A day later, the main force of the middle route army arrived in Youzhou City, and the Han people in Youzhou City welcomed the Han army into the city, which made the seed division have mixed feelings, and saw the Youzhou Thorn History Mansion that had not been completely extinguished by arson, and was embarrassed, and ordered the army to rest for three days, and then reported the good news to Emperor Huizong, Emperor Huizong had already ordered Youzhou to be changed to Yanshan Mansion, and sent the prefect early, just three days after the army set off, and now, it just came in handy.

Three days later, Liu Jie, the first prefect of Yanshan Prefecture, arrived in Youzhou City, Lin Chong's Western Route Army and Yao Gu's Eastern Route Army will also divide Youzhou City, at the military meeting, the division ordered to expand the results of the battle, continue the Northern Expedition, capture the Kyushu behind the mountain, completely recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and then take Juyong Pass, negotiate with the Jurchens, and make it go west, so that the Great Song Dynasty can rebuild the Great Wall defense line and complete the entire Yanyun strategy.

Everything seems to be so beneficial and kind to the Great Song Dynasty.

And at this moment, fate put away the smiling face of the Great Song Dynasty, and put away the kindness to the seed division and the Western Army.

In fact, sometimes the word fate is quite interesting, when you believe in him, he always has a way to make you not believe him, thinking that this is an illusion, and when you don't believe him, he can always make you believe in him, thinking that this is another illusion, so everyone began to sing the magic of fate.

But in many things, you have to admit that fate is really effective, it really exists, because there are always some very important things, things that have played a huge turning point in your whole life, often happen inadvertently around you, and you don't know anything, and when you finally realize it when you become famous, ah, it turns out that this is fate......

The day before, he was still rejoicing that the Great Song army had finally recovered Youzhou City, and the day after that, he began to lose his soul for the fiasco of Yue Fei's vanguard army, of course, not only Yue Fei's vanguard army was defeated, but Lin Chong's department was also defeated, Yao Gu's department was also defeated, and even the vanguard of his own middle route army was defeated.

It seems that in just one day, the whole situation was reversed, in the first half of the war, the Song army occupied the absolute upper hand, annihilating tens of thousands of Liao troops, the first prefect of Yanshan Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty entered the city and took the oath of office, and began to exercise the power of the prefect of Yanshan Prefecture, and in the second half of the war, at the beginning, he gave all the ecstatic Song people a big gift.

A big gift that made them feel panicked and unprepared.

In fact, if there is a little bit of thought in the seed division that can be put on the physical strength and logistics supply of the army, some clues can be seen, because the eunuchs of the supervising army are pressing step by step, and the emperor is pressing step by step, and the seed division does not even notice what is happening to the grain route of his army, whether the physical strength of the army has reached the limit, and whether the will to fight has completely collapsed.

This is an unmanly battle, and the Western army cannot extract the courage and physical strength to fight from their hearts, which is one of the reasons for defeat; The Western Army fought for a long time without any time to rest, the division veterans were tired, and the soldiers had no lasting combat effectiveness, which was the second cause of defeat; The attack was too fast, and it was too late to completely digest or even just take initial control of the place, thus ignoring the existence of many Khitans who had the idea of resisting, and finally caused them to flank the front and back, cutting off the Song army's food route, which was the third cause of defeat.

The Zhending army led by Liu Tao failed to defeat these Liao, but was defeated by these Liao, and passed the news to the planters, who realized that they had made a big mistake......

But it was too late, Yue Fei's vanguard army of 5,000 iron cavalry encountered the oncoming 30,000 Khitan iron cavalry, the commander of the three moves on Zhang Xian's horse was seriously injured and unconscious, and then Yue Fei's fight was quite inseparable, and finally Yue Fei was defeated because of his lack of physical strength, five or six out of ten of the five thousand iron cavalry were killed, Yue Fei had no choice but to retreat back with the army, and met the vanguard army in the division on the way, and the vanguard army was used as reinforcements, which bought Yue Fei time to retreat, but the price was the annihilation of the vanguard army of the middle route army.

Lin Chong's troops out of the Taihang Mountain, has not yet gained a firm foothold, has not had time to capture a Liao city, occupy a Liao village, fell into the encirclement of fifty or sixty thousand Liao troops, a bitter battle, Lin Chong at the cost of a thousand warriors after the break, led the main force to retreat, and in the Taihang Mountains and the Liao army entangled, very difficult to withdraw, can only enter the city that has been captured, intending to fight according to the city, stabilize the position, but did not expect the city has rebelled, the night fire as a number, the Liao army seized the city gate, the Lin army was defeated.

After Yao Gu captured a city, he was not in a good mood, he drank a lot of wine and rested, and was woken up by exclamations in the middle of the night, only then did he realize the night attack of the Liao army, the exhausted Song army was difficult to resist, and one of Yao Gu's sons died in the chaos, and the Yao family army retreated.

In just a few days, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Song Army, which had been marching hand in hand with brilliant results, was now defeated by the Liao Army one by one, until the three defeated armies gathered in Youzhou City, and the division received a letter full of anger from the Liao Army Commander Yelu Dashi - a treacherous country, a treacherous person, I will cut it!

The seed division couldn't understand at all how Yelu Dashi, who was still fighting with the Jin soldiers in Juyong Pass a few days ago, flew back here from the front line, unless this was a strategy to lure the enemy deep from the beginning, and the Song army didn't know, the fierce attack exhausted the last physical strength, and suddenly encountered the main force of the Liao army's Yanyun corps, or the main force of the angry and vicious Yanyun corps, and there was no suspense about the rout of the Great Song army.

Standing on the city of Youzhou, looking at the dense black pressure on the Liao army outside the city, as well as the army in the city full of morale and wounded soldiers, he knew that he had been tricked, and he also knew that the Western Army had reached its limit, all the physical strength and spirit were exhausted, and the 130,000 soldiers and horses on the expedition were now less than 110,000.

He couldn't afford this responsibility, he couldn't afford this risk, he thought of retreating, he thought of running away, but he didn't do it, he was a general, a military general, and his self-esteem didn't allow him to do such a thing.

But looking around, he no longer has any available generals, Lin Chong Luda was both injured, Yue Fei was injured, Zhang Xian was seriously injured, Yao Gu was sad for the loss of his beloved son, and he couldn't fight, and the rest of the famous generals were injured and died, and the unknown people were useless, and he was the only one left in the entire circle of famous generals in the Western Army.

But, but I'm the boss!

He set his eyes on the eunuch of the prison army who was holding the sword and fox of the Son of Heaven and the fake tiger might, and saw that the eunuch was trembling, his face was pale, so he said in a mocking tone: "The prison army, the war situation has reached this point, we have an unshirkable responsibility, and now the commander will not say anything, and ask the prison army to find a way to leave here immediately, and the commander will send troops to protect the prison army." ”

The eunuch of the prison army was stunned for a moment, and then shouted angrily in an extremely unhappy tone: "Does the commander think that this prison army will escape from the battle?!" ”

The seed master said noncommittally: "The commander just doesn't want the supervisor of the Northern Expeditionary Army to accompany the commander to the death of the commander again, in that case, it is estimated that no one will want to be the supervisor again, and now this situation, the supervisor army also sees that the army has reached this point, there is no other way except to fight to the death, the supervisor army also please do it yourself, a horse, fifty cavalry, is prepared by the commander of the supervising army, if the supervisor decides, please leave quickly." ”

After speaking, the seed division shifted his gaze to the Liao army formation that was slowly moving, and instructed the people around him: "The Liao soldiers are about to attack the city, order all armies to prepare to defend the city, and the commander will personally supervise the battle!" ”

"No!" The soldiers obeyed the orders of the division, and the division led the army to defend Youzhou and the north gate, and the famous general Liu Yanqing of the Western Army was the deputy marshal to guard the south gate, and Gao Shixuan guarded the west gate, and he could ask to defend the east gate, and along the way, some of the defenders were left in the important cities, and the defense system was launched, and the commander of the Liao army, Yelu Dashi, immediately began to attack Youzhou after leading the army to stabilize the rear, and did not plan to rest and attack again.

Yelu Dashi was extremely annoyed with the Song Dynasty, so he killed their 200,000 Northern Expeditionary Army, and as a result, there were 200,000 stronger Western Army, which is said to be the Western Army that had just cleaned up the party members, and the strongest troops of the Great Song Dynasty, judging from the battle situation in front of them, were indeed quite strong, if they hadn't known the intelligence and set a trap early, they wouldn't have been able to fight behind them when they were still fighting with the Jin soldiers.

However, this Song army looked extremely tired, this is the common information transmitted back by all the armies that fought with the Song army, combined with the previous Song war and Western Xia battles, Yelu Dashi came to the conclusion - this is an exhausted army, commonly known as the end of the strong crossbow.

That's great......

In fact, Yelu Dashi himself also knows what his situation is, to be able to divide his forces to deal with the Song army, it is really shit luck, if it were not for the sudden outbreak of the plague in the Jin army on the front line and it is difficult to continue fighting, he may really be sinking into the sand, at that time, the Song army's vanguard Yue Fei was only a hundred miles away from the temporary capital of Liao, the capital was terrified, but he was still lacking in skills.

Fighting on two fronts is really a taboo for soldiers!

Therefore, we must find the soft persimmon, first clean up the soft persimmon, and then go all out to deal with the strong enemy, which is also the principle of soldiers, so Yelu Dashi decisively led the elite army subordinates to arrange, quickly exhausted the last physical strength of the Song army, and then, led the army to assault!