Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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The Song army was able to temporarily occupy Yanjing City, firstly, relying on Guo Yaoshi, who was familiar with the inside information, as a guide, and successfully attacked the city gate, and secondly, because the Song army had more horses than the Liao army defending the city.

However, after Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army, returned to Yanjing City with 5000 troops, the numerical advantage of the Song Army no longer existed.

Compared with the Liao army whose main force returned to aid with elites, the combat effectiveness of the loosely disciplined Song army was far inferior.After the two armies fought face to face for a while, the Song army was defeated. After leaving a lot of corpses, they retreated eastward to the downstairs of Shuangmen.

It was difficult for the light cavalry to be used in the city, and it was easy to become the target of the Liao army. Yang Keshi ordered the Song army to dismount, fight and retreat, and retreated to the base camp of Minzhong Temple.

Guo Yaoshi saw that the battle situation was unfavorable, so he said to Yang Keshi: "General Yang, it is difficult for our army to win if this continues. There are enemies everywhere in this city. Why don't we retreat to the east gate of the city and wait for reinforcements."

Chapter 821 My Army Has Ended

After the disastrous defeat in Xiongzhou City, many soldiers of the Western Army were afraid of Xiao Qian, the king of the Fourth Army of the Liao Kingdom.After listening to Guo Yaoshi's words, Yang Keshi also decided to lead the army out of Yanjing City, temporarily avoiding the edge of Xiao Qian's new force.

However, when the Song army was about to withdraw from the city from Yingchun Gate, they found that the suspension bridge had been demolished and there was no way out.

Those Han people who helped the Song army in the city were terrified when they heard that the Song army was about to withdraw from Yanjing City. They sent people to see Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi, and said to them: "All generals can't leave! After you enter the city, let We helped slaughter the Khitan people, and the Khitan people already hated us and the Han people to the bone.

If the generals lead their troops out of Yanjing City, we Han people will definitely be killed by the Khitan people.

Moreover, in order to prevent the Khitans from escaping, we have already dismantled all the suspension bridges of the city gate.

Now that the way forward is cut off, we can only fight to the death with the Liao army, and perhaps we can avoid death. "

"General Yang, General Guo, don't leave me and wait for the Han people to escape alone! We are the Khitan people who were killed for your army!"

"I am willing to fight with the general, kill all the Khitan people, and take the city of Yanjing. General, don't abandon me, woo woo woo~"

The few Han people surrounding Yang Keshi begged Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi with snot and tears, making them look at each other helplessly.

The city gate was blocked and the suspension bridge was demolished. What else could Song Jun do?Could it be possible to restore all this by killing these daring Han Chinese?

Thinking about it now, closing the city gates and massacring the Khitan people was indeed a mistake!

If the genocidal massacre had not been carried out in the city, perhaps the Empress Dowager Xiao and the remaining Liao army would have surrendered the city long ago.Even if Xiao Qian, the king of the fourth army, rushed back, he would not be able to enter Yanjing City.

Hey~ It's really a cocoon.

"Come on! Tell Yu the whole army that our army is unable to leave the city. Order the generals to mobilize and fight the Liao army to the end!"

With a livid face, Yang Keshi issued the military order to fight to the death and never retreat.Seeing this, those Han people also withdrew from the Minzhong Temple with great gratitude and organized young men to assist the Song army in fighting.

In Anci County in the south of Yanjing City, Liu Guangshi is leading the army slowly marching towards Yanjing City.

According to the strategy presented by Guo Yaoshi, after Guo Yaoshi and Yang Keshi attacked and occupied Yanjing City by surprise, Liu Guangshi's troops will rush to Yanjing City to respond, strengthen the city's defenses, and prevent the Liao army from counterattacking after hearing the news.

After Guo Yaoshi and Yang Keshi crossed Hebei overnight, Liu Yanqing still dispatched his son Liu Guangshi to lead the army to Yanjing City by detour.

However, Liu Guangshi had a verbal dispute with Yang Keshi in the army not long ago, and he held a grudge against Yang Keshi. This time his father asked him to support Yang Keshi, he was unhappy, and the marching speed was naturally slow. Quite a lot.

Liu Guangshi didn't understand that the credit for capturing Yanjing City was so great, why his father would rather give this credit to Yang Keshi, who had always been at odds, than to himself?

Mr. Yang Keshi was already favored by Taiwei Tong. If he took Yanjing City this time, wouldn't he soar into the sky and surpass my father and son in the Western Army in the future?

Liu Guangshi was angry, but he never thought that his father Liu Yanqing knew him far better than himself.

Liu Guangshi was born in the general family and relied on his father and grandparents to obtain military positions, so he inevitably has some faults of the second generation ancestor in the Yamen.

He is generous and generous, and he is good at eating, drinking and having fun, and he can often hang out with the soldiers at first sight, which is quite popular.

It's just that Liu Guangshi and the sergeants called brothers and brothers and played together. Although the soldiers liked to deal with him, the military discipline of his troops became less strict.

Such an army can fight against the wind, but if Liu Guangshi leads the army to fight against the wind, it will inevitably be defeated.

Compared with Yang Keshi, a fierce general who has been promoted by virtue of bloody battles, Liu Guangshi is still far inferior.Regarding this point, Liu Yanqing was well aware of it.

Although Guo Yaoshi's strategy of sending surprise troops to attack Yanjing City is good, this coup is also a dangerous move.

Thousands of troops went deep into the enemy's rear, although it would be a great achievement if they succeeded, but if the Liao army discovered it in advance and was trapped outside Yanjing City, it would be a dead end.

Therefore, Liu Yanqing, who was unwilling to go to war, could send a troop to Yanjing City for a military adventure in order to meet Taiwei Tongguan, but he would never send his son Liu Guangshi there.

The descendant Guo Yaoshi and his fellow Yang Keshi, who were at odds with him, are the best candidates to send out to take risks!

If Guo Yaoshi and Yang Keshi's army successfully took Yanjing City, the credit would be indispensible for the army to control Liu Yanqing.

But if the plan fails, and Guo Yaoshi, Yang Keshi and others died in battle, there is nothing to regret for Liu Yanqing.

Speaking of it, it was nothing more than the death of a general leader and political enemy in the army.In the future, taking the land of Yanyun will save a lot of trouble.

Compared with the risky attack on Yanjing City, Liu Yanqing asked Liu Guangshi to lead the army to meet Yang Keshi's army, and the risk was much smaller.

But after capturing Yanjing City, Liu Guangshi must of course be considered to have participated in the battle of Yanjing City.The military exploits, Liu Yanqing, the commander of the capital, could not help writing in different ways.

After all, Liu Guangshi is young and energetic, and he doesn't know his old father's good intentions.He only remembered Liu Yanqing's thousand and one instructions to him, asking him to learn from the lessons of Xin Xingzong's last Northern Expedition, to send more scout cavalry during the march, and not to underestimate the enemy and fall into an ambush by the Liao army.

Therefore, Liu Guangshi marched forward slowly with his soldiers and horses, and it took half a day to cross the Lugou River from Gu'an County, and headed north cautiously.

Before Liu Guangshi's army stepped into Anci County, the scouts in front rushed back to report in a panic, saying that they had discovered the defeated soldiers of the Song Army in front.

Liu Guangshi was shocked, and hurriedly reined in his horse and ordered the army to line up, ready to meet the enemy.

After a while, I saw smoke and dust billowing in front of me, and hundreds of Song soldiers fled southward in a panic.

"Come here! Stop those defeated troops and bring their leaders to the general for questioning."

Liu Guangshi didn't see the pursuing Liao army, so he made up his mind and told Yi Jing, the general beside him.

"The last general takes orders!"

After Yi Jing responded, he rushed forward with a cavalry and intercepted the fleeing Song army.

Yi Jing brought the defeated general to Liu Guangshi's horse, Liu Guangshi took a closer look, isn't this man Zhao Heshou, the general of Guo Yaoshi's army who was ordered to attack Yanjing City?

Could it be that the surprise attack on Yanjing City failed?

Liu Guangshi was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "General Zhao, why are you in such a mess? Where are General Guo, General Yang, and General Gao?"

After Zhao Heshou followed Guo Yaoshi, Yang Keshi and others to the outside of Yanjing City, Guo Yaoshi gave him a thousand light cavalry, and asked him to be responsible for the army outside the city to guard against the Liao army who might come to reinforce them, and to respond when the battle in the city was unfavorable. The army retreated.

However, when Xiao Qian returned to Yanjing City with the elite of the Liao Army, Zhao Heshou was frightened when he saw the banner of "Xiao Qian, King of the Fourth Army".

As soon as Zhao Heshou's army and Xiao Qian's forward fought, they were killed in pieces.He could no longer care about Guo Yaoshi and others in the city, and hurriedly fled south with the remnants of his troops.

Fortunately, Xiao Qian was eager to enter the city to rescue the Empress Dowager Xiao, and had no intention of chasing and killing such small characters as Zhao Heshou, so he escaped with hundreds of horsemen.

When Zhao Heshou saw Liu Guangshi, he cried out in shock: "Xiao Qian is here, our army is dead!"

Chapter 822 The Abandoned Lone Army