After becoming emperor, Abaoji did not stop conquering the conquests, but continued to lead troops to conquer the Turks, Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, Shatu and other tribes. He even wanted to take the opportunity to go south, further expand the territory of the Khitan Empire and establish a powerful grassland empire.

The heaven pays off. Soon, Abaoji waited for such an opportunity - Lu Wenjin, a deputy general from Jinxinzhou, brought troops to surrender and invited Abaoji to go south together.

Lu Wenjin was originally a subordinate of Liu Shouguang, the emperor of Jieyan. Later, Jin King Li Cunxu sent troops to attack Youzhou. Liu Shouguang and his father Liu Rengong were captured and beheaded. When Lu Wenjin saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately expressed his willingness to surrender. Seeing that Lu Wenjin was good-looking and was a talented person, Li Cunxu agreed and arranged him to serve as a servant under his younger brother Li Cunju.

Li Cunju is arrogant and domineering, greedy for enjoyment, and is very lazy. By chance, he saw Lu Wenjin's daughter, and was immediately shocked and fascinated by him. Regardless of whether Lu Wenjin agrees or not, his daughter will force her home and take her as a side room. Lu Wenjin is very annoyed, but he dares not speak out.

But Li Cunju usually did all his bad things and soon received retribution. A rebellion broke out in the army and Li Cunju was killed. When Lu Wenjin, an adjutant, learned about it, he hugged Li Cunju's body and cried loudly: "You have killed the general, what kind of face do I want to see the King of Jin!"

Lu Wenjin was very kind to his subordinates and was deeply impressed by the army. When everyone heard this, they knew that Lu Wenjin had harmed him because of his recklessness. So they proposed to support Lu Wenjin as the commander, leave the Later Tang Dynasty, and start a new business.

At this point, Lu Wenjin had no choice but to agree to his subordinate's proposal and lead his troops back to Xinzhou. The Xinzhou garrison Yang Quanzhang had already received the news that Lu Wenjin rebelled and refused to enter the city. Lu Wenjin had to lead his troops to attack Wuzhou, but he was defeated. In desperation, he had to defect to Khitan.

A Baoji naturally knew that Lu Wenjin's refuge in the Khitan was a helpless move. He did not really want to live in the Khitan for a long time, but wanted to use the power of the Khitan to help him obtain a piece of his own land south of the Great Wall. But A Baoji was not afraid that he would not serve the Khitan wholeheartedly. He did not take such a small Han general seriously yet. Therefore, when Lu Wenjin offered his plan and encouraged A Baoji to take advantage of Li Cunxu's battle in Hebei and advance to the Eight Army of the North of the Mountain, A Baoji happily agreed.

The so-called Eight Army in Shanbei are the eight military towns of Li Cunxu in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. Based on the principle of capturing the thieves and capturing the king first, Abaoji first asked Lu Wenjin to lead the Han army to attack Xinzhou, where the commander-in-chief of the Eight Army in Shanbei, was located.

The garrison of Xinzhou was a veritable coward. Seeing Lu Wenjin leading the army to fight in a magnificent manner, the sound of fighting was heard in the sky, and he was frightened to the point of being ashamed. In a panic, he didn't care about his responsibilities at all and crawled away the city and fled. The Khitan soldiers successfully captured Xinzhou without any effort.

At this time, Li Cunxu was personally leading troops to fight against Zhuliang's army in Wei Bo (which is today's Daming in Hebei). Hearing that Lu Wenjin rebelled and became the vanguard of the Khitans, he was furious and immediately ordered the governor of Youzhou Zhou Dewei to lead his troops to attack.

The two armies met in the west of Xinzhou. After a big battle, Zhou Dewei was beaten to pieces and lost more than 30,000 people. Seeing that this continued, he would definitely be defeated, Zhou Dewei had to order his retreat to Youzhou. As soon as he returned to Youzhou City, Zhou Dewei immediately ordered the city gate to close, guard Youzhou to the death, and refused to fight.

Seeing this, A Baoji rushed forward and surrounded the three circles outside and three circles in Youzhou City.

Zhou Dewei suffered a loss and refused to go out of the city to fight again. He allowed the Han army led by the Khitan army and Lu Wenjin to curse and provoke him constantly. He just stood still and turned a deaf ear. He knew that it was difficult to win by himself alone. Now the best way is to defend the city and wait for reinforcements to arrive. The walls of Youzhou City are solid, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and there will be no problem with persisting for half a year, so he was patient and began to hold on.

Now A Baoji was depressed. He saw many swords and shadows on the grassland. No matter whether they were evenly matched or had a huge difference, they would face each other directly, fighting in the dark and in the sky and the battle. It would be up to fate if they were killed. But he had never seen anyone hide and refuse to fight after being defeated. Zhou Dewei is now unstoppable and cannot fight. He can't "fight on paper" between the two of them, right? What should we do?

At this time, Lu Wenjin made a brilliant appearance. He told Abaoji that in the Central Plains, because people built cities and villages and lived in wars, they would inevitably encounter situations where one side could not defend the city. As the saying goes, water comes and earth covers the troops and generals, and one thing must be surrendered. Since the other side has a plan to defend the city, we have a plan to attack the city.

When Abaoji heard this, his depression disappeared and decided to let the Han army be the "military advisor" of the entire army and lead the Khitan army to capture Youzhou City.

The Khitan army was worried about not knowing what to do, and its momentum was falling sharply. Now I heard that the Han army had a clever plan to attack the city and its morale was greatly boosted. So the two armies cooperated and began to attack Youzhou City day and night.

Zhou Dewei was not a good person. He made strict arrangements to let the soldiers guarding the city take advantage of their condescending advantages and constantly throwing wooden, stones and cold arrows down to stop the attack of the Khitan and Lu army. Under the strict obstruction of the city guarding the city, the Khitan and Lu army were forced to retreat again and again, but they were not discouraged and rushed up again, forced back, and fought back again...

Such an offensive and defensive battle lasted for many days, but it was completely useless. A Baoji couldn't help but feel annoyed. Lu Wenjin had an idea and immediately offered a suggestion. If it was not possible to attack the city on the ground, why not attack the city from the underground? So he led the Han army and the Khitan army to dig tunnels outside the city, preparing to dig from the bottom of the city wall into the city and attack the city from the tunnel.

A Baoji and Lu Wenjin thought that this move was foolproof and could not help but hold a banquet in advance to celebrate, but unexpectedly, Joy was soon defeated by the bad news that followed.

It turned out that Zhou Dewei accidentally discovered the intentions of the Khitan army and Lu army, but did not expose them. Instead, he used the trick, dug out trenches at the corresponding location in the city, found the exit of the underground passage where the Khitan soldiers were excavated, and then poured the melted copper water into the passage. The Khitan soldiers were caught off guard, and suffered serious casualties, so they were forced to cancel the project plan.

Lu Wen was in high air and quickly made an emergency deployment. He adopted the strategy of siege in the air, and used soil to build up mountains of earth outside the city and attacked the city from a high place. However, Lu Wenjin had a "Zhang Liang plan" and Zhou Dewei had a "wall ladder". He also changed his way of defending the city and once again stopped the Khitan soldiers.

After nearly two hundred days of entanglement, Youzhou City was not captured for a long time, and the so-called siege became a complete siege. A Baoji was anxious. On the one hand, he did not want to give up this great opportunity to go south. On the other hand, he felt that such a siege was too waste of manpower, material resources and financial resources, and he was very entangled.

At this time, Li Cunxu was still fighting against Zhu Liang's army, but he knew that Youzhou was almost at its limit. Even if the city wall was not broken, the food in the city was almost out of stock, so he immediately ordered Li Siyuan and Li Cunshen to lead 70,000 troops to rescue.

When A Baoji heard the news, he immediately sent troops to block the attack. As a result, he was defeated in several major battles. A Baoji's siege lasted for a long time but was still fruitless. He had already shaken his heart. After a series of defeats, he was suddenly a little discouraged. He knew that he was not the opponent of the Central Plains soldiers, so he had to lead his troops to retreat, and the towns in Xinzhou returned to the hands of the Jin army.

(A year before this war, Abaoji also tried to go south. He surrounded Shuozhou first. The defender of Shuozhou was Li Siben, the godson of Li Keyong. At that time, he had just returned to Shuozhou from the Hebei front line. Most of the troops had not yet withdrawn. As a result, he could not resist the attack of the Khitan troops. Shuozhou City was captured and Li Siben was also captured alive.

Afterwards, Abaoji sent someone to send a letter to Li Cunzhang, the governor of Yunzhou, asking him to provide money and food to the Khitan soldiers, otherwise he would trample Yunzhou. As a result, Li Cunzhang did not buy his account at all and killed the messenger who delivered the letter. Abaoji was furious and led his troops to attack Yunzhou and surrounded Yunzhou. However, Yunzhou's city was solid, easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Khitan attacked the city for many days and could not attack for a long time. Abaoji had no choice but to go to Weizhou.

Subsequently, Abaoji conquered Weizhou, Xinzhou, Wuzhou and other places one after another, looted a large amount of property, population and livestock, and returned happily with a full load.)

After the Battle of Youzhou, Abaoji was frustrated when he went south, so he focused on handling domestic affairs, hoping to lead the Khitan to another level, promote a significant increase in economic, military and other aspects, and prepare for the next trip to south. But soon, before he finished preparing, the Central Plains Dynasty extended an olive branch to him again.

This time, in addition to Lu Wenjin, there was also Wang Yu, the son of Wang Chuzhi, the governor of Dingzhou. Wang Yu was originally Li Keyong's son-in-law and Li Cunxu's brother-in-law, but he changed his bid to Khitan because of the "Wang Rong incident".

Wang Rong was the governor of Zhenzhou. Because he killed two ministers who opposed him, it aroused the dissatisfaction and panic among his subordinates. His godson Zhang Wenli took the opportunity to incite and cause trouble. That night, Wang Rong respectfully burned incense and received talismans with Taoist priests in his backyard. Suddenly, more than a thousand soldiers climbed over the wall and rushed in and killed him.

Later, Zhang Wenli killed Wang Rong's eldest son and other Wang descendants, and became the "Queen of Zhenzhou", which is the agent of Zhenzhou Jiedushi, and the next appointed Zhenzhou Jiedushi.

After Li Cunxu learned that Wang Rong was killed, he was furious and felt that Zhang Wenli was too unfair to take him seriously. He dared to kill the officials he appointed by himself without authorization, and even proclaimed himself as the queen. It seemed that he would not teach Zhang Wenli a lesson. He did not know who had the final say in Zhenzhou! So Li Cunxu sent an order and prepared to send troops to attack Zhenzhou.

After learning about it, Zhang Wenli was so scared that his face was pale. He had only thought about seizing power before, but he actually forgot the backer behind Wang Rong. What should I do? After thinking about it, he found that there was only one way to go, which was to ask for help from the Khitan. So Zhang Wenli secretly sent someone to contact Lu Wenjin and asked him to persuade A Baoji to send troops to provide assistance.

At the same time, Wang Rong's neighbor, Dingzhou Jiedu, heard that Li Cunxu was going to conquer Zhenzhou in person, and he was so scared that he was out of his way. He had no choice but to join Li Cunxu before, and he had always been thinking about how to get rid of Li Cunxu and start a new job. He knew that Li Cunxu knew this. Therefore, this time Li Cunxu would definitely take Dingzhou by the way.

Did he just sit and wait for Li Cunxu to take over his territory and head? Wang Chuxi shook his head hard, absolutely not! But what should I do? He couldn't beat others, and escaping would be like giving Dingzhou both hands! Suddenly, he remembered his son Wang Yu, who was on duty under Li Cunxu.

So, Wang Chuzhi sincerely wrote a letter to his son, asking him to come out of seclusion to help soldiers, and promised that he would inherit his family business after the matter was completed.

After seeing the letter, Wang Yu began to feel very disdainful. When Wang Chuzhi was working as a servant under his nephew Wang Gao, he wanted to kill Wang Gao. Wang Gao fled to Jin Wang Li Keyong overnight. At that time, Wang Yu also joined Li Keyong with his cousin. After that, Wang Yu became better and better, married Li Keyong's daughter, and became the governor of New South Wales. He was doing well and passionate. Therefore, he had always had grudges with his father, and even had the taste of never interacting with each other.

Now, my father actually came to ask him to send troops to deal with Li Cunxu. Isn’t this equivalent to making him openly betray Li Cunxu? Wang Yu felt that this deal was not cost-effective. However, looking at the conditions offered by my father and giving him the entire family foundation, Wang Yu was moved. After all, no matter how small the family business was, it was his own territory. No matter how well he was under Li Cunxu, he was still living under someone else’s roof.

After struggling for a while, Wang Yu decided to cooperate with his father, so he secretly sneaked out of the pass, found Abaoji, and asked him to send troops to provide assistance.

However, it is obvious that Abaoji did not want to go south at this time.

Lu Wenjin and Wang Yu were of course very clear about what A Baoji was worried about, so with his fair share of his tongue, he listed the benefits of moving south one by one, and clearly pointed out that the political situation in the south was turbulent and uneasy at this time, which was a good opportunity for the Khitan to take advantage of the situation. Otherwise, it would be difficult to find this store after passing through this village.

In the end, A Baoji was moved by them, so he personally led 100,000 troops and drove straight from Gubeikou, conquering the city and territorial territory, and attacked the city as strong as a bamboo shoot, and surrounded Youzhou City again.

At this time, the governor of Youzhou, Zhou Dewei, had been dead for two years. The person responsible for guarding Youzhou City was the Jin general Li Shaohong. Li Shaohong was far less capable than Zhou Dewei. When he saw the Khitan army coming, he was so scared that his face looked like earth and urinated. He quickly called his generals to retreat to Youzhou City, quickly closed the city gate, and refused to fight.

A Baoji tried his best to attack Youzhou City, but he was poor and could not shake a single point if he could use thirty-six strategies. Looking back on the last time Youzhou was frustrated, A Baoji was depressed. Could it be that he would stop here this time?

At this moment, news came that Wang Chuzhi was killed. It turned out that Wang Chuzhi and his son Wang Yu had known the deal that Wang Chuzhi had with his godson Wang Du. Wang Du was afraid that Wang Yu would steal his interests, so he incited the dissatisfaction of the soldiers and took advantage of the chaos to kill Wang Chuzhi, and he started to become the queen of Dingzhou.

When Wang Yu heard that his father Wang Chuzhi was killed, he was furious, so he tried his best to persuade A Baoji to temporarily give up Youzhou and first lead his troops south to attack Dingzhou.

A Baoji was worried about the delay in attacking Youzhou. Wang Yu's suggestions made him suddenly enlightened, so he followed Wang Yu's advice, bypassed Youzhou City, headed straight for Zhenzhou and Dingzhou, and captured Zhuozhou on the way.

Soon, the Khitan army surrounded Dingzhou City.

However, before Abao aircraft officially attacked the city, an accident happened - the weather suddenly changed and it started to snow. ()
Chapter completed!