After deciding to go to Ezhou, Zhou He, Wang Chongyi and others set out immediately to escort Zhao Huan to the south. King Jing Zhao Qi was not long ago as the target of the Imperial City Division. To be fair, the generals of the Imperial City Division believed that Zhao Ke was the legitimate orthodox, and they were unwilling to surrender to the Northern Barbarians because of this. Chen Dongzun's claim that the Emperor did not obey the orders was consistent with the generals. Zhao Xingde and the Imperial City Division also had a connection. Wang Yan and Shen Yun both secretly helped Zhao Xingde.

Ma Yuan looked at the backs of the people and horses and enviously said, "Go on a fast horse, you'll arrive soon." These students decided to join Zhao Xingde in Ezhou. Ma Yuan was worried that if he could ride a horse, he might be more valued. In a short while, Tang Zishan's righteous soldiers recruited more than a dozen Ding Zhuang, and Liang Xiu was also very satisfied. At this time, the gap between the north and the south was very large, and the accent of these refugees was similar to those of the people in Tangzhou. Liang Xiu thought they were easier to control than the people in the south. Most of the refugees who joined the army had no family, and the northerners missed their homesickness, and they would have more life to fight.

It was not too late, and the people resting in the woods set off one after another. This place is only more than a hundred miles away from Xiangyang. If you walk fast, you will be able to arrive at Xiangyang tomorrow. The Southeast King's Army stationed heavily in Xiangyang, and when you get there, you will be safe. When you get there, you will be able to stay there for a few acres of land and work to maintain your life first. This is the only plan for most people. People leave their hometowns and are mostly middle-class families in the hometown. After leaving their hometowns and traveling for a long distance, there is no other extravagance. They just want to live a stable life and not live a life that is as unpredictable as a pig or dog under the rule of the Northern Barbarians.

Xiangyang and Fancheng built a city with Han River between north and south. Before the Fang La Rebellion, most of the people of Song State learned about this place from the Three Kingdoms story. Sun Jian was killed by Huang Zu's generals here, and Guan Yu flooded the seven armies and was defeated again. It was a pity that they were all regretful. After the Fang La Rebellion, Xiangyang became the residence of the southeast Xingying General. Liu Yanqing led 70,000 to 80,000 troops to the north to serve the king. After nearly a month of travel, he heard that Bianliang had fallen and the officials were captured, seven days later.

When he retreated to Xiangyang, his marching was very different, which was criticized by people at that time. Despite this, under the pressure of the Northern Barbarians, this army had become the hope of the southeast half of the wall. Many people praised him for his mediocrity and maintaining an elite army for the court. Some people who were unreasonable even compared Daming with Xiangyang, not only criticized Zhao Zhifu, Qin Hui and other Qingliu, but also slandered Wang Yan for not being able to protect the troops like Liu Yanqing, who was defeated by Hebei.

Liu Yanqing stood at the head of Xiangyang City, looking at the north, and fleeing people were constantly in a row. He asked himself that if he was famous, he would never have ended up better than Wang Yan. Therefore, when the news of Hebei's defeat and Wang Yan's death, Liu Yanqing was not only not glad, but was sad about the death of the rabbit and the fox. In order to prevent the Liao army from doing the detailed work, Xiangyang and Fancheng cannot accept refugees now. After the people arrived in Fancheng, Deputy General Fu Dongming and Wang Lin chose Ding Zhuang who was willing to join the army and enriched them into the army. In the past two months, 30,000 elite soldiers were obtained. In addition, the original people and horses in the southeast camp, the two cities of Xiangfan had gathered 100,000 troops.

"Master General, this iron-clad Xiangyang is a big attack. Even if the Liaogou army attacks, it will have to collapse two teeth."

The staff member Huang Zhan smiled with a folding fan in his hand. But Liu Yanqing's face was meditating on the water, and his brows frowned. Huang Zhan thought it was not good and kept silent. Liu Yanqing looked at Fancheng, and the Han River ferry had never stopped. After a while, the refugees stopped in Fancheng and then crossed the river south. Over the days, the ferry was getting less and less, so a large number of people had accumulated on the north bank of the Han River.

"These poor people." Liu Yanqing shook his head. He was born in a general family. Although he was not as good as a scholarly family, he also had a wealth of clothes and food. He looked at the people crowded on the shore, and his eyes showed a hint of pity. The southeast and Hebei moved to change the commander. Many of the Liu family's close relatives in Hebei had moved to the southeast, but the Liu family was deeply rooted in Hebei, and many distant relatives were trapped in the land occupied by the Liao thieves, but Liu Yanqing could not take care of it.

"Master General, Ezhou's military rations have been discharged." General Ding Jidaobing said.

Liu Yanqing said "yes" and signaled that he knew.

Huang Zhan took the opportunity to laugh and said, "The handsome man is so majestic, Chen Shaoyang is pretty sensible."

Liu Yanqing nodded, and a trace of lust flashed across his face.

Xiangfan was a large army with high city and deep ponds, and there was also a lot of food and grass storage. However, the amount of food and grass was very small in the place where the army was stationed was very small, and they were usually transported from southeastern prefectures and counties. Ezhou was at the intersection of the Han River and the River, which was a must for transporting military rations. When Chen Dong and Yue Fei advocated the righteous army in Ezhou and respected the emperor and did not obey the orders, Liu Yanqing was still on the way back to Xiangyang, so he told his generals to prepare to seize Ezhou along the current. This was meant to be their own masters and to protect their own food routes. Unexpectedly, when the army arrived in Xiangfan, he met Chen Dong's envoy. Chen Dong promised not to intercept the military rations sent to Xiangyang by the southeastern prefectures and counties, and even the military rations to be supplied on the north road of Jinghu. Correspondingly, the Zhenguo Army was willing to be at peace with the Southeast Camp and work together to deal with the Northern Barbarians.

As a result, Liu Yanqing was shaken again. It was a temporary measure to respect Zhao Qi as the emperor. If he raised an army to attack Chen Dong, there would be no room for maneuver in Bianliang. Most importantly, the situation in the north is quite strange now. Although Yelu Dashi captured the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty, the Liao soldiers were always stationed outside the city of Bianliang. Except for Zhao Ke, he was still detained in the Liao military camp. For example, Zhao Zhifu, Qin Hui and other ministers, almost all the important officials of the court were still watching the matter in Bianliang, and the Song Dynasty seemed to be still operating as usual. This situation made the Song people at a loss. It was Cai Jing's eyes.

In the Jianghuai area, many prefectures and counties still accepted the intention of Bianliang to "borrow troops to suppress rebellions" and provided food and grass for the Liao army that went south. Not long ago, Li Jin and Kong Yanzhou carried out tens of thousands of rebellions in Jinling, which was quite fascinating in the name of respecting Bianliang. The situation seems to be still possible for peace talks. Zhao Zhifu, Qin Hui and others are making every effort to make peace with the Northern Barbarians. If the peace talks are really successful, Zhao Ke will immediately turn the danger into peace. Zhao Qi, Cao Di, Cai Jing and others have really become traitors. Under the attack of the imperial court and the Liao army, Liu Yanqing did not believe that Luoyang and Taiyuan could hold on.

On the battlefield, the people who are most afraid of death often die first. Therefore, although Liu Yanqing is willing to fight for him to the death, he is very cautious and cautious. The Zhenguo Army is not weak and has a great reputation. Without any necessity, Liu Yanqing is unwilling to fight with the Zhenguo Army and lose his strength in vain. After all, he and Yue Fei are both generals of the court, and are not princes in troubled times who are competing for territory.

As the Liao army was approaching, Liu Yanqing's mind changed again. The Liao army was known as 300,000 people, and was aggressive in the south. There were 100,000 troops in the southeast camp, while the Ezhou Zhenguo Army had only 8,000 troops to the north, which was very different from strength to strength. Xiangyang is located in the upper reaches of the Jianghuai River and is a place that must be fought for by military strategists. This place is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The central principle of going north is easy to attack but difficult to defend. After the southern army seized Xiangyang, this can be used to recover Henan and Hebei based on the Northern Expedition. If the northern army obtains Xiangyang, relying on the Han River and the Yangtze River to transport food and grass, the army can go downstream and sweep across the Jianghuai River.

However, the Liao army had the ambition to win, but Liu Yanqing did not have the intention to defend it. What he repeatedly considered was the huge gap in strength. He was born in Hebei and always thought that the elite soldiers in the world were Hebei, and the strong cities in the world were Bianliang. However, with the strong soldiers in Hebei and the strong cities in Bianliang, they still could not resist the Liao army. Why could 100,000 southeastern troops defend Xiangyang? At this time, Liu Yanqing wanted to retreat to Ezhou again. He vaguely knew that the cension of Hebei peace was rejected by the Liao people.

Later, because the Liao army revealed that they wanted to release Zhao Ke back to Bianliang and go to Hebei, some people were now considering the idea that they would row rivers with the Liao people, and the southern people returned to the south and the northern people returned to the north. At that time, Xiangyang became a useless rib for Liu Yanqing. Unable to the ordinary people, the Xiangfan navy was already collecting Han water ships and preparing to carry the army to Ezhou. At this time, in Liu Yanqing's eyes, the mobs in Ezhou were not afraid, and they would be dismissed by Yue Fei as a deputy general.

"It's a pity that a strong city is too close to the Central Plains." Liu Yanqing sighed. The moss on the bricks of Xiangyang City were covered with arrow marks and blood from the arrows that had been fought for this city by dynasties. He looked at the north bank of the Han River. Suddenly, a ball of wolf smoke lit up from the top of Fancheng's city, and three smoke pillars rushed into the sky straight, looking very ferocious against the blue sky.

As the wolf smoke rose, the people who piled up on the north bank of the Han River suddenly became riot, while the people rushed to the few remaining ferries on the shore. Some were even squeezed into the Han River, and some jumped into the still-bitterly cold river to try to swim through the Han River. The north bank of the Han River was like dumplings were all people. They shouted in panic, argued, and the noisy people were heard clearly, and the head of Xiangyang City across the Han River could be heard clearly. The people did not know when the Northern Barbarians would enter Fancheng, but the shadow of the Liao thieves had obviously enveloped everyone.

Looking at the rising wolf smoke, Liu Yanqing's cheeks twitched slightly, and Huang Zhan and Ding Jidao beside him changed their faces even more.

This was also the beacon tower built by Wang Yan when he was in charge of the southeast camp. Regardless of prefectures, counties and villages, a beacon tower was built every 30 miles to prevent bandits. The three torches represent that more than 3,000 enemy cavalry had approached Fancheng. Since most of the Liao army were light cavalry, most of the cities guarded by the Song army along the way were mainly based on Bianliang's edicts and persuading surrender, so the march was quickly advanced. Before Xu Yue, the governor of Dengzhou, and Jing Chao, the army, fell to the north, Fancheng found traces of Liao army's cavalry. The wolf smoke was lit from time to time. In just over ten days, it was from the first represented by the 500 cavalry invasion, to the two torches of more than 1,000 cavalry, and to the three torches of about 3,000 cavalry.

Looking at the people who were rushing to escape to the south bank on the north bank, Liu Yanqing couldn't help but chill. If these three thousand cavalry were just vanguards, the Liao army soldiers and Xiangfan were close at hand. The impregnable Xiangyang City was actually just a terrible situation.
Chapter completed!