On October 23, a total of 80,000 Xia and Liao combined troops arrived in Wuyuan, followed by 30,000 cavalry led by Yelu Tige, and 20,000 troops led by Li Guangrui led by Xia Suizhen, and approached Lingzhou along the south of the Wuyuan Great Wall. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and Li Yiyin commanded 10,000 troops to sit on the back road of Wuyuan, and ordered his nephew Li Guangyan to lead the elite soldiers of the headquarters, and the newly recruited young and strong 20,000 steps to ride straight to the mouth of the camel on the border of Ling and Yan.

Luluokou is located in the hilly valley slope of the northern foot of Baiyu Mountain at the junction of the northern border of Yanjiang and Qingzhou, the terrain is complex, the location is also very dangerous, this place is about 100 miles away from the camp of Wang Yanchao of Baimachuan in the north of Qinggang Ridge, about 150 miles away from Wang Jingsuo of Wenchi County of Anle Shui, and 890 miles away from Luziguan in Yanzhou, these four places just show the trend of horns to each other.

The topography of Lutuokou is so important, of course Wang Jing knows it, and he has already sent someone to spread the word and ask Zhang Duo of Yanzhou to take this place with advanced troops, but Zhang Duo did not listen to him, and only cared about sending troops to deploy defense in the north of Yanzhou, and had no intention of fighting at all.

Therefore, Li Guangyan stationed in the mouth of the camel without much effort, Wang Jing was angry when he learned about it, and heard that the main forces of Xia and Liao entered the state to govern Huile, so he had to leave the judge of the festival and the assassin of Yanzhou, Xue Chucun, Xue Keyan and his son led 5,000 troops to garrison Wenchi, and led 7,000 cavalry to rush to the state city.

However, Wang Yanchao, the commander of the Jingnan Festival, led 12,000 troops to garrison Baimachuan, neither in time to attack reinforcements, nor to go north to join Wang Jing's Shuofang army, and the tens of thousands of troops of Zhang Duo's troops in Yanzhou were guarded separately, and the sand was scattered.

Wang Jing was much closer to Zhouzhi Huile along the Anle level, and Yelu Xiuge and Li Guangrui marched along the old Great Wall not only far, but also the road was not easy to walk, so Wang Jing rushed back to Zhouzhi in time, and immediately ordered his youngest son Wang Tingxun to lead his troops to Mingsha County in the southwest of the state capital, and set up defenses along the west bank of Anle Water, and kept in touch with Xue Chucun and Wang Yanchao's troops, barely stabilizing the situation.

By the end of October, 50,000 troops of the Xia and Liao coalition troops were under the city, and then prepared to attack Lingzhou City. Lingzhou Prefecture in the Tang Dynasty was Lingwu between the west bank of the Yellow River and Helan Mountain, and moved to Huile County at the confluence of the East Bank of the Yellow River and Anle Water in the late Tang Dynasty.

Yelu Hugo and Li Guangrui set up a large camp on a slope on the bank of the Yellow River ten miles northeast of the state city, and saw that Wang Jing was strictly guarding to the death, so they also made preparations for a long-term battle, first sent 15,000 generals to the city to invite battle, but secretly sent troops to the south of the city, and blocked the diversion of the Anle water to the moat.

Wang Jing was helpless about this, the northwest was sparsely populated, there was a lack of suitable soldiers, and the Shuofang army had a total of 15,000 soldiers, although the majority were horse troops, but they could only defend the city, and it was very powerless to deal with the elite cavalry of the Liao army.

Subsequently, the Liao and Xia coalition forces launched a siege of the eastern, southern, and western gates of Lingzhou City, leaving a way to live, and sent soldiers to dig up soil and transport it to the city to fill the river, and at the same time prepare large-scale siege equipment. Seeing this, Wang Jing was anxious, so he sent the horse army out of the city from time to time to attack and harass, but due to the disparity in troops, the role played was very limited, and the moat was still filled in section by section.

At the same time, after five or six days, Li Guangyan also built a temporary military village at Luhukou, leaving his younger brother Li Guangxin to lead 5,000 troops to garrison, and 15,000 soldiers with his adjutant general Yeci Rulang went straight to Wenchi, all the way with great fanfare, deliberately walking very slowly, in order to attract Wang Yanchao's troops stationed in Baimachuan.

Sure enough, there was a horse exploration report the next day, and Wang Yanchao really led his troops north. Li Guangyan received the report of secret joy in his heart, and suddenly accelerated his march, and arrived at the plain north of Anleshui on the afternoon of the first day of the first month of winter, which was only forty miles away from Wenchi County, and at this time 12,000 men from Wuyanchao's division also arrived.

In fact, Wang Yanchao was not completely attracted by Li Guangyan's motives, but because Li Hui of the Yongxing Military Government sent someone to send the will and appointment of the imperial court, and said that Shi Yanchao had led 5,000 cavalry to Guanzhong, urging him to hurry up and enter the army.

Wang Yanchao did not dare to underestimate the enemy, and on the one hand, he tried to hold Li Guangyan by stationing troops, and on the other hand, he sent a fast horse to report to Zhang Duo in Yanzhou, asking him to attack and capture the mouth of the camel, or lead the troops to meet the division. But the situation was not as he wished, because the Anle water flowed from south to north, this is the birthplace, the river is only more than a zhang wide, and the winter is the dry season, the infantry can wade at any time, this river is not enough.

On the third day of the winter month, after a day of confrontation, Wang Yanchao's food and grass were in a hurry, and he found out that the enemy's strength was similar to his own, so he took advantage of the fact that the camp was still before dawn, and wanted to rush to Wenchi quickly, not wanting his army to pull out.

Wang Yanchao had to hastily line up to meet the battle on the west bank of Anle Water, but his troops were mostly infantry, and the horse army was only 4,000 people, and was soon pinned down by the 3,000 cavalry of Yeci Rulang.

Li Guangyan then sent 4,000 horses to outflank, assault Wang Yanchao's flanks and two rear, and led 8,000 infantry to advance frontally, Wang Yanchao's troops lost the protection of the horse team, and the rear army was defeated first, and the soldiers of the front army were panicked, followed by the rout, and they were out of control.

In the face of such a situation, Wang Yanchao's Chinese army was also shaken, only led hundreds of cavalry to desperately break out of the encirclement, all the way to the northwest, and gathered the small group of horses that escaped, and met the 2,000 soldiers of Xue Keyan's department who came to support and respond halfway, barely stabilized their position, and went to Wenchi County to count the number of people, and only 3,000 horse troops were left in the department.

A few days later, Shi Yanchao led 5,000 iron cavalry troops to go around the ring and Qingbaimachuan to the north, and after hearing that Wang Yanchao was defeated, he had to detour west to Anlezhou Military Town, and rushed to Wenchi to see Wang Yanchao's army was untidy and demoralized, and he sneered at Xue Chucun in private: "This guy can't even beat more than 10,000 miscellaneous Qiang, and he has the same name as a certain person, I am really ashamed to be with this person!" ”

"General Shi can say this, Wang Yuanjun has never been to Guanbei, and it is understandable that he is not familiar with the terrain and loses." Xue Chucun lost Yanzhou, was worried in his heart, sympathized with the same disease, and hurriedly persuaded him.

"A certain forbidden army has arrived, plus the remnants of your department and Wang Desheng, you can still pull out more than 10,000 soldiers and go out of the city for a decisive battle tomorrow!" Shi Yanchao proposed.

"This ...... It's better to rest for a few days and then make a calculation, and then talk about the low morale of the king's subordinates......"

Shi Yanchao was furious when he heard this, and without waiting for Xue Chucun to finish speaking, he interrupted angrily: "How can this be reasonable! Someone fights on their own! ”

Shi Yanchao immediately wrote a report, sent someone to Tokyo, and the next day led the headquarters of 5,000 horsemen out of the city to invite the battle, Li Guangyan had never heard of Shi Yanchao's name, and sent Ye Ci Ru Lang to fight, but was defeated and returned, if he hadn't answered in time, Ye Ci Ru Lang was almost captured by Shi Yanchao.

At the same time, the Xijing Datong Mansion stayed behind Yelu Tart Lie sent Cui Xun to lead 15,000 horse troops south to Taiyuan, and Liu Jun of the Northern Han Dynasty sent 5,000 cavalry to join the Liao army and go south to Luzhou. Yang Tingzhang, the commander of Jinju, heard about it and hurriedly led his troops to support.

In Hebei, Xiao Siwen of Youzhou also sent Yang Gon to lead 20,000 horsemen to the south, but Yuan Yan, the commander of Chengde Festival, had already taken precautions, and deployed defenses along the Zhangshui area of Shenzhou Hutuo River and Leshou with Cangzhou Henghai.

Until mid-November, Shi Yanchao's report arrived in Tokyo, Guo Rong saw that Hebei and Hedong were fine, and estimated that the northwest could be stabilized, but the situation was deteriorating day by day, and at this time he was preparing to march south, and then he had to stay, and he was immediately very angry, and issued an edict to severely reprimand Wang Jing and Wang Yanchao, and sent Wu Yanzuo south to Shouzhou to replace Zhang Yue and return to Beijing. (To be continued.) )