When Shi Chonggui arrived near Qicheng, he heard the noise of drums and horns from afar. He knew that the two armies must be fighting fiercely. Now his army was advancing. He had just walked more than a mile and arrived at the battlefield. Shi Chonggui saw many enemy cavalry from afar, all over the mountains and fields. There was a young brave general with a white robe and white horse who protected the camp and deployed Gao Xingzhou to break through the siege. The enemy cavalry chased him from all sides, and was shot from the young general, shot from the left and right, and the enemy was invincible.

Shi Chonggui took advantage of the situation to enter. Gao Xingzhou saw the emperor's help, and turned over and fought again. He rescued Fu Yanqing, the commander of the left wing, and Shi Gongba, who killed many Liao soldiers. The Liao soldiers were defeated and fled. Shi Chonggui climbed to the ancient platform of Qicheng and comforted the three generals. The three generals said in unison: "I have been in a hurry, but the reinforcements have not come. Fortunately, His Majesty came in person and was reborn."

Shi Chonggui couldn't help but say: "This is all because of Jing Yanguang! Jing Yanguang's delay in reporting it for several days, so I came too late." The three of them said sadly: "What kind of deep hatred does Jing Yanguang have with me and others, and they are unwilling to send troops to rescue me?" At this point, the three of them burst into tears. Shi Chonggui said kindly to comfort me, and the three of them then cried. Shi Chonggui asked who the young general was? Gao Xingzhou replied: "It's my son Gao Huaide." Shi Chonggui immediately summoned him and gave him a bow and horse. Gao Huaide thanked him. After Shi Chonggui rescued the siege, he returned to Chanzhou.

Shi Chonggui's side had just returned to the court, and other places had books of war. When Li Shouzhen and others led their troops to Majiakou, the Liao army sent 10,000 infantry to build a fortress, and outside the fortress, cavalry guarded them. The remaining tens of thousands of soldiers were stationed in Hexi, and thousands of ships were transported to transport soldiers.

Seeing this, Li Shouzhen and others rushed over without hesitation. The Liao cavalry was defeated and retreated. The Jin army took advantage of the victory to attack the fortress and quickly broke through. The Liao soldiers were defeated and dispersed. The Liao soldiers who rode horses across the river were drowned, captured, and killed thousands of people. The Liao soldiers stationed in the west of the Yellow River despise you. Seeing that the Liao soldiers on the east side of the Yellow River failed, they had to retreat with tears. The Liao people did not dare to invade the east from then on. Li Shouzhen captured 78 Liao generals and more than 500 soldiers alive, and were discharged from Chanzhou and sentenced to death.

Li Yiyin, the governor of Xiazhou, reported to Shi Chonggui that he had commanded the French and had 40,000 Han troops crossed the Yellow River from Linzhou and invaded the territory of Liao to restrain the Liao Kingdom. Shi Chonggui was overjoyed and hurriedly issued an edict to appoint Li Yiyin as the southwest recruitment envoy.

In the past, Yelu Deguang received Beizhou and Bozhou to comfort the people in this place, either granting official positions or giving official uniforms with patterns to win over the hearts of the people. After the Liao army was defeated in Qicheng and Majiakou, Yelu Deguang was immediately annoyed and killed all the captured people and burned all the captured soldiers to death. This aroused the anger of the people, united forces, and struggled.

At this moment, Yang Guangyuan raised an army to rebel and led the Qingzhou troops to join the Khitan troops to the west. Shi Chonggui received the news and hurriedly issued an edict to Shi Yun, the former governor of Baoyi, and led his troops to guard Yunzhou to defend Yang Guangyuan. At the same time, he ordered Liu Zhiyuan to lead his troops out of Hengzhou from Tumen, and work with Dewey's troops to attack the Liao troops. However, Liu Zhiyuan did not follow the orders, so he just moved his troops to garrison Leping and stayed.

The reason why Liu Zhiyuan was like this was because he was very dissatisfied with the Later Jin court, and this matter had to start with Shi Jingtang. Previously, An Chongrong submitted a memorial to Shi Jingtang, demanding to attack the Liao Kingdom. Since An Chongrong stood on the commanding heights of morality, Sang Weihan did not

He dared to refute publicly, so he could only write a secret message to Shi Jingtang and oppose it. After Shi Jingtang was afraid of the Liao Kingdom and decided to adopt Sang Weihan's proposal, Shi Jingtang did two major things, one was to try to eliminate An Chongrong's power; the other was to repair the unequal friendly relations with the Liao Kingdom.

In order to restrain An Chongrong, Shi Jingtang decided to re-appoint his former number one confidant general, Liu Zhiyuan, who was outstanding in abilities and merits, and let him serve as the governor of Hedong next to Chengde. Some things have happened in recent years, making the relationship between Shi Jingtang and Liu Zhiyuan no longer the same as when the rebellion of Taiyuan.

The first deterioration of the relationship between Shi Jingtang and Liu Zhiyuan actually originated from a promotion. In March of the fourth year of Tianfu, Shi Jingtang issued an edict to award Liu Zhiyuan the governor of Guide as the governor of Tongpingzhang and became the nominal prime minister. This is of course a kind of praise, but the problem is that there are two people who gave the governor of Tongpingzhang in the edict. In addition to Liu Zhiyuan, there is also Du Chongwei, the governor of Zhongwu, who was later renamed Dewey.

Du Chongwei was Shi Jingtang's brother-in-law. Not only did he have any decent achievements, his abilities were also relatively mediocre, and his character was even worse. Du Chongwei was extremely greedy for money. Whenever he served as a military governor, in addition to embezzling public funds, he also had to privately increase taxes and taxes in his jurisdiction to fill his pockets. He used his bones and sucked hair on the people. The fierceness of the people was no less than that of Zhao Zaili and Zhang Yanze! The people in the jurisdiction could not bear his evil policies and mostly fled, but Du Chongwei didn't care.

Liu Zhiyuan felt that he was insulting himself when someone like Du Chongwei was promoted at the same time. So he submitted four letters to resign, rather than being promoted than appear in the same edict as Du Chongwei! Shi Jingtang was very angry. Du Chongwei was a relative he was preparing to focus on training. If Liu Zhiyuan did not give Du Chongwei face, it would be like slapping him, the emperor in the face.

The indignant Shi Jingtang said to Prime Minister Zhao Ying: "Du Chongwei is my brother-in-law. Although Liu Zhiyuan has made contributions, how can he publicly resist my edict? How about cutting off his military power and letting him go home to retire?" Zhao Ying, who was also Shi Jingtang's old confidant, hurriedly persuaded: "When Your Majesty was in Jinyang, his soldiers were only 5,000 and was besieged by more than 100,000 Tang troops. If Liu Zhiyuan had not been as heart-warming as iron and stone, he firmly commanded the resistance, how could he achieve today's great cause? How could such a hero dismiss him for a small mistake? If this matter was spread to the outside, it would not be conducive to demonstrating Your Majesty's monarchy."

Shi Jingtang followed Zhao Ying's persuasion and sent scholar He Ning to Liu Zhiyuan's house to pass on the message and persuade him to accept the edict. He Ning was indeed eloquent and convinced Liu Zhiyuan. Liu Zhiyuan was no longer stubborn and had to be promoted to the post reluctantly. However, the suspicion between the king and the minister had already sprouted and could not be restored to the same as before. Soon, Shi Jingtang appointed Liu Zhiyuan as the capital of Ye, but less than half a year after he took office, he ordered him to go to the capital to pay his respects.

Afterwards, Liu Zhiyuan was stranded in the capital for a year. Shi Jingtang refused to let him return to Yedu, nor did he arrange a new position for him. At this time, Liu Zhiyuan, just like Li Siyuan who was left in Luoyang by Li Cunxu, was actually under house arrest. But now in order to deal with An Chongrong, Shi Jingtang felt that it was necessary to use Liu Zhiyuan.

So, after sitting on the bench for a year in Bianliang, Liu Zhiyuan was appointed by Shi Jingtang as the governor of Beijing and Hedong, and quickly went to Taiyuan to take office. From that moment on, Liu Zhiyuan was no longer the Liu Zhiyuan of the past, nor the loyal follower of Shi Jingtang, and he began his own career.

Liu Zhiyuan was born in Taiyuan. When he was young, he had a low status and was barely barred. When he was grazing, Liu Zhiyuan's horse was accidentally stepped on a field belonging to the temple. The monk in the temple was furious and directed the temple staff to catch Liu Zhiyuan and beat him hard.

Now Liu Zhiyuan returns to his hometown as the top leader. The first thing he does is to imitate the story of Han Xin and Shi Le, and find the monk who beat him back then, sit down with him to reminisce about the past and chat and laugh. Afterwards, he also sent someone to send him back to the temple and accompanied him with a large number of gifts.

After Liu Zhiyuan finished this, the effect achieved was the same as that of the two predecessors. When the people of Taiyuan heard about this, the people were happy. They all said that the new Mr. Liu could be so good to his enemies and treat us badly. Soon people turned their backs.

After Shi Jingtang's death, he originally ordered Liu Zhiyuan to assist in the administration. However, under the instigation of Jing Yanguang, Shi Chonggui did not execute Shi Jingtang's last order. After Liu Zhiyuan learned about it, he was very dissatisfied with Shi Chonggui. He intended to dominate Hedong and achieve the king's career, so he was half-rejected by the imperial edict. On the one hand, he was dissatisfied with the orders of the court, and on the other hand, he occasionally took the initiative to attack the Liao Kingdom. Therefore, this time he gave some discounts to Shi Chonggui's orders and did not try his best to attack.

Besides, Yang Guangyuan originally wanted to join the Liao army, but was blocked by the Jin army, so he led his army to besiege Dizhou. As a result, the governor Li Qiong did not hesitate and led his army out of the city to defeat Yang Guangyuan. Yang Guangyuan had to burn the camp and retreat back to Qingzhou. Later, the Jin Dynasty received the report and appointed He Chongjian, the former Weisheng Jiedushi, to deploy the East Cavalry Capital, and to command troops to Yunzhou to prepare to deal with Yang Guangyuan.

After hearing that all the failures were made, Yelu Deguang had the idea of ​​retreating, but he was unwilling to go back cowardly. Yelu Deguang came up with a plan to ambush the elite cavalry in Gudun, Qiucheng, and prepared to wait for the Jin army to meet with Hengzhou and Dingzhou soldiers before facing it. Zhang Cong'en, the left-behind Yedu, reported several times that the Northern Barbarians had fled and the army planned to attack and chase it, but later stopped due to the rain.

The Liao army was ambushed for more than ten days, and the people were hungry and tired. Yelu Deguang saw that the plan was not successful and sighed. Zhao Yanshou offered his plan: "The Jin army is all on the river. If we are afraid of our elites, we will definitely not dare to move forward. It is better for us to attack Chanzhou, join forces on all sides to attack, and seize the floating bridge of the Yellow River, and then the Central Plains can be pacified in one fell swoop." Yelu Deguang heard his words.

On the first day of March, Yelu Deguang personally led more than 100,000 troops to form a formation on the north side of Chanzhou City, reaching the east and west side of the city. It was true that the golden sword swept the sun, and the iron cavalry formed clouds, and the boundaries were invisible. Gao Xingzhou's troops rushed from Qicheng to rescue and fought with the Liao soldiers. From noon to sunset, there was a victory or defeat. Yelu Deguang commanded the elite troops and attacked the central army. Shi Chonggui also led his troops out and set up a formation to wait for him to come and fight.

Yelu Deguang saw the grand occasion of the Jin army and said to the left and right: "Yang Guangyuan said half of the Jin soldiers had starved to death, why are there so many now?" So he used elite cavalry to attack from the left and right sides at the same time, and the Jin army did not move at all. When the Liao soldiers approached, they made a sound of buzz, and tens of thousands of crossbows were fired one after another, flying arrows covered the sky. The Liao soldiers' front team most of them were shot by arrows and had to retreat. Then the Liao army attacked the eastern wing of the Jin army, but they did not capture it. The two armies fought hard until dark, and suffered casualties from each other. Seeing that they could not win, Yelu Deguang had to lead the troops back and camp thirty miles away.
Chapter completed!