"By the middle of May of the fourth year of Yongxi, the army branched out from Taiyuan and marched eastward. Although the army in the army does not say on the surface, but secretly there are a lot of complaints, our Dayan Dynasty cavalry less, so most of the marching at that time were on foot, a large number of military supplies were carried by people, and finally came to enter the territory of Liao, hundreds of thousands of troops have been sleepy and lacking, the generals saw that this situation was more fiercely opposed, if this fight continues, the other party is afraid that the whole army will be wiped out, and I don't know what Emperor Taizong thinks, this time it is obviously a tough battle, but he asked all the troops to attack lightly, Arrive at the combat area as soon as possible, the siege of the city can not be done without large equipment, but because of the mountain, a lot of heavy equipment is not brought, but Emperor Taizong does not care at all, in early June, he transferred weapons and equipment and grain from Jingdong and Hebei Prefectures to the front line.

In the middle of June of the fourth year of Yongxi, Emperor Taizong went to Jintaitun, recruited more than 100 guides from the local people, and crossed the Juma River from the west of Dongyizhou on the 20th to enter the Liao realm. At the beginning of the army, it was indeed overwhelming, because it was close to the border, and the Liao soldiers were not heavily defended here, in fact, it was impossible for the Liao State to defend the entire national border, and they would choose some key areas for heavy defense. Some remote and unimportant strongholds have fewer troops of their own.

Late June. Since the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have been under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, as soon as the army of our Great Yan Dynasty arrived, some of the local defenders who originally belonged to the Han nationality immediately surrendered. For example, Liu Yu, the Liao assassin, surrendered the city, Emperor Taizong left a thousand soldiers and horses to assist in the defense, and then attacked Zhuozhou, when Liu Yuande, the judge of the Liao State defending the city, also surrendered the city. These Han officials appointed by the Liao State surrendered to the Song army one after another, and the common people led horses and water to welcome the king. This made Emperor Taizong very happy, and felt that even if the people were sleepy and tired, as long as he made a slight gesture, the other party would surrender, so he hurriedly ordered the exhausted army to hurry up.

Take the victory to the south of Youzhou City, but in the face of Youzhou City's better city defense facilities, our siege troops are at a loss and have no equipment, so they can only start to think of a way, hoping that there are large forests around to make some ladder equipment. But we searched for a long time and found that there was no wood near Youzhou at all, so we had to carry out a hard siege war.

In terms of the Liao army, at that time, the city of Youzhou was commanded by Han Derang, who knew Nanjing, and Ma Bujun, who knew Nanjing, and Yelu Xuegu commanded the city. Two other mobile forces were deployed outside Youzhou City: one was led by Yelu Xida, the king of the Northern Court of Liao, and Xiao Qigu, the commander of the army, and deployed in the north of Youzhou City; The other was led by Yelu Xian, the king of the southern courtyard of the Liao State, and the troops were victorious.

In addition, there is also the Liao general Yelu Xiuge, with the in-depth reinforcements of the Fifth Academy Army, which is urgently moving in the direction of Youzhou. According to the report of the scouts, Emperor Taizong believed that the troops led by Yelu Xian in the direction of the victory were not many and easy to capture, so he ordered General Cao to attack. At that time, it was General Mo Heng who led our Mo Lin army to battle, and Xiao Sheng beheaded more than 1,000 people at that time.

But in fact, the Liao army led by Yelu Xian, the king of the Southern Court of Liao, was the main force in the battle of Youzhou, and Yelu Xianzhi commanded the Liao army to attack after returning to the side of our Dayan Dynasty, and our army could only temporarily retreat, and the two sides formed a stalemate in the Qingsha River.

I remember that it was June 25 in the fourth year of Yongxi, because it happened to be the date of my birth, when Emperor Taizong ordered a small number of troops to contain the Qingsha River Yelu Xie, and concentrated most of the troops to attack Youzhou City. Emperor Taizong ordered the four-sided siege method to be adopted. He ordered Dingguo Jiedu to make Song Wei attack its south, Heyang Jiedu to make Cui Yan attack the north, Zhangxin Jiedu to make Liu Yu attack the east, Dingwu Jiedu to make Meng Yuanzhe attack the west, and at the same time appointed Xuanhui Southern Court to make Pan Mei serve as the governor of Youzhou, responsible for the commander to attack Youzhou City.

We attacked the city on all sides, and the Liao army defending the city at that time should have reached the end of the mountain, and four middle and lower-ranking officers of the Liao army led their troops to surrender to us. When the battle began, Yelu Xuegu, the deputy general of the Liao army defending the city, was commanding outside the city, and he wanted to enter the city but could not enter after the city was tight. At night, he ordered people to dig tunnels, found the abandoned drainage channels in the city, drilled into the city, and told Han Derang, the lord of the city, that Yelu Xianzhen was fighting with the Song army outside the city to support the defenders in the city, and said that the emperor of Liao would definitely mobilize cavalry to help Youzhou, of course, this is also the time to know. We later found the tunnels they had dug outside the city.

At the end of June, Emperor Taizong ordered the army to dig tunnels and climb the city at the same time and attack the city, there was no equipment, so at this time, whoever went to the city to attack would die, but ......" When Liu Baiqing said this, he seemed to be unbearable, and paused for a while, Cao Yi, Red Sleeves, and Raider were not easy to supervise, so they waited quietly.

After a while, Liu Baiqing said in a sad tone: "But Emperor Taizong saw that General Mo Heng and the Mo Lin army under his command were extremely brave and brave, and ordered us to attack the city!" ”

"Ahh Red Sleeves and Raider covered their mouths in shock, and it was not difficult to imagine the end of the Mo Lin Army.

Liu Baiqing gritted his teeth and said: "At that time, after attacking the Northern Han Dynasty, there were only more than 1,080 people left in the Molin army with a full strength of 2,500 people, and with the battle at the victory mouth, there were only more than 1,500 people left. Although everyone knows that this is a matter of sending to death, but the monarch has to die, General Mo Xun took our Mo Lin army to brave sharp arrows at night to climb the southern city wall, and the Liao army fought on the city wall, but the Liao army found another troops digging tunnels into the city, repelled and blocked the tunnel, Emperor Taizong could only Mingjin withdraw his troops after getting the news, but this is equivalent to giving up our Mo Lin camp like this. ”

"Later, General Cao and the military division could not bear the annihilation of our Molin battalion, and risked disobeying the king's order, and have been resolutely attacking the city, and at the same time assisting our Molin army to retreat, but it is a pity that more than 1,500 brothers of our Molin army died more than 200 people when they ascended to the strong, and there were more than 300 people on the city wall who could only be shot alive by the Liao army blocking the back road." Liu Baiqing said with red eyes.

Originally, General Cao and the military adviser thought that because of the failure of this siege, Emperor Taizong temporarily withdrew his troops and besieged the city to send reinforcements, but Emperor Taizong did not listen to the dissuasion, and even felt that General Cao and the military bewitched the army, and everyone was punished with twenty rods, thinking of fighting on the front line, and punishing them after the division returned to the court.

At that time, Emperor Taizong was reported by the spies, and Yelusha, the prime minister of the southern province of Liao, led reinforcements to Youzhou and reached the Gaoliang River. The Liao general Triyan Yelu Hugo also took the initiative to ask for battle, and led 30,000 elite cavalry of the Fifth Academy Army to come to the rescue, which could be reached at any time.

When Emperor Taizong learned of this situation, he felt that since the enemy reinforcements had already reached the Gaoliang River, it was better for the army to go to meet the battle, and after defeating the reinforcements, it would not be too late to capture Youzhou City. Then he ordered the army to pull out the camp and march towards the Gaoliang River. When he arrived at the river, he saw the reinforcements of the Liao soldiers coming across the river, almost tens of thousands of people, so he ordered the army to leap out of the battle, each with his own weapons, and rushed forward. Yelusha, the prime minister of Nanfu, also waved his troops to resist, the war drums on both sides sounded in unison, the flags flew, it can be said that the sky was dark, the ghost cried the god, and fought for about two or three hours in a row, the Liao army suffered many casualties, and gradually could not support, and then retreated to the other bank of the Gaoliang River.

Emperor Taizong wanted to order us to pursue the past, but General Cao and the military division dissuaded, saying that the Liao army was attacked by us when crossing the river, and at this moment we have gone through more than ten days of siege and attack, all of them have long been sleepy and lacking, morale is not high, and the continuous combat ability is extremely poor, plus there are 30,000 elite iron cavalry led by Yelu Hugo has not yet come out, I don't know when it may come out to attack us, we must be cautious. Emperor Taizong was very angry at that time, and was admonished by General Cao to death before agreeing to collect his troops and retreat.

But Emperor Taizong felt that it was okay to not be able to go to the river, but it was possible to attack Youzhou City, before our Molin army had rushed to the head of the city, so that Emperor Taizong felt that he could attack it with more effort, so he ordered the whole army to press, and even the reserve army led by Cao Han in case of emergency was put into the siege battle.