Dangxiang Emperor Li Liangzuo, beat horses and walked outside the city of Yanzhou, there are several important cities in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, which are not only military bases, but also political and economic bases, Yanzhou is one of them, as well as Qingzhou, Qinzhou, Weizhou, etc., which are roughly lined up along the border line.

If Li Liangzuo conquered Yanzhou City, then the area of two or three hundred miles near Yanzhou Mansion would be immediately in danger, and Li Liangzuo would inevitably expand the territory of Western Xia a lot with the power of victory, and also inserted a sharp sword into the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty.

Li Liangzuo fought Gyeongju and failed, but now he is in Yanzhou, but Li Liangzuo is very confident. This time he came quickly, the 100,000 army almost non-stop, from Youzhou, through Longzhou, then Suizhou, Qingjian, Ganqi retreated as fast as Li Liangzuo came.

When the army arrived in Yanzhou City, Li Liangzuo immediately ordered 100,000 troops to be divided into four sides to surround Yanzhou City, and the Great Song Dynasty sent a young champion to command the battle, just like Emperor Renzong sent Han Qi to the northwest in the past.

Liang Yibu continued to dispatch troops and arrange the responsible areas of each department to besiege the city, and Wu Zong began to organize people to build siege equipment.

Li Liangzuo inspected everywhere, with longing in his heart, urging everyone to step up the errand at hand.

Ganchi watched from the top of the city, and from time to time he wrote a letter and shot it out.

Every time Gan Qi sent a letter, Li Liangzuo would personally open it and read it, not only to read it, but also to read it in public in the Chinese army's big tent: "Li Liangzuo, a thief who goes back on his word, and a thief who is unrighteous and helpless...... Heaven will punish it, if the army is withdrawn quickly, it means that the two countries are safe and sound, if they insist on going their own way, and when the Great Song Dynasty comes with the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, they will teach the party to destroy the country and destroy the nation...... Haha......"

Li Liangzuo's reader scolded his words, read them laughing, and after reading them, he raised the letter, and then said: "Gan Qi, aren't you stupid to read?" ”

Wu Zong continued: "Sour people, that's it, it's naïve and ridiculous, Your Majesty, do you want to reply to a letter?" ”

Li Liangzuo asked, "What's the content of the reply?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he should be persuaded to open the city and surrender." Wu Zong replied.

Li Liangzuo nodded: "Yes, persuade him to surrender, I said you write." ”

Wu Zong hurriedly took the pen and listened to Li Liangzuo say slowly: "Gan Qi, I heard that you are the champion of the Song Dynasty, or the brother-in-law of the emperor, now you have been besieged by my 100,000 army of Western Xia, you have no way to live, if you don't want to see the soldiers and civilians suffer heavy casualties, if you don't open the city and surrender, I won't treat you badly, you are the champion, I will arrange a big official for you, deputy prime minister, how about it?" If you don't listen to my persuasion, when the city is broken, I will hang your head on the wall of Yanzhou, so that everyone can see the consequences of opposing me. ”

Wu Zong wrote again and again, and after writing, Li Liangzuo asked him to read it and listen, and Wu Zongli immediately read it aloud: "Gan Xiang met face to face, I heard that Gan Xiang was a top talent, he was a relative of the royal family, and he cherished it very much in his heart, and the two countries were at war, and he was helpless." Now the city is trapped, millions of people, there will be no way to live, thinking of the suffering of the army and the people, the lives are miserable, I can't bear it, if you are willing to surrender, I will treat it kindly, thinking that the prime minister's respect, glory and wealth are not exhausted, how about it? If you seek death with all your heart, and I will be perfect, when the city is broken, I will take your head and hang it at the head of the city, so as to set an example, and hope for it, and may the war be stopped, and may the two countries be reconciled. ”

Wu Zong read it through, but Emperor Li Liangzuo was unhappy and said: "You can't write this, just write according to what I say." ”

"Yes, you wrote too politely, Your Majesty's words will make Song Gou afraid." Liang Yibury also seems to think that Wu Zong's writing is not good.

When Wu Zong heard this, he had no choice but to write, and then re-wrote.

The letter was sent into the city wall by arrows, and Gan Qi laughed when he read it, and circulated the letter to everyone, and then said: "Then write a letter to scold, scold him for his untrustworthiness and righteousness, scold him for wolf ambition, anyway, how ugly it sounds." I also want to say that the million-strong army of the imperial court will arrive in a few days, let him go quickly. ”

Writing a letter and scolding people, Zhang Qi wrote it, but Gan Qi didn't bother to read it, so he just asked him to after he finished writing.

There was a kind of stunned organization to go to the city to scold, and the content was set, and it was said that the million-strong army of the imperial court would arrive soon, and let Li Liangzuo quickly flee with his tail between his legs as if he was in Longzhou City.

Gan Qi always used millions of reinforcements from the imperial court to scare Li Liangzuo, obviously intentionally.

Li Liangzuo looked at the letter and said, "Do the Song people really have reinforcements?" ”

Liang Yibury immediately replied: "Your Majesty has already arranged for rangers to patrol around in front of your head, but there are no reinforcements, and even the gates of the nearby cities are closed, under the iron hooves of our party, where dare anyone come to the rescue?" ”

Li Liangzuo shook his head and smiled: "People, the more things you don't have, the more you have to use them, the opening is a million army, and whether I believe it or not, I asked him if I believe it or not." ”

Liang Yibury said again: "It seems that Gan Qi will not surrender easily." ”

"If you don't see the coffin, you don't cry, and you order the army to set up on all sides and start attacking the city, so let's see how bold that Gan Xianggong is and can hold on for a few days." Li Liangzuo is going to give Gan Qi a little color.

"Your Majesty, it's time to let Song Gou take a look at our strength, and maybe scare a few times, that Gan Xianggong may not be able to open the city and surrender." Liang Yibury said so, he also thought so in his heart, after fighting with Song for so many years, he really had never seen such a greedy and death-fearing coach, running faster than a rabbit.

The party has not yet built a large army camp, first built hundreds of long ladders, the next morning, the trumpets and drums sounded in unison, the 100,000 army was spread out on all sides, the crowd was crowded, and countless flags were waved in the wind.

Li Liangzuo, who was sitting on the high platform, could even imagine Gan Qi's panicked expression in the city, chasing after him all the way, Gan Qi had already been a lost dog.

When the 100,000 troops were arrayed, the heralds from all over the country came to report, Li Liangzuo waved his hand, and the drums sounded like thunder.

really started to attack the city, although many things were not ready yet, and Li Liangzuo did not think about attacking it in a real battle, but this siege battle began. The purpose is to scare the champion Lang who is stupid in the city, trapped in the lonely city, and there are no reinforcements everywhere, facing the siege of 100,000 troops, let's see if the champion Lang can sleep tonight, and whether he will have nightmares at night.

There were hundreds of simple long ladders, and a steady stream of party members climbed the city wall.

The soldiers of the Western Army have long been familiar with defending the city, and they can do whatever they need to do, and they don't even need to worry about Ganchido.

Gan Qi didn't go up to the city wall either, he was thrown out of the psychological shadow by a big stone last time, and he was afraid that he would be unlucky, and he was stuck in the eye by an arrow or something.

Gan Qi no longer dared to take himself as a son of any plane, he shouted this sentence last time, and soon after he shouted it, he was stunned by a stone.

Shouting and screaming, Gan Qi frowned and listened, and waited.

There are many cities and fortresses near Yanzhou, the larger ones such as Yanchuan City, Yanchang City, Linzhen City, Ganquan City, Fuzheng City, Qingjian City, etc., and the small fortresses are even more, Wan'an Village, Yongping Village, Dantou Village, Xinzhai Village, Jinming Village, Ansai Village, Andingbao, Pingrong Village, Saimen Village......

The construction of forts is the national policy of the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, especially for important border strongholds such as Yanzhou, and the surrounding forts are like ants, densely dotted. Each fortress is actually not big, even if there are two or three hundred people in the garrison, the radius is only one hundred and ten steps.

The significance of the fortress is to protect the border, to protect the border people, but also to serve as a military outpost, but also to prevent the enemy from coming and going too easily. The fortress also has an offensive purpose, and if you successfully build a fortress to the north, you can push the border line more than ten miles to the north. This kind of policy was formulated by Fan Zhongyan in the past, and it was quite clever.

Shi Honglei is in Ganquan City in the south of Yanzhou City, Ganquan City is a small city, with a total of only three or four thousand residents, and the garrison originally had more than two thousand.

But in this small city, there are more than 10,000 iron armor, Shi Honglei is here, when the iron armor comes, for several days, the city gate has not been opened.

Today, a gap suddenly opened in the city gate, and a knight was put in, and after the knight saw Shi Honglei, he immediately reported: "General Shi, the party is attacking the city, and it is attacking from all sides." ”

Shi Honglei was overjoyed when he heard this, slapped his thigh, and then said: "Beat the drum to gather troops and go out of the city." In addition, he quickly went to the cities and forts in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and ordered all the armies to go out of the city and encircle Yanzhou on all sides. ”

After the order was given, Shi Honglei ran out and said: "Finally won the plan, finally won the plan, Gan Xianggong is smart!" ”

There were 50,000 mighty troops, 10,000 in Ganquan City in the south of Yanzhou, 10,000 in Yanchang City in the east, 10,000 in Fuzheng City in the west, 3,000 in Wan'an Village in the west, 2,000 in Zhao'anyi in the northwest, 1,060 in Jinming Village in the north, and 2,030 in Long'an Village in the north......

When the mighty army was about to arrive in Yanzhou, they got Gan Qi's military order to cover the seal of the privy envoy, and stationed in various city fortresses, strictly ordering that all city fortresses were not allowed to open doors, and even strictly ordered that more than 50 soldiers were not allowed to appear on the head of the city fortress at the same time.

Gan Qi arranged this with only one purpose, which was to hide the 50,000 horses by all means.

The purpose of hiding is for the battle under the city of Yanzhou. Gan Qi and Li Liangzuo's previous worries were the same, Li Liangzuo was afraid that as soon as his army gathered, Gan Qi would be scared away.

Gan Qi was also afraid that as soon as his army gathered, 50,000 sets of iron armor would immediately scare Li Liangzuo into the city and not dare to come out.

Now in the situation, Gan Qi was really scared away, and he was so frightened that he was exhausted, and Li Liangzuo kept chasing after him.

Gan Qi is also planning a big victory, if he can't win a big victory, let the 100,000 party members run back for the most part, and he will have to face many tough battles.

How do you plan this big win? Only surprise soldiers, only to fight the party members by surprise, but if you want to be in the land of Youzhou, Longzhou, Suizhou, Gan Qi cannot achieve what he wants, because it is the original territory of the party members, and the party people know all about the mountains and rivers there, and it is almost impossible for Gan Qi to ambush and so on.

Moreover, the party members also have the advantage of cavalry, and under the field battle, the victory or defeat is unpredictable.

Therefore, Gan Qi kept retreating, retreating as fast as possible, and letting the party people chase as fast as possible, all the way to Yanzhou City, to this place where Gan Qi could hide his soldiers and horses, and to the inherent territory of the Song people.

It is also necessary to let the party people attack the city, and the siege of the city will dismount and line up, and the siege will turn the party cavalry into infantry, and Yanzhou is a high-altitude hilly area, which is not suitable for large-scale cavalry combat.

It is also necessary to frequently show weakness to the party members, so that the party members get carried away, and even keep saying to the party members that there are countless reinforcements, so that the party members do not believe that Gan Qi has reinforcements, so that the party members start to attack the city more and more easily.

Yanchang Xiaocheng to Yanzhou, about 120 li, Ganquan City to Yanzhou, about 80 li, Jinmingzhai to Yanzhou City, about 40 li, Wan'anzhai to Yanzhou 60 li, Zhao'anyi to Yanzhou 60 li......

The mighty army, now it is still a foot soldier, and it is not a cavalry. But the mighty army has horses, and everyone has horses, forty miles of land, and fast horses are only within an hour, and sixty miles of land, and fast horses are more than an hour. Even if it is one hundred and twenty miles, the fast horse gallops, plus rest, it is only three or four hours.

The mighty army does not rely on horses to fight, but only relies on horses to hurry, so it does not need to spare horsepower, but gallops all the way.

Yanzhou landform, mainly hills, the altitude is still high, all are mountain roads and a few small water flows, Fulong Mountain is in the west, Sanchuankou is also in the west, Jinmingzhai is in the north......

There are not many roads in and out of Yanzhou, Gan Qi has already ordered that the war is a pre-arrangement, that is, a plan.

Gan Qi's plan was extremely complete, the troops who arrived first blocked the way, and when all the horses and horses were gathered, they began to line up and suppress them, forming an encirclement trend, blocking all the party members in the open space under the city of Yanzhou.

When the party began to attack the city, Gan Qi's plan was immediately activated, Shi Honglei received the news that the fast horse rotation was galloping, and immediately led the soldiers and horses to set off, and the people everywhere did not need Shi Honglei's order, and they had already implemented the plan in accordance with the plan.

The siege of Yanzhou continued, and the troops of the party took turns to fight, and after one had some casualties, they immediately changed to another to continue the attack.

Li Liangzuo is on a high platform, and he is also familiar with command and dispatch, and he began to lead troops at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and he is obviously a good hand at commanding in battle.

But more than an hour later, when the sun was still in the east, a scout rode rushed to report: "Your Majesty, I found the Song army in Sanchuankou, about 3,000 people. ”

Li Liangzuo was not surprised when he heard this, and asked, "Are you here?" ”

"The future is uncertain."

"Infantry cavalry?"

"There were a lot of horses, but the villain saw that they all dismounted, and only wandered near the mouth of the three rivers, and did not see them beating horses and galloping to help."

Li Liangzuo smiled: "Three thousand people, they don't dare to come, and they take the horses with them, just thinking about escaping." ”

"Your Majesty, do you want to bring a team of cavalry to chase after you?" Liang Yibury asked.

"No need, when you take the troops to go, they will have already run away, since they don't dare to come, then let them be, just treat someone as someone watching the battle, Song Gou has always been like this, timid as a mouse. As soon as Yanzhou is broken, wherever I go, these Song dogs will flee from the wind. Li Liangzuo waved his hand and smiled, and said: "Then attack the city, and send a letter to the city, and ask the Gan Xianggong if he has thought about it, and whether he wants to open the city and surrender." ”