Zheng Zhi, who wanted to land on the ground, set off in the middle of the night, and arrived at the city of Guiyi the next night, which belonged to Zhuozhou, the province of Nanjing, Liao, and was also the border city of the Liao-Song Dynasty, opposite to Xiongzhou across the river.

Originally, the battle of the Liao and Song dynasties that should have started in April was still in early February, and it was already launched by Zheng Zhi, but Yelu Dashi was still in Yanjing City at this time, and the army of the Liao State was still defending near Yanjing to resist Jin.

In Guiyi City, there are only more than 1,000 soldiers defending the city, and they are still transferred from the north to support, if it is peacetime, the Liao-Song border of a hundred years of peace, Guiyi City is afraid that there are not even 500 people. The Song soldiers gathered in Hejian Province, and this news was obviously known to the Liao people for a long time.

In Yanjing City, the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi was already panicked, although Jin had just broken Zhongjing, there was still a long way to go from Nanjing, and there were still strong passes in the middle, the Great Wall to carry, and the Juyong Pass. There are also hundreds of thousands of troops in various state capitals, as well as Khitan clans and nobles who are ready to fight.

Yelu Yanxi was still frightened, leaving behind the sixteen states of Yanyun, his family, and his people. With a small number of henchmen, he went west into the grassland, just hoping that the vast grassland could save his life.

This Yelu Yanxi, in history, was sympathetic to Zhao Ji, both of them were captured by the Jinren, and the two still lived in the same place, thanking each other for the grace of the Jinren Emperor and saving a small life. Prior to this, Zhao Ji, who was the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, also wanted to protect Yelu Yanxi, sent people to the grassland to find him, and promised Yelu Yanxi to go to Bianliang, and make him the prince of honor, and one person under ten thousand people. It's ridiculous.

Yelu Yanxi fled the grassland and went to Jiashan (Daqing Mountain, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia). When he left, he let his cousin Ye Luchun guard Nanjing and let Nanjing stay.

As soon as Yelu Yanxi left, Yelu Chun was already supported by Yelu Dashi and others to ascend the throne and was called the emperor of heaven.

Just when Zheng Zhi arrived at the city of Guiyi, Yelu Chun ascended the throne as the emperor, and Yelu Dashi was appointed as the envoy of the Liaoxing Army because of his meritorious support, and went south to resist the Song Dynasty!

Seven thousand iron horsemen, galloping southward. Along the way, many soldiers from the state capital were gathered, the sorrow of the country, the enemy on the back of the abdomen, the attack from the north and the south, and the anger in Yelu Dashi's heart was indescribable.

Zheng Zhi naturally knew that this Yelu Dashi was coming, but he didn't know when Yelu Dashi was coming. In history, when this Yelu Dashi escaped from the Jin army, but took away 200 horsemen, but he was able to establish Western Liao in Central Asia, swept through Central Asia and defeated 100,000 allied troops in West Asia, and the Seljuk Empire was also driven by Yelu Dashi to run all over the mountain, and the prestige was great, which can be seen in the history books of Central Asian countries.

Zheng Zhi was a little jealous of Yelu Dashi, so he was still looking at Guiyi City from afar in the middle of the night, the Juma River had passed, the army had entered the Liao State, and there was no base to defend, Zheng Zhi lacked a sense of security in his heart.

Although Zheng Zhi has been in battle for several years and has fought a lot of battles, in the face of a large-scale war, Zheng Zhi is always willing to put himself in a relatively safe situation first, and then think about how to break the enemy. This is also the tradition of the Western Army to fight, so Zheng Zhi has an obsession with the city in his heart.

Conquering Guiyi City, Zheng Zhicai felt that he was invincible, even if Yelu Dashi came and he was in the city, Yelu Dashi could only look at the city and sigh, so if he wanted to break the enemy's strategy, he would have a basis for advancing and retreating, and he didn't have to look ahead.

Therefore, Zheng Zhicai hurriedly came with cavalry, unwilling to be like history, and encountered the impact of the enemy's cavalry when he crossed the Juma River, Yang Keshi was defeated by the hands of Yelu Dashi, that is, just after crossing the Juma River, he was impacted by Yelu Dashi's seven thousand iron cavalry, Yang Keshi fought hard, with more than a dozen arrows in his body, and his boots were filled with blood, and he was still defeated, and he narrowly picked up a life.

Now Zheng Zhi is mostly recruits, only his own cavalry of the Western Army, as well as 2,000 Xiangli cavalry, and more than 4,000 Mi cavalry. In the real battle, the outcome is really unpredictable. As long as there is a defeat, it will be a rout, and these recruits will be defeated at the beginning of the battle, and they will inevitably be useless in the future.

"Go back and urge again, see where Pei Xuan is, it's already night, how the cannon hasn't been transported yet." Zheng Zhi kept sending people back to urge the cannon. On the avenue, stretching for more than ten miles, there are people and carriages, large-scale battles, and there is really no shortcut to scheduling problems.

The soldiers beat their horses and turned back to urge. Li Gang stepped forward and persuaded: "Xianggong, don't worry, Pei Zuoguan wants to be calm, he will definitely not miss a big event, even if he doesn't sleep tonight, he should transport the cannon." ”

On a winter march, the snow on the roads is trampled by the feet and hooves of people, and it is bound to be muddy and slippery. Pei Xuan was responsible for escorting such heavy objects, and the wheels fell into the mud from time to time, and dozens of people dug and pushed, and had to fill in the soil, the speed was obvious.

Zheng Zhi nodded: "Tomorrow morning, this city will inevitably be broken, this city will be in hand, and I will wait until I enter this Yanyun to gain a firm foothold." ”

Li Gang also knew the seriousness of the matter, so he only said: "Don't worry, the Liao people are all in the north, and the south of the Yannan region will definitely not have a large number of people." Our army of more than 100,000 is here, and the Liao people will not dare to attack easily. ”

Li Gang's idea was simpler, and it was only because Li Gang had never really been in battle. Wu Yongyan hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Li Xianggong should not underestimate the Liao people, when the family and country are lost, do not underestimate the Liao people's desire to die. ”

Wu Yong has seen such a tragic appearance, not to mention others, just to say that it is beneficial to people, 20,000 men, they can be consumed under the city wall, how much courage is needed. The ruin of a country and a ruined family is the same for every nation and every country, and most people will die without regard for their lives.

Zheng Zhi knew it in his heart, and only said: "Boji, these days, you should open your eyes, what the pedant said is reasonable." When you see the Liao soldiers, you should see what a battle formation is. ”

When Li Gang heard this, he was not shocked in his heart, but he was a little longing, and replied: "This time, I must see and see the battle array, and it is not in vain to go out with the army, and I can really be resourceful for the public in the future." ”

Guiyi City is not very large, and the lights are bright at night, and there are countless people shouting and shouting at the head of the city.

The shouts from the city reached outside the city, and Zheng Zhi could understand most of the voices, which were naturally Chinese, and there were Khitan sporadically.

In the past two hundred years, Yanyun of Liao, the people of Yanyun, don't seem to have much closeness to this Great Song Kingdom. When Yanyun belonged to Liao, the Song Dynasty did not exist. Even the Hou Zhou of Song's predecessor does not exist, let alone the Song who usurped the throne. This is called how much closeness Yanyun Hanmin has for Song.

For the people of Yanyun, Liao is not a beast of flood, and the Khitan people's worship of Han culture, from the emperor to the nobles, is in their bones. For the study of Han culture, it is also sparing no effort.

My cultural relics are no different from China, and I wish to live in China from generation to generation. These words were spoken by the Khitan Emperor himself.

This is also the basis for the Liao and Song dynasties to have a hundred years of peace, and the Liao people began to pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality like the Song people, which is the cornerstone of the effectiveness of the contract. The country of China, in all dynasties, has never been able to sign such a contract with the nomadic regime, and has signed a contract that can really guarantee peace on the border for a hundred years, only the Northern Song Dynasty is like this.

Instead of treating today's Liao people as aliens, it is better to treat the Liao people as Han Chinese. This is also the root of Huayi's distinction. Since ancient times, the Chinese or Han people have never been based on blood, but a unified cultural inheritance identity.

From this point of view, the country of Khitan is no different from the Han people. At this time, the Jurchens were different, but the Jin State in the later period obviously also embarked on the road of the Liao State.

This is also the charm of Chinese culture. This is also the cornerstone of the origin of the Chinese nation in later generations.

Another day, I got up early in the morning, and the drums rumbled in the barracks.

Although it is only a city garrisoned by more than 1,000 people, if there is no real way to break the city quickly, and there are not many siege equipment prepared, if you want to enter the city, you can only pile up human lives, even if there are only 1,000 people in the city, it is normal to pile more than ten times the number of human lives. This is the real siege battle.

Fortunately, Pei Xuan finally escorted Zheng Zhi's dozens of cannons to the city, and Pei Xuan, who had not slept all night, his face was purple from the cold, and the cold wind was cold all night, which was much colder than the daytime.

Zheng Zhi didn't have time to say a few words of reward, he was already sitting on the temporary platform, looking at the cavalry and foot soldiers in the column, and shouted loudly: "Order all the soldiers, after entering the city, do not loot or disturb the people!" Even the Khitans, Xi people, and the like are not allowed to be disturbed. ”

The old pawns under Zheng Zhi's command are really not strong in these matters, so Zheng Zhi specially instructed. Hundreds of soldiers were ordered, and military orders were passed on everywhere.

Yanyun will be Zheng Zhi's territory in the future, and Yanyun is mostly Hanmin, no better than Western Xia. So it is necessary to pay more attention to these things. Even if it is a Khitan people, in the future, the Khitan Kingdom will be destroyed, these people will be ordinary people under Zheng Zhi, and if they want to rule Yanyun in the future, they must do these things well.

This is also something that Tong Guan has ignored in history, Guo Yaoshi even entered Yanjing, but because of the massacre of the Khitans, he suffered from the fierce resistance of the people of the city, and finally fled.

Zheng Zhi, a modern person, is naturally more generous and tolerant of these things.

The cannon roared, the siege began, and the soldiers in the city were naturally brave in the battle to defend the city. I don't care about anything else, just defending my homeland, the whole family is in the city, and I have to defend it with my life. War has never been benevolent and moral, and the cannibalistic wars of the Han people are innumerable in history, and benevolence and virtue have never been in war.

It's just that this Guiyi City is too fragile in front of Zheng Zhi's cannons, and the cavalry can enter the city, no matter how brave the guards of the city are, they are also lacking in skills.

Michaelis and Xiangli are naturally pioneers.

Zheng Zhi didn't sit on the platform anymore, and as soon as the city gate opened, he had already gotten up and mounted his horse.

In the city of Tokyo, a major event is brewing, and for Zheng Zhi, a catastrophe is coming.