Wan Yanchang received a pigeon letter at noon the next day, the content of the letter made him both annoyed and surprised, "There are tens of thousands of bandits in Shangdang County, and the lowly army is weak, and it is difficult to fight the enemy, but I heard that Shangdang County has 200,000 stone of grain, and it can solve the urgent needs of the army, so I beg to send a large army to support it quickly." ’

"What does General Xiao think?" Wan Yanchang handed the letter to Xiao Bosong.

Xiao Bosong is the new commander of the Yanshan Han Army, he was originally a Xi nobleman, when the Jin soldiers broke through the Liao State to Beijing, he led 30,000 troops to surrender, and was named Meng'an by Wanyan Agu, this time he followed Wanyan Xian to conquer the Song Dynasty, when Wanyan Xian also angrily killed Yanshan Han Army Captain Yelumu, and appointed him as the new Wanfu, followed Wanyan Chang to garrison Hedong Road.

Xiao Bosong is cautious and decisive, and Wan Yanchang trusts him very much.

Xiao Bosong looked at the pigeon letter, pondered for a moment and said: "The morale of the Han army on Hedong Road is low, and the morale of the army is unstable, it is estimated that this is Zhao Wenhui's fear, he is afraid of being severely punished by the deputy marshal for another failure, so he does not dare to attack the city, so he asks the deputy marshal for help." ”

"Humph!" Wan Yanchang snorted heavily, and said extremely dissatisfied: "Even a group of rebellious peasants can't win, what else can they do?" ”

"Deputy marshal, please calm your anger, I heard that this rebel army has ransacked the military warehouse in Linfen County, it is estimated that they are well equipped, and there are many people, at least tens of thousands of people, General Zhao's army is indeed a little difficult to deal with them."

This sentence reminded Yan Chang, and he suddenly remembered this incident, it was indeed the rebels of Longde Mansion who took away a large amount of grain and grass materials, and he was in a hurry to attack Taiyuan at that time, and he had no time to take care of this matter.

"It seems that there are 200,000 stone of grain in Shangdang County, which is true."

"It should be true, I heard that there is a lot of grain and grass in the Linfen warehouse."

Wan Yan Chang paced back and forth, he was anxious about the forced requisition of grain recently, the peasants rebelled everywhere, the officials abandoned India and fled, and so far he has not even collected 10,000 stones, if he can find ready-made food, why should he bother so much.

"Let's send troops to Shangdang County!" Wan Yanchang finally made up his mind.

Wan Yanchang immediately led 20,000 cavalry to Shangdang County, and Xiao Bosong led 10,000 Yanshan Han troops to garrison Linfen County.

The reason why the cavalry was sent out was because Wan Yanchang was worried that Zhao Wenhui's army would not be able to support it for long, and he could rush to Shangdang County within three days with cavalry.

20,000 cavalry by 10,000 Jurchen soldiers and 10,000 Bohai soldiers, they are very skilled in horsemanship, galloping on the official road, Linfen County is located in a basin, surrounded by mountains, Pingchuan in the middle, walk about 100 miles to the east and enter the Taiyue Mountains.

The army had to walk for at least one day in the Taiyue Mountains, and after leaving the Taiyue Mountains, they entered the boundary of Longde Province, which is also a basin, with the Taiyue Mountains in the west and the towering Taihang Mountains in the east, and Shangdang County is sandwiched between these two large mountain ranges.

That night, 20,000 cavalry camped in a pine forest at the foot of Panxiu Mountain, and the soldiers were really tired after a long day's march, so they fed the horses, wrapped the blankets around their bodies, and fell asleep.

Wan Yanchang couldn't sleep, he got up and took a dozen personal soldiers to patrol around, and there were constantly patrol soldiers on the periphery bowing to him.

"Is there anything unusual?" Wan Yanchang asked.

"Deputy Marshal Qiyu, the surroundings are very quiet, and there are no accidents."

Wan Yanchang was a little uneasy in his heart, it stands to reason that there should be a situation happening, at least there should be a fierce beast passing by quietly, how can there be no situation at all?

Wan Yanchang looked around again, there were dark mountains on both sides, only the outline of a huge black shadow was left in the dark night, they had actually been walking through the Taiyue Grand Canyon since the afternoon, and they had to walk more than thirty miles to get out of the Taiyue Grand Canyon.

The place where they are currently located is the widest place in the canyon, as wide as more than ten miles, the canyon is densely wooded, a shallow stream runs through the valley, there are steep mountains on both sides, the big mountain on the left is called Panxiu Mountain, a radius of 100 miles, the scenery of the east foot is extremely beautiful, and the south foot is a rock cliff.

Wan Yanchang was really not at ease, and sent another hundred patrolmen to patrol the periphery, and then he returned to the pine forest to rest.

At the first watch, a black army appeared about 20 miles west of the Jin soldiers' camp, led by none other than Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing ordered Liu Jian to continue to guard Taiyuan, and he himself led 30,000 troops to secretly leave Taiyuan and go all the way south into Jinzhou.

At the beginning, he left Liu Da's army, in fact, he wanted to use it as a bait, Jin Bing brutally encircled and suppressed the righteous army in Hebei, and almost strangled tens of thousands of righteous troops, without encountering any strong resistance, Jin Bing despised civil resistance from the bones.

Li Yanqing could take advantage of this contempt to let Liu Da's righteous army lead the Jin soldiers into the urn, especially in the Shangdang area where Liu Da's army was located, there were many mountain ranges, and the Grand Canyon could be seen everywhere, which was a favorable terrain for dealing with the Jin cavalry.

Li Yanqing's army had been ambushed in the Taiyue Mountains the day before yesterday, and he had spared the Han army on the Hedong Road who had rushed to Shangdang County to suppress Liu Dayi's army, he had no interest in this kind of rabble army, and he was patiently waiting for the arrival of the enemy's main force.

Li Yanqing's original plan was to catch two good fish, the Han army of Hedong Road and the Han army of Yanshan Mansion, but he didn't expect to catch a big fish, Wan Yanchang personally led 20,000 cavalry to attack Shangdang County, which made Li Yanqing's heart full of expectations.

At the same time when the 20,000 cavalry left Linfen County and marched eastward, Li Yanqing received information, and he quickly deployed, there were three places in the Taiyue Grand Canyon that were more suitable for cavalry camps, and Li Yanqing sent troops to deploy in these three places, but he did not expect that the Jin soldiers chose the second target Panxiu Valley to camp.

The Song army also set up a marching tent in the woods, at this time the lights in the big tent were dimly lit, Li Yanqing stood at the table and looked at the map, this is a map of the Grand Canyon drawn by the scout before, the Panxiu Valley where the Jin soldiers are stationed is a key area, and the drawing is also extraordinarily detailed, Li Yanqing stared for a moment, suddenly frowned slightly, and looked up and asked the scout standing aside, "How wide and deep is the stream over Panxiu Valley?" ”

"Qi Yu is all unified, about one zhang wide, and only ankle deep."

It looked similar to this side, and he immediately ordered: "Let General Niu Gao come to see me!" ”

After a moment, Niu Gao walked into the big tent quickly, knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists and said: "See Dutong for lowly duties!" ”

"General Niu, please get up!"

"Xie Dutong!"

Niu Gao stood up and came to the small table, Li Yanqing pointed to the west of the map and said, "You can lead 3,000 people to rush to the Gooseneck Valley and cut off the stream for me, and you must finish this matter before the third watch." ”

"Obey the order!"

Niu Gao saw that Li Yanqing had no other instructions, so he immediately said goodbye and left.

The Gooseneck Valley is located ten miles away in the west, it is a canyon through the north, Li Yanqing led the army to go south along this canyon, the Gooseneck Valley is very narrow, the narrowest point is only ten zhang, the stream flows down from the north, flows through the Gooseneck Valley, if the stream is cut off in the Gooseneck Valley, then the stream on the side of the Panxiu Valley has no water.

At this time, at the east and west ends of Panxiu Valley, there are hundreds of Song soldiers who are smearing fire oil in the woods, although Panxiu Valley is more than ten miles wide, but there are woods everywhere, once a fire breaks out, there is nowhere to escape, only to the east or to the west to break through, to the east there are 10,000 troops led by Wang Gui waiting outside the valley mouth, to the west there are Li Yanqing's army waiting 20 miles away, in fact, 20,000 Jin cavalry has been surrounded by the Song army in the Panxiu Valley.

Time gradually passed two watches, the marching tent had been removed, Li Yanqing rode on a war horse and looked at the west, at this time, a soldier rushed to report, "Qi Yu is unified, the stream has been cut off!" ”

"Sure enough!"

Li Yanqing secretly praised, and then ordered: "You can light a fire!" ”

Three rockets took off into the air, this was the signal for ignition, and the Song army, which was about five miles away from the enemy, immediately began to ignite, and they ran with torches, igniting hundreds of fire points.

At this time, the patrol soldiers in the pine forest also discovered the abnormality, the stream was cut off, and the patrol soldiers panicked and rushed to report to Wan Yan Chang.

"What! Broken streams? ”

Wan Yanchang was stunned for a while, what is the reason for this? He sobered up a little, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, and immediately stood up and ordered in a loud voice: "Pass my order, and all the soldiers will get on their horses at once!" ”

At this time, a patrol came back and shouted: "There is a fire, a fire is burning in the east!" ”

Because the wind in the valley was strong, and it was blowing easterly, the smoke from the east blew into the camp of the golden soldiers, and the thick smoke in the woods was filled, and the 20,000 cavalry were choked in their sleep, and the soldiers were so frightened that they turned on their horses one after another, and they couldn't even take care of the blankets that wrapped their bodies, and the horses also felt the danger, and raised their hooves and neighed.

"Vice Marshal, what now?" A millennarian shouted.

"Let's get out of the pine forest and go south!"

Wan Yanchang took the lead in urging the horse to run to the south, 20,000 cavalry turned their horses to follow, the army was running from the forest, the sky turned red, and there was a terrible crackling sound in the distant woods, which was the sound of the big trees burning, which was terrifying.

The Panxiu Valley was more than ten miles wide, and the Jin soldiers were originally camped in the northernmost pine forest, and they fled to the southernmost to find a way out, but the woods in both the south and north were ignited by the fire, and there was no way out at all.

Beads of sweat rolled down Yan Chang's forehead, he had already realized that he had made a big mistake, and he should have broken through when the fire had just started, it was a little late now, but they had no way out except to break through.

Wan Yan Chang gritted his teeth and said to Wan Yan Teli, the commander of Wanfu: "We will break through separately, you lead 10,000 cavalry to break through to the east, and I will lead another 10,000 cavalry to break through to the west, if the breakthrough is successful, we will turn to Luoyang and loot supplies along the way!" ”

"Obey!"

Wan Yan Teli shouted, "The second army followed me to break through to the east!" ”

He took the lead, and the 10,000 Bohai cavalry of the Second Army urged their horses to follow him.

The 20,000 cavalry of the Jin soldiers were divided into two roads, all the way to the east and all the way to the west.

Whether you can break through successfully or not depends on this move.