Chapter 222: Picturesque Country (1)
Zhao Liangsi's original name was Ma Zhi, after the Liao State was defeated by the Jin State, Zhao Ji of Song Huizong sent Tong Guan to envoy the Liao State to spy on the virtual reality, and when he passed through Yanjing on the way back, he got acquainted with Yan Ma Zhi.
This person has a bad character, but he claims to have a good strategy to destroy Liao, and Tong Guan is deeply respected, Tong Guan took him back and changed his name to Li Liangsi. Under Tong Guan's recommendation, Li Liangsi gave Huizong a comprehensive introduction to the crisis of the Liao State and the rise of the Jin State, and suggested that the Song and Jin Dynasty jointly destroy the Liao.
In Li Liangsi's view, the Liao Dynasty would definitely fall, and the Song Dynasty should seize this golden opportunity to send troops to recover the territory previously lost by the Central Plains Dynasty.
Huizong was overjoyed, and immediately gave Li Lianghei the surname Song and gave him an official position. If Liao is destroyed by luck, won't the land of Yanyun that the ancestors and ancestors dreamed of be recovered?
In this way, he is a brilliant generation of Ming monarchs, and it is precisely because of this that the Song Dynasty began to join Jin to destroy Liao and recover Yanyun.
However, the First Battle of the Northern Expedition was not a symbol of the peak of the entire Great Song Dynasty, on the contrary, Zhao Ji's reign was originally in a severe period of extremely fierce party struggle, and about this battle, whether it was in the DPRK or the army, the partisan struggle was even more intense.
Zhao Ji was originally a prince in peacetime, the title of the king, the throne was a fluke, after obtaining the throne, like the kings in the past, he still wanted to make a great career that would remain in history, so he drastically rectified the dynasty, intending to reconcile the contradictions between the reformers and the anti-reformers.
Subsequently, on the grounds of inheriting the policy of his father, Shenzong, he reused the six thieves headed by Cai Jing and set up a "party prison". Chaos of the law. He was extremely poor and luxurious, and wantonly looted the strange flowers and stones in the south of the Yangtze River and transported them to the capital Kaifeng by ship. It is called "Flower Stone Class".
Zhao Ji was overjoyed and sent an envoy to attack Liao in order to take Yanjing, which led to internal and external troubles. In the Jingkang Difficulty, he was captured by the Jin people and went north, and in an instant, he was reduced from the emperor to a prisoner.
Originally, it was a good battle, but because of the power technique, it became a little unclear. Even the Xihe army, which was on the same road as Liu Yanqing, was also attacked in this situation.
In order to pull out an empty camp, the Xihe army killed and wounded more than 8,000 soldiers. With the Song people's ability to attack the city, the damage can be at least halved, is the reason for all this because of Yao Gu?
Not really, at the source. If it weren't for Liu Yanqing giving the death order. If it weren't for Tong Guan's ruthlessness, the Xihe army would have thousands of sons and daughters, and they would never have been martyred because of this.
But tracing back to the source, the original intention is nothing more than the official Zhao Ji who has the idea of using force endlessly, this king is so happy with his achievements, and he is so tired that he is so tired that the soldiers are buried. What happened to him in his life is nothing more than a sentence. There will be something to hate in the wretched......
Yelu had to retreat quickly, after all, everything was where Xiao Gan had prepared for a long time, even if Xiao Gan was far away, he could win thousands of miles away, and there were more than five thousand steps of mixed soldiers and horses to meet Yelude's weight, but Xiao Gan's thoughts were not just to meet Yelu's weight.
The letter to Yelu was heavy, and there was also a military order to defeat the Song people's pursuers, and the Song people came with labor, if Kezhai stood firm and then planned, of course, everything was empty, if it was pursued, it would inevitably be hit hard!
Li Siyuan was the commander of the seventh capital of the left wing of the Xihe Army, and there were 3,000 foot soldiers of the Xihe Army behind him.
Li Siyuan was originally a general, but the wounds suffered by the Xihe army were already a little painful, coupled with the defeat of Yao Pingzhong before, and after thousands of years, Lai had already reduced the number of soldiers and horses, and at this time he also moved the idea of pursuit, which was nothing more than to vent the pent-up resentment in his heart.
"General, there is a Liao army in front of you, and our army's forward is blocked." Just when Li Siyuan's department was twenty miles away from Yao Gu, they encountered the Liao army on their way.
Through the reconnaissance of the sentinels, Li Siyuan found that the Liao army had already prepared, and the forward of the Song army encountered the crossbow of the Liao army without any preparation.
The feather arrows were as dense as a torrential rain, and the forwards of the Song army fell one after another, and the Song army that followed them was no better, falling one after another under the blow of the rain of arrows.
Li Siyuan suddenly understood the combat intentions of the Liao army, it seems that the Liao army set up an ambush here to eat his soldiers and horses in one bite! This damn weather, Li Siyuan knew that in such weather, even if Yao Gu moved with all his troops, he was afraid that he would not be able to arrive in time, which meant that he would be in an extremely dangerous situation.
Li Siyuan didn't have to think about it to know that his back road had been blocked, and only by moving forward in time could he escape from the encirclement of the Liao army.
Li Siyuan decided to personally lead an elite army to break through the Liao army in front with the most fierce attack, and the Song soldiers began to adjust the bowstring and reorganize the sword soldiers, because the weather was cold, the longbow in the hands of the archers had to be readjusted, otherwise the power of the bow and arrow could not be exerted at all.
The drums of war were pounding, the sound of killing shook the sky, Li Siyuan rushed to the front line, and the soldiers were tightly guarding Li Siyuan's side, using weapons and bodies to resist the chaotic arrow rain in the Liao army's array.
Under the leadership of Li Siyuan, although the Song army suffered a lot of losses, it quickly broke through the barrier created by the crossbowmen of the Liao army, so that the crossbowmen could not exert their might, and then rushed into the Liao army's formation and launched a fierce hand-to-hand combat.
A Liao pawn was very brave, holding a halberd and stabbing at Li Siyuan violently, Li Siyuan waved the sword in his hand to block the halberd, and another sword slashed through the throat of the Liao pawn, and the Liao pawn whose throat was broken did not even scream and fell to the ground.
Just when Li Siyuan was fighting bravely to kill the enemy, a Liao soldier rushed to Li Siyuan with two long beryllium in his hand, and after throwing the long beryllium as a javelin, he quickly drew his sword and slashed at Li Siyuan.
At the critical moment, Li Siyuan's personal soldiers saw this scene, and desperately blocked Li Siyuan with their bodies, and the sharp sword of the Liao pawn actually cut off his arm shoulder-to-shoulder.
Li Siyuan looked at the wounds of his own soldiers, and knew that the sword in the hand of this Liao soldier was not ordinary, and what surprised Li Siyuan slightly was that the ordinary infantry of the Liao army actually had such sharp weapons, which showed that they were facing the elite of the Liao army.
While Li Siyuan was thinking about it, the sword in his hand did not pause for a moment, and directly killed the Liao pawn on the spot, watching the blood on the Liao pawn's body gushing out, Li Siyuan looked back at his own soldiers, and his eyes were full of anger!
Under the attack of Li Siyuan personally led by Li Siyuan, the Liao army was forced to retreat step by step under the pressure of the powerful Song army. (To be continued......)