The Song army that arrived at Niangzi Pass on the morning of the ninth day of the third month was, of course, 8,000 cavalry (including cavalry infantry) and 2,000 auxiliaries led by Zhao Kai, the king of Yunwang, the chosen king of the Great Song Dynasty.

This road is really enough to rush, the soldiers who came out on the third day of the first month of March, and on the morning of the ninth day of the first month of March, they completed the whole journey of about 500 miles, and arrived at the destination of Niangziguan.

At this time, there was already a Song army on Niangziguan, but it was not the Song army of Zhending Mansion, but the army of Ma Kuo, a general under Zhao Kai. This Ma Kuo actually went north with Qin Hui, but Qin Hui's destination was the Pingdi Army, and Ma Kuo's destination was Wuma Mountain between Zhending Mansion, Pingding Army and Zhaozhou.

Ma Kuo served as an official in Zhending Mansion earlier, but because he was one of the "culprits" of the "Lianjin Annihilation of Liao", he naturally did not welcome him, and he was an idle man in name only. There is no official business, and few people in the officialdom are willing to associate with him. So he had no choice but to travel around Zhending Mansion and make friends with some people in the rivers and lakes.

I don't know what kind of heart this Ma Kuan has, but he actually befriended a thief who is entrenched in Wuma Mountain...... In fact, it is not a habitual bandit, and its core backbone is a group of Hebei soldiers who refuse to return to their hometown to cultivate the land after the gang is dispersed, plus some homeless people who have lost their family business because of the war, there are more than 2,000 people in total. Ma Kuo and one of their leaders, a former Song military academy captain named Yu Leishen, knew each other. After meeting in Zhending Mansion, they became more familiar with each other.

So this time, I got Zhao Kai's order to come to Zhending Mansion to recruit troops, and I easily recruited this gang of bandits. And Zhao Kai's target for Ma Kuo is 5,000 people, and after recruiting 2,000 bandits, there is still 3,000 to be enough. Therefore, Ma Kuo was temporarily stationed in Jingcheng County, training troops and recruiting troops at the same time.

As a result, the soldiers did not recruit a few, but they met Liu Ziyu who ran over from the Pingding Army. After learning the news of the golden thief's westward march from Liu Ziyu, Ma Kuo didn't say a word, and immediately led the troops into Niangzi Pass, and finally didn't let the golden thief take the lead.

After learning that the Golden Thief West Road Army was advancing eastward, Liu Tao, the pacification envoy of Hebei West Road and the Zhizhen Dingfu, immediately led an army of 5,000 out of Tunjing and established a second line of defense. The choice of Jingchengkou defense is to take into account the Zhending Mansion in the rear, in case the Yanshan gold thieves go south to attack the Zhending Mansion...... It's really a bit ashamed to say that as the marshal of Hebei West Road, Liu Tao, who also directly leads the Zhending Mansion, has less than 15,000 available troops, and it is less than half of the Han'er army left in Yanshan by Guo Yaoshi. Therefore, he did not have enough troops to defend against the Jin people in both the west and north directions at the same time.

If it weren't for Zhao Kai leading more than 10,000 people to rush over day and night, Liu Tao, the marshal of Hebei West Road, might really become "handsome trapped in the city".

And what's worse is that an army of more than 10,000 people can't hold a few cities at all. Therefore, most of the castles in the north of Hebei West Road will be easily taken by Wanyan Zonghan.

And with the grain stored in these castles, Wanyan Zonghan's army could stay in the area of Zhending Mansion for a long time and surround the city where Liu Tao was stationed...... No matter how good the Song army's ability to defend the city is, as long as there is no way to grow enough crops in the small castle, it is only a matter of time before the city runs out of food!

In the original history, the castles dotted around Hebei were all taken by the gold thieves because they did not have enough strength to hold on and there was no endless food to consume......

Therefore, the biggest difficulty faced by Zhao Kai, the marshal of Hebei soldiers and horses, is not that there are no horses as people in later generations imagined...... Rather, there are not enough soldiers!

Therefore, on the way from Jingchengkou to Niangziguan, Zhao Kai was discussing with Liu Tao the issue of setting up camps and field divisions and even jiedu envoys in Zhendingfu, Dingzhou, Baozhou, Zhaozhou, Qizhou and other places - in Zhao Kai's view, even if he could force the Western Route Army of the Jin thieves to retreat, he was unable to rely on tens of thousands of troops to protect the entire Hebei under the attack of the Yanshan Jin Army, the Jinxi Route Army, and the Jindong Route Army.

Although he has a little "two", he is not brain-dead...... He still understands the "soldier's principle" that 200,000 or 300,000 is greater than 50,000 or 60,000.

Therefore, in order to keep as much land as possible in Hebei, we can only give full play to the enthusiasm of the heroes and strongmen in various places...... But now it's not Han Tang after all. It's easy to find more than a dozen scholar families in Hebei who can make a fuss, but it's hard to find some strong clans that are similar to Li Xiaozhong's family!

Zhao Kai and Liu Tao discussed all the way, but in the end they didn't discuss a result.

So Zhao Kai left Liu Tao in Niangziguan (Niangziguan is a castle built on the mountainside), and prepared to continue the discussion the next day, that is, on the tenth day of the first month of March.

However, early the next morning, Zhao Kai, who was sleeping sweetly in his bedroom with Guo Tiannu in his arms, was woken up by a warning bell.

He opened his eyes suddenly, and opened his mouth dimly and said, "Alarm clock, what about the alarm clock?" To be late......"

"King, are you having strange dreams again?" Guo Tiannu, who was talking on the side, was already dressed neatly and brought Zhao Kai a shirt.

Zhao Kai just smiled, didn't explain anything, just asked Guo Tiannu, "Where to ring the bell?" What happened? ”

"My lord, there is another golden army from the west, about 10,000 people, who are encamping on the edge of the water."

"Ten thousand golden soldiers?" Zhao Kai thought about it, and suddenly laughed, "It seems that the Pingding Military City is still in our hands!" The Lone King knew that Yue Fei would not let me down! ”

If the military city of Pingding is gone, it will not be 10,000 gold soldiers who will come now, but 230,000 people!

Zhao Kai said again: "Heavenly Maiden, hurry up and wait for the lonely king to change clothes and wash, go back to eat breakfast, let's go to the gold thief camp together to have a look!" ”

"The king is going to visit the camp?" Guo Tiannu frowned slightly, and asked in a low voice, "How many soldiers and horses do you want to lead?" ”

"It doesn't take much," Zhao Kai said with a smile, "Just let Huang Wuji follow with 500 iron horses...... The lone king went to the temptation. Remember, don't let others know, so that they don't have to stop the lonely king. ”

500 iron cavalry is not a few, if the gold thief has the courage, he should send the same number of cavalry out to compete - because Zhao Kai is the "Chosen King" who can't be killed, so the cavalry of four or five hundred gold people is definitely not an opponent.

If the Jin people do not move, or come out of the nest, they are afraid of Zhao Kai. The morale of the Song army in the camp outside Niangzi Pass and Guanwai will naturally rise.

Of course, Zhao Kai is not afraid of being killed by the Jin army, after all, the terrain on both sides of the Mianmanshui is like this, very narrow. The Song army set up a village under Niangzi Pass and guarded the intersection. The gold thief set up a village four or five miles away, and he also went down the village. No one can get around anyone, and if you want to pass, you will be beaten hard.

However, it is not easy to fight either end.

Just when Zhao Kai summoned the cavalry to explore the camp, he drove all night, and Wanyan Sheyema and Yelu Yujian, who were a little sleepy and tired, had already climbed the watchtower of the golden barracks located on the south bank of the Mianmanshui in the west of Niangzi Pass.

When the two of them looked at the mountain city in front of them and the camp under the mountain city and were a little worried, they saw a group of cavalry coming out of the large camp of the Song people, and there were quite a few of them, including four or five hundred horsemen, and one water of armored iron horsemen. At first, it was a big man in silver armor and silver armor, wearing a face armor, and behind him was a red recognition flag, waving in the wind.

At the beginning, Wan Yan Shema couldn't read the words on the flag clearly, but as the other party got closer and closer, almost a hundred steps away from his camp, he finally saw it clearly, and read it out in Chinese: "Hun King Zhao Muji...... Eunuch, have you heard of this Hun King Zhao Muji? ”

Yelu Yu was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, I really haven't heard of it...... There are quite a lot of official sons in the Southern Dynasty, and I don't know how many people this Hun King has? ”

Wanyan Sheye Ma smiled: "Whatever! Wait for someone to try his bottom first! ”

"Shao Langjun is slow," Yelu Yu saw where he dared to let Sheye Ma take risks, and hurriedly said, "It's just a Hun King of the Southern Dynasty, where can I use you to go out?" Let's send someone else! ”

Wan Yan Sheye Ma nodded and said with a smile: "That's right, Eunuch Yelu, why don't you go out and try it?" ”

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