Chapter 137: The Great Army Pressed (1)
The people of Shuozhou City were very excited when they heard Li Danran's words, they were really worried when they heard that Shuozhou City had no food, and now they got the promise, and they were all grateful to Zhao Gu and Li Danran. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Then the people left, some of them were not qualified to live in Shuozhou City, but now many houses in the city are empty, just for them to live, these days everyone is busy settling down.
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On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Early this morning, Zhao Gu was eating breakfast after washing, when Li Danran suddenly broke into his room, which surprised Zhao Gu a lot.
It is said that with Li Danran's character, he would not do such a reckless thing, so Zhao Gu quickly realized...... Something happened!
"What's wrong?" Zhao Gu quickly asked.
Li gasped indifferently and said: "The scout at the front came to report that General Cao Wei had returned from sending grain, and he was ambushed by the Liao army halfway, and now he is in a bitter battle. ”
Zhao Gu stood up: "How many people are there in the Liao army?" Where are they now? What were the casualties on General Cao Wei's side? ”
Li replied indifferently: "The Liao army has about 500 people, which is about the same number as General Cao Wei's side, but they were surprised when they attacked, so General Cao Wei suffered a small loss, and the two sides are currently fighting in the area of Laohe Mountain." ”
"Five hundred?" Zhao Gu pondered carefully, and at the same time walked to the Shuozhou city defense map hanging in the room, and pointed his hand on Laohe Mountain.
"Laoheshan is located in the west of Shuozhou City, it seems that the Liao State has already known the news of the invasion of the Great Song Army into the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and General Cao Wei must have encountered the front troops of the Liao Army. According to my estimate, if they are not saved immediately, they will definitely die when the Liao army arrives. Zhao Gu said.
Zhao Gu followed and said solemnly: "Immediately gather two hundred soldiers, follow me to rescue General Cao Wei, and the other eight hundred people will be temporarily commanded by you to defend Shuozhou City with all your might. ”
Li nodded indifferently: "Okay." ”
After speaking, Li Danran went down to arrange the soldiers who rescued with Zhao Gu, and Zhao Gu quickly put on his armor and rode out of the courtyard on his war horse.
Outside the courtyard, two hundred soldiers were quickly assembled, and with a wave of Zhao Gu's big hand, the group immediately walked out of the West City Gate and went straight to Laohe Mountain.
About half an hour later, the old river and mountain were already close in front of them, and from a distance, Zhao Gu and his party saw the Song and Liao sides fighting in front.
Zhao Gu took out the standing knife in his hand and shouted at the two hundred soldiers: "Everyone, charge with me." ”
The two hundred soldiers quickly urged their horses and headed straight ahead, like a stream of iron.
In front, Cao Wei was leading more than 300 Song soldiers and the Liao army to fight fiercely, and the corpses were all over the field under the old river mountain, and the blood flowed like a river, and the living people were all stained with blood, and they didn't know whether it was the enemy's or their own.
Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, more than 300 Song soldiers were all shocked, and the big knife seemed to have increased a lot of strength.
Cao Wei was rampage among the Liao soldiers, the big knife brought up pieces of blood, and suddenly saw the familiar figure in the distance, and after roaring heavily, he continued to plunge into the Liao army.
Frightened by his hideous appearance, many Liao soldiers immediately took two steps back, but soon they rushed up again.
The habits of the steppe wolf have long been deeply rooted in their hearts, and in the face of a powerful enemy, the Liao people have only one way, and that is to fight fiercely!
I have to say that in the same era, the Song people were much worse than the Liao people, not only in terms of force, but also in spirit.
But the Song soldiers here are not of a bad breed, they are in a hurry at this time, and they still dare to fight with the Liao soldiers to the death, fearless.
The knives struck each other, making a 'poof' sound as they entered the flesh, followed by a splash of blood, staining the ground red.
Some people were directly cut off their heads, some had their hands and feet cut off, and even more were directly disemboweled, their organs flowed all over the ground, and they couldn't die for the time being, and they couldn't live anymore, and they let out bursts of wails.
In the face of death, whether it is a Han or a Liao, they are all the same.
This situation was completely broken with the addition of the two hundred Song soldiers brought by Zhao Gu.
The Liao soldiers were originally more numerous than Cao Wei's side at the beginning, because Cao Wei was ambushed by them, and dozens of people died on the spot, but with the 200 people brought by Zhao Gu, the Song army had more than 100 more people than the Liao soldiers.
As soon as Zhao Gu and the others approached the battleground, Zhao Gu immediately took the lead, rushing over with a big sword, and the others followed, quickly disrupting the camp of the Liao army.
Taking advantage of the situation, a war that was supposed to be an encounter was completely fought into a war of annihilation!
When the Liao army saw that the situation was wrong, they immediately wanted to flee, but Zhao Gu and Cao Wei naturally refused to let go, and chased after them until they chased the Liao army out for three or four miles.
At this time, there were only about 100 people left in the 500 troops of the Liao army, and they were all wounded.
Chasing here, Zhao Gu and Cao Wei glanced at each other, without any verbal discussion, and tacitly ordered the withdrawal of troops almost at the same time.
Subsequently, the two asked their subordinates to collect the bodies of the soldiers killed in the battle, found a place to bury them on the spot, and then led the troops back to Shuozhou City.
After the soldiers of the war years died, it was a kind of luck to be able to shroud the body of the horse leather, and most of the time they could only be hastily buried when they died.
After disposing of the corpses of the soldiers killed in the battle, Zhao Gu and Cao Wei had a chance to talk.
"I delivered grain and grass to Yi Dechao, his army has already captured Huanzhou, and now a few days have passed, I am afraid that he is already attacking Yunzhou. Along the way, he left only one or two thousand men to defend each city, and he personally led 40,000 men to pursue the victory. Cao Wei said.
When Zhao Gu heard his words, his expression was as calm as water, as if he had expected it, and said: "Among the four road troops, except for Yang Yanzhao, who only led 30,000 people, the other three main generals each led 50,000 people, and on the way from Shuozhou to Yunzhou, there were a total of six cities. ”
"You can just talk to others, I have been familiar with the art of war since I was a child, but your words can't fool me." Cao Wei said in a deep voice.
His gaze swept over Zhao Gu's face, and Cao Wei continued meaningfully: "Fighting a war is the most taboo to go deep alone, and Mi Dechao seems to be full of flowers at this time, and it seems that he can occupy three states at once, but it is just a fire cooking oil, and it is difficult to last long." He only knows that he blindly moves forward, but only a small number of people are left to defend the places he passes along the way, if the Liao army presses him, which of these six cities can hold it? ”
"At that time, the 40,000 people of Mi Dechao will fall into a situation of no food, grass, and no reinforcements, and will only be gradually eaten away by the Liao army!"
"And Zhao joins the army." Cao Wei paused suddenly, and then said: "It's impossible for you not to see the fatality in this, so ...... Come with me! ”