After reading Li Yanqing's express report, Zhong Shidao asked the soldiers in detail, and was shocked and happy. Li Yanqing not only sent troops to break through Yongqing County in advance, but also forced Guo Yaoshi's Changsheng army to surrender to the Song Dynasty. This was a joy to open the door!

At this time, a rapid pace came from outside. The curtain was lifted. Zhang Shuye and Zhong Shizhong quickly walked into the tent. Zhang Shuye asked anxiously: "Master General, I heard that there was a report of the front-line enemy war. What's the situation?"

Zhong Shidao smiled and said, "It's surprising that Guo Yaoshi actually led his army to surrender to the Song Dynasty. You can see it yourself!"

He handed the battle report to Zhang Shuye. Zhang Shuye and Zong Shizhong looked at each other, and both of them showed surprise. Zhang Shuye hurriedly took Li Yanqing's battle report and looked at it carefully. Zong Shizhong asked in confusion: "If Guo Yaoshi surrenders to the Song Dynasty, why don't he surrender to Tong Guan in Baozhou? His interests there should be greater."

"Guo Yaoshi wanted to lure the Song army into the depths, but Li Yanqing saw through his plan. Li Yanqing sent a cavalry north to attack Yongqing. He led the main force but did not move, which made Guo Yaoshi fall into a passive position. He should have been forced by the Liao Kingdom and had to surrender. He heard from the news that Guo Yaoshi led his army to attack Bazhou City, but burned the floating bridge and blocked the thousand Khitan cavalry who were monitoring him on the north bank. I guess Guo Yaoshi should want to go to Baozhou, but was blocked by Li Yanqing's army. He had no choice but to surrender to Li Yanqing."

Mr. Zhong smiled and said, "It sounds a bit wrong here, but if you think about it carefully, it makes sense."

"Yes! The key point here is that Li Yanqing is still holding his troops. Guo Pharmacist's plan failed and he had to choose to go south. It's like catching a big fish. Either you drag the fish ashore or the fish drag you into the water. In the end, Li Yanqing is better at it."

At this time, Zhang Shu said at night: "Li Yanqing said in the military newspaper that he had sent a thousand troops to escort Guo Yaoshi and his troops to see the general in the south. We would better send troops north to greet him, so as not to snatch Guo Yaoshi from behind."

Zhong Shizhong also said: "Beware of villains but not gentlemen. Tong Guan has tripped us twice in a row. Although Baozhou is still far away, I should be cautious and prevent Gao Shixuan from coming from Xiongzhou to snatch people away. I will lead 5,000 troops to support him!"

Zhong Shidao nodded, "You set out now and bring back Yaoshi Guo and his troops. I will write an urgent report to the emperor."

Li Yanqing was very efficient in handling major events. While sending soldiers to report urgently to Zhong Shidao, Cao Xing also led a thousand soldiers to escort Guo Yaoshi and his five thousand surrendered troops on the road. At the second update, Cao Xing met the army of Zhong Shizhong who came to greet him in Shu County, Hejian Prefecture. Cao Xing handed Guo Yaoshi and the surrendered troops to Zhong Shizhong, and then led his army back to Bazhou.

Early in the morning, Zhong Shizhong escorted Guo Yaoshi to the Eastern Army camp, and Zhong Shidao went out to greet him. Although Guo Yaoshi had surrendered to Li Yanqing before, Li Yanqing was not the head coach after all. Guo Yaoshi was a little resistant and did not regard the previous surrender as a formal surrender. It was not until this time that Guo Yaoshi gave the formal surrender to Zhong Shidao.

He took off his shirt, showed half of his arms, knelt down to Master Zong, raised his sword and said loudly: "General of Liao Kingdom, Guo Yaoshi, a survivor of the Han Dynasty in Yanjing, and returned to his hometown, and prayed for the kindness of the Celestial Empire!"

Zhong Shidao took his sword and quickly helped him up and comforted him: "General Guo has national justice, which is admirable. I believe that the Emperor of Song Dynasty will never treat the general unfairly. Please follow me into the camp. I will ask your troops to arrange food, accommodation and rest."

"Thank you, Zhongshuai!"

Seeing that Guo Yaoshi was so handsome, Zhong Shidao liked him quite a lot, so he invited him to his big tent to sit down and asked his personal soldiers to serve tea. Then he asked Guo Yaoshi, "As far as I know, there are 8,000 troops in the Changsheng Army, why only 5,000 troops came?"

Guo Yaoshi bowed and said, "I'm not to be ignorant of the general. Beizhi was originally ordered to guard Zhuozhou and Yizhou. However, after the Li Chuwen incident, the Liao Kingdom no longer believed in the Han people and ordered me to give up Yizhou. The army supervisor Xiao Yuqing led 3,000 troops to station. My 8,000 troops were all stationed in Zhuozhou. I originally led all the troops south, but Xiao Yuqing led 1,000 cavalry to Zhuozhou. He disagreed with all the troops south and ordered me to leave 3,000 troops to guard Fanyang County. I could only lead 5,000 troops south and follow his cavalry south. So there are still 3,000 troops in Fanyang County, commanded by my confidant general Liu Shunren. However, Li Zhuozheng should have led the army north. I wrote a letter to him. Liu Shunren would surrender to Li Zhuozhou. Beizhi was considered to have handed over Zhuozhou to the Song Dynasty."

Guo Yaoshi repeatedly emphasized that Zhuozhou was not captured by Li Yanqing, but was dedicated to the Song Dynasty. This was also an important bargaining chip for him to surrender to the Song Dynasty. When Zong Shidao heard that Li Yanqing had led his army north, he was overjoyed. He smiled at Guo Yaoshi and said, "Do General Guo want to come to Beijing to meet the saint, or go north with me?"

If he surrendered to Tong Guan, Guo Yaoshi would not want to go to Beijing to meet the saint. He knew that Tong Guan was the confidant of Emperor Song and would get everything he deserved, but Zhong Shidao was different. Zhong Shidao's status in the court was not high, but just a senior veteran of the military. The surrender of Zhong Shidao's own status was already low. If he didn't find a way to save it, he would probably not be reused in the future.

Guo Yaoshi pondered for a moment and said, "I know very well the inside story of the Liao Dynasty. I am afraid that the emperor and the court are very concerned about this situation. I will go to Beijing, which is more conducive to the court's understanding of the Liao Dynasty."

Zhong Shidao did not intend to force Guo Yaoshi, so he smiled and said, "Let's do this! I'll ask the Censor Li Gang to accompany General Guo to Beijing, but the army is not convenient for entering Beijing, so I will stay with me for the time being."

"Of course, the five thousand troops are temporarily led by my general Zhao Heshou. We are willing to change the flag and change the flag. Please ask the general to change them with the armor of the Song army and be willing to become a powerful force under the general."

"Okay! They will follow me for the time being."

Pharmacist Guo stood up and said, "If it is convenient, Bei Zhi wants to set out to Beijing now!"

Zhong Shidao was stunned, "General Guo hasn't slept all night, don't you want to take a break?"

"I was excited in my heart and longed for the Secretariat, and I didn't want to delay it for a moment."

Zhong Shidao smiled and nodded, "I will arrange for General Guo to enter Beijing now!"

A quarter of an hour later, a side general led 300 cavalrymen to escort Guo Yaoshi and Li Gang away from the camp and ran towards the capital like lightning.

At the same time, Zhong Shidao ordered Zhang Shuye to lead 30,000 troops to immediately go north to Zhuozhou to meet Li Yanqing, who had led his army to enter Zhuozhou first.

As soon as Li Yanqing headed south at the forefront of Guo Yaoshi, he led 5,000 troops to cross Baigou again and rushed to Fanyang County, Zhuozhou Prefecture.

Fanyang County, also known as Zhuo County, is the intersection of several official roads and its strategic position is extremely important. In the first Northern Expedition, the 50,000 Eastern Route Army led by Xin Xingzong was defeated by Xiao Gan under the city of Zhuo County. Currently, 3,000 generals under Guo Yaoshi led 3,000 troops to guard it.

Fanyang County is about 120 miles away from Baigou. Li Yanqing led his army to force his troops. At the first update at night, the army was less than ten miles away from Fanyang County. Li Yanqing ordered the army to rest on the spot.

The soldiers were exhausted, and many people didn't even have to eat dry food. They wrapped themselves in blankets and fell asleep. Li Yanqing was very alert and sent dozens of spies to investigate. Although the spies had not found any abnormalities before, this place was in Liao territory after all, which made Li Yanqing dare not be careless at all.

At this time, a soldier ran to report: "You have reported to the rule, Yang Guang is back."

Li Yanqing was overjoyed. He was worried about Yang Zaixing and the others. When Yang Guang came back, he finally had a whereabouts. He stood up and walked out of the woods. Yang Guang walked over quickly with two spies. Yang Guang stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "I am in charge of the rule!"

"Where is Commander Yang and the army now?"

"We are back. Beiye will come back first to report the message, and the commander will arrive soon."

"How is the casualties in the attack on Yongqing County?" Li Yanqing asked again, which was also a situation he was very concerned about.

"The defenders of Yongqing County are all Khitans. Although the city gates were blown up, they resisted very tenaciously. Fortunately, they all woke up in their sleep and fought in a hurry, but we still suffered more than 40 casualties."

Li Yanqing nodded. It is impossible for people to die in a war. He can still accept this number of casualties. He asked again: "Is there any news about Fanyang County?"

"We have been to Fanyang County before, but we have not clashed with the defenders. We don't know much about the situation in the county, but we estimate that we have 3,000 troops."

Li Yanqing asked Yang Guang about some of the situation and then asked him to go down and rest. At this time, Liu Qi walked up and said, "Or why we go to Fanyang County now to avoid the long nights and dreams."

Li Yanqing also had this kind of worry. The news that Guo Yaoshi had surrendered to Song should have reached Liaodu. Will Xiao Gan rush to send someone to seize Fan Yang? There is also Tong Guan. Tong Guan is always staring at him. How could he not know what measures would he do? He will definitely launch a large-scale attack on the north. There are too many uncertain things. He really wants to avoid the situation of long nights and dreams. Since Yang Zaixing's army is safe and sound, there is no need for them to delay any further.
Chapter completed!