Chapter 453: The Last Glory
Tokyo City, inside the Imperial Palace.
This city is exactly the same as Youzhou, the capital of the Great Liao, which was reduced to ruins in the war, most of the area was completely destroyed, the people were killed and injured, and the refugees filled the streets waiting for porridge and rice relief, and the people were boiling with grievances.
The only difference from the Liao State is that this city was destroyed by the civil war of their own people.
But, no matter what, the hellish experience of more than a month ago is finally gone, and people are gradually fading this horrific memory.
The city is also gradually rebuilding and rebuilding.
At this time, in the imperial palace, after more than a month of rectification, the imperial city has basically returned to its pre-war state.
Now, it was the time of the early dynasty, Zhao Ji sat on the dragon chair with a calm face, looking at the civil and military officials below, but his face became more and more cold.
The officials also have their own ghosts, but their faces are extremely calm, and no one knows what they are thinking at this time.
Seeing that Zhao Ji's face was getting more and more ugly, Li Gang hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty don't worry, now Gao Yu has been placed under house arrest by us, and Dong Shuangzheng is fighting a bloody battle with the Khitans, we just need to wait for their snipe and mussels to fight, and we will definitely be able to profit!"
Zhao Ji frowned and said: "But a few days ago, I heard that Dong Shuang had formed an alliance with the Jin people to fight against the Khitans, if they take advantage of the situation to go south together, wouldn't we be in danger?"
"Not necessarily."
Tong Guan below stepped forward with his head held high, just smiled and knelt down and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, now that the soldiers and horses from all over the Great Song Dynasty have gathered in Tokyo to encircle and suppress Dong Shuang, the hearts of the people have been cohesive, and the Western Army has been dissatisfied with Yue Fei for a long time, more than half of them have already submitted to the imperial court, and the 350,000 Western Army has already returned to the imperial court except for the 150,000 loyal Yue family army."
"Oh, that's great!" Zhao Ji was suddenly overjoyed and said: "In this way, as long as we sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, wait for Dong Shuang and them to consume, when the time comes, we will raid Shandong, and we will definitely be able to win a big victory!"
In an instant, Zhao Ji was almost ecstatic, it seems that this time the Tokyo War, which exhausted countless soldiers, horses, money and food, and spent countless costs, although it failed to take Dong Shuang's life, it was not worthless.
This time, the improvement of the prestige of the imperial court cannot be ignored at all!
In the past, the imperial court was repeatedly bullied by local feudal towns, and after the Yuejia army obtained many salt ponds and resources and minerals by defeating the Western Xia in the northwest, they operated other industries through various means, and the captured Western Xia money and grain, accumulated countless military expenses, and they were completely self-sufficient, ignoring the imperial court!
In fact, they have been doing this all along, Yue Fei's actions several times and contradicting Zhao Ji's orders, all of which have been imitated by other feudal towns, and they have also accumulated assets themselves, and they are not assigned by the imperial court, secretly developing their strength, listening to propaganda and not listening to tunes, and even sneering at the military orders issued by the imperial court.
And after the Tokyo Incident, because Dong Shuang and his main generals and himself were also severely damaged, the imperial court can be said to have regained a lot of prestige, especially the arrival of Shen Yun, although he said that he would not help Zhao Ji, but with the familiarity of this person and Zhao Ji, it still made more people's awe of the imperial court greatly increased.
After all, that Shen Yun said that, no one knew if he would join forces with the imperial court, and the most important thing was that he also said that he would protect the world and fight against foreign invaders!
Not to mention, the imperial court is now in the limelight, and Dong Shuang was almost killed, and now in this situation, if you don't listen to the central government, you are called a fool!
After all, the kind of destructive power that Shen Yun showed could not be seen very clearly by the 300,000 people present.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that he is a god!
Therefore, in the current situation, the Song Dynasty has been united and cohesive, and it has almost really reached the strongest time in history.
After thinking about it for so long, Li Gang and Tong Guan have been persuading each other again and again, and Zhao Ji is also secretly happy in his heart, so he wants to issue a holy decree and transfer the troops to the Caozhou area to gather.
At the same time, Qin Hui also tried his best to persuade Zhao Ji not to send troops, sit back and watch Dong Shuang and the Liao army lose both, and dispatched a large army to mainly concentrate on dealing with Shandong.
When the time comes, taking advantage of Dong Shuang's absence in the old nest, maybe he will be able to use the power of the whole country to directly take over this Great Qi State and recover the territory of the Great Song Dynasty!
"Listen to the order, quickly transfer back to Wang Yu's troops, let him and Zhao Gou lead the soldiers and horses, and stationed in the Caozhou area with Han Shizhong, and the four hundred military states in the world have dispatched half of the military horses to gather in Shandong and Hebei since receiving the order, and there must be no mistake, and those who violate the order will be killed by the nine clans!"
Zhao Ji stood up suddenly, his face was majestic, and he opened his mouth to issue the holy decree with a majestic face.
At this moment, this man looks a little like an emperor who reigns over the world.
That same evening.
"Sister Yingluo, do you really want to leave?"
Xiangyun cautiously poked her head out from behind the house, and then walked down the deserted street late at night, feeling only chills all over her body.
"Hmph, of course."
Zhao Yingluo just snorted, looked at the rich night outside, and said: "That Chu Jianglou, actually abandoned his newly married three beautiful wives to play and disappeared alone, if I don't catch you back this time, I won't swallow this breath!"
"Teach him? I'm afraid he'll teach you a lesson. Xiangyun covered her mouth and chuckled: "What did you ...... that night?"
Seeing Yingluo rushing towards her again, Xiangyun hurriedly ran away with a smile, turning around and saying, "You are really, people are not allowed to make a joke...... Ouch! ”
"What are you talking about, you idiot?"
Looking at Zhao Xiangyun who bumped into him in front of him, Zhao Hu'er just said indifferently: "The front is the tunnel under the city wall, let's go."
"Earth...... Authentic ......"
Zhao Xiangyun stood up with his head covered, and said in a puzzled tone: "How can there be such a thing here?"
"Don't talk nonsense, whether you can leave or not, or you can stay here alone." Hu'er just snorted coldly and walked towards the tunnel by herself.
"Oh, second sister, she's really, why is she still so old......"
Xiangyun pouted and looked at the tunnel, just complaining, but didn't go in.
"I said can you hurry up!" Zhao Yingluo pressed her fist, the corners of her mouth twitched, obviously she couldn't help but want to hit someone.
"Hmph, you violent girl is really bad, I'll still play with the second sister." Zhao Xiangyun just turned his head over and hummed.
"You ......" Yingluo was completely angry and wanted to rush up.
"Hey, what's going on down there!"
"Honestly, it's not a thief!"
"What...... Nothing! ”
These two idiots!
Several beams of light on the city wall shone towards the two of them, and Zhao Hu'er, who had already arrived outside the city, looked at this scene inside the city wall, just pressing his face, and felt speechless with a black line on his face.
The next day, Zhao Ji received a report that all three daughters were missing.
And at the same time that the Song Dynasty's monarchs and ministers were discussing the situation, there was a different scenery thousands of miles away.
On the Liao side, because the Liao State has basically perished, Aliqi and Qiong Demon Nayan, Yelu Chun, Yelu Yuanyi and many other generals have led their troops to surrender to Wanyan Lou Room, and the Liao soldiers fled from their own teams on the way, and tens of thousands of them surrendered again.
As for Xiao Feng, as early as a few days ago, on the eve of the fall of Yanzhou, he was rescued in the Yanzhou dungeon by Wu Yanguang's deputy general Yelu Jian, and it turned out that Yelu Dashi wanted to revive Da Liao with the help of Xiao Feng and others.
"What if you save me, can we escape again now?"
Xiao Feng, who was dressed in prison clothes and handcuffed, looked at the artillery fire outside the city and the shouts of killing, and the cries of the people in the city, but said with a wry smile: "At the beginning, Your Majesty didn't listen to my hard advice, and insisted on obeying the words of the traitorous ministers to launch a southern invasion, but now what a situation it is, isn't it Xiao Mou's nonsense?"
While he spoke, many defeated soldiers ran over from the side, and even fell to the ground and couldn't get up, and died directly, Xiao Feng saw it and smiled more and more bitterly.
"Yes, it turns out that you are right, your talent really shouldn't be buried like this, but now regretting it is in vain."
Yelu Dashi was wearing armor, and he sat on the horse and just sneered: "However, we still have a chance to make amends."
"What do you mean......"
Xiao Feng turned to look at Yelu Dashi and Yelu Jian, only to feel a frown.
The corners of Yelu Dashi's mouth took a slight arc, and he only rode forward a few steps.
Then, he suddenly picked up his speed, and rode his horse towards the south gate, which had just been breached!
His voice, however, drifted from afar, spreading in the air.
"Xiao Feng, I want to rebuild Da Liao, here are the most trustworthy, most powerful and bloody 8,000 dead soldiers in me and Da Liao, if you have this mind, come with me!"
As soon as the words fell, a large pile of gold troops had already broken through the city gate and launched an attack here.
Yelu Dashi just sneered, the steel spear flew, and the indiscriminate killing of the golden soldiers here opened a gap, and then easily broke through with hundreds of his own soldiers and left.
And Xiao Feng looked at all this, but he was only silent for a long time, and his face was as calm as water.
Finally, he smiled.
A month later, no one would have thought that the three people standing here today, and thousands of people and horses, would actually re-establish the Great Liao Kingdom thousands of miles away.
This legend has been recorded in the annals of history, and its difficulty, complexity, pioneering nature, and influence in the history of world military warfare are enough to be admired by all strategists and military strategists.
Xiao Feng and several of them fled to Western Xia disguised themselves as refugees and Yelu Dashi when the city was in chaos, occupied the land of Western Xia, and broke the 100,000 army of Western Xia with 8,000 people.
Xiao Feng established the Western Liao so far, everyone jointly elected Xiao Feng as the emperor, Xiao Feng did not get rid of it, then Yelu Jian as the general, Yelu Dashi as the prime minister and marshal of the three armies, since then the country is getting stronger and stronger, and not bullying the weak, gradually the country is rich and the people are strong, and the nearby surrounding countries are all talked about after thousands of years.
That's for later.
And here, Dong Shuang's story has undergone many twists and turns.
said that Dong Shuang led the men and horses to Yunzhou, but in the middle of the night, he met an old man.
Well?
I don't know why, Dong Shuang always thinks this person is very strange.
However, the most important thing now is to quickly defeat Yanzhou and solve the last and most powerful main force of the Liao army.
Now that the Jin army has withdrawn after the clash that took place, this time it is completely on its own, and it is estimated that this is a vicious battle!
Dong Shuang looked at the 150,000 army that he had united with the Song army on his side, and thought in his heart, he just gritted his teeth, and he must not delay any time here!
Despite desperately telling himself in his heart that this old man was very strange and that the threat to him was absolutely existent, Dong Shuang still passed him on a horse.
"Whew-"
The sudden gust of wind, flying sand and rocks, had completely blurred Dong Shuang's vision in the blink of an eye!
That old man can completely separate me from the army with mist, I don't know what kind of place this is!
His heart trembled wildly, Dong Shuang's shocked eyes swept around, it was foggy here, but he couldn't see anything, let alone his army and the old man!
"Tell me, boy, why are you sending troops."
Suddenly, an extremely majestic voice came, which shocked Dong Shuang's heart.
The voice sounded again: "Why, don't say it, do you want to be trapped here by the old man for the rest of your life?"
"I am sending troops for the righteous way of the world, just to exterminate the tyrant, to avenge the blood and hatred of the tyrant for hurting my compatriots, and to go north to crusade against the tyrant, and the others will never be harmed." Dong Shuang looked around, but he just sneered: "Don't think I'm afraid of you, if you play with me like this again, I'm welcome!"
"You're welcome? Hehe, I, Shen Feng, haven't heard this kind of threat for at least three hundred years. ”
The old man just laughed a few times, and then turned to a calm tone and said: "Boy, tell me, when you take the world, no, after you defeat Wu Yanguang and control Liaodi, how will you treat the people of Liao?"
"This ......"
Dong Shuang was suddenly stunned, to be honest, he was a little confused, he never thought that this old man would ask such a question.
"Don't think, answer me quickly, answer with your first impression feeling!"
The old man's voice became more and more serious.
Dong Shuang sneered, but he just looked ahead with his head held high, stood up straight, held his head high, and said loudly: "The people of the world are all ordinary, this is my life, the way of governing the country!"
"If I can't, or if I break my oath, I'm willing to atone for my sins with my life." Dong Shuang just snorted coldly, and the Desert Eagle Twin Guns had already been pulled out in his hands between the thunderbolts, and only the sound of clicking was heard, and more than ten bullets had been loaded.
He looked at the nearby fog and pulled the trigger, but he just sneered again: "If you don't let me go, I won't be polite again!"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, the face of an old man appeared in front of him.
The old man didn't do anything, he just smiled and said, "Boy, I hope you can do what you said."
Then, he disappeared, without any normal behavior, he actually disappeared out of thin air.
Dong Shuang looked around, but made an extremely astonishing discovery.
He found that the old man's side was covered with gunpowder, and if he was not satisfied with what he said, he would surely lose his life!
It turned out that this person was Shen Feng!
Dong Shuang just thought to himself, he had heard Shi Xiu's intelligence before that the artillery expert of the Liao State was named Shen Feng, but this time he had never heard of the whereabouts of this person, presumably he cut off all his gunpowder supply because he was dissatisfied with the cruelty of Emperor Tianzuo, so the Liao State was so vulnerable.
It turned out that he was Shen Yun's clan, Shen Feng, who also did not belong to the owner of the technology of this era!
Thinking of this, Dong Shuang just sighed with emotion, and secretly determined that he must not kill the people of Liao indiscriminately.
As for the other side.
Wu Yanguang led the 150,000 horses gathered from all over the east and west to Yanzhou, wanting to find the help of Xiao Feng, Yelu Dashi and others, and hoped to find the surviving prince of the Liao State to make up for the situation that had completely disappeared.
Now that the enemy is in the dark, I am in the open, Dong Shuang and the Jin army don't know the movements at all, if they can't immediately capture Yanzhou, there is a city to garrison, replenish the grain, grass and troops, then the game is completely over!
"Come on, Yanzhou is ahead, grain, beef, wine, everything is there!"
Wu Yanguang walked in this desert, he drank a large sip of water, just encouraged the soldiers, and then opened the map to see that there were still fifty kilometers to Yanzhou.
Anyway, Wu Yanguang still hopes to find Xiao Feng in Yanzhou City.
For this reason, he had already sent Yelujian to Yanzhou to find Xiao Feng half a month ago, when the situation was not so bad at all, but unfortunately he never had a chance.
Although Chu Mingyu said that Xiao Feng was missing, Wu Yanguang still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, and it would be great if he could find Xiao Feng nearby.
Thinking of this Chu Mingming, Wu Yanguang just shook his head and sighed, he rode a horse and ran in the desert of this extreme north, although it is April now, but the weather in the extreme north is changeable, and now the snow has fallen.
In the desert at night, the wind swept over was cold and biting, not only the soldiers were shivering in their clothes, but even the generals such as Tianshan Yong, Lian'er Xin, Yelu Dezhong, and Yelu Dexin also shrank one by one.
Now the troops are running around, and the soldiers are working hard, but if they don't carry out sports warfare and seize a big city as soon as possible, there will be endless troubles in the future.
You know, it's the mineral capital of the world!
Taking Yanzhou, there is not only sufficient food, but also an inexhaustible supply of weapons and chariots!
Thinking of this, Wu Yanguang kept cheering himself up, as if he had won the victory.
But once again, the cold facts slapped him hard.
In the last 50 miles, due to the lack of medical care for the wounded and the lack of medicine, the soldiers worked hard and had no food, and many people fled because of rumors and homesickness on the way, and feared the Jin army, which can be described as a complete chaos.
As for how many people left, Wu Yanguang didn't dare, and he was not interested in counting them.
His target is missing in Yanzhou City ahead.
There, you can clearly see the outline of the city wall.
It is less than ten miles away from Yanzhou City.