After successfully taking Dezhou City, Li Qing, the king of Yan, led an army of 100,000 to the south, along the way to take the plains, Gaotang, Qingping land, and Yan Shu after taking Linqing, the two armies met in Qingshui Town, and after arriving at Qingshui Town, Li Qing's 200,000 army encountered big trouble, and at this time the Xia army of the East Road led by Li Qing had entered the periphery of the defense line of the Great Song Dynasty's Damingfu, which was the core area of the overall defense of the Song army in Hebei.
In these few days, hundreds of thousands of troops emerged on the originally basically empty Song army defense line, and the first batch of follow-up reinforcements of the Song army totaled 300,000 troops, and later according to Zhao Yan's military order, they were stationed in Guantao, Guanshi, Tangyi three military towns, originally these three places were three small cities on the plain, but since the establishment of the northern defense line, these three places have become the outermost defense line of the Daimyo's defense line.
In the summer army camp in Qingshui Town, the Chinese army tent.
Yan Shu reported to Li Qingyu: "Lord Yu, the situation has been figured out, the Song army has a total of 300,000 troops stationed in the first line from Guantao to Tangyi, and there are a large number of pillboxes, horses, traps, trenches and thistles on the periphery of these three military towns, which are built in the same way as the Julu defense line and the Shangnan defense line, and at the same time, the Song army has also hoarded a large amount of grain and grass in the city, and our army will have great losses if it is attacked hard; However, in Bozhou in the east, the Song army has not yet arrived and stationed, and it is more certain where to break through our army."
As soon as Yan Shu's words fell, a spy hurriedly ran in and said: "Report, report, report to the prince, visit the Malay report, the Song army has 100,000 troops stationed in Bozhou. ” "Let's go down," Li Qing said with an expression on his face.
"Where did the Song army get the 100,000 army," Zhao Ge asked questioningly.
Li Qing looked at the map and said, "Qizhou, Zhao Yan must have transferred the defenders of Qizhou." ” "What about Qizhou, don't Song Jun want it?"
asked Zhao Ge.
Yan Shu saw that Li Qing didn't speak, and explained to Zhao Ge: "Zhao Yan must have lost Qizhou to Xiao Yuanshan, only Xiao Yuanshan is closer to Qizhou at this time, and now Qizhou has belonged to the nail behind us, it is better to throw it to Xiao Yuanshan than to lose it to us, and at the same time, this is also a bargaining chip for Zhao Yan to win over Xiao Yuanshan again." ” Zhao Ge looked at Li Qing and asked, "Lord Wang, then what should we do now?"
Li Qing paused for a while and said: "Let the brothers rest first, stay in the tun on the spot, and at the same time send people to organize the people to resume production, move the people from the north, and restore the popularity of this place as soon as possible." ” "Yes, Commandment" As Yan Shu said, Zhao Yu did lose Qizhou to Xiao Yuanshan, Qizhou is located east of Jishui, with Jishui as a barrier Xiao Yuanshan is temporarily safe, but after getting Qizhou, Xiao Yuanshan is not satisfied, as the Xia army approached Zhao Yan step by step, Xiao Yuanshan found that Zhao Yan cared about his own force, so Xiao Yuanshan's courage gradually increased, began to expand around, and soon occupied Zhangqiu and Pingyin, and then Xiao Yuanshan's power still developed to the east, for all this that Xiao Yuanshan did, Zhao Yan basically turned a blind eye, after all, now Zhao Yan has no heart and no effort to curb Xiao Yuanshan's development.
On the southern front of the Xia and Song dynasties, under the leadership of Yongwang Li De, the Xia army captured Xiangyang, but Li De was not satisfied with this, so after capturing Xiangyang, Li De left the follow-up reinforcements in Xiangyang, and he led an army of 50,000 to continue to set off.
Due to the suddenness of the incident, Zaoyang is located in the hinterland of the Song army, so Li De only took less than an hour to take the city, and he lost less than 300 people, after taking Zaoyang, Li De decided to rest for a day, and the soldiers of the Xia army under Li De's command were already very tired after the two-day march in addition to this battle.
"Come on, go and find Wu Jie to this king."
Li De ordered the soldiers guarding outside the tent.
"Yes, lord."
The soldiers took the order and departed; Not long after, the soldier came back and said to Li De; "Lord Wang, General Wu is not in the tent."
"Then don't send someone to find it quickly."
Li De said to the soldier.
"Lord Wang, I went to look for it, and I heard from the brothers guarding the camp that General Wu left the camp last night and has not come back until today."
The soldier said to Li De.
Li De frowned when he heard this, Li De vaguely felt that something was not good in his heart, and Li De continued to ask the soldier: "How did Wu Jie get out?"
"Lord Yu, according to the brother who guarded the door, he left on horseback, and it seems that he was in a hurry."
"Send an order to send people to arrest Wu Jie, and bring him to see the king as soon as he is caught."
"Yes, Lord Wang" After the soldiers left, Li De began to enter into a long wait, and it was not until the next morning that the last group of men and horses who went out to search returned to report to Li Deyu that no trace of Wu Jie; Li De realized that the problem was serious, and in the face of such a complicated situation, Li De couldn't even think about what to do for a while, Li De blasted everyone out, and sat alone in the big tent of the Chinese army and thought.
At ten o'clock in the evening, a flying horse came from the south, and the person who came directly broke into Li De's Chinese army tent and said: "Report, report, report that the prince Xiangyang has been lost." ” Li De was shocked and grabbed the collar of the visitor, grabbed him from the ground and asked, "What did you say?"
"Lord Yu, Xiangyang is lost."
"What the hell is going on, make it clear to this king" "Lord Yu, after you led the army to leave, the Song army sent two armies from the north and south to besiege Xiangyang City, a total of 50,000 or 60,000, in the middle of the night our army was attacked by the people in the city, our army was taken by surprise, the gate of Xiangyang fell, our army could only retreat into the city to fight to the death, but in the end we also burned all the materials in Xiangyang City."
"You go down," Li De said with a frown.
The loss of Xiangyang City is that his back road has been completely cut off, Wu Jie has run, and the back road has been cut off, which makes Li De feel that he has fallen into a deep trap, but soon Li De reacted from it, Li De knew that he had not completely failed, he still had 50,000 troops in his hands, and now everyone has a war horse, after a night of thinking, Li De made his own combat action plan, that is, to fight in a wandering battle.
Now it is impossible to go back, the Song army must have blocked all the back roads, for Li De only forward can have a way to live, in front of Li De is the endless Central Plains, although this is the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, but the defenders are very weak, at the same time in the plain area is very suitable for cavalry combat, although Li De lost the support of the rear, but soon Li De also found his own value.
Li De and his 50,000 troops were like a ghost, attacking everywhere and fighting in mobile battles to turn the rear of the Song army upside down, and because there were not many soldiers and horses, it was easy to get supplies for his army by plundering Li De, and Li De's existence contained a large part of the Song army.
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