Chapter 894

So, in these three days, Wang Yang and others, who were also suffering, listened to the hustle and bustle of the Zhumen camp in the middle of the night in the city wall of Youzhou, which lasted until the early morning of the next day.

At this time, the soldiers on Youzhou City celebrated the departure of the Liaoxia coalition army with cheers. And the remaining 80,000 coalition troops, although still blocked outside the four gates.

However, compared to the previous scene, the tent almost obscured the skyline is no longer there. After careful and careful calculations.

The conclusion was that the Liaoxia coalition army outside the city had at most 100,000 left. Although it is still twice as large as the Youzhou defenders, the heavy oppressive force has disappeared.

"Last night, the spies we sent out could only confirm that the Liaoxia coalition troops who left were heading towards the southeast of Youzhou, and their specific whereabouts were unknown."

"It's very likely that he went directly to Hongzhou. Outside the ancient city of Wuyan, there are still tens of thousands of Liaoxia coalition troops, and it seems that they did not directly attack by way as we initially expected, but wanted to concentrate their forces into a fist and take Hongzhou ......" The planting master and pointed to the map and calmly analyzed.

"We don't need to worry about such a thing, there are seventy or eighty thousand horses in Hongzhou, and there is also an army commanded by Su Shu nearby, so we can go to help in time."

"The 100,000 horses left outside the city, this commander surnamed Xiao, really looks up to my Youzhou military and civilian......" Wang Yang's eyes turned a little green as he looked at the enemy troops outside the city, and took a deep breath of air. We, at least half of it. ”

"My lord, are we really going to attack?"

"Of course, but not now...... In the past few days, we have investigated the military situation well, and in addition, we have notified Hongzhou that there are also teachers who have told them that they are all ready, so as not to catch the Liaoxia coalition army off guard. ”

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It's just that what Wang Yang didn't expect was that that night, the Liaoxia coalition army left behind did not stick to the outside of the city, but took the initiative to attack, fortunately, Wang Yang kept the defenders vigilant, so that the sudden Liaoxia coalition army did not take advantage.

But even so, it still angered the Wang Daguan, who had been holding back for a month, and on the one hand ordered to meet the enemy on all sides, and on the other hand, he worked hard to write and pass the military order to Liuboling.

Two days later, the army led by Xiao Shen arrived in front of the ancient city of Wuyan and gathered the 50,000 soldiers and horses of Yelu Dudton, but it failed to attack the ancient city of Wuyan at the first time.

"The number of soldiers and horses in the city has doubled, and there are tens of thousands of Song army reinforcements, which have already arrived, relying on each other with the ancient city of Wuyan." Jerodadon bowed to Xiao Shen with some frustration and explained the reason.

Xiao Shen's face couldn't help but turn a little dark, and he never thought that when he didn't come, the Song army didn't have many soldiers and horses in this area.

When the army came here, it turned out that the reinforcements from the Song State also came, which was clearly aimed at him.

"What about the opponent's troops?" Xiao Shen sat in the big tent with a gloomy face, and asked with a confident look.

"There were 40,000 soldiers and horses outside the city, and there were 10,000 defenders in the ancient city of Wuyan, and now, the Song army reinforcements who crossed the river through the Wuding River were about 70,000 to 80,000. Counting the Hongzhou soldiers and horses that are only a day's journey from the ancient city of Wuyan. ”

"The Song people gathered 1670,000 horses here......

Xiao Shen was like this, and he couldn't sit still. What the hell is this...... Can you still let people fight the war well and make contributions?

Think about it, the Liao State gathered 170,000 soldiers and horses from various tribes, and successively dispatched nearly 80,000 Liao troops to converge and go south.

After that, the Western Xia sent 50,000 soldiers and horses, which naturally did not count the more than 100,000 servants and people, and there were 300,000 soldiers who could fight.

However, after more than a month of attack, the losses of the besieging side were far greater than those of the Song army defending the city, with no less than 5,000 killed in the battle alone, and 20,000 wounded soldiers.

In addition, before the civil strife of the Ximen tribe, a group of people were killed, and after that, the Wanyan tribe also had a civil strife because of the Wanyan Agu beating father and son, and another group was killed. For these alone, nearly 3,000 men and horses were lost.

After that, Yinzhou was taken by the Song army, and Yelu and Lu Wei had no choice but to send 20,000 horses to the east for reinforcements. Seventy-seven, eighty-eight, and now there are 300,000 troops, but there are only more than 250,000 people who can fight.

The 80,000 people he left in Youzhou naturally included the 20,000 wounded, which was why Yelu Jinping was very dissatisfied, and it took several days to reluctantly appease the general and agree to stay on the periphery of Youzhou.

This time he brought nearly 170,000 horses, plus Yelu Dadon's soldiers and horses, and thought that he could take the ancient city of Wuyan like a devastating one.

As a result, the Song people have already accumulated tens of thousands of soldiers and horses here, and at this moment, Xiao Shen's heart is both troubled and a little painful.

I went south this time because of the quick victory, but now, tens of thousands of Song troops are ahead, even if there are nearly 100,000 more soldiers and horses, the problem is that the battle is not just more than the number of people.

Besides, there is no such big battlefield for hundreds of thousands of horses to decide the winner in one day.

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"Report! The marshal, the last general has already found out clearly, this Song army reinforcement is the Song State Shaanxi Road Jingluo appeasement Su Dongpo as the commander, mainly composed of the forbidden army from the Song State and part of the Shaanxi Roadside Army...... "Just when Xiao Shen was in a complicated mood, finally another spy rushed to report the news.

"Su Dongpo? Unexpectedly, this generation of literary heroes with flying talents would also go to the battlefield one day. Xiao Shen couldn't help but crook the corners of his mouth, and his eyes lit up.

If it was the two battle-hardened old drivers who had been comforted by Huanqing Road in the past, or Han Zhongyan, who had been pacified by Hedong Road, Xiao Shen might have to hesitate a few more times.

But now, it was Su Dongpo who led the army to help, which is interesting, Xiao Shen is also a cultural person, and he is very good at poetry and songs, otherwise he would not have won the favor of Yelu Hongji, the unobtrusive son of Liao.

Yelu Hongji admired the prosperous culture and art of the Song Dynasty very much, and every time the Song Kingdom had good articles and good poems, it would inevitably be sent to Shangjing by fast horses and handed over to the Son of Heaven of Daliao for his appreciation.

Among the flower-like literary workers of the Song Court, Yelu Hongji admired the most was this contemporary, Su Dongpo, who admired his lyrics and poems.

Even during the period of Emperor Shenzong, Yelu Hongji once submitted his credentials, hoping that Emperor Shenzong could let Su Dongpo send an envoy to Liao, so that he could meet real people and have a good exchange.

Although Shenzong did not agree in the end, Xiao Shen knew, and Xiao Shen was also very envious of Su Dongpo's talent, if he had half of Su Dongpo's talent, I was afraid that in front of the Son of Heaven, he would definitely eat more openly.

But after all, that's just imagination, Xiao Shen also knows very well that Su Dongpo, an old driver, is talented, and when it comes to poetry, there is almost no one in the world who is unbeatable.