At the same time when the Song army should join forces with the outside to seize Luojiao County, the 20,000 Song troops in Fushi County also launched a fire attack on the Jin soldier camp three miles away under the cover of wind and snow, and the fire quickly swept the entire camp with the help of the wind, and the frightened war horses rushed out of the military camp and fled in all directions, and the 8,000 Jin soldiers were either burned to death by the fire or killed by the Song army lying in ambush around, and finally no survivors survived.

Two days later, Li Yanqing led 20,000 troops to arrive in Fushi County, and joined the armies of Wu Jie and Liu Kuo. ”

"What happened to the enemy camp?"

"Qi Yu is in charge, the enemy's camp has been destroyed by fire, 5,000 gold soldiers have been completely annihilated, and nearly 8,000 war horses have been captured!"

"How can there be three thousand more horses?" Li Yanqing asked with a puzzled smile.

"Half of them are war horses, half of them are pack horses, the other party's war horses are raised in the northwest corner, far away from the camp, after our brothers pulled across the camp fence, most of the war horses ran out in time and were not affected by the fire."

"This harvest is good, eight thousand war horses, the number of cavalry and the number of scouts will be greatly increased, this time you will be credited."

Wu Jie and Liu Jian were overjoyed, "Thank you for the compliment!" ”

At this time, Liu Jian asked again: "May I ask Dutong, how is the situation of the Jin soldiers going south?" ”

"The 10,000 Han troops entrenched in Luojiao County have been completely annihilated, and the main army of Wanyan Lou is trapped on the Luoshui Road, and the road is closed by heavy snow, just waiting for spring to collect their corpses."

"What if they break out?" Wu Jie said a little worriedly.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "I have already taken this into consideration, I left three thousand troops stationed at the entrance of Luojiaodao, and three thousand troops were also left in Fangzhou to defend, even if they come out, they are still a group of ghosts, but I believe that my judgment will not be wrong, they can't get out." ”

"Dutong, then what are we going to ......do next," Liu Jian and Wu Jie asked expectantly.

Li Yanqing smiled, "I wrote a letter to the official family, promising to use the situation in Shaanxi to contain the Jin soldiers on the central and eastern fronts, since I have promised, we have to do it, what do you think is the most advantageous way to contain the Jin soldiers?" ”

"Attack Taiyuan!" Wu Jie blurted out.

Li Yanqing nodded, "That's right, half of the 100,000 gold troops on Hedong Road went to Luoyang, and half entered Shaanxi Road, and now Hedong Road is waiting for us, why don't we do it?" ”

Liu Jian also said excitedly: "If you can attack Taiyuan, you will be able to shock the world and defeat the southward strategy of the Jin soldiers, this is a wonderful move to boost the morale of the Great Song Army. ”

Li Yanqing glanced at everyone and said: "We can't rush the attack like the Jin soldiers, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and at the same time, we can't let the Jin soldiers cut off the back road of our Yan'an Mansion, we must set off after we are ready, don't rush at this time!" ”

Wang Gui next to him hurriedly said: "Although you need to prepare sufficiently, but the soldiers are fast, and I am afraid that the Jin soldiers will be in trouble if they react, so it is better to lead 5,000 troops first, and finally be able to directly capture Taiyuan City, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”

Li Yanqing thought about it, Wang Gui's suggestion was also reasonable, although Hedong was empty, but the Jin soldiers still had 30,000 cavalry in Datong Mansion, if the 30,000 cavalry quickly went south, they would really seize Taiyuan in front of the Song army, and he had to guard against it.

"Since General Wang took the initiative to ask for help, then I will give you 10,000 troops, 5,000 infantry cavalry troops each, bring five days of dry food, and take Taiyuan for me!"

Wang Gui was overjoyed, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "The humble post will never live up to the expectations of the capital, and you will definitely take Taiyuan!" ”

Liu Jian and Wu Jie next to him were very remorseful, they knew that they would just speak first, it seems that they have to be thick-skinned.

Wang Gui and Cao Meng immediately led 10,000 cavalry to leave Fushi County and marched towards the east of the river first........

Li Yanqing received an urgent eagle letter from Taiyuan five days ago, Taiyuan only has 5,000 defenders, and there are no garrisons around Taiyuan Mansion, it is this eagle letter that changed Li Yanqing's strategy, he had to lure the Jin soldiers into the urn at the expense of the people of Luojiao County, and finally trapped the 50,000 Jin troops on Hedong Road to death on Shaanxi Road, so that Li Yanqing could free up his hands and attack Taiyuan and Hedong Road with all his might, and contain the main force of Jin soldiers who were attacking the Song Dynasty in a big way with the strategy of encircling Wei and saving Zhao.

Wan Yan Xie was also worried that the Western Army would come to the east, so the strategy he formulated was to seize Luoyang and set up Hangu Pass, so that the Western Army could not kill the Central Plains, but Wan Yan Xie never thought that Wan Yan Lou's army would fall into Luoshuidao, so that the empty Taiyuan Mansion was unsuspecting in front of Li Yanqing.

The main general of the Jin soldiers of Taiyuan City is called Wanyan Hulu, about fifty years old, is a commander of a thousand masters, he is the half-brother of Wanyan Lou Room, this time the Jin soldiers went to attack Luoyang Mansion and Yan'an Mansion with the army of Hedong Road, making Taiyuan City empty, and there are only 1,000 Jurchen soldiers and 4,000 surrendered Han troops.

Wanyan Xianye and Wanyan Lou never thought that the Song army could counterattack Hedong Road at this time, otherwise the Taiyuan garrison would not be so small.

At night, Wanyan Hulu patrolled around the city as usual, and then slipped back to the mansion to drink, Wanyan Hulu was addicted to alcohol, which was his biggest weakness, for this weakness, Jin Taizu Wanyan Agu beat him more than once and reprimanded him fiercely, but Wanyan Hulu has always been difficult to change the problem of alcoholism, which has also led to him not being able to be reused, his brother Wanyan Lou has made great achievements, and has become a famous general of the Jin State, serving as the deputy marshal of the Song Dynasty, and the head of the East Road of the Jin Kingdom, in contrast, Wanyan Hulu is only a small commander.

After coming to the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Hulu was obsessed with the good wine of the Song Dynasty, so that he was intoxicated with wine all day long and couldn't extricate himself, and Wanyan Lou couldn't persuade his brother, so this time the Hedong Jin soldiers did not take Yan Hulu to the west and south, so they were afraid that he would be greedy for a cup and miss the major events in the army, but left him in Taiyuan.

In addition to Wanyan Hulu in Taiyuan City, there is also a famous Han army deputy general called Yang Ke, he was originally Yao Gu's general, as the general of Jingcheng Pass, after the loss of Taiyuan, Yang Ke led 4,000 defenders to surrender to the Jin State, was appointed as the Han army Mouke, led 4,000 Han troops to assist Wanyan Hulu to maintain order in Taiyuan City.

Taiyuan City has also experienced heavy snow hitting the city, compared to the blizzard in northern Shaanxi, the heavy snow in Taiyuan City is slightly gentle, and the deepest part of the snow is only the calf of the person, but the cold weather makes it easy for people to get tired, the soldiers are early to hide back in the barracks to rest, few people are willing to patrol the cold streets, Yang Ke sympathized with the soldiers, reduced the patrol by half, and reduced the ten patrols per night to five, which is also because there are almost no pedestrians at night.

When Yang Ke came to the city, he saw groups of soldiers roasting a fire at the head of the city to keep warm, he didn't stop drinking, as long as he didn't hide to sleep, it was also allowed to warm up at the head of the city.

"But what's out of the ordinary?"

A soldier stood up and saluted, "Everything is normal, nothing suspicious?" ”

There were only 400 soldiers stationed at the head of the city, basically a hundred soldiers on each side of the wall, and the 5,000 people who remained were not to defend the city, but to maintain order, but the army sent people to garrison the head of the city out of a habit.

Yang Ke nodded and asked, "Has General Hulu been here?" ”

The soldiers all had strange smiles in their eyes, "He has been here, and he has hurried away!" ”

Yang Ke shook his head, he had never seen such a drunken general of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Lou let himself partner with him, I really don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing?

"Don't patronize the fire, or patrol and patrol, do you hear?"

"Obey the order!"

Yang Ke was just talking, he didn't want to stay in the city for long, after a little inspection, he turned around and went down to the city, the soldiers continued to chat, no one really got up to patrol, just talked, no one would take it seriously.

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At this time, a few miles away in the west city of Taiyuan, Wang Gui led the army has arrived at the destination, this time the Song army marched very fast, from Yan'an Mansion to Taiyuan Mansion is 800 miles apart, the Song army only took three days to kill Taiyuan.

The soldiers were resting in a forest, Wang Gui was looking at Taiyuan City from afar, and Cao Meng whispered on the side: "There are no defenders found on the city, so it is better to go directly to the city!" ”

Wang Gui shook his head, "If you don't see the defenders, it doesn't mean that there are no defenders, they are likely to gather together to bake the fire and drink, and it is easy to be found when you climb the city, or the earth-shaking thunder blows open the city gate!" ”

"But the bombing of the city is easy to wake up the sleeping Jin soldiers, if it is a sneak attack, maybe they will be solved in their sleep."

Wang Gui pursed his lips, "It's just a thousand Jurchen soldiers and four thousand Han troops, is it possible that our 10,000 elite army is still afraid of them?" Or is your Cao Meng's hammer head softening? ”

Cao Meng's face suddenly flushed, and he said angrily: "When have I ever been afraid of the Jin people, I don't believe that we will compete with each other, see who has killed more Jin soldiers this time?" ”

Wang Gui smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "If you win, I will give you the first credit." ”

Cao Meng was overjoyed, "Then we will make up our minds!" ”

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