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On the second day of the first lunar month, Liaoxi County Magistrate Fan Dongjun's eyelids twitched when he woke up early in the morning, and he always felt a bad premonition in his heart. He rode a big green mule to the county government. On the way, a group of crows circling in the sky, scratching and screaming, bringing some unknown feeling to the gloomy snow-shaking cold weather. Although it was the New Year, due to the successive orders issued by the Grand Marshal's Mansion, Fan Dongjun could not sit at home.

"Are you going to Zhang Zhen?" When he arrived at the county yamen, Fan Dongjun jumped off the mule and asked the yamen runner standing in front of the yamen.

"Returning to Ming Mansion, Zhang Zhen will go out to inspect yesterday and have not come back yet." The tall and thin yamen runner with a cold face flushed quickly said.

Fan Dongjun's steps suddenly stopped, raised his eyebrows upward, and felt uneasy in his heart. He suppressed the panic in his heart, and said dryly: "I guess he was at a fortress outpost last night. When Zhang Zhen will come back, he will notify someone immediately."

In the afternoon, a yamen runner came to report, and the signal of beacon smoke from the north rose as usual, and a pillar of smoke was safe and sound.

However, Zhao Xiong has not yet come back.

After another hour passed, the sky was already a little dark, but Zhao Xiong and his men still had no news.

Fan Dongjun began to worry, and felt even more uneasy.

After moving to the 100th round anxiously in the charcoal-burning house, he finally couldn't hold back.

Although Fenghuo reported peace, he still knew that Zhao Xiong was a very conscientious general. If there was no accident, how could he have not come back yet?

Thinking about the coaching orders issued by the coach's mansion in recent days, Fan Dongjun already felt the worst.

"Come!"

Fan Dongjun shouted, calling several deputy county magistrates and chief clerks from the county yamen over, and other other clerks, order officials, assistant officials, etc.

While sending people to Zhang Xiong’s military camp in the west of the county to inquire about the news, ask about Zhang Xiong’s whereabouts, and tell the constable that if Zhang Xiong did not return to the military camp, then immediately let the officers in Zhang Xiong’s camp be clear about the situation in front of them. Let them gather their troops and prepare.

At the same time, the county captain was sent to take two horses to the Taogushan outpost to inquire about the situation.

After sending these two men out, he asked someone to immediately summon the young and strong people in the city to assign them weapons such as spears.

Before dark, he recruited 300 people. These 300 people were locals in Liaoxi County, including about 100 Xihu, who were all Xi people who moved from western Liaoning back then. They were all skilled in martial arts, archery and horses, and nearly half of the Xi people even rode their own horses.

With these hundred Xihu, Fan Dongjun finally felt a little calmer.

When it was dark, the constables sent to the military camp came back. He also brought back the soldiers from the west of the city. Zhao Xiong did not return to the camp. The remaining deputy general Zhang Degong gathered the remaining 200 soldiers. When it was dark, he still did not see Zhao Xiong come back. He knew that the situation was not good, so he decisively brought two hundred troops to the county town.

When two hundred soldiers arrived, five hundred soldiers suddenly appeared in the Liaoxi County. When Zhang Degong came, he had already brought most of the armies in the camp.

Among them, what made Fan Dongjun the most happy was one hundred bows and ten thousand arrows.

Fan Dongjun handed over the responsibility of command and prevention to Zhang Degong. Zhang Degong was an old army and immediately asked Fan Dongjun to summon another group of young and strong men to come and help carry stones and wood on the top of the city, and set up a pot on the city, and began to boil hot water and boil oil.

After arranging these, the captain who had previously sent to Taogushan had not returned yet, and there was no news about the spy sent by Zhang Degong when he was in the camp.

It was getting late, and Fan Dongjun and Zhang Degong had already understood that something happened to these people.

Li Jing's army is coming!

Zhang Degong, who had been waiting for confirmation of the news before, couldn't hold back at this time. He turned around and called his own soldiers and sent him to Youzhou to send him the urgent report he had just written and Fan Dongjun.

Although they made a lot of preparations, there were 120 miles from Youzhou City. They only had 200 soldiers and 300 young men, and there were too few people. If it was really an attack by Liaodong soldiers, judging from the fact that Zhao Xiong and others never returned, the scale would be quite large.

The small Liaoxi county town has no danger to rely on, and the soldiers and civilians in the city are even more depressed.

When night was about to begin, the captain sent by him finally returned. He and one of the three spies sent by Zhang Degong came back. The two were panting and even carrying arrows on their backs. Six people were drawn two times, and only two wounded people came back.

The news they brought made Fan Dongjun and Zhang Degong even more deeply.

The Liaodong Army indeed sent troops to invade, and the Taogushan outpost had been occupied. According to what they saw, the Liaodong Army's selection of the Liaodong Army had already come all the way. The spy insisted that the Liaodong Army's vanguard alone had at least one thousand troops. Moreover, this was just a vanguard!

There were a thousand vanguards, which made Fan Dongjun feel ashamed. He believed in the spies' judgment. There were so many cavalrymen in the west at once, so on the wider plains to the east, there might be more Liaodong soldiers there.

However, there is also a possibility that in order to maintain the secret of the raid, the Liao soldiers may not have many soldiers.

The Liaodong Army suddenly sent troops, definitely not just for a small Liaoxi county.

However, although Youzhou is only one hundred and twenty miles away, Youzhou has been a military center in the north for hundreds of years and cannot be easily captured.

Perhaps, the purpose of the Liao army was to keep the army?

The military city is located in the northwest of Youzhou and southwest of Liaoxi County, with a distance of about 120 miles.

Youzhou is the largest town in Hebei, while Jundu Pass is the first fortress in Youzhou.

They are all fortresses in the city, but Jundu Pass is just a pass, and their defense is definitely not as good as Youzhou. However, Jundu Pass is the western gate of Youzhou, and it is crucial to protect Youzhou. Especially now, the nine foreign soldiers dispatched by the court have gathered in Datong one after another. If they take down Guizhou outside the pass, Jundu Pass will become the last gateway for Youzhou to block the imperial army.

Zhang Degong's face gradually turned red, and he was startled by his own guesses and judgments.

If Li Jing’s target this time was Jundu Pass. Dan Guanzhong’s guards were raided and lost to the pass, then Guizhou would be completely surrounded by the official army. Moreover, when the army was lost, Guizhou was not protected, the imperial army would inevitably flock in from its own army and directly rushed to the city of Youzhou.

Liu Dashen was personally in charge of Youzhou, while Jundu Pass is now guarded by Liu Yue's younger brother Liu Yan, with ten thousand soldiers and horses in his hands.

Zhang Degong had already made up his mind to hold the city and wait for reinforcements. But after careful consideration, he began to hesitate again. He knew very well about the importance of the military gate to Youzhou. If the military gate was lost, it would be a disaster for Youzhou Town. What's more, he didn't think that the five hundred people in the city could defend western Liaoning and block the attack of the Liao soldiers.

Perhaps, he should take these troops to retreat to Junguan before the enemy arrived.

Wujun ordered him not to withdraw to Youzhou, but if he retreated into the army, he could use the guards' army as a reason. Maybe he would not only not be guilty, but also achieve merit.

He whispered this idea to Fan Dongjun, who frowned and hesitated.

Stay here for a lifetime. But it seems like a good idea to stay here. But the Liaodong soldiers vanguard is about to arrive, and they have to run 120 miles to the military. It is not easy. At least the Liao soldiers vanguard has at least thousands of cavalry.

Once you are caught up by Liaodong soldiers in the wild, there is only one way to die.

Fan Dongjun was still hesitating and couldn't make up his mind, but not long after, a group of people suddenly stumbled from the east.

When I first saw that there were some defeated soldiers from Huairou County, southeast of Liaoxi County.

The panicked defeated soldiers brought a more heavy news that made Fan Dongjun. The brigade of Liaodong cavalry suddenly rushed to Huairou County, and the people in the city were caught off guard. The town general Zhou Fanghe County Magistrate Gao Long ordered the city gate to be closed, but then Li Jing's big banner appeared under the city. The Liaodong soldiers shouted out a few words. The Huairou military commander Yu Hou Jiang Shouyi suddenly mutinized, killed Zhou Fang and Gao Long, opened the city gate, and surrendered Li Jing.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the town general Zhou Fang's personal soldiers took advantage of the chaos and escaped from the city.

"There are already Liaodong cavalry on the way to Youzhou, and I can't get through!" Zhou Zhi, the head of the personal army who came from Huairou, was Zhou Fang's nephew, sighed.

After hearing the news that Li Jing had actually led the cavalry to come in person and Huairou had lost, even Fan Dongjun understood the bad situation at this time. According to Zhou Zhi, there were at least five thousand cavalry under Huairou City, all of them were one man and two horses, among the elite. As soon as the cavalry team appeared, the soldiers in Huairou County collapsed.

Although cavalry attacked cities, they were not as good as infantry.

But if there are five thousand elite cavalrymen in the siege, and only five hundred are guarding the city, and half of them are newly recruited young and strong, it is clear who wins and who loses.

After Li Jing captured Huairou, he had sent cavalry to Huairou, south of the two counties in western Liaoning, intercepting their way back to Youzhou City.

"Let's go, go to the army!" Zhang Degong didn't care about Fan Dongjun's opinion anymore. Fan Dongjun had no objection anymore and immediately passed the news.

Huairou, on the east side, was lost, and there were already Liao army cavalry on the way to Youzhou. Now, the only way to live is to go east. Jundu Pass is a dangerous fortress, and there are still 10,000 garrisons. As long as you can escape, there is still a glimmer of life.

Without any hesitation, Fan Dongjun, Zhang Degong, Zhou Zhi and others immediately opened the city gate and advanced towards the west army. The people in the city had heard the news at this time, and there was chaos everywhere.

Because Ji, Tan and Pingzhou had long fallen into Li Jing's hands, the Yanshan Mountains barrier north of Lulong Town had long lost its function. On the plain North China Plain, Liu Yue did not station heavy troops on Huairou, western Liaoning, Lu County and other lines on the Lushui line, but gathered troops in Youzhou, as well as Guizhou and Junduguan stationed in the northwest, to do his best to prevent the imperial officers and soldiers in the west.

Liu Yue did not station heavy troops on Huairou because there was no danger here, and the cavalry under Li Jing was most suitable for plain combat. Instead of deploying limited troops on the Lushui line, it would be better to simply shrink and use the strong city of Youzhou as the center to defend Li Jing. On the other hand, Ji Tan was originally the territory of Youzhou Town, so he did not station troops on the Lushui line. When Fan Xinglong died, Ji Tan's army killed Fan Xinglong and surrendered to Li Jing. He even wanted to arrange it. In the end, in order not to stimulate Li Jing, he simply did not intend to defend this line of defense.

Under such a result, the total of less than 5,000 troops in the four counties of Lushui were less than 5,000. They were raided and lost one after another when facing Li Jing!

On the evening of the second day of the first lunar month, Li Jing's army arrived in Huairou, and the capital of Yuhou in the city killed the county magistrate and the town general to open the city to surrender.

In the early morning of the third day, Lin Wu, the leader of the Crane Control Army, led his troops to Liaoxi County. The officials and soldiers in the city had fled. Lin Wu's army captured Liaoxi County without bloodshed.

At noon on the third day, Wang Yanzhang, the commander of the Crane Control Army, led a thousand cavalry to Lu County, and defended the city with a closed door. Wang Yanzhang launched wave after wave of fierce attacks. With his strong bow and crossbow, he attacked the soldiers in the city who were panicked and fearful and the young and strong defenders. The Lu County Magistrate personally took the arrows and stones to command the city to defend the city, but was directly blocked and killed by Wang Yanzhang's archers.

Within half a day, more than half of the defenders in the city were injured and killed, and the county magistrate, county magistrate and town generals were killed in battle one after another.

Wang Yanzhang then suspended the attack and sent envoys to persuade the surrender. After promising to not kill, surrender, not rob, rob, rape women, and rape them, the gate of Lu County finally opened and the city was surrendered.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Gao Sijigao, the commander of the Crane Control Army, led a thousand cavalry to Yongnu County, the city along the canal along the southeast of Youzhou. This city was occupied by the town three times since the town robbed Youzhou. After Gao Siji suddenly led his army to arrive, he did not encounter any strong resistance. The county magistrate and the defending generals in the city opened the city and surrendered.
Chapter completed!