Zhang Heng didn't know what it meant to buy horse bones, but he understood that Yang Zhi was unwilling to kill, so he nodded and left; Yang Zhi pondered for a while, found Yue Fei and Zhang San, and ordered the two to lead two thousand horsemen, and secretly followed Liu Ruxin and his party to Huanzhou. Yue Fei immediately understood, and said with his head bowed: "Senior brother, are you afraid that someone will blame us and ruin the reputation of the Great Song Dynasty?"

Yang Zhi nodded and said: "We are not familiar with the situation in Shuozhou and Datong, according to my opinion, that Liu Ruxin is likely to be a person from the Double Dragon Society. ”

Zhang San said with a smile: "It's only a little more than a hundred miles back and forth, so it's considered to be a patrol." ”

Huanzhou is the Tang Dynasty's Mayi City, in the fifth dynasty, Tang Mingzong divided Shuozhou and placed Huanzhou, only more than 60 miles away from Shuozhou, Zhang San and Yue Fei slowly followed behind the migration of the Liao army and civilians of the brigade, released scouts to keep the search within 20 miles, walked 30 or 40 miles, at night, did not find the enemy, then saw Zhang Heng had gone back, stopped in front of a poplar forest, and lit a bonfire; Liu Ruxin and his party lit a bonfire in the small mountain five miles away.

Zhang San was about to give the order to rest, Yue Fei suddenly said: "No, Zhang Heng ignored it, this place is only twenty miles away from Huanzhou, and the cavalry of Huanzhou will arrive in less than an hour, Zhang Heng should retreat, he must have been stumped by something, and Liu Ruxin should be in a desperate hurry, and he will be relieved to see the scouts of Liao." Let the soldiers hide their whereabouts, eat dry food, and see if it is the Liao army or who will appear. ”

Zhang San suddenly realized that there was a problem with this, and immediately ordered the army to rest together with Yue Fei and not to reveal their whereabouts; More than 500 cavalry appeared, quickly divided into two teams, and pounced on the two fires; the low and desolate sound of horses' hooves swept across the lake like a strong wind, the luan bell was hurried, the knights were shouting, and the opponent's movements were very fast, and in the firelight it was clear that it was not the Liao army.

Zhang Sanyi gave an order, 2,000 horsemen, swords out of their sheaths, arrows wound, from behind the woods and bushes flew out of the horses, in the rain of arrows the other party was instantly shot down more than 100 people; Liu Ruxin, who had just connected with the cavalry leader, suddenly changed color, and the intention of the Song army was clearly visible, and he followed all the way here, I am afraid that he guessed that he had a plan. The battle flag of the Song army flew in the air in the firelight, and the surprise attack and the number of people were several times that of the opponent, breaking the opponent's mental balance, except for more than 200 people on the other side, the first action of the rest was to take Liu Ruxin and others to escape.

The battle ended quickly, after more than 100 horsemen fled, the remaining cavalry only supported for a while and were almost killed and wounded, and more than 70 people were captured. Zhang San sneered: "It's the same as the story of Cangzhou, this Gaotuo Mountain is Wang Bolong's junior brother, but I didn't expect that he was also pretending to be a horse thief doing the work of the Double Dragon Society, and the face of the Mirage Mansion was about to be lost by them." ”

The Liao soldiers and civilians who were about to go to Huanzhou already knew what was going on and were very grateful to Zhang San; but the Liao army in Huanzhou did not dispatch, and after Yue Fei and Zhang San discussed, they specially let the Khitan soldiers ride two horses to report the news, and waited until a team of 200 cavalry arrived before they were ready to retreat; a general headed by the Liao army in Huanzhou asked about the situation, thanked Yue Fei and said: "My name is Yelu Yue, and I have a little relationship with Yang Zhi, I have seen it in Youzhou, you can come to Huanzhou to find me if you have something." ”

Zhang San and Yue Fei were overjoyed, they knew too well that the two countries were at war, and Yelu Yue could have such an attitude, which showed that Huanzhou did not have much fighting spirit; as soon as the two went back to talk to Yang Zhi, Zhu Wu next to him concluded that Huanzhou might surrender without a fight. Yang Zhi felt a lot more relieved, let Zhu Wu take charge of managing the government affairs of Shuozhou, sent Chong Bin and Han Shizhong to recover Wuzhou, and commanded the rest of the people to actively prepare for war, preparing to meet the Western Xia army that would appear at any time.

The Wuzhou under the jurisdiction of Shuozhou is not the Wuzhou of the sixteen states of Yanyun that Shi Jingjiao ceded to the Liao State, the Wuzhou has been renamed the naturalized state by the Liao State, and the Wuzhou under Shuozhou is the Xuanwei Army of the Liao State, and Shenwu County is actually in the same place, the small city is rectangular, the circumference is three miles, the city is six meters high, it is the Shenwu County where the common people live; the big city in the southeast of Shenwu County is square, the circumference is six miles, the city is ten meters high, it is the Wuzhou garrisoned by the Xuanwei Army, and the granaries and other warehouses are all in the big city.

Most of the Xuanwei army of the Liao State has already been transferred, when Chongbin and Han Shizhong arrived, there were only 500 Liao troops in Wuzhou City, and at first they saw that the 2,000 people of Chongbin were the armor banners of the Western Xia army, and the Liao army thought that it was the return of the Western Xia army in the reinforcement cloud, and they did not do anything to take precautions, and Han Shizhong took the lead in Wuzhou City, and Chongbin waved his division rank to capture Wuzhou in one fell swoop.

There are only 1780 households in Shenwu County, but there are more than 50 merchants from the Western Regions, Western Xia, and Liao who stay here; this is originally a place where the Han and Hu people live together, and there are almost no Khitans, and when they learned that the Song army was coming, there was no violent reaction to the change of the banner of the city, and only a few Western Xia merchants abandoned the goods and fled back in a hurry to report the news.

Chong Bin knew Yang Zhi's intentions and sent himself, just because he was a general of the Western Army and was familiar with Fuzhou in the south, he immediately arranged for a fast horse to inform Fuzhou and other surrounding areas that Wuzhou had been recovered. When Yang Zhi received the report of the Wuzhou War, Yeluyue had already come to Shuozhou to negotiate the surrender of the Great Song Dynasty on behalf of Huanzhou.

The Liao army in Huanzhou originally had 2,000 men and horses, first received a request from Datong Mansion to withdraw troops, and then learned that Shuozhou was lost, and the Zhangguo Army made the house know that it was difficult to support their independence, and after receiving the fleeing soldiers and civilians to ask about the situation, they simply covered the withdrawal of more than 5,000 people who were willing to go to Datong Mansion out of Huanzhou. Yelurui, the training envoy of the Huanzhou regiment who stayed in Huanzhou, sent his second son Yeluyue to Shuozhou to deliver a letter to Shuozhou, leading the Huanzhou army and civilians to surrender.

Yang Zhi was overjoyed, comforted Yeluyue a few words, and specially wrote a letter to Yelurui, using the title of uncle, saying that he would definitely arrange the future of Yelurui's family in the Great Song Dynasty, and sent Pei Xuan and Sha Jing to Huanzhou to appease, and let Liang Juewu go to King Yun to report the news. With such results in three days, Yang Zhi was already quite satisfied, and the occupation of Huanzhou and Wuzhou made Shuozhou no longer an isolated city, and it became one with the Great Song Dynasty cities in the south and east.

Yang Zhi didn't expect that when the war broke out, the Song army in nearby states and counties would take the initiative to support, but now the Canglang battalion was relieved of worries, even if the Western Xia army came, it only needed to face it with all its might, and when necessary, the people also had a place to retreat.

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