Chapter 248: The Central Plains is a little turbulent
Li Gengyun arranged a task for Shadow and Kuichi again, relatively speaking, Kuiyi's mission takes a long time, so this time Kuiyi made some good preparations before leaving. And the shadow side did not have anything to prepare, directly from Li Gengyun's hand took two letters, one letter was for Song Qing, and the other letter was handed over to Zhuge Zhang, as long as the two of them read the content of Li Gengyun's letter, it is estimated that there will be a lot of action here in the Pingyang Mountains of Lizhou years ago, and when the time comes, it will also make Yeluxiao and them unable to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind.
Everything was as Li Gengyun had designed, Duguke stayed in Dongzhou in case something changed, while Yeluqi and Bailixi went to the imperial city together to prepare for the New Year. On the other side, in the large team that set off from the capital of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, including several princes of Yelu Xiao, there were also Northern Yuan Dawu who were originally arranged in the capital as the host, and they also came to the imperial city of the Great Song Dynasty with the team.
Twenty days before the New Year, Yelu Xiao had already moved all the political and military command centers of the entire Northern Yuan Dynasty to the imperial city of the original Great Song Dynasty, and the palace here was much better than the original capital of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, so that he also had the idea of moving the capital.
Everyone gathered in the Imperial City, which completed the first step that Li Gengyun expected, and then the next step was the White Lotus Sect's harassment activities against Dongzhou and Sizhou.
Since Cao Cao brought back the military flag order, Bai Chongyang also affirmed Cao Cao's ability, although Cao Cao has been persuading him to act after the New Year, but what Li Gengyun wants and what he himself plans is to carry out the next move before the year, so as soon as the military flag order arrives, he arranged 30,000 troops of the White Lotus Sect, divided into three roads, two ways to attack Sizhou, and harassed Dongzhou all the way, so that Duguke, who was originally stationed in Dongzhou to preside over the overall situation, was also quite a headache. For the 20,000 White Lotus Sect members in Sizhou, their purpose is to plunder as much as possible, nominally attacking, but in fact robbing, after all, there are only 20,000 troops, even if they take the city, when the Northern Yuan army turns back and kills them, there is no way to hold it, so their strategy is very clear.
And the strategy of harassing the 10,000 army in Dongzhou is even clearer, that is, pure harassment, the 10,000 harassment army commanded by Cao Cao himself, as long as Duguke arranges for the army to go out of the city, he will go to harass their grain and grass team, do not fight or rob, just follow you, charge occasionally, and once the Yuan army comes, immediately turn around and run. Because Sizhou was plundered by 20,000 White Lotus Sect members, and most of the Northern Yuan army stayed in Dongzhou, Duguke not only had to shoulder the responsibility of guarding Dongzhou, but also had to bear the heavy responsibility of guarding Sizhou. As soon as his army left the city, he was targeted by the troops of the White Lotus Sect, and advanced slowly in the constant harassment, although it did not cause much loss, but the speed of the march was greatly reduced, and the original two-day journey was forced to take five days by Cao Cao's harassment.
What's even more odious is not this, but when Duguke arrived in Sizhou, the 20,000 White Lotus Sect troops who came to loot actually fled, they quickly went down the river, and began to loot the cities of Dongzhou, and Cao Cao's 10,000 troops still continued to harass Duguke's army. This made Duguke almost angry, but fortunately, he also made a good calculation, and when the 20,000 White Lotus Sect was looting in Dongzhou, he suddenly encountered an ambush set by Duguke in advance, and the loss was not small, and it also allowed Duguke to save some face a little.
Of course, in addition to the war in Dongzhou and Sizhou, Huateng in Nanzhou also waited for an opportunity at this time, first sent 10,000 elites to cross the river to the north, kill the Yuan army along the way, and at the same time arranged a large number of displaced people to move to Nanzhou, those big cities in the southeast of Dongzhou are almost ten rooms and nine empty, most people have chosen to move their families, leave the Central Plains, go to Nanzhou, and wait until they have the opportunity to come back in the future. Hua Teng's team in the southeast of Dongzhou can be said to be overwhelming, and soon occupied a large area, but the Yuan army of Chaozhou suddenly entered, Hua Teng's troops lazily intercepted, but in just five days, the original territory was all taken back, and the army that suddenly appeared seemed to have received the designated order, as long as the army of Nanzhou crossed the river, it would no longer pursue.
However, the most important action is what Li Gengyun arranged for Song Qing and Zhuge Zhang to do in Lizhou, originally Li Gengyun arranged for Song Qing and Zhuge Zhang to lead the soldiers to hide in the Pingyang Mountains, now they not only have enough food and grass, but also have a large amount of military equipment, the thousands of heavy armor soldiers that Li Gengyun organized to besiege and kill Gusuteng were all in their hands, so this time they are the real main force of attack.
Song Qing and Zhuge Zhang began to act on the second day after receiving Li Gengyun's letter, and with lightning speed, they quickly started Pingyang Pass, and then transferred 5,000 troops to Kaiyuan City, and in just five days, they successively controlled several important cities in Lizhou, and immediately surprised Yeluxiao, who was preparing to spend the New Year in the imperial city.
Originally, Yelu Xiao thought that these were just the recovery actions organized by those people who didn't know the height of the sky in the Great Song Dynasty, so he didn't care, especially the affairs of Dongzhou and Sizhou, and learned that it was the White Lotus Sect that made him disdainful at all. However, later, the dispatch of the army of Nanzhou Huateng made him more nervous, but the action of Huateng's army focused on transferring the people, rather than attacking the city, and Baili Xi said that he had arranged for Sima Xiu to go to stop the killing, which also made him feel a lot more relieved.
However, Song Qing's actions in Lizhou are too eye-catching, the first Lizhou is only separated from the imperial city by a Gyeonggi area, whether it is Pingyang Pass or Xianyang Pass, the distance to the imperial city is only more than 200 miles, if Song Qing will directly face the imperial city, I am afraid that a big war will inevitably break out in the Gyeonggi area. Moreover, Song Qing's soldiers and their equipment can be quite sophisticated, and I heard that some of them are quite knowledgeable about the art of war, and there are endless means such as sneak attacks and interceptions, and they can control several important cities in Lizhou, including Kaiyuan City, in such a short period of time, which is definitely not something that ordinary people can do. Therefore, this Lizhou army's action must have been planned for a long time, which is what Yeluxiao is most worried about.
Although Yeluxiao was worried, but his sons thought that this was definitely a great opportunity to make contributions, and several princes led by Yeluhu who were idle at home took the lead in applying to Yeluxiao to lead troops to suppress it, and Yeluqi was not far behind, and strongly asked to lead troops to the battle. Everyone scrambled to lead troops to eliminate Song Qing and them, but Baili Xi was unmoved.
In the end, Yeluhu relied on the fact that he was Yeluxiao's favorite son, and at the same time said that he also wanted to make contributions like Yeluqi, Yeluxiao gave Yeluhu the opportunity to lead the army to fight, and at the same time gave Lu Guan to Yeluhu to protect his safety.