Cao Wei went to Beiping Village first, read out the decree, and Shi Yanfu temporarily led Beiping Village, and took Tian Min and Zhang Ning to Dingzhou Daying.

When he arrived at the Dingzhou camp, he read out the decree again, and Cao Wei replaced Wang Chao as the commander, and Wang Chao immediately rushed to Hedong.

Wang Chao's face was depressed.

Cao Wei patted him on the shoulder and said, "Duke Song also asked me to bring a message to General Wang, and I can't blame you, there are too many troops in Liao, and there is an order from the imperial court to let you set up a formation in Dingzhou." But if you go to Hedong, you can't find any more reasons not to fight, and there will soon be a battle waiting for you to make meritorious contributions. ”

"In the Battle of Hedong, does the imperial court want to recover the mountain queen? But ......"

"But the enemy is huge, isn't it? It's okay, you just go and follow Wang Hanchao's command. ”

Wang Chao was helpless, so he had to say: "Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, please General Cao reuse my son, he is brave and good at fighting, far better than me." ”

"Do you mean virtue? I know that I know the truth, rest assured, I do things above board, and you and I have no grudges. ”

Wang Chao left Dingzhou gloomily.

He didn't know what specific arrangements the Ludao Imperial Court had, but this transfer meant that his status in the army would be declining. Cao Wei also breathed a sigh of relief, after all, Wang Chao was the commander of the Song army of more than 100,000 people, and he had served for more than three years, if he was dissatisfied, this demotion would cause Wang Chao to be dissatisfied and cause bad consequences.

Subsequently, Cao Wei issued a series of orders to temporarily manage the Wei Lu army with Bai Shousu, and transfer Wei Neng to the Dingzhou camp. Zhang Yanxi temporarily took over Baozhou and transferred Yang Liulang to the Dingzhou camp.

He also passed an edict appointing Shi Pu to take over all the military defense responsibilities of Dingbao Xiongba Mo Prefecture, as well as Gaoyang Pass and the Broken Army.

Then he divided his troops into three ways. With more than half of the soldiers and horses, he led the main force south to Qizhou. Wei Neng took 10,000 light horsemen and rushed to Yingzhou. Yang Liulang led 5,000 light cavalry and 20,000 infantry to Boye County. In the shape of a fan, it is disturbed towards the Daimyo's house.

At the same time, Lei Youzhong and they also passed through the Taihang Mountain Jingcheng Pass, as low as Zhenzhou, and were resting and reorganizing.

But more troops from the south also reached the capital, and Li Jilong finally returned with all the strong forces of the Song Dynasty. However, this army was also separated, and Yang Qiong led tens of thousands of light cavalry, including a part of the Xianping army, to cross the Yellow River and rush from Zezhou to Luzhou from a mountain road. After resting for a while, he rushed through the Taihang Mountain and rushed to Cizhou and ran to the Daimyo's Mansion.

Ma Zhijie and Qin Han led an army to cross the Yellow River in the second batch, and after resting in Huaizhou for a period of time, the troops were divided into two routes, all the way to Xiangzhou and all the way to Liyang.

Although there may be problems with this kind of pocket coordination, there are several success factors, and there will be two commanders in the next ten days. Li Jilong and Cao Wei, their military talents are enough to make up for this loophole.

It is also in the territory of the Song Dynasty, and the time, place and people are favorable, all on the side of the Song Dynasty. The terrain is familiar, which is easy to contact and cooperate.

And once the pockets are tightened, the range becomes smaller. Then there will be no such big mistake as Yongxi's Northern Expedition.

and Pan Lianzheng's perhaps inconspicuous thousands of troops accompanied the ship to Shanzhou, and moved those mysterious goods into the city.

And at this time, the northern scouts passed through countless Liao army camps. actually handed over the situation in the north to Zhao Heng.

……

Song Jiu is not very clear about Zhao Heng's dynamics in history.

Zhao Heng was a little sad in history, and he was ready to recruit in person. Suddenly discovered one thing, all the strong troops in the army are in the hands of Wang Chao, and the forbidden soldiers in the capital are all showy. Therefore, Wang Chao was urgently summoned to return to Beijing, Wang Chao did not dare to attack, where could he bring the troops back.

Therefore, before leaving, Zhao Heng showed some timidity. But now with the troops in place, Zhao Heng became bold and decided to recruit in person. Before leaving, Wang Dan, who was responsible for the burden of the capital, asked: "Your Majesty, if you don't win in ten days, what should the minister do?" ”

The time Wang Dan said here is only ten days.

A battle lasts more than ten days, and such a big battle.

But there is a real situation, and that is the city wall of Shanzhou. This is the real inner hinterland of the Song Dynasty, so although it is the most important gateway to the capital, due to disrepair, the city wall of Lanzhou is not tall, including the city wall of the Deqing army that has just been slaughtered.

As long as he doesn't win for ten days, Lanzhou City will definitely be in danger, and then Zhao Heng's own life will not be guaranteed.

Zhao Heng was silent for a long time before he said, "Establish a prince!" ”

Zhilu told the situation of the city defense of Lanzhou, but he couldn't go away, not only Kou Zhun was forced, but Kou Zhun also seduced Gao Qiong. Song Jiu is also pressing, without him, Zhao Heng will personally enlist, which will encourage morale, and once the siege is closed, Zhao Heng is the biggest lure.

After all these years of hard work, and the worries of this time, his headache has flared up again.

However, even if he has a terrible headache, he can't talk to anyone, otherwise everyone will think that he is cowardly.

In late November, early in the morning, Zhao Heng set out from the capital with countless officers and soldiers, as well as many important ministers, including Kou Zhun and Song Jiu. The weather is cold left and right, and the mink fur hat is offered, but Zhao Heng is not: "Your Majesty is exposed to the cold and bitterness, and I use this alone?" ”

So the army slowly left the capital and marched to Lanzhou.

At this time, Xiao Yanyan was even more worried.

At first, Xiao Yanyan didn't know much about the news, but with the transfer of the Song army, all kinds of information also came to her hands.

There were still many Liao troops in front of Hebei, but they were quickly defeated by several Song troops. Moreover, Cao Wei went south very quickly, and he quickly entered Zhaozhou from Qizhou with a group of soldiers and horses, joined up with Lei Youzhong's forces, and then strode towards Xingzhou and Zhaozhou.

Tian Min led a part of the Song army into Yizhou, joined up with the two Song armies of Yang and Wei, and advanced rapidly towards Beizhou, and then defeated the Liao army sniping in Linqing County, and marched again to Shen County on the east side of the Daimyo's Mansion.

At the same time, Qin Han, Ma Zhijie, and Yang Qiong's troops also reached Liyang and Xiangzhou, and the army brought by Zhao Heng personally forced from the south bank of the Yellow River to Lanzhou, theoretically the Song army successfully formed the pockets in the surrounding areas of the Daimyo Mansion and Lanzhou, and the farthest range was only two hundred miles.

Xiao Yanyan had to convene all the important generals for discussion.

Xiao Tzu Rin said: "Queen Mother, Your Majesty, don't worry. If you look at the map, the northeast is the Song Shogata Toshibu. He also has two brave generals under his account, Yang Yanzhao and Wei Neng. To the north is Cao Weibu, who is rushing to the Daimyo's Mansion, and this person is young. I heard that he won a few small battles in Weizhou, but his subordinates also had many brave generals, and most of the soldiers came from Hedong, Hebei, so their combat effectiveness could not be ignored. This is tantamount to cutting us off. There are still two Song armies in the east, they came from Shaanxi, and their combat effectiveness may not be as good as the two roads in the north, but they are defeated, and there is Taihang Mountain on the west side. ”

To say that is a big mistake.

In fact, the strongest armies were precisely to the west and south.

However, even the ministers of the Song Dynasty did not know the truth of the Dao. You can't blame Xiao Tzu Rin.

"Queen Mother, this trip has been delayed too much."

It's wrong again, if you look at Xiao Tzulin's attitude, it did delay too much time, if you gave up Yingzhou at that time and didn't attack, the time to attack the city, the time to divide the army, it would have been nearly a month.

With this precious month, maybe the Liao army would have drunk and had fun in Kaifeng City.

But there was such a good thing. If the Liao army is fast, these reinforcements will also be fast, and even Song Jiu still hopes that way, after all, then the damage of the people will be invisibly reduced. It may be that several reinforcements are a little tired from the journey, but in that case, wouldn't the Liao army be the same? If none of the states and counties along the road are attacked, they will be able to reach Lanzhou smoothly. Or even the capital? If that were the case, wouldn't the Song Dynasty send troops to stop and delay their advance?

Only if there is not much difference between the actual armies of the two countries. From the beginning, he fell into Song Jiu's calculations, and drove the army to the Daimyo's mansion. The end is already doomed. The time, place and people are favorable, these three factors are the most important factors in the war, for example, if a generation of famous generals Xue Rengui starts a war in Ledu, will he be defeated so badly?

Or that Xiao Yanyan canceled her ambition, no matter how Song Jiu arranged it, she would not be bewitched, then Song Jiu would be useless. After all, it would cost countless dollars a year to do this, and as Kou Zhun calculated, it was not an exaggeration to spend an extra 120 million yuan in four years. Even if Chen Shu used his life to run the finances, the finances have not generated more surpluses so far. Yes, it was still Song Jiucai's surplus when he looked at the account books of the three divisions.

But this surplus is precisely the financial hole card that Song Jiu launched this battle.

Xiao Tzu Rin didn't know the specific situation, and he couldn't be compared with famous generals like Yelu Xianzhen and Yelu Xiuge, and he was even far inferior to Li Jiqian in history.

So there was a mistake in judgment, and he said: "Now the situation is definitely not a good strategy to withdraw troops, our army concentrates its advantages, and it will definitely be able to break through a certain road, but the losses will be heavy, the north heard that the Song Dynasty let Shi Pu lead the hand, he will snipe heavily, and there will be chasing soldiers behind, plus the previous losses, it is also a heavy return to be able to go back, and our country will be in danger." Now there is only one policy, the Queen Mother, Your Majesty asked for the map, the Song Dynasty arranged a four-way army in the north of the Yellow River, and there was only one mainland in the south, it seems that the emperor of the Song Dynasty still has to personally conquer, this is a weak emperor, from the time he ascended the throne, he wanted to negotiate peace with my court. Moreover, the soldiers are not like the soldiers of the four routes in the north, although there are a few fierce soldiers in rotation, but most of them are new soldiers and have poor combat effectiveness. The city of Lanzhou is small, take Lanzhou, our army crossed the Yellow River, just the emperor of the Song Dynasty was in the field, and took it in one fell swoop, and the troops were in Kaifeng, and the Song Dynasty was destroyed. At that time, no matter where the Song Dynasty transferred reinforcements, and the clan and the emperor were captured by our army, the Song Dynasty would surely die or split. The trip was a great success. ”

Of course, the losses are still very heavy, but if you get Kaifeng, you will gain more than enough wealth to make up for this loss. In that way, there will be no unified dynasty in the Southern Central Plains, and the Liao State will do whatever it wants.

If it is only superficial, Xiao Tzu Rin has a point.

Xiao Yanyan and the generals are all of the same mind.

even did an even more shameless thing, while sending the army to Lanzhou, he continued to let the stupid Wang Jizhong write a letter to Zhao Heng, and the two countries negotiated peace.

Discuss a ghost peace, even if there is no Li Jilong in history, it is impossible to make peace!

Xiao Tzu Rin was right, Lanzhou was too small, so the capital sent reinforcements and had to be stationed outside the city.

Field battles, Liao likes it.

However, what they didn't know was that Li Jilong was activated, and as the most important commander, he came to the city of Lanzhou in advance.

In the future decisive battle, there will be two commanders, the south road is the center of gravity, the coach is Li Jilong, and the north road is Cao Wei. However, the pockets are not fully tightened at the moment, so it seems that they have changed from seven-way soldiers and horses to five-way soldiers and horses.

Under the city of Lanzhou, Xiao Tzu Rin VS Li Jilong.

Xiao Tzu Rin had more than 200,000 troops, mostly cavalry.

Li Jilong had less than 50,000 soldiers and horses, most of them were infantry, and his lieutenants were Shi Baoji, Ge Ba, Sun Quanzhao, who came from the Daimyo's mansion, and Zhang Min and others.

Shi Baoji is okay, Sun Quanzhao is even better, but apart from them, the rest can be said to go to soy sauce.

The soldiers are not as good as the Liao State, the generals are not as good as the Liao State, and even Li Jilong has not been in Lanzhou for a long time, and he does not know much about the soldiers and generals in the army.

It was in this situation that the first shot of the Battle of Lanzhou was fired.

Moreover, Li Jilong can only win and not lose this battle, otherwise his pockets are still not really tightened at this time, so the plan that has been carefully planned for several years will fail. Even in order to continue to confuse the enemy, he could not use the real force, and he could not use the kind of weapons that Pan Weizheng was transporting to Lanzhou......

In the face of this pressure, Li Jilong quickly used his military prestige and superb wisdom to integrate the three armed forces, and then gathered all the baggage trucks, removed one wheel, and connected them together to form a circle of baggage vehicles.

Xiao Tzu Rin came, he hadn't read Liu Yu's biography, and he hadn't even faced the role of a baggage cart on the battlefield.

Isn't it just a car, is it harder to fight than the city walls?

So the attack was launched.

However, in a short time, his hundreds of thousands of troops were lost in the baggage wagon array, unable to move themselves. As the baggage cart delayed the speed of the cavalry, the bow and crossbow in the hands of the Song army gradually took effect, and even Li Jilong transferred a part of the cavalry soldiers, in groups of three, spear shooting, axe and gun knife to cut the horse's legs, hook the moon gun and hook the head, this combination is even more evil than the Mo knife of the Tang Dynasty.

Hundreds of thousands of Liao troops were struggling in this mud pit, and Shi Baoji took the opportunity to take all the cavalry to copy the back road.

The Liao army was defeated, and it was always pressed and beaten by tens of thousands of infantry, only a quarter of the number of the Liao army, and pursued for nearly ten miles before using the speed of cavalry to get rid of the attack of the Song army.

It's off the door.

But when Li Jilong reported the victory, he did something that made Song Jiu cry and laugh, and deliberately said that the city gate of Beizhou was passing, and he wanted to stay in the southern city. (To be continued......)