"Okay, the fish has finally taken the bait, and Chen Lin immediately gathered 200,000 troops out of the city to surround the camp." Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty issued a military order: "The cavalry of the Xia army must not be allowed to escape." ”

"Yes, the last general ...... order"

The other half of the Song army's camp was already completely chaotic, and there were fires burning everywhere, Zhou Hai immediately ordered after seeing such a scene: "The Song army has been completely chaotic and ordered all departments to evacuate immediately and carry out the next move." ”

The horn of "woo, woo, woo......" sounded, and the originally scattered Xia army began to gather into a torrent to pass through the Song army camp and go straight to Suzhou City, at this time Chen Lin was gathering 200,000 troops in Suzhou City to prepare to go out of the city to rescue; Under the command of Zhou Hai, the cavalry of the Xia army soon reached the outside of Suzhou.

"Put the rocket......" Zhou Hai ordered.

Tens of thousands of rockets immediately took off into the air and went straight to the city of Suzhou, after the first round of rockets were released, 10,000 Xia army iron cavalry immediately divided into two groups from the east and west sides of the city to walk around the city, and it was to release rockets while walking, and soon the entire Suzhou city was on fire, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger.

"What's going on? Haven't all the fires in the city been cleaned up? Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty said angrily: "Why don't you hurry up and gather an army to put out the fire." ”

The 200,000 Song troops who had just assembled became firefighters carrying buckets to extinguish the fire, and the other 150,000 troops also gathered to participate in the firefighting operation, but the fire in the city was still burning very fiercely; Under the command of Emperor Zhao Xu and Chen Lin of the Song Dynasty, the Song army tossed for most of the night to extinguish the fire, for which the Song army also paid a lot of price, killing and wounding more than 30,000 people before and after.

After the fire was extinguished, Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty asked Chen Lin, "What the hell is going on?" When you first deployed, told me that all the fire-starting things left by the Xia army in the city had been cleaned up? ”

"Your Majesty atons for your sins, and the last general doesn't know what's going on."

"Waste ......"

It turned out that when the Xia army evacuated Suzhou City, in addition to putting sulfur and charcoal on the beams of the house, he also used fierce fire oil and tung oil to brush the houses not far from the city wall.

In this battle of wits and courage, the Song army lost nearly 50,000 people before and after, in addition to 30,000 who were burned and burned by the fire, there were 20,000 people who were lost when the Xia army attacked the camp, and more importantly, the grain and grass carried by the Song army to the south this time were also burned by the fire, and the trough ship on the canal wharf docked by the Song army was also burned by the fire, and the Song army had a grain and grass crisis, and could only suspend the pace of going south for a while.

In the next half a month, Zhou Hai has been fighting wits and courage with Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty, delaying the pace of the Song army's southward march, although the pace of the Song army's southward march has slowed down, but it has not stopped, and Zhou Hai's attack is just a tickle for the Song army, which has hundreds of thousands of troops, and it can't hurt the vitality at all, not to mention that the reinforcements of the Song army have arrived at this time.

Besides, Li Qing, the king of Yan, led nearly 20,000 troops all the way south to Huzhou, at this time the Xia army was stationed in Huzhou and other places with 30,000 cavalry and 10,000 Japanese soldiers, and after arriving in Huzhou, Li Qing immediately took over all the large armies, and gathered all the cavalry of the Xia army that was originally scattered in Huzhou.

Inside the Huzhou Summer Army camp.

Zhao Ge and Zhou Tao are in Li Qing's Chinese army tent, and it has been an hour since the two of them entered the tent, but Li Qing only stared at the map but didn't say a word, looking at Li Qing's focused appearance, the two of them just waited quietly and didn't dare to make any loud noise, in fact, in Li Qing's heart, the battle plan had come out, but Li Qing still wanted to ask for the opinions of the two of them.

"You have all read this king's battle plan! Tell me what you both think. ”

"Lord Wang, although this strategy is feasible, it is extremely dangerous, and if you are not careful, you may be wiped out!" Zhao Ge said to Li Qing.

"This king naturally knows, so this king has to personally lead the troops to the battle."

"Lord Wang, the last general is willing to go with the prince." Zhou Yang said to Li Qing.

"Lord Wang, let's let the last general lead the troops!" Zhao Ge said to Li Qing; "The prince is in the Jiangnan battlefield, and he needs to sit firmly in the Chinese army."

"Then the king asks you, what should you do if you don't come back here?"

"The last general is bound to lead the army to fight to the death with the Song army, and the fish will die and the net ......will be broken."

Li Qing sneered: "It's so stupid to let the tens of thousands of elites of this king accompany you to death; If this is the case, why should this king bother so hard, and directly engage the Song army head-on, it will not be over; The purpose of this battle was to gain time for our army, and at the same time to preserve the strength of our army as much as possible, and finally go down in history with the complete victory of our Xia army in the Jiangnan battlefield; The stakes are very high, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the level of the two of you can't cope with it;

In this battle, the king will personally lead 40,000 iron horsemen to go, and Zhou Yang will follow the king to go together, after the king leaves, you and Zhou Hai will want to do everything possible to drag the southbound Song army, and it is extremely necessary to block it north of Xiuzhou, understand? ”

"The last general will order ......," Zhao Ge took the military order.

"Zhou Yang ordered 40,000 elite horsemen to assemble at the north gate early tomorrow morning and stand by; The whole army was to bring enough rations for ten days. Li Qing ordered.

"Yes, the last general will arrange ......"

After Zhou Yang left, Li Qing said to Zhao Ge: "After the king leaves, there are only more than 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 Japanese soldiers left, you must defend Huzhou, this is the king's retreat, once Huzhou is lost, the king will not be able to come back; This king recently got a report that the Song army has already gathered a large army in Guangde, and you can try to attack Guangde after this king is gone......"

"Lord Wang, the Song army does not have many troops in Guangde, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, even if they gather troops, they are not enough to worry about the combat strength of new soldiers."

"That being said, but you still can't take it lightly, be careful, it's a matter of life and death for this king and the army of 40,000."

"The last general obeys, and must be cautious......"

At this time, Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty did not know that he was going to be calculated by Li Qing again; When Li Qing fought in the south of the Yangtze River, Li De, the king of Liang in Jiangbei, was not idle, the main force of the Song army had retreated to the north of the Huai River, and Li De's threat had disappeared.

If Li De led his army westward, he could directly attack Chenzhou, Yingchang and other places west of Bozhou, and threaten the army of the Seed Master Dao who were stationed in Xingyang and Kaifeng from the side; If you go north, you can threaten the rear of the army of the Seed Master Dao and the back of the army of King Zhao, but if you go directly north, Li De will face hundreds of thousands of Song troops, and it is unknown what the situation is; However, Li De's strategic plan needs to be cooperated, which is not something that Li De's department can accomplish independently.

On the other hand, Li Hu'er has stabilized the Luoyang area, and at the same time, Li Hu'er is also facing two choices, one is to continue to advance eastward, and the other is to go south and fight with Li Wu, the king of Qin, to attack the Song army's Wang Kai's department; The choice of Li De and Li Hu'er, the kings of Liang, would bring two different situations to the northern war between the Xia and Song dynasties; Such a major event can only wait for the final decision of Emperor Xia Li Liangzuo.

First Update......

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