Chapter Twenty-Five: The Cold Wind and the Waning Moon
readx; Zhang He asked his subordinates to let go of the restrained Khitan envoy, and carefully ordered Wei Ge Ning: "Dashuai, you didn't hide Pang and didn't let us live, the Song people didn't let us live, and now the Khitan people don't give us a chance to live, where should we go?" ”
Wei Ge Ningling pointed to the north and said, "Yongbyon Prefecture! ”
Zhang He was taken aback and said: "Yongbyon Prefecture is three hundred miles away, and the last general is worried that if our soldiers can't hold on to Yongbyon Prefecture, they will freeze to death." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Wei Ge Ningling shook his head and said: "I can't die, these days I have been ordering my soldiers to collect the clothes of those Khitan people who died in battle, although the number is not enough for all the brothers to survive this cold winter, but I can barely make up clothes that can make three thousand people not freeze to death in such weather." ”
Zhang He said: "Are you going to use these 3,000 people to fight for all the brothers to survive?" ”
Wei Ge Ning Ling said with a smile: "That's right, what we need most now is time, as long as I give me a year, the brothers can return to their previous state, at that time, more than 13,000 Xixia Erlang went there and couldn't settle down?" ”
"Ningbian Prefecture is an important place in the Liao State, and Xiao Dahu has laid out the copper walls there, how can we get in?"
Wei Ge Ningling patted Zhang He's shoulder and smiled: "You have to fight to succeed!" ”
Liang Ji's army had just arrived at the Biguan River, so he came back in a hurry, and received Yun Zheng's flying eagle message, asking him to return to Hequ Pass to stand by, and wait for the arrival of the army, and then discuss? New operational directions.
Yun Zheng didn't expect Xiao Dahu to personally lead the troops to Hequ Pass, this is a very good opportunity, in winter, the supply of the Great Song army is very sufficient, relatively speaking, the preparation of the Liao State is not very sufficient, which is related to the national strength, and has nothing to do with the ability of the generals.
As soon as the army moves, it needs countless material and financial support. In particular, hundreds of thousands of troops camped in the wilderness, and the amount of materials consumed was simply incalculable.
The Liao people's material transportation methods are not much different from those of the barbarians hundreds of years ago, and the army will open the road in front, and the back will definitely be followed by a large number of herdsmen with cattle and sheep and the army to migrate together.
The meat from the pastures, the milk is their military rations, and the sheepskins are their clothes. For the people on the grassland, there is a sum of cattle and sheep.
In the sky, the two teams of Hai Dongqing were constantly fighting, and the seriously injured Hai Dongqing was constantly falling from the sky, and he couldn't tell which side it was.
Yun Zheng looked up at the inextricable Hai Dongqing who was fighting in the sky, his eyes were full of smiles, and he finally found a trace of the feeling of the afterlife, in this lonely sky, there was finally an air force fighting on it.
Tan Wei had already reported this scene, and Yun Zheng didn't believe it and tried it. There are many Hai Dongqing who have failed in training in the Jingxi Army, and it is the right time to take them out to deal with the Liao people at this time.
Not every Hai Dongqing can become a qualified war eagle, Yun Zheng has calculated, one out of ten Hai Dongqing is considered good.
Over the years, the Jingxi Army has brought Haidongqing from Baishan and Heishui, as well as no less than 200 Haidongqing that they have raised and hatched, and there are no more than 16 that are really useful.
The rest can only become assistants in their own hunting. The more Haidongqing is caught from the wild, the more likely it is that he will be trained to become a war eagle. And those Hai Dongqing who were hatched were somewhat stupid and couldn't complete those complicated movements.
It can be seen that his war eagle has won, and the reason why he will win is because of the large number, and after the real war eagle flew into the sky, Yun Zheng found that Xiao Dahu's army had retreated quickly. Even his shepherd's back team was at least a hundred miles away.
"Han Niu, you take the people and horses of the headquarters to impact the rear of the Liao people, and leave as many cattle and sheep as you can left, if you encounter a sniper from the Liao. It is mainly to destroy the cattle and sheep of the Liao people. ”
Yun Zheng turned back to Han Niu and gave a military order, Han Niu immediately took three thousand guards to pursue in the direction of the Liao people fleeing, this pursuit battle will not happen until at least tomorrow, after Han Niu left, Yun Zheng ordered to set up camp, and the sergeants began to set up camp, take ice from the Biguan River and melt it and boil water for cooking.
"Di Qing's army has disengaged from the Liao army, and our progress here is too slow for Di Qing to cooperate with us in the war."
Seeing Yun Zheng holding a pot of tea and sipping, Chen Lin sighed and said faintly.
Yun Zheng didn't raise his head and said softly: "This is Di Qing's opinion?" ”
Chen Lin was stunned for a moment and said, "This is the opinion of the center. ”
Yun Zheng nodded and stopped talking, and after taking a sip of tea, he was still ready to tell Chen Lin about the strategy he had prepared in the early years, so as not to let the people who stayed in Tokyo City think nonsense, once it exceeded the tolerance of those people, God knows what they would do.
"This war is actually a process of moving, Fu Bi went to the plant, the seed came to me, and then Di Qingbing and I went through Yanyun.
This order cannot be mistaken, now that Fu Bi's army has just crossed the Yellow River, 30,000 iron cavalry are still gathering here in the area west of the river, and the army is still in Huanzhou, how can I easily leave Yanmen Pass and attack eastward?
This battle requires each of us to participate, and everyone needs to do their own things well, so that there is a possibility of victory, if these connections go wrong, the whole strategy will have loopholes, and will be taken advantage of by the enemy! ”
Chen Lin shook his head and said: "It's useless to say this, now that my Great Song Dynasty soldiers are strong and strong, why can't we expand the results by leaps and bounds, now it's winter, not only do we not attack to the north and east, but all the way to the west, the old man doesn't know if Your Majesty can wait until the day when my army wins." ”
"Your Majesty wants to hear the news of the victory of our army and not the news of defeat, it doesn't matter if the news of victory is heard later, if the news of defeat comes first, I guarantee that Your Majesty will never have the opportunity to hear any news again."
Chen Lin seemed to be a little numb, looked at the gray horizon in the distance and said, "You are disrespectful!" ”
Yun Zheng saw Chen Lin's heart like ashes, put a cup of hot tea in his hand and said, "Now is the moment when you are as immobile as a mountain, you will see the moment when aggression is like fire."
My Great Song Dynasty Fourth Route Army is going to comb the sixteen states of Yanyun like a comb. ”
Chen Lin looked at Yun Zheng and said: "Actually, I don't care if you can completely take down the sixteen states of Yanyun, I only care that Your Majesty can hear the news that you have taken Yanzhou as soon as possible, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has time to slowly sort out Yanyun, and His Majesty is almost out of time." ”
"Your Majesty's health is terrible?"
"On the day of winter, His Majesty vomited blood......"
"Alas......"
The weather was clear, and there was not a single cloud to be seen in the blue sky, only the strange sound of the cold wind passing through the dry treetops.
Wei Ge Ning ordered to ride on a war horse, running back and forth, loudly cheering for his 3,000 remnants, and spent three days settling down his subordinates without cotton jackets, and he led the most elite 3,000 cavalry to attack Yongbyon Prefecture for a long distance.
He didn't know that those Tangut people hiding in the pit could hold out for a few days, whether it was a sudden change in the weather or being found by the Song army, the consequences would be unimaginable, but he didn't have time to think about it at this time, so he could only take the soldiers and horses to advance frantically towards Yongbyon Prefecture.
Yun Zheng came, and at the same time there were 100,000 troops who came, Xiao Dahu retreated, but the retreat was not far away, and he kept a safe distance from the Song army, and the time of the confrontation between the two armies was also his last chance to take Ningbian Prefecture.
Three hundred miles away was only two days' journey at the feet of the cavalry, and in order to avoid the Liao scouts, the closer he got to Ningbyon Prefecture, the more careful he became, and finally he had to arrange the time for the journey in the coldest middle of the night.
Yongbyon City is actually Yongbyon State, and there is no other city in the entire Yongbyon State except for this Yongbyon City.
It was not easy to build a city on a flat wasteland, because of the extreme lack of stone, the city here had to be made of loess.
Helian Bobo's method of building Tongwan City is not feasible there, the loess here is sandy, and the city wall will collapse by itself if it is too high, not to mention that the Khitan people can't take out so much glutinous rice to cook soup when they build the city wall.
Therefore, Yongbyon City is just a relatively large courtyard enclosed by an earthen wall, the wall is no more than two zhang high, and the radius is only five miles, which is a real five-mile city.
It was already midnight when Wei Ge Ning Ling arrived at Yongbian City, and three thousand soldiers and horses were hiding in a depression, hurriedly eating, although everyone wanted to get a mouthful of hot food to eat at this time, Wei Ge Ning Ling ignored the pleading eyes of those soldiers, took out the dry cake in his arms, and crunched and bit it.
The water in the skin had long since frozen into ice cubes, and I watched some of my subordinates open their mouths to lick some of the remaining snow on the stones to quench their thirst. Wei Ge Ning Ling said: "After entering the city, you will not seal the knife!" ”
Zhang He came to Wei Ge Ningling's side, took out a small sheepskin bag from his arms and handed it to Wei Ge Ningling, because he had been keeping it close to him, the water in the leather bag was not frozen, but his face was full of blood blown out by the wind, and the blood that had coagulated hung on his face like tears.
Wei Ge Ning Ling opened his mouth to take a sip, then handed the pocket to the soldier who was licking the snow beside him, slapped Zhang He's shoulder twice and said, "You shouldn't have suffered like this with me." ”
Zhang He shook his head and said: "Dashuai doesn't know, although my Zhang family is favored by the Prime Minister, but it has nothing to do with me, it is my cousin who is favored by the Prime Minister, not me Zhang He, once we are taken to Xingqing Mansion by the Prime Minister, what will happen to Dashuai, what will happen to my Zhang He, it is nothing more than that my cousin will do their best to protect my wife and children, nothing else." ”
Wei Ge Ning Ling said strangely: "Why is this? ”
Zhang He laughed miserably: "Da Shuai doesn't know, the Zhang family is a big family, for the reproduction of the family, the Zhang family will not entrust the lives of the whole clan to one person, it is necessary to burn the cold stove, only in this way will the bloodline of the Zhang family not be cut off."
However, there is a ban on the Zhang family, that is, the subject is sincere, as long as he votes under whom, he will definitely be loyal to the master, and if the handsome wins the world in the future, I want to kill the Zhang family under the Prime Minister, and the last general will be ruthless! (To be continued......)
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