Chapter 307: Expulsion
"The imperial court has a plan to escort the people of the Han family back to the Central Plains in case Youyan is not overcome, Brother Wang, don't you know it?" Wu Yingying said.
"Although the imperial court has this intention, all the state capitals in the Central Plains regard the Holy Religion as a first-class demon, and there are many restrictions on the Holy Religion, and the people are stubborn, and they often do things that hurt the Holy Religion, and the Central Plains people also discriminate against Youyan Han'er, so I beg Brother Wu to allow the Zoroastrian followers of Youyan to transfer to the Central Plains and defect to the states under the rule of the Anxi Army. Zhao Jiong's promise to make Zoroastrianism a kind of faith as open as Buddhism seems to be far away, most of the Khitan nobles believe in Buddhism, and the restrictions on Zoroastrian in the land of Youyan are originally very strict, and at this time, to retaliate against Zoroastrians for helping the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty, the means must be extremely cruel.
Wu Yingying asked Zhang Zhongyao's opinion with his eyes, and seeing that he had no objection, he nodded and said: "The area around Longyou, Hexi is vast and sparsely populated, and it is necessary to endure hardships and stand hard work, and you Yan Han'er who dares to fight and die will go to reclaim it, but when these Zoroastrian disciples arrive in the military state under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Army, they must be subject to the constraints of the Inquisition, and those absurd things of drawing talismans and applying water will be severely punished by the Inquisition. ”
Wang Yu nodded and said, "The Holy Sect elders in the Inquisition have already explained to me in this section, and the children of my Zoroastrian Sect don't disdain those strange things. Wu Yingying agreed simply, but he was a little embarrassed, and said some inconsequential words of thanks, and then said goodbye and left.
Zhang Zhongyao was overjoyed and said, "Congratulations to the lord, we are thinking about how to recruit Youyan Han'er to go to Hexi to cultivate, and this Wang Yu will be sent to the door." There are no less than two million Youyan Han people, among which there are many people who believe in Zoroastrianism, and the Han people are related to each other, if the Youyan Han people who have one of the ten stops migrate to Hexi, it will be a great help to the Wu'an West Army. "He was born in the Guiyi Army, and for many years he was quite troubled by the Huhua in the Western Regions, and the only good way to get rid of the Huhua was to move a large number of Han people from the Central Plains to enrich the past, recruit households, and buy slaves, all at any cost. On the evening of July 5, the fourth year of the Taiping Rejuvenation Kingdom, the Liao and Song dynasties, who had been fighting all day in the hot weather, temporarily stopped fighting and ceased their troops, and Han Derang and Yelu Xuegu inspected the city together. Behind the city walls, which had been damaged by the Song army's siege arrows and stone bullets, the Han battalion soldiers were busy carrying arrows, rolling logs, and stones, while a small number of wounded and weak people sprinkled grass and wood ashes back and forth on the city walls soaked in blood, and the fires ignited by Song rockets in several parts of the city had not yet been extinguished.
"Lord Han, when will the reinforcements from Shangjing arrive?" Looking at the northwest, a thin first quarter moon, accompanied by a lone star, just like the current situation in Youzhou, makes people hesitate. Han Derang took a deep breath of night breath and smiled at Yelu Xuegu: "The cavalry army has come from Shangjing, if it is fast, it will arrive in five or six days, maybe the reinforcements have disappeared in the middle of this continuous mountain, waiting for the opportunity to give the Song people a fatal blow." Lord Yelu, as the royal prince and noble, entered Youzhou first, and made great contributions to the defense of Nanjing. Although his face was faint and his mouth was joking, his heart was more anxious than Yelu Xuegu, just because he participated in the struggle for power and profit of more high-level Liao State, and knew that the Khitan nobles around the emperor abandoned Youzhou like a contemptuous mentality, for these nobles, the land of Youyan was just a Han land that could be plundered by the south at any time.
Yelu Xuegu followed Han Derang's gaze to look at the mountains in the north, and suddenly was pleasantly surprised to see some shaking points of light, with his vision and experience, it was the torches held high by the moving cavalry shaking, and the place in the north was Yelu Xidi and Yelu Sha's subordinates, who had been suppressed by the Song army for several days and did not dare to take a step closer to Youzhou, and it was too late to protect himself, and it was absolutely impossible to raise fire and provoke this kind of thing at night. "Reinforcements, the reinforcements from Shangjing have arrived!" Even if the status is as noble as Yelu Xuegu, he can't help but shout loudly, at this time, the Han battalion soldiers who looked at Youzhou City also found the flickering torches in the mountains to the north, like a long dragon slowly jumping out of the dark night mountains, more and more, and finally overwhelmingly spreading, if it is not a suspicious soldier, there are at least 100,000 cavalry who can make such a big noise.
"Reinforcements are coming!" "Youzhou is saved!" The Han soldiers at the head of the city told each other loudly in surprise, pointing and pointing towards the huge marching army column in the north, even if the wounded soldiers who were temporarily lying in wait in the city wall were barely able to support themselves, looking towards the north with a happy face, for a while, the head of the city of Youzhou thundered, and many soldiers even pulled out the lantern torches fixed on the battlements, and shook them accordingly to the north, and the Liao army on that side seemed to have noticed the abnormal movement of the city head, and many torches also shook at the head of the city, and the unique shouting and cheering of the Hu Ji and the Khitan people came from afar, which greatly boosted the morale of the Youzhou soldiers who had been trapped in the lonely city for several days。
Looking at the happy dancing appearance of the left and right, Han Derang forcibly endured the ecstasy in his heart, his face sank like water, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Regardless of whether it is reinforcements from Shangjing, strictly order all departments to guard the city gate, the more cautious they must be at this time, and Youzhou cannot afford to lose." "Command!" Xiao Zhen was overjoyed, he didn't notice the steps under his feet, and almost fell, but fortunately, he quickly held on to the city wall next to him, and then stood up and passed Han Derang's order to several banner officers who surrounded him.
At this moment, behind those torches, the new king of the North Courtyard, Yelu Huge, was dressed in armor, and said goodbye to Yelu Sha, the prime minister of the South Courtyard, with a serious face: "The Song army is powerful, and the elite of the 25,000 palaces will be entrusted to the leadership of the Prime Minister, and the Lord will march tomorrow to force the main force of the Song army to fight a decisive battle in the Gaoliang River. He had already discussed the strategy of this battle with Yelu Sha and Yelu Xian, the king of the Southern Courtyard, and he couldn't help but say it again at this moment.
The palace cavalry army of 30,000 has arrived in the north of Youzhou during the day, and the original king of the northern courtyard Yelu Xidi, the prime minister of the southern courtyard Yelu Sha, and the commander of the northern courtyard make Xiao Qigu rendezvous, on the evening of July 5, Lin Ya Yelu Mo only led the Xi army to rush to participate in the battle, in addition, the king of the southern courtyard Yelu Xian still commanded the army to hold the victory of the Song army's flank. At this point, the main forces of the Liao army that were ready to participate in the battle were all in place. So, Yelu Xiuge, who held the holy decree of the Liao Emperor, convened the generals to discuss the battle strategy. Jerushah, Yelu Xidi led the Liao army to fight with the Song army repeatedly and lost, lost its sharpness, Yelu Xiuge handed over most of the palace elite to Yelu Sha to lead, as a regular soldier to attract the Song army to a decisive battle, and at the same time tonight the cavalry paraded with torches to deter the Song army, Yelu Xian and the Song army did not suffer a big loss, but the strength was weak, so it was used as a flank raid, and Yelu Xiuge himself led five thousand palace elites from the Xishan path to copy the Song army's flank, in the battle to night, held torches, from the south to the north to raid the rear of the Song army, one is to disturb the Song army for the suspected soldiers, and the other is also to give the Song army an actual blow。