As soon as Lu Jinsuo returned to the military office, the military master Jia Shu hurried over, he came from the military camp, he was patrolling the military camp, and happened to meet Daniel Zhang with the Lu family blue-clothed army to camp, Lu Jinsuo's compromise really annoyed him.

"Why did the general still let the Lu family's children control their army? Jia Shu asked.

The questioning tone made Lu Jinsuo's face a little unbearable, and his face sank: "It's just a little bit of care, it's not a big problem!" ”

"General, there are people in the Lu family who are officials in Chang'an, or Guo Song's secretary who joined the army, can you trust them?"

"The military advisor is too worried, more children of the Lu family are officials under the prince, and they also serve as Taichangqing in the Zhu Zhu court, and there are also high-ranking officials in the Southern Tang Dynasty court in Chengdu, which family is not like this?

You think that if you join the army as a secretary, the Lu family will be loyal to Guo Song, but you are very wrong, the prince said that these families will never be loyal to any force, only to themselves, so they have lived for a thousand years. ”

Jia Shu couldn't say anything about Lu Jinsuo at this point, so he had to sigh and say: "These wealthy families are unwilling to hand over Zhuang Ding to us, they all want to send their own people to lead, the general is open to the Lu family, how can they not make trouble?" ”

"If you really can't do it, you will allow each family to send someone to serve as a deputy position, and the Lu family also said to the outside world that it will serve as a deputy position."

Jia Shu thought about it, and he could only do this, and he asked again: "How did the general arrange the Zhuang Ding of the Lu family?" ”

"I'm going to involve them in the internal service, maintaining order in the city, guarding the gates, patrolling at night, and so on."

"But I warn the general."

In principle, Jia Shu did not object to Lu Jinsuo's arrangement, but in terms of details, he needed to remind Lu Jinsuo, "It's okay to patrol, but it's better not to guard the city gates, it's too dangerous for them to guard the city gates, especially at night." ”

Lu Jinsuo thought about it and made sense, so he nodded and said, "Okay! I don't have them guarding the gates, I'm just responsible for patrolling and maintaining order. ”

.........

After crossing the Zhangshui, Zhu Tao led the army to flee all the way north, and they couldn't take care of the cities and logistics warehouses along the way, and after a little supply in Raoyang, they continued to go north, and arrived in Hejian County, Yingzhou three days later.

Yingzhou, originally Li Wujun's territory, was annexed by Zhu Tao last year, and in order to strengthen his control over Yingzhou, Zhu Tao planned to build a bridge over the Hutuo River north of Hejian County, but so far the bridge has not begun construction.

The Hutuo River is the largest river in Hebei Province, with a wide drainage area and many tributaries, so that it has abundant water, the upstream water flow is turbulent, and the downstream river surface is wide, and the widest part reaches several miles.

Hejian County is the largest wharf on the Hutuo River, and there are more than 20 ferries here, each of which can transport 50 or 60 people at a time.

In the morning, Zhu Tao's army arrived in Hejian County.

"I can only transport more than 1,000 people at a time, when will my 50,000 army be able to transport it?"

Zhu Tao was very dissatisfied and ordered the soldiers: "Go and collect ships to build a pontoon bridge!" ”

The soldiers went their separate ways, and after an hour they found only twenty or thirty small boats, but it took at least a hundred wooden boats to build a pontoon bridge, which was far from enough, and their rafts were burned down by fire, and it was impossible to build a pontoon bridge.

The Hejian County Commander explained: "Lord Qiqi, there were originally many boats, but because of the outbreak of war, the fishermen were afraid of being requisitioned, so they hid the boats and couldn't find them for a while. ”

Military advisor Li Bo often persuaded Zhu Tao: "I can't build a pontoon bridge for a while, so the prince should take a ferry!" I estimate that it can be completed in one day and one night, and no matter how urgent Youzhou is, it will not be worse than this day or two. ”

Zhu Tao was helpless, so he had to order: "Pass my order, and the army will cross the river!" ”

An army of 50,000 crossed the river in formation, and a ferry boat could only carry a maximum of sixty or seventy people, and it was more dangerous, but there was no way, each ferry boat was full of soldiers and headed for the opposite bank.

Zhu Tao was the first to cross the river, and he was still a little worried about the pursuers behind, so he crossed the river first.

On the other side of the river is Mozhou, which is his traditional territory, and then through Mozhou is Youzhou, and when the boat arrives in Mozhou, he has a heart.

The ferry, which began in the morning and continued until near dusk in the afternoon, made ten trips, carrying 15,600 people.

At this moment, a soldier pointed to the south and shouted, and everyone looked to the south, only to see dust flying several miles away, emitting a rolling thunderous color, and a black line faintly appeared in the dust.

"The pursuers are coming!" Some soldiers shouted in panic.

The Youzhou army was in chaos, Zhu Tao crossed the river, most of the important generals left first, there were only a group of middle and low-level generals left, the only general was Wu Xiaowen, the main general of the rear army, Wu Xiaowen has been in charge of logistics, and has no experience in leading troops to fight, he asked urgently: "What should we do?" ”

Several generals had no fighting spirit and wanted to escape, so they persuaded Wu Xiaowen and said: "We have no preparation, a battle against the water will only wipe out the whole army, let's retreat to the east first!" ”

Wu Xiaowen did not realize what it meant to give the withdrawal order, he had no idea, so he followed the advice of the generals.

"Evacuate to the east! Evacuate! ”

'Woo-woo-'

The order to withdraw was given, the horn of the withdrawal was sounded, and the 36,000 soldiers were instantly defeated, and they rushed to the east, their weapons were too heavy and they threw them away, and their armor was too heavy, and they took it off as they went, and even threw away the bags of dry food, carrying only a little soft belongings with them, and ran wildly with their legs spread and ran wildly.

But after all, two legs can't run four legs, and in a short time, 25,000 cavalry swept in like a monstrous flood, in fact, Yao Jin led the army to come a long time ago, they have been waiting for the Youzhou army to cross the river, and then carry out the half-crossing attack when they are halfway through.

General Li Feng led 5,000 cavalry to the east, blocking the escape road in front.

The cavalry instantly slaughtered into the crowd of fleeing enemy troops, and in an instant the heads were rolling, and the corpses were strewn all over the ground, and there were cries, wails, and begs for mercy everywhere.

Yao Jin saw that most of the enemy troops had lost their armor and lost their combat effectiveness, so he ordered: "Those who surrender will not be killed!" ”

The cavalry of the Jin army shouted while running: "Those who surrender will not be killed!" Those who surrender do not kill—"

The fleeing Youzhou soldiers heard the shouts, knelt down in pieces, raised their hands and surrendered.

The soldiers running in front saw countless cavalry in front of them, blocking their escape path, and the pursuers behind were approaching, and in panic, they knelt down and surrendered.

Zhu Tao on the north bank of the river saw that his army was being chased and killed by the enemy cavalry, his heart was like a knife, so he had to sigh, turn around and lead the army north, the river was full of empty boats, and it was impossible for any more soldiers to come.

In this battle, more than 30,000 soldiers surrendered to the Youzhou army, and the Jizhou Campaign, which lasted more than half a month, finally achieved a brilliant victory........

Guo Song led 5,000 cavalry to the city of Youzhou, and the 60,000 army was stationed 30 miles away, they did not carry baggage, but the Jin army levied hundreds of carts in Fanyang County, and continuously transported grain and grass to the Youzhou front.

Guo Song was experienced in a hundred battles and had a lot of experience in battle, and he knew that he did not carry a tent and baggage, and it was easy for the enemy to see that his tactic was to break the city quickly, which would make the enemy guess that he had a response in the city.

Therefore, he combined the virtual and the real, and only led 5,000 cavalry to check the situation in Youzhou City, so that the enemy army could not understand his intentions.

Youzhou city is tall and strong, the moat is more than 30 zhang wide, the river can be boated, there are four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest, a stone bridge was built on the water surface of the city gate, it was interrupted at the place where there were two zhang away from the city gate, the last two zhang were suspension bridges, and they were pulled up high.

Marching Sima Luzhan stared at the moat for a long time and said with a smile: "Your Highness, in fact, there are still loopholes in the moat, such a wide moat, the attacker can attack from the waterway, and the big ship has become a ready-made siege ladder?" ”

Guo Song said lightly: "That's because you think the enemy army is too simple, first of all, it is very difficult for ships to enter Youzhou, of course, it is feasible for the army to attack, and the ships are mixed in, but how do you know that the other party has no way to deal with the ships?" I don't need iron and thunder, I can burn a big ship with dozens of cans of kerosene. ”

Lu Zhan said embarrassedly: "I didn't think it through. ”

Guo Song smiled slightly, "There are ways that you can only think of until the end of the day, because I have experienced it, so I know that in the future, I may use the method you said in attacking Luoyang." ”

After speaking, Guo Song urged the horse, "Let's go to the north of the city to have a look!" ”

He led 5,000 cavalry and made a detour to the north of the city.

At the head of the city, tens of thousands of Youzhou soldiers were looking at the enemy army outside, and Lu Jinsuo was also watching, but he couldn't figure it out, the other party only came with five thousand cavalry, without any baggage, what did they do?

"Strategist, what do you think they are trying to do?"

Jia Shu stared for a moment and said: "They can't only have such an army, their big camp should be camped in the south, this is just to check the situation of the city defense, they either want to besiege the city for reinforcements, or they want to occupy the entire Youyan, not just to deal with us." ”