Chapter 594: Capture Yi County
Gao Shixuan hesitated for a long time, Li Yanqing's archery skills he has long heard of the famous, especially the bronze bow and iron arrows, even if he wears thick armor, he can't resist it, if Li Yanqing shoots himself, but is covered by the seed master with strict military law, even Tong Guan has no way, he can only die in vain.
Gao Shixuan remembered that he defected to Tong Guan, which had caused dissatisfaction among many of his generals, and if he made trouble at this time, I am afraid that he would not be able to end the scene.
But if he didn't take Fanyang County, he wouldn't be able to explain to Tong Guan, so Gao Shixuan's face was red and white, but he couldn't give the order for a long time.
At this moment, the war drums on the head of the city rumbled, and an army of about 3,000 people came out of the city, led by Li Yanqing just now, who was still holding a copper bow and iron arrows, and stared at Gao Shixuan with a stern gaze.
At this time, Li Yanqing immediately stepped forward and shouted: "All the brothers, listen, Gao Shixuan betrayed the great commander and took refuge in Tong Guan, but you are still the Hedong Army, and you are still the elite division brought out by the southern and northern wars, and the Hebei sons and daughters who are unwilling to betray the commander and die for Tong Guan, please stand on my side Li Yanqing!" ”
Gao Shixuan was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted to the left and right: "Don't listen to his nonsense, Taiwei Tong is a privy envoy of the imperial court, there is no betrayal at all, everyone should not act rashly!" ”
At this time, Liu Tie, the general of the third battalion, shouted: "I am willing to follow the commander, brothers, follow me!" ”
He rushed out of the camp, and a thousand soldiers followed him towards Li Yanqing's camp.
Liu Tie is Liu Kuang's brother, of course he is unwilling to follow Gao Shixuan to join Tong Guan, under his leadership, the partial generals Zhang Zhao, Ding Mengshan, Yao Hong and others who were promoted by the original seed master Dao also led troops to defect to Li Yanqing's camp.
In addition, the Hebei heroes recruited by Liu Tao were also unwilling to work for the notorious Tong Guan, and they also rushed out of the camp and ran towards Li Yanqing's side.
Gao Shixuan couldn't stop drinking, 8,000 of the 10,000 horses under his original command defected to Li Yanqing, Gao Shixuan was furious and swung his knife to kill Li Yanqing.
"Bastard, I'll fight with you!"
At this time, a young general brandished a sledgehammer and rushed out, "Thief of the betrayal, I will meet you!" ”
It is the fierce general Cao Meng, although Gao Shixuan's martial arts are good, but he is far from Cao Meng's opponent, only three rounds of fighting, Cao Meng used a double hammer to clamp Gao Shixuan's big knife, and took the big knife away, Gao Shixuan was bare-handed, and fled with his horse.
Cao Meng swung his hammer to chase, but was stopped by Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing shouted to Gao Shi: "It's all Song Jun, I won't embarrass you, but the commander will use military law to deal with you, you go!" ”
Gao Shixuan was ashamed and annoyed, so he had to shout: "Let's go!" ”
He left Fanyang County with the remaining more than 12,000 people and went to Yizhou, if Zhuozhou can't take Fanyang County, the other small counties are meaningless, and more importantly, once the army of the Seed Master Dao enters Zhuozhou, he will be in a catastrophe, Gao Shixuan understands in his heart that he can only rely on Tong Guan to protect himself now.
Li Yanqing saw that Gao Shixuan's army was gradually moving away, so he gave the order, "Collect the troops and return to the city!" ”
Gao Shixuan's partial generals came forward to greet him, and Li Yanqing said with a smile: "Let's go back to the city, I believe that the commander will definitely be moved by everyone's loyalty." ”
The army began to turn around and return to the city, and the soldiers at the head of the city cheered, and the main general let the opponent's forces disintegrate without hurting a single soldier, which was really exciting.
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Yizhou, the battle of 80,000 troops to attack Yi County has been carried out to the third day, although there are only 3,000 Khitan defenders in the city, but Xiao Yuqing mobilized more than 10,000 Khitan young and strong people in the city to fight together, the Khitan people hold the idea of the country's death and jade, desperate and fierce fighting, so that the siege of the Song army suffered heavy casualties, but never broke through the Yi County.
But the defending army also suffered heavy casualties, the Khitan Qingzhuang people suffered more than 6,000 casualties, and the 3,000 Khitan army only had more than 700 people, almost half of whom were wounded, and it was no longer meaningful to defend it.
In the night, in the interval of the siege war, Xiao Yuqing led more than 700 people to the west city gate, the three days of fierce battles are in the south and east of the city, the north city also has a heavy army siege, located in the west of the city of the army is small, but also very quiet, although there are also besieging the Song army outside the west city, but Xiao Yuqing still found a loophole, that is, the northwest corner, the Song army this afternoon sent soldiers there to attack the south city, but did not replenish in time, so that the northwest corner appeared a large hole with few troops.
"Breaking through is here, if you can't break through, you will be loyal to the country!"
Xiao Yuqing glanced at everyone, although there were more than 300 injured, but he could only do this, whether the wounded soldiers could break out depends on their perseverance.
"Everybody, get on the horse!"
The cavalry Liao army got on their horses one after another, and Xiao Yuqing shouted: "Open the city gate!" ”
The drawbridge was lowered at the head of the city, several soldiers opened the city gate, and Xiao Yuqing shouted, "Break through with me!" ”
He rushed out first, followed by seven hundred cavalry urging his horse to gallop, and a group of cavalry galloped towards the northwest corner.
There were indeed not many Song troops in the northwest corner, it was an oversight of Xin Xingzong, after he transferred the army, he did not transfer troops in time to fill it back, and Xiao Yuqing seized this loophole.
At this time, it was the two watches, and the Song army who had attacked the city for a day was exhausted and slept, and they had to continue attacking at dawn, and the soldiers were already exhausted and could only seize the time to rest.
No one could have imagined that the Liao army actually broke through, seven hundred cavalry suddenly killed, and was immediately discovered by the patrol soldiers, they hurriedly sounded the alarm, the whole army heard the wind, and woke up from their sleep, but it was too late, more than seven hundred cavalry rushed through the camp as wide as one mile, and disappeared into the darkness.
The main general Xin Xingzong did not fall asleep at this time, his pressure in the past two days was too great, he really couldn't sleep, Tong Guan had already sent someone to send more than a dozen military orders for him to take Yi County immediately, but he fought desperately, the soldiers suffered more than 10,000 casualties, but he couldn't take Yi County, which really made him anxious, seeing that the Tai Lieutenant was coming tomorrow, how could he explain to the Tai Lieutenant?
At this moment, the outside of the camp suddenly seemed to blow up the nest, the alarm bell sounded, Xin Xingzong was stunned, got up and walked out of the big tent, only to see that the riot seemed to be coming from the north, and after a while, a soldier rushed to report, "Commander, the Liao army in the city has broken through!" ”
Xin Xingzong was taken aback and asked urgently, "Where did you break through?" ”
"Like...... Is it the northwest corner? ”
Xin Xingzong's mind was 'Buzz! With a bang, he knew that something bad was wrong, he actually forgot to transfer his troops to the northwest corner, so that the siege showed a big flaw, and the enemy seized the opportunity so quickly, his mind was blank, and he stood in a daze.
"Handsome! Handsome! Several of his own soldiers whispered to him.
Xin Xingzong reacted slowly, and a hint of surprise suddenly appeared in his eyes, he slapped his forehead fiercely, why was he so stupid! It's a good thing for the Liao army to break through! Won't Yi County take it down?
Xin Xingzong couldn't wait to slap himself a few more times and scolded himself for being stupid.
He immediately ordered: "Send an order to the whole army, give me a siege at once!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier rushed over, knelt down on one knee and said: "Commander Qiqi, the gate of Yixian City is wide open, and a large group of officials go out of the city to surrender!" ”
Xin Xingzong breathed a long sigh of relief, and Yi County finally took it down.......
Tong Guan arrived in Yi County the next morning, he squinted his eyes and looked at the tall and sturdy city wall, although Xin Xingzong's weakness made him very annoyed, but in the end he still captured this fortified city second only to Fanyang County, at least more comfortable than Gao Shixuan.
Thinking of Gao Shixuan, Tong Guan felt a burst of hatred in his heart, he valued him so much, let him become an independent army, and led 20,000 troops to take Fanyang County, but he was cleaned up by Li Yanqing, and he lost 8,000 troops in vain without touching the edge of the city, which sounds incredible, but it happened again, of course Tong Guan will not admit that the military heart is not attached to him, he only hates Gao Shixuan for being incompetent.
At this time, Xin Xingzong led dozens of generals to welcome him out of the city, and Xin Xingzong knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Humble Xin Xingzong see Taiwei!" ”
Tong Guan snorted coldly, "General Xin really fought for Ben Shuai, and it took 80,000 troops to besiege a county town with only 3,000 defenders, and it took three days, which really made Ben Shuai feel deeply gratified!" ”
Xin Xingzong was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, and hurriedly explained in a low voice: "In fact, there are not more than 3,000 people, Xiao Yuqing mobilized the whole city of Khitan Qingzhuang to participate in the defense of the city, and afterwards collected more than 7,000 corpses in the city, this is the people and soldiers who died in the defense of the city, and interrogated the officials of Yizhou, they are at least 12,000 people to participate in the defense of the city." ”
"Are you still making excuses for yourself?"
"Don't dare!" Xin Xingzong was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything.
Tong Guan glared at him fiercely, and then asked, "Have all the soldiers who participated in the defense of the city been caught?" ”
"The soldiers are searching from house to house, and all the Khitan men have been arrested!"
"Very good, after being caught, all the Khitans in the city will be arrested, all the men will be executed regardless of the old people and children, and the women will be useful, and then write a battle report to me, do you understand what the commander means?"
Xin Xingzong suddenly understood what Tong Guan meant, all the Khitan men who were killed had to be reported to the court as war merits, which was the result of destroying 12,000 enemies!
"Humble ..... Humble duty understood. ”
"Do it if you get it!" Tong Guan coldly reprimanded Xin Xingzong, and then walked towards the county town surrounded by a large group of guards.