On this side, Zhao Kuangyin retreated in an orderly manner.

Over the years, Zhao Kuangyin has been following Guo Rong to fight south and north, commanding a 100,000 army. This was a challenge for him, but not a difficult problem.

It’s okay for the soldiers in Northern Han, but the only problem is the Khitan cavalry.

Zhao Kuangyin had already had a way to deal with this.

He ordered the cavalry to wander on both sides, and the heavy infantry were armed in front, and slowly retreated.

If the Khitans pursued, the cavalry entangled, and the infantry cut down wood to deer antlers, set up a village, and stopped troops to station, and fired crossbows to shoot the enemy. They traveled only thirty miles a day, so they were safe.

Whenever the cavalry approached, crossbows and arrows were fired in the infantry formation, and the arrows were blocking the sun. The Khitans were frightened and fled.

For several days, although the Khitans suffered a considerable loss, they persevered and chased them directly to Liaozhou. Liu Jiye, the general of the Northern Han Dynasty, led tens of thousands of people to pursue them and obtained many baggage abandoned by the Song people.

"General, the Khitans will not attack the city, so they want to leave!" Liu Jiye was chasing him happily, and at this time his subordinates said.

"What?" Liu Jiye was shocked: "Liaozhou City is not yet the capital, how could the Khitans leave?"

Even if Liu Jiye refused to obey, the Khitans were just the fathers of the Northern Han Dynasty. If their father acted, how could the son interfere?

However, Liu Jiye was distracted. He asked the Khitans to slow down for two days, pretended to retreat, attracting the Song soldiers from Liaozhou City to attack, and then encircle and suppress them.

Sure enough, Zhao Kuangyin was unwilling to accept it and sent people to chase the Northern Han army that had retreated late, and then he was ambushed, if there were thousands of people.

After the harvest, the Khitans truly returned to their army. They just passed the winter and lost their weight. If they galloped too much, they would suffer casualties. The Khitans had to retreat.

After the Khitans left, Liu Jiye still refused to leave. Liaozhou was too close to Taiyuan and could not be taken away by the Song people.

But he had too few soldiers and only ten thousand men, and the 100,000 Song troops in Liaozhou City were not something he could easily deal with.

Although I don’t know why the Song people were eager to retreat, there must be his reasons, so Liaozhou can definitely be abandoned.

Therefore, he asked the cavalry to occupy the camp where the Liao people were stationed, with branches tied to the ponytails and galloping in the camp, causing a lot of dust. For a moment, he created the illusion that the Khitans were still in the camp.

Zhao Kuangyin climbed the city and looked at him. He saw horses galloping in the Khitan camp, and there was dust everywhere. He was trapped two days ago. He no longer suspected that the Khitans retreated today.

Obviously, the Khitans were still practicing, wanting to chase him and leave him as the emperor.

In view of this, the king did not set up a dangerous place, and the urgent battle between Jingxiang, he no longer hesitated.

The Song soldiers withdrew their troops overnight, took steps to return to Luzhou.

Liu Jiye easily regained Liaozhou, and his prestige in the Northern Han Dynasty became a little higher, and his reputation spread throughout the world.

Afterwards, Zhao Kuangyin learned the truth and regretted it so much that his heart was green, but he pretended to be broad-minded and laughed: "I didn't expect that the Northern Han Dynasty would have such a famous general, and Liu Jiye can be said to be his Great Wall!"

Obviously, there was still a provocation in his words.

After returning to Tokyo, Zhao Kuangyin quickly deployed and prepared to send troops to support Xiangzhou, but at this time he learned that Xingyuan Prefecture was besieged.

"The intention of the southern country is in Hanzhong?" Zhao Kuangyin was stunned for a while when he saw the news, and then he said helplessly.

"It must be!" Zhao Pu said helplessly: "Hanzhong is thousands of miles away from Kaifeng. Now that the letter has just arrived, I am afraid it has been broken. Pan Chongche has been working hard for a long time, and he is another famous general. Cui Yanjin will definitely be unable to resist!"

"It would be fine if Xingyuan Prefecture is lost. If Qin Feng's four prefectures go, the southern troops can go directly to Chang'an!"

Zhao Kuangyin shook his head and said, "Wang Yanchao, the governor of Fengxiang, is also a very capable person. It is even more difficult for Pan Chongche to take it away!"

"It's just a pity, the money and food of Xingyuan Mansion!"

After suffering a small loss in the Northern Expedition, it was also regarded as a stepping stone, which made Liu Jiye famous. Now that he learned that Xingyuan Mansion was in danger, Zhao Kuangyin felt blood in his heart and it hurt so much!

"In the Xiangzhou side, I have to send troops to rescue me. I am not afraid of ten thousand, but I am afraid of anything!" Zhao Kuangyin held back his heartache and said in his words.

"Your Majesty, although it has not been a month since we head north, it has consumed a lot of food stored and has not accumulated much money and grain!"

Zhao Pu said softly.

"Ten thousand people are enough!" Zhao Kuangyin said in a deep voice: "Just send the guards, Si Long, to the left wing of the horse army. He galloped away and could reach Xiangzhou in just a few days. Naturally, he could free his siege and consumed less food and money!"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Zhao Pusi thought that sending cavalry was indeed the best solution, so he simply agreed.

...

Outside the city of Xiangzhou, Yang Shifan led a large army to set up camp outside the city of Xiangzhou. Because he found that the city of Xiangzhou was indestructible, he died of his intention to conquer. He did routine work every day and sent thousands of people to siege the city, barely surrounding Xiangzhou City.

Pan Mei in the city also noticed her thoughts and guessed that she was a suspicious soldier, but she did not dare to move lightly, in case someone had an opportunity to take advantage of it.

After staying for more than ten days, Yang Shifan really felt quite lonely. This battle was really uncomfortable.

"General, news from the court!" At this time, Deputy General Zhang Chongfu rushed over. He was wearing a cotton coat and was much rounded all over, and he was walking in a hurry.

"Oh!" Yang Shifan was overjoyed. He opened the letter and saw that it was news of his withdrawal.

"General, are we really going to retreat?" Zhang Chongfu was quite puzzled: "Will this Xiangzhou City be stopped?"

"Do you think we can conquer?" Yang Shifan rolled his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Hanzhong has been taken down. We can cooperate properly this time. Relying on the two states of Ying, it is also a meritorious service. You should be able to win a baron!"

"What about you, General?" Zhang Chongfu asked.

"Me?" Yang Shifan shook his head and said, "The count doesn't want to. Unless I take Xiangzhou, I will add at most a few hundred households to a fief of the food this time and get some rewards!"

"Let's go, let me know, brothers, we're going home!"

When news of the Tang army's retreat came, Pan Mei was not as happy as others, but instead was in a bad mood.

Since Xiangzhou retreated, other places must have achieved gains. Tang State achieved its own goal, which was not a good thing for the Song Dynasty.

As expected, the news of the emperor's failure to fight the Northern Expedition reached Xiangzhou, which was not a good thing for the court.

Just two days after the Tang army retreated, the cavalry from Kaifeng arrived. Because they were brothers of the imperial guards, Pan Mei had a good hospitality to reminisce about the past.

Only then did he realize that Hanzhong was lost.

"For example, [Bayi Chinese website www.81zw.info] After this, wouldn't Shu be closed and it is difficult for the Song Dynasty to plan?"
Chapter completed!