Wanyan Chang received a pigeon letter at noon the next day. The content of the letter made him both angry and surprised, "There are tens of thousands of bandits in Shangdang County, and the military strength is weak, so it is difficult to fight against each other. But when he heard that Shangdang County had 200,000 stones of grain, he could solve the urgent needs of the army and beg for a large army to quickly send support."

"What do you think of General Xiao?" Wanyan Chang handed the letter to Xiao Bosong.

Xiao Bosong was the new commander of the Han army in Yanshan. He was originally a nobleman from the Xi family. When the Jin army captured the Liao Kingdom and Shangjing, he led 30,000 troops to surrender and was named Meng'an by Wanyan Agu. This time, he followed Wanyan Xie to conquer the Song Dynasty. After Wanyan Xie angrily killed Yelu Mu, the commander of the Han army in Yanshan, he appointed him as the commander of the Wanyan Chang and stationed in Hedong Road.

Xiao Bosong was cautious and quite decisive, and Wanyan Chang trusted him very much.

Xiao Bosong looked at Gexin and pondered for a moment: "The morale of the Han army on Hedong Road is low and the morale of the army is unstable. It is probably Zhao Wenhui's fear. He was afraid of failure again and was severely punished by the deputy commander, so he did not dare to attack the city, so he asked for help from the deputy commander."

"Hmph!" Wanyan Chang snorted heavily and said in great dissatisfaction: "Even a group of rebel farmers can't beat them, what else can they do?"

"Please calm down. I heard that this rebel army had looted the Linfen County military capital warehouse. It is estimated that they are well equipped and have a large number of people, at least tens of thousands of people. It is indeed a bit difficult for General Zhao's army to deal with them."

This sentence reminded Wanyan Chang, and he immediately remembered this incident. It was indeed a large amount of food and supplies taken away by the rebels of Longde Mansion. At that time, he was in a hurry to attack Taiyuan and had no time to take care of this matter.

"It seems that Shangdang County has 200,000 stones of grain, which is true."

"It should be true. I heard that the Linfen warehouse has a lot of food and grass."

Wanyan Chang paced back and forth with his hands behind his back. He was very worried about forcing the collection of grain recently. The farmers rebelled everywhere, and officials abandoned their seals and fled. Until now, they have not even collected 10,000 stones. If they could find ready-made grain, why would he have to go through so much trouble?

"Let's send troops to Shangdang County!" Wanyan Chang finally made up his mind.

Wanyan Chang immediately led 20,000 cavalry to Shangdang County, while Xiao Bosong led 10,000 Yanshan Han troops to station in Linfen County.

The reason for cavalry was that Wanyan Chang was worried that Zhao Wenhui's army would not last long, and he could use cavalry to arrive in Shangdang County within three days.

The 20,000 cavalry were composed of 10,000 Jurchen soldiers and 10,000 Bohai soldiers. They were all very skilled in riding and rushing on the official road like lightning. Linfen County is located in a basin, surrounded by mountains and flat rivers in the middle. Walking east for about a hundred miles, you will enter the Taiyue Mountain area.

The army had to walk in Taiyue Mountains for at least one day. After leaving Taiyue Mountains, it entered the boundary of Longde Prefecture. Longde Prefecture is also a basin. To the west is the Taiyue Mountains, and to the east is the towering Taihang Mountains. Shangdang County is sandwiched among these two large mountains.

That night, 20,000 cavalry camped in a pine forest at the foot of Panxiu Mountain. The soldiers ran for a day and were really exhausted. They fed the horses, wrapped the blankets on their bodies, and fell asleep.

Wanyan Chang couldn't sleep, so he got up and patrolled around with more than a dozen personal soldiers, and the patrol soldiers from the periphery kept bowing to him.

"Is there any abnormality?" Wanyan Chang asked.

"Qi Bing Deputy Commander, the surroundings are very quiet and there are no unexpected happenings."

Wanyan Chang was a little uneasy. It should be that something happened. At least there should be a beast passing by quietly. How could there be no situation at all?

Wanyan Chang looked around again. There were dark mountains on both sides, and only huge black shadows were left in the dark night. They actually walked through the Taiyue Grand Canyon from the afternoon, and had to walk more than thirty miles before they could get out of the Taiyue Grand Canyon.

Their current seat is the widest place in the canyon, which is more than ten miles wide. The canyon is densely covered with woods. A shallow stream passes through the valley. On both sides are steep mountains. The mountain on the left is called Panxiu Mountain, which is a radius of hundreds of miles. The scenery on the eastern foot is extremely beautiful, while the southern foot is rocky cliffs.

Wanyan Chang was really worried and sent another hundred patrols to patrol the outside world. Then he returned to the pine forest to rest.

In the first update, a black army appeared about twenty miles west of the Jin army camp. The leader was no one else, but Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing ordered Liu Qi to continue to guard Taiyuan, and he led 30,000 troops to secretly leave Taiyuan and headed south into Jinzhou.

When he left Liu Da's army, he actually wanted to use it as bait. The Jin soldiers cruelly surrounded and suppressed the rebels in Hebei, and almost strangled tens of thousands of rebels without encountering any strong resistance. The Jin soldiers despised civil resistance from the bottom of their hearts.

Li Yanqing could use this contempt to let Liu Da's rebel army lure Jin soldiers into the trap. Especially in the Shangdang area where Liu Da's army is located, there are many mountains and the Grand Canyon can be seen everywhere, which is a favorable terrain for dealing with the Jin cavalry.

Li Yanqing's army was ambushed in the Taiyue Mountains the day before yesterday. He let go of the Han army on Hedong Road that rushed to Shangdang County to suppress Liu Dayi's army. He was not interested in such a rambunctious army, and he was patiently waiting for the arrival of the main force of the enemy.

Li Yanqing originally planned to catch two good fish, the Han army on Hedong Road and the Han army on Yanshan Prefecture, but he didn't expect to catch a big fish. Wanyan Chang personally led 20,000 cavalry to attack Shangdang County, which made Li Yanqing full of expectations.

At the same time when 20,000 cavalry left Linfen County to advance east, Li Yanqing received information and quickly made arrangements. There were three places suitable for cavalry camping in Taiyue Grand Canyon. Li Yanqing sent troops to deploy in all three places. Unexpectedly, the Jin soldiers chose the second target to camp in Panxiu Valley.

The Song army also set up a marching tent in the woods. At this time, the lights in the tent were dim. Li Yanqing stood at the table and stared at the map. This was a map of the Grand Canyon drawn by the scout before. Panxiu Valley where the Jin soldiers were stationed in the camp was a key area and it was drawn in detail. Li Yanqing looked at it for a moment, and suddenly frowned slightly, and looked up and asked the scout standing beside him, "How wide and deep is the stream on the Panxiu Valley?"

"The president is about one meter wide and only as deep as ankle."

It seemed similar to here, so he immediately ordered: "Let General Niu Gao come to see me!"

After a moment, Niu Gao quickly walked into the tent, knelt down on one knee and said, "I am not good at judging the governor!"

"General Niu please get up!"

"Thank you, Duke!"

Niu Gao stood up and came to the small table. Li Yanqing pointed to the west of the map and said, "You can lead three thousand people to quickly rush to Gooseneck Valley and cut off the stream. You must finish this before the third update."

"Abide by the orders!"

Seeing that Li Yanqing had no other instructions, Niu Gao immediately said goodbye and left.

Gooseneck Valley is located ten miles away from the west, and is a canyon passing through the north. Li Yanqing led a large army to go south along this canyon. Gooseneck Valley is very narrow, with the narrowest point being only ten feet away. The stream flows down from the north and flows through Gooseneck Valley. If the stream is cut off in Gooseneck Valley, then there will be no water on the stream on Panxiu Valley.

At this time, hundreds of Song soldiers were applying tinder oil to the woods at the east and west ends of Panxiu Valley. Although Panxiu Valley was more than ten miles wide, there were woods everywhere. Once a fire broke out, there was nowhere to escape. There was only a breakthrough east or west. To the east, there was a 10,000 troops led by Wang Gui were waiting outside the entrance of the valley, and to the west, Li Yanqing's army was waiting twenty miles away. In fact, 20,000 Jin cavalry had been surrounded by the Song army in Panxiu Valley.

Time gradually passed two updates, and the marching tent had been removed. Li Yanqing rode on the war horse and stared at the west side. At this time, soldiers rushed to report, "Report to the commander, the stream has been cut off!"

"Sure enough!"

Li Yanqing secretly praised and immediately ordered: "You can ignite the fire!"

Three rockets soared into the air, which was the signal of ignition. The Song army, who were ambushed about five miles away from the enemy, immediately began to ignite the fire. They ran with torches and ignited hundreds of fire points.

At this time, the Jin soldiers on the patrol in the pine forest also discovered an abnormality, and the stream water was cut off. The soldiers on the patrol were panicked and rushed to report to Wanyan Chang.

"What! The stream is broken?"

Wanyan Chang was stunned. What is the reason? He was a little awake and realized something was wrong. He immediately stood up and whispered: "Tell me my order, all the soldiers will get on the horse immediately!"

At this time, a patrolman rushed back and shouted: "There is a fire, and a fire ignited in the east!"

Due to the strong wind in the valley and the east wind, the thick smoke from the east blew into the camp of the Jin soldiers. The thick smoke in the woods was filled with smoke. Twenty thousand cavalrymen were choked in their sleep. The soldiers were extremely frightened and turned over to horses, not even caring about the blankets wrapped around their bodies. The war horses felt the danger and raised their hooves and neighed.

"Deputy Commander, what should I do now?" a thousand-man yelled.

"Leave the pine forest first and go to the south to take a look!"

Wanyan Chang took the lead in urging his horse to run south. Twenty thousand cavalrymen turned their horses to follow. The army was running from the forest. The sky turned red. There were terrible crackling sounds coming from the woods in the distance. It was the sound of the burning trees, which was terrifying.

Panxiu Valley was more than ten miles wide. The Jin soldiers were originally camping in the northernmost pine forest, but they fled to the southernmost yard to find a way out, but the woods in the south and north were ignited by fire and there was no way out at all.

Sweat beads rolling on Wanyan Chang's forehead. He realized that he had made a big mistake and should have broken through when the fire just started. It was a bit late now, but they had no way out except breaking through.

Wanyan Chang gritted his teeth and said to Wanyan Teri: "We will break through separately. You lead 10,000 cavalry to break east. I will lead another 10,000 cavalry to break west. If the breakthrough is successful, turn to Luoyang and rob supplies along the way!"

"Abide by the order!"

Wanyan Teri shouted, "The Second Army follows me to break eastward!"

He took the lead, and the 10,000 Bohai cavalry from the Second Army urged their horses to follow him.

The 20,000 cavalry of the Jin soldiers were divided into two groups, one to the east and the other to the west. When Wanyan Teli walked far away, Wanyan Chang raised his arms and shouted, leading 10,000 cavalry to rush towards the direction he came.
Chapter completed!