On the third day of the first month, the Khitan soldiers surrounded Gao Xingzhou, Fu Yanqing and the vanguard commander Shi Gongba in Qicheng. At first, Jing Yanguang ordered the generals to divide the land and defend each other, and not to rescue each other. At this time, Gao Xingzhou and others were in an emergency, Jing Yanguang delayed reporting to Shi Chonggui, and when he heard the news, Shi Chonggui led his troops to the rescue. The Khitan siege was lifted and retreated, and Gao Xingzhou, Fu Yanqing, and Shi Gongba wept and complained that the rescuers were too slow and could hardly avoid death.

On the fifth day of the first month, Li Shouzhen and others arrived at Majiakou. The Khitan sent 10,000 infantry to build a fortress, scattered cavalry outside it to defend it, and the rest of the soldiers were stationed in Hexi, with thousands of ships and thousands of soldiers. Not long after, the Jin army approached them, the Khitan cavalry retreated, and the Jin army attacked its fortress and captured them. The Khitan army was defeated, and thousands of people who crossed the river on horseback were drowned, and thousands of people were captured and killed. The soldiers on the west side of the Yellow River wept bitterly and retreated, and never dared to come east again.

On the eighth day of the first month, Li Yiyin made a report that he commanded 40,000 troops to cross the Yellow River from Linzhou and invade the Khitan realm. On the ninth day of the first month, Shi Chonggui appointed Li Yiyin as the envoy to the southwest of the Khitan.

In the past, when the Khitan lords obtained Beizhou and Bozhou, they comforted the people in this place, or gave official positions and colorful official uniforms. After the defeat at Qicheng and Majiakou, he became angry, killed all the people he had captured, and burned all the captured soldiers to death. Therefore, it aroused the anger of the Jin people, united and struggled.

On the tenth day of the first month, Yang Guangyuan led the Qingzhou soldiers and wanted to meet the Khitan soldiers to the west; On the 15th, Shi Chonggui ordered troops and horses to be stationed in Yunzhou to guard against him.

At the same time, the edict ordered Liu Zhiyuan to lead the troops and horses of his headquarters out of Hengzhou from Tumen to attack the Khitan, and ordered him to meet with Dewey and Ma Quanjie in Xingzhou. However, Liu Zhiyuan led troops to be stationed in Leping and did not advance.

On the 19th, Yang Guangyuan besieged Dizhou, assassinated Li Qiong and sent troops to defeat him, Yang Guangyuan burned the camp and retreated to Qingzhou. On the 20th, Shi Chonggui appointed the former Weisheng Jiedu envoy He Zhengjian to deploy the eastern Mabu capital and garrison the troops in Yunzhou.

On the 20th, Wang Junhuai, the commander of the righteous army of Jiezhou and Chengzhou of the Jin Kingdom, led more than 1,000 people under his command to rebel against Jin and surrender to Shu, and asked to be a guide to capture Jiezhou and Chengzhou. On the 21st, the Shu people attacked Jiezhou.

After hearing about it, he quickly ordered the envoy to play the emperor of Shu and explain the reason. In parallel with the world, anyone who attacked Jin when the Khitan was attacking was an enemy of the Chu State. The Shu kingdom then stopped its eastward advance.

At the same time, he sent an envoy to Jin and expressed to Shi Chonggui that he was willing to send the Chu army to the north to help the Jin state resist the Khitan. Rejected by Shi Zhonggui.

The Khitan pretended to abandon Yuancheng and retreated, and ambushed the elite cavalry in Gudunqiu City, waiting for the Jin army to meet the troops of Hengzhou and Dingzhou before meeting it. Yedu stayed behind Zhang Cong'en several times to report that the northern captives had fled, and the army planned to attack and chase it, but it was stopped due to rain.

The Khitan set up an ambush for ten days, the men and horses were hungry and tired, Zhao Yanshou said: "The Jin army is all on the river, and they are afraid of our elite, and they will not dare to move forward; It is better to capture the city on the spot, attack with troops from all sides, and seize the pontoon bridge on the Yellow River, then the world will be pacified. The Khitan lord listened to his words, and on the first day of the first month of March, he personally led more than 100,000 troops to line up in the north of the city of Lanzhou, and surrounded the two corners of the city horizontally in the east and west. Gao Xingzhou's forward troops were in the south of Qicheng, engaged the Khitan soldiers, and from noon to sunset, they won and lost each other.

The Khitan lord Yelu Deguang commanded the elite soldiers to attack the Chinese army, and Shi Chonggui also led his troops out to set up a position and wait for him to come. The Khitan lord saw the grand occasion of the Jin army, and said to the left and right: "Yang Guangyuan said that half of the Jin soldiers have starved to death, why are there so many now?" "Using elite cavalry to attack from the left and right, the Jin army did not move at all, ten thousand crossbows were fired in unison, and flying arrows fell everywhere. The Khitan soldiers retreated slightly; He attacked the eastern flank of the Jin army, but he couldn't take it. If the battle lasted until night, the two armies would have lost countless deaths. After dark, the Khitan led their troops back and camped thirty miles away.

Since then, the Khitan's first battle to destroy the Jin Dynasty has ended, and although there have been small fights since then, it has become a climate.

After the war, Liu Zhiyuan's disobedience and delay were revealed. Shi Chonggui began to doubt him, and said to those close to him: "Taiyuan is very unhelpful to me, and there must be a plan to rebel." If there is a blessing for the son of heaven, why don't you do it early! At this time, although he was appointed as the commander of all armies, he actually had no power to exercise command, and he was no longer allowed to participate in the conspiration of military affairs.

Liu Zhiyuan also knew that he was alienated by Shi Chonggui, but he was just cautious and self-protecting. Guo Wei saw that Liu Zhiyuan was worried, and said to him: "The mountains and rivers in Hedong should be strong, the customs advocate bravery, the place is prolific with war horses, diligent in agricultural production when quiet, and brave to practice military when it is turbulent, this is the basis for the achievement of hegemony and the royal road, what is there to worry about." ”

In this battle, most of the soldiers and civilians of the Jin State showed the determination and confidence of the same enemy, and stubbornly resisted the southward movement of the Khitan, but there were also traitors such as Yang Guangyuan and Zhao Yanshou, as well as people like Liu Zhiyuan who were selfish and disobeyed orders, and the Jin State was exhausted. Baili Wuji sighed.

However, Shi Chonggui sent an envoy to thank Chu for his support after the war, and issued an edict to canonize Baili Wuji as the king of Chu, which was rejected by Baili Wuji.

Baili Wuji's original intention was just to fight against the Khitan and delay time for the Chu State to accumulate strength, not to support Shi Chonggui, let alone to throw himself into the arms of the Jin State.

At the same time, he also wanted the Chu army to accumulate some experience in fighting with the Khitan, so he sent envoys to ask to fight north.

The fifth day of the third month.

The king of Chu ordered Peng Xiao, the governor of the naval division, to assemble Zhenliao, Zhenhe and twelve merchant ships in Xingwangfu and enter the battle preparations.

Ordered the local thorn history to start transporting the hoarded tea, dansha, and sweet potato roast to Xingwangfu for concentration.

Ordered Xu Shiming to transport 50 million taels of silver to Xingwangfu.

The eighth day of April.

Zhenliao, Zhenhe, and two huge ships, loaded with 4,000 sailors and 4,000 soldiers of the Black Flag Army.

Led by Peng Xiao, the governor of the Chu State, he led twelve merchant ships full of goods and began to cross east to Fusang.

He was accompanied by dozens of leading civilians and 10 Fusang traders, who were part of the missing people in Tanzhou. There was also an envoy from the state of Chu who went to negotiate with the king of Fusang about the establishment of shops and free trade in the whole territory of Fusang.

Of course, no one would notice that there were more people on the Zhenliao and Zhenhe ships, and it was naturally Xu Shouren and Sun Shixu and fifty Ming Shu students.

Baili Wuji's intention was to set up shops in the forty-seven districts of Fuso, and the accompanying 4,000 Black Flag Army soldiers pretended to be shop mates for a long time.

The purpose is to dump commodities, and most importantly, to collect a large amount of information on the topography and hydrology of Fuso through the sale of commodities.