At the same time, Zhang Zangying's troops in the town faced the encirclement and suppression of tens of thousands of Liao troops on all sides, and the remaining more than 5,000 people gathered in several streets inside and outside the Zhao family ancestral hall in the center of the town, and fought inside and outside the high courtyard walls outside the house. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After capturing the four walls of the town, the Liao army poured in, advancing along the streets and alleys of the town, setting fire to and plundering everywhere, but according to this terrain, they had to be divided into multiple squads, facing the defenders at various intersections, as well as the archers who could not defend the rooftops, and they were also very unaccustomed to this method of warfare.

After the intersection of the outer blocks of the Zhao family ancestral hall was overcome, the reinforcements of the Zhou army arrived again, which made the defending Zhang Zangying department doubly courage, and even took advantage of the situation to launch many counterattacks, making it disgraceful and unable to attack for a long time. However, the ignited fire was still raging in Manyan, and there was a sea of fire in the north of the town, so that the Liao army could not stand on its own, so it had to avoid the fire road and withdraw from the town.

The fire quickly burned near the ancestral hall by the northeast wind, after the Liao army retreated, Zhang Zangying led the defenders and the residents of the town to hurriedly come out to put out the fire, and the villagers knew the road conditions, and which family had more dry firewood, and finally stopped the fire.

There is no point in holding on to this place any longer, but the reinforcements are still ten miles southeast of the town, and there is no way to rely on the town to withdraw, and it is easy to be defeated by the Liao cavalry. Zhang Zangying sent soldiers to treat the casualties, clean up the nearby ruins and build fortifications, and Zhuang Shao and Wu Hongying climbed high and looked into the distance, and saw that Yang Gon's main force of the Liao army had disappeared at this time, and only thousands of horsemen were still wandering around outside the town.

"I can hear the sound of drums and horns, but no one has come to the reinforcements, and it is obviously difficult to break through the blockade of the Liao army. But Yang Gon's main force is no longer there, which direction do you say it will go? Zhang Zangying asked.

"Our task is to hold back Yang Gon's main force, and Yang Gon's purpose is to go to the aid of Youzhou, it must have been seen that the reinforcements were coming, and rushed to Xianghe County, it shouldn't have been long." Zhuang Shao tilted his head, his face looked thoughtful, thought about it and said, "I suggest that Zhang Yuanjun lead his troops to withdraw from the town and go south along the bank of the Chaobai River to try it." A certain rate of 500 cavalry to catch up, even if he can't do anything, he can know the whereabouts of the Liao army. ”

"Good! The Ukrainian army envoy stayed and garrisoned, counted the casualties as soon as possible, cleared the open space, and estimated that Zhang Xianggong could lead the army to arrive in the evening. Zhang Zangying nodded in agreement, and then went down to the wall to prepare.

After a while, Zhuang Shao was wearing iron armor, carrying a thick-backed dragon pattern ghost head knife, and led five hundred Puzhou soldiers to lead the horse carefully out of the west gate of the town, seeing that there was no Liao army in the field, five hundred soldiers followed the horse and galloped towards Xianghe County in the northwest.

From time to time along the way, I encountered a small team of Liao troops to explore horses, tried to drive them out but were driven away, all the way to the area of Sun Village, thirty miles northwest of Baodi Township, and finally found the main force of the Liao army, more than 20,000 soldiers of Yang Gon Department were digging trenches relying on the wall outside Sun Village, carrying big trees to build a big camp, and no longer dared to do things like before in the field around a fence.

By this time, it was almost dusk, the Liao army was camped and it was estimated that it would not leave tonight, Zhuang Shao did not dare to stay here for a long time, and led his troops to retreat to the south, but halfway met seven or eight thousand Liao troops on foot, the cavalry formation was still strict and orderly, and the infantry who followed behind were all bloodstained, looking embarrassed, the formation was scattered, and the banner was dragged upside down and damaged.

Zhuang Shao saw this far away, the Liao army saw it and did not chase, all the way back to Baodi Township, saw that the west gate and the south gate of the town were also crowded with people, tens of thousands of Zhou soldiers scattered everywhere, also building camps, and farther to the south, a long red line approached, obviously the main force of the party arrived, from the Huangzhuang Wa landing to rush.

When he went to the Yingpan construction site to inquire, a capital head told Zhuang Shao that Zhang Zangying led his troops out of the town, and before he arrived at the reinforcement battlefield, the Liao army gained a little advantage, and after defeating the left army of An Shouzhong's department, he withdrew when the main force arrived.

"Has Zhang Xianggong arrived? Where are the people? Zhuang Shao saw that there were soldiers everywhere on the outskirts of the town, and the main army that came was still in the field and waiting for the camp to be repaired, this scene was a bit chaotic, and he couldn't see where Zhang Yue's Chinese army was at all.

"I saw it as if I had entered the town just now, and I bothered to look for it myself." Dutou was busy with the chores of camping, although Shangguan didn't have time to pay attention to it at the moment, he apologized and went to work on his own.

As soon as there were more people, there was a mess everywhere, and there were soldiers guarding the construction site around the gate of the town wall, and Zhuang Shao had no choice but to turn to the north gate, and happened to see Zhang Zangying with the soldiers to clear the burned houses, so he returned the five hundred Puzhou soldiers and horses behind him to him, and asked Ming Zhangyue to be in the ancestral hall, so he went over to ask to see.

The north of the town was almost burned to flat ground, and the periphery of the Zhao family ancestral hall was well preserved, so Zhang Yue led the generals to camp and set up the command center of the Chinese army in the main hall where the ancestral hall was used as a sacrifice for the clansmen. In this regard, the old Zhao Lizheng not only did not object, but also welcomed it very openly and warmly.

"After this battle, thanks to the blessings of the nobles of Zhang Xianggong, this place is also famous." Zhao Lizheng looked happy, he didn't care about the loss of the town, but attached great importance to the reputation.

"Do you know what wealthy families are in the vicinity? The army crossed the sea, the transportation of grain and grass is not very convenient, and the number of troops is slightly less, so it needs the support of the local people! "The generals and soldiers of the various armies are busy outside, but Zhang Yue still has time to chat with Lao Li about family life, and by the way, he talks about military logistics.

After all, when the army is out on the march, it cannot only rely on the rear to transfer transportation, and it must always try to obtain some food and grass supplies and troop support on the march, so that it can continue to fight for a long time. Since the elders of Youzhou are still looking to the Central Plains, there is no reason not to ask for help.

"This ...... Zhang Xianggong didn't know, this belongs to Xianghe County, there are Sun, Li, Wang, Zhao several families live in the county seat, our small town has sent out two hundred young people to join the army, just suffered a disaster really can't get food, wait for the old decay to go home and rummage through the cabinet to find, even if the family is bankrupt, to support Wang Shi. As soon as Lao Li said this, he really got up and retreated, and left with his crutches.

Zhang Yue was also impressed by such an elder who could understand the general situation, got up to send him out, and when he saw Zhuang Shao standing next to him for a long time, he asked: "The Puzhou soldiers are okay, the Lutai army has suffered a casualty of an army!" Do you have any updates? ”

"My lord! The last general and other battles were not effective, and Yang Gon had already led the main force to retreat to Suncun to camp, and he didn't know whether to fight with our army or to find an opportunity to rush to Youzhou. Zhuang Shao said with some uncertainty on his face.

"It's very simple, this is the hinterland of Youzhou, our army is deep, how can Yang Gon sit idly by? Sun Village is only less than thirty miles away from the Xianghe River, and it belongs to one of the outlying strongholds of Youzhou City, Yang Gon has surrendered to Sun Village, and will be deployed on the border of Youji, which can not only wait to receive reinforcements from Shanbei, but also monitor the movement of our army, but will not take the initiative to fight with our army, so we don't need to delay time for his little troops, but we can't let it go, we have to send horse troops to attack and harass constantly. "It is true that he lost the first battle and did not meet the pre-war assumptions, Zhang Yue said a little depressedly.