I became the son of Renzong

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The war between Song and Liao suddenly stopped during this period, and the battlefield really entered a short period of calm.

And the exchanges between the envoys of the two countries have become quite frequent, and it seems that they will really sign an armistice contract under such circumstances.

"Unconditionally return Yanyun sixteen prefectures? Is it possible that with our hundreds of thousands of troops, Beiliao can just give Yanyun?"

"I heard that the return of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun is only a basic treaty. The court requested that the [-] miles north of Yanshan Mountain should also belong to Song Dynasty."

"I've also heard that the three hundred miles north of Yanshan Mountain will be used as a reward for the cavalry to assist the cavalry and other cavalry, and the reward will be rewarded with pastures..."

"Three hundred miles to the north of Yanshan Mountain? Then even the ancestral land of the Northern Liao Dynasty is included. Will the Northern Liao court agree? Even if the Emperor of the Northern Liao Dynasty agrees, the old and young Khitan people will not agree."

"Of course I won't agree. Isn't this a constant exchange of envoys? It's just talking about this."

"If you want me to talk, what are you talking about? It's enough to fight in the past. If you fight in the past, it will be the territory of our Song Dynasty. At that time, let alone the brothers of the Fanqi team have a pasture, maybe my old man can also reward a piece of pasture. .”

"Pull you down! Do you know how to herd sheep or shear sheep? I guess you can't even ride a horse well. What do you want meadows for?"

"What a big deal! As long as the fight is over, all the captives in Beiliao won't be bought by the workshop owners of Guochao, right? Just take a few captives to graze."

"That's right! You should call!"

"What are you talking about? The court decided to negotiate, and you are just talking nonsense!"

"I don't think there will be a deal. Maybe the fight will start tomorrow. What we can think of, the elders can't think of it? The officials can't think of it?"

"That's right, when did the officials suffer, and they have never lost a battle. Not to mention that the current cabinet knows the ways of merchants..."

There is a truce across the board, and the situation is being discussed in every camp, and it is not known where it will develop.

The commanders from all walks of life also heard some discussions.

"Marshal, can't we really negotiate? We have been busy for so many years, and it is over without killing a few people? The battle is not going to be big?"

"Commander, the last general just came up from the south of the Yangtze River. He has only fought for two months, and he didn't get any credit for it. It's a waste of time..."

"Marshal, do you want to fight or not? It's been almost a ten-year truce, and I'm so panicked that I always want to fire two shots to be happy..."

This is not the first time. Every time he tours the camp, he will be stopped and questioned by generals who are familiar with him.

Presumably the same will be true of other armies from all walks of life.

After all, from the very beginning of the war, the court's slogan was to hit the grasslands, carve up the grasslands, annihilate the Khitan, and restore the glory of the Central Plains dynasty.

The soldiers really hope to go to the grasslands, and really hope that the future wool will not go to the market...~

"Take it easy, keep your spirits up, and there will be more battles!"

It is feasible to know the strategy, so this must not dampen the morale of the soldiers, and must maintain the energy of the soldiers to meet the real war.

"Marshal, isn't it? The scouts of the last general's battalion guessed that the Beiliao side seems to be withdrawing troops, but it's not completely withdrawing, it seems to be decreasing, and gradually withdrawing!"

Ok?Zhe Ke was taken aback by such news.

"Are you sure you are withdrawing troops? Why didn't you report it?"

"Commander, I'm not sure. The scouts haven't confirmed it, they're just guessing, based on the daily crowing of horses when approaching the Beiliao camp."

"Marshal, the scouts of the last general's battalion were originally servants of the Xixia nobles, and they were responsible for raising horses. Because they raised a few horses to death, they fled to Song Dynasty for fear of execution."

"Later, Guochao recruited a new army and joined the army. He demonstrated his riding skills in the new barracks and was trained as a scout. They are Han Chinese!"

"He can hear how many horses bleating, and the general will not believe it. These days, he has been saying that there is no war and the army is about to withdraw."

"The last general punished him by shaking the morale of the army, that's why he told the last general."

How much can you hear the horse whining?It's not surprising that there are such strange people.

In the early years in the Lin Mansion, I heard a lot about the abilities of the Xixia people in war horses, and there are even more rare ones than this.

But, is Beiliao really going to withdraw its troops?

According to the judgment of the imperial court, the negotiation of sending envoys to the Northern Liao Dynasty was a kind of smoke-free behavior to cover up the next major action.

Even the truce between the two sides is all in vain.

The strategy of the imperial court is that when the Northern Liao Dynasty attacks a certain point, the other departments of the entire defense line, including chariot soldiers, infantry, and cavalry, will launch a certain degree of encirclement and suppression.

Now there is intelligence showing that Beiliao has withdrawn its troops?

"Bring this person to the tent!"

If it's feasible, I don't care about patrolling the camp anymore, so I took my soldiers back to the commander's account.

Whether it was his civil assistant officer, or the military inspector, including the lieutenant general, everyone who knew the court's strategy was confused by this information.

Could it be that the officials made a mistake in their judgment?

If this is the case, if Beiliao fully accepts Song's request, the battle may really stop.

Yan Yun will recover, but the imperial government's long-planned conquest of Liao Dynasty has been completely ruined...

"Marshal, I have raised horses since I was a child, so I am very sensitive to the sound of horses."

"Since the truce, the young one has been a scout from the headquarters and is responsible for monitoring the Beiliao camp. Since it is impossible to get close, and it is difficult to sneak past the north, the young one lurks outside the Beiliao camp every day."

"Beiliao now let the war horses rest and recuperate, and the war horses will neigh regularly every day when they are resting. Since I was familiar with war horses when I was young, I focused on the neighing of war horses."

"After a small multi-day summary, the Beiliao camp has lost three to five hundred war horses every day. For more than ten days in a row, it has never exceeded a thousand horses. Moreover, the time when the Beiliao war horses leave the camp is not at the same time. We left in time."

The scout babbled, but he could understand it.

"Are you sure it's a daily decrease, or not at the same time?"

"Commander, I'm sure! The neighing of war horses is different from the neighing of war horses! As of yesterday, the withdrawal of troops from the Beiliao camp has almost been completed."

Hearing this, Zhe Xingxing exchanged glances with Wen Zuoguan and the others, with uncontrollable joy in their eyes!

This battle is definitely going to be fought.

When I first heard about the withdrawal of troops, I thought Beiliao was really withdrawing troops in batches.

A large number of withdrawals showed that Beiliao really had the determination to negotiate and was preparing to use the return of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun as a bargaining chip for the truce.

However, a small number of uninterrupted withdrawals did not exceed a thousand horses per day. This shows that the purpose of the withdrawal of the Beiliao troops is the same as that of sending envoys to negotiate... They are all trying to deceive people and smoke.

In other words, Beiliao is planning a big move.