It was the third watch of the night, and Liu Sunchen, the chief general of Fanyang County, still couldn't sleep, he stood at the head of the city, looking at the dark night outside, his heart was full of anxiety and worry.

In the morning, he received an eagle letter from the marshal from Bazhou, telling him that the Changsheng army had surrendered to the Song army, and ordered him to stick to the city, unless he saw his own handwritten letter to dedicate the city, at noon, the Song cavalry arrived, but there was no handwritten letter from the commander, Liu Sunsin refused the request to open the city, but did not clash with the other party.

In the afternoon, Xiao Yuqing arrived with a thousand cavalry and ordered him to open the city immediately, but Liu Sunchen also refused Xiao Yuqing's request and ordered the soldiers to release arrows.

The reason for Liu Sunchen's uneasiness was that he only had 3,000 troops, and it was difficult to hold Fanyang County with this army, and the handsome's wife and daughter were currently in the city, once the city was broken by Xiao Gan's army, he really couldn't explain to the marshal.

At this time, suddenly a soldier pointed to the distance and shouted: "General, there is an abnormality ahead!" ”

Liu Sunchen stared intently at the official road in the distance, and soon he also saw the abnormality that the soldier said, an army of thousands of people was rapidly moving towards Fanyang City, Liu Sunchen suddenly became nervous, and shouted: "Ring the alarm bell, the whole army will go to the city to prepare for war!" ”

'When! While! While! The bell rang loudly at the head of the city, and the sleeping soldiers of the city immediately woke up from their sleep, and they all slept with their armor, and took up the weapons around them and rushed to the city.

At this time, Li Yanqing's army has stopped a mile away, just half an hour ago, Yang Zaixing led 800 cavalry and they converged, with the addition of this new force, Li Yanqing is more calm, if Liu Sunchen refuses to surrender, he also has to capture the city, Fanyang County is related to whether it can seize Zhuozhou according to the established plan, directly affecting the Eastern Route Army's northern expedition to Liao, Li Yanqing is bound to win.

Six thousand troops lined up in the field a mile away, Li Yanqing looked coldly at the swarthy city wall not far away, Fanyang County is a big city, a radius of more than 20 li, at least 10,000 troops are needed to hold this city, the two or three thousand troops in the city alone can't hold this city in any way, they only need to attack the city once to take the county seat, not to mention that they also carry a siege weapon to shake the sky and thunder.

Li Yanqing took out the handwritten letter of Guo Yaoshi, handed it to Zhang Bao and said: "Go and negotiate with the city, if they need a letter, shoot the letter to the city!" ”

"Obey!"

Zhang Bao took the letter and urged the horse to gallop away, at this time, Liu Jian smiled faintly: "There shouldn't be any accidents?" ”

"Why is Commander Liu so sure?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile.

"Didn't the scout say that? The cavalry of the Liao army asked the city to open the door, but the head of the city actually returned the arrow, indicating that the defender on the head of the city had broken with the Liao State, and unless he wanted to take refuge in the Jin State, he had no reason to refuse our surrender. ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "I think so too, I hope there won't be an accident!" ”

The two of them said, their eyes fixed on Zhang Bao's figure.

Zhang Bao galloped all the way to the city, and in a moment he ran to the city, and he shouted to the city: "I am looking for General Liu Sunchen!" ”

Liu Sunchen probed and said, "I am, who are you?" ”

"We are the right army of the Eastern Route Army of the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, and my family Li Commander has accepted General Guo's surrender early this morning, and I hope that General Liu will also recognize the situation and join the Great Song Dynasty!"

"Has Li Yanqing arrived too?"

"It's in the army behind!"

Liu Sunchen nodded, Guo Yaoshi asked him to surrender Li Yanqing in the eagle letter, but he needed to see Guo Yaoshi's handwritten letter, and he said: "Let me open the city and surrender, there should be another letter, where is the letter?" ”

"The letter is in my hand, please General Liu get out of the way!"

Zhang Bao opened his bow and arrows, an arrow shot to the head of the city, the letter fell on the head of the city, a soldier had already picked it up and handed it to Liu Sunchen, Liu Sunchen took the letter and knew that this was a handwritten letter from the marshal, he opened the letter and read it again, and said to Zhang Bao: "I can open the city and surrender, but I hope that Li Tongzhi will not kill the people at will, regardless of the Khitan or the Han people, this condition please Li Tongzhi must agree." ”

Zhang Bao came back to report Liu Sunchen's conditions to Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing laughed, he immediately led the army to the city, Li Yanqing said loudly: "General Liu, I am Li Yanqing, the commander of the right army, and I fully agree to the conditions proposed by General Liu!" ”

Liu Sunsin responded: "The eldest husband has a promise, and I believe in the words of Li Tongzhi. ”

He immediately ordered: "Open the city, the army put down its weapons and surrender!" ”

The city gate slowly opened, and groups of Liao soldiers walked out of the city, they put down their weapons, took off their armor and walked to the other side, Li Yanqing urgently ordered Liu Jian to lead a thousand troops to settle the surrendered soldiers.

At this time, Liu Sunchen also rode out, he turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "The last general Liu Sunchen is ordered by Guo Shuai to surrender to Li Tong's surrender!" ”

Li Yanqing hurriedly dismounted and helped him up, reassuring him: "The general understands the righteousness and can choose the right path at the critical moment, his courage is admirable, please rest assured that Li Yanqing will strictly enforce military discipline and never let a soldier disturb the people!" ”

"It is the luck of the people of Fan Yang to be able to receive Fan Yang by Li Tong, please enter the city by Li Tongzhi!"

Li Yanqing nodded, and then ordered the army to enter Fanyang County, and issued a military order to the whole army, no one is allowed to disturb the people, and those who violate the order will be severely punished!

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Tong Guan got the news from Bazhou on the afternoon of the day when Guo Yaoshi surrendered Li Yanqing, this news was extremely shocking to Tong Guan, he didn't say a word for a whole stick of incense, and it wasn't until the second express letter came from Bazhou that he finally believed that the news was true.

A strong sense of remorse immediately filled Tong Guan's heart, if he could have sent troops earlier, then Guo Yaoshi's surrender would not be Li Yanqing, but his surrender, when will this great credit be the turn of the planter?

Tong Guan read the second express letter sent in the afternoon again, the letter said that Li Yanqing had escorted Guo Yaoshi south in the morning, and now even if he has wings, he will not be able to snatch Guo Yaoshi back from Li Yanqing, it seems that this credit is destined to be lost to him.

Tong Guan pondered for a long time in the big tent, since Guo Yaoshi had surrendered to the Song Dynasty, the Liao border states must be empty, it was a good opportunity for him to lead the army to occupy, although he lost the results of the surrender of Guo Yaoshi, but Tong Guan would never lose the opportunity again.

Tong Guan immediately ordered: "Pass my military order, order Xin Xingzong to lead 80,000 troops to attack Yizhou quickly, and order Gao Shixuan to lead 20,000 troops north to Zhuozhou and capture Fanyang County!" ”

On the afternoon of the first day of the eighth month, Tong Guan learned the news of Guo Yaoshi's surrender to the Song Dynasty, and immediately divided his troops into the Liao border in two ways, Xin Xingzong led an army of 80,000 to attack Yi County, and Gao Shixuan of Xiongzhou crossed the white ditch with a pontoon bridge and led 20,000 troops to kill Zhuozhou.

At night, Gao Shixuan's army preemptively captured Xincheng County, which had no troops to defend, and he left 1,000 men to defend the city, and continued to lead the army north, rushing to Fanyang County, which was extremely strategically located.

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At noon the next day, 80,000 troops arrived in Yi County, which was guarded by 3,000 Liao troops led by Xiao Yuqing, and 80,000 troops immediately surrounded Yi County and began to attack the city in a big way.

Gao Shixuan led 20,000 troops to march overnight, they arrived in Fanyang County in the early morning of the next day, but he was still a step late, Fanyang County had already planted the banner of the Song army, Gao Shixuan was angry and annoyed, urging the horse to run to the city and shouted: "Who is the lord of the city?" ”

Li Yanqing walked up to the city, he looked at Gao Shixuan and pretended to be surprised: "Where did General Gao come from?" Why is there no news of General Gao in Bazhou? ”

Gao Shixuan's heart sank, it turned out that the main general in the city turned out to be Li Yanqing, he secretly shouted that it was not good, I was afraid that he would not have a chance.

He had to bite the bullet and said: "I had to go north to Xiongzhou because of the lack of food and grass, I set off from Xiongzhou yesterday afternoon to go north, I didn't expect General Li to take the lead, it is better for General Li to continue to go north, I will guard Fanyang, what does General Li think?" ”

Li Yanqing sneered and said to him: "It seems that the high commander has forgotten the plan of the commander before leaving, and he will seize Fanyang County first, and he must not act rashly, or the high commander has listened to the orders of Captain Tong again, but unfortunately he only listened to the orders of the commander." ”

Gao Shixuan was a little breathless, he raised Tong Guan's military order and shouted: "It is indeed the military order of Taiwei Tong, Taiwei Tong ordered you to withdraw from Fanyang County immediately, Li Yanqing, you dare not listen to the military order of the privy envoy!" ”

"Phew!"

Li Yanqing took a sip and scolded: "Gao Shixuan, you have violated military discipline by plundering Hejian Mansion, and he continues to disobey the orders of the commander and go north to Xiongzhou without authorization, almost missing the fighter plane, both crimes are capital crimes in the army, Gao Shixuan, you are doomed!" ”

Gao Shixuan was furious, "Li Yanqing, I warn you at the end, if you don't give up the city again, I will order the army to attack the city!" ”

Li Yanqing shouted: "I'll open the city!" ”

The city gate slowly opened, revealing the empty city gate hole, Li Yanqing took the bronze bow, pulled out an iron arrow, he opened his bow and took the arrow, aimed at Gao Shixuan, Li Yanqing said coldly: "If you have the ability, you can come to the city and try it!" ”