Chapter 293: Hengyang City
This small county of Hengyang was originally inhabited by many Han people, and after escaping the original Khitan butcher's knife, these Han people, mixed with some Bohai people, gradually became accustomed to the rule of the Khitans.
This time, Yelu Shanmin was ordered to send troops to King Zhongjingqin, but Marshal Yelu Daye ordered him to take 15,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters to seize Hengyang County, making it look like attacking those Liaodong regions that had taken refuge in the Jurchens.
There are a total of three lone armies, which originally cooperated with each other to advance for the first time according to the arrangement of Yelu Daye, and finally approached the city of Daliao Tokyo that had already been captured by the Jurchens!
Yelu Shanmin was the first to encounter the attack of the Jurchen servant army, and the army composed of 20,000 Bohai people and Han Chinese was not taken seriously by Yelu Shanqi at all, and after the field encounter, a charge beat the more than 20,000 miscellaneous troops to pieces.
After beheading more than 3,000 people, Yelu Shanqi's confidence returned.
Until the arrival of Wanyan Yeli's 5,000 Jurchen pro-army, Yelu Shanmin's march was very smooth, but the news that the Jurchen pro-army was killed from the fallen Tokyo City spread rapidly, Yelu Shanmin quickly retreated and defended Hengyang County, and then sent his own soldiers to send a message to the left and right friendly forces, so that they could quickly converge with themselves and fight in the city!
As long as these 5,000 Jurchen pro-army are defeated, no matter how many servant troops are left, there is nothing to worry about! Once the prestige of the Khitans spread, those aliens and Han Chinese would immediately return to their former masters and wagging their tails and begging for mercy......
If he can threaten Tokyo to disrupt Liaodong, maybe he can really buy His Majesty time to hold Zhongjing and Shangjing in Daliao, and if he can really repel the Jurchens in this national war, his Yelu Shanmin's prestige will resound throughout Daliao!
It's a pity...... The other two Liao armies together amounted to nearly 60,000 horses, and when they heard that the Jurchen pro-army was coming, they immediately retreated for 100 miles and were ready to flee, and Yelu Shanmin, the nominal first general of the Eastern Route Army, hung Hongguoguo in front of the Jurchen pro-army.
The scattered Jurchen servant army gathered again, not only did not decrease, but gathered more and more.
Yelu Shanmin and other reinforcements from the left and right did not arrive, and finally reluctantly pulled out his sword and commanded more than 10,000 Liao troops to seal the two city gates of Hengyang County, demolished countless houses and official offices, and prepared wood and stones to defend Hengyang County to the end.
After several battles, the servant army, who were eager to take credit in front of the master of the Jurchen army, fought desperately, attacked the city wall several times, and almost wiped out the entire army of Yelu Shanmin here.
Until a battle in the middle of the night the day before yesterday, Yelu Shanmin was seriously injured and disabled, and the five hundred guards around him were almost killed and wounded......
Brother Jerushan took a breath...... This is the first time he has really been on the battlefield, and compared with the enemy army with nearly 20,000 people in front of him, those bandits and horse bandits are simply a group of people called Hanako who are selling their heads.
The lieutenant gritted his teeth and brandished his saber...... "Archers, prepare!" Boiled water...... The rolling wood and stones are all ready to ......"
"Lord Admiral, there are only some stones left, and there is not a single piece of rolling wood!"
The adjutant general's face turned pale: "What about the arrows?" How many are left? ”
"Less than five thousand!"
The adjutant general almost sat on the ground, his lips trembling as he looked at the tens of thousands of Jurchen troops outside the city, and was about to say something...... I saw Brother Yelu Mountain take a few steps forward and raise his right hand and shouted: "Khitan children! Do you recognize me?"
Almost all the defenders were people from the Great Liao Nanjing Dao, and when they heard this, they bowed their heads to Brother Yelu Mountain and said, "Third son!"
Brother Yelu Shan pulled out the saber at his waist and roared angrily: "You are all my good sons of Nanjing Dao, the true warriors of Khitan!" The land under our feet is the country that our Khitan Qingniu and White Horse ancestors fought with their blood and sweat...... The Jurchen Tartars want to take it away, they want to slaughter and enslave the descendants of our Khitans, it's a dream! The last Khitan man is not dead, and the Jurchen Tartars will not succeed! Kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and stick to Hengyang County...... As long as the Zhongjing City is impregnable, the Jurchen Tartars can only retreat, and the Jurchen pro-army will have to go north to protect the thief chieftain Wanyan Aguda and flee for his life! What are the remaining miscellaneous armies of the Qin and Twilight Chu to fight us? It's all the defeated soldiers of our Khitans...... Today, I, Brother Yelushan, hold my brother's seal letter and the gold medal of the Great King's Mansion of the Southern Courtyard, and take over the army! I hereby make an oath with you, stick to Hengyang County, and after the Jurchen Tartars flee north, we will be the vanguard of the Great Liaodong Route Army! Defeat the city of Tokyo, never seal the sword! Ren Er waited for three days...... You can dispose of those dog minions at will! All the gold and silver and the women's cloths that were plundered...... It's all yours! ”
An illusory pie was drawn by Brother Yelu and hung in the sky, and the 5,000 Jurchen pro-army in front of him had not yet been defeated, and the 30,000 servant army was also eyeing it...... Recovering the Great Liao, Tokyo? Isn't it a fool's dream!
But Brother Yelu Shan came to be famous in Nanjing City, and secondly, these Khitan soldiers of Nanjing Province really loved and feared Yeluqi, the king of the Southern Courtyard, and guarded the southern frontier of Daliao for decades, and the boss Wang accumulated more and more prestige.
Bursts of shouts sounded, and all the Khitan defenders raised their weapons and cheered, and their morale seemed to have risen a lot for a while!
Brother Yelu Mountain made a look, and several generals of the Southern Courtyard Great King's Mansion instantly stepped forward a few steps forward to control the few relatives behind the deputy general, and Brother Yelu Mountain looked at the trembling deputy general with disdain and said: "I won't kill you, because you are just a useless waste, I just don't want the sons and daughters of my Southern Courtyard Great King's Mansion to die in vain in the hands of your waste...... Do you understand? ”
Seeing that Brother Yelu Mountain had taken away his military power in an instant, this deputy general was not annoyed or angry, but really relieved...... "The third son has misunderstood, misunderstood!" The eldest prince was injured, and the last general had no choice but to temporarily take over the military power...... Now that the third prince has arrived, the last general should naturally retreat outside the big tent to serve the third prince before and after the saddle is ......"
Several henchmen beside Brother Yelu had a look of disdain on their faces, this guy is also a real Khitan, but this virtue is like those obscene hundred Vietnamese in the south...... The roe head rat wagged its tail and begged for mercy! There is no shame in doing it for a little profit.
Brother Yelu snorted coldly: "Give you a horse, get out of Hengyang County and run for your life alone!"
The adjutant general's eyes lit up instantly, and he knelt down and kowtowed: "Since the third prince has orders, the last general should obey them!" The last general went out of the city and brought the rescue troops from the left and right...... The third prince can rest assured, the last general will definitely let the 50,000 army come over and converge! ”
Brother Yelu squeezed out a word from between his teeth coldly...... "Get out!" ”
"Thank you to the third son, thank you to the third son......"
The lieutenant general, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, climbed down the city wall with a rolling belt, and then took off his iron helmet in order not to be conspicuous, threw off an iron armor, grabbed a war horse and ran to the south gate.
The act of throwing away the armor seemed to completely anger Brother Yelushan, who pointed at the back of the four and shouted, "Shoot him!"
"Yes!"
A man with a large bow on his back took off his bow and arrows and took a few steps back to the inside of the city wall, and aimed his bow and arrow at the back of the lieutenant general who fled in a hurry......
"Get out of here, get out of here! Lao Tzu was ordered by the third prince to move the rescue troops, delaying Lao Tzu's speed, you all deserve to die...... Get out of the ......"
The adjutant general waved his whip to drive away the limping Khitan soldiers to make way for him, and many Khitan soldiers and soldiers of the Han'er battalion had fire in their eyes, but they couldn't afford to provoke such officers.
"Untouchables, get out of here, get out of the ...... Ahh ”
With a miserable scream, the deputy general shook his body and turned over and fell off the horse, and the war horse was frightened and dragged the general more than ten zhang away before it completely fell to the ground, and there was a thick arrow stuck behind the blurred flesh and blood.
The Khitan soldiers around looked up at Brother Yelu Shan, who had a fierce face on the inside of the city gate, and they all turned a blind eye to the corpses on the ground, and just silently continued to carry the materials for defending the city.