The news of the Han army's northern expedition was quickly detected by the Xiongnu scouts, and the Xiongnu army made many ambushes on Li Guangli's march to prepare to deal a heavy blow to the Han army.

Li Ling's 5,000 infantry took a different path, and the Xiongnu did not pay attention; Because of this, the march was very smooth.

Li Guangli's Han army was soon defeated by the prepared Hun soldiers, and Li Guangli fled back to Chang'an with only a few personal soldiers; Li Ling's 5,000 soldiers had no news.

Li Ling and 5,000 infantry were not stopped by the Xiongnu army, and went all the way to the location of the central head of the Xiongnu at the foot of Daqing Mountain.

Li Ling waited for the arrival of Li Guangli's army at Daqingshan, but Li Guangli and the Han army did not appear; But hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu troops surrounded them.

Li Ling led 5,000 infantry crossbowmen in a group, back to back; Fighting and retreating in a circular shooting formation, killing thousands of Hun soldiers; Evacuate to the vicinity of the border and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

500,000 arrows were shot, and the food was eaten; There were only about a hundred and so soldiers left.

Li Ling retreated into the forest with the remnants of a hundred and ten men, and the Xiongnu Shan Yu had no intention of withdrawing his troops from pursuit.

But Shan Yu's Han staff officer said: "This group of Han soldiers shot and killed tens of thousands of us, and the remaining battle formations are not chaotic, and the soldiers are very calm; Our cavalry does not come close, they do not waste an arrow; It shows that this is the elite of the Han army, and the person who leads the army must be a general to become a big problem for the Huns; They must be killed! ”

Shan Yu was moved by the Han staff and re-drove the troops to surround the forest.

Li Ling had no choice but to order a final breakthrough; No matter who returns to Chang'an, he must tell Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty about the actual battle situation here.

The breakout began, and Li Ling, like his grandfather Li Guang, stayed last when he retreated; But he didn't have a horse, and his front partners managed to break through and leave him in the Hun encirclement.

What the Huns wanted to catch most was this general, who had no missing arrows, a dignified appearance, and was different.

Shan Yu hung a heavy reward, and the Hun soldiers surrounded Li Ling; Li Ling was wounded and captured with all his might, and made a choice - fake surrender, looking for an opportunity to steal his horse and flee back to Han land.

Li Ling's soldiers who successfully broke through and returned to Chang'an reported to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that Li Ling was defeated and trapped.

The Han Dynasty has never suffered such a big defeat since Wei Qing and Huo Quai's seven expeditions against the Xiongnu; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious and did not blame the commander's brother-in-law Li Guangli, but was angry at Li Ling's fake surrender; He didn't listen to the soldiers at all, saying that Li Ling's surrender to the Xiongnu was treason.

Li Ling's good friend Su Wu did not speak for Li Ling, but Sima Qian, who was not familiar with Li Ling, defended Li Ling.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was on fire, not only ordered the killing of more than 80 members of Li Ling's family; was also angry that Sima Qian put him in prison, Sima Qian was poor and had no money to atone for his "sins"; reluctantly accepted a man's most humiliating palace punishment.

Li Ling learned that more than 80 members of a family, old and young, cried incessantly because he was killed and vomited blood and fell ill.

Thanks to Shan Yu's wife's careful care, Li Ling picked up a life; From then on, Li Ling dispelled the idea of returning to the Central Plains, and was willing to be an official in the territory of the Xiongnu; Train troops for the Huns.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did the work of a butcher and forced a generation of loyal ministers to the Xiongnu.

Song Zhenzong treated Wang Jizhong well, and Wang Jizhong was determined to be the mediator of the armistice between Song and Liao.

Song Zhenzong did not blame Wang Jizhong for submitting to the Liao State, but kept writing letters of greetings; I hope that he will mediate between Song and Liao, saying that the Great Song will not forget him.

Wang Jizhong received the dictation of Song Zhenzong, so he repeatedly dissuaded the Empress Dowager Chengtian and Liao Shengzong from going south to fight and harm innocents.

It is also said that if you kill 10,000 people and lose 3,000, it doesn't matter if you have 10,000 more people in the Song Dynasty, and if you die 3,000 in Liao, there will be no one.

However, the ambitious Empress Dowager Xiao couldn't listen to Wang Jizhong's words at all, she thought that the Liao soldiers were strong and strong; Even if he negotiated a truce and peace with the Song Dynasty, he had to fight a few tough battles first to gain some benefits from the Song State.

Wang Jizhong sighed! He was originally a strange character, and he was pinched by a blind man in his early years to tell fortunes; Now it's really cashed in.

That year, Song Zhenzong was still the king of Xiang, and his subordinates met a blind man who could tell fortunes; Zhao Heng thought it was interesting, so he asked the fortune teller to tell fortunes for a few of his subordinates.

At first, fortune tellers were both real and false; Everyone just had fun and didn't take it to heart.

When it was Wang Jizhong's turn, the fortune teller changed his frolic, and said after a long time: "The adult has a peculiar bone, the first half of his life is Song Duzhong, and the second half of his life is Liao!" ”

Zhao Heng felt that it was nonsense, laughed it off, and did not take it seriously; However, the development of events really fulfilled the fortune teller's proverb......

When Wang Jizhong was thinking about these things, the Liao army had already carried over several wooden boats that had been collected.

As Han Derang, the king of Wenzhong, judged, there must be brave men under heavy rewards; Under the heavy reward, there will be a boat to cross the river.

Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu was ordered to go to the people to build a boat, and the people of the Song State who were full of Khitan language could not give him the boat.

Liao Shengzong had no choice but to call Wang Jizhong, Wang Jizhong offered a high price to a few people who had boats, and they really agreed.

Of course, during this period, Wang Jizhong communicated with the people, saying that they were Liao troops; If you don't agree to the terms, these guys will kill people......

The Liao army began to cross the river again, and this time the main general Xiao Tzulin came to the scene to command; Xiao Tzu Rin is the one who captured the Song general Yang Ye, who is brave and good at fighting and indomitable.

After the Liao army was intercepted by the Song army and civilians on the other side of the Wei River, Xiao Tzu Rin felt that he was really a bag; Knowing the pouch but not being able to convert it into the initiative is the biggest pouch.

And when Han Derang, the king of Wenzhong, proposed that there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, the Empress Dowager Xiao asked the Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu to personally take people to the people to make river crossing tools; Xiao Tzu Rin also mobilized his soldiers to find a way.

There was no shortage of Han people in the Liao army, and a Han soldier of the famous general Mu Lin had worked as a carpenter before; He said to Xiao Tzu Rin: "King, our army can't erect a pontoon bridge on the river now; It's all because the Song army used the stone thrower to knock back our archers and lose cover, if they could get something to intercept the stones thrown by the stone thrower; So wouldn't it be easy for the archers to cross the river by standing on the north bank of the river and shooting arrows to cover the sappers to build bridges in the water? ”

Seeing that Mu Lin was serious, Xiao Tzu Rin immediately swore and said, "What can Sergeant Mu do, just speak directly!" ”

Mu Lin fixed his mind and said: "One thing descends one thing, and the lama descends monster!" The kid used to be a carpenter, and he saw the stone thrower made by the Song people, they can use the stone thrower, why can't we! ”

Xiao Tzu Rin stepped forward and grabbed Mu Lin's arm tightly and said, "Sergeant Mu can make a stone thrower?" ”

Mu Lin smiled and said, "The kid is a carpenter, of course he can make it!" Just no wood and tools at hand! ”

"This is easy to solve!" Xiao Tzu Rin said happily: "There are no tools and materials to find in these villages!" ”

Xiao Tzu Rin said solemnly: "Sergeant Mu first tell me that you will make that shape of the stone thrower!" ”

Mullin said bluntly: "The boy has pondered a kind of stone throwing machine, the frame of which is fixed by two pillars with a horizontal axis; The lever perpendicular to the shaft above can rotate freely around the shaft, and a weight is fixed on the short arm of the lever; There is a pouch at the end of the long arm for loading, and when firing, the long arm is pulled back almost horizontally with a winch - of course, it can also be dragged by a person - dragged to a certain extent, and the stone bag is suddenly released, and it rises quickly, when the short arm hammer is completely dropped; The projectile flew out of the bullet bag at an angle of about 45 degrees, and the range of the stone projectile of sixty or seventy catties was about 60 zhang; It is completely able to repel the Song army that attacked our army with trebuchets on the south bank of the Wei River, and ensure the success of building a bridge on the river! ”

Xiao Tzu Rin laughed and immediately asked his subordinates to reward Mu Lin with 100 yuan; Organize people to find carpenter's tools and materials to make the stone thrower.

When everything was ready, Mullin asked Xiao Tart-rin to help him with dozens of soldiers with carpenter's foundation; A dazzling new stone thrower was made in half a day.

Xiao Tzu Rin was so excited that he immediately asked the sergeant to carry the stone thrower to the bank of the Wei River to give the Empress Dowager Xiao the good news.

Empress Dowager Xiao praised Xiao Tzu Rin, and Liao Shengzong and Wang Jizhong had brought wooden boats and tools to cross the river; Empress Dowager Xiao ordered Xiao Tzu Rin to be the commander-in-chief of the river crossing and start crossing the river.

Wei Sheng, Wei Chun, Wei Feng, and the prefect Ma Yueming, who were holding on to the south bank of the Wei River, saw that the Liao army began to cross the river, and immediately deployed stone throwers to throw stones on the other side of the river; However, when the Song army threw a wheel over, it was smashed to pieces by the big stone thrown by the Liao army on the opposite bank; Several of the stone-throwers were all injured.

When Wei Sheng saw this, he ordered to throw earth-shattering thunder and fire guns in unison, and the crossbowmen stepped forward to shoot arrows; But it was soon shot back by the crossbowmen of the Liao army.

Wei Sheng saw that the general trend had gone, so he had no choice but to say to the prefect Ma Yueming: "The Liao army has added a stone thrower, and we can't stop it, so let's retreat......