In the end, Yelu Hongji did not ride a horse and stepped into the battlefield in the manner of a king of the steppe.

The reason was that he felt a little sweet in his chest, not because he had eaten honey, but because he had a premonition that he would be bumped on horseback, and if something unpleasant happened to him, he might even vomit blood in anger.

Because of this consideration, under the persuasion of his courtiers, Yelu Hongji decided to arrive at the battlefield by car.

But even if he was in a car, he didn't choose a carriage with a carriage, but stood on the carriage like a king who was going to conquer the world.

An chariot is the kind of carriage with only a canopy and empty all around.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, this kind of car has always been the standard configuration of the king's travel, and the purpose is to let the people admire the emperor's demeanor. The Liao people, who worshiped the Han Dynasty, inherited this set of traditions. In fact, Yelu Hongji's Chinese name is Liu Hongji. It sounds like a descendant of the Han royal family, but he still looks like a steppe person.

It has to be said that Anche is very unfriendly in terms of comfort. Especially in winter, Yeluhongki was blown by a gust of cold wind and sent a chill on his back. He couldn't figure it out, why Yi County was obviously on the edge of Yi Shui, but Han Junyi would still take such a set?

If the dam is held upstream of Yishui, the water level of the river will definitely drop rapidly, will the dignified coach still not be able to see it?

But where would Yelu Hongji guess that there are dikes in the upper reaches of Yishui, but there are also dikes in the downstream. The upstream dikes are meant to store water, and the downstream dikes are hidden between the riverbed and the water surface to maintain the water level. Water attack has been played until now, not to mention two thousand years of craftsmanship, the generals of the Great Song Dynasty may be a little stiff in battlefield command, but for the conspiracy, the familiarity of routines, is not at all the grassland people with Sinicization can learn to come.

After all, the Great Song Dynasty was a dynasty that forced military generals to take exams and write policy theories, and this kind of power and strategy rooted in the bones of every military general was as easy as eating wine and drinking tea on weekdays.

These scheming knowledge are annoying test points, if this is placed in the Liao State, all the high-ranking generals will have to be deposed.

I'm afraid that there is really no military general who can reach this level of the Great Song Dynasty military general.

Of course, low-level generals don't count. Military generals who are illiterate or have poor culture have no possibility of promotion at all.

Even second ancestors such as Cao Fang can talk eloquently when it comes to books such as "The Art of War", "The Art of War", and "The Essentials of Martial Arts".

It's a pity that a good exam doesn't mean you can really fight.

This is the greatest sorrow of the Great Song Dynasty.

Even if he was a loser under the Great Song Dynasty examination system, when he went to Western Xia and Liao, he was a pillar of great talent.

is like Zhang Yuan, who failed to be admitted to the Jinshi list four times, went to Western Xia, and easily won the position of national teacher.

Therefore, there is nothing unusual about a 'rough man' like Liu Fa who plays the strategy of water attack. After all, he was also one of the people who was tortured to death by the Great Song Dynasty examination system.

Headache!

Yelu Hongji found himself having a headache facing the Song army.

Again, there is his precarious life's work. In addition, the Liao army does not seem to be as strong as he imagined, after all, no matter how degenerate the Great Song Dynasty is, there is still a Western Xia tossing the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty does not dare to completely degenerate. But the Liao State is different, they fell with the Great Song Dynasty, but they had no evenly matched opponents, as if there was no lower limit.

As for the rebellion in Liao, it is nothing more than a disease of scabies.

The intensity of the war is not at all comparable to the scale of the six or seven hundred thousand troops fighting at every turn in the Song and Xia Wars, and in comparison, it is simply a small fight.

Thinking of this, Yelu Hongji regretted it a little, he had every chance to start a war with the Song State, so as to see the core military strength of the Liao State. The time was more than twenty years ago, that is, when the Divine Sect wanted to destroy Western Xia.

When he came, he only extorted a sum of Song coins.

Is it too much to add 200,000 taels of silver a year?

Looking at a lot, in fact, this transaction is a loss.

If we could have seen the degeneration of the Liao army twenty years ago, Yelu Hongji would have been forty-five years old at that time. It was the golden age of youth. There is every opportunity to use twenty years to promote the reform of the Liao State and once again raise the combat effectiveness of the Liao State to the point that the Song State is afraid. But now he is seventy years old, and although he can eat and sleep, his energy is not as good as before. Now he is more paving the way for his successor, his imperial grandson.

If this battle can be won, there will still be a chance for Liao.

If it fails, Yelu Hongji is even worried that it is a question of whether the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun can still be in the hands of the Liao State.

Thinking of this, Yelu Hongji couldn't help but sigh: "You can't underestimate the heroes of the world!" ”

Speaking of which, being an emperor is a very sad profession. When he didn't sit on the emperor, he was afraid that he would be forced by his brother, and the power of life and death still needed to remain in his own hands to be more assured.

But after sitting down......

Every day is a trembling thing.

The profession of emperor cannot be compared with others, nor can it be compared.

In addition to the emperor, it is the courtiers. Of course, the emperor will not compare his abilities with his courtiers.

But it can't be compared to the top, because the emperor has a god on his head. Comparing power with the gods is to be damned.

The emperor can only be compared with his peers.

It can't be compared with the poor ability, because among the emperors, the poor ability is the faint king, and it is a part of the spurned. Even the faint monarch feels good about himself, thinking that he is superior in martial arts and the world is peaceful.

In the end, the emperor can only be compared with the strong ability and high merit. It's often not beating.

It can be seen how tired it is to be an emperor.

Of course, a young emperor like Zhao Xu is not counted, he just became pro-government, so he didn't take Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty seriously. Such a fledgling boy should be a complete faint gentleman.

Who could have known that as soon as Zhao Xu ascended the throne, he got Li Kui, a peerless murderer. This kind of luck made even Yelu Hongji red-eyed with jealousy. He even wondered, if he had a courtier like Li Kui, would it still be a dream to become the lord of the Central Plains?

What a pity!

The tiger is someone else's tiger, but the pig is happily growing fat in his own yard.

Use domestic pigs to beat other people's tigers, and the outcome can be imagined.

"The whole army is in a hurry!"

From the beginning of his ascension to the throne, Yelu Hongji said it unbelievably that he spent most of his life in the car. The Liao Kingdom is so big that it can't catch up with it when it goes back and forth between the five capitals every year.

Yeluhongji, who has a lot of experience in chariots, has to accept the fact that he is too old to withstand the bumps of the chariot.

He now has a thought in his heart, defeat Li Kui, completely suppress the arrogance of the Song State, and then smoothly let the imperial grandson succeed him.

As for the nickname -

Thinking of this question, Yelu Hongji's heart ached for no reason.

After the death of the emperor, there was a temple number, and there was a god name. If it weren't for this big battle, his temple number and god name would be a supreme evaluation. But now, he fears that when he dies, he will get a bad name.

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Easy above water.

The battle for the ferry continues.

But for the Liao army, they are competing for time.

But Song Jun's performance surprised them, could it be that something went wrong?

The main general of the Song army actually took advantage of the easy water, and the effect that three hundred people could kill was not too satisfying. But Hu Yanzhuo was willing, because this battle was as simple as picking it up for nothing.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of iron hooves coming from the north on the river.

Thundered

Thundered.

At first it was as noisy as the raindrops of a torrential rain, but as the army drew closer, the roar of rolling thunder deafened people's ears. Even in the city, Liu Fa, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, saw the moment the Liao army reinforcements arrived, he also swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty with his eyes.

At first, he thought that his handsome Li Kui was coming, and thought of running out to greet him.

I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it!

It turned out to be reinforcements from the Liao State. And the equipment of the reinforcements is so good that he is staggered, and Guangshun, who was bullied by him before, is simply a joke compared to this Liao army.

The whole army was a distinctive armor, which was almost impossible to find in the Liao army.

And in the army, the dragon flag embroidered with a golden dragon completely shattered all Liu Fa's illusions. It is the leather room army, and it is also the emperor of the Liao State who drove the expedition himself.

Don't make a fuss!

He was just a small commander of the Western Army, and he only had the authority to command a few thousand people in the Song Army. No matter how many people there are, his official position will be low.

In order to deal with him, the Liao State even sent the emperor, can you not shock Liu Fa?

Not only that, but what makes Liu Fa even more puzzled is, where did Li Kui go?

Although Liu Fa's personality is a little straighter, his eyesight is not bad, and he can see that the leather room army should not have experienced any traces of battle. However, in this case, where did the handsome go?

Is it possible to let the Liao people give ......?

The chaos in his head was like a big play, Liu Fa magically forgot Hu Yanzhuo who was still spinning on the surface of the Yishui River, he didn't want to save it, but the problem was that as long as Liu Fa dared to go out of the city, more than 4,000 people in the city would be buried with Hu Yanzhuo. In particular, the elite Tielin Army in the elite of the Liao State, in the sun, exudes a dark glow of metal. This is a heavy cavalry, and there are not many of them in the leather room army.

Liu Fa even doubted that his big knife could break the armor?

"General, General Huyan is still on the water, what should we do?"

There are always fools who don't have the eyesight to see the situation clearly, and they talk so much that Liu Fa can't come to the stage. Liu Fa snorted angrily: "Do you think that the people in our city can save the Huyan brothers?" ”

"Idiot, don't you look at it, who is from the other party?"

"Who?"

"The emperor of Liao is here, look at this golden dragon flag, if it weren't for the emperor, who would dare to hang it like this?"

"What Emperor of Liao? That's not to say, handsome......"

Liu Fa almost felt his heart beat to his throat, and he scolded angrily: "If you dare to bewitch the crowd and talk nonsense, Lao Tzu will cut you!" ”

Soon, the Liao army came to help, not because the Liao people were upright, but because the Liao army did not find out where the main force of the Song army went. It was determined that Li Kui must be in Yi County, waiting for a decisive battle with the Liao army.

The territory of the Liao State was more than twice as large as that of the Great Song Dynasty, but its population was only about 10 million people.

Although Tokyo Province in Liao Province has a population of nearly 4 million, it is the most densely populated area in Liao Province.

But for a vast administrative area, these four million people are scattered in the city. The farmers of the Liao Kingdom would not choose to farm too far from the city at all. Even in the Great Song Dynasty of this period, if Li Kui wants to fight tigers, he can often run into them. What's more, the Liao country, twenty miles out of the city, does not even have a village in the Liao country, it is all wilderness. As long as Li Kui wanted to, he could easily avoid the Liao army.

Brother Xiao Chang was still grieving because of the loss of his nephew, and as soon as he arrived on the battlefield, he sent people out to fight.

The rude-looking Liao State ran to the city of Yixian and shouted: "Li Kui, a Song man, dare to come to fight?" ”

Liu Fa lay on his stomach at the head of the city, secretly took out the hard bow on his waist, put on the feather arrow, and released an arrow with a sneer at the corner of his mouth. It's a pity that the distance is a bit far, and the accuracy is a little worse, so General Liao dodges over. Liu Fa secretly said behind the female wall at the head of the city that it was a pity that he did not thwart the spirit of the Liao people. Of course, it may also arouse the anger of the Liao people. It depends on how the Liao people react.

was almost taken away by the dark arrow, and the Liao army under the city of Qi scolded fiercely: "The Song people have no martial virtue!" ”

The Liao army fought a war, which was good news for Liu Fa.

Li Kui did not meet the Liao army's leather room army, so there was no possibility of being defeated. Then the Song army must have conquered Zhuozhou, so that the emperor of Liao could not sit still.

As long as there was a tiger like Li Kui behind the emperor of Liao, Liu Fa couldn't imagine that the Great Song Dynasty would lose the war.

But there is also bad news, he now has only more than 4,000 soldiers and horses, and after some losses, many of them are wounded. Fortunately, with the protection of the city wall, it will not immediately run into an elite like the leather room army. But it is very likely that his 4,000 soldiers and horses will face the siege of tens of thousands, or even 100,000 Liao troops.

At this time, Liu Fa would never dare to go out of the city to face the battle.

To go out of the city is to die!

He's reckless, but he's not stupid.

Looking back at Hu Yanzhuo, who was dumbfounded on Yi Shui, and the twenty boats, Liu Fa secretly mourned for Hu Yanzhuo in his heart: "It's not that my brother is unkind, it's that the Liao people are too insidious." How can there be an emperor who can drive a personal expedition at every turn, and there is no demeanor of a great country! Our Da Song never came like this. ”

Liu Fa was a little innocent and powerless to be played, and he had a feeling that if there were no reinforcements coming, he would probably be finished.

Luck did not seem to favor the Liao army for long, and half a day later, Renduo's loyal army arrived. And the Guangshun army, which was backed by the river beach, was demoralized and had no capital for the First World War at all.

Even if they resisted, they were defeated and retreated by the army of Rindo's loyalty.

Seeing that Yi Shui was behind him, Han Junyi was ruthless, and when he saw that the water level of Yi Shui had dropped a lot, he simply ordered the whole army to wade across the river.

More than 20,000 horses rushed into Yishui.

Even though it's winter, the river is so cold that it makes your teeth shiver. But as long as they crossed the Yishui, the Guangshun army was not worried about a sneak attack at all. Even as long as you enter the water, you can avoid the Song army's soldiers.

After all, Han Junyi dared to go into the water, but Renduo didn't dare to be loyal.

The Liao army on the other side of Yishui is waiting for it, if he follows the river stupidly, I am afraid that as soon as he lands, he will be swallowed by the Liao.

Hu Yanzhuo ordered his subordinates to row a boat and hide a lot of things to avoid the Liao people who swam across the river.

Don't look at him as if he has taken the lead, after all, there are few people, if the Liao people are ruthless, the three hundred men and horses under him will be easily swallowed.

Finally picked up a life, then trembling on the south bank, with less than a hundred people, came to Renduo Baozhong, bowed down and said: "The infantry of the Feilian Army is in command of Hu Yanzhuo, and I have seen the general. ”

"Where's the handsome Li?"

Renduo Baozhong is a festival envoy, which is similar to the treatment of the folding family. He has the power to lead his own troops, and gives the official position of the envoy of the festival. In terms of official position, he is much older than Li Kui. It's even a lot higher than Anton.

But in the face of Li Kui, he didn't dare to hold it up.

Hu Yanzhuo secretly glanced at Renduo Baozhong in shock, and said strangely: "I don't know if I am humble!" ”

Renduo Baozhong was dumbfounded, and immediately sent people to cross the river to Yi County to contact. The result is that it seems that the Liao people did not meet Li Kui, and nearly 20,000 horses of the Feilian Army and the Praetorian Guard Army disappeared.