Zhao Bufan still didn't understand why Yelu Dashi gave up Zhuozhou in the end, Yelu Yu Liyan may know something, but she didn't reveal anything, Zhao Bufan couldn't do anything with her, if she was forced to be in a hurry, and forced Yelu Yu Liyan to death, it would be meaningless.

A few days later, the news of Li Miao's breakthrough of Yizhou came, and at the same time he proposed to continue his westward advance, intending to cross Wuhuiling, attack Ulzhou, and open up contact with Liu Yanqing of the Central Route Army.

This strategy is completely in line with the current situation, Zhao Bufan was approved, and then took the initiative to launch a decisive battle in Liangxiang, since he couldn't understand Yelu Dashi's thoughts, then he could only fight according to the original plan, no matter what, it was always better than stagnation, after all, from the current situation, the Song army had a huge advantage.

The Battle of Liangxiang was also the largest battle since the Northern Expedition, Zhao Bufan divided the army into three units, and he personally unified the middle camp with Lu Junyi, Xu Guanzhong to the east camp, and Zhai Jin to the west camp, and cooperated with each other to launch a fierce battle with the main force of the Liao State.

The combat power of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers is obviously weak, and cannot be compared with the elite iron cavalry of the Liao State, but the victory is in the well-equipped, and the various formations have been summed up in the years of struggle, and the cooperation of the hoplites and crossbowmen has great lethality, and the elite cavalry in the south of the Liao State is too few after all, unable to form an overwhelming advantage, under the advantages of the other, after many days of fierce fighting, the Song army slowly occupied the advantage.

During this period, Zhao Bufan also exhausted all kinds of means, whether it was attacking the east and the west, outflanking and outflanking, whether it was deceiving and luring the enemy, or attacking and stealing at night, it can be said that he tried his best, and Wen Huanzhang and Zhu Wu, the two members of the army, also offered advice in the east and west battalions respectively.

It is a pity that in this kind of large-scale war, it is difficult to achieve a decisive victory by relying only on individual clever strategies, and the rapid progress of the times has greatly popularized the knowledge of the art of war, and all kinds of military books are also necessary things for generals, and soldiers have undergone meticulous and rigorous training, not only training combat strength, but also all kinds of war knowledge, so the factors affecting the outcome of a war are already very complex, and it is even more difficult to fight.

For more than ten consecutive days, the soldiers and horses of the two sides fought a total of more than 30 fierce battles, and Zhao Bufan barely established a clear advantage for the Song army, and the soldiers and horses of the Liao State were still highly motivated except for a few Khitan people, and the soldiers of all tribes and Han people gradually lost their fighting spirit, and their combat effectiveness was greatly weakened.

At noon on this day, Zhao Bufan took Yelu Yu Liyan to personally come to the front of the battle to supervise the battle, the soldiers of the middle battalion with the Liangshan Army as the core and the elite of the Liao State led by Wu Yanguang personally fought in full swing, and the soldiers of each department frequently changed formations in the vast wilderness, sometimes supporting, sometimes encircling, sometimes retreating, looking for each other's flaws, and gradually forming a battlefield advantage through local encroachment.

As the elite of Zhao Bufan's careful training for many years, the Liangshan Army can be called one of the strongest soldiers and horses in the Great Song Dynasty, especially the armed forces of the high-level generals of the Liangshan Army are generally high, plus Zhao Bufan has continuously forced them to practice literature and martial arts over the years, and the overall quality is indeed very outstanding, maybe it can't be seen on weekdays, but in this kind of war, they are the most dazzling existence.

At this time, Hu Yanzhuo, Lin Chong and Dong Ping had already led the three cavalry into the battlefield, and the infantry of the five armies led by Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Yan Qing, Shi Xiu and Huang Xin were all in the battlefield.

Not long after, a high shout came from the right flank of the battlefield, and Zhao Bufan followed his gaze with a smile on his face.

"Brother Lin Chong has beheaded the generals again, these days he has killed seven Liao generals in a row, and the credit is not small!"

Yelu Yu Liyan next to him looked very angry, and not to be outdone, he said angrily: "If he touches Aliqi, he will definitely die!"

Zhao Bufan glanced at him, smiled faintly, and then carefully searched the battlefield, and soon pointed to a corner in front of the left and said: "Oh, is the Aliqi you are talking about?" I asked Shi Wengong to take Xu Ning's golden gun cavalry and Hua Rong's silver armor archers to restrain him, and now he is tired with a team of cavalry, I am afraid that it is difficult to protect himself, what else is there to boast about?"

Yelu Yu Liyan looked at the situation over there from afar, and remained silent.

After a long time, she looked sideways at Zhao Bufan with complicated eyes, her lips trembled, and she seemed to hesitate, but in the end, she said leisurely: "I admit that you are very good at fighting, and you are also a real warrior, brave and strategic, but if you continue to fight, you will definitely die here." ”

Zhao Bufan turned his head and looked at Yelu Yu Liyan's complicated face with a smile.

"Are you worried about me?"

"I didn't !! I said that you would die at the feet of the Khitan Iron Horse!!"

Yelu Yu Liyan woke up violently, scolded angrily, and turned his head to stare at the battlefield in the distance again.

Zhao Bufan smiled faintly: "Don't like me, it's good to keep your current state!"

Yelu Yu Liyan said indifferently: "I can't like you, I will only like the greatest warrior!"

"That's not going to work, because I'm the strongest!"

"You are shameless!" Yelu Yu scolded angrily.

"A lot of people say that!" Zhao Bufan smiled, put his gaze back on the battlefield in the distance, and said with a smile after a moment: "I don't know what Yelu Dashi is going to do, and I don't know what his plans are, but I know one thing, if nothing else, Pingzhou, which is bordering the Bohai Sea in the east of Xijin Mansion, has been broken by our Great Song Dynasty, and tens of thousands of troops should soon march westward and kill this Xijin Mansion from the east, hoping that Yelu Dashi will also be prepared." ”

"What?" Yelu Yu Liyan exclaimed, grabbed Zhao Bufan's arm in disbelief, and asked anxiously: "This is impossible, our Daliao knows your movements very well, there can be no soldiers and horses at all, and how did you get to Pingzhou?"

Zhao Bufan shrugged: "I'm sorry, the Great Song Dynasty has a Pinghai division of tens of thousands of people on the coast of Dengzhou, because they are independent to the north, Hu Yanqing has full command, so it is no longer in my consideration, I have never recorded it, and it is not on any strategic deployment map!"

The west of Pingzhou is the Nanjing Xijin Mansion, and the east is bordering the Bohai Sea, Yelu Dashi because he got Zhao Bufan's strategic deployment map, the Great Song Dynasty's military strength situation was clear, so it was almost not fortified in Pingzhou, and it was impossible to stop tens of thousands of Song Dynasty sailors by relying only on the troops that were regularly stationed.

Yelu Yu Liyan didn't know where to do this, his face turned red in a hurry, and he gritted his teeth and scolded: "Zhao Bufan, you are too cunning!!"

"Is this a compliment?" Zhao Bufan looked at her with a smile.

Yelu Yu Liyan bit his lower lip tightly, and his deep eyes burned with rage: "You won't succeed, Yelu Dashi will definitely stop you!"

Zhao Bufan was about to speak, but the sound of hurried horse hooves came from behind him, he looked back, but saw a sentry horse galloping like the wind and lightning, the war horse also had two sharp arrows inserted in the body, the person on the horse was scattered, the battle armor was broken, and it looked extremely embarrassed.

Soon, the sentry came to the front, dismounted in a panic, took out a large seal from his bosom, and knelt on the ground with a painful face.

"Lord, Lord Li Miao led his troops from Yizhou to the west, to Wuhui Ling, suddenly ambushed by a large number of Liao troops, the whole army was annihilated, Lord Li Miao led the remnants to break out of the encirclement, urgently retreated to Yizhou, and was intercepted by a large force of Liao soldiers at the foot of Taining Mountain, and was seriously injured, only dozens of people escorted him to retreat to Yizhou City, I didn't think that Yizhou City had been captured by the Liao army, and Lord Li was also captured by the Liao people, those Liao people forced Lord Li to surrender, and promised to let him be an official in the south of Liao...... Biting your tongue and killing yourself!!"

"Lord Li was martyred?"

Zhao Bufan couldn't believe it, it was normal to lose the battle, from the moment the Northern Expedition began, he didn't think that he would win the whole battle, it was impossible, but he never expected that Li Miao would not be able to escape, this was his old superior, and he was also one of the very few people in the entire Great Song Dynasty officials who made him admire.

His eyes were a little red in an instant, and the care of the year was still vivid, but now he said that it was gone, how not to make his heart ache.

But now is not the time to be sad.

Why did the Liao army appear in Wuhuiling, the west of these Wuhuiling is Liu Yanqing's army, and the east is Yizhou, Li Miao is not able to be ambushed by a large force of Liao army when he marches west to join Liu Yanqing this time, and Yizhou has fallen in advance, where did this Liao army come from, and how many people are there? Could this be Yelu Dashi's deployment? He is not aimed at the main force of the Eastern Route Army at all, but has other ideas?

Countless doubts appeared in Zhao Bufan's mind, he held back the pain and asked urgently: "How many people and horses does the Liao Kingdom have near Yizhou?"

The sentinel was saddened: "There are at least twenty or so horses, the exact number of which is unknown, but the total number is at least more than 100,000!"

Lu Junyi and other generals not far away also heard his words, and they were all shocked, and they couldn't understand how this main Liao army could appear in Yizhou.

Zhao Bufan's face was cloudy, and all the information quickly gathered in his mind.

The Eastern Route Army led by me advanced steadily, sending a large number of scouts and sentry cavalry to probe around, the Liao State was also defeated and retreated, and all kinds of movements were under control, it was impossible to hide more than 100,000 soldiers and horses behind me, this main Liao army must have been transferred from other places, the only possibility was that the Middle Route Army had a problem and let this Liao army come over.

Liu Yanqing, what are you doing with a full 100,000 people in the middle route army?

More than 100,000 Liao troops moved behind our Eastern Route Army, and you didn't have a single piece of information, and you didn't spread any news, you want to kill me?

Thinking of this, his eyes lit up with a cold light, he looked back at the battlefield in the distance, and spit out two words with strong anger.

"Retreat!!"

Lu Junyi also knew what it would mean for the main force of the Liao State to appear in Yizhou, so he went to deploy the retreat without saying a word.

In just a few days after that, the bad news came to Zhao Bufan one after another, Anci was lost, Gu'an was lost, and Xincheng was lost......

Yelu Dashi's plan finally surfaced, and the main forces of the Liao army that had moved to Yizhou quickly launched a counteroffensive, recovering Yizhou, Qigou Pass and Xincheng, cutting off the return route of the army, and Yelu Dashi had already sent the last elite soldiers and horses of Nanjing in Liao, and made a detour of hundreds of miles from the east to attack Anci, Gu'an and Wuqing.

Although Zhao Bufan had tried his best to speed up the retreat, Wu Yanguang led the army to hold him back, which directly led to the completion of the siege of Liao, and he led the main force to retreat to Zhuozhou.

In a short period of time, the situation took a shocking reversal, Zhao Bufan led more than 100,000 main forces to trap Zhuozhou, the east was Ye Luchun's tens of thousands of Khitan elites, the north was the main force of more than 100,000 Liao troops led by Wu Yanguang, and the south was nearly 200,000 troops transferred from the middle strategy of Liao, which almost put him in a desperate situation......