On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Empress Dowager Xiao ordered Xiu Ge to send cavalry to cut off the retreat of the Song army to retreat into Qizhou, and ordered the Grand Tutor Wang Liu to strengthen the investigation of the enemy and grasp the movements of the Song army at any time. Obviously, the king and minister of the Liao Kingdom had decided to attack the Song army with all their strength, and the Liao army also secretly formed an encirclement force of the Junzi Hall.

On the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, it was the time when the folk proverb could "freeze your chin". The weather was extremely cold, but the Liao army still launched a general attack on the Song army in the Junzi Pavilion.

Empress Dowager Xiao ordered Prime Minister An Ning to lead Di Li's troops and the rear of Sanke Army to personally lead the army, and jointly launch a fierce attack on the Song army with the troops of the King Liuning and Yelu Xiuge of the South Court.

The Liao army's iron fist hit Sang Zan, the brave commander of the Song army in front of the Song army. Sang Zan led his troops to resist from morning to afternoon. The strong bow and hard crossbow were originally a powerful weapon for the Song army to defeat the enemy, but the Song army soldiers were frozen because of their thin clothes and their hands were frozen, and their hands could not be pulled open. The strings of the crossbow were covered with fur, and the Khitan knights who were flying back and forth became more and more brave.

At dusk, the Liao army's reinforcements arrived in a steady stream, Sang Zan could not support him and led the crowd to flee first. His defeat destroyed the Song army's defense system, causing the Junziguan Song army to be surrounded by the Liao army.

The deep siege made the situation of the Song army, which was originally at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, even more dangerous, but Liu Tingrang still led his subordinates to support him. At this time, he was still thinking that Li Jilong from Cangzhou could come to rescue him, but Li Jilong had retreated to Leshou, which made Liu Yanrang wait for nothing.

After a long wait, the reinforcements were not arrived, the Song army could not win the battle, and the breakout was not possible, but the Khitan attacks like storms did not stop. The smoke and dust from the horse's hooves were wrapped around the flying arrows like locusts, and the long spears and spears intertwined into a chaotic net of death. Courage, strength, and life were scattered and floating in the rolling yellow dust... Liu Ting asked the veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time to go to the front line to supervise the battle, but soon became the key target of the Liao army's siege because of the distinctive sign of the commander. His mount was killed, and all three changed it.

Gradually, the Song army, exhausted by hard fighting all day long, could not resist the enemy's fast sword and horse, and a confrontation gradually turned into a cruel massacre. The Song army was divided and eroded in scattered manner, and finally completely collapsed.

Liu Tingrang rode his subordinates to fight horses and only brought a few followers to escape from the siege. The Song army suffered heavy losses in this battle, with tens of thousands of dead (some say 60,000). Li Jingyuan and Gaoyang Pass deployed Yang Chong to fight hard and killed the battle, and the brave generals Zhang Sijun and others were captured.

This battle wiped out tens of thousands of Song troops, which made Empress Xiao very happy. On the 11th, Empress Xiao summoned a group of generals including Xiu Ge and other generals to enter the palace hall and gave wine to comfort him. The next day, Empress Xiao ordered the collection of Song troops in the Junzi Hall and build a "Beijing Temple" to show off his military power.

The defeat of the Junzi Pavilion almost completely lost the fighting spirit of the Hebei Song army, each shrinking in a solid city to protect itself, and using the villagers who had not practiced fighting to defend the place.

Therefore, the Liao army was able to seize the victory and drove to the territory. Within more than ten days, the Liao army was able to attack Fengmu Town, Qizhou, Shenzhou (now south of Shenxian County, Hebei), and Dezhou (now Ling County, Shandong), as if they were entering an uninhabited land. Wherever the Liao army went, they were captured, plundered, burned and killed. The only exception was that the Yang Tuancheng garrison, who had accumulated a large number of military weapons and fodder in the Song army, surrendered, and the Liao lord ordered that they not be disturbed and plundered.

On the first day of the first lunar month of the following year, the Liao army on the east road captured Shucheng and led troops to plunder. On the third day of the lunar month, Empress Dowager Xiao arrived in Wen'an and sent people to surrender. The Song army refused to obey, and the Liao army immediately captured the city, killed all the strong men and captured their old and young women.

Although the Liao army won a great victory, it also suffered heavy losses. In addition, the front line was lengthened and the troops were dispersed. Li Jilong, who had been waiting for the opportunity, suddenly sent troops to cut off the Liao army's retreat.

Cui Han on the West Road also reorganized the army again and ordered Yang Yanzhao to go straight to Xiongzhou as a general.

At the same time, there was also a news from Yelu Xizhen's Western Army. Yelu Xizhen led his army to attack Yanmen, but was blocked by his old rival Yang Ye, and he was unable to make progress. There was no way for him to let the palace envoy Xiao Dali attack Daizhou.

The minister of the service, Zhang Qixian, the governor of Daizhou, and Yang Ye, made a plan to attack at night. Zhang Qixian sent 200 troops in the middle of the night, each of whom took a flag and carried a bunch of grass on his back. He was thirty miles southwest of the city of Zhou, and fired the flag and burned the hay.

The Liao soldiers saw the flames and flags from afar. They thought that Yang Ye's troops had arrived, so they fled in horror. Zhang Qixian first buried 2,000 ambush troops in Tuyuzhai, attacked and defeated the Liao army, killed the palace envoy Xiao Dali, captured one son of the Liao army's Beidawang, and captured one relics in front of the tent. He killed hundreds of enemies, captured two thousand war horses and many weapons.

The Liao army was defeated on the western route and could not advance in an instant, and there was no way to support the army on the eastern route.

Yelu Xiuge believed that his goal had been achieved, and there were two Song troops behind him to make trouble, and food, grass and supplies were also threatened, so he asked the team to join the army.

Empress Dowager Xiao agreed to his request and ordered his three armies to loot the land of Hebei, and then returned to Youzhou.

"The Liao soldiers retreated! The Liao soldiers retreated!"

Guan Wei was patrolling the city tower when he suddenly heard the local soldiers shouting loudly. They hurried to the city to watch and saw that the Liao army had really set up camp and started to retreat.

"Are they really going to withdraw?" Everyone looked down and pointed.

Guan Wei sighed and said, "It's almost done! The Liao people have been besieging the city for nearly a month, and this battle has been confirmed. It's time for them to retreat!"

"Then are we going to chase them?" Sister Ba amused Guan Wei with one sentence. He laughed and said, "Sister Ba, why should we chase them? Are we going to chase them and be killed?"

Everyone burst into laughter after hearing this.

Guan Wei waved his hand and said, "Since the Liao people have retreated, we can remove the sand from the lockdown. But don't take it lightly, be careful and prevent us from being wiped out when the people in the province return to the army."

"Yes!" Heihu and Chang Jin agreed and took their troops down to start cleaning the sand. Fortunately, the sandbags used for the city lockdown were also very quickly cleaned up, and the city gate was quickly cleared.

"Mr. County lieutenant, is there a cavalry of thousands of men appearing to our south?"

After receiving the report, Guan Wei thought that some Liao soldiers had retreated from the south, so he hurriedly took his eighth sister and nineth sister to Nancheng on a horse.

Only when I got here did I realize that the person who came was his own people. The general led by Yang Yanzhao. Yang Yanzhao was stationed in Suicheng and Han Dewei fought for nearly a month, which made Han Dewei unable to move forward.

After the Liao army retreated, Yang Yanzhao exchanged views with his sister from Yichuan County and took some cavalry to Yichuan County to see the situation.

At first, he didn't give any hope, even Xiongzhou was lost, let alone Yichuan County, which was short of soldiers and generals? This time he could have harmed his sister!

Thinking of this, he hurried to Yichuan County with a hurry. As soon as he arrived here, Yang Yanzhao was stunned and saw another Suicheng!

"Did they also block the attack of the Liao army?" Yang Yanzhao was in disbelief.

The city gate of Yichuan County creaked open, and Guan Wei and his eighth sister rushed out from inside.

Yang Yanzhao could see that there was a layer of murderous aura on them. I think they should have killed a lot of people in a while.

"Big Brother!" The eighth sister and the ninth sister urged to go immediately. The brother and sister met, and it seemed that they were crying for two lifetimes.

"Eighth Sister, Ninth Sister, you're fine! It's fine! I'll feel relieved!"

Guan Wei urged him to step forward and said, "Thank you, Brother Yang, you are the first to rescue us. Let's talk about it before we go into the city!"

Yang Yanzhao nodded, and then led his army and Guan Wei into Yichuan County.

Niu Quanzhong also heard that the Liao soldiers had retreated and arrived at the door in a sedan chair. When he saw Guan Wei, he shouted: "Guan County Magistrate! Has the Liao army really retreated?"

"Don't worry, the Liao army has retreated! Look at it, this is not the Yangdu inspector, he has brought the army to rescue us."

"That's great! That's great!" Niu Quanzhong's eyes flashed with tears when he heard this. The battle this month scared all the timid and good old men.

"Sir, since the Liao army has retreated, please do the pension and comfort of the people in the city as soon as possible!"

Niu Quanzhong was an expert in doing this kind of thing, so he agreed without hesitation. He met Yang Yanzhao again and then sent them to Yichuan County together.

Yang Yanzhao's subordinates were all arrogant soldiers and the Suicheng stationed in the Liao Dynasty was called Tiesuicheng, which made these people feel superior. However, when they saw these local soldiers, they heard that their achievements were a bit pale.

Yang Yanzhao sat at Guan Wei's home, took a sip of hot water and said, "Brother, it's really amazing!" In this battle, we were defeated in total, and the government and the country were in turmoil. You were the only one. Zhang Qixian from the West Road killed the general of the Liao Kingdom and won a great victory. I want to write a letter to the court and ask for merit for you!"

"Brother, you're so polite! These are all we should do!" Guan Wei waved his hand and said a few politely.

"It was the eldest brother who said that the court shock reminded me! Although the battle was over, I guess the court is now confused; I don't know how to resist the Liao army next.

Brother Yang has already inspected the border and thought about the plan of the Great Wall of Water?”

Yang Yanzhao clapped his hands suddenly and said, "This plan seemed a bit absurd at first, but after actual investigation, I realized that if my good brother was a scholar, Hebei would be worry-free!"

As he said that, he took out a roll of maps and spread them on the table, giving Guan Wei an explanation.

"Brother Yang's words make sense, but this place seems to be a gap. This is not possible. We cannot fail because of this place."

Yang Yanzhao frowned and said, "This place is adjacent to Taihang. If we want to make the river water diversion project too large, I haven't thought of a solution yet."

"Brother Yang, since the river water is not good, let's build a military camp! This military camp is built along the mountain, and the terrain is necessary. It doesn't take many military troops to block the gap and block the Liao people's way south!"
Chapter completed!