Chapter 72: The Battle of Yunzhou (I)

Yunzhou East City Yingchun Gate Tower.

Lu Ping looked at the Liao army company camp in the distance, the sun was rising in the east, the morning mist was gradually dissipating, and he faintly saw that the Liao army was withdrawing from the camp tents one by one, and moved the camp unabashedly.

"Cardinal ......" The middle-aged general standing next to Lu Ping was Dong Zunzhi, the commander of the Second Army of the Beijing Battalion, and he wanted to stop talking at this moment.

Lu Ping recruited envoys for the Beijing garrison camp and added a privy deputy envoy, so that many of his subordinates were called "cardinal commanders".

Dong Zunzhi is the old department of Song Yanwu, Song Yanwu Tongliao treason case, implicated in a wide range of cases, and even forced the cabinet of the seven giants to order Si Chao to sue the old Zhishi, although it did not affect Dong Zunzhi, but there are a lot of rumors behind it, Dong Zunzhi was known for his courage when he was young, and the people of the time commented that "Zunzhi does not know the book, is open-minded and has no cliffs, is strategic, can save the strong hit, and the martial arts are unique."

Now the middle-aged people are not confused, guarding this Yunzhou City, but there is a bit of a mess, several times to ask for battle, last night the scouts found that the Liao people were ready to move the camp, he advocated going out of the city to attack the enemy.

Lu Ping glanced at him and sighed softly, "Obey, the Holy Son of Heaven has an edict to let me inform you." Speaking of this, his face was solemn, "Obey the teachings, be brave and strategic, be the minions of the country, and the sharp weapon of me, not Song Yanwu's party." ”

Dong Zunyu was stunned, and immediately felt that the blood was surging up, a big man, a huge man, and his eyes were a little sour, and he almost cried.

"The Son of Heaven said, If you have fought more than ten times, you will tell you this, but if you hear this, the Son of Heaven will be a little disappointed. The Son of Heaven knows you, but you don't know the Son of Heaven. ”

"Yes, yes!" Dong Zunzhi choked, ashamed, excited, and even more bloody, and killed the enemy without regrets when he thought about it.

"However, today, you are right, such a good opportunity, you should hit it!" Lu Ping raised his voice suddenly, "Dong obeys the order!" ”

Dong Zunzhi was stunned, immediately overjoyed, and said loudly: "So-and-so!" ”

Looking at the Liao army camp in the distance, Lu Ping clenched the hilt of his sword.

For more than a month, he has been holding back, that is, to show weakness, and at the same time to contain Yelu Xi at the bottom of Yunzhou, before the attack of Yelu Xidi's army, such as Dong Zunzhi and other generals proposed, camp outside the city to resist the enemy, everyone does not believe it, the two armies of the Beijing Guard, according to the city guard, have not yet had the strength to fight with the Khitans.

Generally speaking, only the defenders of the city with a big disadvantage will completely retreat into the city, and at the same time, although they can rely on the city risk, they also completely lose the strategic initiative.

However, the Son of Heaven had already instructed that the enemy should be destroyed at the lowest cost, and at any time, he should not be brave and brutal.

Therefore, according to what the Holy Son of Heaven said, he showed weakness to defend the city, and waited for Yelu Xidi to besiege the city, and then divided and attacked it.

However, Yelu Xidi was extremely cautious, although it was also a siege, but he only sent cavalry, and tentatively attacked the other three city gates to see if there were any weak points, and the main thing was to rely on the siege equipment of the southern army to attack the east gate.

His siege is also reflected in the use of cavalry power, ordinary scouts scattered, if there are other directions, there are grain and grass reinforcements, etc., he can use cavalry to attack.

The Liao army battalion was all stationed outside the eastern city and did not disperse the army.

A few days ago, a military report was reported, and the four states of Xinzhou were pacified by Lu Qing and the Shenwu Army.

It seems that this Jeruxidi has also received the message, and he has chosen a new camp since last night and began to prepare to move the camp.

The new site was chosen on the shore of Wenying Lake near Baishan Mountain.

It seems that Yelu Xidi not only knew that the four states of Xinzhou were recovered by his own side, but also knew that the Liao lord led a large army south to Youzhou.

Therefore, he did not retreat to the north, but chose a place with a water source to prepare for a long-term station, echoing the Liao lord, and first, to contain the Shanxi Qi army; Second, after waiting for the Liao lord to defeat the Hebei Qi army in Youzhou, he went west to Shanxi.

Moreover, he obviously relied on his own people to be cavalry, even if he encountered a particularly dangerous situation, he could lead the army to retreat north, as for the lives of those southerners, he didn't care at all.

Now the swaggering relocation camp is also luring the defenders of the city to attack him out of the city.

But isn't this a good opportunity to defeat him?

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and if the Son of Heaven is here, he will definitely order to go out of the city to attack the enemy.

Although Yelu Xidi is cautious, he should seriously lack the evaluation of the combat power in his own city, after all, during this period of attack, although he has been repelled every time, it seems that Yunzhou City is also very dangerous.

Therefore, he moved the camp with great fanfare, and even wanted to use this method to lure the defenders of the city out of the city to attack him, so that he could defeat his own army and horses in the field battle.

Lu Ping's plan had been decided, and he was about to give an order, when suddenly someone below shouted: "The order has arrived!" ”

From the bottom of the city, a soldier hurriedly ran up, holding a golden token high in his hand, yes, all the way unimpeded.

"Cardinal, Holy Son of Heaven's military order!" When the soldier approached, he hurriedly put away the token, and bowed down to hand a small note to Lu Ping with both hands.

Lu Ping took it and took a look, and was immediately overjoyed, and there was a simple sentence in it, "The enemy moved to the camp, the whole army attacked it, and I watched the battle on Baishan Mountain." ”

"The Son of Heaven is in Baishan Mountain!" Lu Ping looked at Dong Zunzhi and the generals on the left and right.

The generals were in an uproar.

Lu Ping didn't say much, and passed on a command.

In Yunzhou Jingshu, there were two armies, Lu Ping of the First Army personally served as the commander of the army, and Dong Zunzhi was the commander of the Second Army.

The Fifth Army, a total of 10,000 cavalry, the Fifth Army is a reserve, not equipped with cavalry, the second, third, and fourth armies, each with 2,000 cavalry, are each 1,000 archers and 1,000 light cavalry, the first army, 4,000 cavalry, including 2,000 heavy cavalry, 2,000 archers.

In addition, the 3,000 heavy armor soldiers of the Beijing Garrison Army are also in the First Army, and the remaining 3,000 are all heavy armor divine archers, that is, in fact, almost all the elites of the Beijing Garrison Fifth Army are in the First Army.

The configuration of the other three armies is similar, like the second army, they are all 2,000 cavalry, and the rest of the foot soldiers, except for some special arms and siege equipment battalions, are generally equipped with one gun, three bows, four crossbows and two crossbows.

Among them, the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen are all wearing full body armor, and the archer has less armor on his arms, which is slightly lighter than the sword and shield soldiers and spear armor, and the crossbowmen use cotton fur instead of iron armor because of the relationship between the troops.

In the Beijing garrison army, in addition to the crossbowmen, everyone wears armor, of course, the crossbowmen are actually according to the previous standards, they are also considered armor, which can be counted as soap silk armor cloth back armor and so on.

Heavy infantry armor soldiers, are all wielding Mo knife wrestlers, the body armor is also the heaviest, from the former Tang Ming light armor, infantry armor improved, is a combination of plate armor and scale armor, the foot pawn protection of the iron bucket general.

Swords, shields, spearmen, etc., are also all iron armor, mostly chain armor, archers iron armor, leather armor, etc.

Lu Ping's order was passed on, how the various departments were divided into joint attacks, which department was the vanguard, and which department stayed in the city defense, etc.

The generals, all of them are gearing up, and they are fighting against the legendary powerful Hulu in the north, and these arrogant generals who have not yet lost a battle are eager for something in their dreams, and they are all about to go crazy.

Now, the Holy Son of Heaven has arrived, and it depends on who can break through Hu Qi, and be the first to ask for merit before the Holy Son of Heaven!

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White Mountaineering is actually a relatively high mound.

At this time, on Baishan Mountain, Lu Ning looked at the slowly moving Liao soldiers from a distance, and he was faintly excited in his heart.

This battle can be regarded as the real beginning of the Khitan people.

Let's see, it is the horse soldiers under his command who are more brave and good at fighting, or the Khitans, who are the heroes of the world!