Chapter 22 Chai Rong turned the tables
Liu Chong ran away, and at this time Chai Rong's subordinates said to Chai Rong: "Your Majesty, although Liu Chong is defeated. But his strength is still not much different from ours. There is a way to be poor, and you can't chase it. Rabbits bite even when they're in a hurry. "If this general is facing an ordinary emperor, it would be fine, but he is facing Chai Rong, who has advanced and fought hard in his life. Chai Rong sneered and ordered all the troops to attack on all fronts and beat the water dogs. Liu Chong retreated all the way and retreated to a mountain stream near Gaoping, where the two armies deployed defenses. At this time, the most bizarre scene appeared, the two armies could see each other, but neither could help the other. There is a poem that is very well written: "You live at the head of the Yangtze River, I live at the end of the Yangtze River, and I think about killing you every day and drinking a river of water." "Of course, we've adapted this.
In the process of waiting for the right moment, there is always a crisis as to who is the pursuer and who is the fugitive. Not until the last moment of the war.
Why? Because Liu Chong's defeated army continued to gather here to Liu Chong, history records that at this party, Liu Chong has gathered more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. Don't forget that during the Battle of Gaoping, Yang Gon's tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry did not enter the battle. If these forces are concentrated around Liu Chong, this will be tens of thousands of tanks for Liu Chong. If Liu Chong can launch a beautiful night attack on this day, what awaits Chai Rong can only be failure. So where did Yang Gon go? In fact, at the beginning of the war, Yang Gon saw that Liu Chongji had won the battle, so he led his troops back to China. So Liu Chong actually didn't have this trump card in his hands anymore, and his troops were tired enough, so they started repairing here.
What is Chai Rong doing at this time? Chai Rong has just led his troops to chase Liu Chong, in fact, he has reached the end of the crossbow, to be honest, his troops are already small in number, and they have been fighting continuously for so long, and they have reached the limit of their bodies, although if Chai Rong leads the army to kill the past, he will definitely be able to achieve a great victory, but Chai Rong takes into account that the soldiers' bodies and his own large army have not yet arrived, and Chai Rong can only give up.
So where is Chai Rong's army? At the very beginning of the war, Chai Rong handed over the command of his large army to his most trusted general, Guo Wei's confidant Liu Ci. Liu Ci met with Chai Rong in the middle of the night today. also brought the news of two people, that is, Fan Aineng and He Hui, who were defeated and fled at the beginning of the war. After the rout, these two people fled all the way to Kaifeng, robbing all the way, robbing whatever they saw. Whoever stands in the way is desperate with whom. Along the way, Chai Rong sent several ministers to persuade these two people, but they were all chopped up with a knife. Until they ran into Liu Ci, who was hurriedly moving forward, they even grabbed Liu Ci and said, "Don't go, you don't know, the emperor has been defeated." Chai Rong is dead, the army has surrendered, get acquainted and run for your life with us. Fortunately, Liu Ci didn't believe what these two people said, Liu Ci quietly shook off Fan Aineng's arm, and said: "I won't go with you, and I won't turn my face with you, I'll go to the front to inquire about Chai Rong's news now." With that, he continued to hurry, and at midnight, Liu Ci led a large army to join Chai Rong. With these new forces of Liu Ci, Chai Rong did not delay, and killed directly towards the opposite side.
At this time, Liu Chong, who had no army and no morale, could no longer resist Chai Rong. It's just that as soon as they fought each other, they were defeated on all fronts. The river next to him became the burial place of the Northern Han army, and the turbulent stream was full of corpses of the Northern Han people, but their emperor Liu Chong was lucky to escape. Seriously, Liu Chong still has some skills, on the battlefield where it is dark and the enemy is unknown, Liu Chong flew on a horse at the age of sixty, escaped from the path, and fled all the way back to his hometown Taiyuan.
Afterwards, in order to repay the horse that dragged him to escape, Liu Chong specially built a horse shed for the horse according to the specifications of the palace, fed the horse with the money of the third-grade official, and awarded the horse the title of General Zizai. This was the last thing Liu Chong did for this matter. Liu Chong thought that this matter was over, that's right, according to Liu Chong's conjecture, Chai Rong had just ascended the throne and the political situation was unstable, so he should be satisfied with such a big victory. I believe that Chai Rong will return to the DPRK immediately and stabilize the political situation.
But he never expected that just as he had repaired General Zizai's stable, he received a report from his subordinates. Chai Rong had already led various armies to attack the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty and besieged Taiyuan City.
Chai Rong came, this was the first time he led an army to attack other countries, and Chai Rong was completely different at this time. A complete victory gave him plenty of prestige and popularity. The most important thing is that Chai Rong's army is also different from the previous army. This is all because of a summary of the Battle of Gaoping. Everyone thought that Chai Rong should celebrate warmly, after all, this was the first big victory since Chai Rong ascended the throne, and after this battle, the Northern Han Dynasty probably didn't want to recover for a few years. Unexpectedly, Chai Rong was not happy.
What is Chai Rong doing? Chai Rong is afraid, in this battle, Chai Rong almost turned around the ghost gate a few times. This is absolutely not good, Chai Rong secretly swore that Chai Rong could not incarnate as a commando every time to personally lead people up. Chai Rong analyzed it carefully, and he felt that the first reason for such a thrilling was that there were too few troops in his hands at that time, and he should have waited for Liu Ci to arrive at the attack on Liu Chong, so that later in the territory of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Chai Rong had to take a small number of poor troops and Liu Chong's disadvantage in a decisive battle. In fact, as long as Liu Chong could breathe a sigh of relief at that time, the Northern Han Dynasty would be able to turn defeat into victory the next day.
Chai Rong began to ponder why his army had surrendered in front of the emperor in front of the battle, or at this time. It was also at this moment that a large-scale reform of the army was about to begin. Through this vigorous reform, the combat effectiveness of the Central Plains Dynasty and the Han people rose sharply, and it was only then that Chai Rong made great efforts to govern the country and established a unified situation in the southern and northern wars.
How Chai Rong's reform will begin, and what will happen to the conquest of the Northern Han Dynasty, we will talk about it next time.