On the evening of the fourth day, the Liao army arrived at the southern suburbs of Julu.

The speed of the march was not fast, Xiao Tzu Lin saw that the logistics of the three armies were insufficient, and the grain and grass were insufficient, and there happened to be a large stockade along the way, so he ordered an attack and prepared to wash this stockade. Fortunately, at this time, the order of Hebei officials had been sent to various villages, and the number of people in several small villages nearby was small, and there was no wall to build the wall, so they brought grain, grass, livestock and wealth, and entered this village under the leadership of various senior household chiefs and village soldiers.

There are more than 300 households in the village, as well as nearly 100 village soldiers, and even ordinary Ding Zhuang has some rough bows and arrows in his hands.

Under the leadership of the villagers, hundreds of families launched a heroic resistance.

Only then did he buy time for Li Jilong, and sent Yang Qiong and Tian Min to lead the Xianping army to arrive.

Xiao Tzu Rin fought and fled, otherwise he would be dying, and he would have plagued more than a thousand people of the Song Dynasty.

There was a delay, and it was delayed until the evening, and then the new battlefield arrived.

Yang Tian and the others have been entangled behind the Liao army, and Ma Zhijie and Shi Baoji led their troops to catch up again. Xiao Tzu Rin was about to order another withdrawal, Li Jixuan and Liu Yong rested for a day in Julu County, and then stopped and killed.

In fact, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were still such soldiers, and even divided their troops into Gaoyang Pass, and many soldiers were thrown behind, and although the Song army won a great victory, the losses were not small, if it were not for the Liao army being entangled by the Song army, the speed could not be fast, I am afraid that the back army would also be left behind.

However, Li Jilong kept letting the cavalry take turns to march overnight, and then stopped in front to attack, so the Liao army had an illusion that they didn't know how many cavalry there were in the Song Dynasty.

Once this thought is generated, what morale is there?

The melee lasted until the second watch, and Xiao Tzu Rin fled with the Liao army to the east of Julu County through the town. At noon, not even a small village was captured, let alone this town. Didn't enter the town. Instead, they camped in an escaped village on the west side of the town.

This is also his inevitable choice, there is a large lake on the west side of Julu County. The continent is half the size of Taihu Lake in later generations, and it is now frozen, but such a big lake, if it is not sealed, tens of thousands of cavalry will escape from it, it will be very dangerous.

By this time, the three armies were exhausted and miserable, and they didn't even want Yelu Longxu's dragon drive. To run for your life.

The emperor of Liao and some important people moved to the house, and even found dozens of quilts, so let the emperor warm up first. As for the ordinary soldiers, continue to cover the straw quilts.

However, several heavyweights sat in the room in a daze.

They can't understand how many cavalry came from the Song Dynasty? Why is it so difficult to escape?

Why do you dare to go deeper, it is because the cavalry of the Song Dynasty is small, and I also know that there are a lot of Lu Dao now, but compared to the Liao army. Still very little. In addition, the Liao army has a large number of troops, and it is fighting on the plains, even if it is unfavorable, it can take advantage of the advantage of speed to retreat.

This is where the confidence of the Liao army dares to go deeper.

Half a day later. Xiao Tzu Rin looked at Xiao Xiaoyou and said, "You take a group of people, change your armor, and pretend to be a civilian." sneak back to our country first, and ask the emperor's brother to send reinforcements. ”

"I'm afraid it's too late."

How long has this been going to come and go? And the Liao State brought out almost all the troops. You can call up a temporary army, and even have plenty of time. It can also call up more than 100,000 troops. But how long does that take?

"Just in case, there are not many troops from here to Jizhou, Shenzhou, and Qizhou, and the Song Dynasty."

"There are also not many troops left on the front line of the Song Dynasty now."

"It's not much, but we can't get rid of the tens of thousands of Song cavalry behind us, we can't get rid of it, the Song army in front of us is dispatched, and our soldiers and horses are getting fewer and fewer, and we will immediately fall into an encirclement."

Xiao Xiaoyou was silent.

In fact, he is not afraid of far, if there are no other factors to hinder him, let the Liao army throw off his arms and escape, he can escape from Shanzhou to Yishui Hebei in three days, this is still with a large army, otherwise it can be faster, and he can finish this hard road in two days.

I am not afraid of the various villages and city checkpoints along the way, which are mostly plains, even if it takes dozens of miles to detour, it is not a big problem for the cavalry.

What I am afraid of is that I will be entangled, Cao Bin was entangled by Brother Yelu Hugh back then, and he walked for nearly 20 days for a hundred miles. Song Jiu was entangled by the Liao army, less than a hundred miles away, and fought bloodily for seven or eight days before he escaped.

Half of the escape is complete, but how many days does that half have to take?

Xiao Xiaoyou was silent for a while and said, "I agreed." ”

This person is also a talent, but in this battle, the Liao army doesn't know how many talents have died.

He began to abscond north overnight with a dozen soldiers in civilian clothes.

However, he was also hard along the way, the Xiongnu lived in the location of the Khitan tribe during the Warring States Period, Xianbei rose after the fall of the Xiongnu, and the Yuwen Department was active in the area of the West Liao River and the Laoha River during the Three Kingdoms, east to Weiyuan (upper reaches of the Luan River), west to Liucheng (west of Chaoyang), the former Yan Murong Hao annihilated the Yuwen Ministry, and then the fleeing Yuwen herdsmen formed a new alliance with other tribes, Ku Moxi. The Khitan is a race that broke away from Kumoxi.

Therefore, the Song people often called the Khitan Huns.

This statement is also a little wrong, it can only be said that their bloodline is mainly Xiongnu blood, but it melts the blood of Xianbei, all kinds of Xi people, and other Hu people, so the appearance has a significant Donghu appearance, deep eyes, many Hu, high nose......

Xiao Xiaoyou began to abscond safely.

It is true that the Song Dynasty in the north now has not many troops, and it cannot be stationed everywhere, which will not have an effect, so it can only be tightened at two ends, one south and one north. The middle is empty, the Liao army is coming, all of them hide in the villages with tall walls, or in the towns, the main force of the Liao army is gone, all of them are dispatched, and the defeated deserters of the Liao army are hunted down.

Now the Liao army is nearby, no village soldiers and people dare to come out to search for deserters, so they began to walk very safely, but just approached the territory of Gaoyang Pass, they were discovered by the Song army scouts, fortunately he advanced lightly, there were few people, and he was smart and brave, fighting all the way, and finally escaped Yishui. At that time, there were only two soldiers with him.

Xiao Xiaoquan didn't care how many injuries he had suffered, and continued to run all the way and fled to Zhongjing in Liao. Tell the news, and then cry loudly. But soon he froze...... Power is also poison!

Xiao Xiaoyou ran wildly all the way, but he didn't have long to go. Something big happened in the Liao army.

Xiao Tzu Rin had just fallen asleep in front of him, and was awakened by a shout of killing in the back.

Could it be that the Song army attacked at night, and he got up with a bone.

It has nothing to do with Song Jun.

In this way, the morale of the Song army will also be fatigued by marching all the way and fighting all the way. Li Jilong didn't need to do that stupid thing.

However, the Liao army began to mutinied.

Li Jilong received a letter from Song Jiu, which contained a series of arrangements and suggestions.

On the surface, it is a suggestion, because Li Jilong is now the first commander of the three armies, and in Lanzhou City, Zhao Heng gave the Son of Heaven the sword, and gave him the right to transfer all the people below Song Jiuqi. Even the military justice was enforced, and until Zhao Heng took back this right, Li Jilongming had the power of life and death under one person and above hundreds of millions of people.

But Li Jilong is not a fool, can he take it seriously?

It can only be said that this temporary grant of power has brought him great convenience in commanding.

Song Jiu said that it was a suggestion, but he actually had to take it as an order.

So Li Jilong carried it out and sent Li Chongzhi to shout.

Why did he send Li Chongzhi to go, because Li Chongzhi was originally a heavy general of the Liao State. Those who surrendered to the Song Dynasty after being captured by Yang Ye are now reused in the Song army and have become one of the more than 60 important generals in this conference.

If he really rows, he is only under more than a dozen generals such as Li Jixuan, Yang Yanzhao, Tian Min, Jing Si, Wei Neng, Sun Quanzhao, Zhang Ning, Ma Zhijie, and Yang Qiong. Of course, these dozen or so tiger generals are all famous and fierce generals, and the imperial court will focus on training them in order to the future. It also makes sense.

But it is above more than 20 generals such as Liu Yong and Li Qi. The position is about the beginning of the eighteenth and nineteenth to the thirty-fifth, almost the same as Li Chonggui and Li Dejun. And there were several more people in front of him. For example, a few people such as Shi Baoji, He Chengju, Gao Qiong, etc., have either been stained with Lao Tzu's light. Either he has been famous for a long time, or his fame will be higher. Although the court did not say it, everyone knew it in their hearts.

There are others, such as Shi Pu in Taiyuan, Gao Jixun on the front line, Wang Hanzhong, Pei Ji in the northwest, Yang Si in Hebei, Huyanzan in Zijing Pass, Wang Xian can't be counted, he is old, and he came to help, and the number of these people is only a dozen people above Li Chongzhi.

But among the poor more than 30 generals, including Wang Hanzhong and others, they are also old, and they will retire one after another after the war.

In this comparison, one can think of Li Chongxue's current status.

But he should not be regarded as the strongest general in Liao.

This person appeared, although Xiao Tart-rin scolded him for being a thief, and the humiliation of the Liao State would actually bring confusion to many Liao generals.

As for the bounty order, the living Yelu Longxu is definitely worth more than the dead, but it can't be said that the dead Yelu Longxu is only worth a penny, which is obviously disgusting.

Some have a short vision and breathe a long sigh of relief.

If the Song army besieged it, it was very likely that his family would kill Yelu Longxu in the chaos, but it would be very difficult to capture him alive.

But others are even more worried.

Fears have happened.

First, there seems to be no end to the road of escape, hunger and cold, and a large number of comrades-in-arms fall in pools of blood every day. On one side, there is a high-priced bounty, and an official of the first class. How to choose?

That's 100,000 yuan, and now the rich people of the Song Dynasty who have reached this amount of wealth can have at least four or five thousand households, but for ordinary people, 100,000 yuan, especially those soldiers of the Liao State, what kind of concept is that?

While Xiao Tzu Rin was deliberating with bloodshot eyes, a group of soldiers were plotting to kidnap Yelu Longxu.

Unsuccessfully, under the command of Xiao Tzulin, the rebellion was quickly suppressed.

However, for what is the Liao army in the Song Dynasty so pursued, has not yet collapsed, it is the cohesion generated by Yelu Longxu staying in the army, and now his soldiers dare to hijack the emperor, so what else dare not do, for a while morale became more sluggish, and the army was full of suspicion.

This toss, the next day very late to start the army, all the way non-stop, quickly rushed to the Hulu River, again sniped by the Song army, the worst thing is that Sun Quanzhao led the cavalry from Beizhou to catch up, from the flank launched a strong attack.

It was only at dusk that the Liao army rushed across the Hulu River, found several connected villages to the north of the Hulu River, and hastily built a defensive line.

At this time, the Liao army was less than 40,000 people.

But the good news is that I've finally left the hoplites I hated behind. And the cavalry of the Song Dynasty was also left behind.

It was not that a lot of light cavalry was lost, but that the Song army was also short of food and grass at this time, so they had to return a cavalry to eat. And it's just less. With this force it is enough to entangle them.

On the sixth day, he set out again and slaughtered Shulu.

This is a helpless move. The first is to go slightly west, from Qizhou to Baozhou. The distance over there is about the same, but there are many nasty hilly areas, but there are still many Song troops in the north, most of them are infantry, and the Song cavalry is biting at the back, and it is impossible for them to sneak. As for the soldiers who fled, God knows where they fled to, or whether they were beaten to death with hoes by the people of the Song Dynasty.

And taking the mountain road means that it just caters to the head of the infantry of the Song Dynasty.

This path is not enough.

And from the east, don't say that the road is further. Those Yingzhou officers and soldiers make people even more headaches.

Therefore, continue to take the middle road, cross the Hutuo River from Jizhou, and then rush to Boye, and then either rush to the mouth of the Great Wall from Baozhou, or rush to the Heilu Embankment from Gaoyang Pass, no matter which line of defense is successfully broken, it will be killed back to Liao.

On the seventh day, Dabei continued to flee north. However, variables appeared, originally according to Li Jilong's ideas. Today, it was planned to let them cross the Hutuo River, but everyone ignored Wangyu, the governor of Jizhou.

Before Xiao Yanyan's invasion, Song Jiu made many arrangements, including training village soldiers. A large sum of money was allocated for Hebei officials to build forts to prevent the Liao army from moving south and causing greater trauma to the people. Wang Yu is a person with great ambitions, coupled with the financial support of the imperial court. Take the initiative to train the township soldiers and repair the city defense. The Liao army moved south. While sending soldiers to support Yingzhou, he summoned the people into the city. He even continued to open the city gates and let the people go out to collect firewood to keep out the cold and cook.

Xiao Yanyan saw that Jizhou's troops were empty, so she sent one to invade, but was calmly defeated by Wang Yu. When Xiao Yanyan withdrew her troops from Yingzhou, she saw that Jizhou didn't seem to be very easy to bite, so she let Jizhou City go.

Now the troops supporting Yingzhou have also returned, and when they heard that the Song army was chasing and killing the defeated army of Liao, Wang Yu took the initiative to lead thousands of forbidden soldiers to kill. This battle was fought until dusk, forcing the Liao army to cross the Hutuo River in a hurry and camp hastily to rest.

The nightmare is still not over, on the eighth day, the Liao army has just crossed the Tang River, the Song army has killed again, and the deadly Qin Han also took the generals and many light horsemen to block and kill from the front. The two armies converged, and the Liao army was defeated.

This time, day and night, they fought and fled, and it was only in the evening of the ninth day that they fled to the river. Now there are really many rivers in Hebei, starting from the Juma River, the rivers that can go down in history are the Juma River, Yishui, Bao River, Cao River, Xu River, Shen Shui, and then to the wet water in front of you.

But when you get to the water, it's really not far from the border.

Nearly 30,000 Liao troops frantically pounced on the water.

Ignore the clicking.

However, the ice in the river cracked one after another, as if opening a vicious mouth, and one by one the Liao troops quickly fell into the ice cave.

"Retreat, retreat." Yelu Longxu couldn't help but shout.

The reason is very simple, by the time the Liao army was approaching the water, the Song army had been able to roughly determine the direction of their escape, and then blew it up with gunpowder, roasted it with fire oil, and chiseled it with an axe and hammer to chisel through all the ice blocks of the Weihe River for more than 20 miles around.

At this time, the north is still very cold, but it can freeze three feet, not a day's work, the northern rivers can run horses on it in winter, can skate, it is not a day of frozen thick ice. But after all, the New Year is less than ten days away, and the coldest winter has passed.

Although the river in front of it was frozen again, it was not very thick.

In fact, with the busy transportation of Bianshui, the people also spontaneously applied this principle, using rough icebreakers to break the ice every day, so that the ice is always not frozen, and the shipping time is extended, and even in the warm winter, the transportation has hardly been interrupted, although it is commercial transportation and has nothing to do with the government.

The ice was chiseled and froze again, and it was evening again, and it was impossible to make out at all, so the Liao army hurried up. How heavy will a horse be with a man, and if it falls on four horses' hooves, what will be the pressure? Moreover, so many cavalry rushed up, how could the thin ice in the river be eaten.

In the blink of an eye, more than 2,000 Liao soldiers were devoured, but fortunately, Yelu Longxu was a little slow, otherwise even he would have almost stepped on the river ice and fell into the river.

At this time, Cao Wei took the Dingzhou soldiers and horses from the West Bread, Yang Yanzhao took the Baozhou soldiers and horses from the North Bread, and Shi Pu took the soldiers and horses from Gaoyang Pass. plus Li Jilong's army behind.

More than 20,000 Liao troops were heavily surrounded in that small area more than ten miles west of Bian Haobo.

Li Jilong sent soldiers to start sprinkling lime.

A circle was sprinkled with lime in the encirclement, and a line of big words was constantly written in lime outside: Those who come out of this circle will be killed!

Then he sent someone to shout: "If you don't go out of this circle, the Song army will stop supplying a small amount of grain every day." Out of this circle, you will be killed, you choose for yelves. ”

After saying that, I really threw some grain and threw it into the circle.

The Liao army looked at each other, but as soon as the Song army left in front, they were coaxed and robbed by the Liao soldiers in the back. Xiao Tzu Rin and Yelu Longxu both felt bitter, what are they doing, raising more than 20,000 Liao troops as pigs.

Therefore, after resting for three or four hours, at the fourth watch, he suddenly gathered a large army and broke through to the west. On the west road is the "hairy boy" Cao Wei. And as long as it breaks through the direction of Baicheng, the wet water under Beiping Village is not deep, even if the Song army chisels through the river ice, it can wade through the river. After killing, it is the Liao Realm!

However......

However, as soon as they rushed through the circle, Cao Wei calmly responded to the battle with his soldiers and horses, and at this time, because the Liao army was dragged by the Song army, some artillery was dragged to the front line by horses.

Nearly a hundred artillery guns fired a salvo.

Everyone was very afraid of unfamiliar things, and as a result, no matter how Xiao Tzu Rin ordered, all the Liao soldiers hurriedly fled back to the circle and were willing to be raised as pigs by the Song Dynasty.

The generals of the Liao State were still unwilling and gathered to discuss.

Then the Liao army did not move. Fortunately, the Song Dynasty also did something inexplicable, and continued to throw dry food into the circle every day, and even suddenly launched benevolence, and threw some quilts and charcoal into the inside.

It's impossible to keep warm, but it won't freeze to death, and it's impossible to eat well, but it won't starve to death.

If the Liao army can't figure it out, then continue to be a half-dead pig. (To be continued......)