When Xiao Sui heard that Li Jingyuan had fallen into a trap, he was overjoyed in his heart, and said to Yelu Xiuge: "The purpose of our siege of Mozhou is to mobilize the defenders of Sanguan to reinforce them, and now that the defenders of Gaoyang Pass have been dispatched, they are bound to attack your troops with the army of Mozhou." Yu Yue must resist the strong enemy, I led the army to spread the net outside, and when Qing and the Song army were fighting, they would be surrounded in one fell swoop, and they would be attacked inside and outside, and they would win a complete victory. ”

Yelu Xiuge said: "The queen mother is clever and will definitely be able to defeat the Song army, but the minister is just worried that the Taizhou defenders will come to reinforce it." ”

Xiao Xuan smiled: "This I have already thought of it, and I have ordered Lu Fugu to lead the army to set up an ambush in the Stirrup Fort, waiting for Yang Yanzhao to arrive." ”

Yelu Hugo said: "This is very good, but the minister is still a little uneasy about Lu Fugu. ”

Xiao Sui said: "I'm also a little worried, who do you think is appropriate?" ”

Jerushuge said, "It's good that Jerod is here." ”

Xiao Xuan said unhappily: "Could it be that he is the only one in my Khitan Kingdom who can fight." ”

Jeruhhuge did not dare to say anything.

Xiao Sui then ordered Xiao Pai to escort and his uncle Xiao Tzu Liege to lead his uncle's troops to support Lu Fugu, and sent palace envoys as supervisors, asking them to capture Yang Yanzhao alive. Xiao Pai led a team of men and horses to set off quietly.

Send Xiao Pai away, and Brother Yelu Hugo will also leave.

Xiao Xuan felt that he had a bad attitude towards Yelu Hugo just now, so he explained: "Yelu Xian - now that he is sick, he - does not want to contribute to me. ”

Yelu Hugh said: "Queen Mother, after this battle, collect the troops." ”

Xiao Sui said, "What? You don't want to fight either? ”

Yelu Hugo said: "Before, the minister only wanted revenge, did not carefully consider the situation of the country, these days with the Song army several times, the Song army is far from as weak as we think, want to defeat them, it is not easy. At this point, Yelu obliquely can see clearly and far away than the minister, and the minister is not as good as him. ”

Xiao Xuan said: "You are all my ministers, the pillars of the country. Fight this battle first, don't think about anything else, don't let other things distract. ”

The next day, the Song army of Gaoyang Pass came and surrounded Yelu Huge. Yelu Hugo counterattacked several times, but was beaten back by the Song army. He realized that this was a well-trained new army, and judging from their armor, equipment, and formation, they were likely to be the Imperial Forest Army of the Song Kingdom. Their momentum is also very different from other armies, the soldiers have a rebellious spirit, they are not timid when they encounter the enemy, they advance and retreat in an orderly manner, they are not in a hurry, and they deal with it calmly, and they form a phalanx as if they are an iron plate. No matter where they attacked, they were knocked back and hit their heads and bled out.

Several attacks were blocked, and Yelu Hugo had no choice but to hold the camp firmly, densely cover the horses, erect high fences, dig deep trenches, and strictly defend it.

Liu Tingrang, the general of Gaoyang Pass, continuously attacked the Khitan military camp, but was repulsed, so he sent someone to see Li Jingyuan and asked him to go out of the city immediately and encircle and annihilate Yelu Huge with himself.

Li Jingyuan was originally besieged by the Khitan army in Mozhou, and he was terrified and panicked, so he thought of recruiting Yelu Huge and thought it was a plan to delay the army. Unexpectedly, Brother Yelu Xiu really agreed, what he didn't expect was that Liu Ting let him come so quickly, and forced Brother Yelu Xiu to flee back to the camp to defend the village, it seems that the strength of the reinforcements is indeed extraordinary. Immediately, Li Jingyuan led his troops out of the city to meet Liu Tingrang, and the two negotiated and decided to attack the Khitan camp together early tomorrow morning. Li Jingyuan came back from Liu Tingrang, but he felt uncomfortable, look at Liu Tingrang's appearance, where did he put him in his eyes? Commanding, he clearly looked like a chief, and after a while he said that he had a problem with his defense, and he should not defend the city, but should go out of the city to meet the enemy. After a while, he blamed him for not coming out earlier to cooperate with him in the attack, if he was one step earlier, the Khitans would be finished. To put it bluntly, he just looks down on him Li Jingyuan, as if the world is about him Liu Tingrang will fight. If you can beat you, what will you do? If it weren't for the siege of Mozhou, Lao Tzu would be lazy to serve you.

Li Jingyuan complained, sat in the tent and closed his eyes. A cronie came and whispered, "That Khitan is here." ”

"What is he doing here? Bring him—here. Li Jingyuan thought about it and said so.

After a while, Xiao Hengde came in, saw Li Jingyuan, and said, "Don't you want a big credit?" ”

Li Jingyuan said: "What great merit? It is a great credit to annihilate you. ”

Xiao Hengde laughed out loud and said, "Annihilating us is a great merit, although this merit is great, it is not the king's." ”

Li Jingyuan said: "Why is it not mine? ”

Xiao Hengde said: "I don't need to say this, you know it yourself, don't say that you can't destroy us, even if you eliminate us, it will be Liu Tingrang's credit, and you Li Yuanjun will only assist Liu Tingrang at most." ”

Li Jingyuan said: "So what, at least we defeated you." ”

Xiao Hengde said: "If you say this, I have nothing to say, but I am not worth it for you." ”

Li Jingyuan said: "What's not worth it? ”

Xiao Hengde said: "I could have received all the credit, but now I can't even get a small half of the credit, do you think it's worth it?" ”

Li Jingyuan was silent.

Xiao Hengde said: "Originally, my master had made an appointment with the envoy, and in the past few days, Han Derang is also in the camp, but it is difficult to start, so my master asks the envoy to be patient for two days, and when the time comes, he will be arrested and defected to the envoy, and the army will be easy to control." Isn't this a complete credit to the envoy? ”

Li Jingyuan said: "Since your master is so attentive and made arrangements earlier, now that he is besieged by our army, he will come down overnight, if he hesitates again, it will be difficult to achieve great things." ”

Xiao Hengde said: "What the envoy said is that my master said that he would send Han Derang over in the next two days." ”

Li Jingyuan said: "Okay, I'll wait for him for two days, and as soon as the two days pass, he won't blame me for being ruthless." ”

Xiao Hengde looked left and right, and whispered: "This is natural, when the villain left, Yu Yue also asked the villain to bring some jewelry to the envoy." ”

When Li Jingyuan heard that there were jewels, his eyes almost fell out. I saw Xiao Hengde pull open the big bag, untie a cloth bag from his waist, hand it to Li Jingyuan, and said: "A small gift, not a tribute, I hope you will accept it with a smile." ”

Li Jingyuan took the cloth bag, pinched it with his hand, and said, "Go back and tell your master to hurry up, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”

The next day, Li Jingyuan did not send troops, Liu Tingrang attacked for a day, returned in vain, and folded hundreds of soldiers, with a belly of fire in his heart, strode into Li Jingyuan's military camp, and asked Li Jingyuan why he didn't attack?

Li Jingyuan pointed to the crossbows all over the ground and said, "It's not that I don't want to attack the Khitans, it's just that the weather is too cold, and this bow and crossbow is as hard as iron, where can it be pulled?" If you can't shoot arrows, how can you fight? Isn't that a death sentence? ”

What Li Jingyuan said was indeed the truth, the weather was extremely cold in the past two days, and the bows and crossbows were frozen, which greatly affected the combat effectiveness. Although Liu Tingrang had a stomach full of complaints about Li Jingyuan, it was not easy to attack at this time, so he had to ask him to cooperate with the action tomorrow no matter what, and be sure to take the Khitan camp. If it was too late, the Khitan reinforcements arrived, and they would be surrounded by them, and at that time, everyone would not survive.

Li Jingyuan promised and sent Liu Tingrang away. He opened the cloth bag, and one by one the shiny, golden things dazzled his eyes.

That night, it was quiet outside, and there was no sign that the two armies were facing each other. The camps of the two armies seemed to be curfew at the same time, and there were no people coming and going in the camps, only the sizzling sound of blazing torches. However, everyone knew that in that place where the fire could not be illuminated, a pair of bright eyes were staring vigilantly into the distance. The flickering torches occasionally shone on the snow-white sword, lit up like lightning and extinguished on the ground. The soldiers lay on the ground like stones, wrapped in everything they could keep warm, and each wished for a roaring bonfire around them. However, the commander said that he should strictly prevent the enemy from sneaking up, and the bonfire will expose his own reality. Survive this night, and tomorrow you can go home victorious.

At midnight, there seemed to be a whirlwind, and in mid-air, a misty snow and mist rose up. But soon the wind and fog lifted, and the moon shone brightly, and seemed whiter and more lonely than usual.

Li Jingyuan didn't sleep well all night, he was always dreaming, and when he closed his eyes slightly, it seemed that a Khitan person had called. Countless torches were burning in the field, overwhelmingly surrounding him, frightening him to sweat profusely, and he wanted to shout but couldn't shout; There was not a single soldier around, and he wanted to run but couldn't. I was in a hurry, I woke up, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that the moon outside the military tent was clear and quiet. I went back to sleep again, just squinted my eyes, and dreamed that the Khitan people were coming, as if I had picked up the dream I had before, and I was chased by the Khitans everywhere, and I stepped on the air, and the people woke up, panting, and the soul was out of body, and I couldn't come back to my senses for a long time.

Li Jingyuan was really tormented by the nightmare, and he couldn't live in peace, so he walked out of the military tent and looked at the camp of Yelu Hugh from afar, and only went back for a long time, and finally fell asleep.

When Li Jingyuan woke up again, there was a sound of Hu Ji in the Khitan camp, people shouted and neighed, and the entire military camp was boiling. Here, Liu Tingrang's military camp also became in a commotion, with intricate flags and thunderous war drums. The soldiers ran quickly and were about to attack.

In the early morning, the first rays of sunlight shone into Li Jingyuan's military tent. A soldier ran in almost with the sunlight and told Li Jingyuan: Someone is coming over there.

Li Jingyuan hurriedly got up and asked, "Where is the person?" Liu Tingrang sent someone? ”

"No, it's a Khitan."

"How many people came?"

"Not much, a hundred and ten."

Li Jingyuan hurriedly walked out to watch, only to see Xiao Hengde walking at the front of the team, and dozens of Khitan soldiers behind him walked over with more than a dozen people who looked like Khitan officials with big ties. At the end were Yelu Huge and dozens of Khitan generals.

Li Jingyuan recognized Han Derang, among the people who were kidnapped, nearly fifty years old, burly, although he was tied, he still held his head high, was not afraid, and scolded the escort. Xiao Hengde stepped forward and slapped Han Derang twice, Han Derang glared at him, flew up and kicked Xiao Hengde in the lower abdomen. Xiao Hengde immediately covered his stomach and ran to the gate of Song Junzhai.

Li Jingyuan hurriedly asked people to open the gate of the wall, and Han Derang was pushed and shoved into the Song military camp.

Li Jingyuan was overjoyed and stepped forward.

Suddenly, Adjutant General Yang Chongjin shouted: "The general is coming back quickly, they are surrendering by fraud." ”

Li Jingyuan was stunned, took a step back, turned around and ran. Yelu Hugo screamed, jumped into Li Jingyuan, grabbed the back collar of Li Jingyuan's clothes, and the cold steel knife was already on Li Jingyuan's neck.

Li Jingyuan was suddenly paralyzed and fell to the ground, begging for mercy.

Yelu Hugo said: "You bastard, you have repeatedly provoked wars and instigated your emperor to invade our borders, and your crimes are extremely heinous, and I can't spare you." After all, a knife ended Li Jingyuan's life.

At this time, Han Derang had already shaken off the rope and danced the rope to fight with Yang Chongjin. Xiao Hengde released a signal and exploded in the air, as if shaking the earth. Suddenly, thousands of troops and horses came out of the ground, roaring, and the sound of killing shook the heavens and the earth.

When did the Khitans come so many at once, so many people came quietly under their noses, but they didn't notice it, it's incredible. Seeing so many Khitan troops coming, the Song soldiers were frightened, and the camp was a mess.

Yelu Hugo took the opportunity to storm on, and more than a hundred people were carefully selected elites, like lions and tigers stirring up in the Song camp. Attacking inside and outside, in less than a moment, the Song camp collapsed. In the panic, Yang Chongjin was in a mess, and was pulled two ropes by Han De, slowing down his hands and feet, Han Derang was empty, threw out the rope, and actually wrapped Yang Chongjin's neck, and shook his hand, Yang Chongjin was overturned in the snow, dragged dozens of steps on the ground, and did not let go until Yang Chongjin did not move at all.

Breaking through Li Jingyuan's camp, the battle was not over, Yelu Hugo left a small part to clean up the battlefield and personally led the main force to storm Liu Tingrang. However, Liu Ting's army was far more difficult to fight than Li Jingyuan, and Yelu Hugo was repulsed several times.

At this time, Xiao Xuan ordered him to suspend the attack. Yelu Hugo took advantage of the truce to meet Xiao Xuan and asked why he didn't attack?

Xiao Sui said: "This is a difficult bone to gnaw, surround it first, boil it, and wait until it is cooked before eating." ”

Yelu Hugo said: "What the Queen Mother said is that forgive him for how long a lone army can last." ”

While he was talking, someone came to report that two of the Song army had broken through and left.

Jeruhugo said, "How? How did people break through? ”

Xiao Sui said, "I let them go." ”

Jeruxiu said, "Why did the Queen Mother let them go? ”

Xiao Sui said: "What are these two people doing out? ”

Jeruxiugo said, "The rescuers must have been moved." ”

Xiao Sui said: "Yes, but where are their rescuers?" ”

Yelu Hugo said: "According to the minister's discovery, when Liu Tingrang led the troops to reinforce Mozhou, he left an army behind the palace and let Li Jilong lead it, thinking that they should help, and these two people must go to Li Jilong." ”

Xiao Sui said: "Yes, I just went to find him, but Li Jilong has already fled to Leshou." Liu Tingrang has no reinforcements, and the army's heart will be scattered, and that is the time to boil the bones. Therefore, I not only want to let those two Song soldiers out, but also let them in. ”

Yelu Xiuge said: "The Queen Mother is still thoughtful, and when the time comes, the Song army will collapse when it sees that there are no reinforcements." ”

Xiao Sui said: "How is Li Jingyuan? ”

Yelu Hugo said: "Li Jingyuan was killed by his ministers, and Yang Chongjin was captured alive by the government order. ”

Xiao Sui said: "Okay, let them do it for us again." ”

When Yelu Hugo heard this, he immediately went back, provoked Li Jingyuan's head, escorted Yang Chongjin, and shouted to the Song army to let them surrender early, otherwise, Li Jingyuan and Yang Chongjin would be their end. When the Song army saw Li Jingyuan's head, they were horrified, knowing that Li Jingyuan had been defeated and the momentum of the horn had been broken, they were all frightened and demoralized.

Soon, Liu Tingrang received the news that Li Jilong had retreated from Leshou, and the despair quickly spread among the army, and the soldiers were like panicked rats, scurrying everywhere, and the formation could not be formed. The Khitan army launched a fierce attack, and the horses galloped in the wilderness, neighing, and splashing snowflakes like rising smoke. They rushed towards the array of the Song army, and due to the cold weather, the bows and crossbows were difficult to open, and the Song army could only engage with the Khitan army in short combat. Soon, the formed phalanx was shattered by the Khitan army. Lost the advantage of the phalanx. The Song army almost became a lamb to be slaughtered. The Junziguan became a slaughterhouse for the Khitans. Song Jun's body was everywhere, and blood flowed like a river.

From the morning bloody battle to the afternoon, the shouts and wails gradually stopped. Xiao Xuan looked at the battlefield strewn with corpses, and his chest seemed to be blocked by something. She looked at the distance and saw that there were still people fighting, and someone reported that it was Liu Tingrang, the commander of the Song Army.

Xiao Sui said: "Tell the soldiers that I want to live." ”

So, the Khitan soldiers surrounded Liu Tingrang layer by layer, like a prey, stabbed him here, shouted at him there, this person threw a stone at him, and that person made a grimace at him. They all shouted for him to surrender.

Liu Tingrang was like an annoyed cow, his eyes widened, looking for the object of the duel, but he didn't know where to go, he was so anxious that he screamed, desperate to wipe his neck.

Suddenly, the Khitan army dispersed, only to see a man rushing in with two plate axes. Seeing Liu Tingrang, he shouted: "Marshal Liu, go quickly." ”

Liu Tingrang saw it and shouted: "General Sang Yu save me." ”

Sang Xuan shouted: "Marshal Liu comes with me." The Khitan army saw that he was coming fiercely and scattered, Liu Tingrang followed closely behind Sang Xuan, and the two rushed desperately and fought out of the encirclement.

Xiao Xuan told people not to catch up. Seeing that there was no Khitan army chasing after him, Sang Xuan said to Liu Tingrang: "Marshal Liu, if the Khitan army is not chasing, I won't send you, my general is still fighting with the Khitan army in the stirrup fort, and I want to go back to help them." ”

Liu Ting thanked Sang Xuan, and when he saw Sang Xuan slapping his horse away, a heartache made him fall on the side of the road, and he looked back at the Junzi Pavilion and cried bitterly.