Yelu Deguang listened to his advice, on the first day of the first month of March, Yelu Deguang personally led more than 100,000 troops to line up in the north of the city of Lanzhou, and surrounded the two corners of Lanzhou horizontally from the east and west.

Gao Xingzhou's forward troops engaged the Khitan army in the south of Qicheng, and from noon to sunset, they won and lost each other. Yelu Deguang commanded the elite soldiers to attack the Jin army, and Shi Chonggui also led his troops out to set up a strict formation.

Yang Chengxun was worried about the disaster to the clansmen, so he planned with his younger brothers to kill Qiu Tao, the rebel official of Jiedu, as well as Du Yanshou, Yang Zhen, Bai Yanzuo and others, cut off their heads, and sent Yang Chengzuo to give to Li Shouzhen.

then kidnapped his father Yang Guangyuan, imprisoned him in a private house, and surrendered the city. Shi Chonggui considered that Yang Guangyuan had returned to Shun from Taiyuan and wanted to protect him, and the relevant officials said: "Is there a rebellion and a monstrous person who has been pardoned?" ”

So he ordered Li Shouzhen to dispose of it himself. Li Shouzhen sent someone to kill Yang Guangyuan, and then played the court in the name of dying of illness.

In this way, the sixth rebellion of the Later Jin Dynasty did not end well in the end. At the time of Yang Guangyuan's rebellion, an interesting incident happened in Qingzhou City, which became the topic of gossip of the people, when a man surnamed Sun was besieged in the city, and his grange was on the west side of Qingzhou.

The gates of the city were closed for a long time, the inside and the outside were cut off, the food was gone, and the whole tribe sighed bitterly. One day, there was a puppy walking around and looking worried. Sun said to the puppy: "If there is no food at home, people are going to die, what should I do?"

Can you go to the Grange for me to pick up rice? The puppy wagged his tail as if he understood, and that night, Sun tied a cloth bag and a letter to the puppy's back, and the puppy went out of the drain and barked when he arrived at Sun's grange.

The man from the village opened the door. After taking the letter and reading it, he asked the dog to return the same way on his back, and in this way, within a few months, so back and forth, Sun's family was able to not die.

Before. After the defeat of Majiakou and Qicheng, he was very angry and ordered all the captured people to be killed and all the captured soldiers burned to death, which caused the anger of the Jin people, and the whole country has been united and fought since then.

Soon. The Khitan retreated, and Shi Chonggui ordered Li Shouzhen and Fu Yanqing to lead the troops to the east. Yang Guangyuan had few major generals and could only defend around the city. In November of the same year, Yang Chengxun and his younger brothers Yang Chengxin and Yang Chengzuo saw that the people in the city were eating each other up, and knew that it was difficult to achieve a big thing, so they persuaded Yang Guangyuan to surrender. Yang Guangyuan did not accept it, saying: "When I was in Daibei, I used to sacrifice Tianchi with paper money camels and horses. They all sank into the pool, and people said that I had the blessing of being the Son of Heaven. We should wait for the moment and not talk about surrender lightly. ”

Seeing that the Jin army was in order, Yelu Deguang said to the left and right in surprise: "Yang Guangyuan said that half of the Jin soldiers have starved to death, why are there so many now?" ”

Then the elite cavalry was sent to attack left and right, but the Jin army did not move, and the Khitan army retreated to attack the eastern flank of the Jin army. It can't be conquered either.

The battle lasted until the evening, and the casualties of the two armies were uncountable. Seeing that the odds of victory were hopeless, the Khitan had no choice but to lead their troops back and camp thirty miles away.

Fight the Khitan again

Grandpa was actually defeated by his grandson, and as the king of the kingdom, Yelu Deguang became more and more angry the more he thought about it. So in December 944, he made a comeback, once again led a large-scale southward invasion, and when the front reached Xingzhou,

Later Jin Shunguo Festival made Dewey send people from the trail to the court to report urgency, Shi Chonggui wanted to go out in person, but happened to be sick like a mountain,

In the midst of his serious illness, he had to order Tianping Jiedu to make Zhang Congen and Ye stay in Ma Quanjie, and to protect the country to make An Xianqi join all the soldiers and horses in Xingzhou, and Wuning Jiedu to make Zhao in Litun to stay in Yedu with the imperial Khitan.

Soon, Yelu Deguang led a large army to come and build a tooth tent in the Yuan clan, and the Later Jin court was afraid of the strong Khitan army, so he ordered Zhang Congen and others to retreat a little to avoid its edge.

Don't look down on retreat, retreat is also a science, but helplessly Zhang Congen this person does not study well, embarrassed generals, there is no discipline in the dispatch of retreat, so that the army panics, retreats like a tide, soldiers in groups of three or five, lose their armor, the army is not formed, and the place where it passes is burned and looted, and when it retreats to Xiangzhou, the whole army can no longer fight.

In the first month of 945, Shi Chonggui ordered Zhao Zaili to return to his division and stationed in Lanzhou, Ma Quanjie returned to Yedu, Zhang Yanze was stationed in Liyang, and Jing Yanguang guarded Huliangdu.

On the third day of the junior high school, Zhang Congen reported that the Khitan army was approaching Xingzhou. Shi Chonggui heard that there was a big chaos in the rear, and hurriedly ordered the Huazhou and Yedu fronts to resist again. Soon, the Khitan invaded the three prefectures of Xing, Ci, and Xu, and implemented the three-light policy wherever they passed, almost robbing and killing all of them, and then entered the territory of Yedu.

On the 15th, Zhang Congen, Ma Quanjie, and An Xianqi led tens of thousands of people to line up on the south bank of Anyang Water in Xiangzhou. Huangfu Yu and Puzhou Assassin Shi Murong Yanchao led thousands of cavalry to the front to spy on the Khitan reality, and arrived in Ye County.

When he was about to cross Zhangshui, he suddenly encountered tens of thousands of Khitan soldiers, Huangfu Yu and others fought and retreated, and when they arrived at Yulindian, the Khitan army had already caught up, and Huangfu Yu and Murong Yanchao conspired and said: "We retreat now, and we will die completely!" ”

Then the two restrained the whole army, stopped retreating, arranged troops, and resisted to death, from noon to midday, the two armies fought hundreds of rounds, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

During the battle, the war horse was unfortunately killed, and the emperor gave up his horse to fight on foot, and his servant Du Zhimin gave him his mount, and the emperor took the war horse to continue the battle.

When the danger eased slightly, he went to look for Du Zhimin, only to find that he had been captured by the Khitan army, and Huangfu said: "Du Zhimin is a righteous man, and he can't be abandoned." So he and Murong Yan entered the Khitan formation with a super prancing horse and recaptured Du Zhimin.

After a while, the Khitan sent new soldiers to fight, and at this time the Jin army was exhausted and unable to resist, and the two said tragically: "We people can no longer retreat, it seems that we can only repay the country with death." ”

At this time, it was almost dusk, and the generals of the Jin army who refused to guard in Anyang saw that the soldiers and horses had not returned, and they were restless, and suddenly a horse came to report, saying that Huangfu Yu and others were besieged by tens of thousands of northern soldiers, and they were afraid that their lives would not be long in coming.

Immediately ordered the soldiers and horses to go to the rescue, Zhang Congen grabbed him and said: "This may not be credible, if the captives really swarm, even if all our troops are sent, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist, what is the use of you going?" ”

An Xianqi was unmoved, and said resolutely: "Success and failure." It is providential, and even if nothing happens, it is reasonable to share the consequences.

If Hu Lu does not continue to invade the south and loses the Emperor Fu Taishi in vain, then what face do we have to meet the Son of Heaven! ”

After that, the army crossed the Anyang River and marched north, and the Khitan soldiers saw the smoke and dust rising. Thinking that the Jinzhong army came to the rescue, they immediately lifted the siege and left, and Huangfu Yu and others were able to relieve the predicament and return to Xiangzhou with the generals. Speaking of the Khitan side, the retreating soldiers shouted while retreating, "All the Jin troops are here, all the Jin troops are here!" ”

At that time, Yelu Deguang was in Handan, and when he heard about it, he immediately fled north, and there was a lot of noise all the way. The grass and trees were all soldiers, and they fled to Drum City.

And here, the generals of Jinzhong were also panicked, Zhang Congen worried: "The Khitan has transferred all the people and horses from all over the country, and our soldiers are outnumbered, and the food in the city is less than ten days. It won't be long before we're all wiped out.

It is better to lead troops to eat Liyangcang now, and rely on the big river to resist the enemy army in the south. to be safe. The discussion was unresolved, Zhang Congen didn't care about others, and set off first with his troops and horses, and the armies couldn't, so they had to follow behind, and they were in turmoil. The soldiers couldn't find the general, the general couldn't find the soldiers, and they were as messy as when they set off from Xingzhou.

Zhang Congen was worried that the Khitan army was chasing too closely, so he left 500 infantry to guard the Anyang Bridge in a hurry. Fu Yanlun, who was in charge of Xiangzhou's affairs, said to the general: "The whole city is in chaos tonight, and people have no will to fight, how can they hold the bridge with only five hundred tired soldiers!" ”

After saying that, he ordered the men to be called into the city, and they held on to the city. At dawn, the soldiers defending the city rubbed their eyes and looked down at the city, only to see tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry already lined up in the north of Anyang Hebei.

Fu Yanlun was not in a hurry, let the soldiers in the city raise their banners, the Khitans had not seen the "Empty City Plan", and did not know the reality of the city, for the sake of safety, they had to bypass Xiangzhou and cross the water to the south, and the Later Jin Dynasty court hurriedly sent Zhang Yanze to lead the army to reinforce Xiangzhou this time.

Zhao Yanshou and the others only learned that Xiangzhou was empty after arriving in Tangyin, so they turned the horse's head and led the soldiers and horses to kill back to Xiangzhou City again, making the appearance of attacking the city, Fu Yanlun still said unhurriedly: "This is the prelude to Hulu's retreat." ”

Then he sent 500 heavily armed soldiers to wait in the north of the city, and soon the Khitan really retreated.

On the 23rd, Zhenwu Jiedu envoy Zhi attacked the Khitan from afar, surrounded Shengzhou, and then attacked Shuozhou. Ma Quan, the deputy envoy from the north, reported: "According to the surrenderers, there are not many captives, and they should take advantage of the opportunity for them to disperse and return to the tribe and attack Youzhou directly." ”

Shi Chonggui thought so, so he recruited troops from Zhudao to plan to recruit in person. The Khitans returned the army from Hengzhou, and sent the old, weak, sick and disabled to drive the cattle and sheep to swagger through the city of Qizhou.

Unexpectedly, the Khitan used elite cavalry to seize the city gate, resulting in the state soldiers unable to return to the city, Zhao Yanshou knew that the city of Qizhou was empty, and hurriedly led the Khitan soldiers to attack the city.

Shen Bin commanded the battle at the head of the city, and Zhao Yanshou said to him: "Shen Yuanjun, you are my old acquaintance, it is better to choose the light one than to choose the disaster, why don't you surrender early!" ”

Shen Bin said: "The father and son in the service were trapped on the side of Hu Lu because of miscalculation, and they endured the courage to lead dogs and sheep to destroy the state of their parents, and they did not think that they were ashamed and ashamed, but had the color of pride, why is this!" Even if Shen Bin is exhausted, he would rather die for the country than imitate what you do! The next day, the city fell, and Shen Bin committed suicide.

On the 19th, Shi Chonggui ordered the northern camp to recruit Dewey to lead the soldiers and horses of the Dao to join Ma Quanjie and others to march together.

On the ninth day of March, Dewey and other armies met in Dingzhou. On the 14th, the Jin army attacked the Khitan, and the Khitan Taizhou assassin Shi Jin Tingqian surrendered.

On the 18th, he captured the city and captured the Khitan chieftain Wura and his 2,000 soldiers. On the 19th, he seized the city of Sui.

Just when the army was in full swing and the prospects for the counterattack were very good, some of Zhao Yanshou's own soldiers who had surrendered reported: "Yelu Deguang has returned to Hubeikou, and I heard that the Jin army attacked Taizhou, and led the soldiers and horses to march south, with an army of about 80,000 people, and it is expected to be killed tomorrow night." Dewey and the others were frightened and hurriedly retreated to Taizhou.

On the 22nd, the Khitan army reached Taizhou, the Jin army retreated south, followed by the Khitan army, and the Jin army retreated to Yangcheng again.

On the 24th, the Khitan soldiers attacked in a big way, and the Jin army fought with them, barely expelling them for more than ten miles, and the Khitan crossed the white ditch.

On the 26th, the Jin army assembled into an array and continued to march south, and the Khitan soldiers once again surrounded from all directions, and the Jin army resisted vigorously, so that they could barely march more than ten miles.

On the 27th, the Jin army arrived at Baituanwei Village and planted antlers and firewood barriers to set up camp. The Khitan army surrounded the Jin army and sent troops around the village to cut off the Jin army's grain route.

In the evening of the same day, the northeast wind rose, the Jin army dug a well to get water, often just out of the water, the wellhead collapsed, the soldiers had to take out the mud with water, with a cloth twisted out of the water to drink and cook.

At dawn, the wind blew more fiercely, and Yelu Deguang ordered the three armies: "That's all there is to the Jin army, this time we must capture them all, and then take the girder directly!" ”

After that, he pulled out his long sword, ordered the Iron Harrier Army to dismount and pull out the antlers and firewood barriers, attack the camp, and fight with the Jin army in hand-to-hand combat, and set fire to the dust with the wind to help the momentum.

The soldiers of the Jin army were very angry and shouted: "Why don't you send troops to the soldiers, let the soldiers die in vain!" The generals asked to fight, and Dewey said, "Wait until the wind eases a little and see if you can fight." ”

Li Shouzhen objected: "There are many enemy soldiers and we have few people, in the wind and sand, we can't see who is more and who is less, and only by fighting hard can we win, this wind comes at the right time, if we wait until the wind stops, there will be only a few of us left." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Dewey's order, he immediately shouted: "All the armies are in unison, attack the thieves!" Then he turned back to Dewey contemptuously and said, "Ling Gong, you are good at guarding, and I, Li Shouzhen, have used the middle route army to fight the enemy to the death!" ”

Zhang Yanze also summoned the generals to ask what to do, and the generals all said: "Hu Lu is now getting a tailwind, and we should wait until the wind blows back before fighting them." ”

Zhang Yanze also thought so. After the generals withdrew, Chen Yuanfu, the deputy platoon of the right wing of the Ma Army, left Yao Yuanfu alone and said to Zhang Yanze: "Now the army has reached the extreme, if we wait for the wind to return, we will already become prisoners."

The enemy thinks that we cannot fight against the wind, and that we should attack them by surprise, which is the deceitful way of using troops. Fu Yanqing, the envoy of the left and right sides of the horse step, also said: "Instead of being captured, it is better to die for the country!" ”

In the end, the three generals reached an agreement and led the elite cavalry out of the West Gate to attack the Khitan with Huangfu Yu, and the Khitan array was suddenly impacted, and it retreated several hundred steps at once before it stabilized its position.

Fu Yanqing said to Li Shouzhen: "Do you want to drag the team back and forth, or keep attacking forward until you win?" Li Shouzhen said: "Things have come to this point, how can we turn the horse's head!" It should be driven until victory is achieved. ”

Fu Yanqing and others jumped off their horses, leading more than 10,000 cavalry to cross the Khitan army array, the cry shook the heavens and the earth, and in the end, the Khitan soldiers were defeated and left, like a mountain.

Li Shouzhen ordered the soldiers to pull out the antlers and go out to fight, and the infantry and cavalry attacked together, driving the Khitan soldiers north for more than 20 miles.

After the Khitan Iron Harrier Army dismounted, they didn't have time to get on their horses in a hurry, and they discarded the war horses and armor battles everywhere. The Khitan stragglers were defeated and reached the southeast water of Yangcheng, where they reorganized the array.

Dewey said: "The thieves have broken their courage, and they can't let him form an array anymore!" So he sent elite cavalry to pursue them, the Khitan soldiers all fled across the water, and Yelu Deguang fled more than ten miles in a chariot, and the pursuers were urgent, so he abandoned the chariot, jumped on a camel, and fled in a hurry.

The generals of the Jin army asked for a quick pursuit, and Dewey waved his hand and said, "I met the enemy and fortunately did not die, do you want to ask for further clothes?" ”

Li Shouzhen also said: "In the past two days, people and horses have been thirsty to the extreme, and now they have just drunk water, and their bodies are heavier, and it is difficult to chase after them.

It is better to protect the army and return to the division. So he retreated to Dingzhou. Over there, after Yelu Deguang fled back to Youzhou, he angrily beat the chiefs with hundreds of military rods before he was slightly relieved. In this way, the second Khitan invasion ended in failure. (To be continued......)