Twenty days later, King Chu Lou entered Qingfeng City with a patchwork army of 200,000 troops, and King Chu Lou, who had just entered the city, did not rest, but directly opened the battle meeting.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this king is ordered by the emperor to command you to resist the Liao army, and I hope that you can cooperate with this king." King Chu Lou first greeted politely, and then went straight to the topic, "Let's talk about it, do you have any good ways to retreat from the enemy." ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, I can't think of a good way, after a while, the commander of the dreadnought army in the north, the general of the chariot cavalry, Wang Zhong, stood up, "Lord Wang, the only way now is to strengthen the city defense and defend Qingfeng City." ”

"Hold on? How to stick to it? Like General Wang, if you keep 80,000 people a month, there are only 7,000 left? Is there only 500 dreadnoughts left to defend the dreadnought army that the imperial court spent a lot of money to build? King Chulou glanced at Wang Zhong and said disdainfully.

"Lord Wang, what if you don't stick to it? Do you want us to go to a field war with the Liao army? Seeing that King Chu Lou insulted himself like this, Wang Zhong picked his eyeliner and asked King Chu Lou, and after speaking, he laughed with the generals.

Seeing that everyone was laughing at King Chulou, the cronies of King Chulou who were sitting on the side couldn't sit still, and pulled out their swords one by one, and there was going to be a real competition at the moment, and King Chulou quietly calmed everyone, "General Wang, you only know how long you have to defend it, but do you know how long it will take, one month and two months?" Or a year or two? Do you know how much grain, grass and silver the imperial court spends a day in order to supply these hundreds of thousands of troops? And how do you know that this king has no good plans? ”

"The last general listens," Wang Zhong leaned his head into the chair.

"This king's plan is to withdraw, to withdraw from Qingfeng City." King Chu Lou's eyes swept over Wang Zhong's faction, and the killing intent in his eyes was revealed.

"Withdraw? Hahaha! Where to retreat? Don't forget, the task given to you by the imperial court is to defend Qingfeng City, do you want to resist the decree? Hearing King Chulou's plan, everyone couldn't help laughing again, even King Chulou's cronies were incredible.

"General Wang, don't worry, this king hasn't finished talking yet." King Chu Lou took a sip of tea and said, "The withdrawal is not because of fear of the Liao army, nor because of the desire to resist the order, but to use Qingfeng City as a bait to annihilate all the Liao army, and at least half of his combat strength."

This king prepares, our army left 50,000 people to defend Qingfeng City for ten days, creating the illusion that my reinforcements are not many, and the rest of the people have withdrawn one after another, and within ten days put fire items into the city, ten days later, let the Liao army enter the city, burn Qingfeng City, I want to burn all the Liao army in Qingfeng City. ”

This plan is not poisonous, luring the Liao army into the city with the lives of 50,000 people, and then burning the Liao army that has just entered the city and is relaxed, burning at least half of it, and then attacking the exhausted Liao army with a spirited army of 200,000, no matter how brave the Liao army is, after this series of blows, it will be crippled if it does not die.

Although it is said that the burning of the city may burn down a large number of houses, and even lead to the destruction of Qingfeng City, this can be regarded as an inevitable loss to resist the Liao army. Although the city was burned down, the land was still Zhao's, and the Liao army would retreat because of heavy losses, and Zhao might also take advantage of the situation to attack Liao, threaten the rear of the Liao's Eastern Route Army, and force it to retreat, so that the overall situation can be solved.

But now the question is who will stay as the bait that lures the Liao army, it is obvious that no one is willing, if it is said that there may be a glimmer of life if it is defended, it is dead and lifeless to be the bait.

King Chulou squinted at Wang Zhong, and Wang Zhong's heart trembled suddenly, Okay, this is to use my head to establish the authority of King Chulou.

"General Wang, your mistake in underestimating the enemy caused the Demon Suppression Pass to miss, and then caused the 200,000 army to be nearly wiped out! Originally, it was to punish the crime, but this Wang Nian has made outstanding achievements in your battles and is loyal to the court, and he will give you a chance, I don't know if you are willing? "King Chulou first condemned Wang Zhong, and then exempted him from his guilt and made him meritorious service, no matter what, Wang Zhong is dead, and you are not allowed to obey orders.

"The last general obeys!" Wang Zhong had no choice but to accept the order.

King Chu Lou stood up and arranged for the people who died with Wang Zhong, and called the herald, "Okay! Li Qing, Yan Gang, Wu Zun, Zhao Yingjie, the four of you led the headquarters of 50,000 people to cooperate with General Wang to defend Qingfeng City for ten days, and after ten days, let the Liao army enter the city. ”

Hearing that the King of Chu Lou was going to stand at the head of the city, Wang Zhong immediately understood that the King of Chu Lou not only wanted his Wang Zhong's head, but he also wanted to use his existence to seduce Yelu Bofan's head, ruthless, this is a real ruthless man.

In the camp of the Liao State outside the city, Yelu Bofan was discussing with a group of generals, preparing to break through Qingfeng City tomorrow, but at this time, he heard a commotion outside the camp, and a herald hurriedly ran in, "Tell the marshal, the reinforcements of the Zhao army have arrived in Qingfeng City, and the leader should be a prince of the Zhao State, and Daxu has been erected on the city tower." ”

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly walked out, and when they came to the confrontation between the two armies, they saw the big silk standing on the head of the city, and everyone discussed it with their mouths: "General, looking at the style of this big Xu, it should be the prince of Zhao State." ”

"That's right, and the number and spirit of the Zhao army on the city tower are obviously not the Zhao army who has been fighting with us for so long."

"General, storm! It would be better if he could take advantage of the situation to capture this prince of Zhao State! ”

"General, since the reinforcements of the Zhao army are here, then our army's plan to raid and support the Holy Lord will be in vain."

At this time, Yelu Bofan also muttered in his heart, in his original plan, the support of the Zhao army would not arrive until the day after tomorrow at the earliest, but now there was a Zhao army of unknown origin coming, and the leader was still a prince, which directly broke his calculation of rapid assault. But without the support troops, all this is an illusion made by the Zhao army to paralyze himself, and it will also make his surprise plan fall short.

Soon Yelu Bofan made a decision: "Order the ballista trebuchet to prepare, start the bombardment after two hours, attack the infantry after an hour, and take Qingfeng City for me in five days!" ”

With Yelu Bofan's order, the trebuchet of the Liao State began to vent this huge stone to Qingfeng City, at this time the King of Chu Lou had just made a deployment, and he withdrew from Qingfeng City, seeing that the boulders smashed into Qingfeng City, King Chu Lou's eyes were full of ruthlessness.

At this time, in the vertical arch hall, everyone was waiting for the arrival of two people, with the eunuch outside the door to report the door, "Chen Run'an, the head of the household, Li Baipeng, a bachelor of Taixue, returned from the envoy to Mobei, and entered to see the Holy Emperor, the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother!" ”

Chen Run'an in front of Li Baipeng in the back into the vertical arch hall, the two first saluted Chu Haowen, and then reported their results this time, "Chen Run'an was ordered to go to Mobei to form an alliance, which lasted nearly two months and finally returned to the dynasty without dishonoring the mission, and now the king of Mobei has agreed to form a military alliance with our dynasty, which is the two sides signed an alliance, and will attack the northern border of Liao within 15 days after the minister returns to the court." ”

The Empress Dowager was very happy to receive the letter of alliance handed over by Chen Run'an, "Very good, Liangchen, you and Mingxin have gone through a lot of hardships this time to form an alliance with Mobei and relieve my Da Zhao's predicament, you have made a lot of contributions." ”

"That's right, it's really not easy for Lord Chen and Lord Li to cross the Liao border to Mobei to form an alliance this time, and I asked the Empress Dowager to add Duke Chen Run'an, a scholar of the Ministry of Households, to be crowned Earl Li Baipeng, a bachelor of Taixue, and promoted to a doctor of Taixue." Xiao Yunzhou also directly requested that the two be sealed.

"The ministers ask the Empress Dowager to punish the ministers with capital crimes!" But at this time, Chen Runan and Li Baipeng suddenly knelt down.

"What kind of capital crime does Aiqing have?" The Empress Dowager asked puzzled.

"When the minister formed an alliance with the king of Mobei, the king of Mobei asked that after three years, my Emperor Zhao would marry the princess of Mobei as a concubine, otherwise Mobei would not form an alliance with our dynasty.

The minister agreed to marry a foreign race to my Emperor Zhao without authorization, tarnished the dignity of my Emperor Zhao, and asked the Empress Dowager to punish the minister with death! ”

"The minister asks for the same crime."

After Chen Run'an finished speaking, the court ministers immediately discussed, in the cultural concept of Zhao State, they have always looked down on the northern country, and the Zhao people should marry with the Zhao people, and intermarriage with different races will defile the Zhao people, especially the royal family of Zhao State is strictly forbidden to intermarry with different races, but this time Chen Runan privately agreed to the approval request of King Mobei, and it is a capital crime to put it here.

Among the people in the court, some people think that the two privately agreed to the requirements of the king of Mobei and should be killed for tarnishing the dignity of the royal family of Zhao State, and some people think that the two are not afraid of hardships and dangers and form an alliance with Mobei to solve the current predicament of Zhao State, and intermarriage is also a temporary helpless move, and the two have at most offset each other's merits.

"Alright." The Empress Dowager, who thought for a moment, finally spoke: "Chen Run'an and Li Baipeng are not afraid of hardships and dangers, and they have formed an alliance with Mobei to solve the border pressure between China and the DPRK.

Moreover, Emperor Taizong and Emperor Xuanzong have married foreign races, and there is nothing wrong with intermarriage. In addition, intermarriage is also conducive to strengthening the alliance between our DPRK and Mobei, making the two countries an indestructible ally, so that the Liao State will not dare to attack us in the south.

Therefore, the mourning family decided to seal Chen Run'an, the secretary of the household department, as Chen Guogong, the son of the Danshu Tie Baoyin, and Li Baipeng, a bachelor of Taixue, and Ciwen Anbo to be promoted to a doctor of Taixue. ”

"The Empress Dowager Shengming." Seeing that the Empress Dowager had made a decision, the officials didn't say anything anymore and knelt down one after another.

Outside Qingfeng City, a man covered in blood was carried into the battle of King Chulou, and after entering the battle, the man knelt on the ground, "Lord Wang, please support some people, these days the Liao army has been attacking the city day and night, General Li and General Yan were killed, General Zhao was seriously injured, and there were more than 10,000 people left in 50,000 people, and Qingfeng City would soon be unable to hold it." ”

Seeing that the people were so miserable, everyone present was moved, but because of the deterrence of King Chu Lou, everyone did not dare to speak and turned their heads to look at King Chu Lou.

At this time, the king of Chulou was leisurely eating barbecue, and he didn't raise his eyelids and said, "Send him down to bandage his wounds, bandage and play will go to Wang Zhong and say, if you want to have no soldiers, it is stipulated that ten days is ten days, even if he Wang Zhong dies in battle, he must continue to defend for me." Then he waved his hand and pulled him down.

"Huang He, tell the Huotou Army to let them take out all the beef and mutton, let the soldiers have a good meal tomorrow, and tomorrow when the city breaks and the Liao army enters the city to cook, I will use rockets to set fire to the city with the dead soldiers in the city, and the fire should be extinguished by Shenshi, and after the fire is extinguished, I will rush into the city and kill the Liao army camp.

Remember, all soldiers will be killed when they see someone after entering the city, regardless of whether he is a man or a woman, a Zhao person or a Liao person, all the weapons in the hands of the soldiers must see blood, and this king does not want a single prisoner. ”

According to the analysis of King Chu Lou, if the Liao army still follows the current attack strength, the fastest tomorrow morning and the slowest tomorrow night, the Zhao army defending the city will be lost, and the Liao army will attack the city.

When the Liao army entered the city in a big way and began to plunder, it was a good time to encircle and annihilate the Liao army.

Hearing that King Chulou was so ruthless, Wang Zhong couldn't help yelling at the sky, and then tore off a piece of his inner robe, bit his finger and wrote a handwritten letter, pulling the deputy general beside him

"Jinhua, you are now the most trusted person by my side, now I want you to take this book of my blood to Kyoto, find Chen Run'an, the head of the household, and tell him that Chu Pingnan killed the whole army of my fearless army in order to vent his personal vendetta, in addition to his wolf ambition to control the army, he put all the people who disobeyed him in Qingfeng City to lure the Liao army, 50,000 people died in the battle, and told him that he must avenge the 50,000 souls."

After receiving Wang Zhong's blood letter, the deputy general said with tears in his eyes and trembling, "General, let's go, you can only be convincing when you go to Lord Chen, so that the grievances of the brothers can be revealed." ”

"I can't go, Chu Pingnan won't stop if he can't see my corpse, he can only rest assured if I die." Wang Zhong shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then urged the deputy general to leave quickly, seeing that Wang Zhong was so resolute, the deputy general put away the blood book and bowed to Wang Zhong before turning around and leaving.

At two o'clock on the second day, after a tragic street battle, with the last Zhao soldier dying at the gate of Yamen, the Liao army completely entered Qingfeng City.

After entering Qingfeng City, the Liao army that stormed for a few days carried out a large-scale looting of the city, although many people left Qingfeng City at the beginning of the war, but there were still tens of thousands of people who did not want to leave their homeland, and at this time they were sheep in the sheepfold waiting for the Liao army to kill this group of hungry wolves.

"General, now that we have captured Qingfeng City, there will be nothing in this Zhao Kingdom that can stop my Daliao in the future." Yelu Bofan and the others also entered the city at this time, looking at the captured Qingfeng City, the general beside him said excitedly.

And Yelu Bofan was very steady: "Did you find the prince of the Zhao Kingdom?" ”

"The soldiers are still looking for it, and it is estimated that there is no prince, it is all a fake action made by Zhao Jun to paralyze us."

"You go, order the troops to slow down their entry into the city, and let 20,000 men stay in the camp." At this time, Yelu Bofan faintly felt that something was wrong.

The general on the side asked puzzledly, "Why, general?" The soldiers had been tired for so long, it was time for them to go into the city to rest and rest. ”

"I don't know, but I always feel that something is wrong, so go and give the order." Yelu Bofan frowned and drove his subordinates away, entered the house prepared for him by his subordinates, and looked at the naked woman on the bed, even though she was in her fifties, she was still strong.

Just when Yelu Bofan was happy, hundreds of Liao soldiers scattered in various parts of the city in groups of ten, with the three fireworks rising into the air, everyone lit the torches in their hands, and the Zhao army outside the city also set up a crossbow, a stone thrower, for a time countless rockets, fireballs smashed into the city, and in an instant the fire burned in the whole city, and the fire scurried around with the breeze, devouring everything it could.

The flames continued to spread and devour, gradually forming a sea of fire that was connected together, and the smoke emitted by the burning became the biggest weapon against the Liao army.

At this time, before the matter was over, Yelu Bofan heard the sound of the enemy attack and withdrew instantly, and before he could put on his armor, he was pulled away by the guards who rushed in.

Looking at the crimson Qingfeng City and smelling the pungent smell of smoke in the air, Yelu Bofan didn't expect that in order to exterminate himself, the commander of the Zhao army would be able to use the lives of 50,000 people as bait, but it was a pity that he fell on his heels when he was wise and wise.

"Quick, order the troops to retreat!" Yelu Bofan hurriedly thought about his own guards and shouted.

"There is no need for generals, the north gate has become a sea of fire, and the south gate is full of Zhao troops, we have no way out." The guards drooped their heads and told Yelu Bofan the sad news.

"Go and gather everyone, find a place with few houses, and demolish all the buildings as far as the eye can see, so that the fire can't get in!" After calming down, Yelu Bofan looked at the buildings around him and thought of a way to establish a separation zone.

"I couldn't gather the generals, and everyone was blocked in hundreds of different areas by the fire."

Yelu Bofan gritted his teeth and said, "Then now these people will dismantle everything that can be demolished!" Hundreds of people gathered in a few houses and began to demolish the building.

The fire burned all afternoon, and it was not until a rain in the evening that the fire was extinguished, and the Liao army outside the city also entered the city to start the rescue, and Yelu Bofan was also found under a pile of charred corpses, still alive.

"Order the troops to withdraw, quickly!" Yelu Bofan, who was rescued, saw that it was his own troops and hurriedly ordered to withdraw. At this moment, a burst of shouts and killings resounded in the sky.

Dozens of Zhao country's ironclad cavalry came to Yelu Bofan, and before Yelu Bofan could react, a spear penetrated Yelu Bofan's body, Yelu Bofan fell heavily to the ground, and even felt the pain when the Zhao soldiers cut their necks with knives.

And a similar scene happened in various places in Qingfeng City, the Liao army, which had just experienced the burning of the fire and was exhausted, was like a lamb to be slaughtered in front of the Zhao army, who had been recuperating for a long time, and the only one with combat effectiveness was only the 20,000 people who entered the city to rescue, but this was not worth mentioning for more than 100,000 Zhao troops.

A day later, the battle inside and outside Qingfeng City, including the Liao army's camp, had basically ended, and the remaining 140,000 Liao troops were killed by the Zhao army after the capture of Qingfeng City, and only a few thousand escaped.

The good news soon spread to the capital, and when she learned that the Liao army on the western front had been completely annihilated and the western front had won a complete victory, the empress dowager was very happy and ordered to reward the meritorious officers and soldiers, and to reward the king of Chulou with gold and soft armor and other rewards.

At this time, Chu Haowen also took a dozen teenagers to discuss this big victory against the huge border map.

"No, no." Pang Xing, the son of Pang Ji, scratched his head and kept asking questions.

"Pang Xing, what do you think?" Chu Haowen looked at Pang Xing and asked.

"You see, although Qingfeng City is built in the Qingfeng Mountain, surrounded by mountains on both sides, as far as I know, its terrain is not as steep as Dingguo Mountain.

It can even be said that it is almost a city built on the plain, since the Liao army can cross the Dingguo Mountain to sneak attack the Zhenyou Pass, why can't it be repeated to cross the more gentle Qingfeng Mountain to carry out a sneak attack on our army?

And at this time, our army is in the fear of being breached, even if the Liao army does not sneak attack after the rear, as long as it attacks at this time, Qingfeng City will be broken within two days, but why Yelu Bofan, who is a famous general, slowed down the attack and gave our army time to integrate. Pang Xing pointed to Qingfeng Pass and expressed his doubts, and everyone frowned and thought about what he said.

"And what do you think is the reason?"

"I don't know, maybe it's because the Liao army is proud? Deliberately? Pang Xing shook his head, saying that he didn't quite understand his behavior.

"You say, is it possible that when attacking the Demon Suppression Pass, he got accurate information before he could take the opportunity to sneak attack, and when he arrived in Qingfeng City, they didn't have an accurate information?"

After listening to Zhuge Mingli's analysis, everyone was gloomy, because if this conjecture was correct, it meant that someone in the court was using the lives of thousands of people as his way to promotion, and it was self-evident who this person was.

"Your Majesty, do you need to talk to the Queen Mother?" Pang Xing looked at Chu Haowen and said.

Chu Haowen was also a little unable to make up his mind at this time, and some wanted to go to the Empress Dowager, "No, since we can think of this, how could the wisdom of the Empress Dowager not be able to think of it, how could it not be known?" Li Ansheng looked at Chu Haowen and said.

Looking at Li Ansheng's eyes, Chu Haowen understood that the Empress Dowager definitely knew about this, and she knew it in advance, but for some unknown secrets, she gave up hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were loyal to the country.

Sitting on the stool, Chu Haowen was silent for a long time, he couldn't imagine what the lives of these ten or two hundred thousand people were in the eyes of these big people? He didn't dare to imagine that in such an environment, he would one day become like this? What is all this for?