The sky gradually brightened, and an army that Li Yanqing expected finally appeared on the north bank, with 6,000 victorious troops led by Guo Yaoshi, 5,000 infantry and 1,000 Khitan cavalry.

At this time, Guo Yaoshi had just received the news that Yongqing County had been attacked by the Song army, and the cavalry of the Song army that attacked Yongqing County continued to go north after slaughtering the defenders of Yongqing County, killing his old nest Fan Yang, not only seeing through his own strategy, but also returning his body in the other way, although there were still 3,000 defenders in Fanyang County, but this kind of misstep really made Guo Yaoshi very angry.

At this time, Guo Yaoshi was in an embarrassing dilemma, storming Bazhou City, the other party had 10,000 defenders, although he carried a small number of siege ladders, but the price to be paid for the siege obviously made him hesitate, but if he returned to Fan Yang, I am afraid that Xiao Gan would come to deprive him of his army.

At this time, Xiao Yuqing rode a horse and galloped over, and said coldly to Guo Yaoshi: "General Guo, didn't you say that you want to seize Bazhou City and cut off the enemy's food route?" Why are you stuck now? ”

Guo Yaoshi laughed dryly, "Why should Xiao Jianjun be in a hurry, I have obtained accurate information, there are not many Song troops in Bazhou City, I will definitely take Bazhou City before noon, please Xiao Jianjun be calm and don't be impatient!" ”

Xiao Yuqing continued to threaten: "What if you can't take Bazhou City before noon? ”

"If I can't take it, I'll hand over the army tiger talisman to the prison army!"

"There is no joke in the army, we are sure of what we say!"

Guo Yaoshi snorted coldly, it was a response to him, Xiao Yuqing turned his horse's head and ran north, as a supervising army, he did not believe in the Han'er army, in order to prevent Guo Yaoshi from attacking him, and surrendered to the Song Dynasty instead, he specially brought a thousand elite Khitan cavalry to monitor Guo Yaoshi, he had received a secret order from the Queen Mother, once Guo Yaoshi had signs of surrendering to the Song Dynasty, he must not hesitate to kill Guo Yaoshi and the Changsheng army.

At this time, Zhao Heshou said in a low voice: "Dashuai, what should we do?" ”

Pharmacist Guo sneered and said, "Didn't you find out? There are two pontoon bridges on the river, and we will dismantle the bridges when we cross the river to see how Xiao Yuqing crosses the river? ”

"Then are we going to attack Bazhou City?"

Guo Yaoshi shook his head, "It's not realistic to attack Bazhou City, we may not be able to capture it even if our whole army is destroyed, we will go directly to Baozhou after crossing the river and surrender to Tong Guan!" ”

Speaking of this, Guo Yaoshi glanced back at the 1,000 Khitan cavalry in the distance, and whispered: "But let's pretend to attack the city, you lead 4,000 people to feign a siege, and I will cheer you on the north bank!" ”

"Obey the order!"

Zhao Heshou was about to run to order troops, and a quarter of an hour later, the north bank of Baigou suddenly beat the drums, and Guo Yaoshi personally beat the drums to cheer.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

In the fierce sound of war drums, the general Zhao Heshou led 4,000 troops to rush the pontoon bridge with more than a dozen siege ladders, shouting and rushing towards Bazhou City, a mile away.

At the head of the city, 10,000 Song troops, including the original Xiang army, were already waiting for them, their crossbows were opened, and dozens of bed crossbows were also loaded with three-foot-long crossbow arrows, waiting for the Liao army to attack the city with murderous spirits.

Li Yanqing stood at the head of the north city, looking coldly at the Liao soldiers who were attacking the city in the distance, he had already found something strange, at this time, the partial general Zhao Fan stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Commander, they only carry more than a dozen siege ladders, this is not like a siege." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, they all have rich experience in actual combat, more than a dozen siege ladders will be exhausted in the first wave of siege, generally at least hundreds of siege ladders must be prepared, in addition, Bazhou City has a moat, how do they plan to cross the moat? Generally, the river is framed with wooden planks, but where are the planks on the other side?

Li Yanqing looked at the north bank again, and saw that there were only dozens of people left on the north bank beating war drums, and another 1,000 people were also running along the pontoon bridge to the south bank, and there were 1,000 cavalry in the distance lined up and indifferently watching the Liao army's siege battle.

Li Yanqing's heart suddenly moved, what did he seem to think? Turning around, he shouted, "Commander Zhang!" ”

The commander of Bazhou made Zhang Jie step forward quickly, "Humble duty!" ”

Li Yanqing pointed to the cavalry in the distance and asked, "Is that cavalry the Han'er army or the Khitan army?" ”

"Back to the system, there are Han and Khitan in the infantry, but there are only Khitans in the cavalry."

Li Yanqing immediately understood that another reason why Guo Yaoshi did not dare to surrender to the Song Dynasty was that there were still a thousand Khitan cavalry in his army to monitor them, and Guo Yaoshi was very likely to use the opportunity of this siege to get rid of the surveillance of the Khitan cavalry.

"Command, the pontoon bridge is on fire!" A soldier pointed to the pontoon bridge and shouted.

Li Yanqing had already seen it, only to see the northern section of the two pontoon bridges blazing with flames and thick smoke, at this time, Xiao Yuqing, who was watching the battle from a distance, also woke up, and couldn't help but be furious, shouting, "Kill it!" ”

A thousand Khitan cavalry suddenly started and killed the pontoon bridge, but it was too late, Guo Yaoshi not only set fire, but also ordered to dismantle a section of pontoon bridge several zhang long, so that the Khitan cavalry had to stop on the north bank, Xiao Yuqing scolded.

Guo Yaoshi ran to the river and shouted: "Xiao Jianjun, please tell the Queen Mother, it's not that I, Yao Shi, are unkind, but she is unjust, and I have to make this decision in order to save my life." ”

Xiao Yuqing was furious, "Shoot me an arrow!" ”

More than 1,000 cavalry shot arrows at the other side of the river, Guo Yaoshi's own soldiers rushed up, raised their shields to protect the commander's retreat, Guo Yaoshi was out of the range of arrows, and immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to assemble!" ”

At this moment, Li Yanqing also issued an order, "The whole army will go out of the city and meet the Liao army!" ”

The horns of the assembled deer horns sounded, and the Song army defending the city quickly went down to the city to assemble, the city gate opened, and the nine thousand Song troops lined up and ran outside the city.

The 5,000 Liao State Changsheng Army is gathering a mile away, and the Song army is also in a position under the city of Bazhou at the same time, with spears like a forest, banners and banners, and the Hebei recruits are also replaced with iron armor and ordnance in the armory, and the equipment is completely consistent with the forbidden army, which is even more murderous.

At this time, a general of Guo Yaoshi rushed over, "I am here to see your chief general by the order of the commander!" ”

A soldier led him to Li Yanqing, and the general bowed to Li Yanqing and said: "Qi Li Commander, my marshal has decided to surrender to the Song Dynasty, and he has no intention of fighting, please don't stop Li Commander." ”

Li Yanqing said lightly: "Since you decided to surrender to the Song Dynasty and don't want to fight, then just put down your weapons, why do you still have to assemble?" ”

The general hesitated and said: "My marshal wants to go to Baozhou to surrender and appease Tong Guan!" ”

Li Yanqing snorted coldly, "You are now in the Song Realm of Bazhou, do you think I will let you pass through the Song Territory at will?" Go back and tell your family commander that either he will immediately put down his weapons and surrender now, or he will fight me to the death, there is no third way! ”

The general had no choice but to run back to report to Pharmacist Guo, Pharmacist Guo couldn't speak for a while, Li Yanqing was not wrong at all, entering the Song Realm was an invader, either surrendering or fighting, and it was indeed impossible for the army in Bazhou to let themselves leave safely.

If it was the Liao Realm, he could teach Li Yanqing a hard lesson and annihilate his army, which would make the Song Dynasty value himself more, but now it is the Song Realm, he has become an invader, and if he fights with the Song army again, the nature will be completely opposite, and the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty will not spare himself.

What's more, the opponent's strength is nearly double that of his own, and he may not be able to win!

At this time, Zhao Heshou said in a low voice: "Maybe he can discuss, let's put down our weapons, but ask him to notify Tong Guan to come and surrender!" ”

Pharmacist Guo shook his head, "Do you think he's a three-year-old child?" Once we put down our weapons, our life and death are in his hands, at that time he would rather slaughter us with our heads to ask for credit, and will never give the credit to Tong Guan, seeing that he killed all the Yongqing defenders, you know that this person is ruthless. ”

"That'...... So what should we do? ”

Pharmacist Guo let out a long sigh, "The matter has come to this point, and we have no choice but to surrender to the Seed Master Dao." ”

Guo Yaoshi immediately issued a military order, "The whole army lays down its arms, takes off its armor, and surrenders to the Song army!" ”

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The 60,000-strong army led by Tanshido only marched north from the Daimyofu on 28 July, carrying a large amount of logistical supplies, including more than 10,000 ox carts alone, 150,000 requisitioned and 1,000 people, and 1,000 flat-bottomed sand boats, transporting 200,000 stone of grain, 100,000 loads of hay, and countless military supplies.

The march of the army was not fast, and it took three days to reach Hejian Province, and in the evening, the army was stationed in camp ten miles east of Hejian County to rest, and Zhu Xiu, the prefect of Hejian, hurried to the military camp.

"If General Gao really has no food and grass and borrows food from us, how can we watch the soldiers run out of food? We will definitely find a way to solve it, even if the official grain cannot be moved, we will also find the rich to borrow grain, but General Gao has no room for negotiation, and directly ordered us to take out a thousand stone of grain within an hour, otherwise he will go into the city to get the grain, which is unacceptable, just when we were about to send someone to negotiate, his army entered the city and ran directly to the official warehouse........."

Zhu Xiu sighed and continued: "Even if he robs the grain, it doesn't matter, but he also plundered the people's property in the army, which has caused very serious consequences in Leshou County, I can't sit idly by, I can only come to report this matter to the shuai." ”

Seed Master Dao Tie listened to Zhu Xiu's complaint with a blue face, Gao Shixuan's soldiers robbed the tax grain in the official warehouse of Leshou County, and more than 20 shops around the official warehouse were looted at the same time, and what made him even more unacceptable was that at least seventeen women were killed by soldiers, and six innocent people died.

'Bang! ’

The seed master Dao was so hated that he slammed his fist on the table, gritted his teeth and said to the prefect Zhu Xiu: "I will never allow this kind of thing to happen in my army, please rest assured that the prefect will definitely give the son of heaven, severely punish Gao Shixuan, and give the prefect an explanation." ”

Zhu Xiu was slightly stunned, "Do you still have to report this kind of thing to the Son of Heaven?" ”

The farmer's eyes were gloomy, he received Li Yanqing's express report the day before yesterday, only then did he know that Gao Shixuan did not enter Bazhou, but went to Xiongzhou without authorization, of course the seed master knew the reason, Xiongzhou belonged to the scope of Tong Guan's Northern Expedition, Gao Shixuan obviously took refuge in Tong Guan, although the seed master Dao hated in his heart, but he didn't want to tell outsiders about this ugly thing, he said lightly: "The Son of Heaven is very concerned about the Northern Expedition, this kind of serious violation of military discipline has happened, I think he should still let him know." ”

"Alright! This matter will be entrusted to the handsome, and the subordinate will leave first. ”

Zhu Xiu got up and said goodbye and left, pacing back and forth in the big tent with his hands in the world, he is actually most concerned about Li Yanqing's situation now, today is the first day of the eighth month, has Li Yanqing entered the Northern Expedition of Liaojing? What kind of war did you encounter?

In terms of time, Li Yanqing should have sent an express report, why hasn't he come yet?

At this moment, there was a soldier outside the tent to report: "Marshal Qi, Bazhou Emergency Military Report!" ”

The spirit of the seed master was lifted, and he hurriedly ordered: "Where is the military report?" ”

In a moment, a messenger walked into the tent quickly, knelt down on one knee and held up a military report: "I am hereby ordered by Li Commander, and I will send an urgent military report to the marshal!" ”

Seed Master Dao took the military report and asked first, "Is there a war situation?" ”

"Marshal Qiqi, this morning the general of the Liao State, Guo Yaoshi, led 5,000 troops to surrender to us."

This news immediately surprised the Seed Master Dao.