Chapter 231 Several Years of Work Yields Results, and the Four Battles of the Bohai Sea Set the Overall Situation (8)
Li Congjing led the army out of the field and went straight to the main Khitan camp, and this sudden change immediately pushed the battlefield situation to a boiling point. At this time, the Khitan army was scattered everywhere, and the Khitan army still on standby in the camp was not much, but only half, and it was surrounded by Zhengzhou City, and the army around the Yelu Abaoji Emperor's Tent was even less, no more than 20,000 soldiers. Li Congjing led an army of 20,000 and raided, not giving the Khitan army a chance to respond, the vanguard rushed straight to the camp gate, the original Khitan guards inside and outside the camp wall were not enough to deal with it, and the hundred battle troops relied on the arrows and armor thick, and soon broke through the wall and killed the Khitan army camp.
The moment he broke into the door, there was really a dragon entering the sea and turning over the waves.
In the face of the hundred battle army of divine soldiers, when the Khitan army in the camp resisted by Emperor Zhang, from the commander of thousands of commanders, to the commanders of ten thousand soldiers, down to ordinary soldiers, they were all shocked, they never thought that there would be a strong division, around their backs, when most of the attention of the camp was attracted by Daming Xing, they suddenly attacked.
Speaking of which, the Hundred Battles Army that launched a surprise attack at this time did grasp the timing just right, and formed an excellent cooperation with the Daming Xing Division, but this was not all accidental.
When Daming Xing led the army to leave Xijing and reinforce Zhengzhou, Li Congjing and Daming Xing made an analysis of the war in Zhengzhou. At that time, the two knew that even if Zhengzhou had the help of Daming Xing, it would be even more difficult to hold it, and failure was almost a doomed situation, but how to deal with it depended on the arrangement of Yelu Abaoji. At that time, according to the war deduction of the General Staff Office, Li Congjing once told the Ming Xing three strategies, corresponding to three situations.
If Yelu Abaoji insists on attacking Zhengzhou with all his army, then Zhengzhou will not be defended, and Daming Xing will withdraw to Xijing at his own discretion; If Yelu Abaoji divides a small number of troops, the city of Zhengzhou is small and cannot be defended, and Daming Xing also has to evacuate Zhengzhou, but the tactics along the way should be flexible, and they can also attract and ambush the pursuers according to the situation, which can weaken the Khitan army. In the end, if Yelu Abaoji divides more than half of the troops, Li Congjing promises that Daming Xing, he will personally lead the army to save Zhengzhou. As for how to save it, Li Congjing also told Daming Xing that the best strategy should be to seek to take advantage of the weakness of Yelu Abaoji's troops to send reinforcements to Huanglong, in order to reverse the situation of the Bohai Sea war.
The current situation, in the case of Yelu Abaoji's division of troops into Boxia, Hengzhou, and Tongshui Valley, corresponds to the third situation.
Daming Xing sat in the head of Zhengzhou all day long, and knew well about Yelu Abaoji's division of troops into the Tongshui Valley, and combined with the previous military situation, he could naturally infer the general situation of the Tongshui Valley. The battle of Zhengzhou lasted so long, and the reason why Daming Xing chose to lead the army to take the initiative tonight was not without other ideas. If Li Congjing made a roundabout attack on Yelu Abaoji, the distance could be calculated, and although Da Ming Xing and Li Congjing could not communicate with each other by messenger, he could also know that Li Congjing would arrive in about the next day or two. Therefore, Da Ming Xing will not only lead 3,000 steps out of the city, but also select 3,000 elites from the Zhengzhou army, who had just been replaced by the head of the city, and stand by in the city gate. Da Ming Xing has actually made up his mind, if Li Congjing does not arrive tonight, he will go out of the city to challenge tomorrow night.
When fighting with the enemy outside the city, Da Ming Xing had planned to withdraw to the city, he was prepared, and did not seek much damage, just to boost morale, with his talent, if he did not want to be retained, he could naturally return to the city smoothly, the reason why he was retained was because the generals on the city of Zhengzhou saw the signal sent by the hill behind the Khitan military camp in the dark night.
Knowing that Li Congjing had arrived, Da Ming Xing forcibly suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and decisively ordered that all the 3,000 soldiers on standby behind the city gate go out of the city, and after breaking through the enemy in front of him, he went straight to the Khitan camp, in order to hide from the sky and cross the sea, so that Li Congjing could launch a surprise attack.
All kinds of plans and contingencies have pushed tonight's war to the current situation.
Li Congjing and Daming Xing, one is a rising star and star of famous generals in the Tang Army, and the other is a good general who has been famous in Bohai for a long time and is the only remaining good general.
After all, one's own strength is small, and in the face of an opponent like Yelu Abaoji, if his companions are useless, this battle will not be able to go on for a long time. And it is precisely because he can gather the power of talents from all sides that Li Congjing dares to say that he will fight one country in one place to strangle the Khitan country
The news of the defeat in the Battle of Bo Yan has not yet been transmitted, and Yelu Abaoji has not yet known that his plan to catch Li from the urn has actually begun to disintegrate. In Yelu Abaoji's plan, the Khitan army divided the way and pressed each other with the general momentum, and Li Congjing could only passively divide his troops to deal with it, because if any way was broken, Li Congjing would be doomed, and he couldn't afford to lose half a point. In the case that Li Congjing's troops were already insufficient, the division of troops could only make Li Congjing tired and overstretched, and finally died slowly.
When Yelu Abaoji finalized the strategy of encircling Xijing, he said to Han Yanhui arrogantly, "I have a hundred ways to make Li Congjing unable to live, and Li Congjing can only be helpless." ”
Right now, from being annoyed and angry to annihilate the defenders of Zhengzhou who went out of the city to challenge, to being shocked to find that there was a fire in the backyard, and another enemy army was raiding from the rear, Yelu Abaoji's high-spirited old face suddenly stiffened and lost any look.
Han Yanhui is also a talented person, but he never imagined how there would be an enemy army behind him, is this enemy army the Bohai Navy or the Tang Army? And where did it come from? Shocked, he forgot his words for a while, and said instinctively: "The abdomen and back are too easy to mess up, how can this be good?" ”
When the cold wind hit, Yelu Abaoji suddenly coughed violently, and his tall figure bent down.
Han Yanhui woke up with this cough, and hurriedly went to help Yelu Abaoji, a while ago, Yelu Abaoji occasionally felt a cold, and his body went wrong, but fortunately, he has been recuperating decently recently, and his condition has already improved.
Yelu Abaoji's face was pale under the dim light, but he also stabilized his breathing, he stood up straight with a gloomy face, indicating that he was fine, and said coldly: "I am afraid that Li Congjing will send an order to the three armies behind the battalion, the army will suspend the siege of the city, line up in place, and the army that encircles and annihilates Daming Xing does not need to retreat, and must be completely annihilated; Then order the crown prince and the generalissimo to lead the troops to unite with the heart department to intercept Li Congjing! ”
Han Yanhui thought in his heart, if the siege army retreats from the queen at this moment and retreats into the camp, it will only add chaos to chaos, and line up in place, but it can prevent the Zhengzhou defenders from going out of the city to participate in the battle, and encircling and annihilating the army of Ming Xing, and it is true that Ming Xing cannot be enlarged to enter the camp, otherwise the camp will be really chaotic, "Your Majesty, the crown prince, the generalissimo, and the heart of the heart are all going to intercept the enemy army, who will guard the imperial tent?" Isn't it?"
Yelu Abaoji's face turned pale, "If Li Congjing can't stop it, the camp is broken, and the imperial tent can be safe?" Only by defeating it can the Imperial Tent be saved! After saying this, perhaps he felt too aggrieved, and he was furious, and a flush appeared on his pale face, and he coughed violently.
Han Yanhui wanted to persuade again, but when he saw Yelu Abaoji's appearance, he couldn't bear to say more. The situation took a turn for the worse, and Han Yanhui himself still found it difficult to accept, let alone Yelu Abaoji-but how could Li Congjing appear here, shouldn't he be in the Tongshui Valley?
Although Yelu Abaoji's face was ugly, his thinking was not chaotic, he was a person who had gone through the wind and rain, and he could still know what Han Yanhui was thinking at this time, "Li Congjing didn't go to the Tongshui River Valley at all--50,000 troops actually asked 8,000 Tang soldiers to drag them in the Tongshui River Valley, but he couldn't break the enemy for a few days-" After all, he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and scolded: "This group of fools, it's really damned!" Let them all get back to me! ”
At this time, Han Yanhui would not ask Yelu Abaoji why he could be sure that it must be Li Congjing who appeared behind the battalion. This is already obvious, except for Li Congjing, no one else can be silent, in such a short period of time, the army rushed behind them, and launched a surprise attack without warning.
"Li Congjing's two legs are really able to run" Han Yanhui slandered in his heart, and he couldn't take too much care at this time, and helped Yelu Abaoji to return to the account - after all, the imperial account is safer than in the chaotic army.
The Hundred Battles and the Bohai Coalition Army rushed in, which caused the Khitan army to have a lot of panic, and it was also a loss to Yelu Abaoji that the elites who stayed by his side, otherwise they would have collapsed long ago, and where could there be a chance for Yelu Abaoji to be calm and calmly dispatch troops. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Yelu Abaoji ordered the three armies again, saying that Li Congjing was a panicked rout, and the Khitan army followed behind, and it happened to gather and annihilate it at this time.
In this way, people with a little sense can see countless loopholes, but there are too many people to speak of group rationality, only group emotions, and it is easy to be confused, otherwise there will be no such battles in history that have won on the battlefield by saying "so-and-so is dead, you will surrender and not kill". Moreover, these words came from the mouth of Emperor Yelu Abaoji, which can naturally make people believe it.
When Yelu Abaoji returned to the imperial tent, the crown prince Yelu Bei, the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses Yelu Deguang, and the heart of the abdomen had all been dispatched to meet the enemy, he stabilized his heart, his face had returned to some normal, and he snorted coldly in front of Han Yanhui and other ministers: "I have the elite of the heart here, and the courage of the two princes and ten thousand people, just to wait for work, Li Congjing came from a long distance, and he was profitable for a hundred miles, which was self-troubled, no different from looking for death." Li Congjing will be captured alive in this battle, and you will wait to see the end of the Bohai Sea battle! ”
The ministers shouted long live and praised the emperor's name.
Li Congjing, who was leading the army to gallop in the Khitan camp, although he didn't know that Yelu Abaoji was almost self-deceiving and arrogant and confident at this time, but he did see the battlefield situation in his eyes, the Khitan army was not defeated, but from time to time a large army came to greet him, knowing that the victory or defeat of tonight's battle was still between the two.
However, this is also what he expected, there is a large army in which Yelu Abaoji himself sits, if it is defeated in one attack, then Yelu Abaoji will not be able to establish the Khitan State that is now in full swing, because the victory or defeat lies in the fact that the two armies are in close contact with each other, and they speak with combat power. But after all, the Khitan army is scattered and the enemy is on its back, and if there is no chaos in the army for a while, it does not mean that it will not be chaotic all the time.
As for the battle, Li Congjing has led the army to fight for many years, but he has never coaxed anyone.