In the marshal tent of the military camp outside Zhaozhou, Di Qing asked Sun Yong, who had broken through from Baozhou, to call him, and said warmly: "Xu Jiu fought day by day and ran around day by day, I should have let you rest more, but now the military situation is urgent, and the commander can only fight with the Liao people if he first patrols Li Bian, oh, the experience is clear." Therefore, today I will gather all the generals, and I will bother Lao Xujiu to tell you about the experience of the chariot formation against the Liao. ”

Sun Yong hurriedly said: "Li Xunbian wants to break through the encirclement in order to share his combat experience with the friendly army. Di Shuai doesn't have to be polite. ”

Today, Di Qing was prepared, and ordered his soldiers to prepare a lot of wooden blocks, small flags and other things as war games. He asked Sun Yong to walk to the table, and asked his generals to come around, and used these props to demonstrate the battle of the previous day.

With these props, this time the narration is more intuitive, and Sun Yong's eloquence is good, so he speaks eloquently.

After talking about the battle, Sun Yong particularly emphasized: "Judging from this battle, the Liao people are actually very afraid of our army's strong formation. Therefore, the Liao people will generally patiently and constantly harass, and constantly mobilize troops, and drag bundles of firewood to gallop in the upper hand, thinking that they are suspicious, so that our army will be chaotic in order to find flaws. As long as our army does not mess with itself, the Liao people will have no gaps. The Liao people's ability to attack fortifications is actually not strong, and in a head-on confrontation, it is the official army that has the advantage. What is worrying is that the Liao people cut off our grain route, but now that the officials and soldiers have vans to transport grain, the Liao people are helpless. ”

Speaking of this, someone sighed: "I didn't expect the partial van to be such a sharp weapon." Alas, alas, it would have been nice to have made more earlier. ”

Di Qing was reluctant to say more useless words, so he diverted the conversation: "Judging from the experience of the first battle between the Baozhou officials and the Liao people, the Liao people's tactics are no different from forty years ago. Now our Song Dynasty official army has a partial van, a divine arm bow, a ballista, and a trebuchet. ”

"The Che army is a sharp weapon to deal with the Liao army, but our army cannot rely on the city to defend itself, and the fighter plane is missed. Yesterday's urgent report, the Liao people besieged the city, and the vanguard had arrived in Wangdu, which seemed to have the intention of going south. I have asked Xia Xianggong to stay in Beijing for an order, and the whole army will march to Qizhou to join forces with Zhang Gongshou to prevent the Liao people from going deeper. Thinking that the order will arrive sooner or later, you will immediately go back and prepare for each other. When you have nothing to do, think more about how to fight this battle. ”

The generals agreed in an uproar, and some of them were even more enthusiastic because they heard that Baozhou Guo Kui and Li Buqi beheaded more than 3,000 people with more than 20,000 people.

Before they dispersed, the Chinese officer came in a hurry with a messenger: "Report, the order of the Hebei Economic Strategy Division has arrived." ”

Di Qing immediately ordered it to be submitted, and after seeing that the fire paint was correct, he opened it to watch, but it was an order to allow his army to go out of Qizhou. Di Qing immediately ordered: "The military order has arrived, tomorrow breakfast and war dinner, and the camp will be pulled out at dawn." Whoever delays, military law is engaged. ”

For three days, Baozhou has been besieged by the Liao army with rangers, as long as the Song army is out of the city, they will be monitored from afar, and the Song army will leave the city they will constantly harass, if they find that the Song army's small cavalry is trying to contact elsewhere, they will gather a large group of men and horses to pounce and bite.

The Liao cavalry each had three horses, and even compared with the cavalry of the police division, it had a greater mobility advantage, so it was impossible to break the blockade of the Liao army without using a considerable amount of cavalry.

But in the past five days, the news inside and outside Baozhou has not been cut off. Every day, there are always bloody cavalry who break through the encirclement and bring the news in.

The information sent in from Qizhou said that the main force of the Liao people besieged Wangdu and Mancheng, and the two cities were in danger. Although Xiongzhou and Bazhou are still under siege, the Liao people can only send rangers to plunder the city, but they are limited by a large number of walled forts, and Mozhou, Yingzhou and other places have begun to clear the wilderness again, and the Liao people have limited gains.

It seems that there is not much danger in the east for the time being, and what the Hebei Economic Strategy Division and the Privy Council are most worried about is that the Liao people went south from Mancheng, Wangdu, Ding, and Zhenzhou to Kaifeng, so when they found that the eastern front could still be held, they ordered Baozhou to send troops to participate in the battle in the Wangdu area.

Guo Kui was a little embarrassed when he received this order, and after thinking about it, he asked Li Buqi to discuss. As a result, his subordinates told him that Li Buqi had led his army out of the city again.

Li Buqi's behavior made him very incomprehensible. In the past few days, Li Buqi only took his infantry cavalry out of the city or five or ten miles every morning or night, and once went out of the city for twenty miles, but he always walked around and came back. When he suggested that Li Buqi should stop doing these useless works and not have to torture his morale, Li Buqi just responded casually, but still went his own way.

Just when Guo Kui was about to send someone to invite Li Buqi to return to the city, someone sent by Li Buqi came over and said that Li Buqi invited him to the city tower in Beicheng. Guo Kui came to the city tower, but his entourage was blocked by Li Buqi's own soldiers. When he saw that there were only Li Buqi and Gao Zunyu, Yang Shiqing and Chong Ge in the room, among them, Gao Zunyu's face was as yellow as gold paper, and then he remembered that the soldiers outside the door were standing ten steps away with their hands on the hilt of their knives, and he felt that Li Buqi was a big deal, and hurriedly asked: "I don't know what is going on when I call the officials to patrol the border?" ”

Li Buqi smiled and said, "Guo Deployment, didn't you ask me why I have to lead my troops out of the city every day?" Today's answer can be revealed. ”

Guo Kui hurriedly asked: "I don't know what the meaning of patrolling the border is?" ”

Li Buqi said: "I'm going to rob the Liao people's grain road!" ”

"Huh?" Guo Kui was really taken aback.

Although the Liao people claim to have come to Hebei to fight grass valleys, don't say that in the past few decades, in order to prevent Liao from planting trees and reforesting and releasing water and silting ponds on the border of Hebei, even if there is land, they are not cultivated, and they are very poor, and they cannot meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of Liao people's army at all.

However, the Liao people's powerful cavalry robbed the grain route of the slow Song army, which was naturally stable, but using a small force of cavalry to rob the grain route of the Liao people with strong cavalry was a bit of a feeling of death. Once entangled by the Liao cavalry or blocking the way back, it will not take long to be surrounded by the Liao army.

Therefore, Guo Kui thought that Li Buqi was a whim, and hurriedly persuaded him: "It is absolutely impossible to patrol the border." Not to mention that the baggage of the Liao people is often dozens of miles behind the brigade, just to say that the Liao cavalry advances and retreats like the wind, and the enemy is outnumbered, once the whereabouts are exposed, there will be no return. Please also think twice about patrolling. ”

Then he took out the order of the Hebei Economic Strategy Division and said: "Moreover, this Hebei Economic Strategy Division ordered us and others to join forces together to attack the Liao army besieging Wangdu." ”

Li Buqi just smiled, but didn't look at the order, but said, "Guo Deployment, you are also an old soldier." You see that the cavalry of the Liao people is so strong, but our messengers can still come and go every day, is there any deception in this? ”

Guo Kui naturally thought of this, and immediately said: "Xiaguan also thinks that this is possible, but as long as we carefully choose the route of the march, do not fall into an ambush, and then strictly organize the array, so as not to give the Liao people a chance to take advantage of it, and wait until we join forces with Qizhou and Zhenzhou, we will not be afraid of the Liao." If the Liao people want to take the opportunity to attack Baozhou, then they must also have this ability. ”

Li Buqi shook his head and said, "It's too difficult for the infantry to play tricks in front of the cavalry. I think the Liao people are doing a good job of trapping messengers to and fro, and we can't drill into it. But the Liao people certainly never imagined that we would dare to rob their grain routes. Even if they can't defeat the baggage of the Liao, they will definitely be able to contain a large part of the Liao's troops. ”

Guo Kui said: "But this order ......"

Li Buqi said: "Your Majesty has allowed me to have the right to be arbitrary in this battle. ”

Guo Kui persuaded again: "But this matter is too dangerous." ”

Li Buqi said: "How dare a husband sacrifice his life for the country? I have made up my mind, and Guo Deployment does not need to be persuaded. As for how to advance and retreat, I have already planned it, and Guo Deployment can only rest assured. It's just that some of the plans may be a little sensational, Guo Deployment still don't ask, just do me two favors. ”

Li Buqi said this, Guo Kui understood that Li Buqi had made up his mind, so he had to ask: "Please give orders to patrol the border." ”

Li Buqi said: "Today's deployment will send a messenger to Gaoyang Pass to transfer troops. As soon as this army comes out, it will inevitably distract the attention of the Liao people. Then tomorrow I will go out of the city as usual, and you will only let your cavalry cover the Liao rangers. When we're far away, let your cavalry get back to the city. Another thing is that I should not mention my whereabouts in the report sent to the Economic Strategy Division. ”

When he said this, he took a note from a marching soldier and handed it to Guo Kui. Guo Kui took a look, but it was an order, which was to prevent Guo Kui from revealing Li Buqi's whereabouts. This is for Guo Kui to exonerate himself.

Seeing that Li Buqi had already thought of this, Guo Kui could only say: "The lower officials obey the order." ”