Chapter 323: Hero
Yeluliugo's infantry, like his cavalry, were all the same, and after the cavalry was defeated, they began to waver, and then as soon as they came into contact with the infantry of Chen's army, before the rounds of guns were finished, they completely collapsed under the leadership of the officers.
Only Wanyan Pingtao's 30,000 Jurchen infantry were still tenacious, and Chen Xian's infantry, which was pushed up the most, suffered heavy casualties, but they still maintained their basic morale and formation, and they still insisted even if they were abandoned by the cavalry.
Over the years, Wanyan Pingtao was almost invincible in Liaodong, which made the Liaodong Jurchens who were angry and depressed because of the decadence of the country feel angry, and they all regarded him as the hope of the Jurchens' revival.
But when Chen Xian's artillery turned the muzzle and carried out several rounds of bombardment on the flank of the Jurchen infantry, it finally crushed the camel.
When the Jurchen infantry began to disperse, Zhang Bai immediately ordered the regrouped assault cavalry and the chasers behind to pursue the Jurchen infantry.
Pity these 30,000 tough Jurchen infantry, and in the end, they got into the woods and escaped with their lives, but only a few thousand.
However, the demise of these 30,000 Jurchens gave Wanyan Pingtao and Yeluliuge and the cavalry they led an opportunity to escape.
The two did not dare to go to Haizhou again, and fled directly to Liaoyang, which was further north.
The two fled for most of the day, and that night, the two soldiers and horses spent the night in the field, because they fled in a hurry, all the baggage was thrown away, and there was not even a tent, but fortunately it was still autumn at this time, although the weather was cold, but it was not yet the assembly of the snow, and the soldiers lit the bonfire, but they could barely survive the night.
Frightened, frightened, and tired, after dark, he ate some dry food, and fell asleep in a nest made of earth and branches.
Falling asleep, Yeluliuge was suddenly awakened by a panicked scream, many years of riding career, so that Yeluliuge can maintain a high vigilance, he jumped up from the grass nest, grabbed the waist knife beside him, and the cat's waist drilled out of the shack, into a chaos.
Jeruliugo saw many soldiers in bulky sackcloth slashing and killing his poorly armored soldiers.
The kind of bulky linen Yelu Liuge knows, it is a kind of armor unique to Wanyan Pingtao, called cloth face armor, and in that heavy linen clothes, a large piece of iron armor is inlaid with copper nails.
Seeing this scene, if Yeluliuge still didn't understand what was going on, then he would have lived to be a dog at a young age.
At this juncture, Wanyan Pingtao's turn of face is undoubtedly worse for Yeluliuge, but he does not intend to give up.
Yeluliuge retracted into the nest, and was about to take off the conspicuous armor on his body, when a spear suddenly inserted into the grass nest, swept left and right, and swept the wall of the grass nest to a large area, revealing Yeluliuge inside.
It was a Jurchen man who was as strong as a bear when he saw Yeluliuge, and he was overjoyed, and his mouth was cracked, revealing a mouthful of black and yellow teeth.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Yeluliuge stood up and was about to say something, but he didn't expect the bear-like Jurchens to rush to the two, and the big gun in his hand poked forward, and stabbed Yeluliuge through the chest.
Yeluliuge looked at the spear piercing into his chest in surprise, and looked up at the Jurchen, his face full of disbelief, as if he couldn't believe that he would die here so easily.
The Jurchen warrior didn't care so much, he picked out Yeluliuge's corpse out of the grass nest, happily pulled out his waist knife, and cut off Yeluliuge's head with a knife.
Before launching the raid, Wanyan Pingtao had already issued an order, and those who cut off the head of Yeluliuge would be awarded centurions to ordinary soldiers, and centurions to be awarded thousands.
After the night attack and the annexation of Yeluliuge, early the next morning, Wanyan Pingtao ordered some of his subordinates to change into Yeluliuge's armor and hurried towards Liaoyang.
After arriving in Liaoyang, Wanyan Pingtao sent his subordinates to pretend to be Yeluliuge's cavalry, deceived the city gate, and captured Liaoyang City in one go.
After seizing Liaoyang City, Wanyan Pingtao ordered people to sack Liaoyang City, and immediately sent people to loot the cart throughout the process.
Three days later, Wanyan Pingtao escorted these hundreds of carts, drove tens of thousands of horses that filled the house, left Liaoyang, and returned north to Huining Mansion in Shangjing.
After returning to the old nest, Wanyan Pingtao once again gathered his army and went south to take Xianzhou, which originally belonged to Yeluliuge, and expanded his territory hundreds of kilometers south.
This time, Wanyan Pingtao went south to support Yeluliuge, although he lost 30,000 infantry, but at the last moment, he decisively took Yeluliuge, and pulled back the large number of armor and weapons, gold, silver and silk that the other party had traded with Chen Xian in recent years, all of which were brought back to the old nest, not only making up for the losses, but also making a lot of money.
But Wanyan Pingtao couldn't be happy, because from now on, he was going to be a neighbor with Chen Xian again, an enemy he didn't want to face again in his life.
After sighing, Wanyan Pingtao sent people to Xijing to contact Mu Huali and ask when the Great Khan would return to the east, and at the same time recruited craftsmen to show them the map of the fortress he had drawn, and asked about the method and cost of construction.
The result of the inquiry was still satisfactory to Wan Yan Pingtao, using glutinous rice mortar and stone to build a stone turret, and then using straw bags of sand to build a city wall to protect the turret, Chen Ben who built a fortress was not high, but he didn't know whether the turret built by stone mortar was strong or not.
Just when Wanyan Pingtao was thinking about stealing Chen Xian again and building a fortress on his own chassis, on the Liaohe Plain in the south, after Zhang Bai eliminated Yan Pingtao's infantry again, he did not pursue Wanyan Pingtao and Yelu Liuge, who fled north, but waved his army eastward and presented troops under Haizhou City, not taking Haizhou City, and entering Liaoyang in the north, it was possible to be harassed by Haizhou's defenders and cut off the way back.
Just when Zhang Bai was about to attack Haizhou, he received the news of the reconnaissance cavalry and the fine work, and after saying that, Yan Pingtao was angry and Yeluliuge, and was plundering Liaoyang City.
Zhang Bai resisted the urge to go north immediately, and laid down Haizhou City step by step, and then waved his army north.
By the time Zhang Bai arrived in Liaoyang, Wanyan Pingtao had already plundered away.
Zhang Bai took the opportunity to take over Liaoyang City.
After settling down Liaoyang City, Zhang Bai went north again and took Shenzhou, which was later near Shenyang.
After taking Shenzhou, Zhang Bai stopped continuing to go north, because Shenzhou was the northernmost goal set by Chen Xian for Zhang Bai, and further north was not the goal of this military operation.
After taking Shenzhou, Zhang Bai returned to Liaoyang after leaving an infantry brigade to guard the city of Shenzhou.
According to Chen Xian's plan, eliminate Yeluliuge and drive Wanyan Pingtao back to Huining Mansion in Shangjing, and the purpose of this war will be achieved.
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