As the night darkens, people have already returned home, and after a hard day's work, their stomachs are not full, and they are hungry when they go to bed late. The shops on the street also closed early because they were not patronized. The entire city of Zhuozhou seemed to be asleep, and only soldiers on the head of the city walked back and forth from time to time, vigilantly watching the movements outside the city.

Outside the southern gate of Zhuozhou City, with the sound of brisk hooves, a cavalry army came from far and near. The soldiers in the city hurriedly looked down carefully, and saw that although the number of cavalry was small, the army was neat, and the soldiers on the horses were all uniformly dressed in armor and helmets, holding spears, one person and two horses, and even the war horses were generally tall. Although I can't see the appearance of the soldiers on the horse, just by looking at the behavior, I know that they are all elite soldiers who can step down immediately and can defend and attack.

At this moment the cavalry came to a halt outside the drawbridge, and one of the leading men in front shouted to the city: "Which brother is working hard in the city? I am Li Feixing, follow the master of the village here, and quickly open the door to welcome the master of the village! ”

This group of cavalry was Zhou Nan, who came down from Sanssouci Village, and his 300-person pro-army elite cavalry, and it was Li Feixing, one of the leaders of the pro-army, who shouted.

Li Feixing was originally a native of Zhuozhou, and was recruited into the army by Guo Yaoshi, after Zhou Nan came to Zhuozhou, Li Feixing and other local poor recruits were all assigned to Shi Yue, and when Zhou Nan formed his own pro-army elite cavalry, Li Feixing was selected into it. After staying in Sanssouci Village for more than ten days, Li Feixing and others also followed the people on the mountain to call Zhou Nan the master of the village.

There are also people on duty at the head of the city who know Li Feixing, and there are also people who know who the master of Dazhai is, and while sending people in to inform Yang Keshi, he put down the drawbridge, opened the city gate, and invited Zhou Nan and others to enter the city.

Zhou Nan was more familiar in Zhuozhou than in Yizhou, and he didn't need anyone to lead the way, so he took his subordinates and went straight to the left-behind mansion where Guo Yaoshi originally lived. After arranging for Yang Keshi and Gao Yuan to be stationed in Zhuozhou and Yizhou respectively, Zhou Nan also lived in the two state cities for a few days, so he naturally knew that Yang Keshi lived in the left-behind mansion.

When Zhou Nan arrived at the left-behind mansion, Yang Keshi had already hurriedly come out of it, and as soon as they met, he greeted Zhou Nan first, and was immediately attracted by the equipment of Zhou Nan's subordinates. Yang Keshi naturally likes one person and two horses, if the two thousand cavalry troops under his command are all one person and two horses, the horses will not be enough. What attracted Yang Keshi more was the armor of Zhou Nan's cavalry: each of them was a pair of Mingguang armor, a spear, and on each horse's back, there were two bags of arrows hanging on the right, a handsword and a bow hanging on the left, and a bulging special leather bag, which was hung in front of the saddle on the left, and I didn't know what it contained, and there was a buckle tied on the outside of the leather bag. Each soldier was tall, short, fat and thin, but they were all ordinary elite and strong, with an invincible momentum, as if a city was in front of them, and they could also step into the city.

Yang Keshi was curious to open a bulging leather bag on the back of a pro-army horse, and saw that Zhou Nan had no intention of opening it to show him, so he stopped, and asked Zhou Nan and others to enter the mansion to rest, while asking why Zhou Nan came to Zhuozhou in the middle of the night.

Zhou Nan still went to the small courtyard where he lived last time, and along the way, Zhou Nan said to Yang Keshi: "Liu Yanqing attacked Yanjing City, but was burned out by the soldiers, do you know about this?" ”

Yang Keshi shook his head and said, "I only patrolled Zhuozhou and never sent anyone to Yanjing to visit. I didn't know that Liu Dutong could attack the city. ”

Zhou Nan thought of the information that Zuo Xiaosi and others sent back to him, and how Yelu Dashi forced him to retreat from the message that he attacked the city, and couldn't help but shake his head, this Liu Yanqing really broke a good hand, since he had entered the city, he naturally wanted to occupy all the key points and guard the city gate, how could he stop at the city gate and shoot at the soldiers, and Yelu Dashi seized the opportunity tightly, turned defeat into victory, and also took advantage of the resentment of the people in the city to the Song army, trapped the Song army between the moat and the city wall, and closed the door and beat the dog.

"I only know that Liu Dutong camped on the south bank of the Lugou River." Yang Keshi said what he knew.

"Do you know about the robbery of Wang Yuan's escort of grain and grass?" Zhou Nan asked again.

"I don't know where this was robbed?" Yang Keshi hurriedly asked, if he didn't know that he had been robbed on his own territory, it would be a fool's errand.

"On the east bank of the Liuli River, the section west of Gu'an City."

As soon as he heard that it was on the east bank of the Liu Li River in the west of Gu'an City, Yang Keshi's face turned red, he and Gao Yuan had already swept all the nearby towns, only he had not gone to Gu'an in the east of Zhuozhou City, and Yongqing in the south of Gu'an.

"According to the sentinel, Wang Yuan was originally caught by Fanren, but he was let back, and after Wang Yuan went back, the Song army began to build camps inside and outside the camp......" Zhou Nan told Yang Keshi his news.

Although Yang Keshi is very arrogant, but he has been in the army for a long time, he naturally knows that he will not rebuild the camp for no reason, unless he learns that the enemy army is coming to sneak attack, Yang Keshi suddenly realized: "Wang Yuan must have known that the army was going to attack the camp, so he ran back and reported it to Liu Dutong, so he repaired the camp and beware of sneak attack." ”

Zhou Nan nodded and said, "Originally, there was not much food and grass in the camp, so why bother building the camp?" Because the enemy is coming, of course. But," Zhou Nan paused and said, "There are more than 10,000 generals in total, how dare they attack them?" ”

"There must be reinforcements!" Yang Keshi woke up and said.

"But yesterday, there was no news in Yanjing City that reinforcements were coming." Zhou Nan said to Yang Keshi: "I didn't come this time to watch Fanren and Liu Yanqing fight; Regardless of whether he has reinforcements in Yanjing City or not, I will take Yanjing! ”

"Take Yanjing?! Just rely on you, the three hundred? Yang Keshi asked in surprise.

"Isn't there still you and Big Brother Gao?" On the way to Zhou, he was also thinking about whether there were reinforcements in Yanjing City. Until now, he had a conversation with Yang Keshi, and he also cleared up his thoughts.

If there are reinforcements, the Song army will be disabled and run away in one go, and I am afraid that they will be chased all the way to the Baigou River; If there were no reinforcements, they could only bluff in the hope of scaring off the Song army. And both of these situations will cause the same result: the emptiness of Yanjing City.

And what caused this result, whether it is the inevitability of the development of the long river of history, or the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the intertwining of various coincidences, Zhou Nan is happy to see.

It would be better if the Fan people worked hard and developed, and the Song army was scared away by the Liao army.

(End of chapter)