The current defender of Lizhou City is Zeng Mingyi, the commander of the military capital, who is a Han man from Liaodong who commands a total of 6,000 people in the two battalions of the Han domain in Lizhou City.

It stands to reason that such an important place as Lizhou City will not only have only 6,000 people, and it is not a place where a Han army commander can sit down, in fact, Lizhou City does have a Jiedu envoy named Yelu Tude, who leads a total of 12,000 defenders including Zeng Mingguang's 4,000 Han soldiers, although the number is not very large, self-protection is not a problem.

But ten days ago, Lizhou City suddenly received an urgent military information, saying that a large amount of grain and grass was being transported to Lizhou City and was attacked by a 3,000-strong horse army less than 30 miles away from Lizhou City!

Yelu Tude was shocked, and hurriedly personally ordered 9,000 men and horses to go out of the city to rescue, thinking that it should not be a problem for the 3,000 Jin army to be three enemies and one, but they were suddenly attacked by a large number of Jin troops on the way, and as a result, Yelu Tude was killed in battle, and the 9,000 people only fled back with less than 3,000 people, and then Lizhou City was surrounded by tens of thousands of Jin troops!

Zeng Mingyi, who stayed behind, hurriedly ordered all the city gates to be closed, and when he sorted out the only remaining 6,000 soldiers in the city from top to bottom according to their official positions, but his own military rank was now the highest, so Zeng Mingyi became the supreme commander of Lizhou City.

Facing the few Jin troops outside the city who also had fifty or sixty thousand, Zeng Mingyi immediately thought of the word "surrender", people are selfish, everyone wants to live at the moment of life and death, not many people will be willing to die for others, let alone for the emperor who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, especially when facing a war that seems to have no chance of winning at all, but this thought was completely thrown out of his mind just in a flash in his mind, because he didn't dare to surrender!

Since the Jin rebellion, the Liao army has been losing and retreating, and the Jin army has quickly changed from less than 3,000 people at the beginning to hundreds of thousands of troops now. The answer, of course, is no! Even if you add up all the raw and mature women, men, women and children, there are not so many, among these hundreds of thousands, except for a small part of the main force of the Jin army composed of purebred Jin people, the number is more than 100,000, and most of the rest are composed of people of various races, including Han, Xi, Bohai, Khitan, etc.,

These people were recruited by the Jin people in the land they occupied, and some were conquered by defeating others, among which the original large number of Liao troops were the mainstay, and most of these Liao troops surrendered on their own initiative, it can be said that the Liao army's current attitude towards the Jin army on the battlefield has formed three types, the first is a resolute battle, against the Jin army. The second is to flee as soon as they see the Jin army attacking. This third kind is to "look at the wind and surrender" as soon as you see the Jin army coming, there is no way, everyone is afraid of the Jin army, the Jin army is invincible, whether it is to escape or surrender is to survive. It can be imagined that a magical scene can be called, on a battlefield, the original Liaojin and Jin armies were each composed of tens of thousands of people, evenly matched, but in just one night, tens of thousands of Liao troops fled by one-third and surrendered by one-third, how can this battle be fought?!

Therefore, in order to prevent this from happening, Ye Luchun just issued a new order last year, he ordered all the officers above the rank of Marquis of Yu under his command to send all their relatives to Yanjing, and those whose family members were not within the scope of Yanjing should also be registered, so that the local government could strictly restrict their movements.

Although Ye Luchun promised to treat their families well with the best conditions, everyone knew in their hearts that Ye Luchun was going to take everyone's family as hostages, and whoever dared to surrender again should think about their own family's head first!

All the officers were very reluctant, but there was no way, they could only follow Ye Luchun's orders, and all their families were sent to Yanjing one after another, including Zeng Mingyi, but not to mention, since then, the atmosphere of surrendering to the Jin army has really stopped.

For the sake of the thirty-four lives of the whole family, Zeng Mingyi can only go to the dark in Huashan now, even if he can't escape death in the end, it is better to die by himself than by killing the whole family!

Of course, he also comforted himself, Lizhou City is so important, Ye Luchun will not give up here, he will definitely find a way to rescue, as long as he supports until that time, not only will he not die, but he has made a great contribution, and it is not a problem to add an official to the knighthood!

At the same time, in order to prevent his subordinates from rebelling, Zeng Mingyi also borrowed from Ye Luchun's practice, and he ordered all the 6,000 Liao troops in the city to supervise each other, and whoever could find out who was preparing to surrender and tell him could be rewarded with dozens of taels of gold. Anyway, the gold is also from the treasury, and it is very useful in extraordinary times, and no one will blame him in the future.

As a result, the next day, he really received a report, and the Khitan soldiers reported that their boss was preparing to open the city gate and surrender when the Jin army attacked the city!

Zeng Mingyi was shocked, and he didn't care about verifying the authenticity, so he hurriedly ordered the petty officer to be arrested, and after only one interrogation, the petty officer was recruited, and he was really preparing to surrender to the Jin Army, and the surrender letter had been sent to the Jin Army, but he had not received a reply yet.

Zeng Mingyi was furious, and immediately gathered the whole army, first announced in public that he would reward the soldier who reported the meritorious service with fifty taels of gold, and then cut down the little officer, and announced that when the reinforcements drove away the Jin army, he would definitely ask the prince for instructions to put all the family members of the little officer in prison and punish him severely! This situation also made everyone in the army feel cold down their spines, and no one dared to take risks again.

In this way, under Zeng Mingyi's series of preparations for the death, the Liao army in Lizhou City also showed courage, I don't know how many times the Jin army attacked, Zeng Mingyi was still complacent at the beginning, thinking that according to this trend, he could hold on for a few more days until Yeluchun sent reinforcements, but gradually he also found a little strange place, that is, every time the Jin army came to attack the city, although the formation was very sufficient, in fact, they did not use all their strength, and there were a few times when they were obviously able to attack the city, but they retreated inexplicablySoon, Zeng Mingyi came to a conclusion that the Jin army didn't seem to want to capture Lizhou, but was just putting on a show.

Why is this so? Why didn't the Jin army want to take Lizhou before Yeluchun's reinforcements arrived? Zeng Mingyi thought about it again and again, but the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, the more and more he suspected that Jin Jun was actually doing this on purpose, they were deliberately waiting for Yeluchun's reinforcements to come, as for why this happened, thinking of what happened to Yelutude, Zeng Mingyi didn't dare to think about it anymore, and he became more and more suspicious of whether he could still wait for the so-called reinforcements.

Just when Zeng Mingyi began to feel desperate again, yesterday afternoon, he suddenly found that the Jin army camp outside the city was in turmoil, and a large number of Jin troops were obviously running to the west in a panic, and it didn't take long to see a large amount of smoke rising from the west!

Through these days of observation, Zeng Mingyi knew that the Jin army had a grain camp somewhere in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and people sent grain from those places to this side every day.

As a result, it didn't take long for his subordinates to suddenly report that the Jin army in the south of the city was in chaos, and countless men and horses were desperately rushing to the south, and a large amount of black smoke rose from the far south!

Combining these two situations, Zeng Mingyi's heart couldn't help but move, if it was a fire, how could it be that the two grain camps were on fire together? The chances of this happening at the same time are too small, so ......!

Zeng Mingyi's spirit was not lifted! Right! Someone must have done it on purpose, and it must have been their own reinforcements arriving!

So, since yesterday afternoon, Zeng Mingyi has been in a strong excitement, he stayed on the city tower all night, looking forward to seeing a large number of Liao troops appear like a tide, kill the Jin army and relieve the siege of Lizhou!

But he was soon disappointed, since yesterday's two grain camps fire, although the Jin army obviously strengthened its vigilance, and began to mobilize more and more troops in front of the city, put on a posture to attack the city, but his "reinforcements" were completely silent, looking around from the city tower, except for the Jin army, there was not even a ghost,

When the sun rose again, Zeng Mingyi, who was staring at a pair of bloodshot eyes, inevitably fell into deep anxiety, he was very worried about whether his "reinforcements" were defeated by the Jin army again yesterday? Or even all...... Killed? After all, the Jin army has been here for so long, God knows what terrible ambushes and traps they have laid?!

Zeng Mingyi stomped his foot angrily, turned around and went down the city tower, he was about to lose it, he was going to get drunk! Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped down from the castle tower and got on his horse, he heard a sudden commotion from the castle tower, and then saw a soldier rushing down the castle tower and shouting at him, "General! Come...... Here it comes! ”

Zeng Mingyi hurriedly turned over and dismounted and rushed up the city tower at the fastest speed to the battlement to look into the distance, but at this glance, although his face was full of excitement, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised, and muttered in his mouth,

"How...... That's the kind of person you have? ”