"You mean Wang Haoyi felt guilty and wanted to escape?" Feng Ziying was a little disbelieving, "Didn't he write to Zhou Yin and Mi Heng before, asking them to come to help, and he wants to defend Xiong County to the death?"

   "It turns out that is indeed the case, but Wang Haoyi may be a little scared when he realizes that the Beijing camp is moving south."

  Wu Yaoqing controls Feng Ziying's own intelligence channels, which are separate from those of the Criminal Ministry and Long Jinwei.

  Feng Ziying even handed over to Wu Yaoqing the contact channel of the White Lotus Sect of the Wang Family that she set up in Linqing many years ago, so some intelligence clues even came from Wang Haoyi.

"But he still has more than 10,000 rebels in his hands. How can he escape?" Feng Ziying's eyes were deep. "Could it be that he intends to leave them? Out."

"My lord, do you think Wang Haoyi and his ilk are stupid, stupid?" Wu Yaoqing shook his head, "He can't fail to feel that the situation has begun to change since you came, after the battle of Laishui and the battle of Renqiu ,..."

"Now is not the time to fight for the position of the Holy Sect of the White Lotus, but to escape first. Of course, if you can lead some of your loyal subordinates to escape, that would be the best. As for the others, what do you think of them? Is there still so much thought about wishful thinking? Even Wang Haoli on Zhending's side may not have such extravagant hopes, right?"

  Feng Ziying is aware of the seriousness of the problem, and the arrangements are not yet in place. If Wang Haoyi ran away, wouldn't all his preparations be in vain?

"We can't let Wang Haoyi flee northward easily, let You Shiwei send a small group of cavalry around Xiongxian County, and go to the line from Xiongxian County to Anzhou to bluff and interfere with Wang Haoyi's determination to flee northward. As long as he delays for three to five days, he will run again. I It’s a great wish, so I won’t have to attack the strong city of Anzhou.”

  Feng Ziying made up his mind and ordered immediately.

   A battle of wits and courage in the entire Beizhi land began.

  You Shiwei's cavalry is not many, and if you bypass Xiong County, you will face supply problems. Of course, Zhou Yin's rebel cavalry is not many, and the two sides immediately started to compete and kill on this line.

In order to scare Wang Haoyi, who lives in Anzhou, from fleeing out of the city easily, Feng Ziying also asked You Shiwei to build up his momentum at all costs, so that Wang Haoyi felt the possible risk of fleeing north now, and let him place his hopes on Zhou. The Indian army came to the south to respond, and it seemed that it would not affect the overall situation in three to five days.

   It was not until seven days later that Wang Haoyi made up his mind to lead the army to Beixiong County, but at this time the Beijing camp army that was going south was already basically in place.

   He slapped the top of the wall with great aggrievedness, and the burly man with a wide mouth and a strong and powerful body couldn't help being furious.

"Didn't I write to tell him not to act rashly for the time being? Don't leave when it's time to leave. At this time, the officers and soldiers are obviously following. Why does he still have to leave Anzhou City? It's good now, surrounded there, Are we going to save or not?"

  On the one hand, the man is naturally Zhou Yin.

He had been urging Wang Haoyi before that if he wanted to come to Xiong County, he should quickly discard the supplies and supplies and go north before the officers and soldiers arrived, or stay in Anzhou for the time being. Plenty, it is no problem to keep it for two or three months.

  But Wang Haoyi shirked the delay for various reasons, and only started to leave the city northward three days ago, but it was already too late.

  When he heard that the number of official cavalry between Anzhou and Xiong County had increased from the usual three to five hundred cavalry to two to three thousand cavalry, Zhou Yin knew that Wang Haoyi could not leave.

   Wang Haoyi couldn't cross this short distance of less than a hundred miles.

  Of course Zhou Yin is confident that if he immediately leads the cavalry to forcibly attack the Beijing cavalry who just blocked Wang Haoyi's troops, he may be able to rescue Wang Haoyi himself.

   But in this way, the more than 10,000 soldiers of Wang Haoyi will only end in disintegration, and Zhou Yin dare not bear such a situation.

  With the loss of more than 10,000 rebels, how long can Xiong County hold on?

   Originally hoped that Anzhou, Xiong County, and Renqiu would be the horns of each other. Even without the support of Bazhou Miheng behind, a relatively stable situation could be maintained.

  But once Ren Qiu lost, the triangle suddenly collapsed, and Wang Haoyi was even more frightened. He knew that he should not be limited by affection and directly take over Ren Qiu, it would not be like this.

  What's the point of regretting it just now?

  Full of worries and anxiety, Zhou Yin punched the wall again bitterly.

   To save or not to save is a question.

  Although I have a lot of troops in my hands, if I want to fight a field battle, especially this kind of large-scale battle, I am afraid that this is what the officers and soldiers are looking forward to.

   They even used this method to push Wang Haoyi to this situation step by step, that is, to force themselves to fight them, but if they don't save them, Wang Haoyi may not last for three days.

  If you want to save, how?

   I'm afraid I still have to communicate with Bazhou, but the time is so tight that it's too late. When the soldiers from Bazhou arrive, I'm afraid Wang Haoyi's head will hang on the city of Anzhou.

  For Feng Ziying, when Wang Haoyi was forced out of Anzhou City like a rabbit, the outcome of this battle was already doomed.

   It is an impossible task for more than 10,000 rebels to escape safely into Xiongzhou in front of the official army with a huge advantage in cavalry.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of Wang Haoyi's chaotic army has been proved in the first battle of Renqiu. Maybe it can fight smoothly when the field is dominant, and it can completely persist in the defense of the city. Not worth mentioning.

"Waqiaoguan is a good place. It's not far or near. I want to see how Zhou Yin is going to fight this battle." Feng Ziying heard that more than 10,000 people from Wang Haoyi's main force had fled into Waqiaoguan. Instead of worrying, she was happy, " If it was normal, I was really worried that Zhou Yin would not come to save him because he felt that there was no hope of salvation, but now Waqiao Pass is a world-famous pass, so don’t tell me you Zhou Yin is not willing to save him.”

  Waqiaoguan is located 20 miles south of Xiongzhou City. It can be said that it is very close, and the cavalry can reach it in a short while, but it is separated by the Yishui River, and there are many swamps that are endless.

   In a sense, this is indeed a good defensive place, which is not conducive to the deployment of large-scale troops, but there is a prerequisite for this, that is, there needs to be a solid logistical support foundation behind Waqiao Pass.

Moreover, the defensive direction of Waqiao Pass is mainly aimed at the north. It was the barrier in the Song Dynasty that used the inevitably swampy waters to prevent the Liao army from going south. Yijin Pass and Yukou Pass were the three passes that were said to prevent the Liao army from invading south. The defense system was not aimed at the south, but is north.

  But now the direction is reversed. The south, including Anzhou, has been captured by the government army. The direction of the government army's attack is from south to north.

   What's more, although Xiongxian County is under the control of the rebellion army, the Yimapingchuan to the west of Xiongxian County is all within the attack range of the official army. As a result, the defensive capabilities of Waqiao Pass are somewhat lacking in confidence.

   "If I were Zhou Yin, I would resolutely give up Xiong County and retreat to Bazhou,..."

Before Wang Wenyan finished speaking, Feng Ziying interrupted: "It is useless for them to withdraw there now, so what if they withdraw to Bazhou? How long can the three cities of Bazhou, Baoding (county), and Wen'an last? Maybe their only The opportunity is to resolutely abandon Xiongxian, Anzhou, Renqiu, and Bazhou before the army goes south on a large scale, and go southward in the starry night, breaking through between Lixian and Suning, to join the southern rebel army. Maybe there is a glimmer of chance, once Ren Qiu recovers, they will have no hope at all, their destruction is just a matter of time, but this time is also a matter of time for me."

Wang Wenyan laughed, "My lord, in fact, you don't have to worry about resolving the situation before the end of the year. Master Yuan has made the situation like this for more than a year. You are here to clean up the mess. You can spend a year to solve the problem. No one dares to say that you have done poorly, four months is indeed too tight."

"In classical Chinese, this area is really nothing. I am sure that the battle will be resolved before the end of September, but the chaos in the central region is not easy. There is also the chaos in the south. What is more troublesome is the three southern prefectures, Shunde, Weihui, Huaiqing, and Guide. , the rebellious army in Kaifeng area, I authorize Liu Baichuan to clear the Bailian south of the Yellow River first, and then work together to solve it quickly after I finish the Nansanfu..."

Feng Ziying said leisurely: "The land of Hebei in the Central Plains is a place where the confidant of the North is rich. If it is completely smashed, it will not recover in three to five years. In the past few years, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Shandong have all been tossed. The weather is not good. , and suffered a military disaster, the scholars in the north were full of anger, and the right to speak in the court was also suppressed by the scholars in the south of the country. If I am not in Hebei, I will quickly reverse the sentence, and it will be difficult for Qi Shi to sit in the position of chief assistant. "

  Wang Wenyan's eyes lit up, "Ye Xiang is about to retire, but his age and health are still very good."

"The past few years have not been going well in the North, and the ruling and opposition scholars believe that he is responsible, especially for the appeasement and connivance of Jiangnan. The scholars in the North are already very dissatisfied, and Huguang, Southwest and Lingnan feel neglected, so he is now The target of public criticism, it looks good, and after Tang and Miu entered the cabinet, they kept stabbing him in the back. He has been the chief assistant for more than ten years, and it is time for a change. , Of course, this is only a possibility, Ye Xianggao is not a good person, as far as the current situation is concerned, Master Qi is still unable to replace him."

  Wang Wenyan realized that war is closely related to politics.

   Scholars from Huguang, Southwest, and Lingnan began to join forces and gradually became a force that could compete with the scholars from Beidi and Jiangnan.

  If the scholars from the north form an alliance with the scholars from Huguang, Southwest, and Lingnan, then the court situation can indeed be changed.

   What's more, the Jiangnan scholars are not united. Tang and Miu are very dissatisfied with being marginalized when they join the cabinet.

   In other words, this battle is even related to changes in the entire court situation.