Chapter 499: Liankeshu County

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When Gao Yaxian said this, his eyes were scattered, and Su Dingfang shouted repeatedly: "Father-in-law! Father-in-law! ”

Gao Yaxian finally came to his senses, looked at Su Ding dialect and said, "At this moment in the battle, we will also try our best to be worthy of the King of Xia." Zhao Guo took Xia Guo, and within ten years, there will not be a day when he will forget the bloody battle of Gaoyang City today, and forget my Gao Yaxian, but I hope that in the future, Lord Zhao can treat the people of Hebei Li well. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Yaxian paused and said, "You lead the rest of the brothers to descend." This is your father-in-law's last wish, and you will do it. ”

"Father-in-law!" Su Dingfang said with tears in his eyes.

Gao Ya Xian said: "Hugh should be the child I hate the most, and the eldest husband should spare his useful body and do some deeds." You are still young, you don't need to accompany me, an old man, although King Zhao is from a humble background, he is a master, don't live up to your father's expectations of you. ”

Soon after finishing speaking, in the bitter crying of Su Dingfang and the soldiers, Gao Yaxian swallowed his last breath.

In the end, Su Dingfang and more than 100 Xia troops in the arsenal surrendered, and the siege general asked Xu Shiji for instructions, and Xu Shiji took them all in.

The bloody battle of Gaoyang came to an end, leaving behind the city of Gaoyang, which was almost turned into white land. Although the two armies did not intend to slaughter, the tragic street fighting left the residents of the city without two or three. After Gaoyang broke the city, Zhao Junzhong inspected the whole city with Xu Shiji, but saw that the traces of fierce battles in the city were still there.

The soldiers were busy collecting the corpses of the two armies, as well as civilians. The vehicles that pulled the corpses pushed cart after cart.

Seeing this scene, Xue Wanjun couldn't help but say: "The gain of capturing this Gaoyang City really outweighs the loss, if the Xia army fights to the death in every city." Our army will capture Hebei even in ten years. ”

Wei Chi said respectfully: "Until the last resort, it is better not to attack the city." The casualties of our army were also above three thousand. ”

General Zhao Quanting said: "Fortunately, the Xia army can hold on to the important city in Hebei, and there is only one city left. After the capture of Gaoyang City, the grain road between Youjing and Yuzhou has been opened, even if it is not through the Guò Yongji Canal, it can be reached by 6 roads. ”

Xu Shiji nodded when he heard this, and said: "The generals said very much, all the soldiers have worked hard today, and they will rest for a day." Reward the three armies, and tomorrow go south to attack Xia, and send a good news to Liyang, saying that our army has captured Gaoyang City. ”

After the news of the fall of Gaoyang City for the Zhao army came out, the cities of Hejian, Xindu, and Xia were defended. There is no longer a will to fight, and they are all looking at the wind. First of all, Hejian County merged with the county, and then Xindu County was also attacked by the grassland cavalry of Yinghefu and Eto, and the whole county was subdued.

The general of Yinghefu begged for a technique, and even led a light horse. Broke through Julu City in Xiangguo County, Li Tang, and directly entered the territory of Wu'an County. To the north of Liu Heimin's base camp in Zhaozhou, there were already cavalry scouts from the Murdexi Division.

At the same time, the Western Route Army broke through, and the Western Route Army led by Guo Xiaoke also continued to advance.

The Western Route Army had a total of 15,000 men. Most of them are deacon, Ding Ling's soldiers. and the Han army township soldiers in Liaoxi County, after capturing Yanshan County, Bohai County, Guo Xiaoke led the army south with Tudiji as the vanguard.

Entrenched in the Plains County Caokou Li Deyi, was originally Liu Badao's old department, Liu Badao was in the Plains at the beginning, and his subordinates gathered tens of thousands, called the Uncle Army, entrenched in Douzihang, and was also a prince in the righteous army. After Liu Badao's death, Li Deyi continued to command his troops and was still called Uncle Army.

Li Deyi fought guerrilla warfare in the Bohai Sea and the plains for several years, but since Li Badao's death, his uncle's army has been getting worse, and the nearby small counties and small towns have been taken down, and the rest are all big counties and big cities. Uncle's army couldn't attack it at all. Later, when he heard that the Zhao army was coming to attack the Xia army, and saw that the Zhao army was huge, Li Deyi immediately took the initiative to lead tens of thousands of grass soldiers to take the initiative to subdue.

Guo Xiaoke was born in a reckless manner, and he did not refuse a grass man like Li Deyi. At the moment, Guo Xiaoke made his own initiative and replaced Tudi Ji, so that Li Deyi's tens of thousands of grass coquets were the pioneers to open the way.

Li Deyi agreed, and immediately led his uncle's army to open the way in front. As a righteous army across the Bohai Sea, the uncle's army is the head snake of the land, and they are all familiar with the road in this Hebei region. So along the way through Xia Junzhou County, I saw a similar scene.

In front of them are thousands of light horses, no saddles, cavalry riding bareback war horses, in front of the mountains to open the road, a few crooked books with the three characters of the uncle's army broken flags to the wind. Thirty or forty thousand horses, soldiers with nails, hoes, axes, and tattered clothes crossed the border like flowers.

Behind the uncle's army, thousands of brave and fierce cavalry swept in, followed by the well-equipped infantry of the Zhao army, and the soldiers of Ding Lingbu.

Every time he encountered a city on the road, the Zhao army first pressed the formation in the rear, and the uncle army stepped forward with a banner, intimidating all kinds of people under the city, Li Deyi simply erected two flags, one side said that the whole city surrendered, and the autumn did not commit any crimes, and the other side said that if it was stubborn, the city would be washed after the city was broken.

The defenders in the city were disdainful when they saw the uncle's army like a chaotic people, but when they saw the Zhao soldiers and horses in the rear, they didn't dare to slack off.

It is rare for the grass and the regular army to merge, but the Zhao army has a reputation for being good at fighting, and the uncle army is the head snake of the land, how can the two sides join forces with the cities of Bohai County to resist. In this way, the officials and defenders of the cities in the Bohai Sea surrendered one after another.

For the surrendered city, Guo Xiaoke only left a few men and horses to garrison outside, and keeping his promise was really not guilty of any crime. Guo Xiaoke even sent the surrendered Xia military officers with the army, so that they could show up and say the surrender for the Zhao army in the cities along the way.

In this way, the effect was very good, and Zhao Jun broke through seven cities in a row, but hit a nail under the city of Zhiyang Xincheng in Bohai County.

The county guard of the Xia army said that he would not surrender, so Guo Xiaoke and Li Deyi led the Zhao army and the uncle's army to attack the city. In just half a day, the city was breached by the Zhao army, which outnumbered the defenders by ten times. After the county guard broke the city, he committed suicide by swallowing gold, and Guo Xiaoke obeyed his promise and asked his uncle's army to wash the city of Yangxin City.

With the example of Yangxin, all counties in Hebei are now subservient to Guo Xiaoke's obscenity. Many city defenders surrendered the whole city early before the banner of the uncle's army arrived. Guo Xiaoke, Li Deyi led the army almost bloodless, all the way to the south, even breaking the Bohai Sea, the two counties of the plain, as if entering a no-man's land.

The smooth progress of its progress was not only unexpected by Guo Xiaoke himself, but also by Wen Yanbo, who was sitting in the rear base camp, exclaimed.

At present, the battle situation of the Zhao army is that Li Chongjiu's 30,000 army is alone in the depth, in Wei Chigong's Western Route Army in Xindu was frustrated by Liu Heimin's fire, returned to the river to join Xu Shiji, Xu Shiji's middle route army in Gaoyang City, is still a bloody battle, but Guo Xiaoke as a partial army, rushed into 500 miles, broke 19 cities, and took the lead in attacking Qinghe County.

Even Xu Shiji, who fought hard in Gaoyang City, shook his head again and again when he heard the news that Guo Xiaoke had captured the two counties, saying that this general who was born in Wagang with him was really amazing.

When Guo Xiaoke's men entered Qinghe County, the county governor of Qinghe County was in the Qing Dynasty, and the important town of Guantao had already surrendered as early as when Li Chong's 930,000 naval army attacked along the river. Guo Xiaoke's East Route Army's road ahead is even more unimpeded, Guo Xiaoke, Li Deyi took advantage of the situation to enter the Taocheng Pavilion and sit here. Guo Xiaoke immediately sent 6,000 cavalry to cross the Yongji Canal and gallop to the aid of Liyang City.

This time, the rest of the counties in Qinghe County, even the banner of the Zhao Army did not wait, and the county guards who were still waiting and watching consciously surrendered on their own initiative, and Qinghe County was roughly pacified.

In fact, after the Zhao Jundong Road army arrived in Linqing, the back road of Liyang City had been opened, and Li Chongjiu was no longer alone in Liyang City.

Li Chongjiu's battle against Liu Heimin in Hebei is already very clear. Liu Heimin was trapped in Zhaozhou and couldn't move, and Li Chongjiu's Liyang, although Li Shentong and Wang Bo's armies were attacking left and right, it seemed that they were in a difficult situation.

However, with the arrival of Guo Xiaoke's army in Linqing, Tudiji's Shen Ya cavalry had two or three more days, that is, to reinforce Liyang City, and the grassland cavalry could also reach Zhaozhou in a few days, and Xu Shiji, Wei Chigong's Zhao Junfu army could also arrive in Zhaozhou within ten days.

Therefore, even Wang Bo was going to plunder in Wuyang County, but he was afraid of the arrival of the main force of the Zhao army, and he also retreated across the Yellow River.

Li Chongjiu, who was sitting in Liyang City, heard that Guo Xiaoke's East Route Army was making progress, and he had arrived in Linqing and sent the news that Tudi Ji came to help. At the same time, Xue Wanche and Luo Shixin sent news from Qishui that they had broken Li Shentong's grain fleet on the bank of the Yongji Canal and burned more than a dozen Tang army grain ships.

After Li Chongjiu heard the news, he couldn't help but smile, and Xue Wanshu said to Li Chongjiu: "The army led by Tudi Ji has arrived, and the safety of Liyang City is worry-free, and it is an opportunity to go out of the city to defeat Li Shentong." ”

Li Chongjiu nodded and said: "With this intention, the order will be sent down, leaving 3,000 soldiers to guard Liyang City, and the remaining 5,000 men and horses to go out of the city, and order Li Wenxiang to lead the army from Hebei to Qishui and join me." ”

After Li Chongjiu gave an order, he left Xue Wanshu to sit in Liyang.

He personally led 5,000 soldiers out of the city, and at the same time, Li Wenxiang led 8,000 troops from Hebei to descend to Qishui to join Li Chongjiu. Li Chongjiu set up camp five miles away from the Tang Army's camp. At that moment, Li Chongjiu and Li Shentong's 20,000 Tang troops were facing each other across Qishui. And Xue Wanche and Luo Shixin's 2,000 cavalry cruised on the rear road of the Tang army, threatening the Tang army's grain route.

Li Chongjiu looked at the Tang army camp from afar, and he speculated that with Li Shentong's current situation, he would either make a desperate decisive battle with himself and force himself back, or take advantage of his 6,000 cavalry to retreat decisively.

What choice will Lee make?

And this question, in fact, Li Shentong, who is on the other side of Qishui, doesn't know how to answer. The defeat of the Xia army was like a mountain, and the speed of the Zhao army's march was far beyond Li Shentong's prediction, as Li Yuan said, yesterday was still plugging the horses, and today it is already drinking horses and the Yellow River.

Liu Heimin is now powerless except to be trapped in Zhaozhou. Li Shentong is now facing a situation in which the Zhao army is rushing towards Liyang from all directions.