Chapter 139 Between Success and Failure
The Khitan and Xi populations in Yanjing City do not account for the majority, but they quickly united in the face of great disaster! They have no choice! If you don't resist, you have to die! Therefore, even women and children have become soldiers. At this time, the Northern Liao regime still had its last crumbling fortress left in Yanjing - the Imperial Palace! So the Hu tribe who survived all gathered there! They broke through the encirclement of more than 1,000 people around the palace, backed the palace wall, and prepared to fight to the death with their weapons outward.
"Queen Mother! The Han people want to kill us all! ”
Empress Xiao was shocked and said, "Kill us? It's not that the release of the armor will be ......"
"Liar, liar!" The Khitan nobles who fled in cried bitterly: "My mansion has been burned down by them!" When they come in, they kill, burn, and rob! All the shouts in their mouths are to kill all the Hu people! Dowager! You can't surrender! If you fall, you will die! ”
Empress Xiao trembled with anger and trembled with fear! Surrender is death, but what about war?
At this time, more than a dozen falcons suddenly hovered over the palace, and a Xi slave saw it and exclaimed: "That seems to be a falcon raised by Xiao Du!" ”
The generals in the palace were all pleasantly surprised! The falcons hover in the sky and do not have letters tied to their legs, but they bring hope!
Empress Xiao's hand gradually stabilized, and she shouted, "Okay! Hold! Hold! ”
The Khitans gathered in the palace took action, they forced back the attacking men and horses, let the stubborn clansmen enter the palace, and followed Empress Xiao to climb the palace wall in person, holding bows and arrows, and the Liao people were greatly boosted. When Yang Keshi arrived, the defense of the Northern Liao Imperial Palace was ready, and he launched three consecutive attacks but failed to break through this last fortress.
The battle situation in the Northern Liao Imperial Palace was not known to Yansong, but he still saw the Song army setting fire to kill people in the city. The discipline of the Han army was strict, unless the commander ordered to launch a strategic raid behind enemy lines, the burn and looter would face heavy punishment, so although the mass burning and looting frenzy infected the loyal army, it was not as crazy as the Song army and the Chang Shengjun.
"Why is this happening? Why is this happening? ”
In front of him is an army with no discipline to speak of, not even a regular army! Guo Yaoshi's subordinate Chang Shengjun was originally a Bohai exile temporarily recruited by the Liao lord to resist the Jurchens, and when he was still in the Liao State, he often plagued the local area, but the Northern Liao had to retain the formation of this team because of the current situation; The composition of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty under Liu Yanqing was the forbidden army, the box army and the temporary Latin enlistment of the people, the people and the Xiang army basically did not have any training, and the structure of the forbidden army had long been dilapidated than the local box army at the beginning of the country. Because of this, Liu Yanqing's 200,000 troops couldn't eat Yelu Dashi's 20,000 horses!
Chong Yansong watched his compatriots do such stupid things, and his heart was very distressed. The image of Song Jun in his mind gradually collapsed. But Chong Yansong didn't know what to do, his wit and courage were not as good as his brother, and he usually led the army to fight seriously, but he lacked the talent to adapt in this messy situation, so he was just worried and passively guarded the Spring Gate.
While Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi's subordinates were burning and plundering in Yanjing City, another army was quietly approaching. They did not approach the well-arranged Spring Festival Gate, but approached from the other direction. When the Song army entered the city, there were only about 7,000 people, and due to the addition of a large number of ruffians, the number of the Song army had exceeded 10,000 in one day, but the new additions were all rabble, not only had no combat effectiveness at all, but dragged down the organization of the Song army. After a day of looting, the Song army had captured a great deal of wealth, their bodies getting heavier and heavier, and the illusion of victory filled their brains. As night fell, the imperial palace of Northern Liao had not yet been breached, and some local tycoons sent delicious food and wine, which the conquerors of Yanjing gladly accepted. Anyway, there are only a few hundred people in the Northern Liao Palace, and I can't afford to make any waves!
Seeing that many of his subordinates were drunk and drunk, Yang Keshi began to regret it a little, but the military spirit had already dispersed after a day of tossing, and there was nothing to be done in the face of the paralyzed army that was a peerless famous general - not to mention that he Yang Keshi was not a famous general.
"I seem to have made a mistake...... "He was faintly worried, but now he could only hope that the sky would soon light up so that he could regroup his army through this weak night. And Guo Yaoshi hoped that Liu Yanqing would quickly raise troops to respond. At the darkest moment before dawn, countless flags suddenly appeared outside the southwest city gate, and the Song army thought that Liu Yanqing's reinforcements had arrived, but when the lights were on, they found that it was Khitan costumes.
"Liao Army? Liao Army! ”
But seeing that there were about 10,000 horsemen, the soldiers at the southwest gate fled after only one glance. Xiao Gan led the soldiers and horses into the city, slaughtering all the way to the past, like slaughtering a sick pig. The soldiers and civilians of Yandi who belonged to Yandi during the day were scattered like birds and beasts, and they fled and hid with their money, and those who swore allegiance to the Great Song Dynasty were suddenly gone, and Yang Keshi's control over Yanjing came and went quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the thousands of people and horses of the Song army became a small boat among the 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Yanjing City, with neither a reliable stronghold nor a reliable local force. The Liao iron horse galloped in the market, Yang Keshi reluctantly organized a manpower resistance, and as a result, he was defeated in three battles and three defeats, and after retreating to the Yingchun Gate, the loyal army crossed out of the palace, and the defeat stopped for a while. Yang Keshi packed up the men and horses, and only got more than 800 people, and there were only more than 400 horses left. Seeing that Yanjing was no longer in a good situation, and Xiao Gan was here, the situation in the south was unknown, so he had no choice but to order the withdrawal of the army. Xiao Gan collected his troops and surrendered the prisoners, and he had more than 4,000 people and 5,400 horses.
Yang Keshi and the others retreated along the incoming road, and when they arrived ten miles away from the Liao army's garrison, they saw that the lights of the northern array of the Song-Liao confrontation stretched for hundreds of miles, and it seemed that the mountains were full of Liao military horses. Yang Keshi was shocked and didn't dare to approach, Deng Su said: "Suspicious soldiers!" This must be a suspicious soldier! ”
Yang Keshi asked Guo Yaoshi how many soldiers and horses the Liao people still had, and Guo Yaoshi said: "There may be 20,000 or 30,000 people in Juyong Pass, and it is said that there are 50,000 or 60,000 after the newly expanded army under Zhang Jue in Pingzhou, if they all come, it will be difficult to say." ”
Yang Keshi said angrily: "You said earlier that they wouldn't come!" But Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi were afraid of being killed by Xiao Gan, but they didn't dare to explore the reality of the hundred miles of lights, and the generals discussed for a while and decided to bypass the stronghold of the Wuqing Liao Army and retreat into the Tanggu wall, and then turn back to Cangzhou from Tanggu.
After Wuqing, it was discovered by the Liao army garrison, and the two sides fought, Yang Yingqi heard the news and ordered Xu Wen to blow up a section of the outer city wall to participate in the battle, and the Song army was brought in.
At this time, the rising sun had already risen, Yang Yingqi saw the defeat of the rest of the Song army on the wall of the inner city wall of Tanggu, a heart sank, summoned Deng Su to ask about cause and effect, stayed for a long time, suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, rolled down from the steps of the city wall, his head touched the stone steps, and he fell into a coma.
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