When Li Jilong arrived in Xiazhou, the situation was actually much better than he imagined. Although more than 30,000 people were killed by Li Jiqian, the situation was still stabilized due to deputy general Tian Renlang's timely handling and the use of equipment and the city.

At this time, the soldiers led by Li Jilong were the only former Zhenzhou soldiers who gained confidence in Yongxi's Northern Expedition, as well as their direct commanders, Li Jiguang and Hu Yanzan.

Another thing that makes Li Jilong happy is that the northwest produces horses, and the northwest army has the highest cavalry equipment rate.

The first thing Li Jilong did after arriving in Xiazhou was to find Tian Renlang and consult in detail about the current situation.

The current situation in the northwest is probably like this. Li Jiqian led Dangxiang to rebel against the Song Dynasty and then pretended to surrender and captured Yinzhou, and then attacked part of Xiazhou. However, due to the attachment of Li Jiqian's brother Li Jipeng, a large part of the Dangxiang nobles were forced to

They moved inland to the Central Plains, so Dangxiang's strength is actually not that terrifying.

Moreover, the Liao State, the backer behind Dang Xiang, could not actually give Dang Xiang much help, because the Liao State also needed to recover its strength.

"The general thinks that we should lure Li Jiqian to attack and then ambush him." After learning about the situation in the northwest, Li Jiguang took the lead in making suggestions to Li Jilong.

"Yuan Jing's suggestion is certainly good, but how can we lure Li Jiqian to Xiazhou City?"

"I think we can implement a strategy of suspicion against Li Jiqian."

"Oh, how exactly do you do it?"

"We can use different channels to continuously release different true and false information to Li Jiqian, confusing Li Jiqian's judgment. Through General Tian's introduction, I feel that Li Jiqian has a gambler's mentality. As long as we gather good information,

We can definitely lure him here."

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you."

In fact, this idea was not entirely thought up by Li Jiguang alone. Before being transferred to Xiazhou, Zhao Weiji gave Li Jiguang a detailed description of Li Jiqian. In it, he expressed a key point: Li Jiqian had the mentality of a gambler.

Whether he was colluding with various Dangxiang tribes to fight against the Song Dynasty, or whether he was pretending to surrender and plotting to capture Yinzhou, Li Jiqian was always taking risks.

So Li Jiguang thought of using true and false information to lure Li Jiqian into being deceived.

…

Just after Li Jiguang began to implement this strategy, Li Jiqian received countless intelligence about Xiazhou through different channels.

Some are that the new general of Xiazhou, Li Jilong, has arrived and has begun to prepare for war. Others are that Xiazhou still does not have a general in office. Or it may be that Xiazhou currently has insufficient soldiers, and the additional soldiers in the Central Plains have been dragged away for disaster relief due to the locust plague.

All in all, it's so messed up that it's hard to distinguish between true and false, and there's too much contradictory information.

"What do you think?" Li Jiqian, who was already troubled by this information, began to ask his staff for their suggestions.

But it's okay not to ask, but it becomes even more confusing when asked. Different staff have analyzed different opinions.

Although the staff were also arguing non-stop, one person's words touched Li Jiqian's heart.

"Could it be that the Song Army is short of troops and deliberately released so much information, both true and false, to contain us?"

Why did this piece of information that was completely opposite to the actual situation of the Song Army speak to Li Jiqian's heart? This was because Li Jiqian had begun to feel complacent in his heart. He had achieved great success in the last two battles against Song Dynasty, so he was unaware of the situation.

I feel a little proud.

Such emotions prompted Li Jiqian to choose the surname to think things in a direction that was beneficial to him. This led to this: The Song Army was afraid of us, so it released countless pieces of information that were both true and false to delay the offensive pace of our party.

Judgment occupies the mind.

This is exactly the effect that the Song Army hopes to produce, because once this idea occupies Li Jiqian's mind, he, who has a strong gambling surname, will definitely send troops to attack, and with all his strength. Because in the eyes of gamblers, a sure-win situation must be

Place big bets.

In this way, Li Jiqian bet all his chips and prepared to attack the entire Xiazhou.

…

"Li Jiqian came out as expected."

"Then let's get started."

Knowing that Li Jiqian was out to attack Xiazhou, the Song army began a targeted operation. Since they were fighting on the Loess Plateau, Li Jilong decided to use a method used by the Khitans, which was to use ravines.

I learned this combat method from Yang Yanzhao, because on the way to the Northern Expedition, Yang Yanzhao once encountered such a march.

The ambush troops of the Song Army were armed with night attack equipment. They picked up the bells from the horses and wrapped the horses' hooves in cloth. They then secretly ambush in the ravine and prepared to go around to Li Jiqian's rear.

Xiazhou City here has an empty city strategy. The army is ambushing in the city, and only a few old and weak soldiers are placed on the city tower. Although the city gates are not wide open, it seems that the defense is weak.

Li Jiqian, on the other hand, marched towards Xiazhou arrogantly. The team only did basic reconnaissance, and did not even consider whether there would be an ambush at the bottom of the ditch. They just fell into the trap of the Song army.

When Li Jiqian led his troops to the Song Army city and saw that there were only some old and weak soldiers on the city, Li Jiqian immediately laughed: "They thought they could scare us by setting up an empty city strategy. This city is basically an empty city. Let the brothers start attacking the city with all their strength."

"

Following Li Jiqian's order, Dangxiang soldiers began to attack the city.

But while the Dangxiang soldiers began to attack the city, Li Jiguang and Hu Yanzan also led their troops to go behind the Dangxiang army.

"Report to the Khan, a Song army suddenly appeared behind our army and launched a fierce attack on us." Just as Dangxiang's former army was happily attacking the city, a soldier reported the bad news to Li Jiqian.

"Oops, I've fallen into a trap." After hearing the bad news, Li Jiqian immediately realized that something bad was going on, but before he was allowed to respond, the Xiazhou City Gate opened, and countless Song Army soldiers rushed out of the city gate to attack Dangxiang's troops.

Come and kill.

Knowing that the defeat was certain, Li Jiqian did not hesitate, immediately abandoned his troops, and left the battlefield with his personal guards before the Song army formed an encirclement.

Soon the Song army surrounded the party troops and killed more than 5,000 people. The remaining soldiers all surrendered.

Immediately afterwards, the Song army took advantage of the situation to take back other parts of Xiazhou captured by Li Jiqian, and the army approached Yinzhou.

After learning that the Song army had arrived at Yinzhou City, Li Jiqian knew that returning to Yinzhou would be of no use, because he took almost all of his family wealth with him when he went on the expedition. Therefore, Yinzhou did not have many troops to defend at this time.

So Li Jiqian abandoned Yinzhou and fled directly to his hometown of Jinze.

The Song army, which attacked Yinzhou in an overall manner, successively recovered three villages in Hexi, and broke through the remaining party defenders in Xixingziping, Zhuolunchuan east, Tutouchuan west and other places.

At this point, Yinzhou was no longer able to resist and the entire territory was recovered.

…

In fact, when Li Jiqian sent troops, Yelv Mo also obtained all the intelligence released by the Song army. At that time, Yelv Mo came to a conclusion that was completely opposite to Li Jiqian's. The Song army was trying to lure Li Jiqian to attack.

But before Yelumo notified Li Jiqian, he was already fooled and defeated.

"Li Jiqian, Li Jiqian, I hope you can learn from this lesson and make a comeback instead of falling into despair."

Although the northwest had temporarily lost its ability to contain the Song Dynasty, neither Yelumo nor the senior officials of the Liao Kingdom felt it was a pity. After all, Yanyun was the main battlefield between the Song and Liao Dynasties.

…

The Song Dynasty court learned that Li Jilong had won a great victory and recovered Yinxia. The whole court was in an uproar. The Song Dynasty had not achieved such a great victory for a long time after the Northern Han Dynasty was destroyed.

As a result, Li Jilong was promoted to the title of Marquis of Yu, the capital of the horse army, and led the defense envoy of Xiazhou. Li Jiguang, who had also made great achievements, was also promoted to the training envoy of Yinzhou regiment.

…

Defeated, Li Jiqian returned to Dijinze in despair, packed up the remaining troops, and prepared to make another plot. However, he did not expect that these two people with names like his brothers would become his nemesis one after another.

In this way, the first confrontation between the three "Lis, successors" came to an end.

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And when the Yinxia battle ended, Zhao Weiji's mansion in Huating County was also completed.

So he moved his family to Huating with his pregnant wife.

As soon as he arrived in Huating County, Zhao Weiji was like a dragon swimming in the sea, freed from his constraints.

So the first thing he did was to build a seaport.

But his troubles also came. Because Huating County is located at the estuary of the Yangtze River, there is constant sedimentation. How to find a deep-water port is a problem.

Just when Zhao Weiji was worrying, a man suddenly asked for a meeting outside his house, saying he could help find a suitable port.

Zhao Weiji, who was suffering from the lack of talents in this field around him, didn't think much and asked his servants to bring the man into the house.

"Your Majesty, Wang Dayuan, whose name is Huanzhang. I heard that the king is planning to build a seaport, so I came here hoping to help the king."

Not knowing what this man's sailing skills were, Zhao Weiji asked a few questions: "In Huanzhang's opinion, what are the appropriate conditions for establishing a port?"

“The vast water and land area, the necessary water depth for the berth, and the other thing is that it can be sheltered from the wind.”

From his answer, Zhao Weiji seemed to think that this person had some knowledge in this area, so he asked again: "I wonder if there is such a place near Huating County."

As Zhao Weiji asked this question, Wang Dayuan started talking completely, and listed all the characteristics of the sea area near Huating County like a treasure trove. Finally, he proposed a place, and Zhao Weiji, who had lived in the magic city, immediately

I realized where it was. In later generations, that place was a huge port.

From this, Zhao Weiji could conclude that he had found a treasure.

After Wang Dayuan's guidance, Zhao Weiji successfully found the place and then began the construction of the port.

Zhao Weiji left full authority over the construction of the port to Wang Dayuan and Jiang Yu.

Because at this time he no longer cares about this, because he is going to be a father.
Chapter completed!