The headquarters of the Zhuozhou Central Army was next to the government yamen, and you could hear the wails and moans from the yamen day and night. There was no antibiotic-like medicine in this era. After the torso was injured and infected, the wounded soldiers could only wait for death, and the limbs were infected and could only be sawed off. This was very cruel.

The location of the Central Army was chosen, and at that time, he took into account the image of the Zhou army and did not disturb the people. Seeing that the place in front of the government was very spacious, he set up a barrier to station it; it was actually very noisy.

Guo Shao sat in the big tent, listening to the sad and mourning sounds coming from time to time, and listening to the generals discussing below... Xiao Siwen's troops had already arrived in Zhuozhou.

...Guo Shao was a little distracted. For some reason, he suddenly remembered the Queen Fu family like a "intelligent relationship": The Queen's eyes and ears are very powerful, he has seen it; he was ordered to station in Zhuozhou, so the Queen should know?

She must be very worried.

Even though Guo Shao had never experienced the struggle of high power, the queen told him that he must return to Beijing and could probably understand her layout.

When Emperor Chai Rong dies, if the army that supports the queen is in the outer town, 20,000 people will be nothing. Any town in any place can gather 20,000 troops; not to mention that Zhuozhou is too far from Tokyo, more than a thousand miles... But if it is in Tokyo, the usage will be very particular! Once these 20,000 people have the support of the Privy Council, their strength will be infinitely expanded.

Even if there are more than 100,000 elite troops in Tokyo, those soldiers are usually dispersed, and it is difficult to mobilize them, and there will be a lot of noise. The generals have no right to mobilize troops in Tokyo at all. What troops are stationed and how many people are stationed depends on the Privy Council... And if the queen is regent and truly trusts Guo Shao, and 20,000 people gather together, it is an absolute advantage in Tokyo and can calmly divide the armies.

Guo Shao joined the Imperial Guard at the age of fourteen and is twenty-two this year. He has been in the Imperial Guard for eight years. He is very familiar with the situation of the Imperial Guard.

The armies were stationed in many places in the city, and more than half of them were completely scattered home and rested; as long as someone used a certain army without voluntarily, they would immediately commit rebellion, and there was a real handle. He would be surrounded and attacked by the queen's trusted troops before he could assemble the army... No matter who wins and loses, the Privy Council will definitely send several orders to mobilize other troops to fight the rebels together; even if other generals were swaying and watching, should the Privy Council obey the military orders? If they don't listen, they would disobey the orders. There is no difference between them afterwards and rebellion, so it is not a wait-and-see but a choice. Therefore, generals without a stand will habitually abide by the Privy Council's military orders.

Anyone who directly rebels with force in Tokyo will be beaten by the entire imperial guards as long as nothing unexpected happens. Unless he can replace all the generals of the four main forces of the imperial guards, at least most of them will be replaced by generals who support him... If the influence is that great, then no system will work.

Therefore, Guo Shao had to go back to Tokyo and take his "directly-leader" Hu Jiejun's left wing back, so that he could help the queen control the situation as quickly as possible; otherwise, the queen would be worried about anything she did, and would not dare to move those arrogant soldiers without force.

...The generals in the tent discussed for a while and were complaining now. Dong Zunxun said: "Suddenly we were asked to guard Zhuozhou, and the military rations in the city were not prepared in advance. Now that the food route is attacked, how can Zhuozhou be defended for a long time?"

Luo Yanhuan also echoed: "The big horse soldiers of Xiao Siwen left Gu'an and were pressing against Zhuozhou. Our cavalry could not defeat him, so they could only let the rangers raid the food route; the Longjie army and horse soldiers at Qigou Pass did not move and did not deliver food. This situation is really strange. Do the officials have to sit back and watch us ignore us in Zhuozhou?"

Someone said, "What if the Khitan leader led a large army south to siege Zhuozhou?"

Li Chuyun calmly said: "The Liao people could not surround Zhuozhou, and if they divided their troops to siege the city, they would not have enough troops to fight the main force of the Great Zhou. Unless the officials were in the south of Maguan, it would be impossible to throw away the elite troops of the imperial guards."

Guo Shao, who had been silent for a long time and was wondering what he was thinking about alone, suddenly spoke: "I have a way to summon the commander and generals, and arrange some troops."

...

Xiao Siwen's big group of people stood ten miles away from Zhuozhou to watch, and he was already tired of this pursuit drama.

First, the light cavalry in the southern part of Zhuozhou were expelled and surrounded by the Zhuozhou cavalry and chased and ran away. Then he led his army to deal with the Zhou cavalry in Zhuozhou. As a result, the Zhou army retreated back to the city. Xiao Siwen retreated to the attack or attack, and there was no way... The attack was obviously useless.

Xiao Siwen's Khitans and more than 10,000 Xi cavalry came out. The field battle was already a force of troops to advance and retreat, but it was still impossible to attack the city. The Khitans had no method to attack the city, and more than 10,000 cavalry could not even surround Zhuozhou. How to attack?

"I don't know who the Zhou army generals guarding Zhuozhou are, so I'm not anxious or impatient." Xiao Siwen said, "If you can't help, you can first withdraw the light troops near Qigou Pass and return to Gu'an and wait for a while before talking."

He was frustrated when suddenly a personal soldier came in and said, "Brother Xi slaughtered a village in the south!"

Xiao Siwen was furious and said, "We are going to fight. He has nothing to do to do that bird business? Why did that man mess with him?"

The personal soldier said, "I don't know."

Xiao Siwen shouted, "Call Brother Xi back and ask him to come to me to explain clearly!"

At this moment, another general reported: "The horse soldiers in Zhuozhou are coming out and are coming for us."

"Huh?" Xiao Siwen immediately threw away Brother Xi's destruction and asked, "How many people?"

The general who came to report said, "One thousand five, maybe two thousand."

After hearing this, Xiao Siwen smiled and immediately ordered a group of troops to detour north and another group to the south, preparing to capture the Zhou army's retreat. Then he led the main force to set up the camp to fight head-on. At this time, the general Xi Ge also came back, and Xiao Siwen only cared about the war and did not care about him.

Unexpectedly, the Zhou cavalry came out and might have discovered the movement of the Liao army intending to encircle, so they turned around and ran away. Xiao Siwen led his army to chase the city of Zhuozhou and found that the Zhou army's horse soldiers were still outside the city. He immediately ordered the heavy cavalry of the South Courtyard to be the vanguard and directly charge and fight.

In an instant, it seemed that both sides had not prepared well and they started to kill. The two armies rushed back and forth, fighting hard to distinguish.

When Xiao Siwen stepped forward, he saw the battle herd of horses running around like a whirlpool. The horse's hooves on the plains were roaring like muffled thunder, and the sound of killing sounds shook the sky. He ordered more generals to lead their troops from left to right and attack directly on both sides of the Zhou army.

When the large cavalry on both sides had just arrived, they suddenly saw the city gate open, and the Zhou army retreated in a row from the rear; as soon as the rear army left, the front army was immediately in turmoil, and the Zhou Dynasty cavalry was killed and defeated without waiting for the Liao reinforcements to go up.

At this time, the general next to Xiao Siwen said: "The Zhou army opened the door and fled in the face of the battle. The Liao army's cavalry must take the opportunity to follow and enter the city... Could it be that this will break Zhuozhou?"

Xiao Siwen said: "There are so many people in front of you, and it's too late to tell them to come back now. Besides, why can't we enter the city?"

No one of the generals could tell why they could not enter the city, for fear of being ambushed? That was strange. The Liao generals present had never encountered anyone who defended the city. They would open the city gate and activate the army to enter the city to "ambush". Isn't that just a joke... Han'er often defended the city. The Liao army has been fighting with various dynasties and generations for decades. When they almost opened their eyes, they regarded this as common sense: siege, breaking through the city wall is equivalent to capturing a city!

At this moment, a young general said, "If Zhou Jun prepares an ambush in the city, we will suffer a loss."

After hearing this, Xiao Siwen turned around and said, "Where is the wall coming from the city wall, it is like walking on a flat ground. How can the Han'er ambush the troops?"

The young general said, "The last general was plotted against Wuji Town, Luzhou, Hedong three years ago. He thought so at that time, and when he saw the walls were dilapidated, he thought it was easy, but unexpectedly rushed into the door and found that Han'er had repaired fortifications in the town... It's really a ghost. We have never seen people guarding the city but not the walls, but repairing fortifications in it. I led my troops to besieged, and dozens of people died before they were lucky enough to escape."

The Khitan generals were very surprised and had never seen the city guarding the city or the city walls. On the whole land, the Han people always built cities to defend the city; the Khitans attacked the city almost attacked the Han people. The Han people have always seen and heard that the Han people used everything they could on the city walls and city gates. The various methods of guarding the walls were dazzling... What about the "gold water" boiled with manure and mud to prevent fire from the city gates. But it was just that they had never seen the city gates opened and put others in before fighting.

Xiao Siwen picked up the beard above his lips, thought for a while and said, "Send someone to find Brother Xi, let him be wary of Han'er's treacherous plan and ambush the ambush. Tell him that the Khitans should be like tigers, fierce and alert."

At this time, there was a chaotic group at the city gate. Khitan cavalry and Zhou army soldiers mingled together and rushed into the city gate. There were soldiers inside and outside the city gate, so how could they be closed? Whoever moved the city gate would be shot into a hornet's nest or knocked into meat paste by the Khitan cavalry.

Xiao Siwen's follower found Brother Xi, screaming around him and horse hooves were shaking. He had to say loudly: "The king asked me to tell the general, beware of Han'er's use of treacherous tricks! The king made the general alert like a tiger!"

Brother Xi cursed and said, "What kind of tiger or beast? The city is broken. This is the first time I encountered a guard general who opened his city gate with a trick!" After saying that, he ignored it, slapped the horse and left, leaving the king of the South Courtyard, and then said to the people around him: "The king is getting more and more timid."

Brother Xi followed a large group of cavalry in one after another. While sending people to dismount along the stone steps of the city wall to attack the city tower, he chased the defeated Zhou Dynasty horses running around the central axis road in the city.

These cities were built by Han people at the beginning, basically with four square gates and two main avenues in the middle with the shape of "ten" shapes, which facilitates the army to quickly provide mobile reinforcements to the four walls when defending the city.

More and more horse soldiers of the Liao army rushed to the avenue and ran very smoothly on the flat and wide central axis.

Countless horses were roaring, and the whole city seemed to be trapped under the trampling of iron hooves! Brother Xi entered the city and shouted happily: "Don't put away the knife for three days, and kill them all!"

The people and horses spread everywhere like floods, and the streets were gradually filled with ditches.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a red square flag suddenly hung on a tower in the city, and then "Bang bang bang..." Many fireworks flew into the air and bloomed in the air. Even many Khitans couldn't help but look up. Unfortunately, the blue sky and white sun were not so beautiful. Instead, the black smoke after the fireworks exploded did not dissipate in the air for a long time.
Chapter completed!