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Early April.

Emperor Tianzuo gathered 40,000 Mongolian troops and 30,000 Xixia troops out of Jiashan, crossed Yuyangling, and headed straight for the Tiande army.

Mid-April.

Emperor Tianzuo collected more than 20,000 Han troops in Tiande, Yunnei and other places, and began to station in Tiande Army.

Late April.

Emperor Tianzuo sent thousands of rides to Qingshui River, hoping to invade the border of Shuozhou.

Before the war, Liu Qi released all the confidential special forces.

The report of the confidential special forces actually sent the Khitan tribes, Xi tribes, Han'er and Bohai people who had been absorbed some time ago to Emperor Tianzuo's army.

In addition, the Tianyan in western Liaoning also closely monitored the information of Emperor Tianzuo's Liao, Xia and Mongolian coalition forces.

Therefore, Liu Qi knew everything about the coalition forces.

It was learned that Emperor Tianzuo sent thousands of cavalry across the Qingshui River. Liu Qi was ambushed in the place where the coalition cavalry must pass by, the first battalion of Yue Fei, the left army of Guaizi, the right army of Guaizi, and the Fang Jie battalion.

In that battle, Yue Fei set up an ambush, killed the coalition cavalry and defeated the Liao army, capturing two thousand households. In the end, less than 200 defeated generals fled back.

Through interrogation, Yue Fei learned from the two captured Liao army Qianhu that Liao general Yelu Dilie and Temuge's army headquarters were stationed in Baihebin, thirty miles away from Qingshui River.

Yue Fei made a quick decision and took advantage of the arrival of Yelu Dilie and Temuge's army that had no preparations for combat, and attacked his camp at night.

As a result, many were won, and Yelu Dilie and Temuge led only more than a thousand troops to escape back to the Tiande Army.

Early May.

The coalition forces crossed the Qingshui River in three ways to knock on the gate.

Liu Qi used a trick of doubting the troops and opened and closed the door.

The coalition forces did not know the truth, so they did not dare to advance recklessly.

Liu Qi took advantage of his hesitation and fired strong bows, powerful crossbows, and flying thunder cannons, followed by cavalry rushing fiercely.

A coalition army caught off guard was quickly lost and retreated to Qingshui River.

The first battalion, Guaizi Left Army and Guaizi Right Army quickly held it and killed it, and thousands of coalition forces were killed and injured.

In mid-May, the coalition forces moved to Li Village, Dongguai.

Liu Qi took advantage of the weakness of the coalition cavalry's inability to fight at night and sent Niu Gao to lead 3,000 troops from the headquarters to attack at night in a thunderstorm.

Niu Gao took the men into the enemy camp in the dark night. When the lightning flashed, he jumped up and fought bravely. After the lightning, Niu Gao and his subordinates all lurked.

The coalition forces did not know the details of Niugao Camp, and the camp was in chaos.

Niugao Camp followed the code agreed before the war, gathered at the same time, and killed the coalition forces.

The coalition forces were in panic and later killed each other.

By dawn, the coalition forces were powerless to fight back and had to retreat.

Emperor Tianzuo learned that the vanguard army had suffered severe injuries one after another and was furious. He then personally led more than 100,000 elite troops from the Tiande army to rescue him and arrived at the west bank of Qingshui River, with men and horses blocking the field.

Seeing that Emperor Tianzuo led a 100,000 horse army to attack, many people were afraid that the Liangshan army, which was dominated by infantry, would lose, and repeatedly advise Li Yan, wanting to hold on.

Li Yan supported Liu Qi and entrusted the overall situation to let Liu Qi wait for an opportunity to fight.

A few days later, Emperor Tianzuo mainly sent an army of 10,000 to the gates to fight against the three thousand iron kids in the Western Xia.

The weather was cool in the morning, and Liu Qi just insisted on not fighting.

In the afternoon, the weather was so hot that the soldiers of Tie Yaozi were relieved and cooled down. Liu Qi suddenly sent the first battalion to the west gate to attack, followed by Han Shizhong's commander Tie Futu and Guaizi's left and right troops sneaked out of the south gate, attacking the flanks of the coalition forces, and defeating the coalition forces.

Emperor Tianzuo was unwilling to fail and moved to Shuoxi, attempting to surround Shuozhou for a long time.

It was raining heavily for days and Liu Qi frequently sent troops to attack at night.

Emperor Tianzuo was really tired of dealing with it and could only retreat to the Tiande Army in mid-May.

In this battle, Liu Qi used Shuozhou as the key point of defense, took advantage of the weaknesses of the coalition forces such as the weather and the fact that the coalition forces did not practice night battles, used attacks as defense, and attacked the shorts with long attacks, severely damaged the main force of the coalition forces, shattering the first attack of the coalition forces.

Emperor Tianzuo, who retreated to the Tiande Army, learned his lesson and believed that the reason why he lost to Li Yan was mainly because Li Yan had the natural danger in Shuozhou as his support. If it was a dignified battle, the loser would definitely be Li Yan.

In addition, because most of the coalition troops were borrowed by Emperor Tianzuo, Li Ganshun and various Mongolian khans, Emperor Tianzuo was very afraid that as time delayed, the coalition troops would disperse, especially in the case of continuous failures.

Based on this, Emperor Tianzuo personally wrote a letter of war to Li Yan.

The content is as follows

The destiny of heaven is great and cannot be returned with force; the artifact is great and cannot be heard by wisdom. The conclusion of ancient and modern times is difficult to change, so the saints are verbally snatching theft. Therefore, Li Yan, the chief governor of the Anton Protectorate, was bewitched by the enemy due to the invasion. He was betrayed by Zhou Gong outside, and the evil of his sons inside. He ignored the righteousness and captured my wife and daughter, steal my treasure, seized my land, acted like a robber, harmed the country and harmed the people, poisoned the people, and plundered the city of the city. He was incompetent, and the people were trapped in the misfortune. After reading the books, the unjust minister was greedy and cruel, and Yu Yan was the worst. Heaven regretted the disaster, and God did not help the traitor... Now he commanded a million soldiers and thousands of soldiers, and wanted to hunt on the Qingshui River on the fourth day of the sixth month in ten days. Can you dare to fight?

After receiving the letter of war sent by Emperor Tianzuo, Li Yan gathered the generals and staff together, and then passed the letter of war to them.

After everyone had seen it, Li Yan asked, "Yelu Yanxi wants to fight me in a decisive battle. What do you think about this?"

Chen Zhaotong said, "The reason why the Liao Lord seeks a decisive battle is because he knows that he has no chance to win the previous battle, and his troops are not his personal army. They are unstable and may disperse at any time. Therefore, I believe that the previous defense should be continued instead of attacking. I believe that it will not take long before the Liao Lord's army will be defeated without attacking."

Most people agree with Chen Zuotong's proposal. After all, who is willing to take risks if he can be invincible?

To be honest, Chen Zuotuan’s proposal was not wrong, it was a mature and steady strategy.

but

Li Yan would not adopt Chen Zuozhun's proposal.

Li Yan has learned that Yang Keshi was defeated in Langoudian.

The defeat in Langodian was the prelude to the repeated defeats of the Song army. The next time was the turbulent Yanjing area. At most, if Li Yan could not seize Yanjing, Yanjing would definitely be taken away by the Jin people.

Therefore, Li Yan could no longer be entangled with Emperor Tianzuo here, so he had to go to Yanjing to participate in the competition. Otherwise, once Yanjing fell into the hands of the Jin people or the Song people, he would not only waste all his previous efforts, but also might be trapped in this random place in the clouds.

Li Yan looked at Liu Qi, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Wu Jie and other generals and asked, "If I fight Yelu Yanxi, how likely do we have to win?"

Liu Qi, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, and Wu Jie said in unison "90%."

After hearing this, Li Yan's eyes flashed with a flash, and then he said, "Come on the pen and paper."

Soon someone sent the pen and paper to Li Yan. Li Yan wrote six words in one go, "If you want to fight, you will fight!" and then ordered someone to send it to Emperor Tianzuo...

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Chapter completed!