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Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion when looking at Youzhou stained with blood. Youzhou, the most important of the Sixteen States of Yanyun, has been taken!

All these years of hard work have not been in vain. The Imperial Guards have lived up to his expectations and have now become a formidable force!

Today's Imperial Guards are brave enough to fight and never retreat, and they have strict military discipline and are the most capable army in the entire Blue Star.

The Song Dynasty finally got the coveted Youzhou City.

The Han people in the city didn't feel anything, but the Khitan nobles, officials and wealthy businessmen were really worried all day long.

However, there was no point in worrying. The Song Dynasty had spent too much on this war, so how could it possibly keep them around to disgust people?

The treasures seized from the entire Youzhou City piled up like mountains. From the residence of Yelu Xizhen, the King of the Southern Courtyard alone, two million strings of copper coins, one million taels of silver, five hundred thousand taels of gold, and countless treasures of various kinds were seized.

In the end, the Song Dynasty seized 20 million strings of copper coins, 8 million taels of silver, and 3 million taels of gold from Youzhou City. Jewelry filled dozens of carts, and there were 30,000 war horses alone. There were hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, and 1 million dan of grain. Cloth and furs piled up like mountains.

The Liao Dynasty's accumulation of a hundred years in Youzhou City was completely looted by the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Kuangyin personally guarded Youzhou, and the cement workshop was moved outside the city of Youzhou, producing cement day and night with billowing black smoke.

Zhao Kuangyin also tried to appease the people of Youzhou by paying the court 30 copper coins a day to anyone willing to work. This price was quite favorable, as one could buy a dou of rice for eight copper coins in the Song Dynasty.

One dou weighs twelve jin, and the wages of an adult man can buy more than three dou of rice. This is a great thing. The family can eat and drink more than it spends, and can even save a lot!

Good things like this don't happen every day. The residents of Youzhou were excited. It was like a pie falling from the sky, and it was filled with fatty pork!

Zhao Kuangyin was repairing the city walls in Youzhou City and dealing with the dead bodies of the Liao army! This cannot be neglected, there are too many dead bodies, it makes people's scalp numb.

Besides, the decaying corpse can easily cause epidemics.

Zhao Kuangyin held the so-called letter from the Liao Kingdom in his hand, and it turned out that the Song Dynasty looked down upon it.

The pass means that we will form a brotherly relationship, not invading each other's borders, and the Song State will pay the Liao State an annual tribute of 800,000 strings of cash. From now on, the two countries will be at peace forever!

Zhao Kuangyin was amused! You don't even treat me as a human being! Signing this broken book is a loss of sovereignty and humiliation of the country. It turns out that in the historical trajectory, Zhao Guangyi signed the Treaty of Tanyuan, and from then on, the Song Dynasty was betrayed.

When faced with war, civil officials and military commanders only think of paying tribute! When surrender becomes a habit, those who are proactive in recovering lost territory become outliers!

Zhao Guangyi's descendants also inherited their ancestors' suspicious character! Yue Fei was about to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun when the Twelve Golden Medals recalled him.

Others would kill the donkey after it has done its work, but Zhao Guangyi's descendants wouldn't even wait for the donkey to finish its work! With such a character, who else would fail if he didn't?

The return of three of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Song Dynasty shocked the entire Song Dynasty! The civil service group was in an uproar, and officials and immigrants from the Song Dynasty flocked to the city!

However, Zhao Kuangyin was not in a hurry to rest on his laurels. Instead, he was busy expanding his victory, making Youzhou, Tunzhou and Yizhou the bases of the Song Dynasty, and continuing to advance towards Shunzhou, Ruzhou and Danzhou!

The court sent a large number of people to relieve the pressure on the main force! A large amount of ammunition was sent to the front line like water.

Pan Mei's army captured Shunzhou in three days, and Cao Bin captured Ruzhou in five days!

The two armies met at the foot of Danzhou City and took Danzhou in five days. This opened up the entire Youzhou territory, and the Song army truly grasped the strategic location of Yanyun! As long as Jizhou was opened up, the Song army would have won more than half of the battle for the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!

This is a choking choke in the throat, which is the lifeline of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. The Liao army is not willing to be outdone and is constantly sending reinforcements to Jizhou!

The Liao and Song dynasties practically gambled their national destiny! In addition to heavily guarding Xixia, the remaining Song forces were mobilized to the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!

An unprecedented decisive battle began. The Liao Kingdom had prepared a vast amount of rolling logs, thunders, lime bottles and arrows, while the Song army was armed to the teeth.

Prime Minister Zhao Pu used 10,000 carts to transport ammunition! If it weren't for the confiscation of Youzhou's foundation, the Song Dynasty's treasury would be empty!

The entire Song Dynasty is like a chessboard, and we must mobilize the entire country to capture the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!

Zhao Pu loudly called for it in the court, "We will use the whole country's strength to provide whatever the front line needs, and all the money and property in the sealed treasury will be taken out to supply the front line!"

The Crown Prince is sitting in the court, watching closely. Anyone who dares to say no today will have no chance of getting away with it!

His father is fighting at the front, anyone who dares to hold him back will be killed without mercy! My knife doesn't care who you are!

Now no one dared to say a word. The Ministry of Revenue's hands were shaking but he didn't dare to say a word of sympathy. Money was spent like water.

A lot of the Song Dynasty’s copper coins were used to make bullets and artillery shells. The Ministry of Revenue issued a strict order that all copper mines should be mined at full capacity, the more the better!

The war machine of the Song Dynasty is full of springs, as if it will break at the slightest touch!

Pan Mei and Cao Bin's eyes were red on the front lines. With the fate of the nation on their shoulders, who dared to slack off? If they made a careless mistake this time, with the Emperor's temperament, you wouldn't be able to come up with a set of Nine Clans Elimination Game!

Under the city of Jizhou, troops from both sides lined up, and the Liao army shot arrows at the Song army like rain.

The Liao army was now in despair. With limited manpower, there was a limit to how far their arrows could fly. However, the Song army's artillery was too terrifying and had a long range!

The Liao army knew they would lose but still gave it a try. The consequences of losing Jizhou were too serious. From then on, the offensive and defensive strategies would be different, and the Song army could take advantage of the Liao army to defeat them!

The Song army had no time to watch the Liao Kingdom suffer here. They fired shells like they were free, and the ground was blown to a thickness of one foot.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the Song army advanced towards the city wall little by little.

The catapult threw explosive packs at the city wall.

The entire Jizhou city was shaking. Under the fierce attack of the Song army's artillery fire, the city wall of Jizhou collapsed and a part of the mountain top was flattened.

The Liao army was still trying to shoot arrows from the ruins. The Song army's shieldmen and gunners launched another round of crazy attacks on the Liao army!

Both sides were blood-thirsty, and after using more than a hundred carts of ammunition, the Liao army had no large-scale resistance.

The large army of Song finally captured Jizhou City.

The Song army was divided into units of eight, and they carried out the final cleanup of the Liao army in Jizhou City. A full 100,000 Liao soldiers were annihilated by the Song army.

Despite being so cautious, the Song army still sacrificed 168 brave warriors.

Cao Bin's eyes were red, and he cried to Zhao Pu who came to entertain the troops: "They were all good men of our Song Dynasty, how could they die at such a young age! Prime Minister, I am a rough man, and the pensions of my brothers must be generous!

Otherwise, I really can't explain this to their parents! They are all people with families, wives and children. Prime Minister, you have to take good care of this matter and don't let Yin Laokou from the Ministry of Revenue complain to the brothers! "