Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

However, the imperial court once decreed that it is necessary to convince people with virtue and win the hearts of the Yan people, and not to plunder the wealth of the Liao Kingdom.The imperial court was whimsical and tied their own hands and feet.

If Brother Du plays the banner of the Cangzhou Army, the younger brother will not be able to make a lot of money.

Therefore, our army cannot play the banner of the Cangzhou Army this time.The more mysterious it is, the more beneficial it is to our army's actions in Liao! "

After hearing this, Du Chong said, "Your brother Ximen is right. If the Western Army is really defeated, then our government has saved Tong Taiwei and his [-] Western Army. If you want to come, Tong Taiwei will not be stingy with this government. … Brother Ximen, is it true that the Western Army will be defeated by the Liao Army?"

Before Ximen Qing could answer, the Zhizhai of Xiaonanhezhai had already walked into the hall quickly, and said to Du Chong: "The magistrate, the big thing is not good. My [-] Liao army in the Song Dynasty was defeated in Xiongzhou. Xiongzhou City Already surrounded by the Liao army! The Liao army chased and killed the defeated soldiers everywhere, and even invaded Bazhou and Qingzhou to the west of Cangzhou!"

"Zhao Zhizhai, you send me an order to tell all the military villages on the border to be careful and prevent the Liao army from roaming into our Cangzhou territory."

Du Chong dismissed Xiaonanhe Village Zhizhai calmly, and then smiled meaningfully at Ximen Qing.

Although the defeat of the Western Army is sympathetic and sad, it is also a good opportunity for Du Chong to make contributions.

Du Chong once again admired Ximenqing's unpredicted prophet.

Taiwei Tong needs to break the siege, and now it depends on how much noise the expeditionary army in the north can make, whether they can encircle Wei and save Zhao.

In Anci County, Jinfu, Liao State, Zhu Dian, Jiang Zhong, Duan Jingzhu, Yue Fei, Wang Gui and others easily killed hundreds of Liao troops here and occupied Anci County.

Jiang Zhong, Duan Jingzhu and others led the troops to move to the county government warehouse to collect the Liao army's horses, but Zhu Dian ordered his men to pry down the "Anci County" stone plaque on the city gate and pack it away.

The county government plaques in the city also failed to escape Zhu Dian's murderous hands.

Why!Why is Du Xianggong, the prefect, only interested in these plaques?

Looking at the plaques taken from Yongqing County and Gu'an County in the horse team, Zhu Ting couldn't help shaking his head and smiling wryly.

Chapter 798 Du Chong invites credit

Ximenqing did not lead the troops in person this time, but asked Jiang Zhong, Duan Jingzhu, Yue Fei and others who were in Cangzhou to lead the troops to fight with Zhu Dian.

It's not that Ximen Qing is greedy for life and afraid of death, but that with the growth of his strength, Ximen Qing thinks that he can no longer do everything by himself.

Some things can be done by the subordinates. Now Ximenqing has to plan a strategy and train a group of talents who can stand alone.

Historically, the Yue Fei brothers grew up from the lower ranks of the army through fighting again and again.

The current Xiao Yuefei is most suitable for him, similar to that of Han Shizhong, who is to be a general of a hundred men, lead troops to fight on the battlefield, and accumulate combat experience.

Therefore, Ximen Qing gave Yue Fei, Wang Gui and others hundreds of cavalry to leave their wings and follow Jiang Zhong and Zhu Dian to fight guerrillas in the Liao Kingdom.

Before setting off, Ximenqing had given Jiang Zhong, Zhu Dian and others face-to-face instructions to avoid the heavily defended state cities, try to capture as many counties as possible, create momentum, and make a gesture of attacking Yanjing City to attract people from the territory of Xiongzhou. The main force of the Liao army returned north.

After firing a shot in the territory of the Liao Kingdom, Ximenqing asked them to return to Cangzhou quickly and not to entangle with the main force of the Liao army.

In order to implement this plan well, the most important person is "Golden Retriever" Duan Jingzhu.

Duan Jingzhu was the most powerful horse thief in the Liao and Jin countries back then, and his familiarity with the Yanjing area even surpassed that of the Liao army.

If you want to successfully escape after stealing the horse and get rid of the hunt, which corners should you know?

With "Golden Retriever" Duan Jingzhu, the best guide, in the army, Ximenqing believed that the harassing troops sent by himself and Du Chong would never be trapped by the Liao army.

Ximen Qing firmly believed in this.

Of course, no matter how accurate Ximenqing's calculations were, he did not count that Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren, the two ever-victorious generals of Zhuozhou, did not hide in Zhuozhou City, but led their troops to Gu'an County suddenly.

After Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren encountered Zhu Dian and Jiang Zhongjun, they did not stick to the county seat, but chose to go out of the city to fight the bandit army of unknown origin.

As a result, Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren couldn't be the opponents of Zhu Dian, Jiang Zhong and Yue Fei, and they were defeated by Jiang Zhong and others.

Liu Shunren was also seriously injured by Yue Fei in the fight with Yue Fei.If Zhang Linghui hadn't rescued him with all his might, that guy would have died in the county this time.

Although Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren, the two main generals, escaped, Jiang Zhong and others captured hundreds of high-quality war horses, and Zhu Dian also captured the military flags, gongs and drums of the Ever Victorious Army, which can be said to have added an unexpected surprise. Battle exploits.

At the same time, because of this battle outside Gu'an County, the powerful combat effectiveness of the Ximen Qing and Du Chong coalition forces was demonstrated.

After this battle, Emperor Tianxi and his ministers in Yanjing City were alarmed in the north, while Xiao Qian and Yelu Dashi were sitting on pins and needles in the south, and they never dared to stay under Xiongzhou City for a long time.

Ximenqing's strategy of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao" worked faster than expected.

Of course, Jiang Zhong, Zhu Dian and others were still unsatisfied. After capturing Yongqing County and Gu'an County successively, they raided Anci County again.

According to the plan, after capturing Anci County and attracting the main force of the Liao army to return north, Jiang Zhong and Zhu Dian's army would pretend to go north to Yanjing, and after arriving at the Gaoliang River, they would suddenly go down the river to capture Wuqing County.

After taking Wuqing County and looting the county government treasury, this mysterious army will head east to the Bohai Sea and "disappear" in the vast sea by boat.

In order to resist the invasion of the [-] troops of the Song Army, the main force of the Liao Army in the Yanjing area of ​​​​the Liao Kingdom was taken to the Juma River in Baigouyi by Xiao Qian and Yelu Dashi. They are all arranged along the Great Wall in the north to prevent the Jin army from going south.

Therefore, the hinterland of the Yanjing area is empty, and the garrison strength in each county is no more than a few hundred.Facing the more than 2000 Qingqi led by Jiang Zhong and Zhu Dian, none of the counties had the strength to fight.

When Xiao Qian and Yelu Dashi led the main force of the Liao army to evacuate from Xiongzhou and hurried back to Zhuozhou City, Jiang Zhong and Zhu Dian's army had already swept through the counties in the south of Yanjing City and disappeared in Jizhou and Jingzhou in the east of Yanjing City. In the direction of Hepingzhou.

Regarding this sudden army, Xiao Qian did not dare to be careless.He left Yelu Dashi to sit in Zhuozhou to deter the Song army, sent his confidant general, and his nephew Yishi Bajin to lead the troops back to defend Yanjing City, and he personally led five thousand fine cavalry to pursue eastward.

However, Xiao Qian led the army to pursue the counties in the south and east of Yanjing for several days, but failed to find the whereabouts of the enemy army.

An army of more than 2000 horses suddenly disappeared on the land of Nanjing Road in Liao Kingdom.

What made Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army even more ridiculous, was that the unknown army not only took away the horses and food along the way, but also ransacked all the plaques and signboards in the county gates, government offices, post stations and other places. .

If it weren't for the difficulty of demolishing houses, I'm afraid that someone will tear down all the yamen everywhere!

Where did this bandit army come from?Or, is this really what the bandit army did?

Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army, fell into deep thought.

It seems that he was fooled by Song Jun?

Xiao Qian rode on his horse and turned around to look south, ordering his soldiers to stop the pursuit.

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Although the main force of the Liao army suddenly withdrew inexplicably, Taiwei Tong Guan and his generals had already experienced the strength of the Liao army.

With the loss of soldiers and generals, Tong Guan didn't dare to hope to take the Yanyun area easily.

After the Liao army withdrew, Taiwei Tong Guan solemnly received the Liao envoy Wang Jieru with the etiquette of receiving foreign envoys, and had a warm chat with him.

Later, Taiwei Tongguan personally wrote a letter, expressing in the letter that he hoped that Song and Liao would continue to maintain the previous friendly relations, and asked Wang Jieru to return to Yanjing with the letter and hand it over to Emperor Tianxi.

After Wang Jieru, the envoy of the Liao Kingdom, left, Tong Guan discussed with his staff how to deal with the aftermath of the disastrous defeat in this war.

At this time, Du Qian, the prefect of Cangzhou, sent someone to send a secret letter to Tong Guan, asking for credit from the Taiwei Tong Guan.

Du Chong told Tong Guan in a secret letter that he knew that the imperial army would not be able to fight the Liao army, so he wanted to lead his troops to rescue.