Chapter 897: The Death of Yelu Hongji
This time, in order to resist the dragon army, Yelu Hongji divided the limited army in his hand into a part of Changning City, which has 30,000 forbidden troops of the Liao State, which are all elites with good strength, even if the dragon army comes to attack, it will take time to gnaw this hard bone.
But it was captured in just one night, are these Liao troops all dead? Won't they move, don't know how to fight back?
But whether you want to make sense or not, the facts are in front of you, and the dragon army has indeed been killed.
From Changning City to Linhuang City, there is no big city in the middle, and there is no strong city, and there is only a Huanghe River, which can be said that the two sides are already close at hand.
"Immediately, send 10,000 forbidden troops to guard the Huang River, destroy all the bridges on the river, and not let the dragon army kill them, and at the same time send someone to contact Yelu Chongyuan, as long as they can spare our lives, we can let them enter the Linhuang Mansion, quickly!"
Yelu Hongji at this meeting was really panicked.
In order to survive, everything else has been completely ignored.
Now he only thinks about one thing, that is, as long as he can survive, as for what great cause and imperial industry, don't talk about it.
Wen Xing once again stood up and became the messenger of peace talks, leaving Linhuang City and heading straight to Changle City.
Here, Yelu Hongji made another move, and Su Shi over there still knew it for the first time, and immediately ordered the First Division of the Dragoon Army and the First Army of the People's Army to speed up their advance, and be sure to seize Linhuang City and not give the other side a chance to join forces.
At the same time, the Third Army of the People's Army also came in a hurry after receiving Su Shi's order, increasing the number of troops of the Dragon Army, and preparing for the next big battle with the Three Kingdoms Alliance.
Su Shi's means were not only that, the Second Dragoon Division and the Second Army of the People's Army, which had already been ordered to prepare, also went straight from Weizhou to Liaoxi Prefecture in Tokyo Province.
Things have developed to this time, what is the so-called alliance with the Khitan before, there is no longer counting, without the obstruction of the Liao State, the next thing is when the two of them fight to the death.
Early the next morning, under the negotiation of Wenxing's close surrender, Yelu Chongyuan led nearly 500,000 troops of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, plus more than 300,000 troops from the Liao State, and went straight to Linhuang Mansion together.
The two groups of people who were originally fighting for life and death have finally come together in order to suppress the development and growth of the Dragon Army.
At the same time, it was the morning of this day, the artillery tractor came to the Wei River, followed by a burst of fierce artillery fire, and smashed it on the heads of the 10,000 Liao soldiers on the other side of the river.
Engineer units were quickly dispatched to build pontoon bridges.
The defense line of the Huanghe River, which was relied on by Yelu Hongji, did not hold out for even an hour, and it was declared broken, and then, the dragon army quickly crossed the river, pursued the forbidden army and killed it towards Linhuang City.
In Linhuang City, Yelu Hongji of the Liao Dao Sect has already had no master of the six gods.
He didn't expect that the dragon army would be so violent, and it would arrive at the city so quickly. And the news he learned, although Wen Xing's side is also very fast, but if the Three Kingdoms Alliance wants to come to Linhuang City, it will be tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.
It seems that if you only hold on for two days and still stick to the capital of Liao, there should be no problem. But when the attacking side is the dragon army, then no one really has any confidence.
"The whole city is mobilized, no matter what, it will be carried until tomorrow afternoon, when a large number of our reinforcements will arrive, and at that time, it will be time for us to counterattack on all fronts."
Yelu Hongji, who didn't want to admit defeat and wanted to continue fighting, said with determination to the courtiers below.
At the same time, he also appointed Xiao Ying as the main general of the city guard, and Xiao Huxuan, the commander of the horses, as the deputy general, and led all the young people in the city to defend the city.
In order to ensure that this battle has more chances of victory, Yelu Hongji opened the treasury and took out a tenth of the good things to reward the meritorious men of this battle.
Don't underestimate this tenth of the items, the Liao State has been established for so long and has plundered from neighboring countries many times, they are still very rich. Even if it's a tenth, it's converted
The number of silver taels that came also exceeded 20 million.
Yelu Hongji has invested enough, and the young men of the whole city have also picked up their swords and are ready to defend the city and fight hard.
An hour later, the dragon army came to the city, and the second-generation dragon artillery truck was set up, and one after another the cannonballs smashed towards the city tower.
For many years, Linhuang City has not been disturbed by war.
But now, with the arrival of the dragon army, this tranquility has been shattered.
The cannonballs began to explode above the tower, and at this moment, Yeluhongji in the palace could feel the trembling under his feet.
At this moment, he realized why it was so easy for the dragon army to attack the city before. If their Liao country also has such a sharp weapon, then the world is so big, where can it not be conquered by them?
As soon as the dragon bullet, a weapon far beyond this era, appeared, the Liao army on the tower was miserable.
They did not attack the city at all, nor did they erect ladders, so that the oil and boulders, sleepers, and golden soup they had prepared were useless.
The shells kept falling, and then people were constantly blown into the air, and many people were left with only stumps and broken arms in mid-air, and the scene was so tragic that people couldn't imagine it at all. Most of these young people are here for the money. When they saw that the city defense would be so dangerous, they were so frightened that their faces were bloodless, and they didn't know who took the lead to flee to the city first, so more and more people fled, and soon, the city defense army was more than half less.
So many people fled, so much so that many of the soldiers who had been defending the city fled with them. Everyone is human, why should they wait here to die?
The attack of the city tower completely broke the morale of the Liao army, followed by the artillery aimed at the city gate, and then followed by a few sounds, the heavy city gate was blown to pieces at the moment, and then the heroic first division of the dragoon army rushed into the city.
The dragon army entered the city, the Liao army retreated, and in the palace, the other ministers had long since retreated to their homes and shivered, waiting for the judgment of fate.
But Yelu Hongji didn't go anywhere.
He didn't know where he was going.
How many days have I been the emperor, and if you count less than a year, is this about to become the king of the dead country?
If it had been five years ago, someone had told him such a thing, and he would not have believed it.
But now, everything has become a fact, and all that remains in his heart is endless regret.
Yelu Hongji regretted that if he hadn't sent Lu Siqiao back to Zhao Song at the beginning, maybe Su Shi wouldn't have reversed so quickly, and maybe not even reversed.
said that 1,000 to 10,000, Su Shi can have today, it is all forced by their Liao State and Zhao Song.
Hate and regret, but all this has gone to no avail. looked in the direction of Changle City, where there were not only hundreds of thousands of Liao soldiers under him, but also the burial place of his father, Emperor Liao Xingzong.
At this moment, when he looked there, Yelu Hongji was already in tears, he didn't know how to meet his father after he died, he had no face.
"Yelu Chongyuan, don't think that you are the victor, wait, after the dragon army defeats me, I will deal with you, then I will wait for you on the ground, and when the time comes, I will judge you with the ancestors and ancestors." After muttering this, Yelu Hongji drew his sword and wiped it towards his neck.
Yelu Hongji is dead!
When the dragon army entered the palace and found him, he put his body in a coffin. How to say that it is also a generation of emperors, although this emperor has been in power for a short time, he is also an emperor who has been in office for a day.
How to deal with people with such status, the power does not lie in the hands of ordinary soldiers, everything is determined by their emperor Long Shi Emperor Su Shi.
As soon as the body was placed in the coffin, a middle-aged man dressed in ordinary people's clothes ran over, and then knocked his head on the ground with a clang. "Your Majesty, the minister is late, it's late!"
The person who came was Zhang Jian, the third envoy of the Liao State.
He followed Meng Youde and rushed to Linhuang Mansion day and night
It was to persuade his majesty to surrender.
Knowing from Meng Youde's mouth that the Dragon Army was going to attack Linhuang City, Zhang Jian became anxious. As the earliest person who knew Su Shi, he knew the combat effectiveness of the Dragon Army very well.
In his eyes, Su Shi is a person who never fights uncertain battles.
Since Su Shi is determined to attack Linhuang City, this city must not be able to hold it. And he knew his emperor Yelu Hongji, and knew that this was a person who would rather die than bow his head, and it was difficult for him to surrender.
Thinking that if the dragon army really entered Linhuang City, he was afraid that Yelu Hongji would be humiliated and find a short-sightedness, which was definitely not what he wanted to see.
So, he came non-stop, in order to have a chance to persuade him, just like the previous Goryeo Emperor Wang Hui, didn't he kill Su Shi when he surrendered? Although he was later killed, it was because he wanted to rebel, and everything was to blame.
Surrender and live, as long as you live, everything is possible.
If you are not poor, you can also be a rich man and have no worries for a lifetime.
Unfortunately, he arrived a little late.
It can also be said that the speed of the dragon army's siege of the city was too fast, so fast that when Zhang Jian came, all he saw was Yelu Hongji's corpse.
"Lord Meng, please find a good coffin for our emperor." After crying for a while, looking at the coffin in front of him, which eunuch in the palace didn't know which eunuch had prepared for himself, was now for their emperor, he pleaded and said to Meng Youde, who was following on the side.
"I'm sorry, but I don't have the authority to promise you this. Well, our Majesty will be here soon, and you will be able to tell for yourself when the time comes." Meng Youde shook his head.