The so-called Qizhou defense is actually an dispatcher. There is no such position on the local official list of the imperial court. It is just a temporary establishment for the need to suppress bandits, arresting Qizhou's rioters, and preventing Yunzhou's rioters from rushing to Qizhou to cause chaos, etc. There are some things, but Tong Guan did not give Li Yanqing a soldier. Not only that, he also took back all the troops of the Xuanwu Camp infantry and the two thousand surrendered soldiers from Qizhou back to Yunzhou.

Tong Guan was unable to mobilize the two thousand special troops of Qizhou, which was the two thousand township soldiers who were seconded from Xiangzhou by Li Yanqing. The turtle talisman was in the hands of Li Yanqing. Tong Guan was the pacifier of Jingdong and Jingdong, but he had no right to interfere with the township soldiers of Xiangzhou.

This made Tong Guan feel quite uncomfortable, but he had no choice but to urge Li Yanqing to send the village soldiers back to Xiangzhou as soon as possible.

Li Yanqing did not let Wang Gui follow him in the end. Although Wang Gui valued loyalty very much, Li Yanqing did not want to delay his friends' future. Besides, Liu Qi protected him and Niu Gao, which also relieved Li Yanqing. He only took two people to Qizhou in total, one was his aide Mo Jun, and the other was Yang Guang who had been following him.

On the way to Qizhou, Yang Guang kept following behind and muttering in a low voice. He really couldn't understand. Because he refused to be loyal to Tong Guan, he was demoted from the commander of 6,000 people to the head of two thousand town soldiers. This gap really made him unacceptable.

Mo Jun agreed with Li Yanqing's choice. Since Li Yanqing was recognized as a person from Zhong Shidao and Zhong Shidao was demoted, if he turned to loyalty to Tong Guan, who would dare to use him in the future? This is not only an attitude, but also a kind of sidelines, and it may not be a bad thing!

Seeing that Yang Guang had been mumbling for a long time, Mo Jun couldn't help knocking on his head and cursed: "The official is taking retreat as an advance, do you understand? He was demoted because of the prince. Will the prince treat him badly in the future? He doesn't even understand this, staring short-sightedly at the little profit in front of him."

Yang Guang stuck out his tongue and didn't dare to say anything. Li Yanqing rode a horse in front and smiled: "Sir, you can see farther than me! I just don't want to do things for Tong Guan, so I didn't think so much!"

Mo Jun smiled and said, "The officials refused to do things for him, but they were actually a kind of team leader."

Li Yanqing smiled but said nothing. Seeing that the Liangshan Army had reached the last moment, he was forced to give up. Of course, he was reluctant to leave, but Tong Guan replaced Zhong Shidao at this critical moment, and Li Yanqing had to choose his own destiny at this critical moment.

This year is the second year of Xuanhe. In two years, Tong Guan will lead a large army to attack Liao, and eventually suffered two major defeats, losing all the elite troops of the Song army. If he can stop this battle, he will have to use the flag to Xuan Ming to oppose Tong Guan's aggressive advance.

If he is unable to change this history, then Li Yanqing must also avoid this crushing defeat and must not become Tong Guan's funeral object.

At noon the next day, Li Yanqing arrived in Licheng County. Zhao Mingcheng, the temporary magistrate, heard that Li Yanqing was coming and went out of the city to greet him.

The two of them exchanged a few greetings, and Zhao Mingcheng sighed: "Taiwei Tong refused to use his virtuous brother. It is because he is ignorant of others. But it is better to take a step back and come to Qizhou to recuperate."

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Brother Mingcheng knows me!"

At this time, two burly generals came forward to greet him, "The last general will meet the commander!"

Li Yanqing couldn't help but be stunned. These two people were actually Lu Fei and Wang Ping. Why are they still here?

"Didn't you go to Yunzhou with the army?"

"Reported to the commander, Zhang Tuanlian's father was seriously ill. When he rushed back to Xiangzhou, he entrusted the village soldiers to us. Taiwei Tong Guan transferred the army back to Yunzhou. We didn't want to go back, so we led the village soldiers to stay in Qizhou."

This result immediately made Li Yanqing overjoyed. With Lu Fei and Wang Ping leading the village soldiers, how much trouble he saved him!

"Okay! OK! This is the best result I heard today."

Zhao Mingcheng smiled again and said, "Please come to the city! We have prepared a glass of water and wine to welcome you!"

Li Yanqing introduced Mo Jun to him, and everyone entered the county town together.

......

Zhong Shidao had previously obtained detailed information brought back by Li Yanqing. From these detailed information, he finally discovered the weakness of the Liangshan Army, which was the grain problem. The granary in Xucheng County was not large and could only store up to 20,000 stones of grain. If other soldiers and armor were to be stored, then 20,000 stones of grain would not be stored.

If all the food outside Xucheng County can be destroyed one by one in advance, then when the Liangshan army retreats northward in large numbers, it will encounter a serious food crisis and will eventually be defeated without a fight.

Zhong Shidao carefully planned, and the Liangshan army finally entered the trap he arranged. At this time, there were 50,000 troops in Xucheng County, but the military rations were only 18,000 stones, which was only enough for the Liangshan army to support for one month.

When Song Jiang received news that food and supplies were ambushed in Jishui, he realized that there might be a problem of insufficient food, but at this time he had no choice but to be forced to enter Xucheng County.

Twenty days have passed, and the contradiction of insufficient food has gradually been exposed. However, the master's methods have been vicious and eliminated all the wheat fields within 20 miles near the city, shattering the last glimmer of hope of Song Jiang's out of the city to grab the wheat.

Song Jiang was helpless and had to cut the soldiers' daily food expenses. For a moment, Liangshan soldiers complained.

That afternoon, Song Jiang suddenly received a pigeon letter from the capital. He learned that the court had changed generals at the last battle, removed the Master Zhong and replaced it with Tong Guan as the main general. This news immediately made Song Jiang overjoyed.

Mr. Zhong's stinginess really made Song Jiang tremble. At this time, he was replaced by Tong Guan, who had always been stubborn. Song Jiang immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He saw another glimmer of hope in despair.

On the city wall, Song Jiang and Lu Junyi stared at the expanded military camp overnight. The government army obviously increased its troops, which means that Tong Guan was most likely to have already taken place.

"Mr. Song, our food can only be supported for seven days, and we must break through within five days." Lu Junyi spoke very slowly, but every sentence hit Song Jiang's heart.

The so-called breakthrough means returning to Liangshan, which is the retreat that Song Jiang is most reluctant to accept. He finally whitewasted from the bandits to separatist forces, and now he wants to retreat again, which makes him feel extremely uncomfortable.

But Song Jiang also knew that they had no other way out except to return to Liangshan.

Song Jiang sighed slightly, "I know, it's better to go out sooner than later. While Tong Guan's foothold is not stable, he will fight directly."

"It's better to make a fuss to attack the west, pretend to go to the east gate, and then go out from the west gate. I suggest you take action tonight."

"tonight!"

Song Jiang was a little hesitant, "Are you too hasty?"

"As Mr. Song said, the key to whether we can succeed in breaking through is that the other party has not yet established a firm foothold. Once Tong Guan has a firm foothold, as long as he inherits the blockade strategy of Zhong Shidao, we will be defeated without a fight, so our chance is only this time."

Although the power struggle between Song Jiang and Lu Junyi was extremely fierce, the interests of the two were consistent on the issue of breaking through.

Song Jiang pondered for a moment and finally nodded, "Okay! Now I will gather the generals to discuss the details of the breakthrough."

.........

At night, soldiers who had been busy outside the city fell asleep one after another. The camp was silent. More than a thousand patrol soldiers patrolled back and forth vigilantly to prevent the Liangshan army from attacking the camp in the city. Zhong Shidao installed a camp outside the camp. Although Tong Guan decisively replaced dozens of generals loyal to Zhong Shidao, including Li Yanqing, Tong Guan inherited Zhong Shidao's caution in terms of camping.

Of course, this is also Tong Guan’s own cautious style. Instead of removing the camp gate, he added peripheral sentry towers and stationed a new 30,000 troops. He also built the camp gate and added patrol soldiers to prevent the Liangshan army from stealing the camp.

At the first update, the East City Gate of Xucheng County suddenly opened. Lin Chong and Dong Ping led 30,000 soldiers to suddenly break out from the east gate and headed to the official army camp a mile away. They were immediately discovered by soldiers patrolling the outside.

Dozens of rockets shot out into the sky, and the Dongdaying sirens were loud. The official army had a large camp outside the four city gates. Among them, the three camps in the south, north and east had 10,000 government troops stationed each, while the Xicheng was the focus of defense and the main camp, with 20,000 troops stationed.

The shouts of killing outside the East City were shocking the sky. Tong Guan was not asleep yet. He heard the shouts of killing and hurried out of the tent.

"Go and see quickly, where is the fierce battle?"

Before the personal soldiers could inquire, a soldier rushed over and reported: "Report to the Taiwei, tens of thousands of enemy troops attacked Dongying, and Dongdaying was in a hurry. General Wang asked the Taiwei to send someone to support him."

Tong Guan was shocked and tens of thousands of people attacked Dongying. Tong Guan did not realize that the Liangshan Army was breaking through. He believed that the Liangshan Army was stealing the camp while he was not stable.

Although Zhong Shidao explained the grain storage situation of Liangshan Army in detail in the letter he left to him, Tong Guan did not realize that the food problem was the key to the entire battle, nor did he realize that the Liangshan Army could no longer support it because of insufficient food.

He ordered urgently: "Let the Beiying and Nanying go to support quickly."

The soldiers rushed to pass the order. Soon, when Zhang Shuye heard the news, he hurried to dissuade him: "Taiwei, the troops in the north and south military camps cannot be transferred. This may be the Liangshan army's voice attack from the east and west, and they are about to break through."

Tong Guan has always been stubborn and even his confidant could not persuade him what he decided, let alone Zhang Shuye. Tong Guan smiled, "How is it possible to use a 30,000 army to cover the breakout? Song Jiang will not do such a thing as buying a box and returning a pearl. Zhang Sima was worried too much. This must be Song Jiang who came to steal the camp while I was not stable and wanted to give me a blow. I want to see if it was his stick or my head."

"Zhong Shuai once said that Liangshan Army lacked food and could not hold on for a month..."

Tong Guan hated the most at this time that he heard the three "Zengshishidao". He had cleaned up so many people with the teacher's way, and there was actually a fish that had escaped the net in front of him.

Tong Guan said coldly: "Military orders are like mountains. If Zhang Sima thinks that my military orders do not need to be followed, then I can send Zhang Sima to Beijing to continue to follow the way of Zhong Shidao."

After saying that, Tong Guan turned around and left, ignoring Zhang Shuye. Zhang Shuye was so angry that he stamped his feet and cursed in his heart, "The eunuch party is ruining the country!"

.........

Inside the south city gate, Song Jiang was full of armor and a sword in his hand. He was followed by dozens of Liangshan generals, and there were 20,000 elite troops behind him.

On the top of the city, a soldier shouted: "The enemy has gone to the East City, and the north and south camps are empty camps."

Song Jiang was overjoyed and shouted: "Caicheng to break through!"

The suspension bridge fell and the city gate opened. Twenty thousand Liangshan troops rushed out of the southern city gate like a flood and rushed towards the enemy's empty Nanda camp.
Chapter completed!