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The red-coated thieves came out of the mountain in large numbers and attacked Xuzhou.The military situation was urgent for eight hundred miles. In the evening of the same day, the news was known in Haozhou, Suzhou, Danzhou, Guidefu and other places.All the city guards were shocked.

The first battle to suppress the Song people in the south was not going well. I heard that the Song people sent envoys to go north, and the navy will cooperate with the Song people. The generals were already depressed.

The more knowledgeable generals carried maps with the army, and they took them out from time to time to look at them, guessing what benefits the Ding Navy would get from the Song people before they would act.If they take action, what scale will it be, and where will they focus their efforts.

Generally speaking, more experienced generals and academies feel that the move to order the navy should be in late autumn and early winter.At that time, food collection began in the local area, and the military households could barely scrape together the supplies needed for an expedition. In addition, the dispatched troops were in accordance with the custom of the Ding Navy, which was about 1 to [-].

As for the direction of the army's actions, it will not be in Xijing Province, which has been run by the loyal Marshal for ten years. It is mostly on Hebei West Road and Xingzhou Zhending.At that place, Marshal Wanyan Heda was holding the front line of defense, not far from Kaifeng.

Ding Haijun's family was weak, and the people of Song Dynasty were very cunning, so it was impossible for him to spend huge sums of money, which really made Ding Haijun fight fiercely.They almost created a little momentum, and the troops of the Southern Expedition should be withdrawn, and all the soldiers of the thirteen captains pressed up to face off for a while. Ding Haijun had some explanations to the Song people, and the whole thing was over.

As a result, everyone's guesses were all wrong.

It turned out that it was the bandits hiding in the mountains who sent troops!As soon as they came, they chose Xuzhou, the first gateway to the east of Nanjing Road!
Those who fought with Dajin in Huainan were thieves from the Red Coat Army, and now it is the thieves from the Red Coat Army who are attacking Xuzhou... These bastards who did not know how to live or die were not killed back then. What a benefit!Come here to make trouble for Daikin!

When Yang An'er, the supporter of this group of people, founded the country, didn't Yidu and Kaifeng both work together to destroy them?Although Yang An'er died in our hands, Guo Ning suddenly turned his face and took over the territory of the Red Coat Army... So soon, regardless of past suspicions, he stood together?

Then Guo Ning is indeed a thief, and he can chat better with thieves!
Generals from all walks of life hurriedly mobilized their troops, ready to respond.However, the military orders received by the various ministries were originally to go south to follow the orders of Marshal Wanyan Saibu in Shouzhou, so they were not allowed to turn back for a while.Only Guide Mansion and Danzhou were able to send troops to rescue Xuzhou immediately.

Guide Mansion is the residence of the general manager of the military and horse capital of the East and West Roads of Shanxi Province assigned by the Kaifeng court.The Marshal of the East, the Chief of the Army and Horses, Wan Yanbi, the Jiedu envoy of the Xuanwu Army, is in charge of one prefecture and three prefectures, and is responsible for dealing with the bandits in Shandong.

At dusk, the first military newspaper calling for help from Xuzhou came.

Two hours later, another message from the Jin Army's Mangdang Mountain Camp arrived.

The messenger set off with two horses.When he arrived at Guide Mansion, a horse died from Congmale. His throat was hoarse and he couldn't speak, so he had to ask for a pen and ink to write down: The bandit army beat Liu, Peng, Hao, Shi, and Huo flags more, and all sides Surround the city.Pengcheng is on fire, and the sound of fighting can be heard for tens of miles!urgent!urgent!
It's not a small matter for the Taishan bandits to dispatch!They don't want to live in the mountains, do they?There are more than half of the famous bandit leaders below Liu Erzu!
No matter how dangerous Xuzhou is, there are only 3000 to [-] people in the hands of the famous people. It is not easy to defend such a big city.And Xuzhou has been a place of military use since ancient times, and military strategists must fight for it. This place really cannot be lost.

Wan Yanbi made a prompt decision and ordered the troops of Guide Mansion to prepare.The ministries in charge of staying behind signed a large number of troops to enrich their troops, and the more elite all took out the armor and weapons at the bottom of the box from the treasury that night to distribute to the people, and went out of the city to rescue Xuzhou early tomorrow morning.

There are not many troops sent out to rescue, only five hundred elite cavalry and two thousand armored soldiers.

This is because Wanyan Bi himself is extremely confident in his own bravery.When he was young, he served as a vanguard for Prime Minister Wan Yanxiang. He rode an iron cavalry at the Longju River and defeated the Tatar tribe of the Heita tribe. , beheaded its leader, Mieguzhen Xue Wuletu.

In the Taihe period, he was the vanguard of Marshal Wanyan Kuang, and made great contributions to Pingnan Dangjiang General.During the Battle of Yehuling, Wan Yanbi personally raised Ma Li and several cavalry to advance, and he was one of the very few Jurchen generals.

In Wan Yanbi's view, the Taishan bandit bandits had always had a huge force, but after several defeats, their elite fighters were limited in number, otherwise they would not have retreated into the mountains for several years.Wan Yanbi went to the rescue with this force, which was enough to crush the bloody road among tens of thousands of bandits, to fight in and out.

The remaining 2000 troops were led by the deputy general, coupled with thousands of civilians called temporarily, enough to hold on to Guide Mansion, which is close to the fork of the Yellow River and surrounded by water on all sides.

The soldiers went to prepare by themselves, Wan Yanbi thought for a moment, then wrote another letter, ordering someone to report to Danzhou urgently.In the letter, he demanded that the guard of Shanzhou, Niangou Tuolin, must stick to the city, and even the 34 Lianzhuzhai garrisons along the line from Shanzhou to Jiyin, not a single soldier could move.As long as the city is guarded, it is a great achievement.

A courier took his letter, rode a fast horse, and set off overnight.

The next day, when the sky was still gray, Wan Yanbi's generals reported that 500 elite soldiers were ready to leave the city.Wan Yanbi led the team to set off, preparing to pass through Dangshan Mountain for a short rest, and then go straight down the river to Xuzhou.

Worried about the safety of Xuzhou, he urged the march to be very fast. He marched for sixty miles that day, and continued on the road early the next morning.

Both groups of people arrived at Guide Mansion first, found that Wan Yanbi had missed them, and then chased after them on the road.

A group of messengers reported that there was still a lot of killing outside Xuzhou City.

Another group of messengers brought bad news: "Report to the Marshal, Shanzhou has been attacked by bandits!"

"The rebels still have the strength to go to Shanzhou?" Wanyan Bi asked in surprise.

This courier was not an ordinary soldier, but the Zhizhai of an important garrison in the east of the Yellow River in Shanzhou, so he had met Wanyan Bi before, and his speech was methodical.

He said, yesterday the Taishan bandits attacked Xuzhou from all directions with a bluff, but they let the scattered soldiers outside Xuzhou rush to the village along the water in Shanzhou to ask for help.Several people in the garrison general were persuaded by them and sent troops to respond, but as soon as they left the garrison, they ran into an ambush of bandits.

The defeated soldiers fled all the way and were engulfed by bandits all the way. They went down to Wuzhai that day and rushed to Daling Mountain in the southwest of Shanzhou City.In the afternoon, the thieves were condescending, forcing the defeated soldiers to storm the city, beheading those who did not surrender on the spot, and throwing their heads into the city.They stormed into the night in one breath, and the sound of killing was loud.

However, they may not have enough experience in siege, and they made a lot of noise, and the city has not been able to win.At least until last night, Niangou Telin was still able to hold on.

After hearing this report, Wanyan Bi sneered repeatedly, and all the generals under his command were so angry that their noses were crooked.

The main force of the thieves is attacking Xuzhou, and another one is going to seize Danzhou?
How many people did they use?What kind of powerful medicine did this group of embryo killers take from Ding Haijun's hands, and their appetite and courage suddenly became so big?
Wan Yanbi's Mansion of the General Manager of the East and West Routes of Shanxi Province controlled the three important towns along the Yellow River, namely Caozhou, Shanzhou and Xuzhou.The three important towns echo each other, with Guide Mansion as their backup.Right now, two of the three important towns are divided by bandits... Are they really not afraid that the elite soldiers of Guide Mansion will stand out and defeat them one by one?
Even if one's own troops are weak, being so contemptuous by a group of thieves is really infuriating.

Wan Yanbi pondered for a while, and after weighing, he made up his mind: "First, Xuzhou is the most important thing. Second, there are long nights and dreams, so we can't delay... The main force speeds up the march and arrives in Xuzhou within five days to defeat this bandit army! In addition, send people back In Defu District, dispatch a thousand soldiers and horses to approach Shanzhou via Yucheng, in order to respond to Niangao Telin."

At present, all the generals took orders and urged the headquarters to speed up.

This army is indeed the elite of Wanyan Bi's headquarters, and its training level and fighting will are both excellent.At the order of the lord general, they marched for more than fifty miles every day, and crossed Dangshan the next day.Seeing that Xuzhou was in sight, he suddenly bumped into a handsome army horse head-on. Looking at the flag, it was clearly written with the word "Luo".