Chapter 381: Cranes and clams fight each other

The two consecutive burnings of food and grass angered Yelu Dezhong, Kangli Ding'an and He Shanlu's anger. They all wanted to send troops directly to capture Tanzhou City and kill the Tang army inside.

But the most urgent task is to solve the problem of soldiers' meals.

In order to prevent the enemy from burning grain again, Yelu Dezhong asked He Shanlu to go to Youzhou and personally escorted the food and grass cart. He Shanlu did not dare to be careless, so he went to Youzhou and personally escorted the food and grass cart to Jizhou.

This time, Lin Chong did not burn grain, and the grain truck returned to Jizhou safely.

As soon as the food and grass arrived, the army was at peace and the soldiers were full of food and drink. On the second day, Yelu Dezhong and Kangli Ding'an, and He Shanlu led 30,000 troops to attack Tanzhou City in three directions.

The news of the Liao army's large-scale attack reached Bazhou. Ximen Qing was overjoyed and immediately sent 100,000 troops to suppress Yijin Pass, preparing to wait until the Liao army and the Tang army suffered a defeat and suffered a loss.

Ximen Qing personally took charge of Yijin Pass and sent Yue Fei to lead the spies camp to investigate quickly, and reported the war in Tanzhou on time and immediately.

At this time, many leaders gathered in the conference hall and were discussing military information.

Wu Yong sat on the side of Ximen Qing. He thought for a while, and then said to Ximen Qing: "Commander, Tang Tianheng is too cunning. If he sees us coming, he will immediately withdraw his troops and retreat into Tanzhou City and then not defending him. In this case, it will not be easy to take down Tanzhou City, so I think it is better to formulate a second-hand plan!"

Ximen Qing nodded and said, "I have thought about this question too. Indeed, if Tang Tianheng cannot stick to it, if we attack strongly, we will suffer heavy losses. Scholars, do you have any good solutions?"

Wu Yong thought for a moment, then looked at Guan Sheng, Lin Chong, Hu Yanzhuo, Xu Ning, Wu Song and others, and then said to Ximen Qing: "I have a plan to make a second-hand plan. Even if Tang Tianheng withdraws his troops back to the city, we will have a way to take down Tanzhou City. However, this plan requires the hard work of the leaders, and may even be in danger of life!"

"Military advisor said it, we will do it to the death!" Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and others shouted.

Ximen Qing also nodded and said, "Scholar, just say it! This time he finally angered the Liao army and asked him to attack Tanzhou City to the death. If he couldn't take Tanzhou City, he would make Tang Tianheng alert. It would be difficult to capture Tanzhou City when the time comes!"

Wu Yong nodded and said, "Actually, the plan is very simple. You only need to let Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and others pretend to be Tang army and sneak into their team. If Tang Tianheng withdraws his troops, they will naturally be able to sneak into Tanzhou City. Then you just need to wait until the night, kill the city guards and open the city gate and let us in. How can Tanzhou not be in the hands of?"

Ximen Qing said: "This plan is very wonderful. Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Lin Chong, Zhu Tong, and Wu Song are there!"

The five of them were overjoyed, and quickly stood up and clasped their fists, saying, "I'm here!"

Ximen Qing said: "You five each selected ten elite soldiers and touched the city of Tanzhou, then fought fiercely between the Tang army and the Liao army, mixed into the Tang army, and then pretended to be wounded and waited for an opportunity to prepare!"

"Yes!" the five people bowed and then went down to prepare.

However, Yelu Dezhong and Kangli Ding'an, Heshan Lu's troops were divided into three groups to kill Tanzhou City. In Tanzhou City, Tang Tianheng quickly summoned the generals to discuss.

At this time, Tang Tianheng sat upright, with a strong aura, and his every move was full of style. However, Tang Tianheng frowned deeply at this time and was in a very bad mood.

The army was short of soldiers and food was short of food and grass. Now the Liao army is coming with great momentum, and many problems are hitting their heads. It is really a headache.

At this time, the generals in the hall shouted: "General, the Liao army is coming, the whole army is aggressive and has prepared siege equipment. If we do not send troops to fight, we will be in a dangerous place! Moreover, the army's morale is now disintegrating. If we still do not respond to the battle, it is likely to cause turmoil in the morale! We cannot be unable to retreat!"

Other generals also asked for battle.

Tang Tianheng thought for a while, and finally nodded, saying, "I have never sent troops, and it will be bad if the morale of the army is in chaos. Since the Liao Kingdom is attacking, we will fight, otherwise these Liao dogs would think that our Tang army is easy to bully! Just a spy came to report that the Liao army was aggressive and angry than usual. I don't know what happened. It's really strange! By the way, Wu Ze, are the soldiers of Liangshan still shrunk to Bazhou and cannot come out? You must send spies to keep an eye on the direction of Bazhou, remember not to relax! Compared with the Liao army, the Liangshan army is a hidden danger and a tiger!"

The general who asked Wu Ze to clasp his fists and said, "Don't worry, the spy is always monitoring Bazhou's every move! According to the analysis of the last general, Liangshan's people have been unable to retreat, which must be severely injured and recuperating. Judging from the form, it will take some time to take action! Moreover, according to the spy's return, Ximen Qing has returned to the Song Dynasty and has not returned yet. This is one of the important reasons why the Liangshan army dares not act rashly!"

Tang Tianheng nodded and said, "It makes sense! Huizong suddenly died, Zhao Kai ascended the throne, and Ximen Qing returned to the Song Dynasty. Humph, this is probably caused by Ximen Qing! Otherwise, how could he beat Zhao Yuntian with that waste of Zhao Kai? But I have to say that this plan is so clever. Zhao Kai ascended the throne, but Zhao Yuntian is worried. Now Fang La is exterminated, and he is summoning people from all over the world to return to Beijing to seize the throne! It can be said that Zhao Kai ascended the throne also helped us indirectly, avoiding Zhao Yuntian going north..."

As he said that, Tang Tianheng shook his head, sighed, and said, "It's just a pity that we were too slow. Only by slowing down Ximen Qing, it developed into the current situation. Alas, I was angry when I thought about it. Ximen Qing's army could defend Bazhou and recuperate, but our army had to face the wanton bites of the Liao dogs!"

Many generals looked at each other and said, "Don't worry, commander, as long as our army defeated Liaogou and occupied Jizhou, there will be a chance to develop rapidly!"

Tang Tianheng nodded and then said, "Telection! Wu Ze, you will lead 20,000 soldiers from the west city gate to fight Yelu Dezhong! Zhang Kai, you will lead 20,000 soldiers from the north city gate to fight Kangli Ding'an! Zhou Kai, you will lead 20,000 soldiers from the east city gate to fight He Shanlu! The other generals defend Tanzhou City and protect Tanzhou City!"

"Get orders!" The generals responded with fists and then left the conference hall one after another.

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Just as the Liao army and the Tang army were about to start a fight, Guan Sheng and others had quietly sneaked into the territory of Tanzhou and slowly followed the Tang army, waiting for the Tang army to escape after they were defeated and fled.

Soon, the Liao army and the Tang army fought each other and the killing was fierce.

Ximen Qing also decisively sent troops, with more than 100,000 troops divided into three groups and directed to Tanzhou.

Seeing Liangshan horses coming, the spies from the Tang army were frightened and rushed towards Tanzhou. However, Ximen Qing sent all cavalrymen, and the speed was extremely fast, and the spies were simply beyond the reach of the world.

When the Liao army and the Tang army were fighting in a tangential manner, the Liangshan army behind them rushed over. Seeing that the Liangshan army was coming, the two armies were shocked.

Neither side had calculated that the Liangshan army would come. At this time, both sides had casualties, and the Liangshan army had many troops and could not resist at all! Therefore, the generals of the two sides had a tacit understanding and directly distanced themselves from attacking, and then quickly organized the troops to evacuate.

The three Tang troops retreated towards Tanzhou City, while the Liao army retreated towards Jizhou. Ximen Qing asked Xu Ning to lead 50,000 troops to chase the Liao army, while he took Liangshan soldiers to bite the tail of the Tang army.

When Tang Tianheng, who was in charge of Tanzhou City, was also shocked when he learned that Liangshan was coming, and immediately sent troops to rescue him.

The Tang army quickly evacuated. Guan Sheng and others, who had been waiting for a long time, mingled into the Tang army's ranks, pretended to be wounded, and ran towards Tanzhou City desperately.

Ximen Qing led a large army to chase the Tang army, bit five or six miles and killed thousands of people. After the reinforcements arrived in Tanzhou City, they stopped the attack, and then withdrew their troops back to Yijin Pass.

Shortly after Ximen Qing led his troops back to Yijin Pass, Xu Ning also came back, and reported the results of the battle that he bit off more than 10,000 Liao troops and forced them to a distance from Jizhou City before withdrawing the troops.

Ximen Qing asked Xu Ning to go down and rest, and then asked the army to prepare and set out for Tanzhou City at any time.

One hour later, Ximen Qing led 100,000 troops toward Tanzhou City, and then set up camp twenty miles outside Tanzhou City.

When they learned that Ximen Qing was leading a large army, all the Tang soldiers were in danger.

During the daytime battle, although the Tang army only lost 5,000 troops and did not have many people fighting and suffering from the Liao Kingdom, the whereabouts of the Liangshan army terrified the Tang soldiers. They were very afraid that the Liangshan army would come again and then catch their side off guard!

Tang Tianheng also realized the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly summoned the generals to discuss.

Tang Tianheng was furious and shouted: "Wu Ze, your spies are dead. How do you investigate the news? The Liangshan army rushed over, but our army was not mentally prepared! If it had not retreated in time this time, then our army would have to be eaten up! Now our army has only 80,000 troops, how can we compete with the more than 100,000 troops in Liangshan?"

Wu Ze knelt down: "I deserve to die, I am willing to be punished!"

Tang Tianheng waved his hand and shouted: "Get up quickly and repel the Liangshan army. I am punishing you for your crime!"

"Thank you, Commander!" Wu Ze said with his fists: "Commander, I just observed that the Liangshan army did not have the equipment to climb the city. It seems that they were coming in a hurry, so they did not carry it. Without the equipment to climb the city, they could not attack the city. As long as we can't hold on, we can block him for a few days!"

Tang Tianheng nodded and said, "There is no equipment, you can transport it here! Haven't you seen the posture of the Liangshan army? That posture means you will not give up until you capture Tanzhou City. What's more, we lack troops and uneven morale. If we are oppressed by the enemy for a long time, it will cause turmoil in the morale. The Liangshan army does not need to attack the city, but just encircle the city and then spend it with us, which is enough to break through!"

Everyone stopped talking when they heard this.

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