Xiao Gan received an urgent letter of help from Xijin City at the third update at night. Although Zhong Shidao's 50,000 troops were restraining him two miles away, Xiao Gan gave up Wanping City and led 20,000 cavalry to rush back to Xijin City quickly.

Wanping County is only forty miles away from Jincheng, and 20,000 troops are accelerating their march. Xiao Gan will arrive at the capital at the fifth hour.

Twenty thousand cavalrymen were running all the way under Xiao Gan's leadership. When they were twenty miles away from the capital, they were facing a group of Liao soldiers who were throwing their armor and running.

"Stop!"

Xiao Gan stopped the running cavalry brigade. The inertia of the cavalry continued for hundreds of steps before slowly stopping. After a moment, several soldiers brought a group of defeated soldiers up.

"What's going on?"

Xiao Gan asked anxiously: "What's the situation in the capital?"

"Reporting to the chief executive, the capital has been lost, the reinforcements of the Song army arrived, the brothers could not resist, and the entire army was destroyed."

"Ah!" Xiao Gan was stunned for a moment. After a while, he suddenly asked, "What about the Queen Mother? How is the Queen Mother now?"

"I heard that the Queen Mother escaped."

Xiao Gan breathed a little relieved and asked again: "Which direction did the Empress Dowager escape?"

The soldiers looked at each other, how could they know where the Queen Mother escaped? "Tong, we are the guardians of the South Gate, and we don't know the specific situation of the palace!"

At this moment, several Liao cavalry chased from behind and shouted to the cavalry: "President Xiao, please stay!"

Xiao Gan held the war horses, and for a moment several cavalry rushed forward. He immediately recognized the person in charge, Yelu Nan, the chief guard of Empress Dowager Xiao. He hurried forward and asked, "Where is the Empress Dowager?"

Yelu Nan said, "I have reported to the commander of the capital, and the Empress Dowager went to Gubeikou. He ordered the commander of the capital to go south to find the commander. When he arrived in Wanping, he realized that the commander had gone north and turned around to catch him back. The Empress Dowager asked the commander to lead his army to Gubeikou to meet."

Xiao Gan immediately understood that the Empress Dowager must have wanted to join Yelu Yanxi. If he had his own 20,000 cavalry support, the Empress Dowager would have the confidence and would not be afraid that Yelu Yanxi would attack.

"The whole army follows me!"

Xiao Gan shouted loudly and led 20,000 cavalry to run northeast. The 20,000 army was no longer able to enter the city. He could only walk the northeast official road around Xijin City and head to Tanzhou to meet with Empress Xiao.

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Wanyan Zongbi arrived at Yanjing City at the fourth hour, but it was too late at this time. The Song army had taken the lead in controlling Yanjing. The eight gates of Yanjing were closed. Even the blown-up right-wing gate had a temporary installation of a new door, leaving the Jin soldiers with no chance to take advantage of it.

At this time, Wanyan Zongbi's 30,000 cavalry were stationed in Wangjing City, about ten miles east of Yanjing. This is a guarding military city in Yanjing. The geographical location is extremely important, just guarding the intersection of the two official roads, east and west and north and south.

Wanyan Zongbi already knew that Empress Dowager Xiao had fled Yanjing and fled towards Tanzhou. He immediately asked Yelu Yuji to lead three thousand iron cavalry to chase him, but Wanyan Zongbi was not very interested in Empress Dowager Xiao. His trouble was Yanjing City. His father had told him that the huge wealth and tens of thousands of craftsmen in Yanjing City were bound to win, but now Yanjing City was occupied by the Song army. What should I do?

At this time, a cavalry rushed to report, "Report to the governor, I found a 20,000 Liao cavalry running towards us in the south?"

Wanyan Zongbi was shocked. It was not dawn yet, so where did the cavalry come from?

But after a change of thought, he immediately understood that this must be Xiao Gan's army retreating north and was about to meet with Empress Xiao.

Wanyan Zongbi immediately shouted: "Tell the three armies and prepare for the battle!"

Xiao Gan never dreamed that he would encounter the 30,000 cavalry of the Jurchens outside the east city of Xijin City. He glared at Yelu Nan and said, "There are Jin soldiers here, why didn't you say it earlier?"

Yelu Nan lowered his head and explained: "I only knew that there were Jin soldiers outposts, so he did not dare to go east, but instead detoured south from the west. Unexpectedly, the main force of Jin soldiers also came."

Xiao Gan snorted heavily, and the confidant general Yelu Aguzhe next to him whispered: "Otherwise we retreat south and bypass Xijin City from the west!"

Xiao Gan shook his head, "It's too late. Master Zhong has blocked our retreat and it's impossible to go south again."

Everyone was silent. Suddenly, a low trumpet sound came from a distance. Then a long black line appeared on the field three miles away. Another loud trumpet sounded. Thirty thousand Jurchen cavalry began to run, dust flying, covering the sky and the sun, and the overwhelming cavalry came towards the Liao army.

The Jin cavalry had already reached the sight, and Xiao Gan could no longer avoid it. He could only wave his sword and shout, "Cabinets fight!"

Twenty thousand Khitan cavalry lined up in a row, raised their spears, and lined up war horses in neat rows to fight against the Jurchen cavalry.

In August of the fourth year of Xuanhe, Xiao Gan's army retreated north and encountered 30,000 Jurchen cavalry led by Wanyan Zongbi on the east side of Yanjing. The two sides fought fiercely in the endless fields.

This battle with huge strength disparity did not happen. It ended with the defeat of the Liao army. More than 13,000 Liao cavalry were killed and thousands were dispersed. Xiao Gan led 3,000 Xi cavalry to fight to the death and escaped towards Jizhou.

At this time, Zhong Shidao's 50,000 army also entered Yanjing from the southern city gate, realizing the complete occupation of Yanjing by the Song army, which marked the official demise of the Liao Kingdom that lasted for hundreds of years.

But it was far from the moment of celebration. At the same time when the Song army occupied Yanjing, Wanyan Zongwang also led 50,000 Jin soldiers to Juyong Pass and rushed towards Yanjing City. A battle for Yanjing City was about to begin.

On the third day after Li Yanqing captured Yanjing City, the court had not received the 800-mile express report from Zhong Shidao, but the "Chaobao" and "Taobao" who have been paying attention to the war in Yanjing got the latest report from the pigeon letter and the eagle letter.

They used the entire length of the newspaper on that day to report on the great victory of Yanjing: ‘The Northern Expedition Eastern Route Army captured Yanjing City!’

Li Yanqing, the commander of the Right Army of the Eastern Route Army, led 10,000 soldiers to attack Yanjing successfully. He fought bloody battles overnight and seized the city of Yanjing at the cost of more than 4,000 casualties. Empress Xiao of the Liao Kingdom fled north in panic, and Yanjing City returned to the Song Dynasty.

This news made the entire capital city boil. A few days ago, he was extremely depressed by the destruction of the 100,000 Western Route Army. The government and the country suddenly became jubilant. The city of Bianjing was full of gongs and drums, and the sound of deafening firecrackers came one after another, celebrating the return of Youzhou, which had been separated for a hundred years, to celebrate the return of the Song Dynasty.

"Owner!"

Hong Dazhi ran into Baoyanzhai gate like a gust of wind, waved the newspaper and said, "The great victory in Yanjing, the boss, there is news about the little boss!"

Everyone who was packing the yard surrounded him, and Hong Dazhi said to everyone excitedly: "The great victory of Yanjing, the Song army has captured Yanjing, and it is the army led by Xiaodongzhu."

The yard was filled with cheers. At this time, Li Daqi came out of the room. Seeing that the yard was inconsistent, two boxes were poured down, and he frowned, "Why are you making noise?"

Hong Dazhi hurried forward and said, "Master, look at the court report today. There is news about the little master of Yanjing."

"Ah!" Li Daqi exclaimed, not caring about the box, snatched the newspaper in detail. When he saw that Li Yanqing, the commander of the Right Army, captured Yanjing City, tears suddenly burst out. His son was not only safe, but also made great contributions to the country.

"Quick! Hurry! Take out all the remaining firecrackers during the Chinese New Year."

Without Li Daqi's instructions, several friends had already run into the warehouse to lift out the two boxes of firecrackers for the Chinese New Year and set them out outside the gate to set them off.

Li Daqi announced that he would treat him tonight and invite everyone to drink and celebrate at Hongqiao Restaurant. In addition, Baoyanzhai will be given a special reward of five cents of money each. For a moment, Baoyanzhai will be cheering inside and outside.

At this time, several guards riding horses came to Baoyanzhai's gate and asked, "Is Mr. Li here there?"

Li Daqi quickly came out, "I am!"

The head guard clasped his fists and said, "We came from the palace. If there is an urgent matter, please ask Guanren Li to come with us."

Li Daqi was stunned, "What's the matter?"

The guard took out a gold medal for Li Daqi to show it, and then whispered: "The emperor wants to summon the official!"

Li Daqi was shocked. The emperor actually summoned him. He felt panicked. What should he do?

At this time, another carriage came, followed by a large group of guards around. The door opened. Liang Shicheng walked down and bowed and smiled, "Mr. Li, congratulations!"

Li Daqi hurriedly walked forward and saluted, "Tao Fu, is the emperor going to summon me?"

"That's right! I'm afraid you don't believe it, so I came to inform you that you will be officially summoned tomorrow morning, but you need to go to the palace to prepare this afternoon. Some etiquettes need to be explained, so I will work hard for Mr. Li today and tomorrow."

"Thank you for your hard work, just a little nervous!"

"It's a good thing not to be nervous. Yanqing has made great contributions. The emperor will reward him heavily, including Yanqing's wife and Li Yuanwai. They will receive the emperor's reward."

Li Daqi was stunned, "My daughter-in-law is going to enter the palace, too?"

"Regularly, she should have been received by the queen and enthroned the imperial edict. However, I heard that she was pregnant and it was not convenient to enter the palace, so she should have just issued an edict at home. Mr. Li was personally received by the emperor. Today, let's go to the palace to practice etiquette!"
Chapter completed!