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After Yue Fei led the Longxiang army south, the Han people in the original Yanyun area in the territory of the Zhao Song Dynasty surrendered one after another, and then volunteered to be the guide and vanguard of the cadre army, causing the Longxiang army to be like a bamboo, driving straight in, as if entering a no-man's land.

However, the Zhao and Song dynasties were not without people who were loyal to the country.

Li Yi is one of them.

Li Yi is a native of Linzhou Xinqin, and Yang Ye, the founding general of the Zhao and Song dynasties (that is, Yang Jiye among the generals of the Yang family), is a fellow villager, and he is the inspector of the West Road of Daizhou.

After Yue Fei went south, he sent Zang Fen, the general of the Yisheng Army who had surrendered to the Daqian Dynasty, to the subordinate counties of Daizhou to surrender.

Zang Fen was ordered by Yue Fei to surrender everywhere, and even Li Siben, the commander of the Yisheng Army, surrendered, but he encountered Li Yi's hard nail here in Lao County.

Lao County is also known as the "Three Jin Locks and Keys", and it is also a place where soldiers must fight.

Li Yi happened to be in Lao County at this time, and he was the person with the highest official position in Lao County.

Zang Fen and Li Siben were ordered to come to the city of Lai County, and after discussion, Zang Fen shouted to the people in Lai County to persuade them to surrender.

When Li Yi heard that Li Siben had been persuaded to surrender, he stood on the city tower and scolded Li Siben for being disloyal and unjust, and failed the emperor's grace, and suddenly shot Zang Fen under the city.

Li Yi's archery skills were very good, and an arrow hit the war horse under Zang Fen's crotch.

The horse was frightened and threw Zang Fen to the ground.

Li Yi immediately made up shots.

Zang Fen was so frightened that he turned around and ran.

Li Siben was also scolded by Li Yi so that he had no face to surrender Li Yi, so he could only go back and reorganize the army to attack Lao County.

After driving out Zang Fen and Li Siben, Li Yi said to the generals in Lao County, Zhi Kehe and others: "I will guard this city with the public, and I should be loyal to the country to repay the country." ”

At this time, there were actually many fortresses in Daizhou that had not been captured by Yue Fei.

For example, Yangwu Village where Sun Yi and Zhe Zhong'an were stationed.

Yangwu Village and Lao Village, Xicheng Sai, Ruyue Village, Hugu Village, Dashi Village and other military villages, all in Daizhou.

These fortresses were built when Yang Ye was guarding Daizhou, and the purpose was to defend against the invasion of Liao.

Li Yi, Sun Yi, Zhe Zhongan and others were all people who cared about the safety of the Zhao and Song dynasties, so they often exchanged news.

At the beginning, when Shiling Pass was not lost, Li Yi suggested that Sun Yi, Zhi Zhongan and others withdraw from their garrison fort and go to Shiling Pass to garrison, because Shiling Pass is the throat of Taiyuan, and the sky is dangerous and lofty, if it can hold on to Shiling Pass for more than ten days, then Taiyuan City can gather grain to defend it, waiting for reinforcements from all directions, even if the cadres are stationed under Taiyuan City, because Shiling Pass is in their hands, the cadres will definitely not dare to continue to go south.

Sun Yi, Zhe Zhong'an and other generals loyal to the Zhao and Song dynasties were deeply convinced, and they invited Li Yi to garrison Shiling Pass.

Li Yi discussed with the other generals and felt that it should be more beneficial for the Zhao and Song dynasties for them to go to Shiling Pass to wait for reinforcements.

So Li Yi and Zhi Kehe prepared to divide their troops to break out of the city, and then go to Shiling Pass.

When the people in Kelao County heard that Li Yi was going to lead his troops to leave, they all cried and cried for their horses, covering the road and asking them to stay.

Seeing this, Li Yi couldn't bear to abandon the city, and finally decided to wait for help in Lao County.

The military strength of Lao County at this time was actually very strong, and his younger brother was still very strong, and he was able to save his younger brother, the general Lu Zhixing, the county magistrate Li Zhen, the county prince Tang Chen, the prisoner Zhang Hongfu, the county lieutenant Liu Ziying, and the supervisor Yan Cheng were all good at fighting.

In addition, there is also Cui Zhong, the commander of the Yisheng Army, who can be regarded as a good general.

However, the only problem is that Cui Zhong is a Han from Yundi, and the soldiers of the Yisheng Army under him are also Han people from the Yanyun region.

Li Yi was a little worried about Cui Zhong's loyalty, so he said to the others: "Cui Zhong is a Han'er, his heart is a big Qian, we will defend the city with Cui Zhong, in case Cui Zhong is on the verge of defection, not only will he mislead the country, but we will also suffer from it, so it is better to kill?" ”

Zhe Kehe agreed with Li Yi's suggestion, but many people felt unbearable to kill Cui Zhong at will.

Seeing this, Li Zhen, the magistrate of the county, suggested: "Cui Zhong is always loyal, it is better to wait and see." ”

The next day, Li Siben led the Yisheng army to attack Laoxian.

Li Yi and others fought bloodily on the city wall.

When the two sides were in the middle of a fierce battle, Cui Zhong suddenly pulled out his saber and killed the military supervisor Zhang Hongfu, and then opened the city gate and led the righteous victorious army outside the city into the city.

After Li Yi learned of this, he was shocked, and hurriedly led a large army with Zhi Kehe, Zhi Kecun and others to fight the righteous victory army that poured in from outside the city.

Li Yi and others led the army to fight a bloody battle with the Yisheng Army for a night, and finally exhausted and captured by the reinforcements sent by Yue Fei.

In fact, Li Yi had long been mentally prepared to die for the country, and he instructed his son Li Zongzhou a few days ago:

"If the city is broken, I will not survive. After my death, if you are lucky enough not to die, and you sue the court for my death, so that I will not die, then future generations will say that I am a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty, and you are a filial son. He is favored by the court, and you can let your uncle be orphaned. Your stepmother has only been married to me for a few months, and I put national affairs first, how can I take care of her? When I die, you will serve her as your own mother. Assuming that you are both unfortunate enough to fall into the enemy, do not turn your back on her. After I die, if you can return to your hometown, then bury my bones in the ancestral camp, so that I can serve my ancestors in Jiuquan after I die, and I will not hate after death! ”

After Li Yi was captured, Li Siben repeatedly persuaded him with kind words and persuaded him to surrender, but Li Yi was determined to kill himself to become benevolent, and he scolded Li Siben unyieldingly.

Li Siben was furious and said sharply: "My emperor hangs the people for the crime, and if there is no way, he will take the world, and he will take the world, and he is a small county, can he stop the heavenly army?" My emperor is a loyal and righteous person, and we have not killed you, but I am in harmony with my words, and I am still in office, so why should I be stubborn? ”

After Li Yi heard this, he folded it in half and said: "I will not break my word, I will live and die with the public." ”

Then, Li Yi scolded Li Siben loudly: "You are deeply favored by the emperor, but you don't want to repay it, who can reuse it." I am a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty, because of the traitor's internal response, the city was broken and captured, and if I kill it, I will be killed, and I can survive, so that no one cares about the Song Dynasty? ”

Zhi Ke also said loudly: "I have guarded the family for hundreds of years, Anken has ruined the reputation of the country, and the ignorant traitor should kill me!" ”

Li Siben was scolded and red-eyed, so he wanted to call his soldiers to kill Li Yihe and Zhe Kehe.

But at this moment, Yue Fei sent Yao Yu to take over Lao County.

Yao Yu passed on Yue Fei's general order: escort Li Yi, Zhi Kehe, Zhi Kecun and others to Yanjing......

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Taiyuan, known as Jinyang in ancient times, is also known as Bingzhou and Longcheng.

However, at this time, Taiyuan City is actually no longer the ancient city of Jinyang in the past.

It is said that the ancient city of Jinyang has dragon veins.

Jinyang was known as the Tang Dynasty in ancient times, the Tang Dynasty was born here, after Li Yuan and his son set the capital of Chang'an, they took "Tang" as the country name, and sealed Jinyang as the northern capital, Beijing, and Chang'an, Kyoto, and Luoyang, the eastern capital, and called "Sandu", "Sanjing".

Especially during the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, the Northern Han Dynasty, or originated in Jinyang, or took this as the national capital, for a time, Jinyang was famous in the world, and folk legends said that this was a "dragon city".

Zhao Guangyi was a cautious eye, he was very worried that ambitious people would occupy the ancient city of Jinyang against the Song Dynasty, so he burned the ancient city of Jinyang with a fire.

But then, Zhao Guangyi found that if he wanted to defend against the invasion of Liao, he couldn't do without this critical place.

There was no way, Zhao Guangyi ordered Pan Mei to build a new city in Tangming Town, on the other side of the Fen River, thirty miles northeast of the ancient city of Jinyang.

This new city is Taiyuan City.

However, the scale and shape of Taiyuan City are much smaller than that of Jinyang Ancient City.

After Tong Guan led the Xuanfu Division to evacuate Taiyuan City, Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu, who stayed behind, sent people out of the city to contact the nearby prefectures and counties, asking them to send troops to reinforce Taiyuan, and at the same time organized the soldiers and civilians in the city to prepare to meet the enemy.

Soon after, the main force of Yue Fei's troops broke through the Shiling Pass and came to the city of Taiyuan.

Since going south, the Long Xiang army has not encountered too strong resistance, and even so far, the Long Xiang army has not really fought a battle.

But under the city of Taiyuan, the Longxiang army was stubbornly resisted by the Song army.

The first to come to reinforce Taiyuan City was Sun Yi, a famous general in Hedong.

Sun Yi originally wanted to go to garrison Shiling Pass.

But Sun Yi was one step slower than Geng Shouzhong, and Geng Shouzhong dedicated Shiling Pass to Yue Fei.

Later, Sun Yi learned that Taiyuan City was in danger, and he immediately led less than 2,000 horse troops to make a detour to reinforce him.

Although Sun Yi's troops had less than 2,000 soldiers and horses, they were fierce and their morale was very strong.

When Sun Yi came to help, Yue Fei had already led the army to Taiyuan City.

Therefore, Zhang Xiaochun did not let Sun Yi enter the city, but stood on the city tower and said to Sun Yi: "The enemy is near, don't dare to open the door, observe and serve the country loyally!" ”

Sun Yi didn't blame Zhang Xiaochun for letting him hit the stone with an egg, let alone fear the enemy, but said very regretfully: "But the hated soldiers are few and weak!" ”

After that, Sun Yi led less than 2,000 men and horses to battle.

The Righteous Victorious Army originally had a large number of war horses.

But Yue Fei "borrowed" all the horses of the Yisheng Army according to Li Cun's instructions to form a new horse army, and the original Yisheng Army was all downgraded to an infantry army.

However, Li Cun did not give any chance to the officers and men of the Yisheng Army, but used the supervising army to select all the credible, credible talents in the Yisheng Army, and then sent them to the military department for training and political education.

In fact, the newly formed cavalry, the soldiers of the Yisheng Army accounted for a large proportion.

It is precisely because of this that the officers and men of the Yisheng Army, from Li Siben and Geng Shouzhong downwards, are all actively performing, hoping that they can be rebuilt and become real officers and soldiers of the cadre army.

In short, since the Yisheng army did not have a horse army, Yue Fei led the Shengjie army with Zhao Bingyuan in battle.

No, Zhao Bingyuan had several times the number of soldiers and horses of Sun Yi, but he couldn't take Sun Yi in a short time.

Not only that, the soldiers of the Shengjie Army were also killed by Sun Yi's subordinates more than 1,000 horsemen.

It can be seen from this that the combat effectiveness of Sun Yi's soldiers is strong.

In the end, Zhao Bingyuan had to use wheel tactics, and he used up the physical strength of Sun Yi's soldiers, so he surrounded and captured the remnants of Sun Yi's troops who fought to the death.

Zhao Bingyuan was furious because his men and horses had been hit hard, and wanted to slaughter the remnants of Sun Yi to vent his hatred, but was stopped by Yue Fei.

Yue Fei then sent all of Sun Yi's troops to Yanjing and handed them over to Li Cun for disposal.

Next, it was the Western Army that came to reinforce it.

They have Fuzhou Zhizhou Zhekeqiu, Yanyan Road Guard General Liu Guangshi, and also military horse envoy Han Quan, Jinning Zhixian Luo Cheng, etc.

Among them, the Zhe Keqiu Department and Liu Guangshi's Department were the main forces of reinforcements, and both of them had more than 20,000 horses.

Coupled with the rest of the troops, the total number of Song troops who came to reinforce was as high as 60,000 or 70,000, and they all took the initiative to come to Taiyuan from different places to participate in the war.

In the many years of war with the Western Xia, Zhe Kexing loved the nurse soldiers, won many times, and had a lot of achievements, and the department was called the "Folding Army" by the Song people.

From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, for hundreds of years, the Zhe family "dominated Fuzhou, controlled the northwest, and China relied on it".

She Taijun's maiden family among the Yang generals is actually from this folding family.

Fold with, fold can be saved, fold Zhong'an is a fold.

Fuzhou is bordered by the Yellow River in the east, the grassland desert in the northwest, and the Hexi Prefectures in the south, so its geographical location is very important.

The Zhao and Song dynasties placed the Zhejia generals in Fuzhou, mainly to defend against Western Xia, and secondly to defend against Liao.

The Zhe family did not live up to the high hopes of the Zhao and Song dynasties, first at war with the Liao State, and later against the Western Xia for several generations, and made a lot of military achievements for China to garrison the northwest edge for hundreds of years.

The Zhejia Army, also known as the Fuzhou soldiers, became one of the most warlike armies in the Western Army.

In order to rescue Taiyuan, Zhe Keqiu personally led 20,000 Fuzhou soldiers to cross the Yellow River from Fuzhou to Tianmen Pass.

It was found that there were cadres and soldiers guarding Tianmen Pass according to the danger, so they turned around and took Songziling, and came to Jiaocheng in the southwest of Taiyuan to station.

Liu Guangshi led the troops from Yanyan, all the way to Taiyuan, and finally met with Zhe Keqiu in Jiaocheng, and the two armies were stationed separately in a corner situation.

Liu Guangshi made a mistake in attacking Li Cun and was later demoted.

But Liu Guangshi suppressed Zhang Di's uprising in the battle to exterminate the Hebei rebel army, killed Zhang Di, made great contributions, reinstated the official, and was also promoted to the deputy head of the Ma Bu Army on the Yanyan Road.

After Zhe Keqiu and Liu Guangshi converged, plus the men and horses of Han Quan, Luo Cheng and other troops, in terms of troops, they were actually almost the same as Yue Fei's troops who needed to be deployed everywhere.

After discussing with Zhi Keqiu, Liu Guangshi and others, they decided to fight with Yue Feibu.

Yue Fei also hoped that the main force of the Song army would be resolved in a war.

As a result, the two sides fought on the north bank of the Fen River.

The two sides fought from morning to noon, and there was no winner or loser.

This was mainly due to Liu Guangshi's understanding of the tactics of the cadre army, so under Liu Guangshi's proposal, the Song army changed from offensive to defensive.

-- The Song army defended every danger and never gave the infantry of the cadres a chance to come forward, so that the firearms of the cadres could not exert their might.

To put it bluntly, Liu Guangshi's style of play is, but he seeks no fault, not meritorious.

Liu Guangshi thought so, as long as they could drag the cadres under Taiyuan City and prevent the cadres from capturing Taiyuan City.

After that, the Zhao and Song dynasties would definitely send reinforcements to rescue the vital city of Taiyuan.

Then they will have more and more reinforcements.

When they have the certainty of victory, they can counterattack according to the situation.

It is also based on Liu Guangshi's tactical concept that as long as the infantry of the cadre army advances, the Song army will withdraw, and if the horse army of the cadre army advances, the horse army of the Song army will meet the battle.

Yue Fei saw that the Song army was so difficult, so he decisively used Wang Gui to make a detour to attack the discounted Houzhai.

If you don't notice it, you can ask for it, and Wang Gui will get it, causing chaos in the Fuzhou soldiers.

Yue Fei seized the fighter plane and went to attack the Fuzhou soldiers with a reserve force.

Liu Guangshi saw that the situation was not good, and ran away.

Zhe Ke begged to see Liu Guangshi run away, and he also retreated.

In the end, only Luo Cheng, Han Quan and other troops were still fighting to the death in the battle.

When Yue Fei saw this, he surrounded him with a large army.

Luo Cheng and Han Quan's subordinates saw that the Song army was gone, and if they continued to fight, they would really have to die, so they tied up Luo Cheng and Han Quan, put down their weapons and surrendered.

Yue Fei also sent Luo Cheng, Han Quan and other people who fought to the death to the death to Yanjing and handed them over to Li Cun for disposal.

In this battle, the Song army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and more than 10,000 surrendered, and the cadres won a complete victory.

Seeing that it was possible to ask for a loss, Liu Guangshi was defeated and escaped, Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu knew that in a short period of time, there should be no reinforcements in Taiyuan City.

In order to strengthen the city's defense and make up for the lack of troops, Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu ordered that all men over the age of 15 and under the age of 60 in Taiyuan City should be included in the list of defending the city.

At this time, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City, and it can be said that after removing the old and weak women and children, everyone in the city became warriors.

It is not difficult to see from this that Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu are determined to stick to and wait for help, and even live and die with Taiyuan City.

Zhang Xiaochun said to the soldiers and civilians in the city: "Taiyuan has been a strong domain since ancient times, the city is strong and the food is sufficient, and the soldiers are brave, I don't want to go out of the division, when the enemy is exhausted of food, the arrogant soldiers are lazy, but wait for reinforcements nearby, corresponding inside and outside, so that the enemy does not return, the upper is the imperial court to retaliate, and the lower is to protect the blood of Ru, but what?" ”

Everyone is promised.

And just as Yue Fei was about to attack Taiyuan City, Yue Fei suddenly received Li Cun's order: Don't storm Taiyuan City, just encircle and send reinforcements and capture areas other than Taiyuan City.

According to Li Cun's instructions, after Yue Fei captured the outer counties of Taiyuan, he tightly besieged Taiyuan City with the method of locking the city.

The so-called lock-up method is actually to build a fortress around the place outside the city where the arrows and stones cannot touch, and divide people to defend, so that the city and the outside world are not connected to each other.

Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu, who were preparing to defend Taiyuan City, saw that the Qianjun was preparing to lock up Taiyuan City, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they couldn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the Great Qian Dynasty.

——Although Taiyuan City is indeed strong, there is a lot of food, Wang Yu is a good general, the Shengjie army is very good at fighting, and the residents of the city are also well versed in combat, but the soldiers of the Daqian Dynasty are also famous for being good at fighting, and the firearms of the key Daqian Dynasty are too sharp, so if the Qianjun is let go of fighting, Zhang Xiaochun, including Wang Yu, really don't know if they can hold Taiyuan City?

The good thing is that -

Looking at the posture of the Daqian Dynasty, it seems that it is not ready to attack Taiyuan City......

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