Chapter 466: A Short Hurricane (Part II)
The night breeze is like a knife.
More than 20,000 Liao troops were like fierce tigers, with a louder whistling sound, and suddenly plunged into the long Song army camp.
However, out of the surprise of Huyelu's oblique retreat, the Song army was heavily guarded, and before the Liao army arrived, a rain of arrows flew from the sky. As the Liao army braved the rain of arrows to enter the Song army camp, many spearmen came out and stabbed out desperately with spears with the help of the barracks.
After a short bloody battle, after the Liao army entered the Song camp, a team of swords and axes poured out, specializing in cutting the hooves of the Liao army.
There is really no vanity under the fame.
Yelu couldn't help but sigh.
So far, there are still some people in Liao who don't appreciate Yelu oblique too much, if it weren't for Yelu Huge's two defeats, and even some people would have questioned Xiao Yanyan's reuse of him.
However, Yelu Xianzhen knew too well the combat effectiveness of the Song army, and in the battle of Matou Mountain, Guo Jin's fierceness is still unforgettable to him. If it weren't for the mediocrity of the emperor of the Song Dynasty and the death of that brave general, maybe the battlefield of Gaoliang River and Qigou Pass would be the same situation.
Even if he defeated Pan Mei in several battles behind the mountain, it was not easy to win. Therefore, he was not absolutely sure, and generally did not fight with the Song army.
However, the most terrifying thing is that another group of Song Dynasty warriors have grown up one after another.
Looking at Liao again, even famous generals such as Xiao Tzu Rin lack command ability.
The Liao State now looks powerful, but in fact it has reached the moment of life and death.
Thinking of this, he personally patted his horse and rushed towards Song Jun.
The main general is desperate, and the morale of the three armies is even stronger.
The battlefield was chaotic, but under the onslaught of Yelu's death, the Liao army, which was inferior in strength, gradually gained the upper hand.
However, it is not enough.
At the same time, the horn sounded in the city of Yingzhou. Groups of Liao troops came out of the city again.
Seeing that under the attack from inside and outside, the tragedy of the Gaoliang River is about to be staged. Suddenly, the Song army set out four big flags, one for Song. There is a nine-character figure on the back. There are also two flags, both of which are Lee. One big and one small, the big Li flag is Li Jilong, and the small Li flag is Li Chongxue. The last flag is Zhang, Zhang Ning!
Li Jilong is famous, Li Chongzhi has a somewhat miserable reputation, he is the guy who was captured alive by Yang Yesheng in the Battle of Yanmen Pass. But it can not be underestimated, after the Song Dynasty, it was reused by Zhao Kuangyi, and he was appointed as the envoy of the Xinzhou capital to inspect the edge of the eighteen Zhao An. Pan Mei was defeated and retreated to Taiyuan, and a Liao army invaded Xinzhou and was defeated by Li Chongzhi.
However, Li Chongzhi has another important use this time.
Tian Minjing's army has many shortcomings, but when they are used at the right time, the lethality is huge.
After all, the Song Dynasty was mainly defensive, supplemented by offensive warfare, and even if Song Jiu changed his strategy, it was still a shallow attack. And not a real Northern Expedition.
Therefore, Yu Hedong secretly trained a heavy cavalry and handed them over to Li Chongzhi. Li Chongzhi didn't dare to accept it, Song Jiu did his ideological work, first of all, you are Han. Don't mention Qiang Han, the emperor doesn't think you are a Liao general and reuses you, you have to repay the emperor. Just like Yang Ye's loyalty to His Majesty.
After persuading for a long time, Li Chongzhi agreed.
I have been training in a valley in Xinzhou. It was only now that they were revealed. Zhao Kuangyi personally named the Beigui Army. It means that Yan Yun is coming back. They are all carefully selected soldiers and horses by the children of Hedong.
There is also a loyal army trained on the Gobi Desert in Nanhetao, so the name suggests, it is a heavy armored army composed of Fanzi.
The two armies were also small in strength, each with a thousand men and horses.
The main thing is that it is too costly, and the financial resources are limited, so it can only be so.
In order to keep secrets, all the heavy armor Jingsai knives were put into the baggage cart together, and after the Song army arrived in Huanzhou, Li Jilong and Song Jiu secretly came to the army, and the Chinese army protected them without leaking the news.
Seeing two teams of heavy cavalry rushing out of the army, and then looking at the two big flags, all the Song troops cheered.
"I've been tricked." Jerus thought to himself.
At this time, the two heavy cavalry had already rushed into the Liao army, and the story of the Battle of Tanghe was staged again. The two heavy horsemen were once again like terrifying chainsaws, splashing countless waves of blood and corpses wherever they passed.
"Withdraw!" Jerod shouted.
And he also calmly gave an order: "Send people into the city quickly, and let Jerugganu prepare to retreat." ”
As soon as his two orders were issued, three light cavalry came out of the Song army, Yang Ye, Yin Jilun, and Yang Si.
This is Yang Ye's final battle, and at this time he turned into a tiger, which is even more eye-catching than Yin Jilun's performance.
The Liao army was defeated.
Killed all the way to the bank of the Sanggan River, and the Song army slowly collected its troops and returned. But that's it, and let Yelu gather more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to go back.
On the other side, Yelu Guanu also fled to the east in a hurry with the rest of the Yingzhou defenders.
After this war, Yanmen Mountain to the north of Heng Mountain Liao border into an undefended area, since ancient times Shuo should be developed animal husbandry, under several captives, the rear of Hedong is full of cattle and sheep, the number of official horses in the Song Dynasty almost reached more than 200,000.
But this battle has nothing to do with the entire plan, and is completely Li Jilong's personal request. There is no way, now that there are many soldiers and generals, and there are two sharp weapons in the Beigui Army and the Zhongfan Army, Li Jilong always has to compete with Yelu obliquely. So he set up this loophole and lured Yelu to make a move.
Fought and defeated, the significance is not trivial, but Li Jilong does not dare to despise Yelu Xian anymore, if he does not have a good organizational ability and the ability to lead the army, he may be under the city of Yingzhou, so let Li Jilong swallow the Yelu Xian team alive.
While cleaning the battlefield, the Song army sent a light cavalry out of Shijie Pass. Hearing that Yingzhou was broken again, and even Yelu was defeated, the Liao army guarding the pass heard that the Song army was attacking, and they had already fled.
Yang Ye and the three of them continued to lead the troops to Lingqiu County, but there were only 40,000 soldiers and horses, marching in the direction of Lingqiu, there were more mountain roads, and the more soldiers and horses they brought, the more difficult it was to supply. But that's enough. However, they still have an important task on this trip......
Song Jiu, Li Jilong and Zhang Ning returned to Shuozhou and continued the stalemate.
Li Chongzhi stayed in Yingzhou, he is a native of Yingzhou, and it is more effective for him to show up and say the law than anyone else. Soon this wide river channel became a new idle field, hundreds of miles of flat valleys, and there was hardly a single human population in sight.
Li Chongzhi slowly returned to Shuozhou, saw Song Jiu and said: "Song Gong, Yelu is depressed, and he can use his troops in Yunzhou." ”
"General Li, there are too many dead."
"Compassion ......"
"I know that Ci is not in charge of the army, but there are so many good children who have disappeared under my eyes...... Suddenly, I wondered why the Peacock King wanted to become a monk. ”
Li Chongzhi and Li Jilong glanced at each other, what else could they do, so they had to sigh.
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Yelu Xuegu looked at the information on the table, and his mood was terrible.
Jerod's defeat disappointed him, but it was also reasonable. The main battlefield of the Song army was behind the mountain, gathering all the elite soldiers and generals, as well as the first prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty. And the Liao State temporarily placed the main battlefield in Liaodong. With Yelu's oblique ability, victory is not an accident, but it will change the tide of battle. You can't blame it for failure, the main general is a fierce general who has twice defeated Jeruxiugo.
But he still has a piece of information in his hands.
Yelu Hugo went to Liaodong first.
Wu Xuanming was attacking Shenzhou City, and Shenzhou officials moved the people to the city in advance, and the walls were cleared. Wu Xuanming had no choice but to bring in captured grain and grass from the rear.
Jeruhugo took the opportunity to attack this 3,000-strong convoy of grain.
This time, however, Jerushuge made another mistake.
The main general of the grain charge is Shi Pu, and he has more than a dozen analysis of the battle led by Yelu Xiu Ge, and he deliberately said a few points, Ye Lu Xiu Ge likes to rob grain and grass, likes that kind of harassment warfare, likes sports warfare and field warfare, some win, some lose.
Therefore, Shi Pu came up with a bold plan.
Yelu Xiuge led the troops to pounce, and Shi Pu led 3,000 Jurchen soldiers and thousands of people to retreat, leaving behind nearly 2,000 baggage carts and scattered long snake formations. Instead of chasing, Jeruxiugo ordered the cart to be burned.
Suddenly, all the baggage trucks lifted their car covers, and one after another Jurchen warriors appeared from them, some with bows and some with spears, shooting at the Liao soldiers who came over.
Yelu Huge's men were in chaos, and Shi Pu took the opportunity to kill him from afar.
Caught off guard, Jeruxiugo was defeated.
Thousands of soldiers were lost in this battle, it doesn't matter, the past few months have been terrible, and I don't know how many thousands of soldiers have died in Ludao, Guan Jian is god of Liao has been defeated again. Yelu Huge's failures again and again greatly affected the morale of the Liao army.
"It seems that there is no time for the Northeast to be calm." Yelu Xuegu sighed, and then looked at the large map of Youzhou.
If the Song Dynasty only wanted to take Yizhou, Yelu Xuegu would just do it.
It turned out that the Song Dynasty controlled the eastern part of Yizhou, but the western Bauhinia Ridge had always been controlled by the Liao State, so it could not prevent the communication between the Liao army Zijing Ridge and the Feihu Pass. The easternmost part of Yizhou is the Yitan Plain, and it cannot prevent the Liao State from moving south.
Therefore, after the loss of Yizhou, the Song Dynasty simply relented and discarded Yizhou.
After the Liao State got Yizhou, it also wanted to run here.
However, under the shallow attack tactics of the Song Dynasty, the Liao State also found it difficult to defend.
Therefore, Yizhou has not only made the Song Dynasty an idle field, but also almost a piece of chicken ribs.
However, the problem is not this, the Song Dynasty is obviously not in front of the mountain this time, but behind the mountain, why use troops to Yizhou, the reason is very simple, that is, Bauhinia Ridge and Flying Fox Pass. If anyone with a little bit of intelligence were to choose, they would also choose Bauhinia Ridge and Flying Fox Pass, not the central and eastern regions of Yizhou.
As long as the Song Dynasty takes the Bauhinia Ridge and the north and south are attacked, the Flying Fox Pass will inevitably be lost.
Then Hebei and Hedong of the Song Dynasty will form a whole, and even Hebei will draw out most of the army to go to Ulzhou continuously, and then take Fengshengzhou along the Sanggan River, the ancient place of Fengshengzhou is called Zhuolu, and then it is called the real Zhuolu world. Even take the entire mountain back, if the Song Dynasty sends those soldiers north to Yinshan, they can lock Yelu in Datong!
Yelu Xuegu had no choice but to save himself, and took out a part of the poor soldiers in Youzhou to support Yizhou, and ordered Xiao Shunu to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses from Xincheng to rescue Yizhou City.
After receiving the order, Xiao Shunu hurried to Yizhou with five thousand light horses.
After all, the Song army has been fighting for so many days, and Xiao Shunu also wants to pick up some cheap.
At this moment, five hundred heavy cavalry flashed out of the Song army.
"Jing Saijun, ......" Xiao Shunu's mouth opened as if he could stuff an egg. (To be continued......)