With the respect of the commander of all armies, Yelu Xiuge directly led the task of leading a small army to copy the back road of the Song army, and assigned the elite of the palace to the commander of Yelu Sha, which also convinced other Khitan generals. The strategy of this battle was false and real, and all the generals had nothing to say, so except for Yelu Xidi, the former king of the Northern Courtyard, who was robbed of military power and treated as a crime, all the generals went back to reorganize their armies and fight.

"The king of the North Courtyard can rest assured, tomorrow will make Zhao Jiong anxious. Yelusha laughed loudly, but Yeluxiu saw a little weakness in his smile, the soldiers and horses of the north and south courtyards who arrived in Youzhou in the early stage were indeed demoralized by the Song forbidden army, fortunately, there is a sharp and victorious palace elite as the backbone, how can it be able to hold on until nightfall, Yelu Hugo secretly thought, he is inconvenient to say, the palace cavalry is only loyal to the royal family, and also has the responsibility of monitoring the generals, given to the commander of Yelusha, and also indirectly restricts those Khitan generals who look at the forbidden army of the Southern Dynasty and are afraid not to flee without authorization. He parted ways with Jerusha, took the horse's head, and the horse's hooves were covered with thick linen, and the army of five thousand followed the mountain path, and soon disappeared into the mountains and mountains. Jerusha looked at the disappearing back of Jeruhugo's army, and suddenly felt that he was old.

Baoguang Temple in the northwest of Youzhou City, Zhao Jiong climbed to the north to look at, only to see a flickering torch under the northern mountains, the arrogance was smoking, according to the estimation of Cui Han, the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace, there were at least 100,000 Liao troops to help. Pan Mei, Cao Han and other generals all surrounded Zhao Jiong and listened to his words. Since the Northern Expedition, such an atmosphere has gradually formed, that is, all major military affairs are decided by Zhao Jiong, and the generals will not be bored with his strengths.

Zhao Jiong's face was solemn, and he said slowly after a long time: "The art of war says, fiction is real, reality is fiction, the Liao people raise fire late at night, fanfare, nine times out of ten, it is a bluff." Zhu will continue to besiege Youzhou, and must not let Liao reinforcements enter the city. If the Liao people dare to provoke tomorrow, I will personally command the elite of the imperial camp to attack them!"

According to his memory, the Song army was defeated in the battle of the Gaoliang River, and the Liao army did not have the strength to pursue the main force of the Song army. At this time, the most pitiful thing is to follow the Song army to go on the expedition, more than 100,000 people who transported grain along the front line, and hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides of the Song and Liao sides circled between the secluded and invited to attack.

After the generals dispersed, Zhao Jiong rubbed his temples a little tiredly, and he had been working hard for several days, even if he was in the prime of life, he couldn't bear it. At this time, it was a scorching summer, and it was humid in Youzhou, and it was hot and humid at night, and there was no appetite. Not long after, the eunuch came to report that Sun Chengyou was made to offer ice plate fish to His Majesty to cool off, Zhao Jiong frowned, and passed Sun Chengyou to see him. This Sun Chengyou is the son-in-law of the late King Qian, after the Jiangnan War, Zhao Kuangyin recruited all the nobles of the Qian family of Wu Yue to Bianliang as officials, on the one hand, he was rewarded for the martyrdom of Wu Yue King Qian Jiao, and on the other hand, he took the opportunity to annex Wu Yue. This Qian people are also very interesting, in addition to food and clothing luxury, there is no heart to recover, so the Zhao family treats the princes living in Beijing, with the Qian family is the most tolerant, this Qian Wang's son-in-law Sun Chengyou, in the Northern Expeditionary Army, can actually rectify the ice plate fish tart, so extravagant, if it is placed on other generals, Zhao Jiong is only afraid that he will immediately reprimand, but since it is Wu Yue's Qian family's surrender, he can be tolerant of him, if Sun Chengyou is like Wu Hero and the soldiers share the joys and sorrows, buy people's hearts, I am afraid that Zhao Jiong will even want his life.

I don't know what method Sun Chengyou used, the fish that came up was actually a rare sea bass in Youzhou, obviously carried from Bianliang, the crystal transparent fish slices were sprinkled with some green onion ginger slices, lined with the ice tray with a trace of white mist below, and the heat was completely gone, Zhao Jiong picked up a piece with a tooth clip, and the entrance was sweet and sweet, and he couldn't help but smile and praise: "There is still such a delicacy in the army, Sun Qing really has a heart." ”

Sun Chengyou replied in fear: "Your Majesty, when King Qian is here, I like us to sacrifice this ice plate fish to cool off." Since His Majesty's personal conquest, he has experienced the arrows and stones, and has been the vanguard of the army, which is particularly hard, and Weichen knows that this fish has the effect of cooling off the heat and growing energy, so he prepared it early to serve His Majesty for the work of this dog and horse. For extravagance, please forgive your majesty. Zhao Jiong took another slice of fish and ate it, and sighed: "Prince Qian is loyal to the country, and you also have a heart." Sun Chengyou saw that he was not to blame, relieved himself, and said: "I heard that the Khitan reinforcements are coming, Your Majesty will personally lead the imperial camp to attack it tomorrow, Chengyou is brave, and I am willing to lead Wu Yue's children to follow His Majesty and swear to repel the Khitan." Zhao Jiong nodded and agreed to him, Zhuang Zhi said: "If all the generals are like Sun Qing, why worry about Youyan and no more." ”

"Khitan dogs, crawl slower than turtles!" Zhu Dao, the centurion of the Anxi Army, muttered a curse in his mouth, squinting his eyes as the Liao army slowly galloped from the north. The sun was like fire, sweat flowed down the cracks of the iron helmet, blurring the corners of the eyes, although there was only a silk armor inside, the iron armor was baked hot by the scorching sun, and I was afraid that the skin and flesh would be roasted if I waited like this. His voice was not loud, but it happened to be heard by Wu Yingying and Zhang Zhongyao in front of Le Ma, Wu Yingying smiled bitterly in his heart, Zhao Jiong thought that the imperial camp was insufficient, and was instigated by Sun Chengyou, remembering how many different guards there were in the heavy generals who accompanied him, so he ordered Xijing to stay behind Shi Shouxin and lead the guards to accompany him, and meet the Liao army with the imperial camp.

In the morning, the climate was cool, and the Liao people only made noise, but they did not move, and it was almost noon before they crossed the Qingsha River. More than 50,000 horsemen accompanied by more than 10,000 foot soldiers, and more than 30,000 Ding auxiliaries followed, slowly approaching Youzhou City. Since Zhao Jiong's imperial camp arrived at the city of Youzhou, the two sides of Song and Liao have been confronting each other here for more than ten days, in addition to the Song army besieging Youzhou, and the Liao army from the periphery to help two major battles, small battles continued, although the Song army drove the Liao army far away, but could not break its main force. However, in the past ten days, the Song and Liao sides have clearly figured out each other's troop positions and strengths. Yerusha didn't expect to surprise the Song army by surprise, but cautiously held the soldiers and horses of the north and south courtyards and the Xi army to maintain the position, and slowly advanced after crossing the river. Yelu Huge handed over more than 25,000 palace elites to Yelu Sha, 15,000 were the vanguard of the army, and the other 10,000 horsemen were mixed in the ranks of the Khitan cavalry behind the North Courtyard, ready to give the Song army a sudden blow.

As soon as the Liao army moved, the Song army immediately formed a formation on the other side of the Qingsha River to wait for the Liao reinforcements, Zhao Jiong personally led the imperial front Banzhi and the control crane army as the Chinese army, and the palace was in front of the palace to assist the official Cui Han to give orders, Xijing stayed behind Shi Shouxin to lead Zhang Mei, Liu Yanrang and other accompanying generals to form a vanguard formation with the Xiao cavalry army, Kong Shouzheng led the elite of the east and west cavalry to be the vanguard of the strategy, and Zhang Xin Jiedu made Liu Yu lead the twenty commands of the Hujie army to the rear of the palace. Fu Qian, the commander of the eastern and western classes, and Wang Chao, the deputy commander of Yulongzhi, led the cavalry of the Longjie army to line up on both sides of the large formation, preparing to attack the flanks of the Liao army from both flanks. Wu Yingying thought about it in his heart, Zhao Jiong went to the Khitan army this time, and he also took a lot of effort to choose generals, and put out a pattern of bringing the old with the new, Shi Shouxin and other veterans will be the vanguard to break the Liao people's spirit, the most likely to make contributions to the Chinese army and the two wings of the abduction horse formation, but all use the old people of the Jin Dynasty's mansion who were only promoted during the Taiping Rejuvenation period, and the palace rear formation covering Zhao Jiong's army is led by Liu Yu, who is the commander of the Zhangxin army, which can be regarded as paying special attention. And Pan Mei, Cao Han, Mi Xin and other generals who were in the prime of life and could take charge on their own, continued to urge more than 100,000 forbidden troops to attack the city from all sides.

Wu Yingying and the Zhong'an Xiya army rode their horses and stood in the vanguard formation led by Shi Shouxin, looking at the opposite side, the Liao army did not have the combat style of coming and going like the wind in Pingsuli at all, as if extremely reluctantly, step by step towards Youzhou City, which was being attacked by the Song army at the expense of casualties, and also slowly marched in the direction of the elite array of nearly 100,000 forbidden troops. "It seems that the Khitans do not intend to fight a quick victory. Zhang Zhongyao looked at the smoke and dust raised by more than 70,000 Khitan cavalry, and said in a deep voice. Wu Yingying smiled, noncommittal, and turned his head sideways to look at the famous generals beside him.

Shi Shouxin, who stayed in Xijing, had a stern face and the majesty of a general, but his body was already a little blessed, Shi Shouxin seemed to notice that Wu Yingying was looking, and he snorted heavily in his nose, and looked at the generals on the left and right with a cold light in his eyes. Beside Shi Shouxin, Zhang Yongde, the general of the left guard, and Zhang Mei, the general of the left Xiaowei, were unconscious, looking ahead, not so much observing the situation of the Liao people, but rather being stunned as if nothing had happened. Liu Yanrang, the general of the right Xiaowei, seemed to be aware of Shi Shouxin and Wu Yingying's gaze, and turned his head to glare at Wu Yingying, as if he had a warning. Only Dong Zunzhi, who commanded the cavalry army, looked ahead with a sad face, and fought a decisive battle with nearly 100,000 Liao cavalry, which was an extremely rare thing since the Tang Dynasty.