Chapter 489: Sorghum River
That night, Sun Yue brought Han Chongxun over to discuss his thoughts, and unexpectedly, Han Chongxun thought the same as himself.
So Sun Yue hurriedly went to Cui Yanjin and Dang Jin again, both of them also felt that what Sun Yue said made sense, and then went to Li Jixun, Shi Shouxin and others, but the result was much the same, and they both thought that Yelu Xiuge would come back nine times out of ten.
Sun Yue said, since you also think that Yelu Hugo will come back, why don't you take precautions? People say, listen to the official's family.
It's really not connected, but Sun Yue keenly feels that there is a problem in this, or there is an inexplicable emotion, which has actually become the consensus of the generals in the army.
After thinking about it, Sun Yue still decided to go to Cao Bin, Cao Bin saw that Sun Yue took the initiative to find him, he was overjoyed for a while, and hurriedly prepared wine and food to entertain him.
"You're going to drink in the war, too?"
"Drink less, don't get drunk, the battle has been fought until now, and it only needs to drag on for another month to win, so the army is more relaxed."
"You don't care?"
"What's the matter?"
Sun Yue sighed and asked, "Do you think Brother Yelu Xiu will come back?" ”
"Yes, of course he will, but I don't know where he'll come back from, and it's useless to guess in vain."
"It's useless to guess in vain?"
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just doesn't feel like it's what you're supposed to say."
Early the next morning, Yelusha led 20,000 cavalry to attack, Sun Yue ordered Han Chongxun to form an infantry formation to defend it, and did not seek a counterattack, which really made him return in vain, Sun Yue suddenly pointed to a river on the side, and asked Li Jilong curiously: "General Li, do you know what this river is called?" ”
"I've heard people say that it's called the Sorghum River."
"Sorghum River...... It turns out that this is the Sorghum River. After that, Sun Yue didn't say anything, so he simply returned to his tent neatly and said to Li Jilong: "I'm sleepy, go back and sleep for a while, you will preside over this place." ”
Li Jilong nodded and said, "Okay." ”
Under the city of Youzhou, Zhao Guangyi was slowly commanding the army to attack the city, and it was a four-sided siege strategy that only a fool would use in the entire military history.
Zhao Guangyi doesn't know the art of war, has it reached this point? Of course not, this product is clearly deliberate, don't you see that even Tian Qinzuo's speed of digging the pit can't be fast.
The reason is very simple, Zhao Guangyi is now intent on delaying. On the one hand, as long as it drags on until the beginning of the spring, the Song army will win, on the other hand, hehe, the longer the war drags on, the higher the prestige of his official family.
Before, because of Fu Yanqing, Zhao Guangyi's prestige has been almost lost, but in any case, he is an official family after all, and now there is no reason for the two-front war, this goods are a bit old again, although there is no indiscriminate placement of people in the armies, but the command is renewed, stipulating that all transfers of more than 500 people must obey his orders.
Of course, whether to attack the city, or to attack the four cities, at this time, his lack of military experience is no longer so obvious, and it will not be a good move to change Han Xin, but the impact on the battle situation is not great.
When he returned to the tent that day, Cao Jun, a hardcore confidant, secretly sent a letter, Sun Yue was surprised and asked where it came from, and he said that Cui Yanjin wrote it to him. After opening it, there was no substantive content in it, just some bits and pieces about Zhao Guangyi's complaints.
Sun Yue immediately understood what he meant, wrote him a reply letter, or some complaints about Zhao Guangyi, and ordered Cao Jun to secretly send it over again.
That night, Sun Yue received two more letters from Shi Shouxin and Li Jixun, the content was similar to Cui Yanjin, Sun Yue also wrote a reply, and wrote another letter to Dang Jin, the content was still some nonsense.
For the next few days, the commanders of the army wrote letters to each other every day, and when they met, they didn't say anything, as if nothing had happened.
Five days later, Cui Yanjin, Dang Jin, Sun Yue, Li Jixun, Pan Mei, Shi Shouxin and others wrote a letter to Cao Bin on the same day and at the same time.
When Sun Yue received Cao Bin's reply, it was basically certain that history was going to repeat itself.
The defeat of the Sorghum River!
Most people in later generations have a misunderstanding, that is, the elite lion of the Song army was wiped out in the battle of the Gaoliang River, but in fact, it was not, the elite of the Song army was only defeated during the second Yongxi Northern Expedition.
In the battle of the Gaoliang River, the elite forces of the Song army were basically intact, and only Zhao Guangyi was almost alive and fled back to Kaifeng in a donkey cart. Even if only from the perspective of the battle loss ratio, the Song army can even be said to be a big victory.
Under what circumstances did the emperor almost die, and in the end he was spared, without even a single guard by his side, and the main force of the army was not seriously damaged?
Thinking about the aftermath again, after Zhao Guangyi's life and death were unknown, or everyone thought he was dead at that time, the first thing these generals in the north did was not to hurriedly return to Kaifeng, but to first support Zhao Dezhao, who accompanied the army, to ascend the throne and become the new emperor.
Think about who saved Zhao Guangyi and Yang Ye! In the original history, Yang Ye had just surrendered, and no matter how invincible Yang was, he must have been excluded from the circle by the top generals of the Great Song Dynasty, that is to say, if those generals wanted to plot something, he should have been excluded from the circle and knew nothing.
And then, within a few days of hard work, Zhao Guangyi forced Zhao Dezhao to death, and he no longer trusted all the generals left by Zhao Kuangyin, and then in the Yongxi Northern Expedition, veterans such as Li Jixun almost did not participate much, led by Cao Bin and Pan Mei respectively, and Cao Bin's performance of the sudden advance and retreat, fast and slow, not to mention that he is not worthy of the first good general, is simply no military common sense, and Pan Mei's brave and radical Western Route Army Pan Mei is not comparable at all, The defeat of Yongxi's Northern Expedition is analyzed according to the obvious reasons, and this product has to bear at least ninety percent of the responsibility, and it is not enough to kill the kind that is not enough for the people to be angry.
But what? Cao Bin was only symbolically punished, and soon became a privy envoy again, and he was highly used, and he was pressed on Pan Mei, who performed a hundred times better than him, all his life.
Although there is no clear evidence, it can be basically determined that Cao Bin is behind Zhao Guangyi, and all the sudden advances and retreats, fast and slow all come from Zhao Guangyi's orders.
The obedient boss lost the battle, but he didn't say anything, and he took all the sins for His Majesty's wisdom, and the disobedient boss fought very beautifully, although he didn't say anything, but who still didn't understand what was going on.
It seems to be a bit off-track.
In short, because of this strange defeat, although the main force of the Song army was not damaged, the subsequent Yongxi Northern Expedition fiasco and even the weak Song Dynasty for more than two hundred years had something to do with this matter, and combined with all the strange places in this battle, Sun Yue had almost figured out what was going on.
So, Sun Yue transferred Yang Ye away with an order.