The owner of the mansion must be a wealthy family, with a well-built house and complete houses, but after all, it is still a disadvantageous momentum. The living room is a little small, and it is soon filled with twenty or thirty civil and military personnel. People of Zuo You of this level can only stand, just so. When Wei Renpu explained the terrain to everyone in front of the picture, he found that he could only stand...

There were two tables on the left and right below, each with two chairs, and four butts were already sitting on the chair. Li Chuyun, Han Tong, Shi Yanchao, and Yang Biao.

Wei Renpu walked over with a graceful look, with a little embarrassed, because he couldn't stand in the middle of the room after he finished speaking. He could only go near the door and go with a bunch of middle-level civil and military stations.

At this time, Li Chuyun said, "Deputy Envoy Wei comes here to sit."

Li Chuyun was the highest military general. He made great contributions to the Northern Expedition, but he always acted very modest and never acted arrogantly... But his status was there, and everyone knew that as long as there was a minister and had a seat, it would be bad if he stood.

Guo Shao was immediately attracted by the brief awkward scene, and he sat without saying a word.

Everyone looked at each other. The Great Zhou was still called the country of etiquette, and this kind of thing was very important.

Wei Renpu walked over and bowed, "Thank you General Li, then I'm better obey your orders than respect."

Li Chuyun's face turned pale and she sat there with no sternness. Heaven and earth could be seen, and even Guo Shao knew that Li Chuyun was just a temporary polite word, and I'm afraid he really didn't think about giving up his seat!

The atmosphere became very stiff.

At this moment, Shi Yanchao sneered: "We will fight forward and recover the lost land. We will work hard with swords and guns. The civil servants sit behind them all day long and move their mouths. They haven't thought they're enough, so they even fight for a chair, haha!"

Wei Renpu smiled at Shi Yanchao and looked at him: "I don't think what General Shi said makes sense. Your Majesty's country and people are not just about the sword and gun. If you only need the martial arts, why would the world not be governed for so many years from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the Han Dynasty?"

Shi Yanchao was furious.

At this time, Guo Shao spoke: "Although General Yang is the general of the front office of the palace, he is slightly lower than the one present. Get up and let Deputy Envoy Wei sit down."

Yang Biao then stood up and said, "The last general will obey the order. Deputy Envoy Wei requested."

Because Guo Shao spoke, Shi Yanchao swallowed the words he wanted to scold Wei Renpu just now, and hummed, "Is General Yang inconvenient to his legs?"

Yang Biao pulled a horse face and stared at Shi Yanchao and said, "Who will not be injured when he goes into battle? It will be better for General Shi to worry about it."

Guo Shao ignored them and immediately deployed to use troops.

Taking advantage of the chaos in Liao, the Northern Expedition Army dispatched two routes to attack Pingzhou and Wuzhou respectively; and ordered the Hedong Army (Northern Han surrendered troops) to command Yang Ye, and went north to Yanmen and attack Yunzhou (Datong).

The goal of this battle is to seize all the territory south of the Great Wall and all the land in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun except Yingzhou!

After the discussion, the ministers left the palace and left the civil and military officials.

Seeing that Wei Renpu's face was not good, Zuo You advised: "That Shi Yanchao is rude, which is really a disgrace to his ethics. Deputy Envoy Wei does not need to be as knowledgeable as him."

Wei Renpu said coldly: "I don't want to argue with him for a trivial matter, but I am the civil servant with the highest official position in the military office of the former camp. I cannot lose my dignity at this time! Otherwise, several military generals would sit, but as the civil servant of the highest position, I would stand. Where should I place the literati in the world? In the future, how will others think of Wei in Shilin?"

Zuo You nodded and said, "Deputy Envoy Wei's words are reasonable. We are not fighting for the same seat, but the face."

Wei Renpu was still a little unhappy and said in a deep voice: "The martial arts man will not be arrogant for a few days! In the past, the world was divided into divisions and boundaries, and the army was strong and strong, and the sixteen states of Youyun were just around the corner, and the world's ruling was irreversible. What did Your Majesty ask so many martial arts man to hold heavy troops?"

After hearing this, Zuo You thought something.

Wei Renpu said: "After this battle, the court should take rest and recuperate as the key, and peace and prosperity are not far away."

Zuo You couldn't help but whisper: "Da Zhou stood firm in front of the mountain. I wonder if he would turn into defense and continue to attack the Liao Kingdom?"

Wei Renpu shook his head and said, "It is a useless act to waste national strength when going out to the frontier to go to the frontier to fight the Liao Kingdom. The northern grasslands and Liaodong are all living in barbarians. If our country's population cannot take root, even if the Great Zhou can destroy the Liao Kingdom for a while, it will be difficult to avoid other tribes growing. In the past, the Huns and Turks were chased by the Central Plains and had almost nowhere to live, and soon the Khitans rose to the northeast.

To govern the northern expedition to barbarians is not a matter of success in a day or a matter of victory or defeat, it is necessary to obtain a long-term strategy.”

...A few days later, with the support of Wei Renpu and other officials, Guo Shao issued an edict. I governed the country with benevolence. You said that all the states had first experienced wars and sympathy. I sympathized with the suffering of the people. This autumn, next summer and autumn (You said) the states were exempted from grain and labor service; prisoners in each prefecture and county, who were punished for the most serious crimes, were pardoned and released to their hometowns. Hebei lost land and returned to the public, prohibited officials from oppressing them, soldiers disturbed the people, and officials and generals violated the law and committed the same crime as the people, and all the people were innocent...

In the counties and towns of Hebei, the people beat drums and chanted praises, and were even happier than the New Year. Guo Shao's prestige and influence were far superior to that of the Great Zhou Taizu in various prefectures, and his reputation was surprisingly good for a while.

In the few states that the Liao Kingdom still controlled, the Han generals and Han troops had no intention of fighting and just waited for the royal army to find an opportunity to surrender!

The congratulations from the states in the world poured into the Tokyo Imperial City like snowflakes.

...Yang Ye gathered his army at Yanmen Pass, announced the emperor's imperial edict, and mobilized all the soldiers to attack Yunzhou in the north. Without any incitement, the soldiers were eager to fight and said that they could finally go out of the frontier!

The Zhou army defeated the Liao army head-on and recaptured Youzhou by force. The power of the country had long been recognized by the soldiers of Hedong. The Northern Han Dynasty called the Liao Dynasty a nephew and minister. Many people were dissatisfied at that time, but they were forced by the situation. Today, the unification trend is almost everyone agrees with the reality. The influence of the Northern Han Dynasty regime was abandoned very quickly by people. If the country is strong, it is easy to unite people's hearts.

Yang Ye was also very lucky at this time, but fortunately he had the last chance to make contributions!

"Your Majesty has not forgotten the last general." Yang Ye said in a deep voice. The military generals below were fighting for the opportunity to striker. He thought that if he was a surrendered general, he would not even have any military merits for the court that he could make a scene for the court.

The general said: "North of Yanmen Pass, Shuo, and the Han generals of the three prefectures of Huanshan heard that Youzhou had been occupied by the Great Zhou Dynasty and Shangjing was in chaos. He had already made a secret agreement with us. Just wait for the Hedong Army to leave Yanmen, and then open the city gate and kill all the Liao army defenders together! Let's capture the three prefectures first, and then the army heads north to siege Yunzhou, and sooner or later break the city!"

Yang Ye said: "There are tens of thousands of Hedong troops, which are closest to Yunzhou. Of course, we must capture Yunzhou. Not only that, after quickly capturing Yunzhou, we can also ask for an order to mobilize troops to advance eastward to support the imperial guards in conjunction with Wuzhou!"

The generals were talking about it and found it difficult. Shuo, and it was easy to capture the three prefectures quickly, but Yunzhou is an important town in the Liao Kingdom. There are plump grasslands in the south of Yinshan. Naturalized (Hohhot) and other places can mobilize a large number of Liao cavalry; the Liao army in Yunzhou may resist desperately when reinforcements are waiting.

Yang Ye said calmly: "After the Hedong army captured Shuozhou and other three prefectures, it advanced north with a large number of cavalry. Then, it used a partial army cavalry to go around the Yungan River between Yun, Wu (near Xuanhua, Zhangjiakou), and advanced west along the river, confusing the Liao army in Yunzhou... At the beginning of the year, the imperial army was supervising a batch of new armors for the Hedong army, and the cavalry put on new armors, then used the banner of the imperial army's vanguard, and the gongs and drums sounded together, making the Liao army in Yunzhou think that the main force of the imperial army and the Hedong army besieged them, scaring them."

All the generals called for a clever plan, and some people suggested preparing for the banner of Shi Yanchao, because the Emperor of Great Zhou personally used Shi Yanchao as the vanguard, and that guy was also a relatively famous figure.

Yang Ye remembered his unhappy experience with Shi Yanchao in Tokyo. He would be ridiculed by that guy in the future by using his banner... It is very likely that Shi Yanchao's words can make Yang Ye ill!

Yang Ye said: "Don Zunhui is not so pretentious than Shi Yanchao's banner. Although Dong Zunhui is not that famous, someone in the Liao army must know that he is also one of the vanguards of the Zhou army. He will believe it even more after understanding it."

...

A month later, the Khitan nobles in Yunzhou heard that the Zhou army was advancing in two directions, and the dust and fog on the upper reaches of the Sanggan River covered the sky, and the people and horses were everywhere. They wanted to razed Yunzhou to the ground and build the heads of all the Liao people into Jingguan. They urgently sent people to Fengzhou, south of Yinshan, for help, but they did not receive a reply soon, and were already anxious.

At that time, a Han official in Yunzhou gave advice to the Khitan nobles and suggested that he abandon the city and run away!

The Khitan nobles were afraid of being punished, but the staff said, "Now all the masters of Shangjing have been killed. The new king is busy entering Shangjing to hold the throne. Who can still care about Yunzhou?

The new emperor of the Great Liao Dynasty was only thirteen or fourteen years old. The one in power was Xiao Siwen and Yelu Xizhen, who urgently needed support from various tribes.

The general was a Khitan noble. At this time, the matter was small, so he quickly sent someone to contact Xiao Siwen and Yelu Xizhen. General Yan had long hated the foolish monarch, and made all the things in the Liao Dynasty and the road to the distracting world. Now, the lonely city of Yunzhou, no one paid attention to the capital... The general was willing to wait for the orders of the new emperor and assist the new emperor in revitalizing his power in the grassland."

The Khitan nobles were already moved and hesitated.

The staff members urgently advised: "Don't stop and continue to suffer the chaos! All the prefectures in Hebei are lost, and the Zhou army is at the city. How can Yunzhou be defended for a long time? Xiao Siwen and others are the most important thing at this time to deal with those who oppose them. The general supports the new emperor with both hands and feet. If he is still punished, how can Xiao Siwen win over the troops?"

The Khitan nobles were finally persuaded and quickly gathered people to collect their belongings. The crowd abandoned the city and ran away.

When Yang Ye arrived in Yunzhou, the staff brought a group of Han officials and the people of Yunzhou to welcome him. Yang Yebing came to accept this city that was crucial to the north and south.
Chapter completed!