729,Fan Jun (11)

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While Gao Tang recruited the Liao army, Zheng Fei also paid attention to the situation of the Song army and Bozhou City.

In the whole plan, Zheng Fei divided the 400,000 army into three parts, part of about 50,000 people was commanded by Wang Jin to guard against the Song army on the border, and part of about 200,000 people was commanded by Lu Zhishen, Chong Shidao, Liu Fa and others, besieged the Xia army in Bozhou City, and he led the remaining 100,000 people to besiege the Liao army of the Gao Tang Dynasty.

On the Song army's side, Yao Gu had sent people to see Zheng Fei several times, asking why Zheng Fei lured and besieged the Xia and Liao armies in Bozhou and Gaotang alone, and also laid heavy troops on the border line to prevent the Song army from approaching!

Of course, Zheng Fei would not tell him the truth, only said that he wanted to trap the Xia and Liao armies, and as for not allowing the Song army to cross the border, he only said that the Xia and Liao armies had fallen into a desperate situation, and the Heavenly Dao Army had the strength to kill them alone, so he would not bother the brothers of the Song army.

Yao Gu had actually vaguely guessed Zheng Fei's intentions, he knew that he was being used as a gun by Zheng Fei, and he was extremely angry, but he had fallen into a dilemma, on the one hand, he wanted to destroy Zheng Fei's plan, but on the other hand, he didn't dare to destroy Zheng Fei's plan, because once Zheng Fei's plan was destroyed, he was worried that if he lost the siege of the Heavenly Dao Army, the Liao and Xia armies would re-enter the battlefield,

The Liao and Xia armies are now hungry wolves that have been forced into a desperate situation, at this time they are the most dangerous and terrifying, in the battle not long ago, if it were not for the assistance of the Heavenly Dao Army, they almost broke through the encirclement and went deep into the hinterland of the Song Kingdom, and this time if they tore their faces with the Heavenly Dao Army and turned against each other again, the Song Army would not get the assistance of the Heavenly Dao Army Needless to say, in case the Dao Army became angry and angry, and what agreement was reached with the Liao and Xia armies, and also launched a full-scale attack on the Song Army, it would be disastrous for the Song State!

Therefore, after thinking about it, Yao Gu decided to pretend to be stupid for the time being, because in the final analysis, he still didn't believe that the Heavenly Dao Army could swallow the Liao and Xia armies that were actually more powerful than them, and this kind of thing was simply a fantasy for him. Moreover, wasn't the Liao and Xia armies, which were already in a desperate situation at this time, the most terrifying time? Okay, I'll see how much appetite you Zheng Linfeng has! Even if you can finally subdue them, the trapped beasts are still fighting, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of trapped beasts that are already going crazy! You Zheng Linfeng will definitely pay a big price, and I will wait on the side, waiting to see you both lose, and then I will wait for the opportunity to act!

In this way, Yao Gu put all the Song army on the border line, always keeping an eye on the movements of Gaotang and Bozhou, once the Tiandao army and the Liao and Xia armies fell into a bitter battle, he would choose the opportunity to act, intending to turn the tide in a war.

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On the Bozhou side, the reason why Zheng Fei put more troops there was because he knew that although the Liao and Xia armies were also trapped here, they were also short of food and no help, but the situation of the two armies was fundamentally different.

First of all, the Liao army is composed of two parts of the Xijing Army and the Nanjing Army, and there are two commanders, according to intelligence, the two commanders are a little disagreeable in many aspects, plus Xiao Chara's arrogance and suppression of Yelu Dashi, these are all places that can be used, on the other hand, the Xia army, the king of power, Cha Ge has the final say, whether to fight or retreat without hindrance, from this aspect, the Xia army is better!

Secondly, the current situation of Liao and Xia is also different, the domestic politics of Xia are relatively stable, internal and external troubles are relatively light, and the impact on the combat effectiveness of the army is not great, but Liao has been beaten half to death by Jin, and now I hear that Jin is going to war against Liao again, and the morale of the army has long been low to the extreme, and it is easier to give in than the Xia army.

What's more, there is an essential difference between Brother Cha and Xiao Cha and Yelu Dashi, he is the real royal family of the Xia Kingdom, the emperor's younger brother, and his identity also determines that he will not surrender easily.

Based on these reasons, Zheng Fei thought that the Xia army, which had fewer troops but was actually stronger in combat, was more difficult to deal with, so he put the main forces in Bozhou, so that the Heavenly Dao army there could grasp it more, especially the cultivation of Dao and Liu Fa in Bozhou, relying on their reputation in the northwest to deter the Xia army!

The facts are indeed not Zheng Fei's expectations, since the Xia army was surrounded, Brother Cha, who found out that he was fooled, immediately commanded the army to fight several breakout battles, and in the first three days, there were bloody battles every day, and the battle situation was much more tragic than that of Gaotang City!

Fortunately, the Heavenly Dao Army withstood Brother Cha's crazy counterattack, and successfully carried out a series of actions such as digging siege trenches and bombing Bozhou City Towers, which caused huge psychological pressure on Xia Jun. In addition, the "false" superiority in strength formed by the hundreds of thousands of militias urgently mobilized from Jingxi and Jingdong after joining them made the Xia army feel even more desperate, and still succeeded in besieging the Xia army in Bozhou City.

It's just that because the Song army did not completely destroy the grain and grass of the Xia army before, when the Xia army entered Bozhou and found the fake granary, Brother Cha did not order the whole army to eat happily like Xiao Chara, so the grain and grass situation of the Xia army is much stronger than that of the Liao army, save some food, and can still hold on, and it is still in a stalemate with the Tiandao army, but everyone knows that this stalemate will not last long, and Brother Cha will break the kettle at any time and have a decisive battle with the Tiandao army!

The current situation is that the Song army is peeping ill-intentionedly from the sidelines, and the Xia army may launch a decisive battle at any time, which forces Zheng Fei to end the surrender of the Liao army as soon as possible, and then immediately lead the army south to aid the Bozhou battlefield!

Fortunately, the Liao army has surrendered, but before leading the army south, there is a new problem in front of Zheng Fei, that is, how to deal with the nearly 300,000 Liao soldiers who surrendered now, although they have surrendered at present, they are not really loyal to Zheng Fei, as soon as they have the opportunity, they may rebel against Zheng Fei, and Zheng Fei is not at ease to escort them all to the hinterland behind him, because it will inevitably cost a lot of troops to escort them, and now the hinterland is empty, once they really rebel, it is equivalent to a fire in the backyard, and the consequences are unimaginable.

This situation is indeed out of the early expectations of Zheng Fei and others, in the original plan, Zheng Fei and they were originally ready to fight a vicious battle with the Liao army, and the estimated result was that the Liao army would be forced to surrender after eliminating at least half of the Liao army, who would have thought that the Liao army would be frightened all of a sudden, in just three days, the cowardly commander killed the deputy commander of the main battle, and surrendered with almost the entire Liao army, and the prisoners were seriously exceeded, which caused this troublesome situation today.

Zheng Fei, Zhu Wu and others had an urgent discussion for a whole night on the night of the surrender of the Liao army, but they had no clue, everyone was at a loss, and some people even said half-jokingly and half-seriously, if it really didn't work, they would simply kill all the Liao troops in batches, and save food, which was better than when they suddenly turned against the water.

Unexpectedly, this suggestion was approved by many people, and even Zheng Fei, who has always insisted on not killing and abusing prisoners, couldn't help but feel a little moved, of course, Zheng Fei still rejected this suggestion.

In this way, it dragged on for another two days, and Liu Fa and others in Bozhou had sent people to report several times, saying that the number and density of cooking smoke in Bozhou City had become less and less, and the Xia army's tentative breakthroughs were becoming more and more frequent.

Wang Jin, who was guarding against the Song army at the border, also sent someone to report, saying that the Song army was about to move, and it should have known that the Liao army had surrendered, and Yao Gu seemed to be about to take action.

Zheng Fei saw these things in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, he decided to send Pang Wanchun's independent army and the armies of Wu Song, Li Kui and others, a total of 70,000 people, to Bozhou and the border respectively, and he led the remaining tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of fake Tiandao troops to stay in Gaotang while imprisoning the Liao army, while trying to find a way, although it was a bit risky to do so, but thinking of having his own army commander in the battle, the Liao army did not dare to do anything for the time being.

But this is not a long-term solution, but no one expected that at this time, things would soon turn ...... turn!