Chapter 784: The Turtle in the Urn
What is a turtle in an urn?
Today's Li Yuanhao is like this, Yulin City has become a very tempting poison, which made Li Yuanhao take the bait, and mistakenly slaughtered the city for three days, which angered everyone in Daliao, and the news soon spread all over Xijing Road, and even the nearby Datong Mansion got the news, and for a time the world was disgusted.
The slaughter of the city is actually nothing, since ancient times, the soldiers and bandits have been a family, and the reason why the sergeants have actively attacked the city is because they can make a fortune by looting people's houses everywhere in the time of victory, and it is not impossible for the generals to promise first.
When the officers and soldiers suppressed the rebellion, they often ransacked the people's homes, and after a series of fierce battles, they were basically killed, and when the city was broken, it was impossible to determine how many surrenders and resistance there were in the city, and it was common to continue to slash and slash and plunder property along the way, so the catastrophe of the war has always been the greatest suffering of the people.
Small chaos is avoided in the city, and big chaos is avoided in the countryside. The soldiers were marched for three days to feed the soldiers.
But these must be restrained by the generals, not if you want to slaughter the city, you need to release your words before attacking the city, and the two countries need to pay more attention to the war, especially the emperor like Li Yuanhao, who is the act of the Son of Heaven, how can he act rashly?
You must know that the virtue of the Son of Heaven is often based on benevolence and benevolence, supplemented by generosity, so that it can be justified, known to the world, and respected by the country! Now that Li Yuanhao is the Son of Heaven and the Monarch, even if he attacks other countries, he is still slaughtering the city and the labor army after the victory, which is simply outrageous.
It's really shameful to do this because it doesn't attack the city by the way, obviously this is angry, compared to Li Yuanhao's excitement, Xiao Tzuli, the empress dowager of the Liao Dynasty, is the calmest person, and the entire battle of Yulin was delicately arranged by her, and even Zhao Zhen had to sigh at the power of her pocket array and tricks to lure the enemy.
Let Li Yuanhao get into it himself, and he didn't notice it.
It stands to reason that Li Yuanhao is not stupid, but suspicious people are very cunning, but because Xiao Tzuli is too real, Yulin City was really captured by Li Yuanhao, and the defenders did not release any water from the city, because Xiao Tzuli knew that Li Yuanhao had the ability to take Yulin City.
And the same is true of the Qinghe Army and the Jinsu Army, these two armies are more than capable but not enough, Li Yuanhao captured Yulin City very quickly, otherwise these two armies can inflict more heavy losses on the Western Xia Army, which is why the soldiers of the two armies are depressed.
When Li Yuanhao took Yulin City, the generals of the two armies led their troops to retreat at the same time, and did not continue to attack Yulin City, which gave Li Yuanhao self-confidence, and also greatly increased the grievances of the soldiers in his hands.
It's all at this time, Xiao Tzuli is late to lead the reinforcements, but it just happens to let the pocket array form, the three-way army, besiege Yulin City, Li Yuanhao is a fool and should understand that he is under siege, so he thinks of collecting the capture army.
The army of Western Xia, or the army led by Li Yuanhao, has been too smooth in recent years, going to the Western Regions, defeating the Liaoxing Sect and Yelu Zongzhen's westward expedition, and so on, all of which gave him a very strong self-confidence.
But he didn't know that the small country in the Western Regions had average combat capability, and that defeat of Xingzong's Western Expedition was just his Li Yuanhao's luck. You must know that in the hands of Xiao Hui, the party members have been defeated in successive battles, and they are about to retreat to Xingqing Mansion!
However, the Liao Dynasty has had a series of disasters in the past two years, first Yanyun was recaptured by the Great Song Dynasty, and the clan rebelled after the emperor died in battle, and the dynasty was greatly damaged, which gave Li Yuanhao a wrong intuition, as if the Liao Dynasty was no longer good......
In Li Yuanhao's view, the Song army was not the opponent of the Western Xia army at all, and the Liao people could be bullied by the Song army like this, so naturally they would not be the opponents of the Western Xia, but he didn't know all of them, Yeluzong's real death in the battlefield was a mistake in judgment, and the Song and Liao armies did not really have a head-on decisive battle, fighting to the death.
The current Great Song Dynasty is no longer the original Great Song Dynasty, the elite soldiers are as strong as Qin Ruishi and Wei Wushu, but Zhao Zhen rarely lets them show their fangs, and for the defense of the west, the Great Song Dynasty is also mainly based on stubbornness, and does not provoke the party members.
In order to attack the Liao Dynasty, Li Yuanhao naturally did not turn his face with the Great Song Dynasty, and restrained his subordinates not to offend the Song army in Yanzhou and Hongzhou, so he didn't know what the combat strength of the Song army was, and thought it was the same as before.
The balance of strength between the three kingdoms of Song, Liaoxia and Xia had already quietly changed, and the Western Xia, which had the weakest intelligence, suffered a big loss unknowingly.
It seems that Li Yuanhao occupies Yulin City, but in fact, he is besieged here, and it is easy for Xiao Tart's pocket array to get in, and he wants to get out? Li Yuanhao was afraid that he would have to drop a few pieces of meat, and he was even in danger of being wiped out.
The captive army is worthy of being elite, the speed of assembly is very fast, and many slaves have been captured, all of which are tied together by ropes, surrounded outside Yulin City, forming a human city wall, in the eyes of the party members, there is nothing wrong with this, slaves, naturally the most despicable people, their lives are not worth much, anyway, these people are dead, and they will be arrested next time.
But this scene in the eyes of the Liao people is to add fuel to the fire, since ancient times the two armies have been fighting, not killing civilians, if there are people who are accidentally involved in the battlefield, they can only blame him for his bad life, the average soldier avoided killing him this year, but there were accidents, but the scene in front of him was obviously deliberate by Li Yuanhao.
In order to block the attack of the Great Liao, it can really be said that they are doing everything, how can the Liao people not hate? Among these people are Han people, Tibetan people, Khitan people, and even their own people, the party is very large, and the Liao Dynasty also has party members.
Night fell quietly, and the night, which should have been silent, was illuminated by the light of torches, and the black eyes of the people flashed with firelight, some from the torches and some from the heart.
Xiao Tzuli stood on the high point of the general's platform, and angrily rebuked Li Yuanhao's crime with her clear and unique penetrating voice: "The age is in Guiwei, and there is a villain Yuanhao in the west...... Taking advantage of the civil strife in my Great Liao, I will use villain means, seize my city, occupy my land, kill my people, destroy my society, humiliate the first emperor, and despise the Great Liao. ……”
Xiao Tart almost one by one, listed all the charges of Li Yuanhao, and her words also made the anger in the hearts of the Khitan people reach the peak, the same text was also recited in the Qinghe Army and the Jin Su Army, and for a time the Liao Army was warlike, and at this excellent time, Xiao Tart ordered people to start the attack.
The easiest way is to send elites to storm the slave walls outside the city, although these walls are guarded by some captive soldiers, but the number is not large, Xiao Tart's method is very simple, dig a ravine, get as close as possible to those human walls, and send elite Khitan warriors to rescue, although the method is simple, but it is very effective.