Lizhou is probably located in the present Jianchang area of ​​Liaoning!

Wanyan, the city lord of Lizhou, is one of the rare ten thousand heads among the Jurchens!Now he has 3000 pure Jurchen soldiers and 8000 elite new followers!In addition to these, there are nearly [-] slave troops just recruited!

By the 25th of the first lunar month, Wanyan Sabuli had also received the news that the Liangshan army was marching northward and was now marching towards Lizhou.

He summoned his generals and counselors. The counselor was a Khitan named Yelu Yande, and he was a young Khitan!The Khitan people also won the world immediately at the beginning, but after 200 years, many students appeared among the Khitan people, some students were corrupt scholars who knew nothing, and some students were quite resourceful.This Yelu Yande was over 40 years old, and he was a resourceful man among the Khitan people.

"What do you think we should do now? Go out of the city and fight Liangshan, or stay here and wait for my Jurchen army to arrive?" Wanyan Sabuli looked at the generals and counselors below and asked.

"General, I think it's best to evacuate from Lizhou," Yelu Yande said.

"What? Evacuate Lizhou?" Wanyan Sabuli said in disbelief.

"That's right, there are too many troops in Liangshan, it's impossible for us to defend Lizhou!" Yelu Yande said.

"I will never evacuate here! We Jurchens have no reason to voluntarily retreat!" Wanyan said coldly.

"If the emperor knows the situation here, he will definitely order you to evacuate, general! We must concentrate all our forces in the Zhongjing area, and then fight them to the death!" Yelu Yande said.

"Impossible! How could the emperor issue such an order?" Wanyan Shabuli shook her head.

The Jurchens were originally planning to unite the Quartet forces before launching an attack on Liangshan.They didn't expect Liangshan to take the initiative to attack in such a short time.In the past two years, during the war between Liangshan and Jurchen, Liangshan has been on the defensive!From the beginning in Liaodong, Huarong adopted a defensive strategy. At that time, Liangshan wanted to exchange time for later strategic advantages. With a solid foundation, the longer the time, the greater the advantage of Liangshan!Therefore, the upper echelons of the Jurchen, including Wanyan Aguda, thought that Liang Shan would always focus on defense and wait until his strength completely surpassed the Jurchen before launching an attack. He also did not expect that Liang Shan would start the main attack this time after the New Year.

"I want to go out of the city to intercept Liangshan's army!" Wanyan said abruptly.

"Also, if we can inflict some damage on them by going out of the city to intercept them, we might still be able to defend Lizhou," Yelu Yande said.

"I'll take 5000 people out of the city, and you stay in Lizhou!" Wanyan said firmly.

That afternoon, Wanyan Sabuli left Lizhou City with 5000 people, half of them were pure Jurchen soldiers, and the other half were newly attached troops.He is one of the famous Jurchen generals. He did not attack the Liangshan army head-on to the south. He first led 5000 people towards the west, and he wanted to harass the Liangshan army from the west flank.

However, he didn't know that he had just left, and the information from here had already spread to the Liangshan army.

On the 27th, when the intelligence arrived, Liangshan's cavalry also began to act.

On the vast snowfield, Zhang Xian led [-] cavalry and headed towards the west. He kept galloping and sent out spies.

More than 30 miles behind Zhang Xian, the heavy cavalry regiment is also heading west!The heavy cavalry regiment had no combat missions for a while, and now they heard that the enemy was ahead, and they were very excited, but their mobility was far inferior to that of the light cavalry, so their marching speed was a bit slow.

"Has the news here been reported to the governor?" Zhang Xian asked the soldiers beside him as he advanced in the night.

"It has been reported." The soldier beside him said.

"A mere 5000 people dare to intercept us halfway, that's courting death!" Zhang Xian laughed.

"I've heard of Wanyan Sabuli before, and it's said that he is also a mighty Jurchens." Zhe Yanwen is now one of Zhang Xian's deputy, said immediately.

"Hmph, reckless! If I were him, I would definitely evacuate Lizhou City at this moment! Lizhou is just a small town, how can it resist our [-] army? Besides, the Jurchens didn't gain any popular support in Lizhou, they gave up the city It has no effect on them, and there is no material for them to plunder! I really don't understand what the Jurchens are thinking now, he is going to die when he comes out!" Zhang Xian laughed.

"He thinks that we are the same as their previous enemies, and only need a little force to defeat us!" Another general next to him said.

The so-called former enemies were the Khitans, who were vulnerable to the Jurchens back then.Although Liangshan has risen now, although he has shown extraordinary fighting power, and although the Jurchens have begun to pay attention, the Jurchens still have the feeling of facing the Khitan people subconsciously, so Wanyan Sabuli made such a decision!

On the battlefield, the reason why many generals made wrong judgments was mainly because they underestimated their opponents and did not take them seriously!

It was getting darker and darker, and when Zhang Xian and others passed through a deserted forest, they suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes in the distance!The other party has also obviously spotted them and is heading in their direction!

"It's the Jurchens! Listen to the voice, it's the 5000 Jurchens who have left the city!" Zhang Xian said excitedly.

"Do you want to rush up and have a decisive battle with them?" Zhe Yanwen asked.

"No need! Let's retreat!" Zhang Xian said.

"Retreat?" Zhe Yanwen asked in surprise.

"The Jurchens are very powerful in combat. Although we have twice the number of them, we must have suffered a lot of casualties in rushing up like this. Let's go back, cooperate with the heavy cavalry regiment behind, and strangle them together! Come on, hurry up Go back and inform the heavy cavalry regiment behind to get them ready to meet us!" Zhang Xian made a decision immediately.

Originally, Zhang Xian was also one of the best generals under Yue Fei in the Yue Family Army in history. Although he was young, he had already shown extraordinary battlefield wisdom. In just a moment, he made a decision that was most beneficial to him!

At that moment, Zhang Xian's cavalry retreated slowly towards the southeast!

It was the 5000 cavalrymen of Wanyan Shabuli who came oncoming. After Wanyan Shabuli heard the sound of horseshoes on the opposite side, he frowned slightly. There were many more people on the other side than them.But soon, Zhang Xian's army began to retreat. Wanyan Sabuli was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed loudly, saying: "The Han people are Han people after all, they are extremely cowardly, and their number is so much larger than ours, how can they not Dare to fight us! They retreat, we chase after!"

The commander next to him was also a Jurchen, and the commander also laughed, not paying attention to Liangshan's army at all!

Zhang Xian's army kept heading towards the southeast, Wanyan's 5000 cavalrymen pursued him closely, and the distance between the two armies would not exceed 10 miles!

An hour has passed, and the north wind howled, the speed of the war horse began to slowly decrease. Such a rapid run made the war horse very tired.

At this moment, several cavalry galloped towards Zhang Xian's army against the wind and snow.

"General, they are on the hills ahead, and they are ready!" shouted a cavalryman.

"Okay, go there!" Zhang Xian said loudly.

When they came to the hill, Zhang Xian's army began to head east along the hill, and Wanyan's 5000 cavalrymen, who were inseparable, pursued closely.

When the 5000 cavalry who had never left Wanyan came to the bottom of the hill, the heavy cavalry regiment above finally started to move!In the night, an extremely heavy sound came from above, and the earth began to shake.

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