Theoretically, Yelu Hugo was right, there were still many regular forbidden soldiers and township soldiers in Song Jiu's hands, totaling more than 50,000 troops. But this is a defeated army, as long as you put it in your pocket, the Liao army will be impacted several times, and the land under your feet will be the Song Realm, then it will collapse in the blink of an eye, scatter and flee, and a happy harvest will begin.

But theory is theory, and practice is practice.

In Song Jiu's eyes, Yelu Xiuge was the god of war, and even regarded the two heavy generals of the Liao State, Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xuan, as a slightly smaller version of the invincible Li Jing and the wise general Li Ji.

However, since the two battles of Qigou Pass and Gaoliang River, almost sent Yelu Xiuge to the altar of God, at this time Yelu Xiuge is no longer the former Yelu Xiuge, after the battle of the Gentleman's Pavilion in history, Yelu Xiuge was even more proud and complacent, and then was picked up by Li Jilong, beaten and beaten again......

Mistakes begin.

Song Jiu heard that the army of the Liao State was chasing from behind, so he immediately set off, his target was the shrine temple more than ten miles away, where there was a small stream leading to the Juma River, in fact, it was a small stream, and there was a small lake on the side, the water source used to provide hundreds of thousands of troops was definitely insufficient, but the water source for providing 50,000 soldiers and horses was almost enough. And behind it there are several dirt hills, and some miscellaneous reeds and miscellaneous trees grow around it. What does this terrain mean?

That meant that it was good for the Song army to defend or engage in battle.

And it is closer to Baigoutun, only nearly thirty miles.

Tens of thousands of troops formed a phalanx more than a mile wide and three miles long, and rushed towards the shrine temple.

Five or six miles away from the shrine temple, the Liao army sniped the army, and the leader was the king of the north of the Liao country, Yelu Aweili, also called Yelu Puning. Because the intelligence of the Song Dynasty was inaccurate, he was once called Xiao Puning.

This person can also fight.

But he wasn't Jeruxiugo. even more neglected the strength of this mourning army, and Song Jiu was in Qigou Pass this time. Or in the process of escaping, he has been paying attention to giving the soldiers enough rest. Although they marched all night, in addition to Song Jiu's order to guard some soldiers just now, the rest of the main force all rested immediately, and they didn't sleep very well, but after so many days, everyone became accustomed to nature, and most of them quickly fell into a deep sleep.

I also rested for more than three hours, and the physical strength consumed by the one-night march was at least seventy percent restored.

There are also the generals who are deadly. All of them are good fighters. Some people say that in the battle of Qigou Pass, a sheep led a group of lions to fight, but in fact, this sheep should be one plus most of it, one is Zhao Kuangyi, and most of it is Cao Bin.

Behind him was the vast army of Liao, and there was no water or danger at this time, so Song Jiu only passed on one order: "Kill." ”

Several brave generals led their subordinates and rushed towards Yelu Aburi on the muddy and damp black soil.

At this time, the Song army lacked cavalry. It was impossible to think of a brilliant victory, and there was no need for this, all the Song army asked was to defeat this Liao army.

Yelu Awuli also had a lot of troops, but they were originally prepared to snipe at Heiludang on the west side of Baigoutun. Now it is equivalent to advancing the sniper location by nearly twenty miles. Of course, these twenty miles were nothing to the cavalry, but the previous arrangements were all in vain. And he is not very demanding. As long as the Song army can be blocked for more than half an hour, the Liao army will be killed. The mission is accomplished, and the enemy is somewhat underestimated.

In the face of the sudden fury of the Song army. Yelu Aweili obviously did not have a good preparation, and there were some mistakes in the command, and in the blink of an eye, the Song Dynasty rushed into the Liao army one by one.

Desperate.

Just a while, one by one the Liao soldiers were killed, the war horses were overturned, and the Liao army was defeated.

The Song army killed more than 2,000 people, but also killed nearly 2,000 Liao troops and captured more than 100 war horses.

When Jerushuge arrived, the Song army had already set up a fortification.

Although Yelu Hugo was a little annoyed, he still seriously thought about the strategy, first sent people to cut off the stream above, and then surrounded the Song army layer by layer, launched several attacks, and changed the strategy after no result, so that the soldiers kept harassing. After all, in order to advance lightly, the Song army did not have much food and grass, and even the weapons were not much.

This is his attempt to maintain the physical strength of his army, trapping the Song army to death, and if there are reinforcements to rescue, it is just right to surround the point to send reinforcements.

However, to his surprise, the besieged Song army continued to rest in turn, and none of the Song soldiers escaped, and in turn in the evening of the next day, they sent soldiers and horses from time to time to use the cover of night to counter harassment.

They are not the Song army that Yelu Hugo saw before, where there are too many miscellaneous soldiers, various archers, strong men, people, of course, there are still many township soldiers in this army, but most of them are semi-forbidden soldiers trained by the tenacious Hebei people on the border, and they are mourning soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of the two is completely different.

The counter-harassment continued until dawn, when Song was quiet.

The Liao army attacked again, although it repeatedly rushed into the Song army, but it was beaten back again and again.

On the night of the third day, Song Jun continued to counter harassment.

Jeruhugo gritted his teeth in anger.

But at the fourth watch of this night, suddenly the Song army formed a phalanx, which changed from harassment to breakthrough.

The Liao army was defenseless and tore the Song army apart with a big gap. Seeing that the casualties were gradually getting heavier, Yelu Hugo couldn't bear it anymore and gave an order for the Song army to break through. Positional warfare is unfavorable, so defeat them in a campaign of movement.

However, to his surprise, from beginning to end, no matter how the Liao army attacked, he never disrupted the phalanx of the Song army, let alone saw the Song soldier escape, even if he deliberately left a vacancy one by one, remind the Song army, you should escape from this direction.

The Song army withstood their attack, and suddenly marched from the fourth watch to the evening of the fourth day, and actually advanced more than 20 miles, which even made Yelu Xiuge doubt that they could successfully reach the city of Xiongzhou in three days if they continued to kill so fiercely.

However, Song Jiu saw that the Song soldiers had suffered heavy sacrifices, and the road of more than 20 miles was paved with blood.

When approaching Heiludang, he suddenly transferred troops to the south and inserted into the black pine forest more than a mile away.

The woods are not afraid, and the key is that this army enters the woods. Jeruxiu had no choice but to forcibly block the exit. Sit back and wait for the Song army to run out of ammunition and food.

But at this time, it was only ten miles away from Baigoutun, and it was only forty miles away from Xiongzhou City!

……

When Cui Yanjin arrived at Xiongzhou City with thousands of soldiers. It was when Song Jiu forcibly marched from the shrine temple.

Hearing that the Liao army was powerful and far away from Xiongzhou, Cui Yanjin was instigated again. It's not that he is greedy for life and afraid of death, he can beat him better than Cao Bin, if there is no him, he may not be able to win in the city. But because of the situation, I didn't dare to save it, this was not to save people, but to send them to death.

At this time. Yin Jilun came running.

Yin Jilun also has no good way, he only has two thousand light horses, what role does it play?

So he discussed with Cui Yanjin for a long time, and used a decree to let all the fort troops near the border gather together in Xiongzhou. Song Jiu had instructed the forts to strengthen their defenses, but the two of them didn't care.

A simple reason, the border of Hebei is very empty at this time, if Song Jiu's tens of thousands of Song troops are eaten, even if the forts can barely hold on. The Liao army could also easily whip south, and even make the capital in an emergency.

In fact, after Yelu Hugo ate the Song army by the Juma River in history, he went south again to pursue the Song Dynasty deserters. almost chased to Gaoyang Pass, and at this moment, Xiao Yanyan heard a news. After Pan Mei took Yunzhou, let Yunzhou settle down. Troops were quickly sent to the east along the Sangan River. Xiao Yanyan was afraid that the Liao army would go south, and the rear troops would be empty. Let Pan Mei occupy Youzhou, then the back road will be cut off, and he may put himself in danger. Therefore, he ordered Jerodhugo to withdraw his troops and divide his troops to assist Jerod.

This allowed tens of thousands of people to escape.

When the Song army failed, tens of thousands of people fled into Qigou Pass, there was grain and grass in the city, there were weapons, Yelu Xiuge considered that there would be sacrifices to attack them, it was not worth it, so he ignored these tens of thousands of people. The reason is the same as Song Jiu's retreat, and the Liao State did not pursue. The Liao army retreated north, and after dividing the troops into the mountains, tens of thousands of people fled south from Qigou Guancheng. It happened to be Xiao Yanyan's birthday, so the Liao army did not catch up, and tens of thousands of people were lucky to return to the Song Dynasty.

In fact, Song Jiu also fell into a misunderstanding of the fort.

Song Liao built many forts on the border, and Fan Zhongyan began to build more forts in the northwest in history. It can't be said that it doesn't work, it did, Yuan Hao once came to Chang'an, but since the dense forts stood on the border, Western Xia could no longer go straight in.

After the construction of the forts, the border security will be more secure in the future, but the most important point is people.

Without soldiers, these forts are just dead buildings.

Under an order, all the surrounding garrisons began to pour towards Xiongzhou City.

And as some archers and folk men withdrew to the rear and spread the deeds of Song Jiu, some fierce people spontaneously joined in with their gratitude.

Guan Jian is thousands of Yang Ye's cavalry went around in a big circle, and they also advanced to Xiongzhou City.

These forces are not enough, but Song Jiu's army is inside, and these forces are outside, so he has the strength to fight.

Cui Yanjin began to gather troops in Xiongzhou, preparing to advance into Baigoutun.

When Xiao Yanyan heard this, she sighed and ordered the withdrawal of the army.

She wasn't afraid, she was like that, she believed that her army was still capable of fighting. But after Guan Jianshan, Pan Mei's army is also advancing eastward, if it is a battle here, in the face of the tenacity of this Song army, even if the Liao army wins, it is also a miserable victory, then the entire Yanyun region may be completely lost.

Xiao Yanyan reluctantly looked at the broken flag in the black pine forest, and ordered to withdraw to Youzhou,

Song Jiu and tens of thousands of soldiers escaped death, Xiao Yanyan angrily used the dead bodies of tens of thousands of Song soldiers and civilians to build a corpse bone mountain on the border of Youzhou, called Jingguan, and called the skull platform, and used the Song soldiers to "shoot ghost arrows (Khitan sacrifice, kill people and sacrifice flags before sending troops, after the war, if the big sacrifice pushes out many prisoners, and then the three armies shoot indiscriminately, shoot the prisoners into hedgehogs, in order to sacrifice the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth)".

Zhao Kuangyi was relieved when he heard that Song Jiu had escaped safely, the front-line soldiers were no longer good, and Jiang was still old and spicy, so he transferred a group of veterans who did not lead the festival town to the front line. The soldiers and horses of Yingzhou were also deployed by Zhao Yanpu to guard Beizhou to prevent the Liao army from moving south.

He also ordered Pan Mei to move Yun Yinghuanshuo, the soldiers and civilians of the four states and a part of the Tuyuhun tribe in the four states to the Song realm.

If the so-called Three-Way Northern Expedition formulated by Zhao Kuangyi may have been a wrong policy, this edict itself was not much wrong, long before Zhao Kuangyi issued this edict, Song Jiu did so in Zhuozhou during the Battle of the Gaoliang River.

The population of the Song Dynasty was not large at this time, and there were also not many on the Liao side.

The people are the strength of the people.

At this time, Pan Mei's main force is approaching Flying Fox Pass, and the forwards are approaching Ulzhou, if Cao Bin is not defeated, it may theoretically let Pan Tian's soldiers and horses enter Youzhou. It won't take many days, maybe not for twenty days.

But it is actually impossible, they don't have many soldiers and horses in their hands, if Cao Bin doesn't make a mistake, then the main force of the Liao State will be placed on the battlefield behind the mountain, and Yelu is also the place of the demigods!

However, the plan must be implemented.

Xiao Yanyan Zhao Pai Ya led the soldiers of Hongyi Palace and the north and south leather room Langjun to drag the stab, and Yelu Shanbu, Han Dewei and other four armies, galloped to the aid of the oblique.

In the blink of an eye, Yelu Xian had 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, because most of the mountain was taken, Zhao Kuangyi was a little hesitant, and Tian Chongjin and Pan Mei had not yet received Zhao Kuangyi's retreat edict.

Tian Jinzhong felt that it was not very good, if Yelu was oblique, the two parts were combined, and they could still fight a dozen. However, there were still many Liao troops in Youzhou, so they decisively retreated from Ulzhou to Feihu Pass. But before retreating, let He Lingtu guard Anding County, seventy miles northeast of Ulzhou, you kid didn't say that the orphans and widows of Liao were easy to bully, so you should fight. He himself retreated with the main forces in great strides.

At this time, Pan Mei was separated by several mountains, and she didn't know what to do, thinking that she and Tian Chongjin would not be much weaker than the Liao army, and wanted to compete with Yelu in Ulzhou.

Yelu slanted and pounced on Anding, and He Lingtu was instantly defeated and fled to Ulzhou. Yelu Xian attacked Ulzhou, Pan Mei arrived first, and Yelu Xian sent the capital supervisor Yelu to set up an ambush and raid at a dangerous place. He Lingtu saw the arrival of reinforcements and forcibly broke through. Yelu struck him in the back with light cavalry, and both armies were defeated and fled to the Flying Fox Pass.

Yelu Xianzhen then pursued, and killed a number of Song troops under Feihu Pass, and the Liao State War reported that Yelu Xianzhen in Ulzhou killed 10,000 people, and killed 20,000 people in Feihu Pass, there will not be so many, but there are many, especially the people who accompanied the army, as well as the militia with little training, most of them were killed by Yelu Xianzhen.

Pan Mei once again led the army to rescue, but Tian Chongjin retreated first, his strength was limited, and it was difficult to speak alone, and he suffered a small setback in Hunyuan again and had to retreat to Shuozhou. It was only at this time that he officially received Zhao Kuangyi's retreat order.

As for the future warrior, where is he?

Li Jilong is taking over Yang Ye's work and arranging for the people to retreat in Yunzhou.

The Flying Fox Pass was defeated so quickly that Pan Mei didn't have time to think about it, so she retreated to Shuozhou. But a new problem also came, Zhao Kuangyi issued an edict to withdraw the people to the east of the river, but Yelu Xianzhen killed the red-eyed at this time, pointing where to fight, and now there are only two ways to go in front of Pan Mei, the first way is to retreat comprehensively, so first, no people want to bring it back, and maybe the red-eyed Yelu Xianzhen took advantage of the situation to be involved in Yanmen Pass with the Song army, and that matter was serious.

And now no one can figure out how many soldiers and horses the Liao State has sent over.

If Hedong is wrecked, Yelu Xiuge will go south to Hebei, and if it is not good, it will become a story in the Later Tang Dynasty, allowing the Liao people to enter the Central Plains.

There is another road, stubbornly resisting in Shuozhou and Huanzhou, fighting for a long time, the Liao army will go down, even if it retreats, it will not dare to enter Hedong, and it can still take time to let the people of Sizhou continue to migrate to Hedong from the rear.

The fate of Pan Mei, Yang Ye, and Wang Yu in history once again befell Pan Mei, Li Jilong, and Wang Yu. (To be continued......)