Wanyan Zongfu only got the news many days after the fall of Pingzhou, but he couldn't get out at this time. These days, he can be said to be running back and forth, making people sleepy. First in Confucianism, the border people of the Song and Jin countries caused a conflict because of a few horses, and then the two armies fought along the border, the Song army once occupied Ruzhou, Keshimen Pass, and the soldiers were near Juyong Pass, and he had to lead the army to reinforce.

But when Zongfu had just arrived at Juyong Pass, he received news that the envoy of the negotiation between the two countries had turned his face, and the Song army had crossed the Jiehe River and captured Xincheng, and he hurriedly asked Nanjing for help. When Wushu led the army to Yanjing, the Song army was driven back to Hebei in two battles, but his ambition also swelled sharply because of this victory, and he wanted to take this opportunity to capture Datong, and sent him back to Yanjing from Yanjing to Juyong Pass.

After Wushu succeeded as Marshal of the East Road, his strength continued to expand in the past two years, and his temper also grew, and he took Zongfu, the elder brother who was the deputy marshal, more and more seriously. Zong Fu persuaded a few words and then led the army to return, on the way received an urgent report from Yinshuke 500 miles urgently, the peace talks between the two countries broke down completely, and the emperor of the Southern Dynasty issued a letter to discuss the gold, to personally conquer Yanjing. And Zongfu has not relieved his spirits, the second urgent report arrived, the Song army launched a large-scale attack in the early morning of the next day, crossed the boundary river, and then trapped the new city, Yinshu can lead the troops to defend the Qigou Pass, let him quickly lead the troops back to help!

Zongfu hurriedly led the troops all the way back to Yanjing Mansion in two days, and the chair was still hot, and the news that 'the emperor of the Southern Dynasty led the army to land across the sea in Yingzhou, Pingzhou fell, and Luanzhou was in crisis' reached his desk. Zongfu looked at the urgent report, and felt a chill on his body, Song Jun had already prepared, the two countries had peace talks, and the emperor toured south. The soldiers are in Yongguan, and there is also the information sent back by Qin Hui. It was all the trickery of Zhao's second envoy to put smoke in order to cover the landing of the Song army from Yingzhou. Copy their back path.

At this time, the Jin army was in danger of being attacked on all sides, and in the west, the Song army pressed Yanjing from Juyong Pass. To the east, a large number of Song troops landed from the sea. To the south, the Song army confronted them at Zhuozhou. The defeat of the Song army at Juyong Pass alleviated the threat to the west, but the war situation was still in decline. Yanjing is in danger under the attack on both sides, and in the face of the crisis, this is really a tiger at the front door. The back door is a leopard, and there is a wolf squatting outside the window!

"Ceres, is it to save Pingzhou now, or to protect Yanjing?" Zongfu is in a dilemma, but fortunately, there is still a prison army Wanyan Xiyin can discuss.

"Bao Yanjing!" Wanyan Xiyin immediately expressed his opinion.

"Why?" Sosuke asked in surprise when he saw that he had made a decision so quickly.

"Zhao Erbing attacked in three ways, in fact, he intended Yanjing. If we go to Pingzhou now, then the Yanjing garrison is empty, and it will definitely be taken by the Song army on the south road. As long as we hold Yanjing, the two roads of the Song army will be divided into two places and cannot meet. Zhao Er came all the way from the sea, and his troops were bound to be weak, and it was difficult to replenish materials. But we have to fight on both sides, as long as we hold Yanjing and concentrate our forces to defeat the Song army on the southern road first. Then with the army of Du Shuai, Zhao Er will definitely not escape. Wanyan Xiyin analyzed.

"Zhao Er is scheming. Now the Nanjing army is in Juyongguan, and its back is empty. If he takes advantage of our decisive battle with the Song army on the southern route to attack Yanjing, how will he respond? Sosuke thought for a moment and said.

"Zhao Er came from the sea, it seems to be a strange army, but it is also dangerous, he just wants to take advantage of the capture of Nanjing to cause our panic, hurriedly go to the rescue, and create an opportunity for the Song army on the southern road to capture Yanjing. If the Song army captures Yanjing, but we can't recover Nanjing for a while, we will fall into a situation where we will be attacked by the enemy on our backs, and will be eaten by their two armies, and as a result, we will lose both places, and completely lose Kyushu behind the mountain! Wanyan Xiyin said.

"Well, Ceres' words have a point." After listening to Yan Xiyin's analysis, Zong Fu felt that his eyes lit up, "Now that the news of the fall of Pingzhou has been sent to Yanjing, Du Shuai Ding also knows about it, and he will not sit idly by." And Guanwai will inevitably learn the news, and will also send troops to help, at that time, Zhao Er was too busy to take care of himself, where did he take out his hand to attack Yanjing, I was afraid that it was too late for him to protect himself! ”

"Even if we fail to defeat the Song army on the South Road, we can retreat to Yanjing City and wait for reinforcements with the strong city!" Wanyan Xiyin said with a smile, in fact, there is still half a sentence that has not been said, many failures have given him a profound lesson, and he is really afraid of fighting with Zhao Er in the plains.

"Okay, according to the plan of the god of grains, we will immediately raise troops and go to Zhuozhou to defeat the Song army on the south road first, and then turn back and capture Zhao Er!" Sosuke said with pride.

The plan has been decided, Zongfu decided to send troops, and now Yanjing Mansion has a standing army of 50,000 troops, plus a 10,000-person team left in Zhuozhou by Wushu, a total of more than 60,000 people. But this battle is a matter of life and death for Yanjing, of course, the more soldiers, the better, so Yanjing is recruited as a soldier. At that time, Nanjing was already a large city, with 300,000 residents of the Han, Khitan, Xi, Bohai, Jurchen and other ethnic groups in the city alone, so more than 50,000 people gathered in a short period of time.

Just when Zongfu reorganized his troops and horses out of the city, there was news that under the fierce attack of the Song army, Qigou Pass was lost, and Yinshu could lead 3,000 remnants of the army to retreat to Fanyang City to defend it, and asked the deputy marshal to send troops to rescue quickly!

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Zhao Yong's name is worthy of a brave word, he fought bravely, since the army, he has been charging on the front line, fighting the party members, Khitans, and Jurchens. In that year, he was ordered to lead an army composed of a surrendered army to secretly enter Datong, and after years of hard fighting, he created a base area, stabilized the situation in the northwest, and expanded a force of less than 10,000 people into a Kryu army that could be comparable to the loyal and brave army.

Zhao Ta also loved Zhao Yong, gave him the greatest trust, and participated in the battle of seizing the capital, pacifying civil strife, and eliminating bandits after entering the Central Plains with the emperor, and could be said to be the general with the most rich combat experience under his command. And after he ascended the throne, he handed over the most important northern defense task to Zhao Yong, and once the Beijing division changed, he could also quickly lead the troops south to King Qin, which can be said to be another guard army outside Beijing.

After the emperor decided to go on the Northern Expedition, Zhao Yong trained in Hebei to prepare for war. He can be said to be the earliest and most experienced among the senior generals of the Song army to fight against the Jin army, and he is used to facing a strong enemy alone, and he is not afraid of it. However, strategically you can despise your opponent, and tactically you must pay attention to it.

In this regard, Zhao Yong made careful preparations before the war, sent scouts to investigate the topography and hydrology of the Yanjing area in detail, and conducted targeted exercises before the war to familiarize himself with the situation, so he took the lead at the beginning of the battle. On the night when Zong Ze submitted the war letter to Yinshuke, the Song army, which had completed the preparations for the war, crossed the Baigou River on all fronts under the command of Zhao Yong, and advanced sixty miles in one day, recovering the three cities of Xincheng, Guiyi, and Yongqing, and marching to Qigou Pass.

Qigou Pass was the sad place of the Song army. In the third year of Yongxi, Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, gathered the elite soldiers of the country to invade the Khitan in the north, wanting to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun. The Song army attacked in three ways, and the east road was deployed by Cao Bin in front of the Youzhou Road camp, and Cui Yanjin was the deputy, leading more than 100,000 troops, and marched north from the Xiong and Ba areas with flat and open terrain, and tended to Gu'an and Zhuozhou; In addition, Mi Xin was deployed as the camp of the northwest road of Youzhou, and the horse infantry army was deployed, and led a force to pass through Xincheng and converge on Zhuozhou.

Before the reinforcements arrived, the Liao general Yelu Xiuge knew that he was outnumbered, avoided competing with the Song army, bluffed the elite during the day, sent light cavalry to attack and harass at night, and secretly set up some troops to ambush the Song army's flank, cut off its grain route, and exhausted the Song army. Cao Bin's troops were based on Zhuozhou for only more than ten days, that is, because of the lack of grain and grass, they wanted to retreat to Xiongzhou, and they were stopped by Song Taizong's order to Baigou, and they were strictly ordered to join forces with the Mixin Department along the Baigou River to capture the new city, recuperate, and wait to advance north.

After Cao Bin led the army to Xincheng, due to the eagerness of the troops to seek merit, he did not wait for the division of the central and western roads, and once again marched alone to attack Zhuozhou. In the scorching heat, he was blocked by Yelu Hugo along the road, and his progress was slow, and when he returned to Zhuozhou, his troops were exhausted. Shi Xiao Xuan had already led the army to the east of Zhuozhou, and formed a pincer attack with Yelu Xiuge. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Cao Bin led the army to retreat in the rain.

On the third day of the fifth month, Yelu Hugo led the elite cavalry to chase to Qigou Pass and defeated the Song army. Cao Bin led the army to retreat to the Juma River, rushed overnight, and trampled on men and horses in a panic, with many casualties. Retreat to the south of Yishui and was chased by the Khitan army, the soldiers were defeated, tens of thousands were killed, and the rest of the people retreated to Gaoyang to stop.

The west of Youyan area is the west mountain of the remaining veins of the Taihang Mountain Range, the north is the Jundu Mountain of the Yanshan Mountain Range, the two mountains intersect in the Nankou Guangou, forming a semicircular mountain bend that spreads out to the southeast, now people call it "Beijing Bend", and the small plain around it is the Beijing Small Plain. As the ancients said: "The land of Youzhou, the left is surrounded by the sea, the right is Taihang, the north is Yong, the south is the river, and the country of Chengtianfu is Chengtian."

This also shows that although the southern part of Youzhou is mostly plain, there are many rivers, which is not conducive to the large-scale movement of the army. Therefore, after Zhao Yong led the army to cross the boundary river, he did not attack by separate routes like Taizong did, but arranged the Gaoyang Luzhou army led by Zhang on the right flank of the army and fortified along the Yongding River, one is to prevent the Jin army from using cavalry to attack the flank, and the other is to keep the grain route unblocked. He led the main force to attack Zhuozhou.

In the face of the large-scale invasion of the Song army, the Jin army retreated north again and again, and the Luzhou army of Zhongshan Prefecture, which protected the left flank of the army, advanced bravely under the leadership of Yue Fei, gradually overtook the brigade, and arrived outside the Qigou Pass first.

Qigou Pass is set up on the east bank of the Qigou River, named because of the water, build the earth city all around, the north and south of the earth city are one hundred and thirty zhang wide, the east and west are long, the north city is one hundred and thirty zhang, the south city is one hundred and fifty zhang, the high three and four zhang, the form is dangerous, there is more Qigou River as the natural barrier, it can be said that the Xiongguan is dangerous, it is the place where the soldiers must fight.

Under Zhao Tan's repeated blows, the Jin army suffered heavy losses, and many generals fell. But after all, the Jin Army is a strong force, and the generals under its command are like clouds, although the combat effectiveness is not as good as in the heyday, it is not a soft persimmon that anyone can pinch. At this time, the guards in the pass are even more famous, he is a gentle envoy in negotiations, and now he is a fierce general when he puts on his armor... (To be continued......)