Chapter 424: Channels are King

Summer went to autumn, in the blink of an eye, the time came to autumn, the peace talks between the two countries of Liao and Jin finally broke down, Aguta once again raised troops to attack the Liao territory, among which Wanyan Xian was also the main general, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongxiong _ sent 10,000 troops to the east to attack Chunzhou and Taizhou, Wanyan Lugu led 10,000 troops as the front army, forcibly crossed Liaoshui, attacked Xianzhou, Wanyan Digu Naifu followed with 10,000 soldiers, and the governor of Tokyo, Wanyan Yan, set out from Tokyo to help, preparing to repel the main force of the Liao army stationed in Tribulus Mountain.

At this time, the commander of the Liao army was Ye Luchun, and in addition to the Nanjing Forbidden Army and the Yanyun militia, the army under his command also summoned more than 28,000 displaced people from Yi, Jinzhou, Qian, Xian and other prefectures, and organized them into eight battalions: Qianyi Battalion, Houyi Battalion, Qianjin Battalion, Houjin Battalion, Qianxian Battalion, Xian Battalion, and Qianxian Battalion. The leaders of the eight battalions were Guo Yaoshi, Dong Xiaochou, Luo Qinghan, Dong Zhongsun, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, Zhen Wuchen, and Zhao Heshou.

Wanyan Hulugu did not encounter any resistance along the way, so he came to the city of Xianzhou and stationed north of Xianzhou to prevent Yeluchun's reinforcements.

At night, Wanyan Lugu rode a horse, took his guards to secretly peep into Xianzhou City, and found that Xianzhou City was quiet and quiet, as if it was an empty city, and he was suspicious, so he came to a high place, looked around, and suddenly found that the birds flew ten miles west of the city for a long time, and he was shocked and asked, "What is there over there?" ”

The local guide looked at it and said, "The west of the city is a mountain forest, stretching for dozens of miles, and there are no people. ”

Wanyan Hulugu nodded and said, "When we hunt, we saw a flock of birds flying but not falling, so we knew that there was a herd of beasts crossing the border, and it was close to the city, there must be no herd of beasts, it must be an ambush of the Liao people, I am afraid that tonight will come to attack our army at night, pass the order, prepare early, and set up more traps, I want to let them have no return!" ”

In the middle of the night, Wanyan Hulugu suddenly heard the sound of soldiers and horses fighting outside in the tent, and said with a smile, "Sure enough, it's here." Picking up the spear that had been placed beside him and walking out of the tent, outside his tent, a group of warriors of the Jin Kingdom who had been waiting for a long time looked at him, he turned on his horse, pointed to the confusion and said, "Go and see our guests, and leave their heads!" ”

"Phew!" All the Jin soldiers shouted in unison, and then, torches were lit everywhere, and the Liao army that broke into the Jin army's Dazhai suddenly panicked.

Wanyan Lugu looked at the banner of the Liao army that was far away, and said with a smile: "Resentful army? Is this what it means to resent us? Then let them hate us a little more! Order, attack Hyunju City!! ”

It turned out that this time the night attack was the resentful army Guo Yaoshi, Guo Yaoshi learned that the Jin army was marching, and immediately said that Ye Lu Chun, absolutely the Jin army came from afar, the foothold was unstable, and the night attack should be carried out in order to retreat the enemy, Ye Lu Chun saw that someone was willing to take the initiative to attack, and immediately agreed to be overjoyed, but he did not expect to be defeated in a battle.

This defeat, all the way back to Tribulus Mountain, crying to Tribulus Mountain about the fiasco of this battle, Yeluchun was stunned when he heard it, only one night, there were no four or five thousand people, how many troops can be defeated like this?

This is not over, as soon as Guo Yaoshi finished speaking, a whistle came to report, saying that Xianzhou had been broken, and the army of Jin soldiers was less than fifty miles away from Tribulus Mountain.

As soon as he said this, the whole hall was shocked, Ye Luchun looked at all the generals with a look of fear, and Guo Yaoshi and others, who had just been defeated, lowered their heads and did not dare to speak, knowing that they would be defeated, so they said, "Our army's spirit has been lost, we can't fight again, immediately pull out the camp and retreat to Changbo!" ”

Hearing the retreat, everyone came to their senses and said in unison, "Obey!" ”

When Yan Lugu led the army to Tribulus Mountain, he only saw the banners and equipment of the Liao army all over the ground, and Wanyan Digu gave advice, "Now that the Liao army is retreating, why not take advantage of the victory to pursue, if you can drive in, it will only be a matter of a few days to take the capital of the Liao State." ”

Wanyan Lugu listened to it, and did not say anything, but just let the armies attack by different routes, and within a month, Qian, Yi, Hao, Hui, Cheng, Sichuan, Hui and other prefectures surrendered one after another.

When Wanyan Agu was happy to get the battle report of Wanyan Hulugu, there was a stalemate war report from Taizhou in the west.

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"What's going on? Isn't it true that if you don't fight for a few months, you won't be in a battle formation? Ah Guda looked at the battle report, threw it on the ground and said angrily.

The god of Ceres picked it up and looked at it, and then said, "Wolf lord, it's just that the first battle can't be stopped, there is no need to be angry, and it was also said in the battle report of Lord Xianye that he will be able to go down to Taizhou within half a month." ”

Ah Guda sat in his position, pinched his eyebrows and said, "Ceres, you have been fighting with me all the way, you should know that half of our eight hundred soldiers from the past to today, half of them are because the Liao army was frightened by us, so countless walled cities have fallen to the wind, but if the myth of our invincibility is shattered, it will be much more difficult for us to defeat the Liao State than now." ”

Only then did the god of Ceres understand that Ah Guta was not worried that Wanyan Xian would not be able to defeat Taizhou, but was worried that the Liao army would regain confidence from the battle of Taizhou.

In war, morale is more important than everything!

"Who is the Taizhou Guard?" Aguda asked.

"It is the new Yelu Dashi sent to Taizhou, this person is the only Jinshi among the Khitans, good at reading, good at making friends, coming to Taizhou for several months, training and casting the city, is a rare talent." Ceres replied.

"Such a person..."Ah Gu narrowed his eyes and said, "Give the order to Xianya, either take his head, if you can't get it, you must let him run away by himself!" ”

After saying that, Ah Gu glared and repeated again, "It's an escape!" ”

- Taizhou

Yelu Dashi looked at the corpses scattered all over the city, but his face was extremely grim.

The 5,000 soldiers he had carefully trained for several months were less than 3,000 at this time, and he had the protection of Taizhou City, and the exchange ratio with the Jin soldiers was still almost one to one, which he could never have imagined.

"The bravery of the Jurchens is really beyond my expectations." Yelu Dashi looked at the Jin army camp in the distance and said, "Our army plus the wounded soldiers is only 3,000, but the Jin soldiers have 7,000, and the ratio of enemy to enemy has changed from 2 to 1 to 3 to 1, and if this continues, our army will be defeated... Unwilling! ”

Yelu Dashi punched the city wall, this city wall was repaired by him before, but he had never had military experience, he thought wrong in many places, if he was allowed to do it again, he would definitely guarantee that he would be able to leave more corpses of golden soldiers than he would be.

"Lin Ya, more than two thousand Jin soldiers have been killed, this is already an extremely rare victory since the beginning of the war, and the brothers can't imagine that they can hold out until now." A general saw that Yelu Dashi was like this, and stepped forward to persuade him.

"Yes, the enemy general is the Jurchen general Wanyan Xianye, this person is the younger brother of Na Guta, and he is also one of the best people in the Jurchen army, Lin Ya can be on a par with him, which is already extremely powerful." A local defender also stepped forward and said.

Yelu Dashi exhaled lightly, and suddenly saw a group of cavalry rushing in the camp of the Jin army, and the cavalry soon came to the city, Yelu Dashi said, "Don't release the arrows yet, see what they are going to do." ”

This team of cavalry came to the city, dropped a few things and went back, Yelu Dashi asked people to pick up from the hanging basket out of the city, picked it up, and found that it was the big seal of Jinshan County, and was taken aback.

"Jinshan County is lost?"

"Jinshan County is our flank, and if we continue like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to even retreat."

"Then don't withdraw, for the sake of Lin Ya, even if you die here, there is nothing to regret!"

In the process of forming an army, many soldiers admired this Lin Ya, which is why Yelu Dashi was able to take two hundred people out of the country and create a Western Liao that spanned thousands of miles.

Yelu Dashi looked at the soldiers around him, and saw that although everyone still had morale, they also had a little more dead spirit.

The team is not easy to bring.

Yelu Dashi looked at the Jin Ying on the opposite side and said, "This battle is no longer invincible, the most important thing now is to leave a useful body, and then fight the Jurchen thieves in the future!" The order goes down, and the troops are withdrawn at the fifth watch tonight! ”

"Yes!"

That night, Yelu Dashi withdrew from the West Gate with 3,000 soldiers and horses, and after walking less than a few miles, he was chased and killed by the ambush soldiers of the Jin soldiers who had been waiting for a long time, and fought several battles in a row, and waited until he arrived in Ningzhou, which was considered safe, and then counted the soldiers and horses, and there were less than 100 people left.

Looking at the rest of the soldiers, Yelu Dashi suddenly laughed.

"Lin Ya, why are you still laughing when our army has suffered such a fiasco?" The others asked puzzled.

Yelu Dashi's eyes were blazing and said, "I thought that if I was familiar with the art of war, I could go into battle but the enemy, but today I know the mystery of the military, how can a book say everything, although our army is defeated, my Yelu Dashi is no longer the big stone of the past, if there are 5,000 soldiers and horses, I will be able to win the perfect Yan Xianye!" Shouldn't I be happy? ”

"Our army is only a hundred, how can we have another 5,000? Lin Ya returned to the dynasty today, it is fortunate not to be blamed, and he still wants to fight again? ”

Yelu Dashi gritted his teeth and said, "When I return to Beijing, I will find a way to reorganize my troops and horses, and I and the Jurchen will never die, are you willing to follow me?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, knelt on the ground and said, "Swear to follow Lord Lin Ya to the death!" ”

Every era and every nation will always have its own heroes, and in this era, Yelu Dashi is the hero of the Khitans, although the order of defeat and defeat is only different, but it represents two meanings, if Yelu Dashi and the Han heroes are the most similar, I am afraid that Uncle Liu Huang more than a thousand years ago will have a common topic with this alien hero.

Two flowers bloomed, one on each branch, and Jiang De, who was in Bianjing, received the first woolen cloth transferred from Goryeo at this time.

"It's woollen cloth, it's amazing, you can't tell it's made of wool." An old man touched the wool cloth and said in praise.

"If you like it, bring a few horses back." Jiang De said with a smile.

This old man is the seed master, this time he returned to Bianjing to thank him, just last year, he was promoted to the commander of the four compartments of the Dragon Shenwei, Zhiweizhou, but because of the busy side affairs, there has been no time to enter Beijing, until the recent months, Song Xia truce, only time to come to Bianjing.

It wasn't until the seed master arrived in Bianjing that Jiang De immediately came to see him, of course, to see his brother-in-law Han Shizhong, whom he hadn't seen for several years.

Han Shizhong was twenty-seven years old at this time, and he was no longer short of money with Jiang De's frequent relief, so he began to study seriously, and he had made a lot of military exploits over the years, and was valued by the seed division, and at this time he was already a command post, and there were five hundred sergeants under his command, which was also a general.

Under the guidance of Jiang De, cotton has taken root in the northwest land, after several years of reproduction, this time the planter specially brought a few cotton cloths to Zhao Ji, and he knew the relationship between Han Shizhong and Jiang De, and naturally he would not forget such a smooth favor.

"First there is cotton, then there is wool, this bitter cold land in the northwest, it seems that no one will be frozen in the future." The seed master said excitedly.

"This depends on the military exploits of several ministers, and on the comfort of the ministers." Jiang De understands that the sentence of making the world's poor people happy may not be able to be completed in five hundred years, and without the great abundance of materials, there will always be people who will starve.

Even if it is Jiang De, all he can do is to starve the least number of people, even in the era when Huaxia, Modu and other places in later generations are already at the level of developed countries, there are still families with an annual income of less than 1,000 yuan in the northwest mountainous area.

The worst thing is that the last of these poor people are often poor spiritual... And this is the most difficult poverty to solve.

"How much is your wool cloth?" The seed master asked.

"This is just out of wool cloth, there is no color, the price of its scarcity and other issues, tentatively set as seven, and so on in the future, the color is rich, so that the white wool cloth, a horse is about four through." Jiang De thought for a while and said.

Cloth dyeing is a university question, depending on the material, to use different formulas, now Goryeo is still experimenting with dyeing of various colors, this time, there are also a lot of colored cloth, but they are all experimental, want to see what color is more popular in the market.

After all, although wool cloth has its good place, but the market is still silk respected, after thousands of years of evolution, silk cloth from the production method and other aspects have been subdivided into more than a dozen, not to mention what color, any era of business, is not so simple.

But Jiang De also has his own advantages, as time goes by, Qionglou, IKEA Oil Mill, Lotus Supermarket has almost opened all the state capitals of the Song Dynasty, with these end sales points, wool cloth can be sold in the shortest possible time to various state capitals, which in later generations, it is called the channel is king!