Yelu Chongyuan led an army of 100,000 to Shangjing Road day and night, and he very much hoped to see Su Jin's army attacking Linhuang Mansion, because in that case, he could give Su Jin a blow from the back of the abdomen, and the Shangjing defenders made Su Jin dumplings.

It's a pity that the news that came made him both frustrated and angry, Su Jin's army did not go north after flooding Zuzhou, but suddenly appeared at the boundary of Yongzhou a few days later, and after annihilating 30,000 Dadingfu tribal soldiers who rushed to Shangjing to reinforce them, they actually went all the way east into Tokyo Road, and the state capitals along the way were captured and destroyed one by one.

Yelu Chongyuan had to adjust his strategy, he quickly ordered the defenders of Linhuang Mansion to move eastward, and he turned to the northeast to follow the footsteps of Su Jin's army all the way, but he would not take the lead, Su Jin's army was nearly twice as many as him in number, and before the 150,000 troops of Linhuang Mansion were not in place, Yelu Chongyuan would never attack rashly, and it was the best strategy to encircle on both sides.

When Su Jin's army captured Huanglongfu, Yelu Chongyuan guessed his next target, except for Xinzhou in the south, the rest of the slightly larger cities were almost all leveled by Su Jin, and the return army attacked Xinzhou with little benefit, and the east was a reckless land and reached the territory of the Jurchens, and the mountains and forests in the north were vertical and horizontal, and there was no big city, so Su Jin's next target must be to attack Taizhou in the east; The trick of Su Jin's army is like drawing a circle, and the eastward attack on Taizhou happens to close this circle.

Yelu Chongyuan immediately led his army to Taizhou in the northwest, and at the same time Pegasus ordered the army transferred from Linhuang Mansion to occupy Taizhou before Su Jin's army; The defenders of Linhuangfu lived up to their expectations, and finally succeeded in taking Taizhou before Su Jin's army on October 17, and at the same time made a defensive posture and waited for the attack of Su Jin's army; Yelu Chongyuan also led his troops from the south two days later, he did not dare to stay behind Su Jin's army, because if once the Song army found that Taizhou could not be attacked and adopted the strategy of going to the southwest to break through to the south, he would bear the brunt, so he chose to quietly go around from the east to Taizhou to join the army, so that he had 250,000 troops in his hands, relying on Taizhou City and the Song army to confront him head-on, and his heart was not empty at all.

Sure enough, after the Song army entered the east fifty miles of Taizhou on the 19th, they immediately stopped their advance, obviously they had found that the left side of Taizhou was densely packed with Liao soldiers, after a short hesitation, the Song army was as cunning as a fox, and immediately chose to turn around and leave.

After Yelu Chongyuan received the report, he immediately realized that the Song people did not want to fight head-on, and must still want to rely on mobility to cause nuisance everywhere, so he decisively made the decision to pursue; After a morning of regrouping, in the afternoon, 250,000 troops chased after the retreating Song army.

East of Taizhou, a horse Pingchuan, the cavalry pursued very quickly, and soon you could see the Song army brigade in front of the smoke, Yelu Chongyuan was extremely excited, although the battle on the southern battlefield did not suffer, but after all, the battle was not what he was good at, and the pursuit battle on this grassland was his master.

The 50,000 cavalry in the front team soon chased the Song army several miles away, and even the back of the Song army fled in panic, these Song troops seemed to be not good at horsemanship, but they ran very slowly on horseback, according to this speed, they could directly rush into the enemy formation within half an hour and slaughter them.

Just when Yelu Chongyuan was about to give the order to attack, a detail caught his attention, he found that the enemy army fleeing in front of him was actually fleeing to the northeast, which was obviously illogical, a normal person would choose to flee to the south, it seemed that there was something wrong here.

Sure enough, after a while, the Song army itself showed its horses' feet, and the Song army, which was originally running unfast, suddenly galloped like a chicken's blood, and the Song army's horses did not lose much strength because of their trotting, and the Liao cavalry has been pursuing quickly, at this time the horses were a little tired, and they were quickly thrown out, and the distance between the two sides was quickly shortened to ten miles away; The strange thing is that after widening the distance, Song Jun's speed was full again, and the whole thing was a seductive posture of running and stopping.

Yelu Chongyuan understood that Song Jun was deliberately luring himself to chase after them, and the purpose of doing so was undoubtedly to cover up something; An hour later, the news brought by the scouts confirmed this, the Song army that fled in front was scattered because of the formation, and it looked like the main army, but in fact there were only thirty or forty thousand people, that is, the main force of the Song army disappeared.

"Fuck it! It was too cunning to sacrifice thirty or forty thousand cavalry to cover the main force to flee south. Yelu Chongyuan scolded.

The generals under him hurriedly asked: "Your Highness, then should we eat the thirty or forty thousand Song troops, or go to find the Song army's brigade?" ”

Yelu Chongyuan thought about it for a while and said: "Chasing the main force, these thirty or forty thousand cavalry are prepared, they must flee lightly, and when they are annihilated, the Song army brigade may have long disappeared, and it is not too late to make amends, immediately send a scout team to the southeast to search, as long as the main force of the Song army does not have wings, as long as there is a little brain, it can only flee to the southeast." ”

The generals acted immediately, the army gave up the rabbit, turned around and chased to the southeast, and the more than 30,000 cavalry of the Song army who were lured turned around to seduce and harass, in a vain attempt to lure the Liao army to chase again, but the Liao army ignored it and went southeast by itself; The Song army was too small in number, and could only harass and shout from a distance, but did not dare to really attack this huge Liao army; The generals of the Song army saw that the Liao people saw through the plan, shouted and cursed for a while, and then disappeared at the end of the grassland.

These more than 30,000 Song troops are already dead in the eyes of Yelu Chongyuan, although they may cause some more damage to the north and east, but as long as their army catches up with Su Jin's main force, it will be a crushing battle, and the main force of the Song army divided is less than 150,000, regardless of the number or combat power, they will be overwhelming, which is also the reason why Yelu Chongyuan gave up pursuing the more than 30,000 Song troops who were bound to die.

In the southwest, various traces were gradually found in the meadows, with ruts crisscrossing the meadows, and the cart with broken wheels fell crookedly on the grass, and the cart was full of grain bales; There are also Great Liao standard armor and weapons, which were obviously plundered by the Song army; After a little further walk, more supplies were abandoned on the grass, and the Song retreat was extremely hasty, with tents, food, weapons, and even carts loaded with more than a dozen barrels of fire oil abandoned on the ground.

Yelu Chongyuan's heart was full of joy, and he pointed at these things with his braid and laughed: "Sons, the Song people have no rules, and even these important military materials can be discarded, and the military spirit has been dispersed; And this must be the main force of the Song army, only the main army will carry these material carts forward. ”

Yelu Chongyuan's words were confirmed, after dark, the scout team returned, fifty miles ahead, the main force of the Song army was fleeing overnight, because it was dark and it was impossible to see how many people there were, but according to the length of the torches and formation, it was estimated that it would not be wrong.

Yelu Chongyuan laughed and said: "Okay, then they can't run away, the scout team is hanging the tail of Song Jun, they have been running for a day, it is impossible to escape all night, they must stop and rest; The order goes down, the whole army rests on the spot, there is no need to camp, let's set off again in the middle of the night, if the Song army can't stay up and stop to rest in the middle of the night, we just step on the Song camp in good spirits; Even if they escape overnight, they can't fly out of the palm of our hands, this is my Daliao's Shangjing Daoping, and there are still thousands of miles away from the Song Realm. ”

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Two hundred miles northeast of Taizhou, a small lake depression, in the dark, the soldiers of the Song army lay on the grass by the lake in twos and threes chewing dry food, the grassland at night in October was already very cold, but Su Dashuai strictly ordered not to light the fire and not to make noise, the soldiers could only lean together to keep warm, silently watching the stars in the sky, listening to the chirping of autumn insects around and the sound of horses strolling and grazing.

Su Jin stood on a small dirt bag with his hands in his hands, looking south, his brows furrowed; Zhang Long and Zhao Hu beside him stood across the sword, also looking south.

There was a sound of shaking in the grass, and the soldiers lying on the ground got up, grabbed their blades and looked nervously to the south.

"Signal." Su Jin ordered.

Three gunpowder arrows burst into the air, a sharp whistling sound pierced the ear drums, and the flames on their tails were very striking in the night sky; After a while, three gunpowder arrows were also shot not far to the south, and the sparks exploded in the air for a few breaths and then disappeared without a trace.

"Son, it's they who are back." Zhao Hu said happily.

The expression on Su Jin's face relaxed, the black figure in the distance shook, and Ma Han's big voice came from afar: "Dashuai, we are back." ”

Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief, in order to make the drama more realistic, Su Jin risked his life to order Ma Han to lead 30,000 light cavalry to deliberately lead the Liao army north, to make time for the dynasty to open the distance, this move is also to make the suspicious Yelu Chongyuan more convinced that the dynasty's army is the main force, this is the use of the real and the real is the trick of the virtual, in the use of the art of war, Su Jin is enough to become a generation of famous generals.