Tong Taishi's second attack on Liao ~ Liu Yanqing lost his troops and lost his generals

Song Jiang had just been attached, Emperor Daojun was happy for a while, and was playing in Wansui Mountain, when he suddenly received the defeat of Tong Guan in Liao, he was very afraid, and immediately issued an edict to order Tong Guan to be a teacher. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAfter Tong Guan received the order, the class teacher went to Hejian Mansion.

Not long after Tong Guan arrived in Hejian Mansion, there was news from the Liao State, it turned out that Ye Luchun, the newly established wolf lord of the Liao State, was afraid that Emperor Tianzuo would come back to seize power, and died of depression. Xiao Gan, Yelu Dashi and other ministers, then set up Ye Lu Chun's wife Xiao Pu Xian daughter as the queen mother, the main military affairs in Youzhou, Ye Lu Chun's last order, the fifth son of Emperor Tianzuo Qin King Ye Lu Ding as the emperor, because Ye Lu Ding was not in Yanjing, Xiao Empress Dowager then took power, changed the year name to Dexing.

When Yeluchun was about to die, he secretly gave the lieutenant Li Chuwen Fanhan and the marshal of the Ma Bu Army, and entrusted the posterity. Yeluchun died, Xiao Gan took charge of the Khitan military power, and seized the post of Marshal Li Chuwen. His younger brother Li was afraid of disaster and became a monk. However, Li Chuwen secretly wrote a letter to make Zhao Luren, a wealthy citizen of Yizhou, unite with Song Taishi Tong Guan, wanting to hold Empress Xiao hostage and return the land to the Song Dynasty. On the other hand, he secretly communicated with the golden people, as an internal response. Li Chuwen was extremely greedy, but later the matter was revealed, and both Chu Wen and his son Li Zheng were killed by Empress Xiao.

However, it was said that Wang Huang, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, heard that Ye Luchun had died, and asked the Son of Heaven to make Tong Guan and Cai You fight Liao again, and the Son of Heaven allowed it. Wang Hao listened to Tong Guan's impeachment again, and in a fit of anger, he demoted the seed master to the general of the right guard and dismissed his official. He Xu was demoted to the Haozhou regiment training envoy and placed in Yunzhou.

Without further ado, let's just say that this Tong Guan received the will of the imperial court, and took the fifty-five-year-old Liu Yanqing, a confidant general, as the commander of the Xuanfu Division, replacing the 100,000 superintendents of the Daoist Army, and making his son Liu Guangshi the deputy commander, instead of the 100,000 overseers of Xin Xingzong, and wanted to attack Liao Yanjing again, but suddenly someone asked to see him, and Tong Guan ordered to enter the Xuanwu Festival Hall to see it, it was a native of Qingjiang of the Linjiang Army, Li Miao Ziyansi.

Li Miao, who was originally a descendant of Li Shi, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was talented and strategic when he was young, and he was fierce and sensitive, and he was appointed by his father as the Taimiao Zhailang. Initially transferred to Anzhou, supervised Runzhou liquor. Later, he was an official in Beijing, supervised in Beijing bamboo and wood affairs, promoted the jurisdiction of grain and grass on Huanqing Road, and sentenced Hejian Mansion. Because of the resentment of Cai Jing and Tong Guan, he was transferred to the governor of Bazhou and served as the deputy envoy of Liao Guohe. After returning to the court, Tong Guan wanted to unite with the Jurchens to attack Liao, and once recruited Li Miao to his mansion, wanting to say that he was attached to him in words. Li Miaonai said that the Khitan did not dislike its master, and said in the book: "The Khitan cannot be destroyed, if you miss the military plane and important things, I am willing to punish the ministers to apologize." "Shen Jizhong was convicted of 53 crimes, and Ju Zhi gained nothing, but it was better to build the Shenxiao Palace than to dismiss the officials. The rear was in turmoil, and he was ordered to be the governor of Yanzhou, and the imperial court was replaced by a new official. Recently, I heard that Tong Guan wanted to enter Yan again with the northwest soldiers and horses, and he came to advise.

Li Miao entered the Xuanwu Festival Hall and sat down with Tong Guan. Li Miao didn't wait for Tong Guan to speak, and said first: "I recently heard that the Taishi wants to attack Liao for the second time, and he will come to the foolish words. Fang La's clown, slaughtering more than 40 counties in seven states with a single call, exhausting his strength and then being able to calm it, is God using this to police the public, and then challenge things in the north?"

Tong Guan said: "This is the meaning of the saint, Liao has invaded the land of Yanyun in China for a long time, and now the local land has returned to its original owner, which is the right time." ”

Li Miao said: "I look at the ambition of the Jin people and wolves, if I swallow the Liao land, I will definitely gain an inch, and covet my Song mountains and rivers, it is better to unite with the Khitan and plot against the Jin people." ”

Tong Guan said: "Yan Si doesn't need to say much, the 200,000 army is about to assemble, and the invasion of Liao cannot be delayed, how can it be lightly wasted, so it shows weakness to the Khitan?" Li Miao and Tong Guan said again and again, seeing that Tong Guan insisted on the Northern Expedition, did not listen to the dissuasion, immediately resigned, and begged the court to return to his hometown.

On the second day of September this year, Song Zhao wrote a letter advising him not to go on a northern expedition, but he was squeezed out by Wang Hao and cut off. On the third day of the ninth month, the Jin people sent Tugu and Wuxie to discuss the period of the two armies attacking the Liao State. On the thirteenth, the king of Goryeo Wang Mata died, and Emperor Daojun sent Lu Yundi to hang the sacrifice. On the 18th, in order to ensure that the expedition to Liao was foolproof, the Song court sent Zhao Liangsi and Ma Zheng, Ma Kuo and his son to visit the Jin State with a maritime alliance to discuss the matter of attacking Youyun again.

What is a "maritime alliance"? It is necessary to briefly describe it: Originally, the Song and Jin countries wanted an alliance, but they were separated by Liao and could not communicate with each other on land, so they could only reach a collegial agreement by boat on the waterway of the Bohai Bay, so it was called the "maritime alliance."

On September 23, the Liao general Guo Yaoshi led 8,000 people to surrender to Zhuo and Yi Erzhou.

Guo Yaoshi was originally a Han native of Tiezhou, Bohai, young and strong, with a great appearance, resolute and brave, and many people attached to him. In the sixth year of Tianzuo Emperor Tianqing, Gao Yongchang, a native of Bohai, killed Xiao Baoxian in Liaodong, established himself as the emperor of the Great Yuan Kingdom, and occupied more than 50 states in eastern Liao. Emperor Tianzuo made Yeluchun, the king of Yan, the marshal of the capital, and recruited the hungry people of Liaodong as soldiers, so that they could repay their grievances against the Jurchens, calling them "resentful troops". The resentment army was divided into eight battalions, with a total of 28,000 men, and the medicine master was one of its leaders. After the resentment army was formed, there were fewer victories and more defeats, and the southeast road resentful army Dong clown Valizhou rebellion was not conducive to execution, and his generals Luo Qinghan and Dong Zhongsun led two battalions to rebel and were killed by the pharmacist. Xiao Gan, the commander of the capital, left 2,000 people as the four battalions, with Guo Yaoshi and Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, and Zhen Wuchen as generals. After Yeluchun became emperor, he changed the "resentful army" to the "ever-victorious army", and promoted the general of the pharmacist Zhuwei and stayed behind in Zhuozhou. After Yeluchun's death, the queen mother called the system, Xiao Gan ****, killed the captain Li Chuwen, and began to disbelieve in the Han people. Seeing that things were not good, Guo Yaoshi imprisoned Xiao Yuqing and others, and did not want to rely on the Jin people, so he had to send a regiment to train Zhao Heshou to lead 8,000 elite soldiers and 500 iron cavalry. Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, Zhen Wuchen, Zhao Heshou and others who surrendered with him were promoted and returned to Liu Yanqing.

Emperor Daojun learned that Guo Yaoshi was coming, and saw that the recovery of Yanjing was imminent, so he changed Yanjing to Yanshan Mansion in October, and ordered Tong Guan, Cai You, Liu Yanqing and his son to march quickly.

Tong Guan and Cai You received the order, and ordered Liu Yanqing and Guo Yaoshi to lead the army out of Xiongzhou to cross Baigou and enter the new city. He also ordered Liu Guangshi to lead the army out of Ansu to cross Yishui and pass through Yizhou. The two armies, totaling 200,000 men, converged in Zhuozhou.

After Guo Yaoshi descended to the Song Dynasty, Empress Xiao urgently recruited civil and military officials to discuss matters, and had to pay tribute to Song and Jin at the same time, intending to linger, and then heard that the Song court would take the sixteen states of Yanyun with heavy troops, and Empress Xiao knew that it was hopeless to be a minister, so he had to make Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi exhaust 20,000 horses and horses in Dexing to resist the enemy Song army.

Let's say that Liu Yanqing and his son Liu Guangshi led 200,000 troops, known as 500,000, and with Wang Yuan as the protector, they will supervise the grain and grass and march north. Seeing that Liu Yanqing's march was undisciplined, Guo Yaoshi seized his horse and admonished: "Now that the army is marching without equipment, if the enemy sets up an ambush to attack it, and the head and tail cannot take care of each other, then the whole army will be defeated, how is it good?"

Yanqing didn't listen, and said with a smile: "The general trend of the Liao State has gone, and the battle for Nai will collapse in a moment, I will mention 200,000 tigers and wolves, why not be afraid of ambushing soldiers? General Guo Hugh wants to make a big fuss!"

The Song soldiers marched to the south bank of the Lugou River in Liangxiang and set up a large camp. Before the moment came, looking at the smoke and dust from a distance, the Liao general Xiao Gan led an army of 10,000 to come, and the two armies shot at the position and formed a formation.

Xiao Gan clicked stirrups on both feet, and before the war horse rushed out of the formation, he grabbed the silk reins and shouted sharply: "Who is the commander of the Song army? Come and die!" Liao and Song cannot speak the two Chinese, and they have their own general officials interpreting before the formation, so there is no need to elaborate.

Liu Guangshi wanted to go out of battle, but was stopped by Liu Yanqing. When Liu Yanqing raised his eyes to look at the Liao general, he had a golden helmet and golden armor, purple clothes and red horses, but he recognized it as Xiao Gan. How is it born? There is a poem as proof:

The tiger head and the cow are the ghost king's face, and the purple mist and bearded eyes are like electricity.

Hungry for wolf meat and drinking bear blood, Xiao Gan is called Tai Sui.

This Xiao Ganfei is comparable to the general Liao generals, also known as Hui Libao, and Lebo, Kui Libu, and Gurban. More than eight feet tall, three feet wide, ten girths of the waist, two arms have the strength of a thousand catties, once killed a mad cow with one punch, so it is famous all over the world. Riding a "curly-haired red horse", a 100-pound "phoenix wings gilded boring" hung on the bird's wing ring. There is the fierceness of Yuwen Chengdu, and the heart of the anti-Tang Dynasty is solid.

Liu Yanqing saw Xiao Gan coming out of the battle, came out of the horse to the front of the formation, and asked loudly: "Is the general on the other side Xiao Gan?"

Xiao Gan replied: "It's Xiao Gan." Xiao Gan looked at Liu Yanqing, half a hundred years old, wearing herringbone armor, with a hundred-pound "bronze chopping knife" hanging on the victory hook, sitting on the "kicking snow thief horse". There is a poem as proof:

The security army is a general, and has made many military exploits from the Western Expedition.

With a broad face and a beard like iron wire, Liu Yanqing is heroic and brave.

Xiao Gan looked at Liu Yanqing, and laughed loudly: "Tong Guan was defeated in Baigou last time, only you are the defeated general of the men, and you still have the face?"

Liu Yanqing saw him sneering, and the sergeant behind him heard it clearly, and felt that his face was ugly, and in a fit of anger, he raised his leg and took off the sword, urging the horse to come and fight, and Xiao Gan picked up the boring and engaged in the battle. The two armies beat the drums of war, and the two of them were each mighty, the people above fought people, and the horses below bit horses. The two fought for about 40 rounds, and there was no winner or loser.

When the two were fighting, the Song army was suddenly in chaos, and it turned out that Yelu Dashi led 10,000 ambush soldiers to kill from the flank, and the Song army was scattered, and Liu Guangshi hurriedly waved his army to meet the battle. Liu Yanqing saw that his military horse was in chaos, so he shook his sword and turned the horse back, and Xiao Gan chased after him.

Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, Zhen Wuchen, and Zhao Heshou saw it, and rushed to the rescue, each waving weapons to surround Xiao Gan to fight, Xiao Gan scolded the four people: "The thief who betrays the master, dare to see me!" The four people heard Xiao Gan's roar, first, they felt ashamed, and secondly, they were afraid of Xiao Gan's methods, and they fled in defeat.

Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi attacked the Song army in a melee, the Song army was defeated, Liu Yanqing ordered the crossbowmen to forcibly shoot back the Liao army, and the Song army retreated into the camp and closed the base. The Liao army also retreated to the north of the Lugou River, and the two armies faced each other across the river.

The Song and Liao armies confronted each other for several days, Liu Yanqing had nothing to do, and Guo Yaoshi suddenly offered a plan and said: "Xiao Gan's soldiers and horses are not more than 10,000 people, and now he will resist me with the whole division, Yancheng will be empty, and he is willing to get 5,000 strange soldiers, and he will attack and take it, and the Han people in the city will inevitably respond, and then make the third general Liu Guangshi as the follow-up, and he can surrender to Yan and win a complete victory." ”

Liu Yanqing said with a smile: "Good plan, I and you have 6,000 men and horses, if you break through Youzhou, the Guangshi army and horses will come." Then he sent Guo Yaoshi Changshengjun as the vanguard, Gao Shixuan, Yang Keshi and other generals went together, lit up 6,000 military horses, smuggled across the Lugou River in the middle of the night, and attacked Yancheng with a double road.

This Gao Shixuan is the first general under Liu Yanqing, his face is like a cooked crab shell, even his sideburns and beard, he is eight feet tall, he can relax the hook, and Yang Keshi is general, he can ride a fierce horse, and he can make a big axe.

Yancheng Youzhou is the Empress Dowager Xiao self-defense, and there are not many troops, Zhen Wuchen first attacked the Yingchun Gate with 5,000 men and horses, and then killed into the city, Guo Yaoshi and others will lead the remaining men and horses into the city, and the seven city gates of Youzhou, each gate with two hundred soldiers and two generals guarded, and ordered: Nayan people descended and killed the Khitan and Xi people in the city. The pharmacist sent someone to say that Empress Xiao wanted to make her surrender. Since the Song army entered the city, there was no discipline, rape women and men, burning, killing and looting. The Liao people hated it deeply.

Empress Xiao sent someone to secretly order Xiao Gan to come back to help, and after Xiao Gan received the order, he divided his troops with Yelu Dashi: one was for Xiao Gan to lead 3,000 light horsemen back to save Youzhou, and the other was for Yelu Dashi to rob the Song army's grain road.

Xiao Gan returned to Youzhou, took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Song army, and attacked the city in one go, and the Khitan people in the city responded everywhere. Guo Yaoshi and other generals learned that Xiao Gan returned to the army quickly, so they had to rush to the battle. The pharmacist and Gao Shixuan, Yang Keshi and other generals said: "Why didn't General Liu San come to the Yu Covenant? Youzhou is about to be gained and lost, how is it good?"

Gao Shixuan hated: "Liu Guangshi has always been incompetent, only relying on his father's name, if he doesn't come, we can only fight to the death to serve the country." "It turned out that this Liu Guangshi had been killed by the Liao army in Fan Village a while ago, so he didn't dare to send troops to respond.

Yang Keshi said: "If my Great Song Dynasty is a hero like General Gao, why worry that the Tartars will not be destroyed, and the mountains and rivers will not be restored?" Guo Yaoshi, Gao Shixuan, and Yang Keshi had to lead the troops to fight with the Liao army in the streets, and Gao and Yang Er generals should take the lead in killing the enemy. Where the two generals arrived, it was as if they had entered a no-man's land, and when the axe fell, the human head rolled along the axe.

Gao Shixuan and Yang Keshi were rushing to kill, and a Liao general on the opposite side rode a fast horse, coming like wind and lightning, and when the two of them looked, it was Xiao Gan.

When Xiao Gan saw the two of them, he roared, like a thunderbolt sounding on his lips, and he waved a boring to fight the two generals, and the two generals came to greet him in person. I saw this fight, rare in ancient and modern times:

One boring, two axes. The phoenix wings are boring, yellow and clear, full of golden light; Boring away like a phoenix nirvana and reborn, the axe comes like a giant spirit angrily splitting Huashan. Boring up like a phoenix rising sun, the axe falls down the mountain than a tiger. This will be Optimus Prime of Fanbang, and those two are Zijin Liang of the Great Song Dynasty. Today's heroes meet at first glance, I don't know who loses and who wins?

The three generals fought for two moments, Gao Shixuan and Yang Keshi gradually lost to Xiao Gan, and the Liao soldiers gathered more and more, at the time of life and death, Guo Yaoshi and Zhang Linghui, Zhao Heshou, Zhen Wuchen, and Liu Shunren led the troops to kill through the siege to rescue, Xiao Gan saw that he was outnumbered, and hurriedly led the army to retreat, Gao Shixuan shouted: "The thief is gone!"

Yang Keshi shouted in the back: "General Gao, poor Kou Mo chase!" shouted everywhere to kill, how could Gao Shixuan hear this? Just chase it, but he didn't prevent the Liao general Cao Yongyi to help Xiao Gan, and shot three arrows, all of which were in Gao Shixuan's chest, fortunately there was a beast-faced heart shield to block, and the arrows fell to the ground, Shixuan was furious, raised an axe to take Cao Yongyi, Yongyi urgently ordered the sergeant to shoot arrows, Shixuan used a big axe to block the arrow rain, Yang Keshi, Guo Yaoshi and other generals led troops to come, the two armies fought in the alley for three days and nights, the Song army was repeatedly defeated, and finally there were only more than 400 people left, the dead bodies piled up and blocked the alley, and the general Gao Shixuan died in the chaos. Guo Yaoshi, Yang Keshi and others all lost their horses, and were almost captured several times, so they had to leave the city and escape to the Song camp. Xiao Gan chased back to the Lugou River and joined forces with Yelu Dashi.

Let's say that after Xiao Gan returned to Yanjing, Yelu Dashi personally led a strong army to attack the Song army's thousand-person grain road, and captured Wang Yuan and Song Bing. Yelu Dashi also pretended to celebrate the victory in the army, and used Zhou Yu's story of Jiang Gan to spread a false saying: "I heard that the Han army of 100,000 pressed my territory, and our Liao army was three times larger, and the battle was more than enough." When divided into two armies, the left and right armies, with the fire as the signal, with elite soldiers straight to Liu Yanqing's army, the left and right armies echoed, and the annihilation was exhausted. Yelu Dashi secretly told the guards to be lax, Wang Yuan didn't know what to do, fled back late at night, and secretly reported to Liu Yanqing.

After hearing this, Liu Yanqing believed it to be true, couldn't sleep at night, and wanted to withdraw the army, Yang Keshi and others all persuaded: "This Yelu Dashi trick, don't be gullible, if you retreat at this time, I'm afraid of making the same mistake as before!"

Before dawn, Yanqing saw a fire on the other side of the Lugou River, thinking that the Liao army was coming, so he ordered the army to burn the camp, and led the army to flee for his life. Xiao Gan learned that Liu Yanqing was in the middle of the plan, and led a large army to kill, and chased him until Zhuoshui before retreating.

The Song army was defeated this time, ravaging the dead for more than 100 miles, and all the military supplies stored during the Xining and Yuanfeng years were lost. Liu Yanqing led the remnants of the defeated army to retire to Xiongzhou, and later resettled in Yunzhou for his crimes. Yan people sang and ridiculed, knowing that Zhao Ji could not use soldiers, so he was light Song.

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The elk lost their way back, and the tigers competed for a meal.

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