Only God is left

Those things were a long time ago, and he doesn't think of them very often now.At this time, Emperor Mingzong had already passed away, and Lu Wang Li attacked from Kehexi and entered Luoyang to become a great treasure.Fu Yanqing, who had already recovered her original surname, was now holding a horsewhip on the dusty school field outside the Yizhou military camp, angrily berating the newly recruited soldiers with a face like who owed him how much money: What are you waiting for with all your strength? Ah? Wait until the Khitans kill them and then contribute your strength?"

It is said that the new governor of Yizhou has a bad temper, and it is true.It's just that his temper comes and goes quickly, he never remembers overnight grudges, he does one thing and two things, and he understands that he is a straightforward person.After staying for a long time, the soldiers all admired him, but when this man got angry, he was a little overwhelmed: "——I went to the city to find some women who are better than you!"

Fu Yanqing was really worried: God, the imperial court is weak right now, and the big towns in the north are ready to move. If anyone really lures the Khitan soldiers to go south to Yizhou, he will bear the brunt.Not to mention that it was Shi Jingtang, the envoy of the Jiedu in Hedong, and Li Congke, the lord of the Tang Dynasty, had been fighting with him when he was in Hexi.On the day when the paper on the window is pierced, Shi Jingtang will inevitably learn from the previous record of the capital to attract Khitan people.

It seems that this is the place where his bones are buried.By this time he had given up completely, the world was really disgusting, and he really wouldn't be here for long, but he didn't want to leave now either—was it really dead?Like his father or Ming Emperor Xianchao, or the kind of man he had seen when he was under Emperor Zhuang's tent who could fulfill his promises, be responsible for what he had done, stand upright with his head upright, courageous and kind?

When he was worrying, Shi Jingtang and the imperial court's long-winded chattering about probing each other finally came to an end: an edict agreeing to transfer the town was passed to Hedong, and Shi Jingtang immediately reversed it regardless of his brothers in Beijing and China.

The imperial court ordered Zhang Jingda and Yang Guangyuan to lead the army to conquer, but for some reason, he remembered him again and transferred him back to be the right platoon envoy.

Fu Yanqing was even more surprised than the Lord Tang remembering that he came alone was the formation envoy Zuo Zhi. When he saw this person, he was a little dazed by accident.

"Fourth General, you are safe and sound."

A plain middle-aged general greeted him with a smile, and it turned out to be Gao Xingzhou.

Back then, the capital of Dingzhou colluded with the Khitan rebellion, and Fu Yanqing had crossed paths with Gao Xingzhou when he accompanied Wang Yanqiu, the envoy of Guide Jiedu, to Pingping.He remembered that Gao Xingzhou was Emperor Wu's tooth general when Zhuang Zong pacified Henan, and he was the first to lead people into the city in a surprise attack under the title of Ye Yu under the city of Yunzhou.Facing the menacing Khitan iron cavalry when Dingzhou quelled the chaos, it was he who led the cavalry to be the first to bear the front.

Of course Fu Yanqing remembered this person, he vaguely remembered this person on the Henan battlefield with Zhuangzong.Gao Xingzhou has a face that everyone will remember: a kind of face that would burn people's eyes at that time, as dry and hot as a desert.It's just that he didn't talk much in front of people at that time, and usually came and went in a hurry with his head down.Now Gao Xingzhou is no longer young at all, but his expression and image when he smiles are the same as when he was young. His eyes have never changed, just like the moon in the dark night, gentle and bright, shining cold Captivating gold.

Why him?This was the first thought that popped into Fu Yanqing's mind at that time, Gao Xingzhou's military qualifications were higher than his.During the first Ming Dynasty, he served as the Zhenwu Jiedu envoy and had been defending Beirong at the border.Afterwards, Li Cong Kehexi started an incident, and after ascending the throne, he sorted out all the old generals of the previous dynasty according to the rules, and even transferred Gao Xingzhou as the Luzhou Jiedu envoy, making him a governor for no reason.Ordinary people would be "resentful to death" when encountering such a situation, but Gao Xingzhou was very calm and quickly left the north for Luzhou.Now that Shi Jingtang was in trouble in Jinyang, Lord Tang thought of him, so he was transferred to Zhang Jingda as an envoy.

After he met Fu Yanqing, he greeted him very affectionately, and he didn't seem to mind working at the same level as Fu Yanqing, who was under him in the past.On the contrary, Fu Yanqing was a little uneasy. He looked at Gao Xingzhou up and down and couldn't figure out why Gao Xingzhou could still smile so calmly. The same thing and another person immediately became the reason for them to gather here now: Tang Lord just approved Shi Jingtang to move town He jumped backwards on the table.

"The Khitans are coming in the blink of an eye, what are we all doing around the city of Jinyang?"

At this time, some people in the army complained like this, but Zhang Jingda didn't think so.The court had already received a letter from Khitan Zhongqiu to come to aid, and Zhang Jingda transferred the army to the Jinyang city to besiege the city for three turns. The attack was more urgent. This decision was reasonable.The same was true for the rebellion in the royal capital back then. As long as they planned to take down the seemingly crumbling Jinyang City before the Khitans arrived, the Khitans would have to return empty-handed.

Chaozhong also seemed to think so, so they did not deploy defenses at all the gates of Yanmen, but transferred all their troops to Jinyang City to concentrate their attacks.Like a miracle, Jinyang City, which was about to collapse for more than a month after the siege, was still not broken, and Shi Jingtang finally hoped for Khitan reinforcements.

But this time the Khitans came so aggressively, it was said that 30 troops came out in full force, passing through Xindai and the two prefectures, they went straight to ignore it, and when the scouts came to report the Khitan's reinforcements, the mouth of the Fen River in the north of Jinyang had already become a battlefield.

It was Gao Xingzhou and Fu Yanqing's cavalry there. It was an accident that the Khitans drove straight into the battlefield without taking a break. If it weren't for the two men's elite troops to fight quickly, the Khitans would almost immediately tear a hole. To the city of Jinyang.The north of the Fen River became a battlefield, and Jinyang had already received news that Shi Jingtang's confidant Liu Zhiyuan led troops out of the city to help Khitan, and Zhang Jingda immediately mobilized his infantry to fight.

Although there were many Khitan troops, they had no battle formation, and the knights rushing forward didn't even wear armor, they just swarmed up - it seemed like the same as before, this time the Khitan people went south just to collect money and get rid of disasters, and to get some oil and water along the way.This kind of thing has happened countless times before, the Khitan people are greedy for money but they are absolutely unwilling to die for these dead creatures, every time they kill them all and then gather the flag and go north, Zhang Jingda let the former army rush across the Fen River to chase them down—— The other fact is that after Fengxiang pushed him, the army was arrogant and difficult to control. At this time, Zhang Jingda couldn't control the emotionally aroused army under his command.

The former army rushed out, and the cavalry under Gao Xingzhou and Fu Yanqing who were on the front line fell down immediately. Among the troops led by the veteran cavalry general, there was no commander-in-chief and no cavalry dared to follow behind.

At this time, Fu Yanqing was still hesitating whether to chase after him, it was not because he was eager to strive for success, but the situation in front of him seemed to be devastated, it is not impossible to kill these Khitan people who don't care about it in one go.Just when he was hesitating, a cavalry general came galloping from Gao Xingzhou's headquarters: "General Gao sent a message that the captive army is acting suspiciously, and the deployment in Hebei is not yet clear. I hope General Fu will temporarily stabilize his troops and act according to circumstances."

It didn't take long for Gao Xingzhou's words to spread, and the situation became clear. The Tang army crossing the river was surrounded and wiped out by the ambushes arranged by the Khitan people before they chased them very far.The infantry who crossed the north after a fight were almost lost, but the cavalry was not damaged because they were not rash.Shi Jingtang went out of the city to join forces with Yelu Deguang, Zhang Jingda collected the rest of his troops and retreated to Jin'an Village, expressing his request to the imperial court for reinforcements.

Jin'an Dazhai is almost half of Tang's military strength, and the Tang Lord hastily ordered four reinforcements to be dispatched.The Jiedu of each town had their own ulterior motives. Seeing that the Lord Tang did not want to conquest himself, Zhao Dejun, the envoy of Lulong Jiedu, actively asked for an order to march to the north, and when approved, he even more actively asked his son to calm down the military coordination of the two prefectures. To make a ghost.Sure enough, after being reprimanded by the Tang Lord, he went north angrily. As soon as he saw the shadow of the Khitan, he immediately led the army to flee, and then he couldn't wait to bribe the Khitan heavily to ask for his support as king.

Unexpectedly, Yelu Deguang rejected Zhao's request "righteously and sternly". At this moment, everyone was wondering why the Khitan people would support Shi Jingtang so enthusiastically - no one expected it at the time. As usual, he promised money and artifacts, and he even promised the land, and he promised the sixteen prefectures north of Yizhou outside Yanmen Pass, not to mention recognizing Yelu Deguang, who was more than ten years younger than himself, as his father—— It was obvious that Shi Jingtang really made up his mind to break up with Li Congke this time regardless.

In contrast, since Zhao Dejun escaped during the first Northern Expedition, the Tang Lord seemed to have completely given up on the east of the river, and he just sat and waited to die all day long.

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