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The Song army's surprise attack on the 6,000 elite cavalry in Yanjing, except for the missing one thousand troops, only a few hundred people finally withdrew from the city, and all the rest were killed.

The Liao army seized 5,000 war horses and more than 4,000 armors from the Song army.

The snow-strawn black horse that Yang Keshi sat down was confused because he couldn't find his master and ran wildly on the streets of Yanjing alone.

After Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi led people out of the city, Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi were busy commanding the Liao army to pack up their abandoned armor in the city, hunt down the remaining troops, and did not go out of the city to pursue them.

Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi were able to escape.

In the evening, they came to Anci County and gathered the remaining defeated generals together, only about 400 people.

Pharmacist Guo asked: "Where are we going next? Go to Liangxiang or Xiongzhou?"

Yang Keshi felt that the battle of Yanjing was very cowardly, and he couldn't understand why Liu Yanqing and Liu Guangshi and his son did not send reinforcements, and he did not dare to see Liu Yanqing.

Yaoshi Guo’s heart was filled with sorrow!

This plan to attack Yanjing was proposed by Guo Yaoshi. Now that it has failed, can Liu Yanqing not let him be the scapegoat?

So, Guo Yaoshi said to Yang Keshi: "Otherwise, the general and go to Zhuozhou to recuperate, and then let's take a closer look?"

I was afraid that Liu Yanqing would harm him, so I had no shame to see Tong Guan. In addition, my body was poisonous and injured and needed to rest in the room, so Yang Keshi thought about it and went to Zhuozhou with Guo Yaoshi.

Liu Yanqing knew nothing about what happened in Yanjing City.

In fact, Liu Yanqing had already sent Liu Guangshi to lead an army to Yanjing to pick up Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi.

But not only did Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi not have any news, but Liu Guangshi also had no news.

Just when Liu Yanqing was puzzled, he suddenly received a letter sent by Guo Yaoshi and Yang Keshi from Zhuozhou.

Only then did Liu Yanqing realize that the Song army had failed to attack Yanjing, and only a few hundred defeated generals left were left to escape to Zhuozhou.

This shocked Liu Yanqing and was also puzzled!

"How could they be defeated? After the defeat, why didn't they come back and go to Zhuozhou?"

"Where did my son's reinforcements go? Was it all wiped out?"

Liu Yanqing was very worried about his son.

Liu Yanqing ordered: "Each army continued to dig trenches, the depth of the trenches should not be less than four feet, and the width of the bottom should not be less than two feet!" - Liu Yanqing planned to fight a position defense battle on the banks of the Lugou River.

A few days later, Liu Guangshi suddenly withdrew his entire army, and there was no shortage of soldiers or soldiers.

Liu Guangshi said to Liu Yanqing: "According to the plan, we went east, bypassed the Liao army's Lugou River defense line, and then turned north after arriving in Anci. However, because the route was not familiar, the route was too long. When we arrived at the eastern suburbs of Yanjing City, the Liao army's flag was planted on the city tower. Therefore, I judged that the main force of the Liao army had returned to the city, so I did not dare to launch an attack rashly. Later, I heard that the Song army was wiped out in the city, so I led the army to retreat."

Liu Guangshi felt very guilty about the delay in reinforcement of Yanjing.

But Liu Yanqing did not blame Liu Guangshi, but comforted Liu Guangshi and said, "It is not easy to retreat with the entire army, so don't take this matter to heart."

From Liu Yanqing's attitude towards Liu Guangshi, it is not difficult to see how big a mistake Zhao Ji made in choosing Liu Yanqing as the commander.

One afternoon a few days later, Xiao Gan personally led 800 elite soldiers to travel 30 miles west along the banks of the Lugou River, then quietly crossed the river, walked around the back of the Song army, and then ambushed on both sides of the road south of Liulihe Town.

When the Song army's grain protection general Wang Yuan led hundreds of cavalry to escort hundreds of carriages filled with food and grass slowly walked along the post road from south to north. At Xiao Gan's order, eight hundred Liao soldiers jumped out and rushed towards the Song army!

The Song army was unprepared, and the casualties were everywhere, and the living were all fleeing everywhere.

Wang Yuan hid behind a carriage and tried to escape, but was captured alive.

Xiao Gan ordered the fire to burn all the grain trucks.

After a while, hundreds of grain trucks were all lit, and flames rose into the sky, like daylight.

When Liu Yanqing heard that the grain truck was burned by the Liao army, he was shocked and summoned the generals to a meeting overnight and said, "This place is far away from the Song Dynasty. The grain road is not easy to protect. If you live for a long time, there may be changes in the army. I want to apply to the Xuanfu Department to withdraw the troops. What do you think?"

The generals nodded and expressed their obedience to General Liu's decision. Only a general named "Qu Duan" suddenly stood up and said, "I don't agree to withdraw the troops. What are our hundreds of thousands of troops going north? Isn't it just to recover Yanjing? Now the army has reached the foot of Yanjing City. If you don't attack Yanjing City, you will retreat instead. I really can't obey such orders! When retreating at this time, do we deserve Your Majesty and the country?"

Liu Yanqing's face turned pale with anger, and stood up suddenly, then shouted loudly: "What do you know? Come on, push this crazy guy to me!"

Several guards outside the door heard the sound and immediately turned Qu Duan out.

After Xiao Gan captured Wang Yuan, he ordered people to take Wang Yuan and another prisoner outside his tent, and then remove the post outside the tent, deliberately giving them a chance to escape.

At night, Xiao Gan deliberately said to a Liao general: "Liu Yanqing's stupid pig, I don't know that the injury of the champion Hou has healed. Our Great Liao has surrendered the champion Hou. We will only wait for tomorrow. The champion Hou will personally bring 300,000 troops to fight the Song army. Then we raise the fire to cross the river in the left and right wings, and use elite troops to attack the Song army's central army. This time we must annihilate the Song army in one fell swoop to avenge its great revenge for destroying the alliance and causing damage to the injustice!"

actually--

Xiao Gan still doesn't know that Cai Shen's "injury" has healed, and this is his plan.

As a result, Wang Yuan could hear Xiao Gan's words clearly outside the camp.

In the middle of the night, Wang Yuan quietly untied the rope that was tying his hands, and then tiptoed to the entrance of the tent.

Seeing that there was no one outside, Wang Yuan bent down and slipped away quietly along the side of the camp.

Wang Yuan braved the cold wind to swim across the Lugou River, climbed up the south bank, and then ran towards the Song army camp.

At this time, Liu Yanqing, who had something to do in his heart, had not fallen asleep yet.

Sudden!

Wang Yuan, who had nowhere to go, rushed into Liu Yanqing's tent and then shouted: "Master, the big thing is not good, Cai Jian's injury has healed, Liao Kingdom surrendered to Cai Jian. Tomorrow, Cai will raise an army of 300,000 to fight us with a decisive battle!"

For a moment, Liu Yanqing didn't hear Wang Yuan's shouting clearly.

When Liu Yanqing saw Wang Yuan, he was so angry that he wouldn't have been so passive if it weren't for Wang Yuan's loss of food and grass.

Therefore, seeing Wang Yuan shouting, Liu Yanqing scolded: "Don't throw my food and grass, break into my big tent, okay, do you really think my knife is not good? Come on, push Wang Yuan out and chop it!"

Wang Yuan cried, "It's not a pity to die, but I'm sure the general must let the young general say a few words!"

Liu Yanqing said: "What else do you have to say?"

Wang Yuan said: "The reason why the young general risked his life to escape back is to report a letter to the general. Cai Shen's injury has healed. Liao Kingdom has joined forces with Cai Shen. The two sides have formed an army of 300,000. Tomorrow, they will cross the river and fight us in a decisive battle. The general must think of a solution to it!"

This time, Liu Yanqing heard clearly what Wang Yuan was saying. He grabbed Wang Yuan's collar and asked, "What did you say? Say it again!"

Wang Yuan quickly said it again.

After hearing this, Liu Yanqing was a little nervous. He thought to himself: "Is this true? Or is Xiao Gan using a plan? It is said that Xiao Gan is a man of tricks..."

After hesitating for a while, Liu Yanqing asked someone to call his son Liu Guangshi to discuss.

After hearing this, Liu Guangshi disbelief: "It's good if Cai Shen was so seriously injured? Besides, if you want to surrender, the Liao Kingdom had surrendered long ago. How could it be until now? Moreover, the Liao Kingdom wanted to surrender, and the first choice was our Song Dynasty. How could it be Cai Shen? What kind of virtue is Cai Shen? He is also qualified to surrender to Liao Kingdom?"

Wang Yuan argued: "This is what I heard with my own ears. Every sentence is true. If there is a half lie, I would be hit by the sky with thunder!"

Liu Yanqing walked back and forth in the big tent for a while, then stopped and said, "No matter whether it is true or false, you can't stay here anymore."

As early as the daytime, Liu Yanqing sent someone to send Tong Guan a report requesting a retreat.

It happened that Tong Guan and Cai You's reply to Liu Yanqing arrived.

The reply letter is not a formal document, but a note written on a very exquisite little bamboo paper.

The note is written like this: "If you can see each other, you can measure that time, no matter if there is any misunderstanding of military affairs." - "That time" is spoken by the Song people, which means withdrawing troops.

The general meaning of Tong Guan and Cai You is to let Liu Yanqing decide whether to withdraw his troops based on the actual situation, but not delay the military.

Tong Guan and Cai You are far away in Xiongzhou at this moment and have little understanding of the situation on the battlefield ahead. Therefore, it is reasonable for them to ask Liu Yanqing to deal with it as appropriate.

There are two main reasons why Liu Yanqing was in a hurry to withdraw his troops:

First, since Guo Yaoshi and Yang Keshi defeated Yanjing, Liu Yanqing has been very nervous because he knew that the army he led could not fight a big battle at all. If he fought against the Liao army, he would be defeated. It would be too late to retreat by then.

Second, Liu Yanqing always advocated that the Jin army should use the power of the Jin army to attack Yanjing. According to the Song-Jin alliance, the Jin army should attack Yanjing from north to south, but the Jin army still remained unmoved, so their Song army should also retreat and act at the right time. Moreover, Liu Yanqing knew that Ma Kuo had gone to Bei'anzhou to negotiate with the Jin people, and he thought that after the negotiations were concluded, it would not be too late to send troops north according to the situation.

That night, Liu Yanqing wanted to order a retreat, but Liu Guangshi firmly opposed it - Liu Guangshi believed that it was already midnight and his troops were asleep. If he suddenly ordered the withdrawal of troops, it would definitely cause chaos and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it. Therefore, even if he retreated, he had to wait until dawn before ordering.

That night, Liu Yanqing was worried and had no sleepiness.

At dawn, Liu Yanqing fell asleep in a daze.

But as soon as Liu Yanqing fell asleep, Wang Yuan ran into the tent and reported: "Master, big things are not good, the north bank is on fire, and the Liao army is likely to launch an attack!"

Liu Yanqing was shocked and hurriedly ran out of the camp with his son Liu Guangguo and Liu Guangshi, and then came to the river bank to observe. Sure enough, there was a fire on the other side of the river.

Liu Yanqing hurried back to the central army's tent and immediately ordered: to burn down the camp and supplies, and the entire army retreated towards Baigou.

After the order was issued, Liu Yanqing immediately rode a big white horse and ran south under the protection of a large group of personal soldiers.

When the troops received the order, they immediately burned the camp and destroyed the baggage.

I saw people shouting and horses shouting, and there was chaos.

Seeing that the team was so chaotic, Liu Guangshi was so anxious that he stomped his feet!

Liu Guangshi quickly ordered his battalions to gather at the python village in front of the left.

Liu Guangshi had a foreshadowing that his father might make an extremely serious mistake this time: "What will happen if the Liao army takes the opportunity to cross the river and pursue it?"

Therefore, Liu Guangshi decided to lead his team to cut off the rear and cover the retreat of the army...
Chapter completed!