The Zhongjun in Zhuozhou marched next to the yamen of the official government, and the wailing and moaning from the yamen could be heard day and night. In this era, there were no drugs such as antibiotics, and the wounded soldiers who were injured and infected in the torso could only wait for death slowly, and the limbs could only be sawed off if they were infected, which was very cruel.

The location of this place of the Chinese army, at that time, took into account the image of the Zhou Dynasty army and did not disturb the people, and saw that the place in front of the official mansion was very spacious, so they set up a fence and stationed; It's actually very noisy.

Guo Shao sat in the big tent, listening to the sad and mourning sounds from time to time, and listening to the generals talking below...... Xiao Siwen's troops have already arrived in Zhuozhou.

…… Guo Shao was a little distracted, and for some reason he suddenly remembered Queen Fu's as if he had a "heart in his heart": the queen's ears and eyes are very powerful, and he has seen it; He was ordered to be stationed in Zhuozhou, the queen should know?

She must have been worried.

Rao is Guo Shao has never experienced the struggle for high-level power at all, but the queen told him that he must return to Beijing, and he probably understood her layout.

When Emperor Chai Rong died, if the army supporting the empress was in a foreign town, 20,000 people would really be nothing, and any few local towns could gather enough 20,000 troops; What's more, Zhuozhou is too far away from Tokyo, more than a thousand miles...... But if you're in Tokyo, you're very particular about how to use it! Once these 20,000 people have the support of the ruling party and the Privy Council, their power will expand indefinitely.

Even if there are more than 100,000 elites in Tokyo, those soldiers are scattered in peacetime, and it will be very troublesome and difficult to mobilize. The military generals have absolutely no right to transfer troops in Tokyo, and it is up to the Privy Council to decide what troops are stationed where and how many people they are stationed...... And if the queen is regent and really trusts Guo Shao, 20,000 people gathered together will be an absolutely superior force in Tokyo, and they can calmly divide the various armies.

Guo Shao joined the forbidden army at the age of 14 and is 22 years old this year, and has been in the forbidden army for eight years, so he knows the situation of the forbidden army too well.

The armies were stationed in many parts of the city, and more than half of them were completely scattered and went home to rest; As long as someone uses a certain army without authorization, it will immediately be a crime of treason, a real handle, and he will be surrounded and suppressed by the queen's cronies before he has time to assemble a large army...... Regardless of who wins or loses on either side, the Privy Council must have ordered the rest of the army to fight the rebels; Even if the other generals sit and watch, should they obey the military orders of the Privy Council? If you don't listen, it is disobedience, and afterwards there is no difference from rebellion, then it is not a wait-and-see but a choice. Therefore, a military general who has no position will habitually obey the military orders of the Privy Council.

Whoever rebels directly by force in Tokyo will be beaten by the entire forbidden army as long as there is no accident. Unless he can exchange all the generals of the four main forces of the forbidden army, at least most of them will be replaced by generals who support him...... If the influence is so great, then no system will work.

Therefore, Guo Shao must return to Tokyo, and he must also go back with his "descendant" Hujie Army Left Wing, so as to help the queen control the situation as quickly as possible; Otherwise, the queen has no soldiers, she is afraid of what she does, and she does not dare to move those arrogant soldiers without force deterrence.

…… The generals in the tent talked for a while, and now they are complaining. Dong Zunxun said: "Suddenly asked us to guard Zhuozhou, and the military rations in the city were not prepared in advance. Now that the grain road has been attacked, how can Zhuozhou defend it for a long time? ”

Luo Yanhuan also chimed in: "That Xiao Siwen's large group of horsemen left Gu'an and pressed on Zhuozhou. Our cavalry can't beat him, so we can only let the rangers attack and disturb the grain road; The horsemen of the Longjie army at Qigou Pass did not move, nor did they send food. This situation is really strange, do the officials want to sit back and watch us ignore it in Zhuozhou? ”

Another humane: "What if the Khitan lord leads a large army south to besiege Zhuozhou at this time?" ”

Li Chuyun said calmly: "The Liao people can't encircle Zhuozhou, and the division of troops to besiege the city will not be enough to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Great Zhou." Unless the official family does not move in the south of the Guannan Dynasty, it is impossible to lose the elite soldiers of the forbidden army. ”

Guo Shao, who had been silent for a long time and didn't know what to think about alone, suddenly said: "I have a way, call the commanders and generals, and arrange the troops." ”

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Xiao Siwen's large group of people camped ten miles away from Zhuozhou to watch, and he was tired of this kind of chase scene.

First, the light cavalry in the south of Zhuozhou was expelled and outflanked by the Zhuozhou cavalry, and was chased everywhere, and then he led the army to deal with the Zhou cavalry in Zhuozhou; As a result, the Zhou army retreated into the city. Xiao Siwen's retreat is not an attack, nor is there any way...... Sieges are clearly useless.

More than 10,000 Khitan and Xi soldiers under Xiao Siwen rode out, and the field battle was already a force that advanced and retreated freely, but it was still not possible to attack the city; The Khitans had no way to attack the city, and more than 10,000 horsemen couldn't even encircle the siege of Zhuozhou, how to attack?

"I don't know who the general of the Zhou army guarding Zhuozhou is, but he is not in a hurry." Xiao Siwen said, "If you can't do it, you will withdraw the light troops near Qigou Pass first, and then go back to Gu'an and wait for a while." ”

He was bored when suddenly a soldier came in and said, "Brother Xi has slaughtered a village in the south!" ”

Xiao Siwen was suddenly furious and said, "We are going out to fight, he has nothing to do with that bird?" Why did that man mess with him? ”

The soldier said: "I don't know. ”

Xiao Siwen shouted: "Call Brother Xi back and ask him to come to me to make it clear!" ”

At this moment, another ministry reported: "The Zhuozhou horsemen have come out and are coming at us." ”

"Huh?" Xiao Siwen immediately put Brother Xi's out of his mind and hurriedly asked, "How many people?" ”

The general who came to report said: "One thousand five, maybe two thousand." ”

Xiao Siwen smiled when he heard this, immediately ordered his troops, and ordered one group of men and horses to make a detour to the north and the other to the south, preparing to copy the back road of the Zhou army. Then he led the main force to meet the camp head-on. At this time, the general Xi Ge also returned, and Xiao Siwen only cared about the war and didn't care about him.

Unexpectedly, the cavalry of the Zhou army came out and ran, and may have discovered the movement of the Liao army's intention to encircle, so they turned around and ran. Xiao Siwen led the army to chase to the city of Zhuozhou and found that the Zhou army's horsemen were still outside the city. At that moment, he ordered the southern courtyard to ride heavily as the striker, and directly charged and killed.

Suddenly, it seemed that both sides had not prepared much, and the front was killed. The two armies rushed back and forth in various directions, and the battle was inextricably linked.

When Xiao Siwence stepped forward, he saw the warring horses running in strands like a whirlpool, and the horses' hooves roared like thunder on the plain, and the sound of killing shook the sky. He ordered more generals to lead the army to outflank from the left and right, and directly attacked the Zhou army on both sides.

When the large cavalry on both sides had just been dispatched, they suddenly saw the city gate open, and the rear of the Zhou army retreated into the city; As soon as the rear army left, the front army was immediately in turmoil, and before the Liao army reinforcements went up, the Zhou Dynasty horse team was defeated.

At this time, the general next to Xiao Siwen said: "The Zhou army opened the door and fled, and the Liao army's iron cavalry will definitely take the opportunity to follow into the city...... Could it be that this broke Zhuozhou? ”

Xiao Siwen said: "There are so many people in front, it's too late to send an order to call them back now." Besides, why can't we go into the city? ”

None of the generals could say why they couldn't enter the city, for fear of being ambushed? That thing is unusual, the Liao generals present have never encountered the defenders of the city, will take the initiative to open the city gate to enlarge the army into the city to "ambush", isn't that a joke about the city...... The Han often defended the city, and the Liao army had been fighting with various dynasties and generations for decades, and almost as soon as they opened their eyes, they took this matter as common sense: attacking a city, breaking through the city wall is equivalent to capturing a city!

At this moment, a young general said: "In case the Zhou army prepares an ambush in the city, we will suffer." ”

Xiao Siwen turned his head and said, "Go up the wall from the inside of the city wall, as if you were walking on the ground." How did Han'er ambush the soldiers? ”

The young general said: "The last general was plotted three years ago in a place called Wuzhen Town in Luzhou, Hedong. At that time, I thought so too, and I thought it was easy to see that the town wall was broken, but I rushed into the door and found that Han'er had built another fortification in the town...... Hell, we've never seen a city that doesn't defend the walls, but builds fortifications inside. I led my troops to be besieged, and dozens of people died before they were able to escape. ”

The Khitan generals were also surprised to hear it, and they really hadn't seen the city guarding the city gate and the city wall. On the whole land, it is the Han people who always repair the city to defend it; The Khitan people attacked the city almost the city of the Han people, and they have never seen and heard that the Han people are doing everything on the city walls and city gates, and the various methods of defending the walls are dazzling...... What is the "golden water" that boils with dung water, and the city gate with mud to prevent fire. But it is precisely that I have never seen the city gate open and let others in before fighting.

Xiao Siwen stroked the beard above his lips, thought about it and said, "Send someone up to find Brother Xi, and ask him to beware of Han'er's treacherous schemes and beware of ambushes." Tell him that the Khitans should be like tigers, fierce and alert. ”

At this time, the city gate was in chaos, and the Khitan cavalry and the Zhou army rushed into the city gate while fighting. There are soldiers everywhere inside and outside the city gates, where can they be closed? Whoever went to move the city gate was shot into a hornet's nest or knocked into a meat paste by the Khitan cavalry.

Xiao Siwen's entourage found Brother Xi, and the screams and horses' hooves around him shook the sky, so he had to say loudly: "The king called me to tell the general, beware of Han'er using tricks!" The king made the general as alert as a tiger! ”

Brother Xi scolded and scolded: "What kind of tiger or beast? The city is broken, and it's the first time I've seen a guard 'use a trick' to open his city gate! After saying that, he didn't care about it at all, patted his horse and left, away from the personal entourage of the king of the southern courtyard, and then said to the people around him: "The king is becoming more and more timid. ”

Brother Xi followed a large force of cavalry into the city, while sending people to dismount and attack the city tower along the stone steps of the city wall, while chasing the Zhou Dynasty horsemen who were running on the central axis of the city.

These cities were built by the Han people at the beginning, basically with four square gates, and two main roads in the middle of the "ten" shape, which was convenient for the army to quickly mobilize reinforcements to the four city walls when defending the city.

More and more horsemen of the Liao army poured onto the avenue and ran very smoothly on the flat and wide central axis.

Countless horses roared, and the whole city seemed to be trampled by iron hooves! After entering the city, Brother Xi shouted happily: "Don't collect the knife for three days, until you kill it all!" ”

The people spread like a flood, and the streets were gradually filled like ditches.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, suddenly a red square flag was hung on a tower in the city, and then ......many fireworks flew into the air and exploded in mid-air. Even many Khitan people couldn't help but look up, but unfortunately the blue sky and white sun were not so beautiful, but the black smoke after the fireworks exploded in the air for a long time.

"Not good!" Brother Xi's face changed. He didn't know what was going on for a while, but the sign was so wrong that it didn't give him a good instinct.