The current situation seems to have returned to more than ten years ago, at the end of the Jin-Liang War, when Zhuang Zong was called emperor.

In November of the 6th year of the Republic, Li Qi led his army across the Yellow River to Qizhou, and finally decided to concentrate his main efforts on ending the war of the division between the north and the south.

Li Siyuan is old. I heard that he also had a stroke (cerebral hemorrhage), and although he was not paralyzed in bed, his walking and speech were greatly affected. The ministers and generals of the Luoyang court have their own thoughts, each looking for relationships, and seeking a way out.

As the saying goes, there are still 3,000 nails in a broken ship, and although the 70,000 soldiers and horses under Shi Jingjiao and Zhao Dejun in Youzhou were cut off from the south, they also restrained the troops of the three military towns of Zhen, Dinghe and Shanbei of the Northern Army. At this time, south of the Yellow River, the Northern Army was facing two military towns in the south, the Tianping Army and the Taining Army. Wang Jianjian, the envoy of the Yunzhou Tianping Army, was born as Li Siyuan's general, and he was in Puzhou at this time with Li Siyuan's third son, the eastern capital Bianliang, who stayed with Li Conghou, and it was impossible to surrender to the northern army until the mountains and rivers were exhausted.

If the northern army can defeat the army established by Li Conghou and Wang, then the two military towns of Taining and Xu Si can go down without a fight.

In December, Li Qi ordered Li Jizhong to be the vanguard, and a total of 70,000 troops, including Xia Luqi and Fu Xisuo, marched out of Qizhou and marched west along the south bank of the Yellow River to prepare to attack Yangliu Town, an important ferry in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Yangliu Ferry is only 100 miles away from Yunzhou, the seat of Tianping Military Administration, and is one of the three major ferries in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and its geographical location is extremely important. If the northern army captures Yang Liu, it can not only connect with the Weibo military town north of the Yellow River, but also attack the southern army's Tianping Army, Taining Army and other military towns on the south bank of the Yellow River at any time, and even include Bianliang, an important southern town, into its own military strike range.

Li Jizhong led the northern army to advance more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to approach Yang Liucheng, and there were only 3,000 defenders in Yang Liucheng, which was completely unable to resist the attack of the northern army. Li Jizhong ordered the soldiers to carry reeds and grass to fill in the moats, and he took the lead, risking the enemy's arrows and stones, and personally led the team to capture the city. In this way, the soldiers of the Northern Army sacrificed their lives and forgot their deaths, bravely climbed the city, and it only took more than an hour to break through Yang Liucheng and capture Yang Siquan.

Wang Jianjian, the Tianping Army, led an army of 30,000 to the east from Puzhou, in an attempt to recapture the Yangliu Ferry from the Northern Army.

Wang Jianli led his army to Yanggu, and heard that Li Qi had led a large army to the west. At this time, Wang Jianli was frightened again, and did not dare to advance further, so he simply built a fortress in Yanggu to defend himself, and dug the south embankment of the Yellow River in Anle Town to block the attack of the northern army.

Due to the excavation of the river embankment, the diversion of the Yellow River into the sea, and the 200-mile water barrier of Dayapi (Liangshanbo) west of the Yunzhou Mountains, the Northern Army had to temporarily terminate the original westward advance and seize Puzhou and Deshengdu, and halted the offensive.

Xia Luqi wanted to lead the army from Yang Liu to attack Yunzhou, Li Qi thought for a while and said: "The war in the south is like this first, first wait and see what happens, wait for its internal strife to come to fruition, and then take action, now there is no need to waste energy." ”

"How can Your Majesty conclude that the Southern Army will have civil strife?" Charucci asked.

Li Qi didn't answer, but changed the topic and said: "I want to go north and go all out to capture Youzhou, Xia Aiqing will go with me." What he meant by this was that he was preparing to transfer Charucci back to the center.

Xia Ruqi was stunned, and then said: "The ministers are all under the orders of His Majesty. ”

Li Qi then left Fu Xi as the envoy to the south, Fu Yanqing and Wutai as the deputies, guarding Qizhou and Bozhou, and then led the forbidden army and Xia Luqi's cavalry army totaling 30,000 from Yangliu Town to Youzhou.

And so the fighting in the south stopped.

Due to Wang Jianjian's excavation of the Yellow River, the Yellow River was diverted to flow into the sea, and the two sides still maintained a situation of confrontation across the river.

It's just that because of Fu Xi's defection, the Northern Army has included most of Shandong in later generations into its sphere of influence. Another reason why Li Qi led the army north was that Shi Jingjiao led the Khitan army to help, and this time the Khitan lord Yelu Deguang personally led 200,000 troops into Yuguan, and the military pressure faced by Yuan Xingqin and Pei Yue suddenly became unprecedentedly severe.

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When Li Qi arrived in Youzhou, Yuan Xingqin and Pei Yue had already withdrawn from Youzhou, and the army withdrew to the east of the Liuli River (now Baigou River) and confronted the southern army across the river. At this time, Zhuozhou was besieged for several months, and Zhao Ying, the assassin, could not expect Shi Jingjiao's reinforcements, but surrendered to the Northern Army, and Fanyang City fell into the hands of the Northern Army.

When he arrived in Fanyang City, Yuan Xingqin reported to Li Qi about the situation on the Youzhou front.

At this time, the Khitan army of 30,000 had arrived in Youzhou, and the Khitan lord Yelu Deguang had led an army of more than 100,000 to Jizhou. In addition, in Saibei, Yelu Lihu also led more than 100,000 troops to enter the Kou.

In a hurry, Li Qi did not expect a sudden all-out battle with the Khitan now, and he was not willing to have a decisive battle with the Khitan now. He was confident that under his rule, the national strength would become stronger and stronger, and the population under his rule was nearly ten times that of the Khitan, and the later the decisive battle, the better it would be for him.

In the Central Plains, it became a habit to bring in Khitan reinforcements in the five dynasties, and every time the Khitan entered the Kou, they would get countless property, capture the population and return it, and make a lot of money. As a result, the Khitan became stronger and stronger, while the Yanyun and Shanbei lands in the border areas of the Central Plains became weaker and weaker.

Shi Jingjiao has not yet raised Youzhou to throw himself into the Khitan, and he can be regarded as a dog jumping over the wall in a hurry, leading the Khitan into the Khitan in a hurry, knowing that this practice is to quench his thirst, and he has to do so.

"This Shi Jingjiao and Zhao Dejun have more than 70,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, and if you add Yelu Deguang, they add up to nearly 300,000 troops. We still have more than 100,000 troops stationed in Hedong and Shanbei, are all of them also transferred to the Youzhou front? Yuan Xingqin said, "Otherwise, with our current 100,000 people, I'm afraid the situation is a little tight." ”

Li Qi thought for a while and said: "If the Shanbei Army wants to support the dam, don't move, and order the soldiers and horses of Jinyang, Yanmen and Hezhong to come and reinforce it." The Khitans are not good at attacking cities, so we only need to hold on to the camp. Compared with Youzhou, I pay more attention to the safety of the northern grasslands, after all, our rule in those places is still a little weak, and the tribes are capricious, and they are more likely to be co-opted by the Khitans. Ordered Song Tinghao and Zhi to rush to the aid of the dam from the far ......"

He paused and continued: "Let Gao Xingzhou and Kang Jiu, as well as the Hexi Army, also reinforce the dam!" ”

"Your Majesty means that the south will hold on to it and fight back from the north?" Yuan Xingqin asked.

"Doesn't Yelu Deguang like Youzhou, we are here to spend with him, threatening the West Building from the north, and watching him take care of the nest!" Li Qi said hatefully. With the intervention of the Khitans, the development of the situation far exceeded their initial expectations, and the original plan to pacify the south in one fell swoop was also in vain.

There are more than 100,000 soldiers and horses on his side now, as long as he defends himself according to the advantages of the terrain, in a short period of time, although Yelu Deguang is powerful, there is nothing he can do......

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