Chapter 201: Big Event
Like many major historical events, the Shunzheng Imperial Expedition was sensational, but all participants did not foresee the turn of their fortunes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
As for Guo Hua, who plays a key role in it, he is still in a state of extreme excitement. Who says that scholars don't have the ambition to make a career and cross the world? Guo Hua has it, he not only has it, but he also thinks that he will soon realize his ideal: he will go down in history!
Guo Hua knew very well that he did not have enough prestige and qualifications to lead the army, and those generals in the army were all unruly figures, but it didn't matter, the generals didn't listen to themselves, and the emperor listened to himself, so he encouraged the emperor to drive the expedition in person to realize his ideals and ambitions.
And he knew what Shunzheng longed for, so he moved Shunzheng as soon as he said it. Guo Hua obtained the actual control of the army through this method of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes".
The army, under the command of Guo Hua, went all the way north, and neither Guo Hua nor Shunzheng had any foresight for the impending danger.
The danger comes from the ambition of Ashinadhu Khan.
It took Ashina Du Khan a year and a half to firmly grasp the entire grassland into his own hands, and another year and a half to develop and grow, and this time the southward journey was carefully prepared and planned.
Ashinadu Khan divided the army into two routes, one was led by Ashina Yemen, still according to the original route, all the way south to the two passes and three posts, while he personally led all the way to the west, far bypassing the stretching mountains, and copied to the pass.
The 30,000 horses led by Ashina Khan were all one man and two horses, fast speed, strong combat effectiveness, and all the attacks on the road were overcome, and no one could send the information out in time until they reached the pass. Ashina Du Khan saw that Tiexiong Pass was within reach, and the door to the southward Huahua World would be opened, and he was overjoyed.
In this case, the Northern Expeditionary Army and the Turkic Army encountered near Dayao, not far from Tiexiong Pass, and the two overjoyed people reacted differently to this encounter.
Ashina Khan was taken aback, thinking that his strategic purpose had been known by the other party, and Daliang had sent a large army to encircle and suppress him, and he was frightened inexplicably, and was ready to run away when he saw that the situation was not good.
Guo Hua was ecstatic, he didn't know how to meet a group of Turkic soldiers in the pass, but he didn't care about the reason, he only knew that he had 200,000 people, and the other party only had 30,000 people.
In the mind of the youngest scholar in the empire, 200,000 people against 30,000 people, combined with six or seven people to fight one person, what suspense is there about the outcome of the battle? So as soon as he found the traces of the opponent, Guo Hua ordered the army to attack in an all-round way, yes, you read that right, it was an all-out attack, there was no left flank and right flank, no cooperation of arms, no front army and rear army, and 200,000 troops rushed up.
Guo Hua, who already has political experience, knows very well that high-ranking officials and Houlu have an incentive effect on the soldiers, so when he ordered the attack, he announced that those who could kill or capture the leader of the other party alive would be promoted to the third level and rewarded with 20 catties of gold!
Inspired by this order, the generals couldn't take care of cooperating, and rushed to Ronghua and Fugui with their own men and horses. However, they were greeted by bows and scimitars.
Ashinadhu Khan almost had the heart of death, but he was surprised to find that the opponent did not line up and did not encircle, so he rushed up in a swarm. Ashina Khan couldn't believe his eyes, you know, the vast majority of these 200,000 people are infantry!
Although Ashnadu Khan did not understand why Liang Jun suddenly went crazy, he knew that he had to seize this golden opportunity and announce to the soldiers that the spoils of this battle could be kept for themselves and not handed over. He then divided the army into 30,000 troops and began to use the mobility advantage of cavalry to divide and slaughter the Liang army.
Ashina Khan is cautious and smart, he knows that his opponent is a behemoth, even if he loses once in a while, he can make a comeback, and once he loses here, it will be a catastrophe. Therefore, in the attack, we resolutely avoided the elite of the Liang army and focused on finding weak links.
This is already a pass, the terrain is flat, just to give full play to the advantages of the cavalry, and the infantry of the Liang army can only follow the wolf cavalry to eat soil.
The result of this battle can be imagined, the Liang army was defeated, retreated to a small city called Shimo, Shunzheng still can't figure out how his 200,000 army lost in a blink of an eye, and Guo Hua, who has always dreamed of going down in history, today after seeing the Turkic scimitar fast horse, he suddenly realized that his opponent was 30,000 wolves, not 30,000 sheep waiting to be killed.
Ashinadhu Khan killed and wounded nearly 90,000 Liang troops that day, and when he learned from the mouth of his captives that Emperor Shunzheng was in the army, he was proud and surprised, and trembled with excitement. His subordinates advised Ashinadhu Khan to immediately attack Shimo and capture Emperor Daliang alive. Ashinadu Khan calmly pointed out that the strong attack on Shimo would only lead the Liang army to fight desperately, so it was better to use the Great Liao Emperor as bait to attract the guards of the two passes to rescue, so that Ashina Yemen could wait for the opportunity to break through.
Things really developed as Ashinadhu Khan expected, after hearing the news that Emperor Shunzheng was besieged, the defenders of the two passes sent troops to support at a rapid speed of 100,000, but they were ambushed by the Turkic army that had been prepared for a long time, and almost all of them were annihilated, and only one general led a few people to escape to Shimo alive.
Ashina Khan used his beloved Haidongqing to pass the news to Ashina Yemen outside the gate, Ashina Yemen attacked day and night, and finally laid down the two passes of the lack of troops and major generals, preparing to go south to join Ashina Khan.
Chen Yu, the general of the Great Liang, sent multiple messengers at the last moment of the city's destruction and death, ordering that no matter what, the news of the loss of the two passes must be reported to Emperor Shunzheng, and His Majesty the Emperor was asked to return south immediately.
One of the messengers broke through many obstacles and successfully reached Shimo, reporting the news to Emperor Shunzheng. Emperor Shunzheng was shocked, 30,000 Turkic soldiers had defeated 200,000 of his own, wouldn't the 100,000 Turkic soldiers themselves die?
Guo Hua was smart at the moment, and he suggested to Emperor Shunzheng that he send a part of his army to attack the Turks in order to slow them down, and then the others took the opportunity to escape.
Emperor Shunzheng took his advice, pretended to be planning to launch an offensive against the Turks, sent 10,000 men, and soon after they left the city, he himself led his men to flee quickly.
The 10,000 men arrived at the designated position and launched an attack on the Turks on time, but after that, they could not wait for the army that Shunzheng said, and some soldiers guessed the truth according to the dust covering the sky in the south of Shimo City, and passed it on to the hundreds, and the soldiers who understood that they had been deceived were angry and refused to use their lives, and turned and fled.
This quickly led to the rout of the Liang army, and after Ashinadu Khan defeated these 10,000 people, he kept going non-stop and closely pursued Shunzheng's royal car!