.

After several years of war, Xiao Chuo and Yelu Longxu could see the financial, material and manpower consumption brought by the war. Now that they heard Wang Jizhong's words, they both woke up as if they were dreaming and felt that peace talks were indeed necessary.

But Xiao Chuo was not in a hurry to stop the military and peace. As a person who has been calling for the wind and rain in the political arena and has been conspiring for a long time, she knew very well what the disputed military and movement represents, and also knew what the next negotiation would be like - whoever has higher bargaining chips is qualified to offer higher conditions. After careful consideration, she decided to take the next dose of harsh medicine to take the chips of peace talks to the next level.

So, after listening to Wang Jizhong's advice, Xiao Chuo not only did not stop the army, but instead led a 200,000 army to fight south with a majestic momentum under the banner of recapturing the three passes of Waqiao Pass, Yijin Pass and Yukou Pass that were captured by Zhou Shizong Chai Rong.

Although the Central Plains dynasty had been fully prepared to face the battle, when the ministers of the Central Plains dynasty far away in Kaifeng heard that the Khitan soldiers and horses rushed from the north like wolves and tigers, and they were as powerful as siege in the city, and soon captured Tang Xing, Suicheng and other places, and advanced to Wangdu, with the momentum of directly attacking Dingzhou. They seemed to see the Khitan soldiers like divine soldiers coming to Kaifeng City, with flags and fighting to the sky, and they were all frightened.

Zhenzong was very confused. On the one hand, he did not want to be a cowardly emperor, and wanted to learn from his uncle Zhao Kuangyin and his father Zhao Guangyi, and he was in charge of armor and was brave enough to kill the Khitan army without leaving any armor. On the other hand, he knew very well how much he had and didn't have the ability to grow up with Xiao Chuo, Yelu Longxu and his son who had raised on horseback, so he really wanted to follow the opinions of some ministers and go south to take refuge.

At this moment, under the instruction of Xiao Chuo and his son, Wang Jizhong wrote a letter to Zhenzong, saying that the Khitan was willing to rebuild the old and hoped that His Majesty would seize the opportunity and quickly stop the peace.

After Zhenzong saw the letter, he was ridiculous and sarcastic. The Khitan soldiers were unscrupulously heading south to attack the Central Plains dynasty, but they wanted to negotiate peace. So Zhenzong also decided to learn from Khitan. While expressing his willingness to negotiate peace, he also seized the time to dispatch troops and generals. As a result, both sides refused to give in, and the proposal for peace talks was finally left unresolved.

When Xiao Chuo saw that Zhenzong actually "don't eat the punishment of wine" he felt very angry. He immediately stopped recuperating his troops and increased his efforts to attack the guards, hoping to put more pressure on the Central Plains dynasty and prompt Zhenzong to make concessions. The good news kept coming, and the morale of the Khitan army was greatly boosted. He made a concerted effort to approach Chanzhou and approach Kaifeng.

When the news came, the Central Plains dynasty was shocked, and even timid ministers simply suggested that Zhenzong move the capital to Jinling.

Zhenzong was sitting on pins and needles, and he didn't know what to do for a moment.

Since the founding of the Wei Dynasty, it first used a "petition of military power with a glass of wine" to relieve the threat of military generals to the throne, and then implemented the policy of governing the country with emphasis on culture and neglecting military forces to the end. As a result, the overall quality of the generals of the entire country and even the army was greatly reduced.

As the king of a country, the emperor was either raised by grandma, mother, nanny, palace maids, etc., or hang out with a group of eunuchs without any male spirit all day long. Not to mention practicing in real life, he was not even proficient in riding horses and archery. Therefore, when he heard that the Khitan soldiers were about to come to the city, from Zhenzong to civil and military officials, and palace maids and eunuchs, he was so scared that he wanted to find a mouse hole to hide. He was entangled and entangled. Zhenzong never knew what to do, so he found the new prime minister Kou Zhun and wanted to ask him what he thought.

Kou Zhun said that the enemy soldiers are in front of him, and the people are worried. As the emperor, Zhenzong not only cannot escape, but on the contrary, he should take the lead and lead the military and civilians to fight the enemy together. Otherwise, if the emperor runs away, the military and civilians will collapse instantly. At that time, let alone escape to Jinling, even if he fled to Lingnan, the Khitan cavalry would soon follow him. Then, he fully expressed his deep desire to go to the emperor's arrival day and night, hoping that the emperor would lead them to charge into battle, and finally told Zhenzong to go to the Chanzhou to supervise the army.

As soon as Zhenzong arrived, the morale of the guards was greatly boosted and their confidence increased. They repelled the siege of Khitan troops one after another, and shot Khitan general Xiao Talin with a ranged weapon like a bed crossbow.

As soon as Xiao Talin died, the Khitan soldiers and horses were shaken, and Xiao Chuo and his son were even more shocked. In addition, at this time, the Khitan army entered the heartland of the Central Plains and was unable to provide food and grass. Xiao Chuo knew very well that once the guards cut off their retreat and attacked them from the front and back, he would definitely be wiped out. After repeated consideration, Xiao Chuo decided to accept the suggestion of the Wei Dynasty and stop the peace.

Although Zhenzong was forced to come to the front line to supervise the war, he was already frightened and frightened. When he heard that there was hope for peace talks, he immediately raised his hands happily to agree, expressing warm welcome to the two countries to stop the peace talks, and sent Cao to discuss peace talks. He even said that as long as the land was not lost, even if the Khitan asked for millions of money, he must agree.

After hearing this, Kou Zhun immediately warned Cao Yong that if the silver silk promised to be given more than 300,000 yuan, even if the emperor did not pursue it, he would definitely cut off Cao Yong. Cao Yong was forced to take the order and leave with timidity.

In the end, the Khitan agreed to negotiate a tribute of 300,000 tribute, so the two sides signed a contract, and Xiao Chuo and Yelu Longxu happily returned to the court with the battle fruit team.

The agreement of the Chanyuan Alliance has four items:

1. Khitan, the Central Plains Dynasty made a brother, Zhenzong became his elder brother, Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu was his younger brother, Zhenzong called Xiao Chuo as his aunt, and the two countries regularly sent envoys to visit each other;

2. The Central Plains dynasty paid 200,000 pieces of silk and 100,000 taels of silver to the Khitan every year;

3. The two countries guard their respective territory along the border state army. The military and civilians of the two places are not allowed to invade each other, nor are they allowed to accommodate the other party’s escaped thieves;
Chapter completed!