Outside Dezhou City, Xia Army Camp.

Under the leadership of Li Qing, the 100,000 cavalry of the Xia army had already reached the city of Dezhou. Another 100,000 army had been sent by Li Qing to the south along the canal to restrain the Song army from going north to reinforce. The confrontation with Li Qing was Li Qing's old rival, the Liao army remnants. However, now they have become mercenaries of the Song Dynasty. They were led by the Liao Duke Xiao Yuanshan himself. What's ridiculous is that the 100,000 troops under Li Qing also came from Liao. It can be said that the battle between the 200,000 people was a killing of each other between brothers.

Outside Dezhou City, the 100,000 Xia army cavalry had completed the army. Zhao Ge walked to Li Qing and said, "Prince, the things are ready."

"Okay, let your brothers shoot into the city!" Li Qing ordered.

At Li Qing's order, tens of thousands of arrow rains shot into the city of Dezhou, but the killing of these arrow rains was very small. After shooting this round of arrow rains, Li Qing took the Xia army to retreat. The Song army soldiers guarding the city began to collect arrow branches after the Xia army left, but the Song army soldiers found that they helped each arrow branch with a note, which was written in Khitan, and most of the officers of the Song army could understand.

Each note is written in the tone of the hometown dialect, for example, in this battle, "I know you were deceived by officials. Although we are no longer in the Liao Dynasty, we Liao people have never been abused. His Royal Highness, the ruler of us, can have half of the bloodline of our Liao people. The family's harvest has been good in the past two years, and the tax paid is very low. Life is getting better and better. We can eat a meal every few days, which is much better than before...'

There was a letter to each arrow feather, some in the tone of brothers and some in the tone of parents; after seeing these, the deputy general of the Song army immediately took one of them and handed it to Xiao Yuanshan. After seeing this letter, Xiao Yuanshan was furious and said, "Li Qing's move is too cruel. Please order all the letters to be confiscated. No one can hide them privately, in order to prevent the morale of the army from being confused."

Li Qing's psychological warfare was quite good, and the Song army began to be in a state of great enthusiasm. Although the Song army was still wearing the Liao army uniforms and speaking Khitan language, the entire Dezhou was also the people of the former Liao Kingdom. Although many Liao soldiers who went south had already started their families here, they still wanted to return to their hometown.

"Prince, is your trick useful?" Zhao Ge asked Li Qing on the way back.

"I don't know if it's useful, but it's better to use it than useless. Tell your brothers to rest for two days and fight the Song army in two days." Li Qing said; "By the way, you go and send someone to send Xiao Yuanshan a letter of war and ask him to fight in the field."

Two days passed in a blink of an eye. Xiao Yuanshan was invited to lead 100,000 Song army cavalry outside Dezhou City to line up to wait for the Xia army's attack. After Li Qing led the army to arrive, the two sides did not start a war. Zhao Ge suddenly rode over the Xia army's formation and came to the Song army's formation and said, "My prince wants to gradually General Xiao Yuanshan, so please come out and talk."

"I am Xiao Yuanshan. Just say anything if you have anything to say!" Xiao Yuanshan said after coming out.

"General, please see, my prince invites you to have tea from the tent in the middle, please..." Zhao Ge left after saying that.

The military tent for drinking tea was placed between the two armies, and Xiao Yuanshan didn't want to go there immediately. After Xiao Yuanshan arrived, Li Qing welcomed Xiao Yuanshan enthusiastically and sat down with Xiao Yuanshan's hand. Li Qing smiled at Xiao Yuanshan and said, "I have heard of the general's reputation when I was very young. General Xiao is a clan of the Hou family of the Great Liao Dynasty. As long as the general is willing to surrender to my Daxia Empire, I guarantee that the general will be prosperous and wealthy in this life."

"Your Highness King Yan doesn't have to worry about it. If I were willing to surrender to Xia, I would have surrendered until now." Xiao Yuanshan sneered.

Li Qing disagreed and said with a smile: "My mother is a princess of the Liao Kingdom. I also have half of the blood of the Liao Kingdom royal family. According to the seniority, the general is still my uncle! It doesn't mean that my family will be killed by each other..."

Li Qing talked a lot to Xiao Yuanshan, and they all greeted each other with a smile. After the talks, Li Qing yelled to Xiao Yuanshan: "Then this matter is settled, Xiao Wang will lead his troops back now."

After returning to the camp, Li Qing immediately ordered: "Send the army to return to the camp."

"But the prince hasn't fought this battle yet!" Zhao Ge said in confusion.

"That's so much nonsense to tell you back to the camp..." Li Qing said with some displeasure.

"Yes, the prince has an order, and the army returns to the camp..."

On the other hand, Xiao Yuanshan naturally led his army back to Dezhou City. However, as soon as Xiao Yuanshan returned to the city, the Dezhou Governor came to the door. Xiao Yuanshan immediately left the mansion to greet him. Dezhou Governor said that he was Dezhou Governor, but in fact he was the supervisor sent by the Song Dynasty to monitor Xiao Yuanshan. All the food and grass supply of the army under Xiao Yuanshan had to pass through the hands of the Dezhou Governor. This was equivalent to the Dezhou Governor grasping Xiao Yuanshan's lifeline. Xiao Yuanshan was naturally very polite to him.

"Master Wang, what wind has blown you here?" Xiao Yuanshan said with a smile when he saw the governor of Dezhou.

The Texas governor sneered: "If I don't come here, I'm afraid my head will be moved!"

"What does Lord Wang mean?" Xiao Yuanshan asked in confusion.

"I can see clearly where you met with King Yan Li Qing just now. Li Qing greeted you with a smile. Tell me how you two colluded together?" The governor of Dezhou asked Xiao Yuanshan.

"Mr. Wang, I didn't say anything!" Xiao Yuanshan said to the governor of Dezhou; "Do you still suspect that I have an affair with the Xia army?"

"It's not impossible." The governor of Texas sneered: "The person who comes will take it down and make a decision after I report it to the prince."

The Song army warriors who followed the governor of Dezhou immediately pulled out the sword. The generals under Xiao Yuanshan were not jealous and immediately pulled out the sword. Xiao Yuanshan sneered: "Mr. Wang, I have said before surrendering that you will listen to the command or not. You dare to draw your sword at me. Are you not afraid that I will kill you?"

The governor of Texas was still very strong and was not scared. Instead, he said: "You can try it. If this official dies, it will be difficult for these people under your command. Without my Song Dynasty support, you will starve to death sooner or later. People will take it down for me."

"I see who you dare..."

"Stop." Xiao Yuanshan ordered, "You all retreat."

Then Xiao Yuanshan said to Governor Wang: "I can follow you, but the logistics supply of food and grass for our army cannot be cut off. Without food and grass, the Xia army cannot be stopped."

"Of course General Xiao can rest assured..."

In the Xia army camp.

Zhao Ge asked Li Qing: "Prince, is your counter-espionage plan really effective? Don't let us do it in vain if it doesn't work."

"Don't worry! Xiao Yuanshan and the Song Dynasty did not trust each other very much. If you come like this today, Dezhou City may be in chaos now. Let's wait and see the show! The governor sent to Dezhou from the Song Dynasty to monitor Xiao Yuanshan, not to mention that there is a 50,000 army of the Song army in Dezhou City. All the food and grass are in their hands. Without food and grass, the Liao army, the remnants, are just toothless tigers. Let's wait! The good show is about to be staged..."

The second update is here, please take care of everyone...

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