Chapter 10: The Eve of Perdition
The three hundred guards who went to Hulukou to explore the way have returned.
Jerusha immediately recruited the leading lieutenant into his camp.
"How? Was there an ambush? ”
"Returning to the marshal, the last general led three hundred guards around the mountain bags on both sides of the gourd, and did not find any ambush in the area of the gourd."
Hearing this result, although Yelusha was suspicious, he was already determined in his heart, if no ambush was found in Hulukou, then the New Song Army seemed to be planning to defend Danzhou City.
For siege warfare, Yerusha is still very confident, but he really can't do it, so he uses a large army to surround the city, so that there is no food or drink in the city, and these Song people can starve to death if they are hungry.
"Since it has just been found out that there is no ambush, then let's set off now, so as not to have many dreams at night and renew incidents, go and spread my will, name the leaders of the tribes, lead their tribes, and immediately get on the horse and set off."
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When Jerusha's command was handed down, there was no hindrance.
These tribal leaders were originally here to rob, but with the army, so they had the same schedule and rest as the army.
Now that the boss has ordered to move forward, these people will naturally not rely on it, but they have mounted one after another, for fear that if they go slowly, the good things in the city will be robbed by others.
Looking at the rapidly assembled army in the camp, Yelusha also felt a rare sense of satisfaction, if these people can fight so actively, then the territory of Daliao will soon expand to an unimaginable extent.
It's a pity that these people are all fighting for their own interests, and their narrow vision, a little bit of small profit, can satisfy those leaders, and after they are satisfied, they will immediately choose to go home.
"They're all like rats," Jerisha sighed, and then walked to his stable and mounted the horse that his men had brought him.
The leaders of the various tribes have gathered here, dozens of horses, dozens of leaders, making the open space at the entrance of the village seem a little crowded.
"Chiefs, I have sent spies to find out that there is no ambush in Hulukou, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, I have decided that we will set off through Hulukou this afternoon, and arrive at Danzhou City in the evening to besiege the city, and choose a day to attack the city, do you have any opinions?"
As soon as Jerusha's plan was revealed, many leaders began to discuss it, and their topics were nothing more than the old problem of how to calculate the killing of the enemy, cut off the head, cut off the nose or cut off the ears, etc., and how to distribute the looted materials.
"Leaders, don't quarrel anymore" Yerusha was disgusted with this meaningless entanglement of interests from the bottom of his heart, "Now that the city has not been attacked, how about rewarding, why don't we wait for the city to be broken, when our leaders gather together, how about distributing the seized materials according to merit?" As for the head, we will calculate it according to one or two pieces of silver per head. ”
Although Yerusha's proposal tasted a little muddy, the leaders did not have a better decision at the moment, so they all followed Yerusha's suggestion and waited until they took Danzhou City, and then considered how to divide the spoils.
After the interests were agreed, the army marched unusually quickly.
The 250,000-strong army marched south like a river, and on the plain, I saw a row of cavalry of more than 1,000 meters galloping on the plain, followed by hundreds of thousands of cavalry.
When the 250,000 units converged into a torrent, a powerful momentum was generated, the steppe people fought wars, never paid much attention to grain and grass and the rear, they relied on the ability of war horses to run, while fighting and plundering, superb mobility gave them far more flexibility than the Han people, so they did not need logistics support, they could also suddenly launch a thousand miles of attack.
The sound of horses' hooves resounded through the sky, and the swords reflected the cold light in the sunlight.
If it is really a fight with the Han people, I am afraid that the Great Song Dynasty does not know how many infantry will have to die in order to repel this group of Liao cavalry.
But now the opponent of these Liao cavalry is the New Song State.
And the New Song Kingdom definitely belongs to one of the few objects in this world that no one dares to provoke.
It's a pity that many people don't know this truth without the lesson of blood and tears.....
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"Attention of all camps, according to the latest line report, the Liao army has approached Hulukou, and the preliminary observation number exceeds 200,000 cavalry, which is obviously the main force of the Liao State this time, and all troops pay attention to act in strict accordance with the pre-war order, repeat, act in strict accordance with the pre-war order, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law."
The receiver, which was originally in the radio silence band, suddenly received the message, and everyone who was ambushed on the Hulukou battlefield at this moment was eager to try and prepare to do a big job....
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Danzhou, the New Song Dynasty Daying.
"Jiang Shao, a telegram was sent from the front line, there is a Liao cavalry, the number of which exceeds 200,000, and the preliminary estimate is 250,000 cavalry led by Yelusha." Lin Yue took a telegram and handed it to Jiang Yindao.
"Hmm." Jiang Yin didn't pick it up and look at it, "I just sent three hundred cavalry to inspect the circle, and after finding that there was no ambush, I led the army through Hulukou, this Yelusha general is very careful." ”
"Well, what do we do next?"
Jiang Yin waved his hand, "Do what you have to do, these 250,000 people are destined to die here today, this is something that no one can change, inform all the ministries to act according to the original plan, and attack this group of Liao troops according to the maximum lethality." ”
"Yes!"
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Galloping on the horse, behind him was a roaring army of 250,000 cavalry, such a sense of accomplishment commanding the three armies did not make Jerusha feel excited, but in the past few days, he felt more and more palpitations.
He had experienced this kind of palpitations on the battlefield, but it was only a fleeting feeling, and this feeling allowed him to escape the conspiracy between life and death.
But like now, when the palpitations didn't stop, he had never experienced it.
Today's weather is clear, cloudless, it is already afternoon, the sun is slanting in the west, on the endless plain, there are several endless mountain bags in the distance, in the middle of the mountain pack, there is a wide plain.
Jerusha knew that it was the mouth of the gourd.
With just one glance, Jerusha knew that it was an easy place to defend and the easiest place to ambush.
If Jerusha himself was in charge of defending Danzhou, he would definitely set up an ambush here.
But before that, he had already ordered three hundred cavalry to investigate.
There are no ambushes in these mountains.
Presumably, the New Song State also knew the strength of the cavalry of the Liao State, and it was unwise to start a war with the cavalry in the field, so it could only rely on the advantages of the high wall to deal with the Liao army.
This explanation is also reasonable.
But Yelu Sha always remembered that last year, Yelu Hugo led an army of 30,000 to the south to fight grass and was completely wiped out by the New Song Kingdom, for this reason, he had to be careful, he slowed down the speed of his horse, and let more than 40 tribal leaders rush to the front...
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