In theory, Yelu Xiuge is right. There are still many regular bans and village soldiers in Song Jiu's hands, with a total of more than 50,000 troops. But this is a defeated army. As long as it is put into its pocket, the Liao army will attack several times, and the land under its feet will be Song territory. Then it will collapse in the blink of an eye, scatter and flee, and a happy harvest will begin.

But theory is theory, practice is practice.

In Song Jiu's eyes, Yelu Xiuge was the god of war, and even regarded two heavy generals of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xizhen as slightly reduced versions of the invincible Li Jing and the wise general Li Ji.

However, after the two battles of Qigou Pass and Gaolianghe, Yelu Xiuge was almost sent to the altar of gods. At this time, Yelu Xiuge was no longer the Yelu Xiuge of the past. After the battle of the Gentleman's Hall in history, Yelu Xiuge became even more proud and complacent, and was then swung by Li Jilong, beating him up again and again...

The mistake begins.

When Song Jiu heard that the Liao army was chasing from behind, he immediately set off. His target was the Temple of the Temple of the Shrine more than ten miles away. There was a small stream leading to the Juma River. It was actually a small stream. There was a small lake next to it. It was definitely not enough to provide water for hundreds of thousands of troops, but it was almost enough to provide water for 50,000 troops. And behind it were several earthen mountains, and there were some reeds and trees around it. What does this terrain mean?

That means it is conducive to the defense or war of the Song army.

Moreover, it is closer to Baigou Tun, only nearly thirty miles.

Tens of thousands of troops formed a square formation that was more than one mile wide and three miles long, and rushed towards the Temple of the Society.

Five or six miles away from the Temple of the Society, I encountered the Liao army's sniper army. The leader was Yelu Amuli, the king of the north of the Liao Kingdom, also known as Yelu Puning. Because the information of the Song Dynasty was inaccurate, he was once called Xiao Puning.

This person can fight, too.

But he was not Yelu Xiuge. He even neglected the power of this Ai Army. And Song Jiu was paying attention to giving the soldiers plenty of rest during his escape. Although he marched overnight, except for Song Jiu's ordering some soldiers to be alert, the remaining main forces all rested immediately and did not sleep well. But after so many days, they came here, and everyone got used to it and became natural, and most of them quickly entered deep sleep.

I also rested for more than three hours, and the physical energy consumed by a marching overnight has recovered by at least 70%.

The generals are also deadly. They are all good at fighting. Some people say that in the battle of Qigou Pass, a sheep led a group of lions to fight. In fact, the sheep should have one head plus half of the head, the other head is Zhao Kuangyi, and the most part is Cao Bin.

Behind him was the vast army of Liao. There was no water or danger at this time, so Song Jiu only passed an order: "Kill."

Several brave generals led their subordinates to rush towards Yelu Amuli on the muddy and wet black soil.

At this time, the Song army lacked cavalry. It was impossible to have a brilliant victory, and there was no need for this. All the Song army asked was to defeat the Liao army.

Yelu Awuli also had a lot of troops, but he was originally planning to snipe at the Heilu Dang on the west side of Baigou Tun. Now it is equivalent to setting the sniper location nearly twenty miles ahead of the sniper location. Of course, these twenty miles are nothing to the cavalry, but all the previous arrangements failed. Moreover, his requirements are not high. As long as he can block the Song army for more than half an hour, the Liao army will come to kill him later. The mission will be completed, and he will be somewhat underestimated.

Faced with the sudden violent riot of the Song army, Yelu Awuli was obviously not well prepared, and his command made some mistakes. In the blink of an eye, the Song Dynasty rushed into the Liao army one by one.

Worked hard.

In just a moment, Liao soldiers were killed, their war horses were overturned, and the Liao army was defeated.

The Song army died more than two thousand more people, but they also killed nearly two thousand Liao troops and captured more than one hundred war horses. Song Jiu did not delay and ordered the three armies to continue to move urgently.

When Yelu Xiuge arrived, the Song army had already laid a defensive fortification.

Although Yelu Xiu Ge was a little angry, he still thought about his strategy seriously. He first sent people to cut off the stream above, and then surrounded the Song army layer by layer, launched several attacks. After all, the strategy was changed and the soldiers kept harassing him. After all, in order to advance lightly, the Song army did not have much food or grass, and even though they brought not many weapons.

This is his attempt to maintain the strength of his army and trap the Song army to death. If reinforcements come to rescue him, he will just be able to surround the reinforcements.

However, after all his expectations, the besieged Song army continued to take turns to rest, and none of the Song soldiers fled. In the evening of the next day, they sent troops from time to time to use the cover of night to counter harassment.

They were not the Song army that Yelu Xiuge saw before, and there were too many miscellaneous soldiers mixed in it, including archers, strong men, and civilians. Of course, there were still many rural soldiers in this army, but most of them were semi-imprison soldiers trained by the people of Hebei who were tenacious on the border, and they were also mourning soldiers. The combat power of the two was completely different.

The anti-harassment continued until dawn, and the Song army became quiet.

The Liao army attacked again, and although they rushed into the Song army repeatedly, they were beaten back again and again.

On the third night, the Song army continued to fight harassment.

Brother Yelu Xiu was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

But at the fourth update of this night, the Song army suddenly formed a square formation, changing from harassment to breaking through.

The Liao army was not prepared and tore a big gap in the Song army. Seeing that the casualties gradually became more and more severe, Yelu Xiuge could no longer bear it, so he gave an order to make the Song army break through. The positional war was not good, so he defeated them in the mobile war.

However, he was surprised again. From beginning to end, no matter how the Liao army attacked, it never turbuled the Song army's phalanx, and he did not see the Song army escape. Even if he deliberately left a vacant position, he would like to remind the Song army, please escape from this direction.

The Song army, with their attacks, suddenly marched from the fourth hour to the evening of the fourth day, and advanced for more than 20 miles, even making Yelu Xiu Ge suspected that he would continue to kill like this, and that they could successfully reach the city of Xiongzhou in three days.

However, in the end, Song Jiu saw that Song soldiers were in heavy sacrifices. The more than 20 miles of road were paved with blood.

When the Black Reeds approached, they suddenly dispatched their troops to the south and inserted into the black pine forest more than a mile away.

The forest was not afraid. The terrible thing was that this army entered the forest. Yelu Xiu Ge had no choice but to force the exit to block the exit and wait for the Song army to run out of ammunition and food.

But at this time, it was only ten miles away from Baigou Tun and only forty miles away from Xiongzhou City!

...

When Cui Yanjin brought thousands of soldiers to Xiongzhou City, it was when Song Jiu forcibly marched from the Temple of the Society.

When he heard that the Liao army was powerful and far away from Xiongzhou, Cui Yanjin was timid again. It was not that he was greedy for life and feared death. He was more capable than Cao Bin to fight. If he had no other, he might not have won a great victory in the whole city. But due to the situation, he did not dare to save him. This was not to save people, but to die.

At this moment, Yin Jilun ran over.

Yin Jilun has no good idea, he only has two thousand light cavalry, what role does it play?

So he discussed with Cui Yanjin for a long time and used a decree to let all the fort troops near the border gather in Xiongzhou. Song Jiu had instructed the forts to strengthen their defense, but the two of them ignored it.

To put it simply, the Hebei border is very empty at this time. If Song Jiu's tens of thousands of Song troops were eaten, even if the forts could barely be defended, the Liao army could easily whip south, even causing the capital to be in a hurry.

In fact, in history, Yelu Xiuge was taken over by the Song army by the Mahe River and went south again to pursue the deserters of the Song Dynasty. He almost chased to Gaoyang Pass. At this moment, Xiao Yanyan heard a news. After Pan Mei took Yunzhou, she calmed down and quickly sent troops to advance east along the Sanggan River. Xiao Yanyan was afraid that the Liao army would go south and the troops in the rear would be empty. If Pan Mei wanted Youzhou to occupy him, then the rear route would be cut off and he might put himself in a dangerous place. Therefore, he ordered Yelu Xiuge to withdraw his troops and divide his troops to assist Yelu Xizhen.

This has allowed tens of thousands of civilians to escape.

When the Song army failed, tens of thousands of civilians fled into Qigou Pass City. There were food and grass and weapons in the city. Yelu Xiuge considered that there would be sacrifices to attack them, so he ignored these tens of thousands of civilians. The reason was the same as the retreat of the Song Jiu generals and the Liao Kingdom did not pursue them. The Liao army retreated north and divided the troops to the mountain, and tens of thousands of civilians fled south from Qigou Pass City. It happened to be Xiao Yanyan's birthday, so the Liao army did not chase them, and tens of thousands of civilians were lucky to return to the Song Dynasty.

In fact, Song Jiu also fell into a misunderstanding about the Fortress.

Song and Liao built many fortresses on the border. In history, Fan Zhongyan began to build more fortresses in the northwest. It cannot be said that it did not work, but it took place. Yuan Hao once came to Chang'an, but since the dense fortresses stood on the border, Xixia could no longer move straight into the future.

After the construction of Zhubao Village, border security will be safer after the construction of Zhubao Village, but the most important point is people.

Without soldiers, these fortresses are just dead buildings.

With an order, all the surrounding troops began to rush towards Xiongzhou City.

And as some archers and civilians retreated to the rear and spread Song Jiu's deeds, some tough people joined spontaneously with gratitude.

The key is that Yang Ye's thousands of cavalrymen made a big circle and advanced to Xiongzhou City.

These troops are not enough, but Song Jiu's army is inside and outside, so he has the power to fight.

Cui Yanjin began to gather troops in Xiongzhou and prepared to advance into Baigou Tun.

After hearing this, Xiao Yanyan sighed and ordered the withdrawal of troops.

She was not afraid, that's it. She believed that her army still had the power to fight. But behind Guanjian Mountain, Pan Mei's army was also advancing eastward. If a battle was held here, facing the tenacity of the Song army, even if the Liao army wins, it will still be a tragic victory, and then the entire Yanyun area may be completely lost.

Xiao Yanyan looked reluctantly at the broken flag in the black pine forest and ordered the withdrawal of Youzhou.

Song Jiu and tens of thousands of soldiers survived. Xiao Yanyan angrily used the corpse of tens of thousands of Song soldiers and civilians to build a corpse mountain on the border of Youzhou, called Jingguan and Skeleton Platform. He also used the Song soldiers to "shoot ghost arrows (Khitan sacrifices, kill people and sacrifice flags before sending troops. After the war, if the high sacrifices push out many prisoners, then the three armies shoot randomly, shooting prisoners of war into hedgehogs to sacrifice to the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth).

When Zhao Kuangyi heard that Song Jiu had escaped, he breathed a sigh of relief. The soldiers on the front line were no longer able to do it, and Jiang was still old. So he transferred a group of veterans who did not lead Jiezhen to the front line. Zhang Yongde guarded Cangzhou, Song Wei guarded Bazhou, and Liu Tingrang guarded Xiongzhou. He also moved Yingzhou troops to deploy Zhao Yanpu to guard Beizhou to prevent the Liao army from moving south.

Pan Mei ordered the military and civilians of Yun Yinghuanshuo and some of the Tuyuhun tribes in the four prefectures to migrate to the Song territory.

If Zhao Kuangyi formulated the so-called three-way Northern Expedition that might be a mistake, this edict itself was not very wrong. Long before Zhao Kuangyi issued this edict, Song Jiu did this in Zhuozhou during the Battle of Gaolianghe.

The Song Dynasty had a small population at this time, and there were also not many people in the Liao Kingdom.

The people are power.

At this time, Pan Mei's main force was approaching Feihu Pass, and the forwards were approaching Weizhou. If Cao Bin was not defeated, it might theoretically allow Pan Tian's two troops to enter Youzhou. It won't take many days, and it may not be used for twenty days.

But it is actually impossible. They don’t have many soldiers and horses in their hands. If Cao Bin does not make any mistakes, then the main force of the Liao Kingdom will be placed on the battlefield behind the mountain, and Yelu Xizhen is also the place of the demigod!

However, the plan must be implemented.

Xiao Yanyan ordered Paiya to lead the soldiers of Hongyi Palace and the northern and southern Pishi Langjun to slap them, and to recruit the four armies including Han Dewei and rushed to help Xizhen.

In the blink of an eye, Yelu Xizhen had 100,000 troops in his hand. Zhao Kuangyi was a little hesitant because most of the mountain behind him took it down. Tian Chongjin and Pan Mei had not received Zhao Kuangyi's retreat edict.

Tian Jinzhong felt that it was not very good. If Yelu Xizhen had two parts together, they could still fight. However, there were many Liao troops in Youzhou, so he decisively retreated from Weizhou to Feihu Pass. But before retreating, he asked He Lingtu to defend Anding County, 70 miles northeast of Weizhou. You kid didn't say that the orphans and widows of Liao Kingdom were easy to bully, so you fight. He led his main force and retreated in great strides.

Pan Mei was separated by several mountains at this time, but she didn't know that she and Tian Chongjin would not be much weaker than the Liao army. She wanted to compete with Yelu Xizhen in Weizhou.

Yelu Xizhen rushed towards Anding, and He Lingtu was defeated in an instant and fled to Weizhou. Yelu Xizhen attacked Weizhou, and Pan Mei and his family arrived first. Yelu Xizhen sent the chief supervisor Yelu Tu to set up an ambush in a dangerous place to raid. He Lingtu saw reinforcements arrive and forcibly break through. Yelu Xizhen attacked his back with a light cavalry, and both armies were defeated and fled to Feihu Pass.

Yelu Xizhen then chased after and killed several Song troops under Yu Feihu Pass. The Liao Dynasty war report said that Yelu Xizhen in Weizhou killed 10,000 people, and Yu Feihu Pass killed another 20,000 people. There were not so many, but there were also many, especially the civilians who followed the army and the militia with little training, most of them were killed by Yelu Xizhen.

Pan Mei led her army to rescue again, but Tian Chongjin retreated first. His strength was limited and he could not speak alone. He was once again in Hunyuan and had to retreat back to Shuozhou. Only then did he officially receive Zhao Kuangyi's retreat order.

As for the future brave general, where is he?

Li Jilong is taking over Yang Ye's work and arranges people to retreat in Yunzhou.

Feihu Pass was defeated so quickly that Pan Mei had no time to think about it, so she retreated to Shuozhou. But a new problem also came. Zhao Kuangyi issued an edict to retreat to Hedong. However, Yelu Xizhen was red-eyed and beat him wherever he pointed. Now there are only two ways to go before Pan Mei. The first way is to retreat completely. Then, no people want to take back. Maybe Yelu Xizhen, who was red-eyed and was involved in the battle with the Song army, was involved in Yanmen Pass. The matter was serious.

And now no one can figure out how many soldiers the Liao Kingdom sent here.

If there is a crash in Hedong, Yelu Xiuge will go south to Hebei again. If it is not done well, it will become a story from the Later Tang Dynasty, allowing the Liao people to enter the Central Plains.

There is another way, which is to resist stubbornly in Shuozhou and fight for a long time. The Liao army continued to be aggressive and even if they retreated, they would not dare to enter Hedong. They could still move out time and allow the people of the four prefectures to continue to migrate from the backward direction of Hedong.
Chapter completed!