Chapter 438: You Live or Die

This battle greatly boosted the morale of the Song army.

After that, the Liao army organized a forced crossing of the Fushui River, the Song army's tactics were very simple, using a strong crossbow to shoot the soldiers who crossed the river, and annihilating the soldiers who crossed the river with more fights and less encirclement and suppression, and resolutely did not let the Liao army cross the river and land.

At night, the Liao army was ready to use the cover of the night to cross the river, but the Song army lit torches again and continued to snipe the Liao army by the Fushui River. The battle lasted all night, but the Liao army still failed to cross the river.

The next day, the Liao army changed its tactics and crossed the river at several points in the upper and lower reaches of the Fushui River at the same time. However, except for this section of the river because it is very wide and the water surface is shallow, the rest of the river is very deep, if the Liao army crosses the river with heavy armor, most of the cavalry will drown in the river without wearing armor, and after passing it, it will become a live target for the Song army to meet the soldiers with strong crossbows.

The two sides fought fiercely on the side of the Fushui River for three days and three nights, but the Liao army never crossed the river, but killed and wounded tens of thousands of elite soldiers on the Fushui River.

That afternoon, Yang Dalang received an urgent battle report from his father Yang Ye, telling him that the main force of the Song army was attacking Youzhou City and Juyong Pass. Let him lead his troops to reinforce Juyong Pass if it is still possible, and cooperate with the Song army to attack Juyong Pass before and after!

That night, the Song army camp by the Fushui River was brightly lit, and the drinking and boxing were very lively.

The Liao army thought that the Song army was a ghost and did not dare to take the opportunity to cross the river and steal the camp.

It wasn't until the next morning that the Liao army on the other side found that the Song army camp was empty and deserted, and there seemed to be no one there.

Then. On the way to Yanzhou, there are traces of the army marching! After the report, the new commander of the Liao army, Yeluma, was only shocked. Judging that the Song army is likely to rush along the river valley to attack Yanzhou or Xinzhou in the west!

After making sure that there were no ambushes in the nearby mountains and forests, Jeruma only ordered to cross the river in pursuit!

And when the Liao army brigade was killed outside the city of Yanzhou, there was no half of the Song army! That's when I knew I was fooled. After some judgment, it is estimated that the Song army will either go down the river valley and find a place to cross the river and cross the Taihang Mountain to join the main force to attack Youzhou, or go north to march to Ruzhou or Juyong Pass!

As a result, Yeluma only divided the Liao army into two. One crossed the Taihang Mountain to reinforce Youzhou, and the other reinforces Juyongguan and Ruzhou.

Yeluma only led his army to recross the Fushui River and attack Confucianism. However, there is still no shadow of the Song army in Ruzhou.

Jerumah immediately led his troops to Juyong Pass. But before the Juyong Pass. He was horrified to find out. The banner of the Liao army on the wall of Juyongguan has been replaced by the banner of the Song army! And the majestic four-member generals on the city tower are the Yang family generals Yang Yanyu and Erlang Yang Yanpu! The other two. It's Shiro Yang Yangui and Goro Yang Yangui!

Originally. After Yang Dalang got his father's secret protection, he immediately formulated a battle plan, and the main force of the Song army took advantage of the cover of the night to march up the river, avoiding Ruzhou and rushing to Juyong Pass. And left a small army, drinking and lively in the barracks at night, pretending to make the Liao army, who was afraid of losses, dare not cross the river and attack. In the second half of the night, they ran back and forth on the road to the Liao Dynasty's Fuzhou and Xinzhou, forming traces of the army's advance. When the Liao army pursued the next day. Enter Yanshan and rush to Juyong Pass in hiding.

After the Liao army lost such experienced and famous generals as Yelu Hugo and Yelu Sha, the new commander Yelu Mo was only inexperienced, and he was afraid of being beaten by the Song army, and was a little at a loss by Yang Dalang's suspicious tactics, and he made continuous errors in judgment and delayed his work for two days in vain.

And when he came back to his senses and the soldiers galloped in two ways to reinforce Juyong Pass, Yang Dalang and Yang Erlang's 100,000 elite soldiers, together with the 50,000 elite soldiers who attacked Yang Shilang and Yang Wulang in Juyong Pass from the east, attacked back and forth, and finally captured the steep Juyong Pass after a bloody battle, and took advantage of the victory to seize the victory pass, Huoluokou and other passes, and strangled the throat of the Liao army passing through the south of the military capital mountain!

In the face of the dangerous terrain and the difficult to defend and difficult to attack passes such as Juyong Pass and the strong strength of the 150,000 Song army, Yeluma only did not dare to organize a strong attack, and could only sigh with admiration.

In the first battle of Jinsha, the Song army on the West Road paid the heavy price of more than 50,000 dead and wounded, Yang Sanlang and other generals died on the battlefield, and at the same time, they also annihilated as many as 60,000 or 70,000 enemies, and even killed the most powerful generals of the Liao army, Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Sha! At the same time, it attracted the main force of the Liao army and created important conditions for Yang Ye to seize Youzhou. In the end, he also successfully used tactics to delay the enemy, took the opportunity to attack Juyong Pass, and together with the East Route Army, he took the mountain pass of Juyong Pass and other armies in one fell swoop! It was a great success.

The battle to storm Youzhou is no less brutal than the Battle of Golden Beach!

Leng Yi and Yang Ye sent their troops to Youzhou City, and after surrounding Youzhou City, they launched a strong attack.

Han Derang was very disappointed, he thought that the news that Leng Yi brought back would make Yang Ye choose to send troops to rescue the Western Route Army, so that Youzhou City would be safe. However, Yang Ye did not send a single reinforcement to the battlefield of the Western Route Army, but threw himself into the strong attack on Youzhou! It made him feel like a big stone in his heart.

However, Youzhou City is too strong, and it is a strategic place that the Liao Army has focused on operating for decades, although because of the withdrawal of troops to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Song Army's West Route Army, there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people left in the city, but it is enough to defend Youzhou. It is possible to defend Youzhou with 20,000 or 30,000 people, which is the conclusion reached by Yelu Huge's rich experience. Moreover, Yelu Hugo left Han Derang, a good general like him, to defend the city, so he was very relieved.

Han Derang did not disappoint him either, and withstood the strong attacks of the Song army one after another.

However, the Song army's offensive far exceeded Han Derang's imagination. -- From the beginning of the attack, for three days and three nights, the Song army attacked Youzhou without stopping! There has been no pause in between!

The strength of the Song army involved in the storming of Youzhou reached 200,000. Yang Ye did not go into battle all at once, but divided into three waves, replacing one batch every four hours on average. The strength of each assault reached 60,000 or 70,000. Can the intensity of the attack be guaranteed.

While one wave of troops attacked, the other two waves of troops rested and slept, so as to ensure sufficient physical strength.

However, the Liao army that served as the defense was only barely enough for twenty or thirty thousand people, and to defend the huge Youzhou City, if the manpower was freed up to rest and sleep in rotation, and the strength was reduced by half, then the city would be difficult to hold, and Han Derang could only let the soldiers grit their teeth and insist.

He once tried to recruit the light and strong people in the city to participate in the defense, but although Youzhou was ceded to the Liao Dynasty, most of the people in the city were Han Chinese, so they were naturally unwilling to participate in the defense, and Han Derang was not at ease to let these people participate in the defense. Therefore, the number of people recruited to participate in the defense is only a few thousand, and they can only be used for rough work such as carrying rolling logs and rocks. There has been no fundamental change in the situation.

The first three days were easy to do, but on the fourth day, the soldiers of the Liao army who had not slept for three consecutive days and three nights could not stay up, and some soldiers could lie on the city wall and fall asleep during the battle.

After three days and three nights of strong attack, although the city tower was full of corpses of Song soldiers, the moat water had been stained red with blood. The Song army suffered heavy casualties, but the Liao army in the city had more than 10,000 casualties! The reduction in defensive strength made Han Derang anxious.

At the moment, he can only grit his teeth and insist, hoping that Yelu Huge's main force can annihilate the Western Route Army as soon as possible and return to the rescue. As long as the main force of the Liao army rushes back, at that time, this Yanjing Plain will be the graveyard of the Song army!

Three days and three nights passed, but I didn't expect a single reinforcement from the Liao army! Han Derang was almost desperate. Seeing the energetic siege Song army, and then looking at the exhausted Liao soldiers under his command, he felt that it was becoming more and more difficult to resist the powerful offensive of the Song army. He knew that the destruction of Youzhou was just an overnight moment!

He makes the final decision! Let the soldiers bring all the women, children and children in the city to the city, participate in the defense, and use them as shields to resist the crossbows of the Song army! even used those children as rolling logs and stones to smash the soldiers of the Song army to attack the city!

Yang Ye, who was far away from the city, could only order a temporary halt to the attack in the face of this despicable method.

The Song army retreated, and Han Derang, who was on the city tower, finally burst out with a comfortable wild laugh: "Leng Yi! Yang Ye! You have what it takes to attack the city! There are still countless Han women and children in my city who can be used to block your bows and arrows, come, see that you have many bows and arrows, or I have many Han women and children in my hands! ”

Yang Ye shouted violently: "Han Derang! You yourself are a Han Chinese, how can you kill your compatriots? ”

"I'm sorry, each for his own master, as long as I can achieve the goal, I will never do anything!"

At this moment, suddenly, the white light of the city tower above his head flashed, and a sword shadow stabbed at the back of Han Derang's head like a shock!

Although Han Derang got carried away and didn't sleep peacefully for three days and three nights, his martial arts skills were superb, and he still sensed a powerful murderous aura when he turned his back to the sneak attacker, he slammed to one side, let go of the head and hit the vital point, and with a pounce, the long sword stabbed into his shoulder!

And the tip of the sword only pierced two inches, and he had already turned around again, allowing the long sword to cut through the flesh and out, unable to pierce into his body! Then he slid under his feet and dodged five feet away.

However, the sword shadow didn't give him another chance to dodge, and the shadow chased after the shadow, stabbing Han Derang's heart with a sword.

Han Derang immediately saw that it was the woman who had escaped from the city tower that assassinated him. This person's martial arts are superb, and he is not under himself, his pupils suddenly shrank into pinholes, and he grabbed a child next to him and blocked his heart!

What he gambled on was this woman's kindness, if he made a mistake and the long sword pierced the child in front of him, he himself would inevitably pierce his heart with a sword! However, if you bet right, you have a killer weapon against this tough woman!

The long sword stopped an inch in front of the child's heart!

Downstairs in the city, Leng Yi was pleasantly surprised: "Hong'er! It's Hong'er! She's fine! - Be careful! This guy is very vicious! ”

Bai Hong had already heard Leng Yi's words, but in the face of a strong enemy, she didn't dare to be distracted and turn around to agree, just nodded slowly, still looking at Han Derang: "Let him go, let's fight to the death!" (To be continued......)