Great Song Dynasty, Hebei West Road, Shizhou City, Zhending Prefecture.

"Jiuzhai has lost three, and the other six military villages may not last long." It was Guo Kui who spoke, and his face was extremely ugly.

"The news of the defeat here has reached Shuitou City, it depends on how Zhang Bin fights, if they can consume too much of the Liao army in Shuitou City, they will be able to lead the Liao army outside Jiuzhai to the past, and the pressure on the six military villages will be much less." Han Jiang sighed, his expression extremely gloomy.

With less than 30,000 troops, the Liao attacked Jiuzhai in Zhending Mansion at the same time, and failed to capture a military village in seven days, but lost more than 3,000 people.

Xiao Tianxiong, the king of the Southern Court of Liao, ordered the Liao army to plunder thousands of people from the Great Song Dynasty, and drove the people of the Song State to the forefront when attacking the military village, and attacked the city with the people as a meat shield.

Han Jiang and Guo Kui naturally couldn't sit back and watch the people being so ruined by the Liao, although they knew that they might not be defeated by the Liao, they had to mobilize 70,000 troops to fight against the Liao.

This is not to say that the two pity the lives of these thousands of people, but both of them know that if they do not send troops, their respective political enemies and some people with bad intentions will immediately be impeached and sent to the Son of Heaven, and even people like Wen Yanbo will use this matter to play a bunch of tricks to come out, even if they win after the war, I am afraid it will be difficult to be good.

As a result, the Liao people defeated the Song army of 70,000 with less than 30,000 enemies, but fortunately, Guo Kui used his troops very steadily, and had considered the possibility of defeat before the battle, prepared the retreat route in advance, and prepared the 3,000 dead soldiers after the break to guard a mountain pass, but lost nearly 20,000 corpses, and fled back to Shizhou City in embarrassment, without giving the Liao people the opportunity to expand the results of the war.

But the consequences of this battle were by no means more than that, after the defenders of the nine military villages learned that the army was defeated and retreated, the morale of the army was shaken, and the morale was deeply damaged.

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It is not as good as the defeat of the Song army in Zhending Mansion to the Liao, and the morale is low. In Shuitou City, the officers and men of the Song army were elated, busy carrying a large number of ordnance, grain and grass transported back from the Liao army camp, and busy pickling more than 20,000 Liao army heads that had been obtained in recent days.

Pickling so many Liao military heads at once is not spectacular, and any Song person will be overjoyed, but Zhang Bin, Zhi Kerou, Han Sanlang, Su Guo and Zhe Muqiu, snake slaves and others who stood at the head of the city and watched this scene had solemn expressions.

"Guo Taiwei led 70,000 horses and Xiao Tianxiong led more than 20,000 Liao troops in this field battle not only failed to save thousands of people, but also lost at the hands of the Liao. When Zhi Kerou said these words, his expression was extremely heavy.

Zhang Bin nodded and said: "Now that Han Xianggong and Guo Taiwei have pinned their hopes on us, in fact, we have already done it, but whether Xiao Tianxiong can send the Xijing army over to attack Shuitou City to disperse the Liao forces attacking the six military villages is not something we can control." ”

These days, Su Guo, who is in charge of the order in the city and repairing the city wall, has lost a lot of weight, and sighed at this time: "We have done the matter of Shuitou City almost perfectly, but the Liao people do not divide the troops, and we can't help it, Han Xianggong and the imperial court can't blame us when the time comes, and we will lose our credit." ”

Zhemuqiu, who was standing behind Zhang Bin, said: "I'm afraid that the Liao people will mobilize reinforcements from other places to attack Shuitou City, and they will not divide the troops Xiao Tianxiong brought to Zhending Mansion. ”

Zhang Bin bowed slightly, glanced at Zhi Mu Qiu with appreciation, and said, "What Mu Qiu said is right, and this possibility is very high. ”

After a pause, a flash of determination flashed in Zhang Bin's eyes, and he said, "So we have to do something." ”

Zhi Kerou was stunned for a moment, and wondered: "Prison Army, what are we going to do?" ”

Zhang Bin said solemnly: "Do something that can make Xiao Tianxiong immediately divide his troops from Zhending Mansion." ”

Zhemu Qiu was shocked, his tiger eyes lit up, and he said: "Prison army, general, give me two thousand men and horses, and I will go to attack the tribe of the Liao people near Shuitou City......"

"Shut up, don't be ashamed." Without waiting for Zhi Muqiu to finish speaking, Zhi Kerou scolded him sharply and interrupted him.

Zhe Muqiu wanted to argue with Lao Tzu, but was glared at by Zhe Kerou's eyes, so he obediently stepped aside.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Bin suddenly said: "Mu Qiu is right, I just want to divide my troops to go out and attack the Liao tribe, and not only Shuitou City, but also the tribe in the entire Xijing Road as much as possible, I don't believe that I will destroy a few Liao tribes, and the Liao people will come back from Zhending Mansion without dividing their troops." ”

Zhi Kerou hurriedly dissuaded: "Prison Army, isn't this move too risky?" ”

Zhang Bin said: "There are ten tribes near Shuitou City, most of the soldiers in these tribes have been brought to attack Shuitou City these days, and less than one-tenth of them escaped last night, and the entire Xijing military tribe also divided at least half of the people to follow Xiao Tianxiong to Zhending Mansion, so the defense of the tribes on Xijing Road in Liao State is the weakest time." Although it is dangerous to divide the troops to sneak attack, it is not as risky as imagined, and bring a gunpowder bag, throw two at the critical moment, the Liao people are all cavalry, and the war horses will inevitably fall into panic, and the pursuit of the Liao people can be broken, and we can retreat calmly. ”

Although Zhang Bin was reasonable, Zhi Kerou knew that this move was still too risky, but seeing Zhang Bin's expression, he knew that it was useless to dissuade, and before their army set off, Han Jiang said very clearly, mainly Zhang Bin, so Zhi Kerou hesitated a little and said: "Then I will give 3,000 people to the last general, go out of the city to attack the tribe of the Liao people, and the prison army will lead more than 4,000 people to guard Shuitou City." ”

Zhang Bin shook his head and said: "I am not proficient in defending the city, and Shuitou City is our only way to retreat, and we must not lose, so General Zhe led more than 4,000 people to defend the city, and I led 3,000 cavalry out of the city to attack the Liao tribe." ”

If it is an ordinary civil official, it will naturally stay to defend the city, but Zhang Bin was Zhang Zaicong's ** study and practice martial arts, and boil up his body, but he is a civil and military all-rounder, although the civil and military forces were not very brilliant before, but they are not weaker than ordinary elite soldiers, especially Zhang Bin's riding and archery skills in the northwest Dashun City after Wang Sunchen's personal guidance, has entered the hall.

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That night, Zhang Bin took his 100 soldiers and 3,000 elites of the Zhejia army, wearing the clothes and sheepskin hats of the Khitan tribal army, and even dressed the same as the Khitans, and then quietly left Shuitou City.

The snake slave dressed as a man followed closely behind Zhang Bin, and Orimu Qiu and Han Saburo followed left and right.

Zhemuqiu was specifically responsible for commanding the 3,000 men, while the snake slave led a hundred soldiers to take on the role of Zhang Bin's personal soldiers, responsible for protecting Zhang Bin's safety.

Han Saburo led a group of spies from the Pacification Division to act as scouts, responsible for probing and guarding.

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