Volume 2 Taibai Xinghuo Chapter 80 The Runaway Emperor
In this way, the whole army of Dayan attacked the fortification with all its might for half a day, and even Yelu oblique on the Liao side gathered the remnants of Yelu Xidi and Yelu Sha together, so that the whole army could put on the blue military flag of Yelu Xidi before and come to attack our army.
Emperor Taizong saw that he was still defeated by his previous subordinates, but it was a pity that he let them run away before. We didn't cross the river to pursue, and they dared to come and attack us. At that moment, let the besieging army on this side attack the Liao army again, but the besieging army was undecided, so it could only be forced to attack and kill the past, and as a result, it suddenly collided with the new army led by Yelu Xianzhen, and our army was defeated at that time, and countless soldiers of our dynasty were killed. This is the first fiasco defeat of Emperor Taizong since he led his troops, but after all, we have other armies on three sides, and there are many troops, and the number of troops led by this Yelu Xian is still relatively small, so Yelu Xian Zhen did not pursue, but only stationed troops in Qinghe.
In the evening, our army was defeated and retreated, just settled, Emperor Taizong let us attack the city with all our might, at this time even their own forbidden army camp was sent out, so the Chinese army camp was completely exposed, and the reserve army defending on the left and right was sent forward to attack the city.
Who knew that Yelu Hugo actually led his army from the mountain path, and everyone held two torches, and rushed straight at our army. Because it was dark at night, it was not clear how many Liao troops there were, and Emperor Taizong only saw about 50,000 or 60,000 torches, thinking that the Liao army had 50,000 or 60,000 reinforcements. But at this time, after the fiasco in the afternoon, Emperor Taizong was already afraid at this time, how could he still have the courage to organize the whole army to fight the enemy, but he desperately let people escort him and fled backwards. General Cao was originally besieging the city, but when he saw that the emperor's army was attacked by the left and right flanks of Yelu Hugo and Yelu obliquely, he had to rush back to rescue him. At this time, the Liao army defending the city saw that the reinforcements on the left and right wings had arrived, and I went to the army to turn their backs to them to save the driver, so they opened the city gate and rushed out, at this time Yelu Sha, Yelu Xuan, Yelu Xiu Ge and Han De let the four armies fire together, the war drums sounded in unison, at this time it was night, for a while it was completely clear how many Liao troops were around, only heard the war drums all around, swords and horses, all of a sudden our army's defense line was not attacked, and the result was the Liao army rushed into chaos.
In the process of rescuing the car, it really made Yelu Xiuge rush to Emperor Taizong, fortunately, General Mo Xun led our Mo Lin battalion to arrive quickly, but General Mo fought alone Yelu Xuan, Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Sha, and we desperately stepped forward to relieve the siege of General Mo Heng, but were dragged by the personal soldiers of these three Liao generals. Then by Yelu Xuanzhen and Yelu Sha dragged General Mo, Yelu Xiuge wanted to go to capture Emperor Taizong alive, and finally was broken out by General Mo with a lifeless style of play, and that Yelu Xiuge exchanged his life for his life, and finally each other was hit hard, and Emperor Taizong was also in a panic alone with the guards to escape out, and then caught up with Yelu Xianzhen and Yelu Sha saw that they could not capture Emperor Taizong, so they all pulled their bows and arrows, and wanted to shoot Emperor Taizong, General Mo Heng, who was already seriously injured, threw the spear in his hand at Yelu Xian and Yelu Sha at the last moment, As a result, the two people's heads shook accurately, and we only saw that the bow and arrow hit Emperor Taizong's thigh.
Then the Liao army saw that our super army was about to be encircled, so they carried Yelu Hugo, who had been seriously injured and unconscious, to break out, and we also cared about General Mo Xun lying on the ground, so we did not stop it, and when General Cao arrived, he wanted to organize all the armies to fight against the Liao army, but the Liao army shouted that Emperor Taizong was captured by them, and at this time the army's heart was completely chaotic, and it was completely impossible to organize a phalanx that could effectively fight the enemy. The army fled to Zhuozhou in the south in a panic, and General Cao had no choice but to lead us to flee to Zhuozhou with the army. As soon as we arrived at a place to set up camp, we found that the light cavalry of the Liao army not far away arrived with torches, so the camp was in chaos again, shouting that the Liao army was coming. So he hurriedly fled again, and those who got on their horses and ran quickly escaped, and those who ran slowly and lagged behind were all killed by the Liao army behind. So our whole army arrived at a place and was just about to catch its breath, when the Liao people came again, and the army had to continue running. It wasn't until dawn that I found that there were only five or six hundred Liao cavalry behind me, but each of them was holding two torches in their hands, and the swords in the other hand had already been cut and curled, and they were even replaced with the swords of our Great Yan Dynasty.
That is to say, in one night, our more than 100,000 Great Yan Dynasty was pursued and killed by the Liao State District of five or six hundred light cavalry troops, except for the nearly 10,000 people who were besieged and killed by the Liao army on all sides due to the previous siege battle, three or four thousand people were killed by the six hundred cavalry without resistance in one night.
Later, under the command of General Pan Meipan of this expedition to Liao, he gathered the remaining troops and stationed in Zhuozhou, because when he fled last night, he heard that the Liao army had been shouting, "The emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty has been captured." "We just saw the emperor fleeing on horseback with a small group of guards, but he was shot in the thigh with a bow and arrow, and it is unknown whether he was caught by the Liao army after escaping, so there is no way to confirm the authenticity of this information. Therefore, General Pan and others felt that Emperor Taizong had been captured by the Liao army, and the army's morale was very low at that time. At this time, the military advisor said that the country could not be without a monarch for a day, so he suggested that Zhao Dezhao, the second son of Emperor Taizu, be established as the emperor.
Later, the city of Zhuozhou was preparing for the new emperor's accession to the throne, and at this time, Yang Ye, the former general of the Northern Han Dynasty, rushed to Zhuozhou with the grain and grass supplies behind, and we learned that Emperor Taizong was not captured by the Liao army.
It turned out that Emperor Taizong was hurrying away and fled south; However, the sky is getting dark, the vast is indistinguishable, the distance is seven high and eight low, the wilderness is very difficult, and the sound of shouting and killing behind is endless, even Taizong's personal guards, and they are also scattered along the way. Taizong looked at the panic around him, and the more panicked he became, even the horse staggered and couldn't run over. Taizong was very anxious, only tightened the reins of the horse, and beat it with a whip, the horse couldn't bear the pain, no matter what hardships and dangers, he simply scurried, collapsed, fell into the quagmire, and hurriedly called the guards to help, who knew that there was no one left and right, only a team of soldiers and horses not far away rushed over with torches, because the army of the Great Yan Dynasty did not bring torches when they took it out, and only the Liao army chased after him, so Emperor Taizong couldn't help but look up to the sky at this time and shouted: 'I was mistaken by Cui Han, I went through the crisis, and now it's too late to regret it, I really shouldn't listen to him, Otherwise, you are the Son of Heaven, the body of ten thousand gold, where will you be hit by two arrows in the thigh, it seems that my life is over! ’。
When Emperor Taizong was just waiting to die with his eyes closed, this group of torches at this time was none other than Yang Ye, who refused to surrender even to the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty before. This time, he happened to be in charge of escorting the grain and grass of the Liao army. Just arrived here, and when he saw Emperor Taizong sighing in the quagmire, he hurriedly dismounted and paid homage, saying, 'Weichen is late to save the car, please forgive the emperor!' At this time, where would Emperor Taizong blame him, it would naturally be better if someone would let him out, so Yang Ye waded in the quagmire and hugged Emperor Taizong from the horse trapped in the quagmire. Give it to his son Yang Yanzhao on the shore, and then let Yang Yanzhao give up the good horse to Emperor Taizong.
Because Emperor Taizong had an arrow wound in his leg, he naturally couldn't ride a horse at this time, so he said, 'How can a general kill the enemy without a horse, I can't ride his horse, you just find me a donkey cart.' Because Yang Ye was escorting grain and grass, there were a lot of donkey carts, so Emperor Taizong rode back to Jinnantun on the donkey cart escorting grain and grass.
And Yang Ye rushed to Zhuozhou with grain and grass, only to have the scene just said, the Emperor Taizong was not captured to General Pan and others, at this time, because General Pan is the supreme commander of the Liao, so everyone let General Pan take the idea, at that time General Pan only said that he wanted to follow the holy car, and it was important to protect the holy car, saying that Emperor Taizong was not fast on a donkey cart, and there was no army around him, so he said that he wanted to rush to the emperor's side immediately. In fact, everyone knows that the main reason is that General Pan saw that the army was already ready to fight, so he wanted to go home early, so he said so.