On the tenth day of October, Li Yiyin sent Li Guangrui to lead a total of 20,000 elite and town soldiers of the Li family's headquarters, and carried some siege equipment to enter Wuyuan in Yanzhou, preparing to attack Lingzhou first. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And Li Yiyin recruited 20,000 young men from the eight departments of the party and stationed them in Changze County, Xia Prefecture, so as to wait for the Liao army to go south to join the division after capturing the Yong'an military territory.

At this time, Yelu Huge of the Liao State in the north had gathered 30,000 cavalry to cross the Yellow River, and sent 5,000 men to arrive first to launch a fierce attack on Shengzhou City. Shengzhou is just a small city, built in the 20th year of Kaihuang of Sui, to the Tang Dynasty still placed Shengzhou, leading Yulin, Hebin two counties, Li Shimin had taken the military fort on the other side of the Yellow River as the east to accept the city, and then expanded to place the Zhenwu army, which is now the Liao army.

Stationed in the state of Yulin is the uncle of Zhe Deran, named Zhi Congpu, the leader of the state assassin history and defense envoy, because there are not many residents in the city, but more than 10,000 people, are the family members of the Zhi clan, there are only four commands of 2,000 soldiers, and there is a commander stationed in the southeast of Hebin County, barely able to patrol the river defense.

Because the Liao army crossed the river from Yunneizhou, the city of Zhongcheng, and then marched eastward along the south bank of the Yellow River, and only got the news when it reached 30 miles west of the state city, it left a commander to defend the city after receiving the report from Pu, so as to delay the speed of the Liao army going south, and then urgently led the army and civilians out of the city and evacuated to Hebin County.

However, the Liao army soon discovered them, sent a team of 1,000 horses in hot pursuit, and after the defeat of the troops led by Pu himself, and fought and retreated, and when they arrived in Hebin County in the evening of the same day, they soon got the news that Yulin had fallen.

The next day, Zhe Congpu led the army and civilians to continue to retreat south, because Hebin County was still more than 200 miles away from Fuzhou Valley, and there were barren and populated hills on the way, and there was no supply if it was garrisoned, and the Liao army had too many troops, and only by retreating to the Hequ Pass at the confluence of the Yellow River and the Old Great Wall 80 miles north of Fuzhou, and the Fugu could be defended by backing to the Valley.

He rushed to Hequ Pass with his front foot, and the Liao army commander Yelu Xiuge then led the main force to catch up and attack Hequ Pass, but at this time, Zhe Deyan also heard the news and rushed to Hequ Pass to set up defenses, and sent someone to inform Linzhou Yang Chongxun to lead troops to come to support.

The reason why the two states of Lin and Fu can stand undefeated under the eyes of the enemy is that the heads of the two families of the past dynasties and Yang are good at dancing with long sleeves and often maneuvering between all sides, and more importantly, the two states are relying on the old Great Wall and the Yellow River and the Guye River, which are three natural defense lines, and they are shrinking in this area of four or five hundred miles from north to south and seven or eight hundred miles from east to west.

Of course, the Liao State knew this geographical situation, and Yelu Xiuge was also a well-known brave general of the younger generation of the Liao State, seeing that Zhe Delan personally guarded the Hequ Pass, he left 10,000 infantry to continue the attack, and maintained the grain route to transport cattle and sheep for supplies, and led the main force of 20,000 horsemen to the south, and captured Liangu County under the rule of Linzhou on the bank of the Guye River in the west of the Great Wall, and then sent people to persuade him to surrender.

The army pressed the border, Zhe De was also facing great pressure, the Yong'an army and the Yang family had a total of less than 10,000 soldiers, the defense was insufficient, of course, there was no ability to counterattack, received a letter of surrender from Yelu Huge, so he had to reply vaguely, his attitude was warm and he did not dare to be tough, neither clearly accepted the persuasion, but also did not refuse.

Yelu Hugo went south this time, mainly to help Li Yiyin capture Shuofang, but also had his own purpose, after taking Liangu County, the attack on Linzhou Shenmu Pass for many days to no avail, at this time Yinzhou guard Fei Tingci sent someone to respond, Yelu Hugo went south along the Great Wall, rushed to Xiazhou and Li Yiyin to join the division.

On October 20, Yelu Hugo led 30,000 cavalry to Changze, Li Yiyin had been stationed here for a long time, and had already prepared grain and grass, but the four prefectures of Xia Sui were too poor, and the grain and grass were not very sufficient. At the moment, the Liao army was stationed in the camp, and a banquet was held in the big tent of the Chinese army to receive the wind for more than a dozen Liao army generals such as Yelu Xiuge.

"I have heard for a long time that Xia Sui Sizhou is a remote and bitter cold place, but now it is not the case, there are not only grassland rivers near Xiazhou, but also towering mountains and dense forests, on both sides of the Hongliu River in the west, the water and grass are also very fat!" It was the first time for Yelu Hugh to come to Xiazhou, and he couldn't help but say with some emotion.

Li Yiyin smiled when he heard this, looked carefully, and saw that Yelu Xiuge was probably less than thirty years old, with a tall figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a light beard under his chin, but it was a pity that his hair was very weird and bald, completely destroying his heroic face, looking rough and wild. And his subordinate deputy general, Yelu Xuan, still wears an iron helmet with rolled eaves and trimming, which looks much better.

However, Li Yiyin himself is wearing the armor of the Zhou army, and the helmet is also the kind of fur curl that is common to the Hu people, but it has a high spire with the characteristics of the party people, and then looks at the generals under his command on the right, most of them are like this, and most of the clothes are gray, which is still very different from the clothing of the Liao people.

"Even so, the region is narrow, and there are many saline-alkali sands, so I dare not compare with Da Liao!" Li Yiyin replied with a humble smile.

"That's it! The two states of Lin and Fu are also mostly mountain valleys, so I don't know how Lingzhou is? Brother Yelu Xiu asked with a smile, but he led the topic to Lingzhou, he intended to do so, and wanted the headquarters of 30,000 horsemen to go south, which was a great help to Li Yiyin, but he only had the nominal land of Lin and Fu, and there was not much actual benefit, and Brother Yelu Xiu was not reconciled.

Since Li Yiyin refused to accept the canonization of Da Liao, he obviously did not really surrender to Da Liao, so he should not easily retreat after taking Shuo Fang, 30,000 soldiers are here, even if they eat and drag, they can drag down the Li family, and when the Zhou army fights over, they will force Li Yiyin step by step.

"Lingzhou is much better than the four states of Xiasui, not only has green salt and white salt, but also has patches of pastures on both sides of Anle River. Now that our army will be divided, we should march as soon as possible and take Lingzhou as soon as possible, and the Great Zhou court will be helpless. ”

Li Yiyin also understood that Brother Yelu Xiu wanted to inquire about the situation on the front line, so he said: "The nephew Guangyan also seized Yanzhou, and 20,000 dogs were stationed in Wuyuan. However, there are 30,000 soldiers on the front line of our department, plus 50,000 for you and me, we have an absolute advantage. ”

"Since the Zhou army has been deployed, then we should take advantage of the fact that its reinforcements have not arrived and hurry up to send troops, but there is a word in advance, our army will attack Lingzhou as the main force, cover the matter of the Zhou army in the south, and the king of Xiping will send troops himself." Jeruxiu said unquestionably.

"I'm afraid that's not appropriate, right?" Li Yiyin's face sank, and his heart was slightly unhappy, Xia Sui's army actually only had 30,000 soldiers, and now the 20,000 cavalry on hand was not well equipped, and the combat power was much inferior, and the field battle with the Zhou army was definitely not good, Yelu Xiuge led troops to help, but he wanted the whole army to attack Lingzhou, what did he want to do? Who is the main general and who is the enlistment? But if you ask someone, it's not easy to question, so she sneered: "Only if Lingzhou is won can we talk about who it is, it's too early to say this." ”

"That's good! Tomorrow, I will rush to Wuyuan, first break Wang Jing, and then take Lingzhou City! Yelu Xiuge waved his hand very arrogantly, spoke and acted as a master, and did not take Li Yiyin very seriously. (To be continued.) )