Chapter 853: Commanding Heights
Xiao Guanyin was finally willing to go to Kaifeng, and as Xiao Guanyin and Zhang Xiaojie embarked on the road to the An Dynasty, the Yuan State also expressed its sincerity in cooperating with the An Dynasty, so he appointed Meng Han as a general and led his troops to attack Muzhou.
In this way, the Yuan Kingdom was in the north, the Jurchens were in the east, and the Great Wall was also occupied by Xiao Mo's army, and the Zhongjing Dading Mansion was under unprecedented pressure, and Yelu Zongde immediately sent someone to contact Yelu Aluhan.
So Yelu Aluhan sent someone to discuss with Zhang Yuanzhi, Zhang Yuanzhi's side, has been fighting around Bazhou for nearly a month, and Li Zhun has more than 100,000 people in Bazhou, and it is difficult to eat it for a while, but Zhang Yuanzhi knows that success is just around the corner.
As long as the grain and grass in Bazhou City are exhausted, then Li Zhun is the turtle in the urn, and defeating Li Zhun's army is equivalent to disintegrating the coalition army of the An Dynasty that attacked this time!
And...... If Li Zhun can be captured alive, I believe that An Chao will also compromise in some aspects.
But at this critical juncture, Yelu Aluhan intended to let Zhang Yuanzhi retreat!
The reason is very simple, Dading Mansion is the imperial city of Liao State, and it is the foundation of Yelu Aruhan, so Yelu Aluhan is reluctant and wants Zhang Yuanzhi to return to the army to rescue.
Zhang Yuanzhi sent someone to Yelu Aluhan and said: "Your Majesty, this is Xiao Mo's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, if you can't capture Bazhou this time, Xiao Mo will lead his troops south in the future, but I'm afraid that Nanjing will be in danger again, and then the emperor will be helpless?" ”
After listening to Zhang Yuanzhi's words, Yelu Aluhan was furious and sent someone to ask Zhang Yuanzhi: "Do you want to make me have no place to stand?" ”
Meaning, do you think I don't even have a foothold?
When Zhang Yuanzhi heard this, he knew that Yelu Aluhan was angry, so he had to come to Nanjing alone to see Yelu Aluhan, and then said to him: "Your Majesty, now that the grain and grass in Bazhou are unsustainable, and Bazhou has been captured, and in the future, when he crosses the Yellow River in the south, it will be a horse and a flat river, and he will reach Kaifeng, Xiao Mo will definitely not sit idly by and ignore Bazhou, this is obviously Xiao Mo's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao!" ”
Yelu Aluhan said: "You mean to let me give up Zhongjing, if Zhongjing, wouldn't it give up hundreds of thousands of people and my foundation to the An Dynasty?" Hugh said a lot, I have already asked Meng Gongzuo to lead the troops back to rescue Zhongjing, and Nanjing will be handed over to you! ”
Zhang Yuan listened directly and knew that Yelu Aluhan's mind had been decided, and it was difficult to change it, so he sighed and had no choice but to withdraw from Bazhou.
Without Meng Gongzuo's containment, once Di Qing's army comes, can Bazhou still be captured? Zhang Yuanzhi also has no choice, Yelu Aluhan is worried about the loss of Zhongjing, and Zhang Yuanzhi can also understand.
Now the Liao State is Yelu Aruhan's, after the loss of Xijing, plus the independence of the Yuan State, now the territory of the Liao State is only Nanjing and Zhongjing, of which Nanjing is in the Guannei, and the foundation of the Liao State is outside the Guan, Yelu Aluhan is naturally reluctant to Zhongjing outside the Guan, but in this way, if the troops return to rescue Zhongjing, Nanjing will be dangerous!
So...... Zhang Yuanzhi sighed, sighing for the future of Liao!
Does Liao have a future?
Losing the opportunity to defeat the hundreds of thousands of troops of Bazhou Li Zhun is also equivalent to losing the only chance to win this battle!
After a long sigh, Meng Gongzuo came to find Zhang Yuanzhi, and after seeing Meng Gongzuo, Zhang Yuanzhi said to Meng Gongzuo: "The general should know that capturing Bazhou is the only chance for our army, why do you also approve of the emperor's policy of rescuing Zhongjing?" ”
Meng Gongzuo thought for a while and said to Zhang Yuanzhi: "Today's Liao Kingdom is tantamount to the remnant sun of the empire!" Therefore, the last general will not be able to attack the Song Dynasty in the south, but only to be able to keep Zhongjing, and then Xu Tu Shangjing and Liaodong, if so, there may not be no chance of a comeback in the future! ”
After that, Meng Gongzuo hugged his fist at Zhang Yuanzhi and said goodbye, and now, Zhang Yuanzhi finally understood!
It turns out that this so-called No. 1 general in the world is also so short-sighted!
"Meng Gongzuo, Meng Gongzuo......" Zhang Yuanzhi looked at Meng Gongzuo's back and muttered: "You are wrong, back in Zhongjing, do you think Xiao Mo will give you a chance to breathe?" Your insight is only on the same level as that of Jeruhan...... It is undeniable that your grasp of the overall situation on the battlefield is admirable, but compared to Xiao Molai......
Shaking his head, Zhang Yuanzhi was a little helpless, in the final analysis, it was Xiao Mo!
I knew that today, Xiao Mo should have been killed in Liao State, but now, it is too late for Zhang Yuanzhi to regret it, and now, Zhang Yuanzhi also feels that he is not very proud of himself under Yelu Aluhan.
In the past, under Yelu Hongji's hands, Zhang Yuanzhi gained absolute trust, but under Yelu Aruhan, although Yelu Aruhan had been trying his best to win him over before, Yelu Aruhan seemed to be very dissatisfied with Zhang Yuanzhi's strategy of giving up Xijing, so Yelu Aruhan also had some distrust in Zhang Yuanzhi's ability!
This reason, speaking of which is still the credit of Zhao Quan, Zhao Quan let Xiao Mo and Li Zhun attack Liao State in two ways, which was originally a stupid move, but what I didn't expect was that it turned out to be a strange move!
It's no wonder that Zhang Yuanzhi and Xiao Mo are enemies, how could they guess that Xiao Mo, who has always been shrewd, would actually send troops to divide into two ways such a stupid move?
So the Liao State not only lost Xijing, but also lost Bazhou, which also made Yelu Aluhan dissatisfied with Zhang Yuanzhi!
The current Zhang Yuanzhi can already be said to be a fighting dog that has been defeated......
The Liao army suddenly returned to the army, all of which were in Xiao Mo's intention, and at this time, although the flood season of the Yellow River had not yet passed, it had also begun to recede, and although the shells could not be transported across the river, there was no problem with grain and grass.
Moreover, after the passage of Xijing in the Liao Kingdom was opened, Xiao Mo's army did not need to worry about the problem of grain and grass, so Xiao Mo immediately sent someone to tell Li Zhun that Li Zhun would lead the men and horses to counter the siege of Nanjing, and also sent some artillery shells to Li Zhun and gave all the artillery battalions to Li Zhun.
Xiao Mo's request to Li Zhun was to surround Nanjing and use artillery to deter Zhang Yuanzhi so that he would not dare to go out of the city, and he would surround it without fighting!
Although he didn't understand what Xiao Mo meant, Li Zhun still did it, and sent Di Qing and Yang Paifeng to Xiao Mo.
If you want to attack Zhongjing, you must have cavalry, because outside the pass, it is a plain, and it is ...... Now the men and horses in Zhongjing are also cavalry.
Xiao Mo's combat policy was to encircle Nanjing, trap Zhang Yuanzhi, and then launch a fierce attack on Zhongjing of the Liao State with the Jurchens and the Yuan State!
Zhang Yuanzhi expected that he was right, Xiao Mo really would not give Meng Gongzuo the opportunity to attack Shangjing and then escape into the grassland, so Xiao Mo had to use absolute strength to deter the Liao army.
That's why Xiao Mo wants to occupy the Great Wall!
After occupying the Great Wall, Xiao Mo is equivalent to occupying the commanding heights, a commanding heights that can be attacked and defended!