In August, the Emperor of the Jin State of Daliang Tan, Wanyan Aguta, set out from Shangjing in June and personally pursued Yelu Yanxi.

On the fifth day of the eighth month, Da Liang sent a letter of state to Liao and Jin, demanding that Liao withdraw from Youzhou (Nanjing, Liao), Ji, and other Kyushu, and Jin withdrew from the occupied Yun (Xijing Datongfu of Liao) and Shuo.

Yingzhou (Hejian Fu) and Mozhou in the sixteen states of Yanyun have been recovered by the Song Dynasty, while Zhuozhou has just been recovered by the Great Liang. Yizhou is the capital of the state built later, and it is not among the sixteen states of Yanyun.

The Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao, Xiao Gan, Yelu Dashi and others discussed, but they still did not dare to start a war, and presented a table of surrender to Daliang, willing to pay the money and lease You, Hebei and Kyushu.

As soon as the Liao envoy entered Hebei, Daliang rejected the Liao's proposal for lend-lease.

On August 10, Chao Yong swore to the Northern Expedition, led Huarong and Zhang Qing to go north to Zhuozhou, and the army arrived in Japan. At the same time, the soldiers and horses of Hedong Road and Ningxia Road, which are close to Xijing Road, also gathered at the border to deter the Jin State.

Although it was already August, there were still a few autumn rains along the way, more than a thousand miles away, and the army walked for a month.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, there was a lot of rain, and all the summer grain was harvested in various places, but because the world was initially decided, many places were abandoned, and the grain in the Central Plains was still tight. However, under the continuous measures of Daliang to reassure the people, the cultivation of autumn grain is much better, and as soon as the autumn harvest begins, the national grain prices have fallen.

The price of rice in the year of the Apocalypse was two dollars with one stone, and when Chao Yong went north, the price of rice in Tokyo had already fallen to one stone.

The general of the Jin State who captured the Datong Mansion in Xijing was Wanyan Xiyin, and after receiving the letter of state from Daliang, he let people fly to report to the emperor Wanyan Aguta.

Wanyan Agu beats the rate of oblique also (Wanyan Gao, Agu beats a mother and brothers), Pu Jianu (Wanyan Yu, Agu beats uncle brother), Zhuben (Wanyan Zonggan, Agu beats the eldest son), and Zhu Libu (Wanyan Zongwang. Aguta's second son), Muhan (Wanyan Zonghan, the eldest son of Sagai, the first prime minister after the founding of Aguta), Puluhu (Wanyan Zongpan, Wu Qimai's eldest son) and others chased Yelu Yanxi.

Yelu Yanxi gathered 50,000 soldiers and horses in Xijing Road and was about to go to Nanjing to resist the Jin State. When Xiao Telie, the deputy commander, learned that the Jin soldiers were chasing after him, he encouraged his soldiers to fight to the death at Shi Yuanduo. Yelu Yanxi was also overjoyed when he heard that there were still people who dared to fight, so he ordered the army to meet the Jin soldiers, and he led his concubines and sons to climb and watch. As a result, when Jin Bing saw the Sun and Moon Banner and knew that Yelu Yanxi was under the banner, he sent elite soldiers directly into Yelu Yanxi's location. Yelu Yanxi saw that the Jin soldiers were unstoppable. Fleeing again, the army was defeated again, and the 50,000 soldiers and horses gathered were scattered.

When Wanyan Aguda received the news from Wanyan Xiyin, the army had no news of Yelu Yanxi and was about to return to attack the only remaining Nanjing Dao in the Liao State.

I read the book of the Great Liang State. After Yan Aguta, he summoned the generals in front of the army to discuss.

Many wild people arrived, and the big tent was suddenly filled with a stench.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is a little cold, but for the wild people who grew up in the ice and snow, the weather is still a little hot, and they are all shirtless, exuding the smell of sweat on their bodies.

But the Jin people are used to this taste. One by one, they gathered in the big tent and laughed, very happy.

Wanyan Agu saw that the wolf-like clansmen had arrived, so he said: "The Central Plains Liang State sent a letter of state, saying that Xijing Road and Nanjing Road are Han lands. Let us withdraw from Xijing Road and not attack Nanking Road. What do you guys think? ”

"Wow Wow Wow"

"Wow Wow Wow"

"Bang Bang Bang"

As soon as the words fell, the big tent started to make a fuss, and the wild people were so angry that they screamed. Others keep beating their chests like gorillas.

Wan Yan frowned and said, "Quiet." Quiet, one by one. ”

The emperor spoke, and the savages slowly stopped.

Wan Yan Gao (oblique) said: "Last year, Huo Lu went to the Central Plains and asked them to attack Liao with us, but they were unwilling to send troops. Now that we have conquered Xijing, they will reach out and ask for it, and we can't be bullied. In my opinion, not only can Xijing Dao not be given to them, but we must continue to attack Nanking Dao. ”

Wanyan Zonghan, who was irritable by nature, also shouted: "Yes, we can't let the Han people bully, I heard that the Central Plains is full of gold and silver beauties, they dare to ask us for Xijing, we just go to the Central Plains, grab his vote, and let the Han people know how powerful we are." ”

Wanyan Zongpan and other ferocious savages also howled and wanted to fight in the Central Plains.

"Bang Bang Bang"

Wan Yan Ah Gu slapped the table for a while before the savages were quiet again.

Wanyan Agu saw that his second son, Wanyan Zongwang, had not spoken, so he pointed at him and said, "What do you think?" ”

Wanyan Zongwang said: "There are still many cities in Zhongjing Road that have not been laid, and there are still tribes in Shangjing and Tokyo that rebel from time to time, if there is a war with the Han people, I am afraid that the rear will be unstable." ”

Wanyan Aguda nodded with satisfaction, and said: "It's right not to say anything, the back has not settled down, how can we keep fighting, and the Liang State and the Liao State are different." I heard that Liang Guo has a very powerful firearm, which can blow up all the iron armor, and there is a kind of ship that can fly in the sky. The Han people all say that the prince of Daliang is a god descended from heaven, so it is better not to start a war with them easily. ”

The Jin savages believed in ghosts and gods more, remembering that they were all intimidated when they heard that the Han people did have spaceships.

However, Wanyan Zonghan still grinned and said, "Then we will give them Xijing Dao?" ”

Wan Yan Gao also said unwillingly: "When we fought Xijing, dozens of people from the tribe died. ”

Wanyan Agu nodded and said: "Naturally, we can't give Xijing to them in vain, our Wanyan tribe only has a total of tens of thousands of people, and it is not easy to manage Shangjing Dao, Tokyo Dao, and Zhongjing Dao." No matter how much land you want, it's useless, since the Han people want Xijing Road, we will sell Xijing Road to them. They want Nanjing Dao, so let them fight. ”

Wan Yan Gao said: "It's useless for us to want land, but we want slaves, there are hundreds of thousands of Han people in Xijing Road, everyone can share a point, each family can also get a few thousand people, and the Han people can't leave it to them." We only sell the land to them. ”

"Yes, the Han people are white and clean, catch them back and give us a baby on the kang, so that our Wanyan tribe can have more population. When the population is large, we will come to the Central Plains to rob the Han people. ”

After seeing that Yan Agu had agreed to sell Xijing, he nodded and said, "Then we will take the troops to Xijing and sell Xijing at a good price." ”

On the tenth day of September, Chao Yong led his troops to Zhuozhou.

Chao Yong had already given the general order in advance. Front-line soldiers don't have to go far to greet them.

Outside the city, Lin Chong, Zhang Kai, Shi Xiu, Liu Tang, Suo Chao, Guo Yaoshi, Zhu Tong and other talents led the elders in the city to greet them.

There are still a lot of people in the city who take the initiative to welcome them, after Zhuozhou belongs to the Great Liang, all forced labor and agricultural taxes are exempted, only commercial taxes remain, and because many Khitan and Xi people have fled north, leaving a large amount of land. Zhuozhou, like Ningxia Road, has also become a place for frontier immigrants, and each person can be allocated 20 acres of land, and the people can be said to have received great benefits.

Chao Yong accepted a banquet from a group of civil officials and urban squires in the palace. Then he led the generals to the barracks.

Chao Yong let everyone eat a bowl of decanting soup, dispelled some of the wine, and said, "Can you find out the truth of Nanjing Dao?" ”

Lin Chong clenched his fists and said: "This matter is all thanks to the victorious army under General Guo, so let him tell the prince." ”

Guo Yaoshi took Zhuo and Yi Erzhou to Liang, and Chao Gai sealed Guo Yaoshi as a general. The other commanders of the Changsheng Army were captains.

After Lin Chong led his troops north, he was not in a hurry to let the Changsheng army disarm and return to the field, but asked Guo Yaoshi to continue to lead the Changsheng army and be responsible for exploring the situation in Nanjing Road.

At the beginning, the resentment army was formed by Yeluchun recruiting hungry people in Liaodong, and it can be said that most of the resentment army was born in Zhongjing Province, and they also fought in Zhongjing Province in the early days, and later transferred to Nanjing Province. Therefore, the soldiers of the resentful army are very familiar with the geography of Zhongjing Road and Nanjing Road.

Guo Yaoshi can also be said to be proud of the spring breeze and changed to the camp, although the official position is almost the same, the soldiers and horses under his command are still the original soldiers and horses. But Daliang is about to wipe out the Liao State, and it is good to make contributions on the side of Daliang, and it is good to save his life in Liao.

Pharmacist Guo got up and bowed. Said: "After our dynasty rejected the Liao State's lease of Youzhou and Jishu Kyushu, the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State appointed Xiao Gan as the capital. Yelu Dashi was the deputy commander of the capital, and led 35,000 troops to garrison Liangxiang, preparing to resist our country. Among them, there are 25,000 Xi people and 10,000 Khitan people. There were only 2,000 Khitan soldiers and horses left in Nanjing, and the Han army was transferred to the northern state capital. ”

Chao Yong smiled: "There are smart people in the Liao Kingdom, and they know that the Han people will not fight for them. ”

Guo Yaoshi said: "The prince is wise, the Xi people are afraid that they are also separated from the Khitans, there are already Xi tribes in Zhongjing Province who have reduced their gold, Xiao Gan is a domineering person, and the Khitan people are not taken into account after the Liao State falls." When we fight, as long as we use elite soldiers to storm the Xi people, we will definitely let Xiao Gan be defeated and escape, and the remaining Khitans will be unable to support them alone. ”

Chao Yong nodded and said, "General Guo is familiar with the affairs of the Liao State, and there should be no mistake in this discussion." ”

After a few more deliberations, they decided to attack Liangxiang in three days.

On September 13, Chao Yong led 60,000 troops to the battle, Hua Rong and Zhu Tong had 20,000 cavalry, and Zhang Qing, Shi Xiu, Liu Tang, and Suo Chao had 40,000 infantry troops.

After Zhang Kai received the documents for the imperial court to send troops, he took the remaining 5,000 cavalry and directly moved the Hebei General Military Mansion to Zhuozhou. However, this time he sent troops, but Zhang Kai stayed in Zhuozhou, so as not to be attacked by Xiao Gan and others.

Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi did not prepare to defend Liangxiang, but wanted to intercept the soldiers and horses of Daliang in the plain area south of Liangxiang. Their 35,000 men and horses were all cavalry, and they were able to exert their strongest combat power on the plains.

There was a spacecraft monitoring in the air, Chao Yong discovered the Liao soldiers and horses early, and as soon as the Liao soldiers and horses moved, the Liang army set up a formation.

When Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi led the cavalry to roll up the dust, they were faced with the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang who were waiting for them.

Suo Chao's department is the front army, Hua Rong and Zhu Tong's department are the left and right army, Zhang Qing and Shi Xiu's department are the middle army, and Liu Tang's department is the rear army.

The two armies faced each other, Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi did not dare to fight with Daliang anymore, they also saw the spaceship floating in the sky, and knew that they could not raid Daliang's soldiers and horses, so they could only touch hard.

Seeing the tight formation of the Liang's soldiers and horses, Xiao Gan first took three points and said to Yelu Dashi: "I will lead my troops to attack the cavalry on both wings, and you will lead your troops to break through the front army and attack the Chinese army directly." I broke the two wings of cavalry, and I will also attack the Chinese army. As long as Prince Daliang can be captured, the crisis will be resolved. ”

Yelu Dashi also felt that the cavalry of the Han people was easier to deal with than the infantry, and the advantage of the Han people was in the strong bow and crossbow. Although the Han people had cavalry, they had destroyed the Western Xia for only a year, and their cavalry was only on horseback for a year, how could they compare to the Khitan and Xi people who grew up on horseback.

Although he knew that infantry was more difficult to deal with than cavalry, Xiao Gan was the commander-in-chief, and it was not his turn to pick and choose.

When the two sides were a little impatient, the majestic horn finally sounded from the Liao camp, and the 35,000 cavalry moved one after another.

Chao Yong watched the Liao cavalry charge. He also ordered the cavalry on both wings to meet him.

Tens of thousands of cavalry galloped, and the entire battlefield was filled with dust, and the sound of horses' hooves converged to a roar like thunder, and the ground shook.

The cavalry on the two wings took the lead in colliding together, and Hua Rong's strong bow and arrows were fired, and the Xi people on the opposite side fell off their horses one after another. When they got close, they put on steel guns, stabbed or picked, and picked off the horses one by one.

On the other side, the big knife in Zhu Tong's hand is also invincible. The knife is bloody.

However, on the whole, there are more Han people who have fallen off the horse than Xi people.

The Liang cavalry has only been in the army for more than a year, and they have been in contact with livestock before, at most they have ridden donkeys or oxen, and few have actually ridden horses. And Xi people grew up on horseback since they were children. The Xi army under Xiao Gan is even more experienced in battle.

The two armies collided together, although the equipment of the Great Liang was better than that of the Xi army, if it was a medium arrow, the Liang army could fight with dozens of sharp arrows, because there was armor to protect the body, even if the arrow was hit, the sharp arrow could not go deep. But close combat. Many Liang troops were beaten off their horses by the Xi people.

Suo Chao saw the Khitan soldiers rushing towards his front army, and the axe in his hand was tightly pulled, eager to fight his horse to meet him like Hua Rong and Zhu Tong, but his soldiers and horses were mainly infantry troops. He could only rely on a tight formation to block the cavalry, and he could only grit his teeth and watch the Khitan soldiers collide.

"Shoot"

As soon as the Khitan soldiers entered the firing range, the sharp arrows covered the sky and the sun like flying locusts during the locust plague, and the archers divided into three groups continued to shoot arrows. So that the sharp arrows in the sky are almost uninterrupted.

One by one, the Khitan soldiers screamed and fell off their horses, and were trampled into meat paste by the comrades who followed.

Nearly a thousand people were killed or wounded. Only then did the cavalry rush into front of the Daliang soldiers and horses.

"Throw"

At the sound of the order, the fire and thunder throwers in the front row threw out the ignited fire mines.

"Boom"

"Boom"

"Boom"

A loud bang spread throughout the battlefield, and the cavalry who bore the brunt of the explosion were either killed or wounded.

Many of the war horses behind were frightened and scurryed around, and few of them dared to charge forward with a loud noise.

A few war horses rushed forward in a daze, and what was waiting for them was Rulin's spear, which collided with the spear and strung people and horses together.

Yelu Dashi didn't expect that the Han infantry army with firearms would be more difficult to deal with, and the cavalry that saw that it was not easy to rush through the rain of arrows fell under the firearms. After a while, the Khitan cavalry folded two or three thousand, and the guns of the front army of Daliang did not rush away.

But behind it is Nanjing, the only remaining of the five capitals of the Liao State, and Yelu Dashi has no way to retreat, so he can only use the last cavalry of the Khitan to touch the hedgehog full of thorns.

Xiao Gan led the Xi army and Hua Rong's cavalry to collide together, and was almost shot off the horse by Hua Rong's arrow, but his martial arts were not bad, and he narrowly avoided Hua Rong's arrow, and then he didn't encounter any opponents in the back.

Soon Xiao Gan led the Xi army to break through the cavalry of the Huarong Department and came to the flank of the Chinese army, and he was also greeted by a forest of guns.

Although Xiao Gan could hear the loud noise in the front army, he also wanted to try the Daliang army formation, and immediately allocated a thousand cavalry to attack the flank of the Daliang army.

After a rain of arrows, there were not many cavalry left, followed by firearms, and less than ten of the thousand cavalry rushed to the gun forest, and naturally none of these ten people could break through the gun forest.

Xiao Gan saw that the Great Liang army formation was so powerful, and he didn't dare to rush the Chinese army again, so he took the cavalry and fought with the Huarong Department again.

Xi people did not escape, the first to stand was Yelu Dashi, more than half of the casualties of the cavalry under his command did not break through the gun forest of the front army, and the continuous fire and thunder made many war horses that rushed through the arrow rain did not dare to rush straight to the gun forest, so that the pikemen could calmly deal with a few cavalry who rushed to him.

"Retreat."

Yelu Dashi gritted his teeth and gave an order to the herald beside him.

"Woo woo"

The majestic horn sounded, and the Khitan cavalry pulled their horses and retreated.

Xiao Gan was still leading his troops to annihilate the cavalry of Daliang, and when he heard Yelu Dashi taking the lead in retreating, he couldn't help but scold: "Damn the Khitans, we won't fight anymore, retreat." ”

When the herald heard this, he immediately blew his horn.

In Xiao Gan's opinion, as long as the cavalry of Daliang is annihilated, sooner or later he can tear apart Daliang's military formation. Once the formation is broken, the power of archers and firearms will be reduced, especially firearms, and once the melee starts, firearms of mass destruction will no longer be usable.

The fighting Xi army heard the sound of the horn and fled one after another.

If the Xi people want to escape, the Liang cavalry will seize the opportunity, and if they can't beat it, they can still entangle the Xi people.

Chao Yong saw that the Liao soldiers and horses were defeated and fled, and immediately ordered the cavalry of all armies to pursue.

Although Zhang Qing and other troops were mainly infantry troops, they were also equipped with a thousand horse troops.

The place where the two armies fought was still more than 20 miles away from Liangxiang, Xiao Gan fled the battlefield with the horse army, and did not dare to enter Liangxiang, so he directly led his troops to Nanjing.

Yelu Dashi fled back to Liangxiang with his soldiers and horses, and sent someone to order the soldiers and horses, and there were only more than 3,000 people left of the 10,000 Khitan iron horsemen, some of whom must have fled.

Yelu Dashi was still waiting for Xiao Gan to come back with his troops and stick to Liangxiang, and he heard that Xiao Gan had led his troops to bypass Liangxiang and retreat, and the Liang cavalry pursued him again, so he had to lead his troops to escape from the north gate of the city.

Chao Yong easily got a good hometown, and when he saw that it was dark, he stopped the soldiers and horses.

In this battle, only a few pikemen were shot dead in the infantry army, and there were basically no casualties. However, Hua Rong and Zhu Tong's horse army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, leaving only more than 1,000 corpses, which was not as good as the corpses of more than 5,000 Khitan soldiers left by the previous army.

That night, Xiao Gan led his troops back to Nanjing, and suddenly plundered the palace, so he took the Xi soldiers to retreat to the place where the Xi people lived in Zhongjing Province. Yelu Dashi then arrived, but he could only snatch the Empress Dowager Xiao and take the Empress Dowager Xiao to Xijing Road to find Yelu Yanxi.