When he was about to leave the city, Nian Chun turned his stomach full of questions into questions and asked Anton: "My lord, why did you resolutely not send troops before, and after hearing that Renduo Baozhong sent troops, you no longer hesitated?" ”

An Dian shook his head and said resentfully: "This is a conspiracy, a conspiracy against this official!" ”

Nian Chun shook his head a little inexplicably, he found that he would never understand the civil official.

Anton sighed: "Someone wants to harm this official, hateful!" ”

When he said this, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Harm? Eunuchs are perhaps the most sensitive to this term. Most of the eunuchs, they want to climb on the heads of their peers and be powerful. If you want to do this, there is only one way to go, harming others. If you can't be brilliant, it's not enough to harm people. But what puzzled Nian Chun was that he was a eunuch, as if he was born with a kind of prediction of threats, but An Xuan was not!

It stands to reason that he doesn't have the talent for it.

"Lord An, is it an exaggeration? You're a straight bachelor, who would dare to harm you? Not to mention that Renduo Baozhong is just a subordinate, even if he is the commander of the military, he will not dare to harm you! Nian Chun laughed, he still thought Anton was joking.

But how could An Dan have the mind of joking, and said sadly: "It's not worrying about Renduo's loyalty, I'm afraid of Li Kui." ”

"Master Li?" Nian Chun would not suspect Li Kui if he thought so. The main reason is that Li Kui and An Dian are both people trusted by Zhang Dan, and they are civil officials in the same camp, how can they frame each other. As if he had discovered a terrible secret, Nian Chun nervously asked An Dan in a low voice: "Lord An, will you worry too much." Although Master Li doesn't have a good temper, he doesn't have any conflict with you, so why would he hurt you? Why should it hurt you? ”

"You don't understand, it's intuition!" When he said this, he seemed to be deflated. Li Kui wanted to hurt him, he just felt it.

But it's a strange feeling, and it's very real.

Nian Chun couldn't understand that he was a eunuch, and he was born with a natural tendency to be suspicious of anyone around him. Of course, this kind of nature is not innate, as a man, when one day he loses the man's 'antenna', the spiritual sense in the body is suddenly awakened, as if it has become a personal shape, looking at everyone as if it is uneasy to harm him.

Nian Chun secretly asked: "Could it be that Lord Li will slander the Metropolitan Hall and even the Holy Lord?" ”

Nian Chun stubbornly believes that this should be a conspiracy. Slander is also the most common method used by eunuchs.

He didn't have any intrigues that he had ever experienced. Or maybe he doesn't understand the real scheme.

After all, he was just a eunuch, a place where intrigues were rampant, but only low-level conspiracies were rampant. In the court, all the conspiracies converge into one thing - slander!

Low to the point of disdain of civil officials.

Intrigue and intrigue are only conspiracy, and they are so low as to use slander as a means of conspiracy, which is despised by any civil official. A conspiracy without subterfuge, or a conspiracy? What's more, how can you pluck yourself out of the means of slander? Is a conspirator who stands on the bright side still a conspirator?

What's more, as a civil official, he prefers to use not conspiracy, but yang conspiracy.

The kind of powerful means that seems to be upright, but makes the opponent have to lower his head and admit his mistakes.

In short, it all boils down to one sentence: he's stupid, he doesn't see it.

An Kui's face was gloomy, and he roared indignantly: "Li Kui is vicious, he used the army of the foreign general, so that the official had to do what he ordered, and this thief could not stay." ”

Although he was very angry in his heart, he still obediently followed Li Kui's orders, which was what made him the most aggrieved. Anton, as a heavy minister of the Great Song Dynasty, how could he fall behind the ministers?

Even if Li Kui did not go to the emperor and the court exposed his disregard for friendly troops, he would be spurned by the entire civilian bureaucracy.

Even Antun knew that as long as he did not send troops, what awaited him could only be to belittle Lingnan.

Because the empire could not tolerate a courtier with a heavy army who brazenly showed his selfishness to others.

An Kui didn't dare to do this either, and if Li Kui ordered him alone, he could have various reasons to refuse. Because Zhendingfu has just experienced the ravages of the Liao army, as the feudal official who dominates the party, he has the right to put the people's livelihood on his lips as an excuse to refuse. But...... Damn Renduo Baozhong, this guy must have some kind of secret with Li Kui that he doesn't know.

Even if it is damaged by the Liao people, no matter how difficult it is, is it still difficult to surrender to the ministers to be loyal to Renduo?

An Dian felt a kind of grievance of being coerced, and at the same time wondered, could it be that Li Kui really defeated Zhuozhou?

He still couldn't believe that Li Kui could do it.

Let's not talk about Anton, let's talk about Liu Fa and Hu Yanzhuo.

The dam has been stopped 20 miles upstream of Yishui, and more than 2,000 soldiers have been raising and reinforcing the dam day and night. In order to keep the water level rising. As the main general, it was already an adventure for him to choose the location to intercept Yi Shui. When he chose the right place, he immediately rushed back to Yi County with his personal guards. For several days in a row, he stayed awake at night, standing at the head of the city and waiting.

Not only that, Liu Fa even put a dam downstream, of course, this dam is much rougher, mainly to prevent the water level of Yishui from dropping too much, and deliberately confusing the Liao people. Without even looking carefully, there is no trace of the dam at all, because most of it is hidden underwater.

After preparing all this, Liu Fa returned to Yi County.

Every night, he waited for the arrival of the Liao army.

The biting cold wind made him want to go back to the house to warm up, but his cautious habits still prevented him from resting completely.

Along with him was Hu Yanzhuo.

He was more worried than Liu Fa, and he also knew that he was not treated well by Li Kui.

As for the reason, apart from attributing it to Li Kui's careful eyes, it seems that he can't think of any other reason.

But the problem is that no matter how much he does, he can't seem to get a high look at Li Kui. This made Hu Yanzhuo very depressed, but fortunately, even if Li Kui didn't look down on him, he wouldn't deliberately stumble him. But even so, he didn't dare to expect Li Kui to be able to open up when he made a mistake.

But if Hu Yanzhuo made a mistake, he could imagine what would await him.

"Will you come tonight?"

Hu Yanzhuo leaned against the female wall and muttered to himself.

Liu Fa, who was standing beside him, frowned, he couldn't give Hu Yanzhuo an answer, so he could only comfort himself: "I hope." A few days ago, the messengers of the Liao people waded smoothly south, and in terms of time, they should have come too. ”

As the chief general in the army, Liu Fa waited longer and longer, and the restlessness in his heart became stronger.

But there is no way, he can't order the Liao army to come quickly, right?

In order to ease the tense atmosphere, Liu Fa smiled reluctantly, and in the darkness under the firelight, his smile had a strange color: "As long as the Liao people come, it will be difficult for them to go back." ”

Hu Yanzhuo didn't say anything, turned his head to look in the direction of Zhuozhou, and suddenly his eyes widened and he pointed to the direction of Zhuozhou and shouted to Liu Fa in surprise: "General Liu, where do you look?" ”

"Where?"

Liu Fa turned and headed north, and that direction was the direction of Zhuozhou. He saw a flash of red in the sky, reflecting the night.

Then, he immediately took out the 'clairvoyance mirror' on his waist, and adjusted the focus of the 'clairvoyance mirror' with one end close to his eyes. The distance is relatively far, and the clairvoyant mirror cannot be seen clearly. He couldn't see the city of Zhuozhou, but with experience, he could be sure that this fire could not be a mountain fire, but Zhuozhou, an important town in Nanjing Province of Liao, was ignited.

As a veteran of 20 years in the army, he certainly knows what that means. It's a huge city burning, and that's the only way to meet so far at night, and you can still see the dark red fire. Even if the firelight is reflected under the dome.

"Zhuozhou has really been defeated?"

Liu Fazhen didn't know what to say, Zhuozhou was the gateway to Nanjing Road in Liao, once Zhuozhou was lost, for Liao, Xijin Mansion would lose its barrier. For the Song army, if Zhuozhou was defeated, the best choice was not to burn the city, but to leave a heavy army and hold it at all costs.

But......

He didn't understand, why did Li Kui choose to burn the city?

If Zhuozhou is held, as long as the court of the Great Song Dynasty gets the news, the entire Great Song Dynasty will work hard for this city!

After all, after defeating Zhuozhou, as long as it is defended, even if the sixteen states of Yanyun are still in the hands of Liao, the Great Song Dynasty can sit back and relax. After all, if Liao wants to go south to Hebei, there is only one road to choose from Zhuozhou. Elsewhere there were swamps and lakes, and it was only during the coldest months of winter that the Liao army could move south.

But in the spring, when the flowers bloom and the ice and snow melt, the Liao army going south will be trapped in the Great Song Dynasty because there is no way to retreat.

It can be said that defeating Zhuozhou is equivalent to defeating half of the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Liu Fa was sorry that Zhuozhou was burned, but Hu Yanzhuo, who was familiar with Li Kui, smelled an opportunity. His eyes flickered and stared at the dark red sky at the end of the realization, as if he saw Li Kui's determination. Secretly clenched his fists and said to Liu Fa: "General Liu, how sure are you that you will leave the 50,000 Liao army behind?" ”

"I'm not sure!"

It is true that Liu Fa is a fierce general of the Western Army, but he is just a fierce general who charges into battle. He would not have thought of the opportunity of Song Liao's decisive battle, such a far-reaching problem. The huge gap in strength made him see no hope of leaving 50,000 Liao troops, he was a man, not a god.

To put it bluntly, Liu Fa has the strength to attack cities and plunder land, but he does not have the vision to plan a domain. He didn't, but Hu Yanzhuo did. Don't look at how unreliable the ancestor of the Huyan family is, he can even do such a foolish thing as stabbing the enemy and serving the country in the face. But if you want to say that Huyan is stupid, it is definitely the blind eye of the person who spoke.

If Huyanzan was stupid, how could he make both Taizu and Taizong trust him?

This old man's stupidity is completely pretended.

Hu Yanzhuo is in such a family, and the family inheritance has not been broken, so he naturally sees it much more far-reaching than Liu Fa. He took a sharp breath, as if after making a difficult decision, he said to Liu Fa cautiously: "General Liu, we have seen the changes in Zhuozhou, do you think the Liao people will see it?" ”

This seems to be a stupid question, the Song people have eyes, and the Liao people also have eyes, why can't they see it? Liu Fa's eyes were as hot as flames, he probably guessed Hu Yanzhuo's thoughts, but he didn't say it deliberately, but guided the other party to say it himself: "General Hu Yan, if you have anything to say, you and I are now in Yi County, and we are robes of life and death, what else can't I say?" ”

Hu Yanzhuo breathed a sigh of relief, he saw a trace of madness in the other party's eyes, obviously the other party's thoughts should coincide with his own: "Hold on, hold on for at least three days, before digging a dam and releasing water, and be sure to leave these 50,000 Liao troops behind." ”

Although Liu Fa said that he had no bottom in his heart, he did not fall behind in his mouth, and said happily: "Then let the Liao people know that my Great Song Army is powerful." ”

Since Li Kui burned Zhuozhou City, it means that Li Kui probably did not have the idea of sticking to Zhuozhou. It can be seen that it is very likely that Li Kui will go south to join them.

In this case, the best thing to do is to drag the Liao army and wait for the main force to arrive.

At noon the next day, the sun was shining, but there was no trace of heat shining on Yishui. Shanshan's late Liao army finally arrived on the other side of Yi County, and divided an army of 3,000 men and horses, rushed across the pontoon bridge, and set up camp on the right side of the bridge.

As more and more Liao troops crossed the river, Hu Yanzhuo regretted it a little.

He ordered the construction of a pontoon bridge because there were enough boats on the water. The second is to be able to retreat smoothly.

Now that there are Liao troops outside the city and on the other side, the thousands of Song infantry soldiers in the city want to break through, don't even think about it.

The infantry, who walks on two legs, in the field, really has no temper at all towards the cavalry. But with the city walls, it's completely different. The Song army, which has a city wall, is like a hedgehog with thorns everywhere, making people have no idea where to start.

Not only the Song army in Yi County, but also Han Junyi, the commander of the Liao army, also discovered the strangeness of Zhuozhou last night. It's a pity that he can't accurately judge that Zhuozhou is lost. The main messenger who delivered him a letter only brought the news that the Song army had arrived outside the city of Zhuozhou.

If the messenger departs a day late, he will be able to get the news of the loss of Zhuozhou.

But no matter whether it is Han Junyi or Han Zirang, who is defending the city, he will not believe that Zhuozhou, which has high walls and thick walls, will not be able to hold out for even a day.

However, Han Junyi did not dare to take it lightly, after all, the commander of the Song army would be Li Kui. This is a fierce man who can turn the Western Xia upside down with his own strength.

He guessed the danger of Zhuozhou, but he couldn't guess the fact that Zhuozhou had been lost.

His most urgent task now is to bring his 50,000 Guangshun troops to Zhuozhou to complete the encirclement of the main force of the Song army planned by the king.

But before that, he had to pull out the nails that Song Jun had left in Yi County.

Not only that, but his scouts also discovered that more than 50,000 horses were coming to surround him behind him, only two days away.

For this reason, he had to divide 20,000 horses to resist the Song army behind him. Relying on 30,000 horses to defeat Yi County is a challenge for him, but it shouldn't be too difficult.

The moment Liu Fa at the head of the city saw that the Liao people were actually carrying siege tools, his face suddenly changed. I secretly said in my heart: "I'm going to fight hard!" ”

Without any warning, the Liao army, which had even given up repairing, immediately began to attack Yixian after crossing Yishui.

Buzz

The sound of the bowstrings is like a swarm of bees.

The falling arrows made a clanging noise on the shields of the Song army at the head of the city.

Liu Fa hid behind the battlements, secretly looked at the Liao army sweeping like a tide, and began to have a trace of doubt in his heart: "Can you hold it?" ”

"Quick, move the arrows up to the city."

"Light a campfire and boil water."

Compared with Liu Fa's silence, Hu Yanzhuo's reaction was faster. He seemed to have anticipated that this was a bitter battle, and prepared for an unusual charge.

Woooooooo

The Liao people carried the shield and the ladder to the city wall of Yi County regardless of casualties.

The arrows on the head of the city also fell from the sky like a torrential rain, but this did not hinder the attack of the Liao people, but aroused the blood of the Liao people, and they became even more crazy.

Seeing that the Liao people had climbed the ladder, they approached the city despite the falling rocks regardless of casualties. Seeing this, Liu Fa pulled out his long knife and shouted: "Knife and axe hand, intercept and kill—"

After shouting, the tall body rushed towards the Liao warrior who had only leaned out half of his body, and slashed and slashed at him.