After King Yan's envoy left, Xu He said to Li De, the king of Liang: "Lord Wang, how can the last general always feel that this matter is not true, could this be a conspiracy of the Song army."
"King Yan's tokens are all here in this king, is this still fake?"
"Lord Wang, this token can also be forged, just in case, we have to guard against it."
After listening to Xu He's words, Li De was silent for a long time and said: "Send someone to Suzhou to monitor every move of the Song army, if the Song army does not evacuate within three days, and does not take a step forward, it means that this matter is true, if the Song army retreats, it may be a trap." ” "Then what if the Song army continues to advance towards Yongcheng?"
"That means that this matter is fake, but it is not a conspiracy of the Song army, it is very likely that the sixth child is teasing this king."
"The last general understands, so he will send someone to arrange it" After Xu He left, Li De began to think about his next battle plan, according to Li De's original plan, he would withdraw to Mangdang Mountain to continue to hold on to Yongcheng after resisting for a while; After all, the Song army pressed the border, and the soldiers and horses in Li De's hands alone were not enough to resist the continuous attack of the Song army, and now there are only 150,000 troops left under Li De's command, including more than 40,000 elite Xia troops and more than 100,000 new troops; In Yongcheng, there are 100,000 troops under the personal command of Li De, and all the 35,000 elite cavalry of the Xia army are here; Another 50,000 troops, commanded by Gao Xuan, were withdrawing to Xuzhou.
Although Li De didn't know whether Li Qing's raid on Jiangnan was true or not, Li De decided to prepare early, if this matter was fake, it would have no impact on Li De, and everything could be done according to the original plan, but if this matter was true, then the situation would be very different, although Li De was short of troops, he could also carry out an appropriate counterattack to contain the main force of the Song army's forbidden army.
Suzhou City, the privy envoy and the front of the palace are in command of the left marshal Zhang Dian has received the military order sent by Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty, for the Xia army suddenly led the army to raid Jiangnan Zhangdun is also a big eat, the land of Wuyue in the south of the Yangtze River is the great Song Dynasty tax and population land, once the land of Wu Yue was hit hard by the Xia army, it is tantamount to the Great Song Dynasty is tantamount to making matters worse, this Zhang Dian is very clear, for the battle situation in the south of the Yangtze River Zhang Dian has carried out a strict blockade to prevent the army from being unstable.
Zhang Dan, who was full of sadness, stood in front of the map and looked at the entire Jianghuai occupation, and said resentfully in his heart: "Damn, it seems that the Xia army can be completely besieged, and now this situation has occurred."
"Dashuai, what should we do next?"
"Your Majesty's military order to stop the Northern Expedition, the army is temporarily stationed in Suzhou to prevent the Xia army from counterattacking, and after His Majesty leads the army to solve the war in the south of the Yangtze River, the Northern Expedition will be continued.
"Yes, the last will understand" Although the land of Huaibei has been destroyed by the Xia army, many people have been killed by the Xia army, but there are still some people who fled into the deep mountains and old forests and survived, in the process of the Song army's counteroffensive, these people gave the Song army a lot of help; Only a small part of the newly recruited soldiers of the Song army came from Huaibei, a large number of new troops still came from Huainan, and there was the Central Plains, and now the Great Song Dynasty is recruiting soldiers everywhere, the war has destroyed agricultural production, making a large number of people become homeless, many people have no way to live have chosen to join the army, so now the Great Song Dynasty is not worried about recruiting soldiers.
For three days in a row, the Song army held on to Suzhou without the slightest movement, but in the early morning of the fourth day, the Song army moved, and the Song army, which was originally stationed in Suzhou, suddenly began to cross the canal and move south, and the news was quickly sent to Li De's hands.
Li De took the latest information and asked Xu He: "What do you think about this matter?"
"It will be impossible to judge."
"King Yan is indeed leading his army to attack the land of Wuyue, which has been confirmed by this king in Yipintang's report, but it is difficult to judge whether the Song army is really withdrawing or pretending to retreat."
Li De said; "Since we can't judge, let's try."
"Lord, how are you going to try?"
Li De said something in Xu He's ear, and Xu He immediately took the order and said, "The last general understands." ” The next day, Xu He led 100,000 new troops with the banner of Li De, claiming to be 200,000 troops to Suzhou to kill over, the Xia army was a foot soldier marching speed is not fast, from Yongcheng to Suzhou to say that it will take three days, on the way Xu He led the army along the canal to the south, along the way through Liuzi Town and Qi Ze Town, the peak of the army pointed directly at Suzhou City.
"Marshal, Li De has arrived at the town of Qi Ze with an army of 100,000 troops, and the troops will be in the city tomorrow."
Song Jiang said to Zhang Dun.
Zhang Dian smiled and said, "Everything is according to plan. ” "Yes, the last will understand" Outside the city of Suzhou, Xu He led an army of 100,000 and the Song army to confront outside the city, although the Song army was repeatedly defeated but the combat power has improved a lot, in addition to this time the Xia army did not have cavalry to help, so the two armies were inseparable from each other, but when the battle was carried out at noon, the Song army seemed to suddenly lose its strength, and was quickly defeated by the Song army, and the Song army did not retreat to the city of Suzhou, but went around the city and walked to the canal to retreat.
"General, the Song army has evacuated, and the last general asks for orders to pursue the Song army."
The adjutant general said to Xu He.
"Don't worry, this matter will always feel a little strange, the Song army can't be defeated by our army so easily; The defeat of the Song army just now was really weird.
Xu He said very cautiously; The herald ordered the army to enter the city first. ” "Yes, the general has an order, and the army enters the city" Under the command of Xu He, 100,000 Xia troops marched into the city of Suzhou; As soon as he walked to the gate of the city, a spy who entered the city first came to Xu He's side and said: "General, the Song army did not find an ambush in the city, but it found that the Song army's granary, as well as a large amount of grain and grass, the Song army did not have time to transport it away. ” "It's great, the order can be sent to the army to enter the city, bury the pot and cook and rest."
Xu He said happily; "Let's go, take me to the granary."
"General, come with your humble position."
Under the leadership of the spies, Xu He came to the grain and grass camp of the Song army, Xu He pulled out his sword and inserted it into a sack that had been loaded on the carriage, after the sword was withdrawn, the white grain flowed out of the sack, and then Xu He walked to a grain hoard to do so, and the grain was also left out of it, according to Xu He's rough estimate, this grain and grass will have nearly 100,000 stones.
"Hurry up and load these grains and grass and transport them back to the Mangdang Mountain camp."
Xu He ordered.
When everyone was busy loading the car, Xu He sniffed his nose and said, "What kind of smell is this?"
As soon as Xu He finished saying this, he grabbed a handful of food that flowed out of the two meals and put it in his mouth, and then Xu He spit it out, and Xu He shouted loudly: "Order the whole army to withdraw from Suzhou City quickly, this is the conspiracy of the Song army; This grain is mixed with fierce fire oil."
"General, the grain hoards are full of saltpeter charcoal" Xu He heard that this was done to the ground, and at this moment, countless rockets suddenly shot in from outside the city, and the tragedy of Qi County seemed to be repeated again, but this time it was not the Song army but the Xia army that was burned; The plot came to a 180-degree reversal, the Song army prepared left and right before evacuating, the entire city was covered with fire-starters, and the entire Suzhou City became a big furnace.
In the south of Suzhou City, Zhang Dian looked at the burning Suzhou City and said: "Today is to avenge the brothers who died in the battle in Qi County." ” Thanks to Liu Shanjun for one monthly pass and six recommendations, and six recommendations from book friends 160507092636054, in order to thank Liu Shanjun for his monthly pass, Tianyu has a special chapter today: