Qianxiang, the camp of the Liao army, is a very large town, with more than 100 families, and this position is located in a narrow plain area between the Yanzi River and the Qianxiang River, and Yutian County is forty miles to the north. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The reason why he went to the southern suburbs without passing through Yutian County was because Yang Gon wanted to recruit the Lutai army to aid Youzhou, and the Jingsai army and Xiongwu army in Yuyang would go south with the reinforcements of Dadingfu in the north, so there was no need to summon them to accompany the army.

At present, in the mid-spring and mid-February season, the river is in the high water period, and the Yanzi River is about three zhang wide ten miles west of the town, but the Shirenping Bridge on the river is too narrow, and a separate trestle bridge needs to be erected for the army to pass.

Before dawn in the morning, Qianxiangli was rushing into the town with the Liao army to drive the residents out, and then demolished the houses and removed the wood, masonry and stone to build bridges. It's just a matter of demolishing the house, anyway, the poor family only has three or five houses and a yard, and some of the roofs are still built with thatch, which is not worth anything.

What is hateful is that while the Liao army demolished the house, it also looted it, and the poor Baba had a little grain and salt was also taken away, and two hundred young people in the town were also requisitioned to work, leaving more than 1,000 old and weak women and children crying in the wilderness outside the town.

Three or four miles north of the town is the camp of the Liao army, and in the morning, 20,000 war horses drove out to the river to drink, and then trampled and gnawed the winter wheat planted last winter, and Li did not dare to squeak in the face of such a situation.

The trestle bridge on the river in the west of the town was started yesterday evening, and more than 10,000 Liao soldiers dispatched to widen the piers on both sides with bricks and stones, and spliced wood along both sides of the stone bridge, and then there was a small half day to complete it. The main force still stayed in the camp for breakfast, but the forward horse team of four or five thousand horses crossed the river first after riding and drinking horses, and it is said that they had to rush to Jishui to build a bridge and camp in Baodi Township.

"After crossing the plains all the way here, there is no big river, give me speed!" One hundred and ten horsemen wearing iron armor and well-equipped Khitan soldiers surrounded a general and immediately watched the bridge, and saw that the bridge deck that had been widened to five zhang had just taken shape, and couldn't help but urge loudly.

"Report to Da Lang-kun! The person sent to Fangzhou to give the order has not returned, and the Lutai army has not moved, whether to send someone to investigate. Then a herald came on horseback.

"Maybe they went to Baodi Township to see if there was any news from the striker's side, and they didn't wait until they came, they had to leave before the time." This general is tall, with a black and red face, and sharp eyes, it is Yang Gon.

Speaking of which, he is actually a Han from Youzhou, since he was a child, his mother was captured by the king of Chu, and his status in the Liao State was not high. However, the current emperor, Yelu Jing, was the eldest son of Deguang and did not trust Yang Gon and sent him to Pingzhou.

Since last winter, the Zhou army collected Mo and won Erzhou, and advanced the troops to the south bank of the Juma River, Yang Gon realized that there must be a big war in the spring of this year, and after discussing with Xiao Siwen of Youzhou, he flew to Beijing, but unfortunately in November last winter, the fourth brother of the emperor rebelled, and it was calmed down after a thorough investigation, and finally like Li Hu's son Yeluwan rebelled, the other servants were executed, but the enemy was released, and also carried out large-scale sacrifices to declare the legitimacy of his imperial power, in order to warn others.

It is precisely because of this rebellion that the monarchs and ministers of Shangjing despised the Zhou army's seizure of Win and Mo Erzhou, and did not believe that the Zhou army would make a large-scale northern expedition, and sent a caravan to Tokyo at the beginning of the first month to confirm the news before preparing for war, but now the emperor of the Guo family in Tokyo has arrived in Hebei, and the palace tent and leather room in Shangjing have not moved, only the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing and Fengshengzhou have initially completed the army assembly, but the heavy grain and grass have not yet arrived.

The Zhou army in the south of the Juma River in the spring was frequently transferred, Xiao Siwen of Youzhou only had 30,000 soldiers to fight, and the rest of the local garrisons did not dare to move lightly, and asked for help from Pingzhou many times.

The forward 5,000 horsemen set off for a while, but the sun had not yet appeared, it was a cloudy day, and the march within the territory was generally relatively safe, Yang Gon was not in a hurry, and saw that the river bridge was almost repaired, so he beat his horse back to the camp, and ordered the troops to go out of the camp to cross the river, leaving the rear army of 5,000 people to collect the camp tent and then follow.

The drums and trumpets sounded in the sky, and the 20,000 troops formed a long queue of ten people in a horizontal row across the wide stone bridge, and the front has been reported to be safe, Yang Gon also led the Chinese army to follow, but just two miles across the bridge, the camp on the other side of the river that has not been dismantled suddenly caught fire, and there was smoke rising from the granary that had not yet been moved out of the operation, and then there were bursts of shouts and killings.

"Damn it!" Yang Gon cursed, raised his hand to feel the direction of the wind, and then looked at the withered yellow reeds on the bank of the river, the weather today was unusually northeasterly.

I thought it was the soldiers of the rear army who were on fire, but when I heard the shouting and killing, it didn't look like it, and soon two or three hundred horsemen wearing red war jackets appeared on the periphery of the camp, galloping back and forth to release arrows, killing the soldiers who were carrying the baggage by surprise, scurrying around looking for each other's companions to prepare for a counterattack, and at the same time looking for a fire source to extinguish the fire, and the whole camp became a mess.

It's Zhou Jun! How is this possible...... Yang Gon almost couldn't believe it, it is said that the Zhou army had not yet crossed the Juma River, how could it be possible to suddenly enter the hinterland of Youzhou. But now is not the time to get to the bottom of it, and after a while, the heavy grain and grass will be burned.

"Herald! The hitting army pauses its march, and the rear army counterattacks with all its might! After a while, Yang Gon could see that the number of the Zhou army was only about one or two thousand, and the five or six hundred light cavalry were divided into two teams, that is, these two teams of light cavalry were rampage everywhere and set fire, completely breaking up the ranks of soldiers who had not had time to mount the rear army, but when the rear army reacted, they were fully capable of defeating them.

Although the Zhou army came suddenly, the rear army of 2,000 cavalry gathered and quickly launched an outflanking attack, the Zhou army infantry was the majority, and the formation was not strict enough, and when the attack was disturbed for a moment, he saw the possibility of being surrounded, so he immediately retreated, and one hundred and ten people gathered together and rushed wildly, looking at the formation was very chaotic.

Yang Gon Lema stood on the bank of the river and watched the Zhou army go away, and after a while, the generals of the army caught two live mouths and interrogated them to report the situation, and Yang Gon finally understood that the Lutai army had rebelled again.

But if you think about it carefully, Wu Hongying has always been timid and cautious, a miscellaneous soldier of only 5,000 men, if he didn't have a hundred guts from outside to give him, he wouldn't dare to sneak attack him, it must be that the Zhou army had a division across the sea, maybe he was waiting for him somewhere near here.