Yongzhou milk. Toushan, Su Jin's army swept 30,000 Dadingfu tribal soldiers, almost as soon as he saw the cavalry of the Song State, the Liao general gave the order to retreat, but he was still chased all the way, and he fled to the nearest Yongzhou City at the cost of more than 10,000 people.

A day later, Su Jin's army arrived outside the city of Yongzhou, and the city defense of an inland city like Yongzhou could not withstand a decent attack at all, and the Song army's strength advantage was too great, so the Yongzhou defenders abandoned the city and fled to the south after defending it for half a day.

After the city of Yongzhou was broken, the army rested for half a day, made supplies, incorporated the captured 6,000 war horses into the cavalry, and set fire to Yongzhou City, but did not make a detour to the north to approach Shangjing as originally planned, because Su Jin had realized that it was not a good idea to forcibly attack Shangjing at this time, so it was better to simply go east and penetrate and destroy the weak areas of Liao.

By 16 July, within nearly a month, Su Jin's army had broken through Liaoyang, the capital of Tokyo Province, and attacked Liaoyang, the capital of Tokyo Province, and three days later broke through the empty city of Liaoyang.

For more than two months, the entire territory of Liao State was already a miasma, the main battlefield in the south made little progress, the Song army relied on the second line of defense for more than a month, after the second line of defense was broken, I thought it could quickly advance, but unexpectedly in Qingzhou, Daimyofu, Xiangzhou, Luzhou, Jinzhou line, the third line of defense of the Song army has also been formed; For the Song people, as time passed, although the frontal battlefield was tight, but the confidence was increasing, and the latest good news strengthened Zhao Zhen's confidence in holding the defensive line, because the general Di Qing had already led his troops to a decisive battle with Nong Zhigao at the end of June, and defeated Nong Zhigao; Less than 1,000 of Nongzhigao's rebels fled to the southwest, and the battle to counter-insurgency had already won a decisive victory; Di Qing led an army of 80,000 to quell the rebellion, and he had already gone north to reinforce the three northern routes.

Yelu Zong is really like an ant on a hot pot, the news of the broken city in the rear flew like snowflakes, Zhongjing, Shangjing, Tokyo Sandao was attacked eleven cities in a row, and even Liaoyang fell into the hands of the enemy, and Su Jin was very tricky, he didn't kill the people, but plundered materials and food, burned the city, and destroyed the city defense; This directly led to a large number of people wandering south and north, causing great chaos; The frontal battle is progressing slowly, and it has gradually declined, Bianliang is close to three hundred miles away, but it is like a bright moon in the sky, it seems to be within reach, but it is close to the end of the world.

The only thing that makes Yelu Zong really happy is that Shangjing Linhuang Mansion has not been lost, it is the capital of Liaoguo, if Linhuang Mansion is lost, although it is only a city, it will bring greater panic, which is a psychological blow, and it is often more frustrating.

Yelu Zong really saw it very clearly, so he refused to order the nearly 200,000 troops gathered in Shangjing Dao to go out to pursue Su Jin's army, so that Su Jin was even more unscrupulous, and the small Liao army did not dare to fight with it at all, Su Jin was like wandering in his own backyard, and he scourged Tokyo Dao all over in one go.

Yelu Zong really had to consider whether this battle could be fought, the Song State was more powerful than imagined, I always thought that the Song State was weak, and after the army beat them hard, the Song people would admit and sue for peace, but I didn't expect the Song people to be so bold after making up their minds, and the frontal battlefield battle was completely dependent on the courage of the Liao people to gain an advantage, but the price of this small advantage was a mess in the country.

Seeing that it was autumn, Yeluzong really understood what kind of situation it would be like once it was September, and in October, it would snow in the northern part of the Great Liao, and so many homeless people would be homeless, what a terrible thing it would be; Although after the snow, Su Jin's army will lose its ability to maneuver and its destructive power will become weaker, but the same is true of his own army, and it is not a reliable thing to attack the Song State in the harsh winter season.

At the military meeting in the newly occupied Taiyuan Mansion, Yeluzong really proposed to stop here and return to the army to save himself; One part of the army held the border, and the other cooperated with the domestic army to strangle Su Jin; This time the opinions were surprisingly unified, even Yelu Chongyuan, who had always been opposed, realized that the frontal battlefield was like chicken ribs, and it was a pity to abandon it without taste, and he had already paid the price of more than 60,000 units, but only advanced 300 miles, and the third line of defense of the Song army in front of him was formed.

"Your Majesty, please lead your troops to come back and strangle Su Jin'er." Xiao Hui immediately asked for help.

Yelu Chongyuan rolled his eyes and said: "No, King Xiao stays at the border to defend, I will go to meet him, if I don't take this little man's head, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart." ”

Xiao Hui said: "It is better for His Royal Highness the Imperial Brother to sit on the border, Su Jin is very cunning and not easy to deal with." ”

Yelu Chongyuan sneered, "You mean, you're smarter than me? At the foot of Helan Mountain, you were not defeated by him? ”

Xiao Hui wanted to be refuted, but Yelu Zong really shouted angrily: "What time is it, the two of you are still arguing, I have decided, Chongyuan will lead 100,000 troops to come back, 200,000 troops in Shangjing will be under your command, and 300,000 troops should have a chance of winning against Su Jin's remaining 180,000 people; Xiao Aiqing led more than 400,000 troops to garrison here, and the offensive could be slowed down a little, but the Song army must not be allowed to take this opportunity to counterattack. ”

The two did not dare to argue strongly, and they received orders one after another; Everyone agreed to storm the Song army's defense line before Yelu Chongyuan led his troops to withdraw, so as to confuse the Song army, so that the Song army could not be aware that the Liao army had the idea of withdrawing.

This frontal attack was like the last madness, and the Liao army attacked on all fronts, storming the few cities held at any cost; The Song army resisted desperately, and the two sides came and went, often changing hands in one day, and the casualties were extremely heavy; Three days later, the two sides died down, the Liao people exchanged nearly 30,000 casualties for the control of the Daimyo's mansion, the Song people suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and finally retreated 50 miles to hold on to Tanshui; The Liao people did not attack again, that night, the commander of the left army Yelu Chongyuan quietly led 100,000 cavalry to withdraw from the battlefield and return to Liao overnight, and Xiao Hui, who took over the command of the whole line, actually learned from Han Qi Fan Zhongyan, repaired the city wall, dug earth and built fortifications and began to hold on.

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After occupying Liaoyang, the army attacked in all directions, annihilated the defensive troops of Baozhou and Xianzhou on the border of Goryeo and Liao, and destroyed all the fortifications, and then marched north to Muzhou, Zhengzhou, which is already the base of the Liao people in the north, and the largest pasture and cattle, sheep, livestock and horses are raised in the northeast, which is also the junction of the Liao and the Jurchens.

Here, Su Jin's remaining 180,000 troops became a pure cavalry team, although the Song army was not good at fighting on horseback, and some didn't even know how to ride horses, but what Su Jin wanted was not to fight on horseback, but to be able to ride horses, and it was enough to be able to maneuver everywhere, for this reason, on the prairie in the east of Zhengzhou, Su Jin even stopped and let the soldiers practice horseback riding for three days.

On this day, Su Jin was studying the topographic map in the tent, and he found that there was a place called Longzhou about two hundred miles north of Zhengzhou, and the name was the same as that of Longzhou in the south of the Xia Kingdom, but Su Jin always felt that this Longzhou had some familiar feelings, when he asked about the general situation of Longzhou in Liao, Jingtai told him that this Longzhou is commonly known as Huanglongfu, Su Jin suddenly remembered that in more than 100 years, there will be a famous general named Yue Fei, he once said a sentence "go straight to Huanglongfu, drink with all the kings", although he did not do it in the end, But smashing the Yellow Dragon has become synonymous with defeating the enemy's key points, and now that it is so close, how can he not go straight to the Yellow Dragon?

Thinking of this, Su Jin became hot all over, what Yue Fei didn't do, he was about to do it, he immediately proposed to march north to smash Huanglong, and as soon as the words came out, he was splashed with cold water by Jingtai.

"Dashuai think twice, our attack on Zhengzhou is already the limit, you need to know that this grassland on the edge of the city is the common border between the Liao State and the Jurchens, and the Huanglong Mansion is closer to the territory of the Jurchen tribes, if we attack the Huanglong Mansion if it causes misunderstanding among the Jurchens, wouldn't it be a fire? Don't look at the current situation where we are coming and going, I am sure that the Liao people must have gathered a large army to follow our ass and pursue it, if we provoke the Jurchen tribe again, wouldn't it be a two-sided enemy? ”

Su Jin paced slowly, frowning and thinking carefully, Jingtai's worries were not superfluous, the Jurchens were indeed not easy to provoke, and the Liao people were also deploying heavy troops at the junction with the Jurchens, and their intention was naturally to prevent the Jurchens from making any changes, if this was the case, he might be able to stir up the troubled waters again in the already chaotic Liao country and make the water even more muddy.