After reading Li Yanqing's express report, and asking the soldiers in detail, he couldn't help but be surprised and delighted in his heart, Li Yanqing not only sent troops to break through Yongqing County in advance, but also forced Guo Yaoshi's Changsheng army to surrender to the Song Dynasty, which is simply a great joy!

At this time, there were hurried footsteps outside, the tent curtain was opened, Zhang Shuye and the planter walked into the big tent quickly, Zhang Shuye asked anxiously: "Dashuai, I heard that there is a former enemy war report, how is the situation?" ”

The seed master said with a smile: "It's very unexpected, Guo Yaoshi actually led the army to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, you can see for yourself!" ”

He handed the battle report to Zhang Shuye, Zhang Shuye and the seed master glanced at each other, both of them showed surprise in their eyes, Zhang Shuye hurriedly took Li Yanqing's battle report and looked at it carefully, and the seed master asked with some puzzlement: "If Guo Yaoshi surrenders to the Great Song Dynasty, why don't you go to Baozhou to surrender Tong Guan?" His interests over there should be greater. ”

"Guo Yaoshi wanted to lure the Song army deeper, but his strategy was seen through by Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing sent a cavalry north to attack Yongqing, he himself led the main force but did not move, so that Guo Yaoshi fell into passivity, he should also be forced by the Liao State, had to surrender, I heard the messenger that Guo Yaoshi led the army to feint to attack Bazhou City, but burned the pontoon bridge, and blocked the 1,000 Khitan cavalry monitoring him on the north bank, I estimate that Guo Yaoshi should want to go to Baozhou, but was blocked by Li Yanqing led the army, he had no choice but to surrender to Li Yanqing."

The seed master said with a smile: "It sounds a bit wrong, but if you think about it carefully, it makes sense." ”

"That's right! The key point here is that Li Yanqing did not move, Guo Yaoshi's plan failed, and he had to choose to go south, which is like fishing for a big fish, either you drag the fish ashore, or the fish drags you into the water, and in the end, Li Yanqing is a step ahead. ”

At this time, Uncle Zhang said: "Li Yanqing said in the military newspaper that he has sent a thousand troops to escort Guo Yaoshi and his subordinates south to meet the marshal, and we had better send troops north to meet him, so as not to intervene and snatch Guo Yaoshi over." ”

The seed master also said: "Prevent villains and don't guard against gentlemen, Tong Guan has given us two consecutive trips, although Baozhou is still far away, but I should still be cautious to prevent Gao Shixuan from coming from Xiongzhou to snatch people away, I will lead 5,000 troops to pick it up!" ”

Seed Master Dao nodded, "You set off now, bring back Pharmacist Guo and his subordinates, and I will write an urgent report to the Son of Heaven." ”

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Li Yanqing's efficiency in dealing with major events is very high, while sending soldiers to report urgently to the seed master, Cao Xuan also led a thousand soldiers to escort Guo Yaoshi and his five thousand troops on the road, two watches, Cao Xuan met the army of the seed division in Shu County, Hejian Province, Cao Xuan handed over Guo Yaoshi and the army to the seed division, and then led the army back to Bazhou.

In the early morning, the seed master escorted Guo Yaoshi to the East Road Army camp, and the seed master personally went out of the camp to greet him, although Guo Yaoshi had surrendered Li Yanqing before, but Li Yanqing was not the boss after all, Guo Yaoshi was still a little resistant in his heart, and did not regard the previous surrender as a formal surrender, until this time, Guo Yaoshi officially surrendered to the planter.

He took off his shirt, exposed half of his arms, knelt down to the Seed Master, raised his sword and said loudly: "General of the Liao State, Guo Yaoshi, a relict of the Han Dynasty in Yanjing, returns to his homeland and prays for the grace of the Heavenly Empire!" ”

Seed Master Dao took his sword, and hurriedly helped him up and comforted: "General Guo has the great righteousness of the nation in his heart, which is admirable, I believe that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty will never treat the general badly, please follow me into the camp, and I will arrange for your subordinates to arrange food and lodging and rest." ”

"Thank you for being handsome!"

Seeing that Guo Yaoshi looked great, he also liked it in his heart, so he invited him to sit down in his big tent, and asked his own soldiers to serve tea, and then asked Guo Yaoshi, "As far as I know, there are 8,000 people in the Changsheng army, why only 5,000 troops came?" ”

Guo Yaoshi owed: "Don't hide the handsome, I was originally ordered to guard Zhuozhou and Yizhou, but after the Li Chuwen incident, the Liao State no longer believed in the Han people, so I gave up Yizhou, and the superintendent Xiao Yuqing led 3,000 troops to station, and my 8,000 troops were stationed in Zhuozhou, I originally took all the troops south, but Xiao Yuqing led a thousand cavalry to Zhuozhou, he did not agree with all the troops to go south, and ordered me to leave 3,000 people to guard Fanyang County, I can only lead 5,000 troops south to follow his cavalry south, so there are still 3,000 troops in Fanyang County, It was commanded by my confidant Liu Shunren, but Li Tongzhi should have led his army north, and I wrote a letter to him that Liu Shunren would surrender to Li Tong, and Zhuozhou would be handed over to the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Guo Yaoshi repeatedly emphasized that Zhuozhou was not captured by Li Yanqing, but dedicated to the Great Song Dynasty, which was also an important bargaining chip for him to descend to the Song Dynasty. ”

If it is to surrender Tong Guan, Guo Yaoshi does not want to enter the Beijing face saint, he knows that Tong Guan is Song Tianzi's henchman, and he will get everything he deserves, but the seed master is different, the status of the seed master is not high in the court, just a senior veteran of the military, surrender the seed master Dao His status is already low, if he doesn't want to save it, I'm afraid he won't be reused in the future.

Guo Yaoshi pondered and said: "I know the inside story of the court of the Liao State very well, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven and the court are very concerned about this situation, and I still enter Beijing, which is more conducive to the court's understanding of the Liao State." ”

Seed Master Dao didn't intend to force Guo Yaoshi, so he smiled and said, "That's it!" I asked Li Gang, the superintendent of the imperial history, to accompany General Guo into Beijing, but it was inconvenient for the army to enter Beijing, so they stayed with me for the time being. ”

"Of course, the 5,000 troops are temporarily commanded by my general Zhao Heshou, we are willing to change the banner, ask the commander to change their armor from the Song army, and be willing to become a strong force under the commander."

"Alright! They followed Ben Shuai for the time being. ”

Pharmacist Guo got up and said, "If it's convenient, I want to leave for Beijing now!" ”

The seed master was stunned, "General Guo hasn't slept all night, don't you want to take a rest?" ”

"The humble heart is excited, and he is very eager to face the saint, and he doesn't want to delay for a moment."

Seed Master Dao smiled and nodded, "I'll arrange for General Guo to enter Beijing!" ”

A quarter of an hour later, a partial general led 300 cavalry to escort Guo Yaoshi and Li Gang out of the camp and galloped towards the capital.

At the same time, the planter ordered Zhang Shuye to lead 30,000 troops to Zhuozhou immediately to pick up Li Yanqing, who had already led the army into Zhuozhou.

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As soon as Li Yanqing went south in front of Guo Yaoshi, he led an army of 5,000 to cross Baigou again and kill Fanyang County, Zhuozhou Prefecture.

Fanyang County is also called Zhuo County, is the intersection of several official roads, the strategic position is extremely important, the first Northern Expedition, Xin Xingzong led the 50,000 East Route Army is in Zhuo County under the defeat of Xiao Gan, currently by Guo Yaoshi's general Liu Sunchen led 3,000 troops to guard.

Fanyang County is about 120 miles away from Baigou, Li Yanqing led the army to march all the way, at one watch at night, the army was less than ten miles away from Fanyang County, Li Yanqing ordered the army to rest on the spot.

The soldiers were exhausted, many people couldn't even take care of dry food, wrapped in blankets and fell asleep, Li Yanqing was very vigilant, and sent dozens of spies to investigate, although the spies did not find anything unusual before, but after all, this is a Liao realm, so that Li Yanqing did not dare to be careless.

At this time, a soldier rushed to report: "Qi Yu is in charge, Yang Guang is back." ”

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, he was worried about Yang Zaixing's situation, Yang Guang came back, and finally had a whereabouts, he got up and walked out of the woods, only to see Yang Guang walking over quickly accompanied by two spies, Yang Guang stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Humble position see the system!" ”

"Where are Commander Yang and the army now?"

"We've come back, the lowly will come back first to report the news, and the commander will be there soon."

"What are the casualties in the attack on Yongqing County?" Li Yanqing asked again, this is also a situation that he is very concerned about.

"The defenders of Yongqing County are all Khitans, although the city gate was blown up, their resistance was very tenacious, fortunately, they all woke up in their sleep and rushed to meet the battle, but we still suffered more than 40 casualties."

Li Yanqing nodded, it is impossible to fight without deaths, he can still accept this casualty figure, he asked again: "Is there any news from Fanyang County?" ”

"We have been to Fanyang County before, but we have not clashed with the defenders, and we don't know much about the situation in the county, but we estimate that there are 3,000 troops."

Li Yanqing asked Yang Guang some more about the situation, and then asked him to go down to rest, at this time, Liu Jian came up and said: "Otherwise, we will go to Fanyang County now, so as not to have many dreams at night." ”

Li Yanqing is also worried about this, the news of Guo Yaoshi's defection to the Song Dynasty should have reached Liaodu, will Xiao Gan urgently send someone to capture Fan Yang? There is also Tong Guan, Tong Guan stares at himself all the time, Guo Yaoshi surrenders to himself, how can he not know, then what will he do? There will definitely be a big attack to the north, there are too many uncertain things, he really wants to avoid the situation of long nights and dreams, since Yang Zaixing's army is safe and sound, there is no need for them to delay any longer.

Li Yanqing looked at the sleeping soldiers, and immediately said to Liu Jian: "Let the brothers sleep for a while, and we will set off at the third watch!" ”