Before dawn, Zhao Li received two battle reports: first, the forward army was attacked by tens of thousands of Jin troops, and now the two sides are in a fierce battle, and Jiang Wei, the lion general, asked for reinforcements; The second is the news from Changchun City, more than 10,000 Jin troops suddenly appeared under the city, stormed the city, and there are still signs of increasing troops, and the defenders asked for reinforcements.

"Marshal, don't hesitate, give the order to send troops!" Zheng Ping saw that Zhao Li was silent, and said anxiously.

"And who do you think we're going to save?" Zhao Li looked up at him and asked.

"Of course, save the lion generals first, they face tens of thousands of elite gold army alone, I'm afraid they won't be able to support it for long." Zheng Ping said.

"No, we should save Changchun first, there are nearly a million stones of grain and grass and a large number of baggage, once the city falls, our 100,000 army will face the risk of running out of food and running out of guns, and the guns and cannons are out of ammunition. Datong pacification envoy Zhang Pu said.

"Zhang Pu, don't you care about Jiang Wei's life? He's been our brother for decades! Zheng Ping was furious when he heard this, and pointed to Zheng Ping's nose and said.

"Zheng Ping is besieged, how can I not be in a hurry, but we are still responsible for hundreds of thousands of lives, once Changchun City falls and the grain and grass are destroyed, we save Zheng Ping but want him to starve to death with us under Huining City?" Zhang Pu yelled at Zheng Ping.

"Marshal, quickly send troops to save Changchun, there are only 3,000 state troops and a brigade of infantry troops guarding it, and the city of Changchun is huge, they can't defend it. And the city has just been recovered, and most of the people in the city are Khitan and Jurchen descendants, if they take the opportunity to start an incident, the city will fall under the combination of the inside and the outside. Bao Gang, the commander of the Lion Wing Army, also said urgently. Those left in Changchun City were his soldiers, and if the city fell, it would be wiped out.

"The lion will be only thirty miles away from us. Half a day away, I only need an army to go to the rescue. You don't need to go with the whole army. Jiang Wei said with a blushing face.

"How do you know that it's not a trap, maybe Wanyan Yanying surrounded the lion general just to lead us to the rescue, and set up an ambush on the way or in Zhaozhou to contain us there, so that he can calmly capture Changchun City, so that we have to withdraw our troops because of the loss of food and grass, and even if we remobilize it, it will take time." Zhang Puyan said......

There was a lot of noise in the handsome tent, but Zhao Li didn't say anything to stop it. These two pieces of bad news suddenly made him look at Wanyan Yanying with admiration, this kid is too deep in the city, and he is thoughtful, he actually concealed the many eyes and ears of the Great Song Dynasty lurking in Huining, deceived the scouts of the Song army, and secretly planned such a big military operation, which also caused Zhao Li a problem, which made him hesitate, and he couldn't make a decision for a while.

Zhao Li pondered. Wanyan Yanying obviously dug a pit for himself, and he put on a large army to camp on the south bank, making a posture of only defending and not attacking to paralyze himself, when he sent the forward army to take Zhaozhou. But he suddenly crossed the river and laid siege to destroy it all. At the same time, he secretly sent an army to take Changchun, wanting to destroy his baggage. This end and end make themselves have to be saved, and if they are rescued. He was unable to cross the river to attack Huining, and the crisis faced by the Jin State was suddenly resolved.

"Lou Dutong. How long can we have enough food and grass for our army? Zhao Li, who had been silent, waved his hand to stop everyone's argument and asked the Baggage Division to be in charge of Lou Qiandao.

"Great. The army can be fed for twenty days, and if the amount is reduced, it can be used for one month. Lou Qian pondered for a while.

"Where's the ammunition reserves?" Zhao Li asked again.

"When the baggage and ammunition were left, each army replenished two bases, and there were still 5 million rounds of ammunition in reserve, more than 10,000 shells, and 20,000 catties of gunpowder." Lou Qian replied.

"That is to say, the accompanying baggage can support our Western Route Army's combat operations for a month." Zhao Li said.

"Marshal, if you don't do something like Liaoyang, I can guarantee to support the supply of the army for a month." Lou Qian said with a wry smile, he already had a premonition of what kind of decision Zhao Li had made.

"Okay, General Linglong and the Kryu Army immediately set off lightly, and hurriedly went to Zhaozhou to reinforce the Lion General, and the rest of the troops then set off to cross the river on the north bank of Yichun." Zhao Li said, "Order the desert army on the right flank to turn around and rescue Changchun Prefecture without the slightest delay." ”

"Dashuai, won't we save Changchun City?" Zhang Pu asked in surprise when he heard this.

"Changchun Prefecture is two hundred miles away from us, and even if we abandon everything and return to the army, it will take two days, and since the enemy can think of attacking Changchun, he will inevitably think of destroying the pontoon bridge on the Yazi River, and it will take us three days to reach it at the earliest. The desert army is on the south bank of the Yazi River, and all of them are cavalry, and the camels can march day and night without rest, which is much faster than us. Zhao Li said with a smile.

"Dashuai, do you mean to give up Changchun City......" Zhang Pu said with a gloomy face.

"Hmph, in the Battle of Pingzhou that year, the Kryu Army defended the city alone with a brigade of soldiers and thousands of Pingzhou troops, and Aguda personally led an army of 100,000 to attack the city for more than a month. Moreover, Changchun City is taller and stronger than Pingzhou City, and there is plenty of food, grass and ammunition in the city, if they can't hold it for a few days, it can only be said that it is not a pity for them to die. And the Jin army is a lone army that has been timid for three points, they have not been able to attack for a long time, and once they find that reinforcements are coming, they will withdraw their troops. Since Wanyan Yanying wants to hold us back, then we will plan to take advantage of his concentration of troops in Zhaozhou and take Yichun. Zhao Li snorted coldly.

"Dashuai, there is one in ten thousand miles, if the city is lost, will we not give up our efforts." Seeing that Zhao Li was full of confidence, Zheng Ping was weak and asked carefully.

"Don't worry, in a month's time, the emperor will also arrive at Huining City, and he will watch us starve and freeze!" Zhao Li pursed the corners of his mouth and said.

"Oh, I see!" Zhang Pu said suddenly, now he understood why Zhao Li asked Lou Qian repeatedly.

"Alas, if we really lose food and grass, I'm afraid that Your Majesty will be scolded and we will be kicked a few times!" Zheng Ping said with a sigh.

"Our current task is to complete the task assigned by His Majesty, to contain the Jin army in Huining Mansion, as for how to punish it, it is also up to the commander to bear it, speaking of which I am still careless, thinking that the Jin army will not dare to counterattack under the defeat, so as to leave a hole in the defense, so that it has a chance to take advantage of." Zhao Li's face was gloomy and he said, the battle was too smooth, which made him arrogant in the past, and he relaxed his vigilance, so that Wanyan Yanying had room to play. He also thought about it, Changchun had to ask the emperor for his guilt no matter whether he gained or lost......

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The horizon has been brightened, the battle on the side of the mixed river is still continuing, Wanyan Yanying sent a group of warriors to the road of no return, but they paid huge casualties and achieved little results, several times to open the breakthrough were blocked by the Song army, not only failed to complete the intended combat goal of encircling and annihilating its vanguard army, but was suppressed by the Song army on the river beach and could not move.

"Dutong, it's almost dawn, are we withdrawing our troops?" The attack of Pucha's headquarters was once again repulsed, and even he was wounded in several places, he asked, looking at the sky.

"No, this is a critical moment, the Song army is exhausted to the extreme, the defense line has been broken through repeatedly, we may be able to break the enemy if we attack again." Wanyan Yanying shook her head and said indifferently.

"Dutong, the casualties are too great, I have lost two thousand people, and the casualties of the other teams have also reached thirty percent, and I am afraid that there will be no return if I continue to fight." Pu Cha said that now the 50,000 people who participated in the attack have all gone ashore, and they have taken turns to attack the Song army's defense line, and the casualties are not small, and he has suffered particularly heavy losses as the first 10,000 people to participate in the war.

"Pucha, are you afraid? Is it that many years of comfortable life have worn out your blood, you don't forget that you are a Jurchen, forget the difficulties of our predecessors in starting a business, which of them did not roll over in the sea of corpses and blood. Wanyan Yanying frowned and said, with a hint of disdain in her tone.

"Dutong, Pucha has never forgotten that he is a Jurchen!" Pu Cha gritted his teeth and said with a hideous face. His parents are all veterans who followed Taizu to fight the country, and he also went to the battlefield when he was a teenager, experienced dozens of battles of all sizes, and never flinched, but today he was laughed at by the capital for not being bloody, which deeply stung him.

"Okay, in that case, you immediately lead your troops to the right flank and detour back to their rear to break the Song army's defensive line!" Wanyan Yanying said with a slight smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Yes, Toto! Pucha will never come back to see you until he completes his mission. Pu Cha saluted loudly with his fist on his chest, turned around and took the long knife handed by his own soldiers, got on his horse and led the soldiers away.

"Alas......" Seeing Pu Cha go into battle again without hesitation, Wanyan Yanying sighed lightly, he didn't know whether it was right or wrong for him to send batches of soldiers to this seemingly hopeless battlefield like this.

At the moment when the Taishi decided to defend Zhaozhou, Wanyan Yanying knew that this was an extremely difficult matter, and it had long been proved to be a futile exercise to hold on to the city, and the field battle was also a thankless task. And the only way to stop the Song army from continuing to invade the north is to annihilate one of them and force it to lose its retreat, but this is easier said than done, he didn't know how many brain cells he died before he made a plan, but this battle was a big gamble from the beginning, and the bet was that the commander of the Song Army's Western Route Army would save it, so that he could not care about each other.

Therefore, Wanyan Yanying concentrated the main force on the south bank of the Mingtong River, and sent a partial division to avoid the right flank of the Song army and the reconnaissance cavalry to Changchun Prefecture to attack its grain storage place. At the same time, he also plotted against the enemy's forward army, which would inevitably make the Song army make a choice, and the division of troops would not be able to continue to cross the river to attack Huining Mansion; If you save Changchun, you will lose the front army, and if you don't save it, you will lose your baggage. In any case, this big gamble is invincible, and it seems that the loser can only be Song Jun. But he forgot that since it is a gamble, there are variables, and everything will not be known until the moment the dice cup is opened...... (To be continued......)