Chapter 272: Request for War
Su Shi calculated that Xiao Xiaoyou, who really wanted to exterminate himself, should still be in Bei'anzhou and other places in Zhongjing, which is far away from Shanyang City, and it cannot be reached overnight. As for these Liao troops in front of them, as long as they don't take the initiative to attack, they won't take the initiative to embarrass themselves, he only needs to take the Su family army to return to the Song Land before Xiao Xiaoyou's army arrives.
This is the time difference, taking advantage of the fact that the opponent's main force has not arrived to return to Songdi.
If you want to complete this goal as quickly as possible, you need Su Jiajun to rush with all your might, and in this case, it will undoubtedly waste a lot of time to cover up, or rush in the dark and rest during the day. Then simply don't hide it, just stand up generously.
Sure enough, when the Su army was no longer hiding its whereabouts, the Liao army became honest, and even along the way, none of the Liao troops did anything to stop them, at most they sent scouts to follow from afar to ensure that the Su army left their territory.
In this way, an army of the Great Song Dynasty walked openly in Liaodi, without the need to hide their whereabouts, and without worrying about anyone coming to them for trouble. This is almost unimaginable, but Su Shi did it.
All this comes from the fact that the Su army fought too hard in Liaodi before, and the Liao army was scared and cold, so there was the current situation.
After contacting Meng Zaide, the Su army once again accelerated the speed of action, and ten days later, that is, at the beginning of May, they traveled through several prefectures and dozens of cities and towns and towns in Liaodi and returned to the Song Dynasty, and returned to the earliest starting point, Damao Mountain.
Su Shi took Su Jiajun to enter Liaodi from here, and now he has returned here, when he saw that new branches had bloomed in the distance, and it was already a green mountain forest in spring, including Su Shi, all the people of Su Jiajun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Finally home!
This trip to Liao, more than a year before and after, when I returned again, everyone couldn't help but have a different feeling. It seemed that at this moment, everything they saw was so beautiful, that is, the air smelled so fresh.
Returning to Damao Mountain again, everyone's high hearts were put down again, and the eyes that looked at each other were full of joy and pride.
It was they who entered the Liao land, attacked the city, and the Liao people they fought were overturned.
It is them, who can enter the Liao land, such as entering the backyard, and the Liao people who fight are frightened.
It is still them, who have entered the Liao land and turned the Liao army around, but they can't take advantage of it in their own hands.
Every soldier of the Su family is a hero or a national hero, and he raised the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty and let the enemy know that the dignity of the Han people is inviolable.
It was them again, a trip to Liaodi, that made the peace between the two countries for at least several years. In today's situation, the Liao people can only defend passively, and they have no military ability to provoke the Great Song Dynasty in a short period of time.
Finally went home, and everyone had joy on their faces. But it didn't last long, and the voice of Flying Eagle No. 1 came out in Wanlitong, "Longtou Longtou, I am Feiying No. 1, the slave catcher army of Western Xia was found in Beizhai, the enemy soldiers are divided into two roads, and there are two hundred horsemen in the front who are coming to Wang Liukou, asking for reinforcements, asking for reinforcements." ”
It's Beizhai again, or the Western Xia slave army, as soon as the voice in Wanlitong came out, the faces of the Su Jiajun and other generals changed color.
"Dragon, the wolf warrior asks to fight."
"Dragonhead, Siberian Tiger requests to fight."
"Dragon, the Golden Leopard asks to fight."
The wolf warrior is the black horseman, headed by General Jizhu; The Siberian Tigers are a large group, led by Commander Feng Yidao; The Golden Leopard is the second brigade, headed by the commander Hu Tongtian.
The code name is a secret method developed by Su Shi to prevent Wanlitong from falling into the hands of the enemy, which can better protect everyone and confuse the enemy.
In Wanlitong, the voice of asking for battle soon came out, and a murderous aura flashed in Su Shi's eyes in the carriage, "The dragon head agrees to attack, the wolf warrior is positive, the money leopard is supplemented, and the Siberian tiger is responsible for solving the enemy's two hundred forwards, we must ensure that all the enemies are surrounded, and no one can be let go, and after arriving at the designated place, report to the dragon head." Repeat, the faucet agreed to strike..."
After Su Shi's voice came out in Wanlitong, the Su family army, who was still enjoying the scenery of Damao Mountain, quickly launched an action.
After more than a year of training, the strength of the Su family army has long been different from what it used to be. They moved quickly and methodically, and soon with the squadron as the center, they scattered and disappeared into the vast Damao Mountains.
Wu Yu, the main general of the Western Xia slave army, is also one of the famous generals of the Western Xia.
As one of the important arms of the Western Xia, the general of the slave catching army, Wu Yu has a place of pride.
The slave catchers were tasked with plundering the population, gold and silver. It was precisely because of their frequent attacks that they brought more population and wealth to the Western Xia, which was originally not very strong, that they had the strength to constantly look for the troubles of the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State.
If you have to use an image analogy, the slave army is a money-making opportunity for Western Xia.
For a long time, the enemy was terrified of the place where the slave army appeared, and the same was true of the military and civilian people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the same was true of the military and civilian people of the Liao State. It seems that as long as there is a slave catcher, it is the beginning of their nightmare, without exception.
Song and Liao had a great headache for the Western Xia slave army, and they also sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress them. But each time it was in vain, once their main force appeared, the slave catchers would quickly leave with the advantage of speed, and when the main force left, they would make a comeback.
After one or two times, Song and Liao were extremely tired of tossing, and finally gave up the pursuit of them. Anyway, the number of slave catchers in Western Xia is not very large, and the resources that can be snatched are limited. For the Song and Liao countries, which have a lot of land and resources, they can't play a fundamental role, so they simply let it go.
The ignorance of the Song and Liao countries boosted the arrogance of the slave catchers in the Western Xia, and they became even more careless when they carried out looting. This is mainly reflected in the fact that they used to only rob in the dark, but now they have become robbing in the daytime; In the past, they left after robbing, but now they have to stay for a while after robbing, and they don't put Song Liao's army in their eyes at all, and they do their best to provoke.
It wasn't until they met Su Shi and Su Jiajun that they tasted the long-lost defeat.
Hai Chang'er's 600 slave catchers were completely annihilated, and they dealt a heavy blow to the Western Xia slave catchers. The angry Tangut people thought about revenge, and also sent heavy troops to the Song-Liao border several times, but they found nothing.
After a long time, the main force was withdrawn, but the other slave catchers were left here to continue to plague the people of the Song Land. And once they encounter a small group of Song troops, they will also take the initiative to attack, and with the idea of accumulating big victories with small victories, they will continue to eliminate and encroach on the strength of the Song army.
Spring is blooming, and the Great Song Dynasty once again sent troops and horses to Beizhai and others, intending to regain control here.
The arrival of these Song soldiers also attracted the attention of the Western Xia slave catchers, and it was under such circumstances that Wu Yu led six hundred Western Xia slave catchers to appear in Beizhai.
Originally, Wu Yu could have brought more slave catchers, but he didn't do so. First, it is not necessary, and second, if there is any unexpected situation, the speed of breaking through with fewer troops can be faster.
Early this morning, Wu Yu first sent scouts to find out the reality of Beizhai, and when he learned that there were only one hundred Song troops in the checkpoint, he did not hesitate to attack.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and when they came to Beizhai, the hundred Song soldiers who had just moved here found that they were releasing arrows to counterattack. But the hundreds of Song soldiers who were insufficient in strength, insufficient in preparation, and even insufficient in military morale were the opponents of the elite Western Xia slave capture army.
With just one impact, the slave catchers rushed into the North Village, and under the slashing of the cavalry, hundreds of Song soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
Originally, the gap between the combat power of the infantry and the cavalry was very large, and with the complete lack of preparation, the hundred Song soldiers were all killed in just one wave of resistance.
Wu Yu, who captured Beizhai, began to plunder, and some of the military rations prepared here, as well as the 500 Song people who moved here with the Song soldiers, all became their trophies.
It is said that he will take advantage of it and leave, but Wu Yu is originally a person who is not easy to satisfy. Only the five hundred Song people did not fill his appetite, and he set his target on Wang Liukoupu, which was not far from Beizhai, and he had already sent scouts to reconnoiter the situation, and he decided to grab another handful before leaving.
And it was at this time that Chu Guo's first scout squadron stretched its tentacles here.
Su Shi's requirement for scouts has always been that the farther away the reconnaissance territory, the better.
According to Su Shi's meaning, where he is, the situation within a radius of 100 miles needs to be found out clearly and thoroughly. He would never allow anything unknowable around him. For this reason, for the development of scouts, he is asking people to give people, things to things, and money to money.
Under the vigorous tilt of resources, all the scouts of the Su family army are elite, and any one of them can be qualified as middle and senior officers of the Song army's scouts.
When rushing to Liaodi, the scouts played an excellent role to ensure the immediate victory of the Su army.
Wu Yu didn't know that he would meet Su Shi, and he didn't know that he had been targeted by Su Jiajun.
This time, he came to Beizhai in the Zhending region on the order of Ning Lingge, the king of Liang. Originally, he wanted to find the Su family army and avenge the more than 600 comrades who died in the previous battle. But at that time, Su Shi was leading people to run rampant in Liaodi, and later went to Mengdi, how could he find it.
After one or two fruitless searches, Wu Yu withdrew his heavy troops, but he was wandering around an area with a six-hundred-strong slave army, he was confident that even if he really encountered the Su family's army, he would have the ability to retreat with his whole body, and at that time he would send heavy troops to encircle and suppress.
The strong self-confidence made Wu Yu not pay any attention to the nearby Song army, so much so that when his scout suddenly sent back the news that a large number of black horsemen of unknown origin had suddenly appeared nearby, his face showed an unbelievable look.
Some people died, but not completely......