The court made a series of arrangements and issued an imperial edict, writing: "Specially dispatch a large army to purge the cunning enemy. First take Yingzhou, Mozhou, and Anding Guannan; secondly, recover Youyan and sweep the northern part of the pass."

He also said: "If someone captures the monarch of the Huguan alive, he will appoint the governor of the superior town and give him 10,000 pieces of money, 10,000 pieces of silk, and 10,000 taels of silver."

At that time, it had rained for several days in June and it had not stopped until now. It was very difficult to march and transport military rations.

Then, Dewey and Li Shouzhen met in Guangjin and marched northward. Dewey repeatedly asked the princess to enter the palace to report, requesting more troops.

Dewey said: "Now you go deep into the borders of the barbarians, you must rely on everyone's strength!" Therefore, the imperial guards were all under his command, and even the guards in the palace were empty.

On November 12, Dewey and others led their troops to Yingzhou. The city gate was opened and silent as if no one was present. Dewey and others dared not enter.

Hearing that the Khitan general Gao Mohan had already led his troops out of the city and ran away secretly, Dewey sent Liang Hanzhang to lead 2,000 cavalry to pursue him. He encountered the Khitan in Nanyangwu, and Liang Hanzhang was defeated and killed.

When Dewey and others heard the news, they led their troops south. At that time, several counties including Shucheng had requested surrender. Dewey and others burned their houses, looted the women there and returned.

On November 20, the Khitan leader led his troops to invade, from Yizhou and Dingzhou to Hengzhou. Dewey and others arrived at Wuqiang. When he heard the news, he wanted to go south from Beizhou and Jizhou.

Zhang Yanze, the governor of Zhangde, was in Hengzhou at that time, and led his troops to meet with Dewey and others, and stated the reasons why the Khitan could be defeated. Dewey and others headed to Hengzhou again and ordered Zhang Yanze as the vanguard.

On the 27th, Dewey and others came to Zhongdu Bridge, but the Khitan had occupied the bridge. Zhang Yanze led the cavalry to fight for it. The Khitan soldiers burned the bridge and retreated. So the Later Jin troops and the Khitan troops stationed across the Hutuo River.

Seeing that the Later Jin army was coming, the Khitans came to compete for the bridge but failed to win. They were worried that the other party would forcefully cross the Hutuo River and jointly attack with Hengzhou, so they discussed retreating and returning.

But when he heard that the Later Jin army had built camps for lasting preparations, he stopped retreating.

However, although Dewey served as a general as an emperor's relative, he was cowardly and timid by nature. His generals were all governors, but they just flattered and catered to each other every day, drank and had fun, and rarely talked about military affairs.

Li, the governor of Cizhou and the northern transshipment envoy, persuaded Dewey and Li Shouzhen, and said: "Now the army is close to Hengzhou, and each other's fireworks can be seen.

If you put a lot of three strands of wood into the water, put firewood on it and spread soil, the bridge will be immediately formed.

Then secretly ask the defenders in the city to light a fire as a contact signal, and organize soldiers to cut off the fences of the enemy camp at night and rush in. If the troops inside and outside are joined, the barbarians will definitely be defeated and fled."

All the generals thought it was right, but only Dewey thought it was not possible, so they sent Li to Huai Nan and Mengzhou to supervise the transportation of military rations.

On the Khitan side, he used his army to block the front of the Later Jin army and quietly sent general Xiao Han to conduct a missionary Liu Chongjin to lead 100 cavalry and weak infantry to appear along the Western Mountains behind the Later Jin army, cutting off the food route and retreat route of the Later Jin army.

When the woodcutters who were harvesting firewood met them, they were all captured; if some people escaped, they said that the Khitan army was strong, and the people in the Later Jin army were in panic. Xiao Han arrived in Luancheng, and there were more than a thousand defenders in the Later Jin city. Unexpectedly, the enemy came and they all surrendered in panic.

The people of the Later Jin captured by the Khitan all stabbed the four words "Not killed by the order" on their faces and let them go south; the villagers who transported the grain met them on the road, and they all left their supplies and fled in panic.

On the first day of December, Li personally wrote a secret memorial to the emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty, explaining in detail the critical situation of the Later Jin army. He asked the emperor to visit Huazhou and send Gao Xingzhou and Fu Yanqing to accompany him, and asked to send troops to guard Chanzhou and Heyang to prevent the impact of the Khitan army. He sent general Guan Xun to quickly horses to send the secret memorial to the emperor.

On the third day of the lunar calendar, when the emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty came out of the emperor, he learned that the army was stationed at Zhongdu Bridge. In the evening of that day, Guan Xun had arrived at Daliang.

On the fourth day of the lunar month, Dewey submitted a memorial to request additional troops. The emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty issued an edict to dispatch hundreds of people guarding the palace and rushed to Zhongdu Bridge.

Another edict was issued to transfer 500,000 grain and grass from Hebei, Meng, Ze and Lu states to the military camp. Because the supervision time was urgent and the urge was urgent, all regions were in agitation.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, Dewey sent his subordinates Zhang Zuo and others to come to the emergency. Zhang Zuo and others were captured by the Khitan on their way back. From then on, there was no news between the court and the army.

At this time, the guards in the palace were all in the camp, and everyone was afraid and didn't know what to do.

Kaifeng Yin Sangweihan believed that the survival of the country was at stake, so he asked to see the emperor and report the situation.

Emperor Chu was playing with falcons in the imperial garden, but refused to see him. Sang Weihan went to make a statement to the ministers in charge of power, but the ministers disagreed. Sang Weihan retreated and said to the people close to him: "The ancestral temple of Jin's family cannot be sacrificed!"

The war was urgent, and the emperor wanted to lead troops to fight north personally, but was persuaded and stopped by Li Yantao. Although Fu Yanqing was in charge of the camp at that time, the emperor of the later Jin Dynasty kept him and asked him to guard Jingzhoukou.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, an edict was issued to order the governor of Guide Gao Xingzhou to deploy in the northern capital, and ordered Fu Yanqing to be the deputy to guard Chanzhou together; and ordered Xijing to stay in Jing Yanguang to guard Heyang, and set off to fight.

On the other side, Wang Qing, commander of the Fengguo Capital, spoke to Dewey: "Now the army is only five miles away from Hengzhou City, why are you guarding here?

The military camp is isolated and after eating food, you will definitely defeat yourself. Please lead 2,000 infantry soldiers as vanguards, seize bridges, and open up roads. You will lead the army closely behind and you will be able to enter Hengzhou, so you will not be worried."

Dewey allowed it and sent Wang Qing and Song Yanjun to advance together. Wang Qing was unstoppable in fighting, and the Khitan soldiers could not support him, so he retreated a little.

The generals asked to send a large army immediately to advance, but Dewey refused to allow it. Song Yanjun was defeated by the Khitan and swam back to the shore himself to avoid death.

Wang Qing led his soldiers alone to set up formations on the north bank of the river to fight hard, and the two armies suffered casualties. Wang Qing repeatedly asked Dewey for help, but Dewey did not send a cavalry to support him.

Wang Qing said to the soldiers: "The general holds heavy troops, but he sits and watches us not come to rescue him in a hurry. He must have the intention of rebellion. We should serve the country with death!"

Everyone was moved by his words, and no one retreated. When the sun was dusk, the battle continued. The Khitan sent new troops to attack, and Wang Qing and his soldiers were all killed in battle.

From then on, the Jin army lost its morale.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, the Khitan sent troops to surround the Houjin military camp from a distance. The military camp was cut off from the outside world and the food in the army was about to end.

Dewey, Li Shouzhen and Song Yanjun planned to surrender to the Khitan. Dewey also secretly sent his confidant to the tent of the Khitan master to seek credit for great rewards.

The Khitan Lord lied to him and said, "Zhao Yanshou has always had shallow prestige, and I am afraid he cannot be the emperor of the Central Plains. If you really can surrender, you will be the emperor."

Dewey liked it, so he planned to surrender.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, fully armed soldiers were ambushed around the military tent, summoning all the generals to come, Dewey took out the surrender form to show them and asked them to sign.

The generals were shocked and scared, and no one dared to speak, but only obeyed the orders "yes, yes". Dewey sent the envoy Gao Xun to bring a surrender to the Khitan, and the Khitan Lord gave them an edict to comfort and receive them.

On this day, Dewey ordered all the soldiers of the army to form a formation outside the camp. The soldiers were very enthusiastic and thought they were about to fight.

Dewey told them personally: "Now there is no way out for food to eat, so we should work with you to find a way to survive."

So he ordered the entire army to lay down his arms, and the soldiers hugged their heads and cried bitterly, and the crying vibrated the fields. Dewey and Li Shouzhen also preached among the crowd: "The monarch has no virtue, he will trust the treacherous ministers and villains, and he will be suspicious of us."

No one who heard it was not gritting his teeth. The Khitan Lord sent Zhao Yanshou to the Houjin camp wearing a robe to comfort the soldiers, pointing to the robe and saying, "This will be your thing."

All the generals from Dewey and below came to the horse to welcome him; Zhao Yanshou also put on a robe for Dewey to show the soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty. In fact, this was just a trick to fool them. The Khitan appointed Dewey as the Grand Tutor and Li Shouzhen as the Situ.

Then, Dewey guided the Khitan Lord to the city of Hengzhou and told the Shun Kingdom that Wang Zhou had surrendered himself, and Wang Zhou also went out of the city to surrender.

On the 12th, the Khitan Lord entered Hengzhou and sent troops to attack Daizhou. The governor Wang Hui opened the city and surrendered.

The Khitan leader led his troops to the south from Xing and Prime Ministers, and Dewei led his surrendered troops to follow. The Khitan leader sent Zhang Yanze to lead 2,000 cavalry to attack Daliang first, and appease the officials and people there, and sent Fu Zhuer as the chief supervisor.
Chapter completed!