The good news from the Western Route Army made Zhao Bufan overjoyed, and the Zhejia Army broke through Shenwu County, Shuozhou, and pulled out the bridgehead of the Liao State to contain the Great Song Dynasty, which also means that the Western Route Army has completely gained a foothold in the Liao State and no longer has any worries, and at the same time can control the Great Wall that stretches for hundreds of miles in the north of Shenwu County, which can be said to have laid a solid foundation for the Northern Expedition strategy of advancing layer by layer and steadily encroaching.

Zhao Bufan was not even in the mood to pay attention to Yan Qing's ridicule, and after thinking about it quickly, he decisively instructed Yan Qing: "Hurry up and send someone to reply to the Western Route Army to control Zong Ze, I don't care what method he uses, in short, we must attract the main force of the western front of Liao to the Mayi line, and then launch the Battle of Mayi with the purpose of occupying Shuozhou, Shanyang and Mayi, and with the strategic goal of successfully advancing eastward into Yingzhou." ”

"Okay!" Yan Qing replied softly.

Zhao Bufan's eyes flashed, and then he continued: "In addition, Liu Yanqing of the Central Route Army was ordered to take Lingqiu in Ulzhou as soon as possible, and then let Wang Yu enter Yingzhou to the west, form a left and right attack with the Western Route Army, try his best to contain the Liao Army, and support the Battle of Mayi of the Western Route Army at any cost." ”

"Yes!"

Watching Yan Qing go away, Zhao Bufan stood silently, he knew very well in his heart that the Battle of Ma Yi would be a very tragic battle, and it would also be a huge test for Zong Ze, an old minister, even if it was a victory, it would definitely be a tragic victory, because the Liao army in Xijing not only had many Khitan troops, but also soldiers from more than 20 major tribes in the northwest of Liao.

In addition to the task of guarding against the Great Song Dynasty, as well as the task of defending the Western Xia and deterring the large and small tribes in the northwest of the Liao State, their combat strength was not much worse than that of the elite soldiers in the north of the Liao State, and because they were far away from the Liao-Jin War, they had not suffered too many losses.

More importantly, the Liao State Xijing was left behind by a Han man named Su Jing, who was familiar with the subset of scriptures and history and the art of war, and knew everything about the Song people.

No matter how difficult it is, it must be fought after all.

This battle was an extremely important part of the Northern Expedition in the original deployment, and at this time, the Eastern Route Army should also launch the Battle of Zhuozhou at the same time, echoing each other, giving the Liao people enough strong persecution and pressure, and at the same time boosting the morale of the Northern Expedition, and giving the Han people of the sixteen states of Youyun hope to return to the Song Dynasty.

However, the current situation of the Eastern Route Army obviously did not do this, and Zhao Bufan quickly lost patience with the stubbornly resisting Liao State Lonely Village, and the day after the order to launch the Battle of Mayi was sent to the Western Route Army with an expedited 800 li, he ordered the Liangshan Army and the Water Margin Army to start preparations for a strong attack.

Who would have thought that in the early morning of the second day of the third lunar month, he had just finished the point, and he was only making a strong attack, and the lonely village of Liao suddenly mutinied, and five thousand Khitan warriors took advantage of his mobilization of troops and horses, and suddenly seized the only opportunity to launch a breakthrough battle, and chose the northeast side with fewer troops.

This move was so sudden that no one reacted.

The scouts obviously saw that the Liao State was urgently deploying in the isolated village, obviously intending to resist desperately, who would have thought that suddenly there would be five thousand Khitan elites suddenly rushing out from the northeast, and even their own soldiers and horses of the Liao State were not prepared, and there was a scuffle when they blocked it, not to mention the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty.

This group of people is also very smart, the time to break through is when Zhao Bufan gathers troops and horses, and the soldiers of various departments will inevitably make there be a gap in the encirclement during the transfer process, and they keenly grasp this gap and flee quickly.

Zhao Bufan, who was assembling troops in the south, didn't even have a chance to react, and when he got the scout's report, the five thousand Khitan warriors were about to break out of the encirclement, and there was still time.

Fortunately, the closest soldiers and horses to this blank area were Yue Fei's 2,500 men.

The sudden change did not make the young Yue Fei panic, he did not wait for Zhao Bufan's order at all, on the one hand, he asked the deputy general to quickly assemble the soldiers under his command, and on the other hand, he led two hundred personal guards to rush out of the Khitan to launch an interception.

Yue Fei led 200 people to intercept 5,000 Khitan elite soldiers, it really took great courage, these battle-hardened Khitan warriors were not only skilled in martial arts, but also in this desperate situation, everyone was brave and difficult.

In just a quarter of an hour, more than half of the two hundred people died, and even Yue Fei, who was strong in martial arts, was not lightly injured in this siege.

Yue Fei's decisiveness and courage won an extremely critical quarter of an hour for the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty.

His subordinates, who had urgently completed the assembly, quickly reinforced, completely containing this Khitan elite army, and Lu Zhishen and Wu Song also led their infantry to surround and completely besiege the Liao soldiers.

Lu Zhishen and Wu Song forcibly broke into the formation with their personal guards, and found that Yue Fei was already difficult to support, and he was furious.

Wu Song hurriedly waved the Blue Dragon and White Tiger Twin Swords to protect Yue Fei, while Lu Zhishen's eyes were even more round, and a thunderous roar broke out, carrying the water mill Zen staff to take Qu Li out of the clear.

"The Khitan dog thief eats a cane!!"

At this time, Qu Li's personal guards had been intercepted by the Song soldiers, and he could only fight with Lu Zhishen alone, but after only more than 20 moves, he was already a tiger's mouth, knowing that he couldn't beat this general dressed as a monk, his expression became more and more panicked, and he took a moment to rush into the melee.

In a hurry, Lu Zhishen jumped up, his burly body burst out with earth-shattering might, like a killing god jumping and slashing, and the Zen staff in his hand brought a sharp wind to Qu Liqing's back.

Qu Li exclaimed in surprise, gathered his hands with all his strength, and the three-pointed two-edged knife faced the terrifying Zen staff horizontally.

"Bang!!"

Amazing energy and power collide.

Qu Li fell to the ground in an instant, dragging and drawing more than two feet away, his body left a deep mark on the ground, and the three-pointed two-edged knife in his hand also fell beside him, but where could he still take care of these, and he was eager to get up and flee, but his upper body had just been raised, and his body had not yet exerted his strength, and his eyes were occupied by the figure that came from the volley.

That moment......

In his eyes, there were only one hundred and eight huge Buddha beads hanging on Lu Zhishen's chest and a water mill Zen staff weighing sixty-two catties.

"Poof!!"

The well-made armor could not withstand the blow of this rage, and the heart armor was completely shattered, and Qu Li spurted blood wildly, killing him on the spot with a pair of big eyes.

Lu Zhishen didn't look any further, turned around and killed other Khitan warriors, and no one dared to stop him wherever the Zen staff passed.

At this time, the princess of Liao, who was far away in the lonely village, was full of pain, and saw from a distance that the five thousand Khitan people forcibly taken away by Qu Li out of the Qing Dynasty were in a desperate situation, and fell one after another, she couldn't suppress her anger, and she knew very well in her heart that if she lost these five thousand Khitan elites, the remaining tribal soldiers and horses would completely lose confidence, and she had no strength to suppress their desire to break through and escape.

After a long silence, the face full of wild beauty revealed despair, and suddenly pulled out the seven-star sword at his waist, and shouted urgently: "All the generals listen to the order, each lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to break through, life and death are fate!!"

"Yes!"

After the promise, more than 10,000 Liao soldiers who had been trapped in the lonely village for many days finally launched a breakthrough battle.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Bufan smiled faintly, although he didn't understand what was going on with the Liao people today, but after all, he avoided the huge casualties of the strong attack.

More than an hour later, the battle ended smoothly, 5,000 Khitan elites were completely wiped out, the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers and horses escaped by luck, more than 4,000 people were killed and wounded, and more than 3,000 people surrendered, respectively from many unknown northern tribes.

Zhao Bufan did not treat them in a bad way, and treated these captives well, but after collecting their weapons, he sent a group of men and horses to send them south to the Sikou Pass, ordered them to be temporarily detained and guarded, and promised to provide them with two meals of food every day.

The soldiers also soon began to clean up the battlefield, Zhao Bufan learned from Wu Song's mouth that Yue Fei was injured, and went to visit him in person, seeing that he was not lightly injured, even if he asked people to take him south to Sikou Pass to heal his injuries, he also personally wrote a letter, asking An Daoquan, the divine doctor in charge of the Liangshan Military Medical Supervision, to personally treat Yue Fei's injuries.

Before leaving, Yue Fei lay on the stretcher, covering his face and wept bitterly, feeling very painful that he could not follow the army north.

Zhao Bufan had no choice, no one could tell anything about the things on the battlefield, and no one could guarantee an accident, so he could only comfort Yue Fei and say that he was lucky to be alive.

In addition, many generals in the army also rushed to see him off, and even Du Yan, Fang Jie and Yuan Lang came, and everyone comforted him in the same way, asking him to recover from his injuries as soon as possible and strive to catch up with the battle behind.

This was a bit unexpected by Zhao Bufan, he really didn't expect Yue Fei to be so popular.

But after thinking about it, Yue Fei is loyal and brave, open-minded and open-minded, informal, and responsible, if you really have more contact with him, you will inadvertently like to get along with him, it can be said that he is a very charming person, and it is normal for everyone to like him.

Finally sent Yue Fei away, Zhao Bufan took advantage of the fact that the army was still cleaning up the battlefield, returned to his military tent, and planned to pack his things and set off, but he didn't think that he was packing the intelligence materials, but Wang Huan and Zhou Ang walked in with a female general.

"Why don't you kneel down for our prince!!"

In the face of Zhou Ang's questioning, the female general clenched her silver teeth, and there was a kind of wild persistence in her deep eyes, and she turned her head away and remained silent.

Zhou Ang was furious and quickly stepped forward to press her shoulder, as if trying to force her down.

Although the female general was tied with ropes all over her body, she still struggled and refused to kneel.

Zhao Bufan was slightly surprised, carefully looked at this very beautiful female general for a moment, waved his hand, signaled Zhou Ang not to continue to persecute, re-packed the intelligence materials on the table, and did not look at them, and asked in a very calm tone: "What is this female prisoner bringing to me for?

Wang Huan stroked his gray beard, smiled and said: "Lord Wang, her identity is not ordinary, according to the confessions of those captives, this woman is Yelu Yu Liyan, the princess of Liao, and she is also the only one among the daughters of Yelu Yanxi who has obtained the title of princess, and the title is the princess of Shu." ”

Yelu Yu Liyan seemed to be suddenly enraged, and hurriedly reprimanded: "My name is Yelu Taliba!"

Zhou Ang smiled and said teasingly: "Your father Yelu Yanxi didn't recognize your name, I only know Yelu Yu Liyan!"

Yelu Yu Liyan glared angrily, when she was angry, her face was more wild, but she really had a beauty different from that of a woman in the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Bufan raised his head and glanced at her, then looked at the information in his hand, and replied casually: "You guys go down first! I'll talk to this princess alone!"

"Yes!"

Zhou Ang and Wang Huan glanced at each other, bowed down and withdrew from the tent......

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