As the sky gradually became brighter, a army that Li Yanqing expected appeared on the north bank, the 6,000 ever-winning army led by Guo Yaoshi, 5,000 infantry and 1,000 Khitan cavalry.

At this time, Guo Yaoshi had just received the news that Yongqing County had been attacked by the Song army. After slaughtering all the garrisons of Yongqing County, the Song cavalry that attacked Yongqing County continued to go north and rushed to his nest Fanyang. Not only did he see through his own strategy, but he also returned it with the other way. Although Fanyang County still has 3,000 garrisons, this mistake really made Guo Yaoshi very angry.

At this time, Guo Yaoshi was in an embarrassing situation of being in a dilemma. He attacked Bazhou City, but the other side had 10,000 defenders. Although he carried a small number of siege ladders, the price he paid for the siege was obviously hesitant. But if he retreated to Fan Yang, Xiao Gan might have come to deprive his army.

At this time, Xiao Yuqing rode on a horse and said coldly to Guo Yaoshi: "General Guo, didn't you say you wanted to seize Bazhou City and cut off the enemy's food route? Why are you still stuck in your way now?"

Guo Yaoshi laughed dryly, "Why should I be impatient with the military officer Xiao? I have received exact information. There are not many Song troops in Bazhou City. I will definitely capture Bazhou City before noon. Please be careful of the military officer Xiao!"

Xiao Yuqing continued to threaten: "What if he can't capture Bazhou City before noon?"

"If I can't take it away, I will hand over the army tiger talisman to the army supervisor!"

"The army has no jokes, we will make up for it!"

Guo Yaoshi snorted coldly, as a response to him. Xiao Yuqing turned his horse and ran north. As a military supervisor, he did not believe in the Han'er army. In order to prevent Guo Yaoshi from attacking him, he surrendered to the Song Dynasty. He specially brought a thousand elite Khitan cavalry to monitor Guo Yaoshi. He had received the secret order from the Queen Mother. Once Guo Yaoshi showed signs of surrendering to Song, he must kill Guo Yaoshi and the Eternal Conquer Army without hesitation.

At this time, Zhao Heshou whispered: "Master, what should we do?"

Pharmacist Guo sneered and said, "Didn't you find it? There are two floating bridges on the river surface. We will demolish the bridge when we cross the river. Let's see how Xiao Yuqing crosses the river?"

"Then do we want to attack Bazhou City?"

Yaoshi Guo shook his head, "It is unrealistic to attack Bazhou City. If our entire army is destroyed, we may not be able to capture it. After crossing the river, we will go directly to Baozhou and surrender to Tong Guan!"

Speaking of this, Guo Yaoshi looked back at the thousand Khitan cavalry in the distance, and whispered: "But we pretend to attack the city, and you lead 4,000 people to attack the city, and I will cheer you on the north bank!"

"Abide by the orders!"

Zhao Heshou was about to go to order the troops. A quarter of an hour later, the drums suddenly sounded loudly on the north bank of Baigou, and Guo Yaoshi personally beat the drums to cheer.

‘Dong!Dong!Dong!’

Amid the fierce sound of war drums, General Zhao Heshou led 4,000 troops to carry more than a dozen siege ladders to rush to the floating bridge, shouting and rushing towards Bazhou City a mile away.

On the top of the city, ten thousand Song troops, including the original wing army, were already waiting for the sword. The divine arm crossbow was opened, and dozens of bed crossbows were also equipped with three-foot-long large crossbow arrows, waiting for the Liao army to come to attack the city with murderous intent.

Li Yanqing stood at the head of the north city and looked at the Liao soldiers rushing to attack the city in the distance. He had already discovered something strange. At this time, he turned Zhao Fan forward and whispered: "The ruler, they only carry more than a dozen siege ladders, which is not like siege."

Li Yanqing nodded. They all have rich practical experience. The first wave of siege ladders will be exhausted. Generally, at least hundreds of siege ladders must be prepared. In addition, Bazhou City has a moat, so how do they plan to cross the moat? They usually use wooden boards to build the river, but where is the other party’s wooden board?

Li Yanqing looked to the north bank again, and saw that there were only dozens of people left on the north bank beating the war drums, and another thousand people were running along the floating bridge to the south bank. There were a thousand cavalry in the distance lined up and looked indifferently at the Liao army's siege.

Li Yanqing's heart suddenly moved, and he seemed to have thought of something. He turned around and shouted: "Commander Zhang!"

The commander of Bazhou, Zhang Jie, walked forward quickly, "I am in a humble position!"

Li Yanqing pointed to the cavalry in the distance and asked, "Is that cavalry Han'er's army or Khitan's army?"

"Reporting to the rule, there are Han and Khitans among the infantry, but only Khitans are the cavalry."

Li Yanqing immediately understood that another reason why Guo Yaoshi did not dare to surrender to Song was that there were still a thousand Khitan cavalry in his army watching them. Guo Yaoshi would most likely use this opportunity to siege the city to get rid of the surveillance of Khitan cavalry.

"Control, the pontoon bridge is on fire!" a soldier shouted at the pontoon bridge.

Li Yanqing had already seen it, and saw the northern section of the two floating bridges, and the smoke was rolling. At this time, Xiao Yuqing, who was watching the battle in the distance, also woke up and couldn't help but be furious and shouted, "Kill here!"

A thousand Khitan cavalry suddenly started and rushed towards the floating bridge, but it was too late. Guo Yaoshi not only set fire, but also ordered the demolition of a floating bridge several feet long, forcing the Khitan cavalry to stop on the north bank. Xiao Yuqing cursed.

Guo Yaoshi ran to the river and shouted loudly: "Xiao Jianjun, please tell the Queen Mother that it is not that I, Gao Yaoshi, is unkind, but that she is unrighteous. In order to save my life, I have to make this bad decision."

Xiao Yuqing was furious, "Shoot me the arrow!"

More than a thousand cavalry shot arrows across the river. Guo Yaoshi's personal soldiers rushed up and raised their shields to protect the commander back. Guo Yaoshi escaped from the range of arrows and immediately ordered: "Send the whole army to assemble!"

Just then, Li Yanqing also issued an order, "The whole army left the city and fought against the Liao army!"

The sound of the horns of the gathering of "Woo" sounded, and the Song army guarding the city quickly went down to the city to assemble. The city gate opened, and nine thousand Song army ran out of the city.

Five thousand ever-winning troops of the Liao Kingdom were gathering one mile away, and the Song army also set up a formation at the hem of Bazhou City. The spears were like forests and flags were waving. Hebei recruited soldiers also replaced the armor and weapons in the arsenal, and the equipment was completely consistent with the imperial guards, making them even more murderous.

At this time, a general of Guo Yaoshi rushed over, "I will come to see your chief general under the order of the commander!"

A soldier led him to Li Yanqing, and the general bowed to Li Yanqing and said, "Report to Li Tongzheng, my general has decided to surrender to Song, and he has no intention of fighting. Please do not stop him."

Li Yanqing said lightly: "Since I have decided to surrender to Song and don't want to fight, then just put down my weapons, why do you still have to gather?"

The general hesitated and said, "My general wants to surrender to the Xuanfu envoy Tong Guan!"

Li Yanqing snorted coldly, "You are now in the Song Dynasty of Bazhou. Do you think I will let you pass in the Song Dynasty at will? Go back and tell your general that either he will put down his weapons and surrender immediately, or he will fight with me to the death, and there is no third way!"

The general had no choice but to run back to report to Guo Yaoshi. Guo Yaoshi couldn't speak for a long time. Li Yanqing was right. Entering the Song realm, he would be an invader, either surrender or fight. The army in Bazhou really couldn't let himself leave safely.

If it was in the Liao territory, he could teach Li Yanqing a lesson and wipe out his army completely, which would make the Song Dynasty value itself more. But now it is in the Song territory and he has become an invader. If he fights the Song army again, his nature will be completely opposite, and the Emperor of Song will not spare him.

What's more, the opponent's troops are nearly twice as powerful as you, and you may not be able to win!

At this time, Zhao Heshou whispered: "Maybe he can discuss it. We will put down our weapons, but please ask him to notify Tong Guan to come and receive surrender!"

Guo Yaoshi shook his head, "Do you think he is a three-year-old child? Once we put down our weapons, our life and death will be in his hands. At that time, he would rather slaughter us and use our heads to ask for merit than give me credit to Tong Guan. Seeing that he killed all the Yongqing defenders, he would know that this person was cruel and vicious."

"Then...why should we do this?"

Guo Yaoshi sighed, "It's over, we have no choice but to surrender to Master Zhong."

Guo Yaoshi immediately issued a military order, "The whole army put down its weapons, took off its armor, and surrendered to the Song army!"

.........

The 60,000 army led by Zhong Shidao was only heading north from Daming Prefecture on July 28. They carried a large amount of logistics supplies, with more than 10,000 ox carts alone, and 150,000 civilians and thousands of flat-bottomed sand ships, transporting 200,000 stones of grain, 100,000 dan, and countless various military supplies.

The army was not fast in marching. It took three days to arrive at Hejian Prefecture. In the evening, the army was stationed in the camp ten miles east of Hejian County. Zhu Xiu, the prefect of Hejian, rushed to the military camp.

"If General Gao really has no food and grass and borrows grain from us, how could we see the soldiers running out of food? We will definitely find a way to solve it. Even if the official grain cannot be moved, we will borrow grain from the rich. However, General Gao had no room for negotiation and directly ordered us to take out a thousand stones of food within an hour. Otherwise, he would come to the city to get the grain by himself. This would be unacceptable. Just when we were about to send people to negotiate, his army entered the city and rushed directly to the official warehouse."

Zhu Xiu sighed and continued, "Even if he robs the grain, it's fine. But he still robs the civilians' wealth, which has caused very serious consequences in Leshou County. I can't sit still and watch, so I can only report this to Zhongshuai."

After hearing Zhu Xiu's complaint, Gao Shixuan lent his troops to plunder the tax grains in the official warehouse of Leshou County. More than 20 shops around the official warehouse were looted at the same time. What made him even more unacceptable was that at least seventeen women were killed by soldiers and six innocent people were killed.

'Bang!'

Zhong Shidao was so angry that he punched the table hard, and gritted his teeth and said to the prefect Zhu Xiu: "I, Zhong Shidao, will never allow this kind of thing to happen in my army. Please rest assured that the prefect will report to the emperor, severely punish Gao Shixuan, and give the prefect an explanation."

Zhu Xiu was slightly stunned, "Do you still need to report this kind of thing to the emperor?"

Zhong Shidao's eyes were gloomy. He received a news report from Li Yanqing the day before yesterday. Only then did he know that Gao Shixuan did not enter Bazhou, but went to Xiongzhou without authorization. Of course, Zhong Shidao knew the reason. Xiongzhou belongs to Tong Guan's Northern Expedition. Gao Shixuan obviously surrendered to Tong Guan. Although Zhong Shidao hated him, he did not want to tell outsiders about this ugly incident. He said lightly: "The emperor is very concerned about the Northern Expedition. This serious violation of military discipline has happened. I think he should know it."

"Okay! Please give me Zang Shuai to this matter, so the official will say goodbye first."

Zhu Xiu stood up and said goodbye and left. Zhong Shidao walked back and forth in the big tent with his hands behind his back. He was actually most concerned about Li Yanqing's situation now. Today is the first day of August. Did Li Yanqing enter the northern expedition of Liao territory? What kind of war did he encounter?

In terms of time, Li Yanqing should have a quick report, why haven’t he arrived yet?

At this moment, soldiers outside the tent reported: "Report to the Grand Commander, Bazhou Emergency Military Report!"

Zhong Shidao was excited and quickly ordered: "Where is the military newspaper?"

After a moment, a report soldier quickly walked into the tent, knelt down on one knee and raised a military report: "I am under the order of Li Zheng, and I will send an emergency military report to the general!"

Zhong Shidao took the military report and asked first: "Is there any war situation?"

"Report to the Grand Commander, this morning, the general Guo Yaoshi, led 5,000 troops to surrender to us."
Chapter completed!