Fu Yanqing, the marshal of Tianxiong, will ride 20,000 soldiers under the city of Taiyuan, Liu Chong only repairs the city, sticks to the city defense, drills the soldiers, and never dares to fight easily. Of course, he was waiting for news www.biquge.info from the Datong Mansion in Xijing, Liao.

After Yang Gon returned from Gao Ping with his troops to the north, he led the main force back to Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, that is, north of Yanshan. But he himself still led 5,000 elite cavalry from his headquarters to temporarily stationed in Datong Mansion in Yunzhong to observe the situation in Hedong. Sure enough, not long after, Liu Chong sent envoys to ask for help, but Fu Yanqing had not yet arrived in Taiyuan at that time, and Yang Gon only sent someone to return to Shangjing, and was not in a hurry.

But then the situation was not good, as soon as Fu Yanqing arrived in Taiyuan, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the prefectures and counties under the rule of the Northern Han Dynasty surrendered one after another, and the military report was transmitted to Datong Mansion like snowflakes, and Yang Gon couldn't sit still.

If Liu Chong perishes, the fat sheep in Taiyuan will have no wool to cut, where will he go to the grass valley in the future? And the Liao State will face the Great Zhou, which will cause a lot of unnecessary wars. On the contrary, there are many benefits to keeping Liu Chong and letting him continue to use his residual heat to contain the Great Zhou and prevent the Central Plains from completing the unification.

Based on this consideration, Yang Gon sent his subordinates to lead Yang Yungu to lead a thousand elite cavalry to go south from Yanmen Pass, but the Liao army went south to plunder all the year round, and Zheng Chuqian was very disgusted with the Liao army and resolutely disagreed. Yang Yungu had no choice but to go south to Xinzhou via Shuozhou Loufuguan to stay temporarily in Xinzhou to wait for backup.

Yang Gon still has a bit of a general's demeanor, but Yang Yungu is about 20 years old, but he is fierce and cruel, after arriving in Xinzhou, because the amount of food transferred by Zhao Gao, the state assassin Shi Zhao Gao is slightly insufficient, Yang Yungu is furious, whipping the state officials and not relieved, and the arsonists loot on the outskirts of the city. As a result, he made an accident with this robbery, and the Liao soldiers looted and killed the people indiscriminately, and killed several families of the state soldiers.

The soldiers found Li Qing, the supervisor of Xinzhou, complained bitterly, Li Qing was quite arrogant, and he didn't dare to offend the Liao army, but now that the Zhou army has arrived in Taiyuan, the prefectures and counties under the rule of the Northern Han Dynasty have all descended to the Great Zhou, and Li Jingli's heart has begun to move.

Early in the morning, Yang Yungu took more than 100 cavalry soldiers to enter the city from the eastern suburbs to urge grain and grass.

When Yang Yungu urged him to get grain and grass and led his own soldiers to drive several carts through the east city gate, Li Qing gave an order and led two angry state soldiers to pounce out, surrounded Yang Yungu and his personal soldiers, and hacked them to death at the city gate. After that, Li Qing ordered the city gate to be closed, and led his troops to the state office, killed Zhao Gao, the assassin of Xinzhou, and quickly reported to Fu Yanqing under the city of Taiyuan, and surrendered.

For such a good thing, of course, Fu Yanqing applauded, although he did not approve of Li Qing's behavior in his heart, but he was still happy to accept it at this time, and at the same time he was still a little worried that the Liao army was going south again, so he sent a fast horse to Guo Rong.

On the third day of the fifth month, Guo Rong led his troops to the city of Jinyang, and the next day he inspected the armies and encouraged the soldiers to fight bravely. In order to stabilize Xinzhou, the northern gateway of Taiyuan, he issued an edict: Li Qing was awarded the history of Xinzhou Assassin, and the state soldiers to which he belonged were Jingsai Army, led by Li Qing.

As soon as Xinzhou surrendered, Zheng Chuqian, the defense history of Daizhou, also followed the trend and immediately surrendered the city. Guo Rong received the report of great joy, and issued an edict to promote Daizhou to the festival town, with the Xinzhou Jingsai Army as the amount, and Zheng Chuqian as the festival envoy.

In this way, the prefectures and counties under the rule of the Northern Han Dynasty fell to the Great Zhou, and Liu Chong sat in a lonely city.

Jinyang, the capital city of Taiyuan, has always been an important town in the state, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan raised troops here, once set up as the northern capital, since the Tang Dynasty has repeatedly experienced wars, but also repeatedly repaired. The city is nearly ten miles long from east to west, eight miles from north to south, the wall is more than three zhang high, and the area is more than a quarter of Tang Chang'an City. Fenshui passes through the city from north to south, and the west, north and east sides lead Fenshui as a moat, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Now, Liu Chong is in Mengshan, Longshan, and Hanging Urn Mountain in the west of the city, Sanjiaokou in the north of the city, and Killing Bear Ridge in the east of the city. Fu Yanqing stationed troops in the southeast of the city, at the Dongwu post at the intersection of Fenshui and the moat, and sent troops to various military villages around Jinyang to persuade them to surrender, but they were all refused.

At the end of April, Yao Yuanfu led 7,000 cavalry to Jinyang, and Fu Yanqing camped across Fenshui in the east and west.

However, at this time, Yang Gon of Datong Mansion received 3,000 elite cavalry led by Yelu Tart Lie to help, and the combined army of 7,000 cavalry went south, and met 1,000 cavalry of Yang Yungu's subordinates who returned north to Daizhou, leaving 500 cavalry to garrison the back road of Laoxian County, and continued to reach Tanglin County, Xinzhou, that is, the dangerous place of Yikou, and camped on the bank of the Hutuo River thirty miles to the north.

Li Qing, the new assassin of Yizhou, got a report, and on the one hand, he transferred a command to reinforce Yikou in Tanglin County, and on the other hand, he sent a fast cavalry to report to Taiyuan. Guo Rong was shocked when he received the report and summoned the generals to discuss the military situation.

When Zhang Yue received the notice, he was organizing soldiers to build siege ladders, battering rams and other light siege equipment, it is said that Taiyuan and other fortified cities, there are no heavy trebuchets, ladders and other equipment, it is difficult to capture it, asked Xiang Xun and others, said that there is no trebuchet, not even the forbidden army, can not help but be disappointed.

When he arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army, Guo Rong showed the military report, and the faces of the generals were not very good-looking, and their hearts were heavy. The military newspaper only said that the Liao army had reached the north of Xinzhou, but did not say how many troops there were.

"Your Majesty has led a large army to Jinyang, and you must send troops north as soon as possible to guard against the Liao army, so that Your Majesty can attack the city with all your might." Fu Yanqing spoke first to make up the report, and Guo Rong nodded in approval.

"What about the Liao army, Xinzhou is in danger, Shi is the vanguard commander, and he is willing to lead the troops there." The other generals were silent, and Shi Yanchao volunteered, looking eager to try.

"Very good! The strength of the Liao army is not clear for the time being, and General Shi can lead the 2,000 cavalry of his headquarters as the vanguard, and follow the main force to Xinzhou to understand the enemy's situation before making a decision. Guo Rong smiled confidently, and was unwilling to shake the enthusiasm of the brave general.

When Zhang Yue heard this, he wanted to go north to intercept the Liao army, and he immediately longed for it, because staying here meant fighting a tough battle, Jinyang was so strong, and there were no heavy equipment such as trebuchets, and climbing the wall with siege ladders was equivalent to death, which was too dangerous.

In the previous battle in Gaoping, the Ma army almost lost a battalion, Zhang Yue's heart was like a drop of blood, but fortunately, the Northern Han army was replenished, and the Ma army basically recovered its combat strength. If he participated in the attack on Jinyang City again, his eight battalions would be abolished, and he couldn't bear it. On the contrary, it may be much safer to go north to Xinzhou.

"Your Majesty! Xinzhou is very important, there is no room for loss, Zhang is also willing to accompany him, and he will meet the Liao general Yang Gon in the north. Zhang Yue stood up and clenched his fists, and said in a sonorous voice.

Fu Yanqing, who was sitting at the top, frowned when he heard this, and was secretly annoyed in his heart: What an eyeless boy, the old man saw that you were my nephew-in-law, and he didn't recommend you to fight, but you took the initiative to ask for help.

"In the past few days, General Zhang's brave name has been resounding all over the army, if you can go together more certainly, it will be the best!" Shi Yanchao immediately agreed.

Fu Yanqing opened his mouth, he was very annoyed, the young man was impulsive, he couldn't stand the praise of others, and he couldn't change his mouth now. Sure enough, Guo Rong, who was sitting behind the handsome case, turned grim, nodded very happily: "Very good!" You go back and get ready, and set off early tomorrow morning for the north. (To be continued.) )