Chapter 149: The Turmoil of the He Clan (31)

Faced with a rare battle that was about to break out, the Qin army naturally would not choose to sit idly by. It's just that the Qin army got the news that the Liao army was going south a little late, and its movements were relatively slow.

The battle between the two armies in Fuzhou and Jinzhou reached Peng Chaodong's ears, and Peng Chaodong deeply felt that He Shibao was not a person who had achieved great things. The defeat of the Jinzhou Army has settled, and after this battle, the He family will also have a period of respite, and He Fangxiong can also use this civil war to improve his status in the He clan. In the short term, no one will be uninteresting to fight the idea of the head of the He family.

In the future, who is the head of the He family is an internal matter of the He family, and Peng Chaodong has no time to interfere.

The dust of the war in Fuzhou and Jinzhou has settled, and the day when the internal worries will subside is just around the corner, and all that remains is the external trouble of the Liao army taking advantage of the chaos to invade the south.

"Will we be suspicious of taking credit if we go north like this?" Peng Yuqian always felt that doing this was a bit like robbing others of their credit, which was disgraceful.

Peng Chaodong looked indifferent: "You can't have too many worries in a war, the more you worry, the easier it is to miss the opportunity, this battle is very rare, if you miss this opportunity, there will never be such a good opportunity in the future." Wu Tingzhen has no problem blocking this Liao army, but to bite off a piece of meat from this Liao army, Wu Tingzhen's remnants of the Wu clan do not have such good teeth. ”

After finding out the details of this invading Liao army, Peng Chaodong was a little pleased. He even once thought that his new opponent, Wanyan Shengcong, would send a ragtag army composed of 30,000 Liao army iron cavalry and 20,000 Yu private soldiers to march south.

In the more than a year since leaving Liaodong, although the Qin army has suffered more defeats and fewer victories against the Liao army, it still has some victories. However, most of the victories achieved by the Qin army were small victories, and most of them were victories in the battle of defending the city, in terms of field warfare, although the Qin army was famous for the Qin army's chariot formation and infantry formation, but the Qin army had not tried to fight a field battle with the Liao army since this year.

The Liao army's southern expedition gave the Qin army a good opportunity to try. First, the number of Qin troops dispatched this time was around 50,000, and Peng Chaodong brought out the elite of the Qin army in order to deter He Shibao's rebels this time. Second, the mobilization of the Liao army this time is small, the orthodox Liao army is only 30,000, plus nearly 20,000 Wu private soldiers, this time the Zhao army has an advantage in the strength of the Liao army, and the gap between the soldiers' combat effectiveness and the Liao army is not so obvious, it can be said that the Zhao army has a great chance of winning this time.

"The last field battle was fought with the coalition forces of the eighteen tribes of Menggu when the Hetao was recovered, and if we don't fight a field battle, I'm afraid that the car formation and the infantry formation will be forgotten." Peng Chaodong teased himself without self-deprecation.

Since leaving the customs, all the people have warned him that the Liao army is good at field warfare, the Liao army is invincible in the field, and the Qin army and the Liao army will definitely suffer losses in the field battle.

Admittedly, this statement is generally true. Peng Chaodong's management of Liaodong also follows this line of thought. Under the same conditions, the field battle with the Liao army will undoubtedly be defeated, but this does not mean that it cannot fight with the Liao army in the field with advantages and relatively large odds of victory.

In the court, the political enemies of the Qin party had long been dissatisfied with Peng Chaodong's insistence on holding on to the city and not trying to recover the lost territory. The Qin army was crowned with the hat of the turtle king, and Peng Chaodong himself was also reprimanded as a shrunken general, and the Qin army was also holding back his grievances.

The Great Zhao Empire also needed a field battle to defeat the Liao army and break the myth of the invincibility of the Liao army in the field.

"This battle is very important to the Wu clan, we are so cross-handed, the Wu clan will inevitably have complaints, a declining clan still has such courage to fight with the Liao army, it is also rare, at present, our Da Zhao has less and less courageous army." Peng Yuqian said.

Before leaving the customs, like all the people of the Central Plains, he had no good impression of the four great families of Liaodong. In Peng Yuqian's eyes, the so-called four great families are no different from the princes of one side, and they have nothing to do to fight against foreign aggression, just to enjoy the blessings of their ancestors.

After arriving in Jinzhou, the soldiers of the Huang clan left him with a very poor image, which further strengthened Peng Yuqian's opinion. Now, the active resistance of the He and Wu tribes to Liao has changed his view of the four great families. Not all of the four great families are soft bones, and they are not enterprising, and among the four great families, there is no shortage of courageous people. In all fairness, the soldiers of the He and Wu tribes were no worse than the Qin army.

"Wu Tingzhen is not easy." Peng Chaodong is still quite sympathetic to Wu Tingzhen, as the saying goes, a phoenix that falls into the water is not as good as a chicken, and it is rare to send charcoal in the snow, but there is never a shortage of people who fall into the well.

After Wu Ting's earthquake declined, the officials of the DPRK and China, who had long seen the king of a county in Liaodong, a duke, and two uncles, asked for orders to take the titles of the four great families. The strength of the two clans of Huang Yongtao and He Fangxiong still exists, and Song Yuren will not be confused enough to take away their titles, and the only ones who can open the knife are the Yu family who descended to Liao and the Wu family, whose strength has been greatly damaged.

The Yu family surrendered to Liao and accepted the title of King of Beiliang of Liao, which was equivalent to the title of the county king of the Great Zhao Empire, which was two levels higher than the title of earl of the Great Zhao Empire originally awarded by Yu Yansong. It is understandable to take away the title of the Yu family, and the Yu family is not at all, anyway, the Yu family is not the courtiers of your Great Zhao Empire now, no matter what you do, it will not hurt.

The Wu clan is different, the Wu clan did not descend to Liao, but still insisted on resisting Liao, and at this juncture, Wu Tingzhen's title was snatched, and the taste of falling into the well was too obvious. Fortunately, Song Yuren was still sober and insisted on retaining Wu Tingzhen's title to comfort the heart of the Wu family.

"Ben Du knows that this battle is very important to the Wu people." Peng Chaodong said, "If this battle is won, the governor will put the first credit on the head of the Wu family, and the governor is not a greedy person." ”

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The Liao army walked to the middle of the official road and carefully observed the gentle slopes on both sides of the official road.

In Russia, the Liao army recorded a wave of his hand, and more than 100 horsemen scattered in all directions, galloping on horseback. While running, he took arrows from the quiver and shot them indiscriminately at the gentle slopes on both sides.

Sporadic rain of arrows fell on the dormant positions of the Wu soldiers. The soldiers of the Wu clan who were hit by the arrow gritted their teeth and lay motionless in the grass, for fear that the slightest movement would alarm the Liao army and expose their tracks.

Of course, some soldiers were hit by the vital point, and they couldn't afford to snort, so they quietly left their comrades.

Wu Tingzhen held the shield with one hand and covered his head with his head, two arrows fell aggressively on the shield, and a personal soldier next to him was not so lucky, a sharp arrow pierced the heart from the back and nailed his entire body to the ground. Blood gushes out of the wound.

The soldiers of the Wu clan were poorly equipped, and some of the remaining armor was also sold for food to survive, and the armor of Wu Tingzhen's personal soldiers was no exception. Now there are less than 100 pairs of armor left in the Wu clan, and in addition to middle and high-ranking officers, it is already rare for ordinary soldiers to have a complete military robe.

Wu Zhenwu bit his lips tightly, his eyes were on fire, staring at the Liao cavalry who were throwing arrows on both sides of the gentle slope, and smashed his fist on the grass.

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