Chapter 221: Shimen Town
"Young Master, what's wrong?" Lou Yang, who was pushing him, was always paying attention to the change in the young master's complexion, and couldn't help but ask out loud when he saw this.
"This is too quiet, isn't there no resistance from the Liao army here?" Su Shi asked curiously.
"Yes, they did not resist." Lou Yang had already heard Feng Yidao's detailed report, so he nodded and said.
"No, that's not our purpose, and we're not going to stay here. In this way, we will rest here for the night today, and when we leave tomorrow, let people set a fire and burn it all. Su Shi opened his mouth, as if he was talking about a trivial matter that didn't matter.
This time I came to Luanhe City to erect a signboard, to tell other people that I, Su Shi, have already come to Luanhe, if you want to find it, go in this direction.
He just wants to mobilize the Liao soldiers with practical actions, which is a naked, naked, and naked provocative move.
Su Shi knew this, but he did it anyway. His purpose is to provoke and increase the pressure on Liu Liufu, and at the same time, he can also use this to consume more money and food of the Liao army.
For example, the mobilization of troops across such a long distance requires a large amount of money and food, they are not like Su Shi, they can meet everything with faith points, but the Liao State uses real money and silver, and if you use a little, your own strength will be a little weaker.
Early the next morning, after resting for the night, Su Jiajun, who had a good night's sleep, left Luanhe City. Before leaving, they disposed of all the Liao prisoners, set fire to some important buildings in the city, and the billowing smoke soon rose, and the Luanhe River became a ruined city.
In addition to the more than 1,000 Liao soldiers who were picked off their left tendons in the city, all their belongings were robbed, and in the end, only a single coat was left on the Liao people.
After doing this, the Su family army once again disappeared into the heavy line of everyone, and it was not until a day later that everything that happened in Luanhe City spread outward.
...... Yanagikawakan. It is located in the Pak An Zhou area, a small town near Xinghua City. Liu Liufu was stationed here with 5,000 elite horsemen.
As Su Shi thought, when he went out of Beijing, he brought not 5,000 elite horsemen, but 20,000.
The level of the Liao army scout who was caught by Chu Guo before was too low, it was not that he was lying, but that he didn't know about some things at all.
The army has been stationed here for three days, and in order to make things more realistic, Liu Liufu also sent 3,000 horsemen to search for Su Shi's army.
In this way, only two thousand cavalry were left, presumably once this news was known to Su Tianyou, he should not give up the opportunity to kill himself to take revenge.
With his body as bait, this is the way Liu Liufu can think of to lure out Su Shi. Didn't you keep saying that you would kill me for revenge?
Well, I'm here now, only two thousand cavalry to protect me, if you have the guts, come here, I'll wait for you.
Liu Liufu, who was waiting for Su Shi to appear and was ready to fight to the death, received the news that Luanhe City was patronized by Su Shi, and the city was broken and looted.
Not surprisingly, Liu Liufu spurted blood again, this time he was not only surrounded by the accompanying butlers and servants, but also the two military commanders and some battalion commanders who came to report the battle.
Inevitably, the news spread. By the time Liu Liufu woke up, it was already noon the next day.
When he woke up, thinking of the news he received yesterday, Liu Liufu still felt a faint pain in his chest, and a feeling of depression could not be dispersed in his heart.
He finally understood that Su Shi didn't mean to kill him at all, it wasn't that he didn't have courage, but that people didn't come to kill him at all, he was just an excuse for him to provoke a war.
It's a pity that he still laid a net in the Liuhe Pavilion and waited for Su Shi, and people's eyes didn't pay attention to himself at all, and he played and sang in vain.
"Bring me the map." Reluctantly sat up, Liu Liufu said to the housekeeper beside him.
"Master, your body is still very weak, let's sleep a little longer." The housekeeper kindly persuaded him.
"What? Are my words useless? Go and find the map marked with the Luan River. This time, Liu Liufu's voice was a little louder, showing that he was in a very bad mood at this meeting.
The master was angry, the housekeeper didn't dare to disobey, and after a while, the map of Nanjing Road and Xijing Road marked with the Luan River was placed in front of Liu Liufu.
After carefully looking at the map, Liu Liufu said to the housekeeper: "Prepare pen and ink, I want to write to General Xiao Xiaoyou, this time we will divide the troops into two ways, and surround this damn Su Shi on the front line of Jingzhou Pingzhou, I will break his body into ten thousand pieces." ”
"Master, you can arrange for others to do this matter, there is no need to practice it, let's recuperate first, if the emperor knows, I am afraid that he will also feel sorry for the master's body." The housekeeper saw that Liu Liufu was angry again, and once again persuaded him.
"Huh." Liu Liufu's face showed a wry smile and said,
"The Emperor? Now he is afraid that he has hated me to death and is going to abandon me. Liu Liufu thought well, when the news of his vomiting blood reached Shangjing City a few days later, Liao Xingzong just sighed after hearing it, and then did not ask about this matter again, but began to look for a candidate for the new third envoy.
Su Shi entered Liao to fight this time, and the source of it came from Liu Liufu. Even with every loss of the Liao State, everyone has to put the account on the body of the three envoys.
After once, twice, and three times, he was first angry, angry at why Liu Liufu wanted to provoke Su Shi; Then he blamed him, blaming him for causing such a trouble; In the end, in order to solve the problem, some people thought that if Liu Liufu died, would it also mean that Su Shi had taken revenge, and would there be no excuse to continue to stay in Liaojing?
After all, the enemies are all dead, and Su Shi continues to stay, so it is not a personal grudge, but a major matter related to the Liao and Song dynasties, which is equivalent to forcing the two sides to turn their faces, and at that time, I am afraid that the Great Song Dynasty will also be nervous.
Liu Liufu saw these and had such an exclamation. He couldn't have imagined that he was wise all his life, but because he offended Su Shi, he would end up with everyone hating him to death.
At Liu Liufu's suggestion, he led troops all the way, Xiao Xiaoyou led troops all the way, and there were a total of 50,000 Liao cavalry, all of which were elite cavalry, and they began to come towards Jingzhou and Pingzhou.
In order to prevent Su Shi from disappearing again, their speed was extremely fast, and it would have taken about ten days to travel, but they walked for five days.
Because of this, people were sleepy and lacking horses, and finally, Xiao Xiaoyou's forward 3,000 elite Liao rode through Jizhou and came to Shimen Town, the gateway to Jingzhou.
The vanguard generals and cavalry troops were all in command of the envoy Pilu, and when they saw the curling smoke rising from the sky above Shimen Town from a distance, their spirits involuntarily relaxed.
Since receiving the military order, Pi Lu has come non-stop with three thousand cavalry, they have been resting day and night, only two hours a day, afraid that Su Shi will escape from their sight again.
Now that he had arrived in this area five days in advance, he seemed to have seen the traces of the Su family's army, and he also seemed to have seen the appearance of himself killing Su Shi in front of the battle, and he could make great achievements.
Although Su Shi has killed and injured more than 30,000 Liao troops since he entered the Liao realm, and there are more than ten or twenty cities and checkpoints captured, the real elite of the Liao army still did not take the Su family army in his eyes.
It's just an army of villains who only know how to sneak attack. Throughout the history of the Su family's army, all their victories were achieved by shameless means such as sneak attacks and disguises.
The real confrontation with the Liao cavalry army did not happen once. Such an army will not be respected by the really strong army, nor will it be looked down upon by them, let alone really taken to heart.
In other words, the Su family's army is so powerful that its whereabouts are unpredictable, and most of the Liao army believe that as long as Su Shi is found, it will be the time to completely eliminate them.
So much so that the Liao army had a serious underestimation of the combat power of the Su army. Glancing at the sky, there was at least an hour and a half before it was completely dark, and Pi Lu said to several battalion commanders beside him,
"The army entered Shimen Town, rested here for half an hour, replenished food, and then entered Jingzhou overnight to find the existence of Su Shi." It's just a half-hour rest, and when the words went on, no one in the Liao cavalry objected.
Think they've come all the way, aren't they all like this? Sometimes, when I was really tired, I rested in the wilderness for half an hour and then continued to set off.
When this style has become accustomed to this, no one feels that anything is wrong. They didn't even find out, because of the long-distance travel in the past few days, at this time, whether it was themselves or the war horses under their crotch, they were actually no longer in the state they were in when they were strong, and now they are not elites at all, but empty in name, and the actual combat power is not even comparable to that of ordinary Liao cavalry.
Dragging his tired body, the three thousand Liao troops rushed straight to Shimen Town. From a distance, they could also see that some Liao soldiers guarding the city showed panicked expressions when they saw them, as well as some Liao people at the gate of the city quickened their pace and left.
It is normal for the people to be afraid of soldiers. Especially in many cases, the Liao soldiers were unreasonable, and when the Song Kingdom couldn't grab things, they would rob their own people's things, which made ordinary Liao people have a natural fear of Liao soldiers.
He didn't care about all this Pilu, which he had already been accustomed to, and he didn't even send scouts, so he entered Shimen Town with 3,000 cavalry.
The busiest part of the town is an intersection, where signs of liquor stores, inns and grocery stores can be seen blowing in the wind.