Chapter Twenty-Eight: White Mountaineering
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A long time ago, I had accused some warlords who were reckless and regarded human life as a mustard, and even filled with righteous indignation about it, but now that it has fallen on me, there is a different approach.
Now that he is the commander-in-chief, he has long passed the process of personally leading the troops to fight, and has become a commander who sits in the tent and reprimands Fang Xuan.
In the end, the battle of Song and Liao is just a struggle for the right to survive, there are no innocents in this war, and now that the Great Song Dynasty has risen up, it is natural to use the Liao State to stabilize its borders.
If the Great Song Dynasty continued to weaken, the invasion of the Liao State would become a natural thing.
War is as essential as eating and sleeping!
The Yun Zheng a long time ago has died, and now Yun Zheng will no longer make waves in his heart when he sees the cruel and inhumane scene, he will only smile faintly, this may be the mind of the big man!
Li Dongchu's White Horse Army had already set off ahead of schedule, and Lang Tan's army encountered obstacles in Xijing, and the frantic Xiao Dahu began to intercept Lang Tan purposefully.
Lang Tan was running around the grassland, circling around Xijing, but the circle was getting smaller and smaller, and the channels for maneuvering were getting narrower and narrower.
Xiao Dahu did not chase after Lang Tan tightly, but laid heavy troops around Xijing, and oppressed Lang Tan with great momentum and had to stop his action of pursuing the herdsmen of Liao.
Yun Zheng's military order did not require Lang Tan and Xiao Dahu to fight directly, and the most important part of the content of the military order was to require him to destroy the foundation of the Liao people's existence, that is, to force the Liao herdsmen to leave their traditional pastures and migrate to Xijing.
It is absolutely impossible to divide the victory or defeat in a short period of time in the battle of Liao and Song, as long as the grazing plan of the Liao herdsmen is destroyed this year, and the next year, the land of Xijing will inevitably be mournful.
In this day and age. There is no one-size-fits-all way to survive, whether in agriculture or animal husbandry. The Great Song Dynasty could only harvest 120 catties of one mu of dry land, and the herdsmen's cattle and sheep herdsmen in Liao almost needed a lifetime of struggle to double the size, and the hardships were not enough to be humane to outsiders.
Decades of accumulation can be destroyed in one day. This is the pain of the shepherd. The pain that Lang Tan attached to the herders was enough to remember for the rest of their lives.
The newborn lamb had no way to keep up with the brigade and had to be abandoned. The newly produced ewes have no way to keep up with the brigade, so they can only abandon it, and the cattle and sheep that have not been pasted with autumn fat in the autumn have no way to deal with the pursuit of the enemy, so they have to be abandoned.
Those who could not write could only pour out their sorrows into the sad pastoral songs that echoed in the wilderness.
The greedy Lang Tan finally encountered Xiao Dahu's army in the Burning Mountain, and the fiercest battle broke out between the two armies in a hurry, and Lang Tan, who was anxious to leave the Burning Mountain, almost exerted the power of the firearm to the extreme, and then hurriedly disengaged from contact. Due to poor riding skills, the loss of war horses was amazing, and finally he had to go down the mountain to wait for Yun Zheng's reinforcements to arrive.
Xiao Dahu's army suffered heavy losses in the face of overwhelming firearms, a team of 10,000 people was disabled in a very short time, and the rest of the Liao army did not dare to oppress Lang Tan too much, and the two armies had become a confrontation under Baishan Mountain.
White Mountaineering, this is the proud place of alien races. Xiao Dahu thought that Yun Zheng's army would suffer a great defeat in this cursed land, therefore. Use the old strategy of the Xiongnu to lure Yun Zheng to go on an expedition. Therefore, the strategy of besieging but not attacking Lang Tan on Baishan Mountain was adopted.
After Chen Lin heard that Lang Tan was besieged in Baishan Mountain, he asked Yun Zheng for the first time not to attack the enemy, so as not to fall for the tricks of the Liao.
Yun Zheng still ordered Li Dongchu's White Horse Army to march towards Bai Mountain, and smiled at Chen Lin's worries.
In the seventh year of Han Gaozu, in winter, Han Gaozu Liu Bang personally led an army of 320,000. Went to the Xiongnu and suppressed the Han Wangxin rebellion at the same time. The main strategists accompanying him were Chen Ping and Lou Jing, and the generals included Fan Xu, Xiahou Ying, Zhou Bo and so on.
After the Han army entered Taiyuan County, it won one victory after another, especially the Battle of Tongba. The victory was a complete victory, causing heavy casualties to Han Wangxin's army, and his subordinate general Wang Xi was killed by the Han army, and Han Wangxin fled to the Xiongnu. Han Wangxin's generals, Bai Turen Manqiuchen and Wang Huang, supported Zhao Li, a descendant of Zhao during the Warring States Period, as king, gathered the remnants of Han Wangxin's defeated generals, and prepared to conspire with the Xiongnu to attack Han again.
Mao Dunshan Yu sent the left and right Xianwang each with more than 10,000 cavalry and Wang Huang and other troops south of Guangwu to Jinyang, in an attempt to block the Han army's northward advance.
The Han army pursued the victory, defeated the combined army of Han Wangxin and the Xiongnu in Jinyang, and chased to Lishi with the victory, defeating the combined army of Han Wangxin and the Xiongnu again. The Xiongnu again gathered forces in the northwest of Loufu, but were routed by the Han cavalry troops.
Due to the successive victories of the Han army, the idea of paralyzing and underestimating the enemy arose. After Liu Bang arrived in Jinyang, he heard that the Xiongnu were stationed in Daigu, so he first sent people to reconnoiter Maodun and the truth. And Mao Dun hid his elite soldiers, fat cattle and horses, etc., revealing only the old and weak soldiers and thin livestock, and sent more than ten groups of envoys back to say that the Xiongnu could attack.
Liu Bang sent Liu Jing to envoy the Xiongnu again, and he came back to report: "The two countries are fighting each other, and it is time to show off and show off your strengths." Now when I go there, I see only emaciated livestock and old and weak soldiers, which must be a deliberate attempt to show my shortcomings and ambush the strange soldiers to fight for victory. I thought the Huns couldn't be attacked. At this time, the Han Dynasty army had crossed the Juzhu Mountain, and the 200,000 troops had already set out.
Liu Bang was very annoyed when he heard Liu Jing's words, and scolded Liu Jing: "Qi is a bad seed! I have won the official with two pieces of mouth, and now I dare to talk nonsense to hinder my army. Liu Jing was detained in shackles and detained in Guangwu County, ready to be punished after triumph.
Liu Bang led the cavalry to Pingcheng first, and the Han infantry had not yet fully arrived at this time. Mao Dunshan saw the Han soldiers rushing to set up an ambush on Baishan Mountain.
As soon as Liu Bang led the soldiers and horses into the encirclement, Mao Dunshan commanded the 400,000 Xiongnu army on the horse, intercepted the Han infantry, and besieged Liu Bang's soldiers and horses in Baishan Mountain, so that the Han army had no food and grass and no reinforcements outside, and could not save each other.
After Liu Bang found out that he was surrounded, he organized a breakthrough, and after several fierce battles, he did not break out. After that, Mao Dun led the cavalry to besiege from all sides: the Xiongnu cavalry had a white horse in the west, a green horse in the east, a black horse in the north, and a red horse in the south, in an attempt to disperse the Han army. As a result, the two sides suffered great losses and have been holding each other.
At this time, it was the middle of winter, the climate was very cold, and the soldiers of the Han army were not used to life in the north, and many people suffered frostbite, among which there were two or three out of ten who froze off their fingers. The Xiongnu besieged it for seven days and seven nights, and did not occupy Baideng.
After the Han army was besieged for seven days, the food was almost exhausted, and they were hungry and cold, and they were in danger. Chen Ping saw that Mao Dun Shan Yu was very fond of the newly acquired Yan family, and he never left day and night.
This time, he camped at the foot of the mountain, and often rode in and out with the Yan family, smiling and whispering, with deep affection. So Chen Ping offered advice to Liu Bang and wanted to make an idea from the Yan family. Liu Bang adopted Chen Ping's strategy and sent envoys to go down the mountain in the fog to offer a lot of gold, silver and jewelry to the Yan family.
So the Yan family said to Mao Dunshan Yu: "The army got the news that hundreds of thousands of troops from the Han Dynasty came to the rescue, but I am afraid that they will arrive tomorrow." ”
Shan Yu asked: "Is there such a thing?" ”
Yan replied: "The two lords of Han and Hun should not push each other too hard, now that the emperor of the Han Dynasty is trapped in the mountains, how can the Han people give up?" Naturally, they will desperately save each other. Even if you defeat the Han people and seize their cities, you may not be able to live long because of the water and soil. In case we can't destroy the Han Emperor, when the rescue arrives, we will attack inside and outside, so that we can't share the happiness. ”
Mao Dunshan asked, "What should I do then?" ”
Yan said: "The Han Emperor was besieged for seven days, there was no panic in the army, presumably there must be gods to help, although there is danger, but in the end it will be safe." Why should you disobey the command of heaven and drive him to death? It's better to let him live, so that no disaster will befall us in the future. ”
Mao Dunshan had agreed on a date for the meeting with Han Wangxin's subordinates Wang Huang and Zhao Li, but their army did not come on time, and Mao Dunshan suspected that they were colluding with the Han army, so he adopted the suggestion of the Yan clan and opened a corner of the encirclement to allow the Han army to withdraw. On that day, when the weather was foggy, the Han army drew their bows and mounted arrows, and slowly walked out of the corner that had been lifted from the siege, so that they could escape.
Yun Zheng is not ignorant of this period of history, as early as when Tokyo and Di Qing and others were strategizing, Di Qing specially told Yun Zheng about Baishan Mountain, the most dangerous place in Xijing.
Di Qing didn't believe in any gods, and Yun Zheng naturally didn't believe in it either, and the barbarian gods couldn't not allow the Song army to enter this mountain.
On the contrary, as long as the grain is sufficient, it is not a bad thing to wedge a nail in Baishan Mountain, when Han Gaozu faced the strong attack of the 400,000 Xiongnu army without food and clothing, he could hold on for seven days and seven nights, and there was no reason why the Song army, which was equipped to the teeth, would be inferior to those troops who lacked food and clothing in the early Han Dynasty.
Baishan Mountain is different to the barbarians, not to mention the early Han Gaozu, Yang Wudi's last northern expedition was just to attack Baishan Mountain, and he encountered the news that Emperor Taizong of the Great Song Dynasty was shot by others and returned defeated, so he had to retreat to Xijing with Pan Mei, and the land of the two states that he had previously seized was also taken away by the Liao, and finally led to the bloody death of Yang Wudi's father and son in the Golden Beach.
Therefore, as long as there is an army that can be stationed on Baishan Mountain, it will inevitably lure the Liao people out of Xijing, which has been preparing for war for five years, but this is only a wishful plan.
At this time, Yun Zheng was no longer a military marquis who led the Jiazi Battalion and didn't know anything, and after fighting countless vicious battles, he completed the perfect transformation from a scholar to a general. (To be continued......)
PS: Chapter one