Mi Xin could not answer.

In fact, Song Jiu didn't guess completely right, Yelu Xiu's invitation to peace played a role in delaying time, but the entire strategy of the Liao State changed.

The Song army acted very quickly this time, and Zhao Kuangyi in front of him said that he wanted to go on a northern expedition through the mouths of the generals of the He family and his son, and the three-way army in the back started, and it was indeed caught off guard at the beginning of the Liao State. Therefore, at the beginning, Yelu Hugo retreated in Youzhou City, in order to avoid the sharpness of the Song army, and wanted to delay time, so that the three armies would first repel the Song army on the weak Central and Western Road, and then come to the rescue of Youzhou.

Then because of the incompetence of the Song army, it was actually Cao Bin's incompetence, so the strategy was changing, and it was decided to let Yelu Xianzhen go to Ulzhou and the Sanggan River to snipe first.

and then mobilized the main force to come to Youzhou, and even Xiao Yanyan and the little emperor of Liao himself came to the front line in person, and even they brought a woman......

Then 100,000 soldiers and horses marched towards Yanshan.

Darkness is coming!

……

In a heavy rain, countless iron cavalry of the Liao State scattered into small teams and brigades, active in the area from Zhuozhou to Qigouguan.

Jeruhugo finally showed his fierce teeth.

Because Cao Bin was harassed by Yelu Huge tirelessly, he put a lot of grain, grass and baggage in Qigou Pass, and the army quickly marched to Zhuozhou. It should be said that there is nothing wrong with it, it is placed in Qigou Pass, not in Xiongzhou, not far from Zhuozhou, and can be escorted by troops at any time. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses arrived in Zhuozhou, and Zhuozhou City could not accommodate it.

However, this is the case, and Jeruxiu cut off the grain route.

Even Cao Bin sent fifty messengers to the rear. Only two returned safely.

Something big is going to happen.

"Report!" A light horse hurriedly broke into the big tent of the Chinese army, turned over and dismounted and shouted.

"Report, the Empress Dowager of Liao and the emperor have arrived at Huoluokou (near Nankou Town, Beijing), with 100,000 soldiers."

"Report, the Liao army rested here for two days to recuperate, and at the same time, there was a steady stream of rear troops."

The commander and the commander were discussing what to do, and they were all stunned when they heard the information that the scout had come back from risking his life.

Even if there were 100,000 Liao troops, the strength was still not as large as the Song army. Since the war between the two countries. The Song army has also won more with less many times. But the situation is different. This is in Zhuozhou, the Liao army defends the country and has high morale. The royal drive will be more enthusiastic. The fatal thing was while waiting for reinforcements to arrive from the rear. The troops who came in advance got a good rest.

What about Song Jun again?

As Song Jiu said. Tossing all the way, people are sleepy and demoralized.

Then look at the terrain. It is not too far from Zhuozhou to Qigou Pass, two or three miles, but this trip, with a lot of baggage, grain and grass, and a large number of untrained people, how many miles can you travel in a day?

Huoluokou is not far from the victory of the Yelu Xianzhen garrison in the battle of Gaoliang River, and it is one of the throats of Yanshan leading to the north, not to mention the safe withdrawal from Zhuozhou to the rear, that is, before withdrawing to Qigou Pass, the Liao army may catch up.

Cui Yanjin said angrily: "This army ran to death. ”

He blamed Cao Bin, if it weren't for Cao Bin's mistake, he lost the grain and grass, and then withdrew to Xiongzhou to eat. Then it took more than 20 days from Xiongzhou to come to Zhuozhou again, resulting in exhaustion from top to bottom, just by virtue of the troops in his hands, and the strength of a battle, now he is fighting a fart.

Cui Yanjin said again: "Song Xianggong, we listen to you." ”

Cao Bin can't do it, he has to be replaced, of course he won't let himself go, so he proposed to let Song Jiu take the position and turn the tide.

Song Jiu smiled bitterly: "Let's work together." ”

Whoever makes the decision at this time will be unlucky afterwards. However, Cui Yanjin did not deliberately want to pit Song Jiu, and Song Jiu's various predictions before made Cui Yanjin have a fluke mentality.

Song Jiu is also not afraid to take responsibility, but to the point of being terminally ill, don't say it's him, I'm afraid that he will switch places with Yelu Xiuge, and Yelu Xiuge will have no good way.

But as Cui Yanjin said, if there is a big defeat, it is not the Liao army that defeats the Song army, but the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses that Cao Bin will toss and defeat.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the situation is critical, so let's put aside our prejudices." Song Jiu said again.

It was quiet in the big tent, but the rain was falling more and more, and it gradually became a torrential trend.

Everyone looked at the pouring rain outside, and suddenly their eyes showed joy.

It's a good time to retreat.

This heavy rain will make the Liao cavalry and bows and arrows more powerful.

But no one spoke.

This retreat means that all the plans formulated by Zhao Kuangyi have failed, and whoever proposes it will have to take responsibility.

Cao Bin sighed and said, "Withdraw." ”

Then he said: "Order the three armies, because the Liao army harassed the rear and there was not much food in the army, withdraw to Qigou Pass." ”

Not a single general spoke.

This is probably the only thing Cao Bin did right in the army, the first to say that there was a shortage of food to withdraw the troops, not to withdraw the troops in fear of war, and the court was not easy to blame at that time. Secondly, if the troops are withdrawn due to lack of food, the soldiers below do not know the truth of the road, so they will not panic, otherwise the Liao army will not arrive, the three armies will be in chaos together, and hundreds of thousands of troops will be in chaos, and no one will be able to clean it up, and it will collapse without a fight. No one dares to take this responsibility.

Cao Bin looked at Lu Bin again and said, "General Lu, I will give you 10,000 soldiers, and you can guard Zhuozhou City." ”

Lu Bin was dumbfounded, and immediately said: "Zhuozhou is deep in the north, there are no reinforcements outside, there is no food inside, the Ding nationality is lost, and it is not profitable to defend it. ”

We're not stupid, Zhuozhou is on a sharp corner, and the lone army is here, how to defend it?

Cao Bin didn't dare to give an order forcibly, otherwise Lu Bin would quarrel and the news would reach the army, and the consequences would be serious. So he thought about it and asked Lu Bin to take the people in the city to transfer from Wolf Mountain to the direction of the Song Dynasty.

The idea seems to be good, in the battle of Gaoliang River, Song Jiu ordered that many of the people of Zhuozhou were captured and brought back to the Song Dynasty, and these people may not have gone on the road to happiness. But there were still some people who were not taken away that time, and it was impossible for the Liao State to ignore the emptiness of such a large area later. And some people were migrated.

Cao Bin's intention is very simple, this is also a fortune, can Brother Yelu be saved? must be saved, as soon as he is saved, his soldiers will be divided, then the entire army will be safely withdrawn to the Song Dynasty.

Lu Bin is sad, why is it still him?

Maybe Cao Bin is right, but he will be more dangerous than staying in Zhuozhou City.

But this time, what excuse could he find to excuse himself?

The rain was dense and dense, the sky was full of dark clouds, like a high mountain like a devil, and the raindrops almost made people unable to open their eyes.

Song Jiu walked out of the big tent. Xiang Yang Ye, Liu Zhixin and Fu Zhaoshou gave a look. He came to Shi Jue's side in a low voice and said, "General Shi, you try to protect your weapons, as for food." If you can, you can bring it. If you can't bring it, you won't bring it. ”

Shi Qi nodded.

The grain is too bulky. In case the Liao Kingdom chases after it, it will become a burden. Although the grain was transported to Zhuozhou, the cost increased dozens of times.

In fact, he didn't want to take the weapon with him.

The most important thing now is to travel light.

The truth is that it's best to travel light. All the grain, grass, materials, and armor, and even tens of thousands of people were thrown down together, so that they could reach Qigou Pass in more than a day, Baigou in three days, and Xiongzhou City in five days at most. As soon as he arrived in Xiongzhou City, the time, place and people were all on the side of the Song Dynasty.

Yet who dares to say?

Before the fight, tens of thousands of ordinary people will be left behind, so wait for Zhao Kuangyi to issue an edict to divide the corpses of the five horses.

In fact, there is another way, that is, Jiaozhao, now everyone is tired and war-weary, only Jiaozhao, saying that the emperor issued an edict to stop the Northern Expedition, then the morale of the army and the people will come up together, and they will withdraw in great strides. However, someone dares to change Zhao Kuangyi's plan, do they dare to correct this edict? That's the end of the Northern Expedition.

So in the heavy rain, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians slowly retreated to Qigou Pass, and from time to time someone was scolding his mother.

They don't know the truth of the road, so it's hard to understand, even if the command is wrong, they have to choose a good weather to retreat. In addition, the military judges shouted and scolded and beat and urged all the way, and almost the whole army complained.

Song Jiu couldn't care about this, and called Fu Zhaoshou over: "Erlang, can I do what I asked you to do?" ”

"It's done, Yang Ye's subordinates, my subordinates, or Zhixin's subordinates, I have made a promise, as long as they obey the transfer, after going back, I will reward each of them with twenty pieces of cotton cloth, a number of money silks, and soldiers who are usually well trained and have good military discipline, I also made a promise."

"If you quietly pass the order down, if you obey the command and fight bravely, after you go back, each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, ten horses of silk, and fifty catties of tea. But if you don't obey the command, you will have nothing when you go back. Remember, I will whisper it to the commanders, and if they do a good job, I will use my authority to reward them when they return. They're the ones who matter. ”

"Okay, with Jiulang's words, it should be worth a million dollars." Fu Zhaoshou went down.

Song Jiu quietly gave an order, asking Liu Zhixin and Shi Qi to lead their subordinates to quietly approach the front.

Yang Ye is moving forward, his subordinates are at the front, if you put aside the truth, the front is the most dangerous place, Yelu Xiuge keeps harassing, the front has to fight, but in fact, the front is the safest place.

Amid the cries and curses, the army marched slowly.

On the third day, he barely arrived at Qigou Pass.

However, Yelu Huge had already rushed over with the 100,000 Mobei reinforcements brought by Xiao Yanyan.

When the Song army saw the Liao army rushing over, it was in chaos, but at this time, there were not many soldiers who really wanted to escape.

Almost all the elite soldiers of the whole country are here, some asking for weapons to fight, some organizing their men to resist. But because of the chaos, orders could not be issued, and the defense measures were not organized at all. Even the crossbowmen on the periphery just fired their arrows aimlessly.

Seeing that a big defeat is coming.

First was the general Cai Yu, as soon as the two armies clashed, he changed his clothes and fled, and the pioneer Xue Jizhao was also clamoring to retreat. The two generals took the lead in being greedy for life and afraid of death, so that the Song army immediately lost its fighting spirit.

Cui Yanjin and Mi Xin took a look, it seems that if it is not done well, the whole army will be wiped out, we are famous, but we don't carry this black bag for Cao Bin, seeing that there is a Song army in front of them resisting the impact of the Liao army, they took their subordinates to break away from the main force and fled to the border of the Song Dynasty from another road.

Cao Bin turned his head to see that he had also become shameless, and with the help of nightfall, he ordered his brave generals to wait for Chang Side to protect his safety and flee to the Juma River.

The Lord will flee, and it will not be like last time. With Pan Mei and others presiding over the overall situation, the three armies immediately collapsed.

But just when the three armies were in chaos, Song Jiu had already gathered Yang Ye, Fu Zhaoshou and Liu Zhixin, as well as Shi Qi's subordinates.

In fact, a few subordinates had nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses, but at this time there were only more than 10,000 people. If it weren't for Song Jiu's sky-high reward, it is estimated that there would be more soldiers who escaped.

Song Jiu took advantage of the faint light of a few torches and looked ahead, Yelu Hugo had already led his soldiers and horses to tear apart the defensive line of the Song army and began to harvest. Look at the rear again, the back is the Juma River, strictly speaking, it is Laishui.

Over the water. It is the Dongyi Prefecture controlled by the Song Dynasty. Here, the Song Dynasty successively built defensive fortresses such as Suicheng, Mancheng, and Rongcheng. Maybe it's safe to cross the river. However, the Song army wore armor, and most of the soldiers were from the north and did not know the nature of water. When they reached the middle of the river, they sank. In a blink of an eye. Countless dead bodies emerged downstream. The river was almost filled, and because of the heavy rain, the river flooded violently. In the blink of an eye, he rushed downstream. Then under the six gods of the Song army, the soldiers and people behind rushed forward one after another, regardless of the danger, and continued to rush down the Juma River, the sound of struggle in the river, the sound of help, shouting, crying, resounded into a ball.

Song Jiu said: "Li Jixuan, pass the word for me." ”

"Whoa."

"Brothers, I'm Song Jiu."

Of course, this is nonsense, there are a few people who don't know Song Jiu.

However, most of the soldiers were the same as Song Jiu just now, looking forward and looking behind, their whole bodies were terrified, but now because of Song Jiu, there are more than 10,000 people, and their hearts should be a little calmer.

"Brothers, you have also seen that if the army is defeated, most of them will drown if they jump into the river, but even if they swim across the river, without weapons, physical strength, and food and grass, will the Liao army not cross the river to pursue? We came from Xiongzhou, where did the Liao army start harassing, Baigou. Just ask you like this, can you escape the long Baigou section? ”

Some soldiers had confusion in their eyes, and some soldiers let out sobs.

"The generals will mislead the country, they are afraid of death, but they may not be able to escape back safely, and the Liao army is terrible? Over the years, our dynasty has fought against the Liao army and has been defeated several times. Anyway, if you die, why don't you die a little more heroically. Yang Yanzhao raised the banner of his own official. Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to run away in shame, run away. If you are in favor of the official, then go with the official to kill the enemy. ”

Shi Qi was stunned and said, "I want to fight." ”

"General Shi, it is impossible to defeat the Liao army, not to fight, but to win time. You quietly go to the back and give an order for your own officer, the three armies should not panic, and immediately send people to build a pontoon bridge to cross the river, otherwise most of them will die in the Juma River without a fight. ”

This is the strategy that Song Jiu and Yang Ye came up with.

Of course, they don't know where the Dao will collapse.

But because of Cao Bin's incompetence, he will be centrifuged up and down, and once he is defeated, he will fight separately and lose very badly.

At this time, as long as there is an elite army in front of the bloody battle, the army will be stabilized, even if it escapes, it will win time for the army to escape, and the second can stabilize the formation. But I didn't expect to lose so badly, and I didn't expect the three coaches Cao Bin, Mi Xin, and Cui Yanjin to take the lead in escaping.

There was some fear in Shi Qi's eyes.

"General Shi, your reputation is not very good, even if you have done a lot of political achievements in the local area, but there are still many people who say that you buy people's hearts. Since ancient times, who has not died, leaving Dan to take care of the sweat, whether you can reverse your reputation is here. ”

"Song Xianggong, but by order." Shi Jue said again: "You are not afraid of death, what are we old guys afraid of death." ”

"Okay." Song Jiu high-fived him.

"Wang Zhen, raise the flag. Everyone rushes with their own officials. Song Jiu said, patting the horse and rushing towards the front line.

In fact, at this time, the Song army was really fierce, and even now, there are still many Song troops who are still stubbornly fighting on their own. There are indeed various reasons for the formation of this situation, but the three main generals Cao Bin, Mi Xin, and Cui Yanjin are greedy for life and afraid of death, which leads to the deterioration of the situation.

There is also Song Jiu who does not put on a show, and he is also loved by soldiers in the army.

Of the more than 10,000 soldiers, only a few hesitated in their eyes, and even a very few people stood still, waiting for the big guys to rush up, but they took the opportunity to slip behind. But most people saw Song Jiu taking the lead, and their blood boiled for a while, and they rushed up together. Even some people in the nearby Song Army saw the Song Jiujun flag and spontaneously joined.

The battlefield for more than ten miles was bleak, but in the middle, there was an army going upstream, like a meteor cutting through the dark sky. (To be continued......)