Dong Zunzhi saw that he was in a hurry, and he also jumped into the car and followed him out, seeing that Xiao Ximo was just blocked by Le Pingyang holding a horse chopping knife, Dong Zunzhi saw that Xiao Ximo wanted to walk away and couldn't get rid of his exposed back, and the big iron gun in his hand was thrown out violently, penetrating Xiao Ximo's entire body at once, and the gun head that leaked in front of him almost connected Le Pingyang. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Le Pingyang exclaimed, took a step back, and then waved an oblique sword with both hands, from Xiao Ximo's left shoulder to his right armpit, and a column of blood spurted out two feet high.

"Has anyone been saved?" Dong Zunzhi didn't have the heart to investigate, stepped forward and stepped on the corpse, pulled out a spear, and looked around, and the Liao cavalry guarding the convoy saw that Xiao Ximo was killed, and they were immediately panicked, turned their horses' heads and ran.

"Zhuang Shao has grabbed someone, look over there......" Le Pingyang stretched out his hand and replied.

Dong Zunzhi turned his head to look, two or three hundred steps away, dozens of horses ran into the distance, and a woman was carrying a woman on an empty horse, her long black hair falling down and fluttering in the wind. And in front of them fleeing, suddenly hundreds of horsemen rushed from the west, apparently responding, and in the distance there were foot soldiers stretched out in a long line, gradually tightening the encirclement towards the north gate of the manor.

Dong Zunzhi was ecstatic, ran away with an iron gun, caught up with a Liao army to snatch the war horse, stepped on it and chased after him, shouting loudly regardless of it: "Mother! Mother! The baby is coming to pick you up! ”

Zhuang Shao's guards ran away and some of them still had seventy or eighty horsemen left, and they stopped after getting rid of the Liao army, and the Qianning army that outflanked and came up from the reeds on the river bank was mostly infantry, and the horse army was only 1,000.

Dong Zunzhi hurriedly chased after him, got off the horse and picked up the woman on horseback and put down the horse, brushed up the hair that covered his face and saw that it was his mother Gao Shi day and night, and suddenly the mother and son hugged each other and lost their voices and became painful.

"Hey...... Be careful! Zhuang Shao was moved for a while, reminded him to pay attention to the chaotic soldiers, turned around and led the team to turn around and kill the remnants of the Liao army who fled in all directions.

Under Zhang Yue's ingenious arrangement, there was no suspense in this small-scale battle of rescue, more than 1,000 cavalry of the Liao army were wiped out without escaping, and 5,000 soldiers of the Qianning army simply cleaned up the battlefield and reassembled outside the manor.

At this time, Le Pingyang found a wooden box out of nowhere and held it in his arms, walked over slowly and opened it in public, took out a scroll and read it out: "There is now a commander of the forbidden army's guards and commanders, Dong Zunzhi's filial piety is commendable, he is good at riding and shooting, and he is brave in battle.

Pang Congduo, the commander of the soldiers and horses of the Qianning army, commanded the forwards to command, led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters as the main force, and immediately attacked Mozhou; Cangzhou Yishi Zhuang Shao is quite knowledgeable about righteousness and etiquette, has both ability and political integrity, and is the commander of the Henghai Jiedu Ya Army, and gives the forward soldiers and horses to be superintendents, and leads the troops to fight with the front army. ”

The three of them were overjoyed to accept the appointment, which was a military order document stamped with the seals of the Privy Council and the Ministry of War in advance, and Zhang Yue only needed to fill in the content and seal it, which was also authoritative in wartime.

At that moment, a few people discussed a little, Yile Pingyang, Lu Zheng took Dong Zunzhi's mother Gao to stay in the manor temporarily, Pang Congduo, Dong Zunzhi, Zhuang Shao led more than 5,000 Qianning troops to take advantage of the weakness to attack Dacheng County, Zhuang Shao went to contact the county order to open the city gate, and the soldiers captured the city without blood, and rested here that night.

Early the next morning, Le Pingyang sent someone to bring a military newspaper and sent Dong Zunzhi's mother back to Cangzhou, and led his retinue into Dacheng County in order to maintain military intelligence contact with the main force of Zhang Yue's department.

And the day before, on the third day of the fifth lunar month of Xiande, that is, on the morning of Xiao Ximo's consecration, the fork of the Yellow River outside Qianning Town in the north of Cangzhou is also the Cangzhou Canal Wharf.

"Let's go!" Zhang Yue shouted, there was no grandiose words, and there were no encouraging words that made the soldiers listen to the blood boiling, and the reason for this battle was even a little hidden, nominally to lead the water division to inspect the river defense.

The reason for this is that although there was an element of surprise in the early stage of the war, it was more for the sake of the morale of the military. Because since the five dynasties of the Liao army lost more than victory, the Liao army every year to the south to fight the grass valley, on the one hand, the purpose is to suppress the self-confidence of the Central Plains Zhou army, if the northern expedition is publicly declared, it will undoubtedly make the soldiers panic, but the generals and middle and senior officers have been notified, and the mobilization order is only at the upper level.

The departure time was early, and in the evening of the same day, I went to the intersection of Yishui and the canal in the north of Duliukou, and went directly to the Liaojing on the north bank to land and camp and rest. The next day, an order was issued to the Qianfu army in Duliu Village, Xiaonan River Village, Shuanggang Village, and Nigu River Village in Cangzhou on the south bank of the Juma River to the sea mouth to be on high alert; On the one hand, he sent people north to Ningzhou to persuade him to surrender.

Ningzhou originally belonged to Mo, win two states each part, after the invasion of the Liao State changed the jurisdiction, the south bank of the Juma River Yijin Pass, Sikou Pass around the relevant important places set up as Ningzhou, the current state thorn history is a local wealthy Han general, named Wang Hong, sandwiched for the Zhou, Liao border of the Hao clan many rats at both ends of the play riding wall, according to the general said that this person is no exception, in previous years also let the exiles flee south, the reputation is not bad, so Zhang Yue sent a tooth army commander to persuade the surrender.

Things went unusually smoothly, there was a reply after three days, Zhang Yue was overjoyed, and led his troops to advance from the land route to the Sikou Pass to receive the defense, and sent Wang Hong to Yijin Pass to persuade him to surrender, but the guard general Zhong Yanhui is a native of Bohai in Liaodong, seeing that Zhang Yue led not many troops hesitated in his heart, and prevaricated that he did not reply for a long time, but he did not refuse.

Zhang Yue was not in a hurry, and led his troops to strengthen the city defense of Sikou Pass, and at the same time ordered Gongsun Qi, who stayed in the town, to transfer grain to the Duliukou military village to gather in the military village, and at the same time requisitioned the people to dredge the canal, and inquired about the advance of Yuan Yan's department on the west road and Xue Wenqian's department on the middle road. As long as these two soldiers are fast and take Waqiao Pass with a little force, then Yijin Pass is also within reach.

Because the three places are far apart, it is very difficult to coordinate, on the same day, Xue Wenqian led 10,000 troops from Wuqiang County to cross the river and go straight to the river, passing through Le Shou, the capital supervisor Wang Yanjun was contemptuous, Xue Wenqian ordered him to support the grain and grass and even made disrespectful words, as a result, when the army passed through the city, the Northwest Army was different in terms of equipment and soldier quality, marching and combat discipline, strict and orderly, Wang Yanjun immediately knelt on the ground to plead guilty, led the troops to help transport grain, and went to the city to persuade him to surrender when he arrived at the river, but was refused.

Hejian is different from other places, here is not only an important town south of Hebei Sanguan, but also a rich land since ancient times, the Liao State also attaches great importance to here, so the history of the Winning Zhou Thorn, and the Hejian Tizhi Shulu Anra is a Xi nobleman, belongs to the descendants of the Liao State, has a very high status, plus there are nearly 10,000 soldiers, relying on the high wall and thick city, it is naturally impossible to lead the city to surrender.

A tough battle was inevitable, Xue Wenqian and Ming Jinpeng jointly notified Zhang Yue and Yuan Yan, and set up a large camp in the south of Hejian City near the canal, and divided troops to capture the Suning Army and Boye County on three sides of the southern part of the state, so as to open up with Yuan Yan's West Route Army, and capture the Yongning Army and Jingcheng County in the east. These are the junction of Chengde Town and Henghai Town, and most of them are garrisoned by Han generals, and they are raided with cavalry quickly and quickly, and they are taken with almost no effort.