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"father!"

Zhou Bai was cautious, with a look of fear on his face, standing straight in front of Zhou Chen, calling softly.

Zhou Bai is the first son of Zhou Chen and Gao Hui. He didn't like writing and ink since he was a child. He only likes to wield knives and guns. He is also the tallest and strongest among all the children.

Among all Zhou Chen's sons, Zhou Bai's appearance and body are the most similar to Zhou Chen's. In addition, he has an out-of-the-box personality, wielding knives and guns, so Zhou Chen handed over the Chunyang Jue to Zhou Bai early on.

Zhou Bai's talent is really good. After a few years, he has developed a sense of aura and possessed internal strength.

The eldest son, Zhou Ye, has been a young genius since he was a child. Not surprisingly, he will inherit Zhou Chen's title in the future, so Zhou Chen also trained his other sons individually, and Zhou Bai trained him as a general.

But no matter what, Zhou Bai was only fourteen years old this year, not yet 15 years old, so he had the audacity to infiltrate into his personal guards without discussing with him.

"Did you tell your mother what you came out of?"

"I left letters to both my mother and my mother."

Zhou Bai also knew that he had made a mistake, so he lowered his head and dared not look at Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen was not surprised. If Zhao Pan'er and Gao Hui knew about it, Zhou Bai would not be able to get out of the Hou's residence, not to mention sneaking into the guards.

Although the little guy is a little smart, but compared to his two mothers, he is still a little too tender.

"Qin Yi treats you very well."

Zhou Bai was taken aback, and hurriedly explained: "Father, it's none of Uncle Qin's business, I forced Uncle Qin, Uncle Qin..."

"Okay, don't explain anymore, the more you talk, the more chaotic you are."

Qin Yi has been with Zhou Chen for more than 20 years, and Zhou Chen knows him very well.

Qin Yi got married, but only had one daughter. Although Zhou Chen passed on Zhou Bai's Chunyang formula, Zhou Bai basically learned martial arts from Qin Yi, so the two are also master-student relationships. Qin Yi is very good to Zhou Bai, otherwise it would be impossible Ask Zhou Bai to follow.

"Follow when you come, but you are not allowed to mess around without my order, do you understand?"

"Yes, Dad."

Zhou Bai hastily nodded in agreement. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he has longed to go to the battlefield. Now that he has this opportunity, he will do whatever his father asks him to do.

Zhou Bai's appearance surprised Zhou Chen, but he was not too worried. Sooner or later, the young eagles would learn to fly. Zhou Bai was a little young, but with him watching, as long as he was not at the forefront of the battlefield, he was still safe. Guaranteed.

But Qin Yi kept Zhou Bai from him, so he naturally had to punish him.

Zhou Chen stayed at the border between Song and Xia for a few years. Although he hadn't been here for a long time, he was still very familiar with him. As soon as he arrived at the border, he immediately took control of all the military forces on the border.

The predecessor of Xixia was the Dingnan Army. If the emperor hadn't restricted him before, he might have wiped out the Dingnan Army long ago, and there might not be the current Xixia.

Zhou Chen has led the world in Langya Bang for decades, and dare not claim to be the god of war, but he really doesn't pay attention to the [-] Xixia army.

After he came to the border, he effectively prevented Xixia's offensive, but he did not rush to counterattack, but waited patiently.

His real goal is the Liao Kingdom. As long as Da Song and Xixia stand in a stalemate, he doesn't believe that Liao Ting will remain indifferent.

The facts are exactly as he thought, when he was in a stalemate with Xixia on the border of Xixia and gradually won the victory, the Liao Kingdom finally couldn't help it, directly tore up the Chanyuan Alliance, and launched an offensive against the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was really weak and used to it. When the Liao court launched a war, the first thing they thought was not to send troops to resist and resist. The first thing they thought of was to send people to the Liao court for peace talks and beg the Liao court to stop the troops.

When Zhou Chen heard the news, he was also shocked by the thunder. The bones of Da Song were really broken, and he had no backbone at all.

But the problem is that the Liao people are very ambitious. They are not satisfied with Song Fangkai's conditions. They still wield tens of thousands of troops and launch an offensive on the border. Without the natural barrier of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun on the northern border, they cannot resist the Liao people's attack at all. Iron cavalry offensive, can only watch helplessly as the soldiers of the Liao people point directly at Bianjing.

But for Zhou Chen, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how could he let it go.

So he led the frontier army with the momentum of the wind and the clouds, and defeated Xixia steadily, and directly reached the imperial capital of Xixia, captured the emperor of Xixia alive, and destroyed the Xixia regime.

After the destruction of Xixia, Zhou Chen immediately reported the great victory to the imperial court, and wrote a memorial to the official Zhao Zhen, requesting to be transferred to the north to counter the Liao army.

Zhao Zhen was already disturbed by Liao Ting's offensive and couldn't sleep all night. When he received the information about Zhou Chen's victory in Xixia, he was immediately overjoyed.

Especially after seeing Zhou Chen's memorial, he was even more delighted.

His temperament is relatively weak, but no matter how weak he is, he is still an official today. He was bullied by the Liao people, and the civil servants under him still wanted to make peace. .

But this time the Liao people not only simply want the old coins, they also want the land of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Zhen didn't want to be a subjugated emperor, so after seeing Zhou Chen's memorial, he quickly made a decision to transfer Zhou Chen to the north. As the commander of the north, he must resist the invasion of the Liao people.

It can be seen that Zhao Zhen is still very conservative. He just hopes that Zhou Chen can defend the north and resist the horseshoes of the Liao people. He never thought that Zhou Chen could counterattack the Liao court.

Zhou Chen, who received the order, immediately led tens of thousands of elites from the frontier to the north, preparing to fight the Liao court to the death.

For this day, he had waited for more than ten years. With such a great opportunity, if he could not recover the Sixteen States of Yanyun, it would be very difficult for him to have another chance in the future.

When Xixia was destroyed, Zhou Chen planned and waited. It took more than a year to destroy Xixia and capture the emperor of Xixia alive.

This achievement is absolutely rare in the history of the Song Dynasty, but Zhou Chen is not proud of it, because he knows very well that Xixia is just a small country, while Liao is not weaker than Song in terms of territory, and its military strength is even stronger. What's more, it is much more difficult to take back the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures from the Liao Kingdom than to destroy the Xixia Kingdom.

The fact is indeed the case. When Zhou Chen arrived in the north with the tens of thousands of troops honed on the border between Song and Xia, the north was being ravaged by Liao soldiers.

It took Zhou Chen only more than a month to integrate the northern army, while the Liao army had already invaded the hinterland of the Song Dynasty.

In the first fight, Zhou Chen saw the ferocity of the Liao army's iron cavalry. The Khitan clan was able to suppress the Central Plains for a hundred years because of their powerful iron cavalry.

Located in the harsh environment of the Liao Kingdom, the iron cavalry they trained were indeed not comparable to the cavalry of the Song Dynasty, and the Khitan people were naturally fierce, and the Song people were basically no match for individual combat.

Therefore, when fighting against the Liao army in the past, the army of the Central Plains Dynasty had to rely on numbers to win.

Zhou Chen's purpose was to defeat the Liao army, not to show off his bravery, so he was also preparing to win by numbers, gather the troops that had been scattered by the Liao army, and start encircling the Liao army.

Although the Liao army is powerful, there is one thing that they are far inferior to the Song Dynasty.

That is, they were unable to maintain a protracted war. As the invading party, they did not have enough dry food, and they relied on fighting to feed the war and robbing the Song people of food to ensure their own survival.

Therefore, after the Liao army entered the hinterland of the Song Dynasty, they basically would not attack large cities, because it is easy to defend large cities, but difficult to attack them. towns and villages.

The action speed of the Liao army is too fast, and it is not an easy task to encircle and suppress them.

Zhou Chen has rich experience in warfare, but even so, it took a long time to block the offensive routes of the Liao army one by one, and then began to counterattack.

Officials and civil and military officials far away in Bianjing learned that Zhou Chen blocked the offensive of the Liao army in just over three months, making it impossible for the Liao army to advance, and the danger of Bianjing was relieved. .

Especially after learning that Zhou Chen had wiped out a large number of Liao army troops, he was even more ecstatic, and then an extremely ridiculous thing happened.

The imperial court once again sent envoys for peace talks to the Liao Kingdom to conduct peace talks, willing to stop the war on the condition of old coins.

I have to say that the thinking of civil servants in the Song Dynasty is really weird. If you lose the peace talks, you will still have the peace talks if you win. The key is to continue to pay tribute to the peace talks if you win.

What's more, Zhao Zhen, the emperor, actually agreed. He was the one who asked Zhou Chen to go, and now he is the one who asked Zhou Chen to cease fighting. The emperor was really kidnapped by the civil servants.

Zhou Chen was preparing to launch a counterattack when he suddenly received an order from the capital to guard the border and wait for the peace talks to end.

"boom!"

Zhou Chen smashed the table in front of him with a slap.

"father."

Zhou Bai picked up the imperial decree among the debris with a nervous expression, wiped it, and looked at it.

After Zhou Chen slapped him, he calmed down and looked at his son who had been on the battlefield for more than a year.

"Any ideas?"

After Zhou Bai read the content of the imperial decree, an expression of disbelief suddenly appeared on his face.

"Father, the officials told us to have a truce? And told us to prepare to return the prisoners?"

Zhou Bai was young and energetic. After learning about this result, he found it incredible. He was on the front line, and he clearly knew the scene of the bloody battle of the soldiers. In the end, they won the battle. The officials and officials far away in the capital actually let them The truce and the release of the Liao people who killed countless people of the Great Song Dynasty were really unacceptable to him.

"Very unhappy?"

"Of course, we fought bloody battles and lost countless brothers. How could we let the Liao people go so easily? What's more, under your leadership, we are invincible. Why did we stop the war?"

Zhou Chen said lightly: "Because we are not the ones who can make the decisions."

"It's that simple?"

"Yes, it's that simple."

Zhou Bai gritted his teeth. He is a hot-blooded young man. It is his dream to defend his family and the country and expand the territory.

For him, this past year was like a dream. Although it was difficult and dangerous, it ignited his blood, and he longed for such a life.

As a result, when his ambition was so high, the imperial court's orders and imperial decrees poured down like cold water, extinguishing his passion.

"Father, what should we do? Is it really a truce?"

Zhou Chen sneered, and said, "Stop, of course you have to stop, after all it's an imperial decree."

"But……"

"Nothing but."

Zhou Chen directly interrupted Zhou Bai's words. His son is still young and has limited experience, so he can't understand many things.

Now that he has received the imperial decree, if he does not obey the order, it will be disobeying the decree and disrespecting it, which is a serious crime. His family members are all in the capital, and they are beyond his reach. Of course, he would not do such a stupid thing.

Of course, this is what Zhou Chen and Zhou Bai said, secretly, he had other orders.

Because the Liao Army was defeated by Zhou Chen and suffered heavy losses, although the Liao Kingdom was angry, it had to agree to the peace talks with the Song Dynasty.

Ever since, the two sides sent peace talkers and started negotiations in a safe place.

But the negotiation will not be successful overnight. The two sides have already made preparations, and you will come and ask for conditions.

Mingming Song Dynasty was the victor this time, but after talking about it, it turned out to be the weaker side. Instead of taking advantage, it was pressed by the Liao Kingdom every step of the way.

What's even more strange is that, in the face of Liao's pressing step by step, Song Fang actually compromised step by step. Apart from his reluctance to cede the city and land, he agreed to pay various tributes and yearly coins to Liao.

This is not a peace talk at all, it is simply Song Fang's unilateral warmth.

Zhou Chen has always sent people to watch the results of the peace talks, but when he knew the process and conditions of the peace talks, he was also dumbfounded.

Sure enough, reality is sometimes more exaggerated than imagined. The victor pays the loser, no matter which era it is in, it is very explosive.

"Want to talk, have you asked me?"

Zhou Chen sneered in his heart. Of course he couldn't just sit back and watch the Song-Liao peace talks succeed. If they succeed, what will happen to his mission.

After doing side missions for so long, he knows very well that the more difficult the side missions, the better the rewards will be. He has waited for so many years just to complete the side missions of recovering Yanyun sixteen prefectures. Who would dare to hinder him? , is his enemy.

As for how to stop the peace talks, he has long been prepared.

Just when the negotiations between the envoys of the Song and Liao Dynasties were about to succeed, a sudden message came, which interrupted the negotiations between the two parties in an instant.

It turned out that news came from the front that tens of thousands of captured Liao troops suddenly rioted in the barracks, killed countless Song troops, and wanted to flee.

Zhou Chen, the commander-in-chief of the Song Army, was also assassinated by the Liao people and was also injured. The generals under his command had no choice but to order the Liao army prisoners to be killed.

At the critical moment of the peace talks, such a thing happened suddenly, and the peace talks could not go on. Even the envoys from the Liao side were furious, clamoring to make Song Guo pay the price, etc., and then left angrily.

When the news spread to the capital, the government and the public were shaken, and the official Zhao Zhen was also very shocked.

Originally, because the peace talks were about to succeed, he was gradually relieved, but unexpectedly, such a situation suddenly appeared, which made his heart lift up again.

"What's going on with Zhou Chen? He's invincible and invincible on the battlefield. Why can't he even look down on some captured Liao people?"

Zhao Zhen was furious. As an emperor, he didn't want to fight, nor did he have great ambitions. He only thought about the peace of the world and the return of all people.

But this prisoner riot directly destroyed the peace talks between Song and Liao. According to the Liao people, this war is inevitable.

There are many officials who think the same way as Zhao Zhen, especially those civil servants who were already dissatisfied with Zhou Chen, and they immediately took the opportunity to attack, making all kinds of attacks, as if Zhou Chen was not a hero who defended his home and country, but an unforgivable crime Minister in general.

The honorable side, as well as the officials who supported Zhou Chen, naturally could not be outdone, they all excused Zhou Chen, and supported the war, suggesting that Zhou Chen lead the army to counterattack the Liao Kingdom and so on.

The quarrel between the two sides is inexhaustible, and the good court meeting will end in this quarrel.

The official Zhao Zhen, who was taught and raised by civil servants since he was a child, is different from the first emperor Zhao Heng. After Zhou Chen destroyed Xixia and defeated the Liao army, his reputation became more and more powerful, and his military power became more and more powerful. Chen Sheng became a little wary.

Especially those civil officials around him kept instilling sharp words about 'adding a yellow robe', warriors chaotic the country, etc., which made him more vigilant towards Zhou Chen.

So he is biased towards the civil official group and does not want to continue the war, and Zhou Chen's behavior undoubtedly disrupted his plan.

Although he is dissatisfied in his heart, he has no choice now. The Liao Kingdom has stopped peace talks with you. He made it clear that he wants to start a war. He can't cut off Zhou Chen's head and send it over. inevitable.

And once the war started, Zhou Chen would be the only one he could rely on, so he had no choice.