Chapter 0205: Discussion of Retreat

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Zhang Yue waved his spear forward, shouted, and led the pioneer horse forward. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Hao Tianying followed behind the side and shouted: "The six battalions and the eight battalions are about to be crippled again, whether to fight the big ones or the small ones?" ”

"Rescue them!" Of course, Zhang Yue understood what Hao Tianying meant, the purpose of fighting the big ones was to break the front of the Liao army, and the purpose of hitting the small ones was just to save people, but on this flat land, the cavalry of the Liao army had the advantage of strength and stronger mobile strength, and it was important to say whether you would get your wish.

"Understood! I'll break it off! Hao Tianying shouted, and the horse team trotted up, the dry sound was already very loud, and no one could hear it clearly.

Therefore, the cavalry and horse team battles rely more on the understanding of the commander and the officers under his command, such as the horse team divides the troops in the middle of the way, transfers, changes the direction of attack, etc., and requires gestures to complete the command. Don't say the flag when the horse team is assaulting, if the flag can be carried it, it will be a miracle.

Zhang Yue ignored him anymore, the spear was caught under his armpit and the horse galloped, followed closely by the guards Li Duoshou and Du Ximi, and then Hao Tianying led the three battalions in the center, and finally the six and eight battalions followed up like a tide.

Just when the left and right teams of the Liao army were attacking, the front was in the center and was about to complete the encirclement and strangulation, Zhang Yue led his troops to charge from the side and collide head-on, relying on the high speed of the war horse, and defeated the Liao cavalry in the west in one fell swoop. Zhang Yongde and Li Yun reacted quickly this time, and immediately followed and rushed out, and quickly fled the battlefield when the rear horse team was too late to divide the troops to intercept it.

The intercepted Liao army was really not reconciled, and came after the pursuit, Hao Tianying kept looking back, and when he saw this, he beckoned two or three horsemen to follow, and turned around to kill the pursuers. The Liao army that caught up was caught off guard, and encountered Hao Tianying's head-on attack, and did not dare to chase after losing dozens of horses.

"Unexpectedly, Nan'er was so brave, and the loss of more than 2,000 horses in this battle really outweighed the loss!" Yang Gon let out a long sigh.

"Enemy Lu! How can you grow the morale of others and destroy your own prestige, the main force of our army is still there, so what's the matter if you fight again! Yelu Tzulie said very unwillingly.

"Look at the foot of the mountain, the Zhou army has not yet come out, and there are nearly 10,000 Fu Yanqing's infantry troops on the other side of the mountain, and they may not be able to win if they fight again. And the Zhou army also suffered and easily did not dare to go north to meet the battle, so we stationed troops in Xinkou, which also made the Zhou army unable to advance or retreat. "Yang Gon is a person of mixed Han and Hu descent in Youzhou, and the name of the Liao State is Yelu Dilu, and he said so when he heard this.

"Oh well! How can grain and grass be solved? Yelu asked with some dissatisfaction.

"Send someone back to Daizhou to find Zheng Chuqian, if you don't give food, you can kill him when you return to the division, if you don't listen to persuasion, you can set up troops in the suburbs to act cheaply." Yang Gon said coldly.

Zhang Yue led his troops back to the battle, and Shi Yanchao was still unconscious, but there were no fatal injuries. Zhang Yongde and Li Yun came over to thank him, Zhang Yue humbly replied a few words, and then Xiang Xun arranged for the infantry to clean up the battlefield, and then came over to discuss the convenience of advance and retreat.

Zhang Yongde and Li Yun almost broke the big thing, so they volunteered to stay and temporarily stationed in Gaochengling to observe the movements of the Liao army before deciding to stop. Xiang Xun agreed, and in the evening, he and Zhang Yue led their troops through Gaochengling, met with Fu Yanqing, and returned to the camp under the city of Xinzhou.

Arrange for soldiers to be stationed in the camp, check the number of wounded soldiers, inspect the camp area, Zhang Yue went back to the tent to remove his armor, took off his robe, only wore trousers, called his soldiers to call a few buckets of cold water, drenched from head to toe, suddenly felt refreshed, returned to the tent to change into a clean military uniform, just after dinner, Fu Yanqing sent someone to find it.

When Zhang Yue arrived, Xiang Xun was already sitting on the side of the tent, Fu Yanqing sat on the light long low table, beckoned him to take a seat, and smiled and said, "Is our army a winner in this battle?" ”

Zhang Yue understood that Fu Yanqing wanted to ask the opinions of the two of them to see how to write the report. There are too many twists and turns in the official military report, and it has always been untrue, especially this kind of generals from multiple systems who participate in the same war, and the combat process involves how to distribute the merits. Zhang Yue was silent, looking up at the top of the tent.

"Of course! A total of more than 3,000 cavalry of the Liao army were killed before and after. The previous ambush battle killed more than 800 enemies, General Shi led the horse army to follow the Liao army in pursuit, not wanting to fall into a heavy encirclement alone, fortunately General Lai Zhang, Zhang Juma, Li Zhijun led the troops to come, light cavalry assault, and broke the Liao army's front. The Liao army was defeated and left, and our army retreated to Xinzhou after rescuing General Shi. Xiang Xun saw that Zhang Yue still didn't speak, so he said again: "I don't know if the military newspaper writes like this, can General Zhang agree?" ”

"I don't have any opinion, but the horse army under my command has almost lost a battalion, and there should be war horses among the spoils, and a little more will be used to compensate the families of the brothers who died in the war." Zhang Yue said indifferently.

"The matter of the pension and reward, there will naturally be it when I return to Tokyo, and the matter of the war horse is no problem, and I will serve in Tokyo in the future, and I hope that General Zhang will speak more for me." Xiang Xun laughed.

"Xiang Envoy Jun leads righteousness into moderation, and Xuanhui Southern Courtyard, you also think too highly of me!" Zhang Yue smiled bitterly, his military exploits were shared equally by Zhang Yongde and Li Yun, but there is no way to do it at present, he will serve as the commander of Hujie's left wing when he returns to Beijing, and he is already a senior general, and no matter how great his merits are, it is unlikely to be promoted again.

Giving credit to Zhang and Li is considered to sell them a favor, Li Yun is already handsome, but it's nothing; Zhang Yongde has not had any outstanding military exploits since he first took charge of the forbidden army in Guangshun, which is very necessary, otherwise it will be difficult for him to convince the public in the forbidden army.

Fu Yanqing is naturally inclined to do so, his eldest daughter married Guo Rong and became the wife of Weiguo, and she has not yet been officially canonized as the queen, but it is almost there. There are two generals, Zhang Yongde and niece-in-law Zhang Yue, in the forbidden army, so that the position of the eldest daughter and queen is stable.

Three days later, Zhang Yongde quickly flew to report that the Liao army withdrew from Xinkou to Daizhou, and Li Yun led the cavalry back to Xinzhou City.

On May 20, Guo Rongzhao Fu Yanqing led Ma Bunan to return to Jinyang. At this time, it has entered the midsummer rainy season, and after days of heavy rain, the climate is humid and the roads are muddy. Fu Yanqing led his troops to pull out, but on the way back, he encountered heavy rain on the road, and only arrived at Jinyang six days later.

Guo Rong sent someone to greet him, and then summoned him, and asked about the details of the battle in Xinzhou, and suddenly his heart was like a mirror, and he only said that he would reward him after returning to Tokyo, and sent the generals out.

It was rainy for days, and the ground was muddy, which made the soldiers tired and unwilling to fight. I didn't want to have another strong wind this night, and the roof tiles of the houses near the suburbs were carried away by the strong wind, and many big trees were uprooted.

Guo Rong had the intention of being a class teacher, but because of his previous determination to capture Jinyang, hundreds of thousands of stones, grains and grass, as well as a large number of ordnance and weapons, were difficult to take away, and Liu Chong was discarded and cheapened, so it dragged on for many days.

When Fu Yanqing led his troops to return from Xinzhou to the south, Guo Rong finally found an excuse, saying that the battle of Xinzhou was unfavorable and decided to return to the court. On this day, the generals were convened to discuss the strategy of retreating, and Yao Yuanfu was temporarily ordered to deploy the forts on all sides of Jinyang, so he made up and said: "Liu Chongguo is weak but still has remnants, and the road to the south in the Taiyuan Basin is difficult, and it is easy to march but difficult to retreat. ”

Guo Rong thought about it, Yao Yuanfu was an old minister, Guo Rong felt that he had not been of much use since he took the throne, so he was relieved: "It is indeed not easy to withdraw from the army, how about entrusting this matter to Yu Qing today?" ”

"The old minister will go all out to let His Majesty return to Beijing safely!" Yao Yuanfu was overjoyed, as a veteran of the tired dynasty, it was always difficult to gain the trust of the new monarch, and he could only play soy sauce in the battle, and this time he finally had something serious to do.

So Guo Rong issued an edict: he was scheduled to leave for Tokyo on the first day of June. In the next few days, the generals were busy cleaning up the aftermath, and the damaged soldiers could not be replenished for the time being, but the dry food on the way back was as much as it wanted, the armor and weapons were replaced, and no one paid attention to the captured swords, guns and booty, and only the war horses were fought over by the various armies.

This situation has made some generals have bad intentions, maliciously spread rumors and cause trouble, and some even steal military rations and weapons. Yao Yuanfu was afraid that it would cause the armies to loot and cause a mutiny, so he burned all the extra grain, grass and equipment that could not be taken away. (To be continued.) )