Yelu Zhichong's operation did indeed make Wang Shao a little busy, and even suffered some casualties, but it was exactly what Wang Shao thought.

Wang Shao ordered many county towns to give up the city and withdraw their troops from the city, so that they could tempt Yelu Zhichong to continue to go deeper, and they are still too close to the border now.

Therefore, after Yelu Zhichong took over, he immediately attacked the city and captured the village. The army of Daxia seemed to be defeated. Although there seemed to be little casualties, the city was indeed defeated one after another.

When the news came back to the Liao Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom's court was overjoyed, especially Yelu Hongji, who believed that this was the reason why he was wise and powerful. He gave himself a title of honor and rewarded Yelu Zhichong even more.

Only Yelu Zongjian's situation is not very good. The better Yelu Zhichong's achievements are, the worse his situation is.

But no one took it at this time.

After the Liao army was advancing rapidly and Zhending Prefecture was captured, Yelu Zhichong turned his attention to Taiyuan Prefecture. Whether it was Zhending Prefecture or Taiyuan Prefecture, they were all land bordering the Liao Kingdom. If actual control could be achieved, it would be a great thing for the Liao Kingdom.

However, at this time, Yelu Zhichong discovered that the resistance of the Daxia army was becoming stronger and the casualty rate of the Liao army became higher and higher. However, the casualty rate of the siege was high, and Yelu Zhichong did not care at first. When he found that the casualty rate of the Liao army was also very high in the field battle, he finally became alert.

Yelu Zhichong quickly reviewed the casualties of the army. Since the Liao army advanced to Taiyuan Prefecture when the Liao army was advancing to Taiyuan Prefecture, the Xia army began to fight against the Liao army in the field.

In Yelu Zhichong's view, the Xia army felt the pressure, so they panicked and began to compete with the Liao army in the wild. Naturally, the Liao army still won repeatedly. Yelu Zhichong was confident in this regard.

However, when he carefully compared the casualties between the two sides, he found something wrong. Although the Xia army seemed to retreat every time, the casualties were not high every time. Instead, the Liao army, which was victorious, had heavy casualties.

Yelu Zhichong quickly took a look at the army and found that there were only more than 240,000 left in the 300,000 army, and more than 50,000 people were lost.

Of course, this was a loss in as many as a few months, but this loss was scary enough, even when the results looked very good.

However, Yelu Zhichong still did not retreat. Now the Liao army has occupied the entire Zhending Prefecture. Most of the Hejian Prefecture is heading towards Taiyuan Prefecture. Once the Taiyuan Prefecture, Taiyuan, Zhending and Hejian are connected together, then the Liao Kingdom can defend it.

Of course, this land is not very strategic to the Liao Kingdom, but it is of great significance to him. This is a contribution to expanding territory. With such a large territory, it will be easy to get promoted and get promoted.

So Yelu Zhichong still decided to continue to go deeper when he felt the crisis.

...

"Boyu, if you were the leader of the Liao army, would you go there after you took down Zhending Mansion?"

Wang Shao asked.

Huo Boyu is a senior staff officer in the Staff Office. He laughed and said, "No matter where you go, Taiyuan is not a good choice. It is best to naturally divide it into two armies, attack Taiyuan from the border, and follow the current path, instead of taking the Zhending and then moving across to Taiyuan. Taihang Mountains are stretched across, so it is not easy to fight.

On the contrary, going to Daming Prefecture can threaten Bianjing, which has more strategic significance. Moreover, Daming Prefecture is not Zhending Prefecture. Daming Prefecture is our base camp in the rear, where it stores a large amount of military supplies. If the Liao army can take Daming Prefecture, it will be able to obtain a large amount of military supplies, so there will be a lot of room for maneuver."

Wang Shao laughed: "There is no one in Liao Kingdom. He actually let such a seemingly brave but actually unscheming attack us. Since that's the case, we don't have to be polite, just accept it all."

Huo Boyu nodded and said, "Then let's close the internet?"

Wang Shao's face became serious: "Well, order, all combat units will follow the plan!"

Huo Boyu quickly stood up and shouted: "Yes!"

The command center immediately became busy, like a very sophisticated machine running, and countless command documents were sent to all directions through command soldiers.

On the land of Hebei, troops lurking in the mountains, forests, canyons, and rural areas are heading towards their destinations.

"...In the past, we mostly fought offensive battles, but now we have to fight defensive battles, so we have to change our thinking, but the overall idea remains unchanged. We still have to form a situation of fighting more and fighting less, cutting the enemy into small pieces, gradually eroding, cutting off the food route, closing the door and fighting dogs..."

"...Our mission is to block Yelu Zhichong in Jingxing and block their way westward. We must take advantage of Jingxing's advantageous terrain to form a defensive situation with high below zero, and assist other brother troops in the encirclement and suppression of the Liao army!"

"...The Liao army's ration road on the Zhending Prefecture is our mission. We must eradicate the Liao army's base here, block the retreat of the Liao army, and block the Liao rescue army here. Do Guan Yu's Juebei Road know? That's our mission!"

The so-called Guan Yu's North Road is that in the Battle of Chibi, after Cao Cao was defeated by the coalition forces of Liu Bei and Sun Quan, Cao Cao led his army to the north and left Cao Ren to guard Jingzhou. In the 14th year of Jian'an (Zhou Yu and Liu Bei besieged Cao Ren in Jiangling, and then sent Guan Yu to lead his army to cut off the rescue from the north. This is the famous "Guan Yu's North Road" in history.

During the process of Juebei Dao, Guan Yu's main task was to prevent Cao Cao's reinforcements from rescued Cao Ren. During this period, Cao Cao had five generals fighting with Guan Yu. In addition to Cao Ren, these five generals were Xu Huang, Le Jin, Man Chong, Wen Pin and Li Tong.

This metaphor is quite appropriate. Now the Western Xia army cut off the grain road that lies across the Great Wall of Water, which is the retreat of the Liao army. To defend it, we must block the Liao army in the Xia territory, and also block the Liao army coming to rescue it. It can be said that it is enemies in front and behind, which is indeed similar to the Juebei Road.

Yelu Zhichong didn't know about the Western Xia army's movements. At this time, why didn't he know that he had fallen into the whole set?

However, he was not in a hurry. He was quite confident in the Liao army. Now he still held an army of more than 100,000 in his hand, and the rest of the army was also in the occupied cities.

In other words, the way back is still there. If the fight really starts, the Xia army may not be able to withstand it, let alone encircle it. When the fight really starts, it is still unknown who is the prey and who is the hunter!
Chapter completed!