In Jiaozhou City, in the palace hall, Song Yuanyan, the king of Jiaozhou, was sitting on his seat drinking morning tea.

Suddenly, a guard outside the door came to report: "The prince is a thousand years old!" There is a messenger outside, saying that there is a letter from His Royal Highness the Prince! ”

Song Yuanyan frowned and said, "Let him in!" ”

A moment later, the guard walked in with a gray-faced, tired messenger.

Song Yuanyan looked at the messenger and asked calmly, "Are you traveling overnight?" What's so in such a hurry? ”

The dusty messenger hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "Meet the prince Chitose!" His Royal Highness the Prince has lost the battle on the front line, and ordered the villain to hurry overnight to deliver a letter to you. As he spoke, he took out the letter written by Song Yinbei from his arms and held it above his head with both hands.

As soon as Song Yuanyan heard the messenger say that Song Yinbei had suffered another defeat, his body trembled, and a bad premonition instantly came to his heart, and he hurriedly ordered someone to take the letter.

When I opened the letter and looked at it, I suddenly felt that my brain was buzzing. Lost tens of thousands of troops? Bin County, Qu County, Qianling County, and Shao County have been lost one after another, and they have been planning for so many years, so should they fall short like this?

A total of more than 100,000 soldiers have been lost, which is his own hard work for many years!

You must know that counting the original 100,000 defenders and the 50,000 private troops privately raised by Song Yuanyan in Zhongzhou, there are only 150,000 troops in total. As a result, Song Yinbei attacked Jishui County and lost 20,000, and was annihilated by Xiaoding more than 40,000 outside Jishui County, Xiaoding attacked Qianling County, Bin County, and Qu County, eliminating and surrendering about 30,000 troops, Yi Chunzhu came to rescue and was ambushed by the Yue brothers on the way, and lost 10,000, and Shaoxian lost another 30,000 in the first battle.

This time it almost consumed the entire army in Zhongzhou! How could Song Yuanyan not be in a hurry?

Fortunately, these consumed armies included some defenders from the original county town, and there were more than 10,000 together. There was also a part of the army that was transferred from Jiangzhou to attack Yuezhou.

Therefore, at present, in Song Yuanyan's hands, in addition to the 30,000 troops who are attacking Tingzhou Pass in Yuezhou, there are about 50,000 troops outside Zhongzhou City. Last time I was transferred from Jiangzhou, there were still 30,000 troops on the road to support Song Yinbei, and there were still more than 20,000 border soldiers in Jiangzhou.

Song Yuanyan's head buzzed for a long time, and finally relieved himself, looked at the messenger who was still kneeling below, and asked, "How many reinforcements are there sent by the Great Song Emperor?" ”

"Back to the prince, I heard that there are only 30,000 people in total." The messenger replied honestly.

"Thirty thousand? The other party's 30,000 people destroyed more than 100,000 of my people? Song Yuyan shouted in disbelief.

"Yes, my lord, the lord of the other side is scheming, and he has calculated repeatedly, and His Royal Highness has been fooled without knowing it, and then he will ......," the messenger said respectfully.

"I heard that the main general of the support army is not Song Yinzi, the twelfth prince of the Great Song Emperor? Is he so powerful? Of course, Song Yuanyan didn't believe that his nerdy nephew would have such a talent for fighting.

"Back to the prince, I heard that although Song Yinzi is the commander of the army, the one who commands the battle is a deputy commander-in-chief." The messenger replied truthfully.

"Lieutenant Marshal? And a lieutenant marshal? Who is he? Song Yuyan asked loudly.

"Back to the prince, I heard that the deputy marshal is named Tian Xiaoding, and he has made a lot of contributions on the battlefield in Yongzhou before." The messenger bowed his head and replied.

"Tian Xiaoding? Haven't you heard of that name? Most of the well-known generals of the Great Song Kingdom should have heard of me. This Tian Xiaoding is very ear-born! Song Yuyan muttered in his mouth.

"Back to the prince, the villain doesn't know much about this deputy marshal Tian, I heard that he only joined the army last winter, because of his great merit, he was rewarded by the emperor and became a general, and this time he followed Song Yinzi to be the deputy marshal." The messenger told Song Jiayan everything he knew.

Song Yuanyan pondered for a moment, and then ordered, "You go down to rest first, I will write a letter to Bei'er later, you help me bring the letter back to him, and tell him to return to Jiaozhou in the near future, he has no talent to lead troops to fight, and he has buried all my army in vain, alas......"

Song Yuanyan originally wanted his eldest son Song Yinbei to go to the battlefield to experience it, even if he couldn't inherit his throne in the future, he wanted to train him to be his right-hand man. Unexpectedly, his son was too unlucky, he was okay before, and he captured three or four counties in Zhongzhou in one go, but as a result, as soon as the other party's reinforcements came, they lost the battle one after another.

After the messenger replied and retreated, Song Yuanyan thought for a moment and issued another order, ordering Song Yinpan, the second son of Tingzhou Pass, to attack Tingzhou Pass for many days, temporarily stop attacking Tingzhou Pass, and lead his troops to retreat to Lenan County first, and take over the generals under Song Yinbei. At the same time, he sent someone to inform the Jiangzhou troops who were on the way to support Song Yinbei, and asked him to lead the leader of the team, Da Chunlu, to lead the troops to Lenan County and join Song Yinpan.

Then, Song Yuanyan sent envoys to Dali and Da Nan Barbarians again, urging them to send troops to rescue them quickly.

Dali and Danan Barbarians are also far away from the mountains, even if they send troops quickly, they need to walk for many days on the road to reach the territory of Jiaozhou.

After arranging these, Song Yuanyan called another confidant guard and instructed him: "You go and invite the head of Shangguan to help me, I have something to discuss with him." ”

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Shao County, the county hall of the county, Song Yinzi sat in the middle of the main seat, Xiao Ding sat with him, and the other generals sat at the bottom in turn, and everyone was discussing the strategy of the lower part.

Song Yinzi rode over today on a fast horse after receiving the battle report yesterday. When he heard that he had won another big victory, he couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, and couldn't help but go to the front line to take a look.

The table in front of Xiao Ding's seat in the county hall was covered with a strategic map. Xiao Ding was looking at the map at this time, pondering. Which city should you attack next?

Shaoxian County is the first city in Jiaozhou that they have just defeated. And there are at least a dozen small counties like Shaoxian in Jiaozhou, so you can't fight all of them.

Even if all these small counties are defeated, there will not be so many soldiers guarding these cities! You must know that their combat-ready army is only more than 30,000 in total. Excluding the troops who are guarding the cities that have been defeated, as well as the troops who are going to support Tingzhou Pass, the available troops are only about 20,000 now.

Since it is not possible to defeat all the counties in Jiaozhou, it is necessary to carefully plan the route of the march.

Xiao Ding looked at the map and felt that there were two routes to choose from at present, the first route was to continue to pursue Song Yinbei, directly attack Lenan County, and then occupy Anyuan County, and go to the rescue of Tingzhou Pass, and then join the forces of Tingzhou Pass; The second route is to march directly in the direction of Zhongzhou City, and will also pass through two county seats, Yuanhua County and Qingde County. In addition, there are two small cities not far from Zhongzhou City, Xiguan and Zhaoqing, which are at the corner of Zhongzhou City.

Which of the two routes should be chosen strategically?

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